Integrated palliative care improves the quality of life of advanced cancer patients by Mei Wang, Xuan Ding

“…The quality of life of both groups was assessed pre- and post-intervention using the EORTC QLQ-C30 scale, which evaluates physical, emotional, and social functioning among other indicators. Mental health was assessed through the GAD-7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale) and PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) to measure anxiety and depression levels. …”
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State policy of ensuring demographic security: characteristics of basic concepts by Z.O. Hrytsyshena

“…Scientific approaches to defining the concept of «demographic security» are systematized and generalized, among which the following are distinguished: security-protective, reproductive-dynamic and stabilization-development approaches. …”
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Development and establishment of the laboratory for plant immunity of the FSBSI “ARC “Donskoy” by T. G. Derova, N. V. Shishkin

“…The current paper has presented the stages of the development on plant protection study over 115 years and the history of the establishing and functioning of the laboratory for plant immunity since 1974 (50 years) at the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “ARC “Donskoy”. …”
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Acquisition and evolution of plant pathogenesis-associated gene clusters and candidate determinants of tissue-specificity in xanthomonas. by Hong Lu, Prabhu Patil, Marie-Anne Van Sluys, Frank F White, Robert P Ryan, J Maxwell Dow, Pablo Rabinowicz, Steven L Salzberg, Jan E Leach, Ramesh Sonti, Volker Brendel, Adam J Bogdanove

“…Variation at the rpf (regulation of pathogenicity factors) cluster is more pronounced, though genes with established functional relevance are conserved. …”
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Exploring the Nonlinear Impacts of Built Environment on Urban Vitality from a Spatiotemporal Perspective at the Block Scale in Chongqing by Jiayu Yang, Enxu Wang

“…This study provides a theoretical basis for urban planners to develop more effective, time-sensitive strategies. Future research should explore these nonlinear and interactive effects across different cities and scales to further generalize the findings.…”
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Stimulating a Response: Does Exposure to the Confederate Flag Impact People’s Attitudes Regarding Social Dominance Orientation, Ethnocultural Empathy, and their Political Beliefs?... by Brian M. Goldman, Pearl S. Chang, Joshua R. Meddaugh, Mark F. Daddona

“…Multiple main effects also emerged in which liberals generally reported lower SDO and higher EE than conservatives did (regardless of the flag priming). …”
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Patterns of nutrients distribution along salinity gradient in the estuaries of the rivers Sukhodol and Razdolnaya/Suifen (Peter the Great Bay, Japan Sea) by Anna S. Vazhova, Yury I. Zuenko

“…In autumn, destruction of organic matter becomes more important in both estuaries, so heightened values of nutrients are observed in all their parts, in particular in the «silicon belt» of brackish water (≈ 13-17 eps). …”
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MARKETING IN THE SPHERE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION by Wang Zhengyang

“…It has been proven that marketing in the field of public administration is based on real mechanisms of market functioning, and is also focused on achieving the maximum social effect from increasing the degree of satisfaction of the needs of the country's population. …”
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Exploring local knowledge and perceptions on zoonoses among pastoralists in northern and eastern Tanzania. by Peter Ernest Mangesho, Moses Ole Neselle, Esron D Karimuribo, James E Mlangwa, Kevin Queenan, Leonard E G Mboera, Jonathan Rushton, Richard Kock, Barbara Häsler, Angwara Kiwara, Mark Rweyemamu

“…Some pastoralists understand the possibility of some infections that could cross over to humans from animals but harm from these are generally tolerated and are not considered as threats. …”
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X-linked genes and risk of orofacial clefts: evidence from two population-based studies in Scandinavia. by Astanand Jugessur, Øivind Skare, Rolv T Lie, Allen J Wilcox, Kaare Christensen, Lene Christiansen, Truc Trung Nguyen, Jeffrey C Murray, Håkon K Gjessing

