UNREGISTERED CROSS-BORDER USE OF SERVICES ON THE POLISH SECTION OF THE EXTERNAL BORDER OF THE EU AND THE LOCATION OF THE SERVICE SECTOR IN THE POLISH TRADE TURNOVER WITH ITS EASTER... by Halina Powęska

“…The value of unregistered cross-border purchases of services made by Belarusians in Poland was twenty-five times higher, by Russians seven times higher and by Ukrainians twice as high as the value of the purchases made by Polish consumers in these countries. …”
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Harmonizing the Assessment of the Impacts of Natural Disasters to Florida Agriculture by Christa Dean Court, Alan W Hodges, Matthew Lollar

“…Depending on the size and scope of the disaster, agricultural business owners and employees could suffer reduced earnings, financial insecurity, and social stress, and consumers could experience temporary food insecurity. Timely provision of credible estimates of agricultural losses after a disaster is critical to an official disaster declaration and to timely provision of disaster relief and recovery, but collecting data on agricultural losses can present challenges. …”
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The Bass Diffusion Model on Finite Barabasi-Albert Networks by M. L. Bertotti, G. Modanese

“…It turns out that diffusion times on finite Barabasi-Albert networks are at a minimum. …”
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Fast Visual Tracking with Enhanced and Gradient-Guide Network by Dun Cao, Renhua Dai

“…One is the adoption of the deep architecture that drives the Siamese tracker to sacrifice speed for performance, and the other is that the template is fixed to the initial features; namely, the template cannot be updated timely, making performance entirely dependent on the Siamese network’s matching ability. …”
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Large-scale synthesis of polydimethylsiloxane as vitreous replacement applications by Ajrina Nur Shabrina, Diba Grace Auliya, Risdiana, Lusi Safriani

“…The viscosity of PDMS obtained is in the ranges of 1000–3700 mPa.s for lab-scale, 1130–3590 mPa.s for three times scale-up, and 1270–4320 for five times scale-up. …”
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Improving Access in Gastroenterology: The Single Point of Entry Model for Referrals by Kerri L Novak, Sander Veldhuyzen Van Zanten, Sachin R Pendharkar

“…The goal of central triage was to improve wait times and referral management. In 2008, a similar system was developed in Edmonton at the University of Alberta Hospital (Edmonton, Alberta). …”
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Honey as an Alternative Dressing in Post-Palatoplasty—Two Case Reports by Clara David, Irfan Rasul, Yossy Y. Ariestiana, Abul Fauzi

“…Postsurgery there are times when the healing process is disrupted. Honey has been utilised since ancient times as an antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and regenerative treatment for wounds, and it has been shown to expedite the wound healing process by promoting the formation of new tissue.…”
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Multiplicative Perturbations of Convoluted C-Cosine Functions and Convoluted C-Semigroups by Fang Li, Huiwen Wang, Jun Zhang

“…., convoluted C-semigroups) and n-times integrated C-cosine functions (resp., n-times integrated C-semigroups) for n∈ℕ. …”
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„Vzdávej lékaři patřičnou úctu, neboť i jeho stvořil Hospodin.“ Tolerance v rámci kompetenčního sporu mezi porodními bábami a lékaři-porodníky v raném novověku?... by Hana Jadrná Matějková

“… The aim of the study is to outline relations between midwives and men-obstetricians during the Early Modern Times. They experienced various situations in their status negotiations, various kinds of conflicts as well as times of cooperation and mutual tolerance. …”
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Characterizations of Probability Distribution by Some Sequential Relative Reliability Measures: An Application of Completeness in a Hilbert Space by Mansour Shrahili, Mohamed Kayid

“…In this paper, by means of the concept of completeness in functional analysis, we characterize probability distributions using several relative measures of residual life of an item at independent sequences of random times. These sequences are the order statistics and the record statistics of a random sequence of times. …”
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Barriers to healthcare access among female youths in Mozambique: a mixed-effects and spatial analysis using DHS 2022/23 data by Habtu Kifle Negash, Hiwot Tezera Endale, Hailu Aragie, Winta Tesfaye, Mihret Getnet, Tseganesh Asefa, Yibeltal Yismaw Gela, Alebachew Ferede Zegeye

