Management of Uncertainty by Statistical Process Control and a Genetic Tuned Fuzzy System by Stephan Birle, Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, Thomas Becker

“…In this context, fuzzy logic controllers offer quite a straightforward way to control processes that are affected by nonlinear behavior and uncertain process knowledge. However, in order to maintain process safety and product quality it is necessary to specify the controller performance and to tune the controller parameters. …”
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Barriers to and facilitators of access to mental health services among pregnant adolescents and young mothers in Belize by Olusola Oladeji, Joanna Lai, Natalia R. Velazquez, Mohammed I. Bammai, Ghanshyam Kandel, Andria Spyridou, Natalia L. Beer, Angella E. Baitwabusa, Juliet Simmons, Fidel L. Cuellar, Iveth Quintanilla, Jeffan Augustine

“…The first theme was individual factors and showed that respondents had good knowledge about mental health problems and a desire to seek mental health services. …”
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COVID-19 health information needs of older adults from ethnic minority groups in the UK: a qualitative study by Jackie A Cassell, Laura J Hughes, Elizabeth Ford, Priyamvada Paudyal, Kavian Kulasabanathan, Jo Armes, Rebecca Sharp, Saliha Majeed-Hajaj, Emily Skinner, Naresh Khapangi Magar, Debbie Isobel Keeling

“…Older participants mostly lived in multigenerational households, and family and community were key for providing support and communicating about healthcare needs. Participants’ knowledge of COVID-19 varied widely; some spoke confidently about the subject, while others had limited information. …”
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Update of the list of qualified presumption of safety (QPS) recommended microbiological agents intentionally added to food or feed as notified to EFSA 21: Suitability of taxonomic... by EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ), Ana Allende, Avelino Alvarez‐Ordóñez, Valeria Bortolaia, Sara Bover‐Cid, Alessandra De Cesare, Wietske Dohmen, Laurent Guillier, Liesbeth Jacxsens, Maarten Nauta, Lapo Mughini‐Gras, Jakob Ottoson, Luisa Peixe, Fernando Perez‐Rodriguez, Panagiotis Skandamis, Elisabetta Suffredini, Marianne Chemaly, Pier Sandro Cocconcelli, Pablo Salvador Fernández Escámez, Miguel Prieto Maradona, Amparo Querol, Lolke Sijtsma, Juan Evaristo Suarez, Ingvar Sundh, Angela Botteon, Barizzone Fulvio, Sandra Correia, Lieve Herman

“…B. nakamurai cannot be recommended for the QPS list due to a lack of body of knowledge for its use in the food and feed chain.…”
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Comparing Clean Water Act Section 316(b) Policy Options by John Kadvany

“…The simplified policy positions are compared using the three dimensions of the comparative policy framework: (1) the role of CWA philosophy or vision, such as the use of technology-forcing rules, (2) regulatory policy implementation, and (3) the role for scientific information and the knowledge base. Strengths and weaknesses of all three 316(b) policy approaches are identified. …”
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Awareness About Diabetes And Its Complications Among Patients With Diabetes Mellitus by Faiza Batool, Kausar Malik, Lubna Meraj, Shazia Siddiq, Abbas Majeed, Sadia Khan

“…The statistically significant impact of age on patients' knowledge regarding blood sugar levels (P=0.009) and foot care (P=0.013) Conclusion: There is a significant lack of awareness among individuals with diabetes, highlighting the urgent need for educational initiatives. …”
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miR-142-3p Contributes to Early Cardiac Fate Decision of Embryonic Stem Cells by Zhong-Yan Chen, Fei Chen, Nan Cao, Zhi-Wen Zhou, Huang-Tian Yang

“…Our findings provide new knowledge for further understanding of roles and mechanisms of miRNAs as critical regulators of cardiomyocyte differentiation.…”
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Digital competencies: perceptions of primary school teachers pursuing master’s degrees from eight African countries by Andresa Sartor Harada, Juliana Azevedo Gomes, Oscar Ulloa Guerra, Roberto Ruiz, Rubén Calderón

“…The needs highlighted by teachers were in developing their knowledge of how to create content with the support of technology. …”
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Liras into Lyres: Talking Across Difference in the Works of Edith Nesbit by Melissa Jenkins

“…My analysis uncovers how conversations between children in Nesbit’s novels feature partial knowledge, constructed piecemeal through misunderstandings and mishearings. …”
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Optimizing ibrutinib bioavailability: Formulation and assessment of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin-based nanosponge delivery systems by Sunitha Sampathi, Nitiraj Kulkarni, D.V.R.N. Bhikshapathi, Jagadish V. Tawade, Nainaru Tarakaramu, Rzgar Farooq Rashid, Aziz Kubaev

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The Idea of Education: Development or Service Delivery? by V. E. Ljovkin, A. O. Ljovkina, E. L. Docenko, L. M. Volosnikova

