Development of a Conceptual Model to Understand Disease Burden in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Organ Damage by Lynne Broderick, Wen-Hung Chen, Roger A. Levy, April Mitchell Foster, Cindy Umanzor Figueroa, Kerry Gairy, Deven Chauhan

“…Second, key opinion leaders (KOLs) were interviewed to assess the draft conceptual model and help shape patient interview materials. Third, patients of different demographic backgrounds from across the United States were interviewed individually to gather their perspectives on living with SLE-associated OD. …”
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The Idea of Education: Development or Service Delivery? by V. E. Ljovkin, A. O. Ljovkina, E. L. Docenko, L. M. Volosnikova

“…The concept of “educational services” is analysed as a speech template, a way of thinking, a legal concept, a call to changing social practice and a probable project. …”
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Exploring the stigma experienced by people affected by Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review by Sophie Crooks, Gary Mitchell, Lisa Wynne, Gillian Carter

“…The second explored drivers and facilitators of stigma, identifying factors like duration since diagnosis, disease severity, lack of public education, and media representation. The third theme revealed stigma’s impact on mental health and well-being, exacerbating feelings of shame, embarrassment, and social isolation. …”
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Distribution of Lithuanian publications by J. Zavadzkis firm 1805-1864 by Aušra Navickienė

“…The trade of Lithuanian books became very active in 1853-1864, during the years of intensive publishing of Lithuanian books, when one-third of all books printed at that time appeared from the firm. …”
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Impact of health education on knowledge retention among caregivers of hypertensive patients: A prospective cross-sectional study in rural Malawi. by Chikondi Maluwa, Sitalire Kapira, Hataichanok Chuljerm, Wason Parklak, Kanokwan Kulprachakarn

“…Hypertension is a widespread and life-threatening condition affecting one-third of adults globally. In low- and middle-income countries, like Malawi, the burden of hypertension is escalating due to inadequate healthcare resources and lifestyle changes. …”
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Preparation of Iron Oxide and Titania-Based Composite, Core-Shell Populated, Nanoparticulates Material by Two-Step LASER Ablation in Aqueous Media as Antimicrobial and Anticancer A... by Hasan H. Bahjat, Raid A. Ismail, Ghassan M. Sulaiman, Hamdoon A. Mohammed, Mohsen Al-Omar, Salman A. A. Mohammed, Riaz A. Khan

“…The average NPs core size distributions for the core-shell material ranged at ∼70 nm with the shell thickness around 20 nm. The biggest NPs were of ∼170 nm size which were sparsely distributed. …”
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High Prevalence but Insufficient Treatment of Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Results of a Population-Based Cohort by Claudia Ott, Anne Liebold, Angela Takses, Ulrike G. Strauch, Florian Obermeier

“…Surprisingly, only in one-third of patients with proven anemia, further diagnostic approach was undertaken. …”
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Main threats to the state’s interests in the sphere of information security of Ukraine by O. Yu. Starostin

“…In order to eliminate the above threats, it is proposed to: develop a comprehensive legal act on the principles of information security of Ukraine, which would consolidate real and potential threats to information security, the foundations of the State policy in the field of information security, in particular under martial law, which would facilitate further development of this area, consistency of certain by-laws and regulations that partially regulate this area and lay down a strategic vision of its development; use the potential of modern information technologies in the process of disseminating information about real problems and needs at the grassroots level; convey to the international community the real, not artificially formed, moods and ideas of the population regarding certain problems related to patriotism and loyalty to the state; introduce information security education, which allows equipping the population with a set of necessary knowledge about the basics of critical thinking, information hygiene and media security; In order to eliminate the above threats, it is proposed to: develop a culture of information security by developing national strategies that would cover a set of educational, ideological, cultural activities, as well as different categories of the population, for example, developing a system of professional development for public servants, teaching certain disciplines for students of higher education institutions and holding classes, competitions, tournaments for students of general secondary education institutions.…”
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Closed-loop systems for plants expressing animal proteins: a modernized framework to safeguard the future of agricultural innovation by Kristin A. Bresnahan, Justin M. Ferber, J. Thomas Carrato, Thomas J. Stoddard, Patrick V. Palad, Magi Richani

“…A CLS framework for PMF products expressing animal proteins should integrate existing best practices from Excellence Through Stewardship and applicable third-party guidelines, including by way of example ISO standards, Good Manufacturing Practices, Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, and Safe Quality Food, as well as newly designed controls to address potential PMF-specific risks. …”
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Intraoperative Intraluminal Endoscopy in the Surgical Treatment of Patients with Esophageal Diverticula of Various Localization by A. L. Shestakov, M. V. Khrustaleva, M. E. Shahbanov, N. A. Bulganina, T. T. Bitarov, I. A. Boeva, A. T. Tskhovrebov, I. A. Tarasova, O. V. Rykov, I. M. Selivanova, A. A. Bezaltynnykh

