Effect of Bacille Calmette–Guérin vaccination on immune responses to SARS‐CoV‐2 and COVID‐19 vaccination by Nicole L Messina, Susie Germano, Amy W Chung, Carolien E van deSandt, Natalie E Stevens, Lilith F Allen, Rhian Bonnici, Julio Croda, Claudio Counoupas, Branka Grubor‐Bauk, Ebene R Haycroft, Katherine Kedzierska, Ellie McDonald, Rebecca McElroy, Mihai G Netea, Boris Novakovic, Kirsten P Perrett, Laure F Pittet, Ruth A Purcell, Kanta Subbarao, James A Triccas, David J Lynn, Nigel Curtis, the BRACE Trial Consortium Group

“…Abstract Objectives Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination has off‐target effects on disease risk for unrelated infections and immune responses to vaccines. …”
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Structure-Based Approaches for Protein–Protein Interaction Prediction Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning by Despoina P. Kiouri, Georgios C. Batsis, Christos T. Chasapis

“…Structure-based PPI prediction has emerged as a robust alternative to sequence-based methods, offering greater biological accuracy by integrating three-dimensional spatial and biochemical features. …”
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How to describe a new fungal species by K.A. Seifert, A.Y. Rossman

“…Expectations for DNA sequences and cultures are considered. A model manuscript offers one possible approach to writing such a paper.…”
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Antioxidant Potential of Adiponectin and Full PPAR-γ Agonist in Correcting Streptozotocin-Induced Vascular Abnormality in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats by Sheryar Afzal, Munavvar Abdul Sattar, Edward James Johns, Olorunfemi A. Eseyin, Ali Attiq

“…Diabetic SHRs pretreated with pioglitazone and adiponectin separately exerted improvements in antioxidant enzyme activities, abrogated arterial stiffness, and offset the increased production of reactive oxygen species and dyslipidemic effects of STZ, whereas the blood pressure values were significantly reduced in the irbesartan-treated groups (all P<0.05). …”
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Problematic Issues of Calculating the Size of Damage from the Use of Land Plots for Other Purposes within the Practice of Law Enforcement Agencies by I. V. Bryhadyr, I. V. Panova

“…The result of the study was the justification for making changes to the Methodology of determining the amount of damage caused by unauthorized occupation of land plots, misuse of land plots, removal of soil cover (fertile soil layer) without special permission. It has been offered to include a coefficient that takes into account the term of land use for other purposes in the direction of increasing the multiple of the number of years of land use into the formulas № 3 and № 4 of the Methodology. …”
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Embeddings by Potts Jason

“…I propose this framing as an application of cultural science and suggest that this offers a new way to understand the alignment problem between humans and increasingly intelligent machines.…”
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MILP Modeling and Optimization of Multi-Objective Three-Stage Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem With Assembly and AGV Transportation by Shiming Yang, Leilei Meng, Saif Ullah, Biao Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Peng Duan

“…In the real manufacturing environment, the machining stage of the jobs and the assembly stage of the products are often completed in different workshops. In addition, automatic guided vehicle (AGV) plays an indispensable role in the transportation of jobs from machining workshop to assembly workshop. …”
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Search for Classical Cepheids in Galactic Open Clusters and Calibration of the Period–Wesenheit–Metallicity Relation in the Gaia Bands by Huajian Wang, Ye Xu, Zehao Lin, Chaojie Hao, Dejian Liu, Yingjie Li

“…The concurrently obtained residual parallax offset in OCs, zp = −4 ± 5 μ as, demonstrates the adequacy of the parallax corrections within the magnitude range of OC member stars. …”
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Hybrid educational technologies for forming competences of search and critical analysis among future bachelors in land management and cadastres by Igor D. Rudinsky, Oksana Yu Li

“…By integrating various educational technologies, including synchronous and asynchronous learning, as well as individual and group activities, hybrid learning offers a multifaceted approach to education. Conclusion. …”
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Is Securitisation a Natural and Useful Response to Existential Threats? Introducing the Idea of Peacification by Timo Kivimäki

