“There’s always somebody that you can identify with”: a qualitative study of patient perspectives on buprenorphine group medical visits by Mariya Masyukova, Benjamin T. Hayes, Teresa López-Castro, Aaron D. Fox

“…Group medical visits, which combine psychosocial support and chronic condition management, have been described for BUP treatment, but few studies have explored what is gained and/or lost by offering BUP treatment in groups instead of individual visits. Methods Five focus groups with 3–11 participants each were conducted at an urban community health center that housed a mature office-based BUP treatment program. …”
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Une reconstruction progressiste du passé : Renaissance et Risorgimento dans « Old Pictures in Florence » de Robert Browning by François Crampe

“…This dimension of Browning’s work echoes a reflection on the role of the past in politics, which he opened in Sordello (1840) : instead of looking for a Golden Age in contrast to which the present could be criticised, he adopted the viewpoint of the past itself, which allowed him to reconsider the contemporary situation in the perspective of a longer evolution, symmetrically opposed to such reactionary nostalgia. …”
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Changes on soil structural stability after in natura and composted chicken manure application by Thadeu Rodrigues De Melo, Alex Figueiredo, Wesley Machado, João Tavares Filho

“…In Brazil, the commercialization of this waste is common, implying on its sporadic use instead of many applications at the same area. The short-term effects of a single application of chicken manure and the role of its composting on soil structural stability are not fully understood. …”
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Sliding Mode Real-Time Control of Photovoltaic Systems Using Neural Estimators by J. A. Ramos-Hernanz, O. Barambones, J. M. Lopez-Guede, I. Zamora, P. Eguia, M. Farhat

“…It is based on a sliding mode controller (SMC) that takes a current signal as reference instead of a voltage, which is generated by a neuronal reference current generator. …”
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An Open Letter on Advancing HIV prevention: Augmenting an ecosystem-based approach to understand prevention decision-making [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Rosemary Pierce-Messick, Nishan Gantayat, James Baer, Alok Gangaramany

“…We argue that approaching HIV prevention solely through the lens of these levels creates a static view of prevention decision-making. There is a need instead for a dynamic viewpoint that can mirror the changing contexts in which users find themselves and make prevention decisions. …”
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Performance of the Cold-Bending Channel-Angle Buckling-Restrained Brace under Cyclic Loading by Kun Wang, Junwu Xia, Xiaomiao Chen, Bo Xu, Xiangzhou Liang, Jian Wang

“…The initial elastic stiffness of the brace used in practice should contain overall portions of the brace instead of the yielding portion of the brace. Finally, all the tested CCA-BRBs exhibited a stable energy absorption performance and verified the specimens’ construction was rational.…”
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Modeling and Mapping of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock Using Sentinel-2 Imagery in Chure Region, Nepal by Ananta Poudel, Him Lal Shrestha, Niraj Mahat, Garima Sharma, Sahara Aryal, Rupesh Kalakheti, Basanta Lamsal

“…This paper presents the modeling and mapping approach and shows how medium-resolution Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI) data can be used instead of hyperspectral data in inaccessible areas of the Chure region. …”
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Postoperative Complications Leading to Death after Coagulum Pyelolithotomy in a Tetraplegic Patient: Can We Prevent Prolonged Ileus, Recurrent Intestinal Obstruction due to Adhesio... by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul Soni, Gurpreet Singh, Peter Hughes

“…Risk of postoperative complications could have been reduced if minimally invasive surgery had been performed instead of open surgery to remove stones from left kidney. …”
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ON THE ISSUE OF RATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TEXTILE AND KNITWEAR ENTERPRISES HEAT AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM by V. N. Romaniuk, D. B. Muslina

“…It is proverbial that accomplished in terms of energy thermo-technological enterprises should not consume the electric energy produced in condensation electric power plants. Instead, for their production needs, they should use thermal energy and electricity generated in the CHP. …”
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Р. DESCARTES: PRINCIPLES OF RATIONALISTIC METHOD AND MORALITY (TO THE QUESTION ON THE METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL WORK) by Оксана ОСЕТРОВА

“…In addition, the paper focuses on those obstacles that, by obscuring the common sense of an individual, lead to the non-obviousness of the ocular, which results in the establishment and further adherence to a false conclusion instead of the true one, which will be facilitated by the use of the psychoanalytic method of research. …”
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Evaluation Method of the Vertical Well Hydraulic Fracturing Effect Based on Production Data by Debin Xia, Zhengming Yang, Daolun Li, Yapu Zhang, Ying He, Yutian Luo, Anshun Zhang, Wenming Wang, Xinli Zhao

