Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Subjects with Subclinical Cerebral White Matter Lesions by Chi-Hang Yee, Ching Leung, Yuki Yu-Ting Wong, Sylvia Lee, Jenny Li, Pauline Kwan, Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu, Vincent Chung-Tong Mok, Chi-Fai Ng

“…WMLs were graded using the Fazekas scale from 0 to 3. A separate telephone interview was carried out to assess the urinary symptoms in these subjects using the questionnaire Overactive Bladder-Validated 8-Question Awareness Tool (OAB-V8). …”
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Improving the Determination of Supernova Cosmological Redshifts by Using Galaxy Groups by Erik R. Peterson, Bastien Carreres, Anthony Carr, Daniel Scolnic, Ava Bailey, Tamara M. Davis, Dillon Brout, Cullan Howlett, David O. Jones, Adam G. Riess, Khaled Said, Georgie Taylor

“…For new and upcoming low- z samples from, for example, the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a separate follow-up program identifying galaxy groups of SN hosts is a highly cost-effective way to enhance their constraining power.…”
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Diagnostic ultrasound enhances, then reduces, exogenously induced brain activity of mice by Henry Tan, Devon J. Griggs, Devon J. Griggs, Lucas Chen, Kahte Adele Culevski, Kathryn Floerchinger, Alissa Phutirat, Gabe Koh, Nels Schimek, Pierre D. Mourad, Pierre D. Mourad

“…Subsequent brain activity decreased after cessation of tDUS but with continuation of the blinking light, though it remained above that demonstrated by mice exposed to only a blinking light. In a separate experiment, we showed that tDUS alone, without a blinking light, had no observable effect on median brain activity, but upon its cessation, brain activity decreased. …”
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Quantifying human genome parameters in aging by V. P. Volobaev, S. S. Kunizheva, L. I. Uralsky, D. A. Kupriyanova, E. I. Rogaev

“…The review considers the relationship between quantitative characteristics of the mitochondrial genome and aging, longevity, and age-related neurodegenerative diseases, such as the frequency of extensive mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions, mtDNA half-life, the frequency of A>G replacements in the mtDNA heavy chain, the number of mtDNA copies; special attention is paid to the mtDNA methylation sign. A separate section of this review is devoted to the correlation of telomere length parameters with age, as well as the association of telomere length with the amount of mitochondrial DNA. …”
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Diagnosis and treatment of thyroblastoma: a case report and review of literature by Xiting Chen, Xiting Chen, Lijuan Xiong, Lijuan Xiong, Hongling Liu, Haoqiang Wang, Donghai Cheng, Wei Wang, Wenyuan He, Bo Xie, Juan Zhou

“…The patient ultimately died of cardiac arrest resulting from the progression of the cancer thrombus to the right atrium and right ventricle.ConclusionAlthough thyroblastoma has been treated as a separate entity with its distinctive morphologic and molecular characteristics, its clinicopathological features, diagnosis and treatment methods and prognosis remain poorly understood, which requires more accumulated clinical case data to provide basis for the correct diagnosis and treatment in the future.…”
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Methodological provision of th analysis and assessment of the development of the circular economy in the EU by Оleksandr Shubalyi, Viktor Khomytskyi, Svitlana Moshchych

“…It was concluded that it is important for Ukraine to adapt and harmonize domestic statistics in accordance with the methodical approaches defined by Eurostat, highlighting a separate direction - circular economy development statistics. …”
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Harnessing coaches' expertise: creating 11 sport-specific profiles for talent orientation by Johanna Ochs, Andreas Hohmann, Johan Pion, Johan Pion

“…Each discipline had a separate standardized questionnaire, with judo categories combined into one.ResultsThe results show individual profiles of relevant characteristics for each sport discipline. …”
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History of Lithuania in Cinema and Television. Peculiarities of discourse construction by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…Problematic history should be perceived as a separate "branch" of factographic history. It is characterized by a focus on the modern actualities of social historic consciousness and emphasis on the problems of the cognition of the past and the reconstructional nature of history.   …”
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Modern trends and conceptual approaches to understanding the essence of the concept of “national security” by Yu. O. Zahumenna

“…More specific varieties of the legal definition of “security”, which correlate with it as “general” and “special” categories, are the concepts of “national security”, “state security”, “public security”, “personal security”, and derivatives from them, such as “military security”, “economic security”, “information security” and other types of security, are allocated in a separate type in numerous scientific works of Ukrainian and foreign specialists depending on the object of protection, the sphere of social relations, and the types of practical activities of various state bodies. …”
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Review of decisions in cases of administrative offenses for violation of the order of organizing and holding meetings, rallies, street marches and demonstrations under the legal re... by M. A. Sambor

