Mixed vulnerabilities: the biological risk of high parity is aggravated by emergency referral in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda by Manuela Straneo, Lenka Beňová, Thomas van den Akker, Muzdalifat S. Abeid, Elizabeth Ayebare, Jean-Paul Dossou, Greta Handing, Bianca Kandeya, Andrea B. Pembe, Claudia Hanson

“…We used e-registry data collected in 16 hospitals included in the Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morbidity and morTality (ALERT) trial. …”
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Failure Mechanism and Kinematics of the Deadly September 28th 2016 Sucun Landslide, Suichang, Zhejiang, China by Hai Tian, Jianjun Gan, Hui Jiang, Chun Tang, Changtai Luo, Chenghui Wan, Bin Xu, Faliang Gui, Chengyi Liu, Nian Liu

“…In addition, there are rock avalanches on the rear edge of the slope subjected to the combined action of rainfall and gravity. Moreover, there are some resistance anomaly areas of the aquifer and soil between 2 and 50 m where the resistivity is less than 120 ohm-m, and they were deduced to be full of water, confirming a “bathtub” type structure. …”
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Experimental Study on Shear Characteristics of Coal Samples in Different Water-Bearing States by Yang Wu, Lujun Wang, Baoyang Wu, Ze Xia

“…The research results show that the shear characteristics of coal samples change significantly under the action of water, with the increase of moisture content and drying-saturation cycles, the lower the shear strength of coal samples is, the larger the peak shear strain is, and the cohesion and internal friction angle of coal samples decrease linearly. …”
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TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF COCRFEW ALLOY UNDER SEAWATER CONDITION (MT) by WANG XiaoBo, CUI GongJun, LI FangZhou, CHENG ShuShuai

“…Seawater component reaction products and alloy corrosion products had friction-reducing and antiwear action. W significantly improved the wear resistance of the alloy in seawater environment, and the specimen CW8 with 8 wt%W added showed the best tribological performance. …”
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Exploring ways to respond to rising obesity and diabetes in the Caribbean using a system dynamics model. by Leonor Guariguata, Leandro Garcia, Natasha Sobers, Trevor S Ferguson, James Woodcock, T Alafia Samuels, Cornelia Guell, Nigel Unwin

“…The study aims to use the model to assess the magnitude changes necessary in physical activity and dietary intake to achieve global targets set by the WHO Global Action plan and to test scenarios for interventions to reduce the burden of diabetes and obesity. …”
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lncRNAs: the unexpected link between protein synthesis and cancer adaptation by Mila Gugnoni, Manoj Kumar Kashyap, Kishore K. Wary, Alessia Ciarrocchi

“…Even if through a myriad of different mechanisms, the action of these transcripts is dual. On one hand, by modulating the overall translation speed, lncRNAs participate in the process of metabolic adaptation of cancer cells under stress conditions. …”
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Design, Development and Control of a Hopping Machine – an Exercise in Biomechatronics by Kuldip Naik, Mehran Mehrandezh, John Barden

“…It can be also used as a biomechatronics test bed to simulate the effect of different timings in firing action potentials in jump-causing leg muscles on achieving a desired jumping height in the animal kingdom.…”
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Safety assessment on girth welds of large-diameter X80 pipelines in water network area by Yuqing LIU, Zhenyong ZHANG, Shengsi WU, Beilei JI, Hong ZHANG, Xiaoben LIU

“…As the soil in the water network area is soft and has large water content, it is very easy to settle, which applies an axial load to the pipeline, and the girth weld under the action of tensile load has a higher risk of failure. …”
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Shelley Jacksons’s Gender Politics in Patchwork Girl (1995): a Cyborg Approach by Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

“…As a complex fragmented and “syncopated” hypertext, Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson interpellates its reader to place hze in the position of multiple, interconnected subject whose task is to piece together the creature in and of the text, through the physical action of clicking on the hyperlinks. Piecing the female body and the body of the text together in order to read “herstory” forces the reader to adopt a position that ceases to be one of mastery and domination traditionally associated with the reading of print fiction. …”
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RISKS OF PAYMENT SYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIA'S MILITARY AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE AND INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA by Mădălina RĂDOI, Mihaela ENE

“…Later, in 2022, the Russian Federation deployed large-scale military forces on the territory of Ukraine. With this action, Russia began an invasion of the entire country of Ukraine. …”
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3D printed magnesium silicate/β-tricalcium phosphate scaffolds promote coupled osteogenesis and angiogenesis by Lulu Wang, Mingkui Shen, Zhongxin Tang, Jun Tan, Kuankuan Li, Haijun Ma

