Home-value insurance and idiosyncratic risks of residential property prices by Alfred Larm Teye

“…This paper re-examines the Shiller and Weiss (1999) home-value insurance scheme and proposes a modification that eliminates a large proportion of the idiosyncratic sale price risks of residential properties. Using data between 1995 and 2014 for Amsterdam, the proposed insurance policy shows a higher pay-out efficiency, a higher loss coverage and a greater pay-out probability than the original Shiller and Weiss (1999) scheme. …”
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Hydrilla Management in Florida Lakes by Stephen F. Enloe, Lyn A. Gettys, James Leary, Ken A. Langeland

“…It can provide some benefits to fish and wildlife at low levels of coverage, but it also can have major detrimental impacts to water uses, causing substantial economic and environmental hardships. …”
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Une séquence photographique de la mission Dakar-Djibouti : les funérailles d’Ayaléo by Estelle Sohier

“…This set of photographs was done for the media coverage, but reflects also the adoption of methods that were applied to using photography as a tool for ethnological research under Marcel Griaule’s supervision.…”
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Hydrilla Management in Florida Lakes by Stephen F. Enloe, Lyn A. Gettys, James Leary, Ken A. Langeland

“…It can provide some benefits to fish and wildlife at low levels of coverage, but it also can have major detrimental impacts to water uses, causing substantial economic and environmental hardships. …”
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The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian, by Jan Terje Faarlund (2019) by Peter Svenonius

“…The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian (henceforth SMS) is a unique and useful reference work. It has the breadth of coverage of a reference grammar, but unlike most reference grammars of languages with established written traditions, it is not primarily designed for students seeking practical mastery of a language. …”
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Reporting of Progress toward Eliminating Viral Hepatitis B and C in the Central Asian Region by Bibinur Nurmanova

“…Eliminating viral hepatitis became a global goal and was targeted by countries worldwide. Using WHO, Google Scholar, PubMed, and other databases, the progress of Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) in ending viral hepatitis B and C by 2030 was evaluated and reported. …”
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Roads Infrastructure Digital Twin: Advancing Situational Awareness Through Bandwidth-Aware 360° Video Streaming and Multi-View Clustering by Oussama El Marai, Sotirios Messinis, Nikolaos Doulamis, Tarik Taleb, Jukka Manner

“…In this paper, we propose a new bandwidth-aware framework that maximizes the situational awareness of a given region, using mobile digital boxes and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$360^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula> cameras, mounted on connected vehicles, taking into account the constrained uplink capacity. …”
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A Comprehensive Framework for Emergency Message Dissemination in Urban VANET Scenarios: A Comparative Analysis of Clustering-Based Routing Protocols by Ravneet Kaur, Chaitanya Singla, Harpal Singh, Rajat Bhardwaj, Preeti Sharma, Ambika Aggarwal, Deema Mohammed Alsekait, Diaa Salama Abd Elminaam

“…The routing is implemented using Cross Layer Weighted Position Based Routing Protocol (CLWPR), Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector, and Connected Junction Based Routing (CJBR) protocols, which are compared with each other. …”
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Laterally Positioned Flap with Subepithelial Connective Tissue Graft Modified One-Stage Procedure for the Treatment of Deep Isolated Gingival Recessions in Mandibular Incisors by Alvaro Francisco Bosco, Juliano Milanezi de Almeida, Belén Retamal-Valdes, Renata Tavares, Jessica M. Latimer, Diego Messina, Matheus Henke, Laura Gantes Rodrigues Dias, Thiago Marchi Martins

“…In addition, 3 clinical cases were described using this surgical technique. Three healthy patients with Cairo RT1 or RT2 GRs on teeth 31 or 41 were treated with the LPF + SCTG technique. …”
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Implementation outcomes of convergence action policy to accelerate stunting reduction in Pidie district, Aceh province, Indonesia: a qualitative study by Sofyan Sufri, Nurhasanah Nurhasanah, Misbahul Jannah, Saiful Bakri, Iskandar Iskandar, Rajuddin Rajuddin, Sarah Ika Nainggolan, Fathima Sirasa, Jonatan Anderias Lassa

“…Objectives The research aims to understand the challenges and opportunities in policy and programme convergence to accelerate interventions for reducing stunting at the district, subdistrict and the 10 focused villages.Design Data were collected through qualitative methods (in-depth interviews and document reviews), and then analysed using thematic processes with NVivo V.11 software, by QSR International The process included coding, categorising and linking to the eight implementation outcome variables (as determined themes), namely acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, feasibility, compliance, implementation cost, coverage and sustainability. …”
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Impact of vaccination on Omicron's escape variants: Insights from fine-scale modelling of waning immunity in Hong Kong by Yuling Zou, Wing-Cheong Lo, Wai-Kit Ming, Hsiang-Yu Yuan

