Correlation between B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Functional/Cognitive Parameters in Discharged Congestive Heart Failure Patients by Laura Leto, Marzia Testa, Mauro Feola

“…In an elderly HF population, BNP is related not only with clinical, laboratory, and instrumental data but also with multidimensional scales evaluating global status; higher BNP levels are linked with a worse prognosis in terms of mortality and 6-month readmission.…”
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EL POTENCIAL “EN MOVIMIENTO” DEL COMERCIO JUSTO LATINOAMERICANO by Marco Coscione

“…En la actualidad, en un mundo caracterizado por distintas crisis globales, donde los países del Norte están cada vez más convulsionados y donde las propuestas más interesantes de alternativas “de y al” desarrollo sostenible nos llegan desde el Sur, los pequeños productores latinoamericanos de Comercio Justo certificado Fairtrade, representados por la Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores de Comercio Justo (CLAC), están asumiendo un papel cada día más protagónico en la defensa de los principios originarios del movimiento y proponiendo nuevas perspectivas para su desarrollo: ya no solamente Norte-Sur, sino también Sur-Norte y Sur-Sur. …”
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Comportamiento mecánico de juntas frías lisas de concreto by Alfonso Ramos-Cañón, A Torres, F Prada-Sarmiento, M Botía-Díaz

“…Este trabajo abre la posibilidad de hacer modelación numérica de problemas de valor de contorno de estructuras que presenten una junta fría y de esta manera estudiar su influencia en la estabilidad global.…”
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AGILE APPROACHES, FOR E-BUSINESS SOLUTIONS STRATEGY, AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL by Cristian Brancu, Oana Turcu, Marius Stefan, Madalina Popp

“…Knowledge and scientific information are of enormous importance in the global information society, by: supporting innovation, promoting economic development, making decisions in an efficient and transparent way, at the governmental level and especially for the implementation and use of intelligent technologies in the development of the degree of digitization of public services through financing provided by European funds and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. …”
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS, INVESTMENT POLICY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF PENSION FUND ADMINISTRATORS IN NIGERIA by Adeoye Amuda Afolabi, Mubaraq Sanni, Muritala Olatunji Oladele, Yusuf Alabi Olumoh, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman

“…Simultaneously, the capacity of pension fund administrators to uphold their financial stability has emerged as a significant global issue. Consequently, this research scrutinized the factors (specifically, corporate governance mechanisms and investment policy) influencing the financial sustainability of Nigerian pension fund administrators. …”
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Activity of photosynthetic pigments and the antioxidant system in sunflower under drought stress by D. G. Fedorova, N. M. Nazarova, B. S. Ukenov

“…The study is of particular importance in view of the increasing pace of global climate aridization. The article highlights the results of an experiment on the effect of drought on the physiological status of seedlings of cv. …”
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EEG reveals brain network alterations in chronic aphasia during natural speech listening by Ramtin Mehraram, Jill Kries, Pieter De Clercq, Maaike Vandermosten, Tom Francart

“…In the theta-band network, graph alterations in PWA emerged at both local and global level, whilst only local changes were found in the low-gamma-band network. …”
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High volume-rate echocardiography for simultaneous imaging of electromechanical activation and cardiac strain of the whole heart in a single heartbeat in humans. by Julien Grondin, Hannah J Schleifer, Rachel Weber, Changhee Lee, Melina Tourni, Elisa E Konofagou

“…Volumetric right and left atrial as well as right and left ventricular strains were also consistent across all volunteers, with a mean end-systolic global longitudinal strain of 26.8±6.5% in the atria and -16.6±3.4% in the ventricles.…”
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Conservation du lemur aux yeux turquoise (Eulemur flavifrons) by Brice Lefaux

“…Les analyses démographiques et génétiques montrent que la population européenne n’est pas viable à long terme et les efforts de coopération au niveau global doivent être poursuivis.…”
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LIETUVOS KOLEGIJŲ SOCIALINIŲ ATASKAITŲ TYRIMAS by Irena Klimavičienė, Jūratė Vaičiulėnaitė

“…Siekiant šių sudėtingų AMI tikslų, socialinė atskaitomybė yra reikšminga priemonė, parodanti praktinius veiksmus ir mokyklų pasiektą pažangą įgyvendinant 10 vystymosi principų ir prisidedant prie Darnaus vystymosi darbotvarkės 2030 tikslų pasiekimo. JT dokumente Global Compact for Higher Education Institutions 2012 akcentuojamas socialinės pažangos atskaitomybės naudingumas aukštosioms mokykloms, pasireiškiantis tiek rengiant ataskaitą (vidinė nauda organizacijai), tiek viešai dalijantis informacija (išorinė nauda). …”
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Microbial carbon oxidation in seawater below the hypoxic threshold by Sarah Wolf, Clare Jayawickrama, Craig A. Carlson, Curtis Deutsch, Edward W. Davis, Benjamin N. Daniels, Francis Chan, Stephen J. Giovannoni

“…Abstract Global oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) often reach hypoxia but seldom reach anoxia. …”
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Use of combined CZM and XFEM techniques for the patch shape performance analysis on the behavior of a 2024-T3 Aluminum structure reinforced with a composite patch by Safa Chahrazad Djebbar, Nadia Kaddouri, Mohamed ElAjrami, Mohamed Belhouari, Kouider Madani

“…In this work, a finite element method is used to analysis the effect of the shape of the patch on the global response of a 2024-T3 aluminum structure in the presence of a central circular notch. …”
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Always Clear Days: Degradation Type and Severity Aware All-in-One Adverse Weather Removal by Yu-Wei Chen, Soo-Chang Pei

