Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lung cancer diagnosis in northern Poland-addressing the COVID-19 debt. by Anna Romaszko-Wojtowicz, Anna Doboszyńska, Anna Piechnik, Krzysztof Kuziemski, Dariusz Szplit, Szczepan Cofta, Katarzyna Glińska-Lewczuk

“…The COVID-19 pandemic affected healthcare systems worldwide, having adverse effects on all aspects, particularly on the fate of patients with suspected neoplastic diseases. …”
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Amodiaquine and Ciprofloxacin Combination in Plasmodiasis Therapy by Peace Mayen Edwin Ubulom, Chinweizu Ejikeme Udobi, Mark Iheukwumere Madu

“…Conversely, the combination therapy of Amodiaquine and Ciprofloxacin had a significant antiplasmodial effect at all the doses administered. The combination of 7.5 mg/kg of Amodiaquine and 12.8 mg/kg of Ciprofloxacin, however, showed the most significant antiplasmodial effect of the doses used reducing the number of parasites per 100 RBC from 60 to 10 (83.33%). …”
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Phonological Processing and Word and Non-Word Reading Ability among Farsi-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants, Hearing Aids and Normal Hearing by Elham Masoumi, Asghar Haghjoo, Zahra Soleymani

“…Phonemic awareness for all three groups and intra-syllabic awareness for children with HA and NH were the most important predictors for word and non-word reading abilities. …”
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Arabidopsis 3‐Deoxy‐d‐Arabino‐Heptulosonate 7‐Phosphate (DAHP) Synthases of the Shikimate Pathway Display Both Manganese‐ and Cobalt‐Dependent Activities by Ryo Yokoyama, Hiroshi A. Maeda

“…Unlike well‐studied DHS‐Mn, however, the identity of DHS‐Co is still unknown. Here, we show that all three DHS isoforms of Arabidopsis thaliana exhibit both DHS‐Mn and DHS‐Co activities in vitro. …”
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Proteomics and Its Current Application in Biomedical Area: Concise Review by Semira Gobena, Bemrew Admassu, Mebrie Zemene Kinde, Abebe Tesfaye Gessese

“…Biomedical researchers tirelessly seek cutting-edge technologies to advance disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and therapeutic interventions, all aimed at enhancing human and animal well-being. …”
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Electrospun polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) fibers in membrane distillation applications by Charles Defor, Shih-Feng Chou

“…These characteristics make PTFE an excellent candidate for membrane distillation application among all other hydrophobic polymers. In this review, the electrospinning processes of PTFE fibers are discussed in detail with a focus on various electrospinning effects on the resulting fiber morphologies and structures. …”
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Antimicrobial-Resistance Profile of Helicobacter pylori, Obtained from Endoscopic Patients in Bahir Dar, North West Ethiopia by Mulat Erkihun, Desalegn Nigatu Chanie, Yesuf Adem Siraj

“…Antimicrobial-resistance of Helicobacter pylori was high to all commonly prescribed antibiotics: amoxicillin and metronidazole (91.7%), clarithromycin and ciprofloxacin (66.7% each), and tetracycline (37.5%). …”
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Simulation of a multi-layered facility location model by cosidering queueing theory by Mahdi Yousefi Nejad Attari, Saeed Kolahi-Randji, Aniseh Neishabouri Jami

“…When the customer enters the system, he must receive all services at different layers; in fact, the customer will not leave the system in the middle layers. …”
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Aspects of improving metrological characteristics of a sensor based on palladium nanoparticles for methionine determination by Eduard V. Gorchakov, Darya O. Perevezentseva, Elena A. Vaitulevich, Oksana V. Dubinina

“…Sodium borohydride, sodium citrate, and a mixture of borohydride and sodium citrate were used as reducing agents. All the synthesized nanoparticles have a cubic face-centered crystal cell. …”
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Salivary Fluoride Levels after Use of High-Fluoride Dentifrice by Glauber Campos Vale, Priscila Figueiredo Cruz, Ana Clarissa Cavalcante Elvas Bohn, Marcoeli Silva de Moura

