Vitamin D3 affects liver expression of pro-/anti-inflammatory cytokines and nitric oxide synthases in type 2 diabetes by Ihor Shymanskyi, Olha Lisakovska, Mykola Veliky, Olha Mezhenska, Vasyl Bilous, Andrii Siromolot, Anna Khomenko, Dmytro Labudzynskyi, Tetyana Horid’ko, Elvira Pasichna

“…In conclusion, abnormal oxidative metabolism in T2DM is associated with enhanced NF-κB/NOS/NO response, which can be partially attenuated by VD treatment via normalization of pro-oxidative/pro-inflammatory processes. …”
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JOHN DONNEʼS “THE ANNIVERSARIES” AS PETRARCHAN TEXTS by Mariana V. Markova.

“…Based on the direct textual parallels between “Canzoniere” and John Donneʼs poems we present the following research results. …”
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Evaluation of Arabic lesson teaching in higher education based on the Kirkpatrick model by Ali Akbar Mollaie, Mohammad Aslam Raiesi

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Interleukin-6 as a prognostic marker in acute kidney injury and its klotho-dependent regulation by Laura González-Lafuente, Elisa Mercado-García, Sara Vázquez-Sánchez, Daniel González-Moreno, Lisardo Boscá, María Fernández-Velasco, Julián Segura, Makoto Kuro-O, Luis M. Ruilope, Fernando Liaño, Gema Ruiz-Hurtado

