Changing educational trends in the context of global digitalization of society by Yuliya D. Ermakova

“…Interactive and digital technologies support students’ involvement in the learning process and improve the learning process as a whole, making it more intuitive and adaptive. Innovative resources also provide an opportunity for self-development by targeting students for research activities. …”
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Study on perspective taking in online discussions among university students with hearing impairments by A. A. Gareyev, Yu. V. Krasavina, E. P. Ponomarenko, A. A. Shishkina

“…Considering the unique characteristics of the cognitive activities of DHH students, the method for quantitatively assessing these skills was adapted specifically for this group. Practical significance. …”
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Molecularly Distinct NLRP3 Inducers Mediate Diverse Ratios of Interleukin-1β and Interleukin-18 from Human Monocytes by Kristine Midtbö, Daniel Eklund, Eva Särndahl, Alexander Persson

“…IL-1β is an important mediator of the acute phase response to infections and tissue damage, whereas IL-18 takes part in activation and tailoring of the adaptive immune response. While IL-1β has served as the prototypic indicator of inflammasome activation, few studies have compared the potential differences in IL-1β and IL-18 production during inflammasome activation. …”
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LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE MINOR GUARDIANSHIP SYSTEM IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES USING THE EXAMPLE OF UFA PROVINCE by Timur T. Khasanov

“…Governors' decrees played an important role in adapting general rules to local conditions. Church structures provided both material and spiritual support for minors, which is confirmed by data from parish funds. …”
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Identifying Incident Causal Factors to Improve Aviation Transportation Safety: Proposing a Deep Learning Approach by Tianxi Dong, Qiwei Yang, Nima Ebadi, Xin Robert Luo, Paul Rad

“…The solution we propose has multilabel capability and is automated and customizable, and it is more accurate and adaptable than traditional machine learning methods in extant research. …”
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“National Champions” and Technological “Little Giants”: Chinese Industrial Policy Between Modernization and Tradition by I. V. Danilin

“…The relevance of this study lies in evaluating China's capacity to adapt to a shifting international environment, heightened technological competition from Western countries, and domestic pressures such as an aging population and slowing economic growth.The paper seeks to assess current strategies for the development of China's national innovation system (NIS) and critically analyze the transformation of its industrial policy. …”
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Image inpainting forensics method based on dual branch network by Dengyong ZHANG, Huang WEN, Feng LI, Peng CAO, Lingyun XIANG, Gaobo YANG, Xiangling DING

“…Image inpainting is a technique that uses information from known areas of an image to repair missing or damaged areas of the image.Image editing software based on it has made it easy to edit and modify the content of digital images without any specialized foundation.When image inpainting techniques are used to maliciously remove the content of an image, it will cause confidence crisis on the real image.Current researches in image inpainting forensics can only effectively detect a certain type of image inpainting.To address this problem, a passive forensic method for image inpainting was proposed, which is based on a two-branch network.The high-pass filtered convolutional network in the dual branch first used a set of high-pass filters to attenuate the low-frequency components in the image.Then features were extracted using four residual blocks, and two transposed convolutions were performed with 4x up-sampling to zoom in on the feature map.And thereafter a 5×5 convolution was used to attenuate the tessellation artifacts from the transposed convolutions to generate a discriminative feature map on the high-frequency components of the image.The dual-attention feature fusion branch in the dual branch first added a local binary pattern feature map to the image using a preprocessing block.Then the dual-attention convolution block was used to adaptively integrate the image’s local features and global dependencies to capture the differences in content and texture between the inpainted and pristine regions of the image.Additionally, the features extracted from the dual-attention convolution block were fused, and the feature maps were up-sampled identically to generate the discriminative image content and texture on the feature maps.The extensive experimental results show the proposed method improved the F1 score by 2.05% and the Intersection over Union(IoU) by 3.53% for the exemplar-based method and by 1.06% and 1.22% for the deep-learning-based method in detecting the inpainted region of the removed object.Visualization of the results shows that the edges of the removed objects can be accurately located on the detected inpainted area.…”
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Depth-specific soil moisture estimation in vegetated corn fields using a canopy-informed model: A fusion of RGB-thermal drone data and machine learning by Milad Vahidi, Sanaz Shafian, William Hunter Frame

“…At a depth of 30 cm, the GBM model still demonstrated robust performance with an R² of 0.69 and an RMSE of 3.38 %, adapting effectively to different canopy densities and soil conditions. …”
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The role of M1/M2 macrophage polarization in the pathogenesis of obesity-related kidney disease and related pathologies by Periklis Dousdampanis, Ioanna Aggeletopoulou, Ioanna Aggeletopoulou, Athanasia Mouzaki

