Willingness and Hesitancy to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 in People with Multiple Sclerosis by D. Bučaitė, J. Valinčiūtė, D. Mickevičienė

“…The most popular positive opinions about vaccination were: “COVID-19 vaccines have more benefits than harm” (71.6%) and “the desire to prevent severe symptoms/hospitalization caused by COVID-19 infection” (79.1%), while mostly agreed negative opinion was “fear of side effects of the vaccine” (84.6%). Intended uptake of COVID-19 vaccines was strongly associated with younger age (p=0.021), higher education level (p=0.008), and employment status (p=0.028). …”
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THE ANALYSIS OF THE ARTISTIC AND GRAPHIC DESIGN OF THE HUMOROUS MAGAZINE «BALDA» IN THE CONTEXT OF SPECIALIZED EDITIONS OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY by Svetlana N. Sheveleva

“…In pre-revolutionary Russia, many specialized magazines were published intended for workers in the printing industry and bookbinding but only «Balda» and «Topor» magazines remain the only humorous, satirical and caricature magazines, which makes them a unique source of both historical, cultural and artistic information.…”
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Towards recognition of peer violence in youth sports – the case of Vojvodina by Ivana Milovanović, Radenko Matić, Jovan Vuković, Milica Blagojević, Mladen Mikić, Dragan Marinković

“…By examining many definitions of aggression it can be concluded that it is any “behavior that is intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid that harm” (Allen & Anderson, 2017: 2; Bushman & Huesmann, 2010; DeWall, Anderson, & Bushman, 2011); whereas violence is, among other things, described as an “extreme form of aggression that has severe physical harm (e.g.…”
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INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF HEAT TREATMENT ON RESIDUAL DEFORMATION CHIPPER KNIVES by A. V. Alifanov, V. N. Alekhnovitch, A. М. Milyukova, V. V. Tsuran

“…The deflection can be easily eliminated by additional straightening.In the course of the work of steel 6HV2S supplied to the Belarusian market of Russia, at the branch of JSC «Atlant» -BSZ it was manufactured a few sets of prototypes chipper knives, intended for testing in a production environment on the woodworking enterprises of the republic (of «Ivatsevichidrev», JSC «Vitebskdrev/»).Production tests of experimental knives made in accordance with the process technology-mi, developed in Barga, showed their compliance with production requirements and also require-ments of state standards, which allows recommend them for a wide introduction to woodworking factories, specializing in the production of wood chips.…”
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Fiscal Mechanism for Countering Negative Environmental Externalities by Viktor Melnyk, Vadym Hrebenozhko

“…The theoretical analysis of issues of countering negative environmental externalities allowed us to classify specific instruments and levers of the fiscal mechanism into the following groups:budget expenditures of different levels intended to counter negative environmental externalities and adapt to climate change, namely, state and municipal loans and investments in green economy facilities, green economy subsidies, direct financing of environmental protection measures; specific tax instruments of environmental focus (energy and fuel taxes; transport taxes; taxes on emissions that cause global changes; payments for pollution, waste disposal and recycling, for the use of natural resources and subsoil, for noise impact, etc.); non-tax revenue instruments (revenues from auctions of emission permits); loan instruments of environmental focus (green bonds, sustainable development bonds, climate bonds issued by state and local authorities); quasi-fiscal instruments (international and intergovernmental grants and assistance (including within the framework of international climate initiatives), national climate initiatives).…”
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Comparative study on the bioavailability and bioequivalence of rifapentine capsules in humans by Ying Qi, Pengfei Zhao

“…The reference is an NMPA-approved product, while the test is a modified version intended to match it in safety and efficacy; both contain the same active ingredient but may differ in excipients or manufacturing processes. …”
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Trauma centers: an underfunded but essential asset to the community by Nasim Ahmed, Joseph L Fracasso

“…Legislations providing patients with expanded access to healthcare such as the Affordable Healthcare Act have failed to deliver on their intended purposes, and managed care organizations have moved to protect their own interest at the expense of trauma patient mortality. …”
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Limitations of temporal (forehead) temperature readings as a screening method for covid-19 by Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas

“…In this editorial, I intend to briefly review some basic physiology and epidemiology, together with published field studies with exercising humans, to explore some of the limitations associated with the use of field temporal temperature readings (Ttemp) as a screening method for Covid-19.…”
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Functional Outcomes After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Comparing Knee Society and Osteoarthritis Outcome Scores by Shahzaib Riaz Baloch, Syed Ata Ur Rahman, Mohammad Sohail Rafi, Eamaan Abid, Zardana Riaz

