Leadership in the Research: Determinants of Quality, Standards and Best Practices by Henryk Dźwigoł

“…The methodological tools of the study include questionnaires and factor analysis (Bartlett’s test for sphericity, KMO test (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sampling adequacy measure), and MSA test (sampling adequacy measure)). …”
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GUEST EDITORS’ NOTE by Piero Amodio, Edward W. Legg, Ljerka Ostojić

“…To do so, the authors tested how stimulus fluency and delay of judgement influence metamemory judgements, i.e., confidence wagers, in capuchin and rhesus monkeys. …”
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Predictive features analysis and nomogram construction for predicting depression in elderly patients by Wei Lin, Zijun Zhao, Yingshan Yu, Hongbin Chen

“…By integrating these factors into the nomogram, we found good predictive performance in the training set (AUC 0.867, 95% CI: 0.799–0.936) and in the test set (AUC 0.724, 95%CI:0.5919–0.894). …”
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Breed differences in olfactory performance of dogs by Attila Salamon, Ádám Miklósi, László Róbert Zsiros, Tímea Kovács, Enikő Kubinyi, Attila Andics, Márta Gácsi

“…Here, using the Natural Detection Task (NDT) that does not require training, we assessed the effect of several potential factors on the performance of a large sample of dogs (N = 527/tested, 484/analysed). …”
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Quality of life among earthquake survivors living in prefabricated houses in Adıyaman: a cross-sectional study after the February 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye by Yusuf Emre Bostan, Yusuf Demirtaş

“…The smallest decrease was observed in the ‘physical functioning’ domain (7.6% in men and 15.4% in women), while the largest decline occurred in the ‘role limitations due to emotional problems’ domain (32.1% in men and 45.6% in women). …”
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Age and chest computed tomography severity score are predictors of long-COVID by Merve Erkan

“…Many tissues might be damaged functionally or structurally during acute COVID-19 which can be detected by blood assays and chest computed tomography (CT). …”
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DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH NEEDS IN THE ELDERLY REALIZED THROUGH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY by Zofia Kubińska, Anna Pańczuk

“…However, there were significant variations due to such factors as education and the degree of realization of one’s active disability needs and motor recreation; age and realization of the preventive need; the self-estimation of one`s health state and realization of a pro-family, preventive, mobility, tourist activity, motor and medical recreation, and a rehabilitation need; previous participation in physical activities and the need of mobility, anti-involution and prevention; intensity of a physical effort within professional duties and a pro-family, active disability, motor and functional recreation need. …”
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Chronic Urticaria and Its Impact on the Quality of Life of Nepalese Patients by Sushil Paudel, Niraj Parajuli, Rabindra Prasad Sharma, Sudip Dahal, Sudarshan Paudel

“…Dermatology Life Quality Index questionnaire (DLQI) Nepalese version was used for the assessment of the impact of disease on life quality. Mann–Whitney U-test was applied to compare means, and principle component analysis for factor analysis was used. …”
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Insights into a rapid access angina clinic (RAAC): are we capturing the right cohort of patients? by Kumail Abbas Dewji, Erica Zhang, Taqiyah Nusrat, Asgher Champsi, Nadia Sunni

“…The most common investigation performed was transthoracic echocardiography. 53 patients had coronary assessments via imaging and functional tests. 74 patients (51%) had non-cardiac diagnoses. 46% had cardiac diagnoses, from which only 10% had significant findings requiring cardiac interventions. 36% were managed with medication and surveillance. …”
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Effects of Walnut Protein Peptides on Promotion of White Adipose Tissue Browning and Prevention of Obesity by Yankun FU, Yuzheng CAI, Zhiqiang FENG, Siru CHEN, Tianlin WANG, Lianjun SONG, Tiange LI

“…Body weight, adipose tissue weight and blood lipid levels were monitored, and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed. The morphological changes of inguinal WAT were observed, and the protein expression of key factors involved in WAT browning were detected. …”
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Identification of Voltage Sag Source in Distribution Network Based on BAS-SVM by Haitao LIU, Xiaoyi YE, Ganyun LÜ, Huajun YUAN, Zongpu GENG

“…In this paper, the improved S-transform is applied to the time-frequency reversible analysis of voltage sag signal, and the related amplitude curve and 16 characteristic indexes are extracted. The penalty factor and kernel function parameters of SVM are optimized by BAS, and a BAS-SVM classifier is constructed. …”
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Fatal Septicaemia Following Suprapubic Cystostomy in a Paraplegic Patient: Never Do a Cystostomy without Prior Urine Culture and Appropriate Antibiogram! by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M. Soni, Tun Oo, Peter L. Hughes, Gurpreet Singh

