Eight weeks of aerobic exercise, but not four, improves insulin sensitivity and cardiovascular performance in young women by Maha Sellami, Shamma Almuraikhy, Khaled Naja, Najeha Anwardeen, Hadaia Saleh Al-Amri, Mohammad Shoaib Prince, Amina Ali Aden, Alexander Doemling, Mohamed A. Elrayess

“…However, evidence for optimal exercise duration to achieve these effects is limited. This study aims to explore the effects of 4 and 8 weeks of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on glucose metabolism, lipid profiles, and associated metabolic changes in young female students with insulin resistance and varying body mass, seeking to determine the optimal duration for physiological adaptations. …”
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Impact of pharmacist-led educational intervention on knowledge of self-management among asthmatic patients: a prospective cohort study by Ahmad Khan, Saima Mushtaq, Amjad Khan, Nafees Ahmad, Shahzadi Sidra Saleem, Rubina Aman, Shahzadi Sadia Saleem, Ayesha Bibi, Saifullah Mehsud, Ivan R Green, Sheikh Abdur Rashid, Kifayat Ullah Shah

“…This would suggest that education and self-management skills should be seen as an integral component of asthma management and should be incorporated in structured patient care to achieve optimal asthma control.…”
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European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II and Liver Dysfunction by Andreea Ludusanu, Adelina Tanevski, Bogdan Mihnea Ciuntu, Razvan Lucian Bobeica, Dragos Andrei Chiran, Cristinel Ionel Stan, Viorel Dragos Radu, Vasile Lucian Boiculese, Grigore Tinica

“…After combining the two scores, the conditional scenario achieved a high overall accuracy of 84.32% (<i>p</i> < 0.001) in predicting mortality. …”
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Bathymetry estimation for coastal regions using self-attention by Xiaoxiong Zhang, Maryam R. Al Shehhi

“…When testing on pre-seen coastal regions in different locations of the world, our model achieves a good performance with an RMSE $$=1.784$$ m and R2 $$=0.903$$ in the depth down to $$-41$$ m. …”
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Monodispersed AgNPs Synthesized from the Nanofactories of Theobroma cacao (Cocoa) Leaves and Pod Husk and Their Antimicrobial Activity by Johnson Kwame Efavi, Emmanuel Nyankson, Kwaku Kyeremeh, Gloria Pokuaa Manu, Kingsford Asare, Nathaniel Yeboah

“…Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been synthesized from the more chemically rich and diverse cocoa pod; the synthesis of silver nanoparticles from cocoa leaves, which are less rich and have low diversity in bioactive molecules, is yet to be achieved. In this work, AgNPs produced using the extracts of the cocoa leaf (CL) and cocoa pods (CP) have been investigated and their antimicrobial activity against E. coli was evaluated. …”
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Research on the robustness of convolutional neural networks in image recognition by Dian LIN, Li PAN, Ping YI

“…Convolutional neural network is one of the key technologies in the application of image recognition and processing in artificial intelligence.Its wide application makes researches on its robustness more and more important.Previous researches on robustness of neural networks were too sweeping and most of them focused on adversarial robustness, which causes difficulty in further study in the mechanism of neural network robustness.The related researches of neuroscience were introduced and the concept of visual robustness was put forward.By studying the similarity and difference between neural network models and human visual system, the internal mechanism and faults of neural network robustness were revealed.The researches of neural network robustness in recent years were reviewed, and the reasons for the lack of robustness of neural network models were analyzed.The lack of robustness of neural networks is reflected in their sensitivity to small perturbations.The reason is that neural networks tend to learn high-frequency information for calculation and inference, which is difficult for humans to recognize.High-frequency information is easily affected by perturbations, and eventually causes mistakes of models.Previous researches on robustness mostly focused on mathematical properties of models, and were limited in the natural faults of neural networks.Visual robustness extends the traditional concept of robustness.The traditional concept of robustness measures the discrimination ability of models for distorted image examples.Distorted examples and clean examples can get correct outputs through robust models.Visual robustness measures the consistency between models and humans in discrimination ability.Visual robustness combines the research methods and achievements of neuroscience and psychology with artificial intelligence.The development of neuroscience in the field of vision were reviewed, and the application of research methods of cognitive psychology in neural network robustness were discussed.Human visual system has advantages in learning and abstract ability, whill neural network models have better performance in calculation speed and memory.The difference between the physiological structure of human brain and the logical structure of neural network models is the key factor leading to the problem of robustness of neural networks.The research of visual robustness requires deeper understanding of human visual system.Revealing the differences in cognitive mechanism between human visual system and neural network models and effectively improving the algorithm are the development trends of neural network robustness and even artificial intelligence.…”
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Implementation of the state policy for innovative development of the heat supply sector by Yu. O. Bakrunov, V. V. Glazkova