“…The daily number of reported cases during the first Omicron outbreak, with daily vaccination rates, the population mobility index and daily average temperature, were used to train the model. The model successfully predicted the size and timing of the second surge and the variant replacement by BA.4/5. …”
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Optimizing Bundle Block Adjustment for High-Overlap Small-Format Multi-Head Camera Systems by T. Bannakulpiphat, T. Bannakulpiphat, W. Karel, C. Ressl, N. Pfeifer

“…A key consideration for these systems is the inherent limitations due to their small size, which may lead to various trade-offs, such as reduced ground coverage, overlap, and image quality, as well as constraints on using high-precision instruments like GNSS and INS. …”
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User preferences on long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in Eastern and Southern Africa: a scoping review by Brian Pfau, Arden Saravis, Sarah N. Cox, Linxuan Wu, Rachel Wittenauer, Emily Callen, Cory Arrouzet, Monisha Sharma

“…Design We searched Pubmed, Embase, and conference abstracts using relevant search terms for studies conducted between 2014 and 2024. …”
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Determinants of COVID-19-related hospital and ICU admissions in the region Haaglanden, The Netherlands: a cross-sectional study by K. B. Bingöl, I. Meulman, K. R. M. Wassing, I. M. van der Meer

“…In the third wave, neighborhoods with vaccination coverage below 60% had the highest rates of hospital and ICU admissions. …”
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Providers' and Survivors' Perspectives on Affordability Challenges for Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment in Two Low Socioeconomic Status States of the Southern United States by Maria Pisu, Nataliya V. Ivankova, Jessica Morgan, Courtney P. Williams, Nathan C. English, Burkely P. Smith, Bayley A. Jones, Wendelyn M. Oslock, Yu‐Mei Schoenberger, Ivan I. Herbey, Daniel I. Chu

“…Verbatim transcripts were analyzed using thematic and content analysis. Results Themes were about: (1) affordability‐related underlying context, that is, (i) patients' limited means and competing basic needs priorities, (ii) scarcity of quality medical services, and (iii) rural hospitals' limited means; (2) barriers to medical decision‐making, that is, (i) guideline‐concordant care unfeasible due to poverty and (ii) insurance authorizations and coverage delaying and making care costlier; (3) economic burdens from (i) many types of needed expenses and (ii) billing; and (4) strategies to improve affordability, that is, (i) care adjustments to reduce patients' costs, (ii) community organizations' support, and (iii) burdensome access to resources. …”
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Exploring Seasonal and Diurnal Variations of the Thermal Environment in Metropolitan Scale Analysis Based on Remote Sensing Data by Danyal Rahimi, Masanobu Kii, Hikari Shimadera, Francesco Causone

“…Similarly, vegetation coverage reduces nighttime LST more effectively, particularly beyond a critical density threshold (NDVI > 0.4). …”
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Barriers and facilitators to timely birth-dose vaccines in Kinshasa Province, the DRC: a qualitative study by Alix Boisson, Camille E. Morgan, Bruce Fried, Christopher M. Shea, Marcel Yotebieng, Patrick Ngimbi, Nana Mbonze, Kashamuka Mwandagalirwa, Pélagie Babakazo, Peyton Thompson

“…# Background National vaccine policies across the world have successfully improved infant vaccine coverage, but birth-dose (BD) vaccine coverage remains low. …”
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Health and economic impact of oral PrEP provision across subgroups in western Kenya: a modelling analysis by Linxuan Wu, Sarah Cox, Monisha Sharma, Brian Pfau, Rachel Wittenauer

“…All results are presented in 2021 USD$.Results Population PrEP coverage was highest in the broad AGYW scenario (8.3%, ~2 fold higher than the next highest coverage scenario) and lowest in the SDC scenario (0.37%). …”
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Evaluation of the WHO/CDC Syphilis Serology Proficiency Programme to support the global elimination of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis: an observational cross-sectional st... by Ellen Kersh, André O Hopkins, Thuy Trinh, Yetunde F Fakile, Allan Pillay, Melanie M Taylor, Mary Kamb

“…We used country-reported data to WHO on four congenital syphilis (CS) indicators and World Bank country economic data to compare coverage and completeness of reporting of indicators in lower income countries with and without an SSPP-enrolled laboratory.Participants From 2008–2015, 78 laboratories from 51 countries participated in &gt;1 SSPP evaluation; 56% were national reference laboratories, of which most (93%) participated for &gt;3 years and 11 (22%) in all 24 cycles.Results Median proficiency performance score was &gt;95% regardless of test conducted. …”
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Retalho de Rieger: resultados estéticos e satisfação dos pacientes Rieger's flap: aesthetic results and patient satisfaction by André Alves Valiati, Gustavo De Azambuja Pereira Filho, Tiago Falcão Cunha, Antônio Carlos Schilling Minuzzi Filho, Pedro Bins Ely

“…We evaluated the aesthetic results using photographic analysis and satisfaction score according to the patients' complaints. …”
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