Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Patients with Pulmonary Diseases in Gyeongnam, Korea, Using Multiplex PCR and Multigene Sequence-Based Analysis by Min-Jeong Kim, Kyu-Min Kim, Jeong-Ih Shin, Jong-Hun Ha, Dong-Hae Lee, Jeong-Gyu Choi, Jin-Sik Park, Jung-Hyun Byun, Jung-Wan Yoo, Seokyong Eum, Myunghwan Jung, Seung Chul Baik, Woo Kon Lee, Hyung Lyun Kang, Min-Kyoung Shin

“…Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are widely present in environments, such as soil and water, and have recently been recognized as important pathogenic bacteria. The incidence of NTM-related infections is steadily increasing. …”
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The oppression concept based on Soyinka's a Dance of the Forests by Malek Awfi Jassim

“…The present study speaks to the topics of oppression and protest in the post-colonialism era and shows how oppression reinforces the rational justification of the rebuttal of the British existence on lands of the colonized countries. …”
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Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus Inhibits Skin Renewal through Inhibiting WNT-Dependent Lgr5+ Hair Follicle Stem Cell Activation in C57BL/6 Mice by Minghui Wang, Shangsheng Yao, Dehua He, Mulan Qahar, Jinqing He, Meifang Yin, Jun Wu, Guang Yang

“…This may be an important reason for the reduction of skin renewal ability and the formation of chronic wounds caused by diabetes. …”
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Twelve-Month Retention in and Impact of Enhance®Fitness on Older Adults in Hawai‘i by Michiyo Tomioka, Kathryn L. Braun, Yan Yan Wu, Kay Holt, Paula Keele, Lori Tsuhako, Johnny Yago

“…Asian or Pacific Islander), to self-report depression as a chronic condition, and to have lower levels of fitness at baseline. Common reasons for dropping out were illness, relocation, time conflicts, lost interest, and transportation issues. …”
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Classification of Toraja Wood Carving Motif Images Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) by Nurilmiyanti Wardhani, Billy Eden William Asrul, Antonius Riman Tampang, Sitti Zuhriyah, Abdul Latief Arda

“…The methodology in this study involves adjusting the batch size during the model training phase and applying weak-to-strong pixel transformation during the double threshold hysteresis phase in the Canny Feature Extraction process on the edges of Toraja carving images, resulting in ResNet50 architecture accurately recognizing the patterns of Toraja wood carvings. The results demonstrate significant improvements in the performance of the ResNet50 architecture with the preprocessed dataset. average precision, recall, precision, and F1-Score improvements in each Toraja carving class. …”
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Intratumor microbiome-derived butyrate promotes chemo-resistance in colorectal cancer by Linsheng Xu, Linsheng Xu, Bingde Hu, Jingli He, Xin Fu, Na Liu

“…Although tumor immunotherapy is widely recognized for treating unresectable CRC, challenges such as ineffective immunotherapy and drug resistance remain prevalent. …”
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Laboratory Evaluation on Performance of Fiber-Modified Asphalt Mixtures Containing High Percentage of RAP by Yuefeng Zhu, Yanwei Li, Chundi Si, Xiaote Shi, Yaning Qiao, Haoran Li

“…When RAP is mixed with virgin asphalt concrete, particularly when its percentage is high, performance of the binder and asphalt concrete can be adversely affected. For this reason, different types of additives need to be identified and evaluated beforehand to mitigate the adverse effects. …”
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Asking an AI for salary negotiation advice is a matter of concern: Controlled experimental perturbation of ChatGPT for protected and non-protected group discrimination on a context... by R Stuart Geiger, Flynn O'Sullivan, Elsie Wang, Jonathan Lo

“…Empirically, we find many reasons why ChatGPT as a multi-model platform is not robust and consistent enough to be trusted for such a task. …”
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Einstein Ordered Weighted Aggregation Operators for Pythagorean Fuzzy Hypersoft Set With Its Application to Solve MCDM Problem by Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Imran Siddique, Rifaqat Ali, Jan Awrejcewicz, Hanen Karamti, Dariusz Grzelczyk, Aiyared Iampan, Muhammad Asif

“…The extended model appraisals recognized score values to regulate robotic agri-farming equated to prevalent methods, which is more useful for agribusiness. …”
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Seroprevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among family replacement donors and voluntary non-remunerated blood donors during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub Saharan Africa by Macoura Gadji, Youssou Bamar Gueye, David Motto, Saliou Diop

