Changes in the prevalence of severe anxiety and depression symptoms and the associated factors in adults living in Manaus: a comparison of two cross-sectional studies conducted in... by Vanessa Gomes Lima, Marcus Tolentino Silva, Gustavo Magno Baldin Tiguman, Taís Freire Galvão

“…The outcomes were assessed by Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (≥ 15 points) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (≥ 20), and changes were tested by chi-square goodness-of-fit. …”
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Impact of expressive intentions on upper-body kinematics in two expert pianists by Craig Turner, Robin Mailly, Fabien Dal Maso, Felipe Verdugo

“…However, in more virtuosic excerpts (E5–E6), there were generally no differences between conditions. Spatiotemporal constraints might explain these discrepancies between non-virtuosic and virtuosic musical excerpts. …”
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Methodology for delimiting borders of the St. Petersburg agglomeration by S. А. Ershova, S. А. Shishelova, Т. N. Orlovskaya

“…Methods of system analysis and generalization of research results and practical work were applied to set the criteria for delimiting the boundaries of agglomerations. …”
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INDEPENDENCE AND FINANCIAL EXPERTISE OF AUDIT COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Saidu MUSA, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman, Paul B. Ogunwole

“…The information derived from the eleven years was statistically analysed using the Generalized Linear Regression. The result shows that audit committee composition does not significantly influence disclosure practices of listed DMBs in Nigeria (z=0.372, p>0.05) and audit committee independence constitutes a significant influence on the voluntary disclosure practice of listed DBMs in Nigeria (z=3.069, p-value < 0.01). …”
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Représentation et symbolisme du paysage dans le roman criollista du Venezuela by Maurice Belrose

“…Ces romans, représentatifs des différentes écoles littéraires qui coexistent ou se succèdent de 1890 à 1934, à savoir le Romantisme, le Réalisme, le Modernismo (Modernisme) et la Vanguardia (Avant-garde), offrent des paysages de vallées et de montagnes une vision généralement idéalisée, tandis que ceux du Llano sont présentés comme hostiles et inquiétants, quoique d’une beauté « barbare ».…”
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Multimorbidity in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Associations With Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Healthcare Costs: A Real-World Evidence Study by Dingwei Dai, Joaquim Fernandes, Xiaowu Sun, Laura Lupton, Vaughn W. Payne, Alexandra Berk

“…ACEs and healthcare costs were assessed using all data within 12 months after the index date. Multivariable generalized linear models were performed to examine the associations between multimorbidity and ACEs and healthcare costs. …”
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Textbooks on the international relations theory: What they talk about, what they keep silent about, and what to do about it by N. V. Yudin

“…On the other hand, their common leitmotif remains the idea that international studies either have not yet acquired a full-f ledged theory, or, due to their inherent complexity, dynamism and inconsistency are not subject to systematic generalization in principle. As a result, teaching of the IR theory turns out to be equally inconvenient for the lecturers, if they want to not just bombard students with terms and personalities, but teach them to effectively use different concepts and approaches, and for students. …”
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Eligibility of Dapagliflozin and Empagliflozin in a Real-World Heart Failure Population by Erik Håkansson, Helena Norberg, Sara Själander, Krister Lindmark

“…Noneligible patients differed according to reason for ineligibility, where patients with low NT-proBNP were generally younger and healthier, and patients with low eGFR were older and had more comorbidities. …”
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Trends and critical points of Aspergillus contamination along Ethiopian chili postharvest value chain by Tariku Hunduma Tolera, Anteneh Tesfaye, Melaku Alemu

“…Postharvest handling practices such as harvesting, sun-drying, and transporting were generally found poor and unhygienic. Conclusions Counts of Aspergillus showed gradually increasing trends up along the PVC. …”
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Efficacy and safety of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for acute and chronic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 381 studies (the meta-TENS... by Gareth Jones, Mark I. Johnson, Carole A. Paley, Matthew R. Mulvey, Priscilla G. Wittkopf

“…Data were limited for other outcomes including adverse events which were poorly reported, generally mild and not different to comparators.Conclusion There was moderate-certainty evidence that pain intensity is lower during or immediately after TENS compared with placebo and without serious adverse events.PROSPERO registration number CRD42019125054.…”
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Persistence and emergence of X4 virus in HIV infection by Ariel D. Weinberger, Alan S. Perelson

“…We further justify the generalized conditions under which this minimal model holds, implying that a phenotypic switch can even occur when the fraction of activated nave CD4+ T cells increases at a slower rate than the fraction of activated memory CD4+ T cells. …”
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Satisfacción de usuarios y calidad del servicio de salud en el primer nivel de atención by Vanessa Carolina Carvajal Granizo, Katherine Geovanna Guerrero Arrieta

“…A cada sujeto de investigación se le aplicó una encuesta para obtener información sobre las variables de investigación: características generales de los pacientes, nivel de satisfacción y factores que inciden en la calidad del servicio. …”
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Calendario polínico de especies potencialmente alergónenas y su relación con parámetros meteorológicos en Villa Ventana, Provincia de Buenos Aires. by Graciela Benedetti, Bárbara Sastre, Alicia Campo

