Vitamin D, Essential Minerals, and Toxic Elements: Exploring Interactions between Nutrients and Toxicants in Clinical Medicine by Gerry K. Schwalfenberg, Stephen J. Genuis

“…Optimal nutritional status, including healthy levels of vitamin D and essential minerals, is requisite for proper physiological function; conversely, accrual of toxic elements has the potential to impair normal physiology. It is evident that vitamin D intake can facilitate the absorption and assimilation of essential inorganic elements (such as calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, iron, and selenium) but also the uptake of toxic elements (such as lead, arsenic, aluminum, cobalt, and strontium). …”
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Does Participation in Digital Supply and Marketing Promote Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption of Green Agricultural Production Technologies? by Yuyang Li, Jiahui Li, Xinjie Li, Qian Lu

“…The findings reveal the following: (1) Participation in DSM effectively encourages farmers to adopt GAPTs. (2) Such participation enhances household per capita income, strengthens risk management, lowers entry barriers to high-value markets, and improves farmers’ access to information, thereby promoting the adoption of GAPTs. (3) Compared to low-capital, high-labor, and low-risk technologies, participation in DSM has a stronger incentivizing effect on the adoption of high-capital, low-labor, and high-risk technologies. This study offers novel empirical insights into the impact and mechanisms of DSM on farmers’ adoption of GAPTs. …”
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Impact of cooling diabetic patients’ fingertips compared to vibrating stimulation on pain from the glucometer needle: A cross-over trial study by Vahid Vejdanihemmat, Hiva Azami, Leili Tapak, Shiva Borzouei, khodayar Oshvandi

“…A significant difference (p = 0.002) was noted among the interventions, indicating varying effects on pain intensity. …”
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Suitability of referenced models for designing balanced scorecards in Healthcare Organizations by Toni Roselló Calzada, Imma Ribas Vila, Conxi Caro Benito

“…Purpose: Nowadays, the healthcare sector is shifting towards a new management model more oriented to patients. …”
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Experimental Study on Dynamic Characteristics of Shut-In and Restart Process in Water Drive Strong Heterogeneous Oil Reservoir by Hao Chen, Mingyang Yang, Haizeng Yu, Shenglai Yang, Mibang Wang

“…The redistribution of the oil and water, the fluctuation of the pressure difference, and the rebuild of the flow path, which produce parts of the bypassed oil, are the main mechanisms of the recovery enhancement by shut-in and restart operation. It should be noted that the shut-in and restart process indeed prolongs the waterflooding development. …”
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Microbial boundaries in peri-implantitis: a review of pathogen-related advances by Ehab Qasim Talib, Ghada Ibrahim Taha, Dhuha Mahmood Ali, Sahar Hashim Al-Hindawi, Fadia Abd Almuhsin Al-Khayat, Israa Amer Hasan

“…It covers a range of therapeutic approaches including surgical and non-surgical techniques as well as strategies stressing host-modification and photodynamic treatment. …”
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Refining the interpretation of variants of uncertain significance in hereditary cancer screening through integrated RNA sequencing by Youbao Sha, J. Bryce Ortiz, Sara L. Bristow, Kate Loranger, Linyan Meng, Xiaonan Zhao, Fan Xia, Sheetal Parmar, Adam C. ElNaggar, Wenbo Xu

“…RNA-seq was used to compare splicing patterns between patient blood samples and normal controls. VUS reclassification rates were calculated. …”
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Empowering Women: A Reflection on Protecting Against Dating Violence In the Indonesian Context by Ani Purwanti, Zahroh Shaluhiyah, Bagoes Widjanarko, Aga Natalis

“…The study reveals that a substantial portion of women aged 15 to 64, specifically 33.4%, have experienced instances of physical and sexual violence throughout their lives. Notably, sexual violence constitutes a significant share of reported incidents at 34.4%, surpassing physical violence, which accounts for a comparatively lower proportion of 19.6%. …”
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Table Extraction with Table Data Using VGG-19 Deep Learning Model by Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Nitish Garg, Saad Bin Ahmed

