AN ASSESSMENT OF PERCEPTION OF THE PEOPLE ON MALARIA PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN DONGA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF TARABA STATE by SILAS JOSHUA, SUNDAY EMMANUEL BAMISE

“…Households’ knowledge, attitudes and practice on malaria prevention and control were found to vary from household to household based on the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondent. …”
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Safe delivery of goods and services with smart door locks: Unlocking potential use by Gunnhild Beate Antonsen Svaboe, Kristin Ystmark Bjerkan, Solveig Meland

“…The proposed typology can e.g. be used in the upscaling of smart door locks for home delivery of goods and services by diversifying strategies to meet varying adopter needs. A successful unattended delivery system behind closed door can reduce the number of failed deliveries, porch piracy, and unnecessary trips to let in service providers, and might enhance perceived flexibility and convenience of consumers.…”
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Resolution of tremor associated with brainstem arachnoid cyst following surgical intervention: A case report by Andrey Rostislavovich Sitnikov, Rezida Maratovna Galimova, Dmitriy Konstantinovich Krekotin

“…Neurological examination on admission showed moderate left-sided blepharoptosis, right-sided hemiparesis (MRC grade 4 strength) and severe right-sided kinetic and postural tremor. MRI showed a large multiseptal cystic lesion within the left cerebral peduncle and left part of the midbrain. …”
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Homogeneous Model in Finite Element Analysis for Natural Frequency Calculation of Axisymmetric Shells by Volodymyr Lipovskyi

“…It focuses on the need to develop a simplified model that can be used in any modern finite element software package. The study analyzes the impact of the simplified homogeneous model on the deviation and error of natural frequencies compared to real structures. …”
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Effects of life history strategy on the diversity and composition of the coral holobiont communities of Sabah, Malaysia by Golam Rabbani, Lutfi Afiq-Rosli, Jen Nie Lee, Zarinah Waheed, Benjamin J. Wainwright

“…Without this baseline it is impossible to assess the magnitude and direction of any future changes in microbial community structure. …”
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Groundwater Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment using a Dar-Zarrouk Parameter in a Proposed Aboru Residential Estate, Lagos State, Nigeria by M.A. Ayuk

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Incidence and Implications of Culture-Positive Corneoscleral Rims in Corneal Transplantation by Meeraalam Z, Alreshidi SO, ALBalawi HB, Alali NM, Hashem F, Kirat OM

“…Zuheer Meeraalam,1 Shaker O Alreshidi,2 Hani B ALBalawi,3 Naif M Alali,3 Faris Hashem,3 Omar M Kirat4 1Ophthalmology Department, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2Ophthalmology Division, Department of Surgical Specialties, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia; 3Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; 4Anterior Segment Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Hani B ALBalawi, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, 71491, Saudi Arabia, Email hb.albalawi@ut.edu.saBackground: Corneal transplantation is a critical procedure for restoring vision affected by different corneal pathologies. …”
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Headline-Guided Extractive Summarization for Thai News Articles by Pimpitchaya Kositcharoensuk, Nakarin Sritrakool, Ploy N. Pratanwanich

“…Additionally, we introduce two strategies for aggregating headline-body similarities, simple average and harmonic mean, providing flexibility in sentence selection to accommodate varying writing styles. Experiments on publicly available Thai news datasets demonstrate that CHIMA outperforms baseline models across ROUGE, BLEU, and F1 scores. …”
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A modified Delphi study towards developing a guideline to inform policy on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in South Africa: a study protocol by Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Babatope O Adebiyi, Kufre J Okop, Anna-Marie Beytell

“…This protocol outlines a proposed process for developing a guideline to inform policies on FASDs.Methods and analysis This process will have three phases. Phase I will be carried out in three steps; we plan to conduct a document review of available policies on the prevention and management of FASDs and update the existing systematic review on FASDs interventions. …”
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Problem ubóstwa w biblijnej koncepcji człowieka by Tomasz Jelonek

