Burden and pattern of diseases among tribes of South-West Rajasthan by Rakhi Dwivedi, Prachi Goel, Riddhi Jain, Aditya Sharma, Pradeep Dwivedi, Pratibha Singh, Kuldeep Singh

“…Introduction: Policymakers can better grasp regional health challenges by investigating the disease profile in a specific area. …”
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Ecological Management Zoning Identification by Coupling Blue-Green and Gray Infrastructure Networks: A Case Study of Guizhou Province, China by Shuang Song, Xuanhe Zhang, Shaohan Wang, Yue Gong

“…Ecological management zoning is crucial for maintaining regional ecological security and realizing differentiated urban ecological governance. …”
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Data stochasticity and model parametrisation impact the performance of species distribution models: insights from a simulation study by Lambert, Charlotte, Virgili, Auriane

“…The choice of the sampling type as well as the resolution of environmental conditions to be used are recognized as of crucial importance, yet we lack any quantification of the effects these decisions may have on SDM reliability. …”
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Family as a health promotion setting: A scoping review of conceptual models of the health-promoting family. by Valerie Michaelson, Kelly A Pilato, Colleen M Davison

“…It encourages researchers, practitioners and family stakeholders to recognize the value of the child as an active agent in shaping the health promoting potential of their family context.…”
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Determining Symmetry Properties of Gravitational Fields of Terrestrial Group Planets by R.A. Kascheev, I.O. Novlyanskaya

“…The sets of coefficients are different in quantity of numerical parameters, sources and composition of the initial observational data, methods to obtain and process them, and, consequently, in a variety of properties and accuracy characteristics. For this reason, the task of comparison of different models of celestial bodies considered in the paper is of interest and relevant. …”
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Verbal Violence in the Press: A Case Study of Persian Newspapers by Mohammad RasekhMahand, Mojtaba AlizadeSahraii, Raheleh Izadifar, Roghayyeh salimiyan

“…This paper is based on the theory of conventional metaphors in such important papers as Lakoff and Johnson 1980 and Lakoff 1993. The metaphors are recognized here according to the Metaphor Identification Process (MIP) in Pragglejaz (2007). …”
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Supply of hospitals’ navigation system accessibility for various population groups from the perspective of lean production by A. A. Kurmangulov, S. D. Mazunina, Yu. S. Reshetnikova, N. S. Brynza

“…The accumulated experience in implementing projects with the implementation of the concept of lean production in outpatient medical institutions of the Russian Federation suggests that a rationally designed and deployed navigation system can be an effective tool for visualization in a lean production methodology. …”
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Reinvestigating social vulnerability from the perspective of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS): directions, opportunities and challenges in Aotearoa disaster research by Shinya Uekusa, Matthew Wynyard, Steve Matthewman

“…Disaster scholars here must also reckon with the structural violence of colonisation. …”
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Psychiatric Symptoms in Acute Intermittent Porphyria - Case Report and Course of Treatment Using Placebo by Waldemar Kosiba, Dominika Prystacka-Szar, Jakub Siemko, Wojciech Kupczak

“…Conclusion:  Our case illustrates how psychiatric symptoms can complicate the diagnosis of acute intermittent porphyria. Failing to recognize acute porphyria also carries the risk of life-threatening complications and may lead to unnecessary pharmacotherapy and stigmatization as a mental illness.  …”
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Investigating feature extraction by SIFT methods for prostate cancer early detection by Shadan Mohammed Jihad, Ali A. Alsaud, Firas H. Almukhtar, Shahab Kareem, Raghad Zuhair Yousif

“…The robust SIFT relates to tasks of object recognition within computer vision, in the recognition of prostatic regions where grey-level distributions differ remarkably between benign and malignant tissues. …”
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Foresight for Internationalization of Medical Sciences Universities in Iran in the 2040 horizon by Azadeh Ahmadzadeh Ghasab, Majid Heydari, Mohammad Arab

“…Key drivers such as political relations and diplomatic influence, economic sanctions, scientific supremacy, and the knowledge economy were recognized. By configuring the states of these key drivers in the 2040 horizon, a total of 81 possible scenarios were generated. …”
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Reduction in Surgical Wound Infection Rates Associated with Reporting Data to Surgeons by GD Taylor, M Buchanan-Chell, T Kirkland, M McKenzie, B Sutherland, R Wiens

