Guest Editorial Vol5 no2 by Deirdre Watson

“…To help us get to that point perhaps we need a 'hearts and minds' campaign to change thinking and to combat some of the current negative attitudes that surround young people.…”

BharatSim: An agent-based modelling framework for India. by Philip Cherian, Jayanta Kshirsagar, Bhavesh Neekhra, Gaurav Deshkar, Harshal Hayatnagarkar, Kshitij Kapoor, Chandrakant Kaski, Ganesh Kathar, Swapnil Khandekar, Saurabh Mookherjee, Praveen Ninawe, Riz Fernando Noronha, Pranjal Ranka, Vaibhhav Sinha, Tina Vinod, Chhaya Yadav, Debayan Gupta, Gautam I Menon

“…This synthetic population defines individual agents with multiple attributes, among them age, gender, home and work locations, pre-existing health conditions, and socio-economic and employment status. …”
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Welheidsbediening deur AGS-pastore in 'n stedelike konteks: 'n verkennende kwalitatiewe ondersoek by L. Lovell, G. A. Lotter

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GOVERNANCE TOKENS IN THE CONCEPT OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT by Oleksii Dotsenko, Marko Zelenskyi

“…We emphasized that the use of blockchain technology raises significant privacy concerns, as many e-government services involve personal data that must be properly protected to avoid situations where the blockchain could become the target of attacks by attackers trying to obtain unauthorized access to the personal information of citizens. …”
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Traditional Processing, Physicochemical Property, Phytochemical Content, and Microbiological and Sensory Quality of the Yellow “Téa Lémi” Wine Made in the Far-North of Cameroon... by James Ronald Bayoï, Yonas Vandi, Bruno Yaya Foundikou, Francois-Xavier Etoa

“…Despite its importance as a source of income for the country people, the know-how supporting production of this beverage and its quality attributes still remain unknown. Hence, this study was aimed at describing the processing and quality of “Téa Lémi” produced and marketed in northern Cameroon. …”
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Bone marrow transplantation reverses metabolic alterations in multiple sulfatase deficiency: a case series by Nishitha R. Pillai, Ning Liu, Xiyuan Li, Xiqi Li, Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Laura Adang, Julie B. Eisengart, Grace Bronken, Ashish Gupta, Troy C. Lund, Chester B. Whitley, Sarah H. Elsea, Paul J. Orchard

“…Methods Two siblings with attenuated MSD underwent hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), evaluating the possibility of lysosomal enzymatic cross-correction from the donor cells. …”
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Sickness, Hygienic Education and Village Practice: Tuberculosis in the Life of a Cobbler by Tuija Saarinen

“…Life in a village society was concentrated on health and its care. Very much attention was focused on hygienic education, as well. …”
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Experience of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for those with mild traumatic brain injury (ACTion mTBI): A qualitative descriptive study. by Josh W Faulkner, Jason Chua, Amabelle Voice-Powell, Deborah L Snell, Maree Roche, John Moffat, Suzanne Barker-Collo, Alice Theadom

“…There were two overarching themes 1) attacking the concussion from a different direction and 2) positive impact on recovery which depicted participants' overall experiences of the intervention. …”
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Impact of various additives and their combinations on the consolidation characteristics of clayey soil by Soheila Shojamoghadam, Arash Rajaee, Saeed Abrishami

“…Furthermore, to evaluate the characteristics of materials, tests such as Atterberg limits, soil grain size distribution, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), scanning electron microscope (SEM), particle size analysis (PSA), and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) have been performed on the selected materials. …”
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Research on key "acupoint" mining technology for special information system by ZOU Zilong, WANG Junlin, AN Shujie, LYU Changyuan, YU Minggang, NIU Yanjie

“…Finally, taking the special information system under the background of urban unmanned attack operation as an example, the scientific and reasonable of the proposed method is verified.…”
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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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Synthesis, docking, pharmacokinetic prediction, and acetylcholinesterase inhibitory evaluation of N-(2-(piperidine-1-yl)ethyl)benzamide derivatives as potential anti-Alzheimer agen... by Ahmad Mohammadi-Farani, Farzaneh Moradi, Amin Hosseini, Alireza Aliabadi

“…Findings/Results: Compound 5d possessing the fluorine atom substitution at position ortho was the most active compound in these series (IC50 = 13 ± 2.1 nM). …”
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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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