Performance Assessment of a Permeable Reactive Barrier on Reducing Groundwater Transport of Nitrate from an Onsite Wastewater Treatment System by Charles P. Humphrey Jr., Guy Iverson, Mike O’Driscoll

“…To confirm this, additional monitoring wells would need to be installed. …”
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Radiation-Hardened 16T SRAM Cell with Improved Read and Write Stability for Space Applications by Jong-Yeob Oh, Sung-Hun Jo

“…The proposed integrated circuit was implemented using a 90 nm CMOS process and operates at a supply voltage of 1V. …”
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Bending the curve: Modeling the impact of reducing risk factors for noncommunicable diseases to control future health expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean. by Andres I Vecino-Ortiz, Timothy Roberton, Angelica López-Hernández, Caitlin M Noonan, Angela P Vega Landaeta, Daniel Maceira, Yvonne N Flores, Claudio A Mora-García, Paulina Giusti, T Alafia Samuels, Natalia Palacio-Martínez, Andrea Prado, Carla Machado, Charmaine Metivier, Christine Laptiste, Althea La Foucade, Vyjanti Beharry, Krishna D Rao

“…While addressing NCD risk factors is a key step to improving health in LAC countries, the impact on CHE is relatively small though meaningful in absolute terms, and additional strategies need to be implemented to control increasing CHE levels that threaten health systems' sustainability.…”
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Factors associated with Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditure in communities of Lagos Nigeria: A Megacity experience. by Kikelomo Ololade Wright, Adeyinka Adeniran, Adedayo Aderibigbe, Olufunsho Akinyemi, Temiloluwa Fagbemi, Omoyeni Ayodeji, Biola Adepase, Emmanuella Zamba, Hussein Abdurrazzaq, Faith Oniyire, Olusegun Ogboye, Akin Abayomi

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>CHE is more prevalent among people with lower socio-economic status, urban residents, and those lacking health insurance. It is crucial to implement targeted initiatives to raise awareness about the benefits of health insurance and simplify the enrollment process for vulnerable groups, thereby alleviating the financial strain of healthcare expenses.…”
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Impact of iSupport on improving knowledge on dementia and dementia care among family caregivers to persons with dementia and formal caregivers in Bangladesh: Protocol for a non-ran... by Muhammed Nazmul Islam, Parsa Musarrat, Hanne Konradsen, Marie Tyrrell, Antara Roy, Asibul Islam Anik, Zarina Nahar Kabir

“…To understand the facilitators and barriers of implementing iSupport, a qualitative approach will be used to interview 15 family caregivers and conduct four FGDs with formal caregivers. …”
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Size photometry and fluorescence imaging of immobilized immersed extracellular vesicles by Andreas Wallucks, Philippe DeCorwin‐Martin, Molly L. Shen, Andy Ng, David Juncker

“…Here we introduce highly sensitive label‐free EV size photometry (SP) based on interferometric scattering (iSCAT) imaging of immersed EVs immobilized on a glass coverslip. We implement SP on a common inverted epifluorescence microscope with LED illumination and a simple 50:50 beamsplitter, permitting seamless integration of SP with fluorescence imaging (SPFI). …”
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The effect of fatigue on performance and landing mechanics of adolescence taekwondo players by Mohammad Kalantarian, samaneh samadi, ramin beyranvand

“…So, taekwondo coaches should implement effective strategies to mitigate fatigue, enhance athletes' conditioning, and optimize their performance in training and competitions.…”
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Inequality of opportunity in child nutrition in Pakistan. by Shyamkumar Sriram, Lubna Naz

“…Understanding the critical role of these circumstances can help policymakers address the situation and implement concrete steps to enhance equal opportunities for child health.…”
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Optimal control efforts to reduce the transmission of HPV in a fractional-order mathematical model by A. El-Mesady, Tareq M. Al-shami, Hegagi Mohamed Ali