“…Inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy was the major contributory factor for this patient's mortality. Learning points from this case are (1) never do a cystostomy without prior urine culture and appropriate antibiogram; (2) in a chronic spinal cord injury patient, full blood count, liver function tests, albumin level, and albumin to globulin ratio should be performed before any surgical procedure.…”
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Oysters for the Future: The Value of Science-Based Management in the Oyster Fishery by Erik Lovestrand

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RELIBILITY EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ENGINE AND CHASSIS SYSTEM BASED ON FAULT DATA

“…The reliability of engine and chassis system is the key factor affecting the performance of commercial vehicles.Accurate and comprehensive evaluation of its reliability is of great significance to guide the improvement of commercial vehicle reliability.Based on big data of faults,a reliability evaluation was conducted for the engine and chassis of four commercial vehicles within a specific manufacturing enterprise.All the fault data of the four commercial vehicles in 2021 were collected for preliminary statistical analysis,and a random sample was drawn to form an analysis sample.Based on the U-test to test the difference between the sample and the overall data distribution,the probability density distribution function of the engine and chassis system fault interval was fitted,and it was inferred that the distribution law satisfied the Weibull distribution.The traditional median rank method and kernel density estimation method were used to mutually verify and calculate the distribution parameters of the system.The Kolmogorov-Smirnov(K-S)hypothesis test was used to verify that the sample data of the fault interval time followed the Weibull distribution.The reliability evaluation indexes such as reliability,failure rate and mean time between failures were calculated.After 500 days of driving,the reliability of the four commercial vehicles were 0.002,0.003,0.007 and 3×10-9.The fault rates were 0.021,0.016,0.015 and 0.063.The average time between fault were 146.088,129.492,149.755 and 70.897 days.Based on the reliability evaluation results and fault contents of engine and chassis system,the optimization scheme was proposed to provide reference for the reliability improvement of the commercial vehicle system.…”
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Interventions to improve mental health and well-being in care-experienced children and young people aged less than 25: the CHIMES systematic review by Rhiannon Evans, Sarah MacDonald, Robert Trubey, Jane Noyes, Michael Robling, Simone Willis, Soo Vinnicombe, Maria Boffey, Charlotte Wooders, Asmaa El-Banna, GJ Melendez-Torres

“…How do contextual characteristics shape implementation factors and what are key enablers and inhibitors of implementation? …”
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Synthetic Site-Selectively Mono-6-O-Sulfated Heparan Sulfate Dodecasaccharide Shows Anti-Angiogenic Properties In Vitro and Sensitizes Tumors to Cisplatin In Vivo. by Egle Avizienyte, Claire L Cole, Graham Rushton, Gavin J Miller, Antonella Bugatti, Marco Presta, John M Gardiner, Gordon C Jayson

“…Heparan sulphate (HS), a ubiquitously expressed glycosaminoglycan (GAG), regulates multiple cellular functions by mediating interactions between numerous growth factors and their cell surface cognate receptors. …”
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Aboveground Biomass in West African Semi‐Arid Ecosystems: Structural Diversity, Taxonomic Contributions and Environmental Drivers by Kangbéni Dimobe, Shem Kuyah, Korotimi Ouédraogo, Ebagnerin Jérôme Tondoh, Adjima Thiombiano

“…ABSTRACT The role of plant diversity and biomass in ecosystem functioning and management is well recognized. However, the structural drivers of aboveground biomass (AGB) and their influence across savanna ecosystems remain understudied, particularly in semi‐arid regions. …”
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Effectiveness of resistance training on resilience in Hong Kong Chinese older adults by Ming Yu Claudia Wong, Chun-Qing Zhang, Yanan Zhao, Chun Hu, Kailing Ou

“…Moreover, participants only showed a significant between-group effect on muscle strength, aerobic endurance, and dynamic balance in the pre-test versus the post-test. Results indicated a prominent level of positive and self-related successful aging among participants, thus indicating that other factors impacted less on their level of resilience and health-related quality of life. …”
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A laboratory investigation of carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery by focusing on CO2-oil physical properties by E.M. Mansour, A.M. Al-Sabagh, S.M. Desouky, F.M. Zawawy, M. Ramzi

“…These were used to invested the use of (CO2) and its effect on parameters such as viscosity, density, gas solubility and swelling factor as a function of pressure at temperature from 620.3 to 706.0 °R. …”
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Effects of Ultrasonic Power and Intensity of Mechanical Agitation on Pretreatment of a Gold-Bearing Arsenopyrite by Won Chol HONG, Ye Yong KIM, Chang Dok KWON, Kwang Chol SO

“…The characteristics of the ultrasonic power level as a function of the intensity of mechanical agitation were evaluated by a numerical simulation with CFD software – Ansys Fluent. …”
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