Tribological and Structural Properties of Copper-Coated 3D-Printed Parts from Biodegradable Polymers by Mihaela Feraru (Ilie), Simona-Nicoleta Mazurchevici, Nicoleta-Monica Lohan, Marcelin Benchea, Fabian Cezar Lupu, Dumitru Nedelcu

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Are Women More Risk Averse? A Sequel by Christos I. Giannikos, Efstathia D. Korkou

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Evaluation of the readability of informed consent forms commonly used in dermatology and cosmetology in Turkiye by Mine Mujde Kus

“…The texts of these forms were loaded into readability software. To ascertain the readability levels of the included texts, the mean number of words per sentence, the mean word count, the mean number of words with four syllables or more, and the mean number of syllables were calculated using the Bezirci-Yılmaz and Ateşman formulas. …”
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Refractory Obstructive Sleep Apnea in a Patient with Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis by Ara Darakjian, Ani B. Darakjian, Edward T. Chang, Macario Camacho

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Understanding Sofia’s travel dynamics: Study of private traffic patterns and urban mobility by Lidia Lazarova Vitanova, Evgeny Shirinyan, Tereza Trendafilova, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova

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EEG-based brain age prediction in infants–toddlers: Implications for early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders by Winko W. An, Aprotim C. Bhowmik, Charles A. Nelson, Carol L. Wilkinson

“…We utilized 938 resting-state EEG recordings from 457 typically developing infants, 2 to 38 months old, to develop age prediction models. The multilayer perceptron model demonstrated the highest accuracy with an R2 of 0.83 and a mean absolute error of 91.7 days. …”
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Association between Serum Trace Elements Levels, Steroid Concentrations, and Reproductive Disorders in Ewes and Does by Derar Derar, Ahmed Ali, Tariq Almundarij, Essam Abd-Elmoniem, Tamim Alhassun, Moustafa Zeitoun

“…Animals were examined gynecologically for reproductive soundness. The animals were bled, and their serum was harvested and assayed for manganese (Mn), selenium (Se), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), estrogen (E2), and progesterone (P4) levels. …”
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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. …”
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Suitability assessment for handling methods of municipal solid waste by B. Seng, T. Fujiwara, B. Seng

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Analyzing financial development's moderating role on the investment-environmental quality nexus: Evidence from Australia using Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach by Ambepitiya Wijethunga Gamage Champa Nilanthi Wijethunga, Mohammad Mafizur Rahman, Tapan Sarker

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The antifungal peptide AnAFP from Aspergillus niger promotes nutrient mobilization through autophagic recycling during asexual development by Stephan Starke, Laura Velleman, Birgit Dobbert, Luis Seibert, Jordi Witte, Sascha Jung, Vera Meyer

“…Notably, genes encoding regulators of conidiophore development such as flbC and flbD became induced upon anafp overexpression. Fluorescent analyses of a Tet-on driven AnAFP::eGFP fusion protein congruently unraveled that AnAFP localizes to cell walls and septa of A. niger. …”
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A Rare Form of Melanoma Masquerading as a Diabetic Foot Ulcer: A Case Report by Susan Thomas, Yuan-Xiang Meng, Vijaykumar G. Patel, Gregory Strayhorn

“…Case Report. An 81-year-old man initially presented to the primary care clinic with a right foot diabetic ulcer. …”
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Ka-Band Slot-Microstrip-Covered and Waveguide-Cavity-Backed Monopulse Antenna Array by Li-Ming Si, Yong Liu, Yongjun Huang, Weiren Zhu

“…The 2×32 slot-microstrip elements are formed by a metal clad dielectric substrate and slots etched in the metal using the standard printed circuit board (PCB) process with dimensions of 230 mm  ×  10 mm. …”
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LiveDrive AI: A Pilot Study of a Machine Learning-Powered Diagnostic System for Real-Time, Non-Invasive Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment by Firas Al-Hindawi, Peter Serhan, Yonas E. Geda, Francis Tsow, Teresa Wu, Erica Forzani

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Graphical modeling of additive color mixing. Analyses of electromagnetic effects as colors of the vision analyzer by I. Ignatov, T.P. Popova

“…Green is the most prevalent color on the land. In humans, three light-sensitive cones evolved – S, M, and L. …”
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Review of Image Processing Methods in Solar Photospheric Data Analyzes by Mohsen Javaherian, Zahra Eskandari

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Exploring Embodiment Form Factors of a Home-Helper Robot: Perspectives from Care Receivers and Caregivers by Katherine M. Tsui, Rune Baggett, Carol Chiang

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COVID-19 and APOL-1 High-Risk Genotype-Associated Collapsing Glomerulonephritis by Sasmit Roy, Srikanth Kunaparaju, Narayana Murty Koduri, Vikram Sangani, Mytri Pokal, Venu Madhav Konala, Mamtha Balla, Sreedhar Adapa

“…Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) primarily affects the lungs and can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). …”
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A new computational method for sparse optimal control of cyber-physical systems with varying delay by Sida Lin, Dongyao Yang, Jinlong Yuan, Changzhi Wu, Tao Zhou, An Li, Chuanye Gu, Jun Xie, Kuikui Gao

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Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: Risk Factors, Pathogenesis and Treatment by N. S. Lapina, A. A. Alekseeva, A. D. Vershinina, N. S. Khruleva, F. N. Muradova, L. Y. Koroleva

“…Risk factors of GIB during antithrombotic therapy in CHD patients include: GIB, gastric and/or duodenal ulcer in the history, reflux esophagitis, presence of H. pylori, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticula, haemorrhoids, angiodysplasia, gastrointestinal neoplasia, age above 65 years, concomitant treatment with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), glomerular filtration rate <50 mL/min, high doses of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) ≥3 in HAS-BLED score. Pathogenesis of GIB in the course of antithrombotic therapy is associated with systemic hypocoagulation and local damaging effects of these drugs. …”
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