Facemask wearing to prevent COVID-19 transmission and associated factors among taxi drivers in Dessie City and Kombolcha Town, Ethiopia. by Tarikuwa Natnael, Yeshiwork Alemnew, Gete Berihun, Masresha Abebe, Atsedemariam Andualem, Sewunet Ademe, Belachew Tegegne, Metadel Adane

“…<h4>Background</h4>The World Health Organization (WHO) has pointed out that urban taxi drivers and their passengers are at higher risk of transmitting coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) due to frequent contact among many people. …”
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Investigation of a cluster of SARS-COV-2 infections among workers in a factory making personal protective equipment, Buikwe District, Uganda, 2020 by Aggrey Byaruhanga, Elizabeth Katana, Alex Ndyabakira, Sandra Nabatanzi, Richard Migisha, Geoffrey Amanya, Lilian Bulage, Daniel Kadobera, Alex Riolexus Ario, Julie Harris

“…We conducted a case-control study using a semi-structured, standardized questionnaire and a randomly-selected subset of case-patients from the line list. …”
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Enhancing Quality of Life in Patients With Hypothyroidism Using a Scientific Yoga Module: Randomized Controlled Trial by Savithri Nilkantham, Amit Singh, Vijaya Majumdar, Harini K N, Snigdha Atmakur

“…Participants were randomized to either a yoga intervention group or a waitlist control group with 67 in each group and assessed at 3 time points (before, in the middle of, and after the intervention) for primary and secondary outcomes. …”
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Morphological Features of Red Blood Cells in Patients with Severe Concomitant Injury by V. V. Moroz, E. A. Myagkova, V. A. Sergunova, O. E., Gudkova, D. A. Ostapchenko, A. M Chernysh, V. I. Reshetnyak

“…Objective: to reveal changes in the structure and shape of red blood cells depending on blood loss (BL) volume in patients with severe concomitant injury (SCI). …”
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Construction and Experimental Validation of Embedded Potential Functions for Ta-Re Alloys by Haohao Miao, Xuehuan Xia, Yonghao Fu, Jing Yan, Lu Li, Hongzhong Cai, Xiao Wang, Chengling Wu, Zhaolin Zhan, Xian Wang, Zhentao Yuan

“…Ta/Re layered composite material is a high-temperature material composed of the refractory metal tantalum (Ta) as the matrix and high-melting-point, high-strength rhenium (Re) as the reinforcement layer. …”
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DETERMINATION OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH CONGENITAL CLEFT OF THE UPPER LIP AND PALATE BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR ORTHOPEDIC REHABILITATION by M. Y. Oliinyk

“…An investigation of the life quality related to the oral health was proposed using data of 37 patients aged 17 to 36 years, including 26 men and 11 women with congenital malformations of the upper lip and palate, using the OHIP-14 (Oral health impact profile) questionnaire. Non-removable structures are made for 27 patients, combined (non-removable + removable) - for 10 patients. …”
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L'avaluació d'activitats i projectes d'animació teatral by Xavier Úcar

“…<br>Theater is an interdisciplinary meeting point in which culture, education and art get together in a such a way that it is difficult to distinguish each one of them and their practice. …”
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El uso didáctico de los sistemas de información geográfica en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior / The didactic use of geographical information systems in the European Hi... by Ana Nieto Masot

“…These different experiences show us a more extensive vision of the virtual teaching as complement to on-campus teaching, an aspect that can constitute a starting point for the elaboration of subsequent materials in this subject matter. …”
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Design and Construction of an Instrumentation System to Capture the Response of Advanced Materials Impacted by Intense Proton Pulses by F. Carra, C. Charrondiere, M. Guinchard, O. Sacristan de Frutos

“…In addition, due to the large number of measuring points, a radiation-hard multiplexer switch has been used during the experiment: this system was designed to fulfil the multiple requirements in terms of bandwidth, contact resistances, high channel reduction, and radiation resistance. …”
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Bio-remediation of lead polluted soil by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain M2 combined with pakchoi by CHEN Bao, XU Xiao-meng, QU Juan-juan, DONG Lei, YAN Li-long, SUN Xing-bin

“…Polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) analysis showed that inoculation with strain M2 changed significantly the microbial community structures of the soils treated with Pb(NO₃)₂ of different concentration (Fig. 1). …”
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Research on Fast Spectrum Resonance Calculation Method Based on Subgroup Method by YU Rongjun, ZHAO Shouzhi, YANG Rui, SONG Yingyun, ZHANG Chong, HUO Xingkai

