Comparison of serum ischemia modified albumin levels between preeclamptic and healthy pregnant women by Dinç Zuhal, Çakar Erbil, Kumru Pınar, Erel Özcan, Neşelioğlu Salim, Cimsit Nilüfer, Boz Gizem

“…The performance of IMA values in predicting the development of preeclampsia among all participants was evaluated with Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. …”
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Tsardom of Muscovy Traditional Culture and Peter's Westernization Project by T. V. Chernikova

“…The most distinctive feature was the concentration in the hands of the Moscow sovereign not only of the state political power but also the property rights on all the country's resources. It resulted in the development of the public sphere in Russia along the line of “sovereign vs slaves”, which precluded the Renaissance Western political thought “to accept” Russia into “Europe”.The author examines two main Western description of Muscovy (Muscovia) in the 15th – 17th centuries: a benevolent approach adopted by Johannes Fabry, Paolo Giovio, Alberto Campense; and a critical approach taken by most authors analyzing Muscovy (Matvey Mekhovsky, Sigismund Herberstein, etc.). …”
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The therapeutic potential of vitamins A, C, and D in pancreatic cancer by Alban Piotrowsky, Markus Burkard, Hendrik Schmieder, Sascha Venturelli, Olga Renner, Luigi Marongiu

“…The aim of this review was to explore the therapeutic potential of complementing standard therapy with natural or synthetic forms of vitamins A, C, and D.The therapeutic use of vitamins A, C, and D could be a promising addition to the treatment of PDAC. For all three vitamins and their derivatives, tumor cell-specific cytotoxicity and growth inhibition against PDAC cells has been demonstrated in vitro and in preclinical animal models. …”
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Evaluating empirical and machine learning approaches for reference evapotranspiration estimation using limited climatic variables in Nepal by Erica Shrestha, Suyog Poudyal, Anup Ghimire, Shrena Maharjan, Manoj Lamichhane, Sushant Mehan

“…Results indicate that radiation-based models outperformed humidity and temperature-based models, with R² increasing from 23 to 38 % and RMSE decreasing by 27 to 41 % across empirical and ML models. Notably, all ML models outperformed empirical models, with clustering of weather stations further reducing prediction error in ET0 estimation by 10 to 18 %. …”
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Prevention and control of cholera with household and community water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions: A scoping review of current international guidelines. by Lauren D'Mello-Guyett, Karin Gallandat, Rafael Van den Bergh, Dawn Taylor, Gregory Bulit, Dominique Legros, Peter Maes, Francesco Checchi, Oliver Cumming

“…There were 95 distinct recommendations identified, and concordance among guidelines was poor to fair. All categories of WASH interventions were featured in the guidelines. …”
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Effects of awareness of breast cancer overdiagnosis among women with screen-detected or incidentally found breast cancer: a qualitative interview study by Brooke Nickel, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten McCaffery, Kristen Pickles, Jolyn Hersch, Jayant S Vaidya

“…Participants were recruited via online blogs and professional clinical networks.Results Most women (10/12) became aware of overdiagnosis after their own diagnosis. All were concerned about the possibility of overdiagnosis or overtreatment or both. …”
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Metallicity Dependence of Giant Planets around M Dwarfs by Tianjun Gan, Christopher A. Theissen, Sharon X. Wang, Adam J. Burgasser, Shude Mao

“…We investigate the stellar metallicity ([Fe/H] and [M/H]) dependence of giant planets around M dwarfs by comparing the metallicity distribution of 746 field M dwarfs without known giant planets with a sample of 22 M dwarfs hosting confirmed giant planets. All metallicity measurements are homogeneously obtained through the same methodology based on the near-infrared spectra collected with a single instrument SpeX mounted on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. …”
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INTEGRATION OF INTRADISCIPLINARY TOPICS AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE TEACHING PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGY by M. S Kazimov

“…Within the section «Technology of woodworking», which is part of subject of Technology, it is important to teach students the form of coherent information on the processing of wood, properties of selected tree breeds, features of the installation details, types of trees used for timber production, the origin of trees, and expansion of trees over areas. All these knowledge should be delivered to students through an integrative teaching process.Methods. …”
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Correlation between Doppler, Manual Morphometry, and Histopathology Based Morphometry of Radial Artery as a Conduit in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting by Om Prakash Yadava, Vinod Sharma, Arvind Prakash, Vikas Ahlawat, Anirban Kundu, Bikram K. Mohanty, Rekha Mishra, Amit K. Dinda

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Investigating the relationship between brand experience, brand recall and brand loyalty in experiential marketing (case study: Maral Leather) by Mehdi Ajalli, Mohammad Mahdi Mozaffari, Sahar Johari

“…The study's statistical population consisted of all Maral customers. Regarding the uncertainty of the population, 384 were selected as the statistical sample based on the Cochran formula. …”
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Meta-Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure by Mohammed Ruzieh, Andrew J. Foy, Nader M. Aboujamous, Morgan K. Moroi, Gerald V. Naccarelli, Mehrdad Ghahramani, Shaffi Kanjwal, Joseph E. Marine, Khalil Kanjwal