“…After brushing, both dentifrices caused an elevated fluoride level in saliva; however salivary F concentration was significantly higher at all times, when high-F dentifrice was used (P < 0.01). …”
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POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY “SILK ROADS” by A. I. Litvinov

“…The government of China declares that creation of an economic belt of the Silk way is a revival of once prospering trade-transport and cultural corridor from Asia to Europe which will promote activization of a friendly exchange between the people of the different countries. Further all this has to connect trade and economic space of Europe and Asia in a whole that has to serve implementation of deeper economic cooperation, between the countries participating in him, to increase in a trade turnover and expansion of scientific and technical exchanges between them.…”
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An intelligent spam detection framework using fusion of spammer behavior and linguistic. by Amna Iqbal, Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Kashif Hanif, Muhammad Murad, Rabia Saleem, Muhammad Aater Javed

“…However, in case of a large number of features set, the selection of all features leads to overfitting the model and expensive computation. …”
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Design and Optimization of Colorimetric Paper-Based Analytical Device for Rapid Detection of Allopurinol in Herbal Medicine by Rimadani Pratiwi, Rieda Nurwulan Septyani, Rossi Febriany, Febrina Amelia Saputri, Rina Fajri Nuwarda

“…Each filter paper has different characteristic; however, there was no significant difference when all of the papers were used as PAD for allopurinol detection.…”
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Adam Mickiewicz in Search of Lithuanian National Identity by Aušra Jurgutienė

“…In Lithuania two alternative traditions of reception formed: one faction (Jonas Basanavičius, Jonas Aistis, Faustas Kirša) erased him from Lithuanian culture and national identity, the same way as it treated all of the Polonised Lithuanian nobility; while others (Antanas Baranauskas, Maironis, Motiejus Gustaitis, Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė, Vincas Krėvė, Stasys Šalkauskis, Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, Julijonas Lindė-Dobilas, Antanas Maceina, Petras Juodelis, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Vytautas Kubilius, etc.), supported a positive reception, honouring him as “a genius of the Lithuanian spirit”. …”
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Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields by Xiaozhen Wang, Chengshan Han, Jiaqi Li, Ting Nie, Mingxuan Li, Xiaofeng Wang, Liang Huang

“…The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms in all evaluation metrics.…”
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A comparison of gambling behaviors and beliefs in rural and urban populations in Pennsylvania by Gillian Russell, Glenn Sterner III, Kayla Lopez, Amanda Ferrara, Miranda Kaye

“…Beliefs about gambling harms and benefits were similar in urban and rural populations, but those in rural areas were less likely to believe all forms of gambling should be legal. In addition, there were several demographic differences, which largely reflected existing differences between those living in rural and urban areas. …”
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Predicting Early Bulbar Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Speech Subsystem Approach by Panying Rong, Yana Yunusova, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green

“…For a majority of participants, speech subsystem decline was detectible prior to declines in speech intelligibility and speaking rate. Among all subsystems, the articulatory and phonatory predictors were most responsive to early bulbar deterioration; and the resonatory and respiratory predictors were as responsive to bulbar decline as was speaking rate. …”
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Determination of Internal Erosion and Permittivity of Biopolymer-Added Geosynthetic Clay Liners by Hakkı Oral Özhan

“…Test results indicated that all of the GCLs experienced internal erosion at a hydraulic head of 10 m. …”
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Climate Change and Veterinary Medicine: A Call to Action for a Healthier Planet [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Winnifred Akello

“…By building climate-resilient practices, enhancing disease surveillance, and championing environmental stewardship, veterinarians can contribute significantly to a healthier, more sustainable future for all species on Earth.…”
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On the 160th anniversary of Ivan V. Michurin’s birth by N. P. Goncharov, N. I. Savel’ev

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