The role of mast cells in allergic rhinitis by Jin Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Ruixia Ma, Peng Liu

“…Introduction In recent decades, mast cells and their mediators have been increasingly recognized as central players in the pathogenesis of allergic rhinitis (AR), a complex chronic nasal disease characterized by pathological changes influenced by genetic factors, various immune cells, and environmental exposures. …”
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Monitoring the Level of Digital Transformation in Education: Indexes and Technologies by V. V. Sviridova

“…Digital transformation is the foundation of global and national economic growth. Currently, a strategic direction has been adopted in the field of digital transformation of education until 2030, which belongs to the field of activity of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. …”
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Facilitating Advance Care Planning Conversations Among Patients With Cancer and Their Care Partners Utilizing a Conversation Game: A Pilot Study by Kylee Kimbel, Michael Hayes, Morgan Bucher, William A. Calo, Tullika Garg, Monika Joshi, Hannah Kuntz, Terrence E. Murphy, Erika VanDyke, Emily Wasserman, Lauren J. Van Scoy

“…ABSTRACT Background Patients with cancer should engage in decision‐making throughout the course of their illness and treatment. Current guidelines recommend early, frequent advance care planning (ACP) conversations among clinicians, patients, and care partners (CPs) and advance directive (AD) completion. …”
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Factors Influencing Online Health Information Acquisition Behavior of Rural Elderly Groups in Western China: A Field Study from the Guanzhong Region of Shaanxi Province by Zheng WANG, Miao ZHUANG, Yudi ZHANG, Yaqi ZHANG

“…This study aims to explore the factors influencing the online health information access behavior of the elderly in rural areas of western China, with the aim of improving the current situation of this group's access to information, increasing the efficiency of their access to health information, narrowing the digital divide, and providing references for promoting the "Healthy China 2030" strategy. …”
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Lightweight GAN-Assisted Class Imbalance Mitigation for Apple Flower Bud Detection by Wenan Yuan, Peng Li

“…Generative adversarial networks (GANs), an emerging deep learning research topic, are able to learn from existing data distributions and generate similar synthetic data, which might serve as valid training data for improving object detectors. The current study investigated the utility of lightweight unconditional GAN in addressing weak object detector class performance by incorporating synthetic data into real data for model retraining, under an agricultural context. …”
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Interaction of university students with educational content in the conditions of information educational environment by E. G. Belyakova, I. G. Zakharova

“…The urgency of the problem is enhanced in the context of the integration of formal and non-formal education, its personalisation in an open information environment and the individualisation of education through the practice of individual educational trajectories.The aim of the present research was to identify the current state of interaction of university students with educational content.Methodology and research methods. …”
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Primary care in rural areas: a qualitative study on medical students’ images and experiences of working in rural areas in southern Germany by Jan Gehrmann, Niklas Barth, Tom Brandhuber, Pascal O. Berberat, Sophie Gigou, Antonius Schneider

“…Abstract Background Rural areas are increasingly moving back into the focus of social research, especially in the context of health care. …”
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Radiation influence on antioxidant capacity, bioactive compounds and extractability of coffee processing residues by João Pedro Alves de Azevedo Barros, Luz Merida Rondan-Flores, Bianca Guimarães Negrão, Ana Sofia Saliba, Severino Alencar, Daniel Vieira, Anna Lucia Villavicencio

“…Therefore, ionizing radiation has stood out as a promising technique among the current resources available for residue reuse and microbial load reduction. …”
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Sectoral investments to achieve water, energy and land SDG under climate change uncertainty by Adriano Vinca, Muhammad Awais, Edward Byers, Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi

“…Developing countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa will need to increase their spending by 10%–30%, compared to current trends, to meet their SDGs for water. …”
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THE INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION PROCESS IN AZERBAIJAN by Samira Huseyn qizi Abasova

“…Additionally, the authors provided an expert evaluation of the higher education system in Azerbaijan by applying SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats within the current educational framework. In the context of Azerbaijan, the transformation of higher education is increasingly aligned with the priorities of economic diversification, the digital economy, and global integration. …”
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Project-based action in the structure of educational-game environments by N.V. Gromyko, Y.V. Gromyko, S.P. Usoltsev

