Do we know the chemical bond? A case for the ethical teaching of undefined paradigms by Kozuch Sebastian

“…This is a controversial topic due to the lack of consensus in the chemical bond community over this heavily disputed topic and the conflicting pedagogical approach; however, and maybe because of this controversy, the teaching of the definitions of the chemical bond including their open questions and challenges can be positively instructive. …”
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Stages of Systems Engineering: An Analysis and Characterization of Systems Engineering Approaches by Iris Graessler, Benedikt Grewe

“…For this reason, this research will systematize common Systems Engineering approaches and bring them together in a stage model for Systems Engineering. …”
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Automated craniofacial biometry with 3D T2w fetal MRI. by Jacqueline Matthew, Alena Uus, Alexia Egloff Collado, Aysha Luis, Sophie Arulkumaran, Abi Fukami-Gartner, Vanessa Kyriakopoulou, Daniel Cromb, Robert Wright, Kathleen Colford, Maria Deprez, Jana Hutter, Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh, Christina Malamateniou, Reza Razavi, Lisa Story, Joseph V Hajnal, Mary A Rutherford

“…Seven measurements, including anterior base of skull length and maxillary length, showed significant differences with large effect sizes between T21 and control groups (ANOVA, p<0.001). Manual measurements took 25-35 minutes per case, while automated extraction took approximately 5 minutes. …”
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Management of Nasoalveolar Cyst by Transnasal Endoscopic Marsupialization by Mohnish Grover, Siddharth Nirwan, Rahul Nahar, Samanvaya Soni

“…Also, it is not easy to excise the whole cyst in toto. In our experience, microdebrider assisted endoscopic transnasal marsupialisation is an easier, faster, safer, and equally efficacious technique to treat nasolabial cyst without any recurrence.  …”
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A journey into a Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review with meta-analyses by Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Katherine Esposito, Paolo Chiodini, Maria Ida Maiorino, Giuseppe Bellastella, Dario Giugliano

“…Another ‘de novo’ meta-analysis of two long-term RCTs showed a 49% increased probability of remission from the metabolic syndrome. 5 meta-analyses showed a favourable effect of the Mediterranean diet, as compared with other diets, on body weight, total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 2 meta-analyses demonstrated that higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet reduced the risk of future diabetes by 19–23%.Conclusions The Mediterranean diet was associated with better glycaemic control and cardiovascular risk factors than control diets, including a lower fat diet, suggesting that it is suitable for the overall management of type 2 diabetes.…”
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representação social da dignidade da pessoa humana na visão do acadêmico da Universidade Estadual de Goiás – UEG by Cinthya Santos

“…A partir desse resultado foi realizada uma análise e chegou-se à conclusão que os participantes do estudo creem que para que se haja dignidade é necessário ter igualdade, tratar todos em conformidade com a lei, em igualdade de condições. …”
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Media policy in Greenland by Ravn-Højgaard Signe

“…Gradually, with the introduction of home rule, a paradigm shift took place, whereby media was seen as a vital instrument to strengthen Greenlandic language and identity. …”
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Genome-wide association study identifies candidate genes affecting body conformation traits of Zhongwei goat by Mingxuan Han, Xinbo Wang, Haidong Du, Yanlong Cao, Zhanqiang Zhao, Shuran Niu, Xuxu Bao, Youjun Rong, Xiaofang Ao, Furong Guo, Qincheng Xia, Fangzheng Shang, Ruijun Wang, Yanjun Zhang

“…After quality control, 15,958,716 SNPs were available for the analysis. A total of 342 genome-wide significant SNPs were obtained. …”
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Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology as a basis for building an interreligious relationship by Y.Y. Putra, A. Himawan, Y.K. Susanta

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Numerical Analysis of Horizontal Impact Resistance of Rock Socketed Pile with Steel Casing by Xiaolong Zhang, Lunliang Duan, Duoyin Wang

“…The results show that the impact force and its growth rate, the bending moment of concrete pile core, and the maximum lateral displacement of pile top increase significantly with the increase of impact energy, and the linear increase of the maximum displacement of pile top is better. …”
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Assessment of forest soil contamination by heavy metals in the Polish National Park near Warsaw by Aneta Łukaszek-Chmielewska, Joanna Rakowska, Marzena Rachwał, Olga Stawarz

