The Exponential Rise of Teledentistry and Patient-Oriented Protective Measures in Southeast Asian Dental Clinics: Concerns, Benefits, and Challenges by Anand Marya, Adith Venugopal, Mohmed Isaqali Karobari, Pietro Messina, Giuseppe Alessandro Scardina, Aravind Kumar Subramanian

“…A few years back, it used to be a lesser-known entity but has seen an exponential rise in its incorporation into dental practices all around the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) region. Many clinics in the Southeast Asian region have started using online consultations to ensure that patients can be diagnosed or followed up during their treatment. …”
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Identification of Molecular Substrate for the Attenuation of Anxiety: A Step Toward the Development of Better Anti-Anxiety Drugs by Uwe Rudolph

“…Anxiety disorders affect some 19 million people in the U.S. alone, costing $46.6 billion, or one third of the nation’s total mental health bill in 1990. Benzodiazepine tranquilizers like the prototypic diazepam are among the most widely used anti-anxiety agents. …”
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DIFFERING APPROACHES OF THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TOWARDS THE “HISTORY ISSUES” by A. A. Batakova

“…By contrast, incumbent Prime Minister S.Abe, who is also striving to increase the role of Japan in the international arena, shows a gradual departure from the above-mentioned strategy on presumption that a "masochistic" view of Japanese history runs counter to its national interests. His statement on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II promoted a thesis on importance to lift "the burden of apologies". …”
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Global uranium market dynamics: analysis and future implications by Sa’d Shannak, Logan Cochrane, Daria Bobarykina

“…For policymakers, the study stresses the need for strategic interventions, including re-evaluating production and export policies in uranium-rich nations and developing effective strategies to secure supply. …”
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Navigating the energy crisis: automakers’ coopetition strategies under dual credit policy by Yuan Kaifu, Wang Chuanji, Xiao Fang

“…To tackle the energy and climate crises and achieve sustainable development, China has designated the development of new energy vehicles (NEVs) as a national strategy. This paper delves into the coopetition strategy of dual-model automakers under the dual credit policy (DCP) using a subsidy-R&D-production three-stage game model, considering government subsidies and consumer preferences. …”
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The Underpinnings of Ageism: Multiple Mediational Model of Epistemological Style, Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Ageist Attitudes by Richard S. Henry, Paul B. Perrin, Erin R. Smith

“…Participants living in the United States (n = 407) in 49 states and territories were recruited through this online national study and completed surveys of their ageist beliefs, epistemological style, social dominance orientation (SDO), and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). …”
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Estimates of Total Dietary Folic Acid Intake in the Australian Population Following Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification of Bread by Jacinta Dugbaza, Judy Cunningham

“…The folic acid analytical values together with national food consumption data were used to generate estimates of the population’s folic acid intake from fortified foods. …”
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Effects of Repetitive Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment in Patients with Acute Cerebral Infarction: A Pilot Study by Cheng-Hsin Chen, Shao-Yuan Chen, Vinchi Wang, Chao-Ching Chen, Kaw-Chen Wang, Chih-Hao Chen, Yi-Chien Liu, Kuo-Cheng Lu, Ping-Keung Yip, Wen-Ya Ma, Chuan-Chieh Liu

“…Early (around two weeks after onset) and late (one month after onset) outcomes (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, NIHSS scores) and efficacy (changes of NIHSS scores) of HBOT were evaluated. …”
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Microclonal propagation of elite industrial grape cultivars (<i>Vitis vinifera</i> L.) by A. Yu. Fizikova

“…The industrial grape cultivars ‘Malbec’, ‘Merlot’, ‘Chardonnay’, and ‘Riesling’ from the field collection of the All-Russian National Research institute of Viticulture and Winemaking “Magarach” were used for the work.Results. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…That Woolf sees the “Renaissance” in “Anon” as a breaking point is obvious; that she sees it as the promise of a democratic future celebrating the origins of the notion of “novelty” and the birth of a national culture is less evident. The aim of this article is to examine the symbolic murder that Woolf stages in her essay, that of Anon, the anonymous female or male poet, by the invention of the printing press, while reading in context Woolf’s counter-narrative grounded in a singular, historiographical cycle of life and death.…”
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Associations between oxidative balance scores and heart failure among americans: NHANES (2007–2018) by Xiaozhuo Xu, Xueli Wang, Xu Han

