Can incentives improve antipsychotic adherence in major mental illness? A mixed-methods systematic review by Nathan Hodson, Ivo Vlaev, Madiha Majid, Swaran Preet Singh

“…Papers measuring impact on adherence were synthesised, then a typology of ethical and policy issues was compiled, finally the empirical literature was compared with this typology to describe current evidence and identify remaining research questions.Results 26 papers were included. 2 RCTs used contingent financial incentives for long-acting injectable antipsychotic preparations. Over 12 months, there were significantly larger increases in adherence among the intervention groups versus control groups in both RCTs. …”
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Digital markers of asthma exacerbations: a systematic review by Brenda Cokorudy, Jeff Harrison, Amy Hai Yan Chan

“…Medication parameters were measured in over a third of the studies (10 out of 23) with a focus on short-acting β-agonist (SABA) use as a marker of exacerbations. …”
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White adipose tissues and skeletal muscles as a target of chrysin during the treatment of obesity in rats by Omar S. Hassan, Magda A. Megahed, Nesma A. Ghazal

“…Also, the effects of chrysin may be mediated through acting as an anti-inflammatory and antioxidative stress agent. …”
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Step-necking growth of silicon nanowire channels for high performance field effect transistors by Lei Wu, Zhiyan Hu, Lei Liang, Ruijin Hu, Junzhuan Wang, Linwei Yu

“…These findings mark the pioneering experimental demonstration of catalytic growth acting as a deterministic fabrication method for precisely crafting engineered FET channels, ideally fitting the requirements of high-performance large-area displays and sensors.…”
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Enhancing Ecologically Sustainable Management of Deadwood in Kenya’s Natural Forests by Sylvester Ngome Chisika, Chunho Yeom

“…Moreover, deadwood management appears to be affected by many complex biological, technical, policy, and socioeconomic factors that appear to be acting together against sustainable deadwood management. …”
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Two-dimensional Green’s function for an isotropic equal-thickness double-layer structure by Jie Tong, Juan Li, Jiang Su, Ying-jie Liu

“…Utilizing the principle of superposition, the stress fields and displacements of an isotropic finite element method equal-thickness double-layer structure can be solved for any directional force acting on the surface, providing a robust foundation for the engineering design and analysis of such problems.…”
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National assessment on the frequency of pain medication prescribed for intrauterine device insertion procedures within the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. by Anna D Ware, Terri L Blumke, Peter J Hoover, Zach P Veigulis, Jacqueline M Ferguson, Malvika Pillai, Thomas F Osborne

“…<h4>Background</h4>The intrauterine device (IUD) is a highly effective form of long-acting reversible contraception, widely recognized for its convenience and efficacy. …”
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Effect of chitosan–tungsten composite coating obtained by electrophoretic deposition on the corrosion resistance of Ni–Ti alloy in physiological medium by José Anderson Machado Oliveira, Thales Gomes Araujo, Josiane Dantas Costa, Arthur Filgueira de Almeida, Ana Regina Nascimento Campos, Renato Alexandre Costa de Santana

“…Corrosion resistance results proved the efficiency of the composite coating, acting as a protective barrier between the surface of the substrate (Ni–Ti) and the corrosive environment. …”
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ADATs: roles in tRNA editing and relevance to disease by Mao Xue-Ling, Eriani Gilbert, Zhou Xiao-Long

“…Proteins of the adenosine deaminase acting on tRNA (ADAT) family were discovered more than <sc>20 years</sc> ago. …”
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Twin Subgraphs and Core-Semiperiphery-Periphery Structures by Ricardo Riaza

“…We provide a formal definition of such CSP structures in terms of core eccentricities and periphery degrees, with semiperiphery vertices acting as intermediaries between both. The T-twin and F-twin notions then make it possible to reduce the large number of resulting structures, paving the way for the decomposition and enumeration of CSP structures. …”
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Diasporas and Armed Conflicts: beyond Being “Third Party” by I. D. Loshkariov

