Fostering an Inclusive Academic Workforce: Assessing the Impact of Age, Ethnic and Educational Diversity on Employee Performance by Padam Bahadur Lama, Prem Bahadur Budhathoki, Hari Prasad Ojha

“…These formulated hypotheses and research questions were assessed by accumulating the primary data sources of faculty members working in the higher education sector in Kathmandu, Nepal. …”
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Type of pre-existing chronic conditions and their associations with Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) treatment: Prediction and interpretation using machine learning methods. by Yves Paul Vincent Mbous, Zasim Azhar Siddiqui, Murtuza Bharmal, Traci LeMasters, Joanna Kolodney, George A Kelley, Khalid Kamal, Usha Sambamoorthi

“…In spite of the good performance of the model, especially for ITx and HTx, there is a need to replicate these findings using other data sources that provide access to larger population subgroups.…”
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Power imbalances in tropical medicine journals: an analysis of editorial board representation by Sushree Nibedita Panda, Manish Barik, P. Ratna, Prabhu Kalyan Das

“…Data on gender, country of affiliation (classified by World Bank income/regions), and geopolitical groups (G7, G20, BRICS) were extracted from public sources. …”
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New method for landslide susceptibility evaluation in alpine valley regions that considers the suitability of InSAR monitoring and introduces deformation rate grading by Dingyi Zhou, Zhifang Zhao, Wenfei Xi, Xin Zhao, Jiangqin Chao

“…Incorporating Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data sources into the landslide susceptibility evaluation process has yielded favorable outcomes in some studies. …”
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Oral Cholera Vaccination Delivery Cost in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis Based on Systematic Review. by Vittal Mogasale, Enusa Ramani, Hyeseung Wee, Jerome H Kim

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>To review and re-estimate oral cholera vaccination program costs and propose a new standardized categorization that can help in collation, analysis, and comparison of delivery costs across countries.<h4>Data sources</h4>Peer reviewed publications listed in PubMed database, Google Scholar and World Health Organization (WHO) websites and unpublished data from organizations involved in oral cholera vaccination.…”
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The impact of US-China competition in the Middle East region on the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran (2010-2022) by alireza shakiba, morteza nourmohammadi

“…Politically, however, the competition offers Iran some leverage, as China's opposition to US-led initiatives provides Iran with critical support. …”
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Fiducial Reference Measurements for Greenhouse Gases (FRM4GHG): Validation of Satellite (Sentinel-5 Precursor, OCO-2, and GOSAT) Missions Using the COllaborative Carbon Column Obse... by Mahesh Kumar Sha, Saswati Das, Matthias M. Frey, Darko Dubravica, Carlos Alberti, Bianca C. Baier, Dimitrios Balis, Alejandro Bezanilla, Thomas Blumenstock, Hartmut Boesch, Zhaonan Cai, Jia Chen, Alexandru Dandocsi, Martine De Mazière, Stefani Foka, Omaira García, Lawson David Gillespie, Konstantin Gribanov, Jochen Gross, Michel Grutter, Philip Handley, Frank Hase, Pauli Heikkinen, Neil Humpage, Nicole Jacobs, Sujong Jeong, Tomi Karppinen, Matthäus Kiel, Rigel Kivi, Bavo Langerock, Joshua Laughner, Morgan Lopez, Maria Makarova, Marios Mermigkas, Isamu Morino, Nasrin Mostafavipak, Anca Nemuc, Timothy Newberger, Hirofumi Ohyama, William Okello, Gregory Osterman, Hayoung Park, Razvan Pirloaga, David F. Pollard, Uwe Raffalski, Michel Ramonet, Eliezer Sepúlveda, William R. Simpson, Wolfgang Stremme, Colm Sweeney, Noemie Taquet, Chrysanthi Topaloglou, Qiansi Tu, Thorsten Warneke, Debra Wunch, Vyacheslav Zakharov, Minqiang Zhou

“…The COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network has become a reliable source of high-quality ground-based remote sensing network data that provide column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of carbon dioxide (XCO₂), methane (XCH₄), and carbon monoxide (XCO). …”
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Drugs in Aviation - A Review by G.L. Muntingh

“…Studies confirm that some pilots, and other crew members while on duty, used prohibited medications or illegal substances or performed duties while suffering significant unreported medical conditions. …”
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Structural placental changes in women with intra-pregnancy novel coronavirus infection COVID-19 (review) by A. V. Yakimova, S. Yu. Borovaya, V. R. Mukhamedshina, N. S. Datsenko, S. G. Kucherenko, I. M. Pozdnyakov, E. V. Nikitenko

“…In the process of writing the article, in order to improve the reader's understanding of the essence of debated issue, there was a need to discuss some of the results with literary sources published earlier 2019 that were not directly related to the topic of the new coronavirus infection (there are 6 such sources). …”
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Investigation of Biogenic Amines and Quality in Jerky, Bacon, and Sausage: Chinese Traditional Meat Product by Xueying Sun, Xige He, Dan Wang, Min Zhang, Guanhua Hu, Erke Sun, Lina Sun, Ye Jin, Lihua Zhao

