VBioindex: A Visual Tool to Estimate Biodiversity by Dong Su Yu, Seung Hwa Yoo

“…VBioindex serves as an easy to use interface and visually represents the results in the form of a simple chart and in addition, VBioindex offers functions for long-term investigations of datasets using time-series analyses.…”
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Examining Health Care Provider Experiences With Patient Portal Implementation: Mixed Methods Study by Shipra Taneja, Kamini Kalia, Terence Tang, Walter P Wodchis, Shelley Vanderhout

“… BackgroundHealth systems are increasingly offering patient portals as tools for patients to access their health information with the goal of improving engagement in care. …”
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Performance Analysis of Iteratively Decoded Convergent Source Mapping with Sphere Packing-Assisted Differential Space-Time Spreading Technique for Efficient Video Transmission by Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nasru Minallah, Jaroslav Frnda, Jan Nedoma

“…The Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) analysis shows that using Rate-2/6 CSM with minimum Hamming distance (dH,min) of 4 offers about 5 dB gain, compared to an identical overall system code rate but with Rate-2/3 CSM and dH,min of 2. …”
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Analytical study of entrepreneurship state in Russia by A. A. Buimov

“…A sociological surveys comparative analysis allowed us to draw an average portrait of entrepreneurs; the data from the surveys generally converge with official statistics. An extremely high variability in the level of entrepreneurial activity across Russian regions has been shown. …”
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A robust scheme for securing relational data incremental watermarking by Maikel Lázaro Pérez Gort, Agostino Cortesi

“…However, unlike other digital assets, such as multimedia data, relational data are often subject to frequent updates that may dramatically compromise the quality of the embedded watermark. …”
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Successful Pregnancy Outcome in a Patient Treated with Pembrolizumab and Exposed to Fluoro-Deoxyglucose (¹⁸F-FDG) PET/CT: Case Report and Review of Literature by Anna Lucia Mastricci, Felice Sorrentino, Elisa Giansiracusa, Erika Zanzarelli, Graziana Silvana De Lucia, Vincenza Fernanda Fesce, Luigi Nappi, Lorenzo Vasciaveo

“…Some pregnancies occur during oncological treatments or diagnostic follow-ups, often involving contraindicated procedures. HL is fluorodeoxyglucose-avid; therefore, its staging is generally performed with ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT, a diagnostic method contraindicated during pregnancy. …”
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A scenario-based alternative to conventional tools for choosing the strategy in turbulent environments by Ali Sorourkhah

“…Strategic decision-making is often complex and uncertain, especially in turbulent environments. …”
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A multi‐layer framework for energy efficiency assessment of shore‐to‐ship fast charging systems including onshore batteries by Siamak Karimi, Mehdi Zadeh, Jon Are Suul

“…Moreover, it is shown that charging OSB with the highest available power from the grid between the charging breaks would often lead to higher energy efficiency than the maximum utilization of the available charging time. …”
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La revolución rechazada by José Luis López Ulloa

“…Este artículo está dividido en tres partes: en la primera establezco que la Revolución no fue un hecho homogéneo como lo hacía pensar la historia oficial, pues por las diferencias culturales entre la población mexicana hubo muchos movimientos, cada uno de ellos con sus propias características y que la revolución enfrentó el rechazo de sus enemigos tradicionales: el episcopado, la vieja oligarquía porfiriana y algunos de sus antiguos aliados; en la segunda parte intento proponer otras formas de análisis del conflicto a partir de los logros obtenidos una vez que concluyó el movimiento armado, logros que al incorporarse a la Constitución se convirtieron en las causas del rechazo de que fue objeto; por último, establezco cuales fueron las fuentes principales de la oposición a los gobiernos emergentes de la revolución, entre las que se encuentran la separación Iglesia-Estado, la educación laica y las llamadas garantías sociales plasmadas en la Constitución.…”
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Parents' Postnatal Sense of Security: A Concept Analysis by Tieying Zeng, Lingjun Jiang, Deqing Huang, Meiliyang Wu, Aiqing Tu

