Être enfant à Sfax (Tunisie) by Fanny Vuaillat, Noa Schumacher, Sami Ben Fguira

“…The most striking disparities are between, on the one hand, villas and car-owning peri-urban area, with an over-representation of upper-class categories, and, on the other hand, the coastal area, with its concentration of working-class categories, or even those who are very poor, as in the Medina, an enclosed, dense and pedestrian aera.Within these two specific urban areas, four schools, both private and public, were involved in the surveys, with 178 pupils (10 to 12). …”
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An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery by H.-S. Jung, S.-M. Lee, S.-M. Lee, J.-H. Kim, K. Lee

“…In order to collect relatively bright and clear scenes, thresholds of solar elevation <span class="inline-formula"><i>&gt;</i>15</span>° and cloud cover <span class="inline-formula"><i>&lt;</i>10</span> % were applied in this study. …”
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Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Elderly Patients: Initial and One-Year Follow-Up Results—Do We Have the Proper Device? by Michal Galeczka, Malgorzata Szkutnik, Jacek Bialkowski, Sebastian Smerdzinski, Mateusz Knop, Adam Sukiennik, Roland Fiszer

“…A small residual shunt was present in echocardiography in one patient after one year. NYHA class improved in all but two patients (with multiple comorbidities). …”
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Leuko-glycemic Index as a Prognostic Factor after Acute Myocardial Infarction with ST-segment Elevation by Ailed Rodríguez Jiménez, Raikel Fardales Rodríguez, Enrique Toledo Rodríguez, Guillermo Quintana Cañizarez

“…There was a positive correlation between the Killip class and the leuco-glycemic index (r: 0.471 p &lt;0.001). …”
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Ways to improve the gene pool of pigs of the Russian Federation by V. A. Bekenеv

“…Theoretical paths have been shown towards and experimental proof given to a relatively rapid transformation of breeds of animals bred in Russia to world-class productivity, as opposed to the constant import of breeding animals.…”
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Effect of Particle Size and Solution Leaching on Water Retention Behavior of Ion-Absorbed Rare Earth by Zhong-qun Guo, Yuan-ming Lai, Jie-fang Jin, Jian-rong Zhou, Zheng Sun, Kui Zhao

“…Results demonstrate that given the same matric suction, soil water content decreases gradually with the increase of particle size and content of coarse particles, thus decreasing water retention capacity of soil accordingly. …”
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Respiratory disease detection in lung auscultation with convolutional neural networks and CVAE augmentation by D.V. Panaskin, S.H. Stirenko, D.S. Babko

“…To solve the problem of class imbalance, the required number of synthetic spectrograms generated by convolutional variation autoencoders was added. …”
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Reparative histogenesis of bone tissue in femoral fractures in rats using biocomposite material along with immunocorrection by V. V. Reshetnyak, V. V. Burdeyniy, V. V. Pronin, Ye. A. Iskaliev

“…At the periphery of the site the cartilaginous callus was subjected to endochondral ossification with replacement by coarse-fibrous trabeculae with elements of lamellar bone tissue having haversian canals in the center. …”
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Susceptibility of Sardinella lemuru to emerging marine microplastic pollution by J.D.H. Palermo, K.L. Labrador, J.D. Follante, A.B. Agmata, M.J.R. Pante, R.N. Rollon, L.T. David

“…These microplastics ranged from 0.12 to 21.30 mm and 80 % were mostly < 2.5 mm size classes. The dominant microplastics were 97.94 % in the form of fibers while 1.52 % and 0.54 % were respectively classified into fragments and films. …”
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Foraminiferal test dissolution reveals severe sediment acidification in estuarine mudflats: new perspectives for present and historical assessment by Fouet, Marie, Daviray, Maxime, Geslin, Emmanuelle, Metzger, Edouard, Jorissen, Frans