“…Currently, limited published data exist on these aspects. This study aimed to assess the levels of BAs and key quality index in 41 traditional meat products sourced from China. …”
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Color Sensors in Smart Food Packaging by Roman V. Kryuk, Marina G. Kurbanova, Anastasia Yu. Kolbina, Konstantin B. Plotnikov, Igor B. Plotnikov, Andrey N. Petrov, Mohammed El Amine Khelef

“…The information was obtained from open sources published in 2016–2021. The paper describes biosensors, chemical sensors, and indicators that determine some of the characteristics of food products and provide information to the producer, retailer, and consumer. …”
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Advancing environmental sensing with tapered optical fibers: structures, challenges, and applications by Han Tie Xin, Y Zhou, Bakr Ahmed Taha, Nur Nadia Bachok, Nurfarhana Mohd Sapiee, L S Supian, Norhana Arsad

“…The rapid fluorescence absorption response of tapered optical fibers has become an outstanding solution for tracking environmental changes. Data from reliable sources such as Science Direct, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar. …”
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Measuring and estimation of suspended sediment variation using sediment rating curve approach in Mereg River by Sohila Aghabeigi Amin, Heidar Mirzaei

“…Due to the lack of data or scattered data, it is very difficult to study suspended sediment in the rivers of Iran. …”
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Polyphenolic Antioxidants in Bilberry Stems and Leaves: A Non-Targeted Analysis by Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy and Liquid Chromatography–High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry by Anna V. Faleva, Nikolay V. Ulyanovskii, Alexandra A. Onuchina, Dmitry S. Kosyakov

“…Compared with those of berries, the stems and leaves of the genus Vaccinium are important and underestimated sources of polyphenols with high antioxidant activity. …”
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Assessment of patient-reported outcomes after polytrauma – instruments and methods: a systematic review by Silke Andrich, Michaela Ritschel, Joachim Windolf, Andrea Icks, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Irmela Gnass, Silke Kuske, Kai Moschinski, Annegret Herrmann-Frank, Sascha Flohé, Johannes Sturm, Sandra Olivia Borgmann, Charlotte Wittgens

“…Objectives We (1) collected instruments that assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL), activities of daily living (ADL) and social participation during follow-up after polytrauma, (2) described their use and (3) investigated other relevant patient-reported outcomes (PROs) assessed in the studies.Design Systematic Review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guideline.Data sources MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, CENTRAL, as well as the trials registers ClinicalTrials.gov and WHO ICTRP were searched from January 2005 to April 2018.Eligibility criteria All original empirical research published in English or German including PROs of patients aged 18–75 years with an Injury Severity Score≥16 and/or an Abbreviated Injury Scale≥3. …”
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The Characteristic of Measles Epidemic Process in Kyrgyz Republic by M. S. Niiazalieva, O. V. Tsvirkun, V. S. Toygombaeva, I. Sh. Aldjambaeva, G. S. Ishenapysova, R. A. Frolov, G. S. Dadanova

“…Descriptive statistics – mean and standard error of the mean (data are presented as M ± m) for quantitative variables, for qualitative variables – determination of proportion.Results and Discussions. …”
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Integrating Microgrids into Engineering Education: Modeling and Analysis for Voltage Stability in Modern Power Systems by Farheen Bano, Ali Rizwan, Suhail H. Serbaya, Faraz Hasan, Christos-Spyridon Karavas, Georgios Fotis

“…This helps to meet the increasing demand for engineers to integrate distributed power generation and renewable energy sources. Some limitations of the current literature include the absence of models outlining approaches to microgrid education and limited insight into teaching strategies for electrical power systems. …”
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Versatile graceful degradation framework for bio-inspired proprioception with redundant soft sensors by Taku Sugiyama, Kyo Kutsuzawa, Dai Owaki, Elijah Almanzor, Fumiya Iida, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe

“…Nevertheless, soft sensors are fragile and are susceptible to various damage sources in such environments. Some researchers have utilized redundant configuration, where healthy sensors compensate instantaneously for lost ones to maintain proprioception accuracy. …”
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The relationship between epigenetic biomarkers and the risk of diabetes and cancer: a machine learning modeling approach by Shiqi Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Jianan Jin, Benfeng Xu, Qi Zheng, Haibo Mou

“…This study aims to analyze the relationship between 30 epigenetic biomarkers and the risk of diabetes and cancer using machine learning modeling.MethodsThe data for this study were sourced from the NHANES database, which includes DNA methylation arrays and epigenetic biomarker datasets. …”
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Near-surface remote sensing applications for a robust, climate-smart measurement, monitoring, and information system (MMIS) by Benjamin R. K. Runkle, Mallory Barnes, Matt Dannenberg, John A. Gamon, Troy Magney, Zoe Pierrat, Charles D. Southwick, Christopher Still, William Woodgate

“…The integration of near-surface RS tools into an MMIS will overcome some limitations and uncertainties of current carbon cycle accounting methods and carbon project implementation. …”
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