Stigma and social support and their impact on quality of life and self-esteem among women with endometriosis in Latin-America and the Caribbean. by Yatzmeli Matías-González, Astrid Sánchez-Galarza, Ernesto Rosario-Hernández, Idhaliz Flores-Caldera, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…In addition, endo-stigma mediated the relationship between incapacitating pain and self-esteem (IE = .073, p = .018). …”
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Propuesta de programa educativo sobre enfermedades del cuello uterino by Grisel Mariela Mass Basulto, Emilia González Pérez, Eulogio Calderín Santos, Alicia Moreira Brunet, María de las Nieves Fajardo Benítez, Pedro Ricardo Borges Cabrera

“…<strong><br />Métodos</strong>: Estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo, en el período comprendido del 1 de enero de 2008 al 1 de enero de 2009. Se analizaron variables como edad, escolaridad, primeras relaciones sexuales, número de partos, número de compañeros sexuales, uso de anticonceptivo, antecedentes de infecciones de transmisión sexual, hábitos tóxicos y nivel de conocimiento. …”
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Official Development Assistance in Japan's Strategy in Central Asia by O. A. Dobrinskaya

“…The article analyzes the official development aid (ODA) as a tool for ensuring Japan’s interests in Central Asia. The author puts forward an idea that ODA reflects the complex nature of Japan’s foreign policy which is a combination of a strategies based on national interests, efforts at implementation of liberal values and seeking common Asian identity. …”
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International standards of the right to an adequate standard of living and their impact on Ukrainian legislation by T. I. Gudz, V. V. Maltsev

“…It has been emphasized that since Ukraine gained independence and up to now the issue of ensuring a sufficient standard of living has remained one of the most problematic for our state. …”
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A simple and efficient method to extract polar metabolites from guar leaves (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.) for GC-MS metabolome analysis by S. B. Teplyakova, A. L. Shavarda, T. V. Shelenga, E. A. Dzyubenko, E. K. Potokina

“…The method we suggested combines the advantages of the two above-mentioned approaches of sample preparation, namely eliminates the loss of metabolites due to centrifugation and ensures the complete destruction of all cell walls, ensuring the maximum extraction level of polar metabolites. …”
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Elucidating the effects of manganese on the growth and cadmium accumulation of OsNRAMP5 mutant rice by Xian’an Yu, Qiuqin Zhou, Xin-Yuan Huang, Mingxue Chen, Jiawen Zhou, Tong Zhou, Pengjie Hu, Xia Pan, Miaomiao Cheng, Yongming Luo, Peter Christie, Longhua Wu

“…Low-cadmium (Cd)-accumulating rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivated by OsNRAMP5 mutation is a promising approach for ensuring food safety and human health. However, the impacts of reduced manganese (Mn) uptake caused by OsNRAMP5 mutation on rice growth and Cd accumulation under varying Mn levels remains unknown. …”
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Pupil Leadership and Discipline Maintenance Among Pupils’ in Primary Schools of Muko Sub-County Rubanda District. by Twegarukemu, Patrick

“…Provision of clear and consistent rules, ensuring better classroom management, teachers and staff should act as positive role models for the pupils, ensuring parental involvement in the education process, incorporating social and emotional learning programs into the school curriculum to help pupils develop emotional intelligence and implementing anti-bullying programs to create a safe and inclusive environment for all pupils are the measures of discipline maintenance among pupils’ in the selected primary schools that were mentioned. …”
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Assembly of Genetically Engineered Ionizable Protein Nanocage-based Nanozymes for Intracellular Superoxide Scavenging by Qiqi Liu, Zhanxia Gao, Xiangyun Zhang, Qiannan Duan, Yue Zhang, Adam C. Midgley, Li Jiao, Ruming Liu, Mingsheng Zhu, Deling Kong, Jie Zhuang, Xinglu Huang

“…Abstract Nanozymes play a pivotal role in mitigating excessive oxidative stress, however, determining their specific enzyme-mimicking activities for intracellular free radical scavenging is challenging due to endo-lysosomal entrapment. In this study, we employ a genetic engineering strategy to generate ionizable ferritin nanocages (iFTn), enabling their escape from endo-lysosomes and entry into the cytoplasm. …”
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Nocardia Subretinal Abscess: A Rare and Challenging Case Report by Ana Maria Cunha, Marta Silva, Ana Catarina Pedrosa, Fernando Falcão-Reis, Luís Figueira

