The Role of Financial Technology in Promoting Digital Finances in Algeria (2016-2024) by Abderraouf Abada, Messaoud Boukhalfi, Mohammed Abderrahmane Bentadjine, Abdelfattah Daoudi

“…Along with this, current challenges for further developing digital financial inclusion include: the slow pace of adopting modern technologies in the field of electronic payments; a lack of trust in new payment methods among some users; the absence of insurance for banks in the event of fraud through electronic payments.…”
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Annual Zoledronic Acid for the Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Asif Hussain, Sushil Kumar Saini, Jaydeep Patel, Chandra Prakash Pal, Hemant Singh Chahar, Rohit Yadav

“…A significant increase in BMD score was found after treatment with zoledronic acid compared to placebo group (P < 0.05). No serious adverse events were noted. Conclusion: Annual infusion of zoledronic acid reduces the risk of combined fracture of vertebra and hip and improves the bone mineral density in osteoporotic patients.…”
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Rasagiline as Adjunct to Levodopa for Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Osamu Kano, Hiroshi Tsuda, Ayako Hayashi, Masaki Arai

“…Outcomes included change in wearing-off time, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS)/Movement Disorder Society-UPDRS (MDS-UPDRS) II and III scores, treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs), and Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) summary index score. …”
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The role of passive surveillance and citizen science in plant health by Nathan Brown, Ana Pérez-Sierra, Peter Crow, Stephen Parnell

“…Methods are increasingly available to predict species distributions from large datasets, but more work is needed to understand how these apply to rare events such as new introductions. One solution for general surveillance is to develop and maintain a network of tree health volunteers, but this requires a large investment in training, feedback and engagement to maintain motivation. …”
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Detection of mutations in plasma cell-free DNA of colorectal cancer patients and comparison with cancer panel data for tissue samples of the same cancers by Suji Min, Sun Shin, Yeun-Jun Chung

“…All three samples had KRAS mutations (G12V, G12C, and G13D), which were well-known driver events. Therefore, we examined the KRAS mutations by dPCR. …”
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The United States and the Challenges of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s Internal Stability: A Historical Retrospective by L. R. Khlebnikova

“…The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been playing an important role in the Middle Eastern subsystem being heavily affected by the events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone, as well as wars in Iraq or Syria. …”
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PSYCHOLOGICAL GUIDING OF STUDENTS’ INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL by Evald F. Zeer, Oksana S. Popova

“…Rotter was used in pilot study of personal development features of students for studying of specificity of the person control and responsibility attribution for events occurring to personality; a questionnaire «Style of self-control of behaviour» by V. …”
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Impact of sand and dust storms on mortality in Jinan City, China by Chaofan Shen, Mingjun Li, Qingchang Wang, Jinjiao Luan, Jiliang Si, Liangliang Cui

“…The insufficient evidence on SDS hampers effective measures to mitigate its harm.ObjectiveTo reveal the mortality risks associated with SDSs in Jinan City and identify sensitive populations vulnerable to these events.MethodsFor this time-stratified case-crossover study, we collected daily data on all-cause, circulatory, and respiratory deaths, as well as air pollution and meteorological information from Jinan City in China between January 1, 2013, and November 30, 2022. …”
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Data Overlay Mesh in Distributed Clouds Allowing Collaborative Applications by Milos Simic, Jovana Dedeic, Milan Stojkov, Ivan Prokic

“…We propose two types of collaborative applications that leverage stored procedures and event triggers for data consumption. Finally, we ensure that the model provides accurate access and redistribution of shareable (CPU, RAM, disk) and non-shareable resources through graph transformation theory, with correctness validated using multiparty session types. …”
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Projecting Surface Water Area Under Different Climate and Development Scenarios by Mollie D. Gaines, Mirela G. Tulbure, Vinicius Perin, Rebecca Composto, Varun Tiwari

“…Our findings highlight the importance of forest‐dominated land cover in maintaining stable surface water availability throughout the 21st century, which can inform land‐use management policies for adaptation and water‐stress mitigation as well as strategies to prepare for future flood and drought events.…”
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U-shaped association between sleep duration and frailty in Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study by Yanliqing Song, Haoqiang Liu, Kenan Gu, Yue Liu

