Comparative-effectiveness research of COVID-19 treatment: a rapid scoping review by Sharon E Straus, Jesmin Antony, Andrea C Tricco, Rachel Warren, Erin Macdonald, Ba Pham, Milan Patel, Fatemeh Yazdi, Amruta Radhakrishnan, Marco Ghassemi, Patricia Rios, Chantal Williams, Naveeta Ramkissoon, Matthew P Muller, Nazia Darvesh, Gordon V Cormack, Maura R Grossman, Melissa Kampman, Reid Robson

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Recent centennial drought on the Tibetan Plateau is outstanding within the past 3500 years by Yu Liu, Huiming Song, Zhisheng An, Qiang Li, Steven W. Leavitt, Ulf Büntgen, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Congxi Fang, Changfeng Sun, Kerstin Treydte, Meng Ren, Lidong Mo, Yi Song, Wenju Cai, Quan Zhang, Weijian Zhou, Achim Bräuning, Jussi Grießinger, Deliang Chen, Hans W. Linderholm, Ashish Sinha, Hai Cheng, Lu Wang, Ying Lei, Junyan Sun, Wei Gong, Xuxiang Li, Linlin Cui, Liang Ning, Lingfeng Wan, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner

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6G-ADM: knowledge based 6G network management and control architecture by Jianxin LIAO, Xiaoyuan FU, Qi QI, Jingyu WANG, Haifeng SUN

“…Objectives: With the consensus reached on the 6G vision of three-dimensional coverage, extreme performance, virtual real integration and ubiquitous intelligence, problems such as personalized service customization, proliferation of network element types and changeable scene superposition will bring more severe challenges to the network management and control system. …”
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The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…The Chinese household registration system (hukou) has played a pivotal role in the “regulation” of the formation of the working class under conditions of free and unfree markets, in ways that invite comparison with the Act of Settlement in England prior to the era of the Speenhamland system, which hindered the movement of rural labor.5 The hukou regime has imposed conditions of severe inequality on migrants and their families, initially in the years 1960 to the late 1970s when rural to urban migration and market activity were virtually foreclosed, but also in the subsequent era when the state encouraged migration and market activity, while maintaining differential access to education, health care, retirement pensions etc., distinguishing those “sojourning” in the cities from those with full urban citizen rights on the basis of hukou.6Less studied, but equally important, in our view, is the interrelationship between inequality, on the one hand, and savings and underconsumption, on the other. …”
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La nécropole de Vannes/Darioritum : données inédites sur les pratiques funéraires armoricaines dans un secteur occupé du ier au ive s. apr. J.-C. by Annaïg Le Martret, Marie Grall, Vanessa Brunet

“…Central empty spaces nevertheless appear and may well correspond to passages. In addition, the virtual absence of overlaps between the tombs, even when the chronological differences are significant, suggests the use of surface markers that have now disappeared. …”
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New avenues of preoperative evaluation before corneal refractive surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic by S.N. Sakhnov, O.A. Klokova, A.V. Piskunov, R.O. Damashauskas, M.S. Geidenrich, E.I. Dyakonova

“…Our findings suggest that mean values are virtually similar in Visionix VX130+ group (p>0.05) while Nidek NT-530P produces significant differences (p<0.05). …”
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L’africanisation de l’Église évangélique au Maroc : revitalisation d’une institution religieuse et dynamiques d’individualisation by Bernard Coyault

“…After considering the influence of the virtual religious field (internet) on the church as well as the links between the EEAM and the informal network of house churches existing on its margins, this article will explore the articulation between a changing religious institution on one hand, and, on the other hand, the individual religious trajectories it generates with their own dynamics, oscillating between adhesion, contestation or subversion.…”
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Surgical repair of conjunctival defects: perspectives and limitations by M.B. Gushсhina, A.V. Tereshchenko, A.V. Gushchin, D.S. Afanasyeva

“…However, impossibility of recovering histology in virtually complete loss of native conjunctiva does not allow complete rehabilitation of patients with symblepharon or ankyloblepharon of a potentially seeing eye.…”
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Design and validation of consumer behavior model based on user-generated content in the banking industry by Sepahdar Rahnama, Marzieh ZendehDel, Mir Hadi Moazen Jamshidi

“…In fact, any form of content, which is produced outside of professional structures, is called user-generated content, usually disseminated in social platforms and technologies including social networks, social computing, web 2, collective action tools, social web, read/write web, Customer-generated networks, virtual communities, computer-mediated communication, socio-technical systems (Koivisto & Mattila, 2018). …”
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Extended HPV genotyping by the BD Onclarity assay: concordance with screening HPV-DNA assays, triage biomarkers, and histopathology in women from the NTCC2 study by Laura De Marco, Simonetta Bisanzi, Guglielmo Ronco, Pamela Mancuso, Francesca Carozzi, Elena Allia, Raffaella Rizzolo, Daniela Gustinucci, Helena Frayle, Jessica Viti, Anna Iossa, Elena Cesarini, Simonetta Bulletti, Basilio Passamonti, Silvia Gori, Laura Toniolo, Francesco Venturelli, Annarosa Del Mistro, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Maria Benevolo

