Current status of vocational delay of gratification among practicing nursing students and its influencing factors: a cross-sectional study by Tianyu Chu, Xian Chen, Qian Zhang, Juanjuan Yang, Hui Zhou, Yibo Wu, Jie Jiao

“…Random forest, independent samples t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and multiple linear regression analyses were applied to identify the key influencing factors. …”
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Green Infrastructure Network Planning in Urban Fringe Areas Based on the Characteristics of Agricultural and Forestry Landscape Ecological Network in a Metropolitan City by Dongmeng Wang, Can Zhao, Baolin Xia, Chenming Zhang, Dezheng Kong, Qindong Fan

“…First, the urban fringe of Zhengzhou was identified based on multi-source data and artificial intelligence, followed by the extraction of green infrastructure elements through morphological spatial pattern analysis. …”
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Does Arterial Hypertension Affect Plasma Levels of Matrix Metalloproteinases and Their Tissue Inhibitors in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease? A Preliminary Study by Wiktor Kuliczkowski, Marta Banaszkiewicz, Andrzej Mysiak, Grzegorz Makaś, Iwona Bil-Lula

“…MMPs are also involved in the development of diabetes (DM), a risk factor for CAD. …”
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Evaluation of Similarity of Image Explanations Produced by SHAP, LIME and Grad-CAM by Vladyslav Yavtukhovskyi, Violeta Tretynyk

“…Because of this, various explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have been developed; however, it is unclear if they show reasoning or the same aspects of reasoning of CNNs. …”
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Global burden of children and adolescents' nutritional deficiencies from 1990 to 2021 by Juan Zhou, Yangmei Li, Yixi Cai, Yixi Cai

“…ObjectiveNutritional deficiencies critically impair growth and development in children and adolescents, yet comprehensive assessments of their global adolescent-specific burden are lacking. …”
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Recombinant antibodies from clonally expanded cancer-associated plasma cells by Wonkyung Kim, Ji-Hye Oh, Chae Won Park, Hyori Kim, Young Gwang Kang, Da Eun Oh, Hee Jin Lee, Ji Hun Kim, Chang Ohk Sung

“…The cancer cells that metastasized to the lymph node showed a loss of expression as observed by immunohistochemistry. Analysis of bulk RNA sequencing data from 1078 patients with breast cancer revealed that tumor-infiltrating plasma cells expressing IGHG1 were associated with favorable prognoses. …”
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Identification of television images in vision systems based on mathematical apparatus of cubic normalized B-splines by Vladimir A Krutov, Dmitry A Bezuglov, Oleg V. Shvachko

“…Unlike the known approaches, the differentiation takes into account data on the intensity in the whole image line. This minimizes the noise effect. …”
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How do strategic attributes of electronic commerce impel the perceived value and electronic loyalty of online food delivery applications (OFDAs) by Muhammad Asif Zaheer, Tanveer Muhammad Anwar, Zoia Khan, Muhammad Ali Raza, Hira Hafeez

“…Confirmatory factor analysis was applied to evaluate the validity of the constructs, and structural equation modeling was employed to test the model through Smart-PLS. …”
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Algorithm for Calculating the Parameters of a Garden Boom Sprayer for Pesticide Application by I. G. Smirnov, G. I. Lichman, L. A. Marchenko

“…(Research purpose) To develop an algorithm for calculating the parameters of a boom garden sprayer when treating fruit plants with pesticides, to ensure their high-quality application, reduce losses and eliminate the risks of environmental pollution. …”
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Encouraging Safety 4.0 to enhance industrial culture: An extensive study of its technologies, roles, and challenges by Abid Haleem, Mohd Javaid, Ravi Pratap Singh

“…Safety 4.0 combines real-world applications with insightful analysis of current issues and potential future developments for safer, more intelligent workplaces.…”
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The influence of service information systems on strengthening competitiveness and efficiency of business of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by Dimitrijević Dragan, Dimitrijević Natalija, Adamović Živoslav

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Application of Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory in healthcare promoting adults’ comfort: a scoping review by Yi Zhou, Can Chen, Yanxia Lin, Chuchu Yan, Junyi Gu