“…Wszystkie przypadki braków, jakie są udziałem ludzi, określamy terminem „ubóstwa”, mówiąc bardziej szczegółowo o ubóstwie materialnym, fizycznym lub duchowym. …”
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Traumatic Brain Injury: Patient Characteristics, Hospital Costs and Trends Over Time by Pankaj A. Patel, Peter J. Mallow, Mary Vassar, John A. Rizzo, Bhavik J. Pandya, Denise T. Kruzikas

“…Children aged 4 or younger accounted for nearly 14% of TBI cases treated on an outpatient basis. TBI patients treated in the inpatient setting incurred fairly long hospital visits (mean 4.8 days; median 3.0 days) and substantial hospital costs (mean $12,717; median $8,176). …”
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Research studies on patients' illness experience using the Narrative Medicine approach: a systematic review by Chiara Fioretti, Gabriella Pravettoni, Silvia Riva, Ketti Mazzocco, Serena Oliveri, Marianna Masiero

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Trichromacy is insufficient for mate detection in a mimetic butterfly by Andrew Dang, Gary D. Bernard, Furong Yuan, Aide Macias-Muñoz, Ryan I. Hill, J. P. Lawrence, Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin, Armando Luis-Martínez, Sean P. Mullen, Jorge Llorente-Bousquets, Adriana D. Briscoe

“…Abstract Color vision is thought to play a key role in the evolution of animal coloration, while achromatic vision is rarely considered as a mechanism for species recognition. …”
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Comprehensive Ultrasound Diagnosis of Sigmoid Diverticulitis by A. I. Кoushnerou, I. A. Hadji-Ismail, A. V. Vorobei, S. I. Rudenka

“…The primary visit reason was recurrent varying-intensity pain in left abdominal quadrant, unstable stool and flatulence. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Postpartum Urinary Retention Following Vaginal Delivery by Nadia Al-Dujaili, Mohanad Albayyaa, Mazin Al-Dujaili, Shahla Alaf

“…Background: Postpartum urinary retention (PPUR) is the lack of spontaneous micturition for over six hours post-delivery. Its incidence varies due to differing definitions and risk factors. …”
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Effect of laser and light emitting diode bleaching techniques on micro-leakage of dental composite postoperatively using two different bonding systems by Shalaw S. Jawhar, Bassam K. Amin

“… Background and objective: Aesthetics is mostly a subjective perception that varies from individual to individual. The main objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the effects of LASER and light emitting diode bleaching techniques on the micro-leakage of composite resin restorations that were bonded with fifth and seventh adhesive bonding generations. …”
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The construction of a psychometric instrument for the educational role enactment of attending physicians in teaching hospitals by Ling-Chun Ou, Yu-Chih Lin

“…Abstract Background Attending physicians exhibit varied patterns in enacting educational roles, but no standardized framework or measurement tools currently exist to evaluate these roles and associated behaviors. …”
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LeaData a novel reference data of leather images for automatic species identification by Anjli Varghese, Malathy Jawahar, A. Amalin Prince

“…It also includes images of grain patterns varying over different body parts. Thus, the novel LeaData is an adequately larger pool of leather images with diverse behavior. …”
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Preference learning based deep reinforcement learning for flexible job shop scheduling problem by Xinning Liu, Li Han, Ling Kang, Jiannan Liu, Huadong Miao

“…Finally, comparative experiments on FJSP benchmark instances of varying sizes demonstrate that PBMP outperforms traditional scheduling strategies such as dispatching rules, OR-Tools, and other deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms, achieving superior scheduling policies and faster convergence. …”
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Fractional hitting sets for efficient multiset sketching by Timothé Rouzé, Igor Martayan, Camille Marchet, Antoine Limasset

“…Locality-sensitive hashing techniques have successfully transformed large datasets into smaller, more manageable sketches while maintaining comparability using metrics such as Jaccard and containment indices. …”
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