Smoking among pregnant women attending philanthropic maternity in São Paulo (Br by Natália Machado Costa Lopes, Maria Alice Tsunechiro, Alfredo Almeida Pina-Oliveira, Anna Maria Chiesa

“…The study aimed to verify the behavior of smoking during pregnancy in relation to: the prevalence of smoking, the char- acterization of the smoking history of the mother, the levels of nicotine dependence and the relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked and the birth weight of newborns. …”
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Real-time facial reconstruction and expression replacement based on neural radiation field by Shenning Zhang, Hui Li, Xuefeng Tian

“…Therefore, this paper proposes a text-driven operation pipeline for facial reconstruction with NeRF, the development of an operating network that is capable of learning to represent scene changes using latent codes that vary at different spatial locations, and the integration of a WeChat mini-program to facilitate practical applications. …”
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Bladeless dust collection system to prevent scattering in cosmetics manufacturing process by Nana TSURUTA, Michihiro HAKODA, Ken’ichi YANO, Yohei NAGAMITSU, Yoshiyuki HIRAYAMA

“…If inhaled by workers, the dust can have adverse effects on health, such as dust lung and asthma, and can also lead to contamination of the work environment and of the product. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2−xClx as Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries at 55°C by Hai-Lang Zhang, Shuixiang Liu

“…A series of materials based on the LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2-xClx system were prepared by a sol-gel method, and their phase formation processes, crystal structures, and electrochemical performances were studied by thermogravimetric analyses (TG/DTG), X-ray diffraction (XRD), charge-discharge tests, and cyclic voltammetry (CV). …”
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Üniversite Öğrencilerinin İnternet Kullanım ve Doyumları Üzerine Bir Saha Araştırması by Bünyamin Ayhan, Şükrü Balcı

“…Bu faktörler önem sırasına göre sosyal kaçış, bilgilenme, boş zamanları değerlendirme, ekonomik fayda, sosyal etkileşim ve chat ve eğlencedir. Deneklerin ne zamandan beri internet kullandığı, deneklerin internet kullanma becerisi, haftalık internet kullanım süresi, günlük internet kullanım süresi, internete duyulan güven, cinsiyet ve öğrencilerin aylık harcama miktarı internet kullanım ve doyum motivasyonlarına verilen önem düzeyini etkileyen en temel değişkenler konumundadır.…”
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Effects of Masks on the Preference of Laser Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Japanese Population by Takeshi Nomura, Hanako Otsuka, Gan Muneuchi

“…Conclusions: The findings suggest that the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has influenced the facial areas where patients seek cosmetic enhancements, possibly due to changes in mask-wearing habits and social behaviors. …”
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Development of the Proactive Behavior Scale for Mid-Career Nurses: a reliability and validity study by Satomi Koyama, Yumiko Miyoshi, Kimie Takehara

“…Conclusions: The Proactive Behavior Scale for Mid-Career Nurses has good reliability and validity.…”
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Association between exposure to particulate matter and heart rate variability in vulnerable and susceptible individuals by Yong Whi Jeong, Hayon Michelle Choi, Youhyun Park, Yongjin Lee, Ji Ye Jung, Dae Ryong Kang

“…Abstract Particulate matter (PM) exposure can reduce heart rate variability (HRV), a cardiovascular health marker. …”
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Implicações do Investimento Directo Estrangeiro em Moçambique: O caso da mineradora Ruby Mining (2014-2019), seus impactos no Crescimento Sócio-Económico local e na violação dos di... by Malunde Sa Benjamim

“…A pesquisa privilegiou o recurso a métodos de abordagem qualitativa com especial ênfase na entrevista semi-estruturada junto a testemunhas-chave, selecionadas consoante as funções por elas desempenhadas. …”
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Gestão escolar e a construção de uma escola eficaz: uma aproximação da Educação Profissional e Tecnológica by Michel Mott Machado, Laismayra da Silva Costa, Maira Marcela Ferreira Spörl

