Predictors of county-level diabetes-related mortality risks in Florida, USA: a retrospective ecological study by Nirmalendu Deb Nath, Agricola Odoi

“…Significantly high county-level DRMR were observed in counties with high percentages of the population that were: 65 year and older (p < 0.001), current smokers (p = 0.032), and insufficiently physically active (p = 0.036). Additionally, percentage of households without vehicles (p = 0.022) and percentage of population with diabetes (p < 0.001) were significant predictors of DRMR. …”
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Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Outpatient Antibiotic Use for Clostridioides difficile-Indicated Agents in British Columbia, from 2000 to 2018 by Ariana Saatchi, Sungeun Kim, Fawziah Marra

“…However, this is the first study to review community-acquired CDI-indicated antibiotic use. Moreover, this study offers the first interpretation of fidaxomicin use in BC since its addition to the provincial formulary. …”
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Germany-Iran Relations in Political-Military Sphere: The Impossible Unlocking of Potential? by V. S. Мirzekhanov, Ph. O. Trunov

“…According to the authors, this is a significantly expanded formula of 2015. In addition to maintaining the JCPOA and mutually beneficial growth in trade and economic cooperation, this formula includes:– minimizing the threat of a military conflict against Iran (which has become especially important after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani on January 3, 2020);– in exchange for this clear limitation of Iran’s influence in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.…”
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The appreciation of the jurisdiction of crimes committed during commercial space flights by D. A. Bulgakova, V. A. Bulgakova

“…The author examines the jurisdictional dilemma of determining the appropriate approach to be applied to a crime that could potentially be committed during a space flight with tourists on board by assessing the place of commission of the crime. In addition, the study is based on comparisons under such sources of international law as the Outer Space Treaty (OST) and the Antarctic Treaty (AT). …”
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Design and construction of an Arduino-based load-shedding management system for improving electricity consumption in a medium-sized creative office building by Olumuyiwa Amusan, Benjamin Olorunfemi, Ayomide Fagboyo

“…Comparing the cost of building the device with the long-term cost of overloading a standalone electricity generator, considering accelerated wear and tear, increased maintenance expenses, reduced operational lifespan, potential premature equipment failure, and overall decreased reliability, underscores the high-cost efficiency of adopting this device in office buildings. Additionally, implementing the system in an office building with an energy consumption of 23 kWh resulted in a discernible annual energy saving of 2.52 kWh by shedding off unnecessary loads at estimated timings. …”
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A Greedy Tabu Dual Heuristic algorithm for the cyclic pickup and delivery problem with 3D loading constraints by Wei Xu, Bingjie Li, Wenjie Cui, Ruochen Li, Xiaodong Du, Lei Xing

“…The proposed method shows a 26.67% reduction in total distance traveled and a 46.60% decrease in waiting time compared to the traditional Milk-Run approach. Additionally, when evaluated against the standard 3D loading inspection method, the proposed approach improves average vehicle load utilization by 17% and vehicle volume utilization by 15%. …”
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Unexpected inheritance: multiple integrations of ancient bornavirus and ebolavirus/marburgvirus sequences in vertebrate genomes. by Vladimir A Belyi, Arnold J Levine, Anna Marie Skalka

“…The conservation of relatively long open reading frames for several of the endogenous sequences, the virus-like protein regions represented, and a potential correlation between their presence and a species' resistance to the diseases caused by these pathogens, are consistent with the notion that their products provide some important biological advantage to the species. In addition, the viruses could also benefit, as some resistant species (e.g. bats) may serve as natural reservoirs for their persistence and transmission. …”
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Characterizing the Crosstalk of NCAPG with Tumor Microenvironment and Tumor Stemness in Stomach Adenocarcinoma by Zheng Xiang, Genlan Cha, Yihao Wang, Jikai Gao, Jianguang Jia

“…An immune risk scoring model related to NCAPG expression and immune score was constructed which showed a favorable performance in predicting STAD prognosis as well as predicting the response to immunotherapy. In addition, we found a higher mRNA stemness index (mRNAsi) in the high-risk group and a positive correlation between NCAPG expression and mRNAsi. …”
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Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals cellular reprogramming and changes of immune cell subsets following tetramethylpyrazine treatment in LPS-induced acute lung injury by Mingyan Wu, Shanmei Wang, Xiaolan Chen, Li Shen, Jurong Ding, Hongbin Jiang

“…However, TMP treatment in the LPS-induced ALI model significantly increased follicular helper T cells and reduced CD8+ naive T cells, Vcan-positive monocytes and Siva-positive NK cells. In addition, TMP treatment increased the number of basal epithelial cells and lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs), indicating its protective effects on these cell types. …”
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Biopreservation of Shrimps Using Composed Edible Coatings from Chitosan Nanoparticles and Cloves Extract by Ahmed A. Tayel, Aml F. Elzahy, Shaaban H. Moussa, Mohammed S. Al-Saggaf, Amany M. Diab

