Assessment of diabetes mellitus type 2 treatment costs in the Republic of Serbia by Biorac Nenad, Jakovljević Mihajlo B., Stefanović Danka, Perović Saša, Janković Slobodan

“…Taking into consideration available estimate from the Institute of Public Health of Serbia of 475 000 people with this disease at the national level, we were able to compare these data. Assuming that our sample was enough representative and that the structure of costs was approximately similar at the local and national level, we were able to calculate an estimate of total cost of the disease. …”
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Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (HEAL-D), a culturally tailored self-management education and support program for type 2 diabetes in black-British adults: a rando... by Fiona Reid, Carol Rivas, Seeromanie Harding, Louise M Goff, Amanda Moore, Nicholas Beckley-Hoelscher

“…Introduction Black-British communities are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes (T2D). Structured education programs are a core component of T2D healthcare but they are less successful in people from minority ethnic groups. …”
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Substituted (сycloalkylcarbonylthioureido)aryl-(benzyl-)carboxylic(sulfonic) acids: synthesis, antimicrobial and growth-regulating activity by O. V. Kholodniak, V. V. Stavytskyi, S. I. Kovalenko

“…It was shown that the latter could be easily synthesized by the sequential interaction of cyclopropanecarbonyl chloride, ammonium isothiocyanate, and aminoaryl-(benzyl-)carboxylic, sulfanilic acids or sulfamide. Data of 1H NMR spectra showed the peculiarities of the structure of the synthesized compounds, namely the presence of singlet signals of protons of urea, thioamide and carboxyl groups, multiple signals of methine and methylene protons of cyclopropane fragment. …”
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Rearrangeable-Nonblocking Five-Port Silicon Optical Switch for 2-D-Mesh Network on Chip by Ting Zhou, Hao Jia, Jincheng Dai, Shanglin Yang, Lei Zhang, Xin Fu, Lin Yang

“…We propose and experimentally demonstrate a five-port silicon optical switch based on the optimized Spanke–Beneš structure for 2-D-mesh network on chip. We optimize it by substituting optical waveguide crossings for 2 × 2 optical switching units. …”
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New Temporin A Analogues Modified in Positions 1 and 10—Synthesis and Biological Studies by Dilyana Dimitrova, Veronica Nemska, Ivan Iliev, Stoyko Petrin, Nelly Georgieva, Dancho Danalev

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: The obtained structure–activity relationship data show that the most promising compound in the tested series is FLPLIGRVL-<b>Y</b>-GILNH₂, where the Ser residue in position 10 is replaced by a more hydrophobic OH-containing Tyr residue. …”
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Enhanced breast tumor localization with DRA antenna backscattering and GPR algorithm in microwave imaging by Anupma Gupta, Sachin Kumar Yadav, Anand Deva Durai C, Vipan Kuamr, Mohammed H. Alsharif, Peerapong Uthansakul, Monthippa Uthansakul

“…Proposed structure has shown efficient performance for microwave imaging.…”
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Methods for Involving People With Dementia in Health Policy and Guideline Development: A Scoping Review by Felix Bühler, Jennifer Geyer, Gabriele Meyer, Anja Bieber

“…While a majority of methods had some facilitation in place to elicit information from participating people with dementia, only nine methods used a structured aggregation to synthesise participants' contributions into a joint statement. …”
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THE BELOMORIAN ECLOGITE PROVINCE (EASTERN FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELD, RUSSIA): MESO-NEOARCHEAN OR LATE PALEOPROTEROZOIC? by M. V. Mints, K. A. Dokukina

“…A critical discussion of competing models of the geodynamic nature (oceanic or continental subduction) and age (Meso-Neoarchean or Late Paleoproterozoic) of the eclogite facies metamorphism in the Belomorian eclogite province (BEP) is based on the systematic analysis of the sum of previously known and newly obtained data characterizing the geological structure of the Salma eclogite association and features of zircons from eclogites, including the isotopegeochronological and geochemical characteristics, composition and distribution of mineral inclusions. …”
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The experiences of night shift workers following three different dietary weight loss interventions: a qualitative study using behaviour change theory by Corinne Davis, Sue Kleve, Catherine E. Huggins, Maxine P. Bonham

“…Methods Forty-seven semi-structured interviews (22 baseline, 25 follow-up) were conducted with 33 participants. …”
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Research on the return migration characteristics of highly educated groups targeting Wuhan as their intended destination by GAO Zhe, YU Jiayi, QIU Jiayi, ZHU Yuanyuan

