GUARANTEEING THE ACCES OF THIRD PARTIES TO THE NETWORK INDUSTRIES SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURES – A VITAL COMPONENT OF EU'S POLICY IN THE FIELD OF COMPETITION ON THE ENERGY MARKET, IN T... by Iulian BĂICULESCU, Dragoș-Adrian BANTAȘ

“…Any deterioration of the free nature of competition results in a proportional decrease in consumer satisfaction (from the perspective of both previously identified dimensions) and, at the same time, an exponential deterioration of the functionality of the market in which competition occurs. …”
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Impact of FY-4A Satellite-Based Surface Solar Irradiance on the Classification of Meteorology for Ozone Pollution by Yang Cao, Xiaoli Zhao, Debin Su, Hong Ren, Xiang Cheng, Yuchun Li, Chenxi Wang

“…By analyzing the relationship between hourly ozone concentrations and SSI of the FY-4A satellite, it was found that there was a positive linear correlation between them, and the correlation was the highest when the lead time of SSI was 3 hr. After including SSI, among the 21 cities in the study area, the number of cities with a classification accuracy exceeding 80% increased from 7 to 14, with 20 cities having a positive accuracy growth rate and 8 cities having an accuracy growth rate exceeding 4%. …”
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Comparison of the Infectivity and Transmission of Contemporary Canine and Equine H3N8 Influenza Viruses in Dogs by Heidi L. Pecoraro, Susi Bennett, Kristina Garretson, Ayshea M. Quintana, Katharine F. Lunn, Gabriele A. Landolt

“…Clinical signs, nasal virus shedding, and serological responses were monitored in dogs for 21 days after inoculation. Real-time reverse transcription-PCR and hemagglutination inhibition assays showed that both the viruses have maintained the ability to infect and replicate in dogs and result in seroconversion. …”
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The current status and influencing factors of diabetes knowledge among non-endocrinology nurses of tertiary general hospitals: a cross-sectional survey study by Jia Song, Su Li, Chongcai Gu, Shiyan Zhao, Xing Li, Siqin Liu, Jinmei Tuo, Shiming Huang

“…Multiple linear regression analyses indicated that diabetes in-service education, department and the last time they cared for a diabetes patient were the influencing factors of nurses’ diabetes knowledge scores (P < 0.05). …”
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Clinical Features and Outcomes of Repeated Endoscopic Therapy for Esophagogastric Variceal Hemorrhage in Cirrhotic Patients: Ten-Year Real-World Analysis by Jia-li Ma, Ling-ling He, Ping Li, Yu Jiang, Ju-long Hu, Yu-ling Zhou, Xiu-xia Liang, Hong-shan Wei

“…The median follow-up duration was 32.9 months (range 0.16-111.4 months), the 3- and 5-year cumulative survival rates were 75.3% and 52.8%, respectively. The median survival time was significantly longer in viral cirrhosis patients (47.1 months [95% CI: 24.9-69.1]) compared with nonviral cirrhosis patients (37.0 months [95% CI: 25.0-56.0], p=0.001). …”
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Assessment of the impact of the great cormorant (Phalaсrocorax carbo sinensis Shaw et Nodder, 1801) on fish resources of the Obytichna Spit the Sea of Azov by A. Sydorenko

“…Originality. For the first time, detailed quantitative estimates of the daily fish consumption by a large colony of cormorants in the context of the species’ nesting at the Obytichna Spit were provided, particularly considering changes in the size structure of the prey in different years. …”
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Human Trust in Robots: A Survey on Trust Models and Their Controls/Robotics Applications by Yue Wang, Fangjian Li, Huanfei Zheng, Longsheng Jiang, Maziar Fooladi Mahani, Zhanrui Liao

“…These include performance-centric algebraic, time-series, Markov decision process (MDP)/Partially Observable MDP (POMDP)-based, Gaussian-based, and dynamic Bayesian network (DBN)-based trust models. …”
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Prediction of Heavy Oil Production Based on Geomechanical Analysis in Entire Lifecycle of SAGD by Dengke Li, Shaowen Zhu, Yanchao Li, Shijie Shen, Zupeng Chen, Zhanli Ren, Yuxuan Zhou, Yanfang Gao

“…For Karamay heavy oil in Xinjiang, China, the steam breakout time predicted by the new model is 0.72, 1.50, 1.37, and 1.44 times the conventional model when the volumetric strain is 6%. …”
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Young researchers’ reflections on workshops with youth to develop research recruitment materials by Zeba Khan, Hajar Seiyad, Kaiya Jacob, Ayla Arhinson, Aleyah Williams, Sarah Munro

“…As a result, contraception uptake in Canada remains low, with 22.9% of sexually active 15 to 24-year-olds reporting that they did not use a condom or another form of contraception the last time they had sex. Collaborating with youth and meaningfully engaging them in all stages of the research process may help us better understand and develop solutions and services that yield stronger usability among youth. …”
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A quality improvement initiative to improve growth monitoring of children attending immunization clinic in an urban primary health centre in Delhi by Ravneet Kaur, Udita Singh, K. Srinath, Anjusha Ranjith, Baridalyne Nongkynrih

