OPEN BORDERS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY ON THE EXAMPLE OF CERTAIN EU MEMBER-STATES by E. V. Khakhalkina, K. P. Andreev, G. V. Grosheva, I. A. Kochev

“…During the acute phase of the migration crisis (2014–2015) in a large number of European Union states, policies restricting internal borders and the strengthening of external borders took place, which raised serious questions about the future of the European Union’s borders. …”
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Exploring the Role of the Pharmacist in the Prevention and Management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in Ashanti Region, Ghana by Pauline Boachie‐Ansah, Berko Panyin Anto, Afia Frimpomaa Asare Marfo, Edward Tieru Dassah, Morrison Asiamah, Ivan Eduku Mozu, Nana Ofori Adomako, Kwaku Gyamfi Oppong

“…Differences in pre‐ and post‐intervention median scores were compared using the Wilcoxon signed‐rank test. The mean age was 35.7 years (± 1.2). …”
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Animal and bird-related ocular trauma: a decade of experience from a tertiary referral eye hospital of Iran by Mohammadreza Mehrabi Bahar, Esmaeil Asadi Khameneh, Hassan Asadigandomani, Alireza Razavi, Seyed Ali Tabatabaei, Zahra Mahdizad, Fatemeh Masoudi Samghabadi

“…Methods In this retrospective analysis, we collected data on patient demographics, the species of the attacking animal and bird, the nature of the ocular and periocular injuries, details of ophthalmological examinations, therapeutic interventions, and surgical treatments. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Lightweight and Simple Self-Propelled Crawler Potato Combine Harvester by Caichao Liu, Ning Wu, Guangseng Cheng, Feng Wu, Fengwei Gu, Lili Shi, Bing Wang

“…The results indicated that with a separation screen line speed of 1 m/s, vibration frequency of 8 Hz, and device inclination angle of 30°, the potato damage rate during harvesting was 1.318%, the skin breakage rate was 1.825%, the loss rate was 2.815%, and the impurity rate was 2.736%. …”
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Occupational exposure to flame retardants following production replacement and their effect on thyroid function indicators by Ling Meng, Tingting Guo, Yizhi Liu, Han Wu, Kang An, Xizhu Xu, Yuancheng Li

“…With the ban of commercial Penta-BDEs, Octa-BDEs, and Deca-BDEs, many manufacturers have been transition to the production of novel brominated flame retardants (NBFRs), organophosphate ester flame retardants (OPFRs), and other alternatives. In this study, we recruited 165 employees with typical occupational exposure from a flame retardants (FRs) production plant in Laizhou Bay, which is the main FRs production area in China, to analyze the internal exposure characteristics of FRs and their potential impacts on thyroid function during the historical production and replacement process. …”
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Evaluation of surgical treatment of gout-A retrospective study on 28 cases with tophi. by Ting Zhang, Bin Yang, Xiaohong Xu, Zengfang Zhang, Zhenglun Pan

“…Optimal timing of surgery, ideally during periods of disease remission, is crucial for minimizing complications and reducing hospitalization durations.…”
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Determining the Amount of Earthquake Displacement Using Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (D-InSAR) and Satellite Images of Sentinel-1 A: A Case Study of Sarpol-e Zahab City by Jacob Cherian

“…This study aimed to determine the trend and rate of land surface changes in the Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake using Sentinel-1 A and D-InSAR methods. To  this end, two radar images of SAR from the Sentinel-1 A satellite were prepared before and during the earthquake. …”
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Military doctrine in the state-legal paradigm of OUN-UPА by Svorak S., Ilyn L.

“…It has been established that in the current hybrid war it is not possible to single out a pure theory of its origin, causes and prerequisites. …”
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Identification of novel clinical subtypes in patients with microscopic polyangiitis using cluster analysis: multicenter REVEAL cohort study by Ayana Okazaki, Shogo Matsuda, Takuya Kotani, Keisuke Fukui, Keisuke Fukui, Takaho Gon, Ryu Watanabe, Atsushi Manabe, Mikihito Shoji, Keiichiro Kadoba, Ryosuke Hiwa, Wataru Yamamoto, Motomu Hashimoto, Tohru Takeuchi

“…Additionally, a cluster analysis was performed using these variables to classify patients with MPA into subgroups. …”
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Green gram and black gram: prospects of cultivation and breeding in Russian Federation by M. A. Vishnyakova, M. O. Burlyaeva, M. G. Samsonova

