Conceptual bases for reforming the national health care system: to the formulation of principles by H. S. Stetsenko

“…The introduction of compulsory health insurance in Ukraine was investigated using methods of analysis and synthesis. Results. Having extensive experience in the organization of public health protection both in Soviet times and in the conditions of independent Ukraine, the author states the following: public access to medical care consists in the possibility of equal access of citizens to the possibilities of medicine regardless of property or social situation, place of residence and the like. …”
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Bryophyte species richness on retention aspens recovers in time but community structure does not. by Anna Oldén, Otso Ovaskainen, Janne S Kotiaho, Sanna Laaka-Lindberg, Panu Halme

“…Green-tree retention is a forest management method in which some living trees are left on a logged area. …”
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Effectiveness of Cadaver Compared to Plastination as Anatomy Learning Media: Medical Student Perspective by Muhammad Ilham Suharto, Taureni Hayati, Hanifah Hanifah, Mozart Mozart

“…Methods: This was a cross-sectional quantitative study with a pretest-posttest control group design conducted in November-December 2023. …”
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Investigating the effect of role-playing training on depression of elderly women referring to comprehensive health service centers by Fatemeh Najafzadeh Shavaki, Parand Pourghane, Morvarid Ghasab Shirazi, Robabeh Soleimani, Saman Maroufizadeh

“…BACKGROUND: Depression is one of the most important mood disorders that often causes physiological, behavioral and psychological symptoms. One of the common methods in cognitive behavioral therapy is the role-playing model, which makes the learning effect more permanent. …”
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THE EFFECT OF JENGKOL SEED (Archidendron pauciflorum) EXTRACT TO PLASMA MDA LEVEL DUE TO DEEP SECOND DEGREE BURN WOUND IN SPRAGUE DAWLEY RATS by Steffi Kurniati, Lusiana Batubara, Edmond Rukmana Wikanta, Andrew Johan

“…Plasma MDA levels were then analyzed by using TBARS method. Data was analyzed using paired T-test, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, and independence T-test.­ …”
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TMFN: a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning for multimodal sentiment analysis by Junsong Fu, Youjia Fu, Huixia Xue, Zihao Xu

“…However, current approaches treat modalities equally, not maximizing text’s advantages. To solve these problems, we propose a novel method named a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning (TMFN). …”
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Wearable Sensor-Based Behavioral User Authentication Using a Hybrid Deep Learning Approach with Squeeze-and-Excitation Mechanism by Sakorn Mekruksavanich, Anuchit Jitpattanakul

“…Behavior-based user authentication has arisen as a viable method for strengthening cybersecurity in an age of pervasive wearable and mobile technologies. …”
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Developing a Model of the Impact of Service Quality, Brand’s Social Identity and Attachment to the Team on the Loyalty of Football Fans by Ali Benesbordi, Mohsen Esmaeili

“…A probability clustering method was used for sampling. Azadi football stadium of Tehran, Imam Reza football stadium of Mashhad, Yadegar Imam Football stadium of Tabriz and Naghsh Jahan football stadium of Isfahan were selected and the questionnaires were distributed in the 12th week of the tournament (2018-2019 season) between fans in above named stadiums. 400 questionnaires were distributed equally in four stadiums and finally, 387 full questionnaires were received and this number was considered as a statistical sample of the research. …”
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Spectrophotometric Determination of Micro Amount of Chromium (III) Using Sodium 4-((4,5-diphenyl-imidazol-2-yl)diazenyl)-3-hydroxynaphthalene-1-sulfonate in the Presence of Surfact... by Hawraa Abdul Hadi Abdul Ameer, Alaa Frak Hussain

“…(mole ratio technique, job's method) were employed to investigate the stoichiometry of complexes, and both methods revealed that the metal to reagent ratio is equal 1:3.The absorption impact value of the reagent concentration, surfactant concentration, pH, reaction duration, temperature, addition sequences, ionic strength, masking agent, and the influence of many parameters such as affect cations and anions, among others. …”
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An Automated Decision Support System for Portfolio Allocation Based on Mutual Information and Financial Criteria by Massimiliano Kaucic, Renato Pelessoni, Filippo Piccotto

