Social capital as a determinant of quality of life in greek cancer patients: a cross-sectional study by Athanasios Pitis, Maria Diamantopoulou, Aspasia Panagiotou, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Foteini Tzavella

“…The EU Cancer Inequalities Registry indicates that social determinants of health significantly influence the cancer burden in Greece, thus affecting quality of life.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study; the Social Capital Questionnaire Greek version was used for the evaluation of individual social capital, and the EORTC Core Quality of Life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) was used for the assessment of quality of life. …”
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Hydro-Lipophilic Properties of Chlorinated and Brominated 1-Hydroxynaphthalene-2-Carboxanilides by Lucia Vrablova, Tomas Gonec, Josef Jampilek

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Role of ELT and Life Skills in Developing Employability Skills through Integrating Self Determination and Experiential Learning by Dev Brat Gupta, Vinod Bhatt, Shreya Mathur, Jyoti Badge, Asmita Sharma

“…The article proposes insightful suggestions to educators and policy makers to put into practice efficient methods for incorporating experiential learning and self-determination theory into ELT and life skills curriculum. …”
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Sustainable Biopolymer-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Trace Heavy Metal Determination in Water: A Comprehensive Review by Rabiaa Helim, Ali Zazoua, Hafsa Korri-Youssoufi

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The Effect of Lesion Length on Doppler Velocities Used Routinely to Determine Carotid Stenosis Cross-Sectional Severity by Wladyslaw Dabrowski, Lukasz Tekieli, Anna Kablak-Ziembicka, Justyna Stefaniak, Karolina Dzierwa, Adam Mazurek, Piotr Paluszek, Krzysztof Zmudka, Piotr Pieniazek, Piotr Musialek

“…We tested the hypothesis that lesion length (LL) may affect PSV and EDV. <b>Methods</b>: CARUS (Carotid Artery IntravasculaR Ultrasound Study) prospectively enrolled 300 consecutive patients (age 47–83 years, 64.3% men, 63.3% symptomatic) with carotid stenosis ≥50% by Doppler ultrasound considered diagnostic (corelab analyst). …”
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Determination of the Optimal Spraying Application Rate for Improving the Vegetative Growth of Maize Crop Using Knapsack sprayer by Majid H. Alheidary, Sadiq J. Muhsin, Anhar M. Alshummary

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Incorporating social determinants of health into agent-based models of HIV transmission: methodological challenges and future directions by Anna L. Hotton, Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Arindam Fadikar, Nicholson T. Collier, Aditya S. Khanna, Darnell N. Motley, Eric Tatara, Sara Rimer, Ellen Almirol, Harold A. Pollack, John A. Schneider, John A. Schneider, John A. Schneider, Robert J. Lempert, Robert J. Lempert, Jonathan Ozik

“…There is much focus in the field of HIV prevention research on understanding the impact of social determinants of health (e.g., housing, employment, incarceration) on HIV transmission and developing interventions to address underlying structural drivers of HIV risk. …”
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Determinants of non-accessibility to primary health care in the Ikela Health Zone, Ikela, Democratic Republic of the Congo by Louison Lofoka Botuli, Basua Babintu Mukandu, Gerard Eya Matangelo Eloko, Monizi Mawunu, Jean-Paul Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua

“…This study aims to identify the determinants of non-accessibility to primary healthcare in the Ikela Health Zone and to describe the various health services provided by healthcare institutions. …”
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The Role of Ferritin and Folate in Determining Stem Cell Collection for Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Multiple Myeloma by Charles J. Weeks, Mohammad Mian, Michael Stokes, Matthew Gold, Anvay Shah, Rohan Vuppala, Katherine J. Kim, Abigayle B. Simon, Jorge Cortes, Anand Jillela, Vamsi Kota

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A humidity resistant radon source developed by ion exchange of radium in a membrane by Yanliang Chen, Linfeng He, Gang Han

“…Objective: To develop a humidity resistant radon source on a membrane based on the ion exchange technique. Methods: 226Ra in its standard solution was adsorbed in the HP membrane through cation exchange. …”
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Crashing Fault Residence Prediction Using a Hybrid Feature Selection Framework from Multi-Source Data by Xiao Liu, Xianmei Fang, Song Sun, Yangchun Gao, Dan Yang, Meng Yan

“…A critical step of fault localization is predicting the residence of crashing faults, which involves determining whether a fault is located within the stack trace or outside it. …”
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Airflow direction influence on aerodynamic forces acting on a vehicle by А. O. Shimanovsky, V. U. Dzemyanchuk

“…The main purpose of the study is to determine the values of the longitudinal and transverse forces acting on the car for the entire possible range of changes in the angle of attack of the airflow.Materials and methods. …”
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EVALUATION OF VARIABLE INTENSITY OF HEAT REMOVAL FROM THE SURFACE OF FALLING AND CRYSTALLIZING MELT DROPLETS IN THE PROCESS OF THEIR PRILLING by E. N. Zvereva, Yu. A. Taran

“…The method of calculation of the intensity of heat removal from the surface of the crystallizing melt droplets is presented. …”
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On-site salt iodine detector (OSID) kit: An alternative tool for salt iodization monitoring by Mohd Azerulazree Jamilan, Nurul Aznyda Norizan, Ahmad Ali Zainuddin, Noor ul-Aziha Muhammad, Filza Noor Asari, Aswir Abd Rashed, Mohd Fairulnizal Md Noh

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Fungicidal protection of sunflower against the main leaf diseases by S. Retman, N. Bazykina

“…The observations were conducted according to generally accepted methods; the incidence and severity of diseases, technical efficiency were determined. …”
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Game and Application Purchasing Patterns on Steam using K-Means Algorithm by Salman Fauzan Fahri Aulia, Yana Aditia Gerhana, Eva Nurlatifah

“…A normalization process is applied to enhance calculation accuracy. The elbow method determines the optimal number of clusters, resulting in three clusters from the k-means algorithm. …”
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A parallel bioreactor strategy to rapidly determine growth-coupling relationships for bioproduction: a mevalonate case study by Alec Banner, Joseph Webb, Nigel Scrutton

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Universal calibration of a scintillation spectrometer with a NaI(Tl) detector when measuring 137Cs activity in counting samples of arbitrary density and volume by K. A. Sednev, V. A. Nekrasov, V. S. Repin

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Improving the accuracy of calculating the speed of movement at the time of an accident in collisions with incomplete overlap of a part of the car by E. V. Golov

“…The proposed methodology regulates the use of the coefficient of variation as a criterion for the admissibility of the use of source data to determine the quality of the final result of the calculation. …”
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Efficient Ammonium Ion Removal from the State Company of Fertilizers Wastewater through Nano Zeolite Treatment by Aseel Tami Abduljabbar, Saadiyah Ahmed Dhahir, Muna Subhi Jamal

“…The Freundlich model best describes the adsorption isotherms with a higher coefficient of determination (R2=0.97) than the Langmuir model with a coefficient of determination (R2=0.80). …”
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