A Qualitative Systematic Review of Older Persons’ Perceptions of Health, Ill Health, and Their Community Health Care Needs by Anne Lise Holm, Elisabeth Severinsson

“…Two themes emerged: creating meaning led to the experience of being valued in health care and society and a mental struggle to regain independence with the help of caregivers. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Mining-Induced Damage in Adjacent Tunnels Based on FLAC3D by Guorui Wang, Peixian Li, Qiang Wu, Ximin Cui, Zhixiang Tan

“…The maximum subsidence of the left tunnel was 505 mm and that of the right tunnel was 512 mm. The excavation led to increase in the tunnels’ stress concentration. …”
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Investigation of the Improvement of Physical and Chemical Changes in Banana Fruits under Different Lighting and Packaging Conditions by Fatemeh Aboutalebi, Mohsen Azadbakht, Mohammad Vahedi Torshizi, Feryal Varasteh

“…The bananas were then stored in polyethylene films, PVC, plastic, and without packaging, under LED light (blue, red, green), and without light for 7 days. …”
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Hiatal hernia surgery: laparoscopic versus robotic approach? by R. N. Komarov, S. V. Osminin, I. R. Bilyalov

“…The development of minimally invasive surgical technologies has led to an increase in the number of laparoscopic and robot-assisted anti-reflux operations. …”
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Ultrathin Variable Aperture Mechanism Utilizing a Micro Flat Motor With a Multipole Ring Magnet by Keita Nagai, Riku Fukazawa, Yu Okawara, Haruhiro Komura, Tadahiko Shinshi

“…Recent advancements in smartphone camera technology have led to the integration of variable aperture mechanisms to enhance the image quality. …”
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Solar Lighting Technologies for Highway Green Rest Areas in China: Energy Saving Economic and Environmental Evaluation by Xiaochun Qin, Qingchao Wei, Lianjun Wang, Yi Shen

“…It was proved that solar lighting technologies including the natural light guidance system, solar LED lighting, and maximizing natural light penetration were quite suitable for highway rest area in terms of lighting effects and energy and economic efficiency. …”
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Oral microbiota: the overlooked catalyst in cancer initiation and progression by Xinlin Wang, Xinlin Wang, Xin He, Xin He, Bin Zhong

“…The advancement of high-throughput sequencing technology in recent decades has led to a greater understanding of the components of the oral microbiota, providing a solid foundation for extensive research in this field. …”
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Spatial Analysis and Socio-Environmental Determinants of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in an Urban Area in Northeastern Brazil by Natan Diego Alves de Freitas, Lucas José Macedo Freire, Suely Ruth Silva, Nilton Guedes do Nascimento, Pedro Cordeiro-Estrela

“…The urbanization process has led to significant changes in the landscape, shifting the epidemiological profile of the visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Brazil. …”
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A Case of Immunotherapy-Induced Colitis Complicated by Perforation and Treated with Infliximab Postoperatively by Lukas Delasos, Aakash Desai, Nerea Lopetegui Lia, Nikhila Kethireddy, Carolyn Ray

“…The advent of checkpoint inhibitor therapy in medical oncology has led to an increase in hospitalizations for immune-related adverse effects. …”
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Brain Death Secondary to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Encephalitis by Steven D. Rhodes, Alicia M. Teagarden, Brian Graner, Riad Lutfi, Chandy C. John

“…The patient developed diffuse cerebral edema, and despite intensive care, the edema led to brain death from Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). …”
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Tracing the Development of Islamic Economic Thought in the Abbasid Era: The Legacy of Umar bin Khattab by Ahmad Mujib, Abdul Aziz, Muna Yastuti Madrah, Zawawi Abdul Wahid

“…The expansion of Islamic territories during the time of Umar ibn Khattab led to increasingly complex problems, especially in the economic field. …”
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Diagnosing Celiac Disease: Towards Wide-Scale Screening and Serology-Based Criteria? by Alina Popp, Laura Kivelä, Valma Fuchs, Kalle Kurppa

“…The increasing prevalence of celiac disease and the development of autoantibody assays have also led to a gradual shift in the diagnostics towards less invasive serology-based criteria in a subgroup of symptomatic children. …”
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A homophilic and dynamic influence maximization strategy based on independent cascade model in social networks by Gang Wang, Shangyi Du, Yurui Jiang, Xianyong Li

“…Previous research primarily focused on static networks, neglecting the homophily and dynamics inherent in real-world networks. This has led to inaccurate simulations of information spread and influence propagation between nodes, with traditional IM algorithms’ selected seed node sets failing to adapt to network evolution. …”
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The impact of spatial representation in energy transition modelling on systemwide energy return on investment by Hasret Sahin, Abebe Asfaw Solomon, Arman Aghahosseini, Christian Breyer

“…Abstract Adopting aggregation techniques in power sector modelling led to disregarding the key characteristics of regions in terms of resource use, which may not completely capture the bottlenecks in the energy transition. …”
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An adaptive intrusion detection and prevention system for Internet of Things by Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh, Saleh Alghamdi, Rayan A Alsemmeari, Syed Raheel Hassan

“…Thus, many companies nowadays produce various devices having network chips, each device becomes part of the Internet of Things and can run on the Internet to achieve various services for its users. This led to the increase in security threats and attacks on these devices. …”
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Human Security in Asia: Interrogating State, Society, and Policy, edited by Debasish Nandy, and Debtanu Majee. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2024. XXI, 346 pp. https://doi.org/10.... by Viktorya Melkonyan

“…The book discusses the challenges of health policies in Asian countries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a major humanitarian crisis, taking into account the limited role of Asian countries in combating COVID-19. …”
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Effect and Removal Mechanisms of 6 Different Washing Agents for Building Wastes Containing Chromium by Wang Xing-run, Zhang Yan-xia, Wang Qi, Shu Jian-min

“…As per the results, particle size had little impact on the contents of total Cr and Cr (VI); after one washing with water, the removal rate of total Cr and Cr (VI) was 75% and 78%, respectively, and after the second washing with 6 agents, the removal rate of citric acid was the highest, above 90% for total Cr and above 99% for hexavalent chromium; the pH of building wastes were reduced by citric acid, and under acid condition, hexavalent chromium was reduced to trivalent chromium spontaneously by organic acid, which led to better removal rate of acid soluble Cr and reducible Cr; due to the complexing action, citric acid had best removal rate for oxidizable trivalent chromium. …”
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Legal and Socio-Psychological Aspects of Creating a Unified Organization Model for Orphans and Children Left without Parental Care by G.V. Semya, V.N. Oslon, M.V. Lashkul, A.E. Tarasova

“…Family placement of orphans and prevention of social orphanhood have led to a significant reduction in the number of children in institutionalized settings (32 thousand in 2024) and one of the pressing issues today is the expediency of creating a Unified model organization (UMO) for this category of children and the possibility of combining it with other institutions working with children in difficult life situations. …”
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An exploratory study of interpretability for face presentation attack detection by Ana F. Sequeira, Tiago Gonçalves, Wilson Silva, João Ribeiro Pinto, Jaime S. Cardoso

“…From the point of view of interpretability, the results obtained in intra and inter class comparisons led to the conclusion that the presence of more attacks during training has a positive effect in the generalisation and robustness of the models. …”
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Opportunities and challenges of immuno-oncology: A bibliometric analysis from 2014 to 2023 by Siqi Zhang, Lina Miao, Xiaoxia Tian, Bingxu Yang, Baoping Luo

“…The emergence of immuno-oncology (IO) has led to revolutionary changes in the field of cancer treatment. …”
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