The interaction of Adipose Derived Stem Cells and Breast Cancer by Natasha Cunningham, Ava O'Meara, Cathy L. Brougham

“…Introduction: Mesenchymal stem cells are adult stem cells capable of self-renewal and multilineage differentiation (Schweizer et al., 2015). Adipose derived stem cells have been used in breast reconstruction following surgical intervention in breast cancer patients. …”
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Mental health literacy among older adults in Shanghai: a descriptive qualitative study by Rongjing Xu, Mingrui Jing, Aining Zhang, Liqi Zha, Yan Wang, Anni Wang, Jun Tang, Biyun Xia, Shoumei Jia

“…Improving the mental health literacy of older adults can help them recognize mental illness and adopt proactive measures, potentially improving their mental health status and supporting the goal of healthy aging.ObjectiveTo explore mental health literacy among older adults, providing a foundation for future interventions aimed at improving their mental health literacy.MethodsGuided by the new conceptualization framework of mental health literacy developed by Jiang et al. the study involved 20 community-dwelling older adults from four communities in Shanghai who were selected through purposive sampling to participate in semi-structured interviews. …”
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Occurrence of the <i>FBF</i>7 fire blight resistance locus in accessions of apple wild species (<i>Malus</i> Mill.) by A. S. Lyzhin, N. N. Saveleva

“…Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora (Burill) Winslow et al.) is a dangerous disease of fruit crops. In the Russian Federation, fire blight is one of the quarantine diseases. …”
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Intraspecific diversity of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.): a unif ied classif ication by О. A. Lyapunova

“…The classification, which is most often referred to as the “Classification of Triticum by Dorofeev et al.”, belongs to a number of the main modern classifications of the genus. …”
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Effect of seasonality on the dynamics of an imitation-based vaccination model with public health intervention by Bruno Buonomo, Giuseppe Carbone, Alberto d'Onofrio

“…We extend here the game-theoretic investigation made by d'Onofrio et al (2012) on the interplay between private vaccination choices and actions of the public health system (PHS) to favor vaccine propensity in SIR-type diseases. …”
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An EFQM-Fuzzy Network Data Envelopment Analysis Model for Efficiency Assessment in Organizations by Alireza Khosravi, Mohammad Fallah, Seyyed Esmaeil Najafi

“…Given that the inputs and outputs of a real system are not always definite and accurate and that some data can only be expressed in vague verbal and subjective terms, the use of fuzzy sets in modeling is inevitable (Ali et al., 2019). In this paper, a Network Data Envelopment Analysis Model is proposed in fuzzy conditions for assessing units of an organization based on an organizational excellence model. …”
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Effectiveness of a family-centered psychological intervention program based on spiritual therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy on the lifestyle of patients with type 2 diabetes by Delara Sadat Madahzad, Reza Pourhosein, Masoud Gholamali Lavasani, Gholamali Afrooz

“…The instrument used was the Lali et al. lifestyle questionnaire. Results: Findings related to the qualitative section showed that the family-centered psychological intervention program based on spirituality and cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes included 12, 60-minute sessions, which was validated based on the seven-step technique of Lawshe. …”
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Using multivariate statistical analysis to study the ecological and geochemical properties of soils in Blagoveshchensk (Russia) by V.I. Radomskaya, D.V. Yusupov, L.M. Pavlova, A.G. Sergeeva, E.N. Voropaeva

“…According to N.S. Kasimov et al. (2014), small towns account for 83% of urban areas where the pollution rate is much higher as established by their industry specialization. …”
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Imagist Novel’s Poetics: “Bid Me to Live” by H.D. by Yevheniya Chernokova

“…Open form and fragmentation, intertextuality and collaging, “stream of conscience” elements and time shifts et al –– a lot of modernist novel’s features can be found in H.D.’s novel. …”
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Knowledge, beliefs and practices towards HIV/AIDS among adolescents in India: A scoping review protocol. by Pranita Patsani, Jayashree Parida, Arpita Panda, Susangita Jena, Swati Sukalyani Behera, Abinash Pradhan, Prasanna Kumar Patra, Sanghamitra Pati, Harpreet Kaur, Subhendu Kumar Acharya

