Association between obstructive sleep apnea and hyperuricemia/gout in the general population: a cross-sectional study by Suyeon Park, Seong-Hyeok Bak, Hyun-Sook Kim, Kyung-Ann Lee

“…Additionally, it had a higher incidence of physician-diagnosed gout than the other groups (6.6% vs. 3.8% vs. 0.8%, respectively, P < 0.001). …”
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Molecular Mechanisms of Immunomodulation Properties of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: A New Insight into the Role of ICAM-1 by Yury Rubtsov, Кirill Goryunov, Аndrey Romanov, Yulia Suzdaltseva, George Sharonov, Vsevolod Tkachuk

“…Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) control excessive inflammation and create a microenvironment for tissue repair protecting from chronic inflammation and tissue fibrosis. …”
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ENTREPREURIAL SELF-EFFICACY AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF BEING SELF-EMPLOYED – A COMPARISON OF URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IN VIETNAM by Thi Lanh Nguyen, Quang Hung Do

“…A large body of entrepreneurship research has focused on the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and start-up activity. …”
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Daily Performance of Adolescents with Executive Function Deficits: An Empirical Study Using a Complex-Cooking Task by Yael Fogel, Sara Rosenblum, Renana Hirsh, Mathilde Chevignard, Naomi Josman

“…To characterize and analyze the performance of adolescents with executive function deficits through the Children’s Cooking Task (CCT) as a performance-based complex ecological assessment. …”
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Birds of a feather? Mis- and dis-information on the social media platform X related to avian influenza by Lauren N. Cooper, Marlon I. Diaz, John J. Hanna, Zachary M. Most, Christoph U. Lehmann, Richard J. Medford

“…Results: With an original pool of 14,796 tweets, we analyzed a final data set of 13,319 tweets from 10,421 unique X users, with 50.4% of the tweets exhibiting negative sentiments (< 0 on a scale of −4 to +4). …”
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Impact of the Rule of Law as a Fundamental Public Governance Principle on Administrative Law Interpretation in the Czech Republic by Jana Janderová

“… The rule of law is a fundamental principle and the cornerstone of Western democracies and their public governance. …”
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Predictive accuracy of lactate albumin ratio for mortality in intensive care units: a nationwide cohort study by Yohei Okada, Yoshitaka Aoki, Mikio Nakajima, Yasuhito Suzuki, Mikihiro Shimizu, Ryo Imai, Soichiro Mimuro, Yoshiki Nakajima

“…Background The lactate albumin ratio (LAR), a simple prognostic marker used in intensive care units (ICUs), combines lactate and serum albumin levels to predict patient outcomes. …”
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La Divine Comédie de Dante Alighieri : une relecture biographique à des fins eschatologiques by Catherine Guimbard

“…This article recounts Dante’s biographical and poetical itinerary considered as oriented towards a renovatio spirituale. It analyses the role played by love, philosophy and theology in this renovation.…”
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Fast Attitude Maneuver of a Flexible Spacecraft with Passive Vibration Control Using Shunted Piezoelectric Transducers by Bassam A. Albassam

“…This paper is concerned with designing a bang-bang control input to perform a quick rotational maneuver of a rigid spacecraft hub connected with flexible appendages. …”
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À propos de vestiges humains immatures inédits provenant des niveaux moustériens de Qafzeh by Patrice Courtaud, Anne-Marie Tillier

“…The immature bone sample already known (MNI = 8, Tillier ibidem) might incorporate two of the newly inventoried bones: a coracoid process (part of the Qafzeh 21 child) and a middle hand phalanx (probably belonging to Qafzeh 22). …”
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Outcomes of follicular lymphoma with leukemic phase in the modern era: results from a large multicenter study by Asaad Trabolsi, Sunwoo Han, Narendranath Epperla, Kaitlin Annunzio, Firas Baidoun, Muhamad Alhaj Moustafa, Dan Morgenstern-Kaplan, Peter Doukas, Frederique St-Pierre, Brittany McCall, Lindsey Fitzgerald, Jose Sandoval-Sus, Shivani Dalal, Isildinha M. Reis, Jennifer Rose Chapman-Fredricks, Seo-Hyun Kim, Cherry Au, Natalie B. Otto, Khaled Alhamad, Thomas Ollila, Reem Karmali, Geoffrey Shouse, Izidore S. Lossos, Juan Pablo Alderuccio

