Transcending the painful boundaries...: a few additions to Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs biography by Žydronė Kolevinskienė

“…The years of work at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, her knowledge of the school life, as well as her desire to reform the schools of the already independent Lithuania contributed significantly to Zaborskaitėʼs commitment to the work with teachers and schools, along with the involvement in Lithuanian education. The nearly three decades of the work of Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute reflect both her personal change and Lithuaniaʼs move towards freedom. …”
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Smartphone Applications for Period Tracking: Rating and Behavioral Change among Women Users by Reema A. Karasneh, Sayer I. Al-Azzam, Karem H. Alzoubi, Suhaib M. Muflih, Sahar S. Hawamdeh

“…The use of mobile apps for health and well-being has grown exponentially in the last decade, as such apps were reported to be ideal platforms for behavioral change and symptoms monitoring and management. …”
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Extending the Shelf Life of Apples After Harvest Using Edible Coatings as Active Packaging—A Review by Magdalena Mikus, Sabina Galus

“…Extending the shelf life of perishable food, such as apples, and storing them in cold conditions and/or controlled atmospheres have been of great interest in the last decades. Apples are very valuable fruits with many health benefits, but during storage at ambient conditions, they ripen quickly and lose moisture, causing lower crispness or other negative effects, resulting in waste problems. …”
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Texts by Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz in the context of the late medieval ars poetriae by Bartosz Awianowicz

“…Among Petrus Wilhelmi’s 22 compositions (with an acrostic of his name) published by Jaromír Černy, and a dozen or so others identified during the last two decades only two – the composition Presulis eminenciam (I/1), which opens Černý’s edition, and canon (rotulum) Pneuma erumpnosi telluris rei – can be classified as rhythmicized prose from the perspective of the medieval ars poetriae. …”
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Evaluation of Human Interventions on Longshore Sediment Transport in Damietta Port Area by Ahmed Ibrahim, Anas El Molla, Hany Ahmed

“…The study, spanning eight decades (i.e. 1940-2020), utilizes ECMWF-ERA5 data and a high-resolution model (MIKE21 SM) to simulate Longshore Sediment Transport (LST) in response to human interventions. …”
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An Open Letter on Advancing HIV prevention: Augmenting an ecosystem-based approach to understand prevention decision-making [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Rosemary Pierce-Messick, Nishan Gantayat, James Baer, Alok Gangaramany

“…In the last two decades, HIV programs have been able to avert millions of AIDS-related deaths and reduce HIV incidence. …”
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The defense function of the state: Traditional and modern understanding by Vračar Milinko S., Barišić Igor I.

“…For this reason, until recently, the defense function of the state was equated with the military function. In recent decades, however, there has been a shift from the traditional militarycentric understanding of the state's defense function due to the growing significance of non-military threats to its survival and vital values. …”
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‘Braun’: the first russian cotton cultivar with naturally colored fiber by R. K. Tuz, M. Sh. Asfandiiarova, L. P. Podolnaya

“…Massive energy and water consumption during the production of fabrics from such fiber generates significant problems, so in recent decades more and more cotton cultivars with naturally colored fiber have appeared in the world. …”
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Modeling and Mapping of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock Using Sentinel-2 Imagery in Chure Region, Nepal by Ananta Poudel, Him Lal Shrestha, Niraj Mahat, Garima Sharma, Sahara Aryal, Rupesh Kalakheti, Basanta Lamsal

“…The concerns about climate change in recent decades have heightened the need for effective methods for assessing and reporting forest biomass and Carbon Stocks (CS) at local, national, continental, and global scales. …”
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Genetics and pathophysiology of low-renin arterial hypertension by A. L. Markel

“…Genetic studies of some recent decades using both family analysis and modern molecular genetic technologies have revealed the main mechanisms underlying low-renin hypertension, which can be classifed as certain syndromes with well-defned genetic and clinical features. …”
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A Differential Evolution-Oriented Pruning Neural Network Model for Bankruptcy Prediction by Yajiao Tang, Junkai Ji, Yulin Zhu, Shangce Gao, Zheng Tang, Yuki Todo

“…Such work is necessary for financial institutions to establish effective prediction models to make appropriate lending decisions. In recent decades, various bankruptcy prediction models have been developed for academics and practitioners to predict the likelihood that a loan customer will go bankrupt. …”
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Coherent Control of Single Molecules via Phase-Shaped Two-Photon Excitation at Room Temperature by Xin-peng Xu, Tobias M. Herkenrath, Ullrich Scherf, Richard Hildner

