Psychological influences and implications for household disaster preparedness: a systematic review by Minrui Ni, Liang Xia, Liang Xia, Xinru Wang, Xinru Wang, Yixuan Wei, Xiaofei Han, Yiqiao Liu, Song Pan, Song Pan

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Characterization of key spike RBD residues influencing SARS-CoV-2 variant adaptation to avian ACE2 by Weitong Yao, Yujun Li, Huize Sun, Danting Ma, Xiaojuan Tang, Xiaojuan Tang, Aiping Zeng, Fang Huang

“…Whereas, a triple-residue reversal mutant (S446G, S496G, H505Y) restored ACE2 binding and enabled efficient viral entry. Additionally, several key residues within RBD were characterized as the determinant of its affinity to avian ACE2.DiscussionOur findings reveal that higher mutation rates in emerging variants might lead to future cross-species receptor usage or even spillover. …”
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A Retrospective Study Reviewing Timing to Onset of Habitual Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures in a Home Video Telemetry Cohort by Jade Cooper, Helen Chester, Arianna Fozzato, Elisaveta Sokolov

“…This raises the question of whether HVT study duration could be reduced to release study resources and aid departmental efficiencies. We also observe the novel finding that men presented significantly earlier with their habitual PNES event than women, and that abnormal imaging findings were also significantly associated with an earlier time to event onset, although the reason for this association is yet to be determined.…”
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Conversion from clinically isolated syndrome to multiple sclerosis: what paraclinical tests findings are the most characteristic? by M. Malciūtė, I. Čelpačenko, R. Stankevičiūtė, R. Balnytė

“…The association between two quantitative variables was determined using Spearman correlation co-efficient. …”
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Taxpayer protection standard in international tax disputes by M. D. Polenchuk

“…This conclusion is based on the fact that the national courts cannot be treated as an effective means of protection of the rights of taxpayers as it is determined by the Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights. …”
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Acetic acid dressings: Finding the Holy Grail for infected wound management by Kapil S. Agrawal, Anup Vidyadhar Sarda, Raghav Shrotriya, Manoj Bachhav, Vinita Puri, Gita Nataraj

“…In this study, we have evaluated the use of acetic acid for topical application in the treatment of infected wounds. Materials and Methods: A total of 100 patients with infected wounds were treated with topical application of 1% acetic acid as dressing material after appropriate cleaning. …”
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Acute effects of different warm-up duration on internal load and external load responses of soccer players in small sided games by Osman Yilmaz, Furkan Ozturk, Ladislav Batalik

“…The features of SSG are determined as size; 25 × 32 m, bout; 4 × 4 min, resting; 4 min. …”
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High vector competence for chikungunya virus but heavily reduced locomotor activity of Aedes albopictus from Germany at low temperatures by Renke Lühken, Leif Rauhöft, Björn Pluskota, Unchana Lange, Michelle Helms, Norbert Becker, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Carola Kuhn, Egbert Tannich, Stephanie Jansen, Anna Heitmann

“…Infection rates and transmission efficiencies (TEs) were determined after 14 days of incubation at constant and fluctuating (± 5 °C) mean temperatures of 15 °C, 18 °C, 21 °C and 24 °C. …”
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Analysis of the degree of influence of supply voltage asymmetry on the operational reliability of low-voltage asynchronous electric motors by V. V. Romanova, S. V. Khromov, A. G. Batukhtin, K. V. Suslov

“…A qualitative assessment of the operational reliability of AM is determined by the accuracy of forecasting the real life of their service. …”
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Challenges in developing a split drive targeting dsx for the genetic control of the invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi by Mireia Larrosa-Godall, Joshua X. D. Ang, Philip T. Leftwich, Estela Gonzalez, Lewis Shackleford, Katherine Nevard, Rob Noad, Michelle A. E. Anderson, Luke Alphey

“…Several promising suppression drives have been developed in An. gambiae that target the sex determination gene doublesex (dsx). Methods In this study, a geographically confineable gene drive system targeting dsx was developed (dsx gRNA ). …”
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An observational study to develop a scoring system and model to detect risk of hospital admission due to COVID‐19 by Zhe Chen, Nicholas W. Russo, Matthew M. Miller, Robert X. Murphy, David B. Burmeister

