Formation of research skills of future engineers in the process of studying material science by Natalia V. Kosareva, Elena V. Kuznetsova

“…However, an engineer needs not only to possess common research methods but also to be able to competently conduct experiments using modern complex equipment and materials. …”
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Tighter bounds on the Gaussian Q-function based on wild horse optimization algorithm by Reza Etesami, Mohsen Madadi

“…The parameters of these functions are estimated using the Wild Horse Optimization (WHO), a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, with the aim of minimizing the distance between the proposed functions and the actual GQF. …”
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Analysis of Extrahepatic Multiple Primary Malignancies in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma according to Viral Infection Status by Keita Kai, Atsushi Miyoshi, Kenji Kitahara, Masanori Masuda, Yukari Takase, Kohji Miyazaki, Hirokazu Noshiro, Osamu Tokunaga

“…Viral infection was evaluated by serum HBV surface antigen (HBs Ag) and HCV antibody (HCV Ab). …”
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The impact of mobilization training time during the first postoperative week on the length of hospital stay in postoperative patients admitted to an intensive care unit by Yusuke Ozaki, Yuji Kono, Ayato Shinohara, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Takuma Ishihara, Osamu Nishida, Yohei Otaka

“…Patients: Consecutive patients who underwent elective surgery and stayed in the intensive care unit of a university hospital for more than 48 h between July 2017 and August 2020 were enrolled. …”
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The Moderating Effect of Social Support on Parental Stress and Depression in Mothers of Children with Disabilities by Gyeong-A Park, Oan Na Lee

“…It is necessary to find a way to relieve their stress and depression. Therefore, we examined the effect of parental stress on depression and the buffering role of social support between them in a sample of 164 mothers of children with disabilities. …”
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Réécrire l'Histoire pour les enfants du point de vue des Amérindiens : devoir de mémoire, devoir d'imagination (Brésil, États-Unis) by Pauline Franchini

“…Edwidge Danticat and Louise Erdrich in the United States of America, Daniel Munduruku and Joel Rufino dos Santos in Brazil, are a part of these writers who put their talent to the service of the duty of remembrance, which is also a duty of imagination.…”
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Geriatric Syndromes and Abandonment by Abel Pérez Pavón, Alejandra Villegas Villegas, Yamileth del Socorro López Franco, Donovan Casas Patiño, Alejandra Rodríguez Torres

“…The presence of polypharmacy was found in high proportions. <br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the geriatric syndromes present in the study such as: cognitive impairment, polypharmacy and urinary incontinence, plus the presence of being single, widowed or divorced show a significant relationship to suffering abandonment.…”
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Treatment of Snoring with a Nasopharyngeal Airway Tube by Macario Camacho, Edward T. Chang, Camilo Fernandez-Salvador, Robson Capasso

“…An obese 35-year-old man, who is a chronic, heroic snorer, used NPATs while (1) the patient’s bedpartner scored the snoring and (2) the patient recorded himself with the smartphone snoring app “Quit Snoring.” …”
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Entre sacrificios y esperanzas: análisis de conflictos socioambientales en Bogotá desde una perspectiva de ecología política by Mariluz Nova Laverde, Milton Piñeros Fuentes, Jaime Edison Rojas Mora

“…The socio-environmental justice index reveals significant disparities in the distribution of socio-economic and ecological conditions between rural and urban areas, while the documentation of experiences showcases innovative strategies of collective action by diverse communities with hybrid identities, who propose alternative ways of living and being rooted in the recovery of ancestral knowledge and peasant traditions. …”
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A Case of Successful Treatment with Unilateral Oophorectomy in a Patient with Resistant Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by S. Pathmanathan, I. Ranathunga, N. P. Somasundaram

“…Surgery is considered as a second-line option in resistant PCOS following failure of initial therapeutic options. We report a case of resistant polycystic ovary syndrome with secondary subfertility and moderate-to-severe hirsutism who was successfully treated with unilateral oophorectomy with favorable results.…”
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When to stop social learning from a predecessor in an information-foraging task by Hidezo Suganuma, Aoi Naito, Kentaro Katahira, Tatsuya Kameda

“…Using a behavioural experiment, we investigated how social information available from a preceding demonstrator affects the timing of becoming independent and individual performance thereafter. …”
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Investigating the trustworthiness of research evidence used to inform public health policy: a qualitative interview study on the use of predatory journal citations in policy docume... by Marc A. Albert, Manoj M. Lalu, Agnes Grudniewicz

