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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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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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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Water- and frost-resistance of crushed stone mastic asphalt concrete prepared on sevilen-modified bitumen by V. V. Yadykina, S. N. Navolokina, A. M. Gridchin

“…Introduction. Currently, increasing the durability of road asphalt concrete pavements is one of the urgent issues, the solution of which provides a significant economic effect achieved by increasing the turnaround time, as well as the overall service life of highways. …”
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Preliminary results on novel adjuvant combinations suggest enhanced immunogenicity of whole inactivated pandemic influenza vaccines by Allegra Peletta, Aurélie Marmy, Samo Guzelj, Alcidia Ramos Barros, Žiga Jakopin, Gerrit Borchard

“…Adjuvanted influenza vaccines can increase immune responses, thereby achieving better protection and cross-reactivity to help contain the spread of the disease. …”
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Multi-omics reveals total flavones from Abelmoschus manihot (L.) Medik. [Malvaceae] ameliorate MAFLD via PI3K/AKT/mTOR-mediated autophagy by Chao Lv, Chao Lv, Chao Lv, Chao Lv, Chao Lv, Lei Zhao, Jiani Hou, Hongyin Sun, Hongyin Sun, Hongyin Sun, Zhongsha Li, Zhongsha Li, Zhongsha Li, Zhongsha Li, Yuesong Wu, Yuesong Wu, Yuesong Wu, Yuesong Wu, Peizheng Shi, Yaping Xiao, Yunjin Xie, Yunjin Xie, Yunjin Xie, Yunjin Xie, Wei Su, Wei Su, Wei Su, Wei Su, Mingzhu Yin, Mingzhu Yin, Mingzhu Yin, Mingzhu Yin

“…Histological analysis demonstrated that TFA alleviated hepatic steatosis and fibrosis, with decreased levels of inflammatory cytokines and increased antioxidant markers. …”
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Biooxidation of Arsenopyrite by <i>Acidithiobacillus ferriphilus</i> QBS 3 Exhibits Arsenic Resistance Under Extremely Acidic Bioleaching Conditions by Run Liu, Siyu Liu, Xiaoxuan Bai, Shiping Liu, Yuandong Liu

“…As described in this paper, through arsenic acclimation, the maximum arsenic tolerance concentration of <i>Acidithiobacillus ferriphilus</i> QBS 3 isolated from arsenic-containing acid mine drainage was increased to 80 mM As(Ⅲ) and 100 mM As(V). …”
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Development of an Effective Single-Dose PCV2/CSFV Bivalent Subunit Vaccine Against Classical Swine Fever Virus and Porcine Circovirus Type 2 by Yu-Chieh Chen, Wen-Bin Chung, Hso-Chi Chaung, Yen-Li Huang, Chi-Chih Chen, Guan-Ming Ke

“…Therefore, swine operations in CSF-endemic regions are encouraged to immunize piglets with both PCV2 and CSFV vaccinations. Currently, there is no commercially available bivalent vaccine for PCV2/CSFV. …”
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Multiscale feature tuned trans-DeepLabV3+ based semantic segmentation of aerial images using improved red piranha optimization algorithm by P. Anilkumar, K. Lokesh, A. Naveen Kumar, D. John Pradeep, Y. V. Pavan Kumar, Rammohan Mallipeddi

“…Nonetheless, supervised learning necessitates a substantial quantity of images with pixel-level labeling. Currently, available techniques, which are mostly Deep Semantic Segmentation Networks (DSSN), might not be appropriate for application domains with a dearth of labels containing targeted masks of outputs. …”
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Cranberry Leaves as Feed Additive in Poultry Nutrition: Effects on Performance and Oxidative Stability by Arabela Elena Untea, Iulia Varzaru, Mihaela Saracila, Petru Alexandru Vlaicu, Alexandra-Gabriela Oancea, Tatiana Dumitra Panaite

“…The leaves belonging to that species can be considered a cost-effective alternative in the context of reducing antibiotics strategy in animal nutrition. …”
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Electrodeposited p‐Cu2O Films – Role of Redox‐Active Compounds Under Photoelectrochemical Operation Revisited by Michael Neumann‐Spallart, Dharini Bhagat, Šárka Paušová, Josef Krýsa, Indrajit Mukhopadhyay

“…Under electrical bias, cathodic and photocathodic currents passed and increased dramatically when reducible redox compounds were added. …”
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Development of a vaccine adjuvant based on squalene and study of its adjuvant properties by E. A. Volosnikova, D. N. Shcherbakov, V. V. Ermolaev, N. V. Volkova, O. N. Kaplina, M. B. Borgoyakova, E. D. Danilenko

“…The use of modern subunit vaccines involves adjuvant introduction into their composition. Currently, the search for new and improvement of existing adjuvant systems is actively underway. …”
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COVID-19 outbreak in Mauritania: epidemiology and health system response by Mohamed Lemine Cheikh Brahim Ahmed, Sidi Zehaf, Mohamed Mahmoud El Alem, Ahmed Elbara, Mohamed Mahmoud Ely Mahmoud, Mohamed Val Mohamed Abdellahi, Jorg Heukelbach

“…During the first wave, there were 38 ICU beds nationwide, but the ICU’s capacity increased in short time. Conclusions: Mauritania has passed through the first pandemic wave with relatively low case fatality rates, currently being at the end of the second wave. …”
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Adverse birth outcome research case definitions associated with maternal HIV and antiretroviral drug use in pregnancy: a scoping review by Kopano R. Dube, Shani T. de Beer, Kathleen M. Powis, Michael McCaul, Amy L. Slogrove

“…In conjunction with good reporting, variation in adverse birth outcome definitions can be decreased to facilitate comparability of studies as well as pooling of data for enhanced evidence synthesis.…”
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L-Sort: On-Chip Spike Sorting With Efficient Median-of-Median Detection and Localization-Based Clustering by Yuntao Han, Yihan Pan, Xiongfei Jiang, Cristian Sestito, Shady Agwa, Themis Prodromakis, Shiwei Wang

“…The advancement of neural probes facilitates the recording of a high number of neurons with an increase in channel counts, arising a higher data volume and challenging the current on-chip spike sorters. …”
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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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Biological and mechanical challenges in the endodontic treatment of immature teeth with pulp necrosis: insights based on a Series of Atypical Clinical Cases by Julian Gregoire Leprince, Motoki Okamoto, Matthias Widbiller, Julien Beauquis, Simon Mariano Pedano, Kerstin M. Galler, Yusuke Takahashi

“… Over the past two decades, dental pulp regeneration has become a major focus in endodontology. The currently applied clinical strategies are referred to as ‘revitalisation’ procedures. …”
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