Moral distress, attitude toward death, and palliative care core competencies among ICU nurses: a cross-sectional study by Mengyun Peng, Qin Guan, Xiaoling Zhu

“…Abstract Background Palliative care is becoming more widely acknowledged as a crucial part of intensive care for all patients with life-threatening illnesses. …”
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Gradenigo’s Syndrome and Bacterial Meningitis in a Patient with a Petrous Apex Cholesterol Granuloma by Jacqueline Hodges, Julie Matsumoto, Nicholas Jaeger, Brian Wispelwey

“…The simultaneous presentation of all three components has become less common in cases of GS reported in the literature, particularly in the era of antibiotics effective against typical organisms attributed to OM and petrous apicitis. …”
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Maternal-Cord Blood Vitamin D Correlations Vary by Maternal Levels by Ganesa Wegienka, Hareena Kaur, Roopina Sangha, Andrea E. Cassidy-Bushrow

“…These data suggest mothers may reduce their contribution to the fetus’s 25(OH)D supply once their own level becomes low.…”
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Experimental Study and Proposal to Improve the EWM Design of Cold-Formed Steel Lipped Channel Columns with Circular Holes under Axial Compression by Xingyou Yao

“…However, the circular hole in the web makes the lipped channel column become susceptible to buckle. A total of 54 CFS lipped channel axial compression columns with and without circular holes were used to study the buckling behavior and the effective width design method. …”
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Carrier-independent screen-shooting resistant watermarking based on information overlay superimposition by Xiaomeng LI, Daidou GUO, Xunfang ZHUO, Heng YAO, Chuan QIN

“…Financial security, an important part of national security, is critical for the stable and healthy development of the economy.Digital image watermarking technology plays a crucial role in the field of financial information security, and the anti-screen watermarking algorithm has become a new research focus of digital image watermarking technology.The common way to achieve an invisible watermark in existing watermarking schemes is to modify the carrier image, which is not suitable for all types of images.To solve this problem, an end-to-end robust watermarking scheme based on deep learning was proposed.The algorithm achieved both visual quality and robustness of the watermark image.A random binary string served as the input of the encoder network in the proposed end-to-end network architecture.The encoder can generate the watermark information overlay, which can be attached to any carrier image after training.The ability to resist screen shooting noise was learned by the model through mathematical methods incorporated in the network to simulate the distortion generated during screen shooting.The visual quality of the watermark image was further improved by adding the image JND loss based on just perceptible difference.Moreover, an embedding hyperparameter was introduced in the training phase to balance the visual quality and robustness of the watermarked image adaptively.A watermark model suitable for different scenarios can be obtained by changing the size of the embedding hyperparameter.The visual quality and robustness performance of the proposed scheme and the current state-of-the-art algorithms were evaluated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.The results show that the watermark image generated by the proposed scheme has better visual quality and can accurately restore the embedded watermark information in robustness experiments under different distances, angles, lighting conditions, display devices, and shooting devices.…”
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THE DEMAND FOR A NEW CONCEPT OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE: THE DOCTRINE OF HUME by A. M. Malivskyi

“…The modern version of the basic project in the early modern age is criticized and demands significant changes to become anthropological. Findings. Modern perception of Hume’s philosophy as an anthropological project is unsatisfactory in terms of historical and philosophical science and needs detailed analysis. …”
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Search for the turning points in the Soviet Lithuanian historiography: 1956 (?) by Aurimas Švedas

“…For this reason, the year 1956 in Lithuanian Soviet historiography did not become the beginning of radical changes but rather the period of status quo. …”
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De la logique à l’algorithme : la traduction dans le design de programmes by Kim Sacks

“…If computation can process everything, then the machine becomes truly universal by enabling a unified language embedded in electronic logic circuits. …”
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The U.S.-China Rivalry in Africa: Challenges and Prospects by V. K. Parkhomenko

“…In recent years the African continent, possessing a significant resource, economic and demographic potential, has become a scene of the growing rivalry between China and the United States. …”
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Cystic Endometriosis in a Huge Degenerated Subserous Leiomyoma Mimicking Bilateral Multicystic Endometriomas in an Infertile Woman with Diminished Ovarian Reserve: A Rare Endometri... by Safak Hatirnaz, Sabri Colak, Abdulkadir Reis

“…However, when leiomyoma undergoes massive cystic degeneration they may become clinical and radiological diagnostic dilemmas. …”
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Treatment of Comprehensive Wastewater from Chemical and Pharmaceutical Parks by Fly Ash-Coated Iron Electrode Electrocoagulation by Huajing Zhu, Zeli Chen

“…With the rapid development of the economic system and the continuous development of industry, environmental pollution is becoming more and more important, so wastewater treatment urgently needs to be strengthened. …”
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Installation Project for Water Purification from Suspended Particles by E.N. Neverov, A.K. Gorelkina, E.S. Mikhalova, P.S. Korotkih

“…Currently, the issue of recycling coal waste becomes quite relevant all over the world, which is associated with tightening environmental standards and increasing production rates in the coal industry. …”
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NIGERIA'S FOREIGN POLICY AND TRANSBORDER CRIME: AN OVERIEW by OWUDA RASHIDA LAMIDI

“…However, rising transborder crime has forced Nigeria to change its policies and become more proactive and collaborative internationally. …”
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القراءة الالکترونية واستخداماتها لدى طالبات جامعة الأزهر: دراسة ميدانية by عزة عبد الحميد خطاب

“…The term electronic reading (E-Reading) is one of the modern terms in thescience of libraries and information. …”
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Turistas en la Grand Place de Bruselas by María García

“…Given the immediacy provided by telephones and other mobile devices, the idea of the memory becomes blurred, but not the distinction associated with travel as a contemporary social practice. …”
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Climate extreme indices and its implication on crop production: The case of Mana district, Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia by Biyeshi Ayansa Abdissa, Dessalegn Obsi Gemeda

“…Climate change is manifesting globally, with its effect on agricultural productivity becoming more apparent. There is no doubt that climate change is already affecting the economic development of developing countries. …”
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Research on Neural Network Prediction Model of Whole Process Risk Management Based on Building Information Model by Shihong Huang, Chengye Liang, Jiao Liu

“…With the rapid development of China’s construction industry and the acceleration of urbanization, large-scale public building projects are becoming increasingly important in urban development, and the risk management problems of them should be pay more attention to. …”
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The Spiralling of Corporate Corruption and the Plummeting of Corporate Governance and Ethical Leadership in African Institutions by Hlalele Matebese

“…Competent and ethical leaders, on the other hand, resist corruption; African leaders and authorities should take steps to fight corruption through ethics and governance; African corporations have become increasingly corrupt; corporate governance and ethical leadership have declined in Africa; African politicians have uncurbed power to advance their private gains, and finally, African leaders need to change their mindsets and cultures to achieve economic growth. …”
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Understanding the Impact of the Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) Gene on Age-related Macular Degeneration: A Comprehensive Study by Saranya Velmurugan, Rashmi Pauline, Gurudeva Chandrashekar, Langeswaran Kulanthaivel, Gowtham Kumar Subbaraj

“…As the prevalence of AMD grows, understanding the role of SIRT1 and other biomarkers becomes increasingly vital for improving diagnosis, treatment and, ultimately, patient outcomes.…”
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Change detection in the dynamics of an intracellular protein synthesis model using nonlinear Kalman filtering by Gerasimos G. Rigatos, Efthymia G. Rigatou, Jean Daniel Djida

“…Moreover, by applying an inverse transformation based on the previous diffeomorphism it becomes also possible to obtain estimates of the state variables of the initial nonlinear model. …”
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