Arbovirus exposure and subclinical myocardial dysfunction in an Indigenous population in Northeast Brazil: a cross-sectional study by Jandir Mendonça Nicacio, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza, Ricardo Khouri, Vanessa Cardoso Pereira, Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo, Pedro Vinícius Amorim de Medeiros Patriota, Sávio Luiz Pereira Nunes, Jeová Cordeiro de Morais Júnior, Manoel Barral-Netto, João Augusto Costa Lima, Anderson da Costa Armstrong

“…Methods This ancillary study is part of the first phase (2016–2017) of the Project of Atherosclerosis among Indigenous Populations (PAI), a cross-sectional study involving participants from two Indigenous communities with different degrees of urbanization and a highly urbanized city in Northeast Brazil. …”
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Aid Effectiveness: From Project Appraisal to Strategic Impact Evaluation by D. A. Degterev

“…Among the most noticeable recent trends the author emphasizes a transition from aid effectiveness to development effectiveness paradigm and an inclusion of indicators of diplomatic engagement and security provision in evaluation matrices.Special attention is paid on the hierarchy of goals in national systems of development cooperation, which is illustrated with an example of the United States. …”
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Long-Term Cosmic Ray Variability and the CME-Index by Helen Mavromichalaki, Evangelos Paouris

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Gereformeerde teologie in die spervuur tussen fundamentalisme en anti-fundamentalisme by G. J. C. Jordaan

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Opening linguistic spaces in the gendered language classroom: The gender-just teacher toolkit by Riccardo Amorati, Elena Pirovano

“…Introducing gender-just linguistic practices in language education fosters the creation of a learning environment that is respectful and attentive to the diversity of language classes. In this paper, we provide an overview of existing terminology and main research studies on the thematization of gender-just language in the language classroom. …”
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Damage Assessment in a SiC-fiber reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composite by Konstantinos G. Dassios, Theodore E. Matikas

“…Imposition of successive unloading/reloading loops was found to result in an increase by 20% in material strength as compared to pure tension; the observed increase is attributed to energy dissipation from large-scale interfacial debonding phenomena that dominated the post-elastic tensile behaviour of the composite. …”
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Assessment of Accuracy of COSMIC and KOMPSAT Radio Occultation Temperature and Pressure by Descalzo Karl Philippe A., Macalalad Ernest P.

“…Radio Occultation is a technique used by orbiting satellites to measure planetary atmosphere properties like temperature, pressure, and water vapor. …”
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The Concept of the Heat Removal System of a High-Flux Research Reactor by Vitaly Uzikov, Ildar Suleimanov, Irina Uzikova

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Doping Induced Structural Stability and Electronic Properties of GaN Nanotubes by Anurag Srivastava, Mohammad Irfan Khan, Neha Tyagi, Purnima Swaroop Khare

“…The present paper discusses the effect of manganese doping on the structural stability and electronic band gap of chiral (2, 1), armchair (3, 3), and zigzag ((6, 0) and (10, 0)) single walled GaN nanotube by using density functional theory based Atomistix Toolkit (ATK) Virtual NanoLab (VNL). The structural stability has been analyzed in terms of minimum ground state total energy, binding, and formation energy. …”
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InTEIrviews: An ODD for Qualitative Interviews in the Humanities by Marie Puren, Florian Cafiero

“…Relying entirely on existing TEI elements to create this ODD, we combine primarily the elements and attributes declared by the modules “Transcription of Speech” and “Language Corpora.” …”
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Metals contamination of Aquifer in Warri and Port- Harcourt (Niger – Delta Region) by Monday O. Edwards

“…The metal cations were also determined using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) method, hardness, chloride and bicarbonate concentrations were determined using titrimetric method, sulphate was determined by spectrophotometer method. …”
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The fusion of subjectivity and objectivity: a study on the construction of historical facts of Chinese Anti-Japanese war from the perspective of Toynbee’s philosophy of history by Yongguan Tian

“…Then, we explore possible entry points for the application of Toynbee’s historical philosophy to the construction of facts about China’s resistance war against Japanese aggression and analyze the issues that should be paid attention to in the process. In the end, we highly praise and affirm the wisdom of Toynbee’s historical philosophy and hope that this research can provide some reference or paradigm for applying Toynbee’s historical philosophy to the construction of specific historical facts, as well as better help today’s civilization cope with challenges. …”
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Advantages of trend analysis in stability studies for prediction of potential OOS result within estimated shelflife of medicinal product by Milena Nanov, Sanja Despotovska, Gordana Mitrovska, Vasilka Dubrova Koceva, Jelena Acevska

“…Regression analysis as a statistical tool for trending analysis, is considered an appropriate approach to evaluating the stability data for a quantitative attribute. …”
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Kinematics Analysis of a Parallel Mixing Machine and Its Scale Optimal Design by Chen Jing, Guo Qian, Zhu Wei

“…According to the material mixing requirements, a three-dimensional model of a multi-dimensional mixing machine based on the 2RRS-S parallel mechanism was designed, and its motion trajectory and motion characteristics of attitude angles were simulated. Taking the variation change of the attitude angles of the moving platform as the objective function, the differential evolution algorithm was used to optimize the scale parameters of the mechanism, and the obtained mechanism has better mixing motion performance than that before the optimization.…”
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Engineering of Metal–Organic Framework-Derived CoTiO₃ Micro-Prisms for Lithium-Ion Batteries by Tao Li, Minghui Song, Qi Zhang, Yifan Li, Gengchen Yu, Xue Bai

“…This enhanced electrochemical performance can be attributed to the synergistic effect of Ni doping and carbon coating.…”
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Event-Related Potentials Study of Cognitive Functions in Patients with Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment by XU Peiao, WEI Wei, ZHAO Yuqing, KONG Weicheng, LI Xinlei, QIU Lifang, CHEN Jie, XUE Xiehua

“…The P300 latencies at electrodes Fz，Cz，Pz，and P4 may serve as predictive indicators for overall cognitive function，visuospatial/executive abilities，orientation，attention，and memory. These results further expand the assessment tools for cognitive functions in patients with PSCI.…”
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Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context

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Effect of ambient O3 on respiratory mortality and synergies with meteorological factors in Shenyang, China by Yuhan Zhao, Yuxia Ma, Zongrui Liu, Ziyue Wan, Haoran Jiao, Fengliu Feng, Bowen Cheng

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Transformer-based malware detection using process resource utilization metrics by Dimosthenis Natsos, Andreas L. Symeonidis

“…Malware detection has long relied on signature-based methods limited in detecting zero-day malware attacks. Although efficient, these approaches are vulnerable to obfuscation and evasion techniques. …”
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Influenza A virus hemagglutinin: from classical fusion inhibitors to proteolysis targeting chimera-based strategies in antiviral drug discovery by Francisco Javier Hermoso-Pinilla, Aitor Valdivia, María-José Camarasa, Tiziana Ginex, Francisco Javier Luque

“…The influenza virus glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA) participates in critical steps of the attachment of viral particles to the host cell membrane receptor and membrane fusion. …”
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