Was Grand Duchy of Lithuania a Federation? by Zenonas Norkus

“…While federation and empire share the principle of subordination as the mode of organization, in the empire this is the subordination to a privileged metropole territory and cultural-ethnic group, while in federation all territories are subordinated to the federal center on parity grounds, all participating in federal government. …”
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COVID-19 Mortality in Children: A Referral Center Experience from Iran (Mofid Children’s Hospital, Tehran, Iran) by Shahnaz Armin, Seyed Alireza Fahimzad, Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Roxana Mansour Ghanaiee, Noushin Marhamati, Seyyedeh Narjes Ahmadizadeh, Azita Behzad, Seyedeh Masumeh Hashemi, Saeed Sadr, Maryam Rajabnejad, Mahnaz Jamee, Abdollah Karimi

“…The median length of stay in the hospital was 10 days (range 1–215). 91.52% had underlying comorbidities of which neurological diseases accounted for the largest share. 54 patients were admitted to the ICU and 83.05% of them had intubation during their hospitalization. …”
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Metaverse Clinic for Pregnant Women With Subclinical Hypothyroidism: Prospective Randomized Study by Yuanyuan Zheng, Yizhen Chen, Yan Chen, Liang Lin, Ting Xue, Chuhui Chen, Junping Wen, Wei Lin, Gang Chen

“… BackgroundHealth care is experiencing new opportunities in the emerging digital landscape. The metaverse, a shared virtual space, integrates technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. …”
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A Combined Numerical and Experimental Study of Heat Transfer in a Roughened Square Channel with 45∘ Ribs by M. E. Taslim, H. Liu

“…In the numerical part, a square channel roughened with 45∘ ribs of four blockage ratios (e/Dh) of 0.10,0.15,0.20, and 0.25, each for a fixed pitch-to-height ratio (P/e) of 10, was modeled. Sharp as well as round-corner ribs (r/e=0 and 0.25) in a staggered arrangement were studied. …”
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Soil phosphorus mobilization as affected by long-term organic fertilization in a tropical Regosol by Kalline De Almeida Alves Carneiro, Tancredo Augusto Feitosa De Souza, Gislaine Dos Santos Nascimento, Vânia Da Silva Fraga, Bruno de Oliveira Dias

“…Method: Soil samples were collected in four sites characterized as smallholder farming systems that shared the same land uses and soil type with each other. …”
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Distinguishing benign and malignant myxoid soft tissue tumors: Performance of radiomics vs. radiologists. by Joshua M Lawrenz, Can Cui, Samuel R Johnson, Katherine S Hajdu, Stephen W Chenard, Akhil Rekulapelli, Cullen P Moran, John J Block, Nicholson S Chadwick, Joanna L Shechtel, Brian Bingham, Leo Y Luo, Jennifer L Halpern, Herbert S Schwartz, Ginger E Holt, David S Smith, Benoit Dawant, Hakmook Kang

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Benign and malignant myxoid soft tissue tumors have shared clinical, imaging, and histologic features that can make diagnosis challenging. …”
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Refining prognostic assessment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: insights from multi-omics and single-cell analysis unveil SRM as a key target for regulating immunotherapy by Xiaojie Liang, Jia Guo, Baiwei Luo, Weixiang Lu, Qiumin Chen, Yeling Deng, Yunong Yang, Liang Wang

“…Compared to low-risk group, HPSI exhibited poorer prognosis, with lower 3-year OS (51.7% vs. 78.1%, P < 0.0001) and PFS (48.9% vs. 72.6%, P < 0.0001) rates. HPSI shared malignant proliferative phenotype resembling Burkitt lymphoma. …”
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The Ripple Effect of Climate Change: Assessing the Impacts on Water Quality and Hydrology in Addis Ababa City (Akaki Catchment) by Thandile T. Gule, Binyam Tesfaw Hailu, Brook Lemma

“…This was performed using the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model and an ensemble of four global climate models under two Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) emission scenarios from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). …”
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Ensuring organisational and legal conditions for financing the social sector of Ukraine by S. M. Bortnyk, I. O. Sievidova

“…There is a gradual reduction in the share of expenditures on social protection and social security from 30 % to 15 % of the consolidated budget in 2016–2022, while social spending is actually growing in monetary terms. …”
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Integrated bioinformatics analysis identified cuproptosis-related hub gene Mpeg1 as potential biomarker in spinal cord injury by Dandan Mao, Qi Chen, Shuolan Tong, Zixia Xu, Guofeng Yu, Chuan Chang, Yao Lv

“…From these modules, we identified two hub genes, Cd48 and Mpeg1, which exhibited a strong positive correlation (R = 0.92) and shared similar pathways. Furthermore, we observed a positive correlation between M2 macrophages and Cd48/Mpeg1. …”
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The association between pretransplant malignancy and post-transplant survival and cancer recurrence in bilateral lung transplantation: An analysis of 23,291 recipients by Wongi Woo, MD, Hye Sung Kim, MD, Ankit Bharat, MBBS, Young Kwang Chae, MD, PhD, MBA

