Research Capacity Strengthening in Low and Middle Income Countries - An Evaluation of the WHO/TDR Career Development Fellowship Programme. by Michael Käser, Christine Maure, Beatrice M M Halpaap, Mahnaz Vahedi, Sara Yamaka, Pascal Launois, Núria Casamitjana

“…The results of this evaluation may be of interest for other efforts in the field of research capacity strengthening in LMICs or, generally, to other professional development schemes of a similar structure.…”
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An efficient outsourced attribute-based encryption scheme in the device-to-device mobile network by Huawei Wang, Ye Li, Yingnan Jiao, Zhengping Jin

“…In our definition of outsourcing threshold decryption, the decryption, which is a computationally expensive operation, is outsourced to multiple semi-trusted and lightweight computing devices determined by an access structure and can be jointly taken by these devices. …”
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Confidence evaluation for feature selection in expanded feature space based on density of states by Koki Obinata, Yasuhiko Igarashi, Kenji Nagata, Keitaro Sodeyama, Masato Okada

“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods through their application to a crystal structure dataset. Our results show that the DoS analysis reveals the presence of a large number of models with a comparable performance with the best model reported in a previous research work. …”
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Investigating the quality of Karst water resources: A case study on Fars Namdan plain by Mohammadsadegh Talebi

“…One of the distinctive features of our Iran is the lack of water, which has affected the natural environment and economic-social structure. Indiscriminate exploitation of water sources and inefficient traditional irrigation systems have made the society face the challenge of water supply. …”
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Community-acquired pneumonia. Diagnosis, treatment approaches by A. A. Anderzhanova, Yu. A. Meleshkina

“…The article presents current data on the prevalence and etiology of community-acquired pneumonia, shows the contribution of each of the possible pathogens to the structure of the disease. …”
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Development of Engineering Models of Nanosatellites for Student Training by V. Е. Evchik, A. A. Spiridonov, D. V. Ushakov, V. S. Baranova, I. A. Shalatonin, V. A. Saechnikov

“…The experience gained in conducting experiments, processing telemetry, and structuring information in the database is used for further development. …”
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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Drive Kidney Stone Formation by Zhiming Yang, Xiong Chen, Guannan Qi, Jie Gu, Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang

“…HE, Periodic Acid-Schiff and Von Kossa staining were applied to determine histological structure, calcium deposits and stone formation in the kidneys. …”
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Cosmological Constraints from Combining Photometric Galaxy Surveys and Gravitational Wave Observatories by E.L. Gagnon, D. Anbajagane, J. Prat, C. Chang, J. Frieman

“…Spatial variations in survey properties due to selection effects generate substantial systematic errors in large-scale structure measurements in optical galaxy surveys on very large scales. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Georgian version of Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: a cross-sectional study by Tanja Manser, Nikoloz Gambashidze

“…Objectives To study the psychometric properties of the Georgian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC-GE).Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Three Georgian hospitals.Participants Staff of participating hospitals (n=579 responses, response rate 41.6%).Primary and secondary outcome measures Psychometric properties (Model fit, internal consistency, construct validity) of the instrument, factor structure derived from the data.Results HSPSC-GE demonstrated acceptable construct validity but highly limited internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha 0.35–0.87). …”
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Aerobic exercise regulates Rho/cofilin pathways to rescue synaptic loss in aged rats. by Yan Li, Li Zhao, Boya Gu, Jiajia Cai, Yuanyuan Lv, Laikang Yu

“…This neuroprotection is associated with changes in the synaptic structure plasticity. However, the mechanisms of exercise-induced synaptic plasticity in the aging brain are still unclear. …”
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Neutral-current background induced by atmospheric neutrinos at large liquid-scintillator detectors: III. Comprehensive prediction for low energy neutrinos by Jie Cheng, Min Li, Yu-Feng Li, Gao-Song Li, Hao-Qi Lu, Liang-Jian Wen

“…In order to have deeper understanding of the characteristics of atmospheric neutrino NC interactions in LS, we investigate the model dependence of NC background predictions by using various data-driven models, including the initial neutrino-nucleon interactions, nuclear ground-state structure, final-state interactions, nuclear deexcitation processes, and secondary interactions of final-state particles.…”
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Autonomous Quadrotor Path Planning Through Deep Reinforcement Learning With Monocular Depth Estimation by Mahdi Shahbazi Khojasteh, Armin Salimi-Badr

“…The proposed method employs a two-stage structure comprising a depth estimation and a decision-making module. …”
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Revision and validation of the “Motivational Climate in Physical Education Scale” (MCPES) in Chinese educational context by Qiang Zhang, Yingying Sun, Erzhen Fan, Wenjing Deng

“…Confirmatory factor analysis supported the four-factor structure (χ2/df = 3.38, GFI = 0.92, NFI = 0.90, RMSEA = 0.07, CFI = 0.93, IFI = 0.93, SRMR = 0.05). …”
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Evaluation of Upper Limb Muscle Activation Using Musculoskeletal Model with Wearable Assistive Device by M. F. Ashari, A. Hanafusa, S. Mohamaddan

“…An assistive upper arm device was integrated into the musculoskeletal model, and the desired assistive force is translated to the arm joint along with a tendon routing structure. Assisting movement by the wearable device was evaluated by measuring muscle activation with-assist and without-assist conditions. …”
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Effect of sleeve gastrectomy on cardiac inflammatory markers and early postoperative outcomes: A systematic review by Abeer Majed Al Kusayer, Hadia Radwan, Dimitrios Papandreou, Haydar Hasan

“…A few studies have also reported early changes in cardiac structure or vascular markers. Sleeve gastrectomy is associated with the early improvement of systemic inflammation and cardiometabolic risk factors. …”
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Educational Information System Optimization for Artificial Intelligence Teaching Strategies by Taotang Liu, Zhongxin Gao, Honghai Guan

“…On the basis of determining the network architecture, a detailed demand analysis was carried out, and the overall structure optimization of the network was given; the business process and data flow of the main modules of the website (resource center module and collaborative learning module) were optimized. …”
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Oncofetal HMGA2 attenuates genotoxic damage induced by topoisomerase II target compounds through the regulation of local DNA topology by Syed Moiz Ahmed, Peter Dröge

“…Our recent studies indicated that the oncofetal chromatin structuring high‐mobility group AT‐hook 2 (HMGA2) protein plays an important role as a DNA replication fork chaperone in coping with DNA topological ramifications that occur during replication stress, both genomewide and at fragile sites such as subtelomeres. …”
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Evaluation of translucency of a nanofilled and a microhybrid resin composites by Fabiana Mezzaroba Ortenzi Graciano, João Tadeu Amin Graciano, Larissa Pincelli Chaves, Terezinha de Jesus Esteves Barata, Regina Guenka Palma-Dibb, Linda Wang

“…However as multiple layer technique have been applied, opalescence and translucency parameters are also significant to allow resin composite to match tooth structure. Thus, the aim of this study was to compare different resin composites commonly launched in market to provide enamel translucency effect. …”
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Desert sand stabilization using biopolymers: review by Monika Dagliya, Neelima Satyam, Ankit Garg

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A new calcium 2,5-dihydroxybenzoate: Synthesis, characterization and antioxidant studies and stress mediated cytotoxity in MCF-7 cells by Monika Kalinowska, Liliana Mazur, Agata Jabłońska-Trypuć, Włodzimierz Lewandowski

“…The structure and composition of the calcium 2,5-dihydroxybenzoate (calcium gentisate) were studied by single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. …”
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