“The Founder and Father of his Empire”: Voltaire on the Peace of Nystad and the Imperial Status of Russia by S. A. Mezin

“…According to Voltaire, the specific feature of the Russian Empire, created by Peter I, lies in the fact that it was a self-civilizing empire, bringing enlightenment on the neighboring «barbaric» peoples.The author of the paper, reviewing specific cases, arrives at a conclusion, that Voltaire’s works of high confidence for their time took a worthy standing in the world historiography of the Petrine era, due to a wide range of sources, the historian’s ability for their critical assessment, his seeking to maintain a certain evaluation independence in the description of events from different perspectives, his commitment to historical truth, his talent of a writer.The work is carried out within the project, aimed at publishing a first complete scientific edition of «The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great» in Russian.…”
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Relationship Between the Use of Fitness Trackers and Smartwatches for Monitoring Physical Activity and the Sociodemographic Characteristics of Long-Term Care Residents During the C... by Ivana Crnković, Karmen Lončarek, Nada Tomasović Mrčela, Danica Železnik, Tomislav Vlahović

“…LTC residents aged 65 and older who receive the 1st level of accommodation services in the social care system according to their functional ability and health status were included in this study. …”
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Dynamic Connectivity Hub: Multiple ISPs Smart Aggregation for Optimized IoT Connectivity by Hany Ali, Mohamed A. Abouelatta, Khaled Y. Youssef

“…Validation through MATLAB simulations highlights the DCH’s ability to outperform baseline models by demonstrating a 50% reduction in latency, a 25% improvement in data rate allocation, and a 20% reduction in operational costs compared to traditional static models. …”
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Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus Inhibits Skin Renewal through Inhibiting WNT-Dependent Lgr5+ Hair Follicle Stem Cell Activation in C57BL/6 Mice by Minghui Wang, Shangsheng Yao, Dehua He, Mulan Qahar, Jinqing He, Meifang Yin, Jun Wu, Guang Yang

“…This may be an important reason for the reduction of skin renewal ability and the formation of chronic wounds caused by diabetes. …”
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The Present Status of the Agriculture Sector Towards Sustainable Development in Sri Lanka: A Review of Existing Policies and Suggestions for Improvements by S.D. Dilini Rathnachandra

“…This is because certain issues are still prominent in the agriculture sector: yield losses, lower ability to share the latest information and experiences of organic agriculture, lower responsiveness of hybrid seeds in organic farming, unavailability of properly directed organic agricultural regulations and national standards, post-harvest losses during long distance transportation, limited research and development, higher prices of organic products, higher input costs, higher susceptibility to pests and diseases, and a shortage of organic inputs, etc. …”
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FERA-Net: A Novel Algorithm for Mars Water-Ice Cloud Segmentation Integrating Feature Enhancement, Residual, and Attention Mechanisms by Xu Ma, Jialong Lai, Zhicheng Zhong, Feifei Cui

“…The SC, incorporating spatial attention blocks (SAB) and channel attention blocks (CAB), along with the AG, improves the model's ability to capture key features. The R2CBL, through double convolution operations and residual connections, addresses the gradient vanishing problem and enhances feature extraction. …”
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About the Master’s Program “Creative Personnel Management”: Methodological Foundations by A. O. Grudzinskiy, I. V. Guskova, N. E. Serebrovskaya, V. V. Mariko

“…The main driving force behind the growth of innovative economies of developed and developing countries is a social group of people characterized by a high level of education, creative abilities and entrepreneurial behavior skills. This social group is called the “creative class”. …”
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An Intelligent Crow Search Optimization and Bi-GRU for Forest Fire Detection System Using Internet of Things by Syed Abdul Moeed, Bellam Surendra Babu, M. Sreevani, B. V. Devendra Rao, R. Raja Kumar and Gouse Baig Mohammed

Subjects: “…internet of things, artificial intelligence,forest fire detection, efficientdet, bi-gru, crow search optimization…”
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Students’ Subjectness, Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being: Comparative Research of Russian and Kazakhstan Students by V. G. Maralov, A. D. Kariyev, O. V. Krezhevskikh, M. A. Kudaka, L. E. Ageeva, E. N. Agranovich

“…The relevance of the study is due to the need to resolve the contradictions between the requirements of higher education for the personality of a young person and his real capabilities, manifested in the ability or inability to be the subject of his activity and his development. …”
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Key CT markers for predicting haemorrhagic transformation after ischaemic stroke: a prospective cohort study in China by Ming Liu, Qian Wu, Yanan Wang, Junfeng Liu, Chenchen Wei

