Awareness of glottal settings for the production of /h/-initial and vowel-initial words in French learners of L2 English by Christelle Exare

“…This phonetic study assesses the short-term efficiency of ecological training in glottal awareness for the reading of /h/-initial and vowel-initial words by French learners of L2 English. …”
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Rainfall-Groundwater Table Fluctuations Impact on Root Zone Soil Water Simulated in Upflow for Crop Production Planning in Obio Akpa Watershed, Nigeria by Ikpe Udom, Samuel Nta, Godwin Usoh, Matthew Kamai, Boniface Ugwuishiwu

“…UPFLOW simulations of the annual soil water regime showed the months of September, October and November as high GT months suitable for planting and harvesting of only shallow rooted, short maturity crops. This knowledge will guide effective water resources and crop management in the watershed. …”
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The Impact of Smoking on Clinical Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Women Compared to Men by Seyyed Saeed Mohammadi, Mohammad Javad Zibaeenezhad, Mehrab Sayadi, Soorena Khorshidi, Ehsan Hadiyan, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi

“…Participants were followed up seeking for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) including revascularization (PCI or coronary artery bypass grafting), myocardial infarction, and coronary death in three time intervals according to the time of index PCI (short term: up to 24 hours, mid-term: 24 hours to less than 6 months, and long term: more than 6 months). …”
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Impact of Post-Thaw Incubation Time of Frozen Embryos on Clinical Pregnancy Rate by G. Geovin Ranji, Kundavi Shankar, Yamini Asokan, Geetha Veerasigamani, Rashmi Gingade Vittal, Nithya M. Naaram, KR Hema Niveda

“…Results: The CPR of Group 4 was 42.4% which was more than that of the other groups but it did not reach statistical significance. Conclusions: Short incubation time of 2–4 h is as effective as an extended incubation time in terms of CPRs of FET cycles.…”
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Levels of burnout and its association with resilience and coping mechanisms among orthopaedic surgery residents: a single institution experience from Singapore by Sean WL Ho, Ernest BK Kwek

“…Burnout was measured using Maslach Burnout Inventory and resilience was determined using the Short Grit Scale. Coping mechanisms were determined using the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced scale. …”
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Volt/VAr Regulation of the West Mediterranean Regional Electrical Grids Using SVC/STATCOM Devices With Neural Network Algorithms by H. Feza Carlak, Ergin Kayar

“…In the realistic model, voltage and reactive power regulation is achieved by using SVC and STATCOM devices to ensure voltage stability. A load flow and short circuit analysis is performed on the designed transmission system for a number of critical scenarios. …”
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Motivational interviewing intervention for the management of hypertension: a meta-analysis by Ju Xu, Xiaoyan Gu, Jiaying Gu, Lijuan Zhao, Mianxian Li, Cheng Hong

“…No significant publication bias across the synthesized outcomes were found by Egger regression analyses (all P > 0.05).ConclusionsMotivational interviewing has been shown to effectively reduce blood pressure in the short term among individuals with hypertension, while simultaneously enhancing their self-efficacy, quality of life, and adherence to medication regimens.…”
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Directions of Civil Service Institutional Transformation by G. A. Borshevskiy

“…Then we consider the risks of each alternative in the short, medium and long term, and how to overcome them. …”
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THE MODEL OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF UKRAINE IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD: THE STRATEGY OF THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE by Ivan Klopov, Julia Ohrenych

“…Support from the international community and financial assistance will help stabilise the economy in the short term, while long-term structural reforms and industrial modernisation will increase competitiveness and ensure integration into European markets. …”
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IMViT: Adjacency Matrix-Based Lightweight Plain Vision Transformer by Qihao Chen, Yunfeng Yan, Xianbo Wang, Jishen Peng

“…This paper proposes a non-hierarchical transformer network which can capture both long-range and short-range as non-hierarchical transformers, and keep its performance on small-sized transformers. …”
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The effect of feeding methods and non-nutritive sucking habits on early childhood caries and development of occlusion (A cross-sectional study) by Huda R. Awsi, Bayan A. Hassan

