Relative Importance of Mode of Administration in Treatment Preferences among Plaque Psoriasis Patients in the United States by Steven R. Feldman, Anders Holmen Moeller, Sandra T. Erntoft Idemyr, Juan Marcos González

“…These findings support previous research regarding the importance of treatment burden relative to outcomes in psoriasis and emphasize the importance of individual patient preferences in determining treatment strategy.…”
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Ensemble Learning for Urban Flood Segmentation Through the Fusion of Multi-Spectral Satellite Data with Water Spectral Indices Using Row-Wise Cross Attention by Han Xu, Alan Woodley

“…The CA-fused datasets are then fed into our proposed ensemble model, which is constructed using four classic ML models. A soft voting strategy averages their binary predictions to determine the final classification for each pixel. …”
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Research progress on solid slow-release carbon source for enhancing wastewater nitrogen removal by XU Huchun, YANG Hui, YU Ting, ZHANG Junbo, CHEN Zhongtai, WANG Siya, SUN Yuxin, XU Guangjing

“…By overcoming these obstacles, the paper seeks to promote the sustainable development of wastewater treatment technologies, strengthen resource recycling, which not only helps to protect the environment but also conforms to China's overall strategy of promoting green development and building an ecological civilization.…”
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α-Copaene is a potent repellent against the Asian Citrus Psyllid Diaphorina citri by Rodrigo Facchini Magnani, Haroldo Xavier Linhares Volpe, Rejane Angélica Grigio Luvizotto, Tatiana Aparecida Mulinari, Thiago Trevisoli Agostini, Jairo Kenupp Bastos, Victor Pena Ribeiro, Michele Carmo-Sousa, Nelson Arno Wulff, Leandro Peña, Walter S. Leal

“…There is growing evidence that the push-pull strategy is suitable to partially mitigate HLB by repelling ACP with transgenic plants engineered to produce repellents and attracting the vector to plants with a minimal disease transmission rate. …”
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Pneumococcal vaccination in elderly care facilities in Japan: A cross-sectional, web-based survey by Youngju Kim, Hironori Taniguchi, Kotoba Okuyama, Junpei Kamimoto, Kenji Kawakami

“…The most common reason for their willingness to recommend the pneumococcal vaccine was that it is an effective disease prevention strategy (83.3%; 65/78) and for their unwillingness to recommend the pneumococcal vaccine was the inability to understand the effectiveness of the vaccine (43.6%; 17/39). …”
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Preparation and Photocatalytic Performances of WO3/TiO2 Composite Nanofibers by Xiuping Han, Binghua Yao, Keying Li, Wenjing Zhu, Xuyuan Zhang

“…The use of sunlight for photocatalytic oxidation is an ideal strategy, but it is limited by factors such as insufficient light absorption intensity of the photocatalyst and easy recombination of photogenerated electron holes. …”
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Ecotope-Based Entomological Surveillance and Molecular Xenomonitoring of Multidrug Resistant Malaria Parasites in Anopheles Vectors by Prapa Sorosjinda-Nunthawarasilp, Adisak Bhumiratana

“…MDR malaria risk situations reflect consequences of the national policy and strategy as this influences the ongoing national-level or subnational-level implementation of malaria control strategies in endemic GMS countries. …”
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An Improved Robust Principal Component Analysis Model for Anomalies Detection of Subway Passenger Flow by Xuehui Wang, Yong Zhang, Hao Liu, Yang Wang, Lichun Wang, Baocai Yin

“…Thus, detecting anomaly event, mining its propagation law, and revealing its potential impact are important and helpful for improving management strategy; e.g., subway emergency management can predict flow change under the condition of knowing specific policy and estimate traffic impact brought by some big events such as vocal concerts and ball games. …”
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An intelligent incentive-based demand response program for exhaustive environment constrained techno-economic analysis of microgrid system by Bishwajit Dey, Gulshan Sharma, Pitshou N. Bokoro, Soham Dutta

“…The results achieved for all the scenarios demonstrate the suitability and effectiveness of implementing the suggested IBDR strategy in terms of cost savings. According to numerical results reported, the generating cost decreased by 10–13% with the inclusion of IBDR. …”
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Design of a public health emergency equipment system for bioterrorism events in public places based on literature review, scenario analysis and Delphi consultation by Xiaowen SUN, Yongzhong ZHANG, Chao ZHAO, Tianyang DENG, Song BAI

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Virus-Mimicking Polymer Nanocomplexes Co-Assembling HCV E1E2 and Core Proteins with TLR 7/8 Agonist—Synthesis, Characterization, and In Vivo Activity by Thomas R. Fuerst, Alexander Marin, Sarah Jeong, Liudmila Kulakova, Raman Hlushko, Katrina Gorga, Eric A. Toth, Nevil J. Singh, Alexander K. Andrianov

