The Experience of University Department in Organizing Research Circles at Schools as a Direction of University Career Guidance Work by E. A. Kogan, D. I. Ponomareva

“…The program of the circle “Social psychology” adapted for classes of humanitarian and socioeconomic orientation, included personal growth trainings and career guidance games aimed at developing professional self-determination in career planning.Research circles allowed school students to develop their special skills, arouse interest in sociology and psychology, improve their understanding of the criteria for their own professional choice, as well as form students’ understanding of the Department’s profile.During the implementation of career guidance measures in modern conditions, along with positive results, the authors have identified the factors that hinder the successful interaction of schools and universities such as the lack of involvement in this process of all subjects of the educational space, insufficient attention of the school administration to the social needs of graduating departments. …”
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The Impact of Pore Structure on Kerogen Geomechanics by Saad Alafnan

“…The structures were subjected to petrophysical assessments including a helium porosity analysis and pore size distribution characterization. …”
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The Effects of HLA-G Gene Polymorphism and sHLA-G Level in Women with Threatened Abortion by Ahmed H. Merdas, Mayada N. Iqbal, Nisreen Sherif Alyasiri

“…This study included 90 subjects who were separated into three groups: 30 patients (threatened abortion patients), and 60 controls (30 healthy pregnant women and 30 healthy non-pregnant women). …”
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Interaction of Educational Communities of Higher Education in the University Scientific Area by D. Yu. Narkhov

“…The object of the study is the interaction of the community of research and pedagogical staff (RPS), the student community and the community of administrative staff (AS), the subject is the resources of educational communities in universities of the macroregion. …”
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Customised Enriched Coconut Oil as Panacea for Oral Biofilm Mediated Diseases - A Prospective Study by Shamini Sai, Raga T Nivedha, Srinivasan Narasimhan, Aruna K. Veronica, Jayaraman Selvakumar, Anand V. Susila

“…Methods and Materials: 60 adults (18-22 years) having DMFT score of 2-11, gingival and plaque index as zero, no history of antibiotics for one month or fluoride application in 2 weeks were randomly divided (computer-generated list) and allocated into 3 groups (A-CHX, B-CEC, C-AT) of 20 subjects each based on the intervention. Oratest at baseline, days 15 and 30 were recorded. …”
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THE COST OF SMS REMINDER TO IMPROVE ARV ADHERENCE AMONG KEY POPULATIONS by Mery Nurma Juwita, Donny Hardiawan, Rozar Prawinegara, Miasari Handayani, Rudi Wisaksana, Pande Putu Januraga, Nurjannah Sulaiman, Adiatma Siregar

“…Methods: Data were analyzed using a micro-costing approach from providers' and health systems' perspectives. Subjects were divided into intervention and control groups for outcome analysis, with adherence as the outcome indicator. …”
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Training and Detraining Effects of Institutional Group Exercise on Upper Extremity Motor Function by Yiling LIN, Minghsia HU, Hongzhe ZHANG, Mingde LI

“…The measures were assessed at baseline (pre-test), after 11 weeks (post-test), and at 23 weeks follow-up.Result:At the end of the trial, the exercise subjects demonstrated significant improvement on ROM, muscle strength and upper extremity motor function over the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Measurement of axial and shear mechanical response of PDMS elastomers and determination of Poisson's ratio using digital image correlation by Satya Pal, Abir Bhattacharyya

“…In this study, a non-contact digital image correlation (DIC) technique along with a novel experimental setup were used to accurately measure the strain field on a specimen surface subjected to finite strain. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers of three different base polymer to hardener ratio were characterized under three different deformation modes— uniaxial compression, uniaxial tension, and simple shear—over strain rates ranging between 10−3/s–10−1/s. …”
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Isolation, Serotyping, and Molecular Detection of Bovine FMD Virus from Outbreak Cases in Abaʼala District of Afar Region, Ethiopia by Teshager Dubie, Tsedale Amare

“…The current study results revealed that out of 18 clinical samples subjected to virus isolation, 72.2% (n = 13) of these cultures exhibited FMDV-induced cytopathic effect (CPE) and the identified serotype was SAT-2 FMD virus. …”
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On supergravity and noncritical strings by Andrea Dei, Pietro Ferrero, Leonardo Rastelli

“…Abstract Motivated by the long-term goal of finding holographic descriptions for N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 and N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 super QCD, we revisit the subject of “noncritical” superstring theory. Focusing on string models with 6d super Poincaré invariance, we provide a careful worldsheet derivation of the leading-order effective theories for the lowest modes. …”
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Basal Ganglia Disease and Visuospatial Cognition: Are There Disease-Specific Impairments? by Erich Mohr, Jules J. Claus, Pim Brouwers