“…Abstract Background Access to healthcare involves timely and affordable service availability. Barriers, such as economic and geographic factors, particularly affect low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Improved Analgesic Effect of Paravertebral Blocks before and after Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: A Prospective, Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial by Lihua Chu, Xiaolin Zhang, Yaping Lu, Guohao Xie, Shengwen Song, Xiangming Fang, Baoli Cheng

“…Patients in Group C pressed less times of PCIA (0 (0–0) times) than patients in Group A (2 (1–6) times, p<0.001) and Group B (2 (1–3) times, p=0.009). …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and reasons for non-uptake of human papilloma virus vaccination among nursing students by Soni Chauhan, Surya Kant Tiwari, Vishal Dubey, Pragya Tripathi, Priyanka Pandey, Anuj Singh, Narendra Pal Singh Choudhary

“…Female students had 4.24 times the odds of having good knowledge (AOR = 4.24, 95% CI = 1.66–10.80), while those pursuing a bachelor’s degree exhibited 2.70 times the odds of good knowledge (AOR = 2.70, 95% CI = 1.40–5.21). …”
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Assessing the Impact of Boer Goat x Indigenous Goat Crossbreeding on Reproductive Performance and Farmer Perceptions in Southern Ethiopia by Kebede Habtegiorgis, Debir Legesse, Mohamed Bikamo

“…Respondent farmers highly appreciated Boer crossbred goats due to their superior perception of attractive coat color (4.39 times greater, P<0.001), docile behavior (3.59 times greater, P<0.001), fast growth rate (1.64 times greater, P<0.05), and market preference (5.81 times greater, P<0.001). …”
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RF communication between dual band implantable and on body antennas for biotelemetry application by Yara A. Kamel, Hesham A. Mohamed, Hala ELsadek, Hadia M. ELhennawy

“…Moreover, for introducing an electrically small antenna footprint with proper performance, the implantable antenna is designed with an entire size of 25.4 (5 $$\times$$ 5 $$\times$$ 1.016) $$\hbox {mm}^3$$ . This antenna is designed and dissected in a homogeneous skin model (HSM) as well as a three-layer phantom. …”
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Understanding the Spatial Heterogeneity of CO2 and CH4 Fluxes from an Urban Shallow Lake: Correlations with Environmental Factors by Zhenhua Zhao, Dan Zhang, Wenmei Shi, Xiaohong Ruan, Jie Sun

“…In autumn, they were 12.3 times and 7.1 times higher, respectively. Anthropogenic disturbance and heavy pollution increased their fluxes, but aquatic plants reduced the emission of CO2. …”
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Prevalence of gastrointestinal nematode parasites of dogs and associated risk factors in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia by Tsedalu Yirsa, Amare Bihone, Getenew Teshager, Yimer Muktar, Abebe Berihun

“…Regarding body condition scores, poor were 6.5 times (COR: 6.55; 95 % CI: 0.06–0.56) and medium was 0.5 times (COR: 1.5; 95 % CI: 0.26–0.9 9) more exposed than their comparable good body conditions. …”
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The national project “Labor Productivity” in the Rostov Region: impact on economy of the region by L. A. Pogorelova, M. M. Kulikov

“…It has been shown that total dynamics of payments to the budget for the analyzed period for the studied aggregate increased by 2.2 times, property status of the production complex – by 3.6 times, and profitability indicators – by more than 3 times. …”
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Optimizing Circuit Reusing and its Application in Randomized Benchmarking by Zhuo Chen, Guoding Liu, Xiongfeng Ma

“…An efficient approach known as ``circuit reusing,'' where each circuit is executed multiple times, reduces the cost compared to implementing new circuits. …”
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Adapting the First Aid education and response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis

“…Arguing that spreading First Aid knowledge and conducting trainings must always be ongoing in all times and should never be stopped, not even during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis or other crises, the letter offers a technical guidance note, developed as a suggestion for consideration in adapting curriculum, response, and mode of education, to continue all the efforts aimed at saving lives and assisting the most vulnerable in times of crisis, while putting the safety of the staff, volunteers, emergency responders, and all First Aid providers at the heart of the whole process.…”
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