Mathematical Modelling of Disease Outbreak by Favour Christian, Matthew Molloy

“…The model was even able to be applied to real-world cases as in the 1978 influenza outbreak.…”
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Yellow Pitahaya (<i>Selenicereus megalanthus</i> Haw.): The Less Known of the Pitahayas by Daniel Valero, Alex Erazo-Lara, María Emma García-Pastor, Pedro Antonio Padilla-González, Vicente Agulló, Fátima Badiche El-Hiali, María Serrano

“…Pitahaya or dragon fruit is an exotic fruit native to Mesoamerica and is cultivated in several regions of the world. In recent years, pitahaya has become increasingly in demand, firstly, for its good nutritional and organoleptic qualities and, secondly, for its richness in antioxidants and bioactive compounds. …”
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Zwischen Sprechen und Singen. ›Performative Formgebung‹ in den Chansons von Edmund Nick und Erich Kästner aus der Münchner Schaubude by Daniel Ernst

“…For example, the chansons that were performed at Munich’s post World War II cabaret venue Die Schaubude are not only documents of historical value, they are also well-suited for the study of the reciprocal influence of performance and score. …”
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A Comparative Study of Convolutional Neural Network and Transformer Architectures for Drone Detection in Thermal Images by Gian Gutierrez, Juan P. Llerena, Luis Usero, Miguel A. Patricio

“…The research focuses on real-world conditions and examines the performance of YOLOv9, GELAN, DETR, and ViTDet in different scenarios of the Anti-UAV Challenge 2023 dataset. …”
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Severity of Oral Mucositis in Children following Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy and Its Implications at a Single Oncology Centre in Durango State, Mexico by Ramón G. Carreón-Burciaga, Enrique Castañeda-Castaneira, Rogelio González-González, Nelly Molina-Frechero, Enrique Gaona, Ronell Bologna-Molina

“…Fifty-one children with cancer who had received QT, RT, or both (QT-RT) underwent clinical evaluations; World Health Organization criteria were used to establish the degree and severity of mucositis. …”
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Poison, lies, war: A mixed methods content analysis of posts about COVID-19 vaccination on Gab Social by Alice Marianne Fritz, Andrea M. Smith

“…Despite the ongoing threat of contagion, however, uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines, especially as booster doses, remains suboptimal among eligible adults and children in the United States, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Public attitudes toward these vaccines remain balkanized, with some groups harboring ambivalence or even opposition to receiving inoculation. …”
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Exploring Current Evidence on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the Heart Team: A Narrative Review by Alexandru Burlacu, Adrian Covic, Mircea Cinteza, Paula Madalina Lupu, Radu Deac, Grigore Tinica

“…The observation that Guidelines’ indications regarding Heart Team carry a level C indication underlines the very future of this Team: randomized controlled trials proving solid benefits in an evidence-based world. Conclusions. Envisioned as a tool for optimizing the management of various complex cardiovascular pathologies, Heart Team should simplify and facilitate the activity in the cardiovascular ward. …”
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U.S.-UK Voting Cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly: Important Votes (2001–2019) by A. O. Mamedova

“…Nevertheless, US-UK voting cohesion in the UNGA has not attracted much attention yet, although it can help to objectively assess the interaction of these powers in the world arena. Four groups of important resolutions were identified for comparison: human rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nuclear non-proliferation and international security, as well as sanctions and development. …”
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DMR: disentangled and denoised learning for multi-behavior recommendation by Yijia Zhang, Wanyu Chen, Fei Cai, Zhenkun Shi, Feng Qi

“…Experimental results on two real-world datasets show the proposal can improve the performance of MBR models effectively, which achieves on average 3.12% on the Retailrocket dataset and 3.28% on the Beibei dataset over the performance of state-of-the-art baselines. …”
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Geoelectric Evaluation of Groundwater Potential: A Case Study of Sabongida-Ora and Environs, Southern Nigeria by FI Chinyem

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Skillful seasonal predictions of continental East-Asian summer rainfall by integrating its spatio-temporal evolution by Jieru Ma, Hong-Li Ren, Ming Cai, Yi Deng, Chenguang Zhou, Jian Li, Huizheng Che, Lin Wang

