Ivacaftor–tezacaftor–elexacaftor, tezacaftor–ivacaftor and lumacaftor–ivacaftor for treating cystic fibrosis: a systematic review and economic evaluation by Steven J Edwards, Benjamin G Farrar, Kate Ennis, Nicole Downes, Victoria Wakefield, Isaac Mackenzie, Archie Walters, Tracey Jhita

“…Individual baseline characteristics are sourced from either patient-level trial data, assumptions or population data from the UK CF Registry. …”
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Production chain and COVID-19 disruption: Sustainability via flexibility framework a case of the beverage industry by Adedugba Adebayo, Adeyemo Felicia, Oreagba Oluwakemi

“…A purposive method was utilized as an information-gathering source from 200 participants. …”
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Natural Teleology in Hume's "Sceptical Solution" by Jonathan Cottrell

“…However, it's hard to tell what account he means to offer: the text suggests various ideas about the source of induction's "authority", including utility, unavoidability, and reliability; it's not clear how to fit them together. …”
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Weak-Lensing Shear-Selected Galaxy Clusters from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: I. Cluster Catalog, Selection Function and Mass--Observable Relation by Kai-Feng Chen, I-Non Chiu, Masamune Oguri, Yen-Ting Lin, Hironao Miyatake, Satoshi Miyazaki, Surhud More, Takashi Hamana, Markus M. Rau, Tomomi Sunayama, Sunao Sugiyama, Masahiro Takada

“…We adopt a conservative source galaxy selection to construct a sample of $129$ weak-lensing peaks with a signal-to-noise ratio above $4.7$. …”
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Enhancing the quality of kinesthetic motor imagery for complex motor skills through simulated muscle activation color visualization: Evidence from time-frequency and functional con... by Xiaogang Ma, Bing Shi

“…Conversely, alpha event-related synchronization (ERS) in the parietal and occipital regions, as well as ERS in the frontal, central, and temporal regions, were significantly lower in the experimental group compared to the control group. The source-functional connectivity results revealed that the primary differences between the experimental and control groups were concentrated between the left V1 and right V1, as well as among the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and primary motor cortex (M1). …”
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Zinc Glycine supplementation improves bone quality in meat geese by modulating gut microbiota, SCFA's, and gut barrier function through Wnt10b/NF-κB axis by Zeshan Zulfiqar, Muhammad Arslan Asif, Mengqi Liu, Shuhang Zhang, Hamid reza Rafieian Naeini, Yalei Cui, Boshuai Liu, Yinghua Shi

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Extension of Distribution Transformer Life in the Presence of Smart Inverter-based Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Systems by Kanhaiya Kumar, Saran Satsangi, Ganesh Balu Kumbhar

“…A transformer is an essential but expensive power delivery equipment for a distribution utility. In many distribution utilities worldwide, a sizable percentage of transformers are near the end of their designed life. …”
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Sugar transporters: mediators of carbon flow between plants and microbes by Mengyu Lei, Mengyu Lei, Xiaodi Wang, Kuan Chen, Qianqian Wei, Miaomiao Zhou, Gong Chen, Shuai Su, Yuying Tai, Kexin Zhuang, Dexiao Li, Mengjuan Liu, Senlei Zhang, Youning Wang

“…Notably, pathogenic and symbiotic microorganisms predominantly utilize photosynthetic sugars as their primary carbon source during host colonization. …”
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Firefly Optimized Resource Control and Routing Stability in MANET by Purushothaman Chandra Sekar, Pichaimuthu Rajasekar, Sundaram Suresh Kumar, Mittaplayam Arunchalam Manivasagam, Chellappan Swarnamma Subash Kumar

“…A mobile adhoc network (MANET) is a network that comprises mobile devices positioned in various places functioning without any central administration. Routing in MANET plays a vital role when the data packet (DP) is sent from source to destination. …”
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Revisiting the Conventional Extraction of Protein Isolates from Faba Beans: Recovering Lost Protein from Sustainable Side Streams by Abraham Badjona, Robert Bradshaw, Caroline Millman, Martin Howarth, Bipro Dubey

