Stent Selection for Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Drainage of Pancreatic Fluid Collections: A Multicenter Study in China by Hui Lin, Xian-Bao Zhan, Si-Yu Sun, Xiu-Jiang Yang, Zhen-Dong Jin, Duo-Wu Zou, Zhao-Shen Li

“…Secondary infection for stent diameter less than or equal to 8.5 F was 3.4% (1/29) versus 17.2% (10/58) for stent diameter larger than or equal to 10 F (P=0.138). …”
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foF2 Seasonal Asymmetry Diurnal Variation Study during Very Quiet Geomagnetic Activity at Dakar Station by Sibri Alphonse Sandwidi, Doua Allain Gnabahou, Frédéric Ouattara

“…The maximum positive value, fairly equal to +94%, is observed at 0600 LT during solar minimum at solstice time. …”
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Data base of Characterization of self-reported sleep quality in male and female trained amateur triathletes: a descriptive study by Luiz Vieira da Silva Neto, Tatiana Albuquerque Melo Kramer, Gloria Maria Alves Trajano, Luiz José Frota Solon Júnior

“…Male and female triathletes have poor sleep quality (values equal or greater than 05 points), that can have negative effects on health and performance.  …”
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Accrocher les potentiels décrocheurs by Sonia Lefeuvre, Gabriela Valente

“…Indeed, the acceptance of this system by the universities could give the illusion of working for social equality and student success, even though they participate in a mechanism of depoliticization of the question of inequality in higher education.…”
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Very Compact and Broadband Active Antenna for VHF Band Applications by Y. Taachouche, F. Colombel, M. Himdi

“…The vertical size of the structure is equal to λ/175, where λ is the wavelength at the lower frequency of the bandwidth. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Potential Donors Management by José Roque Nodal Arruebarrena, José Noel Marrero Rodríguez, Yenisey Quintero Menéndez, Aida M. Reyes Pérez, Julio Jova Dueñas

“…It has been defined as the patient in Glasgow coma with scale higher or equal to 8 who doesn´t present contradictions for transplant (possible donor) and who has been diagnosed of encephalic death. …”
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Nauczycielki wobec możliwości zmiany pozycji społecznej przez uczniów. Klasowość w perspektywie ich osobistych teorii pedagogicznych by Dorota Duda

“…I problematise the issue of equality, discuss the opportunity for students’ social mobility within the school system, and introduce the teachers’ private pedagogical theories I identified during my PhD research. …”
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Structure Optimization Analysis of Two Tooth Difference External Mesh Duplex Planetary Gear Transmission by Liu Chang, Zhou Zhebo, Ye Youdong, Zhao Qigang, Li Xiaoqin

“…Based on analyzing and researching on the structural features and failure mode of a two teeth difference outer mesh planetary gear transmission,according to the existing traditional structure form,a new method to optimize the structure and parameters of the two- tooth difference external meshing duplex planetary gear transmission is proposed,it is basically meet the requirements of equal sliding coefficient,the meshing performance and life between meshing gears could be improved effectively.…”
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Pisarstwo i masochizm Jana Jakuba Rousseau by Wojciech Siegień

“…Masochism is analyzed not only in the context of sexual paraphilia. Equally important is proximity of masochistic tendencies and gestures to record his own confessions. …”
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Substitutions with Vanishing Rotationally Invariant First Cohomology by Juan García Escudero

“…The rank of the rational first cohomology, in the tiling space formed by the closure of a translational orbit, equals the Euler totient function evaluated at 𝑁 if the underlying rotation group is 𝐙𝑁. …”
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Rail Corrugation Characteristics of Cologne Egg Fastener Section in Small Radius Curve by Zhiqiang Wang, Zhenyu Lei, Yang Zhao, Yao Xu

