Women in small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurship in Japan by S. M. Rebrey

“…Finally, the research concludes that female entrepreneurship requires more attention and support from the government.…”
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Additive Manufacturing Enabled by Electrospinning for Tougher Bio-Inspired Materials by Komal Agarwal, Yinning Zhou, Hashina Parveen Anwar Ali, Ihor Radchenko, Avinash Baji, Arief S. Budiman

“…We believe that this represents a preliminary feasibility in our attempt to mimic the 3D helicoidal architectures at small scales, and we still have room to improve further using even smaller fibre sizes of the modeled architectures. …”
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Effects of Pimobendan on Prolonging Time to Rehospitalization or Frequency of Rehospitalization in Patients with Heart Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using a Medical Adminis... by Kazuhisa Kodama, Tatsunori Murata, Naoki Dohi, Masaaki Nakano, Toshiaki Yokoi, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Koichi Nakao

“…**Background:** As approximately 24% of patients with chronic heart failure are rehospitalized within 1 year and heart failure is aggravated by repeated hospitalizations, greater importance was attached to the prevention of hospitalization. **Objective:** The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of pimobendan on rehospitalization of patients with advanced heart failure using a Japanese medical administrative database. …”
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Psychospołeczna perspektywa adaptacji szkolnej dzieci – konceptualizacja zjawiska by Renata Michalak

“…However, it should be clearly emphasized that compliance included in the school adaptation does not mean passive adaptation, submission to external influences, because it does not exclude the possibility of student’s innovative, creative role and active participation in the institution’s life. The article attempts to show school adaptation of children as an extremely important aspect of human adaptation, understood as the whole-life process of building balance and striving to maintain it between constantly changing and mutually conditioning entities: the human body and the its life environment. …”
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The outline of Levas Vladimirovas' professional career by Genovaitė Raguotienė

“…More than 300 publications in Lithuanian, Russian, English, and other languages are attributed to his pen. The focus of Levas Vladimirovas' research lies in the history of Lithuanian books, libraries, and culture during the feudal and capitalist periods. …”
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Carcinoma of the Colon in an Adult with Intestinal Malrotation by Michael Donaire, James Mariadason, Daniel Stephens, Sitaram Pillarisetty, Marc K. Wallack

“…We present a case of carcinoma of the colon in an adult that thwarted attempts at laparoscopic resection due to failure to recognize malrotation preoperatively. …”
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O que torna a teologia teológica? by Ed Ney Braga

“…Os fins da teologia são científicos (a aquisição do conhecimento de seu objeto de modo apropriado às criaturas), contemplativos (a atenção extasiada a Deus como causa de todas as coisas), e práticos (a regulamentação da conduta da vida humana). …”
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Use of Fecal Occult Blood Test in Hospitalized Patients: Survey of Physicians Practicing in a Large Central Canadian Health Region and Canadian Gastroenterologists by Stephen Ip, AbdulRazaq AH Sokoro, Al Buchel, Debrah Wirtzfeld, Gerald Konrad, Tunji Fatoye, Harminder Singh

“…No previous study has evaluated the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of practicing physicians on the use of FOBT among hospitalized patients and compared practices among physicians with different medical specialty training.…”
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Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging Detection of Defects in Civil Aircraft Composites by Mian Zhong, Bingwei Liu, Chen Li, Zhiqi Wang, Dongshan Wei, Bin Zhou, Xin Dai, Yajun Xu

“…In the time domain, there are attenuations and delays in the spectra of defects relative to those of nondefects. …”
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Intraoperative Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Breast Cancer: A Review of the Evidence by Norman R. Williams, Katharine H. Pigott, Mohammed R. S. Keshtgar

“…Furthermore, external beam radiotherapy is often given several months after initial surgery and requires the patient to attend the radiotherapy centre daily for several weeks. …”
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The Impact of Draw Weight on Archers’ Posture and Injury Risk Through Motion Capture Analysis by Xiaoxu Ji, Zainab Al Tamimi, Xin Gao, Davide Piovesan

“…Archery has increasingly captivated attention in its use for rehabilitation and physical education due to its adaptability for various abilities. …”
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Effect of Fiber Waviness on Tensile Strength of a Flax-Sliver-Reinforced Composite Material by Taweesak Piyatuchsananon, Akira Furuya, Baosheng Ren, Koichi Goda

“…Recently, a composite material made from natural fibers and biodegradable resin, “green composite,” is attracting attention as an alternative composite material for the replacement of glass fiber-reinforced plastics. …”
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First Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Marliolide-(4R,5R,3E)‑4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3-tetradecylidenedihydrofuran-2(3H)‑one and Vittarilide-B: A Unified Strategy Utilizing a Chiral P... by Janardana Reddi Desireddi, Mora Mallikarjuna Rao, Kiran Kumar Murahari, Shivanagababu Challa, Bhimcharan Maiti, Ravinder Manchal

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Perspectives on Intelligence in Soft Robotics by Vera Gesina Kortman, Barbara Mazzolai, Aimeé Sakes, Jovana Jovanova

“…It is concluded that a tailored robotic design approach attuned to specific environmental demands is needed. …”
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Anti-Markovnikov hydroallylation reaction of alkenes via scandium-catalyzed allylic C‒H activation by Shiyu Wang, Lichao Ning, Tao Mao, Yuqiao Zhou, Maoping Pu, Xiaoming Feng, Shunxi Dong

“…This protocol provides a straightforward and atom-efficient route for the synthesis of valuable chain elongated internal alkenes (65 examples, up to 99% yield, > 19:1 E/Z ratio). …”
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Identification of the fracture surface of thermoset polyester due to bending load by Nusyirwan, Mutya Rani, Rully Pratama

“…In this research, an attempt was made to improve the brittle nature of the Unsaturated Polyester (UP) polymer which cannot undergo plastic deformation to be improved to become more resilient by adding Thermoset Vinyl Ester and Methyl Methacrylate (MMA). …”
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Emergence of Prediction by Reinforcement Learning Using a Recurrent Neural Network by Kenta Goto, Katsunari Shibata

“…Among such functions, this paper focuses on learning “prediction” that is attracting attention recently from the viewpoint of autonomous learning. …”
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‘A queer combination of a child’s mind with a grown-up joke’: Dickens’s Child Narrators in Holiday Romance (1868) by Isabelle Hervouet

“…Dickens wished Holiday Romance would mould (to a certain extent) the attitudes of his child readers. This paper thus attempts to determine how he talks to children in Holiday Romance, i.e. both how the stories’ implied child readers are addressed by author and narrators, and what Dickens’s treatment of his child narrators is. …”
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Efficacy of Honey on Sex Reversal of Guppy (Poecilia reticulata Peters) by D.T. Soelistyowati, E. Martati, H. Arfah

“…Induk ikan gapi direndam dalam 1 L air yang mengandung 0, 20, 40 atau 60 mL madu, selama 10 jam.  Jenis kelamin ikan gapi diidentifikasi secara morfologis dan metode histologi. …”
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An assessment of breast cancer HER2, ER, and PR expressions based on mammography using deep learning with convolutional neural networks by Shun Zeng, Hongyu Chen, Rui Jing, Wenzhuo Yang, Ligong He, Tianle Zou, Peng Liu, Bo Liang, Dan Shi, Wenhao Wu, Qiusheng Lin, Zhenyu Ma, Jinhui Zha, Yonghao Zhong, Xianbin Zhang, Guangrui Shao, Peng Gong

“…For comparison we also developed original ResNet-18 without attention module and VGG-19 with and without attention module. …”
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