Morphological and molecular genetic diagnosis of lung cancer: methods and problems by V. S. Usachev, E. I. Smolenov, Yu. A. Ragulin

“…In recent years, new approaches to systemic antitumor treatment have been registered, which are the main method of treatment in patients with stage IIIB-IV. The diagnosis and staging of patients with lung cancer in recent decades has increasingly relied on minimally invasive tissue sampling techniques, such as endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) or endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) needle aspiration, transbronchial biopsy, and transthoracic image guided core needle biopsy. …”
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Institutional Ethnography: An Approach to Explicate the Ruling Relations in Healthcare Institutions by Farzaneh Mokhtary, Abouali Vedadhir, Akram Sanagoo, Leila Jouybari

“…Materials & Methods This methodological study involved a search in databases including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, the Iranian Scientific Information Database (SID), and Google Scholar using the keywords institutional ethnography, IE, healthcare system, and delivery of health care, without any time limit until January 2024. Results The IE has four steps: identifying the disjuncture and problematic, data collection, data analysis, and recommendations and conclusions useful for changing practice. …”
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Political Tool of “Immoral Rituals” and Resilience of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea by Nam-lin Hur

“…Based on an analysis of four episodes in which Buddhist prayer rituals were denounced as immoral rituals, the article suggests that the Confucians tried to construct a new collective identity of distinction and privilege, to keep in check the royal family and, by extension, the sovereign, to control the female body, and, in collaboration with the king, to suppress people’s discontent with governance. …”
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Floquet topological phase transitions in 2D Su–Schrieffer–Heeger model: interplay between time reversal symmetry breaking and dimerization by Adrian Pena, Bogdan Ostahie, Cristian Radu

“…Furthermore, we employ a novel method to show that the four unit cell atoms, in the absence of irradiation, can be interpreted as conserved spin states. …”
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Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Erosion and Hydrological Responses in Ethiopia by Ajanaw Negese

“…From the past researches reviewed in this paper, the expansion of cultivated land at the expense of forest land, shrubland, and grassland in Ethiopia has increased the mean rate of soil erosion, sediment yield, surface runoff, mean wet monthly flow, and mean annual stream flow in the last four decades. On the other hand, the change has reduced the dry average monthly flow, groundwater recharge and groundwater flow, and evapotranspiration (ET) in the country. …”
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Phylogenetic Relationships in the Miracle Berry Genus, <i>Synsepalum</i>, Sensu Lato, and Relatives (Sapotaceae) by Daniel Potter, Mark Uleh

“…Phylogenetic trees generated for both regions (nuclear and plastid) resulted in the resolution of six clades. Four of the clades correspond to species in the genus <i>Synsepalum</i> and two clades include species of <i>Englerophytum</i>. …”
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A educação popular na formação de trabalhadores da economia solidária: avanços políticos e desafios pedagógicos by Adriane Vieira Ferrarini, Telmo Adams

“…The empirical research was conducted through interviews with agents from four representative entities of training and participant observation, sociopoetics and interviews with workers who participated in the Solidarity Economy Training Centre of South Brazil, a public policy implemented by Unisinos in the period of 2009-2012. …”
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The Effect of Different Tillage Methods and Nitrogen Chemical Fertilizer on Quantitative and Qualitative Characteristics of Corn by Reza Imani, Morteza Samdeliri, Amirabbas Mousavi Mirkalaei

“…Experimental factors were tillage at three levels, including no-tillage (NT), conservation tillage (MT), and conventional tillage (CT) in the main plot, and nitrogen fertilizer at four levels (no nitrogen fertilizer application and 33, 66, and 100% of the recommended amount of nitrogen fertilizer) in a subplot. …”
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A Coupling Dynamics Analysis Method for Two-Stage Spur Gear under Multisource Time-Varying Excitation by Zizhen Qiao, Jianxing Zhou, Wenlei Sun, Xiangfeng Zhang

“…The continuous system is divided into four modules: shaft-shaft element, shaft-gear element, shaft-bearing element, and gear-gear element. …”
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Optimal locating of Urban Waste Recycling Facility (Case Study: Kelardasht, Iran) by Maryam Ilanloo, Hosein Bicgarian, Mohsen Yahya Soltani, Mohammad Mehdi Bahramian

“…According to the results, four sites were selected for recycling of recoverable solid waste in this region…”
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Traffic Anomaly Detection Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Improved Exploitation of the GM(1,1) Model by Qin Yu, Jibin Lyu, Lirui Jiang, Longjiang Li

“…Based on our systematical researches on the characteristics of WSN traffic, the causes of WSN abnormal traffic, and latest related research and development, we better exploit the GM(1,1) model following four guidelines: using a sliding window to determine historical data for modeling, optimizing initial value of one-order grey differential equation, making traffic prediction by short step exponential weighted average method, and judging whether the traffic of the next moment is abnormal by Euclidean distance. …”
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Communicating Environmental Problems as a Basis for Creating Sustainable Family Habits. CRO Laudato Si’ Research Results by Miriam Mary Brgles, Marija Žagmešter Kemfelja, Suzana Obrovac Lipar

