Preconcentration of Trace Amounts of Pb(II) Ions without Any Chelating Agent by Using Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles prior to ETAAS Determination by S. Z. Mohammadi, T. Shamspur, M. A. Karimi, E. Naroui

“…This work investigates the potential of magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles as an adsorbent for separation and preconcentration of trace amounts of lead from water samples prior to electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) determination. …”
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Case report: Long-term GPS tracking throughout the breeding and non-breeding seasons of the streaked shearwater Calonectris leucomelas by Taito Kamata, Masaki Shirai, Kazuhiko Hirata, Takahiro Sato, Haruka Mukai, Maki Yamamoto, Tsuneo Sekijima

“…In September 2018, we attached GPS tags to birds breeding on Toshima, in the Izu Islands, and recaptured two birds in August 2020 and 2022. …”
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Impacts on and damage to European forests from the 2018–2022 heat and drought events by F. Knutzen, P. Averbeck, C. Barrasso, C. Barrasso, L. M. Bouwer, L. M. Bouwer, B. Gardiner, J. M. Grünzweig, S. Hänel, K. Haustein, K. Haustein, M. R. Johannessen, S. Kollet, M. M. Müller, J.-P. Pietikäinen, K. Pietras-Couffignal, K. Pietras-Couffignal, J. G. Pinto, D. Rechid, E. Rousi, A. Russo, A. Russo, L. Suarez-Gutierrez, L. Suarez-Gutierrez, S. Veit, S. Veit, J. Wendler, E. Xoplaki, D. Gliksman, D. Gliksman

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Non-albicans Candida Infection: An Emerging Threat by Sachin C. Deorukhkar, Santosh Saini, Stephen Mathew

“…Non-albicans Candida species also demonstrated the production of virulence factors once attributed to Candida albicans. Non-albicans Candida demonstrated high resistance to azole group of antifungal agents. …”
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Combination therapy of low-dose radiotherapy and immunotherapy in advanced metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a case report and literature review by Chun-Qiao Chen, Hui Huang, Min Pan, Zhe Jia, Jing Zhang, Qiu-Qiu Chen

“…When combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors, LDRT has been shown to significantly improve the immune microenvironment of tumors, thereby promote the immune attack on tumor cells. However, the therapeutic effect of LDRT combined with immunotherapy in advanced NPC is not well understood. …”
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Small extracellular vesicles derived from miRNA-486 overexpressed dental pulp stem cells mitigate high altitude pulmonary edema through PTEN/PI3K/AKT/eNOS pathway by Changyao Wang, Zhuang Mao, Drolma Gomchok, Xue Li, Huifang Liu, Jingyuan Shao, Hu Cao, Guanzhen Xue, Lin Lv, Junzhao Duan, Tana Wuren, Hua Wang

“…Notably, sEVmiR−486 attenuated oxidative damage in hypoxic PMVEC cells by modulating the PTEN/PI3K/Akt/eNOS signaling pathway. miRNA-486 fortified DPSC-sEVs intervention as a novel and potent treatment strategy for HAPE.…”
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Entre la autoridad eclesiástica y el liderazgo local: los curas párrocos de la diócesis de Tucumán durante el primer peronismo by Lucía Santos Lepera

“…De ese modo, indaga en las tensiones que recorrieron ambas trayectorias, atravesadas por la disyuntiva entre la obediencia a la jerarquía eclesiástica y la afirmación de un liderazgo local.…”
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Implementing Shoah-Themed Literature into Teaching with the Example of <i>The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story</i> by Milan Mašát

“…I am convinced that this narrative is the one in which the events that relate to the Shoah are presented authentically and in an attractive way for young readers, and whose presentation leads to a certain de-abstracting of these ideas.…”
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A Wi-Fi sensing method for complex continuous human activities based on CNN-BiGRU by Yang LIU, Anming DONG, Jiguo YU, Kai ZHAO, You ZHOU

“…Human activity sensing based on Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) has an important application prospect in future intelligent interaction scenarios such as virtual reality, intelligent games, and the metaverse.Accurate sensing of complex and continuous human activities is an important challenge for Wi-Fi sensing.Convolutional neural network (CNN) has the ability of spatial feature extraction but is poor at modeling the temporal features of the data.While long short-term memory (LSTM) network or gated recurrent unit (GRU) network, which are suitable for modeling time-series data, neglect learning spatial features of data.In order to solve this problem, an improved CNN that integrates bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU) network was proposed.The bi-directional feature extraction ability of BiGRU was used to capture the correlation and dependence of the front and back information in the time series data.The extraction of the spatiotemporal features of the time series CSI data was realized, and then the mapping relationship between the action and the CSI data was present.Thus the recognition accuracy of the complex continuous action was improved.The proposed network structure was tested with basketball actions.The results show that the recognition accuracy of this method is above 95% under various conditions.Compared with the traditional multi-layer perceptron (MLP), CNN, LSTM, GRU, and attention based bidirectional long short-term memory (ABLSTM) baseline methods, the recognition accuracy has been improved by 1%～20%.…”
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The Role of Financial Technology in Promoting Digital Finances in Algeria (2016-2024) by Abderraouf Abada, Messaoud Boukhalfi, Mohammed Abderrahmane Bentadjine, Abdelfattah Daoudi

