Greek Physicians’ Perceptions on Generic Drugs in the Era of Austerity by Georgios Labiris, Michael Fanariotis, Catherine Kastanioti, Georgios Alexias, Adonis Protopapas, Theodoros Karampitsakos, Dimitris Niakas

“…A custom questionnaire based on former similar studies was developed and administered to Greek physicians. …”
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Comparison of the Influence of the Chinese Lobby and the Israeli Lobby in the United States by D. B. Grafov

“…When lobbying China uses numerous Chinese Diaspora in many States, as well as trying to interest of the former high-ranking American officials, granting them special privileges for doing business in China. …”
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Canopy temperature depression for droughtand heat stress tolerance in wheat breeding by S. B. Lepekhov

“…A large number of publications illustrate a close relation between CTD values and yield and indicate a high heritability of the former. Meanwhile, the same works show that yield has a higher heritability. …”
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CHANGES IN SHEEP TRANSHUMANCE IN ROMANIA. A CASE-STUDY FROM MĂRGINIMEA SIBIULUI – SOUTHERN CARPATHIANS by SHIGERU SHIRASAKA, KAZUKO URUSHIBARA–YOSHINO

“…The traditional transhumance style in this area was “intermediate-stationed transhumance”. During the former regime, the sheep holders were required to inform the government every year of their sheep numbers and increases from the previous year. …”
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Differential Proteomic Analysis Predicts Appropriate Applications for the Secretome of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells and Dermal Fibroblasts by Stefania Niada, Chiara Giannasi, Alice Gualerzi, Giuseppe Banfi, Anna Teresa Brini

“…This approach led to the recognition of distinct functions related to the conditioned medium of ASCs and DFs, with the former being involved in the regulation of neuronal death and apoptosis and the latter in bone metabolism and ossification. …”
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Temporal trends of the incidence rate of syphilis during pregnancy and congenital syphilis in São Paulo, Brazil, 2011-2023 by Beatriz Poddis Busquim e Silva, Fernanda Penido Matozinhos, Rafaela Siqueira Costa Schreck, Fernanda Marçal Ferreira, Camilla Pontes Bezerra, Bárbara Tideman Sartório Camargo, Thales Philipe Rodrigues da Silva

“…Conclusion Incidence rates of syphilis during pregnancy and congenital syphilis showed significant increasing trends, which may be related to the increase in the former during the diagnosis period (1st trimester), demonstrating increased testing among pregnant women, clinical classification at the time of diagnosis (latent syphilis), as well as inefficiency of adequate treatment when diagnosis is late.…”
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Circulating Levels of Inflammatory Markers in Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Theodora Boutsikou, George Mastorakos, Marialena Kyriakakou, Alexandra Margeli, Demetrios Hassiakos, Ioannis Papassotiriou, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, Ariadne Malamitsi-Puchner

“…We conclude that the lack of difference in hs-CRP, PAI-1 and S100B levels, between IUGR and AGA fetuses/neonates—despite the lower birth weight, reflecting reduced fat mass in the former—might indicate more intense adipose tissue and nervous system inflammation in IUGRs. …”
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Surfactant usage in nitrile rubber film development through metal plate dipping process by Hui Lai Yong, Munusamy Yamuna, Mohd Ismail Nor Ismaliza, Xian Ooi Zhong, Muniyadi Mathialagan, Jiang Lim Chaw

“…The process in the lab differs from the factory, as the rubber film is formed from dipping a metal plate into the compounded mixture, while the factory uses a well-crafted former to make their gloves in a controlled environment. …”
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Multiphoton Laser Microscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging for the Evaluation of the Skin by Stefania Seidenari, Federica Arginelli, Sara Bassoli, Jennifer Cautela, Paul M. W. French, Mario Guanti, Davide Guardoli, Karsten König, Clifford Talbot, Chris Dunsby

“…Multiphoton laser microscopy is a new, non-invasive technique providing access to the skin at a cellular and subcellular level, which is based both on autofluorescence and fluorescence lifetime imaging. Whereas the former considers fluorescence intensity emitted by epidermal and dermal fluorophores and by the extra-cellular matrix, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), is generated by the fluorescence decay rate. …”
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La morale de la sobriété : s’adapter au milieu, limiter ses besoins, les satisfaire soi-même by Violeta Ramirez

