Metabolic Risk Factors and Their Impact on Quality of Life in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer, Acute or Exacerbated Chronic Pancreatitis by I. N. Grigor’eva, O. V. Efimova, N. L. Tov, T. S. Suvorova, D. L. Nepomnyashchikh

“…Quality of life indicators were higher in group 1 than in group 2 on four SF-36 scales: bodily pain (68.1 ± 5.1 and 36.8 ± 2.0; p < 0.001), general health (51.1 ± 2.5 and 38.0 ± 1.7 points; p < 0.001), social functioning (74.7 ± 3.0 and 64.5 ± 2.2 points; p = 0.007), role emotional functioning (28.2 ± 5.2 and 12.5 ± 3.1 points; p = 0.007) and in the general domain “physical component of health” (40.2 ± 1.0 and 33.6 ± 0.8 points; p < 0.001). …”
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Modeling Habitat Suitability of Anser Anser in Iran by Fatemeh Biglari Quchan Atiq, Azita Farashi, Mitra Shariati Najafabadi

“…Proper identification of stops and providing applications to protect these areas is important due to the functional role of stopping places in meeting the needs of migratory species. …”
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Evaluation of the authenticity of Citri Grandis Exocarpium based on metabolomics and transcriptomics by Haiting Huang, Yu Liu, Jianmu Su, Xiangxiu Liang, Hong Wu, Mei Bai

“…Furthermore, this study provided a theoretical foundation for further functional research.…”
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Connectivity guided intermittent theta burst stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in moderately severe treatment resistant depression by Richard Morriss, Lucy Webster, Luke Ingram, Mohamed Abdelghani, Adriana Anton, Shaun Barber, Peter Bates, Paul Briley, Clement Boutry, Cassandra Brookes, Edward Cox, Beth Hall, Marilyn James, Matthew Keane, Micheal Kurkar, Sudheer Lankappa, Peter Liddle, Hamish McAllister-Williams, Hyerin Oh, Alexander O’Neill-Kerr, Jehill Parikh, Stefan Pszczolkowski, Ana Suazo Di Paola, Louise Thomson, Yvette Walters, Dorothee Auer

“…Diagnosis of current MDD (defined according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition), that is treatment resistant defined as scoring 2 or more on the Massachusetts General Hospital Treatment Resistant Depression Staging Score (MGH-S). …”
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Free-living monitoring of ALS progression in upper limbs using wearable accelerometers by Marcin Straczkiewicz, Katherine M. Burke, Narghes Calcagno, Alan Premasiri, Fernando G. Vieira, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, James D. Berry

“…Large population studies are needed to determine generalization and reproducibility of findings from pilot studies. …”
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Aircraft Observations of Ice Particle Properties in Stratiform Precipitating Clouds by Tuanjie Hou, Hengchi Lei, Zhaoxia Hu, Jun Zhou

“…Both exponential and gamma functions were used to characterize the particle size spectrum parameters. …”
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Rethinking fairness of business and human rights standards in times of challenge for climate protection: a new universal paradigm? by Alina GENTIMIR, Ada-Iuliana POPESCU

“…Understanding the multivalent dimensions of the climate protection, including its ef¬fects on the rule of law, international and European intergovernmental organizations have de¬cided to act for rethinking the strategy of functioning business and human rights standards in environmental protection general context. …”
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Features of periodontal microcirculation in extraoral oncopathology by O. A. Uspenskaya, I. I. Fadeeva, A. I. Shaikhutdinova, E. S. Galkina, V. V. Sokolova

“…In the literature there are numerous data on the issues of microcirculation in normal and periodontal diseases. Structural and functional microcirculatory changes in tissues observed in chronic generalized periodontitis cause fluid metabolism disorders, which reduces the effectiveness of therapeutic and restorative measures in periodontology. …”
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Organization of the National Police activities as a subject of the security and defense sector by A. A. Nikitin

“…It has been established that they can be of a general nature, that is, aimed at protecting the national interests of Ukraine from internal and external threats, ensuring the independence of the state and the protection of state sovereignty, as well as the territorial integrity of Ukraine, prevention of threats to national security, and more. …”
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EUROPEAN TAX SYSTEM: PROBLEMS OF HARMONIZATION AND WAYS TO SOLVE THEM by Anatolii O. Zadoia

