Trends in prevalence and patterns of use of a heated tobacco product (IQOS™) in Japan: A three-year repeated cross-sectional study [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved w... by Steve Roulet, Karina Fischer, Pierpaolo Magnani, Bertram Zwisele, Nathalie Camille, Suzana AlMoosawi, Marius Sieverding, Martha Bajec, Nelly Mainy

“…Across Y1-Y3, exclusive use of only one type of TNP (Y1-Y3: 82.3%, 75.0%, and 70.4%) decreased, while dual use of two types of TNPs (Y1-Y3: 14.3%, 17.2%, and 16.7%) increased, and poly-TNP use (Y1-Y3: 2.1%, 6.1%, and 10.0%) increased markedly. …”
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Comparative Study between Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women Regarding Variation of Liver Function Tests: Assessment of Health Literacy by Amina I. B. Othman, Dalia M. A. Elsherbini, Hayam F. A. Eittah, Manal S. Hakami, Badria M. A. Mohammed

“… Context: Pregnancy is associated with normal physiological adaptive changes. …”
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Transformation of Stock Market Threats into Investment Opportunities: Modelling the Dependence of the Indian and Vietnamese Stock Markets on the US–China Trade War by Iryna Pozovna, Wojciech Duranowski, Olga Pankiv, Iryna Kalenyuk, Serhii Fomenko

“…The current state of economic and political relations between the United States and China plays a key role in shaping the future economic and geopolitical picture of the world. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE AXIOSPHERE OF THE FUTURE TEACHER IN THE DIALOGUE SPACE OF MODERN EDUCATION by N. A. Astashova, S. K. Bondyreva, A. P. Smantser

“…The implementation of the components mentioned above can create a special context for the humanitarian training of a future teacher; will give an opportunity of interactive development of students’ common cultural, communicative and special competencies; will increase students’ motivation to pedagogical activity, the search of new ideas for training, innovations and professional self-education. …”
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Self-organizing expert communities in educational projects by Gennadiy P. Vinogradov, Vladimir N. Kuznetsov

“…It is proposed to consider the construction of specialist’s knowledge model in the context of corporate knowledge management strategies in organizations to increase competitiveness, as the established support systems for organization knowledge lifecycle and specialist’s integral knowledge model are used to integrate strategic corporate tasks with strategic tasks of developing employees’ corporate knowledge. …”
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Federated learning assisted distributed energy optimization by Yuhan Du, Nuno Mendes, Simin Rasouli, Javad Mohammadi, Pedro Moura

“…Abstract The increased penetration of distributed energy resources and the adoption of sensing and control technologies are driving the transition from our current centralized electric grid to a distributed system controlled by multiple entities (agents). …”
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PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES INVESTIGATION OF HEMPCRETE by Laurențiu ADAM, Dorina-Nicolina ISOPESCU

“…Food, energy and construction are the three main domains in which different uses of industrial hemp confirm the role and importance that agriculture has in human life. In the current context with an increased need for energy efficiency and environmental protection, the attention of scientists is directed towards the identification of ecological construction materials, and a sustainable way of life, where the circular economy must become part of people’s living habits. …”
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Variation of gut microbiota composition in a honey bee breeding population: exploring potential links with docility and honey production by M.G. De Iorio, G. Minozzi, F. Tiezzi

“…Today the survival of bees is increasingly dependent on beekeeping practices. In this context, the present study explores the composition of honey bee gut microbiota, its changes in time and its potential relationship with two key traits of interest to beekeepers: docility and honey yield. …”
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Utilidad de la procalcitonina como biomarcador en cirugía cardiaca by Mario Castaño, Pasquale Maiorano, Laura Castillo, Blanca Meana, Belén Ramos, Elio Martín-Gutiérrez, Javier A. Gualis

“…This review presents the state of the art regarding the predictive value of procalcitonin as a clinical biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of infection in various clinical contexts and the current evidence of the usefulness of this biomarker in the diagnosis and prognosis of infectious and non-infectious complications in the cardiac postoperative period.…”
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The Impact of Industry-University Collaboration on Enhancing Product Attractiveness for Iranian Consumers by Amin Attari, Hossein Ashoori

