Diasporas and Armed Conflicts: beyond Being “Third Party” by I. D. Loshkariov

“…The participation of diasporas in armed conflicts outside the “third party” framework is associated with the achievement of several conditions, both internal and external ones.…”
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Hortas urbanas e restaurantes: análise do projeto Horta do Chef em Curitiba e suas conexões com a gastronomia by Ricardo de Amorim Cini, Juliana Hrycyna

“…A análise das entrevistas revelou que fortalecer a infraestrutura das hortas e as relações entre os participantes é essencial para consolidar projetos semelhantes no futuro. Esses achados evidenciam uma oportunidade promissora para iniciativas permanentes que conectem a gastronomia com a produção urbana de alimentos, promovendo sustentabilidade e inovação.…”
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Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy with Combined Use of Patient-Specific 3D-Printed Plates and Taylor Spatial Frame for the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis by Desheng Duan, Yang Cao, Renzeng Li, Guohui Wang, Yongfei Zhang, Kui Xiang, Yanli Hu, Yiqun Li, Peng Peng, Pan Zhang, Xianzhe Liu

“…The bony union at bone amputation was achieved in 3 months after surgery, and the pain symptoms were significantly alleviated or disappeared. …”
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Characterization and optimization of cerium oxide nanoparticle-doped cellulose acetate films using the Box-Behnken Design by Lívia Viana Aguiar de Oliveira, Noemi Raquel Checca Huaman, Sergio Neves Monteiro, Ulisses Oliveira Costa, Letícia Vitorazi

“…Optimized films exhibited superior mechanical properties, achieving 45.39 MPa tensile strength, 2.090 GPa modulus, and 24.38% strain at break, surpassing commercial CA materials. …”
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Mapping forest-agroforest frontiers in the Peruvian Amazon with deep learning and PlanetScope satellite data by Wanting Yang, Daniel Ortiz-Gonzalo, Xiaoye Tong, Dimitri Gominski, Rasmus Fensholt

“…In this study, we aim to develop a modeling framework to distinguish between forests, secondary forests, agroforests (e.g. shade-grown perennials), and non-tree agricultural classes (e.g. active cropland, grassland, young fallow) in the Peruvian Amazon. To achieve this, we combine deep learning and remote sensing data, including 3-m PlanetScope satellite imagery, a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and temporal data from the Landtrendr change detection algorithm. …”
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Current trends in corporate risk management in the system for ensuring the economic sustainability of industrial enterprises by N. N. Trofimova

“…The revealed current trends in corporate risk management in the system for ensuring the economic sustainability of industrial enterprises have been summarized and systematized, including: achieving a balance between the realization of opportunities for making profit and minimizing losses; implementation of risk management practices based on GOST R ISO 31000-2019; application of relevant risk management strategies; development ofbusiness processes with adequate means to control and contain risks; audit of risks and timely adjustment of measures to reduce them; risk outsourcing to an external agency; risk avoidance; accounting for risk management of intangible assets.…”
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Rash with DERMABOND PRINEO Skin Closure System Use in Bilateral Reduction Mammoplasty: A Case Series by R. W. Knackstedt, J. A. Dixon, P. J. O’Neill, F. A. Herrera

“…Surgical adhesives can be utilized as an alternative or as an adjunct to conventional suture closures to help achieve good wound tension and provide an adequate barrier with excellent cosmesis. …”
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A TRAILR2/CDH3 bispecific antibody demonstrates selective apoptosis and tumor regression in CDH3-positive pancreatic cancer by Peter Jung, Stefan P. Glaser, Jing Han, Alexandra Popa, Laura Pisarsky, Ningping Feng, Antonia Geyer, Franziska Haderk, Donat Alpar, Christopher Bristow, Susanne Schmittner, Paula-Elena Traexler, Mikhila Mahendra, Birgit Poehn, Poojabahen Gandhi, Roberto Fiorelli, Sanket Awate, Nicole Budano, Florian Martin, Christoph Albrecht, Barbara Drobits-Handl, Sathanandam S. Anand, Srinath Kasturirangan, Francesca Trapani, Norbert Schweifer, Joseph R. Marszalek, Ulrike Tontsch-Grunt, Mark Pearson, Timothy P. Heffernan, Norbert Kraut, Christopher P. Vellano, Juan Manuel García-Martínez

“…TR2/CDH3 BAB is a human bispecific antibody that relies on binding both CDH3 and TRAILR2 on cell surfaces to achieve TRAILR2 hyperclustering and efficient apoptosis induction by TRAILR2 signaling selectively in CDH3-expressing tumor cells. …”
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Preclinical optimization of a GPC2-targeting CAR T-cell therapy for neuroblastoma by Nan Li, Haiying Qin, Rosa Nguyen, Mitchell Ho, Ming Sun, Eytan Ruppin, Michael C Kelly, Yingying Cao, Reona Okada, Jeyshka M Reyes-González, Hannah G Stack, Charlie Seibert, Carol J Thiele