“…We compared the results of the Becton & Dickinson (BD) Onclarity HPV assay, on the residual baseline cervico-vaginal specimens of the NTCC2 trial, to those of the screening HPV-DNA assay (Cobas 4800 or HC2) and to cytology, p16/ki67 and E6/E7 mRNA triage results. We genotyped virtually all HPV-positive women and a consecutive sample of HPV-negatives. …”
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Preparation and in vitro biological evaluation of strontium doped β-tricalcium phosphate scaffolds for alveolar bone tissue regeneration by Congrui Liu, Guiyong Xiao, Zichen Wang, Mengchen Xu, Yinchuan Wang, Nan Wang, Zhenlong Sun, Xiaoyan Li, Yixin Yin

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Intimate partner violence among women of reproductive age during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gizachew Yilak, Alemayehu Sayih Belay, Aychew Kassie, Befkad Derese Tilahun, Ambaw Abebaw Emrie, Mulat Ayele, Eyob Shitie Lake, Legese Fekede Abza

“…Therefore, this study aimed to assess the pooled prevalence of IPV and its determinants among women of reproductive age during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources The review was done as per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline using different search databases such as: PubMed/Medline, Cochrane Library, Virtual Health Library Regional Portal, HINARI (research4life), and Google Scholar.Eligibility criteria Those quantitative studies conducted in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic, that reported the prevalence of IPV among women of reproductive age, and were published in English from 13 March 2020 to 15 October 2025, were included for this study.Data extraction and synthesis All authors independently extracted data using the Joanna Briggs Institute manual for evidence synthesis. …”
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health and Health Care Experience in Those With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Sydora BC, Wilke MS, Ghosh M, Vine DF

“…COVID-19-related health status was perceived as more important than their own PCOS-related symptoms. Virtual appointments via telehealth were regarded as beneficial for 20% of users.Conclusion: Individuals with PCOS reported an overall reduction in COVID-related access to health care and supports. …”
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Student Engagement and Feedback on Online Learning and Facilitation: A Case Study of the National Open University of Nigeria by Adewale Adesina, Dorothy Ofoha, Olufemi A. Peters, Isaac S. Butswat

“…Thus, this study was designed to survey students’ online learning experience and gather feedback on various aspects of synchronous online facilitation including participation, satisfaction, barriers, and challenges faced during the virtual learning journey. 2,350 students took part in this study. …”
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New Torsional Surface Elastic Waves in Cylindrical Metamaterial Waveguides for Sensing Applications by Piotr Kiełczyński, Krzysztof Wieja, Andrzej Balcerzak

“…The newly discovered torsional elastic surface waves exhibit virtually all extraordinary properties of their electromagnetic SPP counterparts, such as strong subwavelength concentration of the wave energy in the vicinity of the cylindrical surface <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>r</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>a</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) of the guiding rod, very low phase and group velocities, etc. …”
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Entrevistas: Camões 500 anos, com Annabela Rita e Maria Lúcia Dal Farra by Annabela Rita, Maria Lúcia Dal Farra, Jonas Jefferson de Souza Leite, Paulo Ricardo Braz

“…Presidente da Academia Lusófona Luís de Camões-SHIP, do Instituto Fernando Pessoa-SHIP e da Assembleia Geral da CompaRes-International Society for Iberian-Slavonic Studies, Directora da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores e do Observatório da Língua Portuguesa, Conselheira do Conselho Supremo da SHIP - Sociedade Histórica da Independência de Portugal e do Museu Virtual da Lusofonia da Universidade do Minho. Membro de instituições científicas e culturais nacionais (Academia Portuguesa de História, Grémio Literário, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, etc.) e estrangeiras (CIMEEP – Centro Internacional e Multidisciplinar de Estudos Épicos da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, CIRCgE - Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerca sulla Cultura di Genere da UNINT- Università degli studi Internazionali di Roma, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Langues, les Littératures, les Arts et les Cultures (CREILAC) da Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (UASZ) do Senegal, Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro, e outros), integrando diversos Conselhos Científicos de revistas, colecções, obras completas e projectos em Portugal e no estrangeiro. …”
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Providing digital human resource management model by Seyed Reza Akramian, amin nikpour, Hamid Reza Mollaei, Mohammad Jalal Kamali, Hojjat Talebi

“…Planning, organizing, directing and controlling intelligent and digitized human capital and virtual space accelerates and facilitates its processes (Momeni Mehmoui, 2024). …”
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Student Engagement and Feedback on Online Learning and Facilitation: A Case Study of the National Open University of Nigeria by Adewale Adesina, Dorothy Ofoha, Olufemi A. Peters, Isaac S. Butswat

“…Thus, this study was designed to survey students’ online learning experience and gather feedback on various aspects of synchronous online facilitation including participation, satisfaction, barriers, and challenges faced during the virtual learning journey. 2,350 students took part in this study. …”
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Evolución de la Enfermedad por el virus del Chikungunya en pacientes con Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico by Nicolás González Velázquez, Fernando Gauto, Nelly Colman, Isabel Acosta

“…Se incluyeron 101 pacientes con Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico, a quienes se les encuestó mediante un formulario virtual. Los investigadores establecieron contacto con los pacientes a través de llamadas telefónicas o mensajería, y si los pacientes aceptaban participar en el estudio, se les enviaba el formulario o, en algunos casos, se completaba durante la llamada telefónica, si el paciente lo solicitaba. …”
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Student Engagement and Feedback on Online Learning and Facilitation: A Case Study of the National Open University of Nigeria by Adewale Adesina, Dorothy Ofoha, Olufemi A. Peters, Isaac S. Butswat

“…Thus, this study was designed to survey students’ online learning experience and gather feedback on various aspects of synchronous online facilitation including participation, satisfaction, barriers, and challenges faced during the virtual learning journey. 2,350 students took part in this study. …”
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