PM2.5 in Sri Lanka: Trend Analysis, Low-cost Sensor Correlations and Spatial Distribution by Ranil Dhammapala, Ashani Basnayake, Sarath Premasiri, Lakmal Chathuranga, Karen Mera

“…The Australian “Woodsmoke” correction can be applied to quickly visualize a reasonably accurate estimate of PM2.5 concentrations. …”
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Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and associated factors among male prisoners in Great Tehran Prison by active case finding by Behnam Farhoudi, Elnaz Shahmohamadi, Seyedahmad Seyedalinaghi, SeyedAlireza Nadji, Fatemeh Pahlaviani, Mehrzad Tashakorian

“…Due to the contact between prisoners and general population during visiting or after release, controlling STIs transmission among prisoners helps significantly decrease the rate of STIs in society. Therefore, recognizing and reducing risky behaviors among prisoners may have remarkable effects in this regard. …”
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Organ Donation Conversations on X and Development of the OrgReach Social Media Marketing Strategy: Social Network Analysis by Wasim Ahmed, Mariann Hardey, Josep Vidal-Alaball

“…The OrgReach strategy developed is based on 5 C’s (Create, Connect, Collaborate, Correct, and Curate), 2 A’s (Access and Analyse), and 3 R’s (Recognize, Respond, and Reevaluate). ConclusionsThe study highlights the crucial role of analyzing social media data by drawing upon social networks and topic analysis to understand influence and network communication patterns. …”
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Wettability alteration and IFT reduction during carbonated water injection; a critical investigation into the role of pH by Zoha Dalal Isfehani, Jalal Fahimpour, Mohammad Sharifi, Hossein Khalili, Mohammad Saeid Tayebi

“…While wettability alteration and interfacial tension (IFT) reduction are widely recognized mechanisms for enhancing oil recovery CWI, their underlying processes are not yet fully understood. …”
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Risk of Selected Fetal Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes at Advanced Maternal Age: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia by Bikila Tefera Debelo, Melaku Hunie Asratie, Abayneh Aklilu Solomon

“…Today, women postpone pregnancy due to different socioeconomic and personal reasons. However, there was limited evidence on fetal adverse outcomes’ association with pregnancy at an advanced maternal age in Ethiopia and particularly in the study area. …”
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Community Malaria Knowledge, Experiences, Perceived Roles, and Acceptability of Community-Directed Distribution of Intermittent Preventive Therapy for Pregnancy in Rural Southeast... by Ijeoma Nkem Okedo-Alex, Ifeyinwa Chizoba Akamike, Johnbosco Ifunanya Nwafor, Chihurumnanya Alo, Adaoha Pearl Agu, Dejene Derseh Abateneh, Chigozie Jesse Uneke

“…Conclusions. Malaria was recognized as a prevalent disease, but there was inadequate knowledge of malaria prevention in pregnancy notably intermittent preventive therapy. …”
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Tumor tissue samples collection for scientific research in morphology and molecular oncology by O. R. Khabarov, B. D. Seferov, K. A. Aliev, D. V. Zima, E. P. Golubinskaya, E. Yu. Zyablitskaya

“…It is necessary to consider the regional and ethnic specifics of the population, which determines the sampling and mutational load. …”
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TAXATION OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY IN POLAND: THE CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS by Marian Podstawka, Łukasz Podstawka

“…On the other hand, having recognized the income situation of farms, one could resign from estimating losses caused by drought or other unfortunate events. …”
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Marketing of Direct Selling of Agricultural Products by Zdenka Kádeková, Anton Kretter

“…Producers are constantly looking for adequate distribution channels for their produce which would satisfied requirements of customers and obtain a reasonable effect for producers as well. Direct selling of agricultural products is a form of sales, which does not appear so frequently in the practice because of urgent need for industrial treatment of most agricultural products. …”
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Prevalence of Cattle Trypanosomosis and Temporal Vector Distribution in Jima Arjo District, Upper Didessa Valley, Western Ethiopia by Debela Abdeta, Takele Deresa, Geremew Haile

“…Higher infection rate was observed in male 26 (12.26%) than female 10 (4.39%) due to male cattle more exposed to the tsetse fly area or early released from home for drought reason. Out of the total positive animals, only 12 of them were anemic on buffy coat test of sampled blood. …”
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Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Jobs-Housing Balance in Shenzhen in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic by Duan Lipeng, Gu Zhihui, Zhang Yan, Liu Qian

