Pharmacotherapies for Obesity: Past, Current, and Future Therapies by Lisa L. Ioannides-Demos, Loretta Piccenna, John J. McNeil

“…No current pharmacotherapy possesses the efficacy needed to produce substantial weight loss in morbidly obese patients. …”
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CREATIVE COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR AS A MEANS OF CREATIVE SELF-REALIZATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL by Galina I. Zhelezovskaya, Natalia V. Abramova, Yelena N. Gudkova

“…The future experts as potential members of the general creative process should be ready to observance of available norms and traditions of dialogue and at the same time should possess ability to refuse the fixed, trivial representations while analysing and making decisions of actual workplace issues.Practical significance. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning framework with irregular-majority users by Qianxin CHEN, Renwan BI, Jie LIN, Biao JIN, Jinbo XIONG

“…In response to the existing problems that the federated learning might lead to the reduction of aggregation efficiency by handing the majority of irregular users and the leak of parameter privacy by adopting plaintext communication, a framework of privacy-preserving robust federated learning was proposed for ensuring the robustness of the irregular user based on the designed security division protocol.PPRFL could enable the model and its related information to aggregate in ciphertext on the edge server facilitate users to calculate the model reliability locally for reducing the additional communication overhead caused by the adoption of the security multiplication protocol in conventional methods, apart from lowering the high computational overhead resulted from homomorphic encryption with outsourcing computing to two edge servers.Based on this, user could calculate the loss value of the model through jointly using the verification sets issued by the edge server and that held locally after parameter updating of the local model.Then the model reliability could be dynamically updated as the model weight together with the historic information of the loss value.Further, the model weight was scaled under the guidance of prior knowledge, and the ciphertext model and ciphertext weight information are sent to the edge server to aggregate and update the global model parameters, ensuring that global model changes are contributed by high-quality data users, and improving the convergence speed.Through the security analysis of the Hybrid Argument model, the demonstration shows that PPRFL can effectively protect the privacy of model parameters and intermediate interaction parameters including user reliability.The experimental results show that the PPRFL scheme could still achieve the accuracy of 92% when all the participants in the federated aggregation task are irregular users, with the convergence efficiency 1.4 times higher than that of the PPFDL.Besides, the PPRFL scheme could still reach the accuracy of 89% when training data possessed by 80% of the users in the federated aggregation task were noise data, with the convergence efficiency 2.3 times higher than that of the PPFDL.…”
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A non-metallic PEEK topology optimization reconstruction implant for large mandibular continuity defects, validated using the MANDYBILATOR apparatus by Bram B. J. Merema, Frederik K. L. Spijkervet, Joep Kraeima, Max J. H. Witjes

“…This may potentially lead to optimised patient-specific reconstructions, with the implants matching the bone’s stiffness and possessing radiolucent properties which are useful for radiographic follow-ups and radiotherapy. …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…This dance has the value of a therapeutic ritual for the novice: the success of the dance, i.e. full restitution of the word of the oracle, is a sign of mastery of communication with the tutelary ancestors (“zu”) and thus of the possession of sufficient might to resist the specific madness – “zu madness” – that they would otherwise provoke. …”
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Chinese-style ceramics in East Africa from the 9th to 16th century: A case of changing value and symbols in the multi-partner global trade by Bing Zhao

“…Consequently, these objects actively contributed to the expanding power of the merchant elite, who took full possession of it both materially and symbolically.…”
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Economic behavior of agricultural land market subjects by V. I. Trofimova

“…Buyers are guided by the possession motives, use and disposal of land by acquiring a land plot. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Heavy Metals and Organic Compounds in Soil from Deir Kanoun Ras El Ain Dump, Lebanon by Jamilah Borjac, Manal El Joumaa, Lobna Youssef, Rawan Kawach, Diane A. Blake

“…Deir Kanoun Ras El Ain is a village in southern Lebanon that possesses one of the country’s worst dumps, and its leachates influx into a running canal that irrigates surrounding agricultural lands. …”
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Enhancement of Hydrophobicity of Fish Skin Gelatin via Molecular Modification with Oxidized Linoleic Acid by Wipawee Theerawitayaart, Thummanoon Prodpran, Soottawat Benjakul

