The Need for Desalination in Humanitarian Crises by Bessette, Jonathan T, Winter, Amos G

“…Such regions include the Middle East, Subsaharan Africa (particularly along the Great Rift Valley), Southeast Asia (including the Mekong Delta and Pacific Islands), and coastal regions. …”
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A stakeholder-systems analysis of water provision in rural Alaska by LaPatin, M, Ritsch, N, Armanios, DE, Albertson, L, Katz, LE, Faust, KM

“…In the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta of Alaska, specifically, water sector professionals (e.g., water plant operators and water haulers) encounter unique and extreme challenges. …”

A Digital Phenotypic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (DANO): A Pilot Study on Sociability Changes in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Brain Malignancies by Siddi, Francesca, Emedom-Nnamdi, Patrick, Catalino, Michael P., Rana, Aakanksha, Boaro, Alessandro, Dawood, Hassan Y., Sala, Francesco, Onnela, Jukka-Pekka, Smith, Timothy R.

“…We constructed several daily sociability features from phone communication logs, including the number of incoming and outgoing text messages and calls, the length of messages and duration of calls, message reciprocity, the number of communication partners, and number of missed calls. …”
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Simulation-based passenger evacuation optimization in metro stations considering multi-objectives by Guo, Kai, Zhang, Limao

“…A framework consisting of 9 influential factors and 3 objectives is developed to model the input-output relationship in passenger evacuation. An RF-based meta-model is used to construct the relationship between influential factors and objectives. …”
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Joint client-and-sample selection for federated learning via bi-level optimization by Li, Anran, Wang, Guangjing, Hu, Ming, Sun, Jianfei, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han

“…To bridge this gap, we propose the joint Federated Meta-Weighting based Client and Sample Selection (FedMW-CSS) approach to simultaneously mitigate label noise and hard sample selection. …”
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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology by Gould, E, Fraser, HS, Parker, TH, Nakagawa, S, Griffith, SC, Vesk, PA, Fidler, F, Hamilton, DG, Abbey-Lee, RN, Abbott, JK, Aguirre, LA, Alcaraz, C, Aloni, I, Altschul, D, Arekar, K, Atkins, JW, Atkinson, J, Baker, CM, Barrett, M, Bell, K, Bello, SK, Beltrán, I, Berauer, BJ, Bertram, MG, Wood, A

“…Analyses conducted by these teams yielded 141 usable effects (compatible with our meta-analyses and with all necessary information provided) for the blue tit dataset, and 85 usable effects for the Eucalyptus dataset. …”

Self-reported weight changes in 1st year university students in England: an analysis of social and physical environment by Vadeboncoeur, C

“…With data from 32 identified studies, I performed a meta-analysis on mean WC. I also performed sub-analyses stratified by sex, location, weight measuring method and by weight gainers. …”

THE SECRETS OF PROFESSIONAL SALES CLOSING / by Seymour, Ian, author 655075

“…It's packed with unbeatable advice from 5omeone who knows because he has done it himself.VWith The Secrets Of rofessional Sales Closing you too can join the elite breed of truly successful sales people and call yourself a PRO-CLO.…”

Effectiveness of interpretive exhibits in influencing students’ intention in birdwatching activity at a Bird Interpretive Center, Fraser’s Hill, Pahang, Malaysia by Mokhli, Nuraain Amalina

“…However, the exhibits at the centre lacked the interpretive elements and the behavioural objective or the ‘call for action’ that could convey important messages to visitors and influence their affect and behavioural intention. …”
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A function-based mapping of sensory integration along the cortical hierarchy by Wei, W, Benn, RA, Scholz, R, Shevchenko, V, Klatzmann, U, Alberti, F, Chiou, R, Wassermann, D, Vanderwal, T, Smallwood, J, Margulies, DS

“…This dimension identifies differences between brain states and emphasizes how sensory integration changes flexibly in response to varying cognitive demands. Furthermore, meta-analytic functional decoding with our model highlights the close relationship between cognitive functions and sensory integration, showing its potential for future research of human cognition through sensory information processing.…”

