Prevalence, predictors and selected outcomes of early sexual initiation among adolescents in secondary schools in Lugbe, Abuja, Nigeria: a mixed methods study by Uchechi Grace Okonta

“…Focus group discussion was also conducted in six schools using a structured FGD Guide. The prevalence of early sexual initiation was determined. …”
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Managing complexity in cross-cohort classrooms: strategies for effective implementation of real-life projects by Syaamantak Das, Sridhar Iyer

“…MethodsThe study was conducted within an Instructional Systems Design (ISD) course in a hybrid cross-cohort class structure. A diverse class of 27 students with varying backgrounds participated in the course. …”
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预制装配式组合梁栓钉连接件抗剪性能试验研究 by 钟琼, 霍静思, 王海涛, 陈俊

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Assessment Of Awareness Level and Perception In Usage Of Plastic Bags And Its Hazards Among Secondary School Students by Mohi Ud Din, Zain Arif, Hafiz Usama Naveed, Maryam Tauseef, Nouman Yaseen, Talha Mahboob

“…Inclusion criteria were students of the 8th to 10th class and those who gave consent and filled out the questionnaire. A properly structured questionnaire was used. SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis. …”
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Current views on etiology, diagnosis, epidemiology and gene therapy of maturity onset diabetes in the young by Lilya U. Dzhemileva, Elena N. Zakharova, Anna O. Goncharenko, Maria V. Vorontsova, S. A. Rumyantsev, Natalia G. Mokrysheva, Marina Y. Loguinova, Vladimir P. Chekhonin

“…The strategy of gene therapy for monogenic forms of MODY is still an experimental approach, and it is unlikely to be widely used in the clinic due to the peculiarities of MODY structure and the high genetic polymorphism and clinical variability even within the same form of the disease. …”
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Depressive symptomatology in Brazil: perspectives of statistical and psychometrics analyses of the PHQ-9 at four time-points (2020–2023) in the COVID-19 pandemic by Andre Faro, Daiane Nunes, Derek Falk

“…The present research assessed the psychometric properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) through an examination of its internal structure, invariance analysis, and standardization. …”
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Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda: a community-based prospective cohort study by Martin Chebet, Peter Olupot-Olupot, Andrew D Weeks, Ingunn Marie S Engebretsen, Noela Regina Akwi Okalany, Francis Okello, Thorkild Tylleskär, Kathy Burgoine, David Mukunya

“…Enrolment and follow-up were done in the community by trained midwives. Using structured questionnaires, details of maternal health, pregnancy and birth were captured. …”
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The effectiveness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species (Funneliformis mosseae, Rhizophagus intraradices, and Claroideoglomus etunicatum) in the biocontrol of root and crown rot... by Ayşin Bilgili

“…Among the compared mycorrhizae, C. etunicatum (CE) was the most effective in disease suppression due to its relatively more positive effects on plant root structure, increasing root fresh weight by up to 49% in the CE+pathogen plant group compared to the control group. …”
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Financing healthcare services: a qualitative assessment of private health insurance schemes in Ghana by Angela Asante, Richard A. Bonney, Peter Twum

“…Benefit packages varied, with distinct plans like the “X-scan plan” for medical imaging. Payment structures ranged from upfront payments to flexible options. …”
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Lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination by Jiaying LIN, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, numerous “face-swapping” videos have emerged in social networks, one of the representatives is the lip forgery with speakers.While making life more entertaining for the public, it poses a significant crisis for personal privacy and property security in cyberspace.Currently, under non-destructive conditions, most of the lip forgery detection methods achieve good performance.However, the compression operations are widely used in practice especially in social media platforms, face recognition and other scenarios.While saving pixel and time redundancy, the compression operations affect the video quality and destroy the coherent integrity of pixel-to-pixel and frame-to-frame in the spatial domain, and then the degradation of its detection performance and even misjudgment of the real video will be caused.When the information in the spatial domain cannot provide sufficiently effective features, the information in the frequency domain naturally becomes a priority research object because it can resist compression interference.Aiming at this problem, the advantages of frequency information in image structure and gradient feedback were analyzed.Then the lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination was proposed, which effectively utilized the corresponding characteristics of information in spatial and frequency domains.For lip features in the spatial domain, an adaptive extraction network and a light-weight attention module were designed.For frequency features in the frequency domain, separate extraction and fusion modules for different components were designed.Subsequently, by conducting a weighted fusion of lip features in spatial domain and frequency features in frequency domain, more texture information was preserved.In addition, fine-grained constraints were designed during the training to separate the inter-class distance of real and fake lip features while closing the intra-class distance.Experimental results show that, benefiting from the frequency information, the proposed method can enhance the detection accuracy under compression situation with certain transferability.On the other hand, in the ablation study conducted on the core modules, the results verify the effectiveness of the frequency component for anti-compression and the constraint of the dual loss function in training.…”
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方钢管混凝土柱-H形钢梁不同构造隔板贯通节点力学性能研究 by 陈志华, 于越, 周婷, 李玉熙

