Futures thinking becomes a priority for all globalized societies by Roland Benedikter

“…This text presents the most central buzz words, framings, concepts and overall style prevalent in contemporary global future fora and initiatives, taking them as symptomatic for an ongoing renaissance of approaches towards “futuring” in the advanced forms of “futures staging”, “futures casting” and “futures design” which, if this trend continues, could eventually lead to a more stable, post-conventional and wide-spread trans-national implementation of the discipline of “critical futures studies” in academia, policy and practice.…”
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Novel full-thickness biomimetic corneal model for studying pathogenesis and treatment of diabetic keratopathy by Zekai Cui, Xiaoxue Li, Yiwen Ou, Xihao Sun, Jianing Gu, Chengcheng Ding, Zhexiong Yu, Yonglong Guo, Yuqin Liang, Shengru Mao, Jacey Hongjie Ma, Hon Fai Chan, Shibo Tang, Jiansu Chen

“…Effective models are essential for studying DK pathogenesis and evaluating potential therapeutic interventions. This study developed a novel biomimetic full-thickness corneal model for the first time, incorporating corneal epithelial cells, stromal cells, endothelial cells, and nerves to simulate DK conditions in vitro. …”
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Are there also negative effects of social support? A qualitative study of patients with inflammatory bowel disease by Alexander Palant, Wolfgang Himmel

“…The interviewees were selected using a maximum-variation sampling approach. Grounded theory and the ‘OSOP’ (one sheet of paper) method were applied to categorise those parts of the interviews that touched on the negative effects of social support.Setting The open-end interview collection took place throughout Germany from September 2011 to June 2012. …”
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Topology and Control Strategy of Multi-Port DC Power Electronic Transformer Based on Soft Switching by Jialin Zhang, Kunpeng Zha, Xiaojun Tang, Yuefeng Yang, Lanfang Li, Jiafei Li

“…Simulations and experimental results are provided to validate the theoretical analysis.…”
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Au rendez-vous allemand (1) by Agnès Bouvier

“…Going back to Antiquity’s speeches and tales, from and with the Classics and our knowledge of them, he chose a sympathetic stance.  This attitude is in line with contemporary admonitions of the “new” critical and historical school that came from Germany where Herder’s thought, passed on by Renan, had a central role.  …”
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Functional Outcome of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Vs. Hyaluronic Acid in Knee Osteoarthritis Kellgren-Lawrence Grade I-III At 6-and 12-Months Follow-Up: A Meta-Analysis by I Gusti Ngurah Wien Aryana, Febyan, Shianita Limena

“…Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative synovial joint disease with progressive pain and deformity. Stem cell therapy, especially mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), has revolutionized the treatment of knee OA. …”
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Oxidative Stress, Lipid Peroxidation, and Loss of Hyaluronic Acid in the Human Vitreous Affected by Synchysis Scintillans by Loredana Bergandi, Oleksii A Skorokhod, Rosalba La Grotta, Evelin Schwarzer, Raffaele Nuzzi

“…It remains to be proven whether a therapeutic strategy which targets oxidative stress may be effective in the treatment of synchysis patients.…”
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Food for thought: a qualitative assessment of medical trainee and faculty perceptions of nutrition education by Olivia Kunitsky, Mahdi Taye, Karla Feeley, Hugh Johnson, Abigail Glynn, Avery Stivale, Matthew Hamers, Alexis Notarianni, Sireesha Mamillapalli, Gabi Waite, Sonia Lobo

“…Microsoft Copilot was used to assist with thematic analysis. Outcomes were compared, and consensus was obtained among raters. …”
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A Novel Deep Hybrid Recommender System Based on Auto-encoder with Neural Collaborative Filtering by Yu Liu, Shuai Wang, M. Shahrukh Khan, Jieyu He

“…However, unlike explicit feedback, implicit feedback cannot directly reflect user preferences. Therefore, although more challenging, it is also more practical to use implicit feedback for recommender systems. …”
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Bearing Fault Diagnosis based on Singular Value Decomposition Denoising and Local Characteristic-scale Decomposition by Cui Weicheng, Li Wei, Meng Fanlei, Liu Linmi

