WorldSkills International and Its Place in Higher Education System by A. V. Kirichenko, M. N. Strikhanov

“…The authors analyze the main stages of its development, the results of the implementation of WorldSkills standards in the Russian higher education system, dwell on the procedure for the formation of the system of competences that increase the competitiveness of modern specialists. …”
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Method for Evaluating the Effect of the Design and the Environmental Conditions of the Manufacturing Cells toImprove Work Performance by Mildrend Montoya-Reyes, Alvaro González-Angeles, Margarita Gil-Samaniego-Ramos, Ismael Mendoza-Muñoz, Juan Ling-López

“…Also, the environmental conditions of the cell comply with the requirements of official standards.…”
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The Equivalence of Two Open Therapeutic Regimens of Cimetidine in the Treatment of Acute Duodenal Ulcer Disease: A Canadian Multicentre Trial by H Navert, AP Archambault, IGM Cleator, NB Hershfield, EJ Prokipchuk, ABR Thomson

“…One hundred and four patients completed a multicentre study comparing the standard cimetidine regimen of 300 mg qid with cimetidine 600 mg bid in the treatment of acute duodenal ulcer. …”
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Russian University Teachers’ Ethical Culture Regulation by A. A. Maksimenko, O. S. Deyneka, L. N. Dukhanina, D. V. Krylova

“…The survey was conducted to study the attitude of the teaching staff towards the tools for standardizing the moral culture of universities and the implementation of the values enshrined in the ethical standards of universities and ideals of academic community. …”
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Bionic Design of Wind Turbine Blade Based on Long-Eared Owl’s Airfoil by Weijun Tian, Zhen Yang, Qi Zhang, Jiyue Wang, Ming Li, Yi Ma, Qian Cong

“…Glauert Model was adopted to design the standard blade and the bionic blade, respectively. …”
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AFFILIATED CHAIR OF TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE: THE PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE by Marina Yu. Kulebyakina, Svetlana N. Gorshenina

“…The authors consider the role of affiliated chairs in improvement the quality of vocational teacher's training in connection with introduction into the national education system of new federal state educational standards and the professional standard. Attention is focused on the main activities of the affiliated chairs of teacher college in the framework of a regional educational cluster: updating of the content of professional training programmes according to the requirements of the labor market, coordination of educational, methodical, and research activities of the educational organizations of the higher and general education, strengthening of a practical orientation in pedagogical personnel preparation, scientific and methodical support of life-long pedagogical education, assistance in graduates' professional adaptation and employment.…”
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An Appraisal of Muon Neutrino Disappearance at Short Baseline by L. Stanco, S. Dusini, A. Longhin, A. Bertolin, M. Laveder

“…Neutrino physics is nowadays receiving more and more attention as a possible source of information for the long-standing problem of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The recent measurement of the third mixing angle θ 13 in the standard mixing oscillation scenario encourages us to pursue the still missing results on leptonic CP violation and absolute neutrino masses. …”
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The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) for Longitudinal Historical Microdata, version 4 by George Alter, Kees Mandemakers

“…The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations. …”
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Robust Adaptive Control of Dual Active Bridge DC-DC Converter with Constant Power Loading by Effah Emmanuel K., Effah Francis B., Okyere Philip Y., Anto Emmanuel K.

“…The standard model reference adaptive control (MRAC) application to the Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter has proven to achieve excellent dynamic and tracking responses under parametric uncertainty. …”
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Grand unification at the cosmological collider with chemical potential by Arushi Bodas, Edward Broadberry, Raman Sundrum

“…We apply this mechanism to orbifold grand unification and the massive unification partners of the standard model gauge bosons. Our mechanism requires at least a pair of massive vector fields which are singlets of the standard model, a condition which is satisfied in the classic “trinification” scenario. …”
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Working conditions of the metal fillers workplaces by A. M. Lazarenkov