“…Abstract Skillful seasonal climate prediction is critical for food and water security over the world’s heavily populated regions, such as in continental East Asia. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of Healthcare Resource Use, Treatment Patterns, and Treatment-related Events in Patients with Huntington’s Disease–associated Chorea Initiated on Tetrabenazi... by Victor W. Sung, Sanjay K. Gandhi, Victor Abler, Brian Davis, Debra E. Irwin, Karen E. Anderson, Ravi G. Iyer

“…**Objectives:** To characterize demographic and clinical characteristics of HD patients with chorea based on tetrabenazine use and examine treatment persistence with tetrabenazine in a real-world setting. **Methods:** Patients with a claim for HD-associated chorea (ICD-9-CM code 333.4) between 1/1/08 and 9/30/15 were selected from the MarketScan® Commercial and Medicare Supplemental databases. …”
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An approach towards effective ecological planning: Quantitative analysis of urban green space characteristics by R. Teimouri, T. Yigitcanlar

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Buckwheat breeding and production in Russia during the past 100 years by A. N. Fesenko, I. N. Fesenko

“…A major success in this work has been the world’s first determinant cultivar with green flowers (the gc mutation) named ‘Design’, which develops thicker and stronger fruit stalks with higher resistance to seed shattering.…”
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IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF ENTERPRISES ON THE BASIS OF MARKET RESEARCH by Iryna Gontareva, Mariia Nesen

“…The article is aimed at studying the status and trends in the development of foreign economic activity in Ukraine and in the world, and the impact of marketing research on their effi­ciency. …”
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TB preventive therapy: uptake and time to initiation during implementation of ‘7-1-7’ by A.D. Harries, D. Nair, P. Thekkur, R. Ananthakrishnan, R. Thiagesan, J.M. Chakaya, I. Mbithi, B. Jamil, R. Fatima, M. Khogali, R. Zachariah, S.D. Berger, S. Satyanarayana, A.M.V. Kumar, A.F. Bochner, A. McClelland

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CALIBRATION OF MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION OF URBAN ROAD NETWORK INCLUDING MINI-ROUNDABOUTS AND UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTION USING OPEN-SOURCE SIMULATION TOOL by Mehmet Nedim YAVUZ, Halit ÖZEN

“…As traffic management issues become more prevalent, notably in urban areas, simulation tools enable a significant opportunity to replicate real-world conditions before implementation. Therefore, the calibration of traffic simulation models plays a substantial role in obtaining accurate and confidential results. …”
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Effects of Banditry and Illegal Logging on Conservation in Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria by S. M. Ayeni, P. N. Meduna, A. A. Babatunde

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Modeling of short-term financial transmission rights in a secondary auction market using game theory by Mohammad Tabrizian, Hosein Seifi, Mohamad Kazem Sheikh-al-Eslami, Hamidreza Shahmirzad

“…Purpose: Finding the best situation for the expected profit by each of the participants (players) in the secondary auction market of financial congestion transmission rights.Methodology: From the point of view of game theory, finding at least one Nash equilibrium point for this competition takes into account the various constraints of the secondary auction market.Findings: This paper study the issue of financial transmission congestion contracts then uses the game theory to analyze the short-term (weekly) secondary FTR markets, in which the players manage the transmission risk through optimal biddings.Originality/Value: Congestion risk management is one of the most important topics of transmission network management in restructured power systems and electricity markets in the world, especially markets based on regional or local pricing, whose main tool is transmission financial contracts. …”
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Soil Respiration Variations in Temperate Rhododendron (Rhododendron arboreum) Forest of Annapurna Conservation Area (ACA) in Nepal by Deepa Dhital, Purushottam Manandhar, Bikash Gosain, Jaishree Sijapati

“…In this study, we assessed soil respiration (SR) by using the chamber method in a natural Rhododendron (Rhododendron arboreum) forest which is recognized as the world’s largest forest type located at Annapurna Conservation Area in the temperate region of Nepal. …”
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