The impact of Modernity on Physical and Spatial Transformation of Rural Settlements in Iran by Farhad Azizpour

“…Urban and rural areas as geographical landscapes are spatial containers, which manifest intellectual abilities in their structure and function under conditions of time. In fact, structural-functional characteristics of ecological domains are affected by theories and paradigms that derived from ​​human thinking. …”
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Cognitive impairment among older persons with chronic illness attending primary care and its association with cardiovascular risk using the Framingham risk score by Nimelesh Balanthiren, Mohd Fairuz Ali, Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz

“…Methods A total of 289 participants aged 60 years and above with chronic illness were recruited from Klinik Primer Hospital Tuanku Chanselor Muhriz via simple random sampling via computer generator. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment Bahasa Malaysia version (MoCA-BM) was used to assess cognitive function and the FRS was calculated on the basis of CVD risk factors. …”
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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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Polarization modulated spectroscopic ellipsometry-based surface plasmon resonance biosensor for E. coli K12 detection by Soraya Zangenehzadeh, Emil Agocs, Fenja Schröder, Nassima Amroun, Rebekka Biedendieck, Dieter Jahn, Axel Günther, Lei Zheng, Bernhard Roth, Hans-Hermann Johannes, Wolfgang Kowalsky

“…A beta barium borate crystal connected to a function generator is adapted for generating phase shifts in the millisecond regime to extract the ellipsometric angles ( $$\Psi$$ Ψ and $$\Delta$$ Δ ) under the surface plasmon resonance condition. …”
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Company Slogan and a Vivid Image of a Trademark - as Main Components of a Strong Brand by Igor BELOSTECINIC

“…The main lever for success in generation of a positive and recognizable brand image - is the slogan and its graphic image in consumer's mind. …”
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Lithium-salt-free polyoxovanadates/cellulose acetate-poly(ethylene glycol) nanocomposite solid electrolytes with enhanced electrochemical properties by Elmira Kohan, Roushan Khoshnavazi, Mir Ghasem Hosseini, Abdollah Salimi, Mehdi Salami-Kalajahi

“…Moreover, compared to the routine CA-PEG1000-LiPF6 electrolyte, the SPE with LVC had a broader electrochemical voltage window of more than 5 V. The excellent performance as lithium salt and inorganic filler and its role in reducing the crystallinity of polymers and providing mobile cations in polymer matrix, and acceptable electrochemical properties, including considerable transference number (t +) 0.59, good stability of electrode/electrolye interface after 100 h Li plating/stripping without short-circuiting, and good specific capacity (226 mAh g−1 of LiCoO2/CA-PEG1000-LVC/Gr at 0.1 C) suggest LVC as lithium salt and also as inorganic fillers for designing new SPEs with high performance for next-generation lithium-based batteries.…”
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Intermediate Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes of the Inbone II: for Patients with Five Years Minimum Follow-up by Parin Kothari MD, Alexander Phillips, Ramsey Potter, Drew Albert MD, MBA, Michelle A. Padley PhD, CRTM, John G. Anderson MD, Donald R. Bohay MD, FACS, John D. Maskill MD, Marshall A. Boose DO, Lindsey A. Behrend BS

“…Category: Ankle Arthritis; Ankle Introduction/Purpose: The TAA was originally introduced in the 1970s and each subsequent generation of implant has been improved upon. Innovative solutions led to second and third generation arthroplasties, which addressed the initial failures and incorporated new designs to improve patients’ lives through significant improvements in pain and function. …”
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Integrated Bidding and Battery Scheduling in a Microgrid for Sealed-Bid Double Auction Power Trading With Peer Microgrids Under Uncertainty and Its Blockchain-Based Implementation by Zubin J. B., Sunitha R., Gopakumar Pathirikkat

“…We assume a normal distribution of prediction errors and introduce an uncertainty range and a bid buffer capacity to account for expected variations in forecasted generation and load, enabling more robust coordination between bidding and storage operations. …”
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Characterisation and validation of insertions and deletions in 173 patient exomes. by Francesco Lescai, Silvia Bonfiglio, Chiara Bacchelli, Estelle Chanudet, Aoife Waters, Sanjay M Sisodiya, Dalia Kasperavičiūtė, Julie Williams, Denise Harold, John Hardy, Robert Kleta, Sebahattin Cirak, Richard Williams, John C Achermann, John Anderson, David Kelsell, Tom Vulliamy, Henry Houlden, Nicholas Wood, Una Sheerin, Gian Paolo Tonini, Donna Mackay, Khalid Hussain, Jane Sowden, Veronica Kinsler, Justyna Osinska, Tony Brooks, Mike Hubank, Philip Beales, Elia Stupka

“…Despite rapid advances of next-generation sequencing, both the technology and the analysis of the data it produces are in its infancy. …”
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Apoptosis-like cell death in Leishmania donovani treated with KalsomeTM10, a new liposomal amphotericin B. by Md Shadab, Baijayanti Jha, Mohammad Asad, Makaraju Deepthi, Mohd Kamran, Nahid Ali