“…Background Although most patients with newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma (NB) achieve remission after initial therapy, more than 50% experience late relapses caused by minimal residual disease (MRD) and succumb to their cancer. …”
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Monitoring by the Ombudsman of Ukraine for compliance with the labor rights of civilians who have disappeared under special circumstances by S. F. Konstantinov

“…The purpose of the article is to analyze the legislation regulating compliance with the labor rights of civilian employees who are missing due to military aggression by the russian federation. Achieving the outlined goal became possible thanks to the use of a complex of methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical, comparative-legal, formal-logical, systemic-structural. …”
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Tempering temperature effect on the static and impact properties of 51CrV4 and 55Cr3 spring steels by Gülcan Toktaş, Adem Biçer

“…The quenching/tempering processes resulted in strengths that were two to three times higher and lower hardening capacities below 0.05 in comparison to the normalizing treatment. The steels achieved their maximum ultimate tensile strengths above 1800 N mm ^−2 at 300 °C, with decreasing values as the tempering temperature increased. …”
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Nomogram-derived immune-inflammation-nutrition score could act as a novel prognostic indicator for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Wen-Yan Wang, Yue Chen, Qian Chen, Hong-Wei Sun, Nuo-Xuan Niu, Hong-Hui Li, Yu-Dan Cao, Yan-Xia Bai, Xiang Li, Xiang Li

“…The prognostic accuracy of the SIIN score was assessed by exploiting receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, Cox proportional hazard regression models, calibration and DCA curves.ResultsThe SIIN score was formulated based on six biomarkers-platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), prognostic nutritional index (PNI), systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), albumin-bilirubin index (ALBI), fibrinogen (FIB) and monocyte count-identified by LASSO regression analysis. (1)The SIIN score demonstrated superior predictive value, achieving area under the ROC curve (AUC) values of 0.736 and 0.700 for 3- and 5-year OS. …”
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Challenging a paradigm: Staggered versus single-pulse mass dog vaccination strategy for rabies elimination. by Brinkley Raynor Bellotti, Elvis W Díaz, Micaela De la Puente-León, Maria T Rieders, Sergio E Recuenco, Michael Z Levy, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra

“…For example, in Arequipa, Peru, sweeping mass vaccination campaigns conducted yearly over a single weekend have failed to achieve the required 'herd immunity' to halt canine rabies transmission. …”
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Are we ready for self-sampling for cervical cancer screening? Insights from service providers and policy makers in Nepal. by Saki Thapa, Amit Timilsina, Bikram Bucha, Swastika Shrestha, Safal Kunwar, Raghu Dhital, Gillian Holdsworth

“…These interviews were conducted in person with 20 participants until data saturation was achieved. Thematic analysis was performed where the translated data was coded inductively using NVivo 12. …”
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Reactivation of a trap-boundary fault and its impacts on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in Longkou 7 − 6 structure, Bohai Bay Basin: insights from geology, geophysics and b... by Xinyu Yan, Zhenliang Wang, Deying Wang, Lei Chen, Yanfei Gao, Jiangtao Wang

“…Seismic and borehole data were used to quantitatively investigate the history of fault growth and activation, as well as changes in fault-sealing capacity during reactivation. This was achieved by calculating fault throw and shale gouge ratio (SGR). …”
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Policy analysis of the Global Financing Facility in Uganda by Phillip Wanduru, Doris Kwesiga, Mary Kinney, Asha George, Peter Waiswa

“…Given the diversity of actors with varying interests, achieving representation of key actors, particularly those from underserved groups, can be difficult and may necessitate investing further time and resources in their engagement.…”
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Analysis of Production Function in Layer Chicken Business in Soppeng District by Hasraful Anang, Syahriadi Kadir

“… Production function is one method to understand the effect of production inputs used in an effort to achieve maximum profit. This study aims to identify how the use of inputs has an influence on the production of layer eggs in Soppeng Regency. …”
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Diminished ovarian reserve is associated to euploidy rate: a single center study by Edoardo Carnesi, Stefano Castellano, Stefano Castellano, Elena Albani, Andrea Busnelli, Andrea Busnelli, Antonella Smeraldi, Ozgur Bulbul, Emanuela Morenghi, Valentina Immediata, Paolo Emanuele Levi-Setti, Paolo Emanuele Levi-Setti

“…Our patient cohort was divided into two groups: Group 1, consisting of women who achieved at least one euploid embryo, and Group 2, comprising women who did not.ResultsThe main outcome measures included the rate and number of euploid blastocysts and their correlation with ovarian reserve. …”
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Daclatasvir and Sofosbuvir Therapy Enhance Monocyte Phenotypic Changes in Naive Chronic Hepatitis C Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hanan M. Fayed, Ali A. Ghweil, Mona M. AbdelMeguid

“…Therapy results in achievement of sustained virological response in 92% of cases, liver function improvement, and normalization of the inflammatory monocytes subsets. …”
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Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterialization (THD): A Single Center Experience on 100 Consecutive Cases by Aleksandar Mitevski, Vladko Cvetanovski, Petar Markov, Ilija Milev

“…Correct manipulation of the instruments, precision in dearterization, mucopexy of the rectal mucosa and submucosa are imperative for achieving excellent results. …”
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