Exploring Conditions for Designing Citizen Observatories in Sri Lanka: The Case of Air Quality in Rural Areas by Chaminda Rathnayake, Somya Joshi, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman

“…Our findings indicate that most often, the citizen science practices identified and discussed by the literature on COs and human-computer interaction are at odds with rural communities’ priorities and sensing praxis in countries such as Sri Lanka. …”
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Primary health care strengthening through the lens of healthcare system thinking by Ramprakash Kaswa, Klaus von Pressentin

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Characteristics of paediatric burn injuries seen in the tertiary emergency centre, South Africa by Ntsovelo Mugwena, Rule Human, Maria M. Geyser

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Clinical Characteristics and Nomogram for Predicting Mortality in Patients with Postoperative Bloodstream Infection in Surgical Intensive Care Unit by Zengli Xiao, Yao Sun, Huiying Zhao, Youzhong An

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Effectiveness, Safety, and Barriers to Early Mobilization in the Intensive Care Unit by Gopala Krishna Alaparthi, Aishwarya Gatty, Stephen Rajan Samuel, Sampath Kumar Amaravadi

“…Early mobilization is not commonly practiced in many countries. Various barriers to early mobilization have been identified, and different strategies can be used to overcome them.…”
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Prolonged ICU Stay in Severe and Critically-Ill COVID-19 Patients Who Received Convalescent Plasma Therapy by Bambang Pujo Semedi, Nadya Noor Ramadhania, Betty Agustina Tambunan, Siprianus Ugroseno Yudho Bintoro, Soedarsono Soedarsono, Cita Rosita Sigit Prakoeswa

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‘It is scary to pause treatment’: perspectives on HIV cure-related research and analytical treatment interruptions from women diagnosed during acute HIV in Durban, South Africa: So... by Deli Mthimkhulu, Krista L. Dong, Mzwakhe Wiseman Ngcobo, Deborah Mindry, Ayanda Zulu, Ntombifuthi Langa, Luyanda Maphalala, Vanessa Pillay, Maud Mthembu, Annie Miall, Whitney Tran, Ana Dillen, Fang Wan, Ali Ahmed, Jamila K. Stockman, Maryam Hussain, Thumbi Ndung’u, Karine Dubé

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Safety and Efficacy of Everolimus Plus Exemestane in Postmenopausal Women with Treatment-refractory Hormone Receptor-positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-negative Adv... by Yuan-Ching Chang, Kun-Ming Rau, Dar-Ren Chen, Tsu-Yi Chao, Ming-Feng Hou, Chiun-Sheng Huang*

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Swarm learning with weak supervision enables automatic breast cancer detection in magnetic resonance imaging by Oliver Lester Saldanha, Jiefu Zhu, Gustav Müller-Franzes, Zunamys I. Carrero, Nicholas R. Payne, Lorena Escudero Sánchez, Paul Christophe Varoutas, Sreenath Kyathanahally, Narmin Ghaffari Laleh, Kevin Pfeiffer, Marta Ligero, Jakob Behner, Kamarul A. Abdullah, Georgios Apostolakos, Chrysafoula Kolofousi, Antri Kleanthous, Michail Kalogeropoulos, Cristina Rossi, Sylwia Nowakowska, Alexandra Athanasiou, Raquel Perez-Lopez, Ritse Mann, Wouter Veldhuis, Julia Camps, Volkmar Schulz, Markus Wenzel, Sergey Morozov, Alexander Ciritsis, Christiane Kuhl, Fiona J. Gilbert, Daniel Truhn, Jakob Nikolas Kather

“…Even with a smaller dataset, we demonstrate the practical feasibility of deploying SL internationally with on-site data processing, addressing challenges such as data privacy and annotation variability. …”
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Rising Value of Turkish Foreign Policy: Cultural Diplomacy by Fırat Purtaş

“…The opening-up of Turkish people to the world in the 1990ies paved the way to their interaction with other countries which, in turn, played a major role in the transformation of the country. …”
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Is the European Charter of Local Self-Government an Effective Instrument for the Protection of Local Autonomy in Poland? by Stanisław Zakroczymski

“…Originality/value: This research is the first all-embracing empirical research of the application of the Charter in a country’s legal practice. It shows original ways of the practical use of the Charter not described in the literature so far. …”
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Challenges and Prospects ofValue-Based Healthcare in Brazil by Cassia Rita Pereira da Veiga, Yasmin Yohana Saliba, Luciana Faluba Damázio, César Luiz Lacerda Abicalaffe, Fabio Rocha, Thales Stevan Guedes Furquim, Claudimar Pereira da Veiga

“…This paper aims to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) on value-based health care (VBHC) in Brazil, providing an overview of the state-of-the-art practice of an emerging and strategic topic for the country’s health system. …”
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Multimodal Adaptive Identity-Recognition Algorithm Fused with Gait Perception by Changjie Wang, Zhihua Li, Benjamin Sarpong

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The Role of Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework for FDI Spillovers by Thomas Farole, Deborah Winkler

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Osmanlı Diplomasisinde Mihmandar Geleneği by Mustafa CAN

“…The appointment of persons to guide diplomatic guests in which country they are present at is a very old tradition in interstate relations. …”
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Primary School Curricula Towards Sustainable Peace Education in Post-genocide Rwanda by Edouard Ntakirutimana, Emmanuel Niyibizi

“… Rwanda is a country that experienced the tragic genocide against Tutsi in 1994. …”
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On Putting an End to the Backlash Against Electrophysical Agents by Alain-Yvan Belanger, David M. Selkowitz, Daryl Lawson

“…They are used concomitantly with several other therapeutic interventions such as exercise, manual therapy techniques, medications, and surgery for the management of a wide variety of soft tissue disorders. Over the past decade, the practice of EPAs has been the subject of intense scrutiny in the U.S. …”
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Entre duas águas: correntes terapêuticas franco-brasileiras no processo de balnearização do Rio de Janeiro by Antoine Huerta

“…Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century, the practice of sea baths was at that time under the influence of French doctors and physicists who propagated it for preventive and curative purposes. …”
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Problems and opportunities statistical evaluation of inequality and poverty in the Russian Federation and its regions by S. Bychkova

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Territories development tax incentives by N. Z. Zotikov

“…The existing fiscal mechanism does not create incentives for the successful regional development, especially municipalities, which ultimately does not ensure the country’s successful economic development as a whole. …”
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