“…The results of the study showed that there is an effective contribution of financial technology indicators in the field of retail electronic payments in Algeria in enhancing levels of digital financial inclusion, reflected in the improvement of: online payment activities, the number of active bank ATMs, payment activity and the number of operating electronic payment terminals (EPT), mobile phone payment transactions, mobile money transfers, and the number of circulating cards, including the "Gold" card and interbank cards (CIB). …”
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Prevalence of neonatal sepsis and associated factors among neonates admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lira Regional Referral Hospital, Northern Uganda. by Brendah Katugume, JohnBaptist Muzungu, Nelson Okello, Eustes Kigongo, Deborah Andrinar Namutebi

“…Uganda registered stagnated neonatal mortality of 27 deaths per 1000 live births in 2020 of which 12% was attributed to NS. Early risk factor identification and improved obstetric care are proven to reduce deaths due to NS, yet there is scanty literature on the LRRH. …”
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Understanding the link between type 2 diabetes mellitus and Parkinson’s disease: role of brain insulin resistance by Theodora Ntetsika, Sergiu-Bogdan Catrina, Ioanna Markaki

“…Impaired insulin signaling in the brain has gained increasing attention during the last decade and has been suggested to contribute to the development of Parkinson’s disease through the dysregulation of several pathological processes. …”
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Climate change policies reduce air pollution and increase physical activity: Benefits, costs, inequalities, and indoor exposures by Sean Beevers, Nosha Assareh, Andrew Beddows, Gregor Stewart, Mike Holland, Daniela Fecht, Yunzhe Liu, Anna Goodman, Heather Walton, Christian Brand, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Dylan Wood, Tuan Vu, David Dajnak

“…The burden of diseases attributable to air pollution is comparable to those of global health risks such as unhealthy diets and tobacco smoking, with many air pollution sources also emitting climate heating gases. …”
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Genetic and biochemical characterization of a radical SAM enzyme required for post-translational glutamine methylation of methyl-coenzyme M reductase by Roy J. Rodriguez Carrero, Cody T. Lloyd, Janhavi Borkar, Shounak Nath, Liviu M. Mirica, Satish Nair, Squire J. Booker, William Metcalf

“…Because MCR is responsible for nearly all biological methane production and most anoxic methane consumption, it plays a major role in setting the atmospheric levels of this important greenhouse gas. …”
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Sequential Defense Strategies: From Ant Recruitment to Leaf Toughness by Danilo F. B. dos Santos, Eduardo S. Calixto, Helena M. Torezan-Silingardi, Kleber Del-Claro

“…These results highlight <i>E. gracilipes’</i> adaptive flexibility by attracting protective ants when vulnerable and enhancing structural defenses as leaves develops, <i>E. gracilipes</i> minimizes herbivory impact. …”
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Post infectious fatigue and circadian rhythm disruption in long-COVID and other infections: a need for further research by Achilleas Livieratos, Steven W. Lockley, Sotirios Tsiodras

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Autism spectrum disorder: definition, global epidemiology, prevalence in Poland and worldwide, and heredity by Martyna Zakrocka, Marta Gruszka, Paulina Polańska, Maria Kubicka

“…Expanding diagnostic criteria have led to increased recognition, with prevalence rising from 1 in 2,000 children in the 1980s to about 1 in 100 today. This growth is attributed to improved diagnostics, awareness, and healthcare access. …”
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A Case Study of Students’ Barriers in Passive Voice Sentences by Zahratul Idami, Diah Ayu Pratiwi Pratiwi

“…The external factors were lack of parental attention, lack of supporting media in the learning process, inadequate school infrastructures, and the road to school was difficult to pass. …”
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Integralidade do Cuidado à Mulher com Câncer de Mama: Desafios na Implementação da Linha de Cuidado em um Estado do Nordeste do Brasil by Rosalva Raimundo da Silva, Mauricéa Maria de Santana, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra, Jurema Telles de Oliveira Lima, Tereza Maciel Lyra

“…Os achados deste estudo fornecem orientações cruciais para o planejamento da Rede de Atenção à Saúde e a necessidade da implementação da Linha de Cuidado do Câncer de Mama para melhorar a integralidade da atenção às mulheres diagnosticadas com câncer de mama. …”
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High spatial resolution gene expression profiling and characterization of neuroblasts migrating in the peri-injured cortex using photo-isolation chemistry by Takuya Miyamoto, Kazuya Kuboyama, Mizuki Honda, Mizuki Honda, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Shinya Oki, Shinya Oki, Kazunobu Sawamoto, Kazunobu Sawamoto

“…When the brain is injured, some neuroblasts initiate migration toward the lesion and attempt to repair the damaged neuronal circuitry, but their low regeneration efficiency prevents functional recovery. …”
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