The Korean medicine for aging cohort (KoMAC) study: A protocol for a prospective, multicenter cohort study on healthy aging in the population entering old age in South Korea. by Mi Mi Ko, Seojae Jeon, Wonbae Ha, Young-Eun Kim, So Young Jung, Bo-Young Kim, Myunghwa Kim, Kwang-Ho Choi, Geonhui Kang, So Min Lee, You Mee Ahn, Nahyun Cho, Hanbit Jin, Jungtae Leem, Seungkwan Choi, Jungho Jo, Junghan Lee, Jeeyoun Jung

“…In the next phase, we will implement interventions tailored to KM-based phenotypes to verify the effects of KM on healthy aging. …”
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Nature and Outcomes of Longitudinal Authentic Leadership Profiles by Cougot B, Gillet N, Gauvin J, Ollierou F, Le Saout A, Moret L, Tripodi D

“…Our findings suggest that managers should strive to implement a complete array of authentic leadership behaviors at a balanced level to ensure positive outcomes.Keywords: authentic leadership, latent transition analyses, need satisfaction, safety, ill-being, bifactor models…”
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Recycling of waste lubricant oil using two-step pyrolysis to produce fuel-like diesel and enhancing its combustion and emission parameters in diesel engines using linseed biodiesel by Ahmed I. EL-Seesy, Radwan M. El-Zoheiry, Mohamed I. Hassan Ali

“…In addition, linseed biodiesel (LSB) was prepared by using the same reactor with the aid of 1 % wt. …”
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Features of Plagiarism Checking in a Technical University Considering the Possibilities of Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Learners by L. A. Zinchenko, E. V. Rezchikova, E. A. Tarapanova

“…It seems advisable to widely implement systems for checking the text of graduation qualification paper for the presence of text generated by artificial intelligence systems. …”
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Comparison of Individualized Rescue Luteal Phase Support Strategies with Vaginal and Combined Vaginal & Subcutaneous Progesterone Administration in Artificial Frozen-Thawed Blastoc... by Secil Irem Arik Alpcetin, Onur Ince, Bengisu Akcay, Munire Funda Cevher Akdulum, Erhan Demirdag, Ahmet Erdem, Ahmet Erdem, Mehmet Erdem, Mehmet Erdem

“…In this study, Groups 1 and 2 received MVP for luteal support, while Groups 3 and 4 received additional SC progesterone. For patients with P levels below the cut-off level (10 ng/mL) in Groups 2 and 4, the P dose was doubled through a rescue protocol.ResultsIn the MVP and MVP plus SC groups, 15.8% and 8.9% of the cycles had P4 levels <10 ng/mL, respectively. …”
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Refining a hybrid music therapy intervention for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: a single arm pilot study by Haitong Yu, Angelique Foss, Tracy L. Segall, Seneca Block, Kayleigh Risser, Rab Razzak, Michael Zacharias, Catalina V. Teba, Samuel N. Rodgers-Melnick

“…These issues will be addressed in a subsequent feasibility RCT through implementing secure text-based communication in addition to phone communication to reach participants post-discharge, refined eligibility criteria (e.g., excluding patients on dialysis), and in-person technology instruction. …”
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Life cycle emissions associated with vault storage of wood cleared for fire management in the Western United States by Declan Johnson, Jimmy Voorhis, Stephen Porder

“…It is not clear that the USFS has the resources to manage the additional ~ 20 million hectares targeted for forest thinning. …”
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Evaluating reservoir permeability from core data: Leveraging boosting techniques and ANN for heterogeneous reservoirs by Amad Hussen, Tanveer Alam Munshi, Minhaz Chowdhury, Labiba Nusrat Jahan, Abu Bakker Siddique, Mahamudul Hashan

“…This work investigates and implements four novel approaches for permeability prediction from standard core analysis data. …”
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The global, regional, and national patterns of change in the burden of bacterial pyoderma from 1990 to 2019 and the forecast for the next decade by Hao Wang, Zihao Bai, Chong Shen, Jiaxi Kou, Yanqing Zhu, Huaxia Xie, Chen Chen, Ran Mo

“…Therefore, prioritizing policy formulation and implementing tailored prevention and treatment strategies for high-risk populations are imperative to alleviate the disease burden effectively. …”
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Enhancing teacher competencies in ESD: A framework for professional development by Lia Susanti, Asep Herry Hernawan, Laksmi Dewi, Dudun Najmudin, Rohim Abdurohim

