DETERMINING KEY DETERMINANTS OF DEMAND FOR INTERNATIONAL RESERVES IN UKRAINE: COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS by M. I. Makarenko, D. V. Gordieieva

“…We find that the ratio of imports to GDP, the ratio of broad money to GDP, ratio of net foreign direct investment to GDP, the ratio of short term debt to GDP and GDP determine Ukraine’s long-run reserves demand function. Our empirical results show that shocks associated with the financial account is more dangerous for the Ukrainian economy than current account shocks. …”
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The Rise of Welfare Service States - Conceptual challenges of an ambiguous welfare settlement and the need for new policy research by Jean-Michel Bonvin, Hans-Uwe Otto, Arne Wohlfarth, Holger Ziegler

“…As personal welfare services function differently from redistributive benefits, this paper outlines the contours of these new service-based welfare architectures, in which the interaction between street-level bureaucrats and citizens becomes more significant concerning the quality and efficiency of welfare. …”
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An Efficient Aircraft Conflict Detection and Resolution Method Based on an Improved Reinforcement Learning Framework by Qiucheng Xu, Zhangqi Chen, Fangfang Li, Zhiyuan Shen, Wenbin Wei

“…With the steady increase of air traffic column, an auxiliary decision tool is required to compensate the operation redundancy deficiency of more sectors of air traffic control. To solve the problem of nonconflict high-density departure and arrival traffic flow, this method is expected to rapidly establish and maintain safe separation with more flexible changing strategies for aircraft heading and speed. …”
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SPECIFICS OF THE LEFT HEART CHAMBERS EARLY POST INFARCTION REMODELING IN COMORBID COPD OF MILD AND MODERATE SEVERITY by O. M. Polikutina, Yu. S. Slepynina, E. D. Bazdyrev, E. G. Vasyutinskaya, V. N. Karetnikova, O. L. Barbarash

“…In subacute period of STEMI, in patients with comorbid COPD the changes of the heart show more dilation, worse relation of systolic function and geometry of the LV, higher prevalence of desadaptation variants of myocardial remodeling. …”
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Does CEO social capital affect corporate ESG performance? by Wenyi Wu, Zhaoping Tian, Guangzhi Wang

“…Upon further research, we also find that (1) the positive contribution of CEO's social capital to firms' ESG performance is more significant in state-owned enterprises. (2) The negative facilitating effect of CEO's social capital on corporate ESG performance is more significant in large-scale enterprises. (3) ESG practices lead to the loss of shareholder wealth, resulting in the reduction of corporate value. …”
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Effect of Polyester Fiber on Air Voids and Low-Temperature Crack Resistance of Permeable Asphalt Mixture by Jin-rong Wu, Fei Li, Qin-yong Ma

“…With the rapid development of asphalt pavement, the drainage capacity of asphalt pavement is becoming more and more demanding. Therefore, it is imperative to study the permeable asphalt mixture. …”
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Long-term survival of a kidney transplant patient with advanced renal cancer after combination therapy: a case report and literature review by Chao Peng, Weihao Wang, Jiajun Chen, Shouhua Pan, Gang Xu, Mengyao Li, Lulu Zhang, Yulei Li, Keyuan Zhao, Jing Jin

“…After 2 years, the patient showed excellent graft function with no evidence of cancer progression. Despite subsequent graft failure, the disease remained controlled for more than 2 years and the patient survived for more than 3 years, which was significantly longer than the typical survival of 10 to 20 months in patients with advanced kidney cancer. …”
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Molecular Marker Techniques and Genotypic Characterization Approaches in Plant Breeding by İsmail Karakaş

“…Plant breeding, often known as the science of plant development, is the study and practice of modifying a plant’s genetic makeup through a variety of breeding techniques to produce higher-quality, more prolific, and more resistant to harsh environmental circumstances. …”
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Research on IoT security situation awareness method based on evidence theory by Jian LI, Tinglu DONG, Jie LI

