Recapitulation of physiologic and pathophysiologic pulsatile CSF flow in purpose-built high-throughput hydrocephalus bioreactors by Ahmad Faryami, Adam Menkara, Shaheer Ajaz, Christopher Roberts, Ryan Jaroudi, Blake Gura, Tala Hussini, Carolyn A. Harris

“…The Automated, In vitro Model for hydrocephalus research (AIMS), presented here, improves upon our previous long-term in vitro systems with specific goals of recapitulating bulk pulsatile cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) waveforms and steady-state flow directionality relevant to ventricular catheters used in hydrocephalus. Methods The AIMS setup was developed to recapitulate a wide range of physiologic and pathophysiologic CSF flow patterns with varying pulse amplitude, pulsation rate, and bulk flow rate with high throughput capabilities. …”
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Analysis of the Rights and Obligations of Stakeholders in China’s National Park Concession System by Le ZHONG, Zhicong ZHAO

“…Following the principle of equality of stakeholders’ rights and obligations, this research aims to provide a comprehensive theoretical and practical framework to guide ongoing research and the systematic construction of China’s national park concession system.MethodsThis research is designed to investigate the overarching and universal challenges associated with the establishment of the national park concession system in China. …”
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The Assessment of Utility and the Role of Rural Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in West Azerbaijan Province by ali Gholami, Fatemeh Moohamadzadeh

“…The statistical community of current research includes local experts (such as members of Islamic councils of villages and villagers), which consists of 3108 people. 341 people were selected as the sample by stratified sampling using Cochran method. In the first step, one-sample T-test in SPSS software is applied to analyze the questionnaires. …”
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The application of the concept of trust marketing in the study of price sensitivity to study the consumer value of topical antifungal agents in the dosage form “gel” by I. V. Bushuieva, R. L. Prytula, O. P. Shmatenko, V. V. Parchenko

“…The aim of the work was to determine the price sensitivity of consumers in order to establish the consumer value of topical antifungal agents in the medicinal form “gel”. Materials and methods. The van Westendorp method (PSM – price sensitivity measurement) was used in the study. …”
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Evolution and early warning of supply risks across entire product chain of China’s rare mineral resources by ZHOU Na, WANG Di, WU Qiaosheng, WANG Qiang, YANG Cheng, LI Jingyuan

“…Five key resources critical to the development of China’s strategic emerging industries—lithium (Li), beryllium (Be), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), and zirconium (Zr)—were selected, and their supply risks from upstream primary mineral products to downstream end-use products from 2010 to 2020 were quantified and classified using the BGR-VW method. Furthermore, a GM(1,1) grey prediction model was employed to provide early warning for supply risks of these resources from 2025 to 2030. …”
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Telenursing as an Effective Ally for Improving Patient Outcomes in Diabetes? An Umbrella Review by Marika Lo Monaco, Arianna Profeta, Salvatore Corrao

“…Design Overview of systematic reviews. Review Methods According to the PRISMA statement, we included studies published from 2005 to 2023 that evaluated telenursing interventions for adult diabetic patients and reported physiological, behavioural, and clinical outcomes. …”
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Relations Between Medical Students’ Motivational Persistence Skills and Their Acceptance of Specific Blended Learning Tools by Cristina Gena Dascalu, Claudiu Topoliceanu, Magda Ecaterina Antohe

“…The concept of blended education, which refers to the intensive integration of digital resources into the teaching process and its mixed online and on-site delivery, combining as much as possible the advantages of both methods in an optimal way, is becoming increasingly popular among teaching tools. …”
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Enhancing the value of the oncology thoracic surgery care pathway: a TDABC and ABC analysis by Véronique Nabelsi, Véronique Plouffe

“…These methods help identify opportunities for optimizing and reducing activity times without compromising the quality of care. …”
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QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHCARE DATABASES by Flavia Carle, Lidia Di Minco, Edlira Skrami, Rosaria Gesuita, Luigi Palmieri, Simona Giampaoli, Giovanni Corrao

“…The availability of more and more updated and valid information on data quality and suitability provides data users and researchers an useful tool to optimize their activities. In this paper, we have summarized and synthesized the main aspects of Data Quality Assessment (DQA) applied in the field of secondary use of healthcare databases, with the aim of drawing attention to the critical aspects having to be considered and developed for improving the correct and effective use of secondary sources. …”
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Assessment of the Fish Stock Status of the Spangled Emperor <i>Lethrinus nebulosus</i> Along the Coast of Balochistan, Pakistan by Aidah Baloch, Qun Liu, Muhsan Ali Kalhoro, Aamir Mahmood Memon, Suman Barua, Xu Chen, Hasnain Raza, Yihong Ma

