Scenarios of automated driving based on a switchboard for driving forces - an application to the Netherlands by Maaike Snelder, Koen de Clercq, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Maarten 't Hoen, Irene Martinez, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Bart van Arem

“… Over the past decade many developments have taken place in the field of automation of cars, trucks and public transport. …”
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Importance of Aberrant Right Subclavian Artery Detection During Second Trimester Ultrasound Examination in Low-Risk Population by Erdal Seker, Hasan Sut, Mustafa Kocar, Coskun Umit, Esra Ozkavukcu, Acar Koc

“…On the other hand, it has been found that it has accompanied some fetal anomalies in the last two decades. Although aberrant right subclavian artery is seen at a rate of 1-1.5% in normal chromosomal fetuses, it is seen at a rate of 19-36%, especially in fetuses with Down syndrome. …”
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Unaccountable counting: the folly of incorporating open ocean carbon sinks in Nationally Determined Contributions by Berger, Manon, Comte, Adrien, Kwiatkowski, Lester, Bopp, Laurent

“…Here, we utilise a high-resolution global ocean biogeochemical model alongside available observations to illustrate why including EEZ carbon sinks in NDCs would be both conceptually and practically highly problematic.To demonstrate this, we focus on the case of the French EEZ, where we simulate an anthropogenic carbon sink of 0.21 GtCO2·yr–1 over the past decade, representing nearly 50% of France’s territorial greenhouse gas emissions over the same period. …”
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Cohort profile: Health in Central Denmark (HICD) cohort - a register-based questionnaire survey on diabetes and related complications in the Central Denmark Region by Annelli Sandbæk, Else-Marie Dalsgaard, Kasper Norman, Lasse Bjerg, Anders Aasted Isaksen

“…In addition to questionnaire data, the cohort is linked to nationwide registries that provide extensive data on hospital diagnoses and procedures, medication use and socioeconomic status decades before enrolment while laboratory registries has provided repeated measures of biochemical markers, for example, lipids, albuminuria and glycated haemoglobin up to 10 years before enrolment.Future plans The HICD will serve as an extensive resource for studies on patient-related information and inequality in type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. …”
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Entrepreneurship Education and Perception Change: The Preliminary Outcomes of Compulsory Entrepreneurship Course Experience in Turkey by Hilmi Bahadır Akın, Yavuz Demirel

“…In this context, the policies toward making entrepreneurship widespread and thereby achieve the aim of economic growth and wealth have been very common in both developed and developing countries for decades with a few exceptions worldwide. On the other hand, despite the increasing popularity of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship research, the number of entrepreneurs who undertake the risks of starting a business and grow it by innovation and thereby create new jobs is not that much in reality. …”
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The use of whole genome amplification for genomic evaluation of bovine embryos by K. S. Pantiukh, I. V. Rukin, S. V. Portnov, A. Khatib, S. L. Panteleev, A. M. Mazur

“…The integration of high technologies into livestock production has been actively occurring in the last decade in the countries with a developed animal breeding. …”
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Antibiotic Use and Resistance Pattern in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Oumer Abdu Muhie

“…Background. In the last decades, medicines have had an unprecedented positive effect on health, leading to reduced mortality and disease burden and consequently to an improved quality of life. …”
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AGENTS USED FOR ENAMEL REMINERALISATION AND REDUCING DENTIN HYPERSENSITIVITY: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW by N.V. Yanko

“…In spite of the new advances, the ideal treatment modality for remineralisation does not exist. Within last decades, dentistry has made significant steps towards the elusive goal of enamel remineralisation and dentin desensitisation, but more long-term сlinical controlled studies are needed to confirm and quantify these findings, as well as to identify additional factors that can potentiate these processes.…”
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Trends in Specialty Training and National Institutes of Health Funding Among Surgeon-Scientists by Gabriel Velez, MD, PhD, Vinit B. Mahajan, MD, PhD, Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD, MBA, Steven R. Lentz, MD, PhD

“…The total number of MD/PhD program graduates completing Graduate Medical Education training increased each decade after the Medical Scientist Training Program was established by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, but the proportion completing surgical specialties did not change significantly (P = 0.96) from 1965 to 2014. …”
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Machine learning-based monitoring of land cover and reclamation plantations on coal-mined landscape using Sentinel 2 data by Mayank Pandey, Alka Mishra, Singam L. Swamy, James T. Anderson, Tarun Kumar Thakur

“…The recovery rates of soil nutrients under plantations of these sites have surpassed halfway and may take a decade or two to reach levels equivalent to those of natural forests. …”
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A century of Azolla filiculoides biocontrol: the economic value of Stenopelmus rufinasus to Great Britain by Corin F. Pratt, Kate Constantine, Suzy V. Wood

