Trends of rape in the Mthatha area, Eastern Cape, South Africa by Banwari L. Meel

“…The average rate of sexual assault was 198 per 100 000 women a year. There was a tenfold increase of sexual assault from 39 per 100 000 women in 2001 to 417 per 100 000 women in 2006. …”
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Development of technological equipment for restoration of rolled wheeled pairs of railway wagons by V. V. Savinkin, I. V. Shagaev, S. V. Savinkin, V. N. Kuznetsova, A. V. Sandu

“…This article presents the results of the strength calculation of the main moments of forces and dynamic loads per wheel pair. The problem of repair equipment related to the lack of the independent mobile complexes that ensure prompt arrival at the work site and high quality restoration of the design geometry of the wheel surface is formulated.Results. …”
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Age of Information Minimization in Multicarrier-Based Wireless Powered Sensor Networks by Juan Sun, Jingjie Xia, Shubin Zhang, Xinjie Yu

“…To tackle this intricate problem, we propose a novel approach that leverages Lyapunov optimization to transform the complex original problem into a sequence of per-time-bock deterministic problems. …”
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BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN MEN by Volodymyr I. Trishch, Oryna Z. Detsyk

“…The odds of sexual dysfunction significantly increased with harmful alcohol use (2-3 times per week and 4-6 standard doses per episode) to OR=70.83 (95%CI=4.36-1151.73) and 26.45 (6.43-108.79). …”
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Trends in hospital admissions and mortality rates for asthma in Ecuador: a joinpoint regression analysis of data from 2000 to 2018 by Philip J Cooper, Alejandro Rodriguez, Natalia Romero-Sandoval, Angelita Cabrera, Sergio Barba

“…Between 2000 and 2011, hospital admissions decreased 0.8% per year and between 2011 and 2018 decreased 6.6% per year (p<0.05). …”
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An Efficient Data Aggregation Protocol Concentrated on Data Integrity in Wireless Sensor Networks by Liehuang Zhu, Zhen Yang, Meng Li, Dan Liu

“…To the best of our knowledge, EIPDAP has the most optimal upper bound on solving the integrity-preserving data aggregation problem.…”
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Multi-values discrete particle swarm optimization for cross layer resource allocation in cooperative OFDMA systems by Wei LI, Chun-lin XIONG, De-gang WANG, Xiao-ying ZHANG, Ji-bo WEI

“…The resource allocation problem in cooperative OFDMA systems with mobile stations (MS) on multi-services was investigated. …”
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The Use of the Acoustic Signal to Diagnose Machines Operated Under Variable Load by Paweł PAWLIK

“…Impact of background noise seems to be the major problem as part of analysis of such signal. In most cases of industrial environments, background level is high; thus, it prevents against concluding as per standard methods that have been used in diagnostic testing. …”
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Optimization of Cutting Parameters on Surface Roughness and Productivity when Milling Wood Materials by Nguyen Huu Loc, Trinh Quoc Hung

“…Using a great amount of experimental planning and many constrained nonlinear optimization problem solving methods, the authors built a process and solved the problem to determine the optimal cutting parameters such as feed per tooth Sz, tool tip radius ρ, depth of cut h, etc. that satisfy the above object. …”
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Perfection in Multiplication: Ferdinand Ulrich’s Thomistic Metaphysics of Existential Limit in Historical and Dialectical Context (part 1) by Lucas Buchanan Carroll

“…The first part of this two-part article outlines the historical background of the problem of the relation of perfection and multiplication. …”
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Using selective NIR wavelengths in portable devices to evaluate the chemical composition of cattle feeds by Lorenzo Serva, Luisa Magrin, Giovanni Chillemi, Giorgio Marchesini, Daniele Pietrucci, Francesco Renzi, Riccardo Valentini, Igino Andrighetto, Marco Milanesi

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The Economic Empowerment of Women in Uganda Through Mushroom Production by Ibarahim Mayanja, Tolga Tipi

