Assessment of thermal ablation for treating Bethesda IV thyroid nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jia-shan Yao, Xi-han Zhang, Zi-geng Li, Yu Xi

“…The complication rate was 4.0% (95% CI: 0.0 − 8.0%), with pain and hoarseness being the most frequently reported complications; no life-threatening complications were documented. …”
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Initiation and sustenance of small portion size consumption behavior in rural Appalachia, USA: Application of multi-theory model (MTM) by Ram Lakhan, Sierra Turner, Sangyal Dorjee, Manoj Sharma

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Aspirin modulates inflammatory biomarkers in patients with subcortical silent brain infarcts by Wonjae Sung, Young Seo Kim, Kyu-Yong Lee, Jae-A Jung, Hojin Choi, Young Joo Lee, Seong-Ho Koh, Seong-Ho Koh

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Contrasting vector competence of three main East African Anopheles malaria vector mosquitoes for Plasmodium falciparum by Prisca A. Kweyamba, Lorenz M. Hofer, Ummi A. Kibondo, Rehema Y. Mwanga, Rajabu M. Sayi, Fatuma Matwewe, Dickson W. Lwetoijera, Mgeni M. Tambwe, Sarah J. Moore

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Přítel příteli, bratr bratru, muž muži. Jan, František, Josef a Alois Vojtěch Šemberovi ve své vzájemné korespondenci by Zuzana Čevelová, Jana Straníková

“…Einige seiner Briefe wirken sogar, er hätte die Pflege um die Bezie- hungen zu seiner Familie höher als sein berufliches Leben geschätzt. Josef, der als Beamter arbeitete, ist in seinen Briefen als ein sorglicher und achtsamer Vater dargestellt, der sich viel und gern um seine Familie kümmert. …”
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WHY DO VIETNAMESE FIRMS HOLD CASH? by Nguyễn Thanh Hồng Ân, Hoàng Mai Phương

“…Regression results show that Vietnamese firms tend to hoard cash when business conditions improve, when they have low growth opportunities, or when business risks increase. …”
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Reactive Metabolites and AGE-RAGE-Mediated Inflammation in Patients following Liver Transplantation by Thorsten Brenner, Thomas H. Fleming, David Spranz, Peter Schemmer, Thomas Bruckner, Florian Uhle, Eike O. Martin, Markus A. Weigand, Stefan Hofer

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Historical Spatiotemporal Trends in Snowfall Extremes over the Canadian Domain of the Great Lakes Basin by Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino, Claude R. Duguay

“…Results show that extreme snowfall intensity, frequency, and duration have significantly decreased, at the 90% confidence level, more so for the Canadian leeward shores of Lake Superior than that of Lake Huron, for the months of December and January. …”
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Hybrid power system options for off-grid rural electrification in northwestern region of Nigeria by Boluwaji Moses Olomiyesan, Onyedi David Oyedum

“…Two off-grid hybrid power systems and a stand-alone diesel generator are modeled, simulated, and analyzed for the two locations with different solar and wind energy resources using Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER Pro 3.7.5) software. The optimization results show that a PV-wind-diesel hybrid power system is sufficient to meet the load demand of the two locations at the least cost. …”
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Short communication: Genomic prediction based on unbiased estimation of the genomic relationship matrix in pigs by M.Y. Li, L.Y. Shi, D.E. MacHugh, X.Q. Wang, J.J. Tian, L.G. Wang, Y.J. Deng, L.X. Wang, F.P. Zhao

“…In the Large White pig dataset, the accuracy of two traits hovered around 0.780, and the unbiasedness around 0.99, again with the ROH method as an exception. …”
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Tourism impact on quality of life in villages off the coast of Oman by Ali Manzam Ismailpor

“…The statistical population includes rural settlements on the shores of the Oman Sea in the south of Sistan and Baluchestan province, the two coastal cities of Konarak and Chabahar (N = 4855). …”
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Border Pushbacks in Greece: Human Rights Violations and Psychological Impacts by Simona Nikolaeva

“…Refugees and asylum seekers subjected to border pushbacks endure numerous forms of abuse, including physical, emotional, and verbal violence, which exacerbate the trauma from their perilous journeys in search of safety on European shores. The study aimed to identify the psychological impact of border pushbacks on refugees and asylum seekers in Greece, analysing both the repercussions of these human rights violations and the insufficiencies of mental health support for people on the move. …”
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Plankton diversity and aquatic ecology of a freshwater lake (L3) at Bharti Island, Larsemann Hills, east Antarctica by Pawan K. Bharti, U.K. Niyogi