“…Supramolecular co-assembly and co-presentation of the HCV envelope E1E2 heterodimer complex and core protein presents an attractive vaccine design strategy for achieving effective humoral and cellular immunity. …”
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Inhibition of high glucose-induced cardiac fibroblast activation: an effective treatment for diabetic cardiomyopathy using Chinese herbal medicine by Bin Wan, Jing Hu, Yue Luo, Yutong Han, Yaowen Zhang, Qinchuan Huang, Yulin Leng, Chunguang Xie, Chunguang Xie

“…Therefore, inhibiting the activation of CFs may become a new strategy for the treatment of DCM. Previous studies have shown that Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has potential in the treatment of DCM. …”
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Modern approaches to digital product development in the conditions of market variability by E. V. Vasilieva, E. A. Morev

“…Currently, the interest in design thinking in the world has made it possible to add many techniques and visual schemes that can solve various kinds of problems, including for building a strategy to achieve the company’s goals, its corporate spirit and the development of creative skills of its employees. …”
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Chitosan nanoencapsulation of Turbinaria triquetra metabolites in the management of podocyturia in nephrotoxic rats by Abdullah Abdel-Aal, Abdel-Aziz A. F., Zakaria El-khayat, Nadia Mohamed, Merit Rostom, Emad Tolba, Nihal Galal El-Din Shams El-Din, Walaa S. A. Mettwally, Abdelhamid Aly Hamdy

“…The current study revealed that chitosan nanoencapsulation showed ameliorative effects against podocyturia and cisplatin nephrotoxicity in rats compared to free extracts, offering a new therapeutic strategy for attenuating podocyturia and CDDP-induced nephrotoxicity.…”
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Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the Middle East and North Africa: A Systematic Review by Mazin Barry

“…This systematic review reveals a high prevalence of LTBI in the MENA region; enhanced LTBI surveillance and prompt infection prevention steps are urgently needed to prevent active tuberculosis, this would help achieve the World Health Organization End TB Strategy 2035, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 target in the MENA region.…”
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Tppp3 is a novel molecule for retinal ganglion cell identification and optic nerve regeneration by Mishal Rao, Ziming Luo, Chia-Chun Liu, Chi-Yu Chen, Shining Wang, Michael Nahmou, Bogdan Tanasa, Aman Virmani, Leah Byrne, Jeffrey L. Goldberg, José-Alain Sahel, Kun-Che Chang

“…Our findings advance regenerative medicine by developing a new therapeutic strategy for RGC neuroprotection and axon regeneration.…”
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MILP Modeling and Optimization of Multi-Objective Three-Stage Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem With Assembly and AGV Transportation by Shiming Yang, Leilei Meng, Saif Ullah, Biao Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Peng Duan

“…In the MPCEA, we design a strategy to select relatively high-quality individuals to enhance the algorithm’s convergence speed, and design a multi-objective variable-neighborhood search (MOVNS) method to improve the local search ability. …”
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Isolation of <i>Bacillus paralichenifromis</i> BL-1 and Its Potential Application in Producing Bioflocculants Using Phenol Saline Wastewater by Tao Zhang, Rongkai Guo, Fanshu Liu, Lei Zhang, Linxiao Li, Rongfei Zhang, Chaogang Shao, Junbo Zhou, Fan Ding, Lan Yu

“…Microorganism-based biodegradation represents an environmentally friendly and cost-effective strategy for phenol removal. In this study, we isolated a bioflocculant-producing <i>Bacillus paralicheniformis</i> BL-1 that is capable of phenol degradation in high-salinity conditions. …”
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‘Obviously, because it’s a tear it won’t necessarily mend itself’: a qualitative study of patient experiences and expectations of treatment for a meniscal tear by Charles E Hutchinson, Nicholas Parsons, Imran Ahmed, Andrew James Price, Andrew Metcalfe, Sophie Staniszewska, Chetan Khatri, Fatema G Dhaif

“…The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and expectations of treatment of patients aged 18–55 years with a meniscal tear of the knee.Design Qualitative study involving semistructured interviews.Setting Participants were selected from nine secondary care centres in England.Participants 10 participants diagnosed with a meniscal tear were recruited from the Meniscal Tear Outcome cohort study using a purposive sampling strategy until data saturation was achieved. Semistructured interviews were conducted between April and May 2021 and thematic analysis was used to identify key patient experiences.Results Themes identified relate to the broad areas of symptoms, clinical consultation and experience of treatment. …”
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Implementation and Tuning of Momentum-Based Controller for Standing Balance in a Lower-Limb Exoskeleton With Paraplegic User by A. Vallinas Prieto, A. Q. L. Keemink, E. H. F. van Asseldonk, H. van der Kooij

“…This work presents a viable control strategy for torque-controlled light-weight under-actuated LLEs to keep the balance of paraplegic users during stance, which is a necessary starting point towards autonomous balance control during gait.…”
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