Recent advances in the management of knee osteoarthritis: a narrative review by Viktor Shtroblia, Pavlo Petakh, Iryna Kamyshna, Iryna Halabitska, Oleksandr Kamyshnyi

“…Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common condition that causes pain and reduces the quality of life for many people. It also leads to high health and financial costs. Managing knee OA pain requires using different methods together for the best results. …”
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Distinct Roles of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Juan Shi, Feng Li, Meihui Luo, Jun Wei, Xiaoming Liu

“…Intriguingly, Wnt/β-catenin signaling is activated in IPF; an inhibition of this signaling leads to an alleviation of pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis in experimental models. …”
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Thermal Performance Augmentation of Double-Pipe Heat Exchanger-A Critical Review by Md Atiqur Rahman

“…Longitudinal vortices are created throughout the tube's length, leading to a notable improvement in its thermal efficiency. …”
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“Diversity’s good unless you have a Southern accent, then you’re a hick”: Self-evaluation, linguistic insecurity and symbolic domination in Middle Tennessee by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…In this context, we draw upon on the notion of symbolic domination, that is a lack of awareness regarding the inherently arbitrary nature of a linguistic standard which leads speakers of less prestigious varieties to judge their own linguistic productions through the prism of dominant criteria (Bourdieu, 2001; Bourdieu & Boltanski, 1975).Our study is based on the results of sociolinguistic fieldwork data from Murfreesboro (Middle Tennessee), which was collected in accordance with the theoretical and methodological framework of the PAC research programme and within the scope of the LVTI-Language, Urban Life, Work, Identity sociophonological project (Durand & Przewozny, 2012; Przewozny et al. 2020). …”
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Autofluorescence Imaging in the Long-Term Follow-Up of Scleral Buckling Surgery for Retinal Detachment by Panagiotis Salvanos, Helgi D. Björnsson, Valeria Vitelli, Ragnheiður Bragadόttir, Morten C. Moe, Tor P. Utheim

“…Preoperatively, RRD was seen as a hypofluorescent area with a hyperfluorescent leading edge. Immediately postoperatively, three types of cryopexy could be differentiated, gradually transforming to scleral hyperfluorescence. …”
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IS THERE ANY FUTURE FOR COAL POWER PLANTS IN EUROPE? by A. V. Zimakov

“…The analysis of the political and economic (both macro and micro) processes leads to conclusion that there is no unity among EU member states in their approach towards coal fired power plants phase-out. …”
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Credit card default prediction using ML and DL techniques by Fazal Wahab, Imran Khan, Sneha Sabada

“…The usage of credit cards is experiencing a steady increase, thereby leading to a rise in the default rate that banks encounter. …”
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Assessment Model for Interregional Electricity Price Difference and Cross-Regional Electricity Trading Volume Considering Carbon Cost by LI Wei, LI Ran, HU Yan, WANG Xiwei, XIONG Kang

“…Due to the inherent differences in power generation structures across interconnected regions, the impact of carbon costs on the clearing electricity prices within regions varies, leading to dynamic price differences between regions, which, in turn, affects the outcomes of cross-regional electricity trading, and further exacerbates the differences in power generation structures, thereby impacting interval electricity price differences. …”
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An Approach to Predicting Energy Demand Within Automobile Production Using the Temporal Fusion Transformer Model by Andreas Lenk, Marcus Vogt, Christoph Herrmann

“…The increasing share of renewable energies within energy systems leads to an increase in complexity. The growing complexity is due to the diversity of technologies, ongoing technological innovations, and fluctuating electricity production. …”
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Foreign Bodies in Lower Airway in Children: Brief Review and Clinical Experience by Stoyan Markov, Petya Markova, Ivanka Karavelikova, Hristina Halacheva

“…Of these patients, 92% had an incident leading to acute respiratory distress, and 8% had no definite data on such an event in the anamnesis. …”
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Individual, health facility and wider health system factors contributing to maternal deaths in Africa: A scoping review. by Francis G Muriithi, Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Ruth Gakuo, Kia Pope, Arri Coomarasamy, Ioannis D Gallos

