Demographic influences on Lithuanian physicians’ attitudes toward medical assistance in dying: a cross-sectional study by Benedikt Bachmetjev, Artur Airapetian, Marija Jakubauskienė, Rolandas Zablockis, Asta Čekanauskaitė

“…BackgroundThe topic of end-of-life decisions is important due to aging populations and the rising number of terminal illnesses like cancer. As more people experience suffering, the ethical, medical, and legal debates of these decisions become significant to healthcare policy. …”
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Model for attribute based access control by LI Xiao-feng1～4, FENG Deng-guo1, CHEN Zhao-wu3, FANG Zi-he4

“…A special condition on which the decision procedure is terminable is proposed.…”
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Efficacy and safety of 3D-therapy at HCV-related subcompensated liver cirrhosis (genotype 1b) by P. O. Bogomolov, M. V. Matsiyevich, A. O. Buyeverov, V. D. Beznosenko, Ye. V. Fedosova, M. Yu. Petrachenkova, S. V. Koblov, K. Yu. Kokina, O. S. Kuzmina, N. V. Voronkova

“…Three lethal outcomes after the early treatment termination and 1 patients death in follow­up period were registered. …”
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Synthesis of Headful Packaging Phages Through Yeast Transformation-Associated Recombination by Cheng Lu, Lan He, Yangyijun Guo, Tingting Wang, Yanrui Ye, Zhanglin Lin

“…This study explores the synthetic genome assembly of <i>Pseudomonas</i> phage vB_PaeS_SCUT-S4 (S4), a 42,932 bp headful packaging phage, which encapsidates a terminally redundant, double-stranded DNA genome exceeding unit length. …”
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Morphology and In Vitro Behavior of Electrospun Fibrous Poly(D,L-lactic acid) for Biomedical Applications by Toshihiro Inami, Yasuhiro Tanimoto, Masayuki Ueda, Yo Shibata, Satoshi Hirayama, Masaru Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Kasai

“…The in vitro biocompatibility of two types of PDLLA, ester terminated PDLLA (PDLLA-R) and carboxyl terminated PDLLA (PDLLA-COOH), was evaluated by monitoring apatite formation on samples immersed in Hanks’ balanced salt (HBS) solution. 15 wt% polymer solution was the most beneficial for preparing a fibrous PDLLA structure. …”
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Case report of rare presentation of schistosomiasis: delayed diagnosis of genitourinary schistosomiasis in an adolescent by Valentina Caputo, Cosimo Bleve, Giulia Brooks, Elisa Zolpi, Salvatore Fabio Chiarenza

“…He came to our attention with a history of terminal hematuria, dysuria, and intermittent abdominal pain since the age of ten. …”
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Thrombin Cleavage of Osteopontin Modulates Its Activities in Human Cells In Vitro and Mouse Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis In Vivo by Elena Boggio, Chiara Dianzani, Casimiro Luca Gigliotti, Maria Felicia Soluri, Nausicaa Clemente, Giuseppe Cappellano, Erika Toth, Davide Raineri, Benedetta Ferrara, Cristoforo Comi, Umberto Dianzani, Annalisa Chiocchetti

“…Osteopontin functions are modulated by thrombin cleavage generating N- and C-terminal fragment, whose individual roles are only partly known. …”
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Identification of an inter-cysteine loop potentially involved in the activity of Opisthorchis viverrini-granulin-1 by Rozita Takjoo, David T. Wilson, Paramjit S. Bansal, Alex Loukas, Michael J. Smout, Norelle L. Daly

“…The current study has shown that an inter-cysteine loop of the N-terminal domain of Opisthorchis viverrini granulin-1 (Ov-GRN-1), a granulin protein from the flatworm liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini which has potent wound healing properties, maintains the bioactivity of the full-length protein. …”
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Full-length inhibitor protein is the most effective to perturb human dUTPase activity by Bianka Kőhegyi, Zoé S. Tóth, Enikő Gál, Máté Laczkovich, András Benedek, Beáta G. Vértessy, Kinga Nyíri