“…Methods: This study evaluated the United Network for Organ Sharing registry for adult BLT performed between 2005 and 2023. …”
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Environmental vulnerability characteristics in an active swarm region by A.V.H. Simanjuntak, U Muksin, A. Arifullah, K. Lythgoe, Y. Asnawi, M. Sinambela, S. Rizal, S. Wei

“…The swarm activities occurred at shallow depths and may influence the ground surface condition in which soil or rock below the subsurface can amplify the shaking. The research objective was to investigate the characteristics of the earthquake swarm in the Toba Caldera from the spectrum of the earthquake waveforms, site frequency, and horizontal-to-vertical ratio of sites.METHODS: The spectra of very closely located swarm and nonswarm earthquakes were analyzed to investigate the differences between both types of seismic events. …”
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Stigmatization of people with mental illness – a matter of milieu-specific worldviews? Results from a population-based survey in Germany by Jenny Spahlholz, Eva Baumann, Sven Speerforck, Sven Speerforck, Christian Sander, Christian Sander, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Georg Schomerus, Georg Schomerus

“…We used a milieu approach to investigate how shared social, cultural and political orientations and expectations are associated with manifestations of the mental-illness related stigma.MethodsWe analyzed cross-sectional data from 3,042 adults aged ≥18 years from a national vignette-based representative survey on the stigma of mental illness in Germany from 2020. …”
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Characteristics, location, and usage patterns of resting burrows in Chinese pangolins: Insights from radio-telemetry tracking by Nick Ching-Min Sun, Jing-Shiun Lin, Kurtis Jai‑Chyi Pei

“…Notably, resting burrows were frequently shared among individuals. Activity patterns showed that pangolins typically exited their burrows between 6:00 PM and 12:00 AM and entered their burrows between 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM. …”
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Patient centered medication treatment for opioid use disorder in rural Vermont: a qualitative study by Emily G. Hichborn, Owen B. Murray, Eilis I. Murphy, Tess E. Gallant, Sarah K. Moore, Bethany M. McLeman, John Saroyan, Anthony Folland, Megan Mitchell, Lisa A. Marsch

“…Emergent themes were deductively mapped to PCC domains of Therapeutic Alliance, Individualized Care, Shared Decision-Making, and Holistic Care. Results Participants indicated that PCC fostered engagement and often characterized MOUD clinics they no longer attended as lacking in PCC. …”
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Implementation of Virtual and Face-to-Face Childbirth Preparation Training for the Spouses of the Primiparous Women to Reduce the Fear of Childbirth, Improve the Pregnancy Experien... by Zari Doaltabadi, Leila Amiri-Farahani, Seyedeh Batool Hasanpoor-Azghady

“…Results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals and shared with the academic and medical community to pregnancy and childbirth outcomes. …”
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Methodological considerations for estimating indirect costs in children and adolescents with chronic conditions: a scoping review by Anne Kitschen, Lulseged M. Asegu, Dirk Sauerland

“…Additionally, 51.1% considered productivity losses for children and adolescents, with 47.8% of these studies assigning a monetary value to these losses. The largest share of studies (53.3%) considered indirect costs by measuring and valuing caregivers’ lost work time. …”
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Identification of serum metabolite biomarkers in premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: protocol for a multicentre prospective observational cohort study by Ping Zhou, Jun Chen, Ying Liu, Cheng Chen, Xin Guo, Zhangbin Yu, Jiebo Liu, Yanping Guo, Dan Dan Rao, Shengnan He, Xudong Yan, Wanxiang He, Songzhou Xu, Ruolin Zhang

“…Additionally, a nested case-control study will be conducted, matching participants 1:1 with a control group sharing similar BPD risk factors.Ethics and dissemination Our protocol has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committees of all participating hospitals, including Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen Baoan Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Longgang District Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Nanshan Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital and Shenzhen Luohu People’s Hospital. …”
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Metatranscriptomes-based sequence similarity networks uncover genetic signatures within parasitic freshwater microbial eukaryotes by Arthur Monjot, Jérémy Rousseau, Lucie Bittner, Cécile Lepère

“…Our study confirmed the versatility of mixotrophic metabolisms with a large number of shared protein families among mixotrophic and phototrophic microorganisms as well as mixotrophic and heterotrophic microorganisms. …”
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Project ChemicalBlooms: Collaborating with citizen scientists to survey the chemical diversity and phylogenetic distribution of plant epicuticular wax blooms by Le Thanh Dien Nguyen, Nicole Groth, Kylie Mondloch, Edgar B. Cahoon, Keith Jones, Lucas Busta

“…The ability to synthesize basic wax molecules appears to be shared among virtually all land plants, and our knowledge of ubiquitous wax compound synthesis is reasonably advanced. …”
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