Recent advances in the management of knee osteoarthritis: a narrative review by Viktor Shtroblia, Pavlo Petakh, Iryna Kamyshna, Iryna Halabitska, Oleksandr Kamyshnyi

“…Oral analgesics, including acetaminophen and opioids, have limited efficacy and serious side effects, making them appropriate only for short-term or rescue therapy. Intra-articular injections, such as corticosteroids, hyaluronic acid, and platelet rich plasma, demonstrate varying levels of efficacy and safety. …”
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Macrophages overexpressing interleukin‐10 target and prevent atherosclerosis: Regression of plaque formation and reduction in necrotic core by Mingyi Wang, Shanshan Zhou, Yingyun Hu, Wei Tong, Hao Zhou, Mingrui Ma, Xingxuan Cai, Zhengbin Zhang, Luo Zhang, Yundai Chen

“…Although interleukin (IL)‐10 is widely acknowledged for its anti‐inflammatory effects, systemic administration of IL‐10 has limitations due to its short half‐life and significant systemic side effects. …”
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The Effect of Preoperative Type 2 Diabetes and Physical Fitness on Mental Health and Health-Related Quality of Life after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass by Cathrine L. Wimmelmann, Michael T. Lund, Merethe Hansen, Flemming Dela, Erik L. Mortensen

“…Measures included oral and intravenous glucose tolerance tests, VO2max test, Symptoms Checklist (SCL-90), Short Form Health Survey 36 (SF-36), Body Image Questionnaire, and a questionnaire assessing sociodemographic factors and medical status. …”
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The mediating role of mental health between social support and resilience in health workers before and during the pandemic: A structural analysis by Mina Ansari, Sareh Shakerian

“…The data were collected using the Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF), the Multidimensional Perceived Social Support (MPSS) and Connor-Davidson resilience questionnaire. …”
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Runoff responses to Atlantic multidecadal and Pacific decadal oscillations in China: Insights from the last millennium simulations by Yangyi Liu, Jie Chen, Lihua Xiong, Chong-Yu Xu

“…Among multiple large-scale climate indices, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) have received increased attention due to their long periodicities and low-frequency variability. However, the short observations limit the study of runoff response to AMO and PDO. …”
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Depressive Symptoms and Resilience among Pregnant Adolescents: A Case-Control Study by Danny Salazar-Pousada, Dalton Arroyo, Luis Hidalgo, Faustino R. Pérez-López, Peter Chedraui

“…Depressive symptoms and resilience were assessed using two validated inventories, the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Short Depression Scale (CESD-10) and the 14-item Wagnild and Young Resilience Scale (RS), respectively. …”
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How do improved lentil varieties affect farmers’ livelihood status in central Bangladesh? by Monira Sultana, Jannatul Ferdous Shetu, Fatema Sarker, Sharif Ahammad, Md. Hayder Khan Sujan

“…Additionally, research is required for fitting short-duration lentil varieties in between the rice-based cropping patterns in Bangladesh.…”
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Effects of Dietary Addition of a Low-Pectin Apple Fibre Preparation on Rats by Fotschki Bartosz, Jurgoński Adam, Juśkiewicz Jerzy, Kołodziejczyk Krzysztof, Sójka Michał

“…In the caecal digesta, the dietary AFP significantly increased bacterial α-glucosidase and α-galactosidase activity, whereas bacterial β-glucuronidase activity was significantly reduced. Also, the content of short chain fatty acids in the caecal digesta was significantly increased after the AFP supplementation. …”
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Exploring Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds through Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models by Duo Xu, Jenna Karcheski, Chi-Yan Law, Ye Zhu, Chia-Jung Hsu, Jonathan C. Tan

“…Although the modified DCF method showed improvement over the classical version, it still fell short of the precision achieved by the 3-channel DDPM.…”
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Prediction Method of TBM Tunneling Parameters Based on Bi-GRU-ATT Model by Qinglong Zhang, Boyu Yang, Yanwen Zhu, Chen Guo, Chong Jiao, Anmin Cai

“…Compared with the Bi-GRU, GRU, and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models, it can be seen that the Bi-GRU-ATT model has a goodness of fit for predicting TBM tunneling parameters above 0.92, and the average absolute percentage error is less than 1.8%. …”
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Host plants selection of Centranthera grandiflora Benth. and nontargeted metabolomics analysis of its parasitic and non-parasitic samples. by Song Jin, Yuchuan Li, Jun Ni, Haili Xie, Falin Lei, He Liu

“…According to the previous investigation and research of our group, it was found that Centranthera grandiflora Benth. (C. grandiflora for short) might be a root hemiparasitic plant. The experiments of mixed sowing of C. grandiflora and 9 companion plants that might be hosts were conducted, and the growth, biological yield and other indexes were observed. …”
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Nature of viruses and the radical change in viral taxonomy by V. V. Makarov, L. P. Buchatsky