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Wages withheld, deferred or deflected: The case of child domestic workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Annabel Erulkar, Lemi Negeri, Eyasu Hailu Mekonnen, Elizabeth Anderson, Yuki Lo

“…Methods: The is a large-scale, mixed-method study, including a quantitative survey of domestic workers, a sub-sample who were interviewed in-depth, and a validation study among former domestic workers. Results: Sixty-seven percent of child domestic workers were paid directly for their services. …”
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Start of Higher School in Crimea: Taurida University (1918–1920) by Sergey B. Filimonov

“…Of particular interest is the history of Taurida University in the years of the Civil War, when its teachers were the greatest scientists who fled from the Bolshevik terror from the university centers of the former Russian Empire to the “white” Crimea. But it was precisely this period that received the least coverage in the literature published in the twentieth century. …”
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Transparent Graphene-Based RIS for 6G Communications in the THz Spectrum by I. Marasco, C. Cantore, G. V. Bianco, G. Bruno, A. D'Orazio, G. Magno

“…The aim of the paper is twofold: the former is to demonstrate the reconfigurability of the proposed RIS by exploiting two methods, referred to as “digital” and “analogical”. …”
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A framework for optimisation and techno-economic analysis of CO2 pressurisation strategies for pipeline transportation by Andreasen Anders, Bonto Maria, Montero Fernando

“…., the thermodynamic and economic models applied, are rigorously validated and bench-marked against literature data. Contrary to former studies that focus mainly on reduction of the work required for pressurisation, the presented method includes additional capabilities to assess CAPEX, OPEX and the levelised cost of CO2 compression. …”
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The Effects of Precrack Angle on the Strength and Failure Characteristics of Sandstone under Uniaxial Compression by Shuai Zhang, Jinhai Xu, Liang Chen, Hideki Shimada, Mingwei Zhang, Haiyang He

“…To this end, two sandstone specimens, distinguished with a single and three precracks, were built using the PFC software. For the former case, both the peak strength and elastic modulus increase to a peak value as the crack angle α gets closer to the forcing (loading) direction. …”
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Refugees as a new emigration channel from Tajikistan to Western and Eastern Europe by A. Kh. Rakhmonov

“…Among the Tajik political refugees who received asylum in European countries, there are also former migrant workers who worked in Russia. Deportations, decline in earnings after the 2015 currency crisis, and tightening of Russia’s migration policy towards migrants from Tajikistan forced some migrants to reorient themselves in other countries, primarily in European countries, the United States and Canada. …”
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SOCIAL PROTEST IN INDIA by S. I. Lunev

“…There are different categories of social protest in India: peasant movements; scheduled castes' (Dalits, the former untouchables) movements; anti-corruption movements; environmental movements; backward caste movements; women's movements; tribal movements; industrial proletariat movements; students' movements; middle class movements; human rights movements. …”
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Quality assessment of cyber threat intelligence knowledge graph based on adaptive joining of embedding model by Bin Chen, Hongyi Li, Di Zhao, Yitang Yang, Chengwei Pan

“…The AJE model operates through a coordinated interplay between a task model and a selector. The former samples word embeddings generated by various models, while the latter generates rewards predicated on feedback obtained from current task outcomes to decide whether or not to splice the embedding. …”
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LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION by Ivett STUMPF-TAMÁS, Marianna MÓRÉ

“…I am interested in the extent to which this is a problem for the organisation and whether the candidates will be drawn from the former members or whether an outsider will fill the post. …”
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Metamorphoses of memory of the the Russian-Serbian Brotherhood of War in Modern Serbia by A. Yu. Timofeev

“…Over 70% of Yugoslavs killed during the Second World War were slaughtered by the citizens of former Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The terror unleashed by Tito in the first postwar decade in 1944-1954 was proportionally bloodier than Stalin repressions in the postwar USSR. …”
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