ISLAMIC ECONOMY IN «ISLAMIC STATE»: IS IT POSSIBLE? by R. I. Bekkin

“…This is indicated, in particular, in the case of the IS, where, with the help of law-permitting institutions, they try to legalize activities that are illegal from the point of view of Shariah. Another important feature of the financial policy in the IS is the insignificant interest in modern Islamic financial institutions: banks, insurance (takaful) companies, etc. …”
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Angiojet System Used in the Treatment of Submassive Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Two Patients by Jinbo Liu, Tianrun Li, Wei Huang, Na Zhao, Hongwei Zhao, Hongyu Wang

“…However, the level of platelet was significantly lower in one patient after Angiojet system usage and recovered to the preoperative level the next day. Another patient suffered from bradyarrhythmias during the usage of Angiojet, and bradyarrhythmias disappeared when the Angiojet system stopped. …”
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Predictors of 7-day symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation in patients with acute ischemic stroke and proposal of a novel screening tool: A retrospective cohort study by Mehmet Muzaffer Islam, Cemrenur Uygun, Melike Delipoyraz, Merve Osoydan Satici, Servan Kurt, Enis Ademoglu, Serkan Emre Eroglu

“…After the final model was created, the optimal cutoff point was determined with Youden’s index. Another cut-off point was determined at which the sensitivity was the highest. …”
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Safeguarding Nigeria: strategies for combating insurgency and terrorism by O. O. Awotayo, N. O. Yusuf, S. O. Adedayo

“…The paper appraises the strategic responses by Nigeria’s government to the intractable difficulties posed by insurgency, banditry, and terrorism experienced largely in its northern parts, identifying key initiatives such as the establishment of the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army, among other international and local collaborations and initiatives like the Civilian Joint Task Force. Another contentious issue is the vote of support by the National Assembly for a proposal to engage mercenaries in defence, reflecting the ongoing debate over security measures. …”
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Telaprevir in treatment of chronic hepatitis C: safety issues by T. M. Ignatova

“…AE spectrum at telaprevir application differs from AE spectrum at triple therapy with addition of another new protease inhibitor – boceprevir (predominance of anemia, dysgeusia). …”
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Stationary BTZ space-time in Ricci-inverse and $$f({\mathcal {R}})$$ f ( R ) gravity theories by Faizuddin Ahmed, Abdelmalek Bouzenada

“…We demonstrate that stationary BTZ space-time is a valid solution in this gravity theory, wherein the cosmological constant undergoes modifications due to the coupling constants. Moreover, we study another modified gravity theory known as $$f({\mathcal {R}})$$ f ( R ) -gravity and analyze the stationary BTZ space-time. …”
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Anxiety in High School Adolescents by Gender: Friend Attachment, Ineffective Coping with Stress, and Gender in Predicting Anxiety by Öner Çelikkaleli, Sezai Demir

“…This gender-based difference was shown to be significant. Another finding showed the adolescents’ trait anxiety scores to be negatively correlated with friend attachment, and positive significant relationships revealed between ineffective coping styles. …”
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T7 DNA polymerase treatment improves quantitative sequencing of both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses by Billaud, Maud, Theodorou, Ilias, Lamy-Besnier, Quentin, Shah, Shiraz A., Lecointe, François, De Sordi, Luisa, De Paepe, Marianne, Petit, Marie-Agnès

“…However, the sonication step might shear ssDNA more efficiently than dsDNA, therefore introducing another bias in virome sequencing. These limitations prompted us to explore an alternative method of DNA preparation for sequencing mixed ssDNA and dsDNA viromes. …”
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Effect of Oral intake of Stevia Leaf Powder on Body Weight – An Experimental study by Amna Faruqi, Sikander Subuctageen, Irfan Afzal Mughal, Shahida Parveen, Tooba Zafar, Asma Irfan

“…Keywords: Obesity, weight loss, Natural non-nutritive sweeteners, Stevia …”
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Plain Language Summary of Publication: What is the effect of the medicine vibegron in the treatment of overactive bladder in patients with and without bladder leakage? by David Staskin, Jeffrey Frankel, Steven G. Gregg, Janet Owens-Grillo