“…The findings suggest that a holistic approach to professional development is necessary to empower teachers and enable them to foster a sustainability-oriented mindset in their students. By implementing this framework, educational institutions can contribute to preparing future generations to engage actively in sustainability efforts. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Methods for Multivariable Water Level Prediction: The Case Study of the Atrato River by Jackson B. Renteria-Mena, Douglas Plaza, Eduardo Giraldo

“…The proposed methodology is implemented in two hydrological stations in the department of Chocó, Colombia, located along the Atrato River. …”
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Elucidating thermal phenomena of non-Newtonian experimental data based copper-alumina-ethylene glycol hybrid nanofluid in a cubic enclosure with central heated plate by machine lea... by Md. Mamun Molla, Md Farhad Hasan, Md. Mahadul Islam

“…However, further research is still required to optimise and implement hybrid nanofluids in an industrial setup. …”
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Is there a dependence between expression of integrin receptors by peripheral blood immune cells and duration of tuberculous granuloma existence in the patients? by О. V. Berdyugina

“…Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance (pk-w), with differences significant at p < 0.017, as well as the Wald–Wolfowitz test (pw-w) at a significance level of p < 0.05 were used as criteria for assessing differences between the compared groups. In addition, cluster and factor analysis were implemented. …”
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Business response to environental challenges: three cases of Russian industrial companies by Oleg Vikhanskiy, Natalia Churkina, Sergey Zaverskiy

“… Three decades ago environmental protection was perceived by businesses as an additional cost-generating activity, but nowadays the idea that environmental policies can be profit-generating is gaining wider recognition. …”
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Inpatient preferences among patients with multiple chronic conditions in China: A discrete choice experiment by Yueqin Wang, Shiyin Wu, Yuehua Chen, Ling Xiao, Qingling Su, Xiaoyin Huang, Weikang Wang, Wanxin Li, Shanshan Du, Wenbin Liu, Weimin Ye

“…Although a series of policies has been implemented to promote patients’ rational access to health care, patients still prefer a higher level of inpatient service, hampering the efficient utilization of resources in county hospitals, which are the first point of contact for inpatient care. …”
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Ageing well in the urban environment: meeting the health and social needs of older Adults - study protocol for a prospective, longitudinal mixed-methods study by Marie Bolster, Abhijit Visaria, David Matchar, Denis Gerstorf, Tillman Schmitz, Benjamin Labohm, Raphael Kohl, Dagmar Haase, Paul Gellert, Angelique Chan, Wolfram J. Herrmann

“…Minor adaptations of the instruments and methods were implemented to best suit local context, administrative regulations, and feasibility at the study site. …”
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A New Heterogeneous Hybrid Massive MIMO Receiver With an Intrinsic Ability of Removing Phase Ambiguity of DOA Estimation via Machine Learning by Feng Shu, Baihua Shi, Yiwen Chen, Jiatong Bai, Yifan Li, Tingting Liu, Zhu Han, Xiaohu You

“…Next, we also enhance two classic clustering methods: accelerating local weighted k-means (ALW-K-means) and improved density. Additionally, the corresponding closed-form expression of Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) is derived. …”
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Epidemiological, etiological, and serological characteristics of hand, foot, and mouth disease in Guizhou Province, Southwest China, from 2008 to 2023. by Fajin Li, Dan Wang, Fei Su, Suye Zhao, Jun Guo, Fumin Zhang, Xueqin Ran, Jiafu Wang, Shijun Li

“…Currently, there is an urgent need to develop multivalent vaccines and implement effective measures to reduce incidence of HFMD.…”
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Turning crisis into chances: Tourism entrepreneurs’ timing strategies amidst emergencies by Katarzyna Czernek-Marszałek, Dagmara Wójcik, Patrycja Juszczyk, Paweł Piotrowski, Brendan Richard

“…From a practical point of view, we show what strategies, depending on entrepreneurs’ subjective assessment of the current and future conditions for implementing changes, can serve organizational resilience in times of crisis. …”
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SAR Image Target Segmentation Guided by the Scattering Mechanism-Based Visual Foundation Model by Chaochen Zhang, Jie Chen, Zhongling Huang, Hongcheng Zeng, Zhixiang Huang, Yingsong Li, Hui Xu, Xiangkai Pu, Long Sun

“…Second, an adaptive denoising module based on wavelets and soft-thresholding techniques is implemented to reduce the impact of SAR coherent speckle noise, thus improving the feature representation performance. …”
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