Present Day Higher School in Russia: Challenges and Contradictions by V. I. Karpunin

“…The author shows that the key contradiction evident in the sphere of higher school of Russia, which gave birth to continuously existing problems makes professional community consider the nature of these phenomena and makes authorized representatives of power pay attention to inevitability of managerial paradigm modernization, to the necessity of introducing more tough, more formalized system of estimation criteria of efficiency of university functioning (the program of university development). …”
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Dual targeting of the mitochondrial Lon peptidase 1 and the chymotrypsin-like proteasome activity as a potential therapeutic strategy in malignant astrocytoma models by Christopher Douglas, Shashi Jain, Naomi Lomeli, Javier Lepe, Kaijun Di, Nitesh Kumar Nandwana, Adil Shareef Mohammed, Thao Vu, James Pham, Maria Cristina Kenney, Bhaskar Das, Daniela A. Bota

“…Using gain- and loss-of-function genetic models, we discovered that LonP1 is both necessary and sufficient to drive BT317 drug sensitivity in established and patient-derived glioma stem-like cells by generating ROS and inducing apoptosis. …”
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Occurrence and potential mechanism of holin-mediated non-lytic protein translocation in bacteria by Thomas Brüser, Denise Mehner-Breitfeld

“…However, there are more and more examples known for non-lytic holin-dependent secretion of proteins by bacteria, indicating that holins somehow can transport proteins without causing large membrane lesions. …”
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Folk Linguoculture of Borderland East Slavic Ethnocontact Locus: A Lexical-Phrazeological Perspective by S. M. Pronchenko, S. N. Starodubets, O. V. Belugina

“…In narratives concerning folk medicine and magic, lexical-phraseological units convey symbolic meanings related to enmity, destruction, healing energy, and more. The examined rituals perform generative and apotropaic functions while also possessing harmful characteristics.…”
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AI as Sub-Symbolic Systems: Understanding the Role of AI in Higher Education Governance by Xiaomin Li, David A. Turner, Baocun Liu

“…This paper develops the argument that, in the application of AI to improve the system of governance for higher education, machine learning will be more effective in some areas than others. To make that assertion more systematic, a classificatory taxonomy of types of decisions is necessary. …”
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Machine Learning Forecasting of Commercial Buildings’ Energy Consumption Using Euclidian Distance Matrices by Connor Scott, Alhussein Albarbar

“…By integrating custom-built models with existing energy data, the method applies calculated weighting through a distance matrix and accuracy coefficients to generate reliable forecasts. It uses readily available building attributes—such as floor area and functional type to position a new building within the matrix of existing data. …”
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Use of ICT to Confront COVID-19 by Yousry Saber El Gamal

“…The risk of getting infected is a function of numerous factors where mathematical modeling would not yield fruitful results. …”
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Epistemology in the Age of Large Language Models by Jennifer Mugleston, Vuong Hung Truong, Cindy Kuang, Lungile Sibiya, Jihwan Myung

“…LLMs are rapidly becoming integral parts of our daily lives through smartphones and personal computers, and we are coming to accept the functionality of LLMs as a given. As LLMs become more entrenched in societal functioning, questions have begun to emerge: Are LLMs capable of real understanding? …”
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Comparative Analysis of GPT-4 and LLaMA 3.2 Integration With Speech Processing Models for Enhancing Human–Robot Interaction and Motion Control in Real-World Applications by Sheeba Uruj, Riddhi Goswami, Sujala D. Shetty, Kalaichelvi Venkatesan, Karthikeyan Ramanujam

“…Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in robots finds wide applications today such as personal assistant robots, autonomous vehicles, healthcare support robots, industrial robots and many more, which receive interpreted commands to perform functions ranging from home automation to real-time assembly line operations. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Our findings emphasise the importance of LUTS being managed in primary care where possible, as in addition to cost savings and reduced waiting times, this is a more accessible option for patients, who tend to be more comfortable and confident being treated by familiar clinicians or in more familiar environments. …”
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Identification of the allelic state of the flood tolerance gene (Sub-1A) in rice breeding samples by N. N. Vozhzhova, O. S. Zhogaleva, A. Yu. Dubina, P. I. Kostylev