“…However, the lack of replication in the Norwegian samples highlights the need to verify these preliminary findings in other large datasets. More generally, the novel analytic methods presented here are widely applicable to investigations of the role of X-linked genes in complex traits.…”
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Packaging with lower sperm concentrations improves post-thawing quality parameters of rooster semen by Esther Díaz Ruiz, Juan Vicente Delgado Bermejo, Francisco Javier Navas González, José Manuel León Jurado, Antonio González Ariza

“…Thus, generally, we can conclude that a low freezing sperm concentration leads to better quality results in thawed rooster semen.…”
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Beneficial metabolic effects of rapamycin are associated with enhanced regulatory cells in diet-induced obese mice. by Kassem Makki, Solenne Taront, Olivier Molendi-Coste, Emmanuel Bouchaert, Bernadette Neve, Elodie Eury, Stéphane Lobbens, Myriam Labalette, Hélène Duez, Bart Staels, David Dombrowicz, Philippe Froguel, Isabelle Wolowczuk

“…Taken together, our results reinforce the notion that controlling immune regulatory cells in metabolic tissues is crucial to maintain a proper metabolic status and, more generally, comfort the need to search for novel pharmacological inhibitors of the mTOR signaling pathway to prevent and/or treat metabolic diseases.…”
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THE COOPERATIVE MODEL OF AGRIBUSINESS IN BULGARIA-ORIGINS AND CONTEMPORARY STATE by Todorka ATANASSOVA-KALAYDZHIEVA, Iskra NENCHEVA, Ivanka ZHEKOVA

“…The member-cooperators delegate part of their functions to democratically elected leading representatives when they establish a cooperative enterprise. …”
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Development and performance testing of a positioning system for tank floor in-service inspection robots by Yewei KANG, Changfang WU, Zhenghong GUO

“…This system provides robust support for the automation and intelligent functions of inspection robots.…”
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The evidence for the benefits from breast milk in the neurodevelopment of premature babies – a review of the recent literature by Danuta Iulia Paduraru

“…It is known that cerebral white matter connectivity is important for later intact cognitive functioning amongst children born very preterm and that breast milk imparts neurotrophic factors. …”
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Closed medial subtalar dislocation: A case report and literature review by Amine El Farhaoui, Mohamed Maroc, Zakaria Khatab, Anass Sefti, Mbainaidara Debonheur, Adnane Lachkar, Najib Abdeljaouad, Hicham Yacoubi

“…Medial subtalar dislocations are more frequent, are due to low-energy trauma and generally have good functional results. …”
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Turning a polystyrene microsphere into a multimode light source by laser irradiation by Liu Shimei, Tie Shaolong, Chen Jingdong, Li Guangcan, Yang Jiaxin, Lan Sheng

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MATERIALS USED IN THE ROAD BASES: METHOD OF THE RESIDUAL DEFORMATIONS’ CALCULATION by A. S. Aleksandrov, T. V. Semenova, N. P. Aleksandrova

“…Moreover, the authors obtained the solution in the form of logarithmic and power functions, which associated the accumulated deformation with the deformation arising from the first load application. …”
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Removal characteristics for nine species of per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances using different types of anion exchange by Heejong Son, Byungryul An, Jeongwoo Shin

“…Comparing the uptake for each species, higher capacity was generally observed for sulfonic functional groups(PFSA) than for carboxylic functional groups (PFCA) at the same chain length, and the capacity increased with increasing chain length. …”
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Pressure induced crossover from 2D-like to 3D structural arrangement in van der Waals magnet CrBr3 by D.P. Kozlenko, O.N. Lis, N.T. Dang, S.E. Kichanov, E.V. Lukin, I.Yu. Zel, N.O. Golosova, B.N. Savenko, T.L. Phan, T.K. Dinh, T.A. Tran

“…DFT calculations using first-principles generalized gradient approximations of the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) and Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof-sol (PBEsol) functionals qualitatively reproduced the high pressure effects on the structural and electronic properties of CrBr3, with more accurately results obtained by PBEsol. …”
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