The provision of higher- and lower-skilled immigrant labour to the Canadian economy by Garnett Picot, Tahsin Mehdi

“…Recent immigrants were more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to be employed in higher-skilled occupations such as engineering and computer and information systems professions but less likely than Canadian-born individuals to be in nursing professions, partly because of the time it may take to become professional nurses.…”
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A Review of Touching-Based Underwater Robotic Perception and Manipulation by Jia Sun, Qifeng Zhang, Yu Lu, Bingding Huang, Qiang Li

“…Through this investigation, we identify existing limitations and propose future research directions aimed at enhancing the operational capabilities of underwater vehicle manipulator systems (UVMS) and expanding their application range. …”
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A Narrative Review of the Velocity and Acceleration Profile in Football: The Influence of Playing Position by Charles Cotteret, Ángel González-de-la-Flor, Jaime Prieto Bermejo, Jaime Almazán Polo, Sergio L. Jiménez Saiz

“…This review aims to evaluate the findings reflected in the available literature on both profiles in football, synthesizing and discussing data from scientific articles, while providing insights into quantification methods, employed thresholds, tracking systems, terminology, playing position, and microcycle day. …”
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Securing Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Cyber Threat Scenarios and Testbed Validation by Seongmin Lee, Yonghun No, Juwon Cho, Guckhyeon Jin, Jeongho Kim, Jeongmin Lee, Sanghyun Jeon, Faisal Abdulaziz Alfouzan, Kyounggon Kim

“…By bridging the gap between theoretical models and real-world implementations, this research provides a replicable methodology and foundational tools to enhance the cybersecurity of autonomous maritime systems, supporting the safe and reliable adoption of MASS in the global maritime industry.…”
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Angiotensin-I-Converting Enzyme Inhibitory and Antioxidant Activities of Protein Hydrolysate from Muscle of Barbel (Barbus callensis) by Assaad Sila, Anissa Haddar, Oscar Martinez-Alvarez, Ali Bougatef

“…These results obtained by in vitro systems obviously established the antioxidant potency of barbel hydrolysate to donate electron or hydrogen atom to reduce the free radical. …”
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Study on the Dynamics of Cortisol Secretions in Hypertensive Elderly Patients by Doina Carstea, Diana-Maria Trasca, A. P. Carstea, E. T. Trasca

“…The study was conducted during 2003–2010, on a number of 135 patients older than 65 years of age, who were divided into two groups: one group counting 66 patients and consisting of healthy elderly controls (without systemic disease, renal, endocrine, or cardiovascular known issues) and group 2 who consists of 69 elderly patients who associate known hypertensive and other cardiovascular issues.…”
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Multi-Objective Optimization of Ship Design for the Effect of Wind Propulsion by Timoleon Plessas, Apostolos Papanikolaou

“…Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems (WAPSs) present a promising alternative, as elaborated on in the EU-funded Orcelle Wind project. …”
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Using Airlifts to Collect and Concentrate Copepod Nauplii by Eric Cassiano, Matthew A. DiMaggio, Cortney Ohs, John Marcellus

“…The buoyancy of rising bubbles within a pipe or tube generates an upward flow of water that are often used as part of water treatment design in recirculating aquaculture systems, but can also be used to collect and concentrate live food organisms fed to marine fish larvae. …”
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Incorporating Colour Information for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Melanoma from Dermoscopy Images: A Retrospective Survey and Critical Analysis by Ali Madooei, Mark S. Drew

“…Due to this diagnostic importance, many studies have either focused on or employed colour features as a constituent part of their skin lesion analysis systems. These studies range from using low-level colour features, such as simple statistical measures of colours occurring in the lesion, to availing themselves of high-level semantic features such as the presence of blue-white veil, globules, or colour variegation in the lesion. …”
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Characterization of Fly Ash Generated from Matla Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa by Olushola S. Ayanda, Olalekan S. Fatoki, Folahan A. Adekola, Bhekumusa J. Ximba

