Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (Clinical Guidelines of the Russian Gastroenterological Association, Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medic... by V. T. Ivashkin, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. V. Maev, O. M. Drapkina, M. A. Livzan, A. I. Martynov, T. L. Lapina, A. V. Paraskevova, D. N. Andreev, O. P. Alexeeva, S. A. Alekseenko, A. Yu. Baranovsky, O. V. Zayratyants, O. Yu. Zolnikova, O. B. Dronova, I. L. Kliaritskaia, N. V. Korochanskaya, Yu. A. Kucheryavyy, S. N. Mammaev, M. F. Osipenko, S. S. Pirogov, E. A. Poluektova, D. E. Rumyantseva, R. G. Sayfutdinov, O. A. Storonova, Yu. P. Uspenskiy, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov, A. A. Sheptulin

“…GERD is the most common reason for patients to visit clinics. There are esophageal and extraesophageal manifestations of GERD. …”
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Comparison of growth, relative abundance, and diet of three sympatric Hemiandrus ground wētā (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae) in a New Zealand Forest by Nyasha Chikwature, Mary Morgan-Richards, Jessica Vereijssen, Steven A. Trewick

“…Hemiandrus ground wētā are nocturnal Ensifera that live in burrows during the day, and for these reasons, there is limited knowledge of their activity, development, and diet. …”
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On the Non-Obviousness of Our Readiness for the Choice and Mastering of Our Nature by Z.Z. Ibragimova

“…The following tasks are fulfilled during the research: to refine the understanding of traditional, non-classical, and post-non-classical views on the non-obviousness of our readiness for choice and mastering of our nature; to identify the reasons for the author’s cautiously optimistic attitude to understanding of the human nature; to answer the question of whether humans have control over their power. …”
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Telemedicine in home enteral nutrition: a structured survey exploring acceptability, preferences and experiences among patients by Ya Ma, Xuemei Li, Qian You, Wen Hu, Zhiyong Rao, Yanru Deng, Yiyao Zhang, Lei Shi

“…For face-to-face clinic visit patients, prefer to face-to-face communication was the main reason why not choose HENST. Conclusions HENST is a economic beneficial visit model, with high satisfaction. …”
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Application of alternative <i>de novo</i> motif recognition models for analysis of structural heterogeneity of transcription factor binding sites: a case study of FOXA2 binding sit... by A. V. Tsukanov, V. G. Levitsky, T. I. Merkulova

“…The combination of these four models allowed a signif icant increase in the fraction of recognized peaks compared to that for the sole PWM model: the increase was 26.3 %. …”
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Public perceptions on the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis by Jing Gao, Xinyu Chen, Xiaolian Jiang, Chenxi Wu, Huiqiong Xu, Dingxi Bai

“…The standard application and reasonable supervision of medical AI is key to ensuring its effective utilisation. …”
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Entanglement flow in the Kane-Fisher quantum impurity problem by Chunyu Tan, Yuxiao Hang, Stephan Haas, Hubert Saleur

“…While this problem has been studied for many years using more traditional condensed matter approaches, it remains somewhat mysterious from the point of view of entanglement, both for technical and conceptual reasons. We propose and explore in this paper a new way to think of this important aspect. …”
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Apathy Is Correlated with Widespread Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Cinzia Femiano, Francesca Trojsi, Giuseppina Caiazzo, Mattia Siciliano, Carla Passaniti, Antonio Russo, Alvino Bisecco, Mario Cirillo, Maria Rosaria Monsurrò, Fabrizio Esposito, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Gabriella Santangelo

“…Apathy is recognized as the most common behavioral change in several neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a multisystem neurodegenerative disorder. …”
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A Narrative Review of Prognostic Gene Signatures in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Using LASSO Cox Regression by Nur Fatinazwa Mohd Faizal, Saptarsi Shai, Bansi P. Savaliya, Lee Peng Karen-Ng, Rupa Kumari, Rahul Kumar, Vui King Vincent-Chong

“…Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common malignancies of the head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). HNSCC is recognized as the eighth most commonly occurring cancer globally in men. …”
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Biosafety characteristics and antibacterial activity of probiotic strains against Streptococcus mutans, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, and Porphyromonas gingivalis by Jeong-Yong Park, Ji Yeon Lee, YongGyeong Kim, Byoung-Kook Kim, Byung Kwon Kim, Soo-Im Choi

“…Abstract Background Oral diseases with high prevalence worldwide are recognized as severe health problems. Probiotics are used to prevent oral diseases, including dental caries, oral malodor, periodontitis, and subgingival plaque. …”
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What happens when you stop using the combined contraceptive pill? A qualitative study protocol on consequences and supply needs for women who discontinued the combined contraceptiv... by Matthias Richter, Liane Schenk, Gertraud Stadler, Jana Niemann

“…Consequently, discontinuing combined oral contraceptives (COCs) as a conscious decision for reasons other than desired pregnancy has become increasingly common for menstruating individuals. …”
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Object detection in motion management scenarios based on deep learning. by Baocheng Pei, Yanan Sun, Yebiao Fu, Ting Ren

