ECB Monetary Policy in a Quandary by Kerstin Bernoth, Marcel Fratzscher

“…However, it cannot be said with absolute certainty that these monetary policy decisions herald the start of a gradual tighter stance toward monetary policy normalisation. …”
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Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia by M. Aon, T. Al-Enezi

“…We describe a case of acute brucellosis in a 20-year-old man, who presented with fever, purpuric skin lesions, epistaxis, and hematuria. The absolute platelet count was 2 × 109/L. The patient was diagnosed as suffering from brucellosis on the basis of a strongly positive serologic reaction and was treated with antibiotics and a short course of corticosteroids, with a rapid rise in platelet count. …”
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Portfolio Selection with Liability and Affine Interest Rate in the HARA Utility Framework by Hao Chang, Kai Chang, Ji-mei Lu

“…The investors wish to look for an optimal investment strategy to maximize the expected utility of the terminal surplus under hyperbolic absolute risk aversion (HARA) utility function, which consists of power utility, exponential utility, and logarithm utility as special cases. …”
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Szkic do teologii ludzkiej płciowości by Sławomir Kunka

“…Therefore, every woman and every man enjoy the same and equally nonvolatile and absolute dignity of the human person. Masculinity and femininity serve each other in achieving their common humanity. …”
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Suaires de papier : Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Interventions et recouvrance by Liliane Louvel

“…But first and foremost his art is fascinating and his technique absolutely perfect.…”
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« Qu’es chabat ». Une expérience de la disparition entre présence et rémanence. Situation de l’occitan dans le nord limousin by Jean-Pierre Cavaillé

“…Their capacity to communicate is often intact, but opportunities to exploit it are more and more scarce, within a context of almost absolute social and political indifference, and henceforth the renouncement of any form of transmission.…”
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Spiriti e riti ebraici a Meknes. Seduti alla “tavola di David” by Silvia Bruni

“…It is a topic that has not been extensively studied in ethnographic literature yet, both because Jewish spirits represent an absolute otherness compared to the Moroccan pantheon, and rites dedicated to them are reserved. …”
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An Analytical Approach to the New Solution of Family of Kuramoto Sivashinsky Equation by q-Homotopy Analysis Technique by Abdullah Shah, Safdar Hussain

“…The computed results are compared with the travelling wave solutions and are illustrated graphically and in tabulated form for absolute error estimation. The comparison reveals the q-HAM provides better results than the existing methods.…”
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Contours of pacificism: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the Union of South Africa and beyond by F. Hale

“…It is argued that Balmforth was not at any time an absolute pacifist, and that the distinction between “pacifism” and “pacificism” which was advanced by inter alia the British historians A.J.P. …”
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Optimization of salinity range for rearing glass eel Anguilla bicolor bicolor by Ade Yulita Hesti Lukas, Daniel Djokosetiyanto, Tatag Budiardi, Agus Oman Sudrajat, Ridwan Affandi

“…Result showed that survival was not significantly different between treatments (P>0.05), while the rate of decline in absolute biomass was significantly different between treatments (P<0.05). …”
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Prediction of Seven Artificial Intelligence-Based Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Formulas in Medium-Long Caucasian Eyes by Wiktor Stopyra, Oleksiy Voytsekhivskyy, Andrzej Grzybowski

“…<b>Purpose:</b> To compare the accuracy of seven artificial intelligence (AI)-based intraocular lens (IOL) power calculation formulas in medium-long Caucasian eyes regarding the root-mean-square absolute error (RMSAE), the median absolute error (MedAE) and the percentage of eyes with a prediction error (PE) within ±0.5 D. …”
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Level of and trends in women’s empowerment inequalities in antenatal care services in Ethiopia: further analysis of the Ethiopia demographic and health surveys, 2000-16 by Gebretsadik Shibre, Wubegzier Mekonnen, Damen Haile Mariam

“…Conclusions While concentration index-based absolute inequalities increased, relative inequalities decreased, suggesting the importance of using both absolute and relative measures in a study. …”
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Deep learning based decision-making and outcome prediction for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with posterior surgery by Kai Chen, Xiao Zhai, Ziqiang Chen, Haojue Wang, Mingyuan Yang, Changwei Yang, Yushu Bai, Ming Li

“…The mean square error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and curve fitting between the predicted and corresponding real postoperative spinal coordinates of the test set were adopted to validate and compare the efficacy of the DL models. …”
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Prediction of Heavy Metals Values for South-East of Baghdad Study Area by Eman Abdul Rahman, Muthaina Abdullah Mustafa

“…The results show that, the second layer of soil is the worst where Mean square error is 24.432 with Mean Absolut error is 1.164 and Mean Absolut percentage error is 96.21. …”
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Multi-scale hydraulic graph neural networks for flood modelling by R. Bentivoglio, E. Isufi, S. N. Jonkman, R. Taormina

“…We further corroborate the mSWE-GNN in a realistic case study in the Netherlands and show generalization capabilities with only one fine-tuning sample, with mean absolute errors of 0.12 m for water depth, a critical success index for a water depth threshold of 0.05 m of 87.68 %, and speed-ups of over 700 times. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of ischemic heart disease attributable to secondhand smoke from 1990 to 2019 by Xinyue Yang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jiayi Sun, Wenjuan Zhang

“…Conclusions Our study reveals an absolute global increase in deaths and DALYs from IHD due to SHS from 1990 to 2019. …”
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Changes in Peripheral Blood Neutrophils, Lymphocytes and IL-10 in Children with Kawasaki Disease from Different Age Groups Undergoing Intravenous Immunoglobulin: A Retrospective St... by Chun Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Jia Shen, Xiaotong Lu, Jian Zhang, Sun Chen

“…In patients aged ≥4 years, the absolute CD19+ B cell count prior to IVIG increased, and that increase was linearly correlated with the decrease in interleukin-10 (IL-10) following IVIG (r=0.71, p<0.05). …”
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Environmental sustainability profiles assessment of HPLC stability indicating method for quantitation of piracetam and vincamine in pharmaceutical medications by Samya Sh. Alenezi, Ayman A. Gouda, Ragaa El Sheikh, Niaf A. Badahdah, Muneer E Alzuhiri, Ali H. Magrabi, Asim L. Jilani, Ahmed S. Darwish

“…The inclusion of ethanol absolute was required in order to obtain a sufficient resolution. …”
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Increased Serum Interleukin-2 Levels Are Associated with Abnormal Peripheral Blood Natural Killer Cell Levels in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis by Baochen Li, Qiaoling Guo, Yanyan Wang, Rui Su, Chong Gao, Jinfang Zhao, Xiaofeng Li, Caihong Wang

“…To investigate the relationship between serum interleukin-2 (IL-2) levels and disease activity, absolute numbers of peripheral lymphocyte subsets, autoantibodies, and associated cytokines in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). …”
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic indicator in COVID-19: Evidence from a northern tanzanian cohort. by Norman Jonas Kyala, Innocent Mboya, Elichilia Shao, Francis Sakita, Kajiru Gadiel Kilonzo, Laura Shirima, Abid Sadiq, Elifuraha Mkwizu, Nyasatu Chamba, Annette Marandu, Sophia Muhali, Faryal Raza, Eliasa Ndale, Damas Bayo, Daniel Mujuni, Furaha Lyamuya

“…NLR was calculated as the absolute neutrophil count in μL divided by the absolute lymphocyte count in μL. …”
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