Value Proposition Design : How to create products and services customers want. Get started with.../ by Osterwalder, Alexander, author 558806, Pigneur, Yves, author 558807, Bernarda, Greg, author 654750, Smith, Alan, author 284627, Papadakos, Trish., designer 558851

“…The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work. …”

Just kidding? Two roles for the concept of joking in political speech by Walker, Z

“…I argue that the aesthetic dimension of jokes makes such a denial especially well placed to undermine both a hearer's evidence for an utterance having been sincere, and, separately, their belief that it was sincere—I call the latter ‘aesthetic gaslighting’. Second, I discuss the use of jokes to influence hearers’ thinking and behaviour under the radar. …”

Beriberi following sleeve gastrectomy by Liem, B, Tai, XY, Begeti, F, Fathima, FF, Hofer, M, Matthews, L, Rinaldi, S, Bennett, DLH, Turner, MR

“…Neurologists must have a high index of suspicion for the peripheral as well as central presentations of thiamine deficiency to avoid permanent disability. We also call for explicit information resources warning of the risk and signs of thiamine deficiency to be provided routinely to patients after gastrectomy.…”

Why the rule of law? A historical perspective by Pirie, F

“…Around the world, systems of accountability are weak and dictators find ways to avoid the constraints of both national and international laws. Yet we continue to call for better laws and for aggressors to be tried for war crimes. …”

Oral mRNA delivery using capsule-mediated gastrointestinal tissue injections by Abramson, Alex, Kirtane, Ameya R., Shi, Yunhua, Zhong, Grace, Collins, Joy E., Tamang, Siddartha, Ishida, Keiko, Hayward, Alison, Wainer, Jacob, Rajesh, Netra Unni, Lu, Xiaoya, Gao, Yuan, Karandikar, Paramesh, Tang, Chaoyang, Lopes, Aaron, Wahane, Aniket, Reker, Daniel, Frederiksen, Morten Revsgaard, Jensen, Brian, Langer, Robert, Traverso, Giovanni

“…We validated the performance of formulations and devices in rodents and pigs, demonstrating protein translation in the delta, gastric, and parietal cells of the gastric mucosa, in addition to systemic uptake. …”
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Learning Bit Allocations for Z-Order Layouts in Analytic Data Systems by Gao, Jenny, Ding, Jialin, Sudhir, Sivaprasad, Madden, Samuel

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Robust RGB-D SLAM in dynamic environments for autonomous vehicles by Ji, Tete, Yuan, Shenghai, Xie, Lihua

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Virus-like particles of nodavirus displaying the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: a potential VLP-based COVID-19 vaccine by Kumar, Kiven, Tan, Wen Siang, Arshad, Siti Suri, Ho, Kok Lian

“…In this study, the RBDs of the Beta (β) and Delta (δ) variants were fused to the truncated Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus capsid protein without the protruding domain (CΔ116-MrNV-CP). …”
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Electroencephalogram, creatine kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase responses during preslaughter handling in goats handled by trained and untrained handlers by Kumar, P., Abubakar, A. A., Adewale, M. A., Hayat, M. N., Adamu, G., Ajat, M., Goh, Y. M., Kaka, U., Sazili, A. Q.

“…Whereas no significant (p>0.05) change was recorded in the alpha, beta, delta, theta, and gamma bands activity. The goats handled by trained handlers exhibited significantly (p<0.05) lower CK and LDH concentrations than goats handled by CT and UT handlers, thereby indicating higher preslaughter stress in goats handled by CT and UT groups. …”
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Bitcoins in the Malaysian Economy by Miraz, Mahadi Hasan, Mohd Sharif, Kamal Imran, Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali, Ismail, Mohd Azril, Ahmad Mahyadin@Mahidin, Fariza

“…It is a peer-to-peer (direct connections without an intermediary), open-source encryption system, where transactions occur through a public directory called a blockchain. However, bitcoin has no proper review in the Malaysian context. …”
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