National Council of Justice and the one test: democratizing the Brazilian Judiciary by Davi Everton Vieira de Almeida

“… This article evaluates the potential impacts of the reforms introduced by the National Council of Justice on the composition of the judiciary. By examining the proposal for a unified judicial exam, it explores how this reform could alter the composition of Brazil's judicial elites by addressing two major obstacles to judicial democratization: the decentralization of justice administration and the methods of judge recruitment. …”
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Debiased Learning via Composed Conceptual Sensitivity Regularization by Sunghwan Joo, Taesup Moon

“…In this paper, we propose Composite Conceptual Sensitivity Regularization (CCSR), a novel method designed to address these limitations. …”
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Trends and forecast of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a global perspective from the GBD study 2021 by Yi Guo, Jiacheng Li, Lihong Lin

“…Recently, with the continued rise of DRTB, global TB prevention and control efforts have faced even greater challenges.AimsThis study aimed to quantify the changes in age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) of two types of DRTB from 1991 to 2021 using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, and to examine the epidemiological differences across various regions and countries and applied the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to predict the epidemiological trends of MDRTB and EDRTB from 2022 to 2030.MethodsData were extracted from the GBD database from 1991 to 2021. …”
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Evaluation of fatigue life of asphalt binders using the time sweep and linear amplitude sweep tests: A literature review by Mohammed Nouali, Anne Dony, Alan Carter

“…Given that the fatigue test temperature significantly impacts the fatigue life of asphalt binders, various methods have been proposed in the literature for selecting the fatigue test temperature.This paper provides a comprehensive review of the fatigue life evaluation of asphalt binders using both TS and LAS tests. …”
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Comparative evaluation of effect of phlebotropic agents on vascular wall permeability in preclinical studies by A. V. Buzlama, A. A. Verlina, A. Yu. Kuznetsov, E. A. Aleksenko

“…The model for preclinical studies: the xylene petechiae test with trypan blue staining. …”
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Research on community characteristics of vegetation restoration in hilly power engineering based on multi temporal remote sensing technology by Chen Bin, Lei Dong, Huang Liangjun, Liu Qingdong, Zhao Xuan, Shi Yuanping

“…In order to accurately identify and evaluate the interference caused to vegetation environment during the construction process of current power transmission and transformation projects in hilly areas, especially in response to the obvious shortcomings of traditional unmanned aerial vehicles and manual detection methods, this study analyzes the composition of vegetation disturbance environment of power transmission and transformation projects in hilly areas from two aspects of natural environmental factors and human environmental factors. …”
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Evolution of tandem repeats in putative circumsporozoite protein to enhance its function: A recent and exclusive event in Plasmodium vivax in India by Manoswini Dash, Veena Pande, Aparup Das, Abhinav Sinha

“…Putative circumsporozoite protein in Plasmodium vivax (PvpuCSP) identified following the molecular hitchhiking model, holds evolutionary significance. Methods: We investigated the extent of genetic polymorphism in PvpuCSP and the role of natural selection which shapes the genetic composition and maintains the diversity in P. vivax isolates from India. …”
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Evolutionary Genetic Analysis of the Pyrazinamidase Gene in Seven Global Populations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Neha Kumari, Nikhat Khan, Aparup Das

“…Background: This study aims to identify the signatures of natural selection in the pyrazinamidase (pncA) gene to see if genetic adaptations by Darwinian natural selection have shaped genetic composition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Methods: The present analyses were based on 209 DNA sequences (561 bp) of the pncA gene of the bacterial pathogen, Mtb from seven different counties (Peru, Pakistan, South Africa, Mexico, India, China, and Kuwait) endemic to tuberculosis (TB). …”
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The effects of rifaximin and lactulose on the gut-liver-brain axis in rats with minimal hepatic encephalopathy. by Xueyan Lin, Zhengchao Zhang, Yi Lin, Shiyun Lu, Rongrong Chen

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A rat model of MHE was established by subcutaneous carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) injection. …”
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Clinical Trial and In Vitro Study for the Role of Cartilage and Synovia in Acute Articular Infection by Elia R. Langenmair, Eva J. Kubosch, Gian M. Salzmann, Samuel Beck, Hagen Schmal

“…However, the roles of cartilage and synovia in this process are not yet fully understood. Methods. Patients with acute joint infections were enrolled in a prospective clinical trial and the cytokine composition of effusions compared in patients with arthroplasty (n = 8) or with intact joints (n = 67). …”
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Natural Regeneration Pattern and Driving Factors of Mixed Forest in the Reclaimed Area of Antaibao Open-Pit Coal Mine, Pingshuo by Jia Liu, Donggang Guo

