Assessment of Strategy Disclosure Drivers in Annual Company Report: A Meta-Synthesis Analysis by Akram Taftiyan, Mohammad Salari Abarghuoi

“…This commitment to transparency encourages a company's leadership to make meaningful investments in the strategy. While disclosing forward-looking statements, like the progress of business strategies' implementation, in annual reports offers insight into the company's direction from management to financial analysts, it can also entail certain costs by potentially harming the company's competitive position.   …”
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Research hotspots and frontiers in the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer: a bibliometric study from 2014 to 2024 by Xinran He, Tingyi Xie, Li Shi, Xuyi Kuang, Lei Li, Xingyu Shang, Bo Fu

“…In addition, keyword and cluster analysis showed that immune checkpoint inhibitors, cancer-associated fibroblasts, macrophage polarization, intestinal microbiota, colorectal cancer liver metastasis, drug resistance, scRNA-seq, etc. may be the research hotspots and trends in this field.ConclusionsColorectal cancer and tumor microenvironment research is in the developmental stage, and strengthening international cooperation can help to drive this field forward. The main components and signaling in TME, CRC immunotherapy, colorectal cancer liver metastasis, and new research techniques are the hot research directions in this domain. …”
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Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organizations on Social Service Delivery: A Case Study of Uganda Red Cross Society Kabale District. by Aharizira, Zackaria

“…It concludes with recommendations like environmental protection should be ensured in the study area as it has backward and forward linkages with development like boosting agriculture and improving health conditions, ensuring the health of the population is the basement for development. …”
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Tackling the primary healthcare workforce crisis: time to talk about health systems and governance—a comparative assessment of nine countries in the WHO European region by Ellen Kuhlmann, Michelle Falkenbach, Monica Georgina Brînzac, Tiago Correia, Maria Panagioti, Bernd Rechel, Anna Sagan, Milena Santric-Milicevic, Marius-Ionuț Ungureanu, Iris Wallenburg, Viola Burau

“…Conclusions Aligning primary healthcare and workforce considerations within the broader health system context may help move the debate forward and build governance capacities to improve resilience in both areas.…”
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Split-Cre-mediated GFP expression as a permanent marker for flagellar fusion of Trypanosoma brucei in its tsetse fly host by Ruth Etzensperger, Mattias Benninger, Berta Pozzi, Ruth Rehmann, Arunasalam Naguleswaran, Gabriela Schumann, Jan Van Den Abbeele, Isabel Roditi

“…Upon flagellar fusion, these Cre halves were exchanged between trypanosomes, forming functional full Cre and flipping reverse-GFP into its forward orientation. We showed that cells that acquired the second half Cre through flagellar fusion were permanently modified and that the cells and their progeny constitutively expressed GFP. …”
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The trunk segmental motion complexity and balance performance in challenging seated perturbation among individuals with spinal cord injury by Mianjia Shan, Chenhao Li, Jiayi Sun, Haixia Xie, Yan Qi, Wenxin Niu, Ming Zhang

“…Backward perturbations, as opposed to forward perturbations, resulted in reduced complexity in the aforementioned segments and increased steady-state error. …”
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Time-resolved measurement of neutron energy isotropy in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch by R.A. Ryan, P.E. Tsai, A.R. Johansen, A.E. Youmans, D.P. Higginson, J.M. Mitrani, C.S. Adams, D.A. Sutherland, B. Levitt, U. Shumlak

“…Characterization of the detector response has reduced the number of free parameters in the fit of the neutron energy distribution, improving the confidence in the forward-fit method. Gamma backgrounds have been measured and the impact of these contributions on the isotropy results have been studied. …”
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Advances in Cell and Immune Therapies for Melanoma by Tanase Timis, Sanda Buruiana, Delia Dima, Madalina Nistor, Ximena Maria Muresan, Diana Cenariu, Adrian-Bogdan Tigu, Ciprian Tomuleasa

“…This review provides an overview of the requirement for advances in these medications, to mark a significant step forward in melanoma management, set to bring a fresh breath of hope for patients.…”
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Beneficial Effect of Multidomain Cognitive Training on the Neuropsychological Performance of Patients with Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease by Anastasia Nousia, Vasileios Siokas, Eleni Aretouli, Lambros Messinis, Athina-Maria Aloizou, Maria Martzoukou, Maria Karala, Charalampos Koumpoulis, Grigorios Nasios, Efthimios Dardiotis

“…Analysis showed that in controls, delayed memory and executive function had deteriorated over the observation period of 15 weeks, while the training group improved their performance in word recognition, Boston Naming Test (BNT), semantic fluency (SF), clock-drawing test (CDT), digit span forward (DSF), digit span backward (DSB), trail-making test A (TMT A), and trail-making test B (TMT B). …”
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Impact of Collagenated and Non-Collagenated Deproteinized Bovine Bone Mineral on Schneiderian Membrane Integrity in Rabbits by Rihito Yamada, Samuel Porfirio Xavier, Yasushi Nakajima, Erick Ricardo Silva, Daniele Botticelli, Yuki Teranishi, Shunsuke Baba

