Stimuli-Responsive Smart Polymers and Structures: Characteristics and Applications by Junshi Zhang, Gianluca Rizzello, Jianwen Zhao, Qi Shen, Yanjie Wang

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Efficacy of Multiple Micronutrients Fortified Milk Consumption on Iron Nutritional Status in Moroccan Schoolchildren by Imane El Menchawy, Asmaa El Hamdouchi, Khalid El Kari, Naima Saeid, Fatima Ezzahra Zahrou, Nada Benajiba, Imane El Harchaoui, Mohamed El Mzibri, Noureddine El Haloui, Hassan Aguenaou

“…The consumption of fortified milk reduced the prevalence of iron deficiency by 27% in schoolchildren living in high altitude rural region of Morocco. Clinical Trial Registration. …”
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Hobbit: Providing Fall Detection and Prevention for the Elderly in the Real World by Markus Bajones, David Fischinger, Astrid Weiss, Daniel Wolf, Markus Vincze, Paloma de la Puente, Tobias Körtner, Markus Weninger, Konstantinos Papoutsakis, Damien Michel, Ammar Qammaz, Paschalis Panteleris, Michalis Foukarakis, Ilia Adami, Danai Ioannidi, Asterios Leonidis, Margherita Antona, Antonis Argyros, Peter Mayer, Paul Panek, Håkan Eftring, Susanne Frennert

“…In these field trials, we studied how 18 elderly users (aged 75 years and older) lived with the autonomously interacting service robot over multiple weeks. …”
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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Chinese First-Generation Migrants and Italians in Prato, Italy: The CHIP Study by Pietro A. Modesti, Maria Calabrese, Ilaria Marzotti, Hushao Bing, Danilo Malandrino, Maria Boddi, Sergio Castellani, Dong Zhao

“…Data on health needs of Chinese living in the South of Europe are lacking. To compare prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and risk factors for hypertension between Chinese migrants and Italian adults, a sample of 1200 first-generation Chinese migrants and 291 native Italians aged 35–59 years living in Prato (Italy) was recruited in a community-based participatory cross-sectional survey. …”
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AGS3-based optogenetic GDI induces GPCR-independent Gβγ signalling and macrophage migration by Waruna Thotamune, Sithurandi Ubeysinghe, Chathuri Rajarathna, Dinesh Kankanamge, Koshala Olupothage, Aditya Chandu, Bryan A. Copits, Ajith Karunarathne

“…Nevertheless, understanding of AGS3 is limited, and no significant information is available on its structure–function relationship or signalling regulation in living cells. Here, we employed in silico structure-guided engineering of a novel optogenetic GDI, based on the AGS3’s G-protein regulatory motif, to understand its GDI activity and induce standalone Gβγ signalling in living cells on optical command. …”
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5-Fluorouracil-β-Cyclodextrin conjugates:Linker strategies to enhance the anticancer efficacy and reduce the side effects by Liangliang Hu, Ting Meng, Davies Marabada, Zhichao Jin, Qing Huang, Shijie Wei, Zhizhong Wang

“…Pharmacokinetic analyses revealed that 5-FUSA-β-CD and 5-FUBA-β-CD were eliminated slowly and their half-lives were longer than that of free 5-FU. Distinct linkers were meticulously designed and synthesized to generate 5-Fluorouracil-β-Cyclodextrin conjugates that exhibit differential anti-colon cancer activity and half-lives. …”
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Prevalence of HIV and Associated Risks of Sex Work among Youth in the Slums of Kampala by Monica H. Swahn, Rachel Culbreth, Laura F. Salazar, Rogers Kasirye, Janet Seeley

“…The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence of and risk factors for engaging in sex work among youth living in Kampala, Uganda. Methods. Analyses are based on a cross-sectional study (N = 1,134) of youth aged 12-18 years, living in the slums of Kampala, conducted in Spring of 2014. …”
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Savings from the introduction of BPaL and BPaLM regimens at the country level by C. Auer, A. Gupta, C. Malbacius, A. Ghafoor, Y. Kock, O. Medvedieva, P. Hanlon, P. Steinmann, S. Juneja

“…CONCLUSION: Through BPaL/BPaLM regimens, drug-resistant TB treatment has become more effective, shorter, less burdensome for patients, cheaper for both health systems and patients, and saves more lives.…”
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Effects of maternal Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide exposure on offspring: insights from lncRNA analysis in laying hens by Lei Liu, Wei Wang, Adeyinka Abiola Adetula, Zhixun Yan, Huagui Liu, Ying Yu, Qin Chu