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《钢结构进展与市场》征稿启事

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Zur Geometrie allgemeinen Kawaguchischen Räumen by Edmundas Mazėtis

“… In dieser Arbeit deffiniert man die allgemeine Metrik in Kawaguchischen Räumen zweiter Ordnung und konstruiert man Theorie seinen affinen Zusammenhängen. Beweisst, dass in dieser Räumen innere Tensorstrukturen existiert, und Forderungen für ihre Integralität festgestellt. …”
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Encouraging Landscape Water-Conservation Behaviors #6: Information Seeking Preferences of Florida Residents Who Use Irrigation in the Home Landscape by Courtney Owens, Laura A. Warner, Joy Rumble, Alexa Lamm, Emmett Martin, Randall Cantrell

“… How can we encourage Florida residents who irrigate their home landscapes to adopt environmentally responsible irrigation practices? Provide them information they are interested in and deliver it through their preferred information channels. …”
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Evaluation of lipid profile in patients with cherry angioma: A case–control study in Iraqi patients by Mohammed K. Al-Hattab, Ansaar H. Gahlool, Jinan H. Al-Kalidi

“…Hence, dyslipidemia treatments may represent an effective means for CA therapy.…”
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Interspecific hybrids of some East Asian representatives of the genus Chrysanthemum L. and analysis of their sustainability by A. I. Nedoluzhko

“…Diploids (2n = 18) are not always compatible between themselves and are partly compatible with hexaploids. …”
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Polysomnographic features of children with obesity: body mass index predict severe obstructive sleep apnea in obese children? by Rungrat Sukharom, Prakarn Tovichien, Kanokporn Udomittipong, Pinyapach Tiamduangtawan, Wattanachai Chotinaiwattarakul

“…We explored demographic and anthropometric measures as well as polysomnographic abnormalities among them. We used receiver operating characteristic curves and logistic regression analyses to determine the optimal cutoff values of anthropometric variables for predicting severe OSA. …”
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Structural and Magnetic Properties of Ba3[Cu0.8−xZnxMn0.2]2Fe24O41 Z-Type Hexaferrites by Eman S. Al-Hwaitat, Sami H. Mahmood, Mahmoud Al–Hussein, Ibrahim Bsoul

“…The magnetic results indicated that the saturation magnetization increased slightly with increasing the Zn content, while the coercivity and magnetocrystalline anisotropy field exhibited a decreasing tendency with the increase of Zn content. The thermomagnetic curves revealed the complex magnetic structure of the prepared samples and confirmed that the Curie temperature of the magnetic phases decreased with increasing x as a result of the reduction of the strength of the superexchange interactions.…”
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Synesis as a framework to enable safety interventions in complex healthcare environments by Jamie Cargill, Aarti Bavare, Tiffany Wrenn, Anne Lam, Lauren Salinas, Itode Idowu, Asma Razavi, Venessa Lynn Pinto, Eric Williams

“…Action impact was assessed by reviewing trends in SER themes and findings, and actions and impact were disseminated at unit, divisional and organisational levels. …”
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“A / music / at rest”: Late Duncan and Objectivist Poetics by Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas

“…This article offers both close readings of specific poems alongside broader comparative discussion of their respective poetic principles to highlight the significance of Zukofsky in Duncan’s late poetry as a critically antagonistic counter to Duncan’s more self-indulgent expansiveness, as well as offering a model for a looser conception of the long poem that defines itself in process rather than driven by the arguments or mythopoetic structures that Duncan found so seductive even while resisting them.…”
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Design of multi-bandgap metamaterial plate based on composite cylindrical resonators by Zhi Miao, Jianfei Yin, Yu Yang, Yibo Ke, Zhoufu Zheng, Xiaoming Geng, Qian Wang

“…This paper introduces a composite locally resonant metamaterial plate (CLRMP) designed for broadband, low-frequency vibration suppression through multi-resonance and gradient configurations. Theoretical models employing the plane wave expansion method are developed to compute the band structures of the CLRMP. …”
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