Methodological Issues on Planning and Running the Brazilian Multicenter Study on Preterm Birth by Giuliane J. Lajos, Ricardo P. Tedesco, Renato Passini, Tabata Z. Dias, Marcelo L. Nomura, Patrícia M. Rehder, Samira M. Haddad, Maria H. Sousa, Jose G. Cecatti, Brazilian Multicenter Study on Preterm Birth Study Group

“…This study represented the first step of a planned comprehensive assessment of preterm birth in Brazil, with detailed information that will lead to several analyses and further studies, bringing the knowledge to improve screening, diagnosis, and treatment practices in maternal and perinatal health with the final purpose of reducing the burden of this condition in the country.…”
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Development Evaluation and Optimization of Deep Shale Gas Reservoir with Horizontal Wells Based on Production Data by Wuguang Li, Hong Yue, Yongpeng Sun, Yu Guo, Tianpeng Wu, Nanqiao Zhang, Yue Chen

“…The Z2 area, where the Z2-H1 well is located, has good reservoir physical properties, which bring a high drilling efficiency. However, there are still some problems during its development, such as poor fracture extension both horizontally and vertically, limited stimulated reservoir volume (SRV), rapid production declining, large water production, and serious liquid accumulation. …”
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Intertextuality as a Poetic Rewriting Strategy in Pelin Batu’s Self-Translated Poems by Göksenin Abdal

“…In Gérard Genette’s terms, they bring together a palimpsest writing, entailing references that are either highlighted or unwittingly removed from literary texts. …”
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Staminate Flower of Cocos Nucifera as Green Inhibitor for Mild Steel in HCl Medium by R. Rajalakshmi, A. S. Safina

“…Corrosion control methods, especially the use of inhibitors, have gained monumental importance in the present scenario of expunging corrosion and the quest for eco-friendly reasons continues. To arrive at an inexpensive non-toxic, eco-friendly inhibitor formulations the present study on the use of Staminate Flower extract of Cocos Nucifera has been carried out by the classical weight loss measurements and electrochemical polarization measurements. …”
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The Home and the World: Analysing Socio-Spatial Dynamics and Identity-Formation in Indian Picturebooks by Aditi Bhardwaj, Devjani Ray

“…This paper locates fourteen contemporary Indian picturebooks within two arenas of conceptual enquiry – space and self-identity within childhood, and the multicultural experientiality of childhood as encompassing differences and structural inequalities – and studies the links between marginalisation and space in children’s literature. …”
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Nonlinear Demodulation and Channel Coding in EBPSK Scheme by Xianqing Chen, Lenan Wu

“…However, the conventional threshold decision cannot achieve the optimum performance, and the SIF brings more difficulty in obtaining the posterior probability for LDPC decoding. …”
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Feedback and formative assessment—looking backwards to move forward by Nora McCarthy, Karen Neville, Andrew Pope

“…While we use medical education as an example to explore how looking backwards and incorporating all aspects of the original feedback definition can help us to move forward with clarity of terms, we mainly seek to bring new perspectives and hope to encourage necessary conversations on ‘feedback’ and ‘formative assessment’ entanglement.…”
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Ethical Aspects concerning Instrument Separation and Perforations during Endodontic Treatment: A Cross-Sectional Study by Raidan Ba-Hattab, Ishrat Rahman, Lubna K. Elsayed, Wejdan F. Alasmari, Randa Abidia, Somayah Abdelgaffar, Awsan Bahattab

“…During endodontic treatment, dentists may face various unwanted procedural accidents, at any stage of the treatment that might compromise endodontic treatment outcome and bring obstacles to dentists as well. This study aimed to address and analyze several ethical concerns relating to the behavioural conduct of dentists towards endodontic instrument separation as well as perforation of the crown and/or root during root canal treatment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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Social movement as a form of online political participation in social media by Nur Azizah

“…Exists the development of technology and communication 4.0 in Indonesia, were there has been a shift in the form of aspirations in the community from a conventional movement to a digital movement that is easily and very quickly disseminated and brings more support from many people. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of social media activists in mobilizing public participation with social movements and how the digital instrument Twitter can enhance democratic activities in Indonesia. …”
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Functions and Authorities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Crime Scene by Y. V. Grinenko

