Impact of Microplastic-Amended Soil on Seed Germination of Alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i>) in a Controlled Environment by Abigail Tatum, Victoria Martin, Vanaja Kankarla

“…Healthy soil is a system in sync with good physical, chemical, and biological properties capable of supporting life. …”
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New image encryption algorithm based on double chaotic system and compressive sensing by Yuguang YANG, Guodong CAO

“…Image encryption technology plays an important role in today’s multimedia applications and Internet information security transmission.However, most image encryption algorithms still have problems, for example, cipher images occupied high bandwidth during transmission, image encryption speed is slow, image encryption algorithms are not associated with plain image, and there is no complete ciphertext feedback mechanism.These problems all affect the security and easy use of image encryption algorithms.In order to solve the above problems, the compressive sensing technology and chaotic system were studied, and a new image encryption algorithm based on double chaotic system and compressive sensing with plaintext association was proposed.The plaintext image association key was used to associate the plain image hash value with the Logistic chaotic system parameters.Discrete wavelet transform, was used to sparse the plain image.Then the random measurement matrix was generated by the Logistic chaos system, and the image was encrypted once by combining the compressive sensing technique and the random measurement matrix to obtain the intermediate image.The intermediate image was hashed again, and the Rucklidge chaos system initial value was associated with the plain image hash value together.The Rucklidge chaotic system and encryption algorithm were used to control the intermediate image for secondary encryption and accordingly obtain the cipher image.The encryption algorithm was a new plaintext correlation encryption algorithm, which used the image’s own pixel value to control the scrambling of the intermediate image.It also enhanced the plaintext association and established a ciphertext feedback mechanism.Simulation results and performance analysis show that the algorithm has good encryption performance.The encrypted image can be compressed according to the compression ratio, effectively reducing the size of the cipher image.Moreover, it is resistant to common attacks such as known plaintext attack, selective plaintext attack and differential attack, which is better than other common image encryption algorithms.…”
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Ultrasound-guided vs. fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous leverage reduction for severely displaced radial neck fractures in children: a comparative analysis of clinical and radiologic... by Xing Wu, Jingdong Xia, Xiongtao Li, Xiaoliang Chen, Si Wang, Xiantao Shen

“…Final Metaizeau criteria were categorized into excellent, good, fair, and poor. Results The success rates for closed reduction were 100% for the US group and 91.2% for the FL group. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of rGO-SnO2 nanocomposite for electrochemical sensor of ciprofloxacin by Prastika Krisma Jiwanti, Dewi Kartika Azizah Sukardi, Anis Puspita Sari, Mai Tomisaki, Siti Wafiroh, Sri Hartati, Arramel, Yew Hoong Wong, Pei Meng Woi, Joon Ching Juan

“…The %RSD value was less than 5 % indicating that this modified electrodes exhibit good precision and stability. The real-world applicability of this developed methods was exemplified through its successful implementation in the analysis of river water and milk, achieving remarkable recovery rates of 101.2 % and 97.7 %, respectively. …”
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Impact of a Detailed Urban Parameterization on Modeling the Urban Heat Island in Beijing Using TEB-RAMS by Lei Jiang, Lixin Lu, Lingmei Jiang, Yuanyuan Qi, Aqiang Yang

“…The geometric morphology of an urban area characterized by road, roof, and wall also seems to have notable effects on the UHI intensity. …”
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Exploring the path to optimal diabetes care by unravelling the contextual factors affecting access, utilisation, and quality of primary health care in West Africa: A scoping review... by Abdul-Basit Abdul-Samed, Ellen Barnie Peprah, Yasmin Jahan, Veronika Reichenberger, Dina Balabanova, Tolib Mirzoev, Henry Lawson, Eric Odei, Edward Antwi, Irene Agyepong

“…As diabetes is ambulatory care sensitive, good primary care is crucial to reduce complications and mortality. …”
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Is there a mental health diagnostic crisis in primary care? Current research practices in global mental health cannot answer that question by Brandon A. Kohrt, Dristy Gurung, Ritika Singh, Sauharda Rai, Mani Neupane, Elizabeth L. Turner, Alyssa Platt, Shifeng Sun, Kamal Gautam, Nagendra P. Luitel, Mark J.D. Jordans

“…We propose clinically meaningful detection as ‘good-enough’ diagnoses incorporating multiple conditions accounting for context, health system and types of interventions available. …”
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Limited Effects of Ultra-low Oxygen Concentration during Extended Embryo Culture on In vitro Fertilisation Outcomes in Indian Women: A Retrospective Cross-sectional Study by Deven Patel, R. G. Patel, Trupti Patel, Nikunj Patel, Naroda Maheshwari

