Family planning in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs): A scoping review. by Relmah Baritama Harrington, Nichole Harvey, Sarah Larkins, Michelle Redman-MacLaren

“…While most health centres offer family planning services with some basic contraceptive methods, many people do not access these services. …”
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Developing and validation of religious education curriculum in preschool by Zeinab Ashrafi Soltan-Ahmadi, Sadegh Maleki Avarsin, Javad Keyhan, jahangir yari

“…Considering the role of education and the duties of the school in achieving religious goals and responding to the needs of society, religious education has been considered as the most important goal in the current educational and official systems (Vaghari Zamharir et al, 2017). Religious education or divine education is the most important part of Islamic education and the philosophy of the mission of the prophets, and the most basic duty of the divine parents and guardians and educators of the Islamic human society. …”
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Introducción al dossier. Dolarización y desdolarización: elementos para el debate by Fander Falconí

“…En enero de 2000, el gobierno decretó la dolarización oficial y unilateral de la economía. Este sistema fue adoptado debido a la grave inestabilidad provocada por una aguda crisis bancaria. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…This work provides a competitive option in a fusing scheme for improving system-level security and offers important ideas to those who want to explore methods besides CNNs. …”
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A WOMAN UNITED WITH THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST – BLESSED KLEMENSA STASZEWSKA OSU (1890–1943) by Anna Emmanuela Klich

“…In the second part of the article, a study is carried out on the spiritual desire expressed by Blessed Klemensa in her plan of life, written on the day of her perpetual vows to unite herself to the Sacrifice of Christ and to His intentions and the inner  disposition with which He offered Himself on the Cross. Here it was important to examine how Blessed Klemensa experienced all the tribulations and difficulties of life in union with Jesus. …”
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Optimization of the Cryoprotectants for Direct Vat Set Starters in Sichuan Paocai Using Response Surface Methodology by Lianqun Wu, Zhenying Yang, Ying Zhang, Ling Li, Chunli Tan, Lixia Pan, Yanping Wu, Kai Zhong, Hong Gao

“…The quality of Sichuan paocai in natural fermentation is often inconsistent due to the complexity of its microbial community and environmental influences. …”
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Thermos Array: Two-Dimensional Sparse Array with Reduced Mutual Coupling by Lei Sun, Minglei Yang, Baixiao Chen

“…Unfortunately, these arrays often suffer from mutual-coupling problems due to the large number of sensor pairs with small spacing d (usually equal to a half wavelength), which will degrade the performance of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. …”
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Quasi-random numbers in some statistical systems by Vitalija Rudzkienė

“…The generators chosen is often that provided by the software developer. The most popular way for getting pseudo-random numbers is by statistical programming systems. …”
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BUSINESS INCUBATORS AS CATALYST FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT IN OYO AND EKITI STATES, NIGERIA by Musa Maigari, Bola O Jenyo, Alabi Qozim Diekola, Paul Zangu Terkula

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Cardio-renal effect of dapagliflozin and dapagliflozin- saxagliptin combination on CD34 + ve hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and podocyte specific markers in type 2 diabetes (T2DM)... by Seshagiri Rao Nandula, Arad Jain, Sabyasachi Sen

“…However, when all outcome measures were taken into account, other than glycemic control the Combo didn’t seem to offer any further benefit, over Dapa alone. Therefore, contrary to our initial hypothesis we do not believe the more expensive Dapa + Saxa combination offers any specific cardiovascular benefit compared to Dapagliflozin alone. …”
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Delay-Tolerant, Low-Power Protocols for Large Security-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks by Claudio S. Malavenda, F. Menichelli, M. Olivieri

“…The solution proposed takes advantages from different domains considering as a guideline the low power consumption and facing the problems of seamless and lossy connectivity offered by the wireless medium along with very limited resources offered by a wireless network node. …”
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Two Small Peptides from <i>Buthus martensii</i> Hydrolysates Exhibit Antitumor Activity Through Inhibition of TNF-α-Mediated Signal Transduction Pathways by Mengshuang Zhu, Shanshan Zhang, Jiyang Tang, Hairong Hou, Lizhen Wang, Houwen Lin, Xuanming Zhang, Meng Jin

“…Our findings indicated that AK and GK played a pivotal role in offsetting the inflammatory stimuli that caused gastric cancer cell invasion and highlighted the use of <i>B. martensii</i> resources as functional products with health benefits.…”
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Narrowing the gap between machine learning scoring functions and free energy perturbation using augmented data by Ísak Valsson, Matthew T. Warren, Charlotte M. Deane, Aniket Magarkar, Garrett M. Morris, Philip C. Biggin

“…Abstract Machine learning offers great promise for fast and accurate binding affinity predictions. …”
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Over‐The‐Top Technique for ACL Reconstruction: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Postoperative Complications by Haocheng Du, Lin Li, Ziwen Qin, Jiang Guo, Xintao Zhang

“…According to the existing literature, the OTT technique offers distinct advantages, particularly for skeletally immature individuals and in revision cases. …”
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Normalized difference vegetation index prediction using reservoir computing and pretrained language models by John Olamofe, Ram Ray, Xishuang Dong, Lijun Qian

“…Additionally, Frozen Pretrained Transformer (FPT), a pretrained language model, showed superior performance in predicting specific NDVI values (most often peak or lowest NDVI), suggesting its effectiveness in precise temporal predictions. …”
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„Není Rusko bez cara.“ Romanovské jubileum v roce 1913 by Zbyněk Vydra

“…Their character was influenced by official state ideology: „orthodoxy, autocracy and nationalism“. …”
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THE POLITICAL SYMBOLISM OF UNMARKED GRAVES: THE KILLING AND SECRET BURIAL OF THE NIGERIAN LEADER OF BOKO HARAM, MUHAMMAD YUSUF by IBRAHIM BRAJI

“…Thisessay discusses the strategies adopted in disposing the dead body ofMuhammad Yusuf, the leader of Boko Haramin an unmarked and unknown graveyard outside Maiduguri, Borno State and its political implication. …”
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Influence of working conditions on German paramedics' intention to leave the profession: a cross-sectional study by Thomas Hofmann, Thomas Hofmann, Thomas Hofmann, Michael Stanley, Michael Stanley, Luis Möckel

“…At the same time, it is noticeable that EMS staff often suffer from unfavourable working conditions, such as not being granted breaks, work-related calls during free time, and over time, and significant correlations with the planned length of stay in the paramedic service and exit thoughts were identified here.ConclusionUnfavourable working conditions further aggravate the already existing shortage of qualified personnel in the ambulance service, so measures by various decision-makers are imperative.…”
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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

“…However, considering the minimum dimension of the of the two sections capable of supporting the design load, the ‘I’- section is more economical than the solid section since it offers a less effective area of 11,200mm2 compared to the solid section with an effective area of 20,000mm2 . …”
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Hubungan Aktivitas Fisik Harian dengan Gangguan Menstruasi pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Andalas by Putri Anindita, Eryati Darwin, Afriwardi Afriwardi

“…</p><p><strong>Kata kunci: </strong>aktivitas fisik, gangguan menstruasi, mahasiswi FK</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>Menstrual disorder is often cause stress and decrease the life quality of a woman. …”
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