Patients’ perceptions on non‐specific effects of acupuncture: Qualitative comparison between responders and non‐responders by Robin S.T. Ho, Fai Fai Ho, Jon Adams, Holger Cramer, Brenda Leung, Lesley Ward, Yan Zhang, Vincent C.H. Chung

“…Background: Non-specific effect of acupuncture constitutes part of the overall effect generated via clinical encounter beyond needle insertion and stimulation. …”
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Flat and complex temperate reefs provide similar support for fish: Evidence for a unimodal species-habitat relationship. by Avery B Paxton, Emily A Pickering, Alyssa M Adler, J Christopher Taylor, Charles H Peterson

“…Structural complexity, a form of habitat heterogeneity, influences the structure and function of ecological communities, generally supporting increased species density, richness, and diversity. …”
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Association between balance ability and cardiovascular disease onsets among middle-aged and older adults: an observational cohort study from the China Health and Retirement Longitu... by Yinghe Lin, Shanshan Zhong, Zhihua Sun

“…The simple, economical, effective, and safe physical measurements of balance function deserve further investigation in public health.…”
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Research on downhole drilling target detection based on improved Yolov8n by Jierui Ling, Zhibo Fu, Xinpeng Yuan

“…The Focaler_MDPIoU loss function was introduced to replace the CIoU loss function, and combined with a lightweight MLCA attention mechanism, a new convolutional block structure was formed, thereby enabling better feature fusion and helping the model focus more centrally on the important parts of the input image. …”
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Investigation of TsGAN-based multimodal image fusion to augment image pre-processing abilities by Priyanka Bhatambarekar, Gayatri Phade

“…The TSGAN framework generates a unified texture map that captures essential gradient preservation into the generator’s loss function, the model successfully retains critical information about texture from the input source images. …”
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USE OF THE CASE METHOD DURING THE STUDY OF THE DISCIPLINE “MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS” by Volodymyr Fediv, Оlena Olar, Tetiana Biriukova, Orusia Mykytiuk, Victor Kulchynskyj

“…The authors present the general structure of the case, which is used to consider most of the topics in practical classes. …”
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Estimation of the Influence of Surface Soil Layers on the Parameters of Maximum Reaction Spectra by Evgeny N. Kurbatskiy, Ekaterina A. Pestriakova, Shahd A. Hussein

“…In general, seismic effects are given in the form of maximum response spectra for rocky or rigid soils. …”
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The role of non-governmental public associations in protecting the rights of persons with disabilities in Ukraine during the war by N. O. Filipska

“…The problems of persons with disabilities in general and with mental disabilities in particular, which have become even more acute in Ukraine with the beginning of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation, have been highlighted. …”
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Intersectoral problems of qualification of labor law violations as administrative offences in Russia by M. A. Drachuk, G. N. Obukhova

“…Consequently, the application of administra- tive responsibility for violations of these norms should be organized by extending it to both obvious violations and complex cases of intersectoral regulation affecting the world of work or certain aspects of its functioning.The purpose of this work is a comprehensive analysis of a number of norms of the Russian Code of Administrative Offences concerning violations of workers' labor rights, based on the study, analysis and generalization of the scientific base, current legislation and practice of its application. …”
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Prospects of application of artificial neural networks for forecasting of cargo transportation volume in transport systems by D. T. Yakupov, O. N. Rozhko

“…When predicting the ANN, three methods of learning were used: 1) the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm-network training stops when the generalization ceases to improve, which is shown by the increase in the mean square error of the output value; 2) Bayes regularization method - network training is stopped in accordance with the minimization of adaptive weights; 3) the method of scaled conjugate gradients, which is used to find the local extremum of a function on the basis of information about its values and gradient. …”
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Effects of a 10-week pulmonary rehabilitation program based on the 5A nursing model in patients with interstitial lung disease: a quasi-experimental study by Meihua Li, Yuyang Chang, Jia Fan, Bing Liang, Danhua Qu