“…To determine own position, the authors of the present article used the procedure of separating “social construction paradigms” (as a set of principles of knowledge and transformation of social reality), which make it possible to give diverse definitions of society and to introduce the concepts of the essence and the role of education.Results. …”
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Education programmes on performance-based assessment for allied health and nursing clinical educators: A scoping review protocol [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wit... by Lucy Alpine, Emer Barrett, David Mockler, Anne O'Connor, Julie Broderick

“…Objective The aim of this scoping review is to investigate and describe education programmes delivered to allied health and nursing clinical educators, to develop PBA knowledge and skills. Methods This review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for conducting scoping reviews. …”
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Adult Wilms Tumor With Inferior Vena Cava Thrombus on an Incomplete Duplex Collecting System Ureter Fissus Proximalis Managed at a Tertiary Hospital in Tanzania: A Case Report and... by Amini Mitamo Alexandre, Joseph Martin Lori, Gabriel F. Mtaturu, Victor Patrick Sensa, Sylvia Bedas Nsato, Mariam Athumani Mbezi, Obadia V. Nyongole, Charles A. Mkony

“…We report a case of an adult WT with venous thrombus on an incomplete duplex collecting system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of adult WT with such a presentation. …”
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A conceptual mechanistic model of amino acid fluxes in the small intestine, taking the example of pig by C.J.J. Garçon, N. Le Floc’h, Y. Mercier, J. van Milgen

“…The aim of this study was to integrate current knowledge of the metabolic AA fluxes in the small intestine in a conceptual model of intestinal AA metabolism. …”
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Home management of malaria among caregivers of under-five children in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria by Liasu Adeagbo Ahmed, Olubankole Akinboboye, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, David Akintayo Oguntuase

“…Most of the caregivers bought antifever drugs from patent medicine shops and only 11.9 % of them got a prescription drug from pharmacies. Despite good knowledge about causes of malaria by caregivers (72.6%) and a prompt medical treatment within 24 h of fever onset (84.2%), many of their children were treated with only paracetamol (45%) and, therefore, they presented to the hospital febrile (61.8%), tachycardic (63.7%), and tachypnoic (83.9%). …”
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Specialized pediatric palliative care in Italy: where are we going? The Palliped 2022–2023 study by Franca Benini, Anna Mercante, Sara Di Nunzio, Simonetta Papa, the PalliPed 2022-2023 Working Group

“…This paper presents the results of the first monitoring phase of the PalliPed project, which was developed through the PalliPed 2022–2023 study, to update current knowledge on the provision of specialized PPC services in Italy. …”
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Indoor Black Carbon Concentrations and their Sources in Residential Environments: Validation of an Input-adaptive Proxy Model by Jiangyue Zhao, Pak Lun Fung, Martha Arbayani Zaidan, Birgit Wehner, Kay Weinhold, Alfred Wiedensohler, Tareq Hussein

“…To fill in the missing knowledge of indoor BC, a proxy model was developed. …”
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Exploring self-experience practices in dementia care: A scoping review. by Janina Wittmann, Anja Bieber, Joanne Carroll, Kealan Forristal, Louise Hopper, Niels Janssen, Gabriele Meyer, Marianna Riello, Marjolein de Vugt, Dorothee Bauernschmidt

“…Self-experience practices may offer caregivers an opportunity to acquire knowledge, empathy, and skills related to person-centred care, especially through recreating experiences similar to dementia. …”
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Quantification of Escherichia coli Transfer from Plastic Mulch to Field-grown Tomatoes and Bell Peppers by Autumn R. Burnett, Faith Critzer, Timothy Coolong

“…While other studies have evaluated bacterial survival and transfer from mulch to fruit in a laboratory setting, the present study addresses knowledge gaps in bacterial transfer during drooping and dropping incidents in the field when fruit contacts plastic mulch, providing results that have potential to inform future regulatory guidance for produce harvest and handling.…”
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Forensic Support of Pre-Trial Investigative and Inquiry Agencies’ Activities on Combating Crime by O. O. Yukhno

“…It has been stated that today’s theoretical and applied problems of criminalistics are subject to careful study, it is necessary to introduce radical changes in general and in some areas, which requires its consolidation in the current legislation, with further reform of law enforcement agencies, expert institutions, prosecutor’s office and courts, as well as in law enforcement activity, which introduces modern advances of science and technology, including artificial intelligence and modern advances in chemistry, including molecular one, as well as physics, cybernetics, technologies for the manufacture of new metals, their alloys and innovation in other areas of knowledge. The author has argued the existence of such problematic issues as the improvement of forensic characteristics of certain types of crimes, forensic methodology that combines forensic techniques and tactics, contributes to the further improvement of methods of investigating certain types of crimes. …”
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