TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION? by Yu. R. Vishnevsky, D. Yu. Narkhov, Ya. V. Didkovskaya

“…First of all, this potential is made up by education, qualification and profession and students’ valuable relation to their occupation. …”
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Integrated collaborative filtering recommendation in social cyber-physical systems by Jiachen Xu, Anfeng Liu, Naixue Xiong, Tian Wang, Zhengbang Zuo

“…In this work, we present an integrated collaborative filtering recommendation approach that combines item ratings, user ratings, and social trust for making better recommendations. In contrast to previous collaborative filtering recommendation works, integrated collaborative filtering recommendation approach takes full advantage of the correlation between data and takes into consideration the similarity between items, the similarity between users and two kinds of trust among users to select nearest neighbors of both users and items providing the most valuable information for recommendation. …”
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Numerical analysis of the hydraulic fracture propagation behavior encountering gravel in conglomerate reservoirs by Zehao Xu, Haiyang Zhao, Xiangjun Liu, Xiongwei Liu, Pandeng Luo, Lixi Liang

“…However, the presence of gravel makes conglomerate highly heterogeneous, endowing the deformation, failure, and internal micro-scale fracture expansion mechanisms with uniqueness. …”
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Level of tuberculosis-related stigma and associated factors in Ugandan communities. by Derrick Kimuli, Florence Nakaggwa, Norah Namuwenge, Vincent Kamara, Mabel Nakawooya, Geofrey Amanya, Philip Tumwesigye, Daniel Mwehire, Deus Lukoye, Miriam Murungi, Seyoum Dejene, Jaffer Byawaka, Norbert Mubiru, Stavia Turyahabwe, Barbara Amuron, Daraus Bukenya

“…To reduce TB stigma and misinformation that can make an impact on TB response, community interventions should balance increasing awareness with minimizing fear. …”
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Blood Borne Viral Infections in Transplantation: Hepatitis Viruses and Retroviruses by RP Bryce Larke

“…Difficulty in obtaining historical evidence of possible recent exposure from a critically ill prospective organ donor may make the residual risk of infection slightly higher than the risk estimated per unit of transfused products from serologically screened volunteer blood donors. …”
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The volatilome – investigation of volatile organic metabolites (VOM) as potential tumor markers in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) by Philipp Opitz, Olf Herbarth

“…The substance group of the saturated, unbranched aldehydes makes a substantial contribution in this context. …”
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A Comparative Study of Coprecipitation and Solvothermal Techniques for Synthesizing Pure and Cu-Doped SnO2 Nanoparticles by Chnar I. Hussain, Yousif M. Hassan, Farah A. Abed

“…Tin oxide (SnO2), with its low resistivity properties and high transparency in the visible spectrum, makes it an attractive electron transfer layer (ETL) for use in perovskite solar cells. …”
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Anti-NMDAR-Positive Small-Cell Lung Cancer Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Raman Sohal, Steven H. Adams, Vishal Phogat, Abha Harish, Carlos Ynigo D. Lopez, Michael P. A. Williams, Kamal K. Khurana, Basel Abuzuaiter, Nia Jagroop, Bhavya Narapureddy

“…Given that PLE can precede the diagnosis of cancer, it is very important that once infectious, metabolic, nutritional, or structural disorders associated with short-term memory loss are ruled out that vigorous effort must be made to rule out underlying malignancy. Case. We report a rare case of PLE as the presenting symptom of SCLC. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Long-Term Strength and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Coal Pillar under Inclined Compression Loading by Chong Li, Sifeng He, Zhijun Xu

“…Moreover, the cumulative AE energy gradually decreases with the increase of the inclination angles, which indicated that the shear stress caused by the specimen inclination can make crack initiation and propagation with less energy absorption. …”
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Forecasting CO2 emissions in the Persian Gulf States by F.A. Olabemiwo, G.I. Danmaliki, T.A. Oyehan, B.S. Tawabini

“…Due to its importance, the data on CO2 emission obtained from US EIA from 1980 – 2010 was regressed using least square techniques and projections were made to the year 2050. Results indicated that each country’s p-value was less than 0.05 which implies that the models can be used for predicting CO2 emissions into the future. …”
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Evolution of legal regulation of municipal service in the Republic of Lithuania and Ukraine by A. O. Murtishcheva