“…We found that KalsomeTM10 is more effective then Ambisome against the promastigote as well as intracellular amastigote forms. …”
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Sustainable Transmitters for High-Capacity Metro-Access Networks by Stefano Gaiani, Alberto Gatto, Paola Parolari, Pierpaolo Boffi

“…The conventional approach for generating SSB signals involves an IQ modulator to combine a pair of signals related by the Hilbert transform. …”
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SMART Vaccines 2.0 decision-support platform: a tool to facilitate and promote priority setting for sustainable vaccination in resource-limited settings by Peter Waiswa, Nelson K Sewankambo, Benjamin J J McCormick, Celia Nalwadda, Stacey L Knobler

“…Feedback from users identified areas where the tool could more explicitly support evidence-to-recommendation frameworks, ultimately informing the next generation of the platform, PriorityVax.Country ownership and priority setting in vaccine decisions are central to sustainability. …”
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An artificial intelligence approach to palaeogeographic studies: a case study of the Late Ordovician brachiopods of Laurentia by Akbar Sohrabi

“…In order to measure the reliability of the neural network model, the mean square error performance function was used. For training the neural network model, the Bayesian training function (trainbr) was used. …”
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An overview of the synthesis of coumarins via Knoevenagel condensation and their biological properties by Idriss Tchoffo Tchoupou, Melody H. Manyeruke, Sodeeq A. Salami, Charles I. Ezekiel, Pantaleon Ambassa, Jacqueline V. Tembu, Rui W.M. Krause, Bathelemy Ngameni, Xavier Siwe Noundou

“…For this reason, several initiatives primarily focus on developing new and more practical methods for synthesizing these compounds with the aim of addressing some of the pitfalls of traditional approaches. …”
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Gut microbiota modulates depressive-like behaviors induced by chronic ethanol exposure through short-chain fatty acids by Hui Shen, Chaoxu Zhang, Qian Zhang, Qing Lv, Hao Liu, Huiya Yuan, Changliang Wang, Fanyue Meng, Yufu Guo, Jiaxin Pei, Chenyang Yu, Jinming Tie, Xiaohuan Chen, Hao Yu, Guohua Zhang, Xiaolong Wang

“…Conclusion SCFAs not only mitigate damage to intestinal structure and function but also alleviate various lesions in the central nervous system, such as neuroinflammation, and reduce anxiety and depression-like behaviors, which were triggered by transplantation with fecal microbiota that had been affected by chronic ethanol exposure, adding more support that SCFAs serve as a bridge between the gut and the brain.…”
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Novel photodynamic therapy using two-dimensional NiPS3 nanosheets that target hypoxic microenvironments for precise cancer treatment by Wu Zongze, Liu Quan, Wageh Swelm, Sun Zhe, Al-Hartomy Omar A., Al-Sehemi Abdullah G., Yan Lesen, Chen Jiaojuan, Zhang Wenjian, Yang Jilin, Zhang Han, Liu Liping

“…More crucial is that ·OH generation doesn’t need O2, and the O2 ·− can also work in a low O2 environment, and depleting oxygen in tumor cells. …”
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The Role of Inflammation in Diabetes: Current Concepts and Future Perspectives by Sotirios Tsalamandris, Alexios S Antonopoulos, Evangelos Oikonomou, George-Aggelos Papamikroulis, Georgia Vogiatzi, Spyridon Papaioannou, Spyros Deftereos, Dimitris Tousoulis

“…The role of obesity, adipose tissue, gut microbiota and pancreatic beta cell function in diabetes are under intensive scrutiny with several clinical trials to have been completed while more are in development. …”
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Multiscale Modeling of Meandering Fluvial Reservoir Architecture Based on Multiple-Point Geostatistics: A Case Study of the Minghuazhen Formation, Yangerzhuang Oilfield, Bohai Bay... by Jia Li, Chengyan Lin, Xianguo Zhang, Chunmei Dong, Yannan Wei, Wenyan Ning, Changcheng Han, Wei Guo

“…Moreover, the permeability function sets are more suitable than the porosity model for collaboratively simulating the permeability model. …”
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Sampled-data control through model-free reinforcement learning with effective experience replay by Bo Xiao, H.K. Lam, Xiaojie Su, Ziwei Wang, Frank P.-W. Lo, Shihong Chen, Eric Yeatman

“…Given that the continuous states of the plant will be the input of the agent, the state–action value function is approximated by the fully connected feed-forward neural networks (FCFFNN). …”
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Benchmark for Setting ACTH Cell Dosage in Clinical Regenerative Medicine for Post-Operative Hypopituitarism by Tatsuma Kondo, Hidetaka Suga, Kazuhito Takeuchi, Yutaro Fuse, Yoshiki Sato, Toshiaki Hirose, Harada Hideyuki, Yuichi Nagata, Ryuta Saito

“…Background/Objectives: Our objective is to develop hormone-producing pituitary cells that can function in the same manner as the human body and provide more effective treatments than current hormone replacement therapy. …”
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