Menstrual hygiene knowledge and practices among female senior high school students in the new Juaben North municipality of Ghana: a cross-sectional study by Nana Nimo Appiah-Agyekum, Mary Adebi Nyamekye, Ivy Akushika Agbenu, Desmond Dzidzornu Otoo

“…Abstract Background Menstruation is a natural and inevitable process in females. However, adolescent girls continue to face challenges with several misconceptions and myths. …”
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Tower-to-global upscaling of terrestrial carbon fluxes driven by MODIS-LAI, Sentinel-3-LAI and ERA5-Land data by Pablo Reyes-Muñoz, Dávid D.Kovács, Jochem Verrelst

“…Recent efforts in upscaling terrestrial carbon fluxes (TCFs) from eddy covariance (EC) flux towers have gained momentum with machine learning, capturing complex relationships between TCFs and their driving variables. We applied Gaussian process regression (GPR) models to upscale TCF products from tower-to-global scale and studied the predictive capacity of climate variables and leaf area index (LAI) across biomes (2004–2023). …”
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Constitutional status of the Russian State Council in the mirror of actual constitutional reforms by O. A. Kozhevnikov, A. V. Bezrukov, A. N. Meshcheryakov

“…The authors substantiate the idea that the consolidation of a new constitutional position of the State Council can be considered as a process of forming a completely new state body, designed to ensure the coordinated functioning and interaction of bodies included in the unified public system. …”
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An autonomous vehicles’ test case extraction method: Example of vehicle-to-pedestrian scenarios by Zhengping Tan, Qian Wang, Wenhao Hu, Pingfei Li, Liangliang Shi, Hao Feng

“…A key aspect of this process is the generation of hazard scenarios. In general, such scenarios are generated through cluster analysis of traffic accident data. …”
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Form follows function: Morphological and immunohistological insights into epithelial–mesenchymal transition characteristics of tumor buds by Kathrin Enderle-Ammour, Moritz Bader, Theresa Dorothee Ahrens, Kai Franke, Sylvia Timme, Agnes Csanadi, Jens Hoeppner, Birte Kulemann, Jochen Maurer, Philip Reiss, Oliver Schilling, Tobias Keck, Thomas Brabletz, Elmar Stickeler, Martin Werner, Ulrich Friedrich Wellner, Peter Bronsert

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Reform of economic evaluation of medicines in Spain: proposals from the Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Financing by Marta Trapero-Bertran, Jaume Puig-Junoy, Emilio J. Alegre-del-Rey, Ana Clopés, Félix Lobo, Ana Ortega

“…The CAPF has proposed a three-phase reform of the economic evaluation (EE) and budget impact analysis (BIA) processes. The first phase involves the mandatory submission of EE and BIA by applicants for new drugs. …”
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Construcción y validación del cuestionario de percepción de docentes sobre discapacidad intelectual y aprendizaje (Construction and validation of the teacher perception questionna... by Lidya Dolores Alulima, Leonor Margarita Mena Chiluisa, Emma Claudina Guevara Vallejo

“…In conclusion the Validating Search Processes is continuous. Therefore, this process demonstrated that the questionary is appropriated to learn about the teacher’s perception on intellectual disability and the learning process. …”
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Teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards feedback: Contradictions and development trends by A. A. Azbel, L. S. Ilyushin, E. I. Kazakova, P. A. Morozova

“…The study is based on one of the findings of J. Hattie’s meta-analysis, which proves the importance of feedback in the educational process as a critical factor affecting the quality of learning outcomes. …”
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Experimental Study on Mesoscopic Shear Behavior of Calcareous Sand Material with Digital Imaging Approach by Jianhua Shen, Xing Wang, Wenbai Liu, Poyu Zhang, Changqi Zhu, Xinzhi Wang

“…The test results help to reveal the movement mechanism of calcareous sand at the mesoscopic level during the direct shear process.…”
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Continuum Robots: Current Trends in Design, Control, and Applications by Marina Kalekeyeva, Zarina Konakbay, Meiramgul Imanbekova, Aliya Shakbutova, Olga Garmash, Gulzhan Muratbekova, Doszhan Mambetalin

“…Taking into account the main technological features of existing solutions, this article provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of continuums robots. The analysis covers general problems arising in the design of CRs, and possible solutions are also considered, allowing the full potential of CRs for wider application to be revealed. …”
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Global distribution and decline of mangrove coastal protection extends far beyond area loss by Xichen Xu, Dongjie Fu, Fenzhen Su, Vincent Lyne, Hao Yu, Jiasheng Tang, Xiaorun Hong, Juan Wang

