Effect of Electroacupuncture at Baihui and Shenting on Cognitive Function in Cerebral Ischemia-reperfusion Injured Rats by Yongmei YOU, Yijing JIANG, Zhicheng LIN, Zengtu ZHAN, Jun WANG, Wei WEI, Shanli YANG

“…Objective:To observe the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) at Baihui and Shenting on cognitive function in rats after cerebral ischmeia-reperfusion (IR) injury, and explore the possible mechanism.Methods:A total of 111 male adult SD rats weighting (300±20) g were selected and randomly divided into the sham operation group (<italic>n</italic>=36) and the operation group (<italic>n</italic>=75). The common carotid artery, internal carotid artery and external carotid artery of rats in the sham-operation group were separated after anesthesia without ligation or thread insertion. …”
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Ce se scria în secolul al XVIII-lea în țările române? by Maria Magdalena Székely

“…L’intérêt pour les textes pratiques, pour les manuels, pour les écrits philosophiques, géographiques ou médicaux est commun. Malgré l’interdiction qui frappait les apocryphes ou la littérature de prédictions et eschatologique, on copiait de tels ouvrages, même pour les moines. …”
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Rice Leaf Disease Image Enhancement Based on Improved CycleGAN by YAN Congkuan, ZHU Dequan, MENG Fankai, YANG Yuqing, TANG Qixing, ZHANG Aifang, LIAO Juan

“…These connections facilitate improved information flow between different layers of the network, addressing common issues such as gradient vanishing during the training of deep networks. …”
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Effects of Electroacupuncture at Zusanli and Quchi on Neurological Function Recovery in Rats with Cerebral Infarction by Jiangcong HONG, Yingzheng WANG, Guangwen WU, Yulong ZOU

“…Objective:To observe the effects of electroacupuncture at Zusanli and Quchi acupoints on focal ischemic brain injury in rats from the behavioral, histological and molecular levels, respectively, and to provide experimental evidence for the clinical application of electroacupuncture in the treatment of cerebral infarction.Methods:A total of 144 male Sprague Dawley(SD)rats weighing(250±30)g were selected and randomly divided into three groups: sham-operated group, electroacupuncture(EA)group and model group. The common carotid artery, internal carotid artery and external carotid artery of the rats in the sham-operated group were separated after anesthesia without ligation or thread insertion. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Scientific summary This summary contains text reproduced with permission from Pell et al. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…However, these beliefs can be predicated on prejudiced perceptions about the quality of life of individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the disability paradox.[11] The paradox describes the discrepancy between patients with disabilities who report a quality of life much higher than non-disabled individuals would predict their ratings. …”
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Révision de l’espèce Homo erectus (Dubois, 1893) by Valéry Zeitoun

“…But the both clades can be joined as a unique one called Homo sapiens according to Tobias (1985) who used Homo sapiens soloensis for the series of Ngandong and the more common name Homo sapiens rhodesiensis for Broken Hill. …”
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Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“…Yet it is possible that using categories like traditional Indian or African reinforces unchallenged assumptions, raising key questions regarding how language and words create new stereotypes. It is common to define traditional as non-conventional, unorthodox, and informal. …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Brand Performance with the Mediating Role of Employees’ Brand Citizenship Behavior by Naser Seifollahi

“…Social capital by increasing the creation of proper relationship between employees and creating and strengthening common values in the company affects the branding activities of the organization and strengthens the behaviors in accordance with the brand promise towards the customers.ConclusionThe findings of this research confirm that social capital has a significant and positive effect on brand performance, and the brand citizenship behavior of employees also plays a mediating role between social capital and brand performance. …”
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Evaluation of the Chemical Properties and Absorption Capacity of Different Manganese Sources using Everted Gut Sacs Technique and Their Effects on the Performance and Immune Respon... by Farogh Kargar, Hasan Kermanshahi, Ali Javadmanesh, Reza Majidzadeh Heravi