“…Coherent control has been achieved in atoms and small molecules in gas phase during the past few decades. An intriguing demonstration of coherent control is a so-called “dark pulse” that cancels 2-photon transition probabilities despite exposing the target to the full power spectrum of transform-limited laser pulses. …”
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Strengthening teamwork and respect (STAR) in maternity units: developing a health system intervention in South Africa by Tanya Doherty, Ruwayda Petrus, Sandra Land, Christiane Horwood, Veronique Filippi, Lyn Haskins, Cleo Phewa, Sphindile Mapumulo, Silondile Luthuli, Vaughn M. John

“…Disrespect and abuse in maternity services in South Africa has been described over several decades and are rooted in the country’s complex socio-political landscape and unequal health system which places strain on public sector health professionals. …”
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The effects of age and other individual factors on radiation induced ESR signals from fingernails by Samayeh Azariasl, Samayeh Azariasl, Samayeh Azariasl, Hiroshi Yasuda, Hiroshi Yasuda

“…However, despite two decades of research, challenges remain in achieving accurate fingernail dosimetry, mainly owing to the variation in ESR signals among individuals. …”
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A stretched polar vortex increased mid-latitude climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum by Y. Zhang, H. Renssen, H. Seppä, Z. Li, X. Li

“…<p>The Arctic stratospheric polar vortex (SPV) is a key driver of winter weather and has been found to modify winter climate variability and its predictability in Eurasia and North America on inter-annual and decadal timescales. However, to what extent this relationship plays a role in driving climate variability on glacial–interglacial timescales is still unknown. …”
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A guide for the generation of repositories of clinical samples for research on Chagas disease. by Nieves Martínez-Peinado, Juan Carlos Gabaldón-Figueira, Roberto Rodrigues Ferreira, María Carmen Thomas, Manuel Carlos López, Tania Cremonini Araújo-Jorge, Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, Soledad Berón, Janine Ramsey, Irene Losada Galván, Alejandro Gabriel Schijman, Adriana González Martínez, Andrés Mariano Ruiz, Gimena Rojas, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva, Oscar Noya-González, Andrea Gómez, Rosa A Maldonado, Jimmy Pinto, Faustino Torrico, Ivan Scandale, Fernán Agüero, María-Jesús Pinazo, Joaquim Gascón, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Julio Alonso-Padilla, NHEPACHA Network (New Tools for the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Chagas Disease)

“…Furthermore, determining the efficacy of Chagas disease treatment is complicated, given the slow reversion of serological anti-T. cruzi antibody reactivity, which may even take decades to occur. New biomarkers to evaluate early therapeutic efficacy, as well as diagnostic tests able to detect the wide variety of circulating genotypes, are therefore, urgently required. …”
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Benefits and Challenges of California Offshore Wind Electricity: An Updated Assessment by Adam Rose, Nathaniel Gundersen, Yamini Kumar, Joshua Jacobs, Isabel Reynoso, Najmedin Meshkati

“…We conclude that OSW is now overall an even more attractive electricity-generating option than at the beginning of this decade.…”
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An Empirical Model of the Occurrence Rate of Low Latitude Post‐Sunset Plasma Irregularities Derived From CHAMP and Swarm Magnetic Observations by C. Stolle, T. A. Siddiqui, L. Schreiter, S. K. Das, I. Rusch, M. Rother, E. Doornbos

“…Abstract The prediction of post‐sunset equatorial plasma depletions (EPDs), often called ionospheric plasma bubbles, has remained a challenge for decades. In this study, we introduce the Ionospheric Bubble Probability (IBP) model, an empirical model to predict the occurrence probability of EPDs derived from 9 years of CHAMP and 9 years of Swarm magnetic field measurements. …”
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Probiotics in the Complex Treatment of Various Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract by K. V. Ivashkin, M. S. Reshetova, O. Yu. Zolnikova, V. R. Korneev, E. N. Shirokova

“…The most frequent functional gastrointestinal disorder – irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) – is characterized by a quantitative and qualitative change in the intestinal microflora, which, together with inflammatory changes in the intestinal wall, may act as a trigger for the onset of symptoms, as well as lead to a functional change in the receptor apparatus of pain pathways. Over thelast decade, the number of studies on the use of probiotics for the treatment of various gastrointestinal diseases has increased significantly. …”
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The gift of health promotion in a celebration: A descriptive observational study of community baby showers on YouTube by Aysha Jawed, Colin Gardiner

“…Introduction: Although community baby showers have persisted as a global health promotion practice for infants and their families over the past decades, to date there is no study that has evaluated coverage and engagement of community baby showers across social media as a rising global health communication medium in this contemporary digital era. …”
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