“…Donors identity, epidemiological parameters, reasons for donation and laboratory results were collected in the Inlog® software of the NBTC. …”
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Modular-based psychotherapy (MoBa) versus cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for patients with depression, comorbidities and a history of childhood maltreatment: study protocol fo... by Elisabeth Schramm, Martin Hautzinger, Carolin Jenkner, Moritz Elsaesser, Sabine Herpertz, Hannah Piosczyk

“…Introduction In depression treatment, most patients do not reach response or remission with current psychotherapeutic approaches. Major reasons for individual non-response are interindividual heterogeneity of etiological mechanisms and pathological forms, and a high rate of comorbid disorders. …”
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Do Individuals with History of Patellofemoral Pain Walk and Squat Similarly to Healthy Controls? A 3D Kinematic Analysis During Pain Remission Phase. by Diego Martins, Marcelo Peduzzi de Castro, Caroline Ruschel, Carlos Alberto Atherinos Pierri, Heiliane de Brito Fontana, Gilmar Moraes Santos

“…However, the between-group differences suggest that even in the remission phase, kinematic differences persist for some reason and may contribute to the recurring pain in PFP individuals…”
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Bone-patellar tendon-bone vs hamstring tendon autograft for anatomical anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: outcomes at a mean follow-up of 8 years by Thatchinamoorthy Santhamoorthy, Anish Anto Xavier, Lalithambigai Chellamuthu, Arun Kaliaperumal, Dharamveer Kumar Dubey

“…Nevertheless, a well-performed anatomical ACLR does fail due to various reasons. Graft selection may be one of the contributing factors. …”
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Electrically Controlled Rotor Blade Vortex Interaction Airloads and Noise Analysis Using Viscous Vortex Particle Method by Taoyong Su, Yang Lu, Jinchao Ma, Shujun Guan

“…In addition, the different intensity of wake vorticity is the main reason for the differences of the BVI-induced airloads and noise among the ECR with different pre-index angles.…”
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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT OF THE WATER SUPPLY WELLS AND METHODS OF THEIR CAPITAL REPAIR by V. V. Ivashechkin

“…For decreasing the heaves via reducing frictional loads of the mudded filter against the formation, an improved design of the water well has been introduced recognized as an invention with the filter capable of downward biasing. …”
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Understanding emotional issues of clients approaching to nutrition counseling: A qualitative, exploratory study in Italy by Angelo R Pennella, Cristina Rubano

“…In this case, the client-nutritionist relationship was more balanced; 3) no ‘emotional eaters’ clients, who well-recognized the risk of ‘emotional eating’ as a maladaptive strategy used to cope with emotionally negative life events and in turn were able to use adaptive coping strategies. …”
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Cost-effectiveness and budget impact of covering Burkitt lymphoma in children under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme by Richmond Owusu, Dakota Pritchard, Lieke Fleur Heupink, Godwin Gulbi, Brian Asare, Ivy Amankwah, Joycelyn Azeez, Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt, Lydia Dsane-Selby, Ruby Aileen Mensah, William Omane-Adjekum, Francis Ruiz, Mohamed Gad, Justice Nonvignon, Lumbwe Chola, Ghana Health Technology Assessment Technical Working Group

“…Delayed care seeking and treatment abandonment, often due to the financial burden of care seeking to families, are common reasons for a relatively low overall survival (OS) in low-and middle-income countries. …”
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DPD-YOLO: dense pineapple fruit target detection algorithm in complex environments based on YOLOv8 combined with attention mechanism by Cong Lin, Wencheng Jiang, Weiye Zhao, Lilan Zou, Zhong Xue

“…With the development of deep learning technology and the widespread application of drones in the agricultural sector, the use of computer vision technology for target detection of pineapples has gradually been recognized as one of the key methods for estimating pineapple yield. …”
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Nanoparticle-mediated gene delivery techniques in plant systems by Kuber Shivashakarappa, Sureshbabu Marriboina, Korsi Dumenyo, Ali Taheri, Zeinab Yadegari

“…Nanoparticles are well recognized for its flexible size, shape, and cargo-binding properties, which enable them to surpass defensive primary cell wall barrier and it can be a promising candidate for plant gene delivery applications. …”
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Expert consensus statement on risk management for scraping treatment (刮痧意外情况处理专家共识) by Beijing Office of Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Competence Improvement Project (北京市中医护理能力提升工程办公室，北京市中医技术质控中心)

“…The importance of timely identification and treatment of accidents caused by scraping has been recognized by more and more scholars. Based on this, the Beijing Office of Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Competence Improvement Project and the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Quality Control Center had established a consensus formulation group and expert group. …”
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