Large-scale evidence generation and evaluation across a network of databases for type 2 diabetes mellitus (LEGEND-T2DM): a protocol for a series of multinational, real-world compar... by Rohan Khera, Yuan Lu, Harlan M Krumholz, Martijn J Schuemie, Ruijun Chen, George Hripcsak, Marc A Suchard, Patrick B Ryan, Anna Ostropolets

“…Using an active comparator, new-user cohort design, LEGEND-T2DM will execute all pairwise class-versus-class and drug-versus-drug comparisons in each data source, producing extensive study diagnostics that assess reliability and generalisability through cohort balance and equipoise to examine the relative risk of cardiovascular and safety outcomes. …”
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Design of an improved model using federated learning and LSTM autoencoders for secure and transparent blockchain network transactions by R. Vijay Anand, G. Magesh, I. Alagiri, Madala Guru Brahmam, Balamurugan Balusamy, Chithirai Pon Selvan, Haya Mesfer Alshahrani, Masresha Getahun, Ben Othman Soufiene

“…Smart contracts are responsible for the submission, validation, and execution of the locally updated models in a decentralized fashion such that the management process is transparent and tamper resistant. …”
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Investigating the Role of the basic Components of Smart Governance in Realizing a Smart City with the ISM Method (Case Study: Tehran) by ALi Asghar Pourezzat, Tayebeh Abbasi, Shahryar Maghsoodi Kenari, Mohammad Mehdi Namdar Joybari

“…The research environment was natural, with participants including both academic experts in the field of smart cities and executive professionals working in relevant organizations, such as smart city departments within municipalities and other related institutions. …”
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The effect of green management on sustainable marketing orientation in small and medium industrial businesses: the mediating role of social legitimacy by Heshmatollah Soroushnia, Jalal Haghighatmonfared, Anahita Salari

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Polish Historiography of Polish - Lithuanian Union of 20th Century by Mečislovas Jučas

“…There were no big debates on the reasons for the Lublin union: growing political activity of the Lithuanian nobility and its attempts to have equal rights with the Polish nobility, war between Lithuania and Moscow, and hope for the Polish nobility to realize old state rights, i.e., "executional attempt," and finally, the dominance and attractiveness of Polish culture. …”
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An analysis of the Policy of Increasing the Salaries of Government Employees Based on the Framework of Kingdon's Multiple Streams (Case Study of Budget Law 1401) by Seyyed Mojtaba Shahraeini, Heidar Najafi, Seyyedamir Abbaszade, Mahdi Khosravi, Iman Akbari

“…The studies indicate that this unfair policy, which contradicts the prevailing discourse of the legislative and executive branches, was more influenced by the ignorance of policymakers in the government, parliament, and Guardian Council than by the economic and political interests of various stakeholders. …”
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Insights into the mechanisms of serplulimab: a distinctive anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody, in combination with a TIGIT or LAG3 inhibitor in preclinical tumor immunotherapy studies by Yizhou Zhang, Ruicheng Wei, Ge Song, Xinyi Yang, Mengli Zhang, Wei Liu, Aiying Xiong, Xuehan Zhang, Qianhao Li, Wan-Jen Yang, Chencheng Han, Rui Liu, Chen Hu, Qingyu Wang, Jun Zhu, Yongqiang Shan

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Avatares de la energía nuclear en Argentina by Milagros Rodríguez

“…While the Ministry of Economy attempted to face the dismantling of the Entrepreneur State and peripheral privatization of most industries at its charge, the Executive approved an ambitious plan for the construction of Nuclear Power Plants inspired in centralization, planning and self-sufficiency. …”
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Editorial by Teddy Surya Gunawan

“…Teddy Surya Gunawan Executive Editor IIUM Engineering Journal ISSN: 1511-788X  E-ISSN: 2289-7860 Published by: IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Phone (+603) 6421-5014, Fax: (+603) 6421-6298 …”
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Diagnóstico de partida para diseñar un modelo de proyecto que permita implantar el proceso de inteligencia empresarial en las empresas del grupo de diseño e ingeniería de la constr... by Julio García, José A Macías

“…Concrete results are expected to design a Business Intelligence Process for such companies and a Manual to guide researchers and executive staff involved in the improvement of similar entities of management.…”
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Pengkontruksian Bidirected Overlap Graph untuk Perakitan Sekuens DNA by Wisnu Ananta Kusuma, Albert Adrianus

“…DNA assembly process is computational intensive. To reduce the execution time suffix and prefix was converted into the single value so that the detection of overlap could be done by comparing the values. …”
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Ciphertext policy hidden access control scheme based on blockchain and supporting data sharing by Ruizhong DU, Tianhe ZHANG, Pengliang SHI