“…The state policy in the sphere of heat supply, aimed at improving the efficiency and reliability of this sphere, as well as achieving its energy security property, is implemented through the functioning of unified heat supply organizations (UHSO), acting as the centre of responsibility, modernization and technological development of heat supply in the assigned territory. …”
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Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics of Inter-Layer Sandstone in Marine–Continental Transitional Shale: A Case Study of the Upper Permian Longtan Formation in Southern Sichua... by Jianguo Wang, Jizhen Zhang, Xiao Xiao, Ya’na Chen, Denglin Han

“…Preliminary exploration achievements display that the inter-layer sandstone is plentiful in gas content and holds promising prospects for exploration and development. …”
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Genome-wide analysis in northern Chinese twins identifies twelve new susceptibility loci for pulmonary function by Tong Wang, Weijing Wang, Chunsheng Xu, Xiaocao Tian, Dongfeng Zhang

“…Results The median age of twin pairs in the study was 49 years. 3 SNPs (rs80345886, rs117883876, and 75139439) related to FEV1 achieved genome-wide significance. Moreover, 222, 150, and 73 SNPs surpassed suggestive evidence level (p < 1 × 10− 5) for FEV1, FVC, and FEV1/FVC, respectively. …”
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Real-World Parkinson&#x2019;s Hand Tremor Detection Using Ensemble Learning Techniques by Sungwook Hur, Jieming Zhang, Moon-Hyun Kim, Tai-Myoung Chung

“…The results of our five-fold cross-validation experimental evaluation using the PD-BioStampRC21 dataset show that our method achieved an accuracy of 86.67% and an AUC score of 95.56%, representing a significant improvement over the baseline model&#x2019;s accuracy of 72.67% and surpassing other existing methods. …”
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A bioinformatic search for correspondence between differentially expressed genes of domestic versus wild animals and orthologous human genes altering reproductive potential by M. P. Ponomarenko, I. V. Chadaeva, P. M. Ponomarenko, A. G. Bogomolov, D. Yu. Oshchepkov, E. B. Sharypova, V. V. Suslov, A. V. Osadchuk, L. V. Osadchuk, Yu. G. Matushkin

“…One of the greatest achievements of genetics in the 20th century is D.K. …”
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Modelling the impact of environmental responsibility on the development of enterprises by M. Pinskaya, O. Meleshchenko, O. Kovalchuk, O. Karpenko, E. Kompanets

“…It is expressed as the arithmetic mean of ten factors of environmentally proactive behavior of industrial enterprises. To achieve the objectives of the study, methods of criterion-qualitative assessment are suggested, such as expert assessment and survey. …”
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Evaluating antibacterial and antioxidant properties of sericin recovered from cocoons of Bombyx mori, Gonometa postica and Samia ricini in Kenya. by Mwangi G Kanyora, Timothy M Kegode, Justus Kurgat, Harrison Kibogo, George Asudi, Chrysantus M Tanga, Workneh Ayalew, Subramanian Sevgan, Nelly Ndungu

