Socioeconomic Status and Hypertension among Teachers and Bankers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Girma Fikadu, Seblewengel Lemma

“…The social and economic changes taking place in developing countries are influencing the pace at which hypertension and its risk factors are expanding. As opposed to the already established inverse association in developed nations, the association between socioeconomic status and hypertension in developing countries is poor and inconsistent. …”
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Performance on ICI Self-Cancellation in FFT-OFDM and DCT-OFDM System by Shilpi Gupta, Upena Dalal, Vishnu Narayan Mishra

“…Also, this paper investigates outperforming BER and CIR improvement by using DCT-OFDM without applying self-cancellation techniques, due to its energy compaction property.…”
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Oral Administration of 17α-Methyltestosterone Increased Male Percentage of Freshwater Crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus by O. Carman, M.Y. Jamal, . Alimuddin

“… Cherax quadricarinatus is one of freshwater crayfish species that has enormous potential for expanding its farming in future.  Application of monosex male culture using steroid sex hormone administration method during the period of sex differentiation or early developmental stage might be increased efficiency in farming.  …”
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Pulmonary Disease Secondary to Reflux Mimicking Interstitial Pneumonia in Systemic Sclerosis: Case Report and Literature Review by Ricardo Azêdo de Luca Montes, Nathalia Mazolli Veiga, Pedro Gemal Lanzieri, Luis Otávio Cardoso Mocarzel

“…Clinical management of patients with collagen diseases requires clinician skills to identify the natural history and understand its nuances. This is a common situation in clinical practice, but with a few discussions in international literature.…”
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Science as Effective Social Communication by J. C. Kotze

“…People con stituting society, on the other hand, are subjectively engaged in everyday social life. In its application of objec tive theory, science falls to share Emeaning in terms of subjective ex meaning with human beings who find perience. …”
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The Impact of Transparency on the Citizen Participation in Decision- Making at the Municipal Level in Romania by Bianca Radu

“… The article analyses the implementation of the transparency law and investigates whether its adoption generated more citizens’ participation in the decision making process at municipal level in Romania. …”
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The underappreciated contribution of Oskar Fischer to the knowledge of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration by Eliasz Engelhardt, Lea Tenenholz Grinberg

“…These pathologies lead to diverse clinical syndromes collectively known as Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), which includes a behavioral variant, and primary progressive aphasia, with its non-fluent and semantic variants, and related conditions with parkinsonism or motoneuron disease features. …”
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Uncovering the genetic basis of antiviral polyketide limocrocin biosynthesis through heterologous expression by Sofiia Melnyk, Marc Stierhof, Dmytro Bratiichuk, Franziska Fries, Rolf Müller, Yuriy Rebets, Andriy Luzhetskyy, Bohdan Ostash

“…This, in turn, opens the door to biological routes towards overproduction of LIM as well as generation of its derivatives.…”
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On the MIMO Capacity for Distributed System under Composite Rayleigh/Rician Fading and Shadowing by Santiago González-Aurioles, J. L. Padilla, P. Padilla, Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés, Juan C. Gonzalez-Macias

“…Furthermore, Rician model with shadowing is studied and its results are reported. In addition, correlated and experimental results are provided. …”
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2,4-Thiazolidinedione Treatment Improves the Innate Immune Response in Dairy Goats with Induced Subclinical Mastitis by Fernanda Rosa, Johan S. Osorio, Erminio Trevisi, Francisco Yanqui-Rivera, Charles T. Estill, Massimo Bionaz

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Global stellarator coil optimization with quadratic constraints and objectives by Lanke Fu, Elizabeth J. Paul, Alan A. Kaptanoglu, Amitava Bhattacharjee

“…Most present stellarator designs are produced by costly two-stage optimization: the first for an optimized equilibrium, and the second for a coil design reproducing its magnetic configuration. Few proxies for coil complexity and forces exist at the equilibrium stage. …”
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Optimization of Dual-energy Spectral Lower-extremity Computed Tomography Venography Scanning Protocol: Phantom Study by Shigeng WANG, Renwang PU, Yijun LIU, Xin FANG, Wei WEI, Beibei LI

“…The imaging parameters for Group A were as follows: tube voltage of 120 kVp, auto tube-current technology (100~600 mA), noise index (NI) of 10, and image reconstruction using 40% posterior multimodel adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR-V). The imaging parameters for Group B were spectral imaging (GSI) mode, instantaneous dual tube voltage of 80/140 kVp, tube current with GSI Assist technology, and three scan groups based on NI values of 10, 11, and 12. …”
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Additions to the Mycosphaerella complex by P.W. Crous, K. Tanaka, B.A. Summerel, J.Z. Groenewald

“…Species in the present study were compared based on their morphology, growth characteristics in culture, and DNA sequences of the nuclear ribosomal RNA gene operon (including ITS1, ITS2, 5.8S nrDNA and the first 900 bp of the 28S nrDNA) for all species and partial actin and translation elongation factor 1-alpha gene sequences for Cladosporium species. …”
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Reliability-Based Design of Solid and Nail-jointed I-Section of Nigerian-Grown African Birch (<i>Anogeissus leiocarpus</i>) Timber Column by U.N. Wilson, A.A. Adedeji, F.O.P. Oriola, J.A. Alomaja, J.E. Sani

“…The ‘I’-section also showed a higher capacity to bear the Euler load with greater lengths than the solid section because of its greater radius of gyration and rigidity value and would be rather preferable for long columns than the solid section. …”
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The Role of the Commercial Space Industry within the US National Security under the Trump Administration by E. A. Kuznetsov

“…The second section provides a brief overview of the key strategic policy documents of the Trump’s administration including those on commercial use of space in general and its implications for the US national security in particular. …”
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Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis of Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems for Use in Hong Kong by Tin-Tai Chow, Jie Ji

“…Before a new energy technology, like PV/T, is fully implemented, its environmental superiority over the competing options should be assessed, for instance, by evaluating its consumption levels throughout its production and service life. …”
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Influence of large-scale atmospheric circulation and Mediterranean sea surface temperature to extreme land precipitation: the case of storm Alex by Laurent Terray, Margot Bador

“…Extreme (greater than 500 mm) amount of rain fell in southeastern France and northern Italy on 2nd and 3rd October 2020 during a ‘Mediterranean episode’ triggered by the powerful extratropical cyclone Alex. …”
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Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare by Nicole Wegner by Abdul Wasay Khan Mandokhail

“…While offering valuable critiques, its narrow focus on Canada limits its global applicability. …”
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Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community by Maria Sapignoli

“…These practices illustrate the dynamic between the state’s control and care toward its most discriminated groups and indigenous resistance, incorporation, and cooptation. …”
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A Case of Acquired Reactive Perforating Dermatosis with Complete Resolution of Eruptions on Upper and Lower Limbs During the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus and Peripheral Artery Di... by Yoshihito Mima, Tsutomu Ohtsuka, Ippei Ebato, Ryosuke Nishie, Satoshi Uesugi, Makoto Sumi, Yoshimasa Nakazato, Yuta Norimatsu

“…Acquired reactive perforating dermatosis (ARPD) is characterized by its onset after the age of 18 years, umbilicated papules or nodules with a central keratotic plug, and the presence of necrotic collagen tissue within an epithelial crater. …”
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