CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

“…The author analyzes their views on international relations, in particularly on the western policy towards the Soviet Union, the use of nuclear weapons, the war in Vietnam and the communist issue. …”
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Unhealthy alcohol use and risk of coronary heart disease among young and middle-aged adults by Jamal S. Rana, Felicia W. Chi, Isaac Acquah, Stacy A. Sterling

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Quality of life in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Latin American countries by H. Aguilar-Duran, M. Fernández, M. González-García, E. Rincón-Alvarez, M. Alberti, F. Caro, E. Tavera, E. Vásquez, N. Cortez, M. Salinas, M. Florenzano, C. Florestano, Ivette Buendia-Roldan

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Two Birds With One Stone: A Novel Nanocomposite Combining Silicon Nanoparticles and Carbon‐Doped Titania as the Fluorescence Probe and Visible Light Photocatalyst for Simultaneous... by Liyun Ma, Zhi Li, Yiyi Shi, Yuchen Xie, Ming Jiang, Xu Yu, Li Xu

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MLHI-Net: multi-level hybrid lightweight water body segmentation network for urban shoreline detection by Jianhua Ye, Pan Li, Yunda Zhang, Ze Guo, Shoujin Zeng, Youji Zhan

“…Additionally, the network’s computational GLOPS is 13.45 G, and the number of parameters is 46.92 M, which can meet the requirements for real-time detection. The MLHI-Net has been shown to perform well in a range of environments. …”
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A Hybrid Efficient U-Net Framework for Detection of Anterior Belly of the Digastric Muscle on Ultrasonography by Sule Erdem, Suheda Erdem, Muammer Turkoglu, Abdulkadir Sengur, Nebras M. Sobahi

“…Combo Loss (a combination of Binary Cross-Entropy and Dice Loss) was used to train the model and segmentation metrics such as F1-score, Intersection over Union (IoU) and Dice Co-efficient were used to evaluate performance. …”
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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…First of all, it was about the concentration of diplomatic activity in specific areas that could provide real assistance to the Red Army in obtaining the necessary weapons and strategic raw materials. …”
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Analysis of 42 Years of Cosmic Ray Measurements by the Neutron Monitor at Lomnický štít Observatory by Imre Kisvárdai, Filip Štempel, Lukáš Randuška, Šimon Mackovjak, Ronald Langer, Igor Strhárský, Ján Kubančák

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Transformer-Based Person Detection in Paired RGB-T Aerial Images With VTSaR Dataset by Xiangqing Zhang, Yan Feng, Nan Wang, Guohua Lu, Shaohui Mei

“…Aerial-based person detection poses a significant challenge, yet it is crucial for real-world applications like air-ground linkage search and all-weather intelligent corescuing. …”
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Post-marketing safety surveillance for the recombinant zoster vaccine (Shingrix), vaccine adverse event reporting system, United States, October 2017–April 2024 by Yamin Shu, Wenxin Cheng, Xucheng He, Liu Huang, Wei Chen, Qilin Zhang

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Accelerated expansion of NATO into the Balkans as a consequence of Euro-Atlantic Discord by S. Gajić, E. G. Ponomareva

“…Long before COVID-19, Brexit became a serious stress test for the economy and social structure of the European Union. Dramatic changes took place on the other side of the Atlantic too, resulting in the shocking victory of staunch anti-globalist Donald Trump. …”
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Analysis of the dynamics of occupational morbidity and its consequences in Ukraine in comparison with other countries of the world by M.H. Prodanchuk, A.V. Basanets, O.P. Kravchuk, K.Y. Hashynova, V.A. Hvozdetskyy

“…The results obtained in the study indicate the discrepancy of statistical data on occupational morbidity and its consequences with the real situation: the level of occupational morbidity in Ukraine is 17 times lower than the European average, despite the fact that the working conditions in most of them do not meet hygienic standards. …”
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WKB ameliorates DSS-induced colitis through inhibiting enteric glial cells activation and altering the intestinal microbiota by Qi Sun, Bai-Rong Li, Dong-Hao Li, Xiao-Ying Wang, Qian-Yi Wang, Zhi-Meng Jiang, Shou-Bin Ning, Tao Sun