“…However, existing approaches often rely on task-specific features and model architectures, posing challenges in accurately extracting table structures amidst diverse layouts, styles, and noise contamination. This study introduces a comprehensive deep learning methodology that is tailored for the precise identification and extraction of rows and columns from document images that contain tables. …”
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Ethical Implications and Technologies on the Electoral Process by Itumeleng Michael Maine, Bukohwo Michael Esiefarienrhe

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Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity and Cytotoxicity of an Epoxy Resin-Based Endodontic Sealer Containing Nanoparticles Amorphous Calcium Phosphate by Bilal H. Ibrahim, Hussain Al-Huwaizi

“…Both materials showed nonsignificant difference compared to negative control, which indicated lower cytotoxicities. …”
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Modeling Evapotranspiration Response to Climatic Forcings Using Data-Driven Techniques in Grassland Ecosystems by Xianming Dou, Yongguo Yang

“…This is attributed partly to the considerable development of machine learning techniques that allow the scientific community to use these advanced tools for approximating the nonlinear processes affecting the variation of water vapor in terrestrial ecosystems. …”
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A Study on Self-Consolidate Concrete in Experimental Reinforced-Concrete Beam Column Structures with Alccofine and Steel Fiber by G. Vimal Arokiaraj, G. Elangovan

“…The percentage of superplasticizer, viscosity modification agent, and crimped steel fiber is maintained. Nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) to analyse the beam column joint through nonlinear finite element modelling (NLFEM) and the modelling results were compared from the experimental results. …”
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Alpha-Hemoglobin-Stabilizing Protein: An Erythroid Molecular Chaperone by Maria Emília Favero, Fernando Ferreira Costa

“…As such, AHSP seems to be essential for normal erythropoiesis, and impaired upregulation of AHSP may lead to premature erythroid cell death, resulting in ineffective erythropoiesis. …”
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The Criteria of Site Selection for Farmers’ Markets by Dorottya Szabó

“…At the same time according both to international and Hungarian experience the dynamic increase in the number of farmers’ markets has occurred together with a notably high closure rate. Markets having characteristically small number of vendors, narrow variety of products, unsatisfactory organizing capacity and experience, as well as markets operating at an inadequate site were generally closed during the first four years. …”
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Features of the course of post-COVID-19 primary and recurrent herpetic keratitis by G.I. Drozhzhyna, K.V. Sereda, N.I. Khramenko

“…In patients with ulcerative necrotizing HK, the level of HSV IgG was 1.6 times higher than in patients with epithelial HK, and 1.5 times higher than in patients with non-necrotizing stromal HK. Elevated anti-VZV, anti-EBNA, and anti-CMV IgG levels were found in 93.2%, 76.4%, and 86.4%, respectively, of the examined patients. …”
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Responsabilità dell’università cattolica nei confronti dell’uomo e del mondo by Władysław Zuziak

“…I progressi della civilizzazione contemporanea non portano comprensione, felicità o liberazione dai desideri inappagati. …”
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The $ {L^\infty } $ estimate of the spatial gradient of the solution to a variational inequality problem originates from the financial contract problem with advanced implementation... by Qingjun Zhao

“…By utilizing the energy inequality of the obtained solutions, the energy inequality of the solution gradients, and the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberge inequality, an estimation of the infinite norm of the solution gradients is obtained.…”
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Reproducibility of BiliCare™ Transcutaneus Bilirrubin Meter in Mexican Newborns by David Oldak, Gabriela García, Estela E. Gonzalez, Enver Aillon, Juan C. Falcon, Ernesto Ayala, Bernardo Oldak

“…Newborn hyperbilirubinemia is considered a worldwide health problem that demands medical evaluation. Noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) has been used as a screening method with different devices but there has not been any evaluation of reproducibility of the same brand devices. …”
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The record-breaking precipitation event of December 2022 in Portugal by T. M. Ferreira, T. M. Ferreira, R. M. Trigo, T. H. Gaspar, J. G. Pinto, A. M. Ramos

“…The week before the EPE, there was a combined effect of a large-scale sea-level-pressure (SLP) gradient resembling the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) negative phase, a southerly position of the jet stream, and above-normal positive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies over the North Atlantic that led to the development of several low-pressure systems at relatively low latitudes, all traveling along the same mean path towards western Europe. …”
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