Quality assessment of clinical guidelines in the care of laryngitis and pharyngitis according to AGREE II by Lucas Mateus Rodrigues Carvalho, Ana Paula de Oliveira Barbosa, Nara Amanda Laismann, Débora Santos Lula Barros, Rodrigo Fonseca Lima, Rafael Santos Santana

“…Considering the exclusion criteria, seven guidelines were selected for final evaluation by AGREE II. The squared weighted Kappa coefficient calculated after the first round of evaluation by AGREE II was 0.85, within an almost perfect agreement rate. …”
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MLPR: YOLOv3 for Real-Time License Plate Recognition in Moroccan Video Streams by Hatim Derrouz, Hamza Alami, Reda Rabie

“…Second, we track vehicles and assign a unique id to each detected vehicle. Finally, we detect and recognize the plates of tracked vehicles based on computer vision techniques and a voting system. …”
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Enhancing Idiomatic Competence through WhatsApp: A Comparative Study of Mobile and Traditional Teaching Methods by Riska Widiyanita Batubara, Amrin Batubara, Tri Yuli Ardiyansah

“…The treatment phase spanned six sessions, during which the experimental group used WhatsApp for instruction and practice while the control group engaged in in-class learning. In the final session, both groups took a post-test to measure their improvement in idiomatic competence. …”
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Educational approaches to teach students to address colonialism in global health: a scoping review by Anna Kalbarczyk, Holly Nishimura, Sylvie Perkins, Praise F Olatunde

“…Pairs of study team members conducted each step of the review, following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyse guidelines; any conflicts were resolved by a third reviewer.Results This search retrieved 1153 unique references; 28 articles were included in the final analysis. The articles centred North American students; their training, their evaluations of educational experiences, their individual awareness and their experiential learning. …”
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The commercial promotion of electronic cigarettes on social media and its influence on positive perceptions of vaping and vaping behaviours in Anglophone countries: A scoping revie... by L Chacon, G Mitchell, S Golder

“…From 1,385 studies, 11 articles were included in the final review, using diverse study designs, including focus groups, content analysis, cross-sectional studies, and experiments. …”
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Management Practice and Clinical Outcomes of Dementia in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review by Dessale Abate Beyene, Alemseged Beyene Berha

“…A total of 2781 patient data were included in the final analysis. Of these, 2354 patients were obtained from 5 RCTs and 427 patients from 3 prospective cohort studies, which were conducted in SSA countries. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Peer Victimization (Bullying) among Grades 7 and 8 Middle School Students in Kuwait by Ahmad J. Abdulsalam, Abdullah E. Al Daihani, Konstantinos Francis

“…Bullies were mostly in the fail/fair final school grade category, whereas victims performed better. …”
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Influence of Microscopic Effects on the Static Tensile Strength of Gray Cast Iron HT200 Specimens by L. Fan, H. B. Hu, X. S. Tang, J. J. He, W. Chen

“…The energy density zone model is a macro/micro-trans-scale crack growth model that can depict a fracture process from an initial microdefect at the microscale to the final break at the macroscale. Three scale transitional functions as well as the size of the initial microdefect in the model represent the microscopic effects in a fracture process. …”
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Waste oil management: Analyses of waste oils from vehicle crankcases and gearboxes by V. Pelitli, Ö. Doğan, H.J. Köroğlu

“…In accordance with waste strategy for Turkey, the study was carried out to analyses waste engine crankcase oils and waste gearbox oils generated from vehicle maintenance services in order to determine their suitability for recycling, recovery or final disposal based on regulation published by Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry on 21 January 2004. …”
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Re-calibrating measurements of low-cost air quality monitors using PCR-GPR air quality forecasting models. by Bing Liu, Shuting Yang, Junqi Wang

“…By combining the PCR model and the GPR model, we obtained the final PCR-GPR calibration model. It is worth mentioning that this study adopted the time series cross-validation method for data grouping, an innovative approach that is more aligned with real-world scenarios and adequately captures the seasonal variations in pollutant concentrations. …”
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التمكين الإداري ودوره في الرضا الوظيفي للعاملين: دراسة استطلاعية في الإدارة العامة لمدينة الطب في بغداد... by Sawsan Ahmed Mahmoud Shukri, Amer Abdel Latif, Abeer Ahmed AL mafrachi