“…The results were as follows. (1) The spatial distribution patterns of residences and workplaces experienced the following evolutionary process: aggregation before the COVID-19 pandemic, dispersal during the strict control period of the pandemic, and, in the normalization phase, continuous dispersal in the first circle, as well as a rebound in the second and third circles. (2) Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, jobs-housing relationships deteriorated; during the strict control period, employment self-containment remained stable, while cross-unit commuting distance significantly decreased, employment self-containment steadily improved, and cross-unit commuting distance returned to pre-pandemic levels. This trend is most prominently manifested at the 1 km grid scale across the three research scales. (3) Spatial heterogeneity affected the evolution trends of jobs-housing relationships before and during the pandemic, with public transportation accessibility and socioeconomic characteristics of residents being the main reasons for differentiation in evolutionary types. …”
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Advancements for the Future: A National Survey of Fastpitch Softball Coaches’ Perspectives on Injury Prevention Programming by Jaime Nurrenbern, Courtney Klueppel, Jeff Tilly, Kyle Matsel

“…Although over 50% of coaches recognized arm fatigue/overuse (27.9%, n=48/172) and decreased core strength (22.7%, n=39/172) were important risk factors, 36% (n=94/172) "disagree" that softball pitchers should adhere to pitch counts and 90% (n=83/92) believe that preventative programming for pitchers and position players should be similar…”
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Biopriming of Maize with their endophyte Aspergillus fumigatus reinforces their resistance to salinity stress and improves their physiological traits by Marwa A. Yassin, Nelly George, Lamis Shabaan, Yousra Gouda

“…(Maize) is one of the most crucial world’s crops, for their nutritional values, however, the water scarcity and consequent soil salinization are the major challenges that limit the growth and productivity of this plant, particularly in the semi-arid regions in Egypt. Recently, biopriming has been recognized as one of the most efficient natural-ecofriendly approaches to mitigate the abiotic salt stress on plants. …”
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Feature Selection for Physical Activity Prediction Using Ecological Momentary Assessments to Personalize Intervention Timing: Longitudinal Observational Study by Devender Kumar, David Haag, Jens Blechert, Josef Niebauer, Jan David Smeddinck

“…ConclusionsA small set of EMA-based features like self-efficacy, stress, planning, and perceived barriers can be enough to predict PA reasonably well and can thus be used to meaningfully tailor JITAIs such as sending well-timed and context-aware support messages.…”
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An association between type A porcine endogenous retrovirus copy number and hematological parameters and gender in miniature pigs by R. B. Aitnazarov, S. V. Nikitin, G. V. Kontsevaya, M. I. Voevoda, N. S. Yudin

“…Based on the nucleotide sequence of the envelope gene (env), three main types of pig retrovirus, PERV-A, PERV-B and PERV-C, have been recognized, with PERV-A and PERV-B having the capability of infecting human cell lines in vitro. …”
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The winding road to health: A systematic scoping review on the effect of geographical accessibility to health care on infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries. by Fleur Hierink, Emelda A Okiro, Antoine Flahault, Nicolas Ray

“…Data was charted into a tabular format and descriptive data analyses were carried out to identify geographical regions, infectious diseases, and measures of physical accessibility among other factors. …”
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Rahasia Tartib Surah dan Ayat Al-Quran dari Unsur Bilangan (Kajian Pemikiran Izza Rohman) by Sri Pujilestari, Weka Dwi Kartika, Azah Lailaturrosidah, Abdussakir, Muhammad

“…The results showed that the order of the surahs and verses of the Qur'an became the inspiration and object of study whose different sequences had basic reasons. The discovery of the regularity and harmony of the number of surahs and verses in the Al-Quran. …”
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« Une femme en Côte d’Ivoire, une femme au Burkina Faso » by François Ruf

“…Côte d’Ivoire, with its diversity of forest and savannah regions, and its neighbour to the north, Burkina Faso, are historically linked to the creation and growth of the Ivorian village plantation economy based on the ‘coffee-cocoa’ pairing. …”
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Developing climate-resilient rice varieties (BRRI dhan97 and BRRI dhan99) suitable for salt-stress environments in Bangladesh. by Sanjoy K Debsharma, M Akhlasur Rahman, Mahmuda Khatun, Ribed F Disha, Nusrat Jahan, Md Ruhul Quddus, Hasina Khatun, Sharifa S Dipti, Md Ibrahim, K M Iftekharuddaula, Md Shahjahan Kabir

“…Salinity variations are the main reason for rice yield fluctuations in salt-prone regions throughout the dry season (Boro season). …”
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EMNet: A Novel Few-Shot Image Classification Model with Enhanced Self-Correlation Attention and Multi-Branch Joint Module by Fufang Li, Weixiang Zhang, Yi Shang

“…Traditional models require a large amount of labeled data for training, while few-shot learning trains models using only a small number of samples (just a few samples per class) to recognize new categories. EMNet shows its potential for bio-inspired algorithms in optimizing feature extraction and enhancing generalization capabilities. …”
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