“…Passive screening for malnutrition can enable timely interventions and improve morbidity and mortality of under-five children. …”
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Criminological analysis of the state and particularities of determination of the illegal possession of vehicles in Ukraine under conditions of armed aggression by Yu. B. Danylchenko

“…Victim-urban factors are represented by a conglomeration of circumstances of criminogenic significance that form a situation of relaxed control over vehicles in places where they are forced to concentrate, for relatively long periods of time. These situations primarily involve the illegal possession of vehicles by internally displaced persons. …”
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Metallic Nanotube Array Enabling Far Infrared Thermal Emitter Performance Enhancement by Hansen Kurniawan Njoto, Alfreda Krisna Altama, Wei-Xing Lu, Ting-Hao Chang, Kuan-Chou Lin, San-Liang Lee, Jinn P. Chu, Chih-Ting Lin

“…The simulation with Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) approach reveals significant alterations to the blackbodyradiated far-infrared spectrum. …”
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Immunological Alterations due to Hemodialysis Might Interfere with Early Complications in Renal Transplantation by Kristin Mai, Andreas Boldt, Hans-Michael Hau, Michael Kirschfink, Stephan Schiekofer, Frieder Keller, Joachim Beige, Athanassios Giannis, Ulrich Sack, Franz Maximilian Rasche

“…TGFβ and sCD30 increased significantly over time. The activity of the classical complement pathway started to slightly increase after the first hour of HD and lasted until fifteen minutes after finishing dialysis. …”
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Effects of Synthetic Procedures and Postsynthesis Incubation pH on Size, Shape, and Antibacterial Activity of Copper (I) Oxide Nanoparticles by Vinh Tien Nguyen, Khanh Son Trinh

“…Higher doses, smaller sizes of Cu2O NP, and longer contact times with the bacterial suspension resulted in higher inactivation efficiencies. …”
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Genetic, hereditary and congenital diseases in buffaloes: are they a limiting factor for the buffalo development in Latin America? by William Gomes Vale

“…These problems have been identified in Brazil and other countries of Latin America (Vale, 1998; Damé, 2013), where more than 40 cases of different simi-lethal and lethal cases have been diagnosed, which were for the first time scientifically studied and published discribing the presence of undesirable genes in buffaloes due to the inbreeding existing in the buffalo Brazilian population. …”
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Green Apple Detection Method Based on Multidimensional Feature Extraction Network Model and Transformer Module by Wei Ji, Kelong Zhai, Bo Xu, Jiawen Wu

“…The fusion of the two modules enhances the model’s ability to detect objects of different scales, thereby improving the accuracy of near-color fruit detection. At the same time, in order to solve the problems of slow convergence speed and large calculation amount of the basic network model, the convergence speed of the overall network model is improved by replacing the attention mechanism of Transformer. …”
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Effect of Zbtb33 gene knockout and bacterial lipopolysaccharide on home cage behavior in mice by N. V. Khotskin, I. E. Sorokin, E. A. Kulikova, A. V.  Kulikov

“…However, intact KO mice were less active in the dark time, and also consumed less food and water as compared to intact WT animals. …”
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Closely Spaced MEG Source Localization and Functional Connectivity Analysis Using a New Prewhitening Invariance of Noise Space Algorithm by Junpeng Zhang, Yuan Cui, Lihua Deng, Ling He, Junran Zhang, Jing Zhang, Qun Zhou, Qi Liu, Zhiguo Zhang

“…Lastly, source connectivity between closely spaced sources can be satisfactorily constructed from source time courses estimated by PW-INN but not from results of other conventional methods. …”
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Total HLA Class I Antigen Loss with the Downregulation of Antigen-Processing Machinery Components in Two Newly Established Sarcomatoid Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Lines by Wei-Yi Lei, Shih-Chieh Hsiung, Shao-Hsuan Wen, Chin-Hsuan Hsieh, Chien-Lin Chen, Christopher Glenn Wallace, Chien-Chung Chang, Shuen-Kuei Liao

“…We report for the first time HLA class I antigen loss with underlying B2M gene deficiency and APM defects in 50% (2 of 4) of the sHCC cell lines tested. …”
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Changing Clinical Presentation, Current Knowledge-Attitude-Practice, and Current Vision Related Quality of Life in Self-Reported Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Retinopathy in Easter... by Taraprasad Das, Batriti Wallang, Preeti Semwal, Soumyava Basu, Tapas R. Padhi, Mohd Hasnat Ali

“…The mean duration of DM since diagnosis was 10 ± 7.8 months (range 8 months to 30 years); 118 (49.16%) patients had DR. In a decade time, 2001 to 2011, there was a change of retinopathy status at presentation (more often nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, NPDR). …”
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