“…A short report is devoted to the radical changes in the taxonomy of viruses. …”
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Challenges of healthcare financing in the world’s largest refugee camp: a mixed-method study among healthcare stakeholders for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by Isabel Smith, Imdadul Haque Talukdar, Sayeeda Tarannum, M A Rifat, Priyanka Boga, Jubayer Mumin, Pablo André Veronés, Ziba Mahdi, Syeda Saima Alam, Arif Faysal Khan

“…Financial documents (available online) and reports from respective coordinating agencies were also reviewed.Setting Online key informant interviews (KIIs) were conducted from Stockholm with participants residing in Bangladesh between June 2022 and September 2022.Participants Eight KIIs were conducted with professional health programme managers, executives and personnel involved in policy coordination and implementation in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh.Results We identified four themes and three subthemes outlining key challenges in healthcare funding, including decreasing funds (supported by a quantitative assessment) due to macroglobal issues, conflicting short-term and long-term priorities between implementing partners, insufficient efficacy due to challenges with collaborative priority-setting and implementing common processes, and a lack of consensus regarding equity between host and refugee communities.Conclusions The study identified unique challenges beyond the commonly discussed health financing issues in a resource-deficient setting: stakeholders’ conflicting priorities regarding funding and undecided equity issues among the host and refugee communities are worth scholarly and policy focus. …”
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Covid-19 Kapsamında Uzaktan Eğitim Sürecinin Lisansüstü Öğrencilerin Algısındaki Yeri: Kırıkkale Üniversitesi Örneği by Tayfun Arar, Melahat Öneren, Gülşen Yurdakul

“…Uzaktan eğitimin aynı anda hem avantaj hem de dezavantajı olacak şekilde çift yönlü etkisinde ise en yüksek skoru derse erişim almıştır. Katılımcılara göre uzaktan eğitimin öncelikli olarak iyileştirilmesi gereken temel eksikliklerinin başında etkileşim-iletişim sorunsalı ile altyapı yetersizliği gelmiştir. …”
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F10.7 Daily Forecast Using LSTM Combined With VMD Method by Yuhang Hao, Jianyong Lu, Guangshuai Peng, Ming Wang, Jingyuan Li, Guanchun Wei

“…In this study, the Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) and Long Short‐term Memory (LSTM) network are combined to construct a VMD‐LSTM model for predicting F10.7 values. …”
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Lipid Horizons: Recent Advances and Future Prospects in LBDDS for Oral Administration of Antihypertensive Agents by null Preeti, Sharda Sambhakar, Rohit Malik, Saurabh Bhatia, Ahmed Al Harrasi, Renu Saharan, Geeta Aggarwal, Suresh Kumar, Renu Sehrawat, Chanchal Rani

“…LBDDSs overcome the shortcomings that are associated with antihypertensive agents because around fifty percent of the antihypertensive agents experience a few drawbacks including short half-life because of hepatic first-pass metabolism, poor aqueous solubility, low permeation rate, and undesirable side effects. …”
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Purchase subsidies for 100% zero-emissions vehicle sales goals: Effectiveness, government cost, and supplier capture by Chandan Bhardwaj, Jonn Axsen

“…Across subsidy-dominated scenarios, automakers capture 15–23% of subsidy value and increase their overall profit; both trends increase with higher subsidy duration and value. In short, a subsidy-dominated approach to inducing ZEV sales is likely to prove costly; other policies should be considered to lead a policy mix, such as regulation, taxation, or a feebate program.…”
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A two-step method for assessing enhanced value in turnaround, spin-off, and value stocks by Nicolas Pfister, Michael J. Kendzia, Jan-Alexander Posth

“…While the first step of the two-step approach screens companies for a combination of financial company characteristics, the second step ranks and sorts them by either their price-earnings ratio or by their price-book ratio, thus “enhancing” the value assessment. Their short- and mid-term stock performance is investigated for an investment horizon of one year, three years, and five years. …”
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Social Strata Differentials in Reproductive Behavior among Agricultural Families in the Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, 1720-1874) by Kai P. Willführ, Charlotte Störmer

“… In this paper, we investigate how the reproductive behavior of families in the historical Krummhörn region was affected by their social status and by short-term fluctuations in their socioeconomic conditions. …”
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Czym jest edukacja biologiczna w wychowaniu człowieka? by Ilona Żeber-Dzikowska

“…The wide range of biological contents as well as the short reflection on the subject of gaining the knowledge in the range of Biology allows us to notice, that this discipline, similarly to other disciplines shapes the personality of young, growing up people. …”
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