“…The content of the cadmium, lead, manganese and chromium (using atomic emission spectroscopy with induction-coupled plasma), as well as granulometric composition, pH value and nitrogen and total carbon content, were conducted on soil samples taken from the surface layer (0–10 cm) in the protected area of the Kampinos National Park in Poland. …”
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Meta-QTL analysis reveals the important genomics regions for biotic stresses, nutritional quality and yield related traits in pearl millet by Shreshth Gupta, Sagar Krushnaji Rangari, Aakash Sahu, Yogesh Dashrath Naik, C. Tara Satayavathi, Somashekhar Punnuri, Mahendar Thudi

“…The confidence interval of Meta-QTLs was reduced by 3.63 folds (0.18–7.49 cM), in contrast to projected QTLs interval of 1.11–60.63 cM. Further, a total of 1198 genes were identified in 34 Meta-QTL regions. …”
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Sociologia: a arte da ruptura, da construção e da explicação by Luiza Helena Pereira

“…Initially there is an overall discussion on the topic, i.e., reviewing how the classics of sociology have created the art of disruption, of construction and of explanation and then a more thorough discussion on how that same art should be applied to school, curriculum, teacher and students on a day-to-day basis.…”
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Posttreatment Blood Pressure as a Key Predictor in a 5‐Year Stroke Prediction Model by Nan Zhang, Jiarong Mei, Fangfang Fan, Yan Zhang, Ziyi Zhou, Jianping Li

“…ABSTRACT Evidence suggests that approximately 63.0%–84.2% of stroke survivors have hypertension, yet there is currently no stroke prediction tool specifically designed for individuals with hypertension. …”
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Rice Leaf Disease Image Enhancement Based on Improved CycleGAN by YAN Congkuan, ZHU Dequan, MENG Fankai, YANG Yuqing, TANG Qixing, ZHANG Aifang, LIAO Juan

“…This addition enabled the deep learning model to more accurately measure perceptual differences between the generated images and real images, thereby guiding the network towards producing higher-quality samples. This adjustment also helped to reduce visual artifacts and excessive smoothing, while concurrently improving the stability of the model during the training process. …”
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Hyperglycemia Is a Potential Prognostic Factor for Exacerbation in Severe Psoriasis with Diabetes or Prediabetes by Yongpisarn T, Thadanipon K, Suchonwanit P, Rattanakaemakorn P

“…Statistical analyses were performed using mixed-effects logistic regression.Results: A total of 201 psoriasis patients (95 with severe psoriasis and 106 with mild psoriasis) with 1,717 follow-up visits were included in the analysis. …”
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MSD-Net: Multi-scale dense convolutional neural network for photoacoustic image reconstruction with sparse data by Liangjie Wang, Yi-Chao Meng, Yiming Qian

“…In this work, we propose an improved convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, called multi-scale dense UNet (MSD-Net), to correct artifacts in 2D photoacoustic tomography (PAT). MSD-Net exploits the advantages of multi-scale information fusion and dense connections to improve the performance of CNN. …”
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Predicting Pedestrian Counts for Crossing Scenario Based on Fused Infrared-Visual Videos by Shize Huang, Wei Chen, Rongjie Yu, Xiaolu Yang, Decun Dong

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Preparation and Application of Mesoporous Nanotitania Photocatalysts Using Different Templates and pH Media by S. M. Abdel-Azim, A. K. Aboul-Gheit, S. M. Ahmed, D. S. El-Desouki, M. S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb

“…In basic media, the brookite phase appeared in low concentrations (8–15%) while rutile totally disappeared. The photocatalytic performance of the synthesized catalysts was tested via naphthalene degradation, which exhibited high activity in visible irradiation (>400 nm). …”
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Directions for improving the organizational framework for quality control of higher education in Ukraine by V. O. Neviadovskyi

“…The author proves that today it is advisable to develop a separate Law which would define the organizational and legal framework for the establishment and functioning of accreditation agencies. …”
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