“…In the production of broiler chickens, manganese sources commonly used include inorganic Mn (Mn sulfate, Mn carbonate and Mn oxide) and organic Mn (Mn chelated with amino acid and protein). …”
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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…They find that, in general, three common themes or complaints amongst the successful young MEPs, irrespective of their party affiliation: “(1) a general reluctance within parties to nominate young candidates, (2) young candidates lacking the necessary contacts in parties to get elected, and (3) young candidates having too little experience to gain nomination for an electable seat.” …”
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Scrutinizing Generation Z's Interpretation of Social Justice: A Case Study in Khomeinishahr, Iran by Akbar Zareshahabadi, Alireza Asgari, Reza Javadian

“…In the economic sphere, they encountered discriminatory practices that resulted in disparities related to livelihood, employment, and socioeconomic status. Within families, common experiences of discrimination included parental favoritism among siblings or grandchildren, as well as restrictions placed on daughters. …”
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Cow Hoof Slippage Detecting Method Based on Enhanced DeepLabCut Model by NIAN Yue, ZHAO Kaixuan, JI Jiangtao

“…The classification performance was evaluated using four common objective metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-Score. …”
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Intersemiotic Translation: From Medieval Poetry to Modern Movie by Leila Nik Nasab

“…Borrowing is the most common method of adaptation, in which the content, idea, or form of a prestigious literary text is utilized. …”
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Geological, alteration, mineralogy and geochemical studies of the Copper deposit in the Kalatehno prospect area, northwest of Gonabad (Khorasan Razavi province) by Sedigheh Zirjanizadeh, Roohollah Miri Bydokhti

“…Propylitic and silicic alterations are common alterations of the Kalatehno prospect. The silicic alteration zone is divided into four main sub-zones: strong siliceous, strong siliceous + strong propylitic + weak argillic, and strong siliceous + epidote. …”
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The ratio of transverse to longitudinal turbulent velocity statistics for aircraft measurements by J. L. Nowak, M. Lothon, D. H. Lenschow, S. P. Malinowski

“…The composite scale-by-scale transverse-to-longitudinal ratios were derived by averaging over the segments at common non-dimensional scales.</p> <p>The variability in the results can be attributed to how the wind velocity components are measured on each aircraft. …”
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The Investigation of Grammatical Category and Syntactic Position of “t͡ʃəmɑn”, a Modality Marker in Kalhori Kurdish by Tahereh Jafari, Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi

“…The analysis revealed that “t͡ʃəmɑn” shares several common features with adverbs, such as its optional presence in sentences, its inability to receive negative prefixes, its incompatibility with the subjunctive mood, and its necessary placement after evaluative adverbs. …”
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The pattern of elementary teachers' insight in online education, using foundational data theory by reyhaneh bazrafshan delijan, Mohammad Ghafari Mejlej, seyyed javad mortazavi amiri

“…In the social dimension and in the social communication, the items of social image, knowledge of social networks, participation and strengthening the spirit of teamwork in the field of online education, and in the section of the common goals, the item of strengthening the spirit of teamwork in the field of online education, systemic perspective and social adaptability have been identified in the crisis of online education. …”
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Contribution à l’histoire de la boulangerie romaine : étude de « pains/galettes » découverts en Gaule by Andreas G. Heiss, Véronique Matterne, Nicolas Monteix, Margaux Tillier, Camille Noûs

“…These findings differ from the Metal Age specimens previously studied in Europe, which appear to contain a higher frequency of bran and glume remains. …”
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Effects of Conditioning Temperature on Pellet Quality, Nutrients Digestibility, and Metabolizable Energy of Broilers Diet by Seyedeh Vajiheh Shakhese Emampour, Abolghasem Golian, Heydar Zarghi, Ali Reza Hesabi Nameghi

“…Introduction: Pelleting is one of the most common methods of thermal processing for poultry feed. …”
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