“…Attention is drawn to the fact that the peculiarities of the legal regime are not reflected in the decisions of appeal courts, although such a legal regime significantly affects the use and exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. A separate issue is the specifics of the use by courts of appeal of the legal positions formulated in the decisions of the Supreme Court regarding the treatment of individual pieces of evidence and their sources. …”
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Functional Improvements by Controlled Suture Tension in Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair by Shinji Imai, MD, PhD

“…A group of 39 patients with a rotator cuff tear were treated with arthroscopic suture-bridge rotator cuff repair, in which the bridging sutures were uniformly tensioned to 20 N (group A). A separate group of 37 patients was treated with the same suture construct, but the sutures were tensioned by maximum manual pulling (mean tension, 36.1 N; group B). …”
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Feasibility assessment of a pharmaco-kinetic behavior based yield model of salivary cotinine among tobacco users by E.C. Hensel, R.J. Robinson

“…A subset of the available participant data was used to train the PkBBY model and identify three parameters: a gain reflecting the conversion of nicotine into salivary cotinine concentration, and the half-lives of nicotine and salivary cotinine in the body. A separate subset of the available data was used for assessing performance of the PkBBY model against salivary cotinine biomarkers of exposure. …”
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University Interaction with Regional Subjects in the Assessments of the Faculty by M. V. Boguslavsky, N. V. Ladyzhets, O. V. Sannikova, E. V. Neborsky

“…Pessimism prevails in the responses of professors about the hopes for cooperation with authorities and business in the region, which requires a separate study, since it can be caused by a number of factors. …”
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Energy Efficiency of Using Hybrid Heating Points in Conditions of Integration of Electrical and Thermal Networks of Urban Neighborhoods. Part 1. Justification of the Feasibility of... by A. V. Sednin, M. I. Pozdnyakova

“…Therefore, the definition of these restrictions is a separate issue. In comparison with the direct consumption of electricity for the needs of heat supply, which is a priori energetically and economically inefficient, the use of hybrid systems in heat supply allows us to solve the multifunctional task of increasing the reliability of energy supply and the stability of the functioning of the power system, which is primarily achieved by solving the problem of balancing the capacity of production and energy consumption from the position of aligning  schedules of energy generation and consumption.…”
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Protection and Control of the State Border as a Component of Ensuring National Security of Ukraine by V. V. Polovnikov

“…In the scientific literature the content of governance in this area being considered differently. In particular, as a separate subsystem of public administration in the administrative and political sphere at the level with the management of state or military security and defence, components of national or internal security of Ukraine, etc. …”
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War and criminal law policy of Ukraine: challenges and responses by Yu. V. Orlov, N. O. Pribytkova

“…The inadequacy of the application of norms on war crimes in those cases in which terrorism takes place has been established at the level of a separate scientific and law-enforcement problem. The possibility of the coexistence of the phenomena of terrorism and aggressive war, the presence of signs of war crimes and terrorist acts in the actions of combatants has been proven. …”
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Assessment of levels of navigation systems of medical organizations from the position of lean production by A. A. Kurmangulov, Yu. S. Reshetnikova, N. S. Brynza

“…The “Levels” block was represented by 19 parameters with a separate assessment of the internal level (9 indicators), the intermediate level (5 indicators) and the external level (5 indicators) of navigation. …”
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Protection of personal data of the employee by S. M. Gusarov, K. Yu. Melnyk

“…In particular, it is proposed to supplement the Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine and the draft Law of Ukraine “On Labor” with a separate article “Protection of employee’s personal data”, which provides for the definition of the terms “employee’s personal data” and “employee’s personal data protection”; establish a list of information that is the employee’s personal data; establish the employer's obligation to protect the employee's personal data; establish disciplinary and material liability for employees performing work related to personal data processing for violation of personal data protection legislation, as well as material liability for employers for violation of personal data protection legislation.…”
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Surge Response on Motivation Among Anesthesiology Residents and Fellows: A discussion of findings from semi-structured interviews at Montefiore Medical C... by Sujatha Ramachandran, Kateryna Slinchenkova, Jonathan Leff, David Adams, Sarang Koushik, Omar Viswanath, Naum Shaparin

“… # Methods All residents and fellows (Focus Group 1) of the Anesthesiology Department of Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview via Zoom, held on two separate dates. A separate invitation was sent to the faculty of the department (Focus Group 2), held on one date. …”
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Specific Features of the Formation and Development of Mediation in Foreign Countries with Anglo-Saxon and Romano-Germanic Legal Systems by S. S. Myrza

“…Using the epistemological method of the research, the author has defined the essence of mediation as a separate alternative way of resolving disputes, which was initiated in the 60-70s of the XX century in the United States of America. …”
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