“…Prompt diagnosis and treatment ensured an expeditious resolution of the abscess and significant improvement of visual acuity. …”
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An Improved Test Selection Optimization Model Based on Fault Ambiguity Group Isolation and Chaotic Discrete PSO by Xiaofeng Lv, Deyun Zhou, Yongchuan Tang, Ling Ma

“…Sensor data-based test selection optimization is the basis for designing a test work, which ensures that the system is tested under the constraint of the conventional indexes such as fault detection rate (FDR) and fault isolation rate (FIR). …”
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Aligning policy for success in developing countries: evidence from the poultry sector of Ghana by Omid Zamani, Craig Chibanda, Mavis Boimah, Collins Asante-Addo

“…Specifically, our study emphasizes the importance of striking a balance between fostering domestic production and ensuring food security.…”
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Data-Driven Robust Optimization of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Uncertain Customers by Jingling Zhang, Yusu Sun, Qinbing Feng, Yanwei Zhao, Zheng Wang

“…Compared with the certain method, the distributed robust model can effectively reduce the total cost and the robust conservatism while ensuring customer satisfaction. The improved algorithm also has good performance.…”
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Waste Tire Particles and Gamma Radiation as Modifiers of the Mechanical Properties of Concrete by Eduardo Sadot Herrera-Sosa, Gonzalo Martínez-Barrera, Carlos Barrera-Díaz, Epifanio Cruz-Zaragoza

“…Nevertheless such diminutions (from 2 to 16%) are compensated with the use of high concentration of waste tire particles (30%), which ensures that the concrete will not significantly increase the cost.…”
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Covert Channel Construction Method Based on HTTP Composite Protocols by Longxing Jin, Zijun Liu, Fuquan Huang, Zizhao Lin, Ming Li

“…At the same time, the channel is based on the reliable transmission inside TCP protocol so that it is not affected by network jitter, thus ensuring the reliability of the channel. Experimental results show that this method can resist the detection method based on application signature, protocol fingerprint detection method, and combination model detection method, and has strong concealment. …”
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Agitation and propaganda work and fight against defeatist sentiments in Khanty-Mansiysk National District at initial stage of the Great Patriotic War by E. V. Leshukova

“…The intensity and coherence of the work of the district’s party bodies in organizing rallies, meetings, lectures, talks, speeches and other forms of agitation and mass events contributed to strengthening the spiritual uplift of Ugra residents, neutralizing negative political sentiments, thereby ensuring the stability of the internal political situation in one of the rear areas of the country.…”
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Deep Incremental Angle Refinement Model for Limited-Angle CT Reconstruction - A Case Study on Concrete Specimens by Xingyu Liu, Guangpu Yang, Ammar Alsaffar, Faizan Ahmad, Steffen Kieß, Sven Simon

“…Our approach leverages the characteristics of CT projection by using reconstructed data of different limited angles as intermediate steps in the training process, replacing the traditional diffusion model of adding random Gaussian noise. This approach ensures data consistency in training process, mitigating the instability caused by sampling randomness of diffusion models. …”
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Terminal Sliding-Mode Control of Uncertain Robotic Manipulator System with Predefined Convergence Time by Yang Wang, Mingshu Chen, Yu Song

“…Subsequently, with the help of proposed modified PTC algorithm and the nonsingular design method of terminal sliding mode, a novel nonsingular terminal sliding-mode control (NTSMC) scheme is proposed for ensuring the predefined-time convergence of tracking errors. …”
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Adaptive Chebyshev Neural Network Control for Ventilator Model under the Complex Mine Environment by Ranhui Liu, Xinyan Hu, Chengyuan Zhang, Chuanxi Liu

“…Ventilator is important equipment for mines as it safeguards the lives under the shaft and ensures other equipment’s proper functioning by providing fresh air. …”
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Concept development assessment game – suitable collecting framework in scientific military research by George-Ion TOROI

“…The game serves as a qualitative tool used for testing and refining concepts at an early stage of development, providing a controlled and flexible environment for collecting necessary data. Moreover, it ensures a mechanism for employing a wide range of data collection methods, such as observation, focus groups, or questionnaires, thereby enabling the triangulation of collected data and, consequently, the foundation for valuable outcomes in the effort to transform military structures. …”
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La délicate existence locale de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques : avec, sans, ou à côté de l’atténuation by François Bertrand, Elsa Richard

“…At last, the paper intends to demonstrate to what extent adaptation must be consider more "with" climate change rather than “to” climate change only, and it underlines the necessity for local public policy to be able to address adaptation “with” as well as “alongside” mitigation, while ensuring to maintain its legitimacy as a response to climate problem -climate change adaptation cannot do completely “without” mitigation.…”
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