Ageing well in the urban environment: meeting the health and social needs of older Adults - study protocol for a prospective, longitudinal mixed-methods study by Marie Bolster, Abhijit Visaria, David Matchar, Denis Gerstorf, Tillman Schmitz, Benjamin Labohm, Raphael Kohl, Dagmar Haase, Paul Gellert, Angelique Chan, Wolfram J. Herrmann

“…Additionally, three functional tests (cognitive functioning, hand grip strength, and walking speed) are carried out with participants. …”
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User Communities — Drivers for Open Innovation by Gunnar Prause, Thomas Thurner

“…Users best judge what will lead to commercial success, and they have long been recognized as a valuable source of knowledge to harvest for future innovation. …”
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A Study on the Influence Mechanisms of Neighborhood Vitality and the Characteristics of Spatial and Temporal Differentiation in the Urban Fringe Areas of Wuhan City by Yan Long, Siyu Hu, Zhengyuan Lu, Lianghao Cheng, Cairui Zhen, Jingmei Shao, Yuqiao Zheng, Xuehui Zhou, Jin Li, Yudi Lin, Shu Zhang, Yue Wang, Tianyue Luo, Haijuan Zhao, Xuejun Liu

“…This paper quantifies the neighborhood vitality of the fringe areas by the short-stay visitors in the fringe areas and selects the 5D elements of the built environment and social media data from multiple sources to construct the indicator system assessing the neighborhood vitality of the urban fringe areas. …”
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Regeneration of Two-Walled Infrabony Periodontal Defects in Swine After Buccal Fat Pad-Derived Dedifferentiated Fat Cell Autologous Transplantation by Daisuke Akita, Naoki Tsukimura, Tomohiko Kazama, Rie Takahashi, Yoshiki Taniguchi, Jin Inoue, Ayana Suzuki, Nodoka Tanabe, Keisuke Seki, Yoshinori Arai, Masatake Asano, Shuichi Sato, Yoshiyuki Hagiwara, Koichiro Kano, Masaki Honda, Taro Matsumoto

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Recent Advances in Understanding the Keys Factors Influencing Pressurized Liquid Extraction of Secondary Metabolites: A Comprehensive Review by Pauline Donn, Sepidar Seyyedi-Mansour, Franklin Chamorro, Paula Garcia-Oliveira, Javier Echave, Ana Perez-Vazquez, Paula Barciela, Lucia Cassani, Miguel Angel Prieto

“…., phenolic compounds) from botanical sources, with implications spanning across pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and functional foods. …”
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An 1800 MHz Electromagnetic Field Affects Hormone Levels, Sperm Quality, and Behavior in Laboratory Rats (<i>Rattus norvegicus</i>) by Krzysztof Pawlak, Bartosz Bojarski, Wojciech Jagusiak, Tomasz Wojnar, Zenon Nieckarz, Zbigniew Arent, Magdalena Ludwiczak, Malwina Lasko

“…In addition to natural electromagnetic fields (EMFs), so-called artificial electromagnetic fields exist in the biosphere, with mobile communications being one of their main sources. This study aimed to determine the impact of EMF at a frequency of 1800 MHz on the concentrations of selected hormones, sperm motility, viability, morphology and behaviors in laboratory rats. …”
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Controllable surface carrier type of metal oxide nanocrystals for multifunctional photocatalysis by Han Li, Yingchun Ding, Kaiyi Luo, Qiuping Zhang, Huan Yuan, Shuyan Xu, Ming Xu

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THE FEATURES OF THE FACE SKIN CONSTRUCTION THAT INFLUENCE ON THE FORMATION OF CICATRICAL TISSUES DURING SUGICAL INTERVENTIONS by K.P. Lokes, D.S. Avetikov, S.O. Stavitsky, O.O. Rozkolupa, N.S. Lutsenko

“…Thus, the analysis of domestic and foreign literature sources indicates the relevance of the selected topics, the need for further studies on the biomechanical and histological substantiation of incisions, which are due to the peculiarities of the structure of the skin in the head and neck to create optimal conditions for reparative regeneration. …”
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Assessing Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Carotid Steno-Occlusive Disease Using MRI BOLD and ASL Techniques by Renata F. Leoni, Kelley C. Mazzetto-Betti, Afonso C. Silva, Antonio C. dos Santos, Draulio B. de Araujo, João P. Leite, Octavio M. Pontes-Neto

