Students Perceive Similar Gains in Collaboration, Communication and Professional Skills in Two Distinct Experiential Learning Courses by Michelle Arnot, Jinhee Kim, Michelle French, Sonia Y. Lin, Charlotte Pashley, Rebecca R. Laposa

“…Thematic analysis of responses to open‐ended questions highlighted the transformative nature of EL experiences in both courses. …”
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Treatment of Drug-Resistant Mycosis Fungoides and Sezary Syndrome by LG Gorenkova, EA Penskaya, SK Kravchenko, AM Kovrigina, TN Moiseeva, AI Vorob’ev

“…We aimed to assess the effectiveness of treating resistant forms of MF/SS with prolonged gemcitabine regimen after initial treatment failure. Materials & Methods. The study included 14 patients with drug-resistant forms of MF/SS (10 patients with MF, 3 patients with SS, and 1 patient with the transformation of MF into large cell lymphoma). …”
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Long-Term Spatiotemporal Information Extraction of Cultivated Land in the Nomadic Area: A Case Study of the Selenge River Basin by Yifei Sun, Juanle Wang, Kai Li, Sonomdagva Chonokhuu

“…Consistency checks and comparisons of different integration methods further validate the feasibility and reliability of the research methods and results. …”
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Comprehensive Optimization of the Cold End of 1 000 MW Ultra-Supercritical Unit Based on Pump Frequency Conversion by ZHANG Dongqing, JIN Tiezheng, ZHANG Lei

“…ObjectivesIn the context of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the energy saving and efficiency improvement of thermal power units is the key to the low-carbon transformation of the power industry. Moreover, the implementation of cold end optimization to improve the operating economy of the unit is one of the effective methods, Therefore, it is necessary to optimize the cold end system with wide load.MethodsThis paper took the cold end system of the 1000 MW unit of Ninghai power plant as the research object, the calculation model of the wet natural ventilation cooling tower was established, and the corresponding software module was developed, which can realize the coupling calculation of the cooling tower-circulating pump group-condenser-steam turbine unit according to the ambient temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure data. …”
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From Pixels to Patterns: Trait Plasticity and Species Overlap of Calanus spp. in Arctic Fjords by Emilia Trudnowska, Ali Bukhari, Marta Gluchowska, Mads Schultz, Irina Smolina, Joanna Stoń‐Egiert, Jędrzej Świeżewski, Kaja Balazy

“…Our goal was to study life‐history traits of two Calanus species (C. glacialis and C. finmarchicus) across slightly different environments in order to better understand their functioning within Arctic ecosystems undergoing substantial transformations. …”
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New tourism concept of Ekaterinburg: How to change the tourism product from “historical” to “modern” by Tatiana S. Belik, Konstantin V. Kuzmin

“…Objective: adjusting the city's tourism development strategy by analyzing the current situation, involving active citizens and professionals in updating and developing an updated strategy for the development of urban tourism. Methods: analysis of legislative and regulatory documents and statistics (SberAnalytics, occupancy of collective accommodation facilities, airport passenger traffic, visits to city attractions and cultural events, etc.); in-depth interviews and questionnaires, facilitation sessions. …”
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‘Connecting the dots’ for generating a momentum for Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional descriptive study by Nahitun Naher, Syed Masud Ahmed, Lal B Rawal, Tarek Hossain

“…Objective This study was conducted to explore how and whether, the strategic grants made by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) in different sectors of health systems in the inception phase were able to ‘connect the dots’ for ‘generating a momentum for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)’ in the country.Design Cross-sectional descriptive study, using document review and qualitative methods.Setting Bangladesh, 17 UHC-related projects funded by the RF Transforming Health Systems (THS) initiative during 2010–2013.Data Available reports of the completed and on-going UHC projects, policy documents of the government relevant to UHC, key-informant interviews and feedback from grant recipients and relevant stakeholders in the policy and practice.Outcome measures Key policy initiatives undertaken for implementing UHC activities by the government post grants disbursement.Results The RF THS grants simultaneously targeted and connected the academia, the public and non-profit development sectors and news media for awareness-building and advocacy on UHC, develop relevant policies and capacity for implementation including evidence generation. …”
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Implementation of the School as a Learning Organisation Approach in Vocational Education: The Case of Latvia by Gunta Siliņa-Jasjukeviča, Ilze Briška, Inese Lūsēna-Ezera, Agnese Lastovska, Inga Linde

“…Although vocational education has different predominant goals and different target groups, likewise general education, it is exposed to dynamic change and new challenges.Purpose. …”
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Physical activity levels and psychological parameters among university students following the COVID-19 pandemic by Ahmet Yapar, Can Özgider, İlhan Adiloğulları, Özhan Bavlı, Gamze Elif Adiloğulları

