Current considerations on Helicobacter pylori infection in children: A comprehensive review of the available evidence by M. Rogalidou, A. Papadopoulou

“…In children, severe disease associated with H. pylori infection is rare. Standard triple therapy, ideally prescribed according to susceptibility to H. pylori, is still the most commonly used form of therapy. …”
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Communities & Crowds: a toolkit for hybrid volunteering with cultural heritage collections by Geoffrey Belknap, Samantha Blickhan, Lynn Wray, Alex Fitzpatrick, Lincoln Anderson, Lawrence Brooks, Jacob Fox, Paulien ten Hagen, Matt Hick, Adrian Hine, Maureen Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Rebecca Smith, Ruth Quinn

“… This toolkit outlines the steps taken by the Communities & Crowds project to give ownership to local volunteers to identify photographs that reflect their interests; to digitise them to museum standards; and to share these collections with a global audience via an online crowdsourcing project. …”
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Commentary to F-GP1, a Novel PET Tracer Designed for High-Sensitivity, Low-Background Detection of Thrombi: Imaging Activated Platelets in Clots—Are We Getting There? by Andrew W. Stephens MD, PhD, Norman Koglin PhD, Ludger M. Dinkelborg PhD

“…Thrombus formation can lead to heart attacks, stroke and pulmonary embolism, which are major causes of mortality. Current standard diagnostic imaging methods detect anatomic abnormalities such as vascular flow impairment but have limitations. …”
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Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements by A. Adelmann, J. Alonso, W. A. Barletta, J. M. Conrad, M. H. Shaevitz, J. Spitz, M. Toups, L. A. Winslow

“…Examples of the value of the high precision beams for pursuing Beyond Standard Model interactions are reviewed. New results on a combined DAEδALUS—Hyper-K search for CP violation that achieve errors on the mixing matrix parameter of 4° to 12° are presented.…”
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Reviewing the lesson of "Historical Geography of Transoxiana" by Mohsen Rahmati

“…The positive points of the book include the importance of the subject and the different content processing of the book, but the its drawbacks include ambiguity of the issue, the inconsistency of the title and the content, the lack of use of all the major sources, the lack of scrutiny and the necessary attention in using new research, failure to follow scientific standards in formulating the book, and the existence of content and edition mistakes in the text.…”
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ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL AND SUSTAINABLE VARIABLES: INSIGHTS FROM GRAPHICAL GAUSSIAN MODEL by CARMINE DA FERMO, PAOLA MUSILE TANZI, MARCO NICOLOSI, ELENA STANGHELLINI

“…Our analysis shows that companies with a higher level of compliance with ESG standards have lower assets’ volatility than others and are not penalized in terms of returns. …”
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Role of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in the Management of Merkel Cell Carcinoma by Eric P. Arruda, Kevin M. Higgins

“…Since its discovery in 1972, treatment paradigms have shifted, with no consensus on optimal management strategies. Currently, standard of care includes surgical intervention to the primary and locoregional site with adjuvant radiotherapy for high-risk disease. …”
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Comparative Study on the Physicochemical and Volatile Compounds of Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen Honey From Guizhou, China, and Honey From Different Floral Sources by Haoxiang Xu, Qingfeng Wang, Ting Li, Bo Yu, Yuanfeng Zhao, Ran Jiang, Jing Rui Zhou, Juan Li, Lu Lei

“…The results indicated that all honey samples met the standards of the Chinese honey industry. Using GC × GC-TOF MS technology, 927 volatile substances were detected in Dalbergia odorifera T. …”
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RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY AND DESIRABILITY FUNCTION AS STATISTICAL TOOLS IN THE OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTROCOAGULATION PROCESS IN SURFACE WATER by Efraim Lázaro Reis, Maria Paulina Mendonza Combatt, Karina Esther Vasquez Sanjuan, Antônio Augusto Neves, Regina Célia Santos Mendonça

“…In order to comply with the esthetic / organoleptic standard stipulated for this stage of the process, the characterization of the three types of water studied must have color < 15 uH, COD < 18 mg L-1 O2 and turbidity < 5 NTU). …”
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Beamforming Transmission in IEEE 802.11ac under Time-Varying Channels by Heejung Yu, Taejoon Kim

