Balanced Establishment and Unbalanced Development: An Analysis on the West of Zagros Macro - region Urban System with an Emphasis on Instability and Inefficacity of Small Towns by Esmaeel Aliakbari, Mostafa Taleshi, Mohammad Faraji Darabkhani

“…Appearing in the west of Zagros macro-region, this model makes not only a turmoil in logical relations among small, middle and large cities, but also a disturbance and lack of spatial balance in urban-regional system. 2- Materials and Methodologies Applying descriptive-analytical method, the present study aims at analyzing and reducing the urban-regional imbalances in the studied region based on small town development. …”
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Micrometric research results of vacuum dough divider components by E. G. Martynova, S. A. Velichko, A. V. Martynov

“…To increase their durability, there is a need to develop a new highly efficient technology with the restoration of worn part surfaces using the welding and surfacing methods.Materials and Methods. A new technique of determining the number of objects for research using the “STATISTICA” program is presented. …”
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Pharmacological pain relief and women´s birth experience: a systematic review by Malin Ugarph Edfeldt, Hanne Gustavsson, Karin Hildén, Yang Cao, Helena Backman

“…The studies used inconsistent methods to measure outcomes; therefore, no conclusion could be drawn regarding a possible correlation between pharmacological pain relief and overall birth experience. …”
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Predicting viral proteins that evade the innate immune system: a machine learning-based immunoinformatics tool by Jorge F. Beltrán, Lisandra Herrera Belén, Alejandro J. Yáñez, Luis Jimenez

“…Identifying these proteins through traditional methods is challenging and time-consuming due to the complexity of virus-host interactions. …”
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Research Hotspots and Trends in Acupuncture for Cancer:A bibliometric analysis from 2004 to 2024 by Ji Z, Niu H, He A, Li K, Jia J, Zhang M, Liu G

“…Nevertheless, there has been a paucity of systematic analysis and visualisation of relevant publications through bibliometric methods. This paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of research on acupuncture within the realm of oncological applications, aiming to explore its prospects and emerging trends.Methods: In this study, we analyzed 2117 documents obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) to examine the correlations among authors, journals, institutions, countries, and keywords. …”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Written Emotional Disclosure Training and Cognitive-Behavioral Group Training on Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders of Students in Elementary... by Mohammad Raesi, Faride Sadat Hoseini, Yosof Dehghani

“…Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of Written Emotional Disclosure Training and Cognitive-Behavioral Group Training on the internalizing and externalizing disorders of students in elementary school. Methods: This study presents a quasi-experimental design incorporating a pretest-post-test control group. …”
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Symmetric physically unclonable functions of the arbiter type by V. N. Yarmolik, A. A. Ivaniuk

“…The following goals are pursued in the work: research and analysis of classical APUF, construction of a new mathematical model of APUF and development of a new basic element of APUF.Methods. The methods of synthesis and analysis of digital devices are used, including those based on programmable logic integrated circuits, the basics of Boolean algebra and circuitry.Results. …”
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Conflict Management in Health Care Institutions by Vitaliia Koibichuk, Henryk Dzwigol, Svitlana Stenko

“…Thomas' test «Identification of behaviors in conflict situations», A. Asinger's methods of diagnosing aggression in the relationship. …”
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Effects of an Inertization System on Waste Plastic Pyrolysis in a Fixed Bed Reactor by Saša Papuga, Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti, Milica Djurdjevic, Aleksandra Kolundzija

“…All of the applied statistical treatments had a significance level of 0.05, i.e., there was only a 5% chance of incorrectly rejecting the hypothesis of equality of arithmetic means of pyrolysis yields when the two different methods of reactor inertization were applied. …”
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The genetic connectedness calculated from genomic information and its effect on the accuracy of genomic prediction. by Suo-Yu Zhang, Babatunde Shittu Olasege, Deng-Ying Liu, Qi-Shan Wang, Yu-Chun Pan, Pei-Pei Ma

“…Traditionally, pedigree-based methods have been used to evaluate the genetic connectedness in China. …”
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Sentient Intercultural Self-Efficacy: Constructing Intercultural Competence in Health Sciences students by DEBBIE ÁLVAREZ-CRUCES, JUAN MANSILLA-SEPÚLVEDA, ALEJANDRA NOCETTI-DE-LA-BARRA

“…Therefore, this research aimed to understand the process of constructing Intercultural Competence in theprofessional training of Health Sciences students.Methods: A qualitative study with a Grounded Theory design was conducted. …”
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Association of coronary heart disease and sleep disorders among men in a medium-sized urban city of Western Siberia by E. V. Akimova, M. Yu. Akimov

