Development and Validation of a Food Frequency Questionnaire for Dietary Antioxidant Intake among Prediabetic Individuals in the South Indian Population by Sowmya R, Supriya V, Rajkumar M, Silambuselvi K

“… Background: Prediabetes is a growing global public health concern, with dietary factors playing a major role in its progression to type 2 diabetes. Antioxidants can mitigate oxidative stress, a major contributor to prediabetes. …”
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STRATEGIC PLANNING AND FORECASTING IN THE TOURISM INDUSTRY by R. V. Gavva, E. N. Lozhkomoeva

“…The article proposes approaches to the operational definition of the type of service and the stage of its life cycle, which contributes to the adoption of sound strategic management decisions that ensure the effective, stable operation of tourist organizations. …”
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Resolved Convection in Hydrogen-rich Atmospheres by Jacob T. Seeley, Robin D. Wordsworth

“…In hydrogen-rich atmospheres with low mean molecular weight (MMW), an air parcel containing a higher-molecular-weight condensible can be negatively buoyant even if its temperature is higher than the surrounding environment. …”
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Analyser la mise en œuvre des politiques d’éducation compensatoire au prisme de la sociologie des organisations by Julia Napoli

“…The chosen sociological point of view will allow us to understand the structure of actors' relationships and its impact on the implementation of compensatory education at the intermediate and local level. …”
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Derivation and Application of a Scaling between Hinode/SP and SDO/HMI Vector Magnetic Fields to Improve Magnetic Field Extrapolations by C. Beck, A. Prasad, Q. Hu, M. S. Yalim, S. Gosain, D. Prasad Choudhary

“…Full-disk measurements of the solar magnetic field by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) are often used for magnetic field extrapolations, but its limited spatial and spectral resolution can lead to significant errors. …”
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Role of Metformin in Preventing New-Onset Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Yu-Ling Lin, Sheng-Hsiang Lin, Hsi-Hao Wang, Wan-Chia Hsu, Shih-Yuan Hung, Yuan-Yow Chiou, Hung-Hsiang Liou, Min-Yu Chang, Li-Chun Ho, Ching-Fang Wu, Yi-Che Lee

“…<b>Background</b>: Recent evidence supports the protective role of metformin on kidney function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, its potential to prevent new-onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with normal renal function remains unclear. …”
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Enriched environment rescues bisphenol A induced anxiety-like behavior and cognitive impairment by modulating synaptic plasticity by Jiong Li, Guangyin Yu, Laijian Wang, Wenjun Zhang, Wenya Ke, Yifei Li, Danlei Liu, Keman Xie, Yuanyuan Xu, Caihui Cha, Guoqing Guo, Jifeng Zhang

“…Bisphenol A (BPA) is an exogenous endocrine disruptor in the environmental context, garnering attention for its harmful effects on the nervous system function and behavior. …”
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Determination of ²³⁸U Content by Gamma Radiation Emitting from ^234mPa Radionuclide by A. Khruschinski, S. Kutsen, A. Zhukouski, Naoyuki Sugai, Hiroshi Sugai, Michinori Mogi

“…This method makes it possible to determine the content of 238U in a continuous homogeneous medium while presence of natural radionuclides in it.The algorithm for determining of 238U content includes several main steps. …”
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ABOUT DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURES OF TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY IN A CONTEXT OF CALLS AND THREATS by A. Y. Malov

“…The Russian experts continue now work on generalization and classification of concrete MTDK in the form of the draft of the catalog of measures for ensuring transparency and trust in space activity. In case of its realization it could become a component of the researches presented to the report of the Secretary general to General Assembly at its sixty eighth session in pursuance of the resolution 65/68 8 of December, 2010. …”
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Image-schema metaphor of "resurrection" and "rebirth" with the source domain of "journey" in children's stories by Amir Hossein Zanjanbar

“…The method of this research is analytical-descriptive, and its statistical population is children's stories with the theme of rebirth and resurrection for the demographic group of early childhood. …”
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Synergies of dark tourism, future trends and tourism education: a dialogue with Professors John Lennon and Ian Yeoman by Rodney Westerlaken, John Lennon, Ian Yeoman

