Advancement in diagnostic approaches for latent tuberculosis: distinguishing recent from remote infections by Yi En Ding, Matthew Tze Jian Wong, Mohd Nor Norazmi, Venugopal Balakrishnan, Gee Jun Tye

“…A practical approach to an effective control and eradication of TB hence, requires an explicit identification of infected patient whom are at high risk of progressing from latent to active TB, particularly in those recently infected individuals. Current diagnostic tools however, including Tuberculin Skin Test and Interferon-Gamma Release Assays, are still lacking for their ability to critically distinguish between recent and remote infections, leading to insufficiency in optimizing targeted preventive treatment strategies. …”
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Treating of the Articular Cartilage in Rabbits Using Different Doses of Platelet-Rich Plasma by khaleefah, Mustafa, Emran, Hassanain A.

“…The current study was designed to evaluate the effects of autologous platelets rich plasma (PRP) on the articular cartilage repair. …”
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DFT study of the adsorption properties and sensitivity of a B2N monolayer toward harmful gases by Rezvan Rahimi, Mohammad Solimannejad, Ashkan Horri

“…The B2N monolayer has the ability to adsorb harmful gas molecules, even in humid air, and displays favorable adsorption energy and standard recovery time when exposed to SO2 gas. …”
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SMFA: Strengthening Multi-Factor Authentication With Steganography for Enhanced Security by Afjal H. Sarower, Touhid Bhuiyan, Maruf Hassan, Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Gahangir Hossain

“…The results demonstrate that SMFA offers a robust and effective solution, addressing the weaknesses of both traditional password-based systems and current MFA methods.…”
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Dynamic Route Guidance in Vehicle Networks by Simulating Future Traffic Patterns by David Neiman, Zachary Rubinstein, Stephen Smith

“…Toward this goal, recent research in real-time, schedule-driven intersection control has shown an ability to significantly reduce the delays incurred at signalized intersections. …”
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Understanding the nature of substance use in Zimbabwe: State of the art and ways forward: A scoping review protocol. by Blessing N Marandure, Samson Mhizha, Amanda Wilson, Clement Nhunzvi

“…Thus the present work presents a timely effort that capitalises on current efforts by the government to address substance use in the country.…”
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The human right to reproduction: postmortem use and storage of cryopreserved materials by N. V. Khodieieva

“…The author concludes that it is necessary to establish a period of one calendar year from the date of death of a partner, during which post-mortem reproduction will not be possible; that assisted reproductive technologies may be used by partners; that the current legislation of Ukraine should enshrine the possibility of a man in the event of death or declaration of a partner’s death by a court and the possibility of a woman in the event of loss of reproductive function (the ability to bear and give birth to a child) in the presence of a cryopreserved embryo (zygote, blastula) and an application for permission or an agreement with a healthcare facility on the storage and use of cryopreserved materials – the right to use surrogacy (substitute) motherhood services, but taking into account the period of one calendar year from the date of death of the partner, during which postmortem reproduction will not be possible, as well as the possibility of storing cryopreserved embryos, if they are transferred for storage by a serviceman and his partner, also free of charge for three years from the date of death of such a person or declaration of death by a court, with the provision for further storage of cryopreserved embryos at the expense of the spouse or other person specified in the order (for storage of own cryopreserved embryos).…”
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Climate adaptation plans and “green jobs”: challenges for implementing a responsive, multi-skilled workforce in Worcester, Massachusetts by Varun Bhat, Sarah Strauss

“…Therefore, it is important to analyze the current state of green jobs in US cities and understand what employers, job seekers, and others think of the green jobs market. …”
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Trustworthy-constraint Deep Graph Learning for Enterprise Financial Risk Prediction by Wenting Ma

“…Deep learning-Based methods achieve encouraging the financial risk prediction performance due to the power ability of the feature learning. However, there exists two issues in deep learning-Based methods. (1) Current methods fail to accurately model the complex relationships among listed companies in the real financial market. (2) Current methods lack credible estimates in the decision-making process, which leads to the questionable reliability of the decision-making results. …”
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A Comparative Approach of Cultural Intelligence Profile of Management and Non-Management Romanian Students by Laura BRANCU, Valentin MUNTEANU, Ionut GOLET

“…Cultural intelligence (CQ) is defined as the as individuals’ ability to act efficiently in different cultural contexts. …”
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VMMCD: VMamba-Based Multi-Scale Feature Guiding Fusion Network for Remote Sensing Change Detection by Zhong Chen, Hanruo Chen, Junsong Leng, Xiaolei Zhang, Qi Gao, Weiyu Dong

