Knowledge, attitudes, and use of the Mediterranean diet in practice among dietitians in the United Arab Emirates: a cross-sectional study by Salma Abu-Qiyas, Hadia Radwan, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Mohamad Alameddine, Mariam Muayyad, Farah Naja

“…The mean knowledge score was 6.48 ± 1.85 out of 10, with gaps related to MedDiet’s benefits and nutrient composition. Despite positive attitudes, many dietitians did not agree that it is easy to encourage patients to decrease red meat (68%) and increase fruits/vegetables intake (70%). …”
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Investigation on the effectiveness of progranulin as a novel predictive biomarker for allergic disorders by Nisreen Waleed Mustafa, Zaid Nabeel Elia, Abeer Mansour Abdel Rasool, Sanaria Fawzi Jarjes, Salam Farid Nawara, Shakhawan Hamid

“…Progranulin (PGRN) has been implicated in the emergence of several inflammatory conditions. …”
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Essence of the monitoring system for managing project life cycle at an instrument-making holding by P. A. Zhurina, O. V. Tyagunova

“…The purpose of monitoring is to improve the project management system, identify discrepancies between actual and planned indicators, monitor the project indicators, change the organisation strategy development, proposals to eliminate potential threats. …”
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Urethral Solitary Fibrous Tumor: A Rare Pathologic Diagnosis of a Periurethral Mass by Gaby N. Moawad, Elias D. Abi Khalil, Cheryl Silverbrook, Stephanie Barak, Alice Semerjian, Michael Phillips

“…To our knowledge no cases of urethral solitary fibrous tumor in the literature have been reported so far. We present a case of a solitary fibrous tumor arising from the urethra in a twenty-three-year-old female presenting with vaginal mass.…”
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The effect of ranger patrols on the sighting of large mammals by local herders in Northern Iran by Farid Salmanpour, Zahra Shakoori, Mahan Salmanpour, Mehdi Tizrouyan, Mehdi Kia, Rahman Eshaghi, Saeid Ghomi, Abolfazl Rahbarizadeh, Rahman Naeimaei, Mehdi Ghaderi

“…Inactive ranger stations appear to have lost effectiveness, likely because of the lack of regular patrols, which warrants further investigation. …”
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Retrieving Aerosol Optical Depth over Land from Landsat-8 Satellite Images with the Aid of Cloud Shadows by Jingmiao Zhu, Congcong Qiao, Minzheng Duan

“…The findings reveal that, in cloudy regions, over 90% of the discrepancies between the AODs retrieved using the cloud-shadow method and ground-based measurements fall within 0.05 ± 0.20 AOD. …”
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Forest Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hübner (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) by James R. Meeker

“…The forest tent caterpillar has been recognized as an important defoliator of a wide variety of deciduous hardwood trees throughout its range for many years (Batzer and Morris 1978). …”
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Pouvoir éducatif et frontières du moi by Éric Dubreucq

“…There are external borders between nations, but also the inner ones which circumscribe and constitute the education of the ego. …”
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Women Narration: Land, Gender and Oral Memory. The Forgotten History of the Maquis at Aran Valley by Mireia Boya-Busquet, Rosa Cerarols-Ramirez

“…The invasion of the Aran Valley is one of the historical episodes of the Spanish post-war that is has little been studied. It was the most serious attempt, in October of 1944, of establishing a provisional Republican government in the Aran Valley with the support of the Spanish guerrilla (the maquis), who also have been collaborating in the exile with the French resistance in Southern France. …”
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Utilizing machine-learning techniques on MRI radiomics to identify primary tumors in brain metastases by W. L. Yang, W. L. Yang, X. R. Su, S. Li, K. Y. Zhao, Q. Yue

“…Intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to examine segmentation stability between two radiologists. Radiomics features were selected using analysis of variance (ANOVA), recursive feature elimination (RFE), and Kruskal–Wallis test. …”
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Remarks on the Phaseless Inverse Uniqueness of a Three-Dimensional Schrödinger Scattering Problem by Lung-Hui Chen

