Analysis of the Role of Institutions and Technologies in Economic Growth of the Late USSR in a Cross-Country Comparison by D. V. Didenko, N. V. Grineva

“…We propose a modification of the production function, similar to the exogenous growth model by Mankiw, Romer, Weil (1992) with physical and human capital, by augmenting it with variables for institutional and general technological components. …”
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Effects and Persistence of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BL-99 and Fructooligosaccharides on Older Adults with Functional Constipation: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo... by Meina Li, Qi Zhang, Wen Zhao, Juan Chen, Yinghua Liu, Limian Zhou, Yihui Liu, Langrun Wang, Yiran Guan, Jian He, Qiuyue Jiang, Zhaozhong Zeng, Xinmei Guo, Can Liu, Liwei Zhang, Yong Zhang, Jie Luo, Wei-Lian Hung, Jingjing He, Ran Wang

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Increased Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Women Due to Long-Term Passive Smoking by Liu Z, Jiao M, Lv J, Han Q

“…Zhenkun Liu,* Mingzhi Jiao,* Jiling Lv, Qizheng Han Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Second Provincial General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, 250000, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Jiling Lv, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Second Provincial General Hospital, No. 4 Duanxing West Road, Jinan, Shandong, 250000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +8615508603200, Email lvjiling1980@163.com Qizheng Han, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Second Provincial General Hospital, No. 4 Duanxing West Road, Jinan, Shandong, 250000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +8615168863190, Email hanqizheng@163.comObjective: To investigate the impact of long-term passive smoking on the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in women.Methods: We conducted a community-based cross-sectional study involving 2,360 women aged ≥ 40 years in Jinan, China (October 1, 2022-April 30, 2023). …”
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Continuous theta-burst stimulation demonstrates language-network-specific causal effects on syntactic processing by Chenyang Gao, Junjie Wu, Yao Cheng, Yuming Ke, Xingfang Qu, Mingchuan Yang, Gesa Hartwigsen, Luyao Chen

“…These results shed light on the uniqueness and the specific causal role of the language network for the human language faculty, further supporting the causally separable view of the functional dissociation between the language network and the domain-general/multiple-demand network.…”
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Protein secondary structure determined from independent and integrated infra-red absorbance and circular dichroism data using the algorithm SELCON by Søren Vrønning Hoffmann, Nykola C. Jones, Alison Rodger

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Cognitive Change Associated with Anesthesia and Surgery: An Introduction to POCD for Neuroscientists by Yang Li, Qiaoyi Peng, Jian Lu, Li Hu, Hongmei Zhou

“…We aim to enhance understanding of the occurrence of POCD and to provide a more comprehensive perspective on the prevention and treatment of POCD.…”
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Exploring the metabolic signature of intermittent explosive disorder: Preliminary evidence and potential mechanisms for altered bilirubin metabolism by Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, Murray B. Stein, Emil F. Coccaro, Alejandro D. Meruelo

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Insights into the Pyrolysis Properties of Environmentally Friendly PMVE/N₂ Gas Mixtures: A Collaborative Analysis Based on Density Functional Theory and Reaction Kinetic... by Haibo Dong, Haonan Chu, Yunhao Liu, Shicheng Liu, Wenyu Ye, Jiaming Yan

“…When mixed with N₂, PMVE not only decreases the liquefaction temperature but also enhances insulation performance, making the gas mixture more suitable for engineering applications. In this study, reactive molecular dynamics (ReaxFF-MD) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations were combined to investigate the influence of temperature on the decomposition characteristics of a PMVE/N₂ mixture. …”
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Impact of baseline left ventricular ejection fraction and body mass index on the effect of 24-week Ipragliflozin treatment on left ventricular diastolic function in patients with t... by Hiroki Teragawa, Atsushi Tanaka, Kanae Takahashi, Chikage Oshita, Yuko Uchimura, Nozomu Kamei, Hiroyuki Hirai, Michio Shimabukuro, Isao Taguchi, Yosuke Okada, Koichi Node

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A Machine Learning Free Energy Functional for the 1D Reference Interaction Site Model: Towards Prediction of Solvation Free Energy for All Solvent Systems by Jonathan G. M. Conn, Abdullah Ahmad, David S. Palmer

“…We also compare the performance for the most and least commonly represented solvents and show that higher accuracy is generally seen with higher volumes of data, with RMSE values of 0.69–1.29 kcal/mol and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi mathvariant="normal">R</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> values of 0.78–0.97 for solvents with more than 50 data points. …”
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The effectiveness of Evodia rutaecarpa hot compress on the recovery of gastrointestinal function after laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer: A propensity score-matched retros... by Miaoxin Huang, Junmiao Li, Wei Huang, Yuling Zhou, Lei Cai, Ming Liu

