Satisfaction with Nursing Care and the Functional Consequences of Pain in Neurosurgical Patients by Elżbieta Bartoń, Robert Ślusarz, Ewa Guz, Józef Jasik, Krzysztof Turowski, Anna Mazur, Danuta Zarzycka

“…The aim of the work is to present what dimension of satisfaction from nursing is dominant among patients with lumbar spine pain syndrome and to determine whether their assessment depends on the severity of functional consequences of pain. …”
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Blood Leptin and the External Respiration Function in Patients with Bronchial Asthma by Radchenko О., Slaba О.

“…Patients with hyperleptinemia have a natural decrease in all indicators of the function of external respiration.…”
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THE ROLE OF EPICARDIAL OBESITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL REMODELING OF THE HEART by M. A. Druzhilov, Yu. E. Beteleva, O. Yu. Druzhilova, E. S. Andreeva, T. Yu. Kuznetsova

“…To perform the comparison of the heart structural and functional parameters in abdominal obesity patients depending on the presence epicardial fat tissue verified by echocardiographically defined thickness of the fat deposition.Material and methods. …”
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Dapsone Alters Phenotypical and Functional Properties of Human Neutrophils In Vitro by Sara Rakočević, Vanja Mališ, Ljiljana Kozić, Anđela Dubovina, Marija Drakul, Dejan Bokonjić, Miodrag Čolić, Dušan Mihajlović

“…Here, we examined how different aspects of neutrophil functions are affected by dapsone. Peripheral blood neutrophils from healthy donors were stimulated with phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-leucyl-L-phenylalanine (fMLP), or calcium ionophore (CaI) or primed with cytokines prior to stimulation, in the presence of different concentrations of dapsone (from 10 to 50 µg/mL), followed by analyses of their survival, phenotype, and functional properties. …”
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Collagen-associated syntropy in children with functional disorders of the digestive system by T. V. Stoieva, O. V. Dzhagiashvili, S. V. Prokhorova, V. A. Gudz, O. Yu. Yemelyanova

“…Two clinical groups of patients depending on the leading clinical manifestations were identified: children with irritable bowel syndrome – 39 patients (61.9 %) and children with functional disorders of the biliary tract – 24 (38.1 %) of patients. …”
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The Impact of Flooding on Soil Microbial Communities and Their Functions: A Review by Ashim Kumar Das, Da-Sol Lee, Youn-Ji Woo, Sharmin Sultana, Apple Mahmud, Byung-Wook Yun

“…Unpredictable weather events, including flooding from heavy rainfall, flash floods, and seawater intrusion, profoundly impact soil ecology, which is primarily challenged by flooding stress, and imbalances these microbial communities and their functions. This disturbance impairs the symbiotic exchanges between microbes and plants by limiting root exudates and habitats for microbes, as well as nutrient acquisition efficiency for plants. …”
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FUNCTIONAL POLYMORPHISM OF THE PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE GENES IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS by E. G. Churina, O. I. Urazova, V. V. Novitsky, A. V. Sitnikova, S. E. Barmina

“…The MBT antigens can cause dysfunction of the receptors and modulate the cytokine secreting function of immunocompetent cells. Polymorphic genes of pro-inflammatory cytokines involved in the mechanisms of defense responses of innate immunity, determine the degree of resistance to individual mycobacterial infection, as well as severity and duration of the disease in cases of clinical manifestations. …”
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PHENOTYPIC PROFILE AND FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF MONOCYTES IN THE PATIENTS WITH ACUTE PANCREATITIS by A. A. Savchenko, A. G. Borisov, D. E. Zdzitovetskiy, I. V. Kudryavtsev, A. Yu. Medvedev, A. V. Moshev, I. I. Gvozdev

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate some features of subpopulational profile and functional activity of monocytes in patients with acute pancreatitis. …”
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HEALTH METHODOLOGY FOR REDUCING ANXIETY AND SUPPORTING THE FUNCTIONAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN by Shuba Liudmyla, Shuba Victoria, Shuba Victor

“…The health deterioration of children in Ukraine largely depends on such factors as economic instability in the country, environmental pollution, poor nutrition, lack of health intervention. …”
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Differential impact of TIM-3 ligands on NK cell function by Xin Zhang, Lazar Vujanovic, Riyue Bao, Robert L Ferris, Tullia C Bruno, Aditi Kulkarni, Hridesh Banerjee, Housaiyin Li, Juncheng Wang, Lawrence P Kane, Pragati Upadhyay, Jennifer L Anderson, Onyedikachi Victor Onyekachi, Lidia M R B Arantes

