The Effects of COVID-19 on Financial Distress and Tax Avoidance by Farshad Sabz Alipour, Ali Naderi, Zahra Oryaie, Arash Kazemi

“…As a result, financially distressed firms are more likely to adopt tax avoidance strategies. This study aimed to investigate the impact of financial distress on tax avoidance and how this relationship manifested during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Utilizing rice husk ash as cement replacement in pervious concrete: A review by Elnaz Khankhaje, Hyounseung Jang, Jimin Kim, Mahdi Rafieizonooz

“…The disposal of rice husk ash (RHA) presents environmental challenges, yet its high silica content makes it a promising partial cement replacement in pervious concrete. …”
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Case report on prolonged kidney graft survival without immunosuppressive therapy after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by N. V. Shmarina, N. V. Borovkova, E. S. Stolyarevich, V. A. Vasilyeva, R. V. Storozhev, I. V. Dmitriev, A. G. Balkarov, E. N. Parovichnikova

“…With no immunosuppressive therapy for more than four years, the kidney recipient showed stable, satisfactory graft function.Conclusion. …”
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Chemotherapy of hematological malignancies in patients with COVID-19 by T. S. Chudnova, E. A. Baryakh, M. S. Litvinenko, T. N. Tolstykh, O. L. Kochneva, E. Y. Grishina, E. N. Misyurina, K. V. Yatskov, E. I. Zhelnova, Y. Y. Polyakov, K. V. Kaluzhskaya

“…Secondary immunodeficiency as a result of hemoblastosis, predisposes to a more severe course of coronavirus infection, and specific antitumor treatment only exacerbates patients immunodeficiency. …”
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Local ligand concentration gradients induced by the plasma membrane by Ágnes Szabó, Gabriella Tóth, Tímea Szatmári, Gábor Mocsár, István Rebenku, János Szöllősi, Peter Nagy

“…Using experiments, calculations, and simulations, we show that the membrane-proximal peak is caused by membrane turnover, while the more distant one, only present in ErbB2-expressing cells, is generated by locally hindered diffusion possibly caused by the extracellular matrix. …”
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Alzheimer's disease qEEG: spectral analysis versus coherence. which is the best measurement? by Renato Anghinah, Paulo Afonso Medeiros Kanda, Helder Frederico Lopes, Luis Fernando Hindi Basile, Sérgio Machado, Pedro Ribeiro, Bruna Velasques, Koichi Sameshima, Daniel Yasumasa Takahashi, Lécio Figueira Pinto, Paulo Caramelli, Ricardo Nitrini

“…ROC curve supported that alpha band spectA was more sensitive than coherence to differentiate controls from AD.…”
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Operando X‐Ray Absorption and Diffraction Investigations on Ni‐ and Co‐MOF‐74 Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts by Julia Linke, Thomas Rohrbach, Adam Hugh Clark, Michal Andrzejewski, Nicola Pietro Maria Casati, Eibhlin Meade, Mateusz Wojtas, Marco Ranocchiari, Thomas Justus Schmidt, Emiliana Fabbri

“…An inferior electrolyte‐ and beam stability of Co‐MOF‐74 is revealed in comparison to a more stable performance of Ni‐MOF‐74 and Ni0.25Co0.75‐MOF‐74. …”
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Refractive Index Nanosensor With Simple Structure Based on Fano Resonance by Jing Guo, Xiaoyu Yang, Yifei Wang, Mengmeng Wang, Ertian Hua, Shubin Yan

“…Additionally, three derived structures are presented, which are composed of MIM waveguide and two RCWALS in different positions. …”
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Cyclodextrins in action: Modulating candida albicans biofilm formation and morphology by Rita Márton, Hanna Hermann, Virág Tünde Kiss, Éva Fenyvesi, Lajos Szente, Mónika Molnár

“…Consequently, their synergistic effect may provide an excellent opportunity to produce a lower dose but more effective anticandidal formulation.…”
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Phytochemical Extraction to Improve the Economic Benefits of Biomass Processing by Shengliang Zhu, Shengrong Zhang, Zhanye Xv, Shengdong Zhu

“…Efforts are needed to increase the phytochemical content in plants and develop more efficient extraction and separation processes. …”
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THE PROPERTIES OF THE CONIDIA OF STRAINS OF THE ACTINOMYCETE <i>STREPTOMYCES LUCENSIS</i> AND <i>STREPTOMYCES VIOLACEUS</i> DURING STORAGE AT LOW TEMPERATURES by Natalya Yu. Sharova, Tatyana V. Vybornova, Anastasia A. Printseva, Bairta S. Manzhieva