“…The security problem of IoT became more and more serious with its rapid development.Considering that the current IoT security situation awareness system lacks generality and excessively relies on expert knowledge, a IoT security situation awareness method based on improved D-S evidence theory was proposed in this paper.Fuzzy Gaussian membership function was used to calculate the vulnerability information membership matrix, which was normalized as evidence distribution matrix.The improved Topsis method was used to measure the evidence credibility.In order to fully restrain the credibility of conflicting evidence and improve the credibility of mutually supporting evidence, local credibility between two evidence was aggregated and the expected positive and negative solution vectors were improved according to the situation assessment scenario.And the weighted average method was used for vulnerability information fusion, to obtain the result of situational assessment.The result of situational awareness was fused with the time discount and high-risk vulnerability information discount evidence theory.At the same time, the IoT vulnerability information at different moments was considered comprehensively, the evidence was adaptively and dynamically weighted with the ratio information of high-risk vulnerability.The experimental results show that in the fusion of different numbers of evidence bodies and four common conflicting evidence, the improved Topsis method has higher fusion probability on credible proposition.In the aspect of situation assessment, the risk degree of current system is accurately assessed.And in the aspect of situational awareness, this discount evidence theory can predict the probability of high risk and critical risk, which is more effective than the traditional D-S evidence theory.According to this theory, a IoT security situational awareness method process was proposed, which would be used to guide engineering practice.In the future, the relationship between vulnerabilities can be considered and richer information between vulnerabilities can be extracted for vulnerability exploiting, so that the result of situation assessment is more accurate and reasonable.On the other hand, for situational awareness, game theory can be adopted in the process of dynamic game between the attacker and defender.…”
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Disadvantaged Americans are suffering the brunt of rising pain and physical limitations. by Dana A Glei, Maxine Weinstein

“…Results across multiple datasets demonstrate that socioeconomic disparities in pain and physical limitations consistently widened since the late 1990s, and if anything, widened even more in midlife than in late life (above 75). For those aged 50-74, the SES disparities in most outcomes widened by more than 50% and in some cases, the SES gap more than doubled. …”
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma masquerading as disseminated tuberculosis in the presence of constitutional symptoms, DRESS syndrome, and persistent generalized lymphadenopathy by Patil Shital, Aditi Gatagat, Priyanka Malhotra, Mahesh Unni

“…Persistent generalized lymphadenopathy (PGL) is the abnormal enlargement of more than two noncontiguous lymph node regions for more than 3 months. …”
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Modifications of the maximum expiratory flow in bronchial asthma treatment using Intal and Ketotifeno. by Belkis M. Vicente Sánchez, Nallelys Villanueva Bravo, Luis M. Padrón Velásquez, Marylin Aroche Quintana

“…<strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> That patient that they utilized Intal had a more rapid elevation of the FEM.…”
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Single cell qPCR reveals that additional HAND2 and microRNA-1 facilitate the early reprogramming progress of seven-factor-induced human myocytes. by Emre Bektik, Adrienne Dennis, Prateek Prasanna, Anant Madabhushi, Ji-Dong Fu

“…The direct reprogramming of cardiac fibroblasts into induced cardiomyocyte (CM)-like cells (iCMs) holds great promise in restoring heart function. We previously found that human fibroblasts could be reprogrammed toward CM-like cells by 7 reprogramming factors; however, iCM reprogramming in human fibroblasts is both more difficult and more time-intensive than that in mouse cells. …”
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO FIRM PERFORMANCE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE BALTIC STATES by Derick Blaauw, Anmar Pretorius

“…Firms in a better position to function on-line also preserved more jobs. The disaggregation of the country samples into different industries provides evidence that industry composition and other context-specific factors play a key role in explaining firm performance at industry/sector level. …”
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Longevity by Douglas MacLean

“…More controversially, neither is it simply an aggregate of a person&rsquo;s accomplishments. …”
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Knuckle-walking and behavioural flexibility in great apes by Emily LR Tarrega-Saunders, Charlotte King, Alice M Roberts, Susannah KS Thorpe

“…However, more recent kinematic data cast doubt on the presence of two distinct types of knuckle-walking in Pan and Gorilla. …”
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The R-RAS2 GTPase is a signaling hub in triple-negative breast cancer cell metabolism and metastatic behavior by Claudia Cifuentes, Lydia Horndler, Pilar Grosso, Clara L Oeste, Alejandro M. Hortal, Jennifer Castillo, Isabel Fernández-Pisonero, Alberto Paradela, Xosé Bustelo, Balbino Alarcón

“…Abstract Background Recent research from our group has shown that the overexpression of the wild-type RAS-family GTPase RRAS2 drives the onset of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in mice following one or more pregnancies. This phenomenon mirrors human TNBC, where RRAS2 is overexpressed in approximately 75% of cases, particularly in tumors associated with the postpartum period. …”
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Contemporary Practices of Intelligence Support for Competitiveness by Nisha Sewdass, Jonathan Calof

“…A comparative analysis revealed that over the period separating the surveys of 2006 and 2019, the function of the CR has become more formalized. The share of companies with centralized divisions and CI managers has grown. …”
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“And Some Guys Dream Bad Things” by Robert Brightman

“…Thus a universal function of monsters is to define what is human through contrast and opposition." …”
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Integrating Imagination and Design Thinking: Pedagogical Approaches for Postgraduate Creativity by Rahat Varma

“…It is becoming more and more important to go beyond conventional, inflexible pedagogies and promote vital cognitive and interpersonal abilities like creativity, imagination, problem-solving, and teamwork as postgraduate students become more diverse and independent. …”