“…The aim of this work was to explore the association between renal function and systemic levels of IL-6, as well as FGF23 and klotho in the early stages of AKI, analysing the predictive capacity of IL-6 in early mortality associated with AKI. …”
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Routine testing for group B streptococcus in pregnancy: protocol for a UK cluster randomised trial (GBS3) by Shalini Ojha, Jon Dorling, Stavros Petrou, Soo Downe, Rabia Zill-E-Huma, Sarah Lee, Jane Daniels, Paul Ayuk, Trudy Smith, Lucy Bradshaw, Tracey Cooper, Janine Abramson, Hannah Mitchell, Joanna Gibson, Sarah Watson, Heather Ward, Kate Walker, Jim Thornton, Reuben Ogollah, Jason Madan, Jenny Butler, Louise Page, Guduru Gopal Rao, Susan Ayers, Felix Achana, Asma Khalil, Eleanor J Mitchell, Rachel Plachcinski, Laura Johnson, Anna Williams, Hannah Parker, Rebecca Haydock, Julie Walker, Jonathan Ford, Elena Greco, Janet Phipps, Kim Hinshaw, Hilary Owen, Alex Taylor, Jane Plumb, James Gray, Joanna Clark, Kate Young, Anna Campbell, Erum Khan, Manjula Samyraju, Harry Gibson, Linda Johnson, Jessica Wilson, Sarah Moore, David Ankers, Michelle Anderson, Laura Veal, Ramesh Ganapathy, Ferha Saeed, Philip Banfield, Shabina Sadiq, Helen Preston, Lisa Ditchfield, Anne-Marie Jones, Emily Marler, Phillip Bennett, Janet Cresswell, Stephy Mathen, Anam Fayadh, Louise Swaminathan, Emily Scriven, Sangeeta Pathak, Hazel Alexander, Jodi Carpenter, Sharon Gowans, Lesley Hewitt, Emma Meadows, Tommy Mousa, Lisa Evans, Laura Johns, Catherine Stone, Charlotte Goumalatsou, Maggie Lai, Lola Oshodi, Georgie Constantinou, Nicola Grace, Eleanor Harrison, Joanne Brooks, Kerry Barker-Williams, Heidi Hollands, Sarah-Kate Mcleavey, Seren Willson, Sophie Webster, Meg Hyslop-Peart, Louise Wills, Rachel Haines, Linda Fiaschi, Jay Seale, Susanne Spas, Lixiao Huang, Sebastian Moody, Ihab Abbasi, Rezan Abdul-Kadir, Phern Adams, Rebecca Adcock, Dipika Aggarwal, Dawn Althorn, Sarah-Jayne Ambler, Rita Arya, Karen Austin Smith, Angela Ayuk, Jade Barnes, Abbie Berry, Linda Bishop, Patrick Bose, Nichola Brannen, Catherine Bressington, Janet Brown, Lorraine Bullett, Anneka Burch, Jennifer Burrage, Viv Cannons, Philippa Cansell, Cristina CarballoDe Dios, Gail Castle, Yee Yin Chan, Floria Cheng, Naomi Coleman, Rachael Copley, Yvette Davis, Bashir Dawlaty, Kara Dent, Caroline Dixon, Kerry Dooley, Milli Edwards, Sue Fagg, Jo Ficquet, Nicola Flint, Natasha Ford, Lily French, Edward Frew, Rachel Frowd, Ruta Gada, Emma Gammin, Caitlin Giles, Mandy Gill, Coralie Glenn-Sansum, Julie Goddard, Jenna Gould, Naomi Grimes, Zoe Grindley, Katherina Gross-Gibbs, Liliana Grosu, Lara Robles Gutierrez, Bev Hammond, Latifah Harris, Kathryn Haviland, Holly Hawkesford, Carly Hayton, Miss Mandira Hazra, Anne Marie Henshaw, Jemima Hepburne-Scott, Stephanie Horridge, Victoria Hodgson, Rhiannon Hurll, Alison Hylton-Potts, Karen Ixer, Sara Jaarour, Andie Johnson, Prudence Jones, Kelly Jukes, Sumit Kar, Pallavi Karkhanis, Tracey Kay, Stephen Keay, Alex Keen, Joanne Kellett, Mary Kelly- Baxter, Teresa Kelly, Vanessa Kemp, Magdalena Kierzenkowska, Aly Kimber, Eva Kisakye, Sarah Knights, Wiece Koniman, Emmanouil Kountouris, Egi Krasniqi, Katie Lang, Rebecca Leon, Isabel Llopis, Leanne Lowe, Saswati Maitra, Jodie Manning, Sarah Mapplebeck, Cathryn Marsh, Ruth Mason, Ilenia Mazzoli, Joanna Mead, Michal Rosie Meroz, Hannah Mugford, Hannah Mullins, Eric Mutema, Bonilla Nayar, Jonathan Nelson, Rachel Newport, Shari Noraiee, Justine Nugent, Nzoputa Nwabueze, Chinwe Obiozo-Jumbo, Clare O’Brien-Hirst, Anne-Marie O’Brien, Tanwa Ogbara, Chloe O’Hara, Oyinlola Okungade, Chidera Onyeagor, Sam Parlapalli, Leia Parry, Nikky Passmore, Tara Pauley, Linda Peacock, Carol Percy, Ella Proctor, Emma Pugh, Madhavi Pureti, Eleanor Pyart, Vinita Raheja, Clair Rainford, Miss Jyothi Rajeswary, Lindsay Roughley, Ruth Ryder, Maiti Sachchidananda, Beena Saji, Jess Sellick, Ellie Didier Serre, Erikka Siddall, Jonathan Slack, Delphine Strub, Emma Tanton, Vasso Terzidou, Niki Thatcher, Catherine Townsend, Lydia Ufton, Lilian Ugwumadu, Ureh Umeh-John, Husswan Yasmin WanHussein, Annie Warrington, Sharon Westcar, Hayley Wheeler, Sonia White, Miss Frances Wood, Julie Woollaston, Janet Wright, Priti Wuppalapati, Cheryl Wyatt, Jemma Yorke

“…The trial results, and parallel economic, qualitative, implementation and methodological results, will be published in the journal Health Technology Assessment.Trial registration number ISRCTN49639731.…”
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Selective Separation of Scandium in Acidic Water Using Carboxyl Functionalized Covalent Phosphonitrile Polymers by Yu BAI, Ayinuer WUSHUER, Lei OUYANG, Lijin HUANG, Qin SHUAI

“…The adsorbent dosage was 1g/L, and the experimental data was obtained as the average of three parallel experiments. After adsorption, the supernatant was collected by filtration with 0.45μm microporous membrane. …”
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Analyzing Waste Policy-Making from the Perspective of Local People in the Selected Villages of Kermanshah County by Parvin Rezaeibavandpour, Mohammad Akbarpour

