Distribution spatiale et structure démographique de Khaya spp. sur la chaîne de l’Atakora au Togo by Issifou Issa, Kpérkouma Wala, Wouyo Atakpama, Madjouma Kanda, Komlan Batawila, Koffi Akpagana

“…The plants of K. senegalensis are more cut in the study area and also most of the plants of this species have reached maturity releasing the seeds for regeneration. …”
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Spatial distributions and determinants of intimate partner violence among married women in Ethiopia across administrative zones. by Meseret Tadesse Fetene, Senait Cherie Adgeh, Haile Mekonnen Fenta

“…Women who had older age had more children, had lower decision-making power, and had a husband who was a drinker and had controlling behavior were more likely to experience any forms of IPV. …”
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rcprd: An R package to simplify the extraction and processing of Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data, and create analysis-ready datasets. by Alexander Pate, Rosa Parisi, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Matthew Sperrin

“…Functions are available to extract common variable types (e.g., history of a condition, or time until an event occurs, relative to an index date), and more general functions for database queries, allowing users to define their own variables for extraction. …”
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The Impact of Information Acquisition on Farmers’ Drought Responses: Evidence from China by Huiqing Han, Jianqiang Yang, Yingjia Zhang

“…The results indicate that better information acquisition ability is significantly correlated with more effective and scientifically informed decision-making in drought adaptation strategies. …”
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Women’s modern contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa: does men’s involvement matter? by Shireen Assaf, Lwendo Moonzwe Davis

“…In addition, countries that had a modern contraceptive rate below or equal to 20% had more significant findings than countries that had a modern contraceptive rate of above 20%…”
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Atmospheric Deposition of Inorganic Elements and Organic Compounds at the Inlets of the Venice Lagoon by E. Morabito, D. Contini, F. Belosi, A. M. Stortini, L. Manodori, A. Gambaro

“…Fluxes of inorganic pollutants depend differently on precipitations, while organic compounds show a more seasonal trend. The statistical analysis showed that the site in the northern Lagoon has lower and almost homogeneous fluxes of pollutants, while the other sites registered more variable concentrations. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF K-MEDOIDS AND K-PROTOTYPES CLUSTERING FOR EARLY DETECTION OF HYPERTENSION DISEASE by Hardianti Hafid, Selvi Annisa

“…The K-Medoids method is more resistant to outliers and noise than the K-Means method, which is more suitable for this research. …”
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The Effect of CEOs' Financial Knowledge on Unsystematic Risk, Considering the Moderating Effect of Managerial Ability by Bahram Ghanizadeh, Mohsen Dastgir, Afsaneh Soroushyar

“…With the emergence of economic globalization, expansion of business activities and more complex financial, administrative and operational structures, the need for firms to have CEOs with capable financial and managerial knowledge has multiplied more than in the past. …”
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One-class support vector machines for detecting population drift in deployed machine learning medical diagnostics by William S. Jones, Daniel J. Farrow

“…As noise increased, more inliers were detected: 5% (27 inliers), 10% (486), and 30% (851). …”
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Daily physical activity in Finnish adolescents with long term illnesses or disabilities: psychosocial associations with participation in sports club by Kwok Ng, Pauli Rintala, Raili Välimaa, Jorma Tynjälä, Jari Villberg, Sami Kokko, Lasse Kannas

“…Daily self-reported moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) was the outcome variable. Psychosocial variables included intention for future PA, self-perceptions, and educational aspirations. …”
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A mathematical framework for comparison of intermittent versus continuous adaptive chemotherapy dosing in cancer by Cordelia McGehee, Yoichiro Mori

“…Dosing of chemotherapy is often chosen based on the maximum tolerated dosing principle; drugs that are more toxic to normal tissue are typically given in on-off cycles, whereas those with little toxicity are dosed daily. …”
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Síndrome psicótica evoluindo com demência como manifestação clinica de deleção do DNA mitocondrial Psycothic syndrome developing into dementia as a clinical manifestation of mitoch... by Luiz Felipe Rocha Vasconcellos, Ana Claudia Celestino Leite, José Luis Sá Cavalcanti, Denise Madeira Moreira, Denise Feijó, Carolina Fischinger Moura de Souza

