Attitudes Regarding Participation in a Diabetes Screening Test among an Assyrian Immigrant Population in Sweden by Susanne Andersson, Veronika Karlsson, Louise Bennet, Klas Fellbrant, Margareta Hellgren

“…Nevertheless, they were not necessarily committed to taking action as a consequence of the screening. Instead, they professed that their health was not solely in their own hands and that they felt safe that God would provide for them. …”
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Nurses' Experiences of Communicating With Families in Municipal Home Health Care by Elisabeth Bruce, Susanna Pusa, Karin Sundin

“…Result Communication with families was viewed as a crucial action for building rapport to facilitate the involvement and support of families in difficult situations. …”
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Harnessing the power of seaweed: unveiling the potential of marine algae in drug discovery by Leonel Pereira, Ana Valado

“…However, challenges related to compound identification, extraction methods, scalability of seaweed cultivation, and understanding the mechanisms of action still need to be addressed. As researchers employ advanced technologies and dive deeper into the chemical composition of seaweeds, the untapped potential of these marine organisms in drug discovery awaits further exploration and holds significant promise for future therapeutic advancements.…”
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Une étape primordiale dans l’évaluation d’une politique de développement durable by Karine Bourgeois, Dominique Vollet, Alain Guerard

“…This last aims to analyse the context of the policy and its theory  of action. In order to define, in a pertinent way, priority evaluative questions, both political analysis and implementation analysis (an interdisciplinary method) are required, moreover when the policy is defined in a regional and co-operation framework. …”
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Density of states, black holes and the Emergent String Conjecture by Alek Bedroya, Rashmish K. Mishra, Max Wiesner

“…Abstract We study universal features of the density of one-particle states ρ(E) in weakly coupled theories of gravity at energies above the quantum gravity cutoff Λ, defined as the scale suppressing higher-derivative corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Using thermodynamic properties of black holes, we show that in asymptotically flat spacetimes, certain features of ρ(E) above the black hole threshold M min are an indicator for the existence of large extra dimensions, and cannot be reproduced by any lower-dimensional field theory with finitely many fields satisfying the weak energy condition. …”
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Dynamic Response of an End-Supported Pontoon Bridge due to Wave Excitation: Numerical Predictions versus Measurements by Knut Andreas Kvåle, Ole Øiseth

“…By including preliminary contributions from wind action and relying on a model optimized against measured modal parameters, a satisfactory agreement is obtained. …”
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Live Plague Vaccine Development: Past, Present, and Future by Andrey P. Anisimov, Anastasia S. Vagaiskaya, Alexandra S. Trunyakova, Svetlana V. Dentovskaya

“…In this review, we present our opinion on reasonable tactics for the development and application of live, safe, and protective human plague vaccines causing an enhanced duration of protection and breadth of action against various virulent strains in vaccination studies representing different ages, genders, and nucleotide polymorphisms of the genes responsible for immune response.…”
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The Effect of Acupuncture along with Conventional Therapies on the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: A Clinical Trial by Sayed Mostafa Hashemi, Farhang Mokhtarinejad, Seyed Mojtaba Abtahi Forooshani, Mehran Rezvani Habibabadi

“…Given its mechanism of action and efficacy, researchers have been recently attracted to address its efficacy in the treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR). …”
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Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Architecture for Autonomous Navigation Systems by Anas S. Alamoush, Aykut I. Ölçer

“…The results of this study identify several major clusters essential to MASS navigation architecture, including (1) autonomous navigation architecture, (2) decision-making and action-taking system, (3) situational awareness and associated technologies, (4) sensor fusion technology, (5) collision avoidance subsystems, (6) motion control and path following, and (7) mooring and unmooring. …”
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Minimal state models for ionic channels involved in glucagon secretion by Virginia González-Vélez, Amparo Gil, Iván Quesada

“…Then, we simulate dynamic ionic currents following experimental protocols.Our aims are 1) To understand the individual ionic channel functioning and modulation that could affect glucagon secretion, and 2) To simulate ionic currents actually measured in voltage-clamp alpha-cell experiments in mice.Our estimations indicate that alpha cells are highly permeable to sodium and potassium which mainly manage action potentials. We have also found that our estimated N-type calcium channel population and density in alpha cells is in good agreement to those reported for L-type calcium channelsin beta cells. …”
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Physiological Properties of Supragranular Cortical Inhibitory Interneurons Expressing Retrograde Persistent Firing by Barbara Imbrosci, Angela Neitz, Thomas Mittmann