“…Methods The study was a cross-sectional design. The Sample comprised 2,868 undergraduate students, 1,405 female and 1,463 male, enrolled in 10 different faculties at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. …”
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A novel spatiotemporal fractal dimension (STFD) for assessing ecological environment of the large-scale Yangtze River Basin China from 2012 to 2021 remote sensing data by Chang Li, Jiao Guo, Yongjun Zhang

“…This study not only enriches the theory and methods of controlling spatiotemporal uncertainty of EEA, but also reveals the ecological environmental law in the Yangtze River basin at different river grades and offers a scientific basis for regional sustainable development and government decision-making.…”
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Teachers’ autonomous motivation and work engagement: The role of the principal’s democratic leadership style and psychological climate by L. A. Mokretsova, O. A. Sychev, A. M. Bespalov, M. S. Vlasov, M. M. Prudnikova

“…An additional task was to analyse the mediating role of the psychological climate of the school staff.Methodology and research methods. The correlational research was realised with the sample comprising 238 secondary school teachers in Biysk. …”
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Accompanying study of the development process towards a smart city strategy-with a particular focus on social change by Christian SCHACHTNER, Nadine BAUMANN

“…Furthermore, management tools for digital projects are addressed and methods for the participation of service recipients of public authorities are presented. …”
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Climate change and the size of glaciers in the Kuznetsky Alatau Mountains between 1975 and 2015 by M. M. Adamenko, Ya. M. Gutak, V. A. Antonova

“…The analysis of current changes in the glacio-nival systems demonstrated that different morphological types of glaciers reacted to the current climate change in different ways. …”
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Effects of high glucose on expression of PINCH-1 inrenal interstitial fibroblasts from rats by XIE Rong, ZHANG He-ping, LIU Xiao-hui, LIU Jia-li, LI Qin-yun

“…Objective To observe the effects of high glucose on expression of particulary interesting new cysteine-histicline rich protein-1(PINCH-1) and integrin-linked kinase(ILK) in renal interstitial fibroblasts(NRK49 F) from rats, and to investigate the role and possible mechanism of PINCH-1 in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease.Methods(1)NRK49 F cells from rats were cultured in vitro in high glucose medium(25 mmol/L) and low glucose medium 5.5 mmol/L), respectively. …”
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Inlay-Retained Fixed Dental Prosthesis: A Clinical Option Using Monolithic Zirconia by Davide Augusti, Gabriele Augusti, Andrea Borgonovo, Massimo Amato, Dino Re

“…Adhesive procedures are focused on the Y-TZP and tooth substrate conditioning methods. Nice esthetic and functional integration of indirect restoration at two-year follow-up confirmed the success of this conservative approach.…”
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Use of Liquid Nitrogen in Food Products: A Review by Fabiola Pesce, Lucia Parafati, Biagio Fallico, Rosa Palmeri

“…Traditional freezing methods often negatively impact food quality, affecting texture, color, flavor, and so forth. …”
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Forming research competencies of higher school students with multi-level tasks by I. M. Agibova, M. A. Bedzhanyan, O. A. Nechaeva, O. V. Fedina

“…Therefore, the purpose of our work was to find an answer to the question of how to increase the level of formation of research competencies of higher school students.Materials and methods. The article presents creative tasks developed by the authors and methods of their application in a laboratory workshop for undergraduate students in the field of Physics. …”
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Enhancing Real-Time Aerial Image Object Detection with High-Frequency Feature Learning and Context-Aware Fusion by Xin Ge, Liping Qi, Qingsen Yan, Jinqiu Sun, Yu Zhu, Yanning Zhang

“…Aerial image object detection faces significant challenges due to notable scale variations, numerous small objects, complex backgrounds, illumination variability, motion blur, and densely overlapping objects, placing stringent demands on both accuracy and real-time performance. Although Transformer-based real-time detection methods have achieved remarkable performance by effectively modeling global context, they typically emphasize non-local feature interactions while insufficiently utilizing high-frequency local details, which are crucial for detecting small objects in aerial images. …”
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Statehood and its International Legal Significance by I. A. Romaikin

“…The modern system of international relations features an incredible complexity of its processes and events. Thus, in different countries there is a transformation of the existing state-legal forms as well as crises of government institutions. …”
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Hospitality market in the Russian Federation: Present and trends by Tatyana N. Safronova, Tatyana L. Kamoza, Olga M. Evtukhova, Milena A. Khaneeva, Anastasia I. Vanchikova

“…The work involved methods of statistical assessment, observation, data accumulation, and comparison techniques to detect similar and different characteristics in several systems. …”
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