“…Algunos árboles no son recomendables para la salud, por la sensibilidad que provocan en los seres humanos. En términos generales, para que una planta sea considerada alergénica debe contener los antígenos capaces de desencadenar un fenómeno anafiláctico en el organismo humano. …”
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EN The combined effect of heating zone length and inclination angle on start-up, transient and operational characteristics of pulsating heat pipe by К. Мане, Є.С. Алексеїк

“…The impact of inclination angle varies with the coolant used; generally, water outperforms methanol and pentane across all orientations. …”
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Gaussian Process Regression Total Nitrogen Prediction Based on Data Decomposition Technology and Several Intelligent Algorithms by WANG Yongshun, CUI Dongwen

“…Total nitrogen (TN) is one of the important indicators to reflect the degree of water pollution and measure the eutrophication status of lakes and reservoirs.To improve the accuracy of TN prediction,based on the empirical wavelet transform (EWT) and wavelet packet transform (WPT) decomposition technology,this paper proposes a Gaussian process regression (GPR) prediction model optimized by osprey optimization algorithm (OOA),rime optimization algorithm (ROA),bald eagle search (BES) and black widow optimization algorithm (BWOA) respectively.Firstly,the TN time series is decomposed into several more regular subsequence components by EWT and WPT respectively.Then,the paper briefly introduces the principles of OOA,ROA,BES,and BWOA algorithms and applies OOA,ROA,BES,and BWOA to optimize GPR hyperparameters.Finally,EWT-OOA-GPR,EWT-ROA-GPR,EWT-BES-GPR,EWT-BWOA-GPR,WPT-OOA-GPR,WPT-ROA-GPR,WPT-BES-GPR,WPT-BWOA-GPR models (EWT-OOA-GPR and other eight models for short) are established to predict the components of TN by the optimized super-parameters.The final prediction results are obtained after reconstruction,and WT-OOA-GPR,WT-ROA-GPR,WT-BES-GPR and WT-BWOA-GPR models based on wavelet transform (WT) are built.Eight models,including EWT-OOA-SVM based on support vector machine (SVM),the paper compares the unoptimized EWT-GPR,WPT-GPR models,and the uncomposed OOA-GPR,ROA-GPR,BES-GPR,and BWOA-GPR models.The models were verified by the monitoring TN concentration time series data of Mudihe Reservoir,an important drinking water source in China,from 2008 to 2022.The results are as follows.① The average absolute percentage error of eight models such as EWT-OOA-GPR for TN prediction is between 0.161% and 0.219%,and the coefficient of determination is 0.999 9,which is superior to other comparison models,with higher prediction accuracy and better generalization ability.② EWT takes into account the advantages of WT and EMD.WPT can decompose low-frequency and high-frequency signals at the same time.Both of them can decompose TN time series data into more regular modal components,significantly improving the accuracy of model prediction,and the decomposition effect is better than that of the WT method.③ OOA,ROA,BES,and BWOA can effectively optimize GPR hyperparameters and improve GPR prediction performance.…”
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‘Piloting a framework for analysing the public contributions to R&D: new antibiotics in focus’ by Louise Schmidt, Ozren Sehic, Ursula Theuretzbacher, Daniel Fabian, Claudia Wild

“…We found the classification framework generally practicable and we suggest recommendations to improve its granularity and applicability.Conclusion In this paper we piloted and revised a framework that has been developed to classify types of public contributions to pharmaceutical products at different stages of development. …”
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Bidimensionally partitioned online sequential broad learning system for large-scale data stream modeling by Wei Guo, Jianjiang Yu, Caigen Zhou, Xiaofeng Yuan, Zhanxiu Wang

“…Additionally, due to the random generation rule of hidden nodes, IBLS generally necessitates a large network size to guarantee approximation accuracy, and the resulting high-dimensional matrix calculation poses a greater challenge to the updating efficiency of the model. …”
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KULTŪRINIS ŽYDŲ ĮVAIZDIS LIETUVOJE IR TAUTININKŲ IDEOLOGIJA by Bernaras Ivanovas

“…Firs of all Nationalist's propaganda concentrated on the group of liberal Jews and on the usage of Russian language in Jewish community, but on another hand the image of Jewish communist was not very popular. Generally, all negative features were attributed to the Jews, who wanted to integrate to Lithuanian society and who wanted to take positions, that, according to the ideology of nationalists, were attributed just for Lithuanians. …”
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Prótesis totales y lesiones bucales en adultos mayores institucionalizados by Beatriz García Alpízar, Marleydis Capote Valladares, Teresita de Jesús Morales Montes de Oca

“…<strong><br />Conclusiones</strong>: las lesiones bucales estuvieron muy relacionadas con los factores locales: estado de conservación, higiene, tiempo de uso de las prótesis; y con factores generales como: incremento de la edad, enfermedades sistémicas y uso de medicamentos para su tratamiento.…”
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Zoonotic Parasites and Their Association With Human Activities in Northern Tanzania: An Integrated Ecosystem Approach for One Health by Barakaeli Abdieli Ndossi, Eblate Ernest Mjingo, Hansol Park, Dongmin Lee, Mohammed Mebarek Bia, Heejae Yang, Sungbo Seo, Keeseon S. Eom

“…This study reveals that there was a generally low level of awareness regarding zoonotic diseases and STHs. …”
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