Dual Role of Bacteria in Carcinoma: Stimulation and Inhibition by Suad A Al-Hilu, Wisam H Al-Shujairi

“…These changes come from several reasons, including smoking, drinking alcohol, sunlight, exposure to chemical or physical factors, and finally chronic infection with microorganisms, including bacteria. …”
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Hierarchical Stratification for Spatial Sampling and Digital Mapping of Soil Attributes by Derlei D. Melo, Isabella A. Cunha, Lucas R. Amaral

“…We evaluated two sampling densities in two agricultural fields in Southeast Brazil: a sparse density (one sample per 2.5 hectares), typical in Precision Agriculture, and a denser grid (one sample per hectare), which usually provides reasonable mapping accuracy. For each density, we applied three designs: a regular grid and grids with 25% and 50% guided points. …”
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A biomechanical study of locking spongious screws and failure rates are higher than expected in plate fixation by Fatih Parmaksizoglu, Onur Cetin, Sinan Kilic, Yener Ince

“…There are many forms of failure in the fracture fixation of locking plates, and screw pull-out is one of the main failure reasons. In this study, we aim to investigate pull-out failure in locking plates using locking spongious screws. …”
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Community-based participatory process evaluation based on the Reach, Quality Control, Fidelity, Satisfaction, and Management (RQFSM) model in Nevada: A study protocol by Asma Awan, Manoj Sharma

“…This integration will be particularly crucial in places where access to reasonably priced healthcare is hampered by cultural, geographic, or economic restrictions. …”
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What happens when you stop using the combined contraceptive pill? A qualitative study protocol on consequences and supply needs for women who discontinued the combined contraceptiv... by Matthias Richter, Liane Schenk, Gertraud Stadler, Jana Niemann

“…Consequently, discontinuing combined oral contraceptives (COCs) as a conscious decision for reasons other than desired pregnancy has become increasingly common for menstruating individuals. …”
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Local Self-Governments in Hungary: Recent Changes through Central European Lenses by Csaba Lentner, Szilard Hegedus

“…The article presents detailed reasons for the atypical nature of Hungarian local self-government indebtedness and the factors underlying this unfavourable process. …”
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The modulating effect of coat color mutations on the generation and neutralization of reactive oxygen species in the Аmerican mink (Neovison vison) as a model by S. N. Sergina, V. A. Ilyukha, I. V. Baishnikova, T. N. Ilyina

“…Cluster analysis, presented in a combined dendrogram, showed that royal pastel (b/b) and sapphire (a/a р/р) minks, the farthest from standard (+/+), had the greatest modulating effects. It is reasonable to suggest that such effects contributed to the genetic plasticity of American mink in the course of colonization of North America and then during mink introduction in Northern Eurasia and South America.…”
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The Effect of Common Knowledge Construction Model-Based Instruction on 5th Grade Students' Conceptual Understanding of Biodiversity by Veysel Haydari, Bayram Costu

“…Analyzing of BCUT data that require two-tier classification, the answers of the first tier of each question are provided by tabulating the percentages of the reasons chosen for these answers (the second tier). …”
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Diversity of harmful and beneficial insects on faba bean, Vicia faba L. in Assiut Governorate, Northern Upper Egypt by Hend O. Mohamed, Hassan F. Dahi, Asmaa H. Mahmoud

“…Their seeds are rich sources of proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins for human food and animal consumption. For these reasons, improving and increasing the cultivated area of faba beans are essentially needed to achieve self-sufficiency. …”
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Time in Russian and Japanese Lingo-cultures by N. E. Gorelova

“…These features are interrelated and interdependent, therefore it is reasonable to combine them under the title "time attitude." …”
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Asking an AI for salary negotiation advice is a matter of concern: Controlled experimental perturbation of ChatGPT for protected and non-protected group discrimination on a context... by R Stuart Geiger, Flynn O'Sullivan, Elsie Wang, Jonathan Lo