“…While the proportion of good-quality embryos was higher in 5% O2 group, these did not translate to better pregnancy outcomes. …”
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Deep Learning Models to Predict Fatal Pneumonia Using Chest X-Ray Images by Satoshi Anai, Junko Hisasue, Yoichi Takaki, Naohiko Hara

“…The deep learning models yielded good accuracy in classifying fatal pneumonia. By further improving the performance, AI could assist physicians in the severity assessment of patients with pneumonia.…”
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Surgical Outcomes of a Second Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation in Asian Eyes with Refractory Glaucoma by Sze Chuan Ong, Maria Cecilia Aquino, Paul Chew, Victor Koh

“…An additional AGV implant had good short and modest long-term effectiveness in reducing IOP following a failed glaucoma tube shunt in Asian eyes, with the mentioned common postoperative complications to be actively monitored and managed.…”
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Effect of Intestinal Levodopa-Carbidopa Infusion on Pharyngeal Dysphagia: Results from a Retrospective Pilot Study in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Bendix Labeit, Inga Claus, Paul Muhle, Sonja Suntrup-Krueger, Rainer Dziewas, Tobias Warnecke

“…Future studies with larger sample sizes are required to follow-up on these pilot results and identify which factors predict a good response of PDrPD to LCIG treatment.…”
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Effect of propofol and ciprofol in patients undergoing bronchoscopy: protocol for a double-blind, randomised controlled trial by Fang Chen, Cheng Li, Dongliang Li, Jinxuan Tang, Jiayu Huang

“…Ciprofol (HSK3486) is a propofol analogue with good clinical safety, high potency and some advantages over propofol, including lower injection pain and haemodynamic depression in patients undergoing gastroscopy and colonoscopy. …”
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Blocks identical by descent in the genomes of the indigenous population of Siberia demonstrate genetic links between populations by N. A. Kolesnikov, V. N. Kharkov, K. V. Vagaitseva, A. A. Zarubin, V. A. Stepanov

“…The distribution of IBD blocks in the populations of Siberia is in good agreement with the geographical proximity of the populations and their linguistic affiliation. …”
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Risk Factors for Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Lin Sun, Xue Diao, Xiaokun Gang, You Lv, Xue Zhao, Shuo Yang, Ying Gao, Guixia Wang

“…Together, Glu and Gln levels may represent a good predictive biomarker for the early diagnosis of cognitive impairment in T2DM patients.…”
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Visual motor integration: generation, development, and its importance for ophthalmology by E.A. Egorov, T.B. Romanova, E.G. Rybakova

“…Since the quality of visual functions is an important component of good VMC, its generation and development require adequate vision correction. …”
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Knowledge and attitude towards ankle sprain management among primary care physicians in the department of family medicine, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Abdullah A. Alzahrani, Norah A. AlQarni, Fahad S. Alghamdi, Tariq A. Alghamdi

“…A total of 41 (46.6%) of the study physicians had an overall good knowledge level about ankle sprain while most of them (53.4%) had poor knowledge level. …”
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Complications and adverse events of high-intensity focused ultrasound in its application to gynecological field - a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shan-shan Lu, Lei-lei Yang, Wei Yang, Jing Wang, Xia-Lin Zhang, Liu Yang, Yi Wen

“…By reasonable prevention and active intervention, these events can be further reduced, making it a safe and effective treatment method. It is a good choice for patients who crave noninvasive treatment or have other surgical contraindications.…”
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Comparison of the CT-based micromotion analysis method versus marker-based RSA in measuring femoral head translation and evaluation of its intra- and interobserver reliability: a p... by Vasileios Angelomenos, Bita Shareghi, Raed Itayem, Maziar Mohaddes

“…The Bland–Altman plots showed good agreement between the 2 methods in measuring subsidence of the femoral head. …”
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Decode Brain System: A Dynamic Adaptive Convolutional Quorum Voting Approach for Variable-Length EEG Data by Tao Xu, Yun Zhou, Zekai Hou, Wenlan Zhang

“…The results show that TOO yields a good accuracy (83.58%) at the trial level with a much lower computation (11.16%). …”
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INNOVATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM OF UKRAINE AS A CONDITION FOR PARTICIPATION IN EUROPEAN POLICIES by Oleksandr Perederii

“…The author reveals the main clusters of EU law provisions which are currently most implemented in the legal system of Ukraine (customs, food security, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, consumer protection and healthcare, statistics, foreign relations, transport policy, freedom of entrepreneurship and provision of services, financial services, freedom of movement of goods). It is proved that formal and legal support for the "transfer" of many areas of public administration and life in Ukraine to EU standards contributes to the formation of new social practices of their implementation similar to the European ones (functioning of public services, law enforcement and public safety, education and science, health care, etc.) …”
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