“…The ECs-treated shrimps exhibited sharp decrease in microbial groups load (aerobic microorganisms, E. coli, Enterobacteriaceae, and staphylococci) during refrigerated storage (4 ± 1°C) for 10 days. Additionally, the sensorial attributes (appearance, odor, color, and texture) of EC-treated samples preserved their elevated qualities for storage duration. …”
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Assessment of community pharmacists' knowledge, attitudes and their willingness to provide vaccination services in Saudi Arabia. by Abdulkarim M Meraya, Mamoon H Syed, Abdulwahab A Shabi, Huthaifa A Madkhali, Younis A Yatimi, Khalied Y Khobrani, Yahia A Mubarki, Amani Khardali, Hilal Thaibah, Ayesha Yasmeen

“…Pharmacists with poor knowledge about vaccines had negative attitude toward vaccines as compared to those with high knowledge (β = -1.743; P-value = 0.024). Additionally, there was a significant relationship between knowledge about vaccine and attitude to be immunization providers. …”
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Investigation of Prosocial Behaviors and Sports Characters of Sports High School Students by Muhammed Enes TARIM, Rüstem ORHAN

“…In the internal prosociality sub-dimension, the mean score of the girls was higher than the boys. In addition, the mean of the anti-social sub-dimension of the sports high school students was found to be higher than the other variables, and the mean of the honesty and compassion sub-dimensions was found to be lower. …”

Analyzing the potency of Viscosity Modifying Agents on the Characteristics and Static Segregation of Fresh and Hardened Fluid Concrete by Faiza M’hamdi, Othmane Boukendakdji, Karim Ezziane, Taha-Hocine Douara

“…The research results indicate that the addition of VMA had a substantial impact on the rheological characteristics of the concrete mixture. …”
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Evaluation of the potential of multi-trait PGPR isolates as inoculants for maize (Zea mays L.) growth by Ebrahim Eshaghi, Sara Mousae, Ali Hendiyani, Alireza Habibi Khave, Rahim Nosrati

“…Finally, the potential of selected isolates in enhancing the germination, height, shoot collar diameter, shoot fresh and dry weight biomass, and root dry weight of maize were evaluated. …”
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Insights from field applications of miscible gases based EOR for unconventional oil reservoirs: A review by Dheiaa Alfarge, Ahmed M. Aljarah, Najeh Alali

“…Adsorption, however, negatively affects well performance in CO2-EOR. Additionally, the number of huff-n-puff cycles negatively impacts CO2-EOR but benefits NGs-EOR. …”
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Reduced avoidance behaviour in Daphnia magna due to agrochemical-induced vulnerability by María Eugenia López-Valcárcel, Ana del Arco, Cristiano V.M. Araújo, Gema Parra

“…In heterogeneously contaminated habitats, a lower avoidance capacity is responsible for the differential spatial distribution of the affected species, which impacts the ecosystem structure. Additionally, agrochemically induced vulnerability and its effect on avoidance behaviour may affect ecosystem functioning through the altered spatial distribution of zooplankton populations.…”
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Cognitive and Emotional Resilience in Parents with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder During COVID-19: The Role of Promoting Variables by Aziz Sarhani-Robles, María Guillot-Valdés, María Auxiliadora Robles-Bello, David Sánchez-Teruel

“…This study highlights the importance the aforementioned variables, in addition to potential strategies for enhancing the sociodemographic circumstances of the families.…”
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Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start” by Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane, Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley, Kori A LaDonna

“…Perhaps system-level health advocacy may be better conceptualized as a specialized role requiring additional training. Regardless, physician advocates’ efforts need to be valued for their contributions. …”
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Urdu Lip Reading Systems for Digits in Controlled and Uncontrolled Environment by Amanullah Baloch, Mushtaq Ali, Lal Hussain, Touseef Sadiq, Badr S. Alkahtani

“…Results indicate that the LipNet-based 2D CNN-LSTM model achieves overall 92.15 % high accuracy in all conditions, but the Hybrid model demonstrates impressive generalization with an overall 90.00 % accuracy on unseen data due to its enhanced spatiotemporal feature extraction capability. Additionally, the precision: 0.91, recall: 0.91, and F1-Score: 0.91 results of LipNet-based 2D CNN-LSTM model are also high, then its other competitors models. …”
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A chemical genetic screen with the EXO70 inhibitor Endosidin2 uncovers potential modulators of exocytosis in Arabidopsis by Xiaohui Li, Diwen Wang, Xianglin Yin, Mingji Dai, Christopher J. Staiger, Chunhua Zhang

“…Through a whole‐genome sequencing‐based mapping strategy, 14 nonallelic es2s mutants were mapped and the candidate mutations reported here. In addition, T‐DNA insertion lines were tested as alternative alleles to identify causal mutations. …”
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