Injectable Self-Assembling Procyanidin Nanospheres for Effective Osteoarthritis Treatment by Li G, He F, Feng J, Xu G, Wu C, Qiao Y, Liu Y, Chen H, Du P, Wang J

“…Guangjie Li,1,2,* Fei He,2,* Jianbao Feng,3 Ge Xu,1 Chengye Wu,1 Yufei Qiao,1 Yang Liu,3 Hanlin Chen,1 Pengcheng Du,4 Jizeng Wang2 1The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China; 2College of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Hospital of Stomatology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China; 4College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Jizeng Wang, Email jzwang@lzu.edu.cnBackground: Osteoarthritis (OA), a prevalent joint disease, causes immense suffering to thousands of patients, impairing their mobility and diminishing their quality of life. …”
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The Role of Leaders in Formulation of the Foreign Policy Identity in Egypt by I. E. Ibragimov

“…What are the reasons for the differences between the main periods of Egypt's foreign policy in goals, tools and approaches to the outside world? The author comes to the conclusion that the change of the political leader plays an important role in the transformations of Egypt's foreign policy. …”
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Public-Private Partnership: High-Impact Alliance for Sustainability Targets by Y. I. Vaslavskiy

“…This article outlines the author's interdisciplinary perspective on innovative and emerging evaluation knowledge and practice related to the environment, natural resources management, climate change, and development. …”
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Protection and Control of the State Border as a Component of Ensuring National Security of Ukraine by V. V. Polovnikov

“…Based on the analysis of the current legislation of Ukraine, the content of the concepts of national and border security of Ukraine, scientific views, available in the theory of administrative law, the author concluded that the safeguard and protection of the state border ensure the safety of the state border of Ukraine and cross-border security of Ukraine. …”
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Impact of Disease Activity on the Quality of Life of Crohn’s Disease Patients by T Michael Vallis, Geoffrey K Turnbull

“…These differences between extreme groups were significant for both the bowel symptoms (P<0.05) and systemic symptoms (P<0.05) subscales. The authors conclude that changes in disease activity affect some important aspects of quality of life: aspects related to disease-specific (bowel symptoms) and nondisease-specific (systemic symptoms) physical symptoms. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase System of “Combustible Liquid – Solid Fuel” Combustion in a Fixed Bed by K. V. Dobrego, I. A. Koznacheev

“…The results obtained by the authors can be utilized for optimization of multi-phase fuels combustion in compact layer, the regime parameters of in-situ combustion method of oil recovery increase as well as for improvement of some specific chemical processes.…”
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Paper Bags vis-à-vis LDPE Bags: Gleanings from Peer-reviewed E-LCA Publications by Isabell Lidbrand, Govindarajan Venkatesh, Magnus Lestelius

“…This paper, which is based on a course-report written by the first author at Karlstad University (Sweden), restricts itself to a review of publications which have opted to compare paper bags with low density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic bags, on the basis of their environmental impacts. …”
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Evolution of CFD as an engineering science. A personal perspective with emphasis on the finite volume method by Runchal, Akshai Kumar

“…A number of researchers contributed to the tools and technology that came to be called CFD but the prime movers were two brilliant scientists—one at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the other at Imperial College, London. The author was a part of the Imperial College group and this is a personal perspective on the evolution of CFD.Over the last few decades, CFD has made a significant impact in a wide spectrum of engineering and environmental sectors. …”
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Interaction of the National Police of Ukraine and civil society institutions: concept and legal framework by V. V. Pylyp

“…This involves not only public control over the activities of public authorities, but also the performance of tasks aimed at shaping the security environment in the state, performing law enforcement functions, etc. …”
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ORGANIZATION OF INDEPENDENT STUDENT WORK BASED ON STUDENT BLOGGING ACTIVITY by A. A. Gareyev, O. F. Shikhova, Yu. A. Shikhov

“…Today, the students’ personality traits and increasing their motivation to self-development are the most complex and urgent problems in foreign language training at higher technical university and in the system of higher education in general. According to the authors, the technology of student blogging is a means for addressing these issues, despite the lack of research on its methodology. …”
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Political Science in The Age of Resentment by D. B. Kazarinova

“…It has been successfully reached by the authors of the book "Modern political science: Methodology". …”
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Developing institution-specific admission competency criteria for prospective health sciences students by Eunhee Kang, Ryan Jin Young Kim, Young-Seok Park, Shin-Young Park, Jihyun Lee

“…Conventionally, admission competencies have been determined by institutional authorities. Developing institution-specific competency criteria enables an admission process that is mission- and value-aware, evidence-based, and strategically adaptable. …”
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Cross-Culturally Adapted Versions of Patient Reported Outcome Measures for the Lower Extremity by Yongni Zhang, Jiayi Ren, Yaning Zang, Wenhao Guo, Ashley Disantis, Robroy L Martin

“…Studies that presented a non-English language version of the PROM with evidence in at least one psychometric property to support its use were included. Two authors independently evaluated the studies for inclusion and independently extracted data…”
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GENDER CONFLICTS OF STUDENTS by H. F. Moskalyk, M. O. Bulach

“…Based on the conducted research, the authors came to the conclusion that any part of their life activity can become the sphere of occurrence of gender conflicts of students: from the choice of the direction of vocational training and the educational process to the arrangement of living conditions. …”
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The state of scientific research on the problems of investigating criminal offenses related to domestic violence by V. P. Gontarenko

“…Based on the results of the analysis, the author's periodization of the development of scientific thought in the specified field has been proposed. …”
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The impact of using divergent thinking strategies on reading comprehension by A. Al Masri, T. Krishan, F. Al Talahin, S. Almassarweh

“…These strategies stimulate the minds of sixth graders to think of new stimuli such as finding a solution to a specific problem, or making a specific judgment, or predicting future events, which produces new and innovative solutions and achieves a deeper understanding of the target reading text.The present research aims to investigate the impact of divergent thinking strategies in developing reading comprehension skills among sixth-grade students in the English language.Methodology and research methods. The authors used the quasi-experimental approach. A pre-post design was used to identify the effect of employing divergent thinking strategies in developing reading comprehension skills. …”
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The reproductive function of women with infertility after suffering COVID-19 infection by I.S. Golovchak

“…Informed consents of the women were obtained for participation in this study. The author declares no conflicts of interest.…”
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The Life Experiences of Loss and Grieving for Indonesian Wives Who Had Lost Their Husbands Because of a Critical Illness: A Case Study by Priambodo AP, Hidayati NO, Nuraeni A

“…Ayu Prawesti Priambodo,1,&ast; Nur Oktavia Hidayati,2,&ast; Aan Nuraeni1,&ast; 1Department of Emergency and Critical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia; 2Department of Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Ayu Prawesti Priambodo, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jl. …”
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On Chinese Translations of Colloquial Russian Pragmatic Approximator Markers: Analyzing Speech Patterns from Literary Fiction by Xiang Yanan, Natalia V. Bogdanova-Beglarian

“…To facilitate this, the authors turn to the use of — along with other colloquialisms and tools — pragmatic approximator markers that are to show the speaker’s uncertainty in what he/she is talking about. …”
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Biopolitical Strategies in Media Discourses: Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia, Germany, and France by N. K. Radina, Yu. V. Balakina, K. V. Bannikov

“…In Russia, media coverage placed a strong emphasis on the central government's role, while in Germany, there was a more pronounced delineation between federal and regional authorities. In France, media outlets often focused on the personal leadership of President Emmanuel Macron. …”
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