Geotechnical Characterization of Soils for Road Construction Along Textile Mill Road, Benin City, Nigeria by David Idiata, Ngozi Kayode-Ojo, Solomon Okonofua

“…This paper presents a geotechnical characterization of soil samples to evaluate their suitability for road construction. …”
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Flora of Ceará, Brazil: Meliaceae by Maria Eduarda Sousa Barros, Luana Mateus de Sousa, Francisco Diego Sousa Santos, Maria Iracema Bezerra Loiola

“…Abstract We present here the floristic diversity and distribution of Meliaceae species in the state of Ceará, Brazil, as part of the project “Flora of Ceará: from Knowledge to Conservation”. …”
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APPLICATION OF ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES IN CALCULATING A VALUE OF LAND UNDER A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING TO INCREASE THE RELIABILITY OF THE CADASTRE ASSESSMENT by S. Zenchenko, Y. Radyukova, V. Sutyagin

“…Changes in the 2014 Tax Code expanded the operation of the cadastral appraisal institute and shifted attention from land appraisal to capital construction projects. But this also gave rise to a new wave of questions about the reliability of the cadastral assessment. …”
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Teachers' views about barriers in implement oral health education for school children: a qualitative study by Fabíola Mayumi Miyauchi Kubo, Janice Simpson de Paula, Fábio Luiz Mialhe

“…Material and methods: A semi-structured questionnaire was answered by a sample of 89 primary schoolteachers aged 18 to 65 years working in primary public schools in Indaiatuba, SP, Brazil. …”
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It Takes Two to Be Equal? Middle-Class Men Managing Care and Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland by Ewelina Ciaputa, Marta Warat, Ewa Krzaklewska

“…We identified three types of fathers in our sample: task-oriented fathers, supportive fathers, and engaged fathers.…”
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Relation between age of menarche and gestational weight gain: a cross-sectional study in Brazil by Dayse Ramos Cassiano, Susana Bubach, Andréia Soprani dos Santos, Wanêssa Lacerda Poton

“…Methods: cross-sectional study, with 2609 women from “Projeto VIVER: desfechos em saúde nos períodos perinatal e neonatal” (VIVER Project: “Health outcomes in the perinatal and neonatal periods). …”
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Bayesian Optimization for Instruction Generation by Antonio Sabbatella, Francesco Archetti, Andrea Ponti, Ilaria Giordani, Antonio Candelieri

“…Over the last decade, BO has emerged as a highly effective optimization method in various domains due to its flexibility and sample efficiency. At its core, BOInG employs Bayesian search in a low-dimensional continuous space, projecting solutions into a high-dimensional token embedding space to retrieve discrete tokens. …”
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Transformations of Housing in the M'Zab Valley: Contemporary Urban Challenges and Threats to Identity by Snoussi Mohamed islam, Najem Dhaher

“…A chronological analysis of architectural samples makes it possible to trace the elements that have been abandoned, reproduced, or transformed over time, while questioning how these developments reflect Saharan identity and impact the built heritage. …”
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Recovery of Stainless Steel from End-of-Use Dishwashers by Eirini Evangelou, Georgios N. Anastassakis, Spyridon-Dionysios Karamoutsos, Athanasios Stergiou

“…Large quantities of stainless steel can be recovered from dishwashers. In this research project, the preparation of the samples includes the separation of their components, according to the following successive procedure: the dishwashers are processed through a magnetic separator to hold the magnetic ferrous pieces, an eddy current separator to separate the non-ferrous metals and an induction sorting sensor to detect and separate the remaining metallic fractions. …”
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Organisational justice: Moderating turnover intention and citizenship behaviour in Eastern Cape nurses by Thobela G. Majali, Nosiphiwo I. Gcaza, Xolile Gcaza

“…Research approach/design and method: A sample of 298 nurses in various hospitals, utilising quantitative cross-sectional research. …”
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Impacts of travel duration on urban-rural resident free vaccination behavior: Chinese COVID-19 vaccine booster dose evidence by Yudong Miao, Jingbao Zhang, Zhanlei Shen, Yi Li, Wanliang Zhang, Junwen Bai, Dongfang Zhu, Ruizhe Ren, Dan Guo, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Wenyong Dong, Qiuping Zhao, Jianping Hu, Miaojun Li, Rongmei Liu