“…Width/area generally declined at low rates but width increases in some regions reduced MCPI. …”
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MLVA-typing of Vibrio choleraе El Tor Strains Isolated in Transbaikal Territory during the Seventh Pandemic by A. S. Ponomareva, L. V. Mironova, Zh. Yu. Khunkheeva, A. B. Moshkin, S. V. Balakhonov

“…MLVA-typing of 135 strains at 5 tandem repeats loci was carried outin order to study the clonal-population structure of the isolated from 1973 to 2016 on the Transbaikal territory V. cholerae. Analysis of the distribution patterns showed that the primary emergence of strains with new atypical for the territory genotypes in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, occurred in sewage waters with the subsequent detection of the given genotypes generally in Ingoda river and Kenon lake. …”
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DNA repair protein XPA is differentially expressed in colorectal cancer and predicts better prognosis by Xue Feng, Jingwei Liu, Yuehua Gong, Kaihua Gou, Huaiwei Yang, Yuan Yuan, Chengzhong Xing

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Implications of Self-Potential Distribution for Groundwater Flow System in a Nonvolcanic Mountain Slope by Tada-nori Goto, Kazuya Kondo, Rina Ito, Keisuke Esaki, Yasuo Oouchi, Yutaka Abe, Maki Tsujimura

“…The perturbation around the summit is also interpreted to be caused by heterogeneous infiltration process, based on a simplified numerical modeling of SP. …”
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Pragmatic cluster randomised cohort cross-over trial to determine the effectiveness of bridging from emergency to regular contraception: the Bridge-It study protocol by Anne Johnstone, Judith M Stephenson, Andrew Radley, Kaye Wellings, Paula Baraitser, Alison McDonald, James Trussell, Richard Gilson, Lisa Mcdaid, Sharon Tracey Cameron, Anna Glasier, Claire Battison, Sarah Cameron, Kathleen Cowle, Mark Forrest, Beatriz Goulao, Susan Patterson, Deirdre Sally, Nicola Stewart, Lucy Michie, Joanna Loudon, Kirsten Stuart, Emily Whittaker

“…Abortion rates will be an exploratory secondary analysis. Process evaluation includes interviews with pharmacists, SRH clinicians and women. …”
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Returning Individual-Level Urgent or Emergent Research Results to Participants: The Project Baseline Health Study Experience by Neha Pagidipati, Brooke Heidenfelder, Lydia Coulter Kwee, Fatima Rodriguez, Ranee Chatterjee, Kishan S. Parikh, Michel G. Khouri, Jennifer Stiller, Julie Eckstrand, P. Kelly Marcom, Priyatham S. Mettu, Glenn J. Jaffe, Sumana Shashidhar, Susan Swope, Susan Spielman, Elizabeth Fraulo, L. Kristin Newby, Pamela Douglas, Charlene Wong, Robert Green, Scarlet Shore, Jessica Mega, Adrian Hernandez, Paul Campbell, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Svati H. Shah

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I-MPN: inductive message passing network for efficient human-in-the-loop annotation of mobile eye tracking data by Hoang H. Le, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Omair Shahzad Bhatti, László Kopácsi, Thinh P. Ngo, Binh T. Nguyen, Michael Barz, Daniel Sonntag

“…Abstract Comprehending how humans process visual information in dynamic settings is crucial for psychology and designing user-centered interactions. …”
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Advancing Regulatory Oversight of Medical Device Trials to Align with Clinical Drug Standards in the European Union by Ádám Pannonhalmi, Bence Sipos, Róbert Imre Kurucz, Gábor Katona, Lajos Kemény, Ildikó Csóka

“…Due to stricter regulations in the field of medical devices, the process from application up until post-market surveillance became more difficult, but a correlation between the regulation of drug trials can also be found. …”
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Learning Power Systems Waveform Incipient Patterns Through Few-Shot Meta-Learning by Lixian Shi, Qiushi Cui, Yang Weng, Yigong Zhang, Shilong Chen, Jian Li, Wenyuan Li

“…IFs are typically transient and generally do not trigger the operation of relay protection devices. …”
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Study on Penetration Grouting Mechanism Based on Newton Fluid of Time-Dependent Behavior of Rheological Parameters by Yi Ding, Zhi-Quan Yang, Yi Yang, Ying-Yan Zhu, Yong-Fa Guo, Jie Zhang, Xin-Gui Chen

“…At present, the vast majority of Newton fluid penetration grouting mechanisms are considering that the viscosity of Newton fluid during the grouting whole process was constant, so the theoretical diffusion radius calculated by them is far greater than the actual measurements in the grouting engineering. …”
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