Developing and testing the feasibility of a theory-based brief counseling intervention to promote physical activity in breast cancer survivors enrolled in the PAC-WOMAN trial by Sofia Franco, Eliana V. Carraça, Inês Nobre, Bruno Rodrigues, Vítor Ilharco, Lea Kahlert, Marlene N. Silva

“…The PAC-WOMAN trial is a three-arm randomized controlled trial aimed at promoting short- and long-term PA and improving the quality of life of breast cancer survivors. …”
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The Contribution of Micro Finance Institutions on the Growth of Small and Medium Business : A Case Study of North Kigezi Diocese Sacco In Rukungiri Municipality. by Ainembabazi, Wensi

“…In addition, that lack of collateral security, high-interest rates, lack of debt and equity funds, high level of illiteracy, lack of specialized skills by clients and short loan period repayment period are the challenges faced by small scale enterprise owners in accessing the credit services from the North Kigezi SACCO. …”
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Assessing the Suitability of Snail-Shell Powder as a Partial Replacement of Cement in Concrete Production. by Mukundane, Ivan

“…Snail shells obtained from the lake shores of Albert in Uganda were washed and cleaned thoroughly with clean water. …”
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Machiavelli’nin Makyavelizm’i Sorunu: Machiavelli Düşüncesinde Yöntem, İnsan Doğası ve Şiddet by Fırat Mollaer

“…Böylece 20. yüzyılın en önemli Machiavelli yorumcularından biri olan İtalyan filozof Benedetto Croce'nin sözleri Machiavelli çalışmalarında yol gösterici bir ilke olarak hizmet edecektir: “Hiçbir zaman çözülemeyecek bir soru: Machiavelli sorunu.”…”
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A comparison between male judo-kas and karate-kaswithin body composition and physical fitness by Satpal Yadav

“…Selected body composition such as Standing Height, Weight, HumerusBiepicondylar, Wrist Diameter, Femur Biepicondylar, Ankle Diameter, Upper arm Circumference, Forearm Circumference, Thigh Circumference, Calf Circumference, Bicep Skinfold, Forearm Skinfold, Suprailiac Skinfold, Subscapular Skinfold, Thigh Skinfold, Calf Skinfold  and Physical fitness variables such as 50 meter Dash, Shuttle Run, Shot Put, 600 yards Run or Walk and Bend and Reach Test were presented to compare the male Judokas and Karatekas from three different weight categories namely light weight, middle weight and heavy weight. …”
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Abstractive Summarization of Historical Documents: A New Dataset and Novel Method Using a Domain-Specific Pretrained Model by Keerthana Murugaraj, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer

“…Experimental results on our constructed dataset demonstrate that our HistBERTSum-Abs method outperforms recent state-of-the-art deep learning-based methods and achieves results comparable to state-of-the-art LLMs in zero-shot settings in terms of ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-L F1 scores. …”
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Lise öğrencilerinin gözünden iyi bir tarih öğretmeni by Ayşe Beştepe, Fatih Yazıcı

“…Araştırma verileri, araştırmacılar tarafından geliştirilen açık uçlu soru formu ile toplanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler ise içerik analizine tabi tutulmuştur. …”
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No Difference between Spinal Anesthesia with Hyperbaric Ropivacaine and Intravenous Dexmedetomidine Sedation with and without Intrathecal Fentanyl: A Randomized Noninferiority Tria... by Seung Cheol Lee, Tae Hyung Kim, So Ron Choi, Sang Yoong Park

“…To enhance the duration of single-shot spinal anesthesia, intrathecal fentanyl and intravenous dexmedetomidine are widely used as adjuvants to local anesthetics. …”
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Sınıf İçindeki Çokkültürlülüğün Yönetimine İlişkin Öğretmen Görüşleri by Pelin Taşkın, Funda Nayır

“…Elde edilen bulgular incelendiğinde öğretmenlerin soru yanıt yöntemi, görsel öğretim aracı, akıllı tahta kullanma, önemli bölümleri not aldırma, okuma etkinlikleri yaptırma gibi öğrenmeye yönelik genel etkinlikleri kullanarak sınıf içindeki çokkültürlülüğü yönettikleri görülmüştür. …”
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Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinde Cinsel Sağlık Tanılamasına İlişkin Akran Eğitiminin Cinsel Sağlık Konusundaki Tutumlarına Etkisi by Fidan Afşin, Yeliz Çulha

“…Veriler, Yapılandırılmış Soru Formu ve Öğrencilerin Cinsel Sağlık Konusundaki Tutumları Ölçeği kullanılarak toplandı. …”
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Multi-Level Feature Dynamic Fusion Neural Radiance Fields for Audio-Driven Talking Head Generation by Wenchao Song, Qiong Liu, Yanchao Liu, Pengzhou Zhang, Juan Cao

