Loss of appetite in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - a mixed methods study by Marie Louise Bergmann, Mia Bundgaard Klausen, Lotte Holm, Jens Rikardt Andersen, Jens-Ulrik Stæhr Jensen, Howraman Meteran

“…Background Loss of appetite in patients with COPD can lead to malnutrition, which is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality.Aims To identify factors associated with loss of appetite among COPD patients and explore their’ experiences regarding appetite and eating.Methods A questionnaire on demographics, medical history and containing the Council on Nutrition Appetite Questionnaire (CNAQ) was posted in a COPD-specific online forum. …”
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E-Waste Plastics in the Environment: Assessment, Characterisation, and Bioprocessing by Diogo A. Ferreira-Filipe, Andrew Hursthouse, Armando C. Duarte, Teresa Rocha-Santos, Ana L. Patrício Silva

“…The accelerated growth of the electrical and electronic equipment market is a major driver behind increasing e-waste volumes worldwide. Although e-waste contains valuable resources, most remain unrecycled or improperly managed. …”
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Experience of using unmanned aerial photography systems for mapping the territory of the Russian Federation by S. Nekhin, A. Rubenok

“…Along with the progress in the development of UAVs, this is facilitated by the current situation in the country with a decreasing number of manned aircraft used for aerial photography. …”
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Quantifying environmental drivers of vegetation condition in a temperate ecosystem can improve detection of management impacts by Johanna G. Kuhne, Patrick J. O’Connor, Jasmin G. Packer, Thomas A.A. Prowse

“…Disentangling the effects of environmental variation and management actions on vegetation condition is increasingly important given increasing efforts to tackle biodiversity loss and the advent of environmental accounting programs. …”
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Physico-chemical properties, spreadability and consumer acceptance of low-sodium cream cheese by Mirela Lučan, Jasmina Ranilović, Vedran Slačanac, Tanja Cvetković, Ljiljana Primorac, Davorka Gajari, Helena Tomić Obrdalj, Marko Jukić, Jasmina Lukinac Čačić

“…The use of potassium salt substitutes significantly increased the value of K:Na ratio. Cheese containing commercial salt replacer Salut® had the closest hedonic score to control cheese compared to other replacers. …”
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A review on the relationship between the distal 1q21.1 microdeletion and schizophrenia by Xinpeng Guo, Xinpeng Guo, Xinpeng Guo, Junrong Guo, Junrong Guo, Xijing Liu, Xijing Liu, Ting Hu, Ting Hu

“…This microdeletion is found in 0.2%–0.6% of individuals with schizophrenia and is associated with an eightfold increased risk of developing the condition. The distal 1q21.1 region contains several schizophrenia risk genes, including PRKAB2, BCL9, CHD1L, GJA5, and GJA8. …”
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Improving mesophilic anaerobic digestion of compostable packaging through efficient and versatile thermo-alkaline pre-treatment by Gaël Huet, Julie Lamarque, Florian Monlau, Valentin Puchelle, Cecilia Sambusiti, Juliana Catalina Suarez Murcia, Sandra Domenek, Florian Pion, Emmanuelle Gastaldi

“…In the current European regulatory context, which requires its Member States to collect biowaste separately with a view to its organic recovery, the co-processing of compostable food packaging with biowaste by mesophilic anaerobic digestion (AD) offers the dual opportunity of promoting its conversion into biogas while reducing plastic contamination of the environment. …”
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Attention as a commodity in the world of disinformation and social media by Radoslav Ivančík, Pavel Nečas, Lucia Iľaščíková

“…Unfortunately, in many cases, it is also through the spread of disinformation. In this context, the authors, using relevant methods of scientific research, focused on attention as a commodity and the functioning of the attention economy in the context of the increasing extent of the spread of various disinformation (but also hoaxes and conspiracy theories) primarily through social networks, their susceptibility to the spread of unwanted content and efforts to regulate the spread of such content.…”
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Book review for Y. Bilan “Migration of Ukrainian Population. Economic, Institutional and Sociocultural Factors” by Romuald Jończy, Diana Rokita-Poskart