“…Among the four putative TIM-3 ligands, galectin-9 most consistently suppresses NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity and proliferation through TIM-3 and CD44 signaling, respectively, but promotes IFN-γ release in a TIM-3-dependent manner. Among patients with HNSCC, an elevated intratumoral TIM-3+ NK cell gene signature associates with worse outcomes, specifically in those with human papillomavirus (HPV)+ disease, potentially attributable to higher galectin-9 levels in HPV+ versus HPV− patients.Conclusions Our findings underscore the complex functional impact of TIM-3 ligand signaling, which is consistent with recent clinical trials suggesting that targeting TIM-3 alone is suboptimal as an immunotherapeutic approach for treating malignancies.…”
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Radiosensitizing properties of dual-functionalized carbon nanostructures loaded with temozolomide by Radmila Milenkovska, Nikola Geskovski, Dushko Shalabalija, Ljubica Mihailova, Petre Makreski, Dushko Lukarski, Igor Stojkovski, Maja Simonoska Crcarevska, Kristina Mladenovska

“…Significant concentration-dependent toxicity was observed for blank dual-functionalized CNs, being higher for MWCNTs-G-PEG6000-FA compared to MWCNTs-PEG6000-FA at the same formulation concentrations. …”
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Mathematical function using mechanical properties to calculate chain scission as a function of radiation dose in electron beam treated styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer by Sanjoy Datta, Ondřej Peter, Evghenii Harea, Radek Stoček, Kinsuk Naskar

“…The novelty of the work was, in part to create a function that can be used to calculate chain-scission in dependence of EB radiation dose. …”
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Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Functional Impairments, and the Quality of Life in Coronary Artery Disease Patients: A Narr... by Arnengsih Nazir, Vitriana Biben, Aggi Gunanegara, Brandon Clementius

“…This review aimed to describe the effects of HIIT on cardiovascular function and risk factors, functional impairments, and the QoL. …”
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An analytical approach to analyze nonlinear dynamic response of eccentrically stiffened functionally graded circular cylindrical shells subjected to time dependent axial compression and external pressure.... by Dao Van Dung, Vu Hoai Nam

“… Based on the classical thin shell theory with the geometrical nonlinearity in von Karman-Donnell sense, the smeared stiffener technique, Galerkin method and an approximate three-term solution of deflection taking into account the nonlinear buckling shape is chosen, the governing nonlinear dynamic equations of eccentrically stiffened functionally graded circular cylindrical shells subjected to time dependent axial compression and external pressure is established in part 1. …”
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Cost Analysis of the Boiler Unit of Coal Power Units Depending on the Initial Steam Pressure and the Availability оf Flue Gas Purification Systems by I. S. Sadkin, A. P. Shipitsina, P. A. Shchinnikov

“…When evaluating investments in the equipment of power plant units, it is convenient to use continuous functions. Their use makes it possible to carry out the analysis without cost restrictions. …”
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Refined Discontinuous Trigger Scheme for Event-Based Synchronization of Chaotic Neural Networks by Yingjie Wang, Yingjie Fan, Meixuan Li

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DEPENDENCE OF THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT ON TIME IN MACROECONOMIC KALECKI’S MODEL IN VIEW OF AN INVESTMENT TEMPORARY LAG by Eduard A. Gevorkyan, Denis P. Makarov, Dzhodzhina S. Pitersen

“…By solving the differential equation with lagging argument the dynamics of variation of the gross domestic product Y ( t ) in macroeconomicKalecki’s model in view of a temporary lag in case of square-low dependence of consumption function on time is investigated. …”
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Enhancing cross entropy with a linearly adaptive loss function for optimized classification performance by Jae Wan Shim

“…In comparison to the standard cross entropy loss function, the proposed one has an additional term that depends on the predicted probability of the true class. …”
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Structure and dynamics analysis of brain functional hypernetworks based on the null models by Chen Cheng, Yao Li, Chunyan Wang, Yanli Yang, Hao Guo

“…Then, the level of similarity and correlation between the topological attributes of the original brain functional hypernetwork and the topological attributes of the brain functional hypernetwork null model were calculated to analyze the dependencies between the features of interest. …”
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Functional Group Structure of Bamboo and Pine Wood Biochar Due to Differences in Pyrolysis Temperature by Darusman Darusman, Syakur Syakur*, Eka Kurniasih, Vera Puspita, Zaitun Zaitun

“…This study aimed to find out the functional group characteristics of two types of raw materials, bamboo and pine wood. …”
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