“…Out of these approaches, the NeRF-based method can generate videos featuring a specific person with more natural motion compared to the one-shot methods. However, previous approaches failed to distinguish the importance of different regions, resulting in the loss of information-rich region features. …”
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Direct Photocoagulation Guided by Merged Retinal Images for the Treatment of Focal Diabetic Macular Edema by Yoshihiro Takamura, Takehiro Matsumura, Shogo Arimura, Makoto Gozawa, Masakazu Morioka, YutakaYamada, Masaru Inatani

“…MIG-PC contributed to the improvement in BCVA and reduction in RT, number of laser shots required, and retreatment rates. Based on our data, MIG-PC can be recommended for the treatment of focal DME. …”
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Modelling and Production of Injection Moulded Polyvinylchloride--Sawdust Composite by C.O. Aliyegbenoma, J.A. Apkobi, D.D. Olodu

“…The two screw plunger injection moulding machine with maximum clamping force of 120 tons and shot capacity of 3.0oz was used to produce Polyvinylchloride-Sawdust (PVC-Sawdust) composite at various temperature. …”
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Primary metabolomics and transcriptomic techniques were used to explore the regulatory mechanisms that may influence the flavor characteristics of fresh Corylus heterophylla × Cory... by Minmin Lu, Tiantian Xie, Yaru Wang, Jieyan Yang, Yan Bai, Shuang Gao, Xiaofan Wu, Xiuqing Yang

“…The genes LOX2S-2, LOX2S-3, LOX2S-4 and LCAT3 were viewed as involved in the regulation of lipid biosynthesis, specifically involving 13(S)-HPODE, 9,10,13-trihome and 13(S)-HOTrE in C. heterophylla × C. avellana. These findings highlight the significance of genes and metabolites and internal regulatory mechanisms in shaping the flavor of fresh C. heterophylla × C. avellana cultivated in temperate continents. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 vaccinations in India: a state-wise analysis by Abhigayan Adhikary, Manoranjan Pal, Raju Maiti

“…The modified model considers the cumulative proportion of individuals having the first COVID-19 vaccine shot in each state as the explanatory variable. Results By incorporating the impact of vaccination in the Generalized Gompertz Curves, it is seen that the visible impact of the first dose of the vaccination is observed after a lag of 20 days with 16 out of the 21 states showing the impact of vaccines in curbing the spread of COVID-19. …”
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An effective video captioning based on language description using a novel Graylag Deep Kookaburra Reinforcement Learning by M. Gowri Shankar, D. Surendran

“…First, object detection is performed using the single-shot multi-box detector with generalized intersection over union for accurate object tracking and similarity calculation. …”
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Salvage radiofrequency ablation followed by external beam radiotherapy for inoperable recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer by Chung-Shih Chen, Sheng-Dean Luo, Yen-Hsiang Chang, Chen Kai Chou, Shun-Yu Chi, Shao-Chun Wu, Yen-Hao Chen, Johnson Chia-Shen Yang, Eng-Yen Huang, Yu-Ming Wang, Wei-Che Lin

“…RFA was performed using a free‐hand, ‘moving‐shot’ technique under US or CT guidance. For lesions invading critical structures intolerant to ‘en bloc’ high-temperature RFA, limited-field EBRT using 6‐ or 10‐MV photons was used for adjuvant treatment at a dose of 66 Gy in 33 daily fractions. …”
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Perturbative Stability and Error-Correction Thresholds of Quantum Codes by Yaodong Li, Nicholas O’Dea, Vedika Khemani

“…We connect the two notions of stability by constructing classical statistical mechanics models for decoding general Calderbank-Shor-Steane codes and classical linear codes. Our construction encodes correction success probabilities under uncorrelated bit-flip and phase-flip errors, and simultaneously describes a generalized Z_{2} lattice-gauge theory with quenched disorder. …”
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Hemşire ve Ebelerin Hizmet İçi Eğitim Uygulamalarına Yönelik Görüş ve Beklentilerinin Belirlenmesi by Gülser Şerbetçi, Cemile Savcı, Hacer Özel

“…Araştırma verileri 17 sorudan oluşan “YapılandırılmışSoru Formu” kullanılarak toplandı. Veriler tanımlayıcı istatistiksel yöntemlerle analiz edildi. …”
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Rats and mice rapidly update timed behaviors by N. Aggadi, S. Krikawa, T. A. Paine, P. Simen, C. D. Howard

“…Many theoretical models of how the brain times behavior make predictions for steady-state performance of well-learned intervals, but the rate of learning intervals in these models varies greatly, ranging from one-shot learning to learning over thousands of trials. …”
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