“…<h4>Methodology</h4>The recommendations of Arksey and O'Malley in 2005, Levac et al. in 2010 and The Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewers' manual in 2015 to conduct a systematic scoping review will be employed. …”
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Open Issues in Statistical Forecasting of Solar Proton Events: A Machine Learning Perspective by Mirko Stumpo, Simone Benella, Monica Laurenza, Tommaso Alberti, Giuseppe Consolini, Maria Federica Marcucci

“…The Empirical model for Solar Proton Events Real Time Alert (ESPERTA; Laurenza et al., 2009, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007sw000379) provides a quite good and timely prediction of SPEs after the occurrence of ≥M2 soft x‐ray (SXR) bursts, by using as input parameters the flare heliolongitude, the SXR and the ∼1 MHz radio fluence. …”
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Generalized Centered Binomial Distribution for Bimodal Lattice Signatures by Seungwoo Lee, Joo Woo, Jonghyun Kim, Jong Hwan Park

“…In CRYPTO 2013, Ducas et al. introduced a bimodal discrete Gaussian distribution into the Fiat-Shamir with abort paradigm, proposing a signature scheme called BLISS, which significantly improved rejection sampling efficiency and reduced the number of required abort steps compared to all previously proposed (uni-modal) lattice-based signature schemes. …”
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Impact of reduced sonic boom exposure on introspective judgments and annoyance, pleasantness and loudness ratings for simulated booms presented in a realistic indoor environment by Marmel Frédéric, Cretagne Léo, Thuong Linh-Thao, Coulouvrat François, Fritz Claudia

“…Participants performed cognitive and psychophysical tasks (Marmel et al. Acta Acust. 8 (2024) 1. https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2023063) and had mandatory rests. …”
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A Markov decision optimization of medical service resources for two-class patient queues in emergency departments via particle swarm optimization algorithm by Chia-Hung Wang, Rong Tian, Kun Hu, Yu-Tin Chen, Tien-Hsiung Ku

“…Compared with the model proposed by Alipour-Vaezi et al., our model significantly improves patient waiting times and queue lengths using the same data set: the waiting time $$W_{q}^{1}$$ decreased by 74.44%, $$W_{q}^{3}$$ by 5.79%, and $$W_{q}^{4}$$ by 1.13%; the queue length $$L_{q}^{1}$$ decreased by 78% and $$L_{q}^{3}$$ by 3.33%. …”
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Exhibiting stable model of dark energy compact star with Tolman-VI solution under complexity free system by Hammad Nazar, Abdul Majeed, Ghulam Abbas, Asifa Ashraf, Phongpichit Channuie

“…These findings strongly support our model solutions and demonstrate improvements over previously reported results in Rej et al. (Chin J Phys 87:608, 2024).…”
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Wrong Answers Only: Distractor Generation for Russian Reading Comprehension Questions Using a Translated Dataset by Никита Вячеславович Логин

“…Method: In this paper we fine-tuned two pre-trained Russian large language models, RuT5 and RuGPT3 (Zmitrovich et al, 2024), on distractor generation task for two classes of summarizing questions retrieved from a large multiple-choice question dataset, that was automatically translated from English to Russian. …”
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Political considerations and fiscal regulation in a spatial duopoly: Effects on product differentiation by Hamid Hamoudi, Ana Belen Miquel Burgos, Ourania Dimakou

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ANALYSIS OF AIR QUALITY IN TELEORMAN BY MEANS OF BIOMONITORS-LICHENS by Cernat POPA

“…Air pollution means the presence in the atmosphere of substances foreign to its normal composition, which depending on the concentration and time of action cause disturbances in the natural balance, affecting the health and comfort of humans or the living environment of flora and fauna (Rusanescu, M et al., 2018). Lichens are often used as bioindicators in biomonitoring of heavy metal pollution. …”
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Illness Representations and Treatment Adherence in Patients with Acute Leukemia and Lymphoma by L.V. Esina, D.E. Vybornykh, E.I. Rasskazova, E.G. Gemdzhian, E.E. Zvonkov, I.A. Lukyanova, T.N. Moiseeva, A.U. Magomedova

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The impact of self-care training using the teach-back method on health anxiety in patients with coronary artery disease: A randomized controlled clinical trial by Mansoreh Barati, Zahra Amouzeshi, Fahimeh Nikraftar

“…To collect data, the researchers utilized Salkovskis et al.’s (2002) health anxiety questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using the Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, independent t-test, and paired t-test at a significance level of P < 0.05. …”
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