“…Foraminiferal mudflat communities in the Auray estuary, located along the French Northwest Atlantic coast, were investigated in September 2020. Numerous living specimens of calcareous species showed marks of dissolution. …”
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The process of obtaining information about COVID-19 among students of physiotherapy and rehabilitation department by Duygu Ilgin Gunduz, Erhan Secer, Melda Baser Secer

“…While biological sex (pbiologicalsex) and class level (pclasslevel) influenced the choice of sources (pbiologicalsex=0.011; pclasslevel:0.0001) and the factors determining this choice (pbiologicalsex=0.011–0.022; pclasslevel=0.0001–0.005), topic preferences were only influenced by class level (pbiologicalsex>0.05; pclasslevel = 0.0001–0.022). …”
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Enhanced ResNet-50 for garbage classification: Feature fusion and depth-separable convolutions. by Lingbo Li, Runpu Wang, Miaojie Zou, Fusen Guo, Yuheng Ren

“…Finally, to address the issue of class imbalance, a weighting factor is added to the Focal Loss, aiming to mitigate the negative impact of class imbalance on model performance and enhance the model's robustness. …”
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Acute Rheumatic Fever: Findings of a Hospital-Based Study and an Overview of Reported Outbreaks by Upton D Allen, Michael Braudo, Stanley E Read

“…In three, the majority of children were white and from middle class suburban/rural communities in different geographic locations. …”
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Impact of Mixed Sources on the Atmospheric Aerosols of Urbanized Areas in the Philippines by Preciosa Corazon B. Pabroa, Joseph Michael D. Racho, John Robin Yee, Lawrence Adrian Tacliad, Haron Deo Vargaz, Iara Chantrelle V. Coronel, Raymond J. Sugcang, Christian Mark G. Salvador

“…The average fine (coarse) aerosols of Valenzuela, Manila, and Boracay were 26.7 (80.4), 27.9 (86.6), and 20.9 (124.6) μg m−3, respectively, which all exceeded the recent annual limits of the World Health Organization. …”
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Recycled Aggregate Concrete including Various Contents of Metakaolin: Mechanical Behavior by Khaleel H. Younis, Abdulfattah A. Amin, Hemin G. Ahmed, Shelan M. Maruf

“…The RAC incorporates recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) originated from crushing construction and demolition waste. …”
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Origin of the Bohai Sea Basin, North China Craton, and implications for bidirectional back-arc extension in the East Asian continental margin by A. L. Chen, X. Chen

“…We have made field investigations and analyses of tectonic landforms and boundary faults on the northwest coast of the Bohai Sea and eastern and western margins of the Liaodong Peninsula, which revealed left-lateral strike-slip faults along the northwest coast of the Liaodong Bay and western margin of the Liaodong Peninsula. …”
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Liver and spleen elastography in diagnosis of extrahepatic portal vein obstruction: pilot study by M. Yu. Nadinskaya, Ye. O. Liusina, Ch. S. Pavlov

“…Statistically significant difference in serum aminotransferases levels in non-cirrhotic PVT vs Child-Pugh class A HCV-LC was observed: enzyme levels were 1,5-2 fold higher in LC (р…”
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Diversity and distribution of mobile genetic elements in marine invertebrates genomes by M. V. Puzakov, L. V. Puzakova, I. K. Zakharov

“…All types of MGE are subdivided to two classes – retrotransposons and DNA-transposons. MGE were found in genomes of all main taxa of marine invertebrates and are represented by both classes. …”
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Studying the factors affecting the karst zonation and development of Khorin Mountain using Fuzzy Logic. by Amir Saffari, Tayebeh Kiani, Sasan Zangenehtabar

“…The results of this study indicate that about 98% of sinkholes are situated in the classes of triple karst.…”
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DDL R-CNN: Dynamic Direction Learning R-CNN for Rotated Object Detection by Weixian Su, Donglin Jing

“…The DDL module pre-extracts the directional features of targets to provide a coarse estimation of their angles and the corresponding weights. …”
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