A randomized trial of the effectiveness of an ultrasonic denture hygiene intervention program among communitydwelling elders* by Ronald Chan, Jiaguan Zhang, Colman Mcgrath, Paul Tsang, Otto Lam

“…Denture cleanliness was assessed at baseline and 1-month using: i) Denture Cleanliness Index (DCI) scores; ii) plaque coverage percentage; and (iii) microbiological samples for bacterial and yeast detection. …”
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Communication Infrastructure Design for Reliable UAV Operations in Air Mobility Corridors by Igor Kabashkin, Duman Iskakov, Roman Topilskiy, Gulnar Tlepiyeva, Timur Sultanov, Zura Sansyzbayeva

“…This paper proposes and evaluates four radio repeater deployment strategies to support robust UAV communication in urban environments: Strategy 1 with non-overlapping radio coverage, Strategy 2 with fully overlapping coverage zones, Strategy 3 with alternating redundancy between repeater pairs, and Strategy 4 with full duplication of overlapping coverage. …”
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THE TECHNOLOGY OF BUDGETING ENTERPRISES WITH THE DIVISIONAL STRUCTURE by Inna Kuznetsova, Yuliya Karpenko

“…The obligatory indicator of transfer prices should be used to solve the problem of regulating the relations among business units of an enterprise with the divisional structure; the information model of budgeting the income of the centre of expenses of the second type should be presented with the use of the transfer prices.…”
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Differences in timeliness, completeness and drop-out rates of MMRV and DTP containing vaccines among Ultra-Orthodox Jews and others in a deprived Northern Israel city: an ecologica... by Avraham Jacobson, Sivan Spitzer, Michael Edelstein

“…We compared DTP and MMRV1 coverage and drop-out rates in UO areas (> 50% vote for UO parties) to others, using chi-square tests. …”
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Spatial–Temporal Evolution Pattern of Soil Erosion and Its Dominant Factors on the Loess Plateau from 2000 to 2020 by Panpan Liu, Bing Guo, Rui Zhang, Longhao Wang

“…This is attributed to the protective role of vegetation on soil in gentle slope areas. (6) From 2000 to 2020, vegetation was the dominant single factor influencing the spatiotemporal changes in soil erosion, while the interactions between vegetation and land use had the largest explanatory power, indicating that changes in land-use types partially affect variations in vegetation coverage. …”
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High prevalence of malaria in Zambezia, Mozambique: the protective effect of IRS versus increased risks due to pig-keeping and house construction. by Emmanuel A Temu, Mike Coleman, Ana Paula Abilio, Immo Kleinschmidt

“…Caregiver interviews were used to assess household demographic and wealth characteristics and ITN and IRS coverage. …”
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Annual mass change of the world's glaciers from 1976 to 2024 by temporal downscaling of satellite data with in situ observations by I. Dussaillant, R. Hugonnet, M. Huss, M. Huss, M. Huss, E. Berthier, J. Bannwart, F. Paul, M. Zemp

“…Here, we present a new observation-based dataset of glacier mass changes with global coverage and annual resolution from 1976 to 2024. We use geostatistical modeling for the temporal downscaling of decadal glacier-wide elevation change estimates derived from satellite and airborne geodetic data, with glaciological annual in situ observations. …”
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Fragmented software‐based self‐test technique for online intermittent fault detection in processors by Vasudevan Matampu Suryasarman, Santosh Biswas, Aryabartta Sahu

“…Abstract Software‐based self‐test (SBST) method is one of the widely used test techniques in processors. SBST scheme provides high fault coverage but incurs long detection latencies in case of intermittent faults (IFs) in online testing mode, due to large size and longer execution time of the test codes. …”
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Decoding Financial Performance: The Role of Leverage and Market Risk in Indonesia's LQ45 by Budiman Budiman, Farah Margaretha

“…Control variables include company age, sales growth, and firm size. Using multiple regression analysis on data from 48 companies, the study finds that interest coverage, fixed charge coverage, market risk, company age, and sales growth positively impact financial performance, while financial leverage, debt to EBITDA, capitalization ratio, and firm size have a negative effect. …”
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Assessing Progress, Impact, and Next Steps in Rolling Out Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in 14 Priority Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa through 201... by Katharine Kripke, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, Julia Samuelson, Melissa Schnure, Shona Dalal, Timothy Farley, Catherine Hankins, Anne G Thomas, Jason Reed, Peter Stegman, Naomi Bock

