Long-term trends in the incidence of male breast cancer and nomogram for predicting survival in male breast cancer patients: a population-based epidemiologic study by Aimin Huang, Daning Li, Zhe Fan, Jingfang Chen, Weidong Zhang, Wentao Wu

“…Abstract Male breast cancer (MBC) is rare, and due to the absence of male-specific screening programs, many patients are diagnosed at advanced stages and older ages. This study aims to analyze the long-term trend of MBC incidence and develop a competing risk model to improve survival rates. …”
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Nano-Perforated Silicon Membrane with Monolithically Integrated Buried Cavity by Sanjeev Vishal Kota, Anil Thilsted, Daniel Trimarco, Jesper Yue Pan, Ole Hansen, Jörg Hübner, Rafael Taboryski, Henri Jansen

“…Detailed steps of this new approach are discussed, including the etching of a through-silicon-via to establish the connection of the NPM to the macro-world. …”
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Impact of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) on the prescription refill rate (PRR) for inhaled medications in people with CF: an Italian multicenter analysis by Andrea Gramegna, Giuseppe Cimino, Marco Cipolli, Giovanna Gandini, Maria Adelaide Calderazzo, Angelica Profiti, Federica Piedepalumbo, Francesco Blasi

“…Monitoring adherence remains crucial for optimizing patient outcomes, and the PRR emerges as a valuable tool for tracking adherence in real-world settings.…”
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Face and Voice Recognition-Based Emotion Analysis System (EAS) to Minimize Heterogeneity in the Metaverse by Surak Son, Yina Jeong

“…EAS utilizes a microphone and camera to gauge emotional states, combining these inputs for a comprehensive analysis. …”
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Lightweight Photo-Response Non-Uniformity Fingerprint Extraction Algorithm Based on an Invertible Denoising Network by Zihang Yuan, Yanhui Xiao, Huawei Tian

“…During the PRNU fingerprint extraction, it is very important for source camera identification to estimate the natural noise from real-world images. Most existing deep learning-based neural networks have a large number of model parameters, and they may not be practical in realistic scenarios such as deploying the model on small devices like smartphones and remote forensics equipment. …”
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E-Counselling for Learner Support Services in ODL Institutions: A Practical Approach by A. C. Ukwueze

“…E-counselling is an online counselling that provides students with the platform to interact with their counsellors using a variety of social media networks. Efforts were made to look at some networks that could be made available for e-counselling in open education such as Facebook, e-mail (g-mail, Google talk, Skype, WhatsApp), twitter, video conferencing, blog, instant messaging and chat among others. …”
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E-Counselling for Learner Support Services in ODL Institutions: A Practical Approach by A. C. Ukwueze

“…E-counselling is an online counselling that provides students with the platform to interact with their counsellors using a variety of social media networks. Efforts were made to look at some networks that could be made available for e-counselling in open education such as Facebook, e-mail (g-mail, Google talk, Skype, WhatsApp), twitter, video conferencing, blog, instant messaging and chat among others. …”
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Fine-Grained Tasks for Crowdsourced Entity Resolution by Tiezheng Nie, Hanyu Mao, Xin Liu, Sining Yu

“…Entity resolution aims to identify records that point to the same entity in the real world. …”
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Using Virtual Reality to Complement Traditional Wheelchair Skills Training Methods: A Literature Review by Chantal Zorzi, Alexandra Covaci, Gianluca Marcelli

“…Overall, VR can be a valuable complementary tool for wheelchair training, especially for powered users. …”
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E-Counselling for Learner Support Services in ODL Institutions: A Practical Approach by A. C. Ukwueze

“…E-counselling is an online counselling that provides students with the platform to interact with their counsellors using a variety of social media networks. Efforts were made to look at some networks that could be made available for e-counselling in open education such as Facebook, e-mail (g-mail, Google talk, Skype, WhatsApp), twitter, video conferencing, blog, instant messaging and chat among others. …”
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Strategic and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Recovery in Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Evidence from Emerging Economy by Rajesh Katiyar, Divesh Kumar, Diptiranjan Mahapatra, Sneha Badola

“…The purpose of this research article is to systematically study and research the COVID–19 and post-COVID-19 situations in the industries mentioned above and fill the gap by integrating scenario planning with the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fuzzy AHP). …”
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News Recommendation Method Based on Candidate-Aware Long- and Short-Term Preference Modeling by Shuhao Jiang, Haoran Song, Yizi Lu, Zhixin Zhang

“…The method contains: (1) a Candidate-Enhanced graph attention network, which learns high-order structural information in graphs, mines the potential relationship between long-term user preferences and candidate news; and (2) a candidate-aware attention network that incorporates news subtopics. …”
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THE FINANCIAL CRISES, INCOME LEVELS AND THE DEPTH OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM by HALIL D. KAYA

“…First, we run tests to see if there was a significant change in any of the variables during the run-up to the crisis (i.e. 2006-2007). …”
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Advancing Sustainable Marine Transportation: Offshore Floating Electric Vessel Charging Stations by Sruthy V, Preetha P K

“… The feasibility analysis of offshore floating charging stations (FCS) incorporating renewable energy sources (RES) in India and around the world presents a promising and pioneering solution to meet the emerging demands of maritime transport systems for sustainable development. …”
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Vibroarthrography as a Noninvasive Screening Method for Early Diagnosis of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review of Current Research by Robert Karpiński, Aleksandra Prus, Kamil Jonak, Przemysław Krakowski

“…The ageing population and the resulting number of physical and health problems are now a major social and economic challenge around the world. …”
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Central Asian Republic’s Approaches to the Development of the Regional Hydroeconomic Sector by B. N. Mubarakshin

“…In addition, in spite of categorical protest of Uzbekistan, they are going to construct a number of large hydrotechnic buildings in the rivers. …”
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A Topological Approach to Enhancing Consistency in Machine Learning via Recurrent Neural Networks by Muhammed Adil Yatkin, Mihkel Kõrgesaar, Ümit Işlak

“…These sequences represent time stamps or samplings of a continuous process collectively forming a time series dataset utilized for training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) for pattern prediction. …”
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VALUES IN A MODERN FAMILY. BETWEEN DECLARATION AND DEED by Sabina Lucyna Zalewska

“…However, in the frames of the elaboration, the topic is seen from the pedagogical and psychological aspect of what we call a value. A value can be considered as a phenomenon of choosing an aim, assuming an attitude towards the aim, selection of alternative aspirations in a certain psychological situation, selection of needs, means of action. …”
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Secrecy Rate Performance Analysis of Jammer-Aided Symbiotic Radio with Sensing Errors for Fifth Generation Wireless Networks by Muhammed Yusuf Onay

“…This paper is the first work that aims to maximize the secrecy rate for friendly jammer-aided SR networks with EDs over time allocation and power reflection coefficient in the presence of sensing errors. …”
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Privacy Auditing in Differential Private Machine Learning: The Current Trends by Ivars Namatevs, Kaspars Sudars, Arturs Nikulins, Kaspars Ozols

“…While the definition of differential privacy makes it possible to provably limit the amount of information leaked by an algorithm, practical implementations of differentially private algorithms often contain subtle vulnerabilities. Therefore, there is a need for effective methods that can audit <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>ϵ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>δ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> differentially private algorithms before they are deployed in the real world. …”
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