“…The somatodendritic compartment receives and integrates synaptic inputs while the axon relays relevant synaptic information in form of action potentials (APs) across long distance. Despite this well accepted notion, recent research has shown that, under certain circumstances, the axon can also generate APs independent of synaptic inputs at axonal sites distal from the soma. …”
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Phytosomes – an Effective Drug-Delivery System. Development, Technology, Application. by I.A. Khabarov, S.D. Sergazy, A.S. Maikenova, A.N. Zhabayeva, O.V. Maslova, S.M. Adekenov

“…Phytosomes are used for increasing the bioavailability of the medical component, targeted delivery, and increasing the effect of the action of a medical drug while decreasing its therapeutic dose. …”
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Skills Acquired by Students in the Orthodontics Residence. Academic Year 2008-2009 by Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Eduardo Maikel Curbeira Hernández, Amarelys Morera Pérez, Yuritza Hernández Núñez, Jorge A. Rodríguez López

“…<strong>Background</strong>: learning assessment involves the monitoring and evaluation of students’ knowledge, skills and habits as well as the action procedures they acquire along the educational process. …”
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Judge's Managerial Competences: a Case Study of a High-Performance Court by Livia Lúcia Oliveira Borba, Fabricio Castagna Lunardi, Tomas Aquino Guimarães

“…The competences are the following: People Management and Team Leadership, Judicial Proceedings Management, Communication, Systemic Vision, Innovative Action, Information Management, Technical Managerial Competence, and Outcomes-Oriented Management. …”
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Seismic Behavior Experimental Study on the Joint of Circular Tubed Steel-Reinforced Concrete Columns by Yan Dai, Shaofeng Nie, Tianhua Zhou, Chengfeng Xue, Jingrong Peng

“…In order to simulate the earthquake action, two joint specimens were subjected to low-cycle cyclic loading at the end of the column. …”
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Voix de revenants dans les Pièces pour danseurs de W.B. Yeats. L’exemple de Ce que rêvent les os by Pierre Longuenesse

“…This type of spectral projection is furthermore intensified by the fact that the “theatrical representation” is only conveyed to us through the eyes – or possibly dreams – of a group of musicians, without any stage direction, which might situate this visual and aural universe in a given system of reference. The action that unfolds before the spectator thus becomes a projection of his imaginary landscape, the “music of the lost kingdom” of memory, brought forth by the power of utterance. …”
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Alcohol policies in India: A scoping review. by Jaclyn Schess, Lydia Bennett-Li, Richard Velleman, Urvita Bhatia, Alexander Catalano, Abhijeet Jambhale, Abhijit Nadkarni

“…We identified 19 Federal policy documents and 36 State level policy documents within which we have identified the specific policy measures which address the 10 categories of the World Health Organization's Global Action Plan to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol. …”
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Research on Temporal and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Microseismic Events of Slip-Type Rockburst by Kun Xu, Leibo Song, Wenjie Song, Jiangtao He, Liping Li, Ge Yan, Qin Chen, Gang Wang

“…The slip-type rockburst was mainly affected by structural plane; it is due to the accumulation of elastic strain energy at the structural plane and the sudden release under the action of unloading or disturbance, driving the block on the structure surface fast slide, mainly manifested as the sliding of large blocks of surrounding rock, and forming a “V” shape pit blasting or cuneate blasting crater, as well as destruction with crackle. …”
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Advocating the use of risk-based online single submission (OSS) to MSMES in Sukabumi district by Alfhi Fusvita Cahya, Hardi Warsono, Kismartini Kismartini

“…The theory used as a reference is advocacy which consists of six steps, namely analysis, strategy, mobilization, action, evaluation, and sustainability. The results of the study show that advocacy for the use of risk-based OSS for MSMEs in the Sukabumi district has been going quite well according to PP No. 5 of 2021. …”
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A Preliminary Study on the Design Method for Large-Diameter Deep-Hole Presplit Blasting and Its Vibration-Isolation Effect by Shuangshuang Xiao, Hongsheng Wang, Guowei Dong

“…According to the stress distribution in the vicinity of the blast holes under the action of explosive stress waves and blasting gas, we deduced theoretical formulae for parameters including charge mass in blast holes, hole spacing, and distance from presplit blast holes to cushion holes. …”
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