Clinical Holistic Medicine: the “New Medicine”, the Multiparadigmatic Physician, and the Medical Record by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick

“…The physician basically often has three, very different sets of technologies or “toolboxes” at his disposal, derived from three different medical paradigms: classical, manual medicine; biomedicine; and holistic or consciousness-oriented medicine. For lack of a better term, we have called the extended medical science — integrating these three different paradigms and their three strands of tools and methods — the “new medicine”. …”
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Pollution Mitigation in Vermicelli Wastewater: Integrated Fenton and Aerobic Sludge Treatment for Water Quality Improvement by Phuoc Bao Niem Nguyen, Van Toan Pham, Hoang Viet Le, Pankaj Kumar, Gowhar Meraj

“…This study explored the potential of the Fenton process, followed by aerobic activated sludge treatment, to enhance the biodegradability and mineralization of organic substances in vermicelli wastewater. Orientation experiments were performed to examine the effects of operating variables such as pH, reaction time, settling time, and ratio H2O2/Fe2+ on COD removal in order to select the optimal conditions for operating the model in a batch of 20 L, that is, pH = 3, reaction time of 90 min, settling time of 90 min, and ratio of H2O2/Fe2+ used 3 : 1 (4.5 : 1.5 g/L). …”
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Transformative adaptation: from climate-smart to climate-resilient agriculture by Jon Hellin, Eleanor Fisher, Marcus Taylor, Suhas Bhasme, Ana María Loboguerrero

“…In response, there is a growing focus on transformative orientations that pursue a more deep-seated approach to social, institutional, technological and cultural change in order to address the structural contributors to vulnerability and differential exposure to climate risk. …”
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De la pauvreté volontaire à la soutenabilité : reconfigurations de la sobriété dans l’Arche de Lanza del Vasto by Aurélien Remy

“…Enfin, un troisième temps est consacré à la reconfiguration contemporaine de la démarche de sobriété, fondée sur un double travail de composition, orienté par un impératif de soutenabilité et une quête de bien-vivre, et de négociation de la répartition des ressources.…”
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Legal consciousness as a prerequisite for person’s lawful behavior: retrospective view, modern interpretation by А. М. Shulha

“…Legal attitudes are the basis for legal value orientations. It has been noted that the concept of “sense of law” as an element of motivation of lawful behavior is actually identical to the concept of “legal intuition”, which as a result of legal socialization of a person is at the same time their moral intuition. …”
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Activities of the Fifth Abbot of the Aginsky Datsan Galsan-Zhimba Tuguldurov (1817–1872/3) by Sayana B. Bukhogolova, Soelma R. Batomunkueva, Snezhana P. Garmaeva

“…The research is based on the works of Russian and Mongolian authors written in different times, archival data from funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia, Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies of the SB RAS and namthar of G.…”
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Attitudes towards the Unified State Exam as a Tool for Combating Corruption in Admissions to National Universities by A. A. Maksimenko, L. N. Dukhanina, G. A. Porosenkov, D. V. Krylova, A. M. Bushueva

“…Women were significantly more likely to agree that the USE provides capable graduates from different social strata and from any region with the opportunity to enroll in an educational institution whose curriculum and specialty correspond to the applicant’s career orientation.Younger respondents also significantly more often agreed that the USE provides the bright high school graduates from different social strata of Russia to enroll in any university. …”
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Late Onset of Antiretroviral Therapy in Adults Living with HIV in an Urban Area in Brazil: Prevalence and Risk Factors by Priscila Ribeiro Guimarães Pacheco, Ana Laura Sene Amâncio Zara, Luiz Carlos Silva e Souza, Marília Dalva Turchi

“…After logistic regression, factors shown to be associated with late initiation of ARV were low education level, sexual orientation, high baseline viral load, place of residence outside metropolitan area, and concomitant infection with hepatitis B virus. …”
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Music Theory: Speculation, Reasoning, Experience. A Perspective from Systematic Musicology by Albrecht Schneider

“…Further, music theory is regarded to make up an ‘applied’ discipline whose goal is to teach basic musical skills, and thus to serve a ‘practical’ purpose, in the first place. Though these orientations all seem legitimate and of relevance to music theory, one should neither neglect the philosophical and scientific background of the discipline nor the need to carry out empirical and experimental investigations that have been part of music theory since antiquity. …”
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The curious case of C-88: impacts of a potato variety on farmers in Yunnan, China by Stephanie Myrick, Willy Pradel, Canhui Li, Victor Suarez, Guy Hareau, Catherine Larochelle, George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang