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Multiple Extrauterine Adenomyomas Presenting in Upper Abdomen and Pelvis: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature by Mana Moghadamfalahi, Daniel S. Metzinger

“…Extrauterine adenomyomas are rare with only a few case reports available in the literature. …”
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Organisational-level risk and health-promoting factors within the healthcare sector—a systematic search and review by Magnus Akerstrom, Magnus Akerstrom, Jens Wahlström, Agneta Lindegård, Agneta Lindegård, Inger Arvidsson, Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl

“…To increase applicability, this systematic search and review was limited to the Nordic countries as they share the same context with a publicly-funded widely accessible healthcare system. …”
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A Rare Case of Bilateral Posterior Tibial Artery Aneurysm Presenting as Unilateral Acute Limb Ischemia by Andrew T. Hattam, Mayur Krishnaswamy

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How do smoking, vaping, and nicotine affect people with epilepsy and seizures? A scoping review protocol. by Jackson A Narrett, Waleed Khan, Melissa C Funaro, Jeremy J Moeller

“…Smoking is a major cause of preventable death and disease. …”
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Efficacy of nucleoside analogues for hepatitis B virus-related liver failure: A network meta-analysis by Wu Jian, Yin Fang, Zhou Xinmin

“…The data of patients with HBV-related liver failure treated with nucleoside analogues were used to conduct a network meta-analysis. A total of 1660 patients from 12 articles about the efficacy of lamivudine, entecavir, telbivudine and tenofovir for HBV-related liver failure treatment were recruited in the study. …”
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A note on exponentially bounded stopping times of certain one-sample sequential rank order tests by Z. Govindarajulu

“…A simple proof of the exponential boundedness of the stopping time of the one-sample sequential probability ratio tests (SPRT's) is obtained.…”
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Natural matrix reinforced with a coordination compound and magnetic nanoparticles to remove organic contaminants from water by Helen Paola Toledo-Jaldin, Alien Blanco-Flores, Delia Monserrat Ávila-Márquez, Oscar Roberto Montes-Moreno, Alfredo Rafael Vilchis-Nestor, Gustavo López-Téllez, Alejandro Dorazco-González

“…Sugarcane bagasse, a metal-organic framework, and magnetite nanoparticles form a composite that can be used as absorbent materials for the removal of three pesticides (atrazine, carbofuran, and iprodione). …”
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Space-time division cluster DoA estimation algorithm based on UWA spread spectrum signal by Feng ZHOU, Baosheng ZHANG, Wenbo ZHANG

“…To solve the problems of poor stability, low resolution, and performance degradation under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation, a space-time division cluster (STDC) DoA estimation algorithm was proposed for under water acoustic (UWA) spread spectrum signal.The idea of the time-frequency two-dimensional search was used to combine the conventional beamforming with the spread spectrum sequence, set the angle interval to search the incidence angle and the arrival delay of the spread-spectrum signal, and increased the spatial spectrum to the delay angle spectrum, which kept the high resolution.STDC-DoA estimation can be anti-interference and stable operation under low SNR by using the characteristics of spread spectrum sequence.Finally, through simulation and pool experiment, it was proved that compared with the traditional DoA estimation algorithm, the proposed algorithm has better performance in anti-interference, resolution, and anti-noise.Meanwhile, the proposed algorithm does not need signal source number estimation and angle prediction and has more robust performance.…”
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Generic Skills Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries and Graduate Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Jeffrey B. Matu, Eun J. Paik

“…While higher education graduates in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries recognize the contribution of these skills in their academics and workplace performance, generic skills development is not a consistent part of their education, which has led to socioeconomic challenges. …”
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