The use of a three-dimensional mesh in plastic surgery by Rodrigo de Faria Valle Dornelles, Nivaldo Alonso, Luiz Alexandre Lorico Tissiani, Anderson Rodrigo Souza, Lúcia Nocchi Cardim

“…The clinical applicability both in programming and monitoring was exemplified. …”
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Service providers’ perspectives on youth peer support: the importance of integration and oversight – an interpretive description study in British Columbia, Canada by Skye Pamela Barbic, Courtney Devane, Corey McAuliffe, Emily Jenkins, Kelli Wuerth

“…To advance the field and strengthen future implementation efforts, the aim of the present study was to generate new understandings about how non-peer service providers working alongside youth peer support workers experience the peer support role in youth mental health settings.Design Guided by interpretive description and tenets of a research community partnership model, semi-structured interviews were conducted with non-peer service providers (n=11) across three integrated youth services centres in British Columbia, Canada, from August to December 2020. …”
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Implementation of the Borda Method for Selecting Winners in the Tahfeez Tahmeed and Prayer Competition by DPD Recital Alhidayah by Miftah Rizki Marpaung, Edi Kurniawan, Elly Rahayu

“…Tahfeez, tahmeed, and prayer competitions that are routinely held by DPD Recital Alhidayah often experience obstacles in the assessment process due to the lack of a structured and computerized system, thereby reducing the efficiency and accuracy of assessment. …”
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Risk-averse operation of microgrids in distribution systems with price-responsive demands by Seyed Saeed Fazlhashemi, Mohammad E. Khodayar, Mostafa Sedighizadeh, Mahdi Khodayar

“…Microgrid operations are structured as scenario-based robust optimization problems, capturing the worst-case scenarios for demand and solar PV generation. …”
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"The child of your fellow is your child": Building on existing protective norms to engage men as caregivers; qualitative findings from an exploratory evaluation of an edutainment i... by Alicia Sharif, Marjorie Pichon, Veronicah Gimunta, Oscar Rutenge, Revocatus Sono, Ana Maria Buller, Lottie Howard-Merrill

“…We delivered the drama to households on flash drives and led structured household discussion sessions. We conducted in-depth interviews with 18 adult men caregivers before (September 2021) and after the intervention (December 2021) and used thematic analysis and the framework method to examine indications of change in attitudes, beliefs, norms and behaviours. …”
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Prospective Interventions for reducing the vulnerability of communities in post-disaster resettlement, a case of Bunambutye camp, Eastern Uganda by Harriet Cherotich, Frank Mugagga, Fredrick Tumwine, Henry Musoke Ssemakula

“…A Delphi tool containing structured interviews was utilized to gather the views of the participants on the objectives of the study which included: - skills possessed by the survivors, current skills valued and needed but missing in the resettlement, and prospective mitigation strategies to bridge the skill gaps. …”
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A CHATBOT FOR POSTGRADUATE INFORMATION DISSEMINATION by Umar Emmanuel, Odulaja Godwin Oluwaseyi, Babatunde Akinbowale Nathanie

“…The Chatbot was designed using HTML, CSS, and ReactJava programming languages while the database was designed using PHP and MySQL Database. …”
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Dynamic Vaccine Allocation for Control of Human-Transmissible Disease by Mingdong Lyu, Chang Chang, Kuofu Liu, Randolph Hall

“…Our study develops a dynamic methodology for vaccine allocation, segmented by region, age, and timeframe, using a time-sensitive, age-structured compartmental model. Based on the objective of minimizing a weighted sum of deaths and cases, we used the Sequential Least Squares Quadratic Programming method to search for a locally optimal COVID-19 vaccine allocation for the United States, for the period from 16 December 2020 to 30 June 2021, where regions corresponded to the 50 states in the United States (U.S.). …”
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Data-driven modeling of the aggregator-based price-maker virtual power plant (VPP) in the day-ahead wholesale electricity markets; evidence from the Japan Electric power Exchange (... by Mohamed Saad Suliman, Hooman Farzaneh