“…Results C88 spread rapidly in Yunnan following its release and was widely adopted by commercially oriented farmers. Disadoption began after 2010 with limited seed availability driving the shift toward newer varieties. …”
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PREVENTION OF ONCOLOGICAL DISEASES AS THE BASIS OF INTERACTION OF ONCOLOGICAL SERVICE WITH PRIMARY LINK OF HEALTH CARE by L. M. Aleksandrova, V. V. Starinsky, A. D. Kaprin, Yu. V. Samsonov

“…In general preventive health orientation is implemented on the 1st level: in the provision of primary health care. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Cecostomies: A Valuable Lifesaving Procedure in Emergency Surgery for Colonic Obstructions by Constantin Popazu, Alexandra Toma, Daniela Mihalache, Oana-Monica Duca, Dorel Firescu, Dragoș F. Voicu

“…Further comparative research is suggested to optimize the selection criteria, providing a strong, clinically oriented conclusion. Methods: A comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify studies and case reports focusing on the application of cecostomies in cases of acute colonic obstruction. …”
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Are we ready for the new normal in e-business education? Sentiment analysis of learners' opinions on MOOCs by O. F. Derindag, B. Cizmeci

“…The holistic education model of institutions has difficulty meeting the competitive nature and result-oriented approach of the e-business ecosystem. This market reality requires the institutions to offer more to-the-point and applied education solutions. …”
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Financial security as a factor of military security by O. P. Getmanets, D. V. Korobtsova

“…It has been proved that there is a need for legislative regulation of relations on the circulation of public financial resources, and the directions of their orientation towards the actual tasks of ensuring military security have been substantiated.…”
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Prediction of Climate Change Impacts on the Distribution of an Umbrella Species in Western Sichuan Province, China: Insights from the MaxEnt Model and Circuit Theory by Xiaoyun Deng, Qiaoyun Sun

“…Under current climatic conditions, the dispersal paths predominantly followed a northwest-to-southeast orientation. However, by the 2070s, under all three RCPs, dispersal resistance is projected to significantly increase, the density of dispersal paths will decrease, and the connectivity of these paths will be reduced. …”
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Pesquisa em educação e bioética: integrando valores éticos e conhecimento científico by Diego Carlos Zanella, Anor Sganzerla, Anderson Luiz Tedesco

“…Foram consultadas obras de autores renomados, como Van Rensselaer Potter, Aldo Leopold, Hans Jonas, Humberto Maturana e Edgar Morin, cujas reflexões fundamentam a necessidade de uma nova ética que oriente a civilização tecnológica. A revisão incluiu artigos acadêmicos, livros e estudos de caso que abordam a aplicação da bioética no contexto educacional e suas implicações para a formação de cientistas e profissionais de diversas áreas. …”
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Turismo en Mallorca by Macià Blázquez Salom

“…Geography can help inform this political debate on the transformation of the system of production, consumption and social relations oriented towards a necessary contraction and convergence of the metabolic flow per capita, for the improvement of human welfare and by redistributive, egalitarian and consensual methods. …”
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Social participation challenges and facilitators among Chinese stroke survivors: a qualitative descriptive study by Xiaojuan Wan, Dorothy Ngo Sheung Chan, Janita Pak Chun Chau, Yu Zhang, Zhi’e Gu, Limei Xu

“…These values included family-oriented beliefs regarding responsibility towards their children, struggles with societal expectations, and perceptions of social participation being a burden on others. …”
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Dinámicas de producción y emisiones modeladas de gases de efecto invernadero en sistemas regionales de producción lechera de Honduras by D. Marín-López, I. A. Matamoros-Ochoa, C. A. Ramírez-Restrepo

“…La región Centro-Sur-Oriente emitió la menor cantidad de CH4 (42,95 ± 2,37 kg/animal) y N2O (1,82 ± 0,15 kg/animal, mientras las regiones Occidente y Norte experimentaron una reducción del 27% en GEI/kg proteína láctea entre la FI y FF. …”
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Why is it so difficult to understand why we don’t understand human systemic lupus erythematosus? Contemplating facts, conflicts, and impact of “the causality cascade paradigm”... by Ole Petter Rekvig, Ole Petter Rekvig

“…In attempts to understand systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), we find ourselves in the intellectual cross-point between nosology, pathogenicity-oriented science, philosophy, empiricism, and qualified conjectures. …”
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