“…However, HD patients but not demented PD patients were impaired on a test of person-centred spatial judgement compared to non-demented subjects while demented PD patients scored significantly lower than HD patients on a test of field independence. …”
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Drawing up the protocol in cases of administrative corruption offenses committed in the field of healthcare by B. V. Koval

“…It gas been concluded that there may be corruption offenses committed by civil servants of health care system management bodies. In addition, the subjects of an administrative corruption offense may be the heads of health care institutions or their deputies, heads of departments, and their deputies.…”
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On-Time Appointment Keeping and Associated Factors among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Adult Patients Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy at Health Centers in East Gojjam Zone... by Mengistie Kassahun Tariku, Abebe Habtamu Belete, Daniel Tarekegn Worede, Sewnet Wongiel Misikir

“…A systematic random sampling technique was used to include study subjects, and data were collected through face-to-face interviews. …”
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Social networks as a basis for interaction between authorities and non-profit organizations established on the basis of nationality in public communications space by V. V. Zotov, A. V. Gubanov

“…At the same time, an analysis of existing social media practices has shown 1) a small proportion of accounts of state structures, which are responsible for interaction with representatives of national associations and diasporas; 2) the mismatch distribution in the social and network space of public communications pages of the authorities of the subject of the Russian Federation, carrying out in their activities interaction with national NGOs, accounts of non-profit organizations themselves, created on the basis of national origin, as well as representatives of national communities and diasporas. …”
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Fracture Resistance of Endodontically Treated Maxillary Premolars Restored by Various Direct Filling Materials: An In Vitro Study by Jozef Mincik, Daniel Urban, Silvia Timkova, Renata Urban

“…The specimens were randomly divided into 8 groups, 8 specimens each: group A intact teeth, group B unfilled cavity, group C composite made by oblique layering technique, group D composite with 2 mm cusp coverage, group E bulk-filled posterior composite, group F glass-ionomer, group G amalgam, and group H composite with proximal boxes. The specimens were subjected to an axial compression load with the mean values of fracture resistance in group A: 1289 N, group B: 181.75 N, group C: 445.38 N, group D: 645.88 N, group E: 355.13 N, group F: 352.00 N, group G: 191.38 N, and group H: 572.00 N. …”
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Phylogeography and hybridization of corvid birds in the Palearctic Region by A. P. Kryukov

“…Natural hybridization increases a lot phenotypic and genetic diversity and shapes intra-species patterns, which is a subject of phylogeography. We studied mitochondrial and complete genome variation in the bird family Corvidae, genera Corvus, Pica, Cyanopica, Perisoreus and Nucifraga. …”
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Feature Extraction and Recognition of Medical CT Images Based on Mumford-Shah Model by Lumin Fan, Lingli Shen, Xinghua Zuo

“…In this paper, we propose an improved algorithm based on the active contour model Mumford-Shah model for CT images, which is the subject of this study. After analyzing the classical Mumford-Shah model and related improvement algorithms, we found that most of the improvement algorithms start from the initialization strategy of the model and the minimum value solution of the energy generalization function, so we will also improve the classical Mumford-Shah model from these two perspectives. …”
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A long road to educational equity: Tracking trends through PISA 2000–2018 by Ekaterina Enchikova, Tiago Neves, Cibelle Toledo, Gil Nata

“…By using all available PISA waves for each participating country, calculating an average R-squared between subjects (Reading, Math and Science), and combining the “absolute” position in the equity indicator with the change over time in that same indicator, this study presents the first comprehensive picture of the evolution of equality of opportunities (assessed through the R-squared indicator) in all PISA-participating countries. …”
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TEST-SYSTEM BASED ON INDIRECT “SANDWICH” ELISA TO DETECT THE LUMPY SKIN DISEASE VIRUS ANTIGEN by O. A. Ryabikina, V. I. Diev, O. P. Byadovskaya, A. V. Konstantinov, S. K. Starov, A. V. Kononov, V. Yu. Kulakov, O. N. Petrova

“…Today the disease is included in the OIE list and is subject to obligatory notification. The emergence and spread of the disease in the Russian Federation necessitated performance of tests in the framework of laboratory diagnosis method improvement. …”
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The effect of allergic rhinitis treatment on asthma control: a systematic review by Ellen Tameeris, Arthur M. Bohnen, Patrick J. E. Bindels, Gijs Elshout

“…Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that reported objective (OAO) or subjective asthma outcomes (SAO) and compared the efficacy of anti-AR medication to placebo or conventional asthma medication were included. …”
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