“…Low-temperature storage of conidia in saline solution is less effective. Pigmentation is more active in the cultivation of strains stored at minus 18°C.…”
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Mindfulness Meditation Is Related to Long-Lasting Changes in Hippocampal Functional Topology during Resting State: A Magnetoencephalography Study by Anna Lardone, Marianna Liparoti, Pierpaolo Sorrentino, Rosaria Rucco, Francesca Jacini, Arianna Polverino, Roberta Minino, Matteo Pesoli, Fabio Baselice, Antonietta Sorriso, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Laura Mandolesi

“…Neuroimaging studies have shown that the brain connectivity changes in meditators. In the present work, we aim to describe the possible long-term effects of meditation on the brain networks. …”
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Difficulties in Diagnosing a Patient with Fever of Unknown Origin by E. I. Fomina, E. E. Gubernatorova, T. V. Adasheva, T. V. Baturina, P. S. Samoszhenova, N. U. Timofeeva

“…Absence of a key feature, variety of causes and the lack of single examination algorithm makes difficult further diagnosis. The presented clinical case describes a 53-year-old patient with a prolonged fever of more than 1.5 months, pain syndrome in the facial area. …”
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Carbohydrate Antigen 125: A Biomarker at the Crossroads of Congestion and Inflammation in Heart Failure by Marko Kumric, Tina Ticinovic Kurir, Josko Bozic, Duska Glavas, Tina Saric, Bjørnar Marcelius, Domenico D’Amario, Josip A Borovac

“…Because heart failure (HF) is more lethal than some of the common malignancies in the general population, such as prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women, there is a need for a cost-effective prognostic biomarker in HF beyond natriuretic peptides, especially concerning congestion, the most common reason for the hospitalisation of patients with worsening of HF. …”
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Sarcomatoid diffuse pleural mesothelioma in an 80-year-Old woman with long-term response to nivolumab plus ipilimumab: A case report by Yukiko Yoshida, Hidenori Mizugaki, Yuma Sato, Ken Kuwahara, Noriyuki Yamada, Hajime Asahina, Hiroshi Yokouchi, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Satoshi Oizumi

“…An 80-year-old woman presented to our hospital with the chief complaint of left lateral thoracic pain. …”
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A Survey of Model Fits to Brown Dwarf Spectra Through the L–T Sequence by Savanah K. Turner, Denise C. Stephens, Conner B. Scoresby, Josh A. Miller

“…Using the parameters of the best-fit models as estimates for the physical properties of the brown dwarfs in our sample, we have performed a survey of how brown dwarf atmospheres evolve with spectral type and temperature. We present the fit results and observed trends. We find that clouds have a more significant impact on near-IR spectra than disequilibrium chemistry, and that silicate clouds influence the near-IR spectrum through the late T types. …”
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Neuropsychic manifestations in the Kyrgyz cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus by G. M. Koylubaeva, T. M. Reshetnyak, E. A. Aseeva, K. S. Solovyov, A. S. Dzhumagulova, N. P. Tkachenko, E. R. Karimovа, A. Zh. Zhumakadyrova, E. Zh. Dzhishambaev, K. A. Dzhailobayeva, E. L. Nasonov

“…In the vast majority of cases in Kyrgyz patients there was CNS involvement (68.93%), twice less – PNS damage (31.07%), combined lesion of PNS and CNS was noted less frequently (3.88%). 47.89% of patients had more than one manifestation of NPM SLE. In most patients with diffuse NPM SLE, psychosis was observed in the form of visual and auditory hallucinations (72.34%), and focal ones were presented by CVD (43.42%), usually in the form of discirculatory encephalopathy (90.91%).…”
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Pearl River Delta: Scales, Times, Domains by Liang Xiong

“…In other words, this study provides a strategy to achieve more integrated and resilient delta planning and design. …”
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Credit card fraud detection in the era of disruptive technologies: A systematic review by Asma Cherif, Arwa Badhib, Heyfa Ammar, Suhair Alshehri, Manal Kalkatawi, Abdessamad Imine

“…Our study shows a limited investigation to date into deep learning, revealing that more research is required to address the challenges associated with detecting credit card fraud through the use of new technologies such as big data analytics, large-scale machine learning and cloud computing. …”
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Epilepsy combined with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome: a literature review and description of clinical cases by M. B. Mironov, N. V. Chebanenko, S. O. Ayvazyan, S. A. Vladimirova, K. V. Osipova, S. G. Burd, Yu. V. Rubleva, T. M. Krasilshchikova, V. G. Bychenko

“…This article presents the anamnestic, clinical, electro-encephalographic and neuroimaging findings in 5 patients with epilepsy combined with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS). …”
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