Strategies to promote the provision of sexual health services during menopause: a qualitative study from the perspective of menopausal women and healthcare providers in Isfahan cit... by Maryam Moradi, Mahnaz Noroozi, Firoozeh Mostafavi, Marjan Beigi

“…Conclusions The results emphasize the importance of providing comprehensive and client-centered services and care, improving service delivery infrastructure, expanding services, and promoting access to sexual health to enhance the sexual function of postmenopausal women. …”
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Improving Crack Detection Precision of Concrete Structures Using U-Net Architecture and Novel DBCE Loss Function by Andrew Prasetyo, I Ketut Eddy Purnama, Eko Mulyanto Yuniarno, Priyo Suprobo

“…Monitoring the health of infrastructure is critical to maintaining the integrity of concrete construction. …”
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Post‐Fire Sediment Yield From a Western Sierra Nevada Watershed Burned by the 2021 Caldor Fire by Amy E. East, Joshua B. Logan, Peter Dartnell, Helen W. Dow, Donald N. Lindsay, David B. Cavagnaro

“…Abstract Watershed sediment yield commonly increases after wildfire, often causing negative impacts to downstream infrastructure and water resources. Post‐fire erosion is important to understand and quantify because it is increasingly placing water supplies, habitat, communities, and infrastructure at risk as fire regimes intensify in a warming climate. …”
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Assessing the Logistics Efficiency of Baltic Region Seaports Through DEA-BCC and Spatial Analysis by Vilma Locaitienė, Kristina Čižiūnienė

“…This study aimed to assess changes in the logistics efficiency of 15 major ports in the Baltic Sea region between 2019 and 2023, taking into account the technological and infrastructure-related elements that influence port performance. …”
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Evaluating Methods for Aflatoxin B1 Monitoring in Selected Food Crops Within Decentralized Agricultural Systems by Haadia Tanveer, Hannah Glesener, Blake Su, Brooke Bolsinger, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Lee E. Voth-Gaeddert

“…Advanced methods like HPLC and LC-MS offer greater precision but remain impractical due to their high costs and infrastructure requirements, suggesting a potential role for adapted ELISA or LFA methods as confirmatory approaches. …”
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How interventions to maintain services during the COVID-19 pandemic strengthened systems for delivery of maternal and child health services: a case-study of Wakiso District, Uganda by Steven Ndugwa Kabwama, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Neda Razaz, John M. Ssenkusu, Tobias Alfvén, Helena Lindgren

“…Investments such as new facility infrastructure and emergency medical services were leveraged to improve maternal and child health services delivery. …”
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Information Technology Framework for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Demand Management: a Brazilian Case Study by Pedro Domingos Antoniolli

“…One spec ific for infrastructure, to enable data and systems interoperability among SC participants, considering a virtualized infrastructure environment (Cloud); 2. …”
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Non-Destructive Testing of Concrete Materials from Piers: Evaluating Durability Through a Case Study by Abraham Lopez-Miguel, Jose A. Cabello-Mendez, Alejandro Moreno-Valdes, Jose T. Perez-Quiroz, Jose M. Machorro-Lopez

“…This material is affected by wear processes caused by the environment, which lead to a reduction in the useful life of the infrastructure in the long term. These wear processes can cause cracks, corrosion of reinforcing steel, loss of load capacity, and loss of concrete section, among other problems. …”
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New Development Bank as Aid Donor to School Education by Rodion Sadykov, Yevgeny Uchaev

“…Subsequent developments, including heightened attention to BRICS educational cooperation at high-level and ministerial meetings, the adverse impact of COVID-19 on global educational progress, and the appointment of Dilma Rousseff as NDB President, further solidified social infrastructure (including education) as a priority on the Bank’s strategic agenda. …”
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Developing an indicator system and assessing China's progress on climate change adaptation in 2010–2022 from dual-dimension by Yang Song, Xiu Yang, Huimin Li, Mingyu Liu

