Antimicrobial resistance in Africa: A retrospective analysis of data from 14 countries, 2016-2019. by Gilbert Osena, Geetanjali Kapoor, Erta Kalanxhi, Timothée Ouassa, Edwin Shumba, Sehr Brar, Yewande Alimi, Manuel Moreira, Martin Matu, Abdourahmane Sow, Eili Klein, Pascale Ondoa, Ramanan Laxminarayan, MAAP Study Group

“…<h4>Background</h4>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health issue that exacerbates the burden of infectious diseases and healthcare costs. …”
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Life on the Edge: Challenges to Beginning Successful Aging by Fattaneh Hajilou, Tavakkol Aghayari Hir, Ali Pilvari

“…It aimed to analyze the primary issues faced by the elderly in achieving successful aging. …”
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Recent advances in low‐background luminescent nanomaterials‐enhanced lateral flow assays for clinical diagnosis by Liangwen Hao, Jing Chen, Quanshuang Li, Dongyu Zhang, Qingli Huang, Hao Zhang, Shibao Li

“…In recent years, various nanomaterials‐based methods have been developed to address this issue, including the time‐gated technique, wavelength‐differentiated strategy and external modulated strategy for separation of background autofluorescence to minimize interference from biological samples. …”
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Recovering manifold representations via unsupervised meta-learning by Yunye Gong, Jiachen Yao, Ruyi Lian, Xiao Lin, Chao Chen, Ajay Divakaran, Yi Yao

“…However, data scarcity remains a major challenge in manifold analysis especially for data and applications with real-world complexity. To address this issue, we propose manifold representation meta-learning (MRML) based on autoencoders to recover the underlying manifold structures without uniformly or densely sampled data. …”
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Progressive multi-scale multi-attention fusion for hyperspectral image classification by Hu Wang, Sixiang Quan, Jun Liu, Hai Xiao, Yingying Peng, Zhihui Wang, Huali Li

“…Therefore, how to fully utilize spatial and spectral information in situations with limited samples has become a challenging problem. To address this issue, inspired by the PID controller, this paper proposes a Progressive Multi-Scale Multi-Attention Fusion (PMMF) network structure that simultaneously extracts features from the Proportional (P), Integral (I), and Derivative (D) branches. …”
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Iraqi Drinking Water Quality Standards (IQS 417/ 2009) – Revisited by Hala Adnan Abbas

“…In 1967, (Law No. 25/1967) was issued. In 2001, new standard specifications of drinking water quality were issued (IQS/ 417/2001) and revised in 2009. …”
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Association of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Calcium in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients by Ghaith Hamza Kamil, Mohammed Mezher Hussein, Raya Ezzat Maroof

“…This study was designed to show the Correlation between FGF23 and Ca in chronic kidney disease patients. One hundred blood samples (57males and 43 females) from CKD patients have been gathered from Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Baghdad Teaching Hospital and Al-Karama Teaching Hospital during the period from December 2021 to March 2022 besides 50 samples as apparently healthy control. …”
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VAE-WACGAN: An Improved Data Augmentation Method Based on VAEGAN for Intrusion Detection by Wuxin Tian, Yanping Shen, Na Guo, Jing Yuan, Yanqing Yang

“…To address the class imbalance issue in network intrusion detection, which degrades performance of intrusion detection models, this paper proposes a novel generative model called VAE-WACGAN to generate minority class samples and balance the dataset. …”
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A Comparison of the Volatile Components of Cold Pressed Hamlin and Valencia (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck) Orange Oils Affected by Huanglongbing by Brittany M. Xu, George L. Baker, Paul J. Sarnoski, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider

“…A comparison to historic literature of orange oil investigations before HLB was of issue in Florida orange crops showed lower levels of linalool, decanal, neral, and geranial in Hamlin peel oil samples, as well as higher levels of dodecanal. …”
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Case Report: Forensic Chemistry Analysis in Asbestos Litigation by Lúcio Paulo Lima Logrado, Caio Tadão Joko, André Lima Logrado

“…Despite legislative efforts, asbestos remains a prevalent issue, particularly in countries like Brazil with significant asbestos deposits. …”
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Diagnostic approach to localised organising pneumonia: A case report by Đurić Mirna, Považan Đorđe, Đurić Dejan, Eri Živka, Trudić Anika

“…Localised organising pneumonia, radiologically presented with oval or round shadows mimicing lung cancer or metastases, is a major issue in differential diagnosis. Case report. …”
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Research on the Static Thermal Degradation Law of Lubricating Grease for Wind Power Bearings by Heng Tian, Yan Liu, Yuqing Fan, Gaofeng Wang, Zhiwei Wang

“…This research addresses the issue of lubricant performance degradation in the main shaft bearings of wind turbines. …”
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A novel three-way distance-based fuzzy large margin distribution machine for imbalance classification by Li Liu, Jinrui Guo, Ziqi Yin, Rui Chen, Guojun Huang

“…Abstract Class imbalance is a prevalent issue in practical applications, which poses significant challenges for classifiers. …”
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Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) for Health Commodities at Public Health Facilities in Amhara National Regional State of Ethiopia: A Data Quality Evaluation Survey by Mekonen ZT, Cho DJ, Fenta TG

“…Data collection involved 102 facilities selected through multi-stage stratified random sampling, adhering to sampling criteria set by USAID’s Logistics Indicators Assessment Tool (LIAT). …”
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Validation of persian version of Santa Clara Ethics Scale (SCES): a study among Iranian University students by Nahid Hoseininezhad, Roghieh Nooripour, Simin Hosseinian, Abbas Abdollahi

“…Data collection involved 537 participants (402 women and 135 men) selected through convenience sampling. After excluding 31 outliers, final sample comprised 506 respondents. …”
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DNA barcoding of marine rocky reef fishes from northern Peru suggests a parapatric speciation in the Tropical Eastern Pacific by E. Zavala, R. Britzke, Z. Siccha‐Ramírez, J. L. Ramirez

“…However, due to the difficulty of sampling and accessing reef areas, our knowledge of this biodiversity is incomplete. …”
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Comparative characteristics of growth of the scales from pink salmon in returns to Sakhalin Island (southeast coast) and Iturup Island in 2017 and 2018 by A. M. Kaev, L. V. Romasenko, D. A. Kaev

“…Such changes of pink salmon abundance could be reasoned by environmental conditions of reproduction in these areas or new redistribution between two areas. To clarify the issue, complex analysis (same as for 2014) was applied for pink salmon at southeastern Sakhalin and Iturup in 2017 and 2018 (187 and 215 fish samples from Sakhalin and 194 and 152 fish samples from Iturup in these two years, respectively). …”
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In What To Invest After Surviving – The Investment Structure of Growing SMEs by Urban Pauli

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THE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS AS RURAL DEVELOPMENT LEVEL ASSESSING METHOD IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA IN THE CONTEXT OF REDUCING SOCIAL EXCLUSION by Alexandru GORGOS, Iurie DANILOV, Nina PUȚUNTEAN

“…Applying the rating method as a key indicator of sustainable development it provides a comprehensive approach to the rural area issues. Socio-economic and ecological characteristics of the evaluated sample are also evaluated.…”
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SVDDD: SAR Vehicle Target Detection Dataset Augmentation Based on Diffusion Model by Keao Wang, Zongxu Pan, Zixiao Wen

“…However, the effectiveness of deep learning methods is largely influenced by the quantity and diversity of samples in the dataset. Unfortunately, due to various constraints, the availability of labeled image data for training SAR vehicle detection networks is quite limited. …”
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