“…Among the immune cells of the innate and adaptive immune response involved in the pathogenesis of obesity-related diseases, macrophages play a crucial role in the inflammation associated with CKD. …”
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A journey to a new stable state—further development of the postoperative recovery concept from day surgical perspective: a qualitative study by Maria Jaensson, Karuna Dahlberg, Ulrica Nilsson, Karin Hugelius, Erebouni Arakelian

“…Patients became dependent on others. They coped with and adapted to the recovery process and gradually stabilised, reaching a new stable state.Conclusion Postoperative recovery was described as a process with a clear starting point, and as a dynamic and individual process leading to an experience of a new stable state. …”
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The sustainability of agricultural trade: The case of South Africa by Thomas van Huyssteen, Djiby Thiam, Sanderine Nonhebel

“…Trade in agricultural products will be a crucial component of adaptive responses to global food insecurity and ensuring its sustainability is thus crucial. …”
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Hipoksi ve Kanser by Sümeyye Aydogan Türkoğlu, Fatma Poyrazlı, Derya Babacan, Feray Köçkar

“…Tümör hücreleri yeterli oksijen alamadığında hücre ölümüne gitmeden önce genetik farklılıklar oluşturarak hipoksik duruma adapte olmaktadır. Bazı tümörlerde radyo veya kemoterapötik tedavi direncinin gelişiminde hipoksinin rol oynadığı gösterilmiştir. …”
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The Optimal Timing of Strategic Action – A Real Options Approach by Gordon G. Sollars, Sorin Tuluca

“…To reflect this reality, we adapt a method for valuing an American financial option on a dividend paying stock to the real options context. …”
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The role of music performance anxiety in musical training: four personal histories by Oscar Casanova, María Elena Riaño, Francisco Javier Zarza-Alzugaray, Santos Orejudo

“…Institutions of musical learning can help students cope with this disorder by encouraging musical creativity and selecting educators who apply empathetic teaching styles well-adapted to their pupils’ needs. In the future, this type of qualitative research can be expanded to a greater number of informants with more diverse characteristics. …”
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Comparative assessment of crises and recovery in the Romanian tourism market by Iuliana Tudose (Pop), Daniel Bulin, Luciana-Floriana Poenaru, Antonela Toma, Elena-Corina Cipu, Delia Popescu

“…The Romanian tourism industry has yet to prove that it is a resilient economic sector that can adapt to global crises. This study provides a contextual analysis of the sector's performance during two international crises – the global financial crisis (GFC) and the COVID-19 pandemic (C19). …”
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Multichannel marketing communications at retail enterprises by Liubov Lipych

“…It is substantiated that the trading company tries to adapt its communication activities and communication messages to the needs of customers, who individually select information from a wide range of communication offers, independently determining the place of contact with the company - the so-called point of contact between customers and the company. …”
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Best practice advice for asthma exacerbation prevention and management in primary care: an international expert consensus by Neil Skolnik, Barbara P. Yawn, Jaime Correia de Sousa, María Mar Martínez Vázquez, Amanda Barnard, Wendy L. Wright, Austin Ulrich, Tonya Winders, Stephen Brunton

“…Primary care clinicians globally are encouraged to review and adapt these best practice advice points on preventing and managing asthma exacerbations to their local practice patterns to enhance asthma care within their practice.…”
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Promising approach for composting disposable diapers enhanced by Cyanobacteria by D. Kusumawati, S. Mangkoedihardjo

“…Cyanobacteria ability to carry out nitrogen fixation, carbon sequestration, ubiquitous in natural habitat, highly adaptive in a wide range environmental condition, can live in the composting system, perform bioremediation, and its application as quality fertilizer, and potentially degrade plastic polymers, spread the expectation to cyanobacteria which associated with its advantages over other microorganisms to enhance the disposable diapers composting. …”
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Projected climate change impacts on streamflow in the Upper Oum Er Rbia Basin, Upstream of the Ahmed El Hansali Dam, Morocco by Tarik El Orfi, Mohamed El Ghachi, Sébastien Lebaut, Ionel Haidu

“…These findings underscore the need for adaptive water management strategies and highlight the urgency for climate-resilient planning measures, offering critical insights to support decision-makers in safeguarding water resources under changing climatic conditions.…”
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Clinicians’ experience with infographic summaries from the BMJ Rapid Recommendations: a qualitative user-testing study among residents and interns at a large teaching hospital in S... by Thomas Agoritsas, Per Vandvik, Tiffany Hirschel

“…Guideline organisations can use our findings to adapt their presentation format to enhance their dissemination and uptake in clinical practice. …”
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