“…Sericin recovery was achieved using high temperature-high pressure method. …”
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Super High Contrast USPIO-Enhanced Cerebrovascular Angiography Using Ultrashort Time-to-Echo MRI by Liam Timms, Tianyi Zhou, Ju Qiao, Codi Gharagouzloo, Vishala Mishra, Rita Maria Lahoud, John W. Chen, Mukesh Harisinghani, Srinivas Sridhar

“…However, its potent T2∗ relaxivity limits achievable T1-weighted positive contrast and leads to artifacts in standard MRI protocols. …”
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A randomized, double-blind, Phase 1, single- and multiple-dose placebo-controlled study of the safety and pharmacokinetics of IN-006, an inhaled antibody treatment for COVID-19 in... by Thomas R. Moench, Lakshmi Botta, Brian Farrer, Jason D. Lickliter, Hyunah Kang, Yoona Park, Cheolmin Kim, Marshall Hoke, Miles Brennan, Morgan D. McSweeney, Zachary Richardson, John B. Whelan, Jong Moon Cho, Soo Young Lee, Frances Faurot, Jeff Hutchins, Samuel K. Lai

“…Interpretation: IN-006 was well-tolerated and achieved concentrations in the respiratory tract orders of magnitude above the IC50 range typical of antiviral mAbs. …”
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Tackling Disinformation Through Public Administration Recommendations –The Czech Experience by Tomáš Svoboda

“…Specifically, the regulatory model outlined above, where public administration (the state) achieves its objectives by influencing third parties, raises concerns. …”
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Analysis of Multifrequency GNSS Signals and an Improved Single-Epoch RTK Method for Medium-Long Baseline by Jian Chen, Jiahui Wang, Kaikun Zhang, Wei Duan, Xingwang Zhao, Chao Liu

“…First, the Galileo and BDS extra-wide-lane (EWL) ambiguities are fixed at a high success rate, and the Galileo and BDS wide-lane (WL) ambiguity is achieved via the transformation process. Second, the fixed WL ambiguities of Galileo and BDS are exploited to elevate the fixed rate of GPS WL ambiguity. …”
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Analysis of factors influencing HPV vaccination intention among Chinese college students: structural equation modeling based on health belief theory by Shi-Yuan Song, Ying Guo, Yi-Hua Li, Zheng Wang, Wei Gao

“…BackgroundIncreasing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates is vital for achieving society-wide public health goals, yet current research on HPV vaccine-related knowledge, vaccination intentions, and behaviors among college students in ethnic minority regions is inadequate. …”
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Effect of drying methods on phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of Capparis spinosa L. fruits by Shima Babaei Rad, Hasan Mumivand, Saeed Mollaei, Ali Khadivi

“…The 70 °C oven drying method also showed high levels of caffeic, cinnamic, ferulic, vanillic, and protocatechuic acids. Freeze-drying achieved the highest levels of rosmarinic, gallic, and m-coumaric acids (320.17, 175.3, and 12.99 µg/g, respectively), while shade drying produced high levels of p-hydroxybenzoic, cinnamic, ferulic, m-coumaric, protocatechuic, and p-coumaric acids. …”
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Return to sports activities following posterior scoliosis correction and instrumented fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and its correlation to Lenke classification by Tahir Khaleeq, Ibrahim Jaly, Matthew Lea, Devi Prakash Tokala, Neil Davidson, Jayesh Trivedi, Sudarshan Munigangaiah

“…The average number of levels fused was 10.27 (7–16). 89.3% of patients returned to school between 1 and 3 months. 19.6% of patients returned to physical education (PE) within 7–12 months, while 31.8% returned to running within 4–6 months. 7.5% of patients did not do PE and 18.2% never ran after surgery. 63.6% of patients returned to contact sports after surgery, majority within 7–12 months. 91% of patients felt that they were able to achieve their preoperative performance level. Comparing the subgroups, 92% of Subgroup 1 returned to school within 2 months, while majority of them returned to PE and running within 6 months. 60% of them returned to the same level of contact/noncontact sports level prior to surgery and 40% within 6 months. …”
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