Eliminating School Fees in Low-Income Countries: A Systematic Review by Claire Morgan, Anthony Petrosino, Trevor Fronius

“…Findings: The findings of this systematic review highlight the need for more rigorous and longitudinal empirical research regarding the effects of various types of school fee elimination policies in low-income developing nations—particularly on the effectiveness of targeting policies to the most vulnerable groups, effects on education quality, and the extent to which fee abolition policies can be sustainable. …”
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Exploring Wage Returns to Korean Language Proficiency Using a Semi-parametric Analysis by Junghyun Baik

“…This study contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the wage effects of official language proficiency, highlighting its nonlinear influence on earnings. …”
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Financial Resource Mobilization and Accountability in Localgovernments of Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government by Paul, Rubarema

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A Comparative Analysis of Outcomes Using PROMIS After Operative vs Non-operative Treatment of Achilles Rupture by David J. Ciufo MD, Philomena Burger BS, Mina Botros MD, Zein S. El-Zein MD

“…PROMIS is a valid, reliable, and effective tool to evaluate patient outcomes after treatment for Achilles ruptures. …”
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Health Care Professionals and Data Scientists’ Perspectives on a Machine Learning System to Anticipate and Manage the Risk of Decompensation From Patients With Heart Failure: Quali... by Joana Seringa, Anna Hirata, Ana Rita Pedro, Rui Santana, Teresa Magalhães

“…Two researchers (JS and AH) coded the interviews to ensure the consistency of the codes. …”
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Trends and Disparities in Firearm Injuries Among Emerging Adults: A 15-Year Analysis of Emergency Department Admissions in the U.S. by Morayo O. Akande, MPH, Jason T. Carbone, PhD, Michael G. Vaughn, PhD, Dylan B. Jackson, PhD, Cassandra K. Crifasi, PhD, MPH

“…Firearm injury admissions were more likely among individuals from ZIP codes with lower median household incomes, except for intentional self-injury, which showed unique patterns across most indicators. …”
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Cautiously optimistic: paediatric critical care nurses’ perspectives on data-driven algorithms in low-resource settings—a human-centred design study in Malawi by Margot Rakers, Daniel Mwale, Lieke de Mare, Lezzie Chirambo, Bart Bierling, Alice Likumbo, Josephine Langton, IMPALA Study team, Niels Chavannes, Hendrikus van Os, Job Calis, Kiran Dellimore, María Villalobos-Quesada

“…Results Workflow observations demonstrated the effects of personnel shortages and limited monitor equipment for vital signs monitoring. …”
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Family and anxiety in intensive care units by sohila rabie, tahereh khaleghduost, ezat paryad, zahra atrkar ruoshan

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Performance-Based Design Assessment of a Chilean Prescriptive R.C. Shear Wall Building Using Nonlinear Static Analysis by Mario Gutiérrez, Juan C. Vielma-Quintero, Jorge Carvallo, Juan C. Vielma

“…Performance-based seismic design (PBD) has emerged as a key approach for rationalizing prescriptive code provisions and improving the explicit assessment of structural performance. …”
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Workplace inequities and health outcomes among Black professionals in Canada. by Dora A Mugambi, Karim Keshavjee, Oliver Emre Aygun, Tina K Mbinda, Aziz Guergachi

“…The study highlights the need for more effective diversity and inclusion initiatives that address the root causes of racism. …”
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Critical Review and Benchmark Proposal on FE Modeling for Patch Loading Resistance of Slender Steel Plate Girders in Launched Bridges by Marck Anthony Mora Quispe

“…Traditional design methods enhance patch loading resistance through various stiffening techniques, with contributions typically estimated via code expressions calibrated on experimental data that do not always reflect the complexities of full-scale bridge applications. …”
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Rarefied Nozzle Flow Computation Using the Viscosity-Based Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method by Deepa Raj Mopuru, Nishanth Dongari, Srihari Payyavula

“…Flow characteristics within micro-nozzles are evaluated across varying ambient pressures and gas species in terms of the back pressure ratio, effective exit flow ratio, and exit flow velocity. …”
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Sentimentally enhanced conversation recommender system by Fengjin Liu, Qiong Cao, Xianying Huang, Huaiyu Liu

“…Extensive experimental results on two public CRS datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. Our code is released on https://github.com/Janns0916/EECR .…”
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Multi-Population Optimization Framework Based on Plant Evolutionary Strategy and Its Application to Engineering Design Problems by Hongwei Cheng, Jun Li, Xiaoming Zhang, Tingjuan Li, Panpan Zhang

“…Experimental results validate its effectiveness across a broad range of optimization problems, including those with constraints. …”
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Contrastive Disentangled Variational Autoencoder for Collaborative Filtering by Woo-Seong Yun, Seong-Min Kang, Yoon-Sik Cho

“…Consequently, our model improves the predictive performance by effectively learning the representations toward salient latent features while excluding the effects from popularity. …”
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Improving Sharpness-Aware Minimization Using Label Smoothing and Adaptive Adversarial Cross-Entropy Loss by Tanapat Ratchatorn, Masayuki Tanaka

“…Recent advances in learning algorithms have identified loss surface sharpness as an effective metric for reducing the generalization gap. …”
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Collaboration, Socialization, and Support: Accountability Partners in an Online Doctoral Learning Environment by Susan Weese, Rae Denise Madison, Valise Godley, Tim Cassibry, Mistie Measeles, Marty Rush

“…The research question guiding the study was: How can accountability partner relationships be effective for online doctoral students when almost no face-to-face and in-person interaction takes place? …”
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Therapeutic exercises, manual therapy, and health education program for adolescents with temporomandibular disorders: face-to-face and online multimodal rehabilitation protocol for... by Andreza Garrett, Daniela Aparecida Biasotto Gonzalez, Anelise Sonza

“…Abstract Background Multimodal rehabilitation has shown good results in adults with temporomandibular disorder (TMD), but there is still doubt regarding the protocol’s ideal format (face-to-face or online), and its effectiveness among adolescents. The purpose of this study is to describe a randomized clinical trial protocol of face-to-face and online multimodal rehabilitation, in adolescents with TMD, and to determine its effects on pain, peripheral oxygenation of the masseter muscle, and mandibular range of motion, kinesiophobia and parafunction. …”
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scFTAT: a novel cell annotation method integrating FFT and transformer by Binhua Tang, Yiyao Chen

“…Moreover, the model is fine-tuned to improve training performance by effectively incorporating such techniques as kernel approximation, position encoding enhancement, and attention enhancement modules. …”
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Modernization of Institutional and Economic Management Tools for Environmental Safety of Enterprises by Arthur Amber

“…This study also integrates synthesis, deduction, logical reasoning, and generalisation to augment the depth and scope of the research outcomes.This study measures to enhance the effectiveness of environmental management systems. These measures include the formulation of an Environmental Safety Code and the Progressive Environmental Management System (PEMS), as well as the creation of an independent Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (EIAA). …”
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