The homogenization of China's city flowers and city trees by Zhuo Cheng, Ziyi Wu, Weizhe Chen, Wenxuan Li, Chen Lin, Qing Zhang, Chunlin Long

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Justification and selection of a method for restricting water inflow to horizontal wells in low-permeability terrigenous reservoir conditions using the example of the YuS2 formatio... by Olga V. Savenok, Nailya Kh. Zharikova, Elizaveta P. Chuykova, Alexander E. Verisokin, Mahmoud Hadid, Larisa V. Povarova, Denis S. Kalashnikov, Anna S. Domanova

“…The authors developed the methodology for selecting candidate wells for waterproofing work, implemented in the form of a computer program written in the Python programming language. …”
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Recreational and rehabilitation aspects of psychological health and well-being of students: a systematic review by Lesia Korobeinikova, Tetiana Yermakova, Georgiy Korobeynikov, Daniil Vitenko

“…The extracted documents were processed using the PYCharm Community Edition (CE) development environment and special codes in the Python programming language. The K-means method was used for clustering the articles based on the presence of keywords. …”
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Effectiveness of Contrast Agents and Molecular Indicators in Alzheimer's Diagnosis Through PET and SPECT Imaging on Animal Models by Yasaman Abaszadeh, Ramin Ardalani, Athena Dehghan Najm Abadi

“…Materials and Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed, using the PRISMA guidelines, without any time or language restrictions. Three independent researchers reviewed the studies based on criteria, and relevant data from the included articles were extracted and analyzed. …”
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Role of Serum and Ultrasonometric Markers in the Early Diagnosis of Malignant Transformation of Periductal Liver Fibrosis in Patients with <i>Opisthorchis Felineus</i> Infection by A. Е. Kovshirina, O. S. Fedorova, Yu. V. Kovshirina, V. A. Petrov

“…Statistical analysis was performed using the R programming language (version 3.6.1).Results. Evaluation of the relationship between the presence of ultrasound signs of stage 1–2 opisthorchiasis-associated periductal fibrosis and changes in serum levels of the biochemical, immunologic parameters and oncomarkers in patients with O. felineus infection demonstrated that the levels of alkaline phosphatase, conjugated bilirubin, AST, glucose and CA 19-9 oncomarker were significantly higher in the serum of patients in the group with cholangio-carcinoma and opisthorchiasis (p &lt; 0.01).Conclusion. …”
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Assessing the Clinical and Functional Status of COPD Patients Using Speech Analysis During and After Exacerbation by Mayr W, Triantafyllopoulos A, Batliner A, Schuller BW, Berghaus TM

“…Wolfgang Mayr,1,&ast; Andreas Triantafyllopoulos,2,3,&ast; Anton Batliner,2,3 Björn W Schuller,2– 5 Thomas M Berghaus1,6 1Department of Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany; 2Chair of Health Informatics (CHI), Department of Clinical Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; 3Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany; 4Group on Language Audio, & Music (GLAM), Imperial College, London, UK; 5Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), Munich, Germany; 6Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Wolfgang Mayr, Department of Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care, University Hospital Augsburg, Stenglinstrasse 2, Augsburg, D-86156, Germany, Email wolfgang.mayr@uk-augsburg.de Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Chair of Health Informatics, Department of Clinical Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Straße 22, Munich, 81675, Germany, Email andreas.triantafyllopoulos@tum.deBackground: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects breathing, speech production, and coughing. …”
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«Så sitter du der og plutselig leser for alle» – en nærstudie av barnehageansatte som litteraturformidlere by Malgorzata Wild, Christina Berg Tveitan

“…We also observe that the majority of the informants point to the language supporting function of the literature when they legitimise choosing reading as an activity. …”
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A graph neural network approach for hierarchical mapping of breast cancer protein communities by Xiao Zhang, Qian Liu

“…Results Using a large amount of publicly available proteomics data, we created a hierarchical tree for breast cancer protein communities using a novel hierarchical graph neural network, with the supervision of gene ontology terms and assistance of a pre-trained deep contextual language model. Then, a group-lasso algorithm was applied to identify protein communities that are under both mutation burden and survival burden, undergo significant alterations when targeted by specific drug molecules, and show cancer-dependent perturbations. …”
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Bibliotherapy, reading and life quality coherence: interdisciplinary point by Daiva Janavičienė

“…The action of forbidding something (such as using a national language) is an evident dishonor to a nation's quality of life. …”
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Characteristics of surveillance systems for suicide and self-harm: A scoping review. by Aline Conceição Silva, Amanda Sarah Vanzela, Laysa Fernanda Silva Pedrollo, John Baker, José Carlos Marques de Carvalho, Carlos Alberto da Cruz Sequeira, Kelly Graziani Giacchero Vedana, José Carlos Pereira Dos Santos