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A high-valence bismuth(V) nanoplatform triggers cancer cell death and anti-tumor immune responses with exogenous excitation-free endogenous H2O2- and O2-independent ROS generation by Yizhang Tang, Xujiang Yu, Liangrui He, Meng Tang, Wenji Yue, Ruitong Chen, Jie Zhao, Qi Pan, Wanwan Li

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Protocol for Home-Based Solution for Remote Atrial Fibrillation Screening to Prevent Recurrence Stroke (HUA-TUO AF Trial): a randomised controlled trial by Jing Tan, Yan Liang, Yong Liu, Wei Jiang, Duo Huang, Ning Tan, Chung-Wah Siu, Jo Jo Hai, Xiaoyu Huang, Jianfeng Ye, Ji-yan Chen, Chun Ka Wong, Mi Zhou, Li-Xue Yin, Ming-Liang Zuo, Kui Kai Lau, Zhen Lei, Yingqing Feng, Bryan P Yan, Wen-Sheng Yue, Wen-Jun Zhang, Yuk-Ming Lau, Hin-Wai LUI, Koon-Ho Chan, Toi Meng Mok, Weng-Chio Tam, Kun-Chong Tam, Xiuhua Feng, Xiaofei Jiang, Guanming Tan, Mario Alberto Evora

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The Effect of Coronary Artery Disease on the Prognosis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Multi-Center Cohort Study by Guoqing Hou, Qian Liao, Huihui Ma, Yan Shu, Shengzhi Zeng, Yongmei Zhou, Liangjun Luo, Gang Zhao, Tao He, Mingjiang Liu, Jianhong Tao, Wei Hua, Xiaoping Li

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A protocol for mobilising novel finance models for collaborative health promotion and disease prevention initiatives: taking a smart capacitating investment approach in the Invest4... by Joanna Lane, Joanna Lane, Rhiannon T. Edwards, Balázs Babarczy, Holly Whiteley, Vidya Oruganti, Vidya Oruganti, Maureen Rutten-van Mölken, Caroline Costongs, Anant R. Jani, Sarah Wordsworth, Alison Maassen, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Jacob Davies, Bengt Stavenow, Jolanda van Vliet, Steve Wright, Steve Wright, Lina Papartyte, Jennifer Catherine Camaradou, Rositsa Koleva-Kolarova

“…BackgroundThe prevalence of preventable non-communicable disease (NCD) underpins the need for a life-course and cross-sectoral approach to population health that is grounded in health promotion and disease prevention. European Union (EU) countries typically spend 6 to 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, yet less than 3% of this is dedicated to prevention. …”
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Sensibilidad de la evolución de la desigualdad a las técnicas de inferencia utilizadas. Una aplicación para el índice de Gini en el caso español (1993-2000) by Carmelo García Pérez, Mercedes Prieto Alaiz

“…Con este fin, se realiza, en primer lugar, un estudio de simulación para evaluar el comportamiento de las distintas metodologías, conocidos los valores reales de los parámetros poblacionales. En segundo lugar, se aborda un estudio de sensibilidad aplicado a los datos del caso español para analizar la influencia de la técnica de inferencia sobre la definición de tendencias en el comportamiento del índice de Gini, utilizando datos del Panel de Hogares de la Unión Europea para el período 1993-2000.…”
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Partitioning Functional of a Class of Convex Bodies by Xinling Zhang

“…For each <i>n</i>-dimensional real Banach space <i>X</i>, each positive integer <i>m</i>, and each bounded set <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mo>⊆</mo><mi>X</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> with diameter greater than 0, let <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>β</mi><mi>X</mi></msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>A</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>m</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> be the infimum of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>δ</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>]</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mo>⊆</mo><mi>X</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> can be represented as the union of <i>m</i> subsets of <i>A</i>, whose diameters are not greater than <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>δ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> times the diameter of <i>A</i>. …”
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Romantic balticphilia in Latvian istoriography by Zenonas Butkus

“…The most distinct Balticphilic phenomenon in Latvian historiography is the demonstration that, until the German arrival at the end of the XII century and the beginning of the XIII century, Latvians didn't have a real, fully-worthy state system. Kuoknese and Jersika were real states, but they were divided, not united. …”
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