Light People: Prof. Henry Snaith’s (FRS) perovskite optoelectronics journey by Ruidong Xia, Ying Hu

“…Henry Snaith, a pioneer of metal halide perovskite optoelectronics, shared his story on how scientific curiosity, close observation to unexpected results, and serendipity led to the discovery of perovskite as a solid light absorber, as well as the key findings and breakthroughs to achieve the remarkable efficiency of PSCs. He highlighted the significant contribution of his team to the progress of PSC technology from its initial discovery to its current exciting commercialization status; this includes the development of tandem solar cells and the exploration of p-i-n configurations for better stability. …”
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Formulating a Blue Ocean Strategy in the Banking Services Industry: Enhancing Customer Satisfaction through Improved Demand Fulfillment and Presenting an Optimal Pattern by Manuchehr Ghanbari, Ali Sabzali Yameqani, Yousef Rabbani, Kobra Sabzali Yamaqani

“…Additionally, it endeavors to achieve an optimal pattern through the utilization of optimization techniques.   …”
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Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Endorsement among Adolescents and Young Adults in Tanzania: Insights from the 2022 Demographic and Health Survey by Alpha Johnson Kapola, Rahma Musoke, Glenda Marie Manayon, Hassan Fredrick Fussi, Hafidha Mhando Bakari, Haji Mbwana Ally, Swalehe Mustafa Salim, Zuhura Mbwana Ally, Lynn Moshi, Mariam Salim Mbwana, Habib Omari Ramadhani

“…Targeted interventions focused on adolescents, females, and rural communities are needed to increase PrEP awareness and usage to achieve the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (UNAIDS) 95–95–95 goals for HIV epidemic control.…”
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Progress in Study of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Acting on Inflammation-Related Signaling Pathways in Knee Osteoarthritis by OUYANG Hui, LIN Xingjin, WANG Jinying, SHEN Longbin, WANG Chengdong

“…LIPUS is effective in the treating KOA, achieving anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects and promoting cartilage repair by modulating the activity of inflammation-related signaling pathways such as IL-1β and TNF-α. …”
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Prediction model for type 2 diabetes mellitus and its association with mortality using machine learning in three independent cohorts from South Korea, Japan, and the UK: a model de... by Hayeon Lee, Seung Ha Hwang, Seoyoung Park, Yunjeong Choi, Sooji Lee, Jaeyu Park, Yejun Son, Hyeon Jin Kim, Soeun Kim, Jiyeon Oh, Lee Smith, Damiano Pizzol, Sang Youl Rhee, Hyunji Sang, Jinseok Lee, Dong Keon Yon

“…Findings: In the discovery cohort, the ensemble model using voting with logistic regression and adaptive boosting achieved a balanced accuracy of 72.6% and an area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUROC) of 0.792. …”
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PD-L1/TLR7 dual-targeting nanobody-drug conjugate mediates potent tumor regression via elevating tumor immunogenicity in a host-expressed PD-L1 bias-dependent way by Wei Huang, Ji Zhou, Jia Li, Yakun Wan, Chao Hu, Meng Liu, Pan Xu, Feng Tang, Jianhua Sun, Xiaolu Yu, Yiru Long, Binfan Chen, Yongliang Tong, Mengwen Shan, Xiaomin Jia, Henglei Lu, Runqiu Chen, Jin Ren, Guangyi Jin, Likun Gong

“…NDCs can promote PD-L1 expression on intratumoral APCs and tumor cells, and subsequently achieve targeted enrichment in tumors. Moreover, the efficacy of NDCs is biased toward dependence on host expression of PD-L1.Conclusions The novel PD-L1/TLR7 dual-targeting NDC exhibited potent efficacy against heterogeneous tumors through orchestrating innate and adaptive immunity, which could act as a promising strategy to improve ICB therapy and shows prospects for clinical development.…”
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SegRD＋＋:Revisiting RD＋＋ for anomaly detection(SegRD++：重新审视基于RD++的异常检测) by 张浚然(ZHANG Junran), 曹俊杰(CAO Junjie)

“…Recently, anomaly detection methods based on reverse distillation architecture have generally achieved good results on various datasets and the RD++ method is particularly outstanding in design ideas and experimental results among them. …”
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Pengembangan Soal Pemecahan Masalah untuk Siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama Menggunakan Pendekatan Pendidikan Matematika Realistik Indonesia by Ichdar Domu, Susi Aryani Manangin, Kinzie Feliciano Pinontoan

“…The development research method was chosen as the method to achieve this goal. The research procedure was carried out in two stages, namely the preliminary stage and the formative evaluation stage. …”
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القواعد الناظمة لشركة المضاربة بين النظرية والتطبيق القضائي: دراسة مقارنة بين القانونين الفلسطيني والأردني... by Anas Abu Musa Aloun

“… Speculative contract is one of the common contracts in practical reality, where a person who owns cash capital or other assets resorts to a merchant and delivers this capital to him for development and investment, and the reason for this contract is either that the owner of capital does not know trade and seeks to achieve profit and investment, or that he wants to increase his income without exerting effort, and we are here before a type of companies but this company has a special nature that does not comply with the rules stipulated in Decree-Law No. 42 of 2021 regarding companies, but rather complies with civil law rules. …”
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Effect of Different Protein and Protein-Energy Ratio in Diet on Growth of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Fingerling by M. Setiawati, R. Sutajaya, M. Agus Suprayudi

