Determinant of catastrophic costs associated with treatment for rifampicin-resistant TB in households in the Republic of Moldova by A. Ciobanu, V. Plesca, S. Doltu, M. Manea, L. Domente, A. Dadu

“…CONCLUSION: Although TB health services are provided to patients free of charge, 26% of RR-TB households experienced catastrophic TB costs. …”
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Origin of Serum Affects Quality of Engineered Tissues Produced by the Self-Assembly Approach by Stéphane Chabaud, Melissa Simard, Isabelle Gendreau, Roxane Pouliot, Stéphane Bolduc

“…Despite the emergence of serum-free media for cell culture, the use of serum to supplement the culture media is still essential in order to produce engineered urologic tissues using the self-assembly approach, not only for the stromal compartment but also for the uroepithelium. …”
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Health promotion and tobacco control: a transatlantic perspective between Brazil and Portugal by Francisco Lucas de Lima Fontes, Ermelinda do Carmo Valente Caldeira

“…These achievements are the result of educational campaigns, tax increases and the creation of smoke-free environments. In Portugal, legislative efforts, such as the Tobacco Law (Law No. 37/2007), have significantly limited smoking in public places and restricted advertising, but the country still faces worrying rates, with 17% of the population identified as smokers in 2019(2)…”
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Non-negligible Occurrence of Errors in Gender Description in Public Data Sets by Jong Hwan Kim, Jong-Luyl Park, Seon-Young Kim

“…We suggest that the users of public datasets should not expect that the data are error-free and, whenever possible, that they should check the consistency of the data.…”
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Stability Assessment of Dangerous Rock Mass of an Overhanging Slope in Puerdu Town, Southwestern China by Wen-Lian Liu, Jia-Xing Dong, Su-Gang Sui, Han-Hua Xu, Run-Xue Yang, Zhen-Luo Shen

“…Dangerous rock mass in the overhanging slope of Puerdu town has good free-face condition, high position, and great potential energy, identification and stability evaluation of which is a difficult problem in the disaster prevention. …”
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Evaluation of Ethnopharmacological and Antioxidant Potential of Zanthoxylum armatum DC. by Rabia Kanwal, Muhammad Arshad, Yamin Bibi, Saira Asif, Sunbal Khalil Chaudhari

“…The results indicated that the free radical scavenging activity ranged from 40.12% to 78.39%, and the reductive potential ranged from 0.265 nm to 1.411 nm while the total antioxidant activity ranged from 0.124 nm to 0.183 nm. …”
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The use of industrial waste materials for alleviation of iron deficiency in sunflower and maize by Brigitta Tóth, Makoena Joyce Moloi

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STeInFormer: Spatial–Temporal Interaction Transformer Architecture for Remote Sensing Change Detection by Xiaowen Ma, Zhenkai Wu, Mengting Ma, Mengjiao Zhao, Fan Yang, Zhenhong Du, Wei Zhang

“…In addition, we propose a parameter-free multifrequency token mixer to integrate frequency-domain features that provide spectral information for RSCD. …”
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Predictive and Prognostic Value of sPRR in Patients with Primary Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by Katrin Kreienbring, Annika Franz, Rolf Richter, Duska Dragun, Harald Heidecke, Ralf Dechend, Dominik N. Muller, Jalid Sehouli, Elena I. Braicu

“…Kaplan-Meier and logistic/Cox regression assessed the impact of the markers on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). Results. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Ileostomy Closure before Adjuvant Chemotherapy after Rectal Cancer Surgery: An Observational Study from a Chinese Center by Zhen Sun, Yufeng Zhao, Lu Liu, Jichao Qin

“…There was no significant difference in disease-free survival (p=0.834) and overall survival (p=0.462) between the three groups. …”
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Design and Verification of Large-Diameter Tower Sharding Platform for Wind Turbine by Jiawen LAN, Qianjun ZHAI, Zhongze SUN, Xiongbin WAN