“…In the areas of public health and infrastructure, China has reached or even exceeded the international advanced level. …”
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Adsorption Capacities of Hygroscopic Materials Based on NaCl-TiO2 and NaCl-SiO2 Core/Shell Particles by Marie Bermeo, Nabil El Hadri, Florent Ravaux, Abdelali Zaki, Linda Zou, Mustapha Jouiad

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Research on the 3D Fine Modeling Method of In-Service Road by Hui Qi, Bori Cong, Rufei Liu, Xiaoli Li, Zongyao Yan, Qingying Li, Ming Li

“…To achieve the digitization of all traffic infrastructure elements and enable three-dimensional digital representation of physical facilities, a multilevel road three-dimensional reverse modeling method is proposed based on road point cloud data obtained by a vehicle laser scanning system. …”
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Problems and Prospects of Sustainable Development of Mountain Tourism in Modern Conditions by Ibrahimova Sadaqat Veli, Mamedova Sevda Binyat, Temirova Zoxida

“…The importance of tourism is difficult to overestimate, since tourism contributes to employment and economic growth of the country, development of infrastructure, preservation and enhancement of the cultural and natural wealth of the countries of the world. …”
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Design and maintenance of medical oxygen concentrators in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review by Nahimiya Husen Ibrahim, James Wallace, Davide Piaggio, Leandro Pecchia

“…It highlighted a pressing need for improved healthcare infrastructure investment, context-aware OC design and novel standards and regulatory frameworks to support frugal innovation.…”
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Using a sharing-platform to prevent a new outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in rural areas by V. Shcherbak, I. Gryshchenko, L. Ganushchak-Yefimenko, O. Nifatova, V. Tkachuk, T. Kostiuk, V. Hotra

“…FINDINGS: The results showed that the identified factors (medico-demographic special features of Covid-19 virus spread; rural infrastructure to counteract the infection) describe in total 83.24% of the data processed. …”
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Harnessing Internet Search Data as a Potential Tool for Medical Diagnosis: Literature Review by Gregory J Downing, Lucas M Tramontozzi, Jackson Garcia, Emma Villanueva

“…Despite challenges such as bias, privacy, and infrastructure limitations, emerging initiatives could reshape data collection and privacy safeguards. …”
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Homeland security video surveillance system utilising the internet of video things for smart cities by Yasser Ismail, Mohamed Hammad, Mahmoud Darwich, Wael Elmedany

“…The proposed ME co‐processor, if adopted in video surveillance cameras, can be connected utilising an internet of video things infrastructure (IoVT). The proposed co‐processor is suited for high‐efficiency encoding video surveillance systems (H.265/HEVC). …”
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Effect of water release behavior by pH-sensitive microgels on hydration, microstructure of cementitious materials by Gengtong Zhang, Huiyun Xia, Dongwei Cao, Huaxin Chen, Weihua Li

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Exploration of novel NSM methods to achieve stronger FRPs with minimal epoxy by Wei Sun, Handong Yan, Jianli Yin, Xinan Zhu, Tiejiong Lou, Haifeng Li

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Assessing the Influence of High Population Growth Rate on Food Security in Nyamweru Subcounty Rubanda District. by Twinamasiko, Derrick

“…From the study findings, the role of the population growth rate towards food security in the Nyamweru sub-county Rubanda district promotes food production. encourages saving and investments, high population growth puts greater pressure on health and improves its quality, leads to a rapid increase in school-age population that calls for more investment in education, high population growth leads to an efficiency of developing countries and their political system and high population puts pressure on urban physical infrastructures leading to development, the study results also on challenges affecting population growth rate on food security in Nyamweru sub county Rubanda district, were inadequate capital for investment, shortage of enough land. poor infrastructure development, climatic changes, over-utilization of land, and political instability the study results also on how a high population growth rate promotes food security in the Nyanweru sub-county Rubanda district the findings were through the development of drought-resistant crops, investment in rural infrastructure, irrigation, improved storage facilities and investment in sustainable technologies. …”
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