Hypermethylation of the PRKCZ Gene in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Li Zou, Shirong Yan, Xueping Guan, Yunjun Pan, Xin Qu

“…The case-control method was implemented in 272 unrelated to one another cases in Shiyan People’s Hospital. Of those, 152 were diagnosed as T2DM cases, and the other 120 cases were healthy individuals visiting the hospital for a physical examination. …”
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Heterogeneities in infection outcomes across species: sex and tissue differences in virus susceptibility by Roberts, Katherine E, Longdon, Ben

“…For example, sexual dimorphism in susceptibility means males are often intrinsically more susceptible than females (although this can vary by host and pathogen). Further, we know little about whether the tissues infected by a pathogen in one host are the same in another species, and how this relates to the harm a pathogen does to its host. …”
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of High-Entropy Alloy FeCoNiCr(X) Produced by Laser Directed Energy Deposition Process: Effect of Compositional Changes by Ekaterina Kovalenko, Igor Krasanov, Ekaterina Valdaytseva, Stanislav Stankevich, Olga Klimova-Korsmik, Marina Gushchina

“…Cu-element is mainly found in cracks. The HEA FeCoNiCrCu alloy was compared with another HEA FeCoCrMnNi, successfully obtained by the same L-DED technology. …”
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Improving Robustness of Tuned Vibration Absorbers Using Shape Memory Alloys by Mohammad H. Elahinia, Jeong-Hoi Koo, Honghao Tan

“…To cope with this problem, many alternative TVAs (such as semiactive, adaptive, and active TVAs) have been studied. As another alternative, this paper investigates the use of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) in passive TVAs in order to improve the robustness of the TVAs subject to mass change in the primary system. …”
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What are healthcare providers’ understandings and experiences of compassion? The healthcare compassion model: a grounded theory study of healthcare providers in Canada by Aynharan Sinnarajah, Shane Sinclair, Thomas F Hack, Shelley Raffin-Bouchal, Susan McClement, Kelli Stajduhar, Pavneet Singh, Neil A Hagen, Harvey Max Chochinov

“…Data were independently and collectively analysed by the research team in accordance with Straussian grounded theory.Setting and participants 57 healthcare providers were recruited from urban and rural palliative care services spanning hospice, home care, hospital-based consult teams, and a dedicated inpatient unit within Alberta, Canada.Results Five categories and 13 associated themes were identified, illustrated in the Healthcare Provider Compassion Model depicting the dimensions of compassion and their relationship to one another. Compassion was conceptualised as—a virtuous and intentional response to know a person, to discern their needs and ameliorate their suffering through relational understanding and action.Conclusions An empirical foundation of healthcare providers’ perspectives on providing compassionate care was generated. …”
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Handling Multiple-Fuel Options in Economic Dispatch of Thermal Power Plants Through a Tight Model Applying Indicator Variables by Hossein Sharifzadeh

“…The inclusion of these binary variables and nonlinear cost functions results in a complex NP-hard mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). This paper provides another perspective on the ED, where indicator variables represent the MF options and determine which cost functions should be set to zero. …”
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Multi-Objective Dynamic Path Planning with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning by Mengxue Tao, Qiang Li, Junxi Yu

“…During the training process, agents within the cluster learn cooperative strategies while being able to communicate with one another. Consequently, they can navigate through task environments without communication, achieving collision-free paths that optimize multiple sub-objectives globally, minimizing time, distance, and overall costs associated with turning. …”
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Challenges Faced by Migrant Students in Education: A Comprehensive Analysis of Legal, Psychological, and Economic Barriers by Khasanboy Abdusamatov, Dinara Babajanova, Dilshodjon Egamberdiev, Yunus Xodjiyev, Uktamjon Tukhtaev, Nodirbek Yusupov, Sitora Shoislomova

“…Financial instability was another prominent barrier, with 65% of the migrant students’ families reporting difficulty in affording school supplies, technology, or transportation to school. …”
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Crackle Pitch Rises Progressively during Inspiration in Pneumonia, CHF, and IPF Patients by Andrey Vyshedskiy, Raymond Murphy

