From pollution to sustainable environment: unlocking the role of energy intensity and renewable energy in highly pollutant nations by Zhi Zhen Zhou, Muhammad Shahid Hassan, Muhammad Ibrahim Saeed, Haider Mahmood, Rukhsana Kalim, Amira Houaneb

“…The revenues from these taxes should be utilized to subsidize renewable energy consumption. Both initiatives would help reduce energy intensity in these polluted economies to condense the environmental consequences of the energy sector.…”
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Cost-effectiveness of Catheter Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Canadian Perspective by Yaariv Khaykin, Peter J. Mallow, John A. Rizzo, Atul Verma, Lauren Chun, Shelby Olesovsky, Matthew R. Reynolds

“…**Conclusions:** From the perspective of the Canadian Healthcare system, CA is a potentially cost-effective treatment compared to AAD therapy in a low stroke risk population using real-world data when examining a time horizon of greater than 5 years.…”
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Integrating Remote Sensing and Soil Features for Enhanced Machine Learning-Based Corn Yield Prediction in the Southern US by Sayantan Sarkar, Javier M. Osorio Leyton, Efrain Noa-Yarasca, Kabindra Adhikari, Chad B. Hajda, Douglas R. Smith

“…Unlike prior studies that focus mainly on county-level or controlled laboratory-scale areas, this study targets a production-scale area, better representing real-world agricultural conditions and offering more practical relevance for farmers. …”
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The bioinfomatics analysis of the M1 macrophage-related gene CXCL9 signature in cervical cancer by Wenxin Liao, Tingting Liu, Yang Li, Hua Liang, Juexiao Deng, Fujin Shen

“…Especially, CXCL9 was positively correlated with M1 macrophage infiltration levels in cervical cancer. CXCL9 expression would significantly decrease and high CXCL9 levels were linked to good prognosis in the cervical cancer tumour patients, it manifestly expressed in blood immune cells, and was positively related to immune checkpoints. …”
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Development planning in argentina. An agenda for progress and open challenges (2003-2015) by Ariel Oscar García

“…In this context, public policies outlined here would tend to boost demand centrally, without the possibility of transforming the unbalanced production structure inherited from the previous but attentive to your temporal becoming decades.…”
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Creep characteristics of sandstone during freezing/thawing process by Yongjun SONG, Jinghui CAO, Keyan CHENG, Huimin YANG, Ran BI, Kun ZHANG

“…If the impact of long-term freeze-thaw mechanical behavior on sandstone mass is neglected, it would lead to significant hazards to the construction and safe operation of engineering in cold regions. …”
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No frequency change of prehospital treatments by emergency medical services providers for traumatic cardiac arrest patients before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: an obse... by Ju Heon Lee, Hyung Il Kim

“…Age, sex, possible cause of cardiac arrest, and treatments including airway maneuvers, oropharyngeal airway (OPA) or i-gel insertion, endotracheal intubation (ETI), bag-valve mask (BVM) ventilation, intravenous (IV) line establishment, neck collar application, and wound dressing with hemostasis were investigated. …”
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Reflection to enhance dental students´ awareness of and comfort with uncertainty – an experimental study by Joséphine Brodén, Helena Fransson, Niklas Vareman, Maria Pigg

“…The majority, 57% (29/51) of the students stated that they thought an experienced colleague would feel certain or very certain. After the exercise in June, 36% (9/25) of the students exposed to the reflection exercise changed their statements on how certain they felt about their capacity to handle the case. …”
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Correlation Analysis of Japanese Literature and Psychotherapy Effects Based on an Equation Diagnosis Algorithm by Zhang Tingting

“…Combined with modern western literary techniques to express the “modern self,” and integrating popular literature with pure literature, Japanese writers created a “healing” literature that is popular all over the world. There is some value in exploring the correlation between Japanese literature and the influence of psychotherapy. …”
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Effectiveness of Anti-Gravity Treadmill Exercise After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Elina Jääskeläinen, Mikko Manninen, Heikki Hurri, Mikko Rantasalo, Yun Zhou, Hannu Kautiainen, Leena Ristolainen

“…We hypothesized that AlterG training would lead to faster rehabilitation, better walking quality, improved quality of life, improved physical activity, and improved overall functioning. …”
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Functionalized Nanomaterials In Pancreatic Cancer Theranostics And Molecular Imaging by Yoghalakshmi Nagarajan, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Venkatachalam Deepa Parvathi

“…Abstract Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most fatal malignancies in the world. This lethality persists due to lack of effective and efficient treatment strategies. …”
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A Framework for Early Detection of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Its Subtypes From Peripheral Blood Smear Images Using Deep Ensemble Learning Technique by Sajida Perveen, Abdullah Alourani, Muhammad Shahbaz, M. Usman Ashraf, Isma Hamid

