COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on World Politics by M. M. Lebedeva

“…The article To understand the world political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the following parameters were analyzed: 1) the impact of the pandemic on the (mega)trends of world political development globalization / de-globalization, integration/ disintegration, democratization / de-democratization, 2) the political organization of the world, which includes three primary levels: a) the principles of the Westphalian system, the main of which is the principle of sovereignty; b) the system of interstate relations; c) the political systems of individual states. …”
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Advanced Technologies from and Through a Prototype Radio Lesson with Budding Journalists: The Views and Attitudes of Xers, Millennials, and Zoomers by Constantinos Nicolaou

“…These budding journalists hail from Greece, were studying in higher education or adult education at the time of the survey, and belong to one of the three youngest generational cohorts within adults (i.e., 18 years old and older); Generation X where their members are now known as Xers, Generation Y where their members are already known as Millennials, and Generation Z where their members are also known as Zoomers—XYZ Generations. …”
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Integrating Digital Technology Into Marathon Race With a Technology-Driven Service Design Approach to Enhance Marathoner Experiences by Sawitree Phua, Atthaves Borriraklert, Theeraya Mayakul

“…A mixed-method approach, utilizing the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), informed technology selection for each service dimension under expert judgment. Three groups of experts, including World Athletics marathon organizers, elite runners, and marathon medical team members, were invited for triangulated discussion, validated, and confirmed the technology selection. …”
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Acute and Subacute Toxicity of Rhamnus prinoides Leaves on Histopathology of Liver, Kidney, and Brain Tissues, and Biochemical Profile of Rats by Melese Shenkut Abebe

“…In the subacute toxicity study, four groups of rats were used. The first three groups, respectively, received 250, 500, and 1000 mg/kg body weight of R. prinoides extract and the fourth group was a control group. …”
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In Vitro Biocontrol Evaluation of Some Selected Trichoderma Strains against the Root Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum of Hot Pepper (Capsicum annum L.) in Bure Woreda, Ethiopia by Abayeneh Girma

“…The results of this study revealed that out of 32 Trichoderma isolates tested in vitro, only six (T. harzianum (TD1), T. asperellum (TD5), T. viride (TD7), T. hamatum (TD11), T. virens (TD15), and T. longibrachiatum (TD21)) strains showed a varying rate (45.72–93.57%) of biocontrol activity toward the tested pathogen. Of six isolates, three (TD5, TD1, and TD7) strains showed effective antagonists against the root pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.capsici of hot pepper (C. annum) with a colonization percentage of 89.45%, 90.12%, and 93.57%, respectively. …”
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Interaction of norsecurinine-type monomeric and dimeric alkaloids with α-tubulin: a molecular docking study by Gérard Vergoten, Christian Bailly

“…The study was extended to the dimeric alkaloids flueggenines A–I and three compounds were identified as potential tubulin binders: the polycyclic product flueggenine B, the norsecurinine-indole hybrid flueggenine E, and the norsecurinine dimer flueggenine I. …”
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Emphysema is associated with thoracic vertebral bone attenuation on chest CT scan in HIV-infected individuals. by Alycia Petraglia, Joseph K Leader, Matthew Gingo, Meghan Fitzpatrick, John Ries, Cathy Kessinger, Lorrie Lucht, Danielle Camp, Alison Morris, Jessica Bon

“…The association between mean HU attenuation values across the three vertebrae and radiographic emphysema, age, sex, body mass index (BMI), steroid use, viral load, CD4 count, and forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) was assessed by univariate and multivariate analyses.…”
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The acceptability of intimate partner violence screening and response among refugee women accessing Australian resettlement services. by Nigel Spence, Jo Spangaro, Nicola Man, Jacqui Cameron, Kelsey Hegarty, Jane Koziol-McLain, Tadgh McMahon, Astrid Perry-Indermaur, Chye Toole-Anstey, Jeannette Walsh, Anthony Zwi

“…Women attending sites during the study period were invited to participate in a three month follow up survey with participation by 321/375 women recruited (86%). …”
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Retrospective evaluation of a single surgeon’s experience in robot-assisted inguinal repair with the Dexter System™ during the learning curve by Hubert Mignot, Bineta Diack, Juliette Capitaine, Damien Emeriau

“…Minor postoperative complications were reported in three patients (pain at one trocar site with spontaneous resorption, one trocar hematoma with total resorption at 30 days, and one small seroma). …”
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Cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus on Agricultural Wastes and Their Combination by Bulti Kumera Fufa, Belsti Atnkut Tadesse, Mestawot Merid Tulu