“…The conversation explores the multifaceted dimensions of dark tourism, its future trends and its place in tourism education. …”
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On the Complex Inversion Formula and Admissibility for a Class of Volterra Systems by Ahmed Fadili, Hamid Bounit

“…Next, a necessary and sufficient condition for Lp-admissibility p∈1,∞ of the system's control operator is given in terms of the UMD-property of its underlying control space for a wider class of Volterra integrodifferential equations when the leading operator is not necessarily a generator, which provides a generalization of a result known to hold for the standard Cauchy problem (Bounit et al., 2010, Proposition 3.2).…”
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Synthesis, H2S releasing properties, antiviral and antioxidant activities and acute cardiac effects of nucleoside 5′-dithioacetates by Miklós Bege, Miklós Lovas, Dániel Priksz, Brigitta Bernát, Ilona Bereczki, Rasha Ghanem Kattoub, Richárd Kajtár, Simon Eskeif, Levente Novák, Jan Hodek, Jan Weber, Pál Herczegh, István Lekli, Anikó Borbás

“…Dithioacetyl-adenosine and its metabolite showed similar acute cardiac effects as adenosine, however, it is noteworthy that both 5′-thio modified adenosines increased left ventricular ejection fraction or stroke volume, which was not observed with native adenosine.…”
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Wheat Leaf Rust Effector Pt48115 Localized in the Chloroplasts and Suppressed Wheat Immunity by Lulu Song, Liping Cui, Hao Li, Na Zhang, Wenxiang Yang

“…Pt48115 inhibited cell death induced by Bcl-2-associated X protein (BAX) from mice or infestans 1 (INF1) from <i>Phytophthora infestans</i> in <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i> and by DC3000 in wheat, and its 145–175 amino acids of the C-terminal are critical for its function. …”
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Yorùbá Theatre Practice and Nollywood by Shola Balogun

“…Yorùbá theatre serves as an exposition of Yorùbá tradition and culture; thus, understanding the worldviews of its creators is essential for appreciating its current practice and the factors influencing its representation in Nollywood. …”
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Who Puts the ‘Open’ in Open Knowledge? by Montgomery Lucy, Neylon Cameron, Wilson Katie, Huang Chun-Kai (Karl), Hosking Richard, Ozaygen Alkim, Handcock Rebecca

“…This involves questions of equity, diversity and inclusion – who gets to make knowledge; as well the role of productive interactions across boundaries (disciplines/university/wider community) in its growth and spread. There is a genuine desire among many universities, research funders, and researchers themselves, to address the challenges of diversity, equity and impact implicit in the open knowledge agenda. …”
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Modulation of iron metabolism by new chemicals interacting with the iron regulatory system by Yoshiaki Tsuji, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Maurice Y.F. Shen, Benjamin R. DiFrancesco

“…Using wild type and mutant IRE-luciferase reporter cells, we identified new IRP-IRE inhibitors such as V004-0872 harboring chloroacetamide, while its analog V011-6261 with chloropropanamide completely lost the inhibitory activity. …”
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Challenging museum narratives: the case of a Rhodesia Railways carriage by Will Sims, William Law

“…It argues that interpretation of the carriage since its repatriation has focused on the story of its return, while gaps in the knowledge of its operational life – including the experiences of passengers and the impacts of the railway’s labour hierarchy – have been overlooked. …”
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Using roof borehole electrical resistivity tomography to monitor roof water infiltration in a mine work face by Liang Du, Wenjin Zhu, Lei Wang, Hao Li, Xiaoyu Jiao, Teng Qin

“…Experiments and field tests suggest that the resistivity and its changes are related to the amount of water inflow and water channel. …”
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QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT COURSEWORKS: COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH by T. M. Shamsutdinova

“…The method provided enables to establish the relationship between contents of the training program and the requirements of FSES; to concretize assessment of competencies and to give reasons for its numerical indicators. Under a certain adaptation, this technique for assessment of student courseworks of economic and technical specialties can be applied for assessment of other academic works of students.…”
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