“…Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), one of the prevalent types of carcinogenic disease, has been seen a deadly illness exposing numerous patients across the world to potential threats of lives. It impacts both adults and children providing a narrow range of chances of being cured if diagnosed at a later stage. …”
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Are we ready for the new normal in e-business education? Sentiment analysis of learners' opinions on MOOCs by O. F. Derindag, B. Cizmeci

“…Distance learning has become an indispensable alternative teaching method in updating and transferring classical education materials according to real-world settings, especially for learners in higher education.Aim. …”
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Dexamethasone Coanalgesic Administration in Steroid Naïve and Steroid Non-Naïve Patients for the Prevention of Pain Flares after Palliative Radiotherapy for Bone Metastases by Dimitar G. Tonev, Silvia A. Lalova, Elena P. Petkova-Lungova, Nikolay V. Timenov, Gabriela M. Radeva, Todor G. Kundurzhiev

“…Irrespective of the supporting evidence of dexamethasone potential for prevention of RT-induced pain flare, our data failed to reveal its efficacy in the real practice world (a case mix of uncomplicated and complicated bone metastases). …”
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Lipid trajectories improve risk models for Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment by Bruce A. Chase, Roberta Frigerio, Chad J. Yucus, Smita Patel, Demetrius Maraganore, Alan R. Sanders, Jubao Duan, Katerina Markopoulou

“…Inclusion of lipid-trajectory and VIM groups improved risk-model predictive performance independent of APOE and AD or lipid-level PRSs, providing important real-world perspectives on how longitudinal levels and variation of blood-lipid concentrations contribute to risk of cognitive decline.…”
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Intimate and Personal Sphere in the System of Vital Values of the Anomalous Person – the Offender by A. M. Bolshakova, T. O. Perevozna, I. O. Videnieiev, O. M. Khartsii

“…The control group consisted of 50 individuals without personality abnormalities who did not commit offenses and would refer to the main group according to socio-demographic indicators. …”
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Regulatory signatures involved in the cell cycle pathway contribute to egg production heterosis in chicken by Jingwei Yuan, Yuanmei Wang, Yanyan Sun, Yunlei Li, Aixin Ni, Qin Li, Hanhan Yang, Xinying Xu, Yunhe Zong, Hui Ma, Jilan Chen

“…These findings provided new insights for the molecular mechanism of egg production heterosis, which would facilitate the rational choice of suitable parents for producing crossbred chickens with higher egg production.…”
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Experiences and opinions of adults with type 1 diabetes on the android-based open-source closed-loop system in China: a qualitative study by Chaofan Wang, Daizhi Yang, Jinhua Yan, Ping Ling, Mengyun Lei, Ying Ni, Xiaodi Guo, Qingying Huang

“…Recruitment of interviewees would be halted when no new themes emerged. The scores of the questionnaire on AAPS satisfaction were calculated, and the Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the results of different sections of the questionnaire.Setting Guangdong Province in China.Participants This study recruited patients with T1D from the Guangdong T1D translational medicine study and the ‘Tang Tang Quan’ T1D online community in China, who participated in a clinical trial on the efficacy and safety of AAPS.Results The study interviewed 20 adults with T1D aged 32±9.94 years. …”
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The use of urinary fluoride excretion to facilitate monitoring fluoride intake: A systematic scoping review. by Oladipo S Idowu, Liane B Azevedo, Ruth A Valentine, Josie Swan, Priyanka V Vasantavada, Anne Maguire, Fatemeh V Zohoori

“…<h4>Background</h4>As a recognised effective and economical agent for dental caries prevention, fluoride has been used in many different fluoridation schemes implemented across the world. Considering the narrow 'dose-gap' between the benefit of caries reduction and the risk of dental fluorosis, it is recommended that fluoride intake is monitored by measuring urinary fluoride excretion. …”
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Can the adherence to quality of care indicators for early rheumatoid arthritis in clinical practice reduce risk of hospitalisation? Retrospective cohort study based on the Record L... by Carlo Alberto Scirè, Antonella Zambon, Greta Carrara, Anna Zanetti, Lisa Argnani

“…Objective To describe the adherence to quality of care indicators in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to evaluate its impact on the risk of hospitalisation in a real-world setting.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Patients with early-onset RA identified from healthcare regional administrative databases by means of a validated algorithm between 2006 and 2012 in the Lombardy region (Italy).Participants The study cohort included 14 203 early-onset RA (71% female, mean age 60 years).Outcome measures For each patient, a summary adherence score was calculated starting from the compliance to six quality indicators: (1–2) methotrexate or sulfasalazine or leflunomide with/without glucocorticoids, (3–4) other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) with/without glucocorticoids, (5) early interruption of glucocorticoids, (6) early clinical assessment.The relationship between low, intermediate and high categories of the summary score and the 12-month risk of hospitalisation for all causes and for RA was assessed.Results During a follow-up of 1 year, 2609 hospitalisations occurred, of which 704 were for RA (main or secondary diagnosis) and 252 primarily for RA. …”
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