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Variation of fatty acid composition in seed oil in the collection of induced oil flax (Linum humile Mill.) mutants by A. V. Tigova, A. I. Soroka

“…A wide variety of application fields for flax seeds requires for breeders to develop new varieties with different characteristics, corresponding to the intended final product. The method of experimental mutagenesis is one of the ways to solve this problem. …”
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Evaluation and Assessment of Resiliency of Transportation Networks in Ilam City by pakzad azadkhani, Mohammad salavrzizadeh, afsaneh shahmoradian

“…Among all the urban roads and streets in Ilam City, only 63 km has high levels of resiliency and these are mostly the main streets of Ilam City. The final results of the study show that improving the urban transportation system of Ilam City not only involves the structural issues of the roads, but it also involves a large number of administrative issues. …”
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Primary Dural Spinal Lymphoma Presentation of a Rare Spinal Tumor Case by Dilber Ayçiçek Çeçen, Necati Tatarlı, Hikmet Turan Süslü, Selçuk Özdoğan, Nagehan Özdemir Barışık

“…The patient underwent surgical decompression, with his final histopathology showing diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. …”
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Política hacendaria en México de 2013 a 2017. Una primera aproximación al sexenio by Enrique Cárdenas Sánchez

“…Son de especial relevancia la caída del precio del petróleo y la decisión del gobierno de mantener fijo el precio final de las gasolinas para evitar que disminuyeran sus ingresos, así como las repetidas fallas de los pronósticos de la economía que realizó. …”
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Impact of Continuous Assessment on Pupils Performance at PLE in Kisoro District: A Case Study of Rwabara Primary School. by Twahirwa, Stephen

“…The study found out that the major effects of continuous assessment on pupils’ performance in PLE are; that it enables pupils to master the content, helps in identifying weak students who can be improved, and builds the whole mind of pupils as they prepare for final examinations and encouraging pupils learn to revise from time to time which increases retention and memorization. …”
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Determination of Optimum Quantity of Cassava Peel Ash (CPA) as Partial Replacement of Cement for Maximum Concrete Strength and its Cost Analysis. by Nasasira, Johnson

“…The cassava peels were sundried and burnt into ash in the furnace at 700-800oc and their chemical and physical properties were studied using the X-ray Fluorescence method which was found to contain elements such as calcium dioxide 85.677%, iron (iii) oxide 5.662%, silicon dioxide 3.517%, potassium oxide 1.731%, aluminum oxide 1.515% manganese(ii) oxide 0.803%, phosphorous pent oxide 0.456%, titanium oxide 0.310%, chromium (ii) oxide 0.143%, and magnesium oxide 0.109%. blended pastes containing OPC and 45 cubes were caster with cassava peel ash (CPA) at different percentage replacement, 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% were investigated for consistency, initial and final setting time for the blended paste CPA- OPC pastes and dry density of cubes and compressive strength of grade 25 (C25) Concrete. …”
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Preparation of Laundry Soap from Palm Oil and Lye from Ash of Dry Eucalyptus Tree. by Bwambale, Gerald

“…A physicochemical test was performed on the final soap. White in color, rough and hard in texture, and with a saponification value of 171 mg/KOH/g. …”
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Immune response and growth of Lates calcarifer fed on hydrolized protein-supplemented diet by Romi Novriadi, Tinggal Hermawan, , Ibtisam, , Dikrurrahman, Muh Kadari, Mikael Herault, Vincent Fournier, Paul Seguin

“…The growth performance of Asian sea bass fed on protein hydrolisates significantly improved the total fish weight (g), relative weight gain, specific growth rate, final weight (g) and final length (cm) in comparison to the control (P<0.05) both at nursery and grow out phase. …”
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Association of quality of life in older patients with breast cancer: a cross-sectional study from China by Xi Chen, Qing Li, Xiang Wang, Lei Ji, Jintao Zhang, Qiao Li, Min Xiao, Shanshan Chen, Pin Zhang, Jiani Wang, Heng Cao, Xiaoyan Qian, Meng Xiu, Zhuoran Li, Yiqun Li, Xiaojuan Zheng

“…The data were analysed using network analysis and path analysis.Results Out of the 136 possible edges in the final networks, 84 (61.8%) were non-zero. ‘Fatigue’ was the central symptom and indirectly decreased the gQoL, which was mediated by increasing ‘financial difficulties’, ‘CCI’ and ‘role function’ (β = −0.35, p&lt;0.001). …”
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