Association of quality of life in older patients with breast cancer: a cross-sectional study from China by Xi Chen, Qing Li, Xiang Wang, Lei Ji, Jintao Zhang, Qiao Li, Min Xiao, Shanshan Chen, Pin Zhang, Jiani Wang, Heng Cao, Xiaoyan Qian, Meng Xiu, Zhuoran Li, Yiqun Li, Xiaojuan Zheng

“…Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality of life (QoL) of older Chinese patients with breast cancer and to explore further the associations of functions, symptoms, financial burdens and comorbidities with global health/quality of life (gQoL).Design This was a cross-sectional study carried out following the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology checklist.Setting This study was conducted in two hospitals in Beijing from October 2021 to November 2022.Participants Patients with breast cancer aged over 65 years were included in the final analysis, which comprised a total of 481 patients.Primary and secondary outcome measures The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 and the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) were used to assess patients’ QoL and comorbidities. …”
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Adherence to the ISHLT Protocol for the Referral of Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis to the Transplantation Center among of Czech Centers for Interstitial Lung Diseases by Martina Sterclova, Martina Doubkova, Lubica Sykorova, Vladimir Bartos, Monika Zurkova, Vladimira Lostakova, Radka Mokosova, Martina Plackova, Ladislav Lacina, Michaela Cimrova, Radka Bittenglova, Pavlina Lisa, Pavla Musilova, Daniel Dolezal, Jana Psikalova, Petra Ovesna, Martina Koziar Vasakova

“…Czech patients who were diagnosed with IPF between 1999 and 2021 (n=1584) and who were less than 65 years old at the time of diagnosis were retrospectively selected from the Czech Republic of the European Multipartner Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Registry (EMPIRE). …”
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Evaluation of Spatial Spillover Effect of Multidimensional Hybrid Financial Risk Contagion Based on the DAI Spatial Econometric Model by Shanshen Li, Zhonghui Dong

“…Among them, the change coefficient Ws⟶brsD of the event period was judged to have a large degree of negative change in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France in the European Union, which were −0.9885, −0.9876, and −0.9748, respectively. …”
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An algorithm for infectious screening of corneal donors in eye tissue bank of the Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution by S.A. Borzenok, M.Yu. Gerasimov, Yu.A. Komakh, M.Kh. Khubetsova, H.D. Tonaeva, L.M. Malikova, P.I. Plaksa

“…To analyze an algorithm for infectious screening of cadaver corneal donors during corneal processing at the Eye Tissue Bank (ETB) of The Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution and compare it with the European Eye Bank Association (EEBA) data from 2011 through 2015. …”
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Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with chronic coronary artery disease (CAD) - current state of knowledge and perspective... by Hubert Bochenek, Anna Bielicka, Michał Bzoma, Julia Gugulska, Irmina Czerepak, Marcin Kapij, Karolina Niewczas, Adrianna Brzozowska

“…While this is effective in reducing thrombotic events, it also increases bleeding risk. Current European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines recommend tailoring DAPT duration and composition based on individual patient risk factors for bleeding and ischemia. …”
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TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY: UKRAINE IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Tetyana V. Danylova

“…It is essential to bring Ukrainian legislation into conformity with the constitutional principles of equality and European standards; develop appropriate and effective anti-discrimination norms and sanctions for violating gender legislation; introduce special measures to ensure gender parity in decision-making, in all public offices; conduct special information campaigns; develop and institutionalize gender studies and gender education at all stages; get more public control over the implementation of international commitments and principles of equal rights and opportunities for women and men. …”
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Is otologic surgery contributing to the opioid epidemic? by Valerie Dahm, Justin T. Lui, Rudolfs Liepins, Joseph M. Chen, Trung N. Le, Christoph Arnoldner, Vincent Y. W. Lin

“…Some of the prescribed drugs by European otologists are not available in North America. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic as a Factor for the Paradigm Shift in International Communications. Book Review of ‘Pandémie médiatique. Com de crise/crise de com’ by S. Fouks by T. Yu. Lebedeva, L. V. Minaeva, A. D. Krivonosov

“…It covers a wide range of issues including the causes of the crisis, which led to a paradigm shift in international communications, and specifi cs of the communication policies in France and some other European states. The author concludes that these policies refl ect a general crisis of the ruling elites (political establishment). …”
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Concept of effective Control among the Means of Restoring National Security of Ukraine by O. V. Cherviakova, R. V. Sytnyk, M. M. Honcharenko

“…In particular, the United Nations International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights are actively working with the concepts of effective and general control to deal with cases of violating human rights, international humanitarian law on the territories of armed conflict. …”
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The Economic Succession Doctrine in Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law: 'Nothing Extraordinary' After Skanska Industrial? by Marco Botta

“… The article analyses the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Skanska Industrial. In its preliminary ruling, the CJEU recognised for the first time the so-called “economic succession doctrine” in damage claims concerning a breach of EU competition rules. …”
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Evaluating the representativeness of the bentgrass (Agrostis L.) gene pool collected across the Russian Federation and neighboring countries in the VIR collection by L. L. Malyshev