“…By leveraging VMamba’s global modeling ability with linear computational complexity, the computational resources needed for extracting global features are reduced. …”
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應用智慧型家教系統於國小學童閱讀策略 教學之學習歷程研究 A Study on the Learning Process of Applying an Autotutoring System to Teach Reading Strategies to Elementary School Children... by 陳茹玲 Ju-Ling Chen, 曾厚強 Hou-Chiang Tseng, 連啟舜 Chi-Shun Lien, 蔡旻穎 Min-Ying Tsai, 宋曜廷 Yao-Ting Sung

“…High-reading-ability students used background knowledge and organizational strategies, while low-reading-ability students relied more on connection inferences. …”
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Coupled dopamine and insulin signaling mediated transgenerational and multigenerational inheritance of adaptive traits in Caenorhabditis elegans upon parental training with Salmone... by Bynedi Seshadhri Chinna Mounish, Balasubramanian Chellammal Muthubharathi, Thirumugam Gowripriya, Koilmani Emmanuvel Rajan, Krishnaswamy Balamurugan

“…ABSTRACT The nervous system’s ability to perceive and learn about the environment can help organisms evolve and acquire traits, potentially generating adaptive responses. …”
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Hyaluronic acid-curcumin nanoparticles for preventing the progression of experimental autoimmune uveitis through the Keap1/Nrf2/HO-1 signaling pathway by Weiwei Tang, Xiaomin Huang, Yun-Di Yi, Fan Cao, Manli Deng, Jiawei Fan, Zheng-Xuan Jiang, Li-Ming Tao, Xianwen Wang, Lei Shi

“…Excessive autoimmune inflammation and oxidative stress are major drivers that contribute to the initiation and progression of uveitis. Nevertheless, current therapeutic methods for uveitis are limited and are accompanied by several serious adverse effects. …”
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Fatigue and Hepatitis C: a focus group study by Christina Spataro, Sophie Afdhal, Ali A. Weinstein, Carey Escheik, Patrick Austin, Kathryn Brodie, Lynn Gerber, Zobair M. Younossi

“…Capacity refers specifically to an individual’s sense of how much energy they have to do life activities or their maximum ability to produce energy. The word energy is the ability to perform work and includes one’s ability to access or utilize, expend, and restore it. …”
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Linking the life stages of fish into a habitat-ecological flow assessment scheme under climate change and human activities by Yiming Zhang, Wensheng Wang, Siyi Yu

“…Meanwhile, a comprehensive study of ecological flow combining fish habitats with swimming ability and ecological preferences of fish is currently lacking. …”
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Comparison of neutron transport calculation methods based on C5G7-MOX and preliminary analysis of sensitivity of MOC parameters by GONG Hanyuan, ZHANG Binhang, ZHANG Yonghong, TANG Haibo, YUAN Xianbao

“…In addition to MOC, common neutron transport calculation methods also include the Collision Probability method (CP) and the Interface Current method (IC). In MOC calculation, different parameter selections will lead to different values of calculation cost and accuracy.PurposeThis paper aims to evaluate the ability of MOC, CP and IC methods for pin-by-pin calculation, and conduct sensitivity analysis to find the best parameter setting for MOC method.MethodsThe three aforementioned calculation methods were compared from the perspective of theory and numerical calculation. …”
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Osteoplastic biomaterials from organic and mineral components of the bone matrix: a literature review by Pavel А. Markov, Petr S. Eremin, Elena S. Berezkina, Marina V. Volkova, Irina A. Usova, Ilmira R. Gilmutdinova

“…The bones of the human and animal have a unique ability to remodel. The ability to constantly renew bone tissue determines the healing of fractures and the adaptation of bones to mechanical loads. …”
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Enhanced fruit preservation using compressed stabilized earth blocks and municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash in pyramid structures by Mukilan Poyyamozhi, Thenarasan Latha Abinaya, Balasubramanian Murugesan, R. Preetha, Asmath Mubeena, Victoriia Bereznychenko, R. Narayanamoorthi

“…Abstract Storage conditions play a crucial role in preserving fruit quality, regulating ripening, and preventing degradation. The current research examines the impact of fruit quality stored in controlled environment where compressed stabilised earth blocks (CSEBs) were produced incorporating municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash (MSWIBA). …”
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High-voltage defibrillator unit with increased energy output from a controlled capacitor storage by E. E. Gorokhov-Miroshnikov, G. V. Slyusarev

“…The effectiveness and safety of defibrillation are largely determined by the defibrillator's ability to regulate the current and energy of the defibrillation pulse. …”
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