“…Notably, the majority of return migrants originated from within this diamond-shaped structure. (2) Distinct regional differences were observed among return migration types. …”
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Lipid-lowering therapy in patients with coronary artery disease in primary care practices: what has changed over 7 years? by S. K. Zyryanov, S. B. Fitilev, A. V. Vozzhaev, I. I. Shkrebneva, D. A. Klyuev, L. N. Stepanyan, A. A. Danilova, A. T. Tsai, N. N. Landyshev, Ya. G. Voronko

“…Statin monotherapy continued to prevail in the structure of LLT: its prescription rate increased from 48,2 up to 82,3% (p&lt;0,05) in total sample. …”
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Research on carbon compensation zoning guided by major function zones: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta region by Rui Shen, Yinan Yang, Jialong Xu, Li Wang, Yuhang Jiang, Yujing Xie, Yuan Wang

“…To address this gap, we developed a “carbon source- carbon sequestration ” quantification model using multi-source data and employed a hierarchical analysis approach to examine carbon budget inequities in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region at both grid and county scales. …”
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Needs of the network: a qualitative study of the needs of family members, partners and close friends of people with a severe mental illness (SMI) by Gwen van Husen, Thijs J. Burger, Mariken B. de Koning, Matty A.S. de Wit, Menno W. Segeren, Aartjan T.F. Beekman

“…We used reflexive thematic analysis to analyze the data, resulting in three themes of perceived needs and useful support. …”
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Exploring nurse and patient perspectives on WeChat-based prenatal education in Chinese public hospitals: a qualitative inquiry by Yushi He, Guangmei Fan, Guangrui Fan, Dandan Liu

“…Seventeen obstetric nurses and eight pregnant women participated in semi-structured interviews between March and August 2024. …”
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Healthcare professionals’ perception of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist and psychological safety: a cross-sectional survey by Patricia Trbovich, Teodor Grantcharov, Susanne Rosthøj, Jeanett Strandbygaard, Kjestine Emilie Møller, Olivia Wisborg McLeskey

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GAT-Enhanced YOLOv8_L with Dilated Encoder for Multi-Scale Space Object Detection by Haifeng Zhang, Han Ai, Donglin Xue, Zeyu He, Haoran Zhu, Delian Liu, Jianzhong Cao, Chao Mei

“…The local features extracted by convolutional neural networks are mapped to graph-structured data, and the nodal attention mechanism of GAT is used to capture the global topological association of space objects, which makes up for the deficiency of the convolutional operation in weight allocation and realizes GAT integration. …”
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Assessment of Medical Students\' Acceptance, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Readiness toward Artificial Intelligence by Sobhan Rahimi Esbo, Maryam Ghaemi-Amiri, Mostafa Mostafazadeh-Bora

“…Data were analyzed using SPSS version 27, employing descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, Pearson correlation tests, and regression analysis. …”
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Epidemiological Features of HPV-Associated Cancer in situ of Various Localization by D. V. Kholopov, L. V. Lyalina, V. V. Khizha, E. E. Topuzov, T. G. Zadorkina

“…Among them, a significant place is occupied by a group of malignant neoplasms in situ associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV), which have common etiopathogenetic mechanisms of development.The aim of the study was to determine the structure, as well as the incidence and mortality rates from HPV-associated cancer in situ among the population of St. …”
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Dynamics of Epidemiological Manifestations of HIV Infection in the Gender Aspect (on the Example of the Republic of Tatarstan) by G. R. Khasanova, S. T. Agliullina, L. M. Mukharyamov, F. I. Nagimova, G. N. Khasanova, Kh. S. Khaertynov

“…The development of the HIV epidemic in different parts of the word is accompanied by the dynamics of its manifestations, including a change in the role in epidemics of various routes of transmission, “risky groups” and shifts in the gender structure of morbidity. The study of the epidemic process in dynamics, including the gender indicators of the epidemic, is important for forecasting the epidemic and modernizing prevention strategies. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Coupled Network Public Opinion Propagation Across Social Media Platforms by Deming ZHENG, Sijia LI, Jianlong ZHENG, Zhaoxin WANG

“…Understanding the topological structure of information dissemination networks across platforms and the mechanisms of public opinion dissemination on them is of great significant guiding importance for predicting trends in online public opinion and formulating guiding strategies. …”
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