“…After adjusting for all covariates such as smoking, multimorbidity, self-rated health, social events, education level, and frequency of physical activity, we found no interaction between gender and age concerning sleep duration.ConclusionThe potential correlation between nighttime sleep duration and frailty in older adults is basically U-shaped. …”
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Risk Factors and Comorbidity in Childhood Specific Phobias by Abdurrahman Cahid Orengul, Yavuz Meral, Vahdet Gormez

“…Majority of the participants (67.7%) were not able to identify a possible trigger, whilst 25.3% reported that it started after a certain event. Only 10% of the participants had reportedly sought treatment for phobia in the past. …”
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Using Real World Evidence to Describe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Associated with PDE-5 Inhibitor Monotherapy by George Ruiz, Jason Yeaw, Cassandra A. Lickert, Ajita P. De, Rolin L. Wade, Janis Pruett, William Drake

“…**Objectives:** This study describes real-world clinical practice and treatment patterns with PDE-5i monotherapy including events indicative of clinical worsening, treatment modifications, adherence, allcause healthcare resource utilization, and costs. …”
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Among the reasons for the importance of sports on holiday by Cenk Temel, Murat Sentuna, Velittin Balcı

“…Suggestions presented to the participants “to attend any sporting event as a spectator” 73 people (25.9%) never, “as a participant to participate in any sporting activity” 75 people (26.6%) rarely and “to participate in extreme sports” of 112 people (39.7) always responded. …”
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Can One Predict Coronal Mass Ejection Arrival Times With Thirty‐Minute Accuracy? by Gábor Tóth, Bart van derHolst, Ward Manchester IV

“…Schmidt and Cairns (2019, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1905.08961) have recently claimed that they can predict Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) arrival times with an accuracy of 0.9 ± 1.9 hr for four separate events. They also stated that the accuracy gets better with increased grid resolution. …”
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Investigating the Impacts of Road Traffic Conditions and Driver’s Characteristics on Automated Vehicle Takeover Time and Quality Using a Driving Simulator by Jaehyun Jason So, Sungho Park, Jonghwa Kim, Jejin Park, Ilsoo Yun

“…To this end, 25 km of the northbound road section between Osan Interchange and Dongtan Junction on Gyeongbu Expressway in Korea is modeled in the driving simulator; the experiment participants are asked to drive the vehicle and take a response following a certain triggering event in the virtual driving environment. The results showed that the level of service and road curvature do not affect the takeover time itself, but they significantly affect the stabilization time, that is, a duration for a driver to become stable and recover to a normal state. …”
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Pulmonary Artery and Pulmonic Valve Vegetations in a Young Pregnant Filipino with Patent Ductus Arteriosus by Valerie R. Ramiro, Jezreel L. Taquiso, Stephanie Martha O. Obillos, Charlene F. Agustin, Jose Donato A. Magno, Eric Oliver D. Sison

“…Due to the paucity of symptoms of infection, lack of growth of the vegetation, and absence of embolic events, the vegetations were deemed to be persistent remnants from the previous IE rather than a recurrent IE. …”
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Self-Reported Violence Experienced by Swiss Prehospital Emergency Care Providers by Simon Savoy, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Nathalie Romain-Glassey, Nicolas Beysard

“…Concerning physical assault, PECPs were predominantly victims of spitting and/or jostling (50%). After a violent event, in 50% of cases, the PECPs modified their behavior owing to the experience of workplace violence; 82% now wear protective vests, and 16% carry weapons for self-defense, such as pepper sprays. …”
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Effect of vasopressin on the expression of genes for key enzymes of interstitial hyaluronan turnover and concentration ability in WAG rat kidneys by L. N. Ivanova, A. V. Babina, G. S. Baturina, L. E. Katkova

“…The AVP-induced intracellular events include, as an essential step, the trafficking of the vesicles containing the water channels, aquaporin-2, to the apical plasma membrane of the collecting duct principal cells. …”
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REGAIN STUDY: Retrospective Study to Assess the Effectiveness, Tolerability, and Safety of Ferric Carboxymaltose in the Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women by Saleema Wani, Mariyam Noushad, Shabana Ashiq

“…A total of 7 (0.7%) women reported mild, nonserious adverse events during the study. Within the limits of this retrospective study, IV FCM therapy was safe and effective in increasing the mean hemoglobin of pregnant women with IDA.…”
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