Molecular Identification of Fungal Communities in a Soil Cultivated with Vegetables and Soil Suppressiveness to Rhizoctonia solani by Silvana Pompéia Val-Moraes, Eliamar Aparecida Nascimbem Pedrinho, Eliana Gertrudes Macedo Lemos, Lucia Maria Carareto-Alves

“…Molecular methods have been used to assess fungal communities giving a more realistic view of their diversity. For this purpose, total DNA was extracted from bulk soils cultivated with tomato (STC), vegetables (SHC), and native forest (SMS) from three sites of the Taquara Branca river basin in Sumaré County, São Paulo State, Brazil. …”
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Regulatory Impact Assessment in Macedonia and Estonia: Lessons (to be) Learned by Marija Risteska

“…The current system therefore still falls short of exploring the full potential of RIA as a tool for better regulation. Coordination of the RIA process, the extension of the scope as well as the methods for conducting RIA are some of the areas Macedonia can improve taking the example of Estonia.…”
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93 Harbi Arifesinde Bir İngiliz Subayın Erzurum-Kars-Ardahan Seyahatindeki Askeri Gözlemleri ve Düşündürdükleri by Mehmet Alper Demirer

“…Burnaby, seyahati sırasında Türk tabur ve alaylarını eğitim yaparken gördüğünü anlatmaktadır. Çoğu kışla, tabya, top mevzii ve istihkâm mevzileri bizzat komutanlar tarafından kendisine gezdirilerek sayıları hakkında bilgi verilmiştir. …”
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Enhancing Awareness of Physical Activity Guidelines among Saudi College Students: The 150 Minutes Program by Mohammed Alshehri

“…The study assesses the program’s impact through pre-/post-surveys, evaluating changes in participants’ awareness levels and physical activity behaviors. Results. A total of 110 participants completed either the presurvey (n = 35) or postsurvey (n = 75). …”
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Meals, Education, and Gardens for In-School Adolescents (MEGA): study protocol for a cluster randomised trial of an integrated adolescent nutrition intervention in Dodoma, Tanzania by Wafaie W Fawzi, Dongqing Wang, Abbas Ismail, Leonard Kamanga Katalambula, Andrea R Modest, Tara Young, Mary Mwanyika-Sando, Amani Tinkasimile, Dominic Mosha, Augustine Malero, Said Vuai

“…Integrated school nutrition interventions offer promising pathways towards improving adolescent nutrition status, food security and building sustainable skill sets.Methods and analysis The Meals, Education, and Gardens for In-School Adolescents (MEGA) project aims to implement and evaluate an integrated, school-based nutrition intervention package among secondary schools in the Chamwino District of Dodoma, Tanzania. …”
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POSTMODERN AÇIDAN KAMU YÖNETİMİNDE KÜÇÜLME (DOWNSİZİNG) OLGUSU by Dr .Yunus Emre Öztürk, Mürşit Işık

“…Yüzyılımızın sonuna doğru hızlanan gelişmeler sonucunda modernlik yerini postmodemliğe bırakmış ve Postmodern anlayış kamu yönetiminde bürokrasinin karşısına sivil toplum örgütlerini çıkarmaya çalışmış, devletin yetki ve görevlerinin sivil toplum örgütlerine ve özel sektöre aktarılması gerektiğini vurgularken, piyasanın ve sivil toplumun geliştirilmesini önemsemiştir.Kamu sektöründeki örgütsel küçülme (Downsizing) stratejisi sanayileşmiş ve gelişmiş ülkelerin ekonomik reform programlarında hızla artarak kullanılan bir uygulamadır.Küçülme stratejileri olarak Devletin gelir ve gider kalemlerinde .personel istihdamı konusunda .örgütsel yapı olarak ve merkezi yetkiler açısından küçülmesi öngörülmüştür.…”
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Effects of Oral L-Carnitine Supplementation on Lipid Profile, Anemia, and Quality of Life in Chronic Renal Disease Patients under Hemodialysis: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placeb... by Afsoon Emami Naini, Mahnaz Moradi, Mojgan Mortazavi, Asghar Amini Harandi, Mehdi Hadizadeh, Farhad Shirani, Hamed Basir Ghafoori, Pardis Emami Naini

“…At the end of the study, there was a significant decrease in triglyceride (-31.1±38.7 mg/dL, P=0.001) and a significant increase in HDL (3.7±2.8 mg/dL, P<0.001) levels in the carnitine group. Decrease in total cholesterol (−6.6±16.0 mg/dL, P=0.075) and increase in hemoglobin (0.7±1.7 g/dL, P=0.081) concentrations in the carnitine group were not significant. …”
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Analysis of motivations for treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma by L.A. Zaporozhetc

“…</p> <p> <b>Keywords: </b>primary open-angle glaucoma, motivation, IOP-lowering therapy, optical coherence tomography. </p> <p> <b>For citation:</b> Zaporozhets L.A. …”
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AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING: IS THE EU CONSUMER LAW FIT FOR THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY? by Monica CALU

