Clinic Attendance for Medication Refills and Medication Adherence amongst an Antiretroviral Treatment Cohort in Uganda: A Prospective Study by Setor Kunutsor, John Walley, Elly Katabira, Simon Muchuro, Hudson Balidawa, Elizabeth Namagala, Eric Ikoona

“…Where human resource constraints do not allow pill counts or other time-consuming measures, then monitoring clinic attendance and acting on missed appointments may be an effective proxy measure.…”
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Harnessing the Power of Long-Range Entanglement for Clifford Circuit Synthesis by Willers Yang, Patrick Rall

“…These are prepared using ancillary qubits acting as an “entanglement bus,” unlocking global operation primitives such as multiqubit Pauli rotations and fan-out gates. …”
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The recent landscape of RSV vaccine research by Karen Kelleher, Nadisha Subramaniam, Simon B. Drysdale

“…Recent advancements include nirsevimab, a long-acting mAb that has shown substantial efficacy in reducing medically attended RSV-related disease in infants, in phase III clinical trials, early regional and national real-world data. …”
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Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts: listener perceptions of social traits and types of behaviour by Alice Paver, David Wright, Natalie Braber, Nikolas Pautz

“…Considering the potential consequences of accent judgements by witnesses and jurors, this study examines the relationship between ratings for characteristics and the likelihood of acting in certain criminal and non-criminal ways. 180 participants completed an accent judgement task, rating 10 regionally-accented British voices on a range of traits and behaviours using a wider variety of accents, behaviours and criminal offences than previous research. …”
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Relationship between leisure activity and depression in Chinese older adults: chain mediating effect of diet and cognition by Yan Cui, Ying Duan, Jing Du, Ling Yang, Xi Tian, Huaqing Liu

“…Conclusions Leisure activities are linked to depression, with diet and cognition acting as chain-mediating factors. Public health experts recommend that older adults engage in leisure activities, ensure a broad spectrum of dietary intake, and prioritize the augmentation of plant-based diets as preventative strategies against depression.…”
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Operando monitoring of the functional role of tetrahedral cobalt centers for the oxygen evolution reaction by Yonggui Zhao, Nanchen Dongfang, Chong Huang, Rolf Erni, Jingguo Li, Han Zhao, Long Pan, Marcella Iannuzzi, Greta R. Patzke

“…Combination of bulk- and surface-sensitive operando spectroelectrochemical approaches reveals that tetrahedral Co(II) centers undergo a dynamic transformation into highly active Co(IV) intermediates acting as the true OER active species which activate lattice oxygen during the OER. …”
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Steganography in Game Actions by Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen

“…We explore a steganographic paradigm, in which hidden information is communicated through the episodes of multiple agents interacting with an environment. Each agent, acting as an encoder, learns a policy to disguise the very existence of hidden messages within actions seemingly directed toward innocent objectives. …”
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Triggers for Atrial Fibrillation: The Role of Anxiety by Paolo Severino, Marco Valerio Mariani, Annalisa Maraone, Agostino Piro, Andrea Ceccacci, Lorenzo Tarsitani, Viviana Maestrini, Massimo Mancone, Carlo Lavalle, Massimo Pasquini, Francesco Fedele

“…The present review sought to underline the possible pathophysiological association between AF and anxiety disorders and suggests that anxiety can be an independent risk factor for AF, acting as a trigger, creating an arrhythmogenic substrate, and modulating the autonomic nervous system. …”
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Numerical analysis model for the instantaneous grinding temperature of face gears with a worm grinding wheel by WANG Chao, GUO Hui, RUAN Yuhang, RAN Xiaoping, ZHAO Ning

“…Secondly, the forces acting on individual abrasive grains during the grinding process were analyzed, taking into account factors such as the number of participating abrasive grains and their average grinding thickness, thereby obtaining the instantaneous tangential and normal forces. …”
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Talent management intervention towards performance outcomes of Jordanian telecommunication companies: mediating role of perceived organizational support by Muhammad Zada, Sheikh Raheel Manzoor, Eman Khaled Irtaimeh, Amer Abdulaziz Al Mannai, Afraseyab Khattak, Anas A. Salameh

“…The interplay of TMP and POS has a significant favorable influence on EP and OP, with POS acting as a mediator between TMP and both EP and OP. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Copper-Indium-Gallium-Diselenide-Based Solar Cells by SCAPS-1D by S. Ouédraogo, F. Zougmoré, J. M. Ndjaka