“…However, the existing detection methods failed to achieve better detection results, and the analysis found that the reasons for this phenomenon mainly lie in the loss of temporal information, multi-targeting, target overlap, and coupling of regression and classification tasks, which makes it more difficult for these network models to adapt to the detection task in this scenario. …”
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An Enhanced Drone Technology for Detecting the Human Object in the Dense Areas Using a Deep Learning Model by Mohamad Reda A. Refaai, Dhruva R. Rinku, I. Thamarai, null S. Meera, Naresh Kumar Sripada, Simon Yishak

“…This research describes a methodology for recognizing the presence of humans in a forest setting utilizing a deep learning framework and a human object detection method. …”
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Integrative analysis of metabolite and transcriptome reveals the biosynthetic pathway and candidate genes for iridoid glycoside biosynthesis in Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (Pen... by Ke Rao, Ke Rao, Siyu Liu, Siyu Liu, Xiaohui Tang, Guofu Jia, Shaohua Yang, Chaoxiang Ren, Chaoxiang Ren, Jin Pei, Jin Pei

“…Due to overharvesting, N. scrophulariiflora resources are facing the risk of depletion, urgently requiring resource protection and rational utilization. However, the biosynthetic pathways and related genes of active compounds in N. scrophulariiflora have not been fully investigated. …”
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Local Self-Governments in Hungary: Recent Changes through Central European Lenses by Csaba Lentner, Szilard Hegedus

“…The article presents detailed reasons for the atypical nature of Hungarian local self-government indebtedness and the factors underlying this unfavourable process. …”
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Two-party cooperative blind signature based on SM2 by Xue BAI, Baodong QIN, Rui GUO, Dong ZHENG

“…SM2, issued by China in 2010, is a public key cryptography standard based on elliptic curves.It has been widely used in finance, social security and other fields thanks to its advantages of improved signature efficiency, decreased storage space and computing complexity than RSA.With the popularization and application of SM2, the issues of its key security and data privacy are of great concern.The single-key mode inhibits the potential application in multi-user settings, and the leakage of the key will threaten the security of the entire cryptosystem due to the centralization.The problem of secure storage and reasonable utilization of keys needs to be solved urgently.In addition, the SM2 digital signature algorithm cannot guarantee the message privacy.Aiming at the issues of key security and data privacy of the signature algorithm, many researchers have proposed the idea of cooperative signature and blind signature for SM2.However, there isn’t SM2 collaborative blind signature scheme proposed.Then a two-party cooperative blind signing protocol based on SM2 was proposed in this paper, which allowed two parties to sign except the user.The signing process did not require recovering the complete private key, while not revealing the information of the partial private key and secret number.The key was stored separately to improve the security of the key, while the blind signature protected the privacy of the message.In terms of security, the protocol satisfied unforgeability and unlinkability.The protocol was implemented using C to demonstrate the efficiency of each participant’s local operation.In the honest model, the time cost of each entity in the cooperative signature phase was similar as that of executing a lightweight SM2 blind signature.Overall, the proposed protocol has certain advantages in terms of function and efficiency.…”
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Clinical characteristics of anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody among aquaporin-4 negative neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders in Egyptian patients by Sara I. Taha, Salwa I. Bakr, Nermeen T. Fouad, Dina Zamzam, Yasmine A. Mohamed

“…Detecting anti-MOG antibodies in anti-AQP4-negative NMOSD patients is essential for accurate diagnosis and personalized treatment, as MOGAD is now recognized as a separate clinical entity.…”
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Water quality model-based methodology to assess assimilative capacity of wastewater discharges in rivers by F.M. Torres-Bejarano, M. Verbel-Escobar, M.C. Atencia-Osorio

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: One of the negative impacts of polluting activities on aquatic ecosystems is the loss of its natural self-purification ability, for this reason, the purpose of this research was to evaluate the Sinú river capacity to assimilate wastewater discharges.METHODS: Monitoring of several water quality parameters was carried out in the river at different seasons and a numerical method was used to simulate different scenarios through the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code model. …”
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Protective effects of Euphorbia heterophylla against testicular degeneration in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats in relation to phytochemical profile. by Ahmed M Nagy, Heba A Fahmy, Mohamed F Abdel-Hameed, Rehab F Taher, Alaa M Ali, Mohamed M Amin, Sherif M Afifi, Tuba Esatbeyoglu, Mohamed A Farag, Abdelsamed I Elshamy

“…Euphorbia heterophylla is widely recognized for its medicinal properties worldwide.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>The objective of this study was to profile E. heterophylla ethanol extract (EH-EtOH) and elucidate its protective role in oxidative stress, relieving inflammatory action of hyperglycemia-induced testicular degeneration and restoring the normal histological structure with physiological properties of testicular tissue in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced DM. …”
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Resilience in virtual education: Designing and validating a scale in higher education by Ghanizadeh Afsaneh, Yazdi Maryam Majidi

“…Therefore, it is of high importance to measure university students’ Resilience in Virtual Education (RVE) to recognize the advantages and disadvantages of this type of education and support ESD. …”
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