“…Parental living environment significantly impacts on offspring, yet related studies are lacking in livestock and poultry production. …”
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Impact of leukemia subtype and demographics on patient quality of life in 76 countries: a cross-sectional study by Sam Salek, Samantha Nier, Zack Pemberton-Whiteley, Tatyana Ionova, Giuseppe Ianni, Giovanni Tripepi, Nick York, Nicole Schroeter, Kathryn Huntley, Michael Rynne, Denis Costello, Lidija Pecova, Esther Natalie Oliva

“…HM-PRO scores were inversely correlated both with age (ρ= –0.24, p<0.001) and years living with the disease (ρ= –0.14, p<0.001).ConclusionPatients reported the greatest concerns over their future treatment and future health, as well as concerns over dying and being a burden to others. …”
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The daily production of Soviet women during the Great Patriotic War (on the example of Ishim Shoe Factory No. 4) by A. A. Frolova

“…Similar transformations in the social behavior of women occurred against the background of a deterioration in living conditions, a reduction in living standards, a lack of nutrition, and complications of the epidemiological situation. …”
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Older people at risk in times of pandemic? A qualitative study of coping narratives that support resilience in older people by Lucía Pérez Sánchez, Beatriz Guadalupe Maza Pérez, Guiana Fernández De Lara López

“…This underlines the importance of including other ways in which old age is lived and studied, and therefore in the methodologies and proposals for intervention.…”
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From Disruption to Reconstruction: Implementing Peer Support in Homelessness During Times of Crisis for Health and Social Care Services by Mathieu Isabel, Daniel Turgeon, Émilie Lessard, Andreea-Cătălina Panaite, Gwenvaël Ballu, Odile-Anne Desroches, Ghislaine Rouly, Antoine Boivin

“…Introduction: Peer support workers—people with a significant lived and living experience of a social or health condition—use their experiential knowledge and obtain training to help and care for others. …”
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Socioeconomic status and delayed surgery: impact on non-metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma outcomes by Kun Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Jianyong Lei, Anping Su, Tao Wei, Zhihui Li, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen

“…Single, older Black patients living in rural areas that experienced long surgery delays were more associated with a higher non- papillary thyroid cancer mortality rate. …”
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Birth of Catastrophe and Strange Attractors through Generalized Hopf Bifurcations in Covid-19 Transmission Mathematical Model by Yuvita Andriani Kusumadewi, Azimatus Nur Safitri, Aulia Nurmalitasari, Triyanto Triyanto, Laila Fitriana, Yudi Ari Adi, Ario Wiraya

“…We create a new mathematical model that represents Coronavirus that exists in non-living objects, susceptible, and infected subpopulations interaction by considering the Coronavirus transmission through non-living objects caused by susceptible and infected subpopulations along with its prevention to characterize the dynamics of Coronavirus transmission in the population under those conditions. …”
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A Carta Guarani Kaiowá e o direito a uma literatura com terra e das gentes by Marília Librandi-Rocha

“…The final aim is to think not only about “o ur” literature, historically linked to the colonial and then to the national system, but about a post - colonial literature produced and signed by the pluralities of people living in Brazil.…”
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L’appropriation des TIC par les diasporas : analyse des répercussions potentielles dans les pays d’origine by Jonathan Stebig, Yveline Deverin

“…This re-organisation of the migrant’s networks transforms the contact with families living in the homeland. Thus, the telecentre becomes an information and communication crossroad, resulting in inter-connection between the homeland and the different location of the Diaspora. …”
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Adapting the First Aid education and response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis

“…Arguing that spreading First Aid knowledge and conducting trainings must always be ongoing in all times and should never be stopped, not even during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis or other crises, the letter offers a technical guidance note, developed as a suggestion for consideration in adapting curriculum, response, and mode of education, to continue all the efforts aimed at saving lives and assisting the most vulnerable in times of crisis, while putting the safety of the staff, volunteers, emergency responders, and all First Aid providers at the heart of the whole process.…”
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CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY AT A TIME OF GLOBALIZATION AND ICT EXPANSION by Bogdan Mróz

“…Living in a globalized world with robustly expanding information and communications technology, the 21st century consumer is exposed to innovative business models emerging in the cyberspace. …”
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PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CREATING A COMFORTABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT by N. Musinova

“…Urbanization, which changes the habitual living environment of people, in the process of its development leads to increased negative factors, affecting their livelihoods and health. …”
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