A Rationale for Going Back to the Future: Use of Disposable Spacers for Pressurised Metered Dose Inhalers by Mark Sanders, Ronald Bruin

“…Spacer/chamber features (size, shape, configuration, construction material, and hygiene considerations) can vie with clinical effectiveness (to deliver the same dose as a correctly used pMDI), user convenience, cost, and accessibility. Unsurprisingly, improvised, low-cost alternatives (plastic drink bottles, paper cups, and paper towel rolls) have been pressed into seemingly effective service. …”
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Advanced Ai Tools for Predicting Mechanical Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete by AGRAWAL Achal, CHANDAK Narayan

“…Overall, the study aids in getting new insights about improvising the strength properties of SCC and its evaluation through predictive techniques.…”
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Simultaneous Adsorption and Photocatalytic Degradation of Malachite Green Using Electrospun P(3HB)-TiO2 Nanocomposite Fibers and Films by Nanthini Sridewi, Yan-Fen Lee, Kumar Sudesh

“…The film was further improvised by incorporating titanium dioxide photocatalysts to form a dual dye treatment system employing adsorption and photocatalytic degradation techniques. …”
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Efficient and Effective Diabetes Care in the Era of Digitalization and Hypercompetitive Research Culture: A Focused Review in the Western Pacific Region with Malaysia as a Case Stu... by Boon-How Chew, Pauline Siew Mei Lai, Dhashani A/P Sivaratnam, Nurul Iftida Basri, Geeta Appannah, Barakatun Nisak Mohd Yusof, Subashini C. Thambiah, Zubaidah Nor Hanipah, Ping-Foo Wong, Li-Cheng Chang

“…This urgently calls for nothing less than concerted and preventive efforts from all stakeholders to invest in transforming healthcare professionals and reforming the healthcare system that prioritizes primary medical care setting, empowering allied health professionals, improvising health organization for the healthcare providers, improving health facilities and non-medical support for the people with DM. …”
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Rereading Ambiguity in Ahmadrezā Ahmadī’s Pattern based on William Empson's Theory by Nematollah Iranzadeh, Mozhghan Jafarmanesh

“…Scattered and contradictory imagery, assimilation and repetition, ambiguity and uncertainty indicate that Pattern is composed by an improvisational, hesitant, and of course creative mind, and it requires an enthusiastic and active reader to delve into the texts.…”
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Autocratización a fuego lento: el caso de Nicaragua (2000-2024) by Macià Serra, Daniel Rodríguez Suárez, Salvador Martí i Puig

“…The first, from 2000 to 2006, during which a liberal democratic regime begins to shift due to spurious political interests; the second, from 2006 to 2011, when the system acquires elements of a hybrid regime and authoritarian elections are introduced; the third, from 2011 to 2019, when the modus operandi—based on co-opting the country’s most influential economic and social actors—abruptly and improvised shifts (following protests) to influence a highly repressive authoritarian system; and a fourth period in which the government deploys a legal framework aimed at curtailing and repressing any form of dissent, hollowing out all state institutions and establishing a closed authoritarian regime. …”
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Robust H-Infinity Filter and PSO-SVM Based Monitoring of Power Quality Disturbances System by Prakash K. Ray, Harish Kumar Sahoo, Asit Mohanty, Javed Khan Bhutto, Abdulwasa Bakr Barnawi, Abdulmjeed Ali Alshaya

“…Again, Genetic algorithm (GA) is used for extracting optimal features and Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is applied for optimising the heuristic parameters of the SVM in order to improvise the classification accuracy under normal, noisy as well as increased penetration of wind and photovoltaic (PV) systems.…”
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Solving the maximum cut problem using Harris Hawk Optimization algorithm. by Md Rafiqul Islam, Md Shahidul Islam, Pritam Khan Boni, Aldrin Saurov Sarker, Md Asif Anam

“…A mutation mechanism along with an adjustment operator has improvised the outcome obtained from the updated hawk. …”
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Audit-based corrective and preventive actions to reduce wastage of blood components at a single blood center: A quality improvement study by John Gnanaraj, Rajendra Kulkarni, Dibyajyoti Sahoo, Abhishekh Basavarajegowda

“…The discard or unusability of blood products are many, and the ones that can be monitored and regarded as indicators to be improvised on are QC failure rate, transfusion-transmitted infection (TTI) positivity, and component discards (other than TTI), including those that caused transfusion reactions. …”
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Saillans (2014-2020) : une expérience municipale citoyenne au défi de la transition écologique by Sabine Girard

