Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Feigin, VL, Abate, MD, Abate, YH, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Lacey, B, Newton, CRJ

“…<p><b>Findings</b></p> In 2021, stroke was the third most common GBD level 3 cause of death (7·3 million [95% UI 6·6–7·8] deaths; 10·7% [9·8–11·3] of all deaths) after ischaemic heart disease and COVID-19, and the fourth most common cause of DALYs (160·5 million [147·8–171·6] DALYs; 5·6% [5·0–6·1] of all DALYs). …”

Policy reform to deliver safely managed drinking water services for schools in rural Bangladesh by Fischer, A, Hope, R, Thomson, P, Hoque, S, Alam, M, Charles, K, Achi, N, Nowicki, S, Hakim, S, Islam, M, Salehin, M, Bradley, D, Ibrahim, M, Chowdhury, M

“…<p>This report draws on research from 150 primary and secondary schools in Chandpur district to analyse the status of drinking water services, in terms of access, quality, quantity, functionality, and costs.…”

Inter-subject transfer learning with an end-to-end deep convolutional neural network for EEG-based BCI by Fahimi, Fatemeh, Zhang, Zhuo, Goh, Wooi Boon, Lee, Tih-Shi, Ang, Kai Keng, Guan, Cuntai

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Lacuna by Tng, Gabriel Yue Hao

“…In essence, the story is a light-hearted animation that draws on themes normally found in buddy-cop films. …”
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Poverty and meritocracy in Singapore by Ang, Jonathan Choong Yew, Chua, Joyce Hui Ping, Zhang, Alethea Shimin

“…This is reflected in the emphasis on the importance of hard work and self-reliance, where one should not solely rely on government assistance. This paper draws upon these responses to discuss the implications of meritocracy as a value system and recommends some solutions to remedy the unintended consequences of implementing this system across all facets of life.…”
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Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery by Bel, G, Elston, T

“…This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that together use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. …”

5G : The 5th Generation Mobile Networks / by Trick, Ulrich, author 655465, Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Online service) 655461

“…A 5G system is presented here in an integrated view, rounded off by an overview of all relevant IT security aspects. The overall view is concluded by looking at the environmental influences of electromagnetic radiation and the energy and raw material resources requirements. …”
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Generalized AutoNLP model for name entity recognition task by Wong, Yung Shen

“…After the remarkable achievement obtained by the introduction of BERT in various NLP related tasks, studies had been more focused on deep-learning based approach to represent the raw input sequence of string words. However, there is an uncertainty of these deep-learning based approaches able to convey all the semantic meanings of words and have generalized ability on AutoNLP on name entity recognition related tasks. …”
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Recovery of 3D shapes from 2D sketches by Liu, Yang

“…The objective of this research is to recover 3D freeform surfaces depicted in a single line drawing, with the aim of taking conceptual design sketches and converting them into 3D models. …”
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Injectable transplantation system for anticancer in-situ cell therapy by Sheng, Nan.

“…Traditional cancer therapy methods include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or combinations of them all. In recent years, immunotherapy, as a novel therapeutic method by which the immune system is used to reject specific cancer. …”
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Tools for analysis of large-scale networks (I) algorithms, analytics and visualization by Zhang, Xinyi

“…In the previous tool, many basic analytical functions such as data search, topic modelling on the retrieved data and graphic user interface has been implemented successfully. Among all the social media sites, Twitter was chosen and 16.5GB raw tweets was used as the dataset in this project. …”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…For the case of textual documentation, poorly written superfluous descriptions filled with jargon are especially challenging for junior designers with less domain expertise to read. …”
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Complex-image-based sparse sar imaging and its equivalence by Bi, Hui, Bi, Guoan, Zhang, Bingchen, Hong, Wen

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Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty from past data inputs and model estimation was propagated throughout analyses by taking 1000 draws for past and present fertility estimates and 500 draws for future forecasts from the estimated distribution for each metric, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) given as the 2·5 and 97·5 percentiles of the draws. …”

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…Forecasts for the reference scenario found that health will improve in the coming decades, with all-cause age-standardised DALY rates decreasing in every GBD super-region. …”

Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China: mineralogical and chemical analyses of Yangshao and Majiayao painted ware by Spataro, M, Hein, A

“…At all sites, black paint was made by adding different mixtures of manganese and iron oxides to levigated clays, in a few cases possibly using the same levigated clay used to make the vessels themselves. …”

BLUE OCEAN SHIFT : BEYOND COMPETING - PROVEN STEPS TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE AND SEIZE NEW GROWTH / by Kim, W. Chan, author 318022, Mauborgne, Renée, author 387551, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. …”
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My research career by Ma, Xueliang

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Generic Object Recognition with Local Receptive Fields Based Extreme Learning Machine by Bai, Zuo, Kasun, Liyanaarachchi Lekamalage Chamara, Huang, Guang-Bin

“…It is operated directly on the raw images and thus suitable for all different datasets. …”
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Machine health monitoring using local feature-based gated recurrent unit networks by Zhao, Rui, Wang, Dongzhe, Yan, Ruqiang, Mao, Kezhi, Shen, Fei, Wang, Jinjiang

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