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Emergency department overcrowding in low- and middle-income countries: extending the decalogue to resource-limited settings

Emergency Care Journal
Dear Editor, We were very intrigued to read about the "decalogue" by Cipriano et al. that provides a plan to respond to the continuing problem of overcrowding and operational stress experienced within Emergency Department (ED). They present a well-timed,
Varsha Shinde, Keyur Bhimani, Pratik Kanani   +2 more
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Prevalence and predictors of infertility-specific stress in women diagnosed with primary infertility: A clinic-based study

Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences, 2016
BACKGROUND: According to the existing literature on infertility, stress appears to be inevitably associated with infertility diagnosis and treatment in sub-fertile individuals.
Ansha Patel, P. S. V. N. Sharma, Pratapkumar Narayan, V S Binu, N Dinesh, Praveena Joglekar Pai   +5 more
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Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Forensic Speaker Identification in Case of Language Mismatch: Serbian as L1 and English as L2

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017
The purpose of the research is to examine the possibility of forensic speaker identification if question and suspect sample are in different languages using temporal parameters (articulation rate, speaking rate, degree of hesitancy, percentage of pauses,
Kristina TOMIĆ
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The role of syllabic rhythm in speech perception across languages

Scientific Reports
The insertion of silences at regular intervals restores the intelligibility of English utterances that have been accelerated beyond comprehension, as long as the duration of the resulting speech-silence chunks falls within the theta rhythm of natural ...
Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Julián Villegas, Caroline Nallet, Kyoji Iwamoto, Ramón Guevara, Judit Gervain   +5 more
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Investigation of Model I Fracture in Tunnel Blasting Sections with Holes

Buildings
In rock blasting for engineering applications—such as quarrying and tunnel construction—blasting is often detonated in carefully timed sequences to optimize rock fragmentation.
Ruifeng Liu, Yumei Du, Meng Li, Bang Liu
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Is It About Speech or About Prediction? Testing Between Two Accounts of the Rhythm–Reading Link

Brain Sciences
Background/Objectives: The mechanisms underlying the positive association between reading and rhythmic skills remain unclear. Our goal was to systematically test between two major explanations: the Temporal Sampling Framework (TSF), which highlights the ...
Susana Silva, Ana Rita Batista, Nathércia Lima Torres, José Sousa, Aikaterini Liapi, Styliani Bairami, Vasiliki Folia   +6 more
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Examining the Impact of Double Time Written Tests in Nursing Education: A Mixed Methods Study

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education, 2022
Nadine M Janes, Lesley Stoltz, Sue McCarthy, Shahrzad Janani   +3 more
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Continuing Barriers to Optimum Immunization Uptake in Nigerian Children: the Role of Missed Immunization Opportunities and Inappropriately Timed Immunizations

Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics
Immunizations are effective means of disease prevention. Missed opportunities for immunizations and inappropriately timed immunizations have been shown to impact negatively on immunization coverage.
Sadoh AE , Eregie CO.
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Design of Pulse Width Modulation of Intelligent Control System of Vibration Stress Relief

Gong-kuang zidonghua, 2012
The paper analyzed problems existed in realizing pulse width modulation of intelligent control system of vibration stress relief which includes short timing time of the single-chip microcomputer, method of initial value writing of the timer and low ...
WANG An-ming
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How language-specific and cross-linguistic factors affect speech rhythm

Estudios de Fonética Experimental
This study examined the durational aspects of speech rhythm in Bengali (L1) and English spoken by educated Bengali advanced English learners (L2) to represent the effect of language-specific and cross-linguistic factors on speech rhythm.
Nafiseh Taghva, Shouvik Chaudhuri
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