“…The variation amplitude of creep force on the outside of the guiding wheelset is small, and it is approximately equal to that of the saturated creep force. In addition, the variation range of the wear depth curve on inner rail is mainly changing from 0 μm to 0.0014 μm, showing periodic wavy wear, and when the creep force is equal to the saturated creep force, the wear depth reaches the peak. …”
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Perspectives on delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services to young people: focus group discussions with civil society organizations in the Democ... by Landry Egbende, Viviane Mayala, Branly Mbunga, Nina Viberg, Mala Ali Mapatano, Tobias Alfvén, Eva Åkerman

“…Conclusion It is essential to acknowledge the role of CSOs in the advancement of gender equality, and it is important to put policies into place that can overcome cultural, religious, and familial barriers to young people’s access to SRHR information.…”
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Military Unmanned Systems: Current State, Prospects for Limitation and Control by M. G. Yevtodyeva, S. K. Oznobishchev

“…Based on the analysis of contemporary R&D projects and procurement data the paper shows that global market of unmanned systems will grow in the near future and that this will become a major impediment for promoting control and limitation of such systems. It is therefore equally difficult to expect expansion and strengthening of effective export control of the unmanned systems. …”
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Geoscience Job Advertisements as a Barrier to Employment for People With Disabilities by G. W. Shafer, K. Viskupic, A. E. Egger

“…We evaluated each ad’s Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) and accommodation statements to create a measure of geoscience employers’ inclusive practices for people with disabilities. …”
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Use of Plackett–Burman Statistical Design to Study Factors Acting on the Nitric Acid Leaching of Rare Earth Elements from Moroccan Phosphogypsum by Fatima Asafar, Marouane Amine, Abdelkader Outzourhit, Latifa Bilali, Mehdi Nadifiyine

“…At a dissolution rate of phosphogypsum equal to 30.13%, the leaching efficiency of rare earth elements from our sample has reached a maximum of 87.55%. …”
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A Vibrational Signal Fault Diagnosis Rule Extraction Method Based on DST-ACI Discriminant Criterion by Yalun Zhang, Lin He, Guo Cheng

“…The results show that compared with the coding method based on equal-width discretization or equal-density discretization, the accuracy of the transactional dataset generated by the feature state coding method based on K-means clustering is higher. …”
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Compressive strength of different tricalcium silicate–based materials used for primary teeth: in vitro study by Avin Nanakali, Sazan Sh. Salem

“…Materials and methods: Ninety samples from studied materials (4mm diameter and 6mm height) were selected and divided into three equal groups according to the materials used then after each group was divided into three equal sub-groups according to the time (1 day, 1 week and 3 weeks). …”
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Determinants of mortality after massive transfusion - A prospective study by Divya Venugopal, Susheela Jacob Innah, Aboobacker Mohamed Rafi, Ramesh Bhaskaran

“…Majority of survivors received equal ratios of FFP: PRBC and platelet: PRBC, and all nonsurvivors received low ratios of FFP: PRBC. …”
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Generalized Wintgen inequality for BI-SLANT submanifolds in conformal Sasakian space form with quarter-symmetric connection by Mohd Aslam, Mohd Danish Siddiqi, Aliya Naaz Siddiqui

“…Wintgen obtained a basic relationship between the extrinsic normal curvature the intrinsic Gauss curvature, and squared mean curvature of any surface in a Euclidean 4-space with the equality holding if and only if the curvature ellipse is a circle. …”
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Identification and investigation of the area under cultivation in Lenjanat using Landsat 8 satellite images by Vahid Riahi, Parviz Zeaiean Firouzabadi, Farhad Azizpour, Parastoo Darouei

“…The results showed that there were differences equal to 10.2%, 18.6% and 1.8%, in the area under cultivation of wheat and barley, rice, and potato and forage, respectively, in maximum likelihood classification, comparing with the statistics of Agriculture Jihad while the results of NDVI comparing with Jihad statistics showed the errors equal to 6.6 %, 6.5 % and 3.2%, respectively, that indicated the better performance of temporal vegetation indices in estimation of area under cultivation according to its phenology. …”
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