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ABSTRACT The National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) in a given country provides the essential framework for quality assurance integrating standardization, metrology, accreditation, and conformity assessment to create the technical backbone for industry and trade. Hence, building a resilient NQI is fundamental to securing medicine quality, enabling local
Addisu Afrassa Tegegne +3 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Ultrasound‐based fetal growth assessment is an essential part of clinical decision‐making in modern obstetric care. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of maternal and fetal characteristics on the accuracy and precision of sonographic fetal weight estimation.
M. Granfors +4 more
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Administrative Burdens and Inequities in COBRA Take‐Up
ABSTRACT To what extent does COBRA's lack of program visibility and complexity induce inequities in access to this form of health insurance? Though COBRA has long been an important tool for helping workers to avoid “job lock,” precious little scholarship has been devoted to understanding its reach.
Miranda Yaver
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RETRACTED: The Growing Tide of Antiscience Sentiment: A Global Concern
ABSTRACT The growing tide of antiscience sentiment represents a critical global challenge, with particularly visible manifestations in the United States. This viewpoint examines how the rejection of scientific consensus threatens academic institutions, public health, and technological progress worldwide.
Thorsten Rudroff
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Summary Repetitive DNA is a feature of all organisms, ranging from archaea and plants to humans. DNA repeats can be seen both in coding and in noncoding regions of the genome. Due to the recurring nature of the sequences, simple DNA repeats tend to be more prone to errors during replication and repair, resulting in variability in their unit length ...
Sridevi Sureshkumar +3 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines the academic literature and reports on Colombia's National Development Plans over the past 50 years. It aims to identify the central debates regarding Colombia's development model, addressing a series of contradictions, path‐dependent outcomes, salient variations, and issue framing.
Alberto Lioy, Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz
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ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of the Covid‐19 pandemic on preexisting cash transfers and labor programs across Latin America, analyzing their temporal expansion and identifying the determinants of changes in their generosity and coverage, with a particular focus on the inclusion of informal workers.
Luis Vargas‐Faulbaum +2 more
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Abstract Large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can perform various natural language processing tasks. The adoption of LLMs has become increasingly prominent in scientific writing and analyses because of the availability of free applications such as ChatGPT. This increased use of LLMs not only raises concerns about
Natalie Cooper +4 more
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A standard approach for including climate change responses in IUCN Red List assessments
Abstract The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List is a central tool for extinction risk monitoring and influences global biodiversity policy and action. But, to be effective, it is crucial that it consistently accounts for each driver of extinction.
Giordano Mancini +7 more
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六维床在头、胸、腹部肿瘤常规直线加速器放射治疗中的摆位误差回顾性分析
回顾性分析基于加速器六维床摆位的肿瘤患者的CBCT(Cone-Beam CT,CBCT)图像,比较患者的摆位误差数据,分析肿瘤患者六维床放射治疗中分次内摆位误差的数据,研究六维床对不同位置肿瘤产生的摆位效果差异。选取2020年3月至2023年9月于本中心接受放疗的肿瘤患者85例,分成脑瘤、肺癌、直肠癌和乳腺癌。统计4组患者在左右、头脚、腹背6个自由度(X、Y、Z和Rx、Ry、Rz)的首次和分次内摆位误差。采用双样本异方差t检验对比分析不同瘤种在各个方向上的分次内摆位误差 ...
万 宝 +8 more
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