“…The study also included another drug that was already available for treating overactive bladder called tolterodine and a pill with no medicine called a placebo . …”
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Long-Term Follow-Up after Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer and the Need for Active Monitoring by Gregory P. Swanson, Wencong Chen, Sean Trevathan, Michael Hermans

“…With a higher risk of later failure, we recommend that the higher risk patients be followed at least intermittently for another 5 years (out to 15 years).…”
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The Conflicting Soviet Responses to the Lausanne Process (1922-1924) by R. Matos Franco

“…The research demonstrates that when the Swiss government prevented the Soviet counterpart from participating as a legal party in the process, Moscow resorted to non-traditional foreign projections, which encompassed actions beyond formal diplomacy, and even involved non-communist actors to present the USSR in a positive and "objective" light at Lausanne. …”
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Open Data Release and Privacy Concerns: Complexity in Mitigating Vulnerability with Controlled Perturbation by Shah Imran Alam, Ihtiram Raza Khan, Syed Imtiyaz Hassan, Farheen Siddiqui, M. Afshar Alam, Anil Kumar Mahto

“…K-anonymity algorithm was the foundation of many of its successor algorithms of all privacy-preserving algorithms. l-diversity claims to add another dimension of privacy protection. Both these algorithms used together are known to provide a good balance between privacy and quality control of the dataset as a whole entity. …”
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Metformin reverts aortic calcifications and elastin loss induced by an experimental metabolic syndrome by Lucas Streckwall, Nancy Martini, Claudia Sedlinsky, León Schurman, María Virginia Gangoiti, Antonio Desmond McCarthy

“…After 14 days, and for another 4 weeks, MET (100 mg/kg per day) was added to half of each group’s drinking source, thus C (water), F (fructose), M (MET) and FM (fructose + MET). …”
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IL-6-mediated MHC class II induction on RIN-5AH insulinoma cells by IFN-γ occurs via the G-protein pathway by S. Vassiliadis, G. K. Papadopoulos

“…In this study we examined the role of various cytoldnes that may induce MHC class II surface antigen expression, using the rat insulinoma line RIN-5AH as a pertinent model system. As in another study, the ability of IFN-γ to amplify MHC class II antigen expression 4-fold is demonstrated. …”
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A vain attempt: why a change in the reproductive strategy of a rodent population failed to restore ecological balance by Stanislav Myakushko

“…As a result, after about a decade of intensive but ineffective reproduction, the population was ‘forced’ to switch to another strategy to restore ecological balance.…”
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N6-Methyladenosine in RNA and DNA: An Epitranscriptomic and Epigenetic Player Implicated in Determination of Stem Cell Fate by Pengfei Ji, Xia Wang, Nina Xie, Yujing Li

“…N6-Methyladenosine modification in DNA (m6dA), mRNA (m6A), tRNA, and other noncoding RNAs has been defined as another important epigenetic and epitranscriptomic marker in eukaryotes in recent years. …”
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Effects of exercise intensity on nutritional status, body composition, and energy balance in patients with COPD: a randomized controlled trial by Tomoyuki Ikeuchi, Kazuya Shingai, Katsuyuki Ichiki, Takeo Jimi, Tetsuya Kawano, Kaori Kato, Toru Tsuda

“…Those who lost more than 1% of their weight were then randomized to either continue high-intensity exercise (AA group) or switch to low-intensity exercise (AB group) for another 2 weeks (experimental period). Results The analysis included 30 participants (AA, n = 15; AB, n = 15). …”
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Does the flirting behaviour of a selection of black South African youths differ from Western perspectives on flirting by Franzel Du Plooy-Cilliers, Linda Venter

“…Like all other communication behaviour, flirting behaviour varies from culture to culture, and acceptable flirting behaviour in one culture might be viewed as inappropriate in another. Likewise, because all forms of communication are dynamic, generation gaps may lead to conflict as a result of differences in opinion about the appropriateness of certain behaviours. …”
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Effects of Different River Crab <i>Eriocheir sinensis</i> Polyculture Practices on Bacterial, Fungal and Protist Communities in Pond Water by Yun Bao, Bing Li, Rui Jia, Linjun Zhou, Yiran Hou, Jian Zhu

“…The PC group altered the co-occurrence networks of bacteria, fungi, and protist, leading to more complex and stable communities of fungi and protist. …”
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