How do multiple deprivations in nuanced urban and rural settings affect health differently in South Africa? Evidence from NIDS data, 2017 by Josue Mbonigaba, Msawenkosi Dlamini

“…This study enhances our understanding by moving beyond traditional comparisons to examine the specific impacts of multiple deprivations on self-rated health across traditional authority areas, rural formal areas, urban informal areas and urban formal areas. By doing so, it captures the unique challenges and health implications associated with varying deprivation levels within these diverse contexts.Methods We first constructed the Provincial Index of Multiple Deprivation for each selected region using Wave 5 data from the National Income Dynamics Study, enabling an assessment of the health impacts of multiple deprivations across South Africa. …”
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Educational Migration Bridge: From Metaphor to Project by O. M. Osiyanova, E. N. Levina, A. V. Osiyanova

“…Minimization of negative factors actualized the integrated strategy of educational migration «bridge construction» development aimed at solving tasks of migrants’ integration in Russian labour market, providing them with all-round support in getting education, improving professional qualification, adaptation and socialization. …”
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Projected Thermally Driven Elderly Mortality for Beijing Under Greenhouse Gas and Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Scenarios by Jun Wang, Liyun Zhao, John C. Moore

“…Here we use four Earth System Models (ESM) downscaled to 10 km resolution with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system to capture urban temperature, humidity and wind speeds. …”
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Study on the influence of working condition variation on lubrication characteristics of EHA internal pump by Yantao Zhang, Zongbin Chen, Jun Che, Jian Liao

“…Abstract The operational characteristics of Electro-Hydraulic Actuator(EHA) result in the EHA internal pump facing complex conditions of variable speed, pressure and even direction, resulting in poor lubrication state of friction pairs. …”
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Transformer-Based Amharic-to-English Machine Translation With Character Embedding and Combined Regularization Techniques by Surafiel Habib Asefa, Yaregal Assabie

“…By focusing on character-level embeddings, the model captures the intricate morphological patterns of Amharic and effectively handles out-of-vocabulary words. …”
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Navigating human‐nature interactions by exploring plural values across ecosystem states by K. C. Zoeller, G. S. Smith, A. Coggan, D. Grainger, N. J. Grigg, K. Szetey

“…However, these values are challenging to capture in complex social‐ecological systems, particularly when the values are not consistent among different groups of stakeholders. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…Unlike GSM, which scans raw pixels and lacks discriminative power, our LBP-based scheme is specifically designed to capture texture features relevant to spoofing detection. …”
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Interpretable Classifier Models for Decision Support Using High Utility Gain Patterns by Srikumar Krishnamoorthy

“…More specifically, the proposed model extracts novel High Utility Gain (HUG) patterns that capture higher order interactions, transforms the model input data into a new space, and applies interpretable classifier methods on the transformed space. …”
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Factors associated with lingual tonsil hypertrophy in Canadian adults by Matthew S. Harris, Brian W. Rotenberg, Kathryn Roth, Leigh J. Sowerby

“…Endoscopic photographs of the base of tongue and larynx were captured. These were graded for LTH and Reflux Finding Scale (RFS) by blinded examiners. …”
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Evaluating regional sustainable energy potential through hierarchical clustering and machine learning by Selen Avcı Azkeskin, Zerrin Aladağ

“…The framework combines fuzzy and crisp clustering methods to capture the complex relationships among socioeconomic, geographical, and renewable energy potential criteria. …”
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Toward Semi-Autonomous Robotic Arm Manipulation Operator Intention Detection From Force Data by Abdullah S. Alharthi, Ozan Tokatli, Erwin Lopez, Guido Herrmann

“…This dataset encompasses heterogeneous spatiotemporal data captured from the teleoperation system. We employ a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model to learn and forecast operator intentions based on the spatiotemporal data. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Preventive Practice Related to Onchocerciasis and Associated Factors among Resource-Limited Selamogo Woreda Residents, South West Ethiopia, 2021 by Girma Gilano, null Mulugeta shegaze, Amanuel Dubale

“…We used a survey questionnaire to capture the data on 572 Selamago residents. We checked, cleaned, entered the data into EPI Info v.7, and analyzed it in STATA v.15. …”
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Carbon Credits Through Wood Use: Revisiting the Maximum Potential and Sensitivity to Key Assumptions by Jari Niemi, Sampo Soimakallio, Elias Hurmekoski, Tanja Myllyviita, Janni Kunttu, Federico Lingua, Tord Snäll

“…TCCs of wood use can be increased by directing wood into uses that substitute fossil‐intensive materials and have a long lifetime, such as construction materials, and increasing energy recovery and avoiding emitting carbon at the end of life of harvested wood products by carbon capture and storage. However, they were very likely to be considerably lower than forest carbon debits resulting from harvesting additional wood for substitution under all considered circumstances and under a wide but reasonable range of stochastic parameter values. …”
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Evaluating translational science knowledge gains following an online short course for a general scientific audience by Amanda L. Vogel, Shadab F. Hussain, Jessica M. Faupel-Badger

“…The branch also revised the course evaluation to capture knowledge change aligned with the NCATS Translational Science Principles. …”
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Research on a Novel Unsupervised-Learning-Based Pipeline Leak Detection Method Based on Temporal Kolmogorov–Arnold Network with Autoencoder Integration by Hengyu Wu, Zhu Jiang, Xiang Zhang, Jian Cheng

“…This model combines the Kolmogorov–Arnold Network (KAN) with an autoencoder (AE), forming a hybrid framework that effectively captures complex temporal dependencies in the data while exhibiting strong pattern modeling and reconstruction capabilities. …”
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Biomechanical Characteristics on the Lower Extremity of Three Typical Yoga Manoeuvres by Elizabeth Whissell, Lin Wang, Pan Li, Jing Xian Li, Zhen Wei

“…A three-dimensional motion capture system with 10 cameras combined with four synchronised force plates was used to collect kinematics of the lower extremity and ground reactive force whilst the participants performed the crescent lunge pose, warrior II pose, and triangle pose. …”
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A scoping review of information provided within degenerative cervical myelopathy education resources: Towards enhancing shared decision making. by Rishi Umeria, Oliver Mowforth, Ben Grodzinski, Zahabiya Karimi, Iwan Sadler, Helen Wood, Irina Sangeorzan, Petrea Fagan, Rory Murphy, Angus McNair, Benjamin Davies

“…Frequency statistics were employed to capture relative popularity as a surrogate marker of potential significance.…”
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Training Load and Current Soreness Predict Future Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness in Collegiate Female Soccer Athletes by Brett S. Pexa, Christopher J. Johnston, Jeffrey B Taylor, Kevin R. Ford

“…Participants wore Polar heart rate and global positioning monitors to capture training load measures. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to assess the relationships between the training load variables and change in DOMS when collapsed across dates. …”
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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition by Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova

“…The identification of specific responses generated by religious traditions to present-day global challenges actualizes the rethinking of astrology as a traditional understanding of the world structure and influence of natural forces on man in Tibetan Buddhism. …”
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RELIGIOUS FAITH: EXISTENTIAL-ANTHROPOLOGICAL MEANINGS by O. I. Predko

“…The existential potential of religious faith serves as the "fulcrum" of a person, thanks to which he self-actualizes, self-fulfills and forms a certain worldview model. …”
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