“…The concept of „automated decision making” (ADM) is currently a key vector reshaping industries in the era of technology-based decision making, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in this process is a hot topic worldwide with the adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. …”
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The mental health impact of COVID-19: the need for community interventions and collaboration for recovery by Nadarajah Rajeshkannan, Daya Somasundaram, Balachandran Kumarendran, Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Ivan Dinesh Aloysius, Nalayini Sugirthan, Sivanantham Sasikumar, Nalayini Jegathesan

“…There were also positive effects such as better understanding of bio-knowledge, interventions and discoveries, online learning, gratitude toward health-care workers, increased community and family cohesion, reduction in road traffic accidents, and drop in other respiratory infections with their resultant morbidity and mortality. …”
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The Effect of Calcium Doping on the Surface and Catalytic Properties of Cobaltic Oxide Catalysts by Nasr-Allah M. Deraz

“…The dissolution of calcium ions in the Co 3 O 4 lattice at temperatures in the range 400–600°C was accompanied by a marked decrease in the mean hydraulic radii (r h ) and an increase in the surface area (S BET ) and total pore volume (V p ) of the prepared oxide samples. …”
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Uniplanar Nystagmus Associated with Perceptual and Cognitive Visual Dysfunction due to Presumed Focal Ischemic Occipital Cortical Atrophy: A Missed Diagnosis and New Observation by Swetha Sara Philip, Gordon N. Dutton, Liam Dorris

“…Uniplanar nystagmus has been described in relation to pathology of the brain stem, retina, optic nerve, sensory visual deprivation, periventricular leucomalacia, and drug toxicity. This paper describes a case of uniplanar nystagmus associated with features of higher visual dysfunction and a presumed focal insult to the occipital lobes following an episode of neonatal apnea.…”
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Molecular Mechanisms of the Whole DNA Repair System: A Comparison of Bacterial and Eukaryotic Systems by Rihito Morita, Shuhei Nakane, Atsuhiro Shimada, Masao Inoue, Hitoshi Iino, Taisuke Wakamatsu, Kenji Fukui, Noriko Nakagawa, Ryoji Masui, Seiki Kuramitsu

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Influence of cardiovascular health behaviors and factors on the incidence of hypertension in young and middle-aged population by Yan Lei, Li Ying, Wang Jiangang, Yang Pingting

“…After adjusting for relevant factors, the risks of hypertension and cumulative effects were compared among groups with different ideal cardiovascular health behaviors and factors. Results A total of 4 883 subjects were included in the analysis, with a mean age of (37.80±9.92) years. …”
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Charge heterogeneity of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies by different cIEF systems: views on the current situation by Alessandro Ascione, Marcello Belfiore, Jaana Vesterinen, Mihaela Buda, Wolf Holtkamp, Francesca Luciani

“…Capillary iso-electric focusing (cIEF), commonly used for the evaluation of such CQA, provides an analytical tool to investigate mAb purity and identity across the product lifecycle. …”
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Optimizing Energy Efficiency in UPA-Assisted SWIPT Massive MIMO Systems Over Rician Fading Channels by Mohammad Hassan Adeli, Dariush Abbasi-Moghadam, Hossein Fotouhi, S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

“…Additionally, we formulate an EE optimization problem considering user-level quality of service and total transmit power constraints. To solve this nonconvex problem, we jointly optimize the allocated power and Power Splitting (PS) ratios by exploiting the fractional programming and convex-concave procedure approaches. …”
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The Research Agenda for Perinatal Innovation and Digital Health Project: Human-Centered Approach to Multipartner Research Agenda Codevelopment by Haneen Amhaz, Sally Xuanping Chen, Amanee Elchehimi, Kylin Jialin Han, Jade Morales Gil, Lu Yao, Marianne Vidler, Kathryn Berry-Einarson, Kathryn Dewar, May Tuason, Nicole Prestley, Quynh Doan, Tibor van Rooij, Tina Costa, Gina Ogilvie, Beth A Payne

“…MethodsCo-design of the research agenda involved a series of activities: (1) review of the provincial Digital Health Strategy and Maternity Services Strategy to identify relevant health system priorities, (2) anonymous survey targeting perinatal care providers to ascertain their current use and perceived need for digital tools, (3) engagement meetings using human-centered design methods with multilingual patients who are currently or recently pregnant to understand their health experiences and needs, and (4) a workshop that brought together patients and other project partners to prioritize identified challenges and opportunities for perinatal digital health in a set of research questions. …”
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The clinical method as a learning content in the medicine career. by Luis Alberto Corona Martínez

“…This article is aimed at reviewing the most essential aspects related to the topic in order to contribute to the deepening on this knowledge among professors students and professionals . …”
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L-shaped association of dietary inflammatory index (DII) and chronic diarrhea: results from NHANES 2005–2010 by Qing Zhao, Yue Xu, Xiangrui Li, Xiaotian Chen

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Sulforaphane ameliorates non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by KLF4-mediated macrophage M2 polarization by Xianghui Huang, Jia Xu, Ye Xu, Bingxin Huangfu, Feng Zhang, Yanzhou Hu, Ruxin Gao, Xinxin Ren, Boyang Zhang, Kunlun Huang, Xiaoyun He

“…We found that SFN attenuates the inflammatory injury in a macrophage cell line and the liver of NASH mice, owing to the promotion of M1-type macrophage polarization toward the M2-type and the regulation of inflammatory mediators. …”
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