“…<br>The manifestations of mitochondrial disease are variable, affecting more frequently the organs with high aerobic metabolism in which they are more abundant, for example the nervous system. …”
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Challenges in expert ratings of marine habitat and species sensitivity to anthropogenic pressures by Niko Kallio, Jesper H. Andersen, Jacob Carstensen, Elena Gissi, Benjamin S. Halpern, Linus Hammar, Ciaran Murray, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Andy Stock, Samuli Korpinen

“…These results highlight how inconsistencies in the design of many expert surveys can lead to variable outcomes. It is important to employ more consistent and theoretically grounded methods and protocols when eliciting expert ratings of species’ sensitivity to pressures, to ensure compatibility across studies and maintain rigour in analyses supporting effective ocean management.…”
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Topographic and morphometric characterization of the humerii nutrient foramina and their implications for fracture repair and healing by Pedzisai Mazengenya, Palesa Mokoena, Brendon Kurt Billings, Arthur Tsalani Manjatika

“…The number of NF varied across the different population groups (p = 0.000), with SAA having more humerii presenting with a single NF and SAED having more humerii with two NF. …”
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Interconnectivity among different nonsuicidal self-injurious methods – a network analysis by Melinda Reinhardt, Kenneth G. Rice, Hunggu Cho, Zsolt Horváth

“…Conclusions Although different NSSI methods occurred as distinct entities, some play a more central role in the network. Our results suggest that the NSSI methods identified as central should be given more attention in clinical settings as these behaviors may indicate the severity of the condition. …”
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Factors associated with treatment response in chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis at a single center: a retrospective cohort study by Katherine D. Nowicki, Nathan D. Rogers, Carson L. Keeter, Nathan J. Donaldson, Jennifer B. Soep, Yongdong Zhao

“…Conclusions Patients with unifocal CNO involvement at diagnosis were more likely to require shorter NSAID treatment. Patients with more regions affected and those with symmetric bone lesions were more likely to require second-line treatment.…”
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The Effect of Feminine and Masculine Gender Expression on Attribution of Traits Differentiate Humans from Animals and Robots by Veysi Tanrıverdi, Meral Gezici Yalçın

“…Participants attributed human nature traits significantly more to the target person who had a feminine gender expression than a masculine one. …”
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A New Algorithm Model Based on Extended Kalman Filter for Predicting Inter-Well Connectivity by Liwen Guo, Zhihong Kang, Shuaiwei Ding, Xuehao Yuan, Haitong Yang, Meng Zhang, Shuoliang Wang

“…This study proposes a state variable-based dynamic capacitance (SV-DC) model that integrates artificial intelligence techniques with dynamic data and geological features to more accurately identify inter-well connectivity and its evolution. …”
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Profibrotic genetic polymorphisms as possible risk factors for the development of diastolic dysfunction in patients with epicardial adiposity by O. V. Gritsenko, G. A. Chumakova, O. V. Gruzdeva, A. V. Ponasenko, O. L. Barbarash

“…To determine the associations of variable sites of fibrogenesis genes with the risk of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD) in patients with epicardial adiposity (EA).Material and methods. …”
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A non-dominated sorting based multi-objective neural network algorithm of ethylene glycol hydrogenation reactor in energy reduction by Fakhrony Sholahudin Rohman, Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi, Dinie Muhammad, Muhamad Nazri Murat, Ashraf Azmi

“…While bi-objective optimization might seem more straightforward, the intermediate points on the Pareto Front in three-objective optimization can provide lower energy costs due to more effective balancing of trade-offs, richer exploration of the solution space, capturing complex interdependencies, and offering more robust and flexible solutions. …”
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