Obstetric, foetal and neonatal outcomes in adolescent pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. by Anthony Danso-Appiah, Eric Behene, Joan Naadu Hazel, Shirley Abanga

“…An important step toward achieving this is to collate all empirical data through robust systematic review and meta-analysis to distill evidence at the highest level possible. …”
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Addressing the HIV/AIDS investment gap through stronger public financial management systems: a human-centered approach by Carlyn Mann, Elan Reuben, Susanna Baker, Mai Hijazi, A. K. Nandakumar, Padma Shetty, Rob Stanley, Onyeka Igboelina, Godfrey Nyombi, Dhimn Nzoya, Samson Oli, Garoma Kena, Carolina Piña, Jordan Tuchman, Kenneth Sklaw, Abimbola Kola-Jebutu, Ivana Lohar, Anh Nguyen Thi Cam, Simplice Takoubo Kamdem, Yves Maxime Kouadio Kouadio

“…Cambodia saw an increase in government commitments for ARVs from US$1.5 million annually from 2018–2020 to US$5 million by 2023. Lessons learned Robust data are needed for evidence-based advocacy to increase domestic government funding for HIV/AIDS and to strengthen PFM systems for more efficient and effective resource use; institutionalizing capacity building efforts allows for locally-led technical assistance; policy-related work is a multi-year endeavor; PFM success can be stymied by political transitions, political will, and donor commitments; COVID-19 brought new challenges and new opportunities; measurable results can lead to greater impact; and results are not necessarily solely project attributions with possible inflation of ROI estimates given there was no counterfactual. …”
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Preindustrial-to-present-day changes in atmospheric carbon monoxide: agreement and gaps between ice archives and global model reconstructions by X. Faïn, S. Szopa, V. Naïk, P. Martinerie, D. M. Etheridge, D. M. Etheridge, R. H. Rhodes, C. M. Trudinger, C. M. Trudinger, V. V. Petrenko, K. Fourteau, P. Place, P. Place

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Establishing the VR-haptic thinkers group: Insights and progress in dental training technologies by Szabolcs Felszeghy, Mikko Liukkonen, Nicla Flacco, Mahmoud M. Bakr, Sarah Rampf, Simona-Georgiana Schick, Maria F. Sittoni-Pino, Kristin Ackerman, Santiago Arias-Herrera, Ben Audsley, Santiya Bell, Samantha Byrne, Giorgia Carpegna, Mark R. Durham, Kandace Gourley, Outi Huhtela, Hanna Hytönen, Carlos López-Roig, David Morton, Masako Nagasawa, Cesar Orsini, Damiano Pasqualini, Amitha Ranauta, María P. Rodríguez-Hopp, Anna L. Suominen, Jorge A. Tricio-Pesce, Michael Wolcott, Muhammad A. Shazib, Thomas J. Greany, Michael Lampe, Margrit Maggio, Sompop Bencharit, Rebecca Stolberg, Gülsün Gül, Barry Quinn, Murat Mutluay

“…The theme of the meetup was timely as in recent years dental educators have all faced many challenges in education and research and have had to deal with rapid changes in supportive VR-haptic education. A robust program was featured to engage with the dental community members who are curious about the new technological advancements in dental education.…”
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Improving health-promoting workplaces through interdisciplinary approaches. The example of WISEWORK-C, a cluster of five work and health projects within Horizon-Europe by Deborah De Moortel, Michelle C Turner, Ella Arensman, Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen, Víctor Gonzalez

“…The possible implications of the green transition for the EU labour market (Discussion Paper 176). …”
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Habitat Characteristics and the Species Response of Astragalus curvirostris Boiss. to the Environmental Factors in Lorestan Rangelands by Reza Siahmansour, Nadia Kamali, Hamid Reza Mirdavoodi, Javad Motamedi

“…Extended Abstract IntroductionTo analyze complex ecological data, it is necessary to employ flexible and robust analytical methods that can handle non-linear relationships, interactions, and missing data control. …”
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exoALMA. IV. Substructures, Asymmetries, and the Faint Outer Disk in Continuum Emission by Pietro Curone, Stefano Facchini, Sean M. Andrews, Leonardo Testi, Myriam Benisty, Ian Czekala, Jane Huang, John D. Ilee, Andrea Isella, Giuseppe Lodato, Ryan A. Loomis, Jochen Stadler, Andrew J. Winter, Jaehan Bae, Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Gianni Cataldi, Nicolás Cuello, Daniele Fasano, Mario Flock, Misato Fukagawa, Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Himanshi Garg, Cassandra Hall, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Kazuhiro Kanagawa, Geoffroy Lesur, Cristiano Longarini, Francois Menard, Ryuta Orihara, Christophe Pinte, Daniel J. Price, Giovanni Rosotti, Richard Teague, Gaylor Wafflard-Fernandez, David J. Wilner, Lisa Wölfer, Hsi-Wei Yen, Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Brianna Zawadzki

“…The exoALMA Large Program targeted a sample of 15 disks to study gas dynamics within these systems, and these observations simultaneously produced continuum data at 0.9 mm (331.6 GHz) with exceptional surface brightness sensitivity at high angular resolution. …”
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Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of α Centauri A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits by Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet, Pierre Kervella, Kevin Wagner, Billy Quarles, Jack J. Lissauer, Max Sommer, Mark Wyatt, Nicolas Godoy, William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Jonathan Aguilar, Rachel Akeson, Ruslan Belikov, Anthony Boccaletti, Elodie Choquet, Edward Fomalont, Thomas Henning, Dean Hines, Renyu Hu, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Jarron Leisenring, James Mang, Michael Ressler, Eugene Serabyn, Pascal Tremblin, Marie Ygouf, Mantas Zilinskas