“…Resonance calculation is a necessary part of the two-step or three-step physical calculation, and the traditional method is usually based on the geometric simplification model in dealing with the fast spectrum resonance calculation problem, which cannot accurately match the advantage of the MOC on the fine geometric processing ability, especially with the rapid development of advanced reactor research in recent years, many reactor schemes with fine structure have been proposed, including a large number of core schemes characterized by fast spectrum, for this type of problem, the traditional method is difficult to give high-precision multi-group constants under fine geometry. …”
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Category semantic and global relation distillation for object detection by Yanpeng LIANG, Zhonggui MA, Zongjie WANG, Zhuo LI

“…Knowledge distillation stands out as it transfers knowledge from large teacher models to compact student models without modifying the network structure, enabling the student models to perform nearly as well as their larger counterparts. …”
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Nutritional status and practices among Chinese marathon runners: data from the China marathon nutrition survey (CMNS) by Yan Chen, Xueyuan Zhao, Xiangxin Li, Wei Wen, Jingyi Zhang, Zhihui Lu, Yiheng Liang, Chengnan Zhang, Junqiang Qiu

“…Participants were recruited via official websites, social media, and onsite events. A structured and pre-tested questionnaire, referred to as the China Marathon Nutrition Survey questionnaire, was developed by the research team for the CMNS project. …”
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Development and Study of Demodulators for Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum Signals by D. I. Kaplun, V. V. Gulvanskiy, I. I. Kanatov, D. M. Klionskiy, A. B. Khachaturyan, D. N. Butusov, V. F. Lapizkiy, V. I. Bobrovskiy

“…According to this plan, the carrier frequency changes in fixed time points. After receiving the autostarting combination of frequencyhopping spread spectrum, a reception mode for frequency-hopping spread spectrum signal is switched on. …”
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SYNTHESIS, ANTIAGGREGATION AND ANTITROMBOTIC ACTIVITIES OF NEW DERIVATIVES OF HYDROXYBENZOIC ACIDS WITH TAURIC FRAGMENT by A. K. Brel, N. V. Atapina, Yu. N. Budaeva, S. V. Lisina, S. S. Tsaruk, D. V. Kurkin, I. N. Tyurenkov

“…A procedure for the preparation of N-hydroxybenzoyl taurine compounds and their salt forms have been described; their spectral characteristics and melting points have been determined. The synthesized compounds are superior to acetylsalicylic acid in solubility and are not inferior to it in antiplatelet and antithrombotic activities. …”
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Exploring the Relationship between Spatiotemporal Distribution of Urban Vibrancy and Neighborhood Attributes by Coupling Multi-Source Data: A Case of Nanshan District in Shenzhen by Liu Feng, Tang Zhong, Zhang Liang, Yu Lingmin, Liu Ke

“…Evidently, employment and commuting activities have a ripple effect on economic urban vibrancy throughout the center of the administrative district, making weekday vibrancy surpass that of weekend; 2) Variance of the spatiotemporal distribution of urban vibrancy is improved or inhibited by the characteristic factors, among which, the entertainment function plays a major role as the driving force; additionally, enclosure, Point Of Interest (POI) diversity, road density, and building density have promoting effects on the overall urban vibrancy. …”
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Optimizing the Postcataract Patient Journey Using AI-Driven Teleconsultation: Prospective Case Study by Joukje C Wanten, Noël J C Bauer, Mohita Chowdhury, Aisling Higham, Nick de Pennington, Frank J H M van den Biggelaar, Rudy M M A Nuijts

“…The Telehealth Usability Questionnaire was completed by 98 patients, yielding a mean score of 3.19 (SD 1.13) on a 5-point scale, highlighting its simplicity, ease of use, and audibility. …”
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Acoustic emission localization model of concrete material based on convolutional neural network by DENG Yongdong, ZHOU Jingren, LU Xiang, CHEN Jiangkang

“…Meanwhile, it will have stable performance for the new data points and strong applicability, which can be used as a reference for early warning of damage evolution based on nondestructive testing and is expected to be applied to the damage detection of other materials in the future.…”
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BISTABILITY AND CYTOTOXICITY OF MEDICAL DEVICES BASED ON CROSS-LINKED BIOPOLYMERS by E. A. Nemets, A. P. Pankina, V. A. Surguchenko, V. I. Sevastianov

“…Dehydrothermal cross-linking method is optimal from the view point of absence of cytotoxicity of stabilized biopolymers, however its area of application is limited by the risk of infl uence of high temperatures on the medico-technical properties of the products. …”
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The Preacher as 'Fool for Christ' : by Hassan Musa

“…He was a dedicated ECWA pastor whom I was privileged to teach at some point at ECWA Theological Seminary, Kagoro. After a few years his son Solomon Ibrahim also joined us at the seminary as a very humble but dedicated young pastor-in-training. …”
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