“…The ice-free area consists of two major peninsulas (Stornes and Broknes), four minor peninsulas, and approximately 130 near shore islands. The Larsemann Hills area contains more than 150 lakes at different Islands and peninsulas. …”
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A Novel Design, Economic Assessment, and Fuzzy-Based Technical Validation of an Islanded Microgrid: A Case Study on Load Model of Kibber Village in Himachal Pradesh by Sahil Mehta, Prasenjit Basak

“…Secondly, an economic analysis using HOMER Pro software is done to examine the cost-effectiveness of the proposed microgrid model through the simulation of electrical loads for Kibber village, considering the available renewable sources. …”
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Trajectory and communication scheduling optimization for the rechargeable UAV aided data collection system by Qianwen LI, Jianfeng CHEN, Miao CUI, Guangchi ZHANG

“…A rechargeable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless sensor network was considered, which consists of multiple ground terminals with a large amount of time-sensitive data to be collected.Due to the limited battery capacity, the UAV cannot collect the data from all terminals through a single flight mission, and it needs to return to the charging pile to replenish its flight energy several times during the whole mission.The optimization of the terminal scheduling, trajectory, flight speed and transmission rate for the UAV was studied to maximize the number of terminals whose data had been collected within the data lifetime limit.Due to the variable coupling and the existence of discrete binary scheduling variables, the considered optimization problem is difficult to solve.To tackle such a difficulty, an efficient algorithm was proposed based on the stochastic optimization and the feature engineering.Specifically, the flight hover communication protocol was introduced to simplify the UAV flight process.And then a terminal scheduling algorithm was innovatively proposed with the influence factor and the stochastic preference, which extracted the features that affect the service time of the UAV, optimized the weights of the features, and further simplified the optimization problem into multiple subproblems.The subproblems were then solved by using the block coordinate descent and successive convex approximation techniques.Simulation results show that the proposed optimization algorithm achieves significant performance gains over several benchmark schemes in the scenarios with different data lifetime requirements and different numbers of ground terminals.…”
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Assessment of energy management and power quality improvement of hydrogen based microgrid system through novel PSO-MWWO technique by Hafiz Ghulam Murtza Qamar, Xiaoqiang Guo, Ehab Seif Ghith, Mehdi Tlija, Abubakar Siddique

“…The achieved results and numerical analysis affirm the superiority of the proposed technique compared to other traditional methods like mixed integer linear programming (MILP), HOMER, Variable mesh optimization (VMO), and Cataclysmic genetic algorithm in optimizing component sizing, renewable production, hydrogen production, reliability, cost effective, and overall efficacy. …”
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Assessment of landslide generated impulse waves in dam reservoirs using empirical relations: a case study on Borçka Dam by Hakan Ersoy, Murat Karahan, Hasan Hüseyin Öztürk

“…For different scenarios, it is determined that the wave height values range between 27.1 and 27.7 m/s, the wave height value for opposite shore reaches 23 m and run-up height value is 42.3 m for highest wave celerity value. …”
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Diffusion behavior controlled performance enhancement of Nd-Fe-B magnets diffused by Tb-Ni alloy at various temperatures by Xuhang Zhang, Wanqi Qiu, Yixin Xu, Xuefeng Liao, Qing Zhou, Hongya Yu, Zhongwu Liu

“…Abstract High coercivity and anti-corrosion properties are required for sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets used in new energy and off-shore wind power industries. Here, we found that both magnetic properties and corrosion resistance of Nd-Fe-B magnets can be significantly improved by grain boundary diffusion (GBD) of Tb69Ni31 alloy. …”
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‘Polishing the Apple’: The Systematic Eradication of ‘Otherness’ from the New York Crowd by Darren Richard Carlaw

“…This article recognises Manhattan’s current precarious state as it seeks to evict ‘outsiders’ from its shores via a combined process of surveillance and gentrification. …”
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À propos de l’hospitalité : institution et inconditionnalité by Daniel Payot

“…Confrontée aujourd’hui à ses frontières et, sur ses côtes, à la demande d’accueil de nombreux réfugiés et « migrants », l’Europe peut-elle espérer trouver dans sa littérature de quoi se ressaisir et retrouver la voie d’une authentique disponibilité à leur égard, au-delà de l’alternative piégée de l’exclusion violente et de la compassion impuissante ?La leçon d’Homère racontant la bonne fortune d’Ulysse accueilli par les Phéacéens semble totalement oubliée, dans Le Château de Kafka, par les habitants du village qui menacent K. dès son arrivée, avec des mots que malheureusement nous ne sommes plus surpris d’entendre aujourd’hui braillés par des Européens : « l’hospitalité n’est pas d’usage chez nous, nous n’avons pas besoin d’hôtes » !…”
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