“…The situation has changed at the later phase of the Ukrainian state transition (2000-2010) when there was observed stabilization of the migrations scale. Currently, significant increase of migration volumes from Ukraine have been observed, especially in the context of the current political situation in Eastern Ukraine, the very likely probability of further instability accompanied by economic downturn and fundamental changes at Ukrainian labour market, especially in terms of wages, currency exchange and price conditions that are the main factors of labour migration. …”
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A problem of budget rigidities in the state budget and the evolving environment of Polish public finances by Michał Ostrowski

“…On the basis of the current processes taking place in the fiscal policy, the author indicates the need to consider the described problem in a wider context.…”
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Diffusion and Risks of House Prices in the Netherlands by Alfred Larm Teye

“…The chapters are self-contained, four of them having been published separately in international journals and the other being currently under review. …”
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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND TRENDS OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ARCTIC TERRITORIES by M. Dudin, N. Ivashchenko

“…This approach is fundamentally fl awed and fraught with a number of threats, because other countries do not decrease, but only increase their interest in this issue; Territorial opposition to all those involved in the topic of causing instability in the Arctic region, but does not represent a real threat for the emergence of large-scale conflict. …”
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Wisdom of the Established Pattern by Joel Janhonen

“…According to their example, if someone is opposed to increasing as well as decreasing the average human intelligence, they need a good reason for why the current level is optimal. …”
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Transformation of the organization’s management in the digital economy by E. I. Lugovskoy

“…The issues of qualitative transformation of management systems in the context of digitalization and its impact on the improvement of business process technologies are of particular relevance. …”
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The limits of learning engagement and academic leadership within the higher education digitalization process - analysis by using PLS SEM. by Ioana Gutu, Camelia Nicoleta Medeleanu, Romeo Asiminei

“…The current paper considers the changes in the learners' engagement in the context of the dually digital transformation of the higher academic multi-institutional digitally-learning enhancements. …”
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Combined effects of conditional cash transfer program and environmental health interventions on diarrhea and malnutrition morbidity in children less than five years of age in Brazi... by Anelise Andrade de Souza, Sueli Aparecida Mingoti, Rômulo Paes-Sousa, Léo Heller

“…The concomitant presence of these measures with environmental sanitation interventions may increase their positive effect. The context of simultaneous improvement of social protection and environmental sanitation is found in Brazil since 2007 and an assessment of the combined effects of both programs has not been performed so far.…”
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Socio-economic problems of hydrogen energy development by M. A. Pletnev, A. N. Kopysov

“…To solve this problem, the method of analyzing the regulatory framework, monographic, scientific and analytical literature, program documents of various levels, real steps of the authorities in the implementation of the fourth energy transition was used. DISCUSSIONS. The current economic model of energy production and consumption is based on an increase in entropy, which leads to irreversible changes in the global ecosystem. …”
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A Hydrological–Energy Balance Model to Assess Land Surface Temperature at the Urban Scale: The Case Study of Milano, Italy by Sonia Morgese, Wenchuang Zhang, Francesca Casale, Daniele Bocchiola

“…Particularly, we showed that an increase of green share, ΔVF = + 10%, may correspond to a decrease of ΔLST = −0.26°C. …”
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The role of extracellular vesicles in the diagnosis of glioblastoma progression by A. I. Ryabova, V. A. Novikov, N. V. Yunusova, A. A. Ponomareva, L. V. Spirina, O. V. Gribova

“…Glioblastoma is the most common malignant tumor of the brain characterized by fatal outcome prognosis. Current treatment of tumor recurrence allows to increase patient survival, improve functional outcome and decrease caregivers» load. …”
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Optimising the public health benefits of sex work regulation in Senegal: Results from qualitative interviews with policy stakeholders. by Aurélia Lépine, Fanny Procureur, Sandie Szawlowski, Carole Treibich, El Hadj Mbaye, Khady Gueye, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour

“…<h4>Objective</h4>To identify which modifications to the current registration policy have the potential to increase uptake of registration by FSWs and to assess their feasibility in the context of Senegal.…”
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