“…A conclusion has been made about a sufficiently centralized model of legal regulation, which provides for unified regulation of state and municipal service. …”
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mtlA, a novel typing gene offering enhanced resolution for pandemic Vibrio species by Lei Zhou, Danlei Liu, Zilong Zhang, Yongqiang Zhu, Huajun Zheng

“…The results revealed that the mtlA gene was present in all common pathogenic species, providing comparable or even higher typing resolution than MLST, especially in Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrio harveyi, and Vibrio anguillarum, enabling accurate typing and traceability; however, many species lacked allelic profiles of MLST genes, making it impossible to obtain accurate STs. In summary, these findings validated the potential typing application of the mtlA gene in Vibrio species.IMPORTANCEVibrio is a collection of gram-negative bacteria characterized by possessing two chromosomes, which exhibit numerous shared biological and genomic traits. …”
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Professional Self-Realization of Law Enforcement Officers at the Stage of Professional Training by N. Y. Tverdokliebova

“…Motivation acts as a link between the true goals, ideals, beliefs of the cadet and the actions, deeds, decisions he makes. The author has proved the expediency of forming value regulators of behavior and motivational sphere of future law enforcement officers in higher educational institutions with specific learning conditions, which may increase the efficiency of professional activity and self-realization of police officers in modern conditions.…”
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Auditory confounds can drive online effects of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation in humans by Benjamin R Kop, Yazan Shamli Oghli, Talyta C Grippe, Tulika Nandi, Judith Lefkes, Sjoerd W Meijer, Soha Farboud, Marwan Engels, Michelle Hamani, Melissa Null, Angela Radetz, Umair Hassan, Ghazaleh Darmani, Andrey Chetverikov, Hanneke EM den Ouden, Til Ole Bergmann, Robert Chen, Lennart Verhagen

“…Furthermore, rigorous experimental design via (in)active control conditions is required to make substantiated claims in future TUS studies. …”
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Novel Osteo Refurbishment Method and Choice of Colouring Materials for Anatomy Specimens by Dibakar BORTHAKUR, Rajesh KUMAR, Neerja RANI, Rima DADA

“…Coloring of specimens makes it attractive and facilitates understanding anatomy. …”
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The Rare Large Common Peroneal Nerve’s Schwannoma—A Case Report and Literature Review by Rudiansyah Harahap, Nurmaliannysa Dwinandia Harahap

“…And over a long time, it can cause serious complaints like neurological deficits and make surgery difficult by leaving greater sequelae. …”
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Online tools to predict individualised survival for primary oesophageal cancer patients with and without pathological complete response after neoadjuvant therapy followed by oesoph... by Jie Zhang, Xiang Chen, Dong Dong, Lijie Tan, Yajie Zhang, Hecheng Li, Yuqin Cao, Binhao Huang, Han Tang, Tianzheng Shen, Xijia Feng, Jiahao Zhang, Liqiang Shi, Chengqiang Li, Heng Jiao

“…The predictive models for pCR and non-pCR patients demonstrated good calibration and clinical utility, with acceptable discrimination that surpassed that of the current tumour, node, metastases staging system.Conclusions The web-based dynamic nomograms for pCR (https://predict-survival.shinyapps.io/pCR-eso/) and non-pCR patients (https://predict-survival.shinyapps.io/non-pCR-eso/) developed in this study can facilitate the calculation of OS probability for individual patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy and radical oesophagectomy, aiding clinicians and patients in making personalised treatment decisions.…”
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A Large Ship Detection Method Based on Component Model in SAR Images by Tiancheng Dong, Taoyang Wang, Xuefei Li, Jianzhi Hong, Maoqiang Jing, Tong Wei

“…However, the significant feature variation due to the internal structure and reflection of ships makes it difficult for current extractors to provide a consistent feature description, often resulting in fragmented detection outcomes for ship targets. …”
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LEASING AS FORM OF STATE-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP by E. B. Zavyalova, I. V. Linev

“…Leasing application as the PPP forms, not only the professional experience, effective management, flexibility and efficiency in decision-making will provide, ability to innovation, but also will provide serious investment activity. …”
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INTERACTION IN AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT WITH VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY by Svitlana H. Lytvynova, Natalia V. Soroko

“….; the participants’ interaction in the educational process with the use of AR is best understood by teachers and students, they use both ready-made AR technologies and personally created ones. …”
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