“…Several years into this effort, we reflect on progress.<h4>Methods</h4>Using the Decision Makers' Program Planning Tool (DMPPT) 2.1, we assessed age-specific impact, cost-effectiveness, and coverage attributable to circumcisions performed through 2014. …”
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Performance Optimization for (NG-RoF) Systems: Mitigating Nonlinear Effects in Long-Distance Transmission by Ahmed Jasim Obaid, Hassan K. Al-Musawi, Majid Valizadeh

“… Within the last ten years, several modern technologies were invented, and different types of services were subscribed to and used in daily life. All these are in need of high data rate and wide coverage in respect to mobile communication, and it thus needs an advanced generation to meet these performances as dictated by the end users. …”
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Utilization of a Skin Graft From an Amputated Hand to Cover Reservent Below-elbow Amputation Wound by Hassan A. Ali, MBBS, Yazeed A. Almojel, Hussam A. Alhathlol, Yazeed M. Alsulami, Zuhair G. Elkhalifa, MBBS, Syed M. Jaffry, MBBS

“…This case highlights the use of a full-thickness skin graft from the amputated limb for stump coverage, demonstrating that if the patient refuses to take a graft from other common sites, the amputated dorsum of the hand can be an excellent alternative site.…”
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Smart Underwater Sensor Network GPRS Architecture for Marine Environments by Blanca Esther Carvajal-Gámez, Uriel Cedeño-Antunez, Abigail Elizabeth Pallares-Calvo

“…In this work, an architecture for a general packet radio service (GPRS) wireless sensor network is presented. The network is used to monitor the geographic position over the coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico. …”
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Competitive Efficiency of Foreign Cereal Trade Between Kazakhstan and China by Zh. Nurgazina, U. Ali

“…The study used Revealed Comparative Advantage and Import Coverage indexes to achieve its goal. …”
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Multi-level facility location-allocation problem for post-disaster humanitarian relief distribution by Seyed Mahdi Shavarani

“…Recharge stations can be used to extend the coverage area of the drones. The purpose of this paper is to find the best topology for both relief centers and recharge stations to cover a large-scale area with minimum and feasible incurred costs and waiting times. …”
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An Energy Efficient Simultaneous-Node Repositioning Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks by Muhammad Amir Khan, Halabi Hasbullah, Babar Nazir, Imran Ali Khan

“…Recently, several methods that use the relocation of nodes for connectivity restoration have been proposed. …”
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A willingness-aware user recruitment strategy based on the task attributes in mobile crowdsensing by Yang Liu, Yong Li, Wei Cheng, Weiguang Wang, Junhua Yang

“…Moreover, we analyze the influence of user willingness on user recruitment and the task completion rate and assess the coverage ability of the users. Finally, we use the greedy method to optimize the user recruitment for each task to select the most suitable users for the tasks. …”
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A Differential Privacy Framework with Adjustable Efficiency–Utility Trade-Offs for Data Collection by Jongwook Kim, Sae-Hong Cho

“…The widespread use of mobile devices has led to the continuous collection of vast amounts of user-generated data, supporting data-driven decisions across a variety of fields. …”
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Dynamic Vulnerability Analysis of Mountain Settlements Exposed to Geological Hazards: A Case Study of the Upper Min River, China by Mingtao Ding, Chuan Tang, Tao Huang, Zemin Gao

“…Based on a field investigation, collation of yearbook data, and analysis through the use of SPSS statistical software, a vulnerability evaluation index system of geological hazards was devised. …”
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Dosimetric Comparison between 3D Conformal and IMRT Techniques in Medulloblastoma Cases in Radiotherapy by Sarah Ashraf, Ahmed M Abdelaal, T. M. Hegazy

“…IMRT achieves the lowest dose to all organs at risk while the 3D techniques show little difference. It is recommended to use the IMRT technique in the treatment of medullablastoma cases to achieve good coverage for the target (brain and spinal cord) and more sparing to organs at risk. …”
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