“…Toward increasing in benefit, it needs efficiency on production cost.  This can be achieved by using a diet containing suitable protein and protein-energy ratio for the need of fish cultured.  …”
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Technology acceptance and use among nursing staff in Latin American hospitals: A mixed methods study by Juan Manuel Aranda, María Elisa Moreno-Fergusson, William Javier Guerrero, Beatriz Sanchez Herrera, María Alejandra Galiano, Maryory Guevara, Ingrid Xiomara Bustos, Francisca Muñóz

“…Understanding the aspects that affect the acceptance and use of technologies paves the way for achieving their best use in support of nursing care. …”
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Virtual choir as a kind of digital musical art by Xinbin Fu

“…A virtual choir does not require many purely choral skills to achieve a result (ensemble, tuning, responding to the conductor’s gesture and singing by colleagues in the part), but requires significant technical knowledge and skills (video and audio recording, editing, correction, etc.). …”
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Using a Simplified Quantum Counter to Implement Quantum Circuits Based on Grover’s Algorithm to Tackle the Exact Cover Problem by Jehn-Ruey Jiang, Yu-Jie Wang

“…Leveraging Grover’s algorithm, our quantum circuits achieve a quadratic speedup, querying the oracle O(<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msqrt><mi>N</mi></msqrt></semantics></math></inline-formula>) times, compared to O(<i>N</i>) for classical methods, where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi><mo>=</mo><msup><mn>2</mn><mi>n</mi></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> is the total number of unstructured input instances and <i>n</i> is the number of input (quantum) bits. …”
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Multisectoral interventions for urban health in Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review by Meelan Thondoo, Ebele R. I. Mogo, Lambed Tatah, Monica Muti, Kim R. van Daalen, Trish Muzenda, Rachel Boscott, Omar Uwais, George Farmer, Adelaide Yue, Sarah Dalzell, Gudani Mukoma, Divya Bhagtani, Sostina Matina, Philip M. Dambisya, Kufre Okop, Charles Ebikeme, Lisa Micklesfield, Tolu Oni

“…Increasing evidence suggests that urban health objectives are best achieved through a multisectoral approach. This approach requires multiple sectors to consider health and well-being as a central aspect of their policy development and implementation, recognising that numerous determinants of health lie outside (or beyond the confines of) the health sector. …”
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Whole lung radiomic features are associated with overall survival in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with definitive radiotherapy by Meng Yan, Zhen Zhang, Jia Tian, Jiaqi Yu, Andre Dekker, Dirk de Ruysscher, Leonard Wee, Lujun Zhao

“…The combination of tumor- and lung-based radiomic features can achieve optimal performance.…”
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The Prognostic Value of Peripheral Blood Inflammatory Markers in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Lenvatinib Combined with PD-1 Inhibitors by Xin Y, Liu N, Peng G, Huang X, Cao X, Zhou X

“…The nomogram based on inflammation indexes could achieve better prediction performance and help clinicians to identify high-risk patients and formulate treatment plans.Keywords: lenvatinib, PD-1 inhibitor, inflammatory indexes, hepatocellular carcinoma…”
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Mechanism of Electroacupuncture Quchi (LI 11) -Yanglingquan (GB 34) in Rats with Spasticity of Cerebral Apoplexy by Bin GUO, Penghan WANG, Linxing HUANG, Zhiqiang XIE, Lina XIE, Weiai LIU, Lizhen YI, Xin LIU, Zenghui YUE

“…High expression of the neurotrophic factor in hippocampus may promote the remodeling of synapses and improve the motor function of the central nervous system, thus achieving the relief of spasticity.…”
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Experience in the Management of Patients with Chronic Vascular Ulcers of the Lower Limbs Using Negatively Charged Polystyrene Microspheres by María Teresa Cacua Sánchez

“…Based on the visual analogue scale (VAS), a reduction in patients’ perception of pain was achieved, dropping from an average of 6 (moderate to severe pain) to 2 (little pain), demonstrating an improvement in this regard. …”
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Rearing mealworm larvae with wheat, barley or maize grains as main source of nutrients in unbalanced or balanced substrates by D. Plonquet, G. Fondevila, M. Fondevila

“…Additionally, a lower N content in the substrate could impair growth performance, an effect that is alleviated once larval protein requirements are achieved. Larval composition was affected by the main dietary ingredient, with substrates based on wheat bran increasing the N content of larvae, whereas those based on barley resulted in increased DM and Ether extract contents.…”
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Optimize Post-Operative Recovery (COPE): a randomized controlled feasibility trial in extremity fracture patients by Kyle Gouveia, Sheila Sprague, Jodi L. Gallant, Sarah MacRae, Gina Del Fabbro, Sofia Bzovsky, Paula McKay, Herman Johal, Jason W. Busse, on behalf of the COPE Investigators

“…The goals of our pilot study were to determine an acceptable rate of recruitment, the degree to which participants randomized to CBT were compliant with treatment, the site investigator’s ability to adhere to study protocol and data collection procedures, and our ability to achieve high follow-up rates. Feasibility criteria were evaluated using a graded “traffic light” approach, in which “green light” indicates moving forward with the definitive trial, “yellow light” indicates proceeding with modifications to the protocol and trial procedures, and “red light” indicates a definitive trial is not feasible without significant protocol and trial procedure modifications. …”
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