Antibiotics and Uterine Flushing versus Antibiotics Alone for Chronic Endometritis with Thin Endometrium in Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Background: This study aimed to investigate whether uterine cavity flushing combined with antibiotic administration, improves the outcomes of assisted reproductive technology for patients with thin endometrium (
Vyacheslav Lokshin+6 more
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Background The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) has been dramatic on global scale as older age and comorbidities pose an
Barbara Caimi+9 more
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A hermeneutic inquiry into user-created personas in different Namibian locales [PDF]
Persona is a tool broadly used in technology design to support communicational interactions between designers and users. Different Persona types and methods have evolved mostly in the Global North, and been partially deployed in the Global South every so
Bidwell N. J.+7 more
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A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model [PDF]
We present persona-based models for handling the issue of speaker consistency in neural response generation. A speaker model encodes personas in distributed embeddings that capture individual characteristics such as background information and speaking ...
Jiwei Li+5 more
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User-created persona: Namibian rural Otjiherero speakers [PDF]
Persona is a communicative artefact for usability that currently functions under the umbrella of User-Centred Design (UCD). Since we argue usability methods differ across cultures, this project presents a cross-cultural research probe on persona ...
Cabrero, Daniel G.
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Call for Customized Conversation: Customized Conversation Grounding Persona and Knowledge [PDF]
Humans usually have conversations by making use of prior knowledge about a topic and background information of the people whom they are talking to. However, existing conversational agents and datasets do not consider such comprehensive information, and ...
Yoonna Jang+8 more
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Reconceptualising Personas Across Cultures: Archetypes, Stereotypes & Collective Personas in Pastoral Namibia [PDF]
The paucity of projects where persona is the research foci and a lack of consensus on this artefact keep many reticent about its purpose and value. Besides crafting personas is expected to differ across cultures, which contrasts the advancements in ...
A Cooper+8 more
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The #Tradwife Persona and the Rise of Radicalized Domesticity
The “momosphere”—a collection of parenting, relationship, cooking, and crafting blogs and social media—has seen exponential growth during the socially distant pandemic years.
Devin Proctor
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A Critique of Personas as representations of "the other" in Cross-Cultural Technology Design [PDF]
A literature review on cross-cultural personas reveals both, a trend in projects lacking accomplishment and personas reinforcing previous biases.
Aguirre Lucia+8 more
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Bone Mineral Density Reference Values in 18- to 95-Year-Old Population in Lombardy Region, Italy
The aim of this study is to assess the bone mineral density (BMD) and T -score reference values in a population from 18 to 95 years old in Lombardy region, Italy.
Mariangela Rondanelli+8 more
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