“…We aimed to (1) investigate the predictive ability of the imaging factors on multimodal CT for HT and (2) identify the key CT markers that can accurately predict HT while maintaining easy and rapid assessment in the early stage of stroke.Design and setting This was a prospective cohort study conducted in a tertiary hospital in Southwest China.Participants Patients with ischaemic stroke admitted within 24 hours after onset were included.Outcome measures The primary outcome was measured as the overall HT. …”
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The Relation Between Learning Engagement and Academic Self-Efficacy Toward Academic Achievement among University Students by Hong-Ping Pang, Arsaythamby Veloo

“…Driven and facilitated by the power of the interactive field, the participants can reduce the sense of inferiority, overcome the fear of feeling and enhance the ability of introspection and self-efficacy. …”
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A Model of ESG-Transparency Index in Corporate Reporting by R. P. Bulyga, M. V. Melnik, I. V. Safonova, V. B. Gisin

“…By leveraging mathematical tools, this model quantitatively measures the level of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) transparency, taking into account the requirements of stakeholders and evaluating a public company's ability to disclose comprehensive information.The research hypothesis posits that assessing ESG transparency in public company reporting based solely on the "quantity" of estimated values, while neglecting the critical factors of "quality" and "reliability," undermines the accuracy and reliability of the results. …”
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Study on Intelligent Classing of Public Welfare Forestland in Kunyu City by Meng Sha, Hua Yang, Jianwei Wu, Jianning Qi

“…A comprehensive comparison under different optimization techniques revealed significant improvements in classification accuracy and generalization ability over manual classification systems. The experimental results demonstrated that the GA-SVM model achieved classification accuracies of 98.83% (test set) and 99.65% (overall sample), with MCC values of 0.9796 and 0.990, respectively, outpacing other optimization algorithms, including Grid Search (GS) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). …”
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Forecasting Foreign Exchange Volatility Using Deep Learning Autoencoder-LSTM Techniques by Gunho Jung, Sun-Yong Choi

“…Based on the empirical results, we can conclude that the proposed hybrid method, which we call the autoencoder-LSTM model, outperforms the traditional LSTM method. Additionally, the ability to learn the magnitude of data spread and singularities determines the accuracy of predictions made using deep learning models. …”
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The effect of thioredoxin and prochymosin coexpression on the refolding of recombinant alpaca chymosin by S. V. Belenkaya, D. N. Shcherbakov, A. I. Chapoval, T. I. Esina, V. V. Elchaninov

“…The choice of prochymosin as a model protein is due to the ability of autocatalytic activation of this zymogen, in which the pro-fragment is removed, together with the thioredoxin sequence attached to it, with the formation of active chymosin. …”
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Optimizing therapeutic outcomes: preconditioning strategies for MSC-derived extracellular vesicles by Yuqi Song, Fengrui Liang, Weikun Tian, Erin Rayhill, Liping Ye, Xinghan Tian

“…However, MSCs present risks such as immunogenic responses, malignant transformation, and the potential to transmit infectious pathogens due to their intrinsic proliferative and differentiative abilities. In contrast, MSC-EVs, particularly exosomes (MSC-exosomes, 30–150 nm in diameter), offer a safer therapeutic profile. …”
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Deguelin inhibits the proliferation of human multiple myeloma cells by inducing apoptosis and G2/M cell cycle arrest: Involvement of Akt and p38 MAPK signalling pathway by Sun Kening, Chen Ping, Zhang Liang, Lu Zhidong, Jin Qunhua

“…Multiple myeloma cells when treated with deguelin exhibited remarkably lower viability and colony-forming ability. Multiple myeloma cells treated with deguelin produced more SOD and had higher GSH levels. …”
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Transparent memory tests with even repeating addresses for storage devices by V. N. Yarmolik, I. M. Mrozek, V. A. Levantsevich, D. V. Demenkovets

“…The maximum diagnostic ability of new tests is shown for the case of the simplest faults, such as constant (SAF) and transition faults (TF), as well as for complex pattern sensitive faults (PNPSFk). …”
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SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL-LEGAL DIMENSIONS OF THE GENDER IDENTITY PROBLEM by V. S. Blikhar, I. M. Zharovska, I. O. Lychenko

“…It is characterized in the legal plane, first of all, by the equality of the social roles of men and women, and the overcoming of the gender hierarchy of social ties, in which men are perceived as higher beings by their mental and physical abilities, and their activities are more significant and of priority in comparison with the activities of women. …”
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Balancing Privacy and Utility in Split Learning: An Adversarial Channel Pruning-Based Approach by Afnan Alhindi, Saad Al-Ahmadi, Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail

“…The experiments demonstrated the superior defense ability, against data reconstruction attacks, of the proposed approach in comparison with relevant state-of-the-art approaches. …”
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