Intention to use modern contraceptives among current nonusers of reproductive age in Uganda by Godfrey Tumwizere, Richard Nsenga, Patricia Ndugga, Betty Kwagala

“…Abstract Background Women’s intention to use contraceptive methods is critical for better visualization of future needs and for making it more likely to translate into actual use. This study sought to examine the determinants of intention to use modern contraceptives among current non-users of reproductive age in Uganda. …”
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GroundingCarDD: Text-Guided Multimodal Phrase Grounding for Car Damage Detection by Md Jahid Hasan, Agustinus Nalwan, Kok-Leong Ong, Hamed Jahani, Yee Ling Boo, Kha Cong Nguyen, Mahmudul Hasan

“…While existing automated object detection models are effective in many scenarios, they struggle to accurately identify minor damages on car bodies and distinguish actual damage from car features, reflections, or shadows that resemble damage. …”
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A Novel Dry Model for Practicable Sphincterotomy and Precut Needle Knife Sphincterotomy by Akio Katanuma, Takao Itoi, Junko Umeda, Ryosuke Tonozuka, Shuntaro Mukai, Kei Yane, Toshifumi Kin, Kazuaki Matsumoto, Tomoaki Matsumori, Katsushige Gon, Ryo Takaki, Akiko Tomonari

“…The dry model using an uncured ham provides a condition closely similar to actual clinical practice and is useful as a training model for ES and NKP.…”
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Management Modalities of Mandible Fracture and Dental Trauma in Pediatric Patients During Mixed Dentition Phase: A Series of Case Study by Lomtu Ronrang, Alice Lyngdoh

“…All these uncertain factors, including the natural way of protection bestowed on us by nature during the childhood stage, might be the actual factors that can easily resist any form of minor trauma in pediatric patients. …”
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Emergency care for patients with embolism of the aorta and main limb arteries in St. Petersburg: an analysis of 3498 cases over 50 years by M. V. Mel'nikov, A. Yu. Apresyan, A. V. Sotnikov, D. S. Kozhevnikov, G. D. Papava

“…Despite modern advances in vascular surgery, EAMAL remains the actual and complex problem of the health care system of St. …”
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Design and implementation of a cost-effective, safe, and precise lean-rich generating system for the evaluation of NOX storage reduction catalysts: performance analysis, statistica... by Javad Sajedifar, Seyyed Bagher Mortazavi, Hasan Asilian Mahabadi, Ali Khavanin, Mohammad Sharif Hosseini

“…A detailed analysis was performed to determine the relative errors, time to reach steady-state conditions, and actual concentrations produced under different expected concentrations (NO: 100–200 ppm, O₂: 3–15 %, CO: 500–10,000 ppm, toluene: 64–8999 ppm, relative humidity: 0.14–22.69 %), space velocity (70,000–140,000 h⁻¹), bubbler flow rates (10–600 mL/min), and saturator temperatures (5–20 °C). …”
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Herramientas tecnológicas para la gestión por procesos en la administración estratégica, una opción efectiva para mejorar la toma de decisiones organizacionales by Freddy Enrique Triana Litardo, Magali Gioconda Calero Lara, Víctor Hugo Bayas Vaca, Laura Eugenia Tachong Alencastro

“…Los hallazgos arrojados en el análisis documental fueron soportados en la aplicación de encuestas a directivos organizacionales (n=72) para conocer el estado actual en el empleo de tecnología para la gestión por procesos en entornos organizacionales. …”
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A Rhodnius prolixus catalytically inactive Calpain protease patterns the insect embryonic dorsal-ventral axis by Alison Julio, Tainan C. Guedes-Silva, Mateus Berni, Paulo Mascarello Bisch, Helena Araujo

“…In the fly model Drosophila melanogaster Calpain A cleaves Cactus/IkappaB and consequently modifies Toll signals during embryonic dorsal-ventral (DV) patterning. …”
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Writing a case report of Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing (浅谈中医护理个案书写) by ZHANG Lijuan (张丽娟), WANG Bei (王蓓)

“…As an important part of classical literature of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the case study report of Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing vividly reflects the actual situation and characteristics of TCM diagnosis and treatment. …”
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A Rapid Evaluation Method of Permafrost Bearing Capacity in the Tibetan Plateau Region Based on the Correlation Between CPT-CBR by Haowu Wang, Bo Tian, Lei Quan, Panpan Zhang, Lihui Li, Yitong Hou, Sen Hu

“…There is a robust linear relationship between the CBR values and <i>q</i>_c, with the ratio of predicted CBR values to actual values showing a histogram and log-normal distribution accounting for 81% and 51.3%, respectively, within a 20% accuracy level, indicating good predictive performance. …”
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Prospects for Increasing the Vitamin Value of Food Concentrates: Bouillon Cubes by Shatnyuk Lyudmila N., Vrzhesinskaya Oksana A., Kodentsova Vera M., Matveeva Anna E.