“…The need to decide whether to securitise an issue area that poses an existential threat, and then treat it as a security matter, is often regarded as a choice without positive alternatives. …”
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Massive Sequencing of V3-V4 Hypervariable Region in Pyogenic Liver Abscesses Reveals the Presence of Unusual Bacteria Not Detected by Classical Culture Methods by Verónica Fernández-Sánchez, Estibeyesbo Said Plascencia-Nieto, Mónica Alethia Cureño-Díaz, Emilio Mariano Durán-Manuel, Aida Verónica Rodríguez-Tovar, Claudia Camelia Calzada-Mendoza, Clemente Cruz-Cruz, Miguel Ángel Loyola-Cruz, María Elizbeth Álvarez-Sánchez, Juan Carlos Bravata-Alcántara, Enzo Vásquez-Jiménez, Víctor Hugo Gutiérrez-Muñoz, Dulce Milagros Razo Blanco-Hernández, Liliana Nicolás-Sayago, Araceli Rojas-Bernabé, Omar García-Hernández, Erika Gómez-Zamora, Mireya Ruíz-Valdés, Graciela Castro-Escarpulli, Juan Manuel Bello-López

“…Pyogenic liver abscesses (PLAs) are serious infections in which doctors often fail in identifying the causative agent due to microbiological limitations. …”
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Robust fully distributed file caching for delay-tolerant networks: A reward-based incentive mechanism by Sidi Ahmed Ezzahidi, Essaid Sabir, Sara Koulali, El-Houssine Bouyakhf

“…Namely, the source node offers to the relay nodes a positive reward if they accept to cache and to forward a given file successfully to a target destination, whereas the relay nodes may either accept or reject the source deal, depending on the reward attractiveness and on their battery status (their actual energy level). …”
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An Enhanced Text Steganography Technique (SHA-Logic): Based on Conditional Logic and SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm 3) by Kisakye Diana Michelle, Ocen Gilbert Gilibrays, Odongtoo Godfrey

“…However, text steganography still presents challenges, such as easy detection and the trade-off between hiding capacity and quality of the covered medium. …”
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Establishment of Early Multi-Indicator Prediction Models of Moderately Severe Acute Pancreatitis and Severe Acute Pancreatitis by Shan-Shan He, Dan Li, Qi-Yong He, Xiao-Ping Chen, Yong-Xu Lin, Yun-Wen Yu, Feng-Lin Chen, Jian Ding

“…Seven prognostic indicators were selected for incorporation into models, including white blood cell count, lactate dehydrogenase, C-reactive protein, triglyceride, D-dimer, serum potassium, and serum calcium. The cut-offs of the unwScore and wScore for predicting severity were set as 3 points and 0.513 points, respectively. …”
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The effect of intellectual capital and strategic leadership on organizational citizenship behavior with the moderating role of employees' professional ethics by seyed reza mousavifard

“…Employees with knowledge and experience often do not have many problems with each other, and if a conflict arises, they can easily resolve it. …”
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History Politics of Belarus: Peripeteias of Evolution by A. M. Ponamareva

“…This paper attempts to identify the logic of the Belarus official historical narratives’ transformation since independence up to and including 2024. …”
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Detecting defect requirements in animation-based reading learning using perspective-based reading by Rama Haryamadha, Roy Inzaqhi Saputra, Aminudin Aminudin, Ilyas Nuryasin

“…The goal of this study is to detecting defect requirements in animation-based reading learning using perspective-based reading. But often the design is not in line with the specifications of the requirements of users and developers when developing this application. …”
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PROJECT DESIGN OF LEARNING ACTIVITY CYCLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ACTIVITY AND COMPETENCE APPROACH by E. O. Pokhomchikova

“…The conception of developing education implies implementation of a complex of organizational forms of interaction between a teacher and trainees such as lections, seminars (webinars), practical training, self-directed work, presentations, online and offline forums, conferences (videoconferences), tutorials, master classes, consultations, project sessions, trainings, and Sunday schools. …”
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2D wrinkle assisted zigzag plasmonic chains for isotropic SERS enhancement by Ziwen Yu, Swagato Sarkar, Sezer Seçkin, Ningwei Sun, Anik Kumar Ghosh, Sven Wießner, Ziwei Zhou, Andreas Fery

“…Micro spectral measurements and FDTD simulations reveal that zigzag assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticle chains offer isotropic behavior and exhibit stronger plasmonic coupling compared to 1D assemblies, which could be highly beneficial for sensing applications. …”
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TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LIMITS OF APPLICATION OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA IN THE FIELD OF COUNTERING EXTREMIST ACTIVITIES by USM ADMIN

“…As a result of the scientific research, the following steps were taken in the field of combating extremism: an attempt was made to identify and independently classify extremist activities by comparing the provisions of the Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 54/2003, on the one hand, and the Code of Offenses and the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova, on the other hand; the close interaction between the motive of prejudice and the extremist motive has been substantiated, where prejudice serves as the foundation of radicalism, extremism and even terrorism; the similarities and differences between extremist and hooligan motives have been proven; conclusions and recommendations aimed at improving modern legal doctrine and legislation have been formulated. …”
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