CPW-Fed Dual Band Flexible Antenna for Energy IoT Applications at 380/940 MHz by Soyeong Lee, Sangjoon do, Hoosung Lee, Daeyeong Yoon, Yong Bae Park

“…The antenna size is <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$210\times 236\times 0.2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm3, achieving bandwidths of 25.2% (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$344\sim 440$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MHz) and 15.2% (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$863\sim 1006$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MHz) when flat, with peak gains of 2.52 dBi and 4.90 dBi, respectively. …”
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CORPORATE ATTRIBUTES AND FIRMS’ DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INSIGHT INTO NIGERIAN LISTED COMPANIES by Sunday Azeita Okoughenu, Michael Adeyemi OLAYIWOLA, Olutunji OPADIJO

“… The financial reports that incorporate economic, social, environmental and governance information raised a global concern in the recent times due to its shortcomings weaknesses on the conventional financial reports. …”
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Faster model-based estimation of ancestry proportions by Santander, Cindy G., Refoyo Martinez, Alba, Meisner, Jonas

“…Likelihood-free approaches optimize a least square objective and have gained popularity in recent years due to their scalability. …”
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Prevalence of and Risk factors associated with hypertension: a community based- cross sectional study in Ndorwa West Health Sub District, Kabale district, southwestern Uganda. by Munezero,Tamu John Bosco, Mfitumukiza, Valence, Okafor, Christiana Nkiru, Mandera, Immaculate, Kabami, Jane, Arineitwe, Edward Bwengye, Namuyibwa, Lydia, Izo, Herbert, Baikaitwoha, Everd M., Okonkwo, Uchenna Prosper

“…BMI ≥ 25kg/m2 increased the likelihood of developing HT by 0.77 times. The prevalence of HT and pre-HT in this rapidly transitioning rural–urban population was high. …”
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Associations between Personal Exposure to Metals in Fine Particulate Matter and Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction among Healthy Adults by Yi-Hsueh Liao, Wei-Liang Chen, Chung-Ching Wang, Ching-Huang Lai

“…After adjusting for covariables, significant changes in Log10 standard deviation of normal to normal (SDNN) intervals and Log10 square root of the mean of the sum of the squares of differences (r-MSSDs) were related to unit changes in Log10 iron in PM2.5 (β = −0.033, 95% CI = −0.060 to -0.0056, p < 0.05 and β = −0.041, 95% CI = −0.075 to −0.0076, p < 0.05, respectively). …”
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The molecular dynamics study of the thermal behavior of argon flow in a nanochannel with changes in nanochannel cross-section by Reza Karimi, Ali Marzban, Davood Toghraie

“…This study investigated the influence of lateral walls in two- and three-dimensional systems, an external force, velocity field, density, temperature, flux, and thermal conductivity coefficient for a 10000-time increment using a hybrid Lennard-Jones potential function. …”
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Osteoarthritis of the knee joint and its association with metabolic syndrome: A case control study by Rohini Motwani, Arvind Kumar Bodla, Shravan Kumar Peddamadyam, Mrudula Chandrupatla, Nagesh Cherukuri, Maheshwar Lakkireddy, Gunvanti Rathod, Sai Ram Challa, Chowdavarapu Raghavendra Rao, Abhishek Arora, Srikanth Eppakayala, Arcot Reddy Vamsi Krishna

“…The odds of having MetS were 3.9 times higher in the cases compared to the controls. …”
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Risk Factors for Stress Fractures in Female Runners: Results of a Survey by Therese E Johnston, Allison E Jakavick, Caroline A Mancuso, Kathleen C McGee, Lily Wei, Morgan L Wright, Jeremy Close, Ayako Shimada, Benjamin E Leiby

“…The odds of having a stress fracture were 1.43 times higher for going ≥ 6 months without a menstrual period. …”
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Analysis of Total Suspended Solid at Merah Putih Beach, Bangkalan Regency by Dwi Putra Ardhana Satria, Dwi Siswanto Aries

“…The result of validation for the algorithm estimation obtained an RMSE 866,51 mg/l and R square 0,1076. The advanced empirical modelling tests reveal the Polynomial mathematical equation had a smaller RMSE and a larger R square of 82,34 mg/l and 0.4468. …”
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Building evidence for indoor tanning as a behavioral addiction: concerns, problems, and change perceptions are associated with addictive symptoms by Allison Leip, Carolyn J. Heckman, Jerod L. Stapleton

