"I would have to sell things in order to get the money": A qualitative exploration of willingness to pay for the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in the Volta region, Ghana. by Sharon Darkwa, Gilles de Wildt, Maxwell Dalaba, Edem Vidzro, Evelyn Korkor Ansah

“…User fees have been considered an alternative financing method, so this study utilised qualitative methods and explored caregivers' willingness to pay for the malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01) to inform future service provision.…”
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Comparative study for assessment of two different minimally invasive caries removal techniques by Ahmed M. Elmarakby, Shaimaa F K Habib, Ibrahim M. Alkhaldy, Rahaf M. AlJasser, Labib Mohamed Labib Elsebaey

“…Caries should be deep but without pulp involvement and all teeth have only one surface caries (mesial or distal class II carious lesions). Samples have been collected, cleaned and stored in distilled water until starting the experiment. …”
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Probe-Specific Procedure to Estimate Sensitivity and Detection Limits for 19F Magnetic Resonance Imaging. by Alexander J Taylor, Josef Granwehr, Clémentine Lesbats, James L Krupa, Joseph S Six, Galina E Pavlovskaya, Neil R Thomas, Dorothee P Auer, Thomas Meersmann, Henryk M Faas

“…The method is demonstrated using MR spectroscopy and imaging experiments with different 19F samples, both paramagnetically and susceptibility broadened, to approximate a range of realistic environments.…”
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Barriers and facilitators of COVID-19 vaccination among drug users: a qualitative analysis for future crisis management by Salah Eddin Karimi, Sina Ahmadi, Neda SoleimanvandiAzar, Zahra Rampisheh, Marzieh Nojomi, Elham Sepahvand, Fateh Tavangar, Seyed Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Batool Tayefi, Peter Higgs

“…The aim of this study was to better understand the barriers and facilitators of COVID-19 vaccination in PWUD in Tehran, Iran. Materials and methods In this qualitative study data were collected through semi-structured interviews with participants through purposeful sampling with maximum variation. …”
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Original and Mirror Face Images and Minimum Squared Error Classification for Visible Light Face Recognition by Rong Wang

“…The face recognition experiments show that our method does obtain high accuracy performance in classification.…”
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Conflict management training for future educators by N. A. Sokolova, N. V. Sivrikova, E. G. Chernikova, T. G. Ptashko, E. M. Harlanova, S. V. Roslyakova

“…The sample of the experiment was based on 120 of 2nd-4thyear students of the Faculty of History of the South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University of Chelyabinsk. …”
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Medical education under siege: the war’s impact on medical and paramedical Sudanese students by Toga Khalid Mohamed, Tibyan O. Abdalla, Salma G. Ahmed, Alanood Elnaeem, Tanzeel M. A. Omer, Taiba H. Hassan, Naeema S. Mamoun, Maha A. H. Musa, Ahmed E. B. Zaidan, Safaa M. A. Omer, Abdalla O. ElKhawad, Kannan O. Ahmed

“…This study aims to examine the impact of the Sudanese war on medical students’ educational experiences. Materials and methods This cross-sectional quantitative survey assessed the impact of the Sudan war on medical students’ education. …”
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基于奇异值分解和支持向量机的齿轮故障诊断 by 付胜, 徐斌, 杜晓帆, 吕孟宸

“…For large equipment gear running environmental noise and lack of fault sample characteristics,the method of gears fault diagnosis based on singular value decomposition and support vector machine is proposed.Applications and advantages of the singular value decomposition of the signal feature extraction is analyzed.Verified by experiments based on singular value decomposition and support vector machine gear fault diagnosis method can achieve quickly,accurately gears fault diagnosis.…”
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Voice-AttentionNet: Voice-Based Multi-Disease Detection with Lightweight Attention-Based Temporal Convolutional Neural Network by Jintao Wang, Jianhang Zhou, Bob Zhang

“…Our model utilizes the temporal convolution neural network (CNN) architecture to extract high-resolution temporal features, while incorporating attention mechanisms to highlight disease-related patterns. Extensive experiments have been conducted on our dataset, including speech samples from patients with multiple illnesses. …”
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Cross-scale prediction for thermochemical–mechanical damage of barrel weapons under high-temperature and supersonic environments by Shuli Li, Guolai Yang, Liqun Wang

“…A launching experiment with 100 projectiles is executed to prove the accuracy of the thermochemical–mechanical damage prediction method.…”
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Automated protein turnover calculations from 15N partial metabolic labeling LC/MS shotgun proteomics data. by David Lyon, Maria Angeles Castillejo, Christiana Staudinger, Wolfram Weckwerth, Stefanie Wienkoop, Volker Egelhofer

