POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY “SILK ROADS” by A. I. Litvinov

“…Further all this has to connect trade and economic space of Europe and Asia in a whole that has to serve implementation of deeper economic cooperation, between the countries participating in him, to increase in a trade turnover and expansion of scientific and technical exchanges between them.…”
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Optimization of Calcined Beans Pod Ash – Cement Blended Concrete Mix Using Taguchi Method by Oluwatoyin P Joseph, Adeola A Adedeji, Mokuolu A Olubunmi, Alomaja A Jonathan, Emmanuel O Ajadi

“…The results of SF, Fcu and Fy of BPA – cement concrete show significant improvement of 23.74%, 21.72% and 21.43% respectively, when cement was partially replaced with BPA from 5% to 20%. Likewise, an improvement of 5.97%, 5.69% and 5.37% for SF, Fcu and Fy of BPA – cement concrete, when the dosage of super-plasticizer in concrete mix was varied from 6% to 12%. …”
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Mobile tablet-based therapies following stroke: A systematic scoping review of administrative methods and patient experiences. by Michael Pugliese, Tim Ramsay, Dylan Johnson, Dar Dowlatshahi

“…The review summarizes studies of MTBTs following stroke in terms of administrative methods and patient experiences to inform treatment feasibility.<h4>Methods</h4>Articles were eligible if they reported the results of an MTBT attempted with stroke participants. …”
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Timely Attendance of the First Antenatal Care among Pregnant Women Aged 15–49 Living with HIV in Juba, South Sudan by Angelina Nasira Boi, Jonathan Izudi, Fiona Atim

“…At the multivariate level, binary logistic regression analysis was conducted. Out of the 192 participants studied, 27 (14.1%) had timely first ANC attendance as recommended and 165 (85.9%) attended first ANC at four months and above. …”
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IELTS and TOEFL Applicants’ Self-assessment and Actual Test Performance: A Mixed-Methods Study of Relationship and Variation by Reza Rezvani, Farshad Khadivikia

“…The study sample included 81 IELTS (n= 51) and TOEFL (n=30) participants. Data collection involved the applicants' self-assessments, their test scores, and semi-structured interviews. …”
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Three local plants adapt to ecological restoration of abandoned lead-zinc mines through assembly of rhizosphere bacterial communities by Wei Gao, Shuyi Chen, Xin Yu, Sumin Chen, Caijing Wan, Ying Wang, Peng Wu, Qiang Li

“…Following the planting of the three types of ecologically restored plants, the soil bacterial community structure partially recovered. In addition, different plants have been found to have different functions in the lead-zinc ecological restoration process, including iron complex transport system-permitting proteins and ATP binding cassettes.DiscussionThis study confirms for the first time that plants adapt to the remediation process of abandoned lead-zinc mines by non-randomly assembling rhizosphere bacterial communities and functions, providing a reference for screening microbial remediation bacterial resources and plant microbe joint bioremediation strategies for lead-zinc mines.…”
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Motion Measurement and Analysis of Different Instruments for Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery by Kunyong Lyu, Lixiao Yang, Chengli Song

“…Material and Methods. Ten experienced participants were recruited. Straight instruments (Group A), straight/articulating instruments (Group B), and precurved instruments (Group C) were used to complete the transferring task through one site in a laparoscopic simulator. …”
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The application of machine learning approaches to classify and predict fertility rate in Ethiopia  by Ewunate Assaye Kassaw, Biruk Beletew Abate, Bekele Mulat Enyew, Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie

“…The performance of models was evaluated using accuracy, area under the curve (AUC), precision, recall, F1-score, specificity, and sensitivity. The mean age of participants was 32.7 (± 5.6) years. The random forest classifier (accuracy = 0.901 and AUC = 0.961) followed by a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (accuracy = 0.899 and AUC = 0.958), logistic regression (accuracy = 0.874 and AUC = 0.937), and gradient boost classifier (accuracy = 0.851 and AUC 0.927) were the top performing ML models. …”
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Experience of induction of labour: a cross-sectional postnatal survey of women at UK maternity units by Helen Cheyne, Christine McCourt, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Julia Sanders, Sarah Jane Stock, Mairead Black, Cassandra Yuill, Mairi Harkness, Neelam Heera, Chlorice Wallace

“…The questionnaire was administered online and included fixed response and free-text options.Setting National Health Service maternity units in the UK.Participants 309 women who had an IOL.Outcome measures The primary outcome measure was experience of IOL. …”
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Pretreatment with serine protease inhibitors impairs Leishmania amazonensis survival on macrophages by Patrícia de Almeida Machado, Pollyanna Stephanie Gomes, Elaine Soares Coimbra, Herbert Leonel de Matos Guedes

“…Serine proteases emerge as important virulence factors in the Leishmania genus, as they participate in important processes involved in their infectivity, virulence, and survival. …”
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Perioperative hypothermia prevention: development of simple principles and practice recommendations using a multidisciplinary consensus-based approach by Fiona M Wood, Nicholas Ralph, Jed Duff, Judy Munday, David Sturgess, Mary-Anne Ramis