“…The results of the parameters study of metal fillers’ working conditions compared to the standard values are given.…”
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Safeguarding in Sport: The Performative Compliance of International Sports Federations by Carole Gomez, Lucie Schoch

“…The pivotal role of the IOC in defining this standard is key, demonstrating how IFs converge toward these expectations. …”
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Burden of esophageal cancer in global, regional and national regions from 1990 to 2021 and its projection until 2050: results from the GBD study 2021 by Chengcheng Zhang, Linzhi Chen, Yuqi Xiu, Hongling Zhang, Yuejuan Zhang, Wenjuan Ying

“…The global number of deaths reached 538,602, with an age-standardized death rate (ASDR) of 6.25 per 100,000, representing a 30.67% decline. …”
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The global, regional, and national patterns of change in the burden of bacterial pyoderma from 1990 to 2019 and the forecast for the next decade by Hao Wang, Zihao Bai, Chong Shen, Jiaxi Kou, Yanqing Zhu, Huaxia Xie, Chen Chen, Ran Mo

“…From 1990 to 2019, the Age-Standardized Incidence Rate (ASIR) and Age-Standardized Mortality Rate (ASMR) of impetigo increased, while the Age-Standardized Disability-Adjusted Life Years Rate (ASDR) declined. …”
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Epidemiological trends and age-period-cohort effects on ischemic stroke burden across the BRICS-plus from 1992 to 2021 by Fangqun Cheng, Peiyu Cheng, Shudong Xie, Hailing Wang, Ying Tang, Ying Liu, Zhuo Xiao, Guixiang Zhang, Guangxiong Yuan, Ke Wang, Can Feng, Ying Zhou, Hong Xia, Yan Wang, Yuhang Wu

“…Results From 1992 to 2021, total DALYs due to ischemic stroke increased by 47.14%, while the age-standardized DALYs rate decreased by 33.79%. All BRICS-plus countries exhibited a declining trend in the age-standardized DALYs rate over the past three decades. …”
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Turn-Amplitude Analysis as a Diagnostic Test for Myofascial Syndrome in Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain by Fernando Itza, Daniel Zarza, Jesus Salinas, Fernando Teba, Carmen Ximenez

“…BACKGROUND: Myofascial pain syndrome of the pelvic floor (MPSPF) is a common disease in the context of chronic pelvic pain (CPP); however, there is currently no gold-standard test to diagnose it.…”
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Comparative Analysis of Selected Concrete Mix Design Methods Based on Cost-Effectiveness by Abebe Demissew

“…Due to this, this study was intended to conduct a comparative analysis among selected concrete mix design methods, American Concrete Institute (ACI), British Department of Energy (DOE), Ethiopian Building Code of Standards (EBCS), and Indian standards (IS), by using experimental investigation for normal concrete production, focusing on cost-effectiveness. …”
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Aesthetic Parameters and Patient-Perspective Assessment Tools for Maxillary Anterior Single Implants by Kelvin I. Afrashtehfar, Mansour K. A. Assery, S. Ross Bryant

“…The secondary aim was to propose introducing a unified, standardized questionnaire for adequately collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in implant dentistry. …”
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Association Between Mental Illness and Diabetes: an Expert Opinion-Based Analysis by Elizabeth Cristina Mayorga Aldaz, Roberto Javier Aguilar Berrezueta, Elizabeth Altamirano

“…A qualitative assessment of the responses was carried out and the cut-off points and their respective indicator scales were calculated; inverse standard normal values were used. A 4-point Likert scale was used and inverse standard values were assigned to the cumulative probabilities. …”
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Surgical ergonomics among ophthalmologists at Alsaim Eye Hospital, Wad Madani, Sudan: a clinical audit by Imtinan Yousif, Khawla Jibreel, Mehera Mohammed

“…None of the operation room postures reached the targeted standard, with the highest value (77.3%) for the appropriate seating and the lowest (22.6%) for maintaining a straight back. …”
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