Factors associated with caffeine intake among undergraduates: a cross-sectional study from Palestine by May Hamdan, Souzan Zidan, Fatima Al-Amouri, Hiba Niroukh, Manar Abu Dawod, Sajeda Ashour, Shahd Sameer Dweik, Manal Badrasawi

“…Moderate caffeine intake has beneficial health effects, while increased caffeine intake may have harmful effects in the human body. …”
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Application of indigenous zinc-solubilizing bacteria in biofertilizers to enhance zinc nutrition of rice grains in inceptisols paddy fields by E. Pratiwi, P. Lestari, Y. Nugraha, W. Hartatik, Z. Susanti, I.G.M. Subiksa, A. Kasno, T.A. Adriany, Y.S. Fatma, A.F. Nababan, A.A. Rivaie

“…It is crucial to secure a satisfactory level of zinc in rice grains because of its indispensable function in various biochemical processes that are fundamental for the growth and advancement of plants. …”
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Designing the entrepreneurial government model in attracting and selecting public sector human resources by Atieh sarayani, Vahid Pourshahabi, Nourmohammad yaghobi, Amin reza kamaliyan

“…The results showed that for seven hypotheses out of the total of nine formulated hypotheses based on the research model, no evidence of rejection at the 5% error level has been obtained, and it has a positive and significant effect, and also the results of the average common values ​​and the average values ​​of R Squares show that the value of GOF is equal to 0.790, which indicates the strong fit of the model. …”
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ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN KADUNA STATE: THE IMPLICATION FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT by Abdullahi Umar, Abubakar Abdullahi Muhammad, Awwal Muhammad Shafiu, Abdulrahim Mahmud Dogara, Amina Lawal

“…The study used the political legitimacy and effectiveness theories. The concept of political legitimacy is inextricably intertwined with the issues of political change, regardless of whether governments, political systems, or institutions comply with the traditional standards of legitimacy as subscribed in a democratic process of free and fair elections. …”
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Trace Metal Detection in Aqueous Reservoirs Using Stilbene Intercalated Layered Rare-Earth Hydroxide Tablets by Solomon Omwoma

“…In this work, a new, robust, and effective tool for trace metal detection and monitoring in aqueous solutions has been developed. …”
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Performance Contract System and Decentralised Education Service delivery in Kayonza District of Rwanda. by Mugabo Seth, Asiimwe

“…The results obtained from the study indicated that performance contract influences decentralized education service delivery both positively and negatively by reducing absenteeism on the side of teachers and awakening the Government to timely supply resources in form of capitation grant to schools and rehabilitate classes to improve the environment for education service delivery. The effectiveness of the system in education service delivery was found out to be influenced by factors such as teachers’ awareness and adoption of the system, motivation, level of happiness and commitment involvement of implementers at all levels, working environment, availability of resources and teachers attitudes on the importance of performance contract while the challenges in the implementation of the system were found to include limited awareness, dishonesty, low motivation, poor learning environment poor perception and adoption, lack of ownership of the process and poor evaluation criterion. …”
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THE STRUCTURE OF HAPPINESS REPRESENTATION FOR RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES by S. Yu. Zhdanova, A. V. Pecherkina, A. A. Strokanov

“…Emotional state of students exerts direct impact on their ability and readiness to cope with challenges when studying, gives rise to the success of educational process and its effectiveness. In this regard, the search of methods and determination of the tasks of psychological diagnostics is brought into focus. …”
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Study on Key Cost Drivers of Prefabricated Buildings Based on System Dynamics by Na Lou, Jingjuan Guo

“…Through sensitivity analysis, key cost drivers of prefabricated building are identified and ranked as degree of design standardization, unit price, prefabrication rate, information technology level, transportation mode, labor level, machinery level, transportation distance, etc. …”
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Determination of Polar Pesticides Based on a Modified QuPPe with Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Gözde Türköz Bakirci