“…To check this model’s well-posedness, we investigate solutions existence, positivity, uniqueness and boundedness. Additionally, we identify the disease-free and endemic equilibrium points (EPs) to introduce their local stability, and also bifurcation analysis is presented. …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION COMPETENCES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS by S. I. Karas, O. I. Ostrikova, M. B. Arzhanik, I. O. Korneva

“…There are additional functions besides usual for paper medical record, for example: learning about specialized software, electronic re­ference books, and medical standard documents. …”
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Prosumer Cost Efficiency and Ensuring Grid Stability Through a Hierarchical PPO Framework in Decentralized Community Energy Management by Ajay Singh, Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

“…To maintain grid stability, a suitable reward function is implemented to prevent overloading of the transformer connected to a particular community. …”
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A systematic mapping review at the intersection of artificial intelligence and self-regulated learning by Seyyed Kazem Banihashem, Melissa Bond, Nina Bergdahl, Hassan Khosravi, Omid Noroozi

“…The main results revealed that AI-SRL research predominantly focuses on higher education students, with minimal attention to primary education and educators. AI is primarily implemented as an intervention—through adaptive systems and personalization, prediction and profiling, intelligent tutoring systems, and assessment and evaluation—to support students' SRL and learning processes. …”
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RESEARCH OF FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSED MEAT by Irina A. Prokopenko

“…Based on the results of the implemented work, it is recommended to use ННP technology within the range of 600–700 MPa, processing time of 20 min at 20±1 ºС for production of poultry meat products.…”
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Assessment of the 2022 post‐market environmental monitoring report on the cultivation of genetically modified maize MON 810 in the EU by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Antoine Messéan, Fernando Álvarez, Yann Devos, Ana M. Camargo

“…EFSA notes that several recommendations made in the frame of the assessment of previous PMEM reports remain unaddressed and identified additional shortcomings in the 2022 PMEM report that require further consideration by the consent holder in future annual PMEM reports. …”
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The Impact of Energy Intensity, Renewable Energy, and Financial Development on Green Growth in OECD Countries: Fresh Evidence Under Environmental Policy Stringency by Tugba Nur, Emre E. Topaloglu, Sureyya Yilmaz-Ozekenci, Erol Koycu

“…This study examines the impact of financial development, renewable energy, energy intensity, and stringent environmental policies on green growth in twenty-three Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries from 2000 to 2023. Additionally, it examines how stringent environmental policies moderate the link between financial development and green growth. …”
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Effective DDoS attack detection in software-defined vehicular networks using statistical flow analysis and machine learning. by Himanshi Babbar, Shalli Rani, Maha Driss

“…Additionally, the approach distinguishes between reconnaissance, Denial of Service (DoS), and DDoS traffic by addressing the challenges of imbalanced and overfitting dataset traces. …”
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Automated evaluation of accessibility issues of webpage content: tool and evaluation by Jinat Ara, Cecilia Sik-Lanyi

“…In order to predict a webpage’s accessibility status, we implemented three distinct algorithms to analyze web features/objects considering both semantic and non-semantic aspects. …”
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Integrated Approach to Optimizing Selection and Placement of Water Pipeline Condition Monitoring Technologies by Diego Calderon, Mohammad Najafi

“…However, given the large scale and tight budgets of water utilities, it is essential to implement strategies for optimal selection and deployment of monitoring technologies. …”
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Robust and Scalable Quantum Repeaters Using Machine Learning by Diego Fuentealba, Jackson Dahn, James Steck, Elizabeth Behrman

“…It is then scaled up, with no additional training, to systems of 4, 6, and 8 qubits using transfer learning. …”
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Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of Chemical-Based Mollusciciding for Control of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium Transmission. by Charles H King, Laura J Sutherland, David Bertsch

“…<h4>Conclusion/significance</h4>While there are hurdles to implementing molluscicide control, its impact on local transmission is typically strong, albeit incomplete. …”
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