Lived experiences of life with newly diagnosed advanced cancer – a qualitative interview study by Johanna Swenne, Ricko Damberg Nissen, Torben Frøstrup Hansen, Lars Henrik Jensen, Jens Søndergaard, Mette Stie

“…Data were generated through semi-structured, in-depth interviews exploring patients’ experiences of lived life, their needs and wishes. …”
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Conceptual Perspectives on State Fragility by D. P. Elagin

“…A better understanding of the historical context of state fragility and stricter identification criteria for the subgroup of severely and chronically fragile states allows identifying some structural explanatory factors such as rigidity of pre-independence colonial state borders, heterogeneity of population, and preferences that constraints collective action and small economic size. …”
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Exploring novel and potent glycogen synthase kinase-3β inhibitors through systematic drug designing approach by Shabir Ahmad Ganai, Suma Mohan, Shahid Ahmad Padder

“…This comprehensive study used multiple assays in tandem in order to explore the most potent GSK-3β inhibitor. Following structural similarity screening, 135 molecular docking and 135 standard MM-GBSA experiments were performed using AZD1080, a known inhibitor as standard. …”
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A bioinformatic approach to characterize the vitellogenin receptor and the low density lipoprotein receptor superfamily in the newt Cynops orientalis by Chiara Spinsante, Federica Carducci, Elisa Carotti, Adriana Canapa, Davide Bizzaro, Maria Assunta Biscotti, Marco Barucca

“…Here, we report the characterization of VTGR in the amphibian Cynops orientalis. The secondary structure analyses and the expression profiles obtained from hepatic and gonadal tissues of C. orientalis supported the role of VTGR as vitellogenin oocyte membrane receptor in this species. …”
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Trend Analysis of Relative Sea Level Changes in the Aegean Sea with Copula Functions by Ahmet Yavuzdoğan, Emine Tanır Kayıkçı

“…Copula functions, which are frequently used in many fields such as statistics, economics, actuarial analysis, meteorology and hydrology, have a correlation structure that reflects linear and nonlinear relationships and can show local dependencies. …”
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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SERVICE FIRMS’ PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA by Moruff Sanjo Oladimeji, Adebiyi Julius Abosede, Benneth Uchenna Eze

“…The study employed a survey research design through the administration of a structured questionnaire on 636 employees of 21 service firms, purposively selected. …”
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Examining the Intergovernmental and Interorganizational Network of Responding to Major Accidents for Improving the Emergency Management System in China by Pan Tang, Haojia Chen, Shiqi Shao

“…The SNA indicators are used to measure quantitatively the network structure at the levels of the whole network, subnetwork, and node. …”
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Consequences of violence experienced in childhood by Danutė Klokmanienė, Loreta Klokmanienė, Audronė Rimkuvienė

“…Empirical data were analysed after conducting qualitative research based on a semi-structured interview, which allowed a better understanding of an individual, delving into her problems and clarifying the need for assistance and its importance in her personal life. …”
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Prevalence and Determinants of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Lower Extremity Amputations in Three Selected Tertiary Hospitals in Ghana by Ambrose Atosona, Christopher Larbie

“…Subjects were selected through simple random sampling from three selected tertiary hospitals in Ghana. A structured questionnaire was used to document information on sociodemographic, medical history, lifestyle, and physical characteristics of subjects. …”
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Metastasis Leher Tersembunyi pada Karsinoma Lidah T1-T2 by Taufiqurrahman ., Camelia Herdini

“…Bilateral neck dissection should be performed in elective treatment of tumours involving midline structure.<br />Keywords : carcinoma of tongue, occult nodal metastasis, supraomohyoid neck dissection</p>…”
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An attention based residual U-Net with swin transformer for brain MRI segmentation by Tazkia Mim Angona, M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal

“…Residual blocks are introduced in the U-Net structure as encoder and decoder to avoid vanishing gradient problems and improve feature recovery. …”
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Unequal loss protection scheme using a quality prediction model in a Wi-Fi broadcasting system by Dong Hyun Kim, Jong Deok Kim

“…This algorithm was used as a new metric to predict video quality deterioration, and an unequal loss protection structure was designed, implemented, and verified. …”
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Patient Involvement in Decisions regarding Emergency Department Discharge: A Multimethod Study by Marie Louise Thise Rasmussen, Kirsten Lomborg, Kasper Karmark Iversen, Hanne Konradsen