“…The IEEE 802.11ac wireless local area network (WLAN) standard has adopted beamforming (BF) schemes to improve spectral efficiency and throughput with multiple antennas. …”
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INFLUENCE ANALYSIS OF SMALL AMPLITUDE LOAD CYCLE TO FATIGUE LIFE CALCULATION BASED ON FLIGHT PARAMETERS by XU KeJun, WANG YongQi, XIA YiRui, QIN HaiQin

“…Analyzed the speed cycles distribution of a certain type of aeroengine,calculated the influence of small speed cycles which amplitude is lower than 10% of high pressure rotor speed by Miner’s linear cumulative damage theory,compared the influence of different removal methods to damage calculation results and pointed the advantages and disadvantages of each method; Based on EGD-3 standards,put forward the extraction method of removing small cycles and verify its rationality by calculation,then define the sensitivity factor of removing small speed cycles in fatigue calculation as 0. 3% for a certain type of aeroengine.…”
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Case studies of AI policy development in Africa by Kadijatou Diallo, Jonathan Smith, Chinasa T. Okolo, Dorcas Nyamwaya, Jonas Kgomo, Richard Ngamita

“…Through case studies of four African nations of diverse geographic and economic dimensions, we identify nuances missed by global assessments and offer high-level policy considerations for how states can best improve their AI readiness standards and prepare their societies to capture the benefits of AI.…”
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The Nature of High-Temperature Peaks of Thermally Stimulated Luminescence in NaCl:Li and KCl:Na Crystals by Kuanyshbek Shunkeyev, Shynar Sagimbayeva, Adelya Kenzhebayeva, Zarina Serikkaliyeva

“…Integral light sums of high-temperature TSL in NaCl:Li and KCl:Na crystals are significantly higher than that of a standard LiF:Mg, Ti dosimetric crystal (a TLD-100 luminescent dosimeter).…”
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Copper Removal from Electroplating Wastewater by Coprecipitation of Copper-Based Supramolecular Materials: Preparation and Application Study by De-Kui Bai, Quan-Hong Ying, Ni Wang, Jin-Hui Lin

“…With these conditions, the residual copper in the electroplating wastewater satisfies national emission standards and wastewater handling capacity of up to 30 mL can be achieved. …”
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Removal of Heavy-Metal Ions from Aqueous Solutions Using Activated Carbons: Effect of Adsorbent Surface Modification with Carbon Nanotubes by A. Burakov, I. Romantsova, A. Kucherova, A. Tkachev

“…Besides, the adsorption behaviour of these metal ions on the standard and nanomodified ACs was determined based on adsorption isotherms. …”
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High-Order Sliding Mode Control for Networked Control System with Dynamic Noncooperative Game Scheduling by Weixuan Wang, Shousheng Xie, Bin Zhou, Jingbo Peng, Lei Wang, Hao Wang, Yu Zhang

“…Firstly, by using the Jordan standard state space equation of the research object, the three elements of state noncooperative game were built, and the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibrium solution were verified. …”
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A Critiqe of Sociology of Gender with an Islamic Approach as a Textbook by Somayye Hajiesmaeili, Reza Habibi

“…Research findings indicate that this book, despite having significant advantages like scientific strength, innovation, content validity and fluent writing, suffers from serious problems in methodology, content, structure and organization of courses, and it is far from good standard.…”
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A Characterization of the Diffuse Galactic Emissions in the Anticenter of the Galaxy by L. Fauvet, J. F. Macías-Pérez, S. R. Hildebrandt, F.-X. Désert

“…After subtraction of the thermal dust component, a mixture of standard synchrotron and free-free emissions does not account for the residuals at these low frequencies. …”
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An Innovative Direct NF-FF Transformation Technique with Helicoidal Scanning by Francesco D’Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo Migliozzi

“…Although the number of near-field data employed by the developed technique is slightly increased with respect to that required by rigorously applying the nonredundant sampling representation on the helix, it is still remarkably smaller than that needed by the standard near-field-far-field transformation with cylindrical scanning. …”
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Blast Protection of Unreinforced Masonry Walls: A State-of-the-Art Review by Lucas Lantz, Joshua Maynez, Wesley Cook, Claudia Mara Dias Wilson

“…Since there is no widely implemented standard for blast loading test procedures, direct comparisons between the efficiencies of the mitigation techniques proposed are not always feasible. …”
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