Serum Concentrations of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta 1 in Predicting the Occurrence of Diabetic Retinopathy in Juvenile Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Katarzyna Zorena, Ewa Malinowska, Dorota Raczyńska, Małgorzata Myśliwiec, Krystyna Raczyńska

“…The study included 81 children and adolescents with T1DM and 19 control subjects. All study participants had biochemical parameters examined, underwent an eye examination, and 24-hour blood pressure monitoring. …”
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Social risks of e-learning in a digital society by E. V. Chmykhova

“…The characteristic of risk types has been made in relation to such characteristics of modern society as the complexity of self-organization processes, the open nature and non-linearity of transformation processes.The understanding of various types of risks has been explained, that are associated with the problems of implementing the goals of humanistic educational policy; incomplete integration of methodological tools for e-learning; the break in educational traditions; conflicts between subjects of educational relations; the lack of adaptability of digital technologies to the content of social interaction; the complexity of the nature of distance learning technologies in the modern supercomplex socio-global system; impact on the formalization of learning new types of rationality; objectively inherent in modern society’s global social risks; conflicts of social movements with the interests of the subjects realizing the functions of education; with the indivisibility of the security of complex society in different spheres and levels of social interaction. …”
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Reversible data hiding in encrypted images based on additive homomorphic encryption and multi-MSB embedding by Wenqian XIAO, Gaobo YANG, Dewang WANG, Ming XIA

“…Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images (RDHEI) combines image encryption and reversible data hiding to improve the security and information transmission efficiency for the network transmission of images.In RDHEI, the conventional bit-by-bit encryption destroys the spatial correlation in an original image and has side effects on the preservation of embedding spaces.An approach for RHDEI was proposed, which utilized additive homomorphic encryption and a multi-MSB (Most Significant Bit) embedding strategy to create room within the encryption process.The original image was divided into non-overlapped blocks, and each block was subjected to the same key for additive homomorphic encryption.This helped transfer the pixel correlation within an original block to the encrypted image block as much as possible.To enhance security, the encrypted image was further subjected to an Arnold transformation on a block-by-block basis.The decision of whether data will be embedded in a block and the embedding capacity were determined by the pixel differences within the block and the predicted values.When a block was selected for embedding, a small number of LSBs (Least Significant Bits) were used to store the prediction differences, ensuring reversibility.The redundant multi-MSBs were embedded with secret information by bit replacement.For the possible errors caused by multi-MSBs prediction, an embedding position selection strategy was designed by vacating MSBs in terms of the values of prediction errors, then more MSBs were reserved for those pixels with less prediction errors.During decryption, the secret information can be accurately extracted from the multiple MSBs of the pixels in a block, and the image content can be losslessly recovered using the number of embedded multi-MSBs, predicted values, and prediction differences.Experimental results on the BOWS-2 image dataset demonstrate that the average embedding capacity is improved to 2.58 bit/pixel, surpassing existing methods.…”
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Les silences du droit pénal : une mécanique du chaos ? by Djoheur Zerouki

“…Moreover, as Karima Lazali writes, "the part of history that is denied by politics is passed down from generation to generation, creating psychological mechanisms that keep the subject ashamed of his or her existence. The emancipation of the subject requires the liberation of the collective, which is also structured around the law and its narrative.…”
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Intraocular Pressure, Axial Length, and Refractive Changes after Phacoemulsification and Trabeculectomy for Open-Angle Glaucoma by Alina Popa-Cherecheanu, Raluca Claudia Iancu, Leopold Schmetterer, Ruxandra Pirvulescu, Valeria Coviltir

“…The changes in refraction, intraocular pressure, and axial eye length were analysed after surgery. In group A (21 subjects), phacoemulsification was performed before trabeculectomy, and in group B (27 subjects), trabeculectomy was performed before phacoemulsification with a minimum time span between interventions of 6 months. …”
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Comparison of IgA Endomysium Antibody and IgA Tissue Transglutaminase Antibody in Celiac Disease by Helen R Gillett, Hugh J Freeman

“…The aim of this study was to compare the assays used to measure IgAEmAand IgA tTG antibody in patients with celiac disease and disease control subjects. Sera from 21 patients with untreated celiac disease, 48 patients with treated celiac disease and 128 disease control subjects were tested both for IgA EmA with the use of indirect immunofluorescence against human umbilical cord and for IgA tTG antibody with the use of ELISA. …”
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Patients' Perceptions: A Group Differences Study Twelve Months Before and Twelve Months During a Worldwide Pandemic by Nancy Valla

“…<strong>Objective</strong>: The COVID-19 pandemic subjected healthcare systems' to decreasing operational margins, enhanced regulatory scrutiny, and challenges related to patients' expectations. …”
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The Sociology of Karl Mannheim’s Knowledge and the Methodological Foundations of the History of Socio-Political Ideas by Alexander A. Chanyshev, Vasilisa A. Kuznetsova

“…It is the identification of this kind of rootedness that prevent the content reduction of the author’s position to purely subjective, psychological moments of the experience. …”
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Association of Peripheral Monocyte Count with Soluble P-Selectin and Advanced Stages in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Adi Surya Komala, Andhika Rachman

“…The monocyte count of subjects in groups IVB and IVC was significantly higher compared to group I-IVA (707/μL versus 528/μL, p=0.022; 841/μL versus 528/μL, p=0.005). …”
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Association of FAS and FAS Ligand Genes Polymorphism and Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Bita Moudi, Saeedeh Salimi, Farzaneh Farajian Mashhadi, Mahnaz Sandoughi, Zahra Zakeri