“…The strains of such a pandemic can overwhelm hospital capacity. Efficient clinical decision‐making is crucial for proper healthcare resource utilization in this crisis. …”
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Antioxidant and antibacterial activity of red seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii against pathogenic bacteria by P. Bhuyar, M.H. Rahim, S. Sundararaju, G.P. Maniam, N. Govindan

“…Disc diffusion assay results indicated that the extract of red alga <em>K. alvarezi </em>were more efficient against <em>B. cereus</em>. Among the fatty acids determined levoglucosenone and 4-Pyridinemethanol were present in high percentages in hot water extract whereas Hexamethyl- cyclotrisiloxane followed by 1, 2, 5- Thiadiazole-3-carboxamide, 4-[(2-chloroethyl) amino]-N-(2-hydroxyethyl) were present in ethanolic extract of <em>K. alvarezi. …”
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Kinetics model for enzymatic hydrolysis of eel protein by ZHANG Zhiguo, WANG Junhong, CHEN Xinfeng, ZHOU Ligen, GAO Haiyan

“…Kinetics model for enzymatic hydrolysis can serve as the theoretical basis for process control, and it helps to develop efficient procedures of bioactive peptides preparation through protein hydrolysis. …”
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Genistein Improves the Cytotoxic, Apoptotic, and Oxidative-Stress-Inducing Properties of Doxorubicin in SK-MEL-28 Cancer Cells by Andrea Roman, Andrei Motoc, Iasmina Marcovici, Cristina Dehelean, Laura Nicolescu, Casiana Boru

“…Cell viability was determined using MTT assay. Cell morphology and confluence were inspected microscopically. …”
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Design and Research of Control Rod Scheme for 10 MW Multifunctional Pool-type Research Reactor by HAN Peng, CHEN Xiaoliang, ZHANG Zhenyang, ZHU Jiachen, JIN Xiao

“…Taking into account the safety of reactor operation, channel neutron fluence rate, power peak factor and subsequent fuel management methods, the forked control rod form was finally determined. …”
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Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Status and Factors Influencing Negative Mental Health among Health-Care Workers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Fatma AlGhufli, Rayyan AlMulla, Ola Alyedi, Sham Zain AlAbdin, Mohammed Moutaz Nakhal

“…Aim: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychological health outcomes and associated factors among health-care workers (HCWs) during COVID-19 pandemic. Subject and Methods: This observational cross-sectional study was conducted on 550 HCWs at 4 different clinics (fever, clean, telemedicine, and mixed clinics) in Dubai Health Authority from July 2020 to September 2020. …”
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Detection of Short-Circuit Location in Distribution Mains Line within Functions of Micro-Processor Current Protection by F. A. Romaniuk, A. A. Tishechkin, O. A. Gurjanchik

“…The paper considers a method for improvement of micro-processor current protection lines that permits to expand a zone of instantaneous short-circuit cut-off  and decrease a number of discriminating elements. …”
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Dynamical correlation functions in the Ising field theory by István Csépányi, Márton Kormos

“…Our approach is based on a finite temperature form factor series and on a Fredholm determinant representation of the correlators. While for space-like separations the Fredholm determinant can be efficiently evaluated numerically, for the time-like region it has convergence issues inherited from the form factor series. …”
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Client Oriented Approach for Assisting Business Improvement Decision Making by Diana Pitic, Lucian Pitic

“…The research highlights the practical method of determining the priority processes for increasing customer satisfaction, taking into account the satisfaction targets and the nature of the necessary actions in order to maximize the created value and to minimize the costs of these processes.…”
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Short-term Wind Power Forecasting Based on BWO‒VMD and TCN‒BiGRU by LU Jing, ZHANG Yanru, WANG Rui

“…Firstly, considering the comprehensive and complex impact of various meteorological factors on wind power generation, the random forest (RF) method was employed. This involves a comprehensive process of carefully determining the importance of various meteorological factor characteristics, systematically and accurately ranking them, and then extracting the truly optimal features that have a significant impact on subsequent predictions. …”
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