“…AF catheter ablation was associated with a significant increase in LVEF (mean difference 6.8%; 95% CI: 3.5 – 10.1; P<0.001) and 6MWT (mean difference 29.3; 95% CI: 11.8 – 46.8; P = 0.001), and improvement in MLWHFQ (mean difference -12.1; 95% CI: -20.9 – -3.3; P = 0.007). The risk of all-cause mortality was significantly lower in the AF ablation arm (OR 0.49; 95% CI: 0.31 – 0.77; P = 0.002). …”
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Development of a GIS-based register of biogas plant sites in Lower Saxony, Germany: a foundation for identifying P2G potential by Mareike Plinke, Jonas Berndmeyer, Jochen Hack

“…Conclusions The GIS-based analysis is a reliable and low-error method for identifying biogas plant sites in Lower Saxony. Almost all plants were included in the registry. The greatest advantages over existing registers and at the same time the unique characteristics of our register were the exact spatial localisation of the plants and the highly up-to-date nature of the data. …”
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A novel hybrid inception-xception convolutional neural network for efficient plant disease classification and detection by Wasswa Shafik, Ali Tufail, Chandratilak Liyanage De Silva, Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong

“…Abstract Plants are essential at all stages of living things. Plant pests, diseases, and symptoms are most regularly visible in plant leaves and fruits and sometimes within the roots. …”
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Neonatal outcomes and resuscitation practices following the addition of heart rate-guidance to basic resuscitation. by Jackie K Patterson, Daniel Ishoso, Adrien Lokangaka, Pooja Iyer, Casey Lowman, Joar Eilevstjønn, Ingunn Haug, Beena D Kamath-Rayne, Eric Mafuta, Helge Myklebust, Tracy Nolen, Antoinette Tshefu, Carl Bose, Sara Berkelhamer

“…We collected observational data during a convenience sample of resuscitations and extracted clinical data from the medical record for all participants. We evaluated our primary outcome of effective breathing at three minutes after birth among newborns not breathing well at 30 seconds after birth employing generalized linear models using maximum likelihood estimation.…”
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Extreme-phenotype genome-wide association study (XP-GWAS) of powdery mildew race 2 W tolerance in the USDA Citrullus germplasm collection by Sandra E. Branham, Venkata Rao Ganaparthi, W. Patrick Wechter, Younghoon Park, Todd Wehner, Angela Davis, Antonia Tetteh, Laura Massey, Sue Hammar, Rebecca Grumet, Shaker Kousik, Amnon Levi

“…Sources of powdery mildew tolerance were previously identified by screening the USDA Citrullus germplasm collection with P. xanthii races 1 W and 2 W. However, not all gene loci associated with tolerance to race 2 W have been identified and markers tightly linked to such loci have not been developed. …”
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THE LEGAL REGIME OF NAMES EXCLUDED FROM PROTECTION BY INDICATIVE SIGNS by Adrian CURELEA

“…In a mercantile society based on the circulation of goods, an important factor in choosing a quality product originating in a certain regions is the sign or name that appears on the label and that gives the product „added value”, the consumer being thus aware of his choice and at the same time protected against deceptive practices. But not all names can be registered and protected by indicative signs, Regulation (EU) no. 1151/2012 stipulating by art. 6 the exceptions from registration, the most common situation being that of generic names, names of products which, although related of the place or country where the product was originally produced or marketed, became the common name of a product in the Union. …”
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Effects of citizen participation on urban water management based on socioeconomic factors by F. Mardianti, D.E. Purba

“…Socioeconomic factors can affect citizens in various aspects of life, including participation in water management. However, not all socioeconomic factors are directly proportional to citizen participation. …”
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Responses of Multipotent Retinal Stem Cells to IL-1β, IL-18, or IL-17 by Shida Chen, Defen Shen, Nicholas A. Popp, Alexander J. Ogilvy, Jingsheng Tuo, Mones Abu-Asab, Ting Xie, Chi-Chao Chan

“…IL-1β and IL-18 could induce proapoptotic protein expression. All treatments induced significantly higher expression of Il-6 and Il-17rc in both cells. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of watchful waiting versus immediate emergency department transfer after epinephrine autoinjector use in Canada by Yiwei Yin, Moshe Ben Shoshan, Marcus Shaker, Matthew Greenhawt, Kate M. Johnson

“…Watchful waiting remained cost-effective in all sensitivity and scenario analyses, except under extreme increases in fatality risk of 500-fold and 1,000-fold. …”
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The Impact of Private Standards on Corporate Social Responsibility Compliance and Rural Workers’ Motivation in Developing Countries: A Study of Mango Farms in Pakistan by Honglei Tang, Zeeshan Rasool, Ahmad Imran Khan, Anum Afzal Khan, Mohsin Ali Khan, Ghulam Ahmad Azaz

“…The key dimensions of the codes involved in agrofood trade are food safety, traceability, worker welfare, and environmental consideration, issues which are all connected with CSR. Private standards ensure compliance with these codes of conduct. …”
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