“…We study the asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitudes/intensity from the linearization theory of the scattered wave fields. …”
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Estimating population abundance and monitoring population trends of endangered, elusive subterranean mammals (Rodentia: Spalacinae: Nannospalax) using HRAMN methodology by Orsolya Moldován, Szabocs Balogh, Gábor Bakó, Zsolt Molnár, Gyula Szabó, András Molnár, Attila Németh

“…Recommendations have been made to address those limiting factors that have been identified. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of systemic immune-inflammation index for acute appendicitis in the geriatric population by Ömerul Faruk Aydın, Ali Cankut Tatlıparmak

“…Conclusions The SII demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy in differentiating between acute appendicitis and non-appendicitis cases in geriatric patients. …”
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Implementation Model Prototyping In Application Design of Halal Food Product Detection For Overseas Muslim Students by Fandisya Rahman, Bambang Minto Basuki

“…In the age of globalization, the production and trading of food have become more widespread, and consumers, particularly those who follow the Islamic faith, require access to information about the halal status of the products they consume. …”
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Effect of the Lifting Velocity and Container Shape on Angle of Repose of Iron Ore Particles by Tongqing Li, Yuxing Peng, Zhencai Zhu, Zhangfa Yu, Zixin Yin

“…And then a predictive equation is established and a very close agreement between the predicted and measured angle of repose is attained. …”
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LR12 Promotes Liver Repair by Improving the Resolution of Inflammation and Liver Regeneration in Mice with Thioacetamide- (TAA-) Induced Acute Liver Failure by Yongjuan Wang, Xiaoli Xie, Hongqun Liu, Huimin Liu, Huiqing Jiang

“…Cytokine protein microarray analysis suggested that LR12 promoted the secretion of C-C chemokine ligand 20 (CCL20) from macrophages. Besides, neutralization of CCL20 blocked the effects of LR12, thus inhibited the proliferation of LO2 cells in vitro, aggregated the liver inflammation, and restrained hepatocyte regeneration in ALF mice in vivo. …”
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Post-pandemic insights on COVID-19 and premature ovarian insufficiency by Han Yaguang, Dai Yang, Wang Kexin, Zhang Xin, Shao Zishen, Zhu Xiaolin

“…This overview examines the possible interactions between COVID-19 and POI, while also suggesting preventive measures. …”
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Primary Tuberculous Pyomyositis of Quadriceps Femoris in an Immunocompetent Individual by M. A. Modi, A. D. Mate, A. M. Nasta, A. K. Gvalani

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Efficient cross-component prediction for H.266/VVC based on lightweight fully connected networks by Junyan HUO, Danni WANG, Yanzhuo MA, Shuai WAN, Fuzheng YANG

“…Cross-component linear model (CCLM) prediction in H.266/versatile video coding (VVC) can improve the compression efficiency.There exists high correlation between luma and chroma components while the correlation is difficult to be modeled explicitly.An algorithm for neural network based cross-component prediction (NNCCP) was proposed where reference pixels with high correlation were selected according to the luma difference between the reference pixels and the pixel to be predicted.Based on the high-correlated reference pixels and the luma difference, the predicted chroma was obtained based on lightweight fully connected networks.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve 0.27%, 1.54%, and 1.84% bitrate savings for luma and chroma components, compared with the VVC test model 10.0 (VTM10.0).Besides, a unified network can be employed to blocks with different sizes and different quantization parameters.…”
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Lancemaside A from Codonopsis lanceolata Modulates the Inflammatory Responses Mediated by Monocytes and Macrophages by Eunji Kim, Woo Seok Yang, Ji Hye Kim, Jae Gwang Park, Han Gyung Kim, Jaeyoung Ko, Yong Deog Hong, Ho Sik Rho, Song Seok Shin, Gi-Ho Sung, Jae Youl Cho

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