“…In this research, we evaluated and analyzed magnesium silicate/β-Tricalcium phosphate (MS/β-TCP) scaffold on angiogenesis and bone regeneration in vitro and in vivo, and the mechanism of its action were described. Achieving magnesium and silicon ions sustained release, 3D printed MS/β-TCP scaffolds possessed appropriate mechanical properties and had excellent biocompatibility that was suitable for osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) with proliferation, adhesion, and migration. …”
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Factors Influencing the Development of Cloud-Based Building Information Modelling (Cloud-BIM): A Hybrid FDelphi-FANP-TOPSIS-CEA Approach by Yafei Zhao, Nooriati Taib

“…By highlighting the key influencing factors, prioritizing their impact, and identifying the most suitable approach, this study equips practitioners with actionable knowledge to navigate the complex decision-making process. …”
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Anti-Abortion Mobilization in Latin America: Signs of a Field in Transformation by Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado, María Angélica Peñas-Defago, Camila Gianella Malca

“…The transformations in the anti-abortion field were globally put into action after the conservatives’ defeat in the UN Conference in Cairo, and they also interacted with different local processes, in response to the relational dynamics between movement and countermovement. …”
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A hybrid human fall detection method based on modified YOLOv8s and AlphaPose by Lei Liu, Yeguo Sun, Yinyin Li, Yihong Liu

“…Abstract To address the challenges of low detection accuracy of small objects and weak applicability of the multi-person fall action recognition applications, we propose a hybrid fall detection method based on modified YOLOv8s and AlphaPose called HFDMIA-Pose. …”
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AN APPRAISAL OF NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY THRUST FROM 1960-2023 by SUNNY MENE PIATE, EMMANUEL SUNDAY, BARILEDUM KIA

“…The utility of the Decision-making model is that it seeks to uncover the underlying motivations and values that push decision makers towards preference a certain course of action.  The utility of the power approach to the discourse is that states in international relations are always possessed by the national interest which nations attain only by improving upon the element of their national power relative to other states.  …”
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STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT LUBRICATION STATES ON BENDING FATIGUE CHARACTERISTICS OF WIRE ROPE (MT) by WANG ShaoLei, WANG ZhanYing, LI Xin, LIANG JianMing, ZHU ChunHua

“…Under the same lubrication condition, the increase of tension force destroys the lubricating oil film between the wire rope and pulley groove on the one hand, on the other hand, under the action of compressive stress, the lubricating oil in the rope core is not easy to infiltrate into the side of the wire rope and pulley groove, which deteriorates the lubrication state.…”
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Synthesis and evaluation of nitrochromene derivatives as potential antileishmanial therapeutics through biological and computational studies by Niloofar Javid, Ali Asadipour, Ehsan Salarkia, Mohammad Amin Langarizadeh, Fatemeh Sharifi, Mohammad Mahdavi, Bagher Amirheidari, Aida Iraji, Hojjat Rezaiezadeh, Gholamreza Hassanpour, Yaghoub Pourshojaei

“…The dual approach of combining experimental and computational methods aims to provide a robust understanding of the compounds’ mechanisms of action and their potential as effective anti-leishmanial agents. …”
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Toxicological assessment of citral and geraniol: Efflux pump inhibition in Staphylococcus aureus and invertebrate toxicity by Gildênia Alves de Araújo, Cícera Datiane de Morais Oliveira Tintino, Raimundo Luíz Silva Pereira, Isaac Moura Araújo, Cícera Laura Roque Paulo, João Arthur de Oliveira Borges, Ewerton Yago de Sousa Rodrigues, Ângella Eduarda da Silva, Francisco Assis Bezerra da Cunha, Zildene de Sousa Silveira, Nair Silva Macedo, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, José Maria Barbosa Filho, Daniela Maria do Amaral Ferraz Navarro, Francisco Roberto de Azevedo, Saulo Relison Tintino

“…As for the insecticidal action on A. aegypti, both products demonstrated toxicity with cumulative effects and dose-dependent mortality.…”
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Enhancement of the Antibacterial Efficiency of Silver Nanoparticles against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria Using Blue Laser Light by Anes Al-Sharqi, Kasing Apun, Micky Vincent, Devagi Kanakaraju, Lesley Maurice Bilung

“…The mechanism of interactions between Ag-NPs and the bacterial cell membranes was then evaluated via scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and reactive oxygen species analysis to study the cytotoxic action of photoactivated Ag-NPs against both bacterial species. …”
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RELATIONSHIP PARENTING AND MENTORING ONLINE LEARNING FOR SCHOOL AGE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN TANGERANG WEST JAVA by Nabila Aisyah Safira, Jaeudin Jaeudin

“…ABSTRACT Backgrounds:Due to the increasing spread of the corona virus in Indonesia, the government immediately took action to stop the spread of the virus, one of which was by imposing online learning (on the network) so that students did learning at home accompanied by parents so that parenting patterns for children should be more effective. intense. …”
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