Las mujeres y la compra pública: una mirada al procedimiento de feria inclusiva by Thalía Carolina Singaucho Armas

“…Los principales hallazgos sugieren que las brechas de género respecto a cargos directivos, montos y volumen de contratos públicos son menores que la tendencia global de la compra pública ecuatoriana; sin embargo, no se debería a la aplicación del parámetro de igualdad de género, sino sería un efecto colateral de la reserva de mercado aplicada a las empresas más pequeñas del tejido empresarial. …”
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Migrant Identity: Maintenance of Lithuanianness, Language Attitudes and Language Policy in Lithuanian Diaspora by Gribauskienė Skirmantė

“…Ethnic, linguistic identity, heritage language maintenance and transmission, language attitudes and policies remain important topics in nowadays globalized world. The main purpose of this study, which is a part of a large-scale research on Lithuanian heritage language, was to analyze the linguistic and ethnic identity development within Lithuanian diaspora. …”
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An External Archive-Based Constrained State Transition Algorithm for Optimal Power Dispatch by Xiaojun Zhou, Jianpeng Long, Chongchong Xu, Guanbo Jia

“…Moreover, a preference trade-off strategy is designed to improve the global search performance of EA-CSTA, and the translation transformation in state transition algorithm is modified to improve the local search ability of EA-CSTA. …”
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Investigating the Perceived Impact of Surgeons' Burnout on Surgical Physician Associates' Wellness in United States Ambulatory Surgery Centers by Rhionna Smith, Lihua Dishman, John Fick, Kathleen Thomas

“…This qualitative, national, and cross-sectional study explored the perceived impact of surgeons' burnout on SPAs' wellness in U.S. ASCs during global health crises. Primary demographic and qualitative data were collected using a self-developed, three-section survey instrument: (1) information regarding informed consent; (2) 10 short demographic questions; and (3) two open-ended essay questions regarding surgeons' burnout and SPAs' wellness. …”
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Assessing agritourism-integrated rural human settlement environment under the “dual-carbon” goal: evidence from Zhejiang, China by Shuaijun Lin, Hongfeng Zhang, Johnny F. I. Lam

“…With the full implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the upgrading of tourism consumption, and the impact of global climate change, the Chinese Government is seeking a green transformation and upgrading of agriculture, and an agritourism-integrated human settlement environment is one of the most important means of coordinating the relationship between people and land and promoting the green development of the village. …”
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Wheat NAC transcription factor NAC5‐1 is a positive regulator of senescence by Catherine Evans, Sophie Louise Mogg, Charline Soraru, Emma Wallington, Juliet Coates, Philippa Borrill

“…Abstract Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is an important source of both calories and protein in global diets, but there is a trade‐off between grain yield and protein content. …”
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MVR: Synergizing Large and Vision Transformer for Multimodal Natural Language-Driven Vehicle Retrieval by Tareq Mahmod AlZubi, Umar Raza Mukhtar

“…Our model captures complementary local features, alongside global information including motion and environmental context. …”
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Directions of Civil Service Institutional Transformation by G. A. Borshevskiy

“…A systematic approach to the creation of the public service will increase the efficiency of public institutions and their resilience in the face of global instability. Our conclusions were tested in draft the Strategy of socio-economic development of Russia for the period till 2030.…”
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Inclusion of Women Architects into the Cultural Field of Spanish Competitions: Struggling for Professional Recognition from the Periphery (1978-2008) by Asunción Díaz García, José Luis Oliver-Ramírez

“…A retrospective look at the architecture competitions held and reported in Spain between the years of transition to democracy and the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008 allows us to verify, from a sociological and historiographical approach, the progressive inclusion of women into the complex and traditionally patriarchal cultural field of the architecture competition. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Related to Antibiotic Use among Adult Population in Urban Slums of Burdwan Municipality, Purba Bardhaman District of West Bengal: A Cross-sectiona... by Sayanti Chingri, Sulagna Das, Sukanya Gupta

“…Introduction: Antibiotic resistance (ABR) poses a considerable challenge to global public health. Appropriate antibiotic usage plays a pivotal role toward preventing emerging ABR. …”
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An Exploratory Study of Washout Rate Analysis for Thallium-201 Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Using Cadmium Zinc Telluride Detectors by Masaru Ishihara MS, Masahisa Onoguchi PhD, Takayuki Shibutani PhD

“…A total of 52 Japanese patients were examined using CZT SPECT and conventional SPECT, and the global WORs were compared. Additionally, the MPI WORs were compared for patients with a normal MPI versus those in whom MPI reflected the patients’ multivessel disease (MVD) MPI. …”
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Bifurcation and Stabillity Analysis of HIV Transmission Model with Optimal Control by Kumama Regassa Cheneke, Koya Purnachandra Rao, Geremew Kenassa Edessa

“…However, the endemic equilibrium is locally and globally asymptotically stable if R0>1 and unstable otherwise. …”
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Criptotefras del volcanismo tropical en el último milenio preservadas en los sedimentos del Pantano La Bramadora, Sopetrán, Antioquia, Colombia by Maria Teresa Florez-Molina, Luis Norberto Parra-Sánchez

“…Los sedimentos del pantano guardan evidencias de eventos volcánicos globales y locales, que se pueden visualizar a través de la presencia de “criptotefras” (pequeñas esquirlas de vidrio volcánico y/o fragmentos de matriz cuyos tamaños varían entre 5-10 µm), estas son huellas dactilares del volcanismo tropical ocurrido en el último milenio. …”
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Public R&D support, innovation, and spillovers: A dynamic spatial panel approach to firms by Bongsuk Sung, Dan Zhang, Sang-Do Park

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A data fusion approach for providing valid annual passenger transport statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic by Anton Galich, Christine Eisenmann, Katja Köhler

“…Abstract The global outbreak of the COVID19 pandemic dramatically changed people’s life’s and their travel behavior in 2020. …”
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Automatic Aortic Valve Extraction Using Deep Learning with Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac CT Images by Soichiro Inomata, Takaaki Yoshimura, Minghui Tang, Shota Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Sugimori

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Clinical Manifestation and Phylogenetic Analysis of Peste des Petits Ruminants in Local Iraqi Breed Sheep in Al-Diwaniyah Province by Khalefa A. Mansour, Muthanna H. Hussain, Saad H. Al-Husseiny, Asaad J. Abid, Qassim H. Kshash

“…Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a contagious virus that infects sheep and goats, damages livestock globally. This study examined the clinical features and phylogenetic analysis of the PPR virus in Iraqi breed sheep from Al-Diwaniyah province. …”
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Food insecurity confrontation by pastoralist and agrarian communities in South Omo Zone, Ethiopia: a facility-based qualitative study by Mintesinot Melka Gujo, Lebitsi Maud Modiba

“…Food insecurity remains a global issue, particularly in developing countries like Ethiopia. …”
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Effects of Certain Personal Attributes on Food Waste by Ákos Bartha, Bálint Horváth

“…Therefore, we can see that food waste itself is one of the most serious, paradoxical and global modern issues which the developed world has identified, and is trying to decrease by using national and international interventions in order to limit food supply anomalies and environmental loads as much as possible. …”
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Reflections on the Impact of Extreme Weather on New Power Systems and Countermeasures by Chen CAO, Zengping WANG

“…[Objective] In recent years, climate warming and other factors have led to a rise in extreme weather events globally. Simultaneously, under the "carbon peak - carbon neutral" goal, the integration of fluctuating renewable energy including wind and solar energy, extensive use of power electronics and long-distance ultra-high-voltage transmission have reshaped traditional power grids. …”
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