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Single-cell transcriptomic profiling reveals a novel signature of necrotizing granulomatous lesions in the lungs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected C3HeB/FeJ mice by Shintaro Seto, Shiho Omori, Hajime Nakamura, Hajime Nakamura, Minako Hijikata, Naoto Keicho, Naoto Keicho

“…In conclusion, our results provide the immune landscape of necrotizing granulomas and reveal novel functional states of macrophages contributing to TB pathogenesis.…”
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Leader’s discourse in responding to natural disaster: an appraisal analysis by T. Thyrhaya Zein, T. Syarfina, Muhammad Yusuf

“…The results indicate that Edy’s discourse contains sources of positive, negative, and neutral attitudes. …”
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Thermodynamics of interaction of inulin complex with water by Yu. A. Maksimenko, O. I. Konnova, I. Yu. Aleksanian

“…Currently, the key trends in the global food market include the rapidly developing functional nutrition industry, which is of great interest to consumers. …”
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Antimicrobial Potential of Extract from a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolate by Francis Kwaku Dzideh Amankwah, Stephen Yao Gbedema, Yaw Duah Boakye, Marcel Tunkumgmen Bayor, Vivian Etsiapah Boamah

“…Microorganisms are one of the main sources of antimicrobial agents and over 50% of antibiotics currently used in hospitals are metabolites from microbes. …”
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Application of evolutionary algorithm in estimation of environmental performance in farm systems by Srđan Jović, Dalibor Radovanović, Dušan Marković

“…Evolutionary algorithm (EA) can be employed in these problems because they can simultaneously focus on two or more objective functions. Multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) as one of the EAs was selected and wheat as one of the most important strategic crops was chosen in order to test the application of these algorithms in farm systems. …”
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Assessment of proximate composition, mineral element profile and antioxidant properties of the edible oyster mushroom grown in Bangladesh by Sharmin Sultana, Md Shamsuzzaman, Md. Abdus Satter Miah, Akhter Jahan Kakon, Abdullah Hel Mafi, Anupoma Sen, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui, Debu Kumar Bhattacharjya

“…Our result suggests that these studied oyster mushrooms could be a good source of nutrition and antioxidants, which could be used as functional foods.…”
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Ocular Toxicity Associated with Tamoxifen Administration in Patients with Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review by Tejaswi Vadde, Neha Narayan, Amulya Varshini Banka, Shravani Divity, Yethindra Vityala

“…Introduction: Tamoxifen (TAM), a selective Oestrogen Receptor (ER) modulator, is widely used for treating and preventing ER-positive Breast Cancer (BC). …”
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Establishing the best step-up treatments for children with uncontrolled asthma despite inhaled corticosteroids: the EINSTEIN systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effec... by Sofia Cividini, Ian Sinha, Giovanna Culeddu, Sarah Donegan, Michelle Maden, Katie Rose, Olivia Fulton, Dyfrig Hughes, Stephen Turner, Catrin Tudur Smith

“…We examined model fit by the posterior mean of the residual deviance and the deviance information criterion to select models. Pairwise MA and NMA were also carried out with a frequentist framework using the R functions ‘netmetabin’ and ‘netmeta’. …”
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Low-Cost Monitoring of Airborne Heavy Metals Using Lichen Bioindicators: Insights from Opole, Southern Poland by Liubomyr Bahinskyi, Paweł Świsłowski, Oznur Isinkaralar, Kaan Isinkaralar, Małgorzata Rajfur

“…., a species whose vital functions or morphological structure can reveal the qualitative state of the environment. …”
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Effect of zeolites modification on their adsorption properties by L. G. Eprikashvili, T. N. Kordzakhia, M. G. Zautashvili, N. V. Pirtskhalava, M. A. Dzagania, G. P. Tsintskaladze, T. V. Sharashenidze

“… Atmospheric air pollution is determined by the functioning of both technogenic and natural sources of pollution. …”
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Linguistic Features of the Ergonomic Space of the Central Streets of Yoshkar-Ola and Kazan by Iraida G. Ivanova, Flera Ya. Khabibullina

“…Urbanonyms as names of objects of various functional profiles are an indicator of preferred languages for naming urban objects, and act as a marker of the spheres of functioning of languages in a given territory. …”
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