“…Plant-origin foods from diverse field experiments were effectively processed using the validated approach. …”
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Semiotic Diagnostics: Methodology for Measuring Education Transformation Efficiency by N. A. Lyurya

“…Secondly, the implementation of innovative educational technologies in teacher training should be ahead of this implementation in teaching practice at all educational levels, which will ensure that the advantages of these technologies are effectively tuned to achieve the goals of national education.…”
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Advances in Gene Therapy for Neurologic Disorders: An Overview by Pallavi Chand, K. Trideva Sastri, Ashish Singh Chauhan, Souvik Chakraborty, Vikash Jakhmola

“…These viral and non-viral vectors techniques are carefully screened through preclinical and clinical levels and eventually render patients with effective therapies. …”
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Analysis of the Impacts of Health Cost and Risk Preference on Farmers’ Protective Behavior of Pesticide Application Based on the Autoregressive Threshold Model: A Case Study of Wuh... by Shukai Cai, Yaxing Gu, Runze Li, Zhonghong Teng

“…However, when the risk preference exceeds the critical value (RP>3), and the health cost exceeds a certain critical value (HC>107.235), they have a significant positive effect on improving the protection level of farmers in the process of pesticide application. …”
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Reliability Modeling for Multistate System with Preventive Maintenance under Customer Demand by Jinlei Qin, Zheng Li

“…The performance level of a multistate system (MSS) can vary among different values rather than only two states (perfect functioning and complete failure). …”
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Biology of Inflammation in Crohn's Disease: Mechanisms of Action of Anti-TNF-αAlpha Therapy by Stephan R Targan

“…The prolonged period of clinical benefit shows that the effect of short term TNF-αelimination remains long after the monoclonal antibody has cleared the body. …”
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Automatic Rock Classification Algorithm Based on Ensemble Residual Network and Merged Region Extraction by Chenlu Guo, Zhiyuan Li

“…The effect of misclassification in certain regions on the results is eliminated by ensemble learning based on the voting method. …”
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Automated Stellar Spectra Classification with Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network by Zhuang Zhao, Jiyu Wei, Bin Jiang

“…Then, according the cross-entropy testing error of the spectra at different signal-to-noise ratios, we integrate the results of different classifiers in an ensemble learning way to improve the effect of classification. The experimental result proved that our one-dimensional ECNN strategy could achieve 95.0% accuracy in the classification task of the stellar spectra, a level of accuracy that exceeds that of the classical principal component analysis and support vector machine model.…”
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Aging and tumors: a dynamic interaction by Yudi Zhang, Siqiang Zhu, Zhaodong Liu, Yonghao Hu, Yongjian Zhang, Liang Shang, Leping Li

“…Additionally, the study investigates the impact of tumors on cellular and organismal senescence, including the effects on immune system function and metabolic processes. …”
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Genomic regions of Solanum tuberosum L. associated with the tuber eye depth by I. V. Totsky, I. V. Rozanova, A. D. Safonova, A. S. Batov, Yu. A. Gureeva, A. V. Kochetov, E. K. Khlestkina

“…These characteristics complicate the genetic analysis and breeding process. The tuber’s eye depth is an important trait that affects the suitability of potato varieties for processing. …”
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A Tuned Mass Damper with Nonlinear Magnetic Force for Vibration Suppression with Wide Frequency Range of Offshore Platform under Earthquake Loads by Qiong Wu, Wei Zhao, Weiguo Zhu, Rencheng Zheng, Xilu Zhao

“…Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are applied to ensure the safety and stability of offshore platforms; however, linear dampers are effective for a single resonance frequency, providing vibration suppression only within a narrow frequency band. …”
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A Flexible UHF RFID Respiratory Sensor by Jéssyca I. L. Araujo, Georgina K. F. Serres, Simone Genovesi, Danilo F. S. Santos, Alexandre J. R. Serres

“…The RSSI data collected from the RFID tag readings were processed using the Daubechies wavelet of order 5 (db5) with three levels of signal decomposition, resulting in signals with reduced noise. …”
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