“…After 10 weeks of intervention, the PR program based on the 5A nursing model group had more significant improvements in self-efficacy (P = 0.001), anxiety (P = 0.005), and depression (P = 0.018) compared to the control group, but there were no significant differences in dyspnea, lung function, or quality of life (P > 0.05). …”
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The Occurrence of Powerful Flares Stronger than X10 Class in Solar Cycles by Baolin Tan, Yin Zhang, Jing Huang, Kaifan Ji

“…These facts indicate that the higher the V _m and V _d , the stronger the SC, the more the ES-flares, and the earlier they occurred. …”
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Structural Connectivity of the Substantia Nigra: A Comprehensive Review of Diffusion Imaging and Tractography Studies by Iva Bublíková, Stanislav Mareček, Tomáš Krajča, Christiane Malá, Petr Dušek, Radim Krupička

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Formation of the children microbiota: its role in overall metabolism by L. A. Dzhaparidzе, O. A. Soldatova

“…Studying the bacteria inhabiting the body, understanding the patterns of human interaction with the world of microorganisms, will help to better determine their role in general metabolism, influence on the functioning of various body systems, form a more accurate understanding of the pathogenesis of diseases, become the basis for the prevention of infectious diseases, and the implementation of microbial therapy of infections, obesity, diabetes.The qualitative and quantitative composition of the microbiome, on which the future human health largely depends, affects the mode of birth and the nature and type of nutrition of the newborn.…”
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What can be learned about caregivers in Canada from the analysis of families claiming the Canada caregiver credit? by Sung-Hee Jeon, Yuri Ostrovsky

“…The main objective of this study is to use nationwide administrative data to spotlight Canadian families caring for family members (including extended family members) who have severe and prolonged impairments in physical or mental functions. More specifically, this study documents the prevalence of families claiming the Canada caregiver credit (CCC) among all tax-filing families and breaks down the results by several essential family characteristics.…”
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Efficiency and heat transport processes of low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage systems: new insights from global sensitivity analyses by Luka Tas, Niels Hartog, Martin Bloemendal, David Simpson, Tanguy Robert, Robin Thibaut, Le Zhang, Thomas Hermans

“…Regardless, there is currently an increasing trend to target more complex aquifers such as low-transmissivity and alluvial aquifers or fractured rock formations. …”
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Gender differences in clinical and prescribing characteristics of biologic and targeted synthetic drugs in naïve patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Data from BIOBADASER III regist... by Paloma Vela-Casasempere, Lucía Otero-Varela, Silvia Gómez Sabater, Rocío Caño Alameda, Cristina Campos Fernández, Jerusalén Calvo-Gutiérrez, Yanira Pérez-Vera, Sara Manrique Arija, Sagrario Bustabad, Javier Manero Ruiz, María Dolores Ruiz Montesino, Lucía Ruíz Gutiérrez, Antonio Mera Varela, Manuel José Moreno Ramos, Fernando Sánchez-Alonso, Isabel Castrejón

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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALBANIAN INFORMAL ECONOMY by Majlinda BELLO, Frederik ÇUÇLLARI, Mirela CINI

“…Therefore, to measure it used more indirect methods. Albanian governments have always adopted a philosophy that aims to formalize the economy through legal and institutional improvements, reducing taxes, fighting corruption and tax evasion; improvement in revenue collection from customs and taxes in general, improving governance and increasing efficiency of public institutions. …”
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Spermidine feeding decreases age-related locomotor activity loss and induces changes in lipid composition. by Nadège Minois, Patrick Rockenfeller, Terry K Smith, Didac Carmona-Gutierrez

“…Spermidine is a natural polyamine involved in many important cellular functions, whose supplementation in food or water increases life span and stress resistance in several model organisms. …”
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C-Band 200 Gbit/s/λ PS-PAM-8 Transmission Over 2-km SSMF for Optical Interconnections by Xuancheng Huo, Meng Xiang, Gai Zhou, Jilong Li, Jianping Li, Yuwen Qin, Songnian Fu

“…Driven by the exponential increase of network traffic, the demand for the capacity enhancement of photonic data-center interconnection (DCI) becomes more and more urgent. The utilization of high-order modulation format is ideally preferred to enhance the transmission capacity, considering the bandwidth constraint of optoelectrical devices. …”
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