Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy in Postmenopausal Women with Breast Cancer: Physician’s Choices by Asim Jamal Shaikh, Shiyam Kumar, Sajjad Raza, Maria Mehboob, Osama Ishtiaq

“…Data support (67.8%) and safety concerns (30%) were given as the main reasons for the choice, 63.7% switched their therapy, and 24% had to switch because of side effects. 73.6% used 5 years of adjuvant hormonal therapy, 6.6% for 7 years, and 4.4% for 10 years. 61.5% follow their patients 3 times monthly, and 73.2% used laboratory and radiological assessment at each followup. …”
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Characterization and Thermal Dehydration Kinetics of Highly Crystalline Mcallisterite, Synthesized at Low Temperatures by Emek Moroydor Derun, Fatma Tugce Senberber

“…For this purpose, several reaction temperatures (0–70°C) and reaction times (30–240 min) were studied. Synthesized minerals were subjected to X-ray diffraction (XRD), fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and Raman spectroscopies and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). …”
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A New Approach in Regression Analysis for Modeling Adsorption Isotherms by Dana D. Marković, Branislava M. Lekić, Vladana N. Rajaković-Ognjanović, Antonije E. Onjia, Ljubinka V. Rajaković

“…Experimentally, it cannot be done in a reasonable time, so the Monte Carlo simulation method was applied. …”
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Guided Discovery with Socratic Questioning by M. Hakan Türkçapar, Melis Sedef Kahraman, A. Emre Sargýn

“…It was first used by in ancient times by the Greek philosopher Socrates who taught his followers by asking questions; these conversations between them are known as “Socratic dialogues”. …”
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Fountain Water as a Source of Opportunistic Escherichia coli and Aeromonas hydrophila Strains in Atmospheric Air by Iwona Gołaś, Anna Gotkowska-Plachta

“…The counts of E. coli and A. hydrophila were highest in bioaerosols (A0), and they were 10–100 times lower in A20 samples. Most E. coli and A. hydrophila strains isolated from air samples were resistant to CIP, TE, ampicillin (AMP), and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (SXT), and 6.7–46.2% of the isolates exhibited multidrug resistance. …”
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Toxicity Analysis of Hybrid Nanodiamond/Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Allium cepa L by Bhaludra Chandra Sekhar Singh

“…From the electrical conductivity analysis, ND/Fe3O4 exhibits conductivity in the order of 27 times more compared to ND. Conclusion. The result implies that the product ND/Fe3O4 has both magnetic and electrical properties. …”
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Effect of feed and holding conditions on survival and growth of juvenile crayfish Pontastacus leptodactylus and Faxonius limosus by Kropielnicka-Kruk Katarzyna, Ulikowski Dariusz, Wasilewska Agnieszka

“…The feeds composition was similar, but sinking times differed and were quick for F1 and slow for F2 and F3, which provided extended visual and chemical exposure to crayfish. …”
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FACTORS AFFECTING LOCALS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS TAX ALLOCATION IN THE TOURISM SPHERE (IN THE CASE OF UZBEKISTAN) by Bahodirhon SAFAROV, Akhmadjon TANIEV, Bekzot JANZAKOV, Samariddin ALIQULOV, Jakhongir BAKHRAMOV

“…The results show that increasing the frequency of travelling of each respondent increases the odds of people’s approval of financing tourism from taxes by two times. At the same time, surprisingly, the increase in family income reduces the probability of approving tourism’s budget financing. …”
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Development of Semiliquid Ingredients from Grape Skins and Their Potential Impact on the Reducing Capacity of Model Functional Foods by Milan Stojanovic, Laura Marinoni, Giovanni Cabassi, Malisa Antic, Vera Lavelli

“…Possible applications of GS semiliquid ingredients to increase the reducing capacity of food 10 times include formulation into beverages and ice-type desserts and use in bakery products.…”
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Exploring the potential role of EPSPS mutations for enhanced glyphosate resistance in Nicotiana tabacum by Bingjie Li, Bingjie Li, Chen Chen, Chen Chen, Mengmeng Cui, Yuhe Sun, Jing Lv, Changbo Dai

“…Our results demonstrate that overexpression of TIPS-NtEPSPS significantly enhances glyphosate tolerance, allowing plants to withstand up to four times the recommended dose without compromising their fitness. …”
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Effects of phenolic acids on tetramethylpyrazine formation via room temperature spontaneous ammoniation of acetoin by Hui Xu, Xuanrui Chen, Qianqian Zhang, Zhizhi Yang, Jingjing Tian, Qihe Chen, Jicheng Chen

