An Assessment of Provider Payment Mechanisms (PPMs) in Ethiopia: Implications for Redesign of PPMs and Progress Toward Universal Health Coverage by Mideksa Koricho, Tseday Zerayacob, Firehiwot Abebe, Muluken Argaw, Dereje Mengistu, Felegush Birhane, Shewa Negash, Amanuel Haileselassie, Agnes Gatome-Munyua

“…The study revealed the PPMs had positive and negative consequences. Line-item budgets were perceived to be predictable and sustainable but had little effect on efficiency and provider performance. …”
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El juego modificado, recurso metodológico en el fútbol de iniciación (Modified game, methodological resource in soccer initiation) by Jaime Serra Olivares, Luis Miguel García López, David Sánchez-Mora Moreno

“…However, there are no guidelines in modified games planning, which is why we stress the importance of continued research in this line. Key words: modified game, teaching sports, soccer, game performance. …”
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Investigation of coplanar waveguide fed SWB antenna with controllable stop band characteristics by Ijaz Khan, Chaoyun Song, Habib Ullah, Xiaozhi Qi, Kuang Zhang, Salahuddin Khan, Yizhi Shao, Tao Gong, Mian Muhammad Kamal, Muhammad Sheraz, Teong Chee Chuah

“…The suggested antenna demonstrates an average gain of 4.90 dB and a maximum peak gain of 6.0 dB, making it suitable for high-performance applications. Incorporating a rectangular complementary ring resonator into the radiator produces a band-notched function, thereby minimizing interference from specific frequency bands. …”
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P4CN-YOLOv5s: a passion fruit pests detection method based on lightweight-improved YOLOv5s by Zhiping Tan, Zhiping Tan, Dapeng Ye, Jiancong Wang, Wenxiang Wang

“…Secondly, after analyzing the image set characteristics to be detected in this research, the point-line distance bounding box loss function is utilized to calculate the coordinate distance of the prediction box and target box, and aimed at improving detection speed. …”
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Distributed MIMO Networks With Rotary ULAs for Indoor Scenarios Under Rician Fading by Eduardo N. Tominaga, Onel L. A. Lopez, Tommy Svensson, Richard D. Souza, Hirley Alves

“…Considering a spatially correlated Rician fading model, the optimal angular position of the RULAs is jointly computed by the central processing unit using particle swarm optimization as a function of the location of the active devices. Considering the impact of imperfect location estimates, our numerical results show that the RULAs’s optimal rotation brings substantial performance gains in terms of mean per-user spectral efficiency. …”
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ShinyGS—a graphical toolkit with a serial of genetic and machine learning models for genomic selection: application, benchmarking, and recommendations by Le Yu, Le Yu, Yifei Dai, Mingjia Zhu, Linjie Guo, Yan Ji, Huan Si, Lirui Cheng, Tao Zhao, Yanjun Zan

“…A series of statistical and machine learning models has been developed to increase the prediction performance continuously. However, the application of these models requires advanced R programming skills and command-line tools to perform quality control, format input files, and install packages and dependencies, posing challenges for breeders. …”
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Exploring empathic space: correlates of perspective transformation ability and biases in spatial attention. by Katharine N Thakkar, Peter Brugger, Sohee Park

“…To explore the relationship between these two functions, a self-other perspective transformation task and a task of spatial attention (line bisection) were administered to 40 healthy participants (19 women). …”
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Research on the Asynchronous Motor Vector Control System of the Metro Vehicle by 秦孝峰

“…Unique aspects in AC drive vector control system of metro vehicle for Xi’an metro line No.2 were analyzed and illustrated in the light of the basic structure of vector control, slip slide control and light load regeneration control, which presented basic functions of every link in the vector control block diagram. …”
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SPICE-Compatible Degradation Modeling Framework for TDDB and LER Effects in Advanced Packaging BEOL Based on Ion Migration Mechanism by Shao-Chun Zhang, Sen-Sen Li, Ying Ji, Ning Yang, Yuan-Hao Shan, Li Hong, Hao-Gang Wang, Wen-Sheng Zhao, Da-Wei Wang

