Forced evictions and their social and health impacts in Southern Somalia: a qualitative study in Mogadishu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps by Mohamed Jelle, Joanna Morrison, Hani Mohamed, Raha Ali, Andrea Solomon, Andrew J Seal

“…Methods We used a qualitative approach, conducting 20 semi-structured interviews, six key informant interviews and four focus group discussions. …”
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Usage of permeability ratio to check the stability of a pile-soil model with retaining wall support – Huizhou slope failure as a case study by Muhammad Israr Khan, Jianbo Fei, Xiangsheng Chen, Yue Chen

“…These findings emphasize the need for enhanced drainage or structural support in retaining wall designs subjected to elevated groundwater conditions. …”
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Recommendation‐making in the emergency department: A qualitative study of how Canadian emergency physicians guide treatment decisions about resuscitation in critically ill patients... by Henry Ajzenberg, Katie N. Dainty, Erin O'Connor

“…Methods We recruited Canadian emergency physicians via multiple recruitment strategies to ensure maximum variation sampling. Semi‐structured qualitative interviews were conducted until thematic saturation occurred. …”
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Comparative analysis of hard winter wheat seeds damage with different germ morphotype by A. G. Galayan, A. V. Bondarev

“…Seeds with a certain embryo shape have a variation in germination, some are more productive, others are not. …”
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Highly mutable tandem DNA repeats generate a cell wall protein variant more frequent in disease-causing Candida albicans isolates than in commensal isolates. by Zhuo Zhou, Zoe Jordens, Shuguang Zhang, Ningxin Zhang, Jan Schmid

“…In the yeast Candida albicans, an opportunistic human pathogen, the gene SSR1 encodes a GPI-anchored cell wall protein with a structural role. It contains two regions consisting of tandem repeats, almost exclusively encoding the amino acid pair Ser-Ala. …”
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Physical Literacy and Physical Activity in Early Years Education: What’s Known, What’s Done, and What’s Needed? by Natalie Weir, Andy Pringle, Clare M. P. Roscoe

“…<b>Methods:</b> A concurrent mixed-methods approach was used, incorporating semi-structured expert interviews (<i>n</i> = 11), focus groups (<i>n</i> = 22), and a survey (<i>n</i> = 210). …”
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Meta-GCANet: Meta-Graph Coupled Aware Network for Cross-Modality Person Re-Identification by Jiale Zhang, Baohua Zhang, Dongyang Wu

“…It interacts with local unimodal features to reinforce mutual learning and constructs a relational knowledge graph for structural classification. To reduce the discrepancy in modality-shared discriminative features, the M-GC module leverages the similarity between cross-modality features to extract meta-positive and meta-negative samples. …”
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Modeling of hydrocarbon systems and quantitative assessment of the hydrocarbon potential of Eastern Arctic seas by E. A. Lavrenova, Yu. V. Shcherbina, R. A. Mamedov

“…To assess geological risks and to determine the probability of discovering oil and gas fields, as well as to identify prospective areas for licensing and exploration in the water areas of the Eastern Arctic.Materials and methods. Structural and heat flow maps along with the results of geochemical analysis, as well as typical terrestrial sections were used as initial materials. …”
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Central position of histidine in the sequence of designed alternating polarity peptides enhances pH-responsive assembly with DNA by Razieh Taghizadeh Pirposhteh, Nasir Mohajel, Arash Arashkia, Kayhan Azadmanesh, Mohammadali Masoumi

“…Morphological analysis revealed that both co-assemblies underwent structural transitions with increasing N/P ratios, though their sizes and morphologies differed significantly. …”
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Cultural taboos and menstrual health: analysing practices in Gadchiroli’s Kurma Ghar (period huts) in Maharashtra by Sania Siddiqui, Karuna Nidhi

“…Participants were selected through purposive sampling, and data were collected using a structured questionnaire administered. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed to summarize socio-demographic characteristics, product usage patterns, and participant experiences with Kurma Ghar. …”
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Thrips dynamics in Allium crops: Unraveling the role of reproductive mode and weather variables in Thrips tabaci population development. by Bettina Porta, Ben Vosman, Pablo González Barrios, Richard G F Visser, Guillermo A Galván, Olga E Scholten

