New sanctions of the European Union and United States against Russia and their impact on Tajikistan’s socio-economic development by A. Kh. Rakhmonov

“…After gaining independence, Tajikistan’s economy suffered greatly from the civil war in the republic. …”
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Immunotherapy with IgY Antibodies toward Outer Membrane Protein F Protects Burned Mice against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection by Fatemeh Norouzi, Bahador Behrouz, Mahya Ranjbar, Seyed Latif Mousavi Gargari

“…Burn patients with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections commonly suffer from high morbidity and mortality, which present a major challenge to healthcare systems throughout the world. …”
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Assessment of the Association between In Vivo Corneal Morphogeometrical Changes and Keratoconus Eyes with Severe Visual Limitation by J. S. Velázquez, F. Cavas, J. Alió del Barrio, D. G. Fernández-Pacheco, J. Alió

“…Assessing changes suffered by the cornea as keratoconus progresses has proven to be vital for this disease diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Medical Cannabis for Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: An Open-Label Prospective Study by Saar Anis, Corinne Zalomek, Amos D. Korczyn, Alina Rosenberg, Nir Giladi, Tanya Gurevich

“…Common side effects were dry mouth (66.7%), fatigue (53.3%), and dizziness (46.7%). Three patients suffered from psychiatric side effects including worsening of obsessive compulsive disorder (stopped treatment), panic attack, and anxiety (resolved with treatment modification). …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Patient with Multiple Diseases by Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…We illustrate the power of the holistic medical approach with a case study of an invalidated female artist, aged 42 years, who suffered from multiple severe health problems, many of which had been chronic for years. …”
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Efficacy of Multiple Micronutrients Fortified Milk Consumption on Iron Nutritional Status in Moroccan Schoolchildren by Imane El Menchawy, Asmaa El Hamdouchi, Khalid El Kari, Naima Saeid, Fatima Ezzahra Zahrou, Nada Benajiba, Imane El Harchaoui, Mohamed El Mzibri, Noureddine El Haloui, Hassan Aguenaou

“…Despite the low prevalence of iron deficiency anemia (1.9%); more than 50% of children in our sample suffered from iron deficiency at baseline. The consumption of fortified milk reduced the prevalence of iron deficiency by 27% in schoolchildren living in high altitude rural region of Morocco. …”
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Management of forgotten double J stents: insight from a systematic review of case reports by Antonius Galih Pranesdha Putra, Yufi Aulia Azmi, Soetojo Wirjopranoto, Nadya Rahmatika, Agustin Junior Nanda De Niro, Alviano Satria Wibawa, Kevin Muliawan Soetanto

“…Results: Of the 210 records, 14 articles published were analyzed after the full-text assessment. Forgotten DJ stent sufferers vary from age 7 years to 88 years. Male gender was predominant. …”
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Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of New <i>cis</i>-Restricted Triazole Analogues of Combretastatin A-4 by Lidia Prieto, Daniel Gaviña, Marcos Escolano, María Cánovas-Belchí, María Sánchez-Roselló, Carlos del Pozo, Eva Falomir, Santiago Díaz-Oltra

“…However, these compounds suffer from a low water solubility and a tendency to isomerize to the inactive <i>trans</i> stilbenes. …”
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TRPV1 Antagonism by Capsazepine Modulates Innate Immune Response in Mice Infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA by Elizabeth S. Fernandes, Carolina X. L. Brito, Simone A. Teixeira, Renato Barboza, Aramys S. dos Reis, Ana Paula S. Azevedo-Santos, Marcelo Muscará, Soraia K. P. Costa, Claudio R. F. Marinho, Susan D. Brain, Marcos A. G. Grisotto

“…Thousands of people suffer from severe malaria every year. The innate immune response plays a determinant role in host’s defence to malaria. …”
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Renal Transplant Pathology: Demographic Features and Histopathological Analysis of the Causes of Graft Dysfunction by Shaarif Bashir, Mudassar Hussain, Azhar Ali Khan, Usman Hassan, Khawaja Sajid Mushtaq, Maryam Hameed, Usman Ayub Awan

“…Renal transplant has emerged as a preferred treatment modality in cases of end-stage renal disease; however, a small percentage of cases suffer from graft dysfunction. Aim. To evaluate the renal transplant biopsies and analyze the various causes of graft dysfunction. …”
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Maximizing Energy Output of Photovoltaic Systems: Hybrid PSO-GWO-CS Optimization Approach by Hassan S. Ahmed, Ahmed J. Abid, Adel A. Obed, Ameer L. Saleh, Reheel J. Hassoon