“…Secondly, the proposed scheme is compared with some access control schemes with similar technologies in recent years in terms of group order,access structure,policy hiding and so on,it can be seen from the comparison results that the scheme in this paper has certain advantages in terms of functional characteristics.Afterwards,the cost of deploying contracts and executing related functions on the blockchain is evaluated.The results show that the gas cost of the scheme in this paper is within a reasonable range.The final simulation results show that the proposed scheme has high efficiency in both the access control stage and the data sharing stage.According to the design of the existing paper comparative experiments,we set the number of attributes to 0-20.In the access control stage, the initialization time, key generation time, encryption time and decryption time are compared with other schemes.The results show that although the computational overhead of the proposed scheme is relatively large in the initialization stage, the efficiency in the key generation stage, encryption stage and decryption stage is higher than that of the other three schemes, so the proposed scheme has higher efficiency in the access control stage.In the data sharing stage, the re-encryption time and re-decryption time are compared with other schemes, respectively. …”
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INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LEGAL MECHANISMS OF JUDICIAL LIABILITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION OF MODERN SOCIETY by Konul Akhundova

“…Among the indicators that reproduce the productivity of all three branches of government, the following are highlighted: the government efficiency index - the executive branch, the legislation quality index - the legislative branch, the rule of law index - the judiciary. …”
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Stool Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra for TB diagnosis in children: experience from a national scale-up programme by S. Kabir, S. Choudhury, T. Rahman, S.M.M. Rahman, M.K.M. Uddin, A. Nashra, A. Hossain, S. Naher, K.M.S. Towhid, L. Shahrin, S. Ahmed, P. Daru, J. Hoffmann, S. Banu

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The Effects of Exercise on Inhibitory Function Interventions for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Zhihui Xu, Cong Liu, Peng Wang, Xing Wang, Yuzhang Li

“…Conclusion Based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) classification systems, a research framework for exercise interventions on executive function in MDD patients was constructed, demonstrating that exercise can improve inhibitory function in MDD with high evidence quality. …”
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Use of Augmented Reality for Training Assistance in Laparoscopic Surgery: Scoping Literature Review by Francisco Javier Celdrán, Javier Jiménez-Ruescas, Carlos Lobato, Lucía Salazar, Juan Alberto Sánchez-Margallo, Francisco M Sánchez-Margallo, Pascual González

“…The most common information provided by AR devices (RQ 1) focused on task execution and patient-related data, both appearing in 20% (10/51) of studies. …”
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Effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation on cognitive and swallowing function in patients with MCI and dysphagia risk: a randomized controlled trial by Jie Wang, Mengqing Zhang, Xiaomei Wei, Cheng Yang, Meng Dai, Zulin Dou, Yonghui Wang

“…Global cognitive function was assessed using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and executive function was evaluated with the Trail Making Test (TMT), Digital span test (DST) and Stroop color word test (SCWT). …”
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The effect of single and dual task training on the intracortical inhibition in young and old adults by Michael Wälchli, Craig Tokuno, Benedikt Lauber, Wolfgang Taube

“…Pre and post training, a balance task was performed on a rocker board in three different conditions: 1) balance only 2) balance + secondary motor (ball on a tray) and 3) balance + secondary cognitive (2-back). During the execution of these three conditions, SICI was measured with TMS by applying single pulse (120 % aMT) and double pulse stimulations (70 % + 120 % aMT) over the motor cortical area representing the right tibialis anterior muscle. …”
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System-Technology Co-Optimization for Dense Edge Architectures Using 3-D Integration and Nonvolatile Memory by Leandro M. Giacomini Rocha, Mohamed Naeim, Guilherme Paim, Moritz Brunion, Priya Venugopal, Dragomir Milojevic, James Myers, Mustafa Badaroglu, Marian Verhelst, Julien Ryckaert, Dwaipayan Biswas

“…We show that a 25% peak efficiency reduction on a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$32\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> memory capacity can lead to a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$7.4\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> faster execution with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$5.7\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> higher effective TOPS/W than the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> memory capacity case on the same technology.…”
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Fusion of EEG and EMG signals for detecting pre-movement intention of sitting and standing in healthy individuals and patients with spinal cord injury by Chenyang Li, Chenyang Li, Yuchen Xu, Tao Feng, Tao Feng, Minmin Wang, Minmin Wang, Minmin Wang, Xiaomei Zhang, Li Zhang, Li Zhang, Ruidong Cheng, Weihai Chen, Weihai Chen, Weidong Chen, Weidong Chen, Shaomin Zhang, Shaomin Zhang, Shaomin Zhang, Shaomin Zhang

“…This study proposes a multimodal fusion method based on EEG–EMG functional connectivity to detect sitting and standing intentions before movement execution, enabling timely intervention and reducing latency in rehabilitation devices.MethodsEight healthy subjects and five spinal cord injury (SCI) patients performed cue-based sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transition tasks while EEG and EMG data were recorded simultaneously. …”
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