“…The aim of the study was to establish the association of the prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and sleep disorders among men between the ages of 25 and 64 belonging to an open population of a medium-sized urban city of Western Siberia.Materials and methods. A cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted on a representative sample of the population among males of 25–64 years old in Tyumen. …”
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Women in Ancient Egypt: determination of legal status and peculiarities of marriage and family relations by I. A. Lohvynenko, Ye. S. Lohvynenko

“…Historical and comparative as well as historical and genetic methods were used to study the peculiarities of marriage and family relations, normative and comparative and hermeneutical methods were used when working with primary sources. …”
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REGISTRY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE IN ALTAISKY KRAY by Е. A. Nomokonova, V. A. Elykomov, A. A. Efremushkina, Е. G. Nikulina, К. V. Nedoseko

“…To evaluate  the  results  of the  program  for management of ischemic  heart disease registry in Altaisky kray in 2011-2015 y.Material and methods. The system was developed and implemented in 2011 as a pilot project,  with software named  “Monitoring + [Registry of CIHD]”. …”
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Clinical Maternal and Neonatal Features in COVID-19 Infected Pregnancies in Tianjin, China by Liu Y, Li S, Liu R

“…Pregnant women suffer from a higher risk facing the pandemic COVID-19, while their related clinical information is limited.Methods: The clinical information of SARS-CoV-2 positive (n = 30) and negative pregnant women (n = 134) in Tianjin First Central Hospital (from November 30, 2022, to January 20, 2023) were collected. …”
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Effects of acupuncture on sensory perception: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Petra I Baeumler, Johannes Fleckenstein, Shin Takayama, Michael Simang, Takashi Seki, Dominik Irnich

“…<h4>Background</h4>The effect of acupuncture on sensory perception has never been systematically reviewed; although, studies on acupuncture mechanisms are frequently based on the idea that changes in sensory thresholds reflect its effect on the nervous system.<h4>Methods</h4>Pubmed, EMBASE and Scopus were screened for studies investigating the effect of acupuncture on thermal or mechanical detection or pain thresholds in humans published in English or German. …”
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Impact of deglazing on biaxial flexural strength of high translucent zirconia: effect of hydrothermal aging, pH-cycling, and load-cycling by Khotan Aflatoonian, Faeze Hamze, Mahshid Mohammadibassir

“…Abstract Background To compare the effect of deglazing and aging on biaxial flexural strength (FS) of high translucent (HT) zirconia. Methods 40 disc-shaped specimens (12 × 1.2 mm) of HT zirconia (3Y-PSZ, Upcera HT) were sintered after milling, glazed(G) and randomly assigned equally into 4 experimental groups: G) glazing; G-A) glazing, aging; DG-A) deglazing, aging; and NG-A) non-glazing, aging. …”
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Can linear regression modeling help clinicians in the interpretation of genotypic resistance data? An application to derive a lopinavir-score. by Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Mattia C F Prosperi, Jesper Kjær, David Dunn, Roger Paredes, Caroline A Sabin, Jens D Lundgren, Andrew N Phillips, Deenan Pillay, EuroSIDA Study, United Kingdom CHIC/United Kingdom HDRD Study

“…<h4>Background</h4>The question of whether a score for a specific antiretroviral (e.g. lopinavir/r in this analysis) that improves prediction of viral load response given by existing expert-based interpretation systems (IS) could be derived from analyzing the correlation between genotypic data and virological response using statistical methods remains largely unanswered.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We used the data of the patients from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) Study for whom genotypic data were stored in the UK HIV Drug Resistance Database (UK HDRD) to construct a training/validation dataset of treatment change episodes (TCE). …”
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Serum Antioxidant (Vitamin E and Glutathione) in Pre-Senile Cataract Patients and healthy control in Gaza, Palestine: A Case–Control Study by Sujod F. Aljazzar, Marwan O. Jalambo, Kanan M. Wahedy

“…Data collection was performed by direct methods that included anthropometric measurement and serum vitamin E and glutathione levels and indirect methods through a structured interview questionnaire. …”
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A Rational Model In Theoretical Genetics by Karl Javorszky

“…We treat consecutive and contemporary assemblies of information carrying media as equally suited to contain information. Methods used so far utilised the consecutive property of media, while in biology one observes the concurrent existence of specific realisations of possibilities. …”
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