“…Methods We administered a cross-sectional online survey to women between 18 and 34 years old who reported frequent indoor tanning (at least 10 times) in the past 12 months. Participants completed the 7-item Behavioral Addiction Indoor Tanning Screener (BAITS). …”
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The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Female Patients Seeking or Undergoing Fertility Treatment in a Single In Vitro Fertilisation Clinic in Greece: An International,... by Konstantina Pappa, Emmanouil M. Xydias, Apostolos C. Ziogas, Kanelina Bimba, Elias Tsakos, Efstratios Kolibianakis

“…Collected data were cross-tabulated, and the Chi-square test was used as a measurement of the differences between national and cross-border patients. …”
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Bilinear control of evolution equations with unbounded lower order terms. Application to the Fokker–Planck equation by Alabau-Boussouira, Fatiha, Cannarsa, Piermarco, Urbani, Cristina

“…We study the exact controllability of the evolution equation \begin{equation*} u^{\prime }(t)+Au(t)+p(t)Bu(t)=0 \end{equation*} where $A$ is a nonnegative self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space $X$ and $B$ is an unbounded linear operator on $X$, which is dominated by the square root of $A$. The control action is bilinear and only of scalar-input form, meaning that the control is the scalar function $p$, which is assumed to depend only on time. …”
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Decision-Making Factors Among Dentists for Using Dental Magnifying Loupes: A Cross-Sectional Study by Alghilan MA, AlShehri A, Almeshrafi A, Alrumi A, Aldibasi O

“…Specialized dentists are 1.94-times more likely to use DMLs than general dentists (p < 0.001). …”
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Adherence to Viral Load Testing Guidelines, Barriers, and Associated Factors Among Persons Living with HIV on ART in Southwestern Uganda: a Mixed-Methods Study. by Lubega, Polly, Nalugya, Sylivia Juliet, Kimuli, Angella Namyalo, Twinokusiima, Majoreen, Khasalamwa, Mercy, Kyomugisa, Richard, Kabami, Jane, Owaraganise, Asiphas

“…Strategies that target young PLHIV and lower-level health facilities, increase the stock of consumables, and Shorten VL results turnaround time are needed to improve adherence to VL testing guidelines.…”
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MODELING AND SIMULATION OF A DUAL CHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POWER TRANSFORMER USING FXLMS ALGORITHM by ADETONA SUNDAY, SALAWU RAIFU, ALABI MORUF

“… Power transformers are known to generate noise, however, active noise emanating from power transformers many at time is unbearable and has been a subject of concern overtime in power engineering. …”
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Body mass index in relation to dental maturation of 10 to 14 years old school children in Erbil city. A cross-sectional prospective study by Omar Fawzi Chawshli, Yara Ismael Ameen

“…The height and the weight of each participant had been recorded in the college of dentistry / Hawler Medical University in order to calculate the body mass index of the following the guidelines of centers of disease control (CDC), at the same time an orthopantomography radiograph had been used to investigate the stage of the dental maturation using the Demirjian method, finally, the relationship between BMI and dental maturation were investigated using chi square test with P value of ≤ 0.05 was considered significant difference. …”
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Medium-term load forecasting with Power Market Survey: GEPCO case study by Sheeza Mariam Nawaz, Ubaid Ahmed, Adil Amin, Syed Afraz Hussain Shah, Anzar Mahmood

“…The PMS is trained with a bottom-up approach and its performance is validated through mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE), and confidence interval with 95% of probability. …”
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Association Between Fentanyl Use and Post-Intubation Mean Arterial Pressure During Rapid Sequence Intubation: Prospective Observational Study by Abdullah Bakhsh, Ahmad Bakhribah, Raghad Alshehri, Nada Alghazzawi, Jehan Alsubhi, Ebtesam Redwan, Yasmin Nour, Ahmed Nashar, Elmoiz Babekir, Mohamed Azzam

“…Average hemodynamic parameters were measured at the time of induction (prior to medication administration) and 10 minutes after induction. …”
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Manufacturing Export Performance: A Trend Analysis Approach by Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun, George Stanley, Kinyata

“…A graphical demonstration showing the trend of export performance in Nigeria over time was displayed. It also identifies the major determinants of manufacture exports in Nigeria using ordinary least square approach which shows that an increase in the average tariff rate would lead to a decline in the manufacturing exports and its statistically significant at the 5% level of significance. …”
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The effect of nursing care provided to coronary intensive care patients according to their circadian rhythms on sleep quality, pain, anxiety, and delirium: a randomised controlled... by Meryem Pelin, Havva Sert

“…Finally, the smartwatch data show no significant difference in sleep times between groups (p < 0.05), but the intervention group had more deep and total sleep, while the control group had less deep sleep. …”
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