“…In patients with the diverticula of the middle and lower third of the esophagus, the average surgery duration was equal to 120.3 ± 11.2 min and 150.5 ± 17.3 (p <0.05) min in the main and control groups, respectively. …”
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Hantavirus antibody seroprevalence and risk factors among adults in West Kazakhstan, 2023 by Ulyana Gubareva, Ulyana Gubareva, Ulyana Gubareva, Roberta Horth, Roberta Horth, Dilyara Nabirova, Dilyara Nabirova, Nur Tukhanova, Nur Tukhanova, Elmira Utegenova, Elmira Utegenova, Zhanna Shapiyeva, Zangar Turliyev, Nazym Tleumbetova, Nurbek Maykanov, Manar Smagul, Alan L. Landay, Gavin Cloherty, Gavin Cloherty, Francisco Averhoff, Francisco Averhoff, Edmond F. Maes

“…Three seronegative participants had previous hospitalization for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Over one-third (38%) of participants encountered rodents or droppings in the past year in their homes or workplaces. …”
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Device and Methods for Measuring of Acoustic Anisotropy and the Residual Stress in the Main Gas Pipelines’ Metal by L. V. Volkova, O. V. Murav’eva, V. V. Murav’ev, I. V. Buldakova

“…For samples with stress corrosion cracking a sharp decrease in the anisotropy coefficient is observed which makes it possible to use the indicated characteristics as informative parameters in detecting stress corrosion cracking.A feature of the proposed methods is high accuracy, due to the absence of necessity to determine the material density and precision measurement of its thickness, the measurement error of which is significant by known methods.Keywords: main gas pipeline, elastic moduli, acoustic anisotropy of properties, the biaxial stress-strain state, longitudinal and transversal waves.…”
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Scientific Publication Ethics by Osman İnci

“…Changing the datas and results without scientific reasoning, and falsification is accepted as another and the third kind of misappropriation (FTP). Their most important difference from the other kinds is showing conscious deceptive intention. …”
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Assessing prevalence and predictors of impaired awareness of hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes patients with chronic kidney disease by Amin Soliman, Noran Atef El Kordy, Farouk Mostafa Faris, Rabab Mahmoud Ahmed

“…Conclusion The present study is unique in investigating impaired awareness of hypoglycemia (IAH) across the full spectrum of chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages, including patients on hemodialysis. Approximately one-third of CKD patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus exhibited a general lack of awareness of hypoglycemia. …”
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Early Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Gestational Diabetes: The Predictive Role of Routine Biomarkers and Nutrigenetic Variants by Marica Franzago, Federica Fraticelli, Marta Di Nicola, Francesco Bianco, Daniela Marchetti, Claudio Celentano, Marco Liberati, Raffaele De Caterina, Liborio Stuppia, Ester Vitacolonna

“…All women then attended a 3-year-postpartum follow-up and on that occasion performed an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT, with 75 g oral glucose), the measurement of carotid artery intima-media thickness (cIMT), and analyses of metabolic parameters. …”
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Assessing the Adherence of ChatGPT Chatbots to Public Health Guidelines for Smoking Cessation: Content Analysis by Lorien C Abroms, Artin Yousefi, Christina N Wysota, Tien-Chin Wu, David A Broniatowski

“…Responses were independently coded by 2 reviewers, and differences were resolved by a third coder. ResultsAcross chatbots and queries, on average, chatbot responses were rated as being adherent to 57.1% of the items on the adherence index. …”
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Impact of urban-rural integration on resource misallocation in old industrial cities and its mechanisms by ZHU Gaoli, SHENG Li

“…Similarly, second- and third-tier cities experienced greater improvements than fourth- and fifth-tier cities. (2) Mechanism analysis showed that industrial structure upgrading and industrial structure optimization partially mediated the relationship between urban-rural integration and resource misallocation. …”
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POSITIVISM AND ITS ADVERSARIES: BRADLEY, COLLINGWOOD, NIETZSCHE AND HEIDEGGER by Evaldas Nekrašas

“…To overcome it once and for all without destroying the very foundations of our way of life and our evermore common culture is much more difficult than the most prominent critics may think. …”
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Strategic foresight of staffing needs of innovative development of socio-economic systems by Elena Okunkova

“…Development of basic techniques and instruments of calculation of need of innovative economy for highly qualified personnel on long-term and medium-term prospects has been based on such methodological approaches as system, activity and competence-based approaches, situational approach, methodology of the interactive, understanding and interpretive sociology, methodology of synergy, network thinking and social management, methodology of the modal analysis. …”
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IMPLICITINĖ PREDIKATO KVANTIFIKACIJA IR PORT ROYALIO LOGIKA by Laisvūnas Šopauskas

“…The conclusions of this investigation are following: first, it is possible to attribute to Arnauld and Nicole negation of the IQP thesis and the thesis of analogous structure – thesis of implicit quantification of the subject; second, chapters of Port-Royal logic discussing conversion provide the evidence not for attribution of IQP thesis, but only for the attribution of a weaker proposition and, third, William Hamilton should be held to be the first adherent of IQP thesis. …”
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