“…The expediency and necessity of studying the functions and powers as structural elements of the administrative and legal status of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is emphasized, which is especially relevant in connection with the reform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and bringing their service activities to NATO standards. …”
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Scientific support of competition development processes in power market by V. Ya. Afanasyev, V. V. Kuzmin, I. N. Ivanov

“…The paper characterizes the complex of research and design developments for a new package of interrelated science-based measures implementation for competition conditions development in the power market, aimed at bringing its properties closer to the properties of markets with developed competition.…”
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Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Surge Extension on a Centrifugal Compressor with Vaned Diffuser Using Steam Injection by Chuang Gao, Weiguang Huang, Tianhua Zheng, Kang Yang, Haosen Yang, Yun Cao

“…Injection of less than 1% of the designed mass flow can bring about over 10% margin improvement. Test results also indicated that steam injection not only damps out prestall waves, but also changes prestall modes and traveling direction. …”
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Statistical expertise in the Ecuadorian public administration: Emergence and legitimation mechanisms by Byron Villacís

“…The present text asks about the role of internal and external factors as well as that of sociopolitical causes, in bringing about the development of statistics as a discipline in this country. …”
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Tripolarizated MIMO: Experimental Analysis and Modeling of Channel Properties in Both Indoor and Outdoor Scenarios by Pan Tang, Jianhua Zhang, Zuolong Ying, Yuxiang Zhang, Lei Tian, Zihang Qi, Xiuping Li

“…For both the indoor and the outdoor scenarios, it is found that colocated tripolarized antenna can bring a nearly threefold CG with respect to the unipolarized one. …”
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An integrated evaluation framework – smartness, well-being, e-maturity – for participatory evaluation of learning ecosystems: first application to two Italian high schools by Carlo Giovannella

“… In this contribution, after a brief analysis of the critical issues associated with learning ecosystem evaluation frameworks, a participatory evaluation approach is proposed that aims to: (a) be people-centered and bring out the perceptions of all categories involved in educational processes – with particular reference to students, teachers and parents; this is in order to mitigate the objectivity bias associated with self-evaluations conducted by internal evaluation teams by means of top-down evaluation models; b) base the evaluation on an integrable set of multidimensional constructs such as smartness – capable of capturing both the “external” well-being associated with the quality of the context and the well-being perceived at an individual level – and e-maturity, i.e. the digital maturity of the context that defines its positioning (vision, plans and actions) with respect to the potential and opportunities offered by the digital transition; c) provide reference values with the intention of making evaluations of educational ecosystems both synchronically and diachronically comparable, as well as allowing for the elaboration of an adequate base of knowledge to facilitate the elaboration of improvement plans and to support evidence-based decision-making. …”
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The ILO Convention No. 190 concerning the elimination of violence and harassment at work: Reasons for ratification by Dragićević Marija, Obradović Goran

“…Focusing on the existing level of legal protection of employees and other workers against violence and harassment at work in the Republic of Serbia, the authors assess whether such an act is necessary for our country, and if so, what kind of novelties and improvements it would bring to our legal system and the protection of workers when compared to the current situation.…”
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MANAGEMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIAN REGIONS ON THE BASIS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP by F. Ibyatov

“…The decision of the regional authorities on the implementation of public-private partnership should be based on determining the benefits, which this approach will bring to the public: lower costs, high level of service or reduced risk. …”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…Of interest in the tectonic of theatricality is the work’s capacity to bring forth the division between intellectual and physical labours, and this in reference to architecture’s reserved acceptance of technification for which the aforementioned division is vital. …”
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The presentation of the user in reports of information behaviour research by Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, Jennifer L. Pecoskie, Christopher M. Dixon

“…</b> Researchers must bring greater consciousness to the conduct and reporting of their research. …”
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Parallel Evolutionary Peer-to-Peer Networking in Realistic Environments by Kei Ohnishi

“…The strategy first judges if evolutionary adaptation of the network topologies is likely to occur in the present environment, and if it judges so, it actually tries to achieve evolutionary adaptation of the network topologies. Otherwise, it brings random change to the network topologies. The simulation results indicate that P-EP2P with the proposed strategy can better adapt the network topologies to the realistic environments. …”
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