Index pregnancy emotional fertility intention and its correlates in Ethiopia: evidence from a national women and newborns baseline survey by Solomon Abrha Damtew, Tariku Dejene Demissie, Assefa Seme, Niguse Tadele Atnafu, Fitsum Tariku Fantaye, Mahari Yihdego Gidey, Kelemua Mengesha Sene, Bezawork Ayele Kassa, Hailay Gebremichael Gebrekidan, Tariku Tesfaye Bekuma, Aynaw Amogne, Solomon Shiferaw

“…Hence, this study aimed to determine pregnant women index pregnancy emotional fertility intention and to identify the associated covariates contributing to it in Ethiopia. This is a very critical step to generate and make actionable evidence available for the health ministry and relevant partners working on reproductive and women´s psycho-social health. …”
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Evapotranspiration Partitioning in Selected Subtropical Fruit Tree Orchards Based on Sentinel 2 Data Using a Light Gradient-Boosting Machine (LightGBM) Learning Model in Malelane,... by Prince Dangare, Zama E. Mashimbye, Paul J. R. Cronje, Joseph N. Masanganise, Shaeden Gokool, Zanele Ntshidi, Vivek Naiken, Tendai Sawunyama, Sebinasi Dzikiti

“…The study found that <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> which combined soil evaporation and understorey vegetation transpiration contributed 35, 32, and 31% to the grapefruit, litchi and mango orchard evapotranspiration, respectively. …”
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Differential Effects of Gynecological and Chronological Age on Low Birth Weight and Small for Gestational Age by Reyna Sámano, Gabriela Chico-Barba, Estela Godínez-Martínez, Hugo Martínez-Rojano, Ashley Díaz-Medina, María Hernández-Trejo, Pablo César Navarro-Vargas, María Eugenia Flores-Quijano, María Eugenia Mendoza-Flores, Valeria Sujey Luna-Espinosa

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> The study concludes that biological immaturity, particularly early gynecological age, significantly contributes to adverse birth outcomes during adolescent pregnancies. …”
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In-Situ Determination of Buildings’ Thermo- Physical Characteristics by Arash Rasooli

“…By introducing and testing new experimental and computational methods and approaches for reliable determination of buildings’ local and global thermo-physical characteristics, this thesis pays a significant contribution to the accuracy of the energy-related predictions and operations, especially within the built environment. …”
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GRAVITY ANOMALIES OF THE CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA by V. N. Senachin, A. A. Baranov

“…Numerous subsequent geophysical projects have researched the crust to a level sufficient to develop regional models, that can give quite adequate information on the depths of external and internal boundaries of the crust and suggest the distribution patterns of seismic velocities and density values. …”
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Residents’ Perceptions of Impending Forced Relocation in Urban China by Xin Li

“…From a people-place interaction point of view, this might be contradicting earlier research which emphasizes the more ‘romantic’ side of people-place interactions, such as place attachment and its related components (e.g. neighbourhood-based social networks and mutual help), that contribute to relocatees’ willingness to stay in their neighbourhoods when facing neighbourhood redevelopment and demolition (Fried, 1963; Manzo et al., 2008). …”
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A Systematic Review of the Microfinance Literature: An ADO-TCM Framework Approach by Bahman Khodapanah, Mohammad Bashokouh Ajirlou, Fariba Mesri

“…By offering financial opportunities to underserved segments of society, microfinance enhances economic participation and contributes to overall economic growth (Judijanto et al., 2024; Beg et al., 2024; Pimpale, 2012). …”
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Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings by Anastasios Ioannou

“…This thesis tried to contribute to the understanding of the role of the occupant related to the energy consumption of residential buildings by means of simulations and experimental data obtained by an extensive measurement campaign. …”
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Seditious Spaces by Nurul Azreen Azlan

“…(Even the term ‘Commonwealth’ is itself ironic, implying shared wealth, in reality it commonly meant a colonised country was contributing to the wealth of the metropolitan centre). …”
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Re-use of Building Products in the Netherlands by Loriane Icibaci

“…This research departs from the observation of the existing practice of reuse in the Netherlands to develop a tangible form of analysis and representation of the phenomena in the real world. The research contributes to the waste prevention and management debate, the possible conceptual vagueness, lack of detailing and transparency of what reuse consists, and how waste prevention is equivocally related to curbing economic growth. …”
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The Circular Kitchen by Bas Jansen

“…This Action Research-through-Design (ARtD) approach engages stakeholders in developing and testing the CIK, aiming to address real-world challenges while contributing to knowledge acquisition and implementation of the CE in the built environment. …”
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Eradication of Helicobacter pylori for prevention of aspirin-associated peptic ulcer bleeding in adults over 65 years: the HEAT RCT by CJ Hawkey, Anthony J Avery, Carol AC Coupland, Colin J Crooks, Jennifer S Dumbleton, FD Richard Hobbs, Denise Kendrick, Michael Moore, Clive Morris, Gregory Rubin, Murray Smith, Diane Stevenson

“…Limitations and future work Studying subjects already established on aspirin probably contributed to the low event rate. A future study should investigate subjects starting on aspirin when the event rate is higher. …”
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Coulmnist Literary Writers of Urdu by Yasmeen Sultana Faruqi

“…This continued even after the birth of Pakistan and along with columnists writing on serious issues, many humorists also turned towards column writing and started contributing in widely circulated newspapers. So much so that claim to fame for some of the newspapers was only because of the columns by the leading writers of the era.…”
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