“…The interactions reflected an organizational structure in which the conditions for patient involvement were limited. …”
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A novel electrical rock typing approach to improve estimating formation resistivity factor in carbonate rocks by Milad Mohammadi, Mohammad Emami Niri, Abbas Bahroudi, Aboozar Soleymanzadeh, Shahin Kord

“…Abstract Estimating petrophysical properties in carbonate rocks is challenging due to their complex pore structure, which leads to scattered data when analyzing the relationship between formation resistivity factor (F) and porosity. …”
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PEDOT:PSS polymer functionalized carbon nanotubes integrated with graphene oxide and titanium dioxide counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells by A M Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan

“…The conductivity and structural property of MWCNT have been tailored by blending it with PEDOT:PSS. …”
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Protective effects of Euphorbia heterophylla against testicular degeneration in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats in relation to phytochemical profile. by Ahmed M Nagy, Heba A Fahmy, Mohamed F Abdel-Hameed, Rehab F Taher, Alaa M Ali, Mohamed M Amin, Sherif M Afifi, Tuba Esatbeyoglu, Mohamed A Farag, Abdelsamed I Elshamy

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>The objective of this study was to profile E. heterophylla ethanol extract (EH-EtOH) and elucidate its protective role in oxidative stress, relieving inflammatory action of hyperglycemia-induced testicular degeneration and restoring the normal histological structure with physiological properties of testicular tissue in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced DM. …”
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Study on transportation and stress distribution of the overburden rock of gob side entry with cutting top and unloading pressure by Yunlin Shuai, Zhenqian Ma, Xiaolei Feng

“…The results show that: ① the establishment of lateral suspension mechanical model analysis found that, with the increase of coal seam dip angle, the reduction of the coal pillar bearing capacity before and after cutting the top gradually decreases, the dip angle of coal seam is 30°, Compared with the reduction of coal pillar bearing capacity before roof cutting is 2164 KN; with the increase of the overburden rock caving angle, the reduction of the coal pillar bearing capacity before and after cutting the top increases continuously, the caving angle of overburden rock is 63°, Compared with the reduction of coal pillar bearing capacity before roof cutting is 2218 KN. ② After the implementation of roof cutting and cutting off the overhanging roof structure, the stress of the surrounding rock of the coal pillar gang in the roadway has significantly decreased by 18.87%, and the stress of surrounding rock of roadway solid coal gang, roof and floor is reduced by 8.48%,5.79% and 4.81% respectively, which relieved the concentration in the surrounding rock stress of the roadway and improves the stress condition of the roadway. …”
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Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial: Integrating the 'Time-limited Trial' in the emergency department. by Tadayuki Hashimoto, Rachel K Putman, Anthony F Massaro, Youkie Shiozawa, Katherine McGough, Kerry K McCabe, Judith A Linden, Wei Wang, Shan W Liu, Maura Kennedy, Thanh H Neville, Jacqueline M Kruser, Rebecca L Sudore, Mara A Schonberg, James A Tulsky, Kei Ouchi

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Time-limited trial (TLT) is a structured approach between clinicians and seriously ill patients or their surrogates to discuss patients' values and preferences, prognosis, and shared decision-making to use specific therapies for a prespecified period of time in the face of prognostic uncertainty. …”
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Factors contributing to helminth prevalence after repeated mass administration of medicines in Anambra State, Nigeria by Ogechukwu B. Aribodor, Christopher Okaka, Sammy Sam-Wobo, Annick Bikoumou, Emmanuel Obikwelu

“…A total of 1,046 pupils aged 5 to 16 years were enrolled, with Kato-Katz and urine filtration methods used for faecal and urine sample analysis. A structured questionnaire was administered to 243 people to assess the contextual factors. …”
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Effect of Pretreatment and High Hydrostatic Pressure on Soluble Dietary Fiber in Lotus Root Residues by Yanyang Gu, Liying Niu, Jiangfeng Song, Chunju Liu, Zhongyuan Zhang, Chunquan Liu, Dajing Li, Lixia Xiao

“…Results showed that FLRR + W obtained the highest SDF yield and presented a honeycomb structure which was not observed in other LRR samples. …”
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