China’s Economic Engagement in the Middle East by Dana M.D Sajadi, Waqar Ahmad

“…As China’s involvement in the Arab region and nearby areas grows, so does its influence on the global stage. This is what China seeks to achieve with all its capabilities and potential. …”
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The Effects of Hybridization and Parasite Infection on the Survival and Behaviour of Endangered Landlocked Salmon Subject to Predation—Implications for Genetic Rescue by Aslak Eronen, Matti Janhunen, Pekka Hyvärinen, Raine Kortet, Anssi Karvonen

“…We hybridized the critically endangered Saimaa landlocked salmon (Salmo salar m. sebago) with one of its geographically closest relatives, anadromous Baltic salmon from River Kymijoki. …”
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Closer look at circulating nitric oxide levels and their association with polycystic ovary syndrome: A meta-analytical exploration by Seyed Sobhan Bahreiny, Akram Ahangarpour, Elnaz Harooni, Mahdi Amraei, Mojtaba Aghaei, Reza Mohammadpour Fard

“…Objective: This meta-analysis aims to elucidate the association between NO levels and PCOS, investigate the potential of NO as a biomarker for PCOS diagnosis, and evaluate its clinical significance. Materials and Methods: A systematic review was conducted in several electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Scopus, EMBASE, and Google Scholar, to identify relevant studies published up to January 2024. …”
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Surgical technique of da Vinci robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy(RAMIE) expert experiences by Chengyuan Fang, Luquan Zhang, Hao Liang, Yanzhong Xin, Wei Zheng, Jianqun Ma

“…It has been gradually accepted to clearly observe the lesion and its relationship with surrounding tissues, nerves, and lymph nodes, safely remove the lesion, reduce nerve damage, and remove enough lymph nodes. …”
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“Definite Associative Deixis”: Between Referential and Attributive Readings by Jan Dvořák

“…This paper investigates different readings of definite descriptions within “definite associative deixis”. The term itself was proposed in Dvořák (2023) to refer to Hawkins’ “larger situation uses based on general knowledge” (1978). …”
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Performance and Flow Field of a Gravitation Vortex Type Water Turbine by Yasuyuki Nishi, Terumi Inagaki

“…This water turbine is capable of generating electricity using a low head and a low flow rate with relatively simple structure. However, because its flow field has a free surface, this water turbine is extremely complicated, and thus its relevance to performance for the generation of electricity has not been clarified. …”
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Extended-CSP based analysis of non-repudiation protocols by HAN Zhi-geng, LUO Jun-zhou, WANG Liang-min

“…A new formal method named extended-CSP approach was proposed for non-repudiation protocols.For check-ing its validity,both the well-known Zhou-Gollmann fair non-repudiation protocol presented by Zhou et al.in 1996 and one of its variant protocol were analyzed with this method.The result showed that this method not only could be used to analyze some security properties that could not be described by other methods,but also detected a known flaw of the protocol which could not be found by others,and meanwhile proved the variant protocol really enhancing its security.Finally,the correctness of this method was surveyed from the points of both its semantic and theory dependency,and some advantages in comparison with others were also showed together.…”
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Cholecystokinin facilitates the formation of long-term heterosynaptic plasticity in the distal subiculum by Fengwen Huang, Abdul Baset, Stephen Temitayo Bello, Xi Chen, Jufang He

“…Cholecystokinin (CCK), is the most abundant neuropeptide in the central nervous system, which broadly regulates the animal’s physiological status at multiple levels, including neuroplasticity and its behavioral consequences. Here, we uncover that exogenous CCK potentiates the excitatory synaptic transmission in the CA1-SUB projections via CCK-B receptor. …”
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Deformation mechanism and damage energy evolution of coal body under different gas pressures based on the energy principle by Yongjiang Yu, Xu Dong, Jiaming Liu, Zhiyuan Song, Zhiqiang Wu, Wenjing Guo