“… Background: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a regularly performed procedure intended to improve function and relieve discomfort. …”
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Osobnost a dílo Matouše Radouše a tvorba renesančních epitafů v Chrudimi by Ondřej Jakubec, Radka Milotová

“…Thanks to the sufficient archive sources, we know a lot of his life and together with his paintings, still preserved in Chrudim churches (in Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Michael) they were intended for, we can imagine how the local Late Renaissance workshop functioned. …”
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SVILUPPARE LA COMPETENZA LINGUISTICA IN ITALIANO LS TRAMITE IL FEEDBACK INDIRETTO E LE TECNOLOGIE DIGITALI by Fabrizio Ruggeri

“…The aims of the two practical activities proposed to the learners, conceived and implemented taking into account the context of the course, were a) to stimulate metalinguistic reflection, b) to improve linguistic competence, c) to improve the accuracy and fluency of oral production, d) to stimulate motivation. It was also intended to test the effectiveness of indirect corrective feedback, combined with the use of digital technologies, and whether the use of both could be an effective means of engaging and stimulating autonomy in learning. …”
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Effect of chemical composition and T6 heat treatment on the mechanical properties and fracture behaviour of Al-Si alloys for IC engine components by Vuksanović D., Asanović V., Šćepanović J., Radonjić D.

“…The microstructural examinations of Al-Si alloys intended to manufacture IC engine components revealed a complex phase composition in all the samples. …”
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A Comparative Study of Two Anesthetic Agents Thiopentone Sodium and Propofol in Modified Electroconvulsive Therapy by Sanagapalli S. V. L. Manasa, E. Ananda Reddy, V. Harshitha, Velama Pooja Prasanna, Chennuru Kavya Lekha, Javangula Swetha Krishna

“…Thiopentone sodium and propofol are the most commonly used induction agents but differences exist among these two agents. In this study, we intended to compare thiopentone sodium and propofol in seizure duration, recovery time, hemodynamic, and cognitive profiles in patients receiving MECT. …”
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De la façon de nommer aux usages des plantes adventices des cultures en pays Jbala (nord du Maroc) by Louise Clochey, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas

“…Agriculture, the main economic pillar of the Rif area (Northern Morocco), has remained in the form of an agro-sylvo-pastoral system first and foremost intended for local consumption. This traditional system brings about a patchwork of farming and forestry environments with a very high agro-biodiversity. …”
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Skeleton-Based Data Augmentation for Sign Language Recognition Using Adversarial Learning by Yuriya Nakamura, Lei Jing

“…The generator produces hard adversarial data intended to mislead the machine learning model, which acts as a discriminator. …”
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Exponential Growth and Properties of Solutions for a Forced System of Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations in Sobolev–Gevrey Spaces by José Luis Díaz Palencia

“…Through energy estimates and the application of Grönwall’s inequality, we establish that solutions exist, are unique, and also exhibit exponential growth in their Sobolev–Gevrey norms over time under certain assumptions in the forcing term. This analysis in intended to contribute in the understanding of the behavior of fluid flows with forcing terms in high-regularity function spaces.…”
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A universal panel of STR loci for the study of polymorphism of the species <i>Canis lupus</i> and forensic identification of dog and wolf by A. E. Hrebianchuk, I. S. Tsybovsky

“…Commercial panels of microsatellite (STR) loci are intended for DNA analysis of the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) and, therefore, when genotyping the Grey wolf (Canis lupus lupus), most markers reveal significant deviations from the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium and have a low informative value, which complicates their use in a forensic examination. …”
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Regulatory Compliance of Health Claims on Omega-3 Fatty Acid Food Supplements by Jelena Banović Fuentes, Ivana Beara, Ljilja Torović

“…The degree to which claims aligned with regulatory standards, expressed in terms of scores scaled from 0 to 1, was the highest for supplements intended for pregnant women (1), while, in the case of adults, the mean score was 0.76 ± 0.35, and, in case of children, was 0.85 ± 0.27. …”
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Predicting patients’ sentiments about medications using artificial intelligence techniques by Amir Sorayaie Azar, Samin Babaei Rikan, Amin Naemi, Jamshid Bagherzadeh Mohasefi, Uffe Kock Wiil

“…Therefore, this study intends to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to predict patients’ sentiments. …”
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Mapping factors influencing initiation of antiretroviral treatment among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol. by Palesa Grace Likoti, Desmond Kuupiel, Nelisiwe Khuzwayo

“…<h4>Background</h4>Since the Start Free, Stay Free, and AIDS-Free launch, UNAIDS targets intended to promote interventions to prevent HIV transmission and promote access to ART among adolescents and children, of which none were achieved in 2020. …”
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