Alcohol policies in India: A scoping review. by Jaclyn Schess, Lydia Bennett-Li, Richard Velleman, Urvita Bhatia, Alexander Catalano, Abhijeet Jambhale, Abhijit Nadkarni

“…We identified 19 Federal policy documents and 36 State level policy documents within which we have identified the specific policy measures which address the 10 categories of the World Health Organization's Global Action Plan to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol. …”
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Evolution of SILS Cholecystectomy in the Caribbean: The Direct Transfascial Puncture Technique Using Conventional Instruments without Working Ports by Shamir O. Cawich, Dexter Thomas, Dale Hassranah, Vijay Naraynsingh

“…In order to contain cost, we used conventional instruments and three transfascial ports placed in an umbilical incision, but we noted significant instrument clashes that originated at the port platforms. …”
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Reconfigurable anomalous reflectors with stretchable elastic substrates at 140 GHz band by Kato Yuto, Yonemura Kazuma, Seki Kento, Kambara Retsuku, Sanada Atsushi

“…We propose reconfigurable anomalous reflectors with stretchable elastic substrates. …”
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Reliability analysis of new jointly Type-II hybrid NH censored data and its modeling for three engineering cases by Maysaa Elmahi Abd Elwahab, Ahmed Elshahhat, Ohud A. Alqasem, Mazen Nassar

“…We consider two estimation approaches, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, to obtain point and interval estimates of the model parameters. …”
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Multiantenna Spectrum Sensing in the Presence of Multiple Primary Users over Fading and Nonfading Channels by Dayan Adionel Guimarães, Rausley Adriano Amaral de Souza, Guilherme Pedro Aquino

“…Nevertheless, we show that the original expressions from Wei and Tirkkonen, 2012, can be simply and accurately applied to a modified model that considers fixed or time-varying channels with any fading statistic. …”
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Comparative genomics reveal a novel phylotaxonomic order in the genus Fusobacterium by Cristian Molteni, Diego Forni, Rachele Cagliani, Manuela Sironi

“…Abstract Fusobacteria have been associated to different diseases, including colorectal cancer (CRC), but knowledge of which taxonomic groups contribute to specific conditions is incomplete. We analyzed the genetic diversity and relationships within the Fusobacterium genus. …”
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Topological Structure of Manufacturing Industry Supply Chain Networks by Supun S. Perera, Michael G. H. Bell, Mahendrarajah Piraveenan, Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mamata Parhi

“…We find that most SCNs indicate disassortative mixing and power law distribution in terms of interfirm connections. …”
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Power Allocation in the TV White Space under Constraint on Secondary System Self-Interference by Byungjin Cho, Konstantinos Koufos, Kalle Ruttik, Riku Jäntti

“…We define the power allocation scheme as an optimization problem. …”
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2-D numerical experiments of thermal convection of highly viscous fluids under strong adiabatic compression: implications on mantle convection of super-Earths with various sizes by Masanori Kameyama

“…Abstract We conduct a series of numerical experiments of thermal convection of compressible fluids with temperature-dependent viscosity, in order to study how the adiabatic compression and model geometries affect the mantle convection on super-Earths. …”
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Identification of Viral Taxon-Specific Genes (VTSG): Application to by Shinduck Kang, Young-Chang Kim

“…We applied this approach to norovirus in Caliciviridae, which causes 90% of gastroenteritis cases worldwide. …”
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Toward Optimal Placement of Spatial Sensors to Detect Poisson-Distributed Targets by Mingyu Kim, Harun Yetkin, Daniel J. Stilwell, Jorge Jimenez, Saurav Shrestha, Nina Stark

“…We also characterize the gap between the desired objective function and our approximation. …”
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Chest-to-Back Skin-to-Skin Contact to Regulate Body Temperature for Low Birth Weight and/or Premature Babies: A Crossover Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial by Sisay Gere, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku

“…The outcome measure was a change in skin temperature. We used a linear mixed-effect model for analysis. …”
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Comparison of Metacognitions Between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder’s Subtypes and Normal Healthy Controls by Katre DOÐAN, Özgür Saygýn SOLAK, Kadir ÖZDEL, Mehmet Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…Socio-demographic data form, SCID-I, SCID-II, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and the Metacognition Questionnaire (MCQ-30) were administered. Results: When we compared OCD and healthy control group, we observed significant statistical difference between two groups on the mean total and subscale scores of MCQ-30 (p<0.05), except for the subscale about positive beliefs about worry. …”
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On the interaction between implicit statistical learning and the alternation advantage: Evidence from manual and oculomotor serial reaction time tasks. by Arianna Compostella, Marta Tagliani, Maria Vender, Denis Delfitto

“…In this study, we examine how implicit statistical learning (ISL) interacts with the cognitive bias of the alternation advantage in serial reaction time (SRT) tasks. …”
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Shedding light on development: Leveraging the new nightlights data to measure economic progress. by Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira, Patrick Stephens, Mekala Sundaram, Jonathan Wilson

“…We evaluate the association between newly available harmonized NTL data and various indicators of economic activity at the subnational level across 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2019. …”
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A Nonhomogeneous Dirichlet Problem for a Nonlinear Pseudoparabolic Equation Arising in the Flow of Second-Grade Fluid by Le Thi Phuong Ngoc, Truong Thi Nhan, Nguyen Thanh Long

“…In Part 2, we investigate asymptotic behavior of the solution as t→+∞. …”
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RNase Y mediates posttranscriptional control of the virulence-associated CncR1 small-RNA in Helicobacter pylori by Federico D’Agostino, Eva Pinatel, Alexandra Meynhardt, Vincenzo Scarlato, Andrea Vannini, Davide Roncarati

“…We observed that RNase Y deletion has a limited impact on H. pylori transcriptome and on bacterial growth. …”
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Fast binary logistic regression by Nurdan Ayse Saran, Fatih Nar

“…We put Lf-norm formulation in matrix-vector form, providing flexibility to include or exclude penalization of the intercept term when applying regularization. …”
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Complex Reaction Kinetics in Chemistry: A Unified Picture Suggested by Mechanics in Physics by Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Giulio Landolfi, Sara Murciano, Sarah Perrone

“…We first show that standard cooperative kinetics can be framed in terms of classical mechanics, where the emerging phenomenology can be obtained by applying the principle of least action of classical mechanics. …”
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Cilium height difference between strokes is more effective in driving fluid transport in mucociliary clearance: A numerical study by Ling Xu, Yi Jiang

“…We first verify that asymmetry in the cilia motion is key to developing transport in the mucus flow. …”
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