“…The storage and disposal of coal fly ash can thus lead to the release of leached metals into soils, surface and ground waters, find way into the ecological systems and then cause harmful effect to man and its environments.…”
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STRATEGY FOR TEACHING MEDICAL INFORMATICS IN RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES by Tatyana V. Zarubina, Sergey I. Karas', Elena N. Nikolaidi

“…The use of learning electronic medical records, computerized workplaces for medical personnel, medical decision support systems is supposed. The final stage of the information competencies formation includes the elective courses on telemedicine, bioinformatics, imaging, 3d-modelling etc. …”
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Metabolomic profiles as a new understanding of disease processes by O. Yu. Zolnikova, M. S. Reshetova, M. N. Ivanova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The possibility of finding diagnostic markers in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory and cardiovascular systems, in oncology, endocrinology, neurology are discussed. …”
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Modeling the viscosity of silicate melts containing manganese oxide by Kim Wan-Yi, Pelton Arthur D., Bale Christopher W., Bélisle Eve, Decterov Sergei A.

“…The model requires three pairs of adjustable parameters that describe the viscosities in three systems: pure MnO, MnO-SiO2 and MnO-Al2O3-SiO2. The viscosity of other ternary and multicomponent silicate melts containing MnO is then predicted by the model without any additional adjustable model parameters. …”
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Effective anti-adhesives of uropathogenic Escherichia coli by Ribić Rosana, Meštrović Tomislav, Neuberg Marijana, Kozina Goran

“…Due to their frequent occurrence in the community and nosocomial settings, as well as the development of resistance to the commonly prescribed antimicrobial agents, an enormous financial burden is placed on healthcare systems around the world. Therefore, novel approaches to the prevention and treatment of UTIs are needed. …”
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Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Waleed Hafiz, Ahmedhusam Alahmed, Mohammed Alahmadi, Rakan Alotaibi, Abdullah Alsharif, Safwan Alim, Mohammed Mokhtar, Kholoud Al-Maabdi, Omaima Badr

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic seropositive symmetrical inflammatory polyarthritis with numerous extra-articular manifestations. …”
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Presumed Tubercular Multifocal Choroiditis by Masoud Soheilian, Pejvak Azadi

“…Case Report: A 54-year-old female patient diagnosed with multifocal choroiditis was referred to the clinic while undergoing treatment with systemic prednisone and methotrexate. The presenting visual acuity was 20/100 in the right eye and finger counting at 1 meter in the left eye. …”
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Study on the Impact of LDA Preprocessing on Pig Face Identification with SVM by Hongwen Yan, Yulong Wu, Yifan Bo, Yukuan Han, Gaifeng Ren

“…These findings suggest that LDA preprocessing significantly enhances the efficiency of individual pig identification using an SVM, providing empirical evidence for the deployment of SVM classifiers in mobile and embedded systems.…”
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Inhibition of the PERK/TXNIP/NLRP3 Axis by Baicalin Reduces NLRP3 Inflammasome-Mediated Pyroptosis in Macrophages Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Yan Fu, Jingjing Shen, Yinhong Li, Fanglin Liu, Bangzuo Ning, Yuejuan Zheng, Xin Jiang

“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains a significant threat to global health as it induces granuloma and systemic inflammatory responses during active tuberculosis. …”
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Concentrations of ammoniac nitrogen, nitrite and nitrate in areas of oyster culture in Cananeia-SP, Brazil by Edison Barbieri, Helcio Luis de Almeida Marques, Ana Cristina Vigliar Bondioli, Marcos Buhrer Campolim, Alessandra Tegon Ferrarini

“…Nitrogen plays a key role in aquatic systems, especially in environments which are influenced both by marine and freshwater, such as estuaries. …”
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Experimental Research on Aerated Supercavitation Suppression of Capillary Outlet Throttling Noise by Qianxu Wang, Shouchuan Wang, Huan Zhang, Yuxuan Wang, Junhai Zhou, Panpan Zhao, Jia-Bao Liu

“…Based on the theory of bubble dynamics, two-phase flow, and aerated supercavitation, four different sizes of aerated devices used in refrigerator refrigeration systems are designed. Throttling noise and the temperature and pressure of inlet and outlet of the capillary are measured under stable operation. …”
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