“…SDS-PAGE and FTIR analyses confirmed the structural diversity among the recovered fractions, with albumin-rich and globulin-rich profiles exhibiting unique spectral and electrophoretic signatures. Functionally, fractions B and D exhibited superior water- and oil-holding capacities, indicating their potential utility in food formulations requiring enhanced moisture and lipid retention. …”
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<i>Crataegus monogyna</i> Jacq., <i>Sorbus aria</i> (L.) Crantz and <i>Prunus spinosa</i> L.: From Edible Fruits to Functional Ingredients: A Review by Cristina Tamayo-Vives, María Úbeda, Patricia Morales, Patricia García-Herrera, María Cortes Sánchez-Mata

“…Plants have historically served as key sources of nutrition and popular medicine, which persists in current applications. …”
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Health inequalities for China’s low-income population: trends, subgroup differences, and influencing factors, 2010–2022 by Qiwei Feng, Ying Wang, Xinbin Xia

“…Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regression and RIF-Oaxaca decomposition were employed to examine influencing factors of health inequalities and sources of disparities across urban–rural, gender, and age dimensions.ResultsFrom 2010 to 2022, the degree of health inequality was significantly higher for the low-income group compared to the middle and high-income groups in China. …”
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Analysis of Factors of High-tech Industries Growth: A Case Study of the Late USSR by D. V. Didenko, N. V. Grineva

“…The key hypothesis is that in the high-tech industries in the 1960s and 1980s, the institutional environment appeared to be a more significant factor than the technological level. The variety of the sources utilized includes calculations and estimates from the research literature and selected indicators from the official statistics. …”
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An Enhanced Precise Carrier Phase Positioning Method for Vehicle Navigation by Qiangqiang Shuai, Qiyi Pang, Fangzhou Tang, Zun Niu, Bocheng Zhu

“…For highly accurate vehicle positioning requirements, propagation errors of measurements need to be considered, especially the ionospheric delay, which is the most significant error source. In EKF, a priori information of different error characteristics can be fully utilized as constraints to obtain more precise state estimation results, even when no corrections are available. …”
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Paraxial Propagation of Scattered Light Based on the Chirp Z-Transform by Lujia Zhao, Yu-Ang Liu, Huiru Ji, Haibo Wang, Hao Tan, Yan Mo, Donglin Ma

“…In the simulation of partially coherent light propagation within optical systems utilizing the Wigner function, the constraints imposed by the Fourier transform necessitate that the dimensions of the input and output matrices remain congruent. …”
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Patterns and risk factors of falls among older adults: a systematic review by Tetiana Yermakova

“…The Web of Science Core Collection database was selected as the data source. The search included publications from the last 10 years (2014–2024). …”
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Time-variant Granger causality analysis for intuitive perception collision risk in driving scenario: an EEG study by Zhe Wang, Jialong Liang, Shang Shi, Peng Zhai, Lihua Zhang, Lihua Zhang

“…Intuition is a rapid and unconscious cognitive process that is widely utilized in driving scenario. The current study examines the neural mechanisms behind intuitive driving by performing a time-varying Granger causality analysis on source-domain EEG data. …”
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A self‐propagating, barcoded transposon system for the dynamic rewiring of genomic networks by Max A English, Miguel A Alcantar, James J Collins

“…We first use the platform to study the impact of transposon functionalization on the evolution of parallel Escherichia coli populations toward diverse carbon source utilization and antibiotic resistance phenotypes. …”
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The Characterization of Peach Pomace and the Influence of Its Incorporation on the Chemical Composition of Biscuits by Maria Mandache, Carmen Mihaela Topală, Loredana Elena Vijan, Sina Cosmulescu

“…The present paper aimed to evaluate the total bioactive compound content in peach pomace and biscuits fortified with various concentrations of peach pomace (5%, 10%, and 15%), with a view to utilizing this valuable by-product in functional foods. …”
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Comprehensive evaluation of the properties of camel bone gelatin: impact of the duration of pre-treatment and extraction by Meriem Imelhayene, Abdelkader Adamou, Samira Becila, Ayad Redjeb, Dahia Saidj, Abdelhakim Senoussi, Dimitris Sarris, Eleni Naziri

“…Aim: This study investigates the extraction of gelatin from camel bones, discusses its potential as a novel protein source and assesses how its properties are affected by the duration of the pre-treatment and extraction processes. …”
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