Increased birth rank of homosexual males: disentangling the older brother effect and sexual antagonism hypothesis by Raymond, Michel, Turek, Daniel, Durand, Valérie, Nila, Sarah, Suryobroto, Bambang, Vadez, Julien, Barthes, Julien, Apostolou, Menelaos, Crochet, Pierre-André

“…To clarify this situation, we developed theoretical and statistical tools to study FBOE and AE independently or in combination, taking into account all known sampling biases. These tools were applied on new individual data, and on various available published data (two individual datasets, and all relevant aggregated data). …”
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Horizontal Detection Range Estimation of Deep-Sea Acoustic Shadow Area Based on Vertical Phased Emission Array by Naibin Chen, Dayong Peng, Li Ma, Tao Hu, Haijun Liu, Haifeng Li

“…The estimation formula for the horizontal detection range is then improved to account for the sea surface reflection effect, and angle optimization is applied to the transmitted beam curve to counteract the boundary error accumulation effect of the focused sound beam as the sound ray propagates. …”
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Navigating challenges, solutions and requirements in the provision of trauma care in conflict settings by humanitarian actors: a scoping literature review by Nikolaos Markou-Pappas, Luca Ragazzoni, Claudia Truppa, Flavio Salio, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Hamdi Lamine

“…These strategies could enhance trauma care interventions, ensuring they are effective, equitable, accountable, and sustainable.…”
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Electronic Shooting Simulator Family "STrIzh": Implementation Levels and Free Software Structure by S. F. Egorov

“…Mathematical models of external ballistics of thrown equipment for Kalashnikov assault rifle, Makarov pistol, hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher 7 products are described in detail, taking into account changes in atmospheric factors (temperature, air pressure, wind force) and dispersion of various types of ammunition. …”
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Turkish suicide patterns: Longitudinal analysis of suicide trends in Turkiye (2000 -2022) by Ayhan Tabur, Feruza Turan Sonmez

“…A total of 145,200 suicides were recorded, with most occurring between 2000 and 2022. Men accounted for 71.6% of suicides, with an average rate of 6.12/100,000, compared to 2.35/100,000 for women. …”
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Drug administration errors among anaesthesia providers in South Africa: a cross-sectional descriptive study by René van Wyk, Ryan Alroy Davids

“…Incorrect route of administration, potentially resulting in serious harm, accounted for 8.2% (n = 23/N = 279) of these errors. …”
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Integrated Bioinformatic Analysis Identifies Networks and Promising Biomarkers for Hepatitis B Virus-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Yun Ji, Yue Yin, Weizhen Zhang

“…Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) has long been recognized as a dominant hazard factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and accounts for at least half of HCC instances globally. …”
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Methods of massive parallel reporter assays for investigation of enhancers by S. E. Romanov, D. A. Kalashnikova, P. P. Laktionov

“…However, common experimental approaches used to study the local characteristics of chromatin have a number of technical limitations that may reduce the reliability of computational identification of genomic regulatory sequences. Taking into account the variability of the functions of epigenetic determinants and complex multicomponent regulation of genomic elements activity, their functional verification is often required. …”
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Risk Predictors for Mortality in Inpatients with Cancer and Coronavirus Disease 2019 during the Omicron Wave by Kuan-Yu Chen, Chih-Cheng Lai, Chien-Tai Huang, Yin-Hsun Feng

“…A total of 113 (54%) patients had active cancer. Metastatic disease accounted for 78 (38%) cases, of whom 19 (9%) had lung metastasis. …”
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Lifetime progression of IgA nephropathy: a retrospective cohort study with extended long-term follow-up by Mariell Rivedal, Ole Petter Nordbø, Yngvar Lunde Haaskjold, Rune Bjørneklett, Thomas Knoop, Øystein Eikrem

“…Differences in subsequent disease trajectories among two subgroups with similar eGFR levels at diagnosis could not be accounted for by variations in treatment strategies. …”
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Assessment of economic risks in Ukrainian enterprises: Management aspect by Оksana Nuzhna, Natalia Tluchkevych, Tetyana Pisarenko

“…It should be noted that a reliable assessment of risks in the conditions of war requires further research and analysis taking into account new political and economic factors of influence…”
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GENDER EQUALITY AS A MODERN PHENOMENON by S. V. Storozhuk, I. M. Hoyan

“…Forming the axiological system of Western society, with the intentions to establish gender equality as a guarantee of a just society being taken into account, on the one hand, and preserving the traditional gender stereotypes inherent to patriarchal gender roles in a considerable part of the world, on the other hand, is actualizing the study of the factors that have contributed to realizing the problem of gender inequality and discrimination. …”
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Innovative approach for modelling gravity-induced signal path variations of VLBI radio telescopes by Michael Lösler, Cornelia Eschelbach, Ansgar Greiwe, Boye Zhou, Lucia McCallum

“…This approach considers only homologous deformation of the receiving unit and takes into account three main deformation patterns affecting the signal path. …”
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Examining infant and child death clustering among families in the cross-sectional and nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018 by Shobhit Srivastava, Ronak Paul, Rashmi Rashmi

“…All children who died during infancy and childhood were coded as ‘yes’; otherwise, they were coded as ‘no’.Results About 2% of mothers experienced two or more infant deaths, and cumulatively these mothers account for 20% of all infant deaths in the sample. …”
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The Fake Diary of a Historical Figure: Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa’s Journal of Countess Françoise Krasińska (1825) by Magdalena Ożarska

“…Yet it is now quite clear that the novelist produced her manuscript on the basis of genuine correspondence of Françoise Krasińska, to which she had unrestricted access, and historical newspaper accounts, but not a journal as it had never existed. …”
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Male Gender Is Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis but Not with Recurrence in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Jiang Zhu, Rui Huang, Ping Yu, Haoyu Ren, Xinliang Su

“…A total of consecutive 2536 patients were enrolled in this study. Males accounted for 25.2% (639 cases) of all patients. Central lymph node metastasis (CLNM) and lateral lymph node metastasis (LLNM) rates were 52.5% (1346/2536) and 22.0% (558/2536), respectively. …”
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The design of experiments for the transcriptome studies by high-throughput sequencing methods by P. N. Menshanov, N. N. Dygalo

“…For other species, the optimal limit of the sequencing depth per biological sample is determined similarly for mammals; however, the transcriptome size and the mean RNA content in the studied object should be taken into account, in comparison to the mammalian transcriptomes. …”
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A system approach to the modeling of fungal infections of the wheat leaf by S. V. Nikolaev, U. S. Zubairova, E. S. Skolotneva, E. A. Orlova, D. A. Afonnikov

“…Currently, to develop a system for modeling the development of an infection in a crop, it is necessary to determine a large body of available experimental data and, by taking into account this data, we can put together a model as a system consisting of model modules, for which the models of basic processes have already been developed and described.…”
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Comparing Fluconazole and Nystatin as Antifungal Prophylactics in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Leila Asgarzadeh, Majid Mahallei, Manizheh Mostafa Gharehbaghi

“…Objectives: Systemic fungal infections (SFIs) account for 12% of all late-onset sepsis among very low birth weight (VLBW) infants and result in adverse long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes among survivors. …”
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