“…However, a range of other reasons was given such as fast maturity of mushrooms, availability of market, healthy benefits of mushrooms, etc. were the most important reasons. The problems faced by women farmers were ranked from the most pressing problem to the least pressing problem in this order; Low market prices per kilogram of mushroom, scarcity of cotton during some seasons, poor quality mushroom spawn supplied to farmers by breeders, inadequate extension, and advisory services were the most observed problems among others. …”
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Groundwater well fields in ice-margin valley aquifers – is it easy to protect them, or not? An overview of hydrogeological and legal aspects of determining wellhead protection zone... by Matusiak Magdalena, Górski Józef, Dragon Krzysztof, Kruć-Fijałkowska Roksana

“…The loss of these qualitative recharge components is substituted by an increase in poor-quality water, i.e., surface water (7.3 per cent) and geogenically contaminated water from the ice-margin valley centre (3.8 per cent). …”
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Economic evaluation of type 2 diabetes mellitus burden and its main cardiovascular complications in the Russian Federation by Ivan I. Dedov, Anna V. Koncevaya, Marina V. Shestakova, Yuriy B. Belousov, Julia A. Balanova, Mikhail B. Khudyakov, Oleg I. Karpov

“…Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (DMT2) is a complex medical and social problem in the world and in the Russian Federation also due to prevalence and probability of cardio-vascular complications (CVC).Aim. …”
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Diagnostics of an acute bronchitis and community-acquired pneumonia and tactics of antibacterial therapy using amoxicillin by E. I. Krasnova, V. V. Provorova, N. I. Khokhlova, T. A. Kolpakova, T. I. Petrenko

“…In the world, 5-8 people per 1,000 adults suffer from pneumonia annually, in Europe – 2-15. …”
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Performance evaluation of Dabasso Lamaffaa Small Scale Irrigation Scheme at Buno Bedele Zone, South West Ethiopia by Etefa Tilahun Ashine, Addisu Assefa Mengesha, Minda Tadesse Bedane, Hewan Tadesse Kebede

“…The overall efficiency of the scheme was 23.29%, showing that the performance was poor, and it was caused mainly due to the water application problem at the field. The agricultural output productivity was 2620.83 (US$/ha), 2501.71 (US$/ha), 0.94 (US$/m3), and 0.91 (US$/m3), respectively, for output per unit irrigated area, output per unit command area, output per unit irrigation diverted, and output per unit water consumed. …”
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Typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of diagnosis and management of infections by Samuel Kariuki

“…It continues to be a public health problem in many developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Hip Fracture. A Nine-Year Study. by Horacio Suárez Monzón, Rolando Delgado Figueredo, Eduardo Sarmiento Sánchez, Juan Carlos Cabrera Suárez

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> 13,7 per cent of the orthopaedic complications were registered being significantly lower in regard with previous studies in similar contexts. 62 per cent of the assisted patients could get back their initial scale of disability. …”
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Design and implementation of high-speed scalar multiplier for multi-elliptic curve by Bin YU, Hai HUANG, Zhiwei LIU, Shilei ZHAO, Ning NA

“…Aiming at the problem that the existing scalar multiplier cannot be applied to multi-elliptic curve and the cost is expensive, a high-speed scalar multiplier was designed, applicable to two types of elliptic curves over prime fields.Firstly, in terms of the scalar multiplication, secp256r1 base points were processed with the comb algorithm, and the Shamir algorithm for ordinary points, and the Montgomery ladder algorithm for Curve25519.Secondly, the operation of point addition and point doubling was optimized, and the condition of Z=1 in point addition was simplified, thereby effectively reducing the number of calculation cycles.Lastly, a fast modular reduction algorithm of Curve25519 was designed for modular multiplication.Multiplexing was an important factor in the entire designing process.A 1022K equivalent gate was selected for the 55 nm CMOS process.This allowed ordinary point scalar multiplications performed on secp256r1 and Curve25519 respectively, calculating at the speeds of 153 000 times per second and 158 000 times per second, with the speed for secp256r1 1.9 times that of the existing designed one.…”
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A Novel Design of Hybrid Precoder in Multicell, Multiuser Heterogeneous Network by Mohammad Reza Pouryeganeh, Azim Fard, Mohammad Bagher Tavakoli

“…In this paper, the precoders capable of maximizing the weighted sum rate (WSR) for multicell scenarios under power budget constraint conditions per cell were considered based on the MIMO system performance. …”
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