Vaginal Tritrichomonas foetus infection in mice as an in vivo model for drug development against Trichomonas vaginalis. by Noelle M Nieskens, Yukiko Miyamoto, Brianna M Hurysz, Anthony J O'Donoghue, Lars Eckmann

“…Consequently, an urgent need exists for the development of novel drug entities against trichomoniasis. Critical for antimicrobial drug development is the demonstration of in vivo efficacy. …”
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Are Firms in Corporate Groups More Resilient During an Economic Crisis? Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Poland by Barbara Jankowska, Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska, Marian Gorynia, Marlena Dzikowska

“…Second, we test whether the involvement in a corporate group matters for the performance of the firms. Using critical in-depth literature studies and conducting the primary empirical research using the CATI (computer-assisted telephone interviewing) method we strive to verify the following hypothesis - the higher a company’s input competitiveness during the economic crisis, the better a competitive position the company achieves. …”
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Awareness and Disposal Practices of Medicines among the Community in Hawassa City, Ethiopia by Daniel Woldamicael Bekele, Elias Dadebo, Girma Tilahun, Zinabu Gebremariam

“…The study has shown that awareness of the management of ELU medicines is critically lacking in the community of Hawassa City, posing environmental and human health risks. …”
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Innovative Framework for Historical Architectural Recognition in China: Integrating Swin Transformer and Global Channel–Spatial Attention Mechanism by Jiade Wu, Yang Ying, Yigao Tan, Zhuliang Liu

“…The digital recognition and preservation of historical architectural heritage has become a critical challenge in cultural inheritance and sustainable urban development. …”
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CONTRADICTION OF FREEDOM AND PARADOXES OF RESPONSIBILITY (ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS) by Z. V. Stezhko, Y. G. Stezhко

“…Berdyaev and others; the basic principles of social philosophy ‑ social determinism, the concreteness of truth, rationality, interconnection and development, the requirements of comprehensiveness and criticism. Originality of the research is: in substantiating the significance of contemporary philosophical analysis of the content of key concepts of democracy ‑ «freedom» and «responsibility»; in revealing the mechanism of the functioning of concepts of freedom and responsibility in different ideologies and various spheres of public life; in conducting a philosophical analysis of the notion of responsibility, in revealing the reasons for the paradoxical nature of its manifestations; in outlining the scientific and didactic potential of the philosophical research of categories of freedom and responsibility in the practice of democratic processes; in posing the question of the need to take into account the hierarchy of the content of freedom (delineation of the word, concept, category). …”
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Field-independence as a characteristic of police officers’ vital activity by D. V. Shvets

“…The professional thinking of police officers is integral to the developed legal consciousness, and its significant components are critical thinking and field-independence. Field-dependence and field-independence are respond through individually unique means of perception, receipt and processing of information, which defines them as typical for the subject ways of solving problems, thinking, perception and memorization. …”
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Transformer-Based Optimization for Text-to-Gloss in Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation by Younes Ouargani, Noussaim El Khattabi

“…This study addresses this critical research gap by presenting a novel transformer-based Neural Machine Translation model specifically tailored for real-time text-to-GLOSS translation. …”
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Surface deformation of the 26 January 2021 earthquake in the Sinjar – Hasakah Area, N Iraq and NE Syria, from Sentinel‑1A InSAR images by Jamal A.H. Doski

“…The deformation of Earth’s surface caused by earthquakes stands as a critical geological hazard in regions characterized by active tectonic structures. …”
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Unmasking the complexities of healthcare access in low-resource settings: a health systems approach to obstetric and under-5 healthcare in rural settings of Eastern Uganda by Rornald Muhumuza Kananura

“…At the facility level, attitudes, responsiveness, and service delivery of health workers critically affect healthcare access. Negative experiences at health facilities profoundly discourage the community from seeking future health services. …”
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‘Soglitude’- introducing a method of thinking thresholds by Tatjana Barazon

“…The contributions gathered in this special issue come from various disciplines: anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, film studies, political science, literature and history. …”
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Rarefied Nozzle Flow Computation Using the Viscosity-Based Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method by Deepa Raj Mopuru, Nishanth Dongari, Srihari Payyavula

“…Accurate prediction of performance parameters, including thrust and specific impulse, is critical, necessitating careful design of these nozzles. …”
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Adaptive backstepping control for electro-hydraulic servo system in extension sleeve press-fitting process of bearing pressing machine by Chen Hongsheng

“…In the process of extension sleeve press-fitting of the bearing pressing machine, electro-hydraulic servo system of valve-controlled symmetrical cylinder (ESSVSC) is an important and critical control module, and its performance has a significant impact on the working accuracy of such equipment. …”
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Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation by Paolo Gerli, Fabio Neves da Rocha, Luca Mora

“…We discuss the causes of each shortcoming and illustrate how they impact both the theoretical and practical development of GDIs. Drawing on this critical examination, we identify four priorities to advance future GDI research: leveraging methodological pluralism, applying theoretical sampling, enhancing qualitative longitudinal research, and strengthening methods for data collection and archival. …”
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Determinants of delayed speech development in African immigrant children in Germany: A scoping review by Jude Tsafack Zefack, Favour Alo Adoche, Fuanyi Awatboh, Brenda Mbouamba Yankam, Cynthia-Edith Ara-Nabangi Ndive, Esua Alphonsius Fotindong

“…This review highlights a critical gap, with no targeted studies addressing speech delays in this population, underscoring the need for focused research. …”
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Predicting financial distress in high-dimensional imbalanced datasets: a multi-heterogeneous self-paced ensemble learning framework by Ruize Gao, Shaoze Cui, Yu Wang, Wei Xu

“…Abstract Financial distress prediction (FDP) is a critical area of study for researchers, industry stakeholders, and regulatory authorities. …”
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Targeting epithelial-mesenchymal transition signaling pathways with Dietary Phytocompounds and repurposed drug combinations for overcoming drug resistance in various cancers by A.N.K.V. Sravani, John Thomas

“…Among the signaling pathways a few signaling pathways such as Notch, TGF-beta, and Wnt-beta catenin are critically involved in the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) acquisition. …”
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A Century of Topological Coevolution of Complex Infrastructure Networks in an Alpine City by Jonatan Zischg, Christopher Klinkhamer, Xianyuan Zhan, P. Suresh C. Rao, Robert Sitzenfrei

“…Furthermore, we show the remapping of the dual network characteristics to the spatial map and the identification of criticalities among different network types through co-location analysis and discuss possibilities for further applications.…”
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AI Can Be a Powerful Social Innovation for Public Health if Community Engagement Is at the Core by Alessandra N Bazzano, Andrea Mantsios, Nicholas Mattei, Michael R Kosorok, Aron Culotta

“… There is a critical need for community engagement in the process of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in public health. …”
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The Implementation of the Biopsychosocial Model: Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder and Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder by Fernando Hinostroza, Michele M. Mahr

“…Conclusion PTSD frequently leads individuals to use alcohol as a maladaptive coping strategy, ultimately resulting in neuroadaptive alterations across critical brain regions. These neurobiological changes contribute to the development and maintenance of AUD. …”
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Accelerating Multilingual Cryptocurrency Forensics: An NLP-Driven Approach for Efficient Mnemonic Identification by Hsin-Hsiung Kao

“…Among all relevant digital evidence, mnemonic phrases, which are critical for accessing cryptocurrency wallets, are crucial digital evidence for confiscating criminal proceeds and conducting investigations. …”
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