“…The -844CC genotype frequency was significantly higher in SLE patients than in healthy controls and the risk of SLE was 2.8-fold greater in these subjects (P=0.01). The C allele frequency was significantly higher in patients than in controls (69% versus 49%, P=0.001). …”
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EEG analysis of speaking and quiet states during different emotional music stimuli by Xianwei Lin, Xinyue Wu, Zefeng Wang, Zhengting Cai, Zihan Zhang, Guangdong Xie, Lianxin Hu, Laurent Peyrodie

“…Each subject is required to listen to six 1-minute music segments expressing different emotions and speak at the 40-second mark. …”
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Efektivitas Media FlipHoot dalam Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Pendidikan Pancasila di Sekolah Dasar by Rizkiyanti Khoirunnisa, Wawan Shokib Rondli, Fina Fakhriyah

“…Given its effectiveness, further research is recommended to explore its broader application across different subjects and educational levels to maximize its impact on learning outcomes. …”
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Sociability of patrol police officers as a key professionally important competence: an empirical study by О. О. Yevdokimova, Y. S. Ponomarenko

“…Snyder's "Diagnostic Methodology for Assessing Self-Control in Communication", with the help of which we divided the subjects into two groups: with low and high levels of communicative control. …”
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Contemporary issues in ensuring biological safety during disposal of biological wastes of animal origin by incineration in the Russian Federation by A. V. Belchikhina, M. A. Shibayev, A. M. Selyanin, A. K. Karaulov

“…Collection and analysis of data provided by the RF veterinary executive authorities were performed to objectively reflect the actual situation of the biological waste incineration facilities in the RF Subjects and to create a holistic view on the problem of interest in the country. …”
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Redundancy and conflict detection method for label-based data flow control policy by Rongna XIE, Xiaonan FAN, Suzhe LI, Yuxin HUANG, Guozhen SHI

“…To address the challenge of redundancy and conflict detection in the label-based data flow control mechanism, a label description method based on atomic operations has been proposed.When the label is changed, there is unavoidable redundancy or conflict between the new label and the existing label.How to carry out redundancy and conflict detection is an urgent problem in the label-based data flow control mechanism.To address the above problem, a label description method was proposed based on atomic operation.The object label was generated by the logical combination of multiple atomic tags, and the atomic tag was used to describe the minimum security requirement.The above label description method realized the simplicity and richness of label description.To enhance the detection efficiency and reduce the difficulty of redundancy and conflict detection, a method based on the correlation of sets in labels was introduced.Moreover, based on the detection results of atomic tags and their logical relationships, redundancy and conflict detection of object labels was carried out, further improving the overall detection efficiency.Redundancy and conflict detection of atomic tags was based on the relationships between the operations contained in different atomic tags.If different atomic tags contained the same operation, the detection was performed by analyzing the relationship between subject attributes, environmental attributes, and rule types in the atomic tags.On the other hand, if different atomic tags contained different operations without any relationship between them, there was no redundancy or conflict.If there was a partial order relationship between the operations in the atomic tags, the detection was performed by analyzing the partial order relationship of different operations, and the relationship between subject attribute, environment attribute, and rule types in different atomic tags.The performance of the redundancy and conflict detection algorithm proposed is analyzed theoretically and experimentally, and the influence of the number and complexity of atomic tags on the detection performance is verified through experiments.…”
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Analisis Kebutuhan Pengembangan Model Problem Base Learning (PBL) Berbasis Kontekstual untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Siswa dalam Menganalisis Konsep by Siti Endang Apriyanti, Andi Mariono, Andi Kristanto, Khusnul Khotimah

“…The study was conducted at the Sekolah Indonesia Kuala Lumpur over one semester of learning, involving 88 seventh-grade students as the research subjects. The selection of subjects was purposive, choosing students who participated in mathematics learning with the contextual PBL approach, with the aim of exploring the needs and impact of applying this learning model. …”
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CAN CLEAR ALIGNERS THERAPY ACHIEVE MAXILLARY EXPANSION IN PATIENTS WITH TRANSVERSE MALOCCLUSIONS? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Ibraheem Bamaga

“…Four studies were on adult subjects with full permanent dentition and three were on subjects with mixed dentition. …”
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Experimental investigation of freeze-thaw environmental effects on the fatigue life of CFRP composites by Jeong Hwan Kim, Dongwon Ha, Min-Sung Kim, Gun Jin Yun

“…In this paper, three types of specimens (open-hole, transverse, and shear) were subjected to FT cycles: freezing at −60 °C and thawing at 30 °C. …”
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Do Overweight and Obese Individuals Select a “Moderate Intensity” Workload When Asked to Do So? by Cameron W. Hall, Michael E. Holmstrup, Jay Koloseus, Daniel Anderson, Jill A. Kanaley

“…The data revealed that (1) the prescribed intensity was 6% higher than the self-selected pace and elicited a higher energy expenditure (𝑃<0.05) than the self-selected pace (+83 kJ); (2) overweight subjects walked at a slightly lower percentage of VO2 peak than the obese subjects (𝑃<0.05); (3) men walked at a lower percentage of VO2 peak than the women (𝑃<0.05). …”
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Damage Evolution of Sandstone under Constant-Amplitude Cyclic Loading Based on Acoustic Emission Parameters and Resistivity by Kui Wang, Zhengting Xia, Zhen Huang, Xue Li

“…Therefore, in this paper, the AE characteristics and resistivity properties of sandstone subjected to constant-amplitude cyclic loading and unloading were experimentally investigated using a typical sandstone in Chongqing. …”
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