“…This Letter is first in a series of two papers: Paper II discusses the data reduction strategy and finds that S 1 is robust as a planet candidate, as opposed to an image or detector artifact.…”
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Development of a customised data management system for a COVID-19-adapted colorectal cancer pathway by Malcolm G Dunlop, Yasuko Maeda, Janice Miller, Frances Gunn, Farhat VN Din

“…Large-volume data management using a spreadsheet system is possible with appropriate data definition and VBA-programmed data segregation. …”
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A mixed-methods evaluation of a Polish international researcher mobility grant scheme. by Adam Ploszaj

“…First, empirical findings on the impact of a mobility program from a scientific periphery are presented, highlighting its possible transformative benefits. …”
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Comparative analysis of NTRUEncrypt modified post-quantum cryptographic system and standard RSA cryptosystem by P. V. Razumov, I. A. Smirnov, I. A. Pilipenko, A. V. Selyova, L. V. Cherkesova

“…In addition, the internal memory usage is optimized through reducing the weight of the source program file and the size of the secret key. When attempting to crack a ciphertext, cryptographic robustness and complexity of using quantum algorithms are shown.…”
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Maternal care boosted by paternal imprinting in mammals. by H D J Creeth, G I McNamara, S J Tunster, R Boque-Sastre, B Allen, L Sumption, J B Eddy, A R Isles, R M John

“…In mammals, mothers are the primary caregiver, programmed, in part, by hormones produced during pregnancy. …”
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Application of a Fiber Optic-Based SHM System to a Composite Aircraft Wing and Its Technological Maturity Evaluation by Gianvito Apuleo, Monica Ciminello, Lorenzo Pellone, Umberto Mercurio, Antonio Concilio

“…This paper deals with the application of a novel fiber optic SHM system for bonding lines monitoring of a composite aircraft wing within Clean Sky 2 program framework. With the aim of controlling the structural state of the reference component, several targets may be addressed, including safety increase through a periodic update of the integrity level, maintenance costs reduction, for instance, by moving to an on-demand from the usual scheduled approach, and even design benefits by envisaging the possibility of modulating the safety coefficients due to an increased knowledge of the intimate structural system behavior. …”
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Optimal Operation of CCHP Smart Distribution Grid with Integration of Renewable Energy by Ghassan A. Bilal, Mohammed K. Al-Saadi, Ghaidaa A. Al-Sultany, Wisam Abed Kattea Al-Maliki

“…To verify the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed model, the analysis is applied to the distribution grids, which include electrical, heating, and cooling systems, where these systems operated cooperatively. …”
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Detection, isolation, characterization, analytical method development with validation and in-silico analysis of new impurity in rivaroxaban by Manohar Reddy Epuru, Jagadam Saroja, Veera Venkata Nanda Kishore Pilli, Ravinder Reddy Vennapureddy

“…It became apparent that the IMP-20.15/2.57 content in three batches of RRBN API were below the quantification limits. The in-silico program suggested that there was certainly no possibility of mutagenicity with IMP-20.15/2.57. …”
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Non-linear relationship between serum iron levels and 28-day mortality in sepsis patients: a retrospective study by Jun Jin, Lei Yu, Kin Cheung, Zihao Deng, Qingshan Zhou, Yong Liu

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A Multi-Layered Security Framework for Medical Imaging: Integrating Compressed Digital Watermarking and Blockchain by Brahim Ferik, Lakhdar Laimeche, Abdallah Meraoumia, Omar Aldabbas, Muath AlShaikh, Abdelkader Laouid, Mohammad Hammoudeh

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Study of the Elemental Composition of Gadolinium–Aluminum Garnets—Obtaining Predictable Optical Properties by Natalia A. Korotkova, Kseniya V. Petrova, Vasilisa B. Baranovskaya, Marina S. Doronina, Alexandra A. Arkhipenko

“…Using the proposed acid mixture and temperature-time program, microwave digestion of these materials and complete transfer of the sample’s components into solution were possible. …”
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Enhancing paternal rabbit line’s litter size through backcrossing strategy by Mohamed Ragab, José S. Vicente, Francisco Marco-Jiménez

“…This poses a challenge for the continuation of the breeding program. To address this, our study employed repeated backcrossing, a strategy widely used in the recovery of endangered breeds, to improve the litter size traits of this paternal line. …”
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exoALMA. XIV. Gas Surface Densities in the RX J1604.3−2130 A Disk from Pressure-broadened CO Line Wings by Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Pietro Curone, Jochen Stadler, Stefano Facchini, Richard Teague, Munetake Momose, Sean M. Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Myriam Benisty, Gianni Cataldi, Daniele Fasano, Mario Flock, Misato Fukagawa, Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Himanshi Garg, Cassandra Hall, Jane Huang, John D. Ilee, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Kazuhiro Kanagawa, Geoffroy Lesur, Cristiano Longarini, Ryan A. Loomis, Ryuta Orihara, Christophe Pinte, Daniel J. Price, Giovanni Rosotti, Hsi-Wei Yen, Gaylor Wafflard-Fernandez, David J. Wilner, Andrew J. Winter, Lisa Wölfer, Brianna Zawadzki

“…In this study, we report the spatially resolved detection of pressure-broadened line wings in the CO J  = 3–2 line in the RX J1604.3−2130 A transition disk as part of the exoALMA large program. Since pressure-broadened line wings are sensitive to the total gas volume density, we robustly constrain the radial dependence of the gas surface density and midplane pressure in the region located 50–110 au from the central star, which encompasses the dust ring of the system. …”
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