“…Abstract Background The invasive aquatic fern Azolla filiculoides has been present in Great Britain (GB) since the end of the nineteenth century, while its specialist natural enemy, the weevil Stenopelmus rufinasus was first recorded nearly four decades later, in 1921. The purpose of this study was to estimate the economic value of management cost savings resulting from the presence of S. rufinasus as a biocontrol agent of A. filiculoides in GB, including the value of additional augmentative releases of the weevil made since the mid-2000s, compared with the expected costs of control in the absence of S. rufinasus. …”
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That “darned Dorsiceratus case” (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Cletodidae T. Scott)—an attempt of a systematic approach, including the description of three new species by Kai Horst George, Lukas Tönjes, Songül Yurtdaş

“…Nonetheless, studies over the past decades have shown that deep-sea Harpacticoida present an almost overwhelming diversity of species. …”
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Computational model for mammalian circadian oscillator: interacting with NAD+/SIRT1 pathway and age-related changes in gene expression of circadian oscillator by N. L. Podkolodnyy, N. N. Tverdokhleb, O. A. Podkolodnaya

“…Studies of the last decade reveal a new sight on the possible link between aging processes and circadian rhythm. …”
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Conservative treatment for cataract: state-of-the-art by S.Yu. Petrov, I.V. Kozlova, R.P. Poleva

“…However, cataract surgery is still not available for many patients for several reasons even despite the progress in phaco surgery in the last decade as well as WHO project on eye care accessibility improvement. …”
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Low-density Lipoproteins and Degrees of Cardiovascular Risk in Adults over 40 Years of Age: Case-control Study by Abel Pérez Pavón, Francisco Sánchez Hernández, Karla Doriam Gámez Ávalos, Donovan Casas Patiño, Alejandra Rodríguez Torres

“…Its incidence and prevalence has increased over the last decade and accounts for a third of all deaths. <br /><strong>Objective:</strong> determine the association of LDL-C and degrees of cardiovascular risk in adults over 40 years of age in the Family Medicine Unit #43 of the Mexican Social Security Institute. …”
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The Influence of Concurrent Autoimmune Thyroiditis on the Cardiometabolic Consequences of Cabergoline in Postmenopausal Women by Robert Krysiak, Marcin Basiak, Witold Szkróbka, Bogusław Okopień

“…Furthermore, we assessed plasma lipids, plasma uric acid levels, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), fibrinogen, homocysteine, and the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR). The decadal cardiovascular risk was assessed with the Framingham Risk Score (FRS). …”
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The relationship between intimate partner violence reported at the first antenatal booking visit and obstetric and perinatal outcomes in an ethnically diverse group of Australian p... by Charlene Thornton, Virginia Schmied, Ana María Muñoz, Hannah Grace Dahlen

“…Fifty-four per cent were not born in Australia, and this had increased significantly over the decade. Women born in New Zealand (7.2%) and Sudan (9.1%) were most likely to report IPV at the antenatal booking visit, with women from China and India least likely to report IPV. …”
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The Present Status of the Agriculture Sector Towards Sustainable Development in Sri Lanka: A Review of Existing Policies and Suggestions for Improvements by S.D. Dilini Rathnachandra

“…As per the findings of the study, Sri Lanka had conventional agriculture practices a few decades ago, and agricultural policymakers were introduced to organic agriculture for commercial farming systems a few years ago. …”
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Spatio‐Temporal Changes in Effective Population Size in an Expanding Metapopulation of Eurasian Otters by Nia Evelyn Thomas, Elizabeth A. Chadwick, Michael W. Bruford, Frank Hailer

“…The UK metapopulation of Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) has a well‐documented history of population recovery over recent decades, with indicators of presence (faeces and footprints) increasing in distribution and number over successive national surveys. …”
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Clinico-spirometrical correlation of newly detected COPD patients with known tobacco smoking exposure or biomass smoke exposure presenting to a teaching institution in Vadodara, Gu... by Bhavesh Patel, G Mothiganesh, Arti D. Shah, Chirag H. Chakravarti, Parshwa Naik, Princee Patel

“…The ageing of the global population and ongoing exposure to COPD risk factors are expected to contribute to a rise in the prevalence and burden of COPD in the ensuing decades. The fact that most newly diagnosed patients in this research were older and more symptomatic and that most identified individuals had moderate to severe COPD, indicates the importance of spirometry programs in primary care for the early detection of COPD. …”
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