Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

“…Respondents reported considerable gaps in the ways in which primary care is organized, financed, and delivered. Nearly half reported using the emergency department for a condition they considered treatable in a primary care setting. …”
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Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning by Krafft, P.M., Shmueli, Erez, Griffiths, Thomas L., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Pentland, Alex

“…Here, we show how a Bayesian social sampling model can in principle simultaneously optimally aggregate information and nearly optimally solve the exploration-exploitation dilemma. …”
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Machine learning from quantum chemistry to predict experimental solvent effects on reaction rates by Chung, Yunsie, Green, William H.

“…The presented model can provide nearly instantaneous predictions of kinetic solvent effects or relative rate constants for a broad range of neutral closed-shell or free radical reactions and solvents only based on atom-mapped reaction SMILES and solvent SMILES strings.…”
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Modelling and control of HVAC systems by Men, Bunnaroth

“…Nearly 50 percent of Singapore's electricity consumption comes from buildings, both residential and non-residential. …”
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Development and characterization of deep reactive ion etching technology for through silicon interconnection by Nagarajan, Ranganathan

“…It was shown that the leakage current can be reduced by about nearly 3 orders of magnitude when the sidewall roughness is reduced or replaced by a smoother sidewall for the initial few microns of the depth of the via by using a non-Bosch etch process. …”
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Machine learning attack on hardware implementation of one-way function by Lauw, Andri Renardi

“…It reduces the prediction accuracy from 99% to nearly 50%, which is only slightly better than random chance. …”
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AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…As in our TRECVid 2011 system, we used nearly identical search systems and user interfaces for both INS and KIS. …”

Analytical determination of permeability of porous fibrous media with consideration of electrokinetic phenomena by Yang, J., Liao, K., Zhu, Q. Y., Xie, M. H., Chen, Y. Q.

“…The analytical results show that when the dimensionless electric resistance number is small and the porosity is large, the dimensionless total flow rate shows a nearly uniform distribution. When the dimensionless electric resistance number is large, the resistant effects of the electrical double layer (EDL) become so significant that the superficial velocity decreases. …”
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Natural IgG antibodies provide innate protection against ficolin-opsonized bacteria by Panda, Saswati, Zhang, Jing, Tan, Nguan Soon, Ho, Bow, Ding, Jeak Ling

“…For nearly five decades since its discovery, the role of natural IgG, which pre‐exists in neonates and uninfected individuals, has remained unclear due to the general perception that natural antibodies lack affinity for pathogens. …”
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Light-induced microfluidic chip based on shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites by Wang, Wenxin, Liu, Xianbin, Xu, Wei, Wei, Hongqiu, Liu, Yanju, Han, Yu, Jin, Peng, Du, Hejun, Leng, Jinsong

“…The shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites display excellent light-induced shape memory property with recovery ratio of nearly 100% in visible light. The crosslinked network of light-induced shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites forms by aldol reaction, esterification, and/or hydrogen bonding of poly (vinyl alcohol), glutaraldehyde, and gold nanoparticles. …”
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Simplified algebraic estimation technique for sensor count reduction in single-phase converters with an active power buffer by Yuan, Huawei, Li, Sinan, Tan, Siew-Chong, Hui, Ron Shu-Yuen

“…With this method, the sensor count can be reduced by 50%, while achieving a nearly 20-times computational time reduction as compared to that of the conventional method.…”
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Hardware-efficient systolic-like modular design for two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform by Meher, Pramod Kumar, Mohanty, Basant Kumar, Patra, Jagdish Chandra

“…The proposed design can offer nearly the same throughput rate, and requires the same or less the number of adders and multipliers as the best of the existing structures. …”
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Three dimensionals α-Fe2O3/polypyrrole (Ppy) nanoarray as anode for micro lithium ion batteries by Lai, Linfei, Yang, Huanping, Lim, San Hua, Zhen, Yongda, Yu, Ting, Shen, Zexiang, Lin, Jianyi, Liu, Jilei, Zhou, Weiwei

“…A relatively high specific capacity of 0.42 mA h/cm2 can be achieved at 0.1 mA/cm2 even after 100 charge/discharge cycles, with a plateau potential of 1 V and nearly 100% Coulombic efficiency, suggesting the feasibility to use this unique 3D nanostructured hybrid composite for microbattery in both small and large scale applications.…”
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Cylindrical surfaces enable wavelength-selective extinction and sub-0.2 nm linewidth in 250 μm-gap silicon Fabry–Pérot cavities by Malak, Maurine, Marty, Frédéric, Pavy, Nicolas, Peter, Yves-Alain, Liu, Ai Qun, Bourouina, Tarik

“…This approach outperforms the first design in terms of Q-factor, of nearly 9000 for around 250 μm-long cavity, which suggests its potential use for biochemical sensing and analysis as well as cavity enhancement applications requiring high Q.L values.…”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Health economic aspects of childhood excess weight by Onyimadu, O

“…My analyses of CPRD-HES data revealed that children living with overweight and obesity incurred significantly higher direct healthcare costs than their peers with a healthy weight. In comparison to children with healthy weight, those living with overweight generated additional costs of £133.93 and £66.32, on average, in the year preceding and following a BMI measurement, respectively, while children with obesity incurred additional costs of £115.47 and £154.51, on average, during the same periods. …”

Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The data set used in this paper are the apartments sold-price in Toronto from 2005 to 2010, which holds nearly 81 features. This study stratifies the dataset chronologically, segregating it into training and validation sets in an 8:2 proportion. …”
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Electrochemical scrutinizing techniques on initial development of pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (PAO1) biofilms by Foo, Yu Hao

“…Bacteria are ubiquitous, forming biofilms on nearly any surface in an aqueous environment. The accumulation of biofilms on the surface of industrial equipment is natural yet often detrimental. …”
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Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber by Box, F, Moulton, DE, Vella, D, Lowe, T, Goriely, A, Thorogood, C, Bhagotra, Y

“…We demonstrate how together these mechanical features contribute to a nearly uniform distribution of seeds away from the parent plant. …”

Image segmentation with minimal human supervision by Shin, G

“…</p> <br> <p>In the first part, we demonstrate that considering a model's uncertainty in predictions can significantly reduce the number of annotations required to train a segmenter that performs nearly as well as a fully-supervised one. This finding underscores the critical role of pixels around semantic boundaries in helping the model to learn representations suitable for segmentation.…”