“…To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with individuals who have prepared public health policy documents. …”
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Beneficial Effects of Combining Computed Tomography Enteroclysis/Enterography with Capsule Endoscopy for Screening Tumor Lesions in the Small Intestine by Hiroaki Shibata, Shinichi Hashimoto, Kensaku Shimizu, Ryo Kawasato, Tomohiro Shirasawa, Takayuki Yokota, Hideko Onoda, Takeshi Okamoto, Jun Nishikawa, Naofumi Matsunaga, Isao Sakaida

“…Materials and Methods. We included 98 patients who underwent CE during the observation period and were subjected to CTE at our hospital from April 2008 to May 2014. …”
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Intramammary Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma, a Rare EWSR1 Rearranged Mesenchymal Neoplasm in a Previously Unreported Anatomic Location with Review of the Cleveland Clinic Experie... by F. K. Bruehl, K. L. Cooper, S. E. Kilpatrick, M. D. Weindel, M. Ganea, C. Astbury, E. P. Downs-Kelly, C. D. Sturgis

“…Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma (AFH) is a rare soft tissue tumor that is most commonly reported to arise in the subcutaneous tissues of the upper extremities in adolescents and young adults. At present, the WHO classifies this neoplasm as a tumor of uncertain differentiation. …”
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Significance of Preoperative Systemic Immune Score for Stage I Gastric Cancer Patients by Jun Lu, Long-long Cao, Ping Li, Jian-wei Xie, Jia-bin Wang, Jian-xian Lin, Qi-yue Chen, Mi Lin, Ru-hong Tu, Chang-ming Huang, Chao-hui Zheng

“…Determining preferences regarding the benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) for stage I GC is critical. Methods. We retrospectively reviewed 1069 patients with pathologically confirmed stage I GC who underwent R0 gastrectomy between 2006 and 2014. …”
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Crise hídrica e reestruturação produtiva agrícola no Rio Grande do Norte. by Bruno Lopes da Silva, Adriano Lima Troleis

“…It is concluded from the strategies used that the agricultural productive structure of the state of Rio Grande do Norte is organized in a dichotomous way, with two very distinct groups of producers: on the one hand the small producers of family agriculture, with smaller technological- financial, less state assistance, and greater dependence on rainfall; and on the other hand, producers linked to modern agriculture, from the field of irrigated fruit production, who have high capitalization and technological structuring, making them less dependent on the state and natural conditions of precipitation, and with greater production capacity.…”
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Exploring the incidence and influencing factors of postoperative nausea and vomiting after laparoscopic bariatric surgery: a protocol for a retrospective observational study by Juan Tan, Qiang Fu, Lin Tan, Haibei Liu

“…This study aims to determine the incidence and the influencing factors of PONV following various types of bariatric surgeries, thereby facilitating the targeted prevention strategies.Methods and analysis This retrospective, single-centre observational study will be conducted at the Third People’s Hospital of Chengdu, with an expected enrolment of 2500 patients who have undergone laparoscopic bariatric surgery from December 2019 to April 2024. …”
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Healthy Chilean Adolescents with HOMA-IR ≥ 2.6 Have Increased Cardiometabolic Risk: Association with Genetic, Biological, and Environmental Factors by R. Burrows, P. Correa-Burrows, M. Reyes, E. Blanco, C. Albala, S. Gahagan

“…IR was defined as HOMA-IR values above the cutoff. We tested the influence of genetic, biological, and environmental factors on IR using logistic regression analyses. …”
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CONFLICT OF REALITY AND FANTASTIC FICTION IN THE STORY OF ALEXEY N. TOLSTOY “COUNT CALIOSTRO” by Elena M. Kiryukhina

“…The article examines the story “Count Cagliostro” by Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, completed during the emigration period: based on a real historical fact (the visit to Russia in 1779-1780 of the Italian adventurer Giuseppe Balsamo, who called himself Count Cagliostro), it combines reality with fantastic fiction, and turning to works using a fantastic element is very relevant today. …”
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Organizational Work-life Balance Policies Toward Women and Their Reflection in Employee Commitment and Labor Market Image: A Social Exchange Theory Approach by Md. Amanullah, Dip Das, Motaleb Bhuiyan

“…This study is designed to examine whether the existing WLB policies of private commercial banks in Bangladesh are designated enough to influence the female bankers’ level of commitment and their attitude toward job market. …”
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