A PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS COMPLIANCE AND IMPACT OF HEALTH WARNINGS ON TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN THE UDUPI DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA STATE, INDIA

A pilot study to assess compliance and impact of health warnings on tobacco products in the Udupi district of Karnataka State, India

Introduction The Government of India has taken several steps to reduce tobacco use, including legislation in the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) requiring health warnings on tobacco products.This study assessed compliance with the legislation on warnings, and awareness of these warnings and their perceived impact in preventing tob

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Shared Knowledge-Based Contrastive Federated Learning for Partial Discharge Diagnosis in Gas-Insulated Switchgear

Recently, deep neural networks have shown remarkable success in fault diagnosis in power Shirt systems using partial discharges (PDs), thereby enhancing grid asset safety and reliability.However, the prevailing approaches often adopt centralized large-scale datasets for training, without taking into account the impact of noise environments for Inte

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Adaptive designs in clinical trials: from scientific advice to marketing authorisation to the European Medicine Agency

Abstract Background In recent years, experience on the application of adaptive designs in confirmatory clinical trials has accumulated.Although planning such trials comes at the cost of additional operational complexity, adaptive designs offer the benefit of flexibility to update trial design and objectives Skincare and makeup set as data accrue.In

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