Improving contraceptive agency through peer social support: findings from a longitudinal qualitative evaluation of the I-CAN intervention in Uganda by Erica Sedlander, Beth Phillips, Isabelle Thapar, Catherine Birabwa, Lauren Suchman, Madeline Griffith, Dinah Amongin, Ronald Wasswa, Lynn Atuyambe, Jenny Liu, Peter Waiswa, Kelsey Holt

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Recruiting patients into a healthcare services trial: lessons learned from a feasibility study to investigate a patient-oriented navigation intervention for age-associated diseases by Kathrin Gödde, Hella Fügemann, Ulrike Grittner, Raphael Kohl, Andreas Meisel, Thomas Reinhold, Nina Rieckmann, Susanne Schnitzer, P. Markus Deckert, Nikolaj Frost, Christian H. Nolte, Stephan J. Schreiber, Ute Goerling, Christine Holmberg

“…Methods Detailed documentation of the recruitment process was conducted as part of the process evaluation for a mixed-methods feasibility study including randomized trials and parallel cohort studies to evaluate a patient-oriented navigation program. …”
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A vectorization of iterative computational processes and time acceleration estimates by V. M. Demidenko, V. I. Benediktovich

“…The relevance of the problem under consideration is due to the fact that processes that occur during cyclic data processing and in iterative algorithms are the most difficult to parallelize. In solving the problem, three main objectives were set. …”
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Decentralized Adaptive Control of Closed-Kinematic Chain Mechanism Manipulators by Tri T. Nguyen, Charles C. Nguyen, Tuan M. Nguyen, Tu T. C. Duong, Ha Tang T. Ngo, Lu Sun

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New Strategies Based on Hierarchical Matrices for Matrix Polynomial Evaluation in Exascale Computing Era by Luisa Carracciuolo, Valeria Mele

“…These include but are not limited to massive parallelism, effective exploitation, and high complexity in programming, such as heterogeneous computing facilities. …”
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Applying Force Majeure Events in Russian and South African Law: A Comparative Evaluation by S. Zimneva, N. Shaik-Peremanov, I. Pluzhnik

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Evaluating the feasibility of study methods for a future trial-based economic evaluation of a multistage shared decision-making program for type 2 diabetes mellitus: Protocol for a... by Anna Tichler, Dorijn F L Hertroijs, Ghislaine A P G van Mastrigt, Martijn C G J Brouwers, Dirk Ruwaard, Arianne M J Elissen

“…The short- and long-term effectiveness of the multistage shared decision-making program needs to be researched in a trial-based economic evaluation. To evaluate the feasibility of study methods for such an evaluation, we will conduct a pilot study. …”
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT LINEAR EQUATION SOLVERS FOR SOLVING NONLINEAR FE PROBLEMS ON MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES by Michal Bošanský, Bořek Patzák

“…<p>The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of existing parallel linear equation solvers to solving large-scale, nonlinear finite element analysis problems on systems with distributed memory. …”
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Designing and conducting adaptive trials to evaluate interventions in health services and implementation research: practical considerations by Robert J Glynn, Niteesh K Choudhry, Julie C Lauffenburger, Lorenzo Trippa, Massimiliano Russo, Steffen Ventz

“…Randomised controlled clinical trials are widely considered the preferred method for evaluating the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions in healthcare. …”
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Evaluation of automatic cell free DNA extraction metrics using different blood collection tubes by Daniel Andersson, Helena Kristiansson, Manuel Luna Santamaría, Huma Zafar, Ivan Mijakovic, Åsa Torinsson Naluai, Anders Ståhlberg

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Limit load based evaluation of plastic η factor for C(T) specimen with a mismatched weld by R Nikhil, S A Krishnan, G Sasikala, A Moitra

“…Plastic η factor is adopted to account crack tip plasticity while evaluating the fracture toughness of the materials as per ASTM E1820. …”
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Based on Regular Expression Matching of Evaluation of the Task Performance in WSN: A Queue Theory Approach by Jie Wang, Kai Cui, Kuanjiu Zhou, Yanshuo Yu

“…Secondly, in the validation phase, the subset of features clustering, the compressed matching table is more convenient for distributed parallel matching. Finally, based on the queuing model, the sensor networks of task scheduling dynamic performance are evaluated. …”
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Pollutant transport and performance evaluation in defective composite cutoff walls: centrifuge test and numerical simulation by Bo Huang, Lin-Feng Cao, Yu-Chao Li

“…This paper presents the results from centrifuge experiments modelling pollutants transport within a defective CGSB wall to investigate interface transport behavior and its performance. Additionally, a parallel test on the SB wall is performed simultaneously to evaluate the enhancement effect of a defective geomembrane on the performance of SB walls. …”
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Evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic diagnostic test (RIDT) for diagnosis of rabies in samples from Argentina by Federico Gury Dohmen, Esteban Kovacs, Natalia Elizabeth Prestrera, Fernando Javier Beltrán

“…The sensitivity of RIDT was evaluated with CVS fixed strain of rabies virus (RABV), previously titrated in 21-day old albino mice and compared with the Reverse Transcription – Polimerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) technique in parallel. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation of Well Performance Affected by Fracture Density and Fracture Connectivity in Fractured Tight Reservoirs by Wenchao Fang, Xuejie Qin, Chuanxi Liu, Ruyue Wang, Jun Pu, Hanqiao Jiang, Weiling He

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Methodological approach to evaluating the DreamBox Reading Plus intervention: a cluster randomised trial by Sandor Gellen, Steph Ainsworth, Stephen Morris, Cathy Lewin, Kate Wicker

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Kidney Disease Segmentation and Classification Using Firefly Sigma Seeker and MagWeight Rank Techniques by Dilovan Asaad Zebari

“…By leveraging these techniques, the parallel convolutional layers are specifically tailored for kidney disease segmentation tasks. …”
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Evaluation of Clinical and Ultrasonographic Parameters in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Treated with Adalimumab: A Retrospective Study by M. Teoli, A. Zangrilli, M. S. Chimenti, M. Talamonti, M. Bavetta, D. Graceffa, R. Perricone, S. Chimenti

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical and US-PD parameters in PsA during adalimumab treatment. …”
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Evaluation of nurses’ perception of monkeypox in terms of epidemic anxiety, stress levels and compliance with isolation measures by Vildan Kocatepe, Dilek Yildirim, Ayşegül Türkmenoğlu

“…The findings also indicated that nurses’ perceived stress levels increased in parallel with their levels of epidemic anxiety.…”
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Gift or gamble? Evaluating the impact of urban low-carbon governance on high-quality development in China by Shunqing Yang, Shunqing Yang, Shunqing Yang, Yingying Zhou, Yingying Zhou, Qingxuan Meng, Qingxuan Meng

“…Robustness tests, including parallel trend test, propensity score matching-DID, expanded sample analysis and substituted the explained variable, confirm the reliability of these results. …”
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