“…Extraction of composite spectral envelopes from complex LC/MS shotgun proteomics data can be a challenging task, due to the inherent complexity of biological samples. With partial metabolic labeling experiments this complexity increases as a result of the emergence of additional isotopic peaks. …”
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ATBShellFinder: A Bytecode-Level Webshell Detector Based on Adversarial Training by Yuqin Xie, Yuan Zhang, Daofeng Li, Guoren Xiong

“…To validate the generalizability of our method, experiments were conducted on two widely used web programming languages. …”
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Deep transfer learning mechanism for fine-grained cross-domain sentiment classification by Zixuan Cao, Yongmei Zhou, Aimin Yang, Sancheng Peng

“…In addition, we introduce the entropy minimisation and consistency regularisation to process unlabelled samples in the target domain. Extensive experiments on the datasets from YelpAspect, SemEval 2014 task 4 and Twitter not only demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method but also provide a better way for cross-domain sentiment classification.…”
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RESEARCH THE PROCESS OF DISPLACING HEAVY OIL BY HYDROCARBON SOLVENTS FROM A MODEL OF FRACTURED CARBONATE CORE by A. R. Sharifov, D. V. Mardashov

“…For the studied reservoir properties method for solvent injection and its composition have been proposed.…”
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Wet aggregate stability modeling based on support vector machine in multiuse soils by Ruizhi Zhai, Jianping Wang, Deshun Yin, Ziheng Shangguan

“…One hundred thirty-four soil samples from various land uses, such as crops, grasslands, and bare land are adopted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and confirm the valid input parameters. …”
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Study on generation of turbulence-distorted received signals in OAM optical communications obeying dual Johnson S_Bdistribution by Chunyi CHEN, Qinqin XIONG, Haiyang YU, Haifeng YAO, Jiaxue SONG, Yan LOU

“…In order to analyze the performance of atmospheric OAM optical communication systems by Monte Carlo method,a method was proposed to simulate turbulence-distorted received signals in OAM optical communications,which possessed the given temporal auto-correlation and obeyed the dual Johnson S<sub>B</sub>distribution.A Gaussian random sequence with given temporal auto-correlation was first created by using an auto regression (AR) model,and meanwhile a white noise random sample sequence obeying the dual Johnson S<sub>B</sub>distribution was generated.Then the white noise random sample sequence was rearranged according to the statistical rank of the auto-correlated Gaussian random sequence to match the given temporal auto-correlation.By performing the simulation experiments,it was found that the statistical distribution of the simulated signals was in excellent agreement with the dual Johnson S<sub>B</sub>distribution,and the temporal auto-correlation of the signals matched the given temporal auto-correlation function.The results demonstrate that the proposed method can be used to simulate time-domain received signals in OAM optical communications impaired by turbulence-induced distortions.…”
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[Translated article] Evolution of the rapid recovery program to outpatient surgery in total hip arthroplasty by S.M. Miguela Alvarez, A. Bartra, M. Novellas, M. Surroca, F. Anglès

“…We present the preliminary results of our experience. Material and method: This is a prospective observational study conducted in 2023 with a sample of 30 patients proposed for THA following an outpatient surgery protocol by the orthopedic surgery and traumatology service. …”
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Evolución del programa de recuperación rápida a cirugía ambulatoria en artroplastia total de cadera by S.M. Miguela Alvarez, A. Bartra, M. Novellas, M. Surroca, F. Anglès

“…We present the preliminary results of our experience. Material and method: This is a prospective observational study conducted in 2023 with a sample of 30 patients proposed for THA following an outpatient surgery protocol by the orthopedic surgery and traumatology service. …”
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Satisfação no trabalho vs. clima organizacional: estudo transversal em profissionais de enfermagem brasileiros [Job satisfaction vs. organizational climate: a cross-sectional study... by Ricardo Toshio Yamassake, Patricia Campos Pavan Baptista, Vinicius Anselmo Albuquerque, Chennyfer Dobbins Abi Rached

“…ABSTRACT Objective: relating the job satisfaction of the nursing team and the organizational climate in a University Hospital. Method: cross-sectional, quantitative study. EQUATOR checklist used to report the study is SQUIRE 2.0. …”
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Pathological and non-pathological hikikomori: social media use, digital engagement, and therapeutic implications by Jeff Gavin, Jeff Gavin, Mark Brosnan, Mark Brosnan, Richard Joiner

“…This study examined whether social media use differs by hikikomori status (pathological vs. non-pathological) and phase (early [<3 months], pre- [3–6 months], full [6+ months]).MethodA cross-sectional study recruited 1,420 self-identified frequent internet users (aged 18-25) via Prolific, who completed a questionnaire on their social media activity (time spent; type of communication), hikikomori status (pathological/non-pathological), and phase (early/pre/full). …”
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