“…A thematic synthesis and a descriptive analysis were provided.Results The review included 359 papers. …”
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Predictive value of prealbumin combined with neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in early postoperative complications of gastric cancer by GUO Maosen, LI Hu, GAO Fei, HAN Bin

“…<b>Methods</b> A retrospective case-control study was performed. The clinical data of 255 gastric cancer patients who underwent radical gastrectomy and D2 lymph node dissection in the Department of General Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from January 2019 to March 2023 were collected and divided into EPC group (n=63) and nonEPC group (n=92), and the differences of prealbumin and NLR between the two groups at different time points were compared, and the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve was plotted to analyze the predictive value of prealbumin, NLR and their combination on the development of EPC in gastric cancer patients after surgery. …”
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Assessing Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities to Urban Heat: Correlations with Land Use and Urban Morphology in Melbourne, Australia by Cheuk Yin Wai, Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Nitin Muttil, Hing-Wah Chau

“…This study helps to identify the most critical areas in the Greater Melbourne region that are vulnerable to the risk of urban heat and extreme heat events, providing insights for the local city councils to develop effective mitigation strategies and urban development policies that promote a more sustainable and liveable community.…”
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Association of human TLR1 and TLR6 deficiency with altered immune responses to BCG vaccination in South African infants. by April Kaur Randhawa, Muki S Shey, Alana Keyser, Blas Peixoto, Richard D Wells, Marwou de Kock, Lesedi Lerumo, Jane Hughes, Gregory Hussey, Anthony Hawkridge, Gilla Kaplan, Willem A Hanekom, Thomas R Hawn, South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative Team

“…The development of effective immunoprophylaxis against tuberculosis (TB) remains a global priority, but is hampered by a partially protective Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and an incomplete understanding of the mechanisms of immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. …”
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Embedded energy flow and its industrial chain pathways in interprovincial trade within the Yellow River Basin by WU Leying, ZHAO Yiyi, MIAO Changhong, ZHONG Zhangqi, DU Jin

“…This is of significant importance for achieving China’s dual carbon goals and promoting high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. [Methods] Based on the interregional input-output table data of 30 provinces in China’s mainland from 2007 to 2017, this study applied a multi-regional input-output model and structural path analysis to explore the change of embedded energy patterns in interprovincial trade within the Yellow River Basin and to identify the industrial chain pathways of key sectors. …”
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Construction and validation of a chemokine-related gene signature associated with prognosis, clinical significance, and immune microenvironment characteristics in cervical cancer by Tianjiao Huang, Renshuang Cao, Cong Gao, Jie Luo, Zhiyu Zhou, Kun Ma

“…Methods Transcriptomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cervical cancer cohort were analyzed to identify differentially expressed chemokine-related genes. …”
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A Deep Learning Approach for Fault Detection and Localization in MT-VSC-HVDC System Utilizing Wavelet Scattering Transform by Manohar Mishra, Debadatta Amaresh Gadanayak, Abha Pragati, Jai Govind Singh

“…The approach integrates the wavelet scattering transform (WST) to extract low-variance feature vectors and a newly developed variable batch size long-short-term-memory (VB-LSTM) network for accurate fault detection. …”
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Quality of life and mental disorders in the post-COVID period (systematic review) by A. V. Semakin, S. V. Fedosenko, V. A. Malinovskiy, S. A. Agaeva, E. A. Starovoytova, V. V. Kalyuzhin

“…Soon after it began, researchers noticed that elimination of the virus from the body and recovery are not the end of the disease, since many patients did not return to their previous state of health, continued to complain of pathologies of various organs and systems, could not work, and some of them developed mental disorders.The aim of the review was to analyze and summarize published data on the quality of life and mental disorders in the post-COVID period. …”
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PregNut survey: knowledge, attitude, and practices of midwives regarding plant-based diets during pregnancy by Stephanie C. McLeod, Jessica C. McCormack, Jade Wratten, Lorna Davies, Yvonne Mosley-Martin, Indrawati Oey, Tamlin S. Conner, Mei Peng

“…Descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and content analysis were used to interpret data. Results The study received 133 valid responses from a total of 1246 registered midwives in NZ, reflecting a demographic profile similar to the current midwifery workforce. …”
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