“…The research was carried out as part of the CRO Laudato Si' project (N=1324).  In the second phase, four focus groups were conducted with 20 participants. …”
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Study on the coexistence of Fagaceae in the evergreen broad-leaved forest of Malipo by LUO Rui, CHEN Xi, YANG Kehan

“…This study provided an empirical study for understanding Fagaceae coexistence. [Methods] We set four 600 m2 plots in the Malipo natural reserve in May 2021. …”
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Spectroscopic Analysis for Harnessing the Quality and Potential of Gemstones for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) by Imtiaz Ahmad, Suhail H. Serbaya, Ali Rizwan, Malik Sajjad Mehmood

“…Introduction of modern technologies and methods and quality analysis for the gemstone industry are the main strategic initiatives of the Small and Medium Development Authority (SMEDA) of Pakistan. In this regard, four natural gemstones Quartz, Pyrope-Almandine Garnet, Black tourmaline, and Amethyst brought from Hunza valley Pakistan were analyzed by state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques including EDX, UV-VIS, and FTIR spectroscopy. …”
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أخلاقیات مهنة المکتبات والمعلومات: برنامج تدریبی مقترح لرؤیة طلاب قسم المکتبات والمعلومات فی ضوء میثاق أخلاقیات المهنة للاتحاد العربی للمکتبات والمعلومات (اعلم)... by د. محمد فتحی محمود الجلاب

“…This study aims at introduce the Code of Ethics issued by the ArabFederation for Libraries and Information, and the definition of the four elementsthat make up the code of ethics, and raise students' efficiency in libraries andinformation section, check the effectiveness of the proposed training program tosee the students of Library and Information Department in the light of the Code ofEthics of the Union Arab libraries and information (ALLAM), and this study wasconducted on a number (35) students as a control sample, and the number of 37student as a Experimental group To find out their views with regard to the presentCode, the researcher used two approaches : experimental approach and themethodology of content analysis. the results of the study indicated there werestatistically significant differences between mean scores of differences instudents the experimental and control groups in the post application of the testand all of its components for the experimental group students, also show astatistically significant difference between the mean scores of the experimentalgroup students before and after the application of the program on all elements ofthe code of ethics of the profession supports of the dimensional application, andthere appeared a great impact of the proposed program in the concepts of theCode of the ethics of the profession. the study also found a set ofrecommendations including: the need to provide a course or curriculum forstudents in libraries and information departments in universities even studentsare able to become recognition with the ethics of the profession, and benefit of the content of the training program prepared by the researcher at the students'code of ethics in all libraries and information departments…”
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Isolation of Cellulose-Degrading Bacteria and Determination of Their Cellulolytic Potential by Pratima Gupta, Kalpana Samant, Avinash Sahu

“…Eight isolates of cellulose-degrading bacteria (CDB) were isolated from four different invertebrates (termite, snail, caterpillar, and bookworm) by enriching the basal culture medium with filter paper as substrate for cellulose degradation. …”
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The Principle of Transparency in the Ukrainian Decentralisation Reform by Sergii Slukhai, Liudmyla Demydenko, Yuliia Nakonechna, Tetiana Borshchenko

“…The authors carried out an assessment of budget transparency in newly-established ATCs in four Ukrainian regions by applying a simplified methodology (‘snapshot assessment’) involving 11 measures that could be easily located on the ATC websites. …”
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Detection and characterization of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in raw vegetables by Tang John Yew Huat, Abd Jalil Liyana, Syazwan Razali Nur Amira

“…A total of 154 salad samples were purchased from four different districts in Terengganu namely Besut, Jerteh, Kemaman and Kuala Terengganu. …”
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Composition, cellularity and biochemical profile of milk from primiparous and pluriparous Holstein cows during the stages of lactation by D.D. Alves, D.G. Silva, G.A. Aguiar, G.S. Nogueira, M.F. Silva, R.V.R.S. Leite, J.C. Lacerda-Neto

“…Two hundred negative milk samples in strip cup test and in CMT and with SCC < 200,000 cells/mL were allocated into three groups: milk samples from females with one lactation (G1; n=76), milk samples from females with two or three lactations (G2; n=73) and milk samples from females with four to six lactations (G3; n=51) according with the phase of lactation (initial, intermediate and final). …”
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Fatigue life prediction of spot-welded joints using a novel indentation technique for precise elastoplastic characterization of weld zones by Hossein Aliyari, Reza Miresmaeili, Mohammad Azadi

“…This study investigates the fatigue behavior of spot welds in DC04 steel through experimental testing and finite element modeling (FEM). Four modeling approaches—Solid Element (SE), MPC Beam Element (MBE), Quad RBE3, and Triangular RBE3 Elements (T-RE)—were used to simulate the weld nugget, with material properties of the base metal (BM), heat-affected zone (HAZ), and fusion zone (FZ) characterized using a novel indentation method. …”
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