Prevalence and factors associated with newborn care practices among caregivers: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis in sub-Saharan Africa by Solomon Mohammed Salia, Amidu Alhassan, Billie de Haas, Jelle Stekelenburg, Robert Kaba Alhassan

“…However, no systematic reviews or meta-analyses on this topic in SSA have been published since 2021. This paper reviews the prevalence and determinants of newborn care practices among caregivers in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Ultra-Wideband Indoor Channel Modelling Using Ray-Tracing Software for through-the-Wall Imaging Radar by Christophe Lièbe, Pierre Combeau, Alain Gaugue, Yannis Pousset, Lilian Aveneau, Rodolphe Vauzelle, Jean-Marc Ogier

“…This paper presents a new software for design of through-the-wall imaging radars. …”
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Attitudes of Final-Year Medical Students in Jordan Towards Volunteering During a Pandemic by Alassaf A, Gharaibeh L, Alkubaisi F, Alkhawaldeh M, Dababseh S, Odeh R

“…Therefore, we aimed to evaluate their experience and attitudes towards volunteering during a pandemic and the factors affecting that.Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study, using paper and online questionnaire which were distributed to final-year medical students at the University of Jordan from August 2021 to October 2021, about their experience and attitudes towards voluntary work during pandemics.Results: A total of 375 of final year medical students responded to the questionnaire. …”
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Application and Analyzation of the Vision-Based Structure Model Displacement Measuring Method in Cassette Structure Shaking Table Experiment by Wang Yanhua, Wang Cheng, Feng Yan, Dai Bowen, Wu Gang

“…The noncontact displacement measurement method, such as optical measuring technology, can solve the above problems and serve as an effective supplementary method for traditional displacement measuring in the shaking table test. This paper proposed a vison-based displacement measuring method. …”
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Facies distribution, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir quality of the Oligo-Miocene carbonate sequences (Asmari formation) in the Dezful embayment, SW Iran by Hamed Sadeqi, Mohsen Aleali, Ali Kadkhodaie, Mehran Arian

“…Abstract The Asmari succession is among the greatest productive hydrocarbon-bearing rock units in the Middle East. This paper examines the biostratigraphy, sedimentary environment, and depositional sequence of the Asmari reservoir in the Haft-Kel Field. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of Temperature Distribution and Stress Behavior of Squeeze Pressure Composites by P. Gurusamy, T. Sathish, V. Mohanavel, Alagar Karthick, M. Ravichandran, Omaima Nasif, Saleh Alfarraj, Velu Manikandan, S. Prasath

“…The solidification process is analyzed using the finite element method (FEM), and this would fetch a lot of information about the cooling rate of the composites and also helps to reduce the time in experimentation. This paper reports and plots the cooling curves of Al/SiCp composites using simulation software. …”
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MoodMover: Development and usability testing of an mHealth physical activity intervention for depression by Yiling Tang, Madelaine Gierc, Henry La, Juehee Kim, Sam Liu, Raymond W Lam, Eli Puterman, Guy Faulkner

“…An application(app)-based intervention to promote PA among individuals with depression may be a viable alternative or adjunct to conventional treatments offering increased accessibility. Objective This paper describes the early stages of the development process of MoodMover, a 9-week app-based intervention designed to promote PA for people with depression, including its usability testing. …”
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Numerical analysis of evaporation reduction in floating photovoltaic power plants: influence of design parameters by Berlioux Baptiste, Amiot Baptiste, Ferrand Martin, Le Berre Rémi, Rhazi Oume-Lgheit, Vidal Javier, Pabiou Hervé, Knikker Ronnie

“…Indeed, the interaction between atmospheric conditions, water bodies, and the FPV plant creates a dynamic system that is challenging to study and accurately model. This paper investigates the impact on evaporation of various characteristics of FPV plants, such as float technology, plant positioning and orientation, distribution, and coverage ratio. …”
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An Ultra-Wide Range D-Shaped Fiber SPR Sensor with a Nanostructure of Gold–MoS₂ and Sodium for the Simultaneous Measurement of Refractive Index and Temperature by Xinglian Lu, Xiantong Yu, Jun Zhou, Min Chang, Dunke Lu

“…Refractive index (RI) and temperature (T) are both critical environmental parameters for environmental monitoring, food production, and medical testing. The paper develops a D-shaped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) sensor to measure RI and T simultaneously. …”
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Experimental Study on Damage and Failure of Coal-Pillar Dams in Coal Mine Underground Reservoir under Dynamic Load by Qiangling Yao, Liqiang Yu, Ning Chen, Weinan Wang, Qiang Xu

“…The stability of coal-pillar dams in underground hydraulic engineering works is affected not only by long-term water erosion but also by dynamic loading induced, for example, by roof breaking or fault slipping. In this paper, the water absorption characteristics of coal samples from western China were studied by nondestructive immersion tests, and a high-speed camera was used to monitor SHPB tests on samples of varying water content and subjected to various strain rates. …”
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Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing of a patient with postoperative pain after surgery for breast cancer (1例乳腺癌患者术后疼痛的中医状态调护) by CHEN Hong (陈宏), DENG Jianhua (邓建华), LI Suqian (李苏茜), ZHOU Jie (周洁), LI Ye (李野), E Haiyan (鄂海燕), ZHENG Ping (郑萍), TANG Ling (唐玲)