“…The experimental setup was a complete randomized design, six treatments with three replicates. Results. The fastest spawn running phase of P. ostreatus was 28.71 ± 0.80 days, pinhead formation was 32.36 ± 0.26 days, and fruiting bodies’ formation was 5.19 ± 0.74 days after the pinhead was recorded on the corncob substrate. …”
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Assessment of noise pollution in sports halls in Lahijan, Iran by Maryam Hajesmaeiliyan, Ali Fahimi Nezhad, Bagher Morsal

“…The measurements were performed in triplicate and repeated three times. The calculated parameters included sound pressure level (SPL), average sound level ((LP) ̅), continuous sound equivalent level (Leq) and individual daily dose LAEp,d. …”
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Robust Identification of Vegetation Change Using Shapelet-Based Temporal Segmentation of Landsat Time-Series Stacks: A Case Study in the Qilian Mountains by Lipeng Jiao, Randolph H. Wynne

“…SVCD was tested on a Landsat scene in the Qilian Mountains (WRS-2 Path 133 Row 34), a region with extensive natural and human-driven land cover changes over three decades. A stratified random sampling of 1012 pixels in persistent vegetation areas and 80 in changed areas showed SVCD achieved 99.0&#x0025;<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm$</tex-math></inline-formula>0.6&#x0025; accuracy (95&#x0025; confidence intervals). …”
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The First European Maps of Muscovy (1525) by O. F. Kudryavtsev

“…Nevertheless, there are some important and obvious differences in location of geographical objects and their names, which are difficult to account for in case the one map is a reproduction of the other.The fact that the first two European maps of Muscovy appeared in autumn 1525 coinciding with publication of three books about this country written by Paolo Giovio, Albertus Campensis and Johann Fabri is indicative of a great and intense attention which Europe payed to Muscovy in its oriental boundaries around this time. …”
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Molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease (review) by A. V. Scherbakov

“…The FMD virus, which has come to the Russian Federation from other countries, is characterized by great genetic diversity and belongs to three serotypes, five topotypes and eight genetic lineages: O/Cathay, O/ME-SA/PanAsia, O/SEA/Mya-98, O/ME-SA/Ind-2001, O/ME-SA/unnamed, A/Asia/Iran-05, A/Asia/Sea-97, Asia1/V. …”
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Crayfish optimization based pixel selection using block scrambling based encryption for secure cloud computing environment by Vikas K. Soman, V. Natarajan

“…Our key contribution lies in the development of a three-stage process that optimally selects pixels for steganography, encodes secret images using Block Scrambling Based Encryption, and embeds them in cover images. …”
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Older People's Perceptions of Well-Being by I.V. Vasileva, M.V. Chumakov

“…Nine associations were received from each person, three verbs, adjectives, nouns. Data processing was carried out using frequency analysis, rank calculation, z-criterion calculation to compare the frequencies of the identified associative and semantic groups. 2376 associates were received, of which the most frequent ones were identified; the selection boundary was 1% of the total number of associates (24 units). …”
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Information support for decision making in problem situation description by S. F. Lipnitsky

“…The relevance of the problem is associated with the need to collect and process significant amounts of information, since in the presence of a large number of factors, a person's capabilities are often insufficient to search and organize the necessary information.When solving the problem of user information support at the stage of describing the problem situation, three main goals are pursued: building a mathematical model of the corresponding processes; formalization of the set of basic concepts of the model; development of the algorithms for implementation of user interaction with the information system.Methods. …”
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Molecular study of blaCTX-M profile among uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis isolates by Kadhim Jwad Jamin, Hussein O. M. Al-Dahmosi, Sura Ihsan Abed Jabuk

“…The antibiotics susceptibility test was carried out by using 12 antibiotics from different classes The molecular identification was done by using polymerase chain reaction amplification of the three bla CTX-M gene (bla CTX-MI, bla CTX-MIV, bla CTX-MII(. …”
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A qualitative study examining psychosocial distress and coping mechanisms among orphan and vulnerable children living in institutional care in New Delhi, India by Abhishek Saraswat, Sayeed Unisa

“…Methods: The present study was conducted in three randomly selected orphanages of Delhi, India, during August-December 2016. …”
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Students’ cross-domain mindset profiles and academic achievement in Finnish lower-secondary education by Jenni Laurell, Ita Puusepp, Kai Hakkarainen, Kirsi Tirri

“…It further investigates the relationship between mindsets profiles, school achievement in various subjects, and gender differences, aiming to address the domain-specificity of the three ability domains.MethodsA self-reported questionnaire was used to measure students’ mindsets, with latent profile analysis (LPA) identifying distinct profiles. …”
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