Gender and Handedness Prediction from Offline Handwriting Using Convolutional Neural Networks by Ángel Morera, Ángel Sánchez, José Francisco Vélez, Ana Belén Moreno

“…Our research was carried out on two public handwriting databases: the IAM dataset containing English texts and the KHATT one with Arabic texts. The considered problems present a high intrinsic difficulty when extracting specific relevant features for discriminating the involved subclasses. …”
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Measurement of inferior colliculus volume based on MRI image stacks and its relationship with age and hearing status. by Pingling Kwok, Otto Gleich, Peter Koch, Gudrun Schenkl, Nina Koch, Christopher Bohr

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Performance evaluation of hydrophilic organic polymer sorbents for desiccant air-conditioning applications by Muhammad Sultan, Takahiko Miyazaki, Shigeru Koyama, Zahid M Khan

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Fearlessness and Resistance in the Gulag: Estonian Prison Camp Poetry by Rebekka Lotman

“…The focus of this article is on the emotional depth of these poems and how they encapsulate feelings of fear and fearlessness, despair and hope, anger and sorrow, vengefulness and loathing. The article demonstrates how not succumbing to fear became a survival strategy within a regime of terror for Estonian Gulag poets, and how poetry provided diverse avenues for exploring this approach. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…The assessment of the relation these New Biographers’ maintained with the previous centuries shows that their hostility towards the Victorian age was not an indiscriminate loathing of the past. On the contrary, as can be perceived in Woolf’s essay on the revolution in biography, she and her fellow modernist biographers intend to draw a bridge between the art of biography of their time and that of the eighteenth century. …”
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Computational and numerical solutions to the Benney–Luke equation: Insights into nonlinear long wave dynamics in dispersive media by Mostafa M.A. Khater

“…The novelty of this study lies in its application of the Khater (Khat III) and modified Kudryashov (MKud) methods to the Benney–Luke equation, alongside the integration of the TQBS numerical scheme for solution validation. …”
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An insight into the genome-wide analysis of bacterial defense mechanisms in a uropathogenic Morganella morganii isolate from Bangladesh. by Syed Muktadir Al Sium, Barna Goswami, Sanjana Fatema Chowdhury, Showti Raheel Naser, Mihir Kanti Sarkar, Md Jobaid Faruq, Md Ahashan Habib, Shahina Akter, Tanjina Akhtar Banu, Md Murshed Hasan Sarkar, Md Salim Khan

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Considerations in the search for epistasis by Marleen Balvert, Johnathan Cooper-Knock, Julian Stamp, Ross P. Byrne, Soufiane Mourragui, Juami van Gils, Stefania Benonisdottir, Johannes Schlüter, Kevin Kenna, Sanne Abeln, Alfredo Iacoangeli, Joséphine T. Daub, Brian L. Browning, Gizem Taş, Jiajing Hu, Yan Wang, Elham Alhathli, Calum Harvey, Luna Pianesi, Sara C. Schulte, Jorge González-Domínguez, Erik Garrisson, Lorentz workshop on epistasis, Michael P. Snyder, Alexander Schönhuth, Letitia M. F. Sng, Natalie A. Twine

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Leisure Boredom Scale: the Factor Structure and the Demographic Differences by Bulent Gurbuz, Erman Oncu, Feyza Kara

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Incremental Cost Analysis of Training of Trainers and Helpers in Problem Management Plus (PM+) Using an Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support (EQUIP) Competency-based Approach... by Gloria A. Pedersen, Niko C. Gautam, Kriti Pudasaini, Nagendra P. Luitel, Michael W. Long, Alison Schafer, Brandon A. Kohrt

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Assessment of Volatile Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil of Jatropha ribifolia (Pohl) Baill by HS-SPME-GC-MS Using Different Fibers by Celia Eliane de Lara da Silva, Willian Ferreira da Costa, Sandro Minguzzi, Rogério Cesar de Lara da Silva, Euclésio Simionatto

“…The identification of compounds was confirmed by retention index (Kovats index) obtained from a series of straight chain alkanes (C7–C30) and by comparison with NIST and ADAMS library. …”
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Urine amino acid and gamma aminobutyric acid level in COVID 19 patients by Cemal Kazezoglu, Arzu İrvem, Yasemin Tuba Sutasir, Büşra Çakiroglu, Banu Kirgiz, Habip Yilmaz, Ali Kocatas