“…To calculate the preference weights used in the chosen multi-criteria decision-making procedure, two methods are compared, namely equal and entropy weighting. …”
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Spatial‑temporal variability of water balance components in the North area of the Zailiisky Alatau Range by V. G. Konovalov, N. V. Pimankina

“…On the basis of our method, we could reconstruct for the 1876–2015 period long‑term series of data on a runoff, separately annual values and sums for the vegetation periods. …”
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Combined compression and encryption of linear wireless sensor network data using autoencoders by N. Shylashree, Sachin Kumar, Hong Min

“…In this paper, a joint compression and encryption method for LWSN data is presented. The method is based on the dimension reduction property of an autoencoder at the bottleneck section. …”
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Prioritization of causal genes from genome-wide association studies by Bayesian data integration across loci. by Zeinab Mousavi, Marios Arvanitis, ThuyVy Duong, Jennifer A Brody, Alexis Battle, Nona Sotoodehnia, Ali Shojaie, Dan E Arking, Joel S Bader

“…The SigNet method builds on existing methods that focus on individual loci with evidence from gene distance and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) by sharing information across loci using protein-protein and gene regulatory interaction network data. …”
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Investigating the Effect of TV Advertising Strategies on Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Dimensions of Female Consumer Attitudes by Afsaneh Javan Hesar Shaneh, Naser Yazdani

“…The sampling method is a cluster random method. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire using the Kaur & Hundal (2017) questionnaire distributed among the sample members after validation and reliability assessment. …”
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Comparative assessment of barium tagging options for residual colonic contents at virtual colonoscopy by A. K. Leysle, V. D. Zavadovskaya, A. V. Ushakov, T. V. Zhogina

“…Objective: to compare the quality of residual colonic content tagging with 25 and 50 g of BAR-VIPS, the basе of which is barium sulfate (BaSO4), in preparing patients for virtual colonoscopy (VСS) and to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of the method in both cases.Material and methods. The paper presents the results of VCS in 100 patients divided into two groups containing equal numbers (n = 50) according to the contrast medium dose (25 and 50 g). …”
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Water Clustering in Wheat Flour and Its Role in Water Diffusion: Observation Based on Sorption Isotherm by ZHAO Xuewei, WEI Xiaoxiao, GUO Yu, WANG Hongwei, ZHANG Hua

“…Based on the water adsorption and desorption isotherms of wheat flour at 20, 30 and 40 ℃, the water clustering properties were explored using the Park isotherm model, the Zimm-Lundberg method and the Brown method. Consistently, the results of the three methods suggested that water clustering occurred at high water activity (aw) levels, while the critical aw for clustering obtained from the three methods were only slightly different, ranging from 0.70 to 0.75, from 0.73 to 0.79 and from 0.56 to 0.68, respectively, which varied with temperature and the water sorption process. …”
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A re-analysis of the Cochrane Library data: the dangers of unobserved heterogeneity in meta-analyses. by Evangelos Kontopantelis, David A Springate, David Reeves

“…<h4>Background</h4>Heterogeneity has a key role in meta-analysis methods and can greatly affect conclusions. However, true levels of heterogeneity are unknown and often researchers assume homogeneity. …”
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Theoretical and technological aspects of ripper working tools operation by Ya. P. Lobachevskiy, S. I. Starovoytov

“…By means of a finite elements method the authors predicted an intense and deformable condition of the cultivted layer of the loamy soil taking into account such suppositions as a quasi solidity, quasi elasticity, constancy of speed and depth of cultivation. …”
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Educational Advance Organizers: A Bridge to Effective Learning by Mehri Yavari, Akram Bagherzadeh, Haniye Mastour, Shima Sadat Zarif Nahad

“…The required sample was 120 staff entered the study using the census of the entire population and were randomly divided equally into three groups. In the two intervention groups, education was provided by the method of explanatory and visual advance organizers, and in the control group, education was provided in the form of lectures. …”
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The Hybrid Best Worst Integrated Machine Learning Methodology to Clustering the Countries Based on the Happiness Index by Ebru Gecici, Aslihan Yildiz, Selcuk Alp

“…These weights are obtained using the Best-Worst method (BWM), one of the multi-criteria decision-making methods. …”
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