“…The conventional point of view is that diasporas can only act as the “third party” of the conflict by either contributing to the deepening of the contradictions between the opposing parties or acting as an intermediary between them. …”
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Anthropomorphic service recovery: the panacea following service failure of automated CSAs by Nobukhosi Dlodlo

“…Contribution/value-add: The study provides initial lenses for considering the social acting nature of automated CSAs. The positionality in this paper is that during a online service failure, humans pardon and are more trusting of a technological service agent that demonstrates anthropomorphic and humanist attributes.…”
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Present(ed) bodies, absent agency: “patients’ perspectives” at the Museum Vrolik of the body and medicine by Azia Lafleur

“…To analyze the resulting data, I take the museum as a site of storytelling with its curatorial techniques and texts acting as narratological frames and “orientation devices”. …”
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In Silico Design of a Trans-Amplifying RNA-Based Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 Structural Proteins by Fatemeh Nafian, Ghazal Soleymani, Zahra Pourmanouchehri, Mahnaz Kiyanjam, Simin Nafian, Sayed Mohammad Mohammadi, Hanie Jeyroudi, Sharareh Berenji Jalaei, Fatemeh Sabzpoushan

“…It consists of two molecules: a nonreplicating RNA encoding a trans-acting replicase to amplify the second one, a trans-replicon (TR) RNA encoding the vaccine protein. …”
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CREATING AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR PRESCHOOLERS: LINGUODIDACTIC ASPECT by Oksana Khomyshak

“…The author provides case examples of how game techniques of miming, dressing up, dramatising, acting out and role-playing cartoons and vlogs scenarios may be employed. …”
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Exploring the Reasons for Dropouts of Injectable Contraceptive in Burdwan Municipal area, West Bengal, India: Beneficiaries’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives by Arif Hossain, Pramit Goswami, Kaushik Mitra, Pranita Taraphdar, Suman Sannigrahi, Soumik Dandapat

“…Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), marketed as Antara injection is considered a highly effective, long-acting reversible contraceptive, but it has limited acceptability. …”
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Demand-side shared energy storage pricing strategy based on stackelberg-Nash game by Jindong Cui, Zengchen Zhu, Guoli Qu, Yuqing Wang, Ruotong Li

“…The power supply enterprise, acting as the leader, sought to minimize operational costs while negotiating transaction electricity prices with the cooperative alliance. …”
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SKIP Downregulation Increases TGF-β1-Induced Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Production in Transformed Keratinocytes by Jelena Kocić, Victor Villar, Aleksandra Krstić, Juan F. Santibanez

“…Thus, we propose SKIP as a regulatory protein in TGF-β1-induced MMP-9 expression acting by controlling ERK1,2 signaling in transformed cells.…”
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Collective coupling of driven multilevel atoms and its effect on four-wave mixing by P. Yanes-Thomas, R. Gutiérrez-Jáuregui, P. Barberis-Blostein, D. Sahagún-Sánchez, R. Jáuregui, A. Kunold

“…This theory is applied to the case of four-wave mixing induced by a pair of lasers acting on an atomic pair with internal levels in the diamond configuration. …”
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Two Sudden and Unexpected Deaths of Patients with Schizophrenia Associated with Intramuscular Injections of Antipsychotics and Practice Guidelines to Limit the Use of High Doses of... by Nasratullah Wahidi, Katie M. Johnson, Allen Brenzel, Jose de Leon

“…Her probable cause of death was the last ziprasidone IM injection of 20 mg in addition to (1) three extra haloperidol doses (2 hours before the ziprasidone injection, 5 mg oral haloperidol; approximately 21 hours earlier, 5 mg oral haloperidol; and 2 days prior, one 10 mg IM haloperidol injection), (2) 10 mg/day of scheduled oral haloperidol for 6 days before death, and (3) a long-acting paliperidone injection of 156 mg 18 days before death. …”
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