“…The time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) degradation mechanism, governed by the synergistic interaction of multiphysics fields, plays a pivotal role in the performance degradation and eventual failure of semiconductor devices and advanced packaging back-end-of-line (BEOL) structures. …”
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Transcriptome analyses reveal differences in the response to temperature in Florida and Northern largemouth bass (Micropterus spp.) during early life stages. by Moisés A Bernal, Gavin L Aguilar, Josh Sakmar, Sebastian N Politis, Savannah L Oglesby, Allen Nicholls, Anita M Kelly, Luke A Roy, Ian A E Butts

“…The results from this study are in line with previous phenotypic studies that indicated faster growth at warmer temperatures and better performance of Northern LMB raised in RAS. …”
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Progression criteria in loading exercise programmes in lower limb tendinopathy: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Adrian Escriche-Escuder, Jose Casaña

“…It will include randomised controlled trials that: included patients with Achilles, patellar or gluteal tendinopathy; assessed pain, function or performance; and included at least one group where progressive physical exercise was administered as monotherapy. …”
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Anemia of chronic diseases: connection with cardiovascular pathology by S. A. Nedomolkina, A. A. Pashkova, O. V. Velikaya, S. V. Nedomolkin

“…Anemia aggravates the course of concomitant pathology and contributes to a decrease in performance, cognitive function and survival. Anemia is a predictor and risk factor for cardiovascular remodeling.Materials and methods. …”
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Research on an Apple Recognition and Yield Estimation Model Based on the Fusion of Improved YOLOv11 and DeepSORT by Zhanglei Yan, Yuwei Wu, Wenbo Zhao, Shao Zhang, Xu Li

“…Additionally, the combination of a unique ID with the region of line (ROL) strategy in DeepSORT further boosts yield estimation accuracy to 84.45%, surpassing the performance of the unique ID method alone. …”
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Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in spiking neural networks by Thomas Nowotny, James P Turner, James C Knight

“…We found that when combined with two specific augmentations, the right regularisation and a delay line input, Eventprop networks with one recurrent layer achieved state-of-the-art performance on SHD and good accuracy on SSC. …”
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Generalized Estimating Equation Model Based Recursive Partitioning: Application to Distracted Driving by Hyoshin Park, Nigel Pugh

“…Drivers are more vulnerable to cell phone distractions when their location is near the stop line of the intersection at onset of yellow interval.…”
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Reconstructing Equatorial Electron Flux Measurements From Low‐Earth‐Orbit: A Conjunction Based Framework by D. L. Stumbaugh, J. Bortnik, S. G. Claudepierre

“…We test combinations of input variables from the conjunction data set and achieve the best model performance when we use all the input variables during training. …”
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Optimized PID Controller for Load Frequency Control in Multi-Source and Dual-Area Power Systems Using PSO and GA Algorithms by Zhengwei Qu, Waqar Younis, Xianglin Liu, Abdul Khalique Junejo, Sulaiman Z. Almutairi, Peng Wang

“…The integral time absolute error (ITAE) serves as the fitness function for optimization. Key contributions include developing sustainable power network models with renewable energy fluctuations, applying PSO and GA for robust PID tuning, and comparing controller performance under varying conditions. …”
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Concepts of understanding the essence of the “abuse of rights” category by V. V. Lazariev

“…Exploring the issues of approaches put forward by researchers to understanding the essence of the category “abuse of rights”, it is possible to distinguish the following concepts: abuse of rights does not exist; abuse of rights is socially harmful behavior which, however, does not violate the law; moral principle, performance of lawful behaviour; exercise of rights contrary to their purpose; types of abuse: those that are not characterized by obvious unlawfulness, which is expressed in the socially harmful behaviour of an authorized person who relies on a subjective right belonging to him/her; a type of legal nihilism; a special type of offense; a form of exercising a right contrary to its purpose, goal, social function or interests of other subjects.…”
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An Effective ANFIS Approach for Interconnected DFIG-Based Wind Energy System With Model-In-Loop Validation by J. Sarathi, D. Rama Prabha

“…Furthermore, dynamic and transient performances are thoroughly assessed in the presence of grid-side faults such as single-line-to-ground and three-phase-to-ground faults. …”
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Traditional Chinese Medicine as a Tool for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Targeting Pathophysiological Mechanism by Lu J, Liu X, Fan K, Lin X

“…Consequently, effective clinical decision-making requires a multidisciplinary approach to adapt individualized treatment plans based on the patient’s tumor stage, liver function, and overall performance status. The approval of new first- and second-line pharmacological agents, along with the establishment of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies as standard treatment modalities, has contributed to an improved prognosis for patients with HCC. …”
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