“…Breaking with the planning tradition and the logic of strategic projects, the people are developing a new, more improvised mode of action. They see the transition as a set in motion towards an indeterminate goal, to be built collectively along the way. …”
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Two Endotracheal Tubes in One Trachea with a Traumatic Injury by Andrew Winegarner, Harish Lecamwasam, Mark C. Kendall, Shyamal Asher

“…Traumatic airway injuries often require improvising solutions to altered anatomy under strict time constraints. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Prompt Treatment on Malaria Prevalence in Children Aged below Five Years in Zambia: A Nested Case-Control Study in a Cross-Sectional Survey by Mukumbuta Nawa

“…The malaria cases were more likely to be from rural areas (p=0.001), poorest households (p=0.049), and who lived in improvised housing structures (p=0.004) compared with the controls. …”
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Piano Works by Dora Pejačević – A Personal Perspective of an Interpreter by Kyra Steckeweh

“…The article begins with an evocative description of Pejačević improvising at the piano, a scene recounted by Countess Sidonie Nádherný von Borutin in a letter to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke dated 5 October 1914. …”
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Challenges in Predicting the Filtration Performance of a Novel Sewn Mask: Scale-up from Filter Holder to Mannequin Measurements by Audrey J. Dang, Benjamin M. Kumfer, J. Tyler Bertroche, Jane Olson Glidden, Christopher R. Oxford, Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, Alexander R. Scott, Jason A. Morris, Connie Gan, Jesse Hu, Bradley King, David I. A. Dhanraj, Shruti Choudhary, Pratim Biswas, Richard L. Axelbaum, Kathleen W. Meacham, Brent J. Williams

“…Testing full prototypes at relevant conditions is crucial if an improvised design is intended as a substitute for a commercial surgical mask or FFR.…”
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Exploring sexual and reproductive health needs, barriers, and coping strategies of internally displaced women of reproductive ages in north-central Nigeria: A qualitative analysis. by Kwala Adline Okorafor, Joseph Okeibunor, Funmilola Folasade Oyinlola, Leopold Ouedraogo, Femi Rufus Tinuola

“…IDP women's living conditions are often precarious, exposing them to health risks, challenges are often faced due to lack of finance and other related factors to access health care services leading to them improvising health care services which is considered dangerous to their health. …”
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Evaluation of the Threshold for an Improved Surface Water Extraction Index Using Optical Remote Sensing Data by Fajar Yulianto, Dony Kushardono, Syarif Budhiman, Gatot Nugroho, Galdita Aruba Chulafak, Esthi Kurnia Dewi, Anjar Ilham Pambudi

“…The objectives of this study were (a) to increase the accuracy of automatic lake surface water detection by improvising the determination of threshold values based on analysis and calculations using the SBA and (b) to conduct a test case study of AWEI threshold improvement on several lakes’ surface water, which has a variety of different or heterogeneous characteristics. …”
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Synthesis of ZrO2:Dy3+ Nanoparticles: Photoluminescent, Photocatalytic, and Electrochemical Sensor Studies by K. Gurushantha, K. S. Anantharaju, Nagaraju Kottam, K. Keshavamurthy, C. R. Ravikumar, B. S. Surendra, A. Murugan, H. C. Ananda Murthy

“…ZrO2:Dy3+ NPs with 3 mol% Dy3+ exhibited improvised photocatalytic activity due to the operative departure of charge carriers. …”
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An introduction to MyBFF@school, a school-based childhood obesity intervention program: a cluster randomized controlled trial by Abdul Halim Mokhtar, Zahari Ishak, Fuziah Md. Zain, Rusidah Selamat, Abqariyah Yahya, Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin

“…The main MyBFF@school in 2016 addressed the challenges and improvised the design which were elaborated in subsequent articles in this supplement. …”
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EVALUATION OF AN INDUCTIVE STRATEGY OF TEACHING MUSIC AND PROGRAMMING TO PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS by Marius Bănuț, Ion Albulescu

“…In this framework, the students assimilated notions of music notation and formed concepts specific to music education starting from practical exercise, generating sounds electronically using programming languages and the Sonic Pi application, improvising melodies to learn through discovery the variability of sound parameters and reproducing songs from the children's universe, starting from their musical sheets and solving problems of fitting the qualities of sounds into a series of musical notation elements, based on the audio feedback obtained. …”
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Determinants of Performance in Physical Sciences at Uganda Certificate of Education: A Case Study of Selected Schools in Ntungamo Municipality. by Muhindo, Alex

“…On teacher factors, there is a need for teachers to be more innovative and try to improvise local materials to teach physical sciences to arouse the interest of the learners, cut down on the costs of buying teaching aids, help the learners to appreciate their local environment in the study of sciences and consequently deepen their understanding of physical sciences in their context. …”
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