Exploring Strategies Used by Algerian EFL Learners to Develop Their Speaking Skills by Maamar Missoum

“…Identifying those strategies could help course designers and teachers design teaching in a way that improves learners’ use of learning strategies to develop their speaking skills more efficiently for academic and professional purposes. …”
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Over Six Thousand Trypanosoma cruzi Strains Classified into Discrete Typing Units (DTUs): Attempt at an Inventory. by Simone Frédérique Brenière, Etienne Waleckx, Christian Barnabé

“…Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, presents wide genetic diversity. Currently, six discrete typing units (DTUs), named TcI to TcVI, and a seventh one called TcBat are used for strain typing. …”
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Utility of First Dorsal Metacarpal Artery Flap for Thumb Defects by Krittika Aggarwal, Kuldeep Singh

“…The reverse FDMA flap that increases the pedicle length can be used for more distal defects, where conventional FDMA flap is doubtful.…”
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Harnessing bacterial immunity: CRISPR-Cas system as a versatile tool in combating pathogens and revolutionizing medicine by Mushtak T. S. Al-Ouqaili, Amna Ahmad, Noor A. Jwair, Farah Al-Marzooq

“…It is necessary to balance the advantages and difficulties CRISPR presents. Consequently, more rigorous preclinical and clinical experiments are essential before using it in humans.…”
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Using publicly available flight data to analyze health disparities in aeromedical retrieval by Dylana Moore, Brandon M. Crowley, Sean McCarthy, W. Andrew Smedley, Russell L. Griffin, Shannon W. Stephens, Jeffrey D. Kerby, Jan O. Jansen

“…Twelve counties were probable (outside of 99% confidence interval [CI]) high outliers (more helicopter retrievals than expected), and 4 were possible (outside of 95% CI) high outliers. …”
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Thickness and Volume of Glaciers of the Mongun-taiga Massif, Altai, in 2021 Based on Ground Penetrating Radar Data and Modeling by S. A. Griga, D. A. Ganyushkin, D. V. Bantsev, M. R. Nikolaev, M. P. Kashkevich, K. A. Ibraev

“…This article presents the results of estimating the scale of the present-day glaciation of the Mongun-Taiga Mountain range (Eastern Altai) based on the decoding multi-time satellite images, GPR data and modelling using GlabTop2 and the Volume-Area Scaling (VAS) method. …”
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Regenerative Agronomic Approaches: Technological, Biochemical and Rheological Characterization of Four Perennial Wheat Lines Grown in Italy by Elena Galassi, Chiara Natale, Francesca Nocente, Federica Taddei, Giovanna Visioli, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Gianni Galaverna, Laura Gazza

“…On average, all the perennial genotypes presented very small kernels along with high protein content, total antioxidant capacity, and mineral content, and genotypes OK72 and 11955 presented good test weight values. …”
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EVOLUTION OF SYSTEMIC JUVENILE ARTHRITIS DURING LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP by Svetlana Olegovna Salugina

“…The mean HAQ score was 1.2. More than half of the patients had retarded physical development or disproportionate body build. …”
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Carotid Atherosclerosis Severity in Unorganized Adult Population by V. S. Kaveshnikov, V. N. Serebryakova, I. A. Trubacheva, S. A. Shalnova

“…The data obtained in Tomsk as a fragment of the ESSE-RF study are presented (n=1600; 25-64 years age; 59% – women). All participants signed informed consent. …”
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Characteristics in the Population of Stray Dogs and Changes After One Year From a City in Southern Mexico by A. Novelo-Sanguino, M. Jiménez-Coello, J. C. Segura-Correa, A. Ortega-Pacheco

“…The present study generated evidence on the population of stray dogs in the city of Mérida Yucatán, Mexico. …”
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A Structured Cleaving Mesh for Bioheat Transfer Application by Rohan Amare, Amir A. Bahadori, Steven Eckels

“…The increase in surface area accuracy obtained by smoothing the voxel domain results in more accurate temperature estimates in heat transfer simulation.…”
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Analysis of the current situation of clinical trials of ophthalmic drugs in children based on the common diseases of pediatric ophthalmology in hospital by HUANG Yingying, WANG Juan, SUN Huibin, WANG Jing, ZHANG Ying

“…[Conclusions:] There is still a huge clinical demand for the drug treatment of children 's eye diseases, which is directly related to the protection of children 's health rights and life safety. At present, the research and development of children 's ophthalmic preparations in China presents the current situation of low enterprise participation and insuf fi cient innovation motivation. …”
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Cytomegalovirus Infection Screening in Pregnant Women from Northwest Romania: Results of a 15-Year Follow-Up Program by Monica Muntean, Violeta Tincuța Briciu, Angela Monica Ionică, Melinda Horvat, Mihaela Lupse, Amanda Radulescu

“…The seroprevalence increased with women’s age, was more frequently associated with rural residence, and decreased in time intervals. …”
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A Structured Dataset for Automated Grading: From Raw Data to Processed Dataset by Ibidapo Dare Dada, Adio T. Akinwale, Ti-Jesu Tunde-Adeleke

“…The increasing volume of student assessments, particularly open-ended responses, presents a significant challenge for educators in ensuring grading accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. …”
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Threatened cetaceans in a potential deep seabed mining region, Clarion Clipperton Zone, Eastern Pacific, August 2023 by Kirsten F. Young, Kirsten F. Young, Thomas Webber, Leonidas Karantzas, Severina Miteva, Grant Oakes, David Santillo, Paul Johnston

“…We confirm one threatened species present in these blocks of the CCZ – sperm whales – and suggest that more extensive data are urgently needed to understand the risk of harm to cetaceans that may arise from human activities, including deep-sea mining.…”
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Scleritis in Iran by Sahba Fekri, Reza Esmaili Fallah, Masoud Soheilian, Seyed-Hossein Abtahi, Hosein Nouri

“…Abstract Purpose To present the demographic and clinical presentations of anterior scleritis among Iranian patients. …”
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Rate of Use of Health Information of Mass Media and Virtual Social Networks among Citizens of Tehran: A Population Study by Mahmoud Tavousi, Samira Mohammadi, Jila Sadighi1, Raheleh Rostami, Raheleh Rostami, Ali asghar Haerimehrizi

“…Aims: Many information sources, including mass media, are trying to play an important role in health-promoting of people in society through increasing their health information. The aim of the present study was to investigate the rate of use of health information, presented in mass media and virtual social networks among citizens of Tehran. …”
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Gender- and Role-Specific Differences in the Perception of the Concept “Impishness” (based on the results of a psycholinguistic experiment) by Iia Gordiienko-Mytrofanova, Iuliia Kobzieva

“…The present paper continues a series of articles devoted to ludic competence and the description of its components with the help of psycholinguistic tools and methods. …”
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Evolution of Grain and Seed Cleaning Equipment in Russia by V. M. Drincha, Yu. S. Tsench

“…As research objects, they studied the original works of domestic and foreign authors for more than 100 years: monographs, dissertations, reports of research institutions, machine testing stations protocols, scientific journals, conference materials, as well as descriptions for domestic and foreign patent documentation.…”
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Community health workers identify children requiring health center admission in Northern Uganda: prehospital risk prediction using vital signs and advanced point-of-care tests by Daniel Ebbs, Olanya Denish, Felix Bongomin, Arjun Chandna, Fathima Haseefa, Michael Canarie, Michael Cappello

“…The primary outcome for this study was admission at the health center for more than 24 h. We used logistic regression to quantify the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). …”
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