“… Photovoltaic (PV) systems suffer from partial shade and nonuniform irradiance conditions. …”
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Hospital frailty risk score predicts graft failure severe infection and mortality in hospitalized kidney transplant recipients from 2010 to 2018 US data by Lumin Chen, Feifan Chu, Hangbin Ma, Zujie Chen, Yuning Ma, Qiwei Ji, Hao Zhou

“…Compared to age-matched nonfrail people, frail people need greater assistance with everyday activities and are more likely to suffer adverse events leading to mortality. Recently, the hospital frailty risk score (HFRS) was proposed for quantifying frailty. …”
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Cecropin AD ameliorates pneumonia and intestinal injury in mice with mycoplasma pneumoniae by mediating gut microbiota by Bowen Li, Mingming Liu, Wenjing Du, Shuaidong Wang, Zekang Xu, Xiaoqian Zhang, Yang Zhang, Song Hua

“…The findings showed that mice receiving twice injections of 2.08 × 108 copies of Mccp suffered significant pathological damage to their lungs and colons. …”
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Revealing the fireworks-set-off pattern of spatial multi-function expansion across cities leveraging big geodata – a case of the Greater Bay Area, China by Ku Gao, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Yueming Liu, Huifang Zhang, Xiaoliang Liu, Qingyang Zhang

“…We found that (1) across-cities SMFE exhibited a fireworks-set-off pattern, including sprawling along river in the plains between coastal port cities and inland core cities and diffusing from inland core cities on the plains to inland node cities in the mountains; (2) social-living, business-trade, and industry-production functions were sequentially primary expanding functions; (3) paddy and forest were two major land cover types encroaching upon inland cities, while coastal cities primarily suffered from losses of water. In the future, planners should focus on ecological protection of hilly and coastal areas when formulating industrial transfer policies and enhancing transport networks. …”
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Psychological well-being, gender, and age-specific difference on objectively recorded smartphone screen time in Japanese adults: A regression and clustering analysis by Ryusei Nishi, Kenichiro Sagiyama, Hajime Suzuki, Marie Amitani, Haruka Amitani, Akihiro Asakawa

“…Although many scales can assess smartphone usage, they rely on respondents' subjective self-reports and suffer from considerable cognitive bias. Therefore, quantitative measurement of smartphone's recorded screen time is an effective way to assess smartphone usage. …”
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Socio-demographic differences in the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and the association with risk factors in the population of Serbia by Šašić Bojana M., Čanković Dušan K., Mijatović-Jovanović Vesna P., Ukropina Snežana N., Ostojić Zorana Z., Milijašević Dragana S., Stamenković Kristina D., Čanković Sonja I.

“…Results: By analyzing the data obtained from this research, it was estimated that every ninth resident of Serbia (11.2%) suffers from some form of cardiovascular diseases, with a statistically significant difference observed in the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in relation to gender, age, income, education, self-assessment of health and attitudes towards health and risk factors, except for physical activity. …”
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Persistent cross-species transmission systems dominate Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 epidemiology in a high incidence region: A genomic epidemiology study by Gillian AM Tarr, Linda Chui, Kim Stanford, Emmanuel W Bumunang, Rahat Zaheer, Vincent Li, Stephen B Freedman, Chad R Laing, Tim A McAllister

“…Several areas of the world suffer a notably high incidence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. …”
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Low-Dose Oxygen Enhances Macrophage-Derived Bacterial Clearance following Cigarette Smoke Exposure by William G. Bain, Ashutosh Tripathi, Pooja Mandke, Jonathan H. Gans, Franco R. D’Alessio, Venkataramana K. Sidhaye, Neil R. Aggarwal

“…Patients with COPD frequently suffer disease exacerbations induced by bacterial respiratory infections, suggestive of impaired innate immunity. …”
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Deep Learning Model for CS-Based Signal Recovery for IRS-Assisted Near-Field THz MIMO System by Vaishali Sharma, Prakhar Keshari, Sanjeev Sharma, Kuntal Deka, Ondrej Krejcar, Vimal Bhatia

“…However, the substantial dimensions associated with IRS and MIMO extend the near-field, particularly at THz frequencies, as indicated by the Rayleigh distance and suffer from beam squint. To reduce system complexity and reduce sampling to sub-Nyquist rate, we propose a novel receiver design for an IRS-assisted near-field MIMO THz system that employs low-complexity compressed sensing. …”
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Hybrid Graph Representation Learning for Carotid Artery Stenosis Detection Based on Multimodal Retinal OCTA Images by Wenting Lan, Jinkui Hao, Shengjun Zhou, Jingfeng Zhang, Shaodong Ma, Yitian Zhao

“…Neuroimaging techniques, as the gold standard for evaluating cerebral abnormalities in CAS, suffer from limitations including expensive and time-consuming, hindering their use in large-scale screening. …”
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