Business’ Attitudes Towards Corruption in Selected Central European Countries by Nenad Vretenar, Ana Marija Filipas, Martina Briš Alić

“… Purpose: Corruption is perceived as a widespread problem throughout the world, including in Central European countries. …”
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Noninsulin Antidiabetic Drugs for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Are We Respecting Their Contraindications? by Irene Ruiz-Tamayo, Josep Franch-Nadal, Manel Mata-Cases, Dídac Mauricio, Xavier Cos, Antonio Rodriguez-Poncelas, Joan Barrot, Gabriel Coll-de-Tuero, Xavier Mundet-Tudurí

“…Records were retrieved from a total of 255,499 pharmacologically treated patients. 78% of patients with some degree of renal impairment (glomerular filtration rate (GFR) < 60 mL/min) were treated with metformin and 31.2% with sulfonylureas. …”
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Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Lung Cancer Survival Patients at Different Cancer Stages and Treatment Phases by Lee PY, Chen YA, Tsai TH, Chen CY, Shieh SH

“…Similarly, patients in the treatment (aOR=0.42, p=0.006), recurrence (aOR=0.24, p=0.043), and follow-up (aOR=0.12, p=0.007) phases exhibited significantly lower needs for patient care than did those in the newly diagnosed phase. …”
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Fixed-Point Grover Adaptive Search for Quadratic Binary Optimization Problems by Akos Nagy, Jaime Park, Cindy Zhang, Atithi Acharya, Alex Khan

“…In this article, we study a Grover-type method for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems. …”
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Real-World Experience with CDK4/6 Inhibitors in the First-Line Palliative Setting for HR+/HER2− Advanced Breast Cancer by Ram Patel, John Mathews, Caroline Hamm, Swati Kulkarni, Rasna Gupta, Tarquin Opperman, John Dean Chiong, Abdullah Nasser

“…Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective chart review of adult patients with HR+/HER2− metastatic breast cancer treated at a single academic center between 1 January 2015 and 1 December 2022. …”
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Quantitative Validation of Hematocrit Percentage Drop Cutoff Points in Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Automated Gravimetric Approach by Venance Basil Kway, José Enrique Calacuayo Rojas, Josué Sidonio Rodríguez Cuevas, Ursula Medina Moreno, José Sergio Camacho Juárez, Jorge Francisco Ayala González, Karla Krebs Larraga, Ilse Veronica Castro Martinez, Roberto Arturo Castillo Reyther, Antonio Gordillo Moscoso, Yang Pan

“…A 14% decrease in hematocrit had an 81.7% agreement rate, with a good κ index of 0.602, a sensitivity of 82.5%, and a specificity of 80.0%. …”
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Inhibition of the invasive plant Ambrosia trifida by Sigesbeckia glabrescens extracts by Lijuan Yin, Guangzhong Zhang, Haoyu Zhao, Yuxin Zhang, Jiaozi Wangchen, Fanghao Wan, Bo Liu, Wanqiang Qian

“…Ambrosia trifida is an invasive weed that destroys the local ecological environment, and causes a reduction in population diversity and grassland decline. …”
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Exploring multi-level factors determining social participation of students with intellectual disabilities in inclusive physical education classes by Christoffer Klenk, Matthias Buser

“…A student’s and a teacher’s questionnaire, specifically designed for SwID, were applied. …”
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Prospects for the Use of Quasi-Mersen Numbers in the Design of Parallel-Serial Processors by Aruzhan Kadyrzhan, Kaisarali Kadyrzhan, Akhat Bakirov, Ibragim Suleimenov

“…It is shown that a serial-parallel processor, comparable in bit capacity to a 16-bit binary processor, can be implemented based on an algorithm built on the residue number system, a distinctive feature of which is the use of the first four quasi-Mersenne numbers, i.e., prime numbers representable as <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>p</mi><mi>k</mi></msub><mo>=</mo><msup><mn>2</mn><mi>k</mi></msup><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mo> </mo><mi>k</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>4</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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Comparison of specialist ataxia centres with non-specialist services in terms of care access and organisation, health services resource utilisation and costs in Germany using patie... by Julie Vallortigara, Julie Greenfield, Barry Hunt, Holm Graessner, Carola Reinhard, Andreas Nadke, Bart-Jan Schuman, Deborah Hoffman, Steve Morris, Paola Giunti

“…For patients who visited both a SAC and a standard neurology clinic, 67.2 % reported that the care received at a SAC was better. …”
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The PHD transcription factor Cti6 is involved in the fungal colonization and aflatoxin B1 biological synthesis of Aspergillus flavus by Zhang Mengjuan, Lin Guanglan, Pan Xiaohua, Song Weitao, Tan Can, Chen Xuan, Yang Yanling, Zhuang Zhenhong