“…ABSTRACT Aim Parents' postnatal sense of security is often mentioned in recent publications, but there is no consensus on its definitions and measurement. …”
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Maintaining Web Cache Coherency

“…Once the documents are cached throughout the Internet, it is often difficult to keep them coherent with the origin document without generating a new traffic that could increase the traffic on the international backbone and overload the popular servers. …”
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A next-generation Fab library platform directly yielding drug-like antibodies with high affinity, diversity, and developability by Fortunato Ferrara, Adeline Fanni, Andre A. R. Teixeira, Esteban Molina, Camila Leal-Lopes, Ashley DeAguero, Sara D’Angelo, M. Frank Erasmus, Laura Spector, Luis Antonio Rodriguez Carnero, Jianquan Li, Thomas J. Pohl, Nikolai Suslov, Klervi Desrumeaux, Conor McMahon, Sagar Kathuria, Andrew R. M. Bradbury

“…This study highlights the compatibility of phage and yeast display with a Fab semi-synthetic library design, offering an efficient approach to generate drug-like antibodies directly, facilitating their conversion to potential therapeutic candidates.…”
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Details of Walker 256 carcinosarcoma growth in Brattleboro and ISIAH lines of rats by I. I. Khegay

“…In the rats of the inbred Brattleboro line and in the didi homozygotes, which were segregated from analytical mating (ISIAH × Brattleboro) F1 × Brattleboro, tumor began to regress and diminished until absolute disappearance after some initial growing. Heterozygous offspring di+ and parental ISIAH rats with the normal vasopressin genotype (++) showed permanent tumor growth until lethal injury. …”
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Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report by R. Bunevičiūtė, R. Masaitienė, A. Klimašauskienė

“…The causal association between small cell lung cancer and myasthenia gravis as a paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS) has not been officially confirmed yet. However, there is increasing evidence in the literature, that myasthenia gravis could be one of the PNS phenotypes of non-thymomatous malignancies. …”
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20th Anniversary Editorial by Maja Klun, Stanka Setnikar Cankar, Polonca Kovač

“… In honor of CEPAR's 20th anniversary, we have invited present and past editors to offer some thoughts on the journal's founding and its evolution over two decades of publishing. …”
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Crime in the law enforcement agencies in 1948–1952 and its counteraction by V. A. Grechenko

“…The most common violations in the police at that time were: alcoholism, abuse of office, connections with criminals, violations of the law during the detention of citizens and the conduct of investigations, failure to comply with orders, bribery, embezzlement, domestic and moral decay, desertion, disclosure of official secrets, unauthorised abandonment of duty, illegal use of weapons and, as a result, injury or killing of citizens, negligence in the performance of official duties, and loss of personal weapons. …”
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Transplantation and Pregnancy by Pinar Erkan Uc, Sermet Sagol

“…In this review, optimizing pregnancy outcomes often involves addressing maternal and fetal risks, regular graft monitoring to detect potential complications such as organ rejection, and regulation of transplant medications to ensure safety and efficacy during pregnancy. …”
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The Within-Host dynamics of malaria infection with immune response by Yilong Li, Shigui Ruan, Dongmei Xiao

“…The malaria-free equilibrium is global asymptoticallystable if $R_01$, there exist two kinds ofinfection equilibria: malaria infection equilibrium (withoutspecific immune response) and positive equilibrium (with specificimmune response). …”
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Environmental Performance, Financial Constraints, and Tax Avoidance Practices: Insights from FTSE All-Share Companies by Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Marcel Ausloos, Polina Khrennikova

“…Studies indicate that organisations exhibiting strong corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, or high levels of environmental performance often engage in lower occurrences of tax avoidance. …”
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Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium by Robyn Donrovich, Paul Puschmann, Koen Matthijs

“…The results on the age of the mother at birth, her marital status, as well as the living environment suggest that at least part of the intergenerational transfer in infant mortality can be explained on the basis of life history theory: women who grew up in a high-risk family tended to reproduce earlier and faster, and often raised their children without a partner. In this way they unconsciously created riskier conditions for the raising of their own infants: the mothers had little life experience, limited resources, and often no assistance from a partner. …”
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