“…Although the harmonization of tax systems in the EU is difficult due to the economic, political and social differences between the member states, gradual steps towards the convergence of tax rules and the fight against tax competition can ensure a more efficient functioning of the single market. …”
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Distribution of the impact of monetary and fiscal policy instruments by technological modes and sectors of the economy by O. S. Sukharev, O. N. Afanasyeva

“…The subject of the study is the impact of monetary and fiscal policy instruments on the functioning of the structural elements of the economy, represented by sectors and technological structures. …”
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Modeling the distribution and progression of motor ability among children with cerebral palsy: An analysis of three reference centile sets by Rachel Sanderlin, Charlotte Schluger, Joe Wu, Francis Ang Eusebio, Amy L. Roberts, Laura Prosser

“…However, it is unknown how existing references generalize to populations in novel settings. Aims: The aim of this study is to evaluate the cross-sectional and longitudinal performance of three reference centiles to describe the motor function of children with CP aged 2–12 years at a large urban US pediatric hospital through a retrospective observational study. …”
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Atopic dermatitis by Stuart Carr, Rebecca Pratt, Fred White, Wade Watson

“…Systemic immunosuppressive agents may also be used, but are generally reserved for severe flare-ups or more difficult-to-control disease. …”
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Designing the outsourcing model in central government organizations by Mahnaz Moradi, Morteza Ghasemi, Maryam Majidi, Gholamreza Amjadi

“…Outsourcing is related to the transfer of a complete functional department of the business or some activities of a functional department and keeping the rest of the activities of that department internally. …”
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Neurological post-COVID syndrome is associated with substantial impairment of verbal short-term and working memory by Jeyanthan Charles James, Hannah Schulze, Nadine Siems, Christian Prehn, Daniel R. Quast, Nadine Trampe, Ralf Gold, Simon Faissner

“…This was followed by a detailed neuropsychological test battery, including assessments of general orientation, motor and cognitive fatigue, screening of depressive and anxiety symptoms, information processing speed, concentration, visuomotor processing speed, attention, verbal short-term and working memory, cognitive flexibility, semantic and phonematic word fluency, as well as verbal and visual memory functions. …”
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The Effect of Structure Building Small Mammals in a Shifting Arctic Landscape by Austin Roy, Jennie R. McLaren

“…Finally, differences in structure effects between habitat types suggest that as high‐centered polygonal tundra becomes more prevalent, this herbivore's influence on ecosystem processes at local scales may feedback to alter the function of future arctic ecosystems.…”
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On notch and crack size effects in fatigue, Paris� law and implications for Whler curves by Michele Ciavarella, A. Papangelo

“…Paris� and Whlers coefficients fundamentally depend on these two ratios, which can be also defined sensitivities� of materials to fatigue when cracked and uncracked, respectively: higher sensitivity means stringent need for design for fatigue. A generalized Whler coefficient, k, is found as a function of the intrinsic W�hler coefficient k of the material and the size of the crack or notch. …”
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Relationship between cognitive impairments and psychopathological symptoms in female schizophrenia subsequent to 8 weeks treatment with antipsychotic drugs by Shuzhan Gao, Qing Xu, Yanlin Han, Jing Jiang, Fan Wu, Ting Peng, Chenxi Ling, Sulin Ni, Rongrong Zhang, Yidan Ming, Xuzhen Liu, Xijia Xu

“…Results After antipsychotic treatment, 90.43% of the patients showed a reduction rate of more than 25% in their PANSS scores. Psychopathological symptoms and overall cognitive functioning improved significantly (p < 0.05), with the exception of verbal learning and social cognition (p > 0.05). …”
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Applying conditional optimization to determine the allowable loads on flexurally rigid threads by D. A. Tarasov

“…At the same time, to achieve this goal, the provisions of the strength of materials, as well as the apparatus of integral and differential calculation of functions of one or more variables, were used.Result. …”
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Finite-Time Synchronization Criteria for Caputo Fractional-Order Uncertain Memristive Neural Networks with Fuzzy Operators and Transmission Delay Under Communication Feedback by Hongguang Fan, Kaibo Shi, Zizhao Guo, Anran Zhou

“…Especially, the fuzzy symbol AND and the fuzzy symbol OR as well as nonlinear activation behaviors are all concerned in the generalized master-slave networks. Based on the characteristics of the neural networks being studied, we have designed distinctive information feedback control protocols including three different functional sub-modules. …”
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