Study the effect of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (UPA) and some biochemical parameters in Iraqi hemodialysis patients with type 2 diabetes by Fatima Ali Essa Al-Sudani, Nawal Mohammed Jawad Al-Shammaa

“…The present study showed a significant increase in serum UPA levels in HD patients in ESRD with T2DM compared to control. In addition, there was an important negative correlation between UPA and Hb1AC, FSG, and a positive correlation with VLDL-C and TG in HD patients in ESRD with T2DM patients. …”
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Association between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms rs3757318 and Vitamin D Deficiency in Iraqi Breast Cancer Patients by Istikrar M. Hade, Ahmed S. K. Al-Khafaji, Fadhel M. Lafta, Yasir B. Qaddoori

“…Background: Multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in the intergenic region between estrogen receptor 1 and CCDC170 (especially at rs3757318) are thought to be associated with breast cancer risk. additionally, the serum level of vitamin D is believed to be linked to different aspects of breast carcinogenesis. …”
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Amur Softshell Turtle (<i>Pelodiscus maackii</i>) Population Size, Structure, and Spatial Distribution by Xiaochen Hou, Haitao Shi

“…Approximately 35.4–85.2% of the estimated population was marked. Additionally, we explored the influence of environmental variables on turtle distribution by dividing the surveyed sites into seven sections based on their natural characteristics. …”
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Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus α-Hemolysin Production Using Nanocurcumin Capped Au@ZnO Nanocomposite by Majid S. Jabir, Taha M. Rashid, Uday M. Nayef, Salim Albukhaty, Faizah A. AlMalki, Jawaher Albaqami, Amal A. AlYamani, Zainab J. Taqi, Ghassan M. Sulaiman

“…The synthesized NPs were characterized using different techniques, including transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), UV-visible spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. In addition, the ability of NPs as a promising antibacterial agent was tested against Staphylococcus aureus through the agar well diffusion method and AO/EtBr staining assay. …”
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Shallow Foundation Settlement Quantification: Application of Hybridized Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System Model by Mariamme Mohammed, Ahmad Sharafati, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…Results indicated ANFIS-PSO model exhibited an accurate and reliable prediction data intelligent and had the highest predictability performance against all employed models. In addition, results demonstrated that data preprocessing is highly essential to be performed prior to building the predictive models. …”
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Challenging Discourses of Sexual Violence on X: The Linguistic Representation of Victims and Perpetrators in Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Process by Patricia Palomino Manjón

“…However, not only were such identities related to sexual violence but also political and institutional violence. In addition, the analysis revealed the creation of discursive protests on X to resist patriarchal discourses and practices in American society.…”
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IMPACT OF WATER IMPURITIES ON DRILLING FLUID PROPERTIES: A CASE STUDY by Amel Habeeb Assi

“…It was also noted that the addition of caustic soda led to an increase in the viscosity of the drilling mud. …”
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Postfire Residual Strength and Morphology of Concrete Incorporating Natural Rubber Latex Exposed to Elevated Temperatures by Paul O. Awoyera, Hadee Mohammed Najm, Olusegun David Adefarati, Moutaz Mustafa A. Eldirderi, Khaled Mohamed Khedher, Husam Al Dughaishi, Jawad Al Lawati, Abdalrhman Milad

“…The performance of concrete was not stable at over 300°C when NRL addition was above 1%.…”
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Leveraging Social Engineering Techniques for Ethical Purposes:  An Approach to Develop Fake Android App for Collecting Valuable Data Discreetly by Hussein Abdulkhaleq Saleh alsharya

“…The paper describes the core functions and workflows for collecting and sending data. Additionally, permissions handling has been addressed as being critical for enabling EDC to collect the required information. …”
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Brexit: Could France Follow the Lead? by R. I. Blagoveshchenskii

“…The author identifies four key factors: 1) growing discontent of the local population with social and economic issues, which the supporters of Brexit ascribed to the inflow of cheap labor from Eastern Europe; 2) concerns about the possibility of losing national sovereignty as the power of EU supranational bodies increases; 3) support for Brexit on the part of certain political elites; 4) post-imperial syndrome. …”
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SNHG5/miR-299-5p/ATF2 Axis as a Biomarker in Immune Microenvironment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration by Yu Shi, Rong Guo, Yanyan Zeng, Qian Fang, Xianglong Wang, Wei Liu, Guozhi Huang, Wen Wu

“…In addition, as a marker of IDD, the involvement of the above-mentioned axis in the pathological development of IDD remains to be further explored.…”
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A Stepwise Discrimination Method of Multi-Index in Landslide Stability Monitoring by Hao Chen, Honggang Wu