“…We showed that the C-terminal part of the Stl protein omitted from the crystal structure has an important role in the enzyme inhibition as the full-length Stl is needed to exert maximal inhibition on the human dUTPase.…”
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Retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet leads to divergent patterns of reconfiguration at its freshwater and tidewater margins by Jonathan Ryan, Theo Ross, Sarah Cooley, Dominik Fahrner, Nicole Abib, Victoria Benson, David Sutherland

“…Greenland's marine- and land-terminating glaciers are retreating inland due to climate warming, reconfiguring the way the ice sheet interacts with its proglacial environment. …”
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Research on public network and private network diversion scheme for 4G/5G users by MA Hongyuan, FENG Zheng, ZHOU Wei, SONG Xuguang, YANG Xiaole

“…This scheme not only meets the demand of dual-domain private network services, but also allows for the separate management and charging of users’public network service IP channels and private network service IP channels by the network side, and has no additional requirements for terminals.…”
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Botulinum Neurotoxin Application to the Severed Femoral Nerve Modulates Spinal Synaptic Responses to Axotomy and Enhances Motor Recovery in Rats by Marcel Irintchev, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Andrey Irintchev

“…Although BDNF also reduced cholinergic terminal loss at 1 week, it had no effect on this parameter at two months and no effect on functional recovery. …”
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TWO-POINT BOUNDARY PROBLEM SOLUTION BY NON-GRADIENT RANDOM SEARCH METHOD by V. A. Malkin

“…Statistic processing gives the mean and RMS estimations of initial conditions values, providing terminal conditions values hit in some domain Q0 relative to Y(tk) point. …”
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A Convex Approach for Trajectory Optimization of Super-Synchronous-Transfer-Orbit Large Launch Systems with Time-Position Constraints by Yuan Li, Ruisheng Sun, Wei Chen, Nan Yang

“…In this paper, the optimal control problem of SSTO large launch systems is formulated considering the terminal constraints including orbital elements and the time-position equation. …”
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Intelligent Scheduling Method Supporting Stadium Sharing by Lei Fang

“…When using edge computing (EC) technology for service calculation, the mobile terminal needs to offload the service to the edge computing server. …”
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Transient analysis of temporary overvoltage and cable faults in underground medium voltage systems by Ricardo Manuel Arias Velásquez

“…We explore the effects on splices and terminals and discuss the use of insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) in transformers, as well as the impact of cable configuration on circulating currents and ferroresonance. …”
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Predicted Cold Shock Proteins from the Extremophilic Bacterium Deinococcus maricopensis and Related Deinococcus Species by Michael J. LaGier

“…A tertiary model of Dm-Csp1 revealed an anticipated Csp structure containing five anti-parallel beta-strands, and ligand prediction experiments identified N-terminally located residues capable of binding single-stranded nucleic acids. …”
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Residential Environment Pollution Monitoring System Based on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things by Jing Mi, Xinghua Sun, Shihui Zhang, Naidi Liu

“…The method mainly includes two parts: an environmental monitoring terminal and an environmental pollution monitoring and management platform. …”
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Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome (CHAOS): No Intervention, No Survival—A Case Report and Literature Review by Ammar Ashraf, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelrahman, Ahmed Senna, Fatimah Alsaad

“…Antenatal sonographic imaging has typical findings that can help in an early diagnosis, which is important in deciding elective termination of the pregnancy or successful planning of appropriate perinatal management.…”
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Research on Operators Mobile Malware Protection Architecture and Key Technologies by Tao Chen, Peng Gao, Xuetao Du, Shan Xue, Manzhi ang

“…Based on reviewing of existing malware protection technologies, mobile malware protection architecture including both network side and terminal side technology and their interaction mechanism was proposed. …”
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