“…The trend towards the greening of agriculture throughout the world and in Russia is becoming more and more stable. In order to combat weeds using an environmentally friendly herbicide-free technology, it is necessary to increase the water layer on simultaneous surviving rice plants. …”
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The Consumer Is Always Right: Research Needs on Sensory Perception of Mushroom-Enriched Meat Products by Erick Saldaña, Juan D. Rios-Mera

“…However, little has been explored regarding consumer opinions for the generation of sensory terms to characterize mushrooms or mushroom-enriched meat products, which may be relevant for the purposes of reformulating healthier and more sustainable meat products. …”
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Label-free optical biosensors in the pandemic era by Nava Giovanni, Zanchetta Giuliano, Giavazzi Fabio, Buscaglia Marco

“…The availability of a new generation of analytical tools enabling a more accurate understanding of bio-molecular processes or the development of distributed diagnostic devices with improved performance is now in greater demand and more clearly envisioned, but not yet achieved. …”
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Toward the Human Scale in Smart Cities: Exploring the Role of Active Mobility in Ecosystemic Urbanism by Froylán Correa, Miguel Bartorila, Mónica Ribeiro-Palacios, Gerardo I. Pérez-Soto, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz

“…Active Mobility (AM) currently presents an opportunity to change the paradigm of the competitive and dispersed city created by motorized mobility, revaluing the role of walking and cycling in generating more sustainable urban ecosystems. This article addresses the challenges and opportunities for AM to contribute to the regeneration of urban systems and the capacity for anticipation. …”
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Insights Into How mHealth Applications Could Be Introduced Into Standard Hypertension Care in Germany: Qualitative Study With German Cardiologists and General Practitioners by Susann May, Frances Seifert, Dunja Bruch, Martin Heinze, Sebastian Spethmann, Felix Muehlensiepen

“…Furthermore, younger physicians, more familiar with digital technologies, demonstrated greater openness to using mHealth apps, suggesting that generational changes may drive future increases in adoption. …”
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Natural sounds can be reconstructed from human neuroimaging data using deep neural network representation. by Jong-Yun Park, Mitsuaki Tsukamoto, Misato Tanaka, Yukiyasu Kamitani

“…Although decoding visual content from functional MRI (fMRI) has seen significant success, reconstructing arbitrary sounds remains challenging due to the fine temporal structure of auditory signals and the coarse temporal resolution of fMRI. …”
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Stochastic blockmodeling of the modules and core of the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome. by Dragana M Pavlovic, Petra E Vértes, Edward T Bullmore, William R Schafer, Thomas E Nichols

“…Here, we estimate a community structure with a stochastic blockmodel approach, the Erdős-Rényi Mixture Model, and compare it to the much more widely used deterministic methods, such as the Louvain and Spectral algorithms. …”
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Disputed aspects of the reputation management implementation by Vitaliy Shkromyda

“…The key factor in this success is the company’s impeccable corporate reputation, the importance and role of which is more and more attested by the researchers in their publications, both on the theoretical and practical levels. …”
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Children’s Headache Through Drawings: A Narrative Review and a Portrait Gallery by Floriana Ferro, Caterina Gaspari, Giulia Manfrè, Federica Cernigliaro, Daniela D’Agnano, Ruben Panzica, Edvige Correnti, Maria Rosita Ruta, Francesca Marchese, Renata Pitino, Mariarita Capizzi, Giuseppe Santangelo, Antonella Versace, Vittorio Sciruicchio, Vincenzo Raieli

“…This tool provides unique access to children’s psychological and emotional states, as a direct window into their inner world and as an expressive medium that often generates more detailed, accurate, and clinically actionable information, compared to verbal reports alone. …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…However, some feedback was that the intervention offered too little, too late, and that a more personalised intervention would be more helpful. …”
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