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>The use of ER hot packs after laparoscopic surgery in patients with colorectal cancer has a non-significant effect on the recovery of the gastrointestinal function and, given the results of the study, it is likely that patients with early-stage tumors may benefit more. …”
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Performance of the 1 h oral glucose tolerance test in predicting type 2 diabetes and association with impaired β-cell function in Asians: a national prospective cohort studyResearc... by Michelle H. Lee, Eveline Febriana, Maybritte Lim, Sonia Baig, Liang Shen, Mayank Dalakoti, Nicholas Chew, Tze Ping Loh, Mark Chan, Kee Seng Chia, Alice Pik-Shan Kong, Alex R. Cook, Jeffrey B. Halter, Faidon Magkos, Sue-Anne Toh

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Private-preserving scientific computation of the rational numbers by Xuhong LIU, Chen SUN

“…As a fundamental part of cryptography, secure multiparty computation (SMC) is a building block of various cryptographic protocols, and it is also a hot topic in the international cryptographic community.In recent years, many SMC problems, such as secret information comparison, secret set problems and secure multiparty computational geometry, have been widely studied.As many practical problems need to be described by rational numbers, it is both theoretically and practically important to study the SMC problems in the rational number field.However, most of the existing researches focus on integers and the studied data are mainly one-dimensional data.There are few researches on secure multiparty computation of multi-dimensional data in the rational number field, but they can’t be generalized.Based on the fractional representation of rational numbers, the new encoding schemes about rational numbers and rational number vectors were proposed, which could encode multi-dimensional data in the rational number field and provided new solutions for other SMC problems in the rational number field.Based on the encoding scheme and one-way hash function, some protocols were designed for equality problems and set problems in the rational number field.These protocols used basic arithmetic operation and hash operation to guarantee efficiency than existing related protocols.And these protocols didn’t limit the range of research data and they were more widely applicable.It proves that these protocols are secure in the semi-honest model using simulation paradigm, and demonstrates the efficiency and the applicability of these protocols by theoretical analysis and experiment.A practical example was also given to illustrate that approaches are more versatile, and they could also be directly used to solve some secure multiparty computational geometry problems in the rational number field.…”
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Convergence analysis of a perturbed iterative scheme (PIS) for solution of nonlinear systems by S. K. Dey

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On Implementing Technomorph Biology for Inefficient Computing by János Végh

“…We provide the notion of generalized computing from which we derive technical and biological computing, and by showing how the functionalities are implemented, we also highlight what performance losses lead the solution. …”
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Methodological Aspects of Implementing Some Formulas of School Mathematics in University-Level Mathematical Analysis Course by Olga A. Sergeeva

“…In algebra and mathematical analysis, these formulas are used to work with polynomials and analytic functions. These formulas and their generalized versions allow university students to use more rational and creative methods of mathematical analysis for calculating limits of sequences and functions. …”
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A Deep Learning-Based Echo Extrapolation Method by Fusing Radar Mosaic and RMAPS-NOW Data by Shanhao Wang, Zhiqun Hu, Fuzeng Wang, Ruiting Liu, Lirong Wang, Jiexin Chen

“…Instead, it customizes time-specific loss functions for spatiotemporal attenuation correction and independently trains 20 separate models to achieve the full 120 min extrapolation. …”
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WoodenCube: An Innovative Dataset for Object Detection in Concealed Industrial Environments by Chao Wu, Shilong Li, Tao Xie, Xiangdong Wang, Jiali Zhou

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A five-year retrospective study focused on urinary tract infections in kidney transplant recipients in the current era of immunosuppression by Jorge Andrade-Sierra, Jorge Andrade-Sierra, Jorge Carlos Andrade-Martínez, Elsa Angélica Fuentes-López, Enrique Rojas-Campos, Víctor Martínez-Mejía, Eduardo González-Espinoza, Ernesto German Cardona-Muñoz, José Ignacio Cerrillos-Gutiérrez, Luis Alberto Evangelista-Carrillo, Miguel Medina-Pérez, Moisés Cruz-Landino, Adriana Banda-López, Alejandra Guillermina Miranda-Díaz, J. Ahuixotl Gutiérrez Aceves, Jorge Andrade-Ortega, Kevin Javier Arellano-Arteaga, Antonio de Jesús Andrade-Ortega, Laura Elizabeth Aguilar Fletes, Gerardo González-Correa, Priscila Preciado, Joel E. Verdugo-Correa, Héctor Leonardo Pazarín-Villaseñor, Ana Luisa Corona-Nakamura, Mauricio Carvallo-Venegas

“…However, long-term allograft function, loss, and mortality risk are inconsistent. …”
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The transcription factor MAZR preferentially acts as a transcriptional repressor in mast cells and plays a minor role in the regulation of effector functions in response to FcεRI s... by Anastasia Abramova, Shinya Sakaguchi, Alexandra Schebesta, Hammad Hassan, Nicole Boucheron, Peter Valent, Axel Roers, Wilfried Ellmeier

“…Previous studies implicated the transcription factor MAZR in the regulation of mast cell function. To study the role of MAZR in mast cells, we generated a conditional Mazr allele and crossed Mazr (F/F) mice with the Vav-iCre deleter strain, which is active in all hematopoietic cells. …”
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