“…This paper summarized the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) nursing of a patient with postoperative pain after surgery for breast cancer. …”
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Advances in the research of immunomodulatory mechanism of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells on periodontal tissue regeneration by De-Zhi Zhao, Rui-Lin Yang, Han-Xiao Wei, Kang Yang, Yi-Bing Yang, Nuo-Xin Wang, Qian Zhang, Fang Chen, Tao Zhang

“…In recent years, due to the good tissue regeneration ability, the research on Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) and MSC-derived exosomes has been gradually deepened, especially its ability to interact with the microenvironment of the body in the complex immunoregulatory network, which has led to many new perspectives on the therapeutic strategies for many diseases. This paper systematically reviews the immunomodulatory (including bone immunomodulation) properties of MSCs and their role in the periodontal inflammatory microenvironment, summarizes the pathways and mechanisms by which MSCs and MSC-EVs have promoted periodontal regeneration in recent years, lists potential areas for future research, and describes the issues that should be considered in future basic research and the direction of development of “cell-free therapies” for periodontal regeneration.…”
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Machine Learning Approach to Predict the DC Bias for Adaptive OFDM Transmission in Indoor Li-Fi Applications by Marwah T. Salman, David R. Siddle, Amadi G. Udu

“…Therefore, simultaneously addressing DC bias optimization and clipping mitigation is essential to provide reliable and power-efficient transmissions. This paper proposes a machine learning (ML) approach to predict the optimum DC bias based on the statistical properties of the OFDM signal and system characteristics. …”
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Reconfigured single- and double-diode models for improved modelling of solar cells/modules by Emre Çelik, Mehmet Karayel, Dinçer Maden, Mahmoud Abdel-Salam, Nihat Öztürk, Orhan Kaplan, Ghanshyam G. Tejani, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Mohammed Baljon

“…In order to render more accurate and representative modeling, this paper adds a small resistance in series with the diodes in SDM and DDM. …”
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The Effect of Excavation Disturbance on the Stability of Bedding Cataclastic Rock Mass High Slope Containing Multimuddy Interlayers by Fei Liu, Jiaming Zhang, Pengzheng Guo, Wenlian Liu, Zhiqiang Wang, Jipu Chen

“…Moreover, unloading due to excavation can swiftly compromise the mechanical integrity and overall quality of the rock mass, consequently impacting the stability of slopes postexcavation. Therefore, this paper modeled the unstable slope excavated at a waste incineration power plant in Yuxi, Yunnan, using the finite element strength reduction method. …”
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IncSAR: A Dual Fusion Incremental Learning Framework for SAR Target Recognition by George Karantaidis, Athanasios Pantsios, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Symeon Papadopoulos

“…The challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where models lose past knowledge when adapting to new tasks, remains a critical issue. In this paper, we introduce IncSAR, an incremental learning framework designed to tackle catastrophic forgetting in SAR target recognition. …”
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Co-Combustion of Tire Pyrolysis Products and Wood Pellets by A. V. Grytsenko, N. V. Vnykova, O. I. Pozdnyakova

“…The deterioration of the quality of traditional carbon-containing energy resources leads to the need to develop technologies for co-combustion of biofuel and coal at small and large power plants. The paper proposes the concept of using solid waste from tire recycling by adding to the composition of the mixed fuel “coal – wood waste” as a substitute for coal slag, which is formed during the utilization of worn-out tires by pyrolysis. …”
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How to Recondition Ex Vivo Initially Rejected Donor Lungs for Clinical Transplantation: Clinical Experience from Lund University Hospital by Sandra Lindstedt, Atli Eyjolfsson, Bansi Koul, Per Wierup, Leif Pierre, Ronny Gustafsson, Richard Ingemansson

“…This ex vivo evaluation model is thus a valuable addition to the armamentarium in increasing the number of acceptable lungs in a donor population with inferior arterial oxygen pressure values, thereby, increasing the lung donor pool for transplantation. In the following paper we present our clinical experience from the first six patients in the world. …”
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Reading from the Guts: of Text and Disgust by Solveig Dunkel

“…Can there be any “pleasure of the text,” to use Roland Barthes’ expression, in the description of something “so, so unpleasant”? This paper is interested in the literary and aesthetic mechanisms enabling a profoundly somatic reading of fiction, especially in the violent experience of disgust, Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Samuel R. …”
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The Concept of Sovereignty in the US International Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century by A. D. Katkov

“…At the turn of the millennium, as the Cold War ended and the United States were striving to build a unipolar world order, academic debates about the concept of sovereignty gained new momentum in the USA. This paper examines the views on this issue of representatives of the two major schools of international relations theory at the time — neoliberalism and neorealism. …”
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