“…In 1993 a marked increase was experienced. Reasons for this are being explored. Overall there was a 32% decrease in ssi rate between the index year and 1993 or, in percentage terms, 2.8% to 1.9% (rr 0.65, 95% ci 0.51 to 0.86, P=0.002). ssi surveillance should become standard in Canadian hospitals interested in improving the quality of surgical care and reducing the clinical impact and cost associated with nosocomial infection.…”
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The effect of a one-time mindfulness intervention on body and mind in healthy adolescents using multimodal measurements by Angelika Ecker, Charlotte Fritsch, Daniel Schleicher, Ricarda Jacob, Stephanie Kandsperger, Romuald Brunner, Irina Jarvers

“…We also observed strong correlations between trait mindfulness, trait anxiety, and depression scores.ConclusionA single mindfulness intervention had no immediate observable effects in our healthy adolescent sample, and possible reasons for this finding are discussed. Nevertheless, the present data show the potential for increased resilience through mindfulness in adolescence.…”
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Enhancing Qualitative Research: The Use of Design Probes and Cooking Sessions Deepens the Understanding of 9- to 11-Year-Old Children’s Food Perceptions by Lotte Pater, Elizabeth H. Zandstra, Vincenzo Fogliano, Bea L. P. A. Steenbekkers

“…In the second stage, one-to-one interviews were conducted to reflect upon the assignments and to dive deeper into the reasons behind children’s experiences. In the final stage, children created a pizza with their classmates in groups of 3–6 children at their schools. …”
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The Effect of Elevated Basal Follicle Stimulating Hormone Levels on Assisted Reproductive Technology Cycle Outcomes by Inci Kahyaoglu, Hatice Yilmaz Dogru, Sezin Erturk Aksakal, Iskender Kaplanoglu, Serdar Dilbaz, Leyla Mollamahmutoglu

“…CONCLUSION: Despite the retrieval of lower quantities of oocytes, reasonable pregnancy rates could be achieved if embryo transfer was performed in cycles with follicle-stimulating hormone values over 12 IU/mL. …”
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Disruption of seasonal influenza circulation and evolution during the 2009 H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics in Southeastern Asia by Zhiyuan Chen, Joseph L.-H. Tsui, Jun Cai, Shuo Su, Cécile Viboud, Louis du Plessis, Philippe Lemey, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Hongjie Yu

“…Abstract East, South, and Southeast Asia (together referred to as Southeastern Asia hereafter) have been recognized as critical areas fuelling the global circulation of seasonal influenza. …”
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Analysing the Demography and Migration Related Challenges within the Internal Periphery of South-Heves by Tunde Bogardi

“…It results in a contra-selected local society which is unable to retain the young and ambitious. The future of the affected regions, settlements is largely determined by the perspectives perceived by young people who live there, and who shall start their families and careers there in the near future. …”
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Impact of Indirect Taxes on Income Distribution by Şahin Karabulut

“…However, if the market is left to itself, it is possible that the income generated as a result of economic growth will be un equally shared among the society. For this reason, the idea that the government intervenes in the market and allocates the income as it should be being a highly defended subject in the literature.There is no doubt that the state needs certain instruments when allocating income among economic actors in the market. …”
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Diagnostics and Treatment of Esophageal Achalasia (Clinical Guidelines of the Russian Gastroenterological Association, Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medicine, Russ... by V. T. Ivashkin, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. V. Maev, O. M. Drapkina, A. I. Martynov, O. A. Storonova, E. A. Godgello, M. P. Korolev, T. L. Lapina, P. V. Pavlov, A. V. Paraskevova, I. A. Tarasova, E. D. Fedorov, A. T. Tskhovrebov, M. P. Shapka, A. L. Shestakov, A. V. Yurasov

“…In recent years, high-resolution esophageal manometry has been recognized as the gold standard for achalasia diagnostics. …”
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Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music by Adekunle Oyeniyi

“…The term ‘Wazobia’ signifies a fusion of the three regionally recognized local languages in Nigeria: Wa (Yorùbá), Zo (Hausa), and Bia (Igbo)—words that mean ‘come’ in the respective languages. …”
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