“…Parents (mothers ) were asked for a permission to include their children in the study. A short interview with the mothers of the children preceded the dental examination. …”
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Changes in perinatal mental healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: a protocol for a collaborative research study between the COST actions RISEUP-PPD and DEVOTION by Emma Motrico, Sandra Nakić Radoš, Ana M Mesquita, Ana Ganho-Avila, Eleni Vousoura, Joan Lalor

“…It consists of open-ended questions, checklists and ratings on a 7-point scale addressing seven domains of interest in terms of PMH: (1) policies, guidelines and protocols; (2) PMH care practices at a national level; (3) evidence of best practice; (4) barriers to usual care; (5) resources invested; (6) benefits of investment in the policies and (7) short-term and long-term expectations of the policies. …”
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Computational measurement and task scheduling: a study on IoT edge device strategies by ZHU Shuqiong, XU Qingqing, LI Xiaotao, CHEN Wei

“…However, the current models for computing resource measurement, predominantly focused on computational capacity, fall short in addressing the diverse and collaborative needs of various IoT devices. …”
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The effect of site exposure index on the required capacities of aquaculture structures by Tobias Dewhurst, Samuel Rickerich, Michael MacNicoll, Nathaniel Baker, Zachary Moscicki

“…We then evaluated the performance of significant wave height, depth, distance to shore, and the proposed exposure indices as linear predictors of the normalized required capacities. …”
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Feasibility and acceptability of multiple methods of recording injecting drug use episode data among people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia: a pilot evaluation study proto... by Alexis Roth, Peter Higgs, Paul Dietze, Nick Scott, Daniel O’Keefe, Filip Djordjevic, Ashleigh Cara Stewart, Dylan Vella-Horne, Zoe Gleeson, Damian Pavlyshyn, Matthew Gill, Rebekka Petrovic, Ben Cocchiaro

“…Over a 4-week study period, participants will be asked to complete baseline/endline spirometry, continuously wear a heart rate monitoring device, complete short-form ecological momentary assessment (EMA) questionnaires for every injecting episode during the study period and return previously used needles/syringes for drug residue testing. …”
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LSTM Recurrent Neural Network-Based Frequency Control Enhancement of the Power System with Electric Vehicles and Demand Management by G. Sundararajan, P. Sivakumar

“…This research work investigates a deep learning strategy based on a long short-term memory recurrent neural network to identify active power fluctuations in real-time. …”
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Deep learning solutions for inverse problems in advanced biomedical image analysis on disease detection by Amal Alshardan, Hany Mahgoub, Nuha Alruwais, Abdulbasit A. Darem, Wafa Sulaiman Almukadi, Abdullah Mohamed

“…Furthermore, a bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) model is deployed to identify diseases in medical images. …”
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TCN-Based DDoS Detection and Mitigation in 5G Healthcare-IoT: A Frequency Monitoring and Dynamic Threshold Approach by Mirza Akhi, Ciaran Eising, Lubna Luxmi Dhirani

“…This research evaluates the proposed model against prior methods, including Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), demonstrating improved accuracy. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of microRNA Methylation Profiles and Determination of Their Functional Significance in Colorectal Cancer: A Study Protocol by Nurul Syakima Ab Mutalib, Imilia Ismail, Muhammad Redha Abdullah Zawawi, Nadiah Abu, Siti Aishah Sulaiman, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Learn-Han Lee

“…In CRC, microRNAs, a type of short non-coding RNA, are found to be deregulated and can significantly influence its onset and progression. …”
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Spatiotemporal Evolution Characteristics of Fluid Flow through Large-Scale 3D Rock Mass Containing Filling Joints: An Experimental and Numerical Study by Qian Yin, Hongwen Jing, Tantan Zhu, Lizhou Wu, Haijian Su, Liyuan Yu

“…The water pressure contour planes distributed along the flowing path generally transfer from a “long funnel” shape to a “short funnel” shape before reaching a series of parallel pressure planes perpendicular to the joint direction. …”
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