“…Data-driven modeling is structured using mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and based on hybridizing several concepts, including conventional unit commitment, hydropower scheduling, pumping storage dispatch, market clearing mechanism, variable renewable energy forecasts, price elasticity of demand, and shadow prices of production technologies. …”
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The Effect of Cooperative Learning on Academic Performances and Computational Thinking Skills in the Computational Problem-Solving Approach by İrem Nur Çelik, Kaan Bati

“…Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews at the end of the process to determine students' views on the computational problem-solving process. …”
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ARK: Aggregation of Reads by K-Means for Estimation of Bacterial Community Composition. by David Koslicki, Saikat Chatterjee, Damon Shahrivar, Alan W Walker, Suzanna C Francis, Louise J Fraser, Mikko Vehkaperä, Yueheng Lan, Jukka Corander

“…These methods typically rely on summarizing the sequence data by frequencies of low-order k-mers and matching this information statistically with a taxonomically structured database. Here we show that the accuracy of the resulting community composition estimates can be substantially improved by aggregating the reads from a sample with an unsupervised machine learning approach prior to the estimation phase. …”
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An Automatic Heuristic Design Approach for Seru Scheduling Problem with Resource Conflicts by Rongxin Zhan, Jinhui Zhang, Zihua Cui, Jin Peng, Dongni Li

“…An automatic heuristic design approach that combines a genetic programming algorithm and structure similarity-based operators is proposed. …”
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The Education Decentralilation Policy through Implementation of School-Based Management (SBM) by Fathurohman Fathurohman, Achadi Budi Santosa

“…The results showed that the implementation of the education decentralization policy was carried out through; (a) determining structural positions (b) managing school finances, (c) structuring teachers and employees, and (d) determining school planning and programs. …”
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Classification of Upper Bound Sequences of Local Fractional Metric Dimension of Rotationally Symmetric Hexagonal Planar Networks by Shahbaz Ali, Muhammad Khalid Mahmood, Fairouz Tchier, F. M. O. Tawfiq

“…The term metric or distance of a graph plays a vital role in the study to check the structural properties of the networks such as complexity, modularity, centrality, accessibility, connectivity, robustness, clustering, and vulnerability. …”
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Effect of Axial Clearance on Volumetric Efficiency of Non-circular Planetary Gear Hydraulic Motors by Li Xiang, Peng Xianlong

“…It provides a basis for the structural improvement of subsequent motors.…”
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The V4: a Decade after the EU Entry by Eduard Nežinský, Elena Fifeková

“…The main concern for economic policy in the V4 as well as the entire EU continues to be tackling unemployment and facilitating factors´ productivity by structural reforms. The paper makes use of parametric and non-parametric approaches with a view to cross-checking the results obtained on the technological change within the EU at large and across the V4 countries in particular. …”
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Research on Adaptive Model Predictive Control Algorithm for Remotely Operated Vehicle by ZHU Yinggu, ZHANG Dinghua, TU Shaoping, SONG Junhui

“…Aiming at the motion state coupling and model non-linearity of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) caused by the asymmetric structural layout of ROV and changes of center of gravity and center of buoyancy, this paper proposes a model identification algorithm considering the typical nonlinear characteristics of ROV. …”
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Framework for experimental evaluation of software solutions in a virtual environment by D. Ilin

“…Methods of decomposition, structural design, and software development were applied to design and develop the framework.Results. …”
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Machine learning approaches for forecasting compressive strength of high-strength concrete by Mohammed Shaaban, Mohamed Amin, S. Selim, Islam M. Riad

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IMPACT OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION FINANCED UNDER SOP HRD 2007-2013 ON DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SECTOR IN SOUTH MUNTENIA REGION by Daniela CREŢU, Andrei Radu IOVA, Elena LASCĂR

“…Under the current conditions, in which the Romanian economy still faces serious structural problems, corroborated with the global economic crisis, it is absolutely natural to consider as extremely important the financial support granted by the European Union to Romania as a safe source of financing and necessary for the development of the Romanian state as a whole in order to recover significant differences from other European states. …”
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