“…In our country these crops can be successfully grown on irrigation in a number of regions in the southern area of the European part and the Russian Far East, where the temperatures during their vegetation are about 28–30 °C and always above 15 °C. …”
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Problems with studying directional natural selection in humans by S. V. Mikhailova

“…The results obtained by various methods indicate that the direction of human adaptation to new food products has not changed during evolution since the Neolithic; many variants of immunity genes associated with inflammatory and autoimmune diseases in modern populations have undergone positive selection over the past 2–3 thousand years owing to the spread of bacterial and viral infections. …”
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A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring Mental Health among Patients Suffering from Dengue in Pakistani Tertiary Care Hospitals by null Faiza, Fatima Jawad, Namra Chaudhary, Mahnoor Younas, Sadaf Fatima, Fiza Ayub, Allah Bukhsh Awan, Tahir Mehmood Khan

“…According to the DASS-21 tool, patients with severe pain and high-degree fever during dengue had significant stress and anxiety symptoms, respectively, than the patients with mild or moderate pain and fever. …”
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Real-world assessment of effectiveness and safety of filgotinib in 286 patients with ulcerative colitis in 9 UK centres by David Young, Sohail Rahmany, Deborah Taylor, Emma Davis, Michael Colwill, Sonia Kalyanji Mehta, Roisin Campbell, Karl Hazel, Karishma Sethi-Arora, Susan Ritchie, Ashley I Heinson, Helen Moyses, Keith Bodger, Emma Johnston, Lucy Hicks, Anjan Dhar, Jimmy Limdi, Rachel Cooney, John Paul Seenan, Kamal Patel, Alissa Walsh, Fraser Cummings

“…There was a reduction in biomarkers and 78% of patients using corticosteroids at baseline were steroid-free. …”
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Assessment of Stroke Severity And Mortality (ASSAM): A hospital-based study from north-east India by Glennys Carvalho, Debabrata Goswami, Abdul Barik Ahmed

“…Material and Methods: We used the National Institute of Health Stroke Score (NIHSS) at admission to assess stroke severity and the Modified Rankin Scale and Barthel Index of activities of daily living at discharge and day 30 after onset to study the functional outcomes. …”
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A Technical Overview on Beta-Attenuation Method for the Monitoring of Particulate Matter in Ambient Air by Kritika Shukla, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Abstract Beta-attenuation technique is one of the widely used real-time technique for ambient particulate matter (PM) measurements since it allows continuous measurement while requiring minimal operator attention. …”
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A Study of Physical, Chemical, and Sensory Characteristics of Novel Legume Dips by Lynda Makhloufi, Mohammad I. Yamani

“…Presoaking, boiling, proximate composition, pH, energy, color measurement, and sensory evaluation were conducted on the dips using chickpea dip (hummus) as a control. One-way ANOVA was used to determine the differences between the dips. …”
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Identification of Attack on Data Packets Using Rough Set Approach to Secure End to End Communication by Banghua Wu, Shah Nazir, Neelam Mukhtar

“…For cross validation purposes, the decision rules and decomposition tree algorithms were used. …”
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Evolution of Orofacial Symptoms and Disease Progression in Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease: Longitudinal Data from the Jönköping Parkinson Registry by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Örjan Skogar, Johan Lökk

“…Orofacial symptoms are common in Parkinson’s disease (PD) both as initial manifestations and late markers of disease complications. We aimed to investigate the evolution of orofacial manifestations and their prognostic value throughout PD progression. …”
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Analysis of Contact Position for Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation-Induced Hyperhidrosis by Chunhui Yang, Yiqing Qiu, Xi Wu, Jiali Wang, Yina Wu, Xiaowu Hu

“…Patients with Parkinson’s disease treated with STN-DBS in Changhai Hospital between July 1, 2015, and December 1, 2016, were analyzed retrospectively. Using records of side effects of the intraoperative macrostimulation test, patients with skin sweats were selected as the sweating group. …”
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Cognitive control in individuals with heroin use disorder after prolonged methadone maintenance treatment by Wei Zhao, Fan Duan, Xiangyu Li, Junda Li, Lingling Xia, Zixuan Ren, Yegang Li, Li Song, Peipei Song, Linlin Mu, Lijin Wang, Jing Zhang, Xun Song, Ze Wang, Jinxuan Chen, Xiaochu Zhang, Dongliang Jiao

Subjects: “…Heroin use disorder…”
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