“…At pH 7.0, TTMP formation was 56 and 70 times higher than at pH 3.0 and pH 11.0, respectively. …”
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Quantifying the Volume of Particulate Matter at Bus Stations by Branislav ŠARKAN, Michal LOMAN, Ondrej STOPKA, Jacek CABAN, Arkadiusz MAŁEK

“…The results indicate a direct interconnection between passing vehicles and produced particle emissions, when multiple times higher emission levels are revealed. During the morning rush hour, the particulate matter exceeded 360% for PM2.5 and 420% for PM10. …”
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Advanced machine learning approach with dynamic kernel weighting for accurate electrical load forecasting by C. Jeevakarunya, V. Manikandan

“…This article presents a load forecasting model for commercial buildings with Enhanced Dynamically Weighted Multiple Kernel Support Vector Regression (EDW-MKSVR) and a mini-batch gradient descent method to achieve good regularization along with clustering techniques to segment different times of the day. The first step in preparing the dataset is to perform preprocessing, which involves conducting correlation analysis, scaling, and normalization followed by initial hyperparameter tuning using the multiswarm Levy flight particle swarm optimization technique. …”
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Effect of Ecotype and Latitude on Growth, Frost Hardiness, and Oxidative Stress of South to North Transplanted Scots Pine Seedlings by Erja Taulavuori, Kari Taulavuori, Ahti Niinimaa, Kari Laine

“…Comparison between the seasonal sampling times indicated that total nitrogen, lipid peroxidation, glutathione reductase activity, and protein oxidation were lower in autumn, during which the frost hardiness was higher. …”
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Low-Rank Adaptation of Pre-Trained Large Vision Models for Improved Lung Nodule Malignancy Classification by Benjamin P. Veasey, Amir A. Amini

“…<italic>Results:</italic> The best LoRA-adapted model achieved a 3&#x0025; increase in ROC AUC over the state-of-the-art model, utilized 89.9&#x0025; fewer parameters, and reduced training times by 36.5&#x0025;. <italic>Conclusions:</italic> Integrating LoRA with out-of-domain pretrained LVMs offers a promising avenue for enhancing performance of lung nodule malignancy classification. …”
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The Effect of Various Composite Resin Types, Surface Treatments, and Repaired Materials on the Shear Bond Strength of Composite Resin Repair by Diyar Kh Bakr

“… Background and Objectives: Composite resin are widely used in the field of restorative dentistry, as the time passes, composite resin restoration are subjected to failure. …”
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Mapping evidence on factors contributing to maternal and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol. by Ugochinyere I Nwagbara, Emmanuella C Osuala, Rumbidzai Chireshe, Gbotemi B Babatunde, Ngozichika O Okeke, Nnennaya Opara, Khumbulani W Hlongwana

“…<h4>Background</h4>Maternal and child mortality remains a major public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with the region having the highest under-five mortality rates, where approximately 1 in 11 children, dies before the age of 5 years. This is nearly 15 times the average in high-income countries (HICs). …”
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Minerality in Wine: Textual Analysis of Chablis Premier Cru Tasting Notes by Alex J. Biss, Richard H. Ellis

“…Bigram analysis indicated that consumers were more than 1.5 times as likely to refer to a stony kind of minerality as a saline one and only rarely smoky minerality. …”
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Endoscopic Approaches to the Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage in Hemodialysis-Dependent Patients by Xiaoquan Huang, Lili Ma, Xiaoqing Zeng, Jian Wang, Jie Chen, Shiyao Chen

“…All the patients received a total of three times heparin-free hemodialysis 24 hours before and no more than 24 hours and 72 hours after endoscopic treatment. …”
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Effect of Collagen/Ibuprofen Hydrogel in Wound Healing: An In Vivo Study by Kamyar Abbasi, Reza Eftekhar Ashtiani, Mitra Abdolahi, Maryam Hosseini, Reza Sayyad Soufdoost, Mostafa Alam, Sadaf Fani-Hanifeh

“…In this animal study, three circular excisions were made in the back of each of the 12 rats and injected with the following groups: collagen/ibuprofen, group 1; collagen, group 2; and unfilled as the control group, group 3 for two times. The healing procedures were explored via calculating wound contraction percentage after taking photographs on days 7 and 14. …”
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