“…It appeared that the Northwest of the European part of Russia, Western Siberia, Sakhalin Province, and the Republic of Yakutia were most fully explored by collecting teams. …”
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Great Northern War and Church reform of Peter the Great by N. V. Sokolova

“…The novelty of the January decrees that presumably started the reform (in the then-common European sense of the concept) was the inclusion of the patriarch's estates in the list of the Church's possessions subject to the control of the state in the future.I conclude that the secularization of church-monastic possessions and property that followed at the beginning of the Great Northern War not only contradicted the centuries-old historical practice but was at that time organizationally overwhelming for the state, which was able to solve the problem of managing the escheat patriarchal lands but did not yet have the appropriate staffing and logistics capacities for control over all possessions of the Church.…”
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Strategic Plan for Cardiovascular Health in Portugal – Portuguese Society of Cardiology (PESCP-SPC) by Sofia Cabral, Cristina Gavina, Manuel Almeida, Alexandra Sousa, Ana Rita Francisco, Eduardo Infante Oliveira, Kevin Domingues, Luísa Moura Branco, Sílvia Monteiro, Sofia Alegria, Rui Baptista, Hélder Pereira

“…The Strategic Plan for Cardiovascular Health in Portugal is an initiative of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, aligned with efforts by the European Society of Cardiology and the World Heart Federation to develop national plans, at a local level within the cultural and socio-economic contexts, focused on cardiovascular health. …”
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Strategic foresight framework for addressing agency in sustainability transitions: a co-creation approach by Cristian Matti, Laurent Bontoux, Kathrine Jensen

“…This work was performed in the context of the preparation of the European Commission’s Annual Strategic Foresight Report 2023. …”
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Regulatory Compliance of Health Claims on Omega-3 Fatty Acid Food Supplements by Jelena Banović Fuentes, Ivana Beara, Ljilja Torović

“…Of the 97 supplements, 76 (78.4%) carried verbal claims referring to active substance, of which 68 (89.5%) were claims specific to ω-3-FA. According to the European Union Health Claims Registry, 107 claims listed on 59 supplements were authorized, as opposed to nine unauthorized claims on nine supplements. …”
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Foreign experience in ensuring of non-interference in the private life of a person in criminal proceedings by D. V. Simonovych, O. V. Blyshchyk

“…The international community, in particular the European Court of Human Rights, has repeatedly stressed that the rules of law of a restrictive nature must be of high quality, i.e. without ambiguity in their interpretation and application. …”
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Encouragement of the Personnel of the State Labor Service of Ukraine to Implement International Experience within Labor Protection Management by O. A. Lukianykhina, V. O. Lukianykhin, I. V. Kolesnyk, K. О. Khamlyka

“…The authors have studied the role and place of the SLS of Ukraine regarding the adaptation and implementation of the experience of advanced world countries into the management strategies of labor protection defined in the Conventions of the International Labor Organization and the Directives of the European Union. The authors have determined the subjects of influence in the field of protection of labor rights, labor protection, preservation of life and health of the participants in the production process, in particular the executive authorities of public administration and the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine. …”
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Microbial keratitis in Southern Malawi: a microbiological pilot study by Timothy Neal, Dean Everett, Stephen B Kaye, Alistair Darby, Moira Gandiwa, Shaffi Mdala, Caroline E Corless, Rose Herbert, Nicholas A V Beare, Tobi F Somerville, Thokozani Zungu, Malcolm J Horsburgh, Petros C Kayange

“…Moxifloxacin and chloramphenicol offered the best coverage for both Gram-positive and Gram-negative isolates when susceptibility was determined using known antimicrobial first quartile concentrations and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing breakpoints, respectively. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Effect of Including Full-Fat <i>Tenebrio molitor</i> for Replacing Conventional Ingredients in Practical Diets for <i>Dicentrarchus labrax</i> Juveniles by Sara Flores-Moreno, Francisco Javier Alarcón-López, Antonio J. Coronel-Domínguez, Eugenia Zuasti, Ismael Hachero-Cruzado

“…This study evaluated the effects of replacing fishmeal and plant-derived ingredients (plant proteins and soybean oil) with full-fat TM meal on the growth performance and lipid composition of tissues in juvenile European seabass (<i>Dicentrarchus labrax</i>). Four experimental diets, including 5–10% TM for replacing fishmeal and soybean oil (FM5 and FM10) and 10–20% TM for substituting plant protein ingredients and soybean oil (PI10 and PI20), were tested over 49 days against a control diet (CT). …”
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Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato antibodies in English adult blood donors: A nationwide cross-sectional study, 2021–2022 by Eilish Hart, John Tulloch, Daniel Bailey, Tim Brooks, Heli Harvala, Peter Simmonds, Roberto Vivancos, Neil French, Amanda Semper

“…This is lower than neighbouring UK nation Scotland and other northern European countries.…”
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