Women’s understanding and experiences of menopause in low-income and middle-income countries in the Asia Pacific region: a scoping review protocol by Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Karen Cheer, Relmah Baritama Harrington, Dorothy Esau, Emmy Foroasi

“…This scoping review will map evidence of women’s experiences of menopause in Asia Pacific countries, where limited research exists.Methods and analysis We will follow the five-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley, further developed by Levac et al and the Joanna Briggs Institute. …”
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Empowering Education: Leveraging Clustering and Recommendations for Enhanced Student Insights by Kheira Ouassif, Benameur Ziani, Jorge Herrera-Tapia, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache

“…Following the clustering process, we developed a recommendation system based on the user-based nearest neighbors collaborative filtering approach. …”
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Study on the Relationship Between Porosity and Mechanical Properties Based on Rock Pore Structure Reconstruction Model by Nan Xiao, Jun-Qing Chen, Xiang Qiu, Fu Huang, Tong-Hua Ling

“…Subsequently, pore structure reconstruction models with controlled porosity variations were developed for systematic numerical experimentation. …”
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Research on Quantitative Safety Risk Assessment Methods at Vehicle Controllability Level by Lei He, Zichong Li, Xuezhu Yang, Yuanle Zhou, Zikun Qu, Zhiqiang Ren

“…A database of vehicle attitude data and corresponding controllability levels is established through real-vehicle tests. …”
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Factors influencing injury severity in three-wheeled motorized rickshaw and motorcycle collisions by Zia Ur Rehman, Jiang Chaozhe, Emmanuel Kofi Adanu, Yahya Almarhabi, Arshad Jamal

“…The study conducted an empirical analysis using traffic crash data spanning three years (2019–2021) from RESCUE 1122 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. …”
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Modelling Pollutant Dispersion in Urban Canyons to Enhance Air Quality and Urban Planning by Francisco Ruda Sarria, MCarmen Guerrero Delgado, Rafael Monge Palma, Teresa Palomo Amores, José Sánchez Ramos, Servando Álvarez Domínguez

“…While previous research has explored airflow characteristics in these canyons, it often lacks detailed data on pollutant dispersion and the effects of wind speed on airflow patterns and vortex formation. …”
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CENSor: Detecting Illicit Bitcoin Operation via GCN-Based Hyperedge Classification by Suyeol Lee, Jaehan Kim, Minjae Seo, Seung Ho Na, Seungwon Shin, Jinwoo Kim

“…Despite the critical need for advanced Bitcoin financial forensics to investigate these criminal activities, no novel methods have been developed to detect illicit Bitcoin operations. Existing approaches to identifying illegal Bitcoin activity are limited due to their inadequate consideration of graph data. …”
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Sustainability and Environmental Performance in Selective Collection of Residual Materials: Impact of Modulating Citizen Participation Through Policy and Incentive Implementation by Laurie Fontaine, Robert Legros, Jean-Marc Frayret

“…By understanding these dynamics, municipalities can develop more effective waste management policies that promote sustainability.…”
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Exploring the Vision of an Equitable Prostate Cancer Care Delivery System: Perspectives of Black Men in Charleston, South Carolina by Sherrie Flynt Wallington, Kris Bennett, Marvella E. Ford, Lee Moultrie, Melanie Slan, Reginald D. Tucker-Seeley

“…Through a community-engaged qualitative design, 29 Black males aged 40 to 75 participated in virtual and in-person focus groups in August 2023. Data analysis employed NVivo qualitative software and an inductive thematic approach. …”
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University business incubators in Indonesia: Navigating commercial viability and societal contributions by Domicián Máté, Ni Made Estiyanti, Adam Novotny, Jolita Vveinhardt

“…Purpose: This paper investigates whether University Business Incubators (UBIs) that emphasize broader societal impacts can achieve improved innovation performance and economic returns within the context of a developing economy. Research methodology: Utilizing data from Indonesia, this study employs Heteroscedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent (HAC) regressions to determine whether incubators focusing on societal innovations achieve greater success in bringing innovations to market. …”
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Automated tick classification using deep learning and its associated challenges in citizen science by Anna Omazic, Giulio Grandi, Stefan Widgren, Joacim Rocklöv, Jonas Wallin, Jan C. Semenza, Najmeh Abiri