“…In order to reduce back-contact recombination, the effect of a very thin layer with high band gap inserted near the back contact and acting as electrons reflector, the so-called back-electron reflector (EBR), has been investigated. …”
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The Investigation of a Method to Improve Static Stiffness of Automobile Body Use Eigenvalue Decomposition of the stiffness matrix. by Akira SATOMURA, Kohei FURUYA, Shinichi MARUYAMA, Shinji NISHIWAKI

“…However, when designing the mutual average compliance defined by the sum of the weights of displacements including displacements other than the external force acting point, it is difficult to derive a design plan because the strain energy, which is a general rigidity index, is not proportional to the mutual average compliance. …”
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Factors affecting negative and positive emotions among spouses caring for patients with psychotic or bipolar disorder by Haruka Ogawa, Nao Shiraishi, Hiroko Yatsu, Tatsuo Akechi

“…This study investigated factors affecting the negative and positive emotions of husbands and wives acting as caregivers of their spouses with severe mental illnesses. …”
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Geodesics of Finsler Hayward black hole surrounded by quintessence by B. R. Yashwanth, S. K. Narasimhamurthy, Z. Nekouee, Manjunath Malligawad

“…We compute and analyze the radius of circular orbits, the period, the instability characteristics of circular orbits, and the force acting on photons with the newly introduced parameter $$\gamma $$ γ within the quintessence field. …”
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PPARγ Expression and Function in Mycobacterial Infection: Roles in Lipid Metabolism, Immunity, and Bacterial Killing by Patricia E. Almeida, Alan Brito Carneiro, Adriana R. Silva, Patricia T. Bozza

“…Mycobacterial triggered increased PPARγ expression and activation lead to increased lipid droplet formation and downmodulation of macrophage response, suggesting that PPARγ expression might aid the mycobacteria in circumventing the host response acting as an escape mechanism. Indeed, inhibition of PPARγ enhances mycobacterial killing capacity of macrophages, suggesting a role of PPARγ in favoring the establishment of chronic infection. …”
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Plant thionins: structure, biological functions and potential use in biotechnology by T. I. Odintsova, M. P. Slezina, E. A. Istomina

“…Thionins protect plants from pathogenic bacteria and fungi acting directly on the membranes of microorganisms at micromolar concentrations, although their precise mode of action remains unclear. …”
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The Earth-Mars Transfer Trajectory Optimization of Solar Sail Based on hp-Adaptive Pseudospectral Method by Yufei Guo, Dongzhu Feng, Xin Wang, Cong Li, Yunzhao Liu

“…In this paper, the pressure of solar light acting on the solar sail is analyzed, and the kinematic equation of the solar sail is established in polar coordinate system first; then the basic principle of the hp-adaptive pseudospectral method is introduced, and the steps of solving the transfer trajectory optimization problem by hp-adaptive pseudospectral method are proposed; finally, the trajectory optimization of the solar sail from Earth orbit to Sun-centered Mars orbit is simulated as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of hp-adaptive pseudospectral method in the orbit transfer optimization problem of solar sail. …”
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Emotional labour, burnout and work engagement amongst service centre employees in South Africa by Amanda Erasmus, Elrie Oosthuysen

“…Practical/managerial implications: Training on emotional regulation techniques could assist employees with effective emotional management, thereby reducing the negative impact of surface acting on mental well-being. Additionally, it is recommended that the organisation should focus on person–environment fit and personality traits during recruitment to minimise emotional dissonance and burnout amongst employees. …”
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Groundbreaking Technologies and the Biocontrol of Fungal Vascular Plant Pathogens by Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás, Jesús Mercado-Blanco

“…Nanotechnology has also advanced significantly, providing methods for the targeted delivery of biological control agents (BCAs) or compounds derived from them through different nanoparticles (NPs), including bacteriogenic, mycogenic, phytogenic, phycogenic, and debris-derived ones acting as carriers. The use of biodegradable polymeric and non-polymeric eco-friendly NPs, which enable the controlled release of antifungal agents while minimizing environmental impact, is also explored. …”
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Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Plugging for Enhanced Oil Recovery by Chenpeng Song, Derek Elsworth

“…This microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) is able to infill the pore spaces of the porous medium and thus can act as a potential microbial plugging agent for enhancing sweep efficiency. …”
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