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تطبیقات الهواتف الذکیة والخصوصیة المعلوماتیة : دراسة تحلیلیة مقارنة by د. حسام الدین محمد رفعت

“…In recent years there has been alegislative response at different levels for the sake of this protection, and thejudiciary has followed it with a remarkable response in favour of the jurisprudenceof the private life of individuals that is of paramount importance to both theindividual and the community.This coincided with the increasing vulnerability of the right to privacy tothe digital environment through e-mail and chat sites Networks or communicationsites, which have become a hoot of the modern era and a wide electronic space,in which we put all the references about us and our lives, as well as our privacy.The purpose of this study is to diagnose the reality of the work of Google Playapplications that work on the smart phone environment, especially with regard togathering information or allowing access to personal data and users’ information,by identifying the nature of data and information collected or allowed access to,monitoring the nature of the risks of using these applications.To do so, the researcher studied and analyzed licensing agreements forthe use of 80 applications of smart phones in areas commonly used in the digitalenvironment, such as social networking applications, Online banks Applications,antivirus applications, web search applications, news and press applications,educational applications, web applications, travel and tourism applications. …”
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Perspectives locales et globales pour la gestion des terres des régions montagneuses du Nord de l'Éthiopie by Jan Nyssen, Amaury Frankl, Jean Poesen, Amanuel Zenebe, Jozef Deckers

“…Currently there is an increase of exportations of flowers and vegetables, as well as a strong increase in the export of the mild narcotic khat, which requires large amounts of water for growing. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of Nonadherence to Diet and Physical Activity Recommendations among Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Southwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Getandale Zeleke Negera, Dariowani Charles Epiphanio

“…Predictors of nonadherence to diet are being male, khat chewing, lack of social support, and doctor’s instructions or advice regarding diet.…”
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Prevalence and associated factors of diabetes among adult populations of Hawassa town, southern Ethiopia: A community based cross-sectional study. by Getu Kassa Belete, Hlupheka Lawrence Sithole

“…This presents an opportunity to mitigate diabetes risk through public health measures, including avoiding khat chewing, promoting healthy diets, managing overweight and obesity, implementing community-based screening, enhancing health literacy, and integrating health information into daily life.…”
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Spatial variation and determinant factors of alcohol consumption in Ethiopia: Spatial and multilevel analysis of Ethiopian demographic and health survey. by Chala Daba, Sisay Abebe Debela, Kassahun Ayele Gasheya, Abel Endawkie, Mesfin Gebrehiwot

“…Having a cigarette smoking habit, chewing khat, high proportion of community literacy, and traditional religion were associated factors for alcohol consumption. …”
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Modeling and predicting of the spatial variations Precipitation cores in Iran by hossein naserzadeh, fariba sayadi, meysam toulabi nejad

“…The results of the triple scenario study showed that the displacement of the spring core from all north north of the country to the northwest of the country is limited to the common borders of Iran, Turkey and Armenia (the Maku and Jolfa region), but in summer, the high core The northern shores and parts of the northwest of the country will be transported to the south of the country (around Khash and Saravan). In the autumn, the high-lying zone, which is located throughout the northern part of the country, will move to two distinct nuclei in the central Zagros (Dena and Zadkouh areas) and southwest Khazars (Anzali and Astara areas), and the core of winter from the central Zagros And the Caspian region will be transferred to the northwest of Kurdistan and southwest of West Azarbaijan, which will be seen in all scenarios. …”
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Structural and free energy landscape analysis for the discovery of antiviral compounds targeting the cap-binding domain of influenza polymerase PB2 by Amr S. Abouzied, Saad Alqarni, Kareem M. Younes, Sanad M. Alanazi, Dana M. Alrsheed, Rawabi K. Alhathal, Bader Huwaimel, Akram M. Elkashlan

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Fractional exhaled nitric oxide in a respiratory healthy general population through the lifespan by Christina Bal, Caspar Schiffers, Marie-Kathrin Breyer, Sylvia Hartl, Alvar Agusti, Ahmad Karimi, Wolfgang Pohl, Marco Idzko, Robab Breyer-Kohansal

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