“…To address this, the Swedish Veterinary Agency launched a citizen science initiative, resulting in the submission of over 15,000 tick images spanning seven species. We developed, trained, and evaluated deep learning models incorporating image analysis, object detection, and transfer learning to support automated tick classification. …”
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Numerical investigation of conjugate heat transfer in suddenly expanding channels with high expansion ratios by Jiten Kalita, Pankaj Kumar, Sailen Dutta, Qasem Al Mdallal

“…Furthermore, higher expansion ratios negatively impact the heat transfer rate, as the flow fully develops at an earlier location. The flow characteristics obtained are in excellent agreement with previously reported data, offering a comprehensive and novel insight into heat transfer dynamics, potentially transforming the understanding in this domain.…”
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Demonstration of Compact In situ Mueller-Matrix Polarimetry Based on Binary Polarization Rotators by Zhenyang Ding, Yangyang Yao, X. Steve Yao, Xiaojun Chen, Chenhuan Wang, Shuang Wang, Tiegen Liu

“…We develop a compact in situ Mueller-matrix polarimetry (MMP) based on binary polarization rotators for on-machine optical processing measurements. …”
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Low-cost and high-efficiency automated tensiometer for real-time irrigation monitoring by Arthur C. Sanches, Christopher de O. Alves, Fernanda L. F. de Jesus, Fagner L. Theodoro, Thiago A. C. da Cruz, Eder P. Gomes

“…Different tensions were applied to obtain a soil moisture curve, starting from the most humid point (saturated) to the driest one (oven-dried soil), collecting 20 valid points. Subsequently, the data were subjected to the normality test, with subsequent statistical analysis and regression curve models. …”
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Diet therapy (The 8×5 Diet) for adults living with bile acid diarrhoea: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial by Chris Todd, Lawrence Kelman, Julian RF Walters, Sorrel Burden, Michelle O’Connor, Yvonne A McKenzie

“…Eligible participants will be assigned to groups using permuted block randomisation using 1:1 allocation to receive either 8 weeks of usual care or The 8×5 Diet using one-to-one, dietitian counselling via a video-conferencing platform and developed digital resources. Randomisation, consent, recruitment, retention and acceptability will be evaluated using data from the RCT and post-trial interviews conducted with those in the intervention group. …”
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Occupational Stress Among Italian Postgraduate Medical Trainees: A Pilot Study for the Validation of the SCOPE Questionnaire by Gianfranco Di Gennaro, Carla Comacchio, Federico Beinat, Maria Elisabetta Zanolin, Matteo Balestrieri, SCOPE Team, Marco Colizzi

“…Four factors—“stress”, “coping”, “empathy”, and “trauma”—explained 50% of data variability and demonstrated satisfactory overall internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.76). …”
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The Effect of Locally Produced Unstable Shoes on Foot Plantar Pressure During Walking Among Healthy Male Students by Siavash Etemadi Nejad, Saed Ahmadi Ganjeh, Jamshid Yazdani CHarati, Esmail Hoseini Nejad

“…The generalized linear model and repeated measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and/or Friedman test at a significance level of 0.05 (P<0.05) were used for analyzing data using SPSS V. 23 software. …”
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Prediction model of ICU readmission in Chinese patients with acute type A aortic dissection: a retrospective study by Hong Ni, Yanchun Peng, Qiong Pan, Zhuling Gao, Sailan Li, Liangwan Chen, Yanjuan Lin

“…The AUC was 0.837 (95%CI: 0.789–0.884) and the model fit the data well (H–L test, P = 0.519). DCA also demonstrated good clinical practicability. …”
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Radiological and Functional Research Methods in the Diagnosis of Segmental Instability in Cervical Osteochondrosis and of Cervicobrachial Syndrome by Z. V. Koshkareva, V. A. Sorokovikov, A. P. Zhivotenko, O. V. Sklyarenko, B. B. Damdinov, А. N. Kiriyenko

“…This paper presents the analysis of diagnostic policy of 72 patients with cervical osteochondrosis and cervicobrachial syndrome. …”
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Integration Strategies for Large-Scale Renewable Interconnections with Grid Forming and Grid Following Inverters, Capacitor Banks, and Harmonic Filters by Soham Ghosh, Arpit Bohra, Sreejata Dutta, Saurav Verma

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