“…The variation characteristics of curve among multiple indexes can be mutually corroborated, effectively identify the abnormal fluctuation of the curve, and avoid the identification errors of landslide movement state. In addition, we also found that when there is an obvious sliding surface on the slope, the displacement rate curve will cluster at the sliding surface along the depth direction in this study. …”
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MACEDONIAN NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM – MAIN CHALLENGES by Radmil Polenakovik, Ivana Stankovska, Bojan R. Jovanovski

“…The presented overview is designed to assist policymakers in further monitoring, evaluation and improvements, and to provide researchers with a solid base for the additional in-depth analysis of the impact of the implemented and proposed measures.  …”
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Clinically Relevant Drug Interactions with Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors by Amber N. Edinoff, Connor R. Swinford, Amira S. Odisho, Caroline R. Burroughs, Cain W. Stark, Walid A. Raslan, Elyse M. Cornett, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye

“…When MAO-A is inhibited, the capacity to handle tyramine intake from the diet is significantly reduced causing the brain to be vulnerable to overstimulation of postsynaptic adrenergic receptors with as little as 8-10 mg of tyramine ingested and can result in life-threatening blood pressure elevations. In addition to adverse reactions with certain foods, both older and newer MAOIs can negatively interact with both sympathomimetic and serotonergic drugs. …”
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An Indirect Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Determination of Trifluoperazine Hydrochloride in Pharmaceutical Formulations Based on Chelate Formation with Palladium(II) by Ameen W. Qasim, Zuhair A. A. Khammas

“…The proposed method was applied for the determination of TFPH in the drug stelazine by both direct calibration and standard additions procedures and found to be 4.88 and 4.87 mg per unite, respectively compared with the stated value of 5 mg per unite. …”
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Removal of Zinc(II) by Activated Carbon Prepared from Almond Husks under Different Conditions by Halil Hasar, Yakup Cuci, Erdal Obek, M. Fatih Dilekoglu

“…The results obtained indicated that effective uptake of Zn(II) ions was achieved when the carbon prepared by heating almond husks at 700°C was activated by the addition of H 2 SO 4 . A 92% removal of Zn(II) ions was achieved at an initial concentration of 20 mg/l and an adsorbent concentration of 4 g/l. …”
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Total Colectomy with Subtotal Proctocolectomy of High Risk Colorectal Cancer Patients by Fadhil Ahmed Mohialdeen

“…The questionnaire was including information on Socio- demographic data such as; age, gender, address, occupation and marital status. In addition, data on the presentation of the disease was obtained and data on complications and post-operative outcomes were also recorded. 42 patients were studied and the mean age ±SD of their age were 49.5± (10.2), 52.4% were male and 47.6% were female.76.1 % of the patients present with a bleeding per-rectum,71.4, 66.6, 61.9 present with abdominal pain, change in bowel habit and abdominal pain respectively. …”
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Teacher support and secondary school students’ learning engagement: A moderated mediation model by Yanhong Shao, Yongna Feng, Xi Zhao, Gang Liu, Lili Zhang

“…The results also indicated that teacher support was indirectly and positively related to learning engagement through academic self-efficacy and psychological resilience. Additionally, the moderation role of positive academic emotion manifests in the association between academic self-efficacy and psychological resilience. …”
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A Scalable Framework for Sensor Data Ingestion and Real-Time Processing in Cloud Manufacturing by Massimo Pacella, Antonio Papa, Gabriele Papadia, Emiliano Fedeli

“…Key components, such as RabbitMQ, contribute to low-latency performance, whereas Kafka ensures data durability and supports real-time application. Additionally, the in-memory data processing of Spark Streaming enables rapid and dynamic data analysis, yielding actionable insights. …”
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A Comparison Study of Edge Line Estimation Algorithms for Dimensional Quality Assessment of Precast Concrete Slabs by Chang-Yong Yi, Fangxin Li, Julian Pratama Putra Thedja, Sung-Han Sim, Yoon-Ki Choi, Geon Hwee Kim, Min-Koo Kim

“…For validation of the simulation approach, comparison tests with experimental data are performed and the results show that the simulation approach has a high similarity of more than 90% compared to experimental data in terms of the number of scan points, scan pattern, and scan density, proving the effectiveness of the simulation-based evaluation method. In addition, it shows that a least square regression (LSR) algorithm provides the best performance with an edge extraction accuracy of 1.56 and 2.71 mm for simulated and experimental scan points, respectively. …”
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