Environmental-economic evaluation of sugar cane bagasse gasification power plants versus combined-cycle gas power plants by F. Mohammadi, M.A. Abdoli, M. Amidpour, H. Vahidi, S. Gitipour

“…The results revealed the vital need of biomass power plants to governmental support in order to compete with fossil power plants by participation of private sector.…”
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Clinical Research Network: JHCRN Infrastructure and Lessons Learned by Rahul Kashyap, Gayane Yenokyan, Robert Joyner, Melissa Gerstenhaber, Mary Alderfer, Erika Siegrist, Joan Moore, Channing J. Paller, Hanan Aboumatar, James J. Potter, Stanley Watkins Jr, John E. Niederhuber, Daniel E. Ford, Adrian Dobs

“…As of August 2024, total 81 studies‐clinical trials, cohort studies, and comparative effectiveness research have been conducted, with funding from the NIH, private foundations, and industry. The JHCRN experience has enhanced understanding of the complexity of participating sites and associated ambulatory practices. …”
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“We need workable micronutrient data!”: a qualitative study assessing the need for integrated micronutrient data to support evidence-based decisions by Indian food system stakehold... by Rupinder Sahota, Jaswant S. Khokhar, Aakash Deep, Aakash Deep, Katherine P. Adams, Arindam Das, E. Louise Ander, E. Louise Ander, Edward J. M. Joy, Edward J. M. Joy

“…A qualitative, descriptive study was conducted, with purposive sampling of stakeholders from state and national-level government, development agencies, non-governmental organisations, research institutes, private organisations, and academia. Data were generated through focus group discussions and semi-structured key informant interviews. …”
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Challenges in academic performance among nursing students during flood disasters at a University in Dagupan City by Jordan Llego, Princess Erika Permison, Nicole Imbuido, Mikaella Concepcion, Lara Jane Caneja, Francine Joy Zaulda

“…Design: Descriptive-comparative study. Settings: A private university in Dagupan City, known for its flooding susceptibility, hosted the study. …”
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What Time Is It? Finding Which Temporal Features is More Useful for Next Activity Prediction by Lerina Aversano, Martina Iammarino, Antonella Madau, Giuseppe Pirlo, Gianfranco Semeraro

“…It finds more and more applications for the optimization of the production and administrative processes of private companies and public administrations. This field consists of several areas: process discovery, compliance monitoring, process improvement, and predictive process monitoring. …”
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The characteristics of chronic benzene poisoning in 176 Chinese occupational population cases by Lian Gou, Lian Gou, Xingyu Ma, Lili Huang, Lili Huang, Mei Qiu, Ruiqing Guo, Jun Jia, Peiyu Xu, Nan Lian

“…Before 2016, workers were mainly in joint-stock enterprises and equipment manufacturing industries; however, from 2017 to 2019, benzene poisoning cases were increasingly found in private and light industries. Overall, this study may provide data resources for risk assessment among occupational benzene-exposed workers; therefore, the monitoring of benzene concentrations in the workplace should be strengthened, and targeted preventive measures for workers must be effectively implemented to protect their health.…”
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Estimating the Need for Hospital Beds in Bushehr Province, Focusing on Treatment Poles: a Prospective Study to 2032 by Habib Omranikhoo, Alireza Raeisi, Amir hossein Darabi, Mahdi Rezaee

“…Also, the participation of medical service providers in the province, including public sector (university), non-government public sector (social security), non-academic government sector (oil/armed forces), charity and private sector will be distributed as 65.66, 12.39, 3.92, 6.81 and 10.23 percent, respectively. …”
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An Analysis of the Rate and Reasons for Rejected Radiographs in Emergency and Non-Emergency Radiology Departments in Yasuj, Iran by Seyyed Amir Moradian, Hamed Zamani, Saman Dalvand

“…Given the significant nature of this issue, the current study aimed to evaluate the rate and reasons for radiograph rejections in emergency (public practice) and non-emergency (private practice) radiology departments of Yasuj, Iran. …”
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Towards Reliable Participation in UAV-Enabled Federated Edge Learning on Non-IID Data by Youssra Cheriguene, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache

“…Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning (ML) technique that allows a number of participants to train an ML model collaboratively without having to share their private local datasets with others. When participants are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV-enabled FL would experience heterogeneity due to the majorly skewed (non-independent and identically distributed -IID) collected data. …”
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Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia: Demographic and Epidemiological Characterization in Puerto Rican Hispanics (2012-2014) by Jorge J. Cruz-Cruz, María González-Pons, Adrián Cora-Morges, Marievelisse Soto-Salgado, Giancarlo Colón, Kimberly Alicea, Kathia Rosado, Douglas R. Morgan, Marcia Cruz-Correa

“…Using a cross-sectional study design, we analyzed an extensive pathology database (n=43,993) that captured approximately 50% of all endoscopy biopsies taken during 2012-2014 at academic, public, and private sectors in Puerto Rico. Prevalence estimates of GIM, GIM subgroups, and H. pylori status were estimated using logistic regression models. …”
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Shifting Paradigms: A Deep Dive Into Public Perceptions of Gender-affirming Surgery by Justin M. Camacho, MBA, Michael Alfertshofer, MD, Heli S. Patel, MBA, Daniel Najafali, BS, Noelle Thompson, BS, Victoria Stoffel, MS, Chris M. Reid, MD, Michael Alperovich, MD, Samuel Knoedler, BS, Leonard Knoedler, MD