“…Objectives To develop a consensus on evidence-based principles and recommendations for perioperative hypothermia prevention in the Australian context.Design This study was informed by CAN-IMPLEMENT using the ADAPTE process: (1) formation of a multidisciplinary development team; (2) systematic search process identifying existing guidance for perioperative hypothermia prevention; (3) appraisal using the AGREE II Rigor of Development domain; (4) extraction of recommendations from guidelines meeting a quality threshold using the AGREE-REX tool; (5) review of draft principles and recommendations by multidisciplinary clinicians nationally and (6) subsequent round of discussion, drafting, reflection and revision by the original panel member team.Setting Australian perioperative departments.Participants Registered nurses, anaesthetists, surgeons and anaesthetic allied health practitioners.Results A total of 23 papers (12 guidelines, 6 evidence summaries, 3 standards, 1 best practice sheet and 1 evidence-based bundle) formed the evidence base. …”
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Aortic stenosis post-COVID-19: a mathematical model on waiting lists and mortality by Chris P Gale, Jonathan Weir-McCall, James H F Rudd, Mamas Mamas, Ramesh Nadarajah, Ben Gibbison, Louise Sun, Christian Philip Stickels, Houyuan Jiang, Kieran J Sharkey, Nick Holliman, Sara Lombardo, Lars Schewe, Matteo Sommacal, Katherine Cheema, Feryal Erhun

“…From published data, we calculated estimates for how the strategies listed under Interventions may affect the time to clear the backlog of patients waiting for treatment and the associated waiting list mortality.Setting The NHS in England.Participants Estimated patients with AS in England.Interventions (1) Increasing the capacity for the treatment of severe AS, (2) converting proportions of cases from surgery to transcatheter aortic valve implantation and (3) a combination of these two.Results In a capacitated system, clearing the backlog by returning to pre-COVID-19 capacity is not possible. …”
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Biochemical analysis of miR-217 and miR-532 in patients with fibromyalgia by Shymaa E. Ayoub, Azza M. Ahmed, Mostafa Y. Abdelwahed, Abeer A. Khalefa, Aeshah A. Awaji, Samer S. Zekry, Enas G. Ibrahim, Hana M. Eid, Shimaa M. Elasmer, Reham Fares

“…This study included 80 participants who splitted into two groups: 40 fibromyalgia sufferers (12 male and 28 female), and 40 healthy volunteers (10 male and 30 female) who served as the control group. …”
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The effect of pre-exercise caffeine loading on body composition, blood parameters and resting pulse rate in women by Murat Bekleyiş Apaydın, Rüçhan İri

“…A total of 28 healthy women willingly participated in our study, consisting of the Step-aerobic group (Group A, N=10); Zumba (Group B, N=9), and the control group (Group C, N=9). …”
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Sequential Serous Choroidal Detachment in Subjects Undergoing Bilateral Trabeculectomy by Maryam Yadgari, Kiana Hassanpour, Fatemeh Vafaei, Nina Firoozian, Maryam Oraee Yazdani, Zahra Khorram, Sadid Hooshmandi

“…The five-year cumulative probability of success in the first- and second-operated eyes was 61.0% and 67.6%, respectively (log rank = 0.085, P = 0.77). Among the participants, 28.9% experienced SCD, and 76.9% of those who had SCD in the first-operated eye developed the same condition in the second eye as well (P < 0.001). …”
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Evaluation of mental disorder related to colposcopy procedure during the COVID period: A cross-sectional study by Ilaria Bochicchio, Martina Catalano, Giovanni Deiana, Giandomenico Roviello, Pasquale Marino, Fabrizia Calenda, Alessandro R Lettini, Francesca Sanseverino

“…Design: This longitudinal study included 96 individuals undergoing colposcopy, aged between 22 and 64, who were examined between March 2020 and December 2023. Methods: Participants were assessed at four distinct time points, referred to as T0, T1, T2, and T3. …”
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Anthropology and the City. Street Art in Medellín’s Comuna 13: A City-Making Practice and an Ethnographic Tool by Claudio Riga

“…This article will present five of these street artworks, along with their respective narrations, each reflecting a different period in Comuna 13’s history. …”
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Thresholds of handgrip strength for all-cause mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease: a secondary systematic review with dose-response meta-analysis by Hao Chen, Fan Zhang, Liuyan Huang, Yan Bai, Yifei Zhong, Yi Li

“…Outcomes of interest included only all-cause mortality.Results A total of 18 studies with 4810 participants (aged 47–71 years) were included. REMR modeling showed a U-shaped trend of association between handgrip strength and all-cause mortality in patients with CKD. …”
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Online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: Medical students’ perspective of challenges and barriers by Loma Al-Mansouri, Firas R. Al-Obaidi, Noor Ahmed Abdullah

“…Results: The total number of participants was 882 students. There were 438 (49.6%) females. …”
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Gender Was Associated with Depression but Not with Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Qin Xiao-ling, Du Yin-zhen, Liu Xue-kui, Li Xue, Cheng Gang, Li Zai-li, Gao Dian-shuai

“…Demographic and PD-related clinical information of the participants were collected by the same neurologist. …”
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