“…The results suggest that the conventional fracturing can only form a single fracture instead of a stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) region. …”
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Influence of Rectal Decompression on Abdominal Symptoms and Anorectal Physiology following Colonoscopy in Healthy Adults by Chih-Hsun Yi, Tso-Tsai Liu, Wei-Yi Lei, Jui-Sheng Hung, Chien-Lin Chen

“…Our study indicates that the mechanisms that improved abdominal symptoms by rectal decompression might be mediated by a central pathway instead of a peripheral mechanism.…”
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Brain mapping, biomarker identification and using machine learning method for diagnosis of anxiety during emotional face in preschool children by Samira Jafari, Hamid Sharini, Aliakbar Foroughi, Afshin Almasi

“…It is possible to use the FC between LAH- right medial amygdala (RMA) and the FC between left medial amygdala (LMA)-RMA, LMA-RLA, LMA-RAH, and left lateral amygdala (LLA)-RLA instead of IQ in angry and fearful conditions, respectively. …”
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The Identical External Reference Point Standardized to the Zero-Reference Level for Measuring Both Central and Jugular Venous Pressures: An Observational Study by Niraj Karmacharya, Madhur Dev Bhattarai, Amita Pradhan

“…Their further study in similar higher reclining positions from identical ERPs, such as MTP, MAL, and SA with the addition of higher numbers instead of 5 cm, is warranted standardizing other measurements to that from MTP.…”
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Analysis of Aroma Quality of Pearl Orchid at Different Flowering Stages and Its Scented Tea by HUANG Cuixin, KUN Jirui, LIN Yunzhi, DAI Hongwei, WENG Tianjun, LI Zhengwen, TONG Huarong

“…The withering flowers had a flowery aroma with spoilage odor and the buds had no flowery aroma, but instead had a green odor, so neither of them could be used to scent tea. …”
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The Serum Biomarkers in Ulcerative Colitis by Semih SEZER, Selim DEMIRCI, Melisa Irem KARA, Murat KORKMAZ

“…Objective: In this study, the aim was to evaluate the diagnostic effectiveness of more easily applicable and cost-effective serum biomarkers, such as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), C-reactive protein (CRP) to albumin ratio (CAR), and CRP-to-lymphocyte ratio (CLR), instead of the endoscopic activity index (EAI) used to determine disease activation in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients. …”
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The influences of environmental awareness on green performance by M.H. Mansour

“…The study does not examine environmental performance and behavior in general but instead evaluates pro-environmental behaviors in depth by considering green behaviour.…”
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Representing unsegmented vessels using available vascular data for bioheat transfer simulation by Rohan Amare, Amir A. Bahadori, Amir A. Bahadori, Steven Eckels, Steven Eckels

“…Two methods are proposed and demonstrated to show considerable error reduction in bioheat transfer.DiscussionVery high image resolution, which could allow modeling of pre-capillary vessels, increases the computational cost of the entire simulation domain. Instead, a mathematical representation of the pressure drop induced in these unsegmented blood vessels is used. …”
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Design of retrofit flue gas (CO2) scrubber for dependable clean energy at the Duvha Coal Power Plant by Hlamalani Innocent Baloyi, Leonard U. Okonye, Jianwei Ren

“…The application of the suggested scrubber design and the LTSG's contributions will allow the coal power station to operate with minimal GHG emissions released into the atmosphere. Instead of shutting down coal power facilities, this cleaning system that completely absorbs CO2 emissions can be used to maintain a robust power infrastructure, rather than being phased out. …”
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Suppressing Jahn-Teller distortion of MnO2 via B-Ni dual single-atoms integration for methane catalytic combustion by Huayu Gu, Fanyu Wang, Sai Chen, Jintong Lan, Jun Wang, Chunlei Pei, Xiao Liu, Jinlong Gong

“…Meanwhile, Ni atoms facilitate electron transfer to achieve the heightened activity of MnO2. The B-Ni dual-sites instead of Mn (IV) could accommodate excess electrons generated during the reaction to inhibit the formation of high spin Mn (III) species, thereby hindering the Jahn-Teller distortion and maintaining the catalyst stability. …”
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