“…A partir da análise de características-chave de escolas eficazes, obteve-se os seguintes elementos convergentes: liderança; foco na aprendizagem; clima e cultura escolar; relação família-escola; formação do professor; monitoramento/avaliação; expectativa de alto desempenho. …”
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Durvalumab Plus Chemotherapy for Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer Treatment: Insights from the TOPAZ-1 Trial by Ralph Fritsch

“…The evolution of chemoimmunotherapy has since shifted the first-line treatment landscape for advanced BTCs. …”
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Prevention of transgenerational transmission of disease susceptibility through perinatal intervention by Takahiro Nemoto, Norimasa Sagawa

“…Due to undernutrition during the fetal period, the fetus acquires an energy-saving constitution called a thrifty phenotype due to adaptations of the metabolic and endocrine systems. It has been suggested that stimuli experienced early in development can persist throughout life and induce permanent physiological changes that predispose to NCDs. …”
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Construção de credibilidade dos dados by Victor Gabry, Carlos Henrique Marcondes

“…Também encontramos indícios de que a instalação de um novo “dado” por uma instituição legitimadora passa por um processo com certo grau de generalização de validação, em que o discurso leva em conta os atores envolvidos em seu uso e interpretação. Palavras-chave: SEO. Otimização para Mecanismos de Busca. …”
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Effects of α-ZrP on Crystallinity and Flame-Retardant Behaviors of PA6/MCA Composites by Yuanfang Xiao, Jiayou Xu, Siwen Huang, Haiming Deng

“…What is more, excellent mechanical properties were kept even though MCA and α-ZrP were dispersed not as good as expected.…”
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Exploring the Effects of Imidacloprid on Liver Health and the Microbiome in Rats: A Comprehensive Study by Alaa T. Qumsani

“…</i> A heatmap and bar charts further confirmed dose-dependent changes in microbial abundance. …”
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Fatigue life evaluation of aged rails focusing on the state of hanging sleepers and rail-head surface irregularities that affect rail stress by Mitsuru HOSODA, Nobutaka TAKAHASHI, Tadashi DESHIMARU

“…It is expected that the replacement cycle can be further extended if the hanging sleepers and rail-head surface irregularities are below a certain value. …”
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Chatbot Programmes’ ‘Arms Race’: Africa and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics by Tapiwa Chagonda

“…The fact that in March 2023, an Elon Musk-led petition to have a six-month moratorium on AI chatbot innovations began circulating raises serious ethical concerns around the AI revolution, which makes it critical for a continent such as Africa, which has largely been a consumer of these technologies and not an innovator, to urgently draft measures that can protect it. …”
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The Efficiency of Direct Maturation: the Comparison of Two hiPSC Differentiation Approaches into Motor Neurons by Catherine Schaefers, Simone Rothmiller, Horst Thiermann, Theo Rein, Annette Schmidt

“…The identity of hiPSC, neuronal progenitors, and mature MNs was continuously verified by the detection of specific markers at the genetic and protein level via qRT-PCR, flow cytometry, Western Blot, and immunofluorescence. MNX1- and ChAT-positive motoneuronal progenitor cells were formed after neural induction via dual-SMAD inhibition and expansion. …”
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Essential dimension of symmetric groups in prime characteristic by Edens, Oakley, Reichstein, Zinovy

“…The essential dimension $\operatorname{ed}_k(\operatorname{S}_n)$ of the symmetric group $\operatorname{S}_n$ is the minimal integer $d$ such that the general polynomial $x^n + a_1 x^{n-1} + \dots + a_n$ can be reduced to a $d$-parameter form by a Tschirnhaus transformation. …”
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Risco-espetáculo: novas modalidades do risco na era digital / Risk-spectacle: new modalities of risk in digital era by Luisa Maria Freire Miranda, Luciana Lobo Miranda

“…Isto nos leva a interrogar que modos de governamentalidade operam no ambiente virtual, de forma a gerir condutas que incidem no mundo concreto e que modos de subjetivação estão sendo produzidos a partir destas práticas.  Palavras-chave: Risco-espetáculo; desafios do Youtube; brincadeiras Perigosas; governamentalidade. …”
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