“…Recently, it has been reported that some PHD family transcription factors are involved in the morphogenesis and AFB1 biological synthesis in A. flavus, but the role of Cti6, a PHD domain containing protein in A. flavus, is totally unknown. …”
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HUBUNGAN KADAR KOLESTEROL DENGAN TEKANAN DARAH PENDERITA HIPERTENSI DI DUSUN SIDOMULYO DESA REJOAGUNG KECAMATAN PLOSO KABUPATEN JOMBANG The Correlation of Cholesterol levels with... by HENI MARYATI

“…The population is all patients with hypertension in Sidomulyo Rejoagung Village District of Ploso Jombang of the total sampling method, a number of 34 people. Cholesterol levels were measured used a cholesterol digital gauges, while the blood pressure is measured used a sphygmomanometer and stethoscope. …”
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The Mechanisms of Guaranteeing the Right to Clean Air in Iran and International Documents by Fatemeh Hamidi, Maryam Afshari, Ali Mashhadi

“…Introduction: Air pollution is a major global environmental problem that has various adverse effects on health and the environment. …”
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DepITCM: an audio-visual method for detecting depression by Lishan Zhang, Lishan Zhang, Zhenhua Liu, Yumei Wan, Yunli Fan, Diancai Chen, Qingxiang Wang, Kaihong Zhang, Yunshao Zheng

“…IntroductionDepression is a prevalent mental disorder, and early screening and treatment are crucial for detecting depression. …”
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The Prognostic Significance of Sleep and Circadian Rhythm for Myocardial Infarction Outcomes: Case-Control Study by Wei-Chih Chin, Pao-Hsien Chu, Lung-Sheng Wu, Kuang-Tso Lee, Chen Lin, Chien-Te Ho, Wei-Sheng Yang, I-Hang Chung, Yu-Shu Huang

“… BackgroundMyocardial infarction (MI) is a medical emergency resulting from coronary artery occlusion. …”
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Extracellular vesicles from fifth-stage larval Angiostrongylus cantonensis upregulate cholesterol biosynthesis and suppress NLRP2-associated inflammatory responses in mouse astrocy... by Chien-Ju Cheng, Lian-Chen Wang, Lichieh Julie Chu, Kuang-Yao Chen, Ching-Yun Huang, Kuo-Lun Lan, Kuo-Yang Huang

“…ABSTRACT Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic parasite that causes severe symptoms in humans, including eosinophilic meningitis and eosinophilic meningoencephalitis. …”
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Assessing the potential of germplasm collections for the management of genetic diversity: the case of the French National Cryobank by Jacques, Alicia, Duclos, Delphine, Danchin-Burge, Coralie, Mercat, Marie-José, Tixier-Boichard, Michèle, Restoux, Gwendal

“…Through a combination of selective pressure and genetic drift, there has been a notable erosion of genetic diversity in domesticated animal populations. …”
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Survey on the presence of floating microplastics, trace metals and metalloids in seawater from Southern Italy to the United States of America by Elisabetta Morici, Gaetano Cammilleri, Sergio Scirè, Francesco Paolo Bonomo, Luigi Tranchina, Francesca Terracina, Paola Galluzzo, Vincenzo Ferrantelli, Vincenzo Paolo Monteverde, Francesco Giuseppe Galluzzo, Sergio Davì, Mariano Licciardi, Salvatore Dara

“…The results reveal the presence of MPs in all the samples analyzed and a broad variation in microplastic concentration (230–3320 MPs/L), with filaments or fibers being the most abundant shape. …”
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The prognostic value of systemic immune-inflammation index in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma treated with immune-based therapy by Tian He, Bin Xu, Lu-Na Wang, Zi-Yi Wang, Huan-Chen Shi, Cheng-Jie Zhong, Xiao-Dong Zhu, Ying-Hao Shen, Jian Zhou, Jia Fan, Hui-Chuan Sun, Bo Hu, Cheng Huang

“…A training cohort of 93 patients received atezolizumab plus bevacizumab (T + A), while a validation cohort of 175 patients underwent treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) combined with anti-PD-(L)1 therapy. …”
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Los determinantes de la estructura de la madurez de la deuda corporativa. El caso de Chile by Francisco Castañeda González, Franco Contreras Cortés

“…La evidencia también sugiere que las empresas expuestas a grandes asimetrías de información emiten proporcionalmente más deuda a corto plazo. …”
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