“…To extract weather information from a single image, we propose a novel Marginal Quality Ranking Loss (MQRL) and utilize Contrastive Loss (CL) to guide weather severity and type extraction, and leverage a bag of novel techniques such as Multi-Head Cross Attention (MHCA) and Local-Global Adaptive Instance Normalization (LG-AdaIN) to efficiently restore spatial varying weather degradation. …”
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Breeding value of european oat accessions in the environments of Kuban experiment station of VIR by N. P. Voytsutskaya, I. G. Loskutov

“…Selection of sources according to the basic economically useful traits is one of the main objectives in the study of the global diversity preserved in the oat collection.Results and conclusion. …”
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White adipose tissues and skeletal muscles as a target of chrysin during the treatment of obesity in rats by Omar S. Hassan, Magda A. Megahed, Nesma A. Ghazal

“…Since 1975, the WHO estimates that the prevalence of obesity has tripled globally. Chrysin is a flavone that is mostly found in the Passiflore species of plants and in propolis. …”
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An Optimized Deep-Learning-Based Network with an Attention Module for Efficient Fire Detection by Muhammad Altaf, Muhammad Yasir, Naqqash Dilshad, Wooseong Kim

“…Globally, fire incidents cause significant social, economic, and environmental destruction, making early detection and rapid response essential for minimizing such devastation. …”
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Penerapan MODEL SAS (Struktural Analitik Sintetik) Bahasa Kaili Da’a dalam Pembelajaran Baca dan Tulis KAT (Komunitas Adat Terpencil) Anak Suku Bunggu Dusun Salurayya by Intan Nurcahayani

“…Metode Analitik Struktural Sintetis merupakan metode yang digunakan dimana metode ini mempunyai prinsip bahwa pandangan manusia bersifat komprehensif atau global. Dalam penelitian ini bentuk instrumen tes yang digunakan yaitu tes membaca dan menulis. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation Characteristics of Dry/Wet Spells in Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region of the Tropic of Cancer by JIN Hanyu, CHENG Qingping, REN Yitong

“…Under the background of global warming,extreme climate events occur frequently.Understanding the change in precipitation from multiple perspectives is of great significance to the utilization of water resources.Specifically,the daily precipitation data at 24 stations along the Tropic of Cancer in the Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region (LRGR) from 1961 to 2019 are used to calculate 14 wet/dry spell indices.Methods including the revised Mann-Kendall test,Pettitt,and wavelet coherence are adopted to reveal the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of the dry/wet spell indices and their correlation with the large-scale circulation index.The results indicate that:① the wet and dry spells in LRGR of the Tropic of Cancer show a significant decreasing and increasing trend,respectively,especially in the area west of Yuanjiang River and south of the Tropic of Cancer.The change in the wet and dry spell indices of most stations is mainly concentrated in 2002.② The frequency of short-duration wet spells and the contribution rate to annual precipitation demonstrate an increasing trend,and those of the medium-long-duration wet spells demonstrate a decreasing trend;the short-duration dry spells are in decline while medium-long-duration dry spells are rising,and the entire region tends to aridification.③ The extreme dry spell index is closely related to ENSO,and it has a negatively correlated co-occurrence cycle of about six years;the extreme wet spell index is closely related to the summer monsoon of the South China Sea,and it has a positively correlated co-occurrence cycle of about eight years.To sum up,the above analysis shows that dry and wet spell indices in LRGR of the Tropic of Cancer demonstrate an overall trend of aridification,which means that the drought risks are increasing.Their spatiotemporal variation characteristics and local differences may be closely related to the joint influence of the large-scale circulation index,monsoon,and channel-blocking in LRGR.…”
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Study on Spatial-temporal Characteristics of Drought Duration and Intensity in Leizhou Peninsula in Recent 50 Years by DU Xiaoxia, TU Xinjun, XIE Yuting, WANG Tian

“…In the background of global warming,drought disasters occur frequently,bringing serious impacts on the natural ecosystem,human production and life and social & economic development.Therefore,it is of great significance to analyze and assess regional drought characteristics and study local drought mitigation and disaster reduction decisions and climate change.Based on the meteorological and hydrological data of 12 sites in Leizhou Peninsula from 1970 to 2019,this paper identifies and evaluates the drought events via standardised precipitation-evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and run theory,and analyzes the temporal and spatial variation characteristics of drought duration and intensity in Leizhou Peninsula in recent 50 years combined with curve fitting method,inverse distance weighted spatial interpolation,etc.The results show that:①The monthly SPEI index of the Leizhou Peninsula in recent 50 years showed a decreasing trend in fluctuation.On the time scale of the recent 50 years,it fluctuated with a period of about 10 years,which is related to the influence of ENSO.The SPEI is relatively high in cold event years,on the contrary,in warm event years,the SPEI is low and the drought is serious.②The greater the intensity of drought disaster in Leizhou Peninsula,the smaller the probability.③Due to regional difference,the spatial distribution of drought frequency,intensity and duration showed a gradually increase trend from the northeast to the southwest.④The regional difference of the occurrence frequency of drought of different grades showed that the frequency of moderate drought and above in the central and southern and northeastern regions of Leizhou Peninsula was higher than that in the central and northern regions.In addition,the drought in the southern part of Leizhou and Xuwen County was severe.⑤Droughts occur frequently in spring and winter.In spring and summer,the drought in the northeast and central-south part of the Leizhou Peninsula was more severe,the drought in autumn was more serious in the central-north part of the peninsula,and the drought in winter seriously affected the central-south part of the peninsula.…”
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Experimental study on optimization of chemical oxygen demand reduction through advanced oxidation process for refinery-based oily sludge in Barmer Rajasthan, India by Rizwan Ul Haq, Hajari Singh, Mahendra Pratap Choudhary

“…This research contributes to advancing wastewater treatment practices in line with global sustainability goals.…”
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