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Binge drinking triggers VGLUT3-mediated glutamate secretion and subsequent hepatic inflammation by activating mGluR5/NOX2 in Kupffer cells by Keungmo Yang, Kyurae Kim, Tom Ryu, Young-Ri Shim, Hee-Hoon Kim, Sung Eun Choi, Min Jeong Kim, Katherine Po Sin Chung, Eunmi Lee, Kwang Woo Lee, Jehwi Jeon, Pilhan Kim, Young Seo Kim, Taeyun Ku, Haengdueng Jeong, Ki Taek Nam, Gyumin Lim, Dong Wook Choi, Seok-Hwan Kim, Hyuk Soo Eun, Won Kim, Won-Il Jeong

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The influence of population on the economic efficiency of the metropolitan governance by Yuriy V. Pavlov

“…The rest of the metropolitan areas of the sample do not need reforms.…”
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Prevalence of diabetes in the adult population of Novosibirsk by Svetlana V. Mustafina, Oksana D. Rymar, Sofiya K. Malyutina, Diana V. Denisova, Liliya V. Shcherbakova, Mihail I. Voevoda

“…We examined a representative population sample (assessed in 2003–2005) of men and women aged 45–69 years in two administrative districts of Novosibirsk, as a part of the international HAPIEE project. …”
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Basel Long COVID Cohort Study (BALCoS): protocol of a prospective cohort study by Andrea Meienberg, Michael Mayr, Rainer Schaefert, Gunther Meinlschmidt, Stefan Rohner, Rebekka Schnepper, Katrin Bopp

“…The study is exploratory in nature, with a target sample size of 120 participants. BALCoS is part of the Horizon Europe Long COVID project, a multinational interdisciplinary research consortium integrating mechanistic, clinical and interventional studies.Ethics and dissemination The study was approved by the Ethics Commission of Northwest and Central Switzerland (BASEC-ID: 2023–00359) and is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT05781893). …”
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Evaluation of levels of exposure of adult patients from common radiographic examinations in the Russian Federation in 2009–2014 by A. V. Vodovatov, V. Yu. Golikov, S. A. Kalnitsky, I. G. Shatsky, L. A. Chipiga

“…No significant differences between the distributions of TED for analogue and digital X-ray units were observed for the pooled sample for selected examinations except for the examination of the chest in posterior-anterior projection. …”
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Validating the German version of the entrapment scale among suicidal psychiatric inpatients by Emmy Wichelhaus, Dajana Schreiber, Laura Paashaus, Antje Schönfelder, Georg Juckel, Heide Glaesmer, Tobias Teismann, Thomas Forkmann

“…So far, the German version of the Entrapment Scale has been psychometrically examined only once and exclusively in a non-clinical sample. In the present study we therefore examined whether the German version of the Entrapment Scale (ES-d) is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring entrapment in a clinical sample. …”
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Effectiveness of an mHealth Program on Reducing Blood Pressure Among Young Adults With Prehypertension: Protocol of a Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial by Melita Sheilini, H Manjunatha Hande, Nagaraja Ravishankar, Akshay M J, Jyothi Nayak, Ramesh Chandrababu

“…The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials of Nonpharmacologic Interventions) 2017 guideline was followed for reporting the protocol. The estimated sample size for phase 1 was 762 participants, and the sample size for the phase 2 was 85 participants per group. …”
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Antibiotics resistance in El Tor Vibrio cholerae 01 isolated during cholera outbreaks in Mozambique from 2012 to 2015. by Liliana Candida Dengo-Baloi, Cynthia Amino Semá-Baltazar, Lena Vania Manhique, Jucunu Elias Chitio, Dorteia Luísa Inguane, José Paulo Langa

“…Antibiotic susceptibility and results were interpreted by following as per recommendations of CLSI (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute) 2014. All samples were collected and tested in the context of Africhol Project, approved by the National Bioethics Committee for Health.…”
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Exploring the assessment scale for small watersheds in the Han river basin using an integrated ecosystem health index by Chengrong Peng, Junyan Wu, Yong Gao, Yongde Cui, Haoyan Sun, Yintao Jia, Xiong Xiong, Zhengfei Li, Wei Yin

“…The Han River is a crucial water source for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project; however, it also faces a range of ecological and environmental challenges. …”
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