“…In these patients crackle pitch increased by approximately 40 Hz from the early to midinspiration and by another 40 Hz from mid to late-inspiration. In 10% of patients, crackle pitch did not change and in 11% of patients crackle pitch decreased. …”
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Behind the scenes with genomics researchers by Renata Mont’Alverne, Lori Bradford, Cheryl Buckmaster, Graham Strickert, Jason MacLean, Diane Dupont

“…At the macrosystem level, scientists voiced concerns about how different social groups perceive and accept genomics applications, as those tend to be viewed by lay persons as genetic interventions. Another focus was on how academic publication slows progress because it is orientated toward positive results while gaps in knowledge could be filled by publishing negative results or methodological barriers. …”
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FISCAL POLICY PROBLEMS UNDER CONDITIONS OF FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION by V. Urazayeva

“…Moreover countries face another range of problems regardless of the business cycle phase. …”
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Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack detection in SDN using Optimizer-equipped CNN-MLP. by Sajid Mehmood, Rashid Amin, Jamal Mustafa, Mudassar Hussain, Faisal S Alsubaei, Muhammad D Zakaria

“…We propose to implement both MLP (Multilayer Perceptron) and CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) based on conventional methods to detect the Denial of Services (DDoS) attack. …”
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Poznawanie prawdy i zdolność przewidywania w naukach przyrodniczych by Irena Grochowska

“…Next to getting to know the things themselves it is important in science to detect and eliminate the mistakes. …”
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THE DUAL MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF GERMAN ARMED FORCES by A. Yu. Timofeev

“…At the same time the combat capa-bilities of another component were gradually declining in the situation of com-mon reducing the personnel and armaments of the Bundeswehr. …”
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Kedudukan Hukum Notaris Merangkap Jabatan Sebagai Arbiter Ditinjau Dari Undang-Undang Jabatan Notaris by Ister Angelia

“…As the business world develops and the world of trade develops, it cannot be denied that the possibility of disputes will arise between the parties. Then another way is known that provides the possibility for the disputing parties to bring and resolve the case that arises outside the court if they wish, namely through arbitration, where the settlement of the case is carried out by the Arbiter, by making a written agreement. …”
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New blocked all-pairs shortest paths algorithms operating on blocks of unequal sizes by A. A. Prihozhy, O. N. Karasik

“…The blocked APSP algorithms are a promising approach which can exploit many processors (cores) and their caches in parallel mode efficiently. At the same time, to our best knowledge, all blocked algorithms of the Floyd-Warshall family use blocks of equal sizes. …”
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A Survey of Wild Indigenous <i>Cryptostylis ovata</i> Orchid Populations in Western Australia Reveals Spillover of Exotic Viruses by Stephen Wylie, Hua Li, Shu Hui Koh

“…In another population, one plant was infected with BYMV. …”
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Historical bias in palaeontological collections: Stylophora (Echinodermata) as a case study by Pauline Guenser, Khadija El Hariri, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Bertrand Lefebvre

“…This scientific practice, better known as “parachute science”, often implies a transfer of material from their country of origin (in the Global South) to another country of collection (in the Global North). …”
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A Way to Improve Luminescent Efficiency of Bis-Chalcone Derivatives by Meng Guan Tay, Mee Hing Tiong, Ying Ying Chia, Suzie Hui Chin Kuan, Zhi-Qiang Liu

“…In addition, compound 2a also shows solvatochromism effect where the λmax emission shifted from 499 nm in nonpolar solvents (benzene) to 523 nm in polar solvents (acetonitrile). This work provides another way to improve the emission efficiency of chalcone related compounds apart from using the complexation method which has been reported before.…”
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Electrical Stimulation Promotes Cardiac Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Damián Hernández, Rodney Millard, Priyadharshini Sivakumaran, Raymond C. B. Wong, Duncan E. Crombie, Alex W. Hewitt, Helena Liang, Sandy S. C. Hung, Alice Pébay, Robert K. Shepherd, Gregory J. Dusting, Shiang Y. Lim

“…However, the cardiogenic effect of electrical stimulation was not reproducible in another iPS cell line, CERA007c6. Beating EBs from control and electrically stimulated groups expressed various cardiac-specific transcription factors and contractile muscle markers. …”
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