Trends and Progress on Antibiotic-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Genes in relation to Human Immunodeficiency Virus by N. G. Mbewana Ntshanka, T. A. M. Msagati

“…Despite all measures that have been executed to overcome the challenge of MDR-TB in recent decades, the global MDR-TB trends have kept on accelerating with more and more people becoming victims. …”
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A comparative study of interpolation methods for the development of ore distribution maps by Mahinaz M. Shawky

“…A comparative study between four different geostatistical interpolation techniques: Ordinary Kriging (OK), Simple Kriging (SK), Universal Kriging (UK) and Empirical Bayesian Kriging (EBK); and four deterministic techniques: Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW), Global Polynomial Interpolation (GPI), Radial Basis Function (RBF), and Local Polynomial Interpolation (LPI) were applied. …”
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Mitigating GNSS Multipath Effects Using XGBoost Integrated Classifier Based on Consistency Checks by Dengao Li, Xiaoli Ma, Jumin Zhao, Fanming Wu

“…Under the influence of urban building roads, especially interference from multipath effects, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver-related output signal distortion can affect the robustness of the positioning system and the final positioning accuracy. …”
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Strengthening primary care mental health services – lessons from the South African HIV programme by J Dunlop, E Zibengwa, A E Manyuchi, C Chinyandura, T Mutsago, K S Magongoa, G Khoele, M Mabitsi, K Rees

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ON VARIETY OF INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN EUROPE by L. S. Voronkov

“…He does not consider that an involvement of all countries with market economy into processes of regional integration, if they do not try to achieve certain political aims through integration, is the universal regularity in the globalized world. In these cases neither free trade zones nor custom unions can be considered as integration stages, but they continue to be the tools for further development of trade. …”
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Isoferulic acid facilitates effective clearance of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae through targeting capsule. by Tingting Wang, Huaizhi Yang, Qiushuang Sheng, Ying Ding, Jian Zhang, Feng Chen, Jianfeng Wang, Lei Song, Xuming Deng

“…Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) poses an alarming threat in clinical settings and global public health owing to its high pathogenicity, epidemic success and rapid development of drug resistance, especially the emergence of carbapenem-resistant lineages (CR-hvKP). …”
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A comprehensive review of composting from coffee waste: Revalorization of coffee residue in Colombia by OICC Press Authors

“…  Purpose: Globally, Colombia is recognized as a coffee-growing country par excellence, which entails generating a large amount of coffee waste. …”
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The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Postpartum Depression in Western India: A Cross-Sectional Study by Dharti J. Kansagra, Chikitsa D. Amin, Rajendra B. Chauhan

“…Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a nonpsychotic mental health condition associated with child birth. It poses a major global public health challenge as it remains unrecognized most of the time and impairs both the immediate and long-term health of both the mother and child. …”
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Blade Tip Leakage Flow and Heat Transfer with Pressure-Side Winglet by A. K. Saha, Sumanta Acharya, Ron Bunker, Chander Prakash

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ENTRE LO INDIO, LO NEGRO Y LO INCAICO: LA JERARQUÍA ESPACIAL DE LA DIFERENCIA EN EL PERÚ MULTICULTURAL by Shane Greene

“…En vez de presentar un recuento comparativo sobre las políticas aplicadas a afro-descendientes e indígenas a nivel regional Latinoamericano enfatizando «raza» versus «cultura» arguyo que se debe prestar más atención a las formas en las que el multiculturalismo afro-indígena se «peruaniza» en el proceso de la expansión global/regional. El caso peruano es particularmente interesante por la forma en la que el Estado separa sus sujetos multiculturales por región (reconociendo los andinos, amazónicos, y afroperuanos que son implícitamente de la costa). …”
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Measuring Nurses’ Satisfaction in Primary Health Care Centers at Khartoum, Sudan by Yahya Hussein Ahmed Abdalla

“… Background: The primary healthcare sector has experienced significant growth globally, and the nursing workforce has also expanded in recent decades in response to health system reforms. …”
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Adapting to change: an analysis of midwives' job satisfaction in the post-pandemic workplace by Mirko Prosen, Sabina Ličen

“…Abstract Background Midwifery faces global workforce shortages exacerbated by the pandemic. …”
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The impact of long-term care needs on the socio-economic deprivation of older people and their families: A scoping review protocol. by Rossella Martarelli, Georgia Casanova, Giovanni Lamura

“…Major global problems such as population ageing, long-term care and the socio-economic burden of chronically ill older people and their families are urgent issues. …”
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Modeling and Optimization of Multiaction Dynamic Dispatching Problem for Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles by Ning Wang, Jiahui Guo

“…After that, the Kuhn–Munkres algorithm is set as the baseline method to solve the first model to achieve optimal multiaction allocation instructions for SAEVs, and the combination of deep Q-learning algorithm and Kuhn–Munkres algorithm is designed to solve the second model to realize the global optimization. Finally, a toy example, a macrosimulation of 1 month, and a microsimulation of 6 hours based on actual historical operation data are conducted. …”
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Are Nuclear Star Clusters the Precursors of Massive Black Holes? by Nadine Neumayer, C. Jakob Walcher

“…We use the newly derived upper limits and a literature compilation to study the low mass end of the global-to-nucleus relations. We find the following. (1) The MBH-σ relation cannot flatten at low masses, but may steepen. (2) The MBH-Mbulge relation may well flatten in contrast. (3) The MBH-Sersic n relation is able to account for the large scatter in black hole masses in low-mass disk galaxies. …”
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Towards the praxis of a sustainable knowledge‑based economy by Agnieszka Klimska

“…Similarly, implementation of certain visions of sustainable development generates the need to make specific assumptions, different from the guidelines defined for the mainstream economy (e.g. taking into account global modelling and system analysis or the law of entropy) (Czaja 2011: 164). …”
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION OF SPECIALISTS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AS A WAY OF PASSING CULTURAL CODE by I. M. Shepeleva

“…The article describes the cultural code approach to the process of higher education requires global understanding and awareness of the integrity of academic studies at the university, comprising both professional and humanitarian disciplines, such as philosophy, history, ethnography, psychology etc. …”
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Development of the Voluntary Accreditation for Study Programmes in Russia by O. A. Matveeva

“…The paper dwells on the following trends in the development of independent accreditation procedures: 1) during the current decade the accreditation process is gaining momentum, which is characterized by the growth of number of accreditation organizations as well as educational institutions interested in obtaining accreditation; 2) the state supports and encourages the development of the independent accreditation system for quality assurance in higher education; 3) the voluntary accreditation enables educational organizations to get an independent assessment of study programmes and thus to receive “a bonus” before a state accreditation procedure; 4) the database of External Quality Assurance Reports (DEQAR) becomes a preferred instrument for higher education institutions, whereas they are interested in raising their transparency related to the quality of study programmes and their competitiveness in the global educational space.…”
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SARS and MERS as learning tools for addressing the 2019-nCoV epidemic: A mini-review by Udit DAVE, Ashwin PALANIAPPAN

“…We further identified drawbacks in the global approach to combating SARS and MERS to inform policies to curb 2019-nCoV.…”
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Factors influencing underrepresented geoscientists' decisions to accept or decline faculty job offers in the US by Margaret L. Duffy, Liza Y. Barnes, Christopher D. Wirz, Meghana Ranganathan, Mara A. Freilich, Lyssa M. Freese, Ellen Lalk, Julia Wilcots

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