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Main Directorate of the National Police in Kharkiv Region by D. V. Slynko, L. I. Kalenichenko

“…Currently, research on this issue is relevant, since certain institutions and categories of the national legal system are based on the structure of Roman law, its principles, and were developed under its influence. …”
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Revisiting the Issue of Attribution of Some Catacomb Monuments Groups from the South of Eastern Europe in the Late 3rd – Early 5th Centuries by Vladimir Yu. Malashev, Mikhail V. Krivosheev

“…It is possible that the people who left these kurgans in the 4th century were assimilated by the Chernyakhov culture bearers and switched to a sedentary lifestyle, having lost the kurgan funeral ritual (Belen’koe burial ground) but retained the catacomb burial structure of almost predominantly type II. The catacomb burials under the kurgans graphically feature the Alans-Tanaites fate after the encounter with the Huns, who defeated and subjugated the Alans-Tanaites, partly incorporating the vanquished population into their military and political union. …”
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The passport database of VIR’s bean collection as a tool for systemizing bean genetic diversity, studying the collection’s history, and monitoring the crop’s worldwide breeding (an... by T. V. Buravtseva, G. P. Egorova, M. A. Vishnyakova

“…The effort to include every detail of such information into the database opens up a number of possibilities for structuring and exploring the diversity available. For the bean collection, the history of its systemization has had several stages. …”
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局部开孔对矩形钢板抗剪承载能力影响研究 by 杨斌, 赵炳震, 杜颜胜, 赵中伟

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Analysis of “Dr Ding Xiang” on WeChat in China to Determine Factors Influencing Readership on Medical Social Media: Observational Study by Jiaman Liao, Xueliang Huang, Hao Huang, Cuina Shen, Lixia Li, Yushao Li, Yiqiang Zhan

“…ConclusionsTo enhance readership and the effectiveness of health communication, health-focused WOAs should consider key factors such as optimal publication timing, engaging title design, and effective content structuring. Attention to these elements can improve user engagement and support the broader dissemination of health information.…”
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The History of the Creation and Promotion of the First Consolidated Text of the Bashkir Folk Epic “Idukai and Muradim” by Khabutdinova M.M.

“…The objective and subjective reasons for the dramatic fate of the consolidated text of the Bashkir version of the epic about Idegey are revealed. The structure of the handwritten text in Latin is described. …”
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Study on a Large-Scale Persistent Strong Dense Fog Event in Central and Eastern China by Hongbin Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Duanyang Liu, Yuying Zhu, Xuerong Zhang, Chengsong Yuan

“…In the stage of advection radiation fog, the combined effect of weak cold advection and radiation cooling leads to the occurrence of SDF. (3) Regarding the duration of the fog event, the inversion structure is continuously maintained at night and in the morning near the stratum, and when the fog intensity is strong, the inversion intensity is correspondingly large, the fog top is lower than the inversion layer top, and the top of the SDF is between 80 and 400 meters.…”
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Evaluation of two surgical methods for maxillary hypoplasia in patients with cleft lip and palate by GUO Songsong, ZHANG Zhenxing, ZHANG Ping, JIANG Chenghui, CHENG Jie, JIANG Hongbing, LI Sheng

“…Anterior maxillary distraction osteogenesis has advantages over Le Fort I osteotomy in terms of economic benefits and its impact on the soft palate structure.…”
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型钢连接装配式剪力墙抗震性能研究 by 吴志平, 王增, 胡大柱, 赵娟, 李艳

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