“…While this study examined the causal relationship in several scenarios, using an experimental method, further research is recommended to generalize the findings to other contexts, particularly the service sector.…”
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Exploring the role of self-led debriefings within simulation-based education: time to challenge the status quo? by Prashant Kumar, Neil Malcolm Harrison, Katy McAleer, Ibraaheem Khan, Susan Geraldine Somerville

“…In situations where resources for facilitator-led debriefings (FLDs) are limited, simulation educators should recognise SLDs as a potential avenue to explore in their local contexts. By leveraging the strengths of both formats, balancing learner autonomy and expert guidance, a combined SLD and FLD approach may yet prove to be the optimal debriefing strategy to maximise learning. …”
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Localized policy design for clean heating transitions: a multi-city analysis of renter preferences for energy efficiency by Graeme Troxell, Steve Conrad, Reuven Sussman

“…IntroductionThe transition to clean heating systems in rental housing is crucial for achieving net-zero emissions goals, yet current policy frameworks lack systematic understanding of how renter preferences vary across different market contexts. …”
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New Strategic Approaches to Gaining from Emerging Advanced Manufacturing Markets by Yuri Simachev, Anna Fedyunina, Maksim Yurevich, Mikhail Kuzyk, Nikolay Gorodnyi

“…The authors conclude that in the current context, no universal approaches to shaping a successful industrial policy remain. …”
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Formalizing Public Transit in Mid-Sized Developing Cities by Hasan Shahab, Hemin Mohammed

“… Mid-sized cities in developing cities face increasing demand to modernize their public transit (PT) systems to advance sustainability, equity, and resilience. …”
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Student experiences of attending the first online Southern African Students Psychology Conference at an open distance e-learning university in South Africa by Janice K Moodley-Marie, Bianca Parry, Itumeleng Masisi

“…In this paper, we discuss the experiences of students that attended the first online Southern African Students Psychology Conference (SASPC) during the pandemic in South Africa within an Open Distance e-Learning context. We use academic socialisation as a theoretical framework to understand student experiences attending the first online SASPC and to discuss the student conference as a site for decolonialisation. …”
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Analysis of Methods and Tools for Detecting Sensitive Information in Source Code: Issues of Accuracy and Completeness by Sergey Lebed, Sophiia Ibragimova

“…In the context of widespread adoption of DevOps practices and increasing software system complexity, the issue of sensitive information leakage – such as API keys, passwords, and tokens – directly from source code and configuration files is becoming critically important. …”
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E. Beaunoyer, M. J. Guitton. Cyberthanathology: death and beyond in the digital age / trans. from Engl. A. V. Antipov by A. V. Antipov

“…Indeed, emerging technologies are not only embedded in end-of-life, death, and grief experiences, they are also changing the global context in which these phenomena take place. Although interactions between death-related phenomena and technologies are not new, the ubiquitous presence of digitalized spaces drastically increased the salience and the magnitude of these interactions. …”
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Digitalization of Islamic Banking in Indonesia: Justification and Compliance to Sharia Principles by Muchammad Ichsan, Fadia Fitriyanti, Kusumaningdiah Retno Setiorini, Adam Ma'abdeh Al-Qudah

“…This study is novel in its comprehensive analysis of how digitalization can be harmonized with Sharia principles in the Indonesian context, providing a unique legal and practical framework for Islamic banks aiming to modernize their services while maintaining religious compliance.…”
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Selection of Prosthesis in Aortic Valve Surgery: Short Review and Trend in our Practice in 10 Years by Selman Dumani, Ermal Likaj, Laureta Dibra, Devis Pellumbi, Adelina Musliu, Fjoralba Qejvani, Altin Veshti

“…These complications vary between the two main groups of prostheses: bioprosthetic and mechanical. In this context, we are confronted with the challenge of selecting the type of prosthesis suitable for each patient. …”
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Multi-Temporal Analysis and Techno-Economic Evaluation of Offshore Wind Energy Integration to the Western Interconnection by Li He, Shahnawaz Siddiqui, Sameer Nekkalapu, Sohom Datta, Travis Douville, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Manisha Maharjan

“…A novel multi-terminal high voltage direct current (MTDC) model was developed and utilized, and its performance is compared with conventional high voltage direct current (HVDC) radial topology. …”
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