“…Rural areas have likewise encountered various types of waste and their associated negative consequences, paralleling global trends. …”
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Designing a supply chain resilience assessment model with the approach of NDEA(case of study: government hospitals of Yazd province) by Mohsen Shafiei Nikabadi, Fereshteh Bahrami

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Flow-based Text Style Transfer Model by Zihan ZHANG, Jinqiao DAI, Pin YANG

“…The proposed method outperforms the selected baseline model when processing text containing multiple key pieces of information. …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…Design Transition Care In Anorexia Nervosa through Guidance Online from Peer and Carer Expertise was a multicentre, parallel-group, superiority randomised controlled trial. …”
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Intersecting factors of disadvantage and discrimination and their effect on daily life during the coronavirus pandemic: the CICADA-ME mixed-methods study by Carol Rivas, Amanda P Moore, Alison Thomson, Kusha Anand, Zainab Zuzer Lal, Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Ozan Aksoy

“…Methods We used a transformative, convergent parallel mixed-methods design integrating three strands – quantitative, qualitative and a secondary data strand – across three phases over 18 months, to answer the study objectives. …”
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Addressing Shortcomings in Contingency Standards of Care by Alexander Quan

“…Public health measures should be adopted in parallel to anticipate and manage health needs at the community or state level when resources are strained…”
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Hybrid closed-loop systems for managing blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and economic modelling by Asra Asgharzadeh, Mubarak Patel, Martin Connock, Sara Damery, Iman Ghosh, Mary Jordan, Karoline Freeman, Anna Brown, Rachel Court, Sharin Baldwin, Fatai Ogunlayi, Chris Stinton, Ewen Cummins, Lena Al-Khudairy

“…It is the result of an autoimmune process that leads to the destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Network Real-Time Kinematic by Mohammed Ouassou, Bent Natvig, Anna B. O. Jensen, Jørund I. Gåsemyr

“…The multistate reliability theory was applied to the network real-time kinematic (NRTK) data processing chain, where the qualities of the network corrections, baseline residuals, and the associated variance-covariance matrices are considered as the system state vectors. …”
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The Tennis Shoe Army and Leviathan: Relics and Specters of Big Government in The Road by Robert Pirro

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AGENT-BASED INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE MECHANISM by Adina-Georgeta CRETAN

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On the Way to a Secularized Theology: Why Today’s Disapproval of an Atemporal God Is Gaining Momentum? by Vladimir K. Shokhin

“…The ongoing secularization of religion, which is associated with the development of a “post-secular society,” also manifests itself in a major controversy in analytic theology, which not so long ago remained a stronghold of religious traditionalism. …”
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Moral Injury as a Precondition for Reconciliation: An Anthropology of Veterans’ Lives and Peacemaking by Jordan Kiper

“…Specifically, it is argued that Thomas Merton’s defense of living a morally authentic life, which constitutes a process of moving from spiritual woundedness to social engagement with the other, parallels the transition of combat veterans involved in postconflict reconciliation efforts. …”
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Blockchain efficient Byzantine fault tolerance consensus algorithm for IIoT by LI Fengqi, SONG Qingqing, XU Hui, DU Xuefeng, GAO Jialong, TONG Ning, WANG Deguang

“…Considering the malicious risks associated with diverse terminals in the industrial Internet of things (IIoT), a practical Byzantine fault tolerant (PBFT) efficient consensus algorithm based on credit score and dynamic double layer (CD-PBFT) was proposed to meet the requirements of high efficiency and security fault tolerance in the consensus process. …”
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The Hessian by blocks for neural network by backward propagation by Radhia Bessi, Nabil Gmati

“…In addition, the introduction of original operators, for the calculation of second derivatives, facilitates the reading and allows the parallelization of the backward-looking algorithm. To study the practical performance of Newton's method, we apply the proposed algorithm to train two classical neural networks for regression and classification problems and display the associated numerical results.…”
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