“…The number of women dying during pregnancy and after childbirth remains unacceptably high, with African countries showing the slowest decline. The leading causes of maternal deaths in Africa are preventable direct obstetric causes such as haemorrhage, infection, hypertension, unsafe abortion, and obstructed labour. …”
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Mechanical Coupling between Endoderm Invagination and Axis Extension in Drosophila. by Claire M Lye, Guy B Blanchard, Huw W Naylor, Leila Muresan, Jan Huisken, Richard J Adams, Bénédicte Sanson

“…We propose that apical constriction leading to endoderm invagination is the source of the extrinsic force contributing to germband extension. …”
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Macroscopic Modeling of On-Street and Garage Parking: Impact on Traffic Performance by Manuel Jakob, Monica Menendez

“…This macroscopic modeling approach is based on aggregated data at the network level over time. This leads to data collection savings and a reduction in computational costs compared to most of the existing parking/traffic models. …”
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Trans-kingdom sRNA silencing in the prevention and control of crop Fusarium wilt disease by Xin-Ni Huang, Yue Wang, Yan-Ting Li, Ying Xiao, Shou-Qiang Ouyang

“…Given that SIGS has been developed and recently applied in controlling crop Fusarium wilt diseases, we propose a potential prevention and control system to exploit crop Fusarium-vasculature interaction leading to further study trans-kingdom sRNA silencing.…”
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Optimized Wideband Beamforming for mm-wave Communication Systems with Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces by Hiba A. Alsawaf, Saad Ahmed Ayoob

“…However, taking advantage of the bandwidth of millimeter wave and the characteristics of IRS leads to the problem of beam splitting, which makes the precise steering of the resulting beams at all frequencies complicated, resulting in large losses in array gain. …”
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The Impact of Lower Atmosphere Forecast Uncertainties on WACCM‐X Prediction of Ionosphere‐Thermosphere System During Geomagnetic Storms by Wonseok Lee, In‐Sun Song, Ja Soon Shim, Guiping Liu, Geonhwa Jee

“…SW2 and DE3 tides could modify the E‐region wind driven dynamo at low latitudes, affecting the vertical plasma drift in the F‐region, leading to the forecast errors in TEC. The TEC forecast errors at high‐latitudes could be due to the change in the column integrated O/N2, associated with tidal wind variations and resultant delayed change in vertical motions. …”
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Underwater DVL Optimization Network (UDON): A Learning-Based DVL Velocity Optimizing Method for Underwater Navigation by Feihu Zhang, Shaoping Zhao, Lu Li, Chun Cao

“…In response to the issue of DVL being susceptible to external environmental interference, leading to reduced measurement accuracy, this paper proposes an end-to-end deep-learning approach to enhance the accuracy of DVL velocity vector measurements. …”
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Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type 1 in Jordan: A Retrospective Study by Noor A. Megdadi, Ahmad K. Almigdad, Mo’men O. Alakil, Shahrazad M. Alqiam, Sumaia G. Rababah, Moshera A. Dwiari

“…The accumulation of tyrosine toxic metabolites leads to progressive hepatic, renal, and neurological manifestations. …”
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Reliability and Validity of the Functional Movement Screen™ with a Modified Scoring System for Young Adults with Low Back Pain by Khalid Alkhathami, Yousef Alshehre, Sharon Wang-Price, Kelli Brizzolara

“…# Background Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common complaints in individuals who seek medical care and is a leading cause of movement impairments. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS™) was developed to evaluate neuromuscular impairments during movement. …”
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Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Latin America and the Caribbean: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Martín Brizuela, María Carolina Palermo, Tomás Alconada, María Macarena Sandoval, Eugenia Ramirez Wierzbicki, Joaquín Cantos, Paula Gagetti, Agustín Ciapponi, Ariel Bardach, Silvina Ruvinsky

“…<h4>Background</h4>Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, causing bacteremic pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis, and other invasive pneumococcal diseases. …”
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