“…The eligibility criteria include papers that use qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods with no restrictions on time or language. The following papers were excluded regarding euthanasia and assisted suicide, as well as papers that did not explicitly describe suicide, self-harm, and surveillance systems. …”
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Design of a Mobile Application for Disaster Management and Examination of the Suitability of Emergency Meeting Areas with GIS: The Case of Konya Province by Büşra Kart, Ceren Yağcı, Büşra Gözgörer, Efsun Avcı, Fatih İşcan

“…In this study, an Earthquake Information System Mobile Application was designed using Flutter programming language on Android Studio software and distribution of emergency meeting areas of Konya province over the city was investigated using GIS. …”
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The Prevalence of Accommodative and Binocular Dysfunctions in Children with Reading Difficulties by Ilze Ceple, Aiga Svede, Evita Serpa, Evita Kassaliete, Liva Volberga, Rita Mikelsone, Asnate Berzina, Angelina Ganebnaya, Linda Krauze, Gunta Krumina

“…Reading performance was assessed with the Acadience Reading (formerly DIBELS Next) test adjusted and validated for the Latvian language. Children with (N = 39) and without (N = 43) reading difficulties underwent thorough assessment of their subjective refraction, as well as binocular and accommodation functions. …”
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Broadening the diversity of consumers engaged in guidelines: a scoping review by Sophie Hill, Tari Turner, Anneliese Synnot, Kelvin Hill, Allison Jauré, Bronwen Merner, Peta Bates, Alexandra Liacos

“…The most commonly included PROGRESS-PLUS categories were Disability, Race/culture/ethnicity/language, Place of residence and Other vulnerable (eg, ‘disadvantaged groups’). …”
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Characteristics of knowledge translation platforms and methods for evaluating them: a scoping review protocol by Taryn Young, Bey-Marrié Schmidt, Sara Cooper, Nasreen S Jessani

“…Searches will be carried out in PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Embase, Global Health and Web of Science using a predetermined search strategy, without any date, language or geographical restrictions. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts. …”
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slendr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes by Petr, Martin, Haller, Benjamin C., Ralph, Peter L., Racimo, Fernando

“…., population displacements, expansions, and contractions) either on real Earth landscapes or on abstract custom maps, and schedule splits and gene-flow events between populations using a straightforward declarative language. Additionally, slendr can simulate data from traditional, non-spatial models, either with SLiM or using an alternative built-in coalescent msprime back end. …”
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An Intelligent Heuristic Manta-Ray Foraging Optimization and Adaptive Extreme Learning Machine for Hand Gesture Image Recognition by Seetharam Khetavath, Navalpur Chinnappan Sendhilkumar, Pandurangan Mukunthan, Selvaganesan Jana, Lakshmanan Malliga, Subburayalu Gopalakrishnan, Sankuru Ravi Chand, Yousef Farhaoui

“…The development of hand gesture recognition systems has gained more attention in recent days, due to its support of modern human-computer interfaces. Moreover, sign language recognition is mainly developed for enabling communication between deaf and dumb people. …”
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Evaluating a system-wide, safety investigation in healthcare course in Norway: a qualitative study by Carl Macrae, Siri Wiig, Veslemøy Guise, Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland, Lene Schibevaag, Janne Gro Alsvik, Adriana Rosenberg

“…This contrasted with the initial aspiration among the participants to have a recipe for how to conduct safety investigations.Conclusions Course participation contributed to a common language among a highly multidisciplinary group of safety investigators and supported building a culture of collaborative learning. …”
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Social inclusion programming for older adults living in age-friendly cities: a scoping review by Josephine McMurray, Madalena Pamela Liougas, Adriana Fortino, Kari Brozowski

“…This scoping review explores innovative programmes implemented by AFCs to enhance social inclusion for older adults.Design A scoping review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines.Data sources Systematic searches were conducted between December 2023 and January 2024 across relevant databases (Ovid Medline, OVID Embase, OVID PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and Scopus) and the grey literature.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Selection criteria included English language publications describing evaluated age-friendly, social inclusion programmes for older adults.Data extraction and synthesis Data extraction followed Gonyea and Hudson’s (2015) framework assessing programmes on population, environment and/or sector inclusion levels. …”
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Access and use of sexual and reproductive health services among asylum-seeking and refugee women in high-income countries: A scoping review. by Emma Stirling-Cameron, Salma Almukhaini, Justine Dol, Benjamin J DuPlessis, Kathryn Stone, Megan Aston, Shira M Goldenberg

“…Frequently reported barriers included differences in health literacy, shame and stigma around sexual health, language and communication challenges, racial or xenophobic interactions with healthcare providers, and healthcare/medication costs.…”
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The Role of Partnerships in Supporting COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Migrants: A Qualitative Case Study from Tamil Nadu and Punjab, India by Ankita Meghani, Bharathi Palanisamy, Sunita Singh, Tanya Singh, Natasha Kanagat, Anil Gupta, Kapil Singh, Gopal Krishna Soni

“…Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, migrant populations remained under-immunized due to limited access to health care, language barriers, and vaccine hesitancy. The USAID-funded MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project supported the government in collaborating with various local health and non-health partners to identify and vaccinate migrants. …”
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