“…About 33% favored both public and private health insurance coverage for GAS, whereas 35% opposed insurance coverage. …”
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“Common sense is hard work” but benefits from persistent collaboration: Lessons learnt from the development of The Collaborative Network for European Clinical Trials for Children (... by Sabah Attar, Carla Peacock, Mandy Wan, Erin Halil, Chloe Bickerstaff, Lionel Tan, Hafsah Bhatti, Ricardo M. Fernandes, Regis Hankard, Mark A. Turner

“…Introduction: The Collaborative Network for European Clinical Trials for Children (c4c) is a public private partnership with a developed infrastructure across European sites to support the design and conduct of multi-national academic and industry paediatric clinical trials. …”
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Evaluating the governance and preparedness of the Lebanese health system for the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study by Rasha Hamra, Marianne Moussallem, Anna Zein-El-Din, Alissar Rady, Michèle Kosremelli Asmar, Ibrahim R Bou-Orm

“…The system infrastructure, medical supplies and testing capacities were sufficient, but the reluctance of the private sector in care provision and gaps in reimbursement of COVID-19 care by many health funding schemes were the main concerns. …”
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Pan-genome analysis and expression verification of the maize ARF gene family by Quan-cai Man, Yan-qun Wang, Shun-juan Gao, Zhi-chang Gao, Zheng-ping Peng, Jiang-hui Cui

“…Utilizing the maize pan-genome data, this study identified 35 ARF family members in maize, comprising 21 core genes, 10 near-core genes, and 4 non-essential genes; no private genes were detected. The construction of a phylogenetic tree using Arabidopsis thaliana revealed that the G3 subfamily comprises the highest number of core genes, with a total of 10, and exhibits relative stability throughout the evolution of maize. …”
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AI in academia: How do social influence, self-efficacy, and integrity influence researchers' use of AI models? by Benicio Gonzalo Acosta-Enriquez, Marco Arbulu Ballesteros, César Robin Vilcapoma Pérez, Olger Huamaní Jordan, Joseph Anibal Martin Vergara, Rafael Martel Acosta, Carmen Graciela Arbulu Perez Vargas, Julie Catherine Arbulú Castillo

“…The empirical study was conducted through a digital survey administered to 302 academic researchers from Peruvian public and private universities. The analytical methodology employed structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis, grounded in an expanded version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 model. …”
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Forest Carbon Storage in the Western United States: Distribution, Drivers, and Trends by Jazlynn Hall, Manette E. Sandor, Brian J. Harvey, Sean A. Parks, Anna T. Trugman, A. Park Williams, Winslow D. Hansen

“…No ecoregion was unaffected by fire. Harvest and private ownership reduced carbon, particularly in the PNW. …”
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A cross-sectional study to determine prevalence of neonatal dermatoses in a tertiary health care centre of Andhra Pradesh, South India by Deepti Vemu, Shalini Eslavat, Shankar Kunti, Prasad Naik NM, Ritu Gujarati Vishwanath, Sruthi Kamatham

“…Material and Methods: This study was a cross sectional study with a sample size of 600 neonates who attended the outpatient department of dermatology in a private medical college in Andhra Pradesh between May 2021 and April 2022. …”
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RMHA-Net: Robust Optic Disc and Optic Cup Segmentation Based on Residual Multiscale Feature Extraction With Hybrid Attention Networks by Mohammad J. M. Zedan, Siti Raihanah Abdani, Jaesung Lee, Mohd Asyraf Zulkifley

“…To validate RMHA-Net’s effectiveness, extensive experiments were conducted using five public datasets: Drishti-GS, ORIGA, PAPILA, Chaksu, and REFUGE, and one private dataset, Ibn Al-Haitham. The proposed model outperformed seven cutting-edge segmentation models for OD and OC segmentation. …”
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Growing old before growing rich: a scoping review on ageing-related policy interventions from the WHO Southeast Asian Region by Nachiket Gudi, Anu Mohan, Teddy Andrews Jaihind Jothikaran, Abhijith A K, Lena Ashok

“…The notable delimitations of the given policy interventions are ambiguity regarding the monitoring of the programmes, lack of benchmark standards for evaluation of progress, inadequate attention to rural poverty and lack of decentralisation.Conclusion WHO SEARO countries can respond better to ageing by reinforcing areas such as caregiver support and allowances, public financing in older care, old age health insurance, public-private partnership in mobile and institutional caring and social security systems including old age and disability pension.…”
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The new information about the seizure of church valuables from the Peter and Paul Court Cathedral in Peterhof in 1917. Items search perspective by Zelenyanskaya, Yulia V.

“…However, the prospect of discovering precious objects of decorative and applied art or their analogues in modern public of private collections is visible now only with the Peterhof Peter and Paul Court Cathedral, and this aspect received special attention. …”
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