“…This study was conducted at a fixed monitoring site in the southern dump of the large-scale Antaibao open-pit coal mine of China Coal Pingshuo, using long-term monitoring methods. Based on data from 2019 and 2024 in the reclaimed area of the Pingshuo open-pit coal mine, all seedlings and saplings within the <i>Robinia pseudoacacia</i> L. + <i>Ulmus pumila</i> L. + <i>Ailanthus altissima</i> (<i>Mill.…”
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Comprehensive Computational Assessment of SNAI1 and SNAI2 in Gastric Cancer: Linking EMT, Tumor Microenvironment, and Survival Outcomes by Maryam Kalantari-Dehaghi, Hasan Rahimi-Tamandegani, Modjtaba Emadi-Baygi

“…Using Cox regression analysis, we developed a risk score model and created a nomogram incorporating clinical data. …”
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Normalisation process theory and the implementation of a new glaucoma clinical pathway in hospital eye services: Perspectives of doctors, nurses and optometrists. by Simon Read, James Morgan, David Gillespie, Claire Nollett, Marjorie Weiss, Davina Allen, Pippa Anderson, Heather Waterman

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A prospective observational study was undertaken in four hospital eye services. …”
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Noise Pollution Prediction in a Densely Populated City Using a Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Approach by Marc Semper, Manuel Curado, Jose Luis Oliver, Jose F. Vicent

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Ultrasound-assisted enzyme extraction of Dendrobium Officinale polysaccharides: Extraction process, characterization, immunomodulatory effects by Hengpu Zhou, Yingjie Dong, Zhangyun Wu, Xi Peng, Meiqiu Yan, Suhong Chen, Guiyuan Lv

“…We employed ultrasonic-assisted enzymatic extraction to obtain polysaccharides from Dendrobium Officinale (DOP) and optimized the extraction process using the GA-BP method. Subsequently, DOP was characterized using HPLC, SEM, and HPGPC. …”
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Torque-speed relationship of the flagellar motor with dual-stator systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Haolin Wu, Zhengyu Wu, Maojin Tian, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan

“…In this study, we developed a method that utilizes optical trapping and fluorescence labeling to measure the torque-speed relationships for the wild-type P. aeruginosa motor with dual stators and mutant strains with a single stator system, revealing surprising differences in them. …”
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Machine learning-based prediction of scale formation in produced water as a tool for environmental monitoring by Arash Tayyebi, Ali Alshami, Erfan Tayyebi, Ademola Owoade, MusabbirJahan Talukder, Nadhem Ismail, Zeinab Rabiei, Xue Yu, Glavic Tikeri

“…This is primarily due to the continuous variation in salt concentrations, temperature and pressure affecting inorganic scale composition. Machine learning (ML) as a data-driven method is a powerful tool for uncovering hidden patterns in experimental data necessary for decision-making on scale formation predictions by analyzing the complex relationships between mainly the water chemistry and the pH. …”
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Asteroid Types, Albedos, and Diameters Catalog from Gaia DR3: Intelligent Inversion Results via Multisource Information Fusion by Jiayi Ge, Xiaoming Zhang, Juan Li, Huijuan Wang, Dawei Xu, Xiaojun Jiang

“…Applied to Gaia DR3, the proposed methods yield a catalog of taxonomic types, albedos, and diameters for 58,168 asteroids. …”
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Gut microbiota at different stages of cardiovascular disease continuum by A. A. Yafarova, E. D. Dementyeva, O. A. Zlobovskaya, A. R. Kiselev, A. F. Sheptulina, G. A. Ashniev, L. M. Zhamalov, V. V. Makarov, S. M. Yudin, O. M. Drapkina

“…To study the relationship of gut microbiota (GM) composition with clinical and paraclinical characteristics of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).Material and methods. …”
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A novel hybrid machine learning approach for δ13C spatial prediction in polish hard-water lakes by Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Alicja Ustrzycka, Natalia Piotrowska, Janusz Filipiak, Marzieh Hajizadeh Tahan

“…In this study, a random forest (RF), M5P, AMT, and Gaussian process (GP) are the four cutting-edge ML algorithms that are compared with the proposed hybrid model (ARAMT). In accordance with the results, the ARAMT hybrid model performed more effectively in predicting δ13C than the other benchmark ML methods (R2 = 0.9882, MAE = 0.456, and RMSE = 0.527), the others giving: AMT (R2 = 0.982, MAE = 0.558, and RMSE = 0.347), RF (R2 = 0.8014, MAE = 0.612, and RMSE = 0.550), M5P (R2 = 0.7508, MAE = 0.813, and RMSE = 0.701), and GP (R2 = 0.7315, MAE = 0.768, and RMSE = 0.683). …”
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