“…Empirically, we find many reasons why ChatGPT as a multi-model platform is not robust and consistent enough to be trusted for such a task. …”
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The prevalence of persistence metopic suture (metopisim) among Kurdish populations of Erbil city. by Soran M Karim, Othman Omar, Muyesser Nuri, Tuqa Yousif Al-Sharef

“…Methods: This retrospective/radiological study was conducted on conveniently selected PA (Caldwell view) plain radiographic images of 613 Kurdish individuals of mixed genders, ages ranging between 10 to 64 years and images were taken from the periods between April 2020 to May 2022 for various medical reasons but mostly were for assessment of blunt head trauma. …”
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Multiscale Method for Seismic Response of Near-Source Sites by Shutao Li, Jingbo Liu, Zhou Yang, Xin Bao, Fei Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Mohsen Saleh Asheghabadi

“…Finally, with the help of local elements with special shapes to realize the grid transition of different scales, a small-scale model with reasonable soil-underground structure interaction is established, and the seismic response of the overall model can be effectively solved. …”
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Tasks of the National Police of Ukraine as a subject of implementation of the preventive function of the state by I. V. Ishchenko

“…It was emphasized that the general tasks of the Department of Preventive Activities of the National Police of Ukraine include: ensuring public safety and public order; protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms, as well as the interests of society and the state; providing, within the limits established by law, services to assist persons who, for personal, economic, social reasons or due to emergencies, need such assistance. …”
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Influence of transient conditions on thermal comfort evaluations: Field study in university buildings by Keovathana Run, Franck Cévaër, Jean-François Dubé

“…These findings suggested that, in field studies, data collected from short-term thermal experience performed reasonably well in estimating comfort temperatures. …”
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Seasonal changes in the fatty acid profile of Cystoseira crinita Duby, 1830, distributed on the Sinop Peninsula Coast of the Black Sea by Melek Ersoy Karaçuha, Gökhan Yıldız, Ali Karaçuha

“…These results of our study showed that the seasons have a significant effect on the fatty acid profile and the fatty acids in C. crinita may have important contributions to human nutrition. For this reasons, it is thought that it is extremely important to reveal the nutritional content of different seaweed species that spread in the seas of Turkey and to observe the seasonal changes in their contents.…”
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Academic Philosophy as a Way of Life by Eli Kramer, Marta Faustino, Hélder Telo

“…Indeed, Hadot is not just describing what philosophy was in the past, but also evaluating what it is in the present and considering what it could become beyond his (and our) time. This is one of the reasons that made his approach so popular and led to so many fruitful developments in the field of PWL. …”
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Russian population’s political activities in the first third of the XX century on the example of the Peasant Union creation movement by G. S. Chuwardin, V. G. Ivanov, O. A. Nesterchuk, V. F. Nitsevich, O. A. Sudorgin

“…The article studies peasantry’s political activities development in Russia in the first third of the XX century. The reasons and the essence of the Peasant Union in the revolutionary events of 1905–1907 and 1917, the Civil War and in the period of the new economic policy have been revealed. …”
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A ternary hybrid model for analysis of enhanced heat transport in non-Newtonian nanofluid over cylindrical geometry with effect of infinite shear rate viscosity by Hakim AL Garalleh

“…Regression values are reasonable in different scenarios for all subcases, which reflects the best approximations and demonstrates the linear link between input and output data. …”
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Scenario construction and evolutionary analysis of nonconventional public health emergencies based on Bayesian networks by Yutao Zhu, Qing Yang, Lingmei Fu, Chun Cai, Jinmei Wang, Ling He

“…Finally, the key scenario nodes and scenario evolution process were analyzed in combination with a corresponding emergency response assessment of each scenario by experts.MethodsDempster–Shafer (DS) theory and Bayesian networks (BNs) were applied for data reasoning, and a spread-derived coupled scenario–response theoretical model of NCPHEs for major public health emergencies was constructed. …”
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