“…<b>Methods:</b> In this forward-looking, randomized, split-mouth design, bilateral maxillary sinus augmentation was conducted on 12 rabbits. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography of Van Der Waals Heterostructures Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light by Felix Wiesner, Johann J. Abel, Muhammad Hussain, Vipin Krishna, Alisson R. Cadore, Juan P. G. Felipe, Ana M. Valencia, Martin Wünsche, Julius Reinhard, Marco Gruenewald, Caterina Cocchi, Gerhard G. Paulus, Giancarlo Soavi, Silvio Fuchs

“…In this work, a step forward is taken in this direction by applying coherence tomography with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light to different van der Waals heterostructures, which enables a 3D sample reconstruction with nanoscopic axial resolution. …”
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Airway morphology, hyoid position, and serum inflammatory markers of obstructive sleep apnea in children treated with modified twin-block appliances by Jun Duan, Wanyuan Xia, Xuelei Li, Feng Zhang, Fan Wang, Mengwei Chen, Qian Chen, Bing Wang, Bing Li

“…Conclusions Children with OSA (n = 35) were managed using MTBA, which relieved the mandibular retrognathia deformity, widened the upper airway space, moved the hyoid bone forward and upward, and improved the sleep monitoring indicators. …”
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Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Stress Symptom Classification of Cucumber Seedlings Grown in a Controlled Environment by Kyu-Ho Lee, Samsuzzaman, Md Nasim Reza, Sumaiya Islam, Shahriar Ahmed, Yeon Jin Cho, Dong Hee Noh, Sun-Ok Chung

“…A cost-effective RGB camera, integrated with a microcontroller, captured images from the top of the seedlings over a two-week period, from which sequential forward floating selection (SFFS) and correlation matrices were used to streamline feature extraction. …”
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Advances in Molecular Genetics of Reproductive Isolation in Rice by Shunmei LI, Zihan ZHENG, Ruiying LIU, Hongze GUO, Lin ZHENG, Yongyao XIE

“…Based on the rice model, this review summarizes the advances of RI in rice, including RI types, molecular genetic basis and overcoming strategies, and provides a forward-looking perspective on the development trend and challenges in the field of rice RI, with an aim to provide ideas and references for further study of molecular genetic mechanism of plant RI and distant crop hybrid breeding.…”
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Transcriptome datasets of salt-stressed tomato plants treated with zinc oxide nanoparticlesMendeley DataSRR30014447 - SRR30014450SRR30014447 - SRR30014450PRJNA1141123SRR30014447 -... by Mostafa Ahmed, Zoltán Tóth, Diaa Attia Marrez, Roquia Rizk, Donia Abdul-Hamid, Kincső Decsi

“…All the aforementioned data is encompassed under the Mendeley database. Moving forward, the utilization of databases will facilitate the examination of modifications in plant biochemical reactions at the level of gene expression.…”
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Coordinated control and protection scheme for fault identification in hybrid three-terminal DC line based on pre-estimation of fault characteristics by Xincui Tian, Ziqian Liu, Jieshan Shan, Jinyun Yu, Jinxiong Wang, Qiang Li, Shihong Zhang, Tuoji Zhu, Jian Hu, Kaiwen Chen, Hongchun Shu

“…Secondly, a ratio braking transverse differential protection is proposed to identify forward and reverse faults reliably. The control strategy is chosen based on the estimated fault characteristics, resulting in a comprehensive approach to cooperative control and protection of lines. …”
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Optimal Network Reconfiguration and Scheduling With Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation for Improved Microgrid Resilience by Yang Chen, Mohammed Olama, Maximiliano F. Ferrari, Guodong Liu, Qingxin Shi, Aditya Sundararajan, Byungkwon Park, Arturo A. Massol-Deya, Thomas B. Ollis

“…Furthermore, hardware-in-the-loop testing is conducted for the same three-microgrid network, where the closely matched results with the simulated ones have validated the effectiveness of the proposed restoration strategy, which is now ready to move one step forward towards field deployment. Finally, to test the proposed restoration strategy in a larger networked system, the modified IEEE-33 bus test distribution system is considered, and the results show a more resilient power delivery for critical loads under three and four line outages.…”
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Exploring the effect of play on heart rate variability as a measure of positive emotional states in pigs by Karolína Steinerová, Annika Krause, Sarah E. Parker, Yolande M. Seddon

“…In 10-s bouts, compared to baseline, RMSSD was higher during play (p = 0.027) and after-play (p = 0.015), while SDNN increased during play (p ≤ 0.001) and after-play (p = 0.008) only with ambulation (pig moving forward: walking or running). HR did not differ across periods but was higher at ambulation (p = 0.003). …”
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Permeability Characteristics of Combined Coal with Different Water Contents by Hongyu Pan, Yao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yan Cao, Yuhang Chu, Shihua Yang

“…The maximum permeability difference between the forward and reverse samples was 10.48 × 10⁻¹³ m². …”
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A qualitative study on the motivations to bariatric surgery of patients with obesity (肥胖症患者寻求减重手术动机的质性研究) by XU Mengyu (徐梦瑜), LIANG Xiaoyu (梁晓宇), SUN Longhao (孙龙昊), HU Fang (胡芳), ZHANG Yan (张妍)

“…Results By analyzing and sorting out the data, 5 themes related to the motivation of pursuing bariatric surgery were put forward: improving health and longevity; treating obesity-related complications; improving quality of life; improving appearance, self-image and social interaction, and controlling poor eating behavior. …”
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