“…Methods A cross-sectional investigation was carried out using information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007–2018. …”
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From the guest editors by Urszula Ledzewicz, Eugene Kashdan, Heinz Schättler, Nir Sochen

“…We would like to take theopportunity to thank the Office of International Science andEngineering of the National Science Foundation and the Society forMathematical Biology for their support in bringing US participantsto this event. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Indo-Canadians with and without Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibodies by Hugh James Freeman

“…About one-third were born in Canada, and two-thirds were migrants from India or other countries, particularly East African nations. There was a disease-based and geographically based male predominance. …”
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Knowledge Graph Analysis of Digital Emergency Management Research Based on CiteSpace Visualisation: Comparative Analysis of WOS and CNKI Databases by Rui Nan, Wenjun Zhu, Yejing Xiao

“…Based on the comparative analysis of data from Web of Science (WOS) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases, the research draws the knowledge map by CiteSpace, in order to analyse the spatiotemporal distribution, hotspots, and trends of DEM research. …”
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Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis of an Optimal Control Model for Capital Asset Management by Tolulope Latunde, Olabode Matthias Bamigbola

“…However, the model is applied to a real-life problem of capital asset management to deal with debt crisis of a nation’s economy and the sensitivity analysis to determine the effects of the input factors on the model is investigated such that relative significance and sensitivity of each parameter on the model results are presented using parameter estimations. …”
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La lucha por Guayaquil by Felipe Burbano de Lara

“…The argument will be developed along three fronts: the battle against neoliberalism, the construction of a national state project, and the search for the political hegemony of Alianza País. …”
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PharmacoNER Tagger: a deep learning-based tool for automatically finding chemicals and drugs in Spanish medical texts by Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Felipe Soares, Montserrat Marimon, Martin Krallinger

“…NeuroNER can be considered a competitive baseline system for Spanish drug and CER promoted by the Spanish national plan for the advancement of language technologies (Plan TL).…”
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“Doctor, I Want to Be Like This!”: Exploring Global Beauty Body Standards Through a Multicenter Survey by Damiano Tambasco, MD, Jordi Mir, MD, Alfredo Hoyos, MD, David Sieber, MD, Mauricio Viaro, MD, Jack Zamora, MD, Carlos Manfrim, MD, Edwin Zara, MD, Federica Tomaselli, MD, Christian Montes, MD, Miriam Isola, MD, Maria De Martino, MD, Pier Camillo Parodi, MD, Roberta Albanese, MD, Mario Mendanha, MD

“…In addition, we assessed how patients’ aesthetic preferences are shaped more by the surgical centers they choose than by their nationality. Results:. Our findings indicate that globalization has diversified perceptions of beauty, highlighting personal and cultural differences. …”
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The evolution of ASEAN's language policies: A diachronic analysis of official documents and website. by Chen Zhang, Ronghui Zhao, Yan Huang

“…While the analysis of language policies in international organizations has received increasing attention, the evolution of language policies in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been understudied. Existing research on ASEAN's language policies has concentrated on its official language, often overlooking the language practices and ideologies embedded within these policies. …”
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EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE READING STRATEGY TRAINING ON READING PERFORMANCE OF EFL STUDENTS: A CASE OF A HIGH SCHOOL IN VIETNAM by Lạc Minh Thư, Khâu Hoàng Anh, Nguyễn Thị Phương Nam

“…Reading can be seen as an essential skill that language learners need to be good at, for it is one of the means of transferring many pieces of valuable knowledge in many fields of the world to many people and nations. One of the common barriers for many Vietnamese students studying English as a Foreign Language to acquiring reading skills is reading anxiety. …”
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