“…[Method] In order to avoid the problems of cost increase and easy failure of the welding part between the platform beam and the cylinder, caused by the increase of the platform diameter, the whole large inner platform of the tower cylinder was divided into 6 independent small platforms, and 2～3 supports were designed at the lower part of the platform, with one end of the support welded with the cylinder and one end free. The deformation and strength of the platform under two load conditions (SLS and ULS) were evaluated by the finite element analysis software. …”
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A regional augmented PPP algorithm for offshore considering NWP by Ying Xu, Xiangdan Meng, Jianhui Cui, Lin Ma

“…Marine experiments indicate that the convergence time of this algorithm is 11–32% shorter than that of ionospheric-free PPP. The convergence time of this algorithm is reduced by 56–59%, and positioning accuracy in the E, N and U directions is augmented by 33.3%, 19.5% and 53.7%, respectively, compare to traditional augmented PPP at sea where the distribution of reference stations is inhomogeneous. …”
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MetaboLabPy—An Open-Source Software Package for Metabolomics NMR Data Processing and Metabolic Tracer Data Analysis by Christian Ludwig

“…MetaboLabPy (version 0.9.66) is a free and open-source software package used to process 1D- and 2D-NMR spectra. …”
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Effect of The Rs-10 Radioprotector on Protein-Steroid Interaction in Irradiated Animals with Biphasic Adrenocortical Response to Irradiation by Nadezhda Omelchuk

“…Prophylactic administration of RS-10 before irradiation reduces the level of free hormone and leads to a decrease in hypercorticism, increasing the reserve capabilities of the binding ability of the CSG at the height of radiation sickness. …”
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Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives by Beatriz Vizuete, Marina García‐Llorente, Irene Pérez‐Ramírez, Elisa Oteros‐Rozas

“…We propose pathways to integrate the plurality of actors and values and to promote new rural identities that fall from traditional stereotypes to enhance gender equity and move towards a true agroecological transition. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.…”
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Effect of Blade Number on Internal Flow and Performance Characteristics in Low-Head Cross-Flow Turbines by Ephrem Yohannes Assefa, Asfafaw Haileselassie Tesfay

“…Simulations were performed using ANSYS CFX, incorporating steady-state conditions, a two-phase flow model with a movable free surface, and a shear stress turbulence model. …”
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A Triangular Personalized Recommendation Algorithm for Improving Diversity by Biao Cai, Xiaowang Yang, Yusheng Huang, Hongjun Li, Qiang Sang

“…Additionally, recommendation algorithms based on a triangulated area are parameter-free and are more suitable for applications in real environments. …”
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Tunnel face stability in strata rich in water with soft upper and hard lower layers by Tao Zhan, Ziwei Hu, Yan Kuang, Zhiliang Zhu, Kaiyi Liao

“…At the same time, a method is proposed to determine the upper and lower bounds of the ultimate support force, based on the calculation results under no seepage and free seepage conditions at the excavation face. The entire method provides a valuable reference for the stability analysis of tunnel faces in water-rich strata with soft upper and hard lower layers.…”
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Indian Jujuba Seed Powder as an Eco-Friendly and a Low-Cost Biosorbent for Removal of Acid Blue 25 from Aqueous Solution by L. Sivarama Krishna, A. Sreenath Reddy, W. Y. Wan Zuhairi, M. R. Taha, A. Varada Reddy

“…Thermodynamic parameters such as standard free energy change (ΔG0), standard enthalpy changes (ΔH0), and standard entropy changes (ΔS0) were analyzed. …”
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Diverse single-stranded nucleic acid binding proteins enable both stable protection and rapid exchange required for biological function by Michael Morse, Ben A. Cashen, Ioulia Rouzina, Mark C. Williams

“…When proteins exhibit multiple binding states, however, OT measurements may produce difficult to analyze signals including non-monotonic response to free protein concentration and convolution of multiple fundamental rates. …”
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