“…Currently, the problem of declining motivation among school students in the context of the modern education system, which is heavily focused on preparing for the Unified State Exam (USE) and Olympiads, is widely recognized. …”
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Compensação ambiental: da contradição à valoração do meio ambiente no Brasil / Environmental compensation: from the contradiction to the valuation of the environment in Brazil... by Rafael Oliveira Fonseca

“…As currently the state has been conducting massive investments in sectors considered strategic for economic growth, environmental vector has been extremely pressed and increasingly valued. …”
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Global Citizenship Education and ELT? by Michael Koppel

“…Using qualitative content analysis, the interviews reveal that pre-service teachers as experts-in-the-making show great enthusiasm towards global citizenship education in the context of English language teaching. Particularly the promotion of the global community as well as fostering their future students’ capabilities to engage with an increasingly globalized world were shared goals among the interviewees. …”
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‘Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved’: an ethnographic analysis of the health system in Black Panther’s Wakanda by Jennifer Jackson, Carla Ferreira, Samantha Perry, Carla Ginn, Melissa Scott, Elke Jaibeeh Barah, Zahra Upal, Krista Phelps, Carol Mei, Haneul Woo, Megan Tung, Farida Gadimova, Alexandra Ewanyshyn, Twyla Ens

“…The emergence of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has introduced significant global challenges for healthcare systems, healthcare professionals and patients. This current climate creates an opportunity to learn from equitable health systems and move toward making fundamental changes to healthcare systems. …”
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Towards the Integration of Additive Manufacturing for Freeform Steel and Glass Façade Construction by Lia Tramontini

“…Therefore, seeing AM as an opportunity to improve on current fabrication strategies, this dissertation aims to answer the following question: How can additive manufacturing be effectively utilized to develop node solutions that support freeform steel and glass façade construction? …”
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Monitoring of hepatitis E virus infection and replication by functional tagging of the ORF2 protein by Maliki Ankavay, Nathalie Da Silva, Angela Pollán, Noémie Oechslin, Katja Dinkelborg, Patrick Behrendt, Darius Moradpour, Jérôme Gouttenoire

“…Understanding of the mechanisms underlying productive HEV infection remains incomplete and would benefit from technological advances improving current model systems. Methods: We exploited transposon-mediated random insertion and selection of viable clones to identify sites in the HEV open reading frame 2 (ORF2) protein, corresponding to the viral capsid, allowing for the insertion of reporter sequences in a functional context. …”
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Brain Structural Correlates of EEG Network Hyperexcitability, Symptom Severity, Attention, and Memory in Borderline Personality Disorder by Andrea Schlump, Bernd Feige, Swantje Matthies, Katharina von Zedtwitz, Isabelle Matteit, Thomas Lange, Kathrin Nickel, Katharina Domschke, Marco Reisert, Alexander Rau, Markus Heinrichs, Dominique Endres, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Simon Maier

“…<b>Introduction</b>: Previous neuroimaging studies have reported structural brain alterations and local network hyperexcitability in terms of increased slow-wave electroencephalography (EEG) activity in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). …”
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Model of regional human resource management as a tool for sustainable development of the socioeconomic system by Veronika S. Zhukova

“…Integration of regional human resource management into the process of achieving goals of national economy is of particular importance in the context of the need for a comprehensive and systemic approach to the development of territories. …”
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Implementation of the National Project «Labor Productivity and Employment Support» in the Perm Region: Facts, Problems, Prospects by T. V. Alexandrova, V. L. Popov

“…In the context of the reorientation of the Russian economy towards an innovative development path, the issue of increasing labor productivity has become an important part of state policy.Currently, the country is implementing a large-scale national project «Labor productivity and employment support». …”
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The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK higher education by Ewan Woodley, Stewart Barr, Lesley Batty, Karen Bickerstaff, Christopher Darvill, Raihana Ferdous, Naomi Holmes, Ihnji Jon, Kenny Lynch, Julian Martin, Alan Marvell, Derek McDougall, Hannah Pitt, Aled Singleton, Catherine Souch, Lynda Yorke

“…Yet, this key area of pedagogy appears increasingly unsustainable and complex for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within the context of the urgent need for decarbonisation, increasing financial costs, and the institutional challenges of comprehensively embedding necessary Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) considerations into these activities. …”
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