“…The vitamin value of one portion of reconstituted broth fortified with a vitamin and mineral premix which contained 19–30% of the recommended daily intake of vitamins and iron proved 2–5 times higher than that of actual meat broths. The research resulted in a new formulation for bouillon cubes with a vitamin-mineral premix containing five B vitamins and iron. …”
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Uso de indicadores financieros para evaluar el impacto de las Prácticas de Alta Implicación (Use of financial indicators to evaluate the impact of High Involvement Work Practices)... by Amable Juárez Tárraga

“…Las Prácticas de Alta Implicación o Rendimiento (en inglés HIWP o HPWP) son un grupo de prácticas de gestión de recursos humanos que actúan sinérgicamente y mejoran la eficiencia organizativa al crear condiciones laborales que incrementan la satisfacción del trabajador, le incentivan a vincularse con la organización y a desempeñar mejor sus tareas (Huselid, 1995)<p>Partiendo de este planteamiento, y aplicando un punto de vista puramente instrumental, muchos investigadores se han planteado la siguiente cuestión: ¿existe relación entre la aplicación de las Prácticas de Alta Implicación y el rendimiento (performance) empresarial?.  …”
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Leaching Efficiency During Autumn Irrigation in China’s Arid Hetao Plain as Influenced by the Depth of Shallow Saline Groundwater and Irrigation Depth, Using Data from Static Water... by Tiago B. Ramos, Meihan Liu, Haibin Shi, Paula Paredes, Luis S. Pereira

“…Once accurately calibrated, the models were used to simulate maize water use, percolation, and capillary rise, along with the observed variables for the actual WTD and the autumn irrigation applied. Simulation scenarios also considered agricultural system degradation and dynamic water table behavior. …”
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Numerical simulation of an HTL-free carbon-based perovskite solar cell with graphitic carbon nitride doped zinc oxide as electron transport layers by Joseph Kariuki, Nicholas Rono, Chinedu Christian Ahia, Eric Kibagendi Osoro, Edson L. Meyer

“…Nonetheless, the proposed ETL materials were chosen by mimicking the actual experimental investigation with an aim of giving more insights theoretically. …”
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Medio siglo de visual merchandising en el retail textil: la inversión para crecer en el mercado que viene by Carmen Llovet Rodríguez

“…Alcance de la revisión: Esta investigación realiza una revisión del rol del visual merchandising en el retail textil para su aplicación en el entorno actual, definido por el sector como la primera gran transformación del retail por los cambios acelerados por la pandemia en toda la cadena de valor (de la fórmula dependiente-mostrador- cliente) en 200 años. …”
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ESTIMATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RF GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR PROVIDING THE SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA IN 2016 by D. V. Manushin

“…Estimation and improvement of the RF Government plan for providing the stable social-economic development of Russia in 201624Экономика и управление народным хозяйствомEconomics and economic managementАктуальные проблемы экономики и права. 2016. Т. 10, № 3Actual Problems of Economics and Law, 2016, vol. 10, No. 3 ISSN 1993-047Х (Print) / ISSN 2410-0390 (Online) Analysis of the structure of anti-crisis measures of the Russian government for 2016 demonstrated the persistence of old problems and the emer- gence of new ones. …”
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Patient Perception of Ideal Body Weight and the Effect of Body Mass Index by Rozhin Naghshizadian, Amir A. Rahnemai-Azar, Kruthi Kella, Michael M. Weber, Marius L. Calin, Shahida Bibi, Daniel T. Farkas

“…Subsequently they were classified into different categories based on their actual measured BMI. Their responses for ideal BMI were compared. …”
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What Should we Reasonably Expect from Artificial Intelligence? by L. Parentoni

“…Instead, it encompasses a wide range of sector-specific applications, each serving distinct purposes, possessing inherent risks, and aiming for specific accuracy levels.Results: the primary finding presented in this article is that the misalignment between expectations and actual AI capabilities arises from the mistaken premise that AI systems should consistently achieve accuracy rates far surpassing human standards, regardless of the context. …”
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La yuca como patrimonio culinario ancestral del pueblo uitoto de la Amazonía colombiana by Sabrina González Barbosa, Maricruz Romero Ugalde

“…La etnografía y la historia son los ejes metodológicos de la investigación. Con el conocimiento actual que se tiene de los uitoto, la primera ha permitido contrastar algunas continuidades en los usos que se le siguen dando a la yuca. …”
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Validation of the COTENP Code: A Steady-State Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis Code for Nuclear Reactors with Plate Type Fuel Assemblies by Duvan A. Castellanos-Gonzalez, João Manoel Losada Moreira, José Rubens Maiorino, Pedro Carajilescov

“…In the second step, we divide the hot fuel assembly into subchannels with size equivalent to one actual coolant channel and similarly identify the hot subchannel. …”
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