“…We investigated the genetic diversity, reproductive mode, and heteroplasmy frequency in T. tabaci populations from different Allium spp fields in six locations in the Netherlands in 2021 and at two locations from the North and South of Uruguay over three years to unravel how the diversity is structured in the populations and if changes can be associated with weather variables. …”
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Spatiotemporal changes in river network connectivity in the Nile River Basin due to hydropower dams. by Anthony Basooma, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Rose Basooma, Herbert Nakiyende, Johannes Kowal, Andrea Funk, Thomas Hein, Florian Borgwardt

“…These barriers disrupt natural river flows, affecting river ecosystems structural and functional connectivity. The number of hydropower dams in the Nile River Basin has increased during the last decades. …”
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Proteomics approaches – their potential for answering complex questions in meat science research by Elisabeth Huff-Lonergan, Steven M. Lonergan

“…Because a high proportion of meat quality traits are affected by structural and metabolic proteins, identifying the proteomic phenotype associated with high-quality meat production will inform the development of strategies to consistently produce these products. …”
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A long tail of truth and beauty: A zigzag pattern of feather formation determines the symmetry, complexity, and beauty of the peacock’s tail [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2... by Santosh Jagadeeshan, Rama Singh

“…While the zigzag pattern explains the symmetry, complexity, and (structural) beauty of the peacock’s train, it also precludes variation in eyespot number except by annual addition of new feathers as a function of age. …”
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Computational Study of Amorphous Phase Formation in Ti53Cu39Ni8 and Ti50Cu42Ni8 Alloys by Nayara Pinel Silva, Verona Biancardi Aguiar, Luis César Rodríguez Aliaga

“…The variation in viscosity with temperature in the supercooled liquid during cooling was calculated using the Green-Kubo method. …”
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An exploratory study of implementing a breakthrough series collaborative in early childhood education and care centers in the United States by Tamara Halle, Anne Douglass, Jennifer Cleveland, Tiffany Bamdad, Hallie Garrison, Kerensa Nagle, Kathryn Tout, Jennifer Agosti, Stephanie Doyle, Diana Gal-Szabo

“…As for improvements in short-term outcomes, teachers’ sense of efficacy increased over time, and participants reported structural changes to organizational functions (such as staff meetings and protected staff time) that removed barriers and allowed educators the time and space to take initiative for quality improvement activities. …”
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BuDDI: Bulk Deconvolution with Domain Invariance to predict cell-type-specific perturbations from bulk. by Natalie R Davidson, Fan Zhang, Casey S Greene

“…BuDDI achieves this by learning independent latent spaces within a single variational autoencoder (VAE) encompassing at least four sources of variability: 1) cell type proportion, 2) perturbation effect, 3) structured experimental variability, and 4) remaining variability. …”
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Enhancing FDG Production Efficiency on Explora FDG4 Synthesis Module: A Journey of Innovation and Excellence at Neurospinal & Cancer Care Post Graduate Institute by Syed Muhammad Haider Zaidi, Fatima Batool, Naheed Ghaffar

“…The research project enhanced manufacturing output stability, combined with equipment checks and maintenance procedures, and reduced external support. Methods: A structured, retrospective, comparative analysis was conducted at NCCI’s Hot Lab that include Multi-Valve Processor (MVP) valve checks, bi-monthly Liquid Electrical Extraction (LEE) pump cleaning, vacuum and pressure monitoring, weekly reagent volume checks, and reaction vessel dip tube assessments. …”
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Novel indicator film incorporating Dendrobium orchid extract and TiO2 nanoparticles for seafood freshness monitoring by Nattapong Kanha, Ratchadaporn Jaimun, Benjamard Rattanamato, Thunnop Laokuldilok

“…Structural changes due to nanoparticles were confirmed via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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A long tail of truth and beauty: A zigzag pattern of feather formation determines the symmetry, complexity, and beauty of the peacock’s tail [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2... by Santosh Jagadeeshan, Rama Singh

“…While the zigzag pattern explains the symmetry, complexity, and (structural) beauty of the peacock’s train, it also precludes variation in eyespot number except by annual addition of new feathers as a function of age. …”
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