“…The sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in Pakistan was assessed using the catch-based Monte Carlo method (CMSY) and the length-based Bayesian biomass (LBB) method to evaluate the data-limited fishery of the Spangled Emperor, <i>Lethrinus nebulosus</i>. …”
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Design of Environmental Impact Mitigation Strategy In The Furniture Industry Using Life Cycle Assessment by Weny Findiastuti, Fitri Agustina, Rullie Annisa, Ach Dafid, Iffan Maflahah, Ananda Rafli Siswanto

“…Recommendations for improvement include the implementation of cleaner production, namely replacing thinner-based paint with more environmentally friendly water-based paint and optimizing delivery routes using the saving matrix nearest insert method to reduce the total distance traveled and transportation emissions. …”
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Action Recognition in Videos through a Transfer-Learning-Based Technique by Elizabeth López-Lozada, Humberto Sossa, Elsa Rubio-Espino, Jesús Yaljá Montiel-Pérez

“…This realistic and diverse dataset allowed for a comprehensive evaluation of the proposed method, demonstrating its effectiveness in different scenarios and conditions. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOGISTICS SERVICES MARKET IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES by Bohdan Samoilenko, Olena Pavlova, Otabeg Azizov

“…Specifically, the content analysis method was used to process scientific sources and review thematic literature on the concepts of modernisation and competitiveness of rail transport. …”
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Integrated Multi-Sectoral Approach for Planning of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects by Tianyuan Zhou, Guopeng Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Kathleen B. Aviso, Raymond R. Tan, Xiaoping Jia, Fang Wang

“…Carbon capture and storage technologies are the important means of carbon sequestration. To optimally match the sources and sinks, an integrated approach which combines process integration with orthogonal experimental design method is developed. …”
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A New Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Bahareh Shafaie, Marjan Kuchaki Rafsanjani

“…In our method, we suggest an algorithm which uses all existing links (unidirectional, bidirectional ) in a network that works within OLSR routing protocol and this causes better use of sources and minimizes MPR (Multipoint Relays) set…”
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Investigating the relationship between the monetary policy shock through the exchange rate channel on the management quality index in the banking system: by examining the productiv... by Farhad Sharifi Bagha, Jafar Haqiqat, Zahra Karimi Takanloo

“…Therefore, using 96 variables of seasonal time series data affecting the management quality index within the bank productivity approach which is one of the most important indicators of assessing the health of the banking system, and employing the factor-added empirical model (FAVAR), the effect of monetary policy via the exchange rate channel on the management quality index in the banking system was investigated during the period of 1378:1-1401:4</p> <p style="text-align: left;">In order to investigate the mechanism of the impact of monetary policy shocks via exchange rate channel on the variables affecting the health of the banking system, the two-stage method of principal components was used. Therefore, first, the following equation was estimated without considering the Yt vector, based on which the number of optimal factors was selected. …”
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Synthesis and Properties of Amphoteric Etherified Starch Flocculant CMSG by Li Haihua, Gao Yuhua, Zhang Yaze, Li Na

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Emerging technologies towards extracellular vesicles large-scale production by Junjie Huang, Hanxu Chen, Ning Li, Panmiao Liu, Jianjun Yang, Yuanjin Zhao

“…However, the limited yields of traditional production and isolation methods have hampered full potential of EVs. In this review, we will introduce strategies aimed at enhancing EV production include optimizing cell yield, expanding cell culture scale, and exploring alternative EVs production sources such as non-mammalian organisms and artificially produced vesicles. …”
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Multimodal machine learning for analysing multifactorial causes of disease—The case of childhood overweight and obesity in Mexico by Rosario Silva Sepulveda, Magnus Boman, Magnus Boman

“…The unsupervised pipeline used traditional methods with k-Means and hierarchical clustering, with the optimal number of clusters calculated to be k = 2.ResultsThe decision tree classifier in the supervised early fusion approach produced the best quantitative results. …”
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Ecological and toxicological screening of the safety of drinking water for livestock enterprises of Odesa region by L. H. Roman, S. I. Ulyzko, O. M. Zelenina, P. M. Skliarov, O. A. Bezaltychna, N. I. Dankevich, V. A. Chornyi, I. S. Sliusarenko

“…The analysis of experimental comparative data and literature sources showed the need for further studies on the quality and safety of water for watering productive animals to optimize the management of safe water supply and obtain organic livestock products.…”
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