“…Specifically, the peak strain, compressive strength, and elastic modulus decreased with increasing gas pressure; the higher the gas pressure, the lower the conversion rate of the elastic strain energy in the elastic deformation stage of the coal body and the lower its total input energy. With increasing gas pressure, the damage threshold of the coal body decreased, whereas the damage variable corresponding to the peak value, as well as the damage threshold value, increased. …”
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Refined construction of semi-provincial hydrogeological models using hierarchical modeling: A case study in Western Shandong Province, China by Guangjun Ji, Zizhao Cai, Xiaobo Tan, Tao Wang, Chuanqi Wang, Qiuxiao Xu, Bo Zhou, Yang Cui

“…New insights for the region: The hydrogeological structure and its internal attributes at the regional scale were described in detail using the aforementioned methods. …”
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Parallel Batch Scheduling of Deteriorating Jobs with Release Dates and Rejection by Juan Zou, Cuixia Miao

“…The processing time of a job is a simple linear increasing function of its starting time. The objective is to minimize the sum of the makespan of the accepted jobs and the total penalty of the rejected jobs. …”
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Insight into unusual complex thermodynamical behaviour of citric acid and ethanolamine solution by Reshma Karunakaran, Rajagopal Shanmugasundaram

“…It was further evidenced by its D and G bands of Raman spectra at 1357 and 1574 cm−1, respectively. …”
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A Modified Hybrid Conjugate Gradient Method for Unconstrained Optimization by Minglei Fang, Min Wang, Min Sun, Rong Chen

“…The proposed method can generate decent directions at every iteration independent of any line search. Under the Wolfe line search, the proposed method possesses global convergence. …”
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Aging Well and the Intersection of Flourishing, Connectedness, and Sense of Meaningfulness in a Changing World: Implications for Personal and Societal Responsibility by Aslı Gözde Akış, Nilüfer Korkmaz Yaylagül, Terence Seedsman

“…Consequently, a deeper understanding of aging well and its promotion throughout the life course is urgently needed, including the existential aspects of aging well and the social, political, economic, and environmental forces that influence the level of health and well-being of people.…”
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Experimental Methods to Assess the Effectiveness of Soil Conditioning with Foam in Fully Weathered Granite by Liming Tao, Zhongtian Chen, Jian Cui, Huiwu Wang, Yong Fang

“…This method is widely used in EPB tunnelling owing to its strong applicability in different hydrological and geological conditions. …”
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Production of Oleic Acid Based Wax Ester Using Acidic Homogeneous Catalysts by Naowara Al-Arafi, Jumat Salimon

“…The low-temperture behavior of compound synthesized was determined through its pour point (PP), viscosity index (VI) and flash point (FP) values. …”
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Assessing and comparing compassionate communities benefits across cities in diverse cultural contexts: a step toward the identification of the most important ones by Valentina González-Jaramillo, Alicia Krikorian, Vilma Tripodoro, Margarita Jorge, Sebastián Orellana, Francy López, Maria Clara Vélez, Tatiana Noguera, Silvina Montilla, Sibylle Felber, Sofía C. Zambrano, Steffen Eychmüller

“…This indicates the feasibility of creating a single strategy but also reflects the need to leave room to include other aspects specific to each community according to its context in the assessment.…”
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The Infection Returns: A Case of Pulmonary Sporotrichosis Relapse after Chemotherapy by Samid M. Farooqui, Houssein Youness

“…Despite treatment with itraconazole, he eventually required a left pneumonectomy for progressive destructive cavitary lesions involving the left lung. …”
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PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL (POLITICAL) IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF IDEOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS IN THE RUSSIAN POST-OCTOBER EMIGRATION by N. Omelchenko

“…An analysis of the political projects and models of the future revived Russia proposed by Russian emigrants («social Christianity», a renewed monarchy), which affirmed the special path of development of Russia that distinguished its «philistine» West, – has been given. The conclusion about the importance of these projects of the ideal structure of the future of Russia for the modern state development of Russia, the search for its new identity, has been made.…”
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Durability and microstructure aspects of sustainable concrete made with ceramic waste: a review by Jawad Ahmad, Mohanad Muayad Sabri, Ali Majdi, Wael Alattyih, Inamullah Khan, Muhammad Alam

“…However, a detailed review is required which summarizes all the relevant information and provides compressive information on its impact on concrete performance. Recently, different researchers reviewed the suitability of CW in concrete. …”
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