“…Fish gelatin possesses hydrophilicity in nature since it contains a few hydrophobic amino acids and a large portion of hydrophilic amino acids. …”
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Assessment of ameliorative effects of Moringa oleifera Lam. on epididymal dysfunctions and fertility in streptozotocin–induced diabetic rats by Ram Niwas Jangir, Gyan Chand Jain

“…Conclusions: M. oleifera leaf extract possesses significant antioxidant activities as well as beneficial effects on epididymal dysfunctions in diabetic male rats.…”
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Green chemistry approaches in the analytical validation of fosravuconazole using UV spectrophotometry and HPLC by Jeswin Maliyakal, Mital Patel

“…BAGI showed that both methods possess scores above the recommended threshold score of 60, qualifying them for industrial applications. …”
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Solving Quantum Mechanics Problems Via Integral Rohit Transform by Rohit Gupta, Rahul Gupta, Dinesh Verma

“…Additionally, the energy values that the particle can possess within a 1d infinitely high potential well demonstrate that the energy of said particle, when confined within this potential well, is quantized.…”
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Effect of oyster mushroom wastes on performance, immune responses and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens by Shila Hasanian Fard, Majid Toghyani, Sayed Ali Tabeidian

“…Background Mushroom wastes are widely left from mushroom production industries and have been supposed to possess prebiotic, antimicrobial, antifungal and antioxidant properties. …”
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Karyotype Analysis in Five Species of Carthamus L. (Asteraceae) from Iran by Atefeh Aghakoochaki, Maneezheh Pakravan

“…Karyotype analyses revealed that all populations possess asymmetrical karyotypes. The karyotype formulas were as follow: 4m+ 5sm+ 2st+ t for C. tinctorius (2n= 2x= 24), M+ 19m+ 2Sm for C. lanatus, M+ 7m+ 2sm for C. dentatus (2n= 2x= 20), M+7m+2Sm for the population of C. dentatus with 2n= 30, and M+ 17m+ 13sm+ T for C. turkestanicus (2n= 64).  …”
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Impact of Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF) Versus Freeze-Dried Bone Allograft (FDBA) on Peri-Implant Soft and Hard Tissue in Alveolar Ridge Preservation by Mohammed A. Razi, Ankit Mahajan, Rabia Zarrin, Supratik Roy, Manoj K. Singh, Sharmila Kumari

“…Two frequently employed biomaterials in ARP are freeze-dried bone allograft (FDBA) and platelet-rich fibrin (PRF), each possessing unique biological characteristics. Materials and Methods: In a randomized controlled study, sixty individuals requiring ARP after tooth extraction were included. …”
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Preparing for old age in a geragogic approach. The conceptual assumptions for gerontological education of people aged 50+ “Towards a dignified and successful old age” by Anna Maria Leszczyńska-Rejchert

“…Gerontological education for people aged 50+ as a form of preparation for old age should be part of lifelong learning because possessing knowledge and skills in this regard contributes to a better quality of life and well-being in medium and late adulthood.…”
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Module to scaffold the process of filling grant documents in English by Cofiya Swartz, Elvira E. Valeeva

“…Unfortunately, studentsstudying in Russia often do not possess the skills necessary to complete foreign language documents correctly. …”
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Desired Compensation Adaptive Robust Control of an Active Vibration Isolation System by Bo Zhao, Weijia Shi, Ming Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Feng Li

“…The experimental results validate that the proposed DCARC control strategy outperforms other control method and possesses both high-performance vibration isolation and low tracking error.…”
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A Comparative Study on the Phytochemical Profile, Antimicrobial Activity and Antioxidant Capacity of Flowers and Leaves from Selected Medicinal Plants by Anisha Bhandari, Kanti Shrestha, Pramila Parajuli

“…These findings indicate that the selected plants possess antimicrobial and antioxidant properties, and their phytochemical content may contribute to their therapeutic potential. …”
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Study of Barium Adsorption from Aqueous Solutions Using Copper Ferrite and Copper Ferrite/rGO Magnetic Adsorbents by B. Carmel Jeeva Mary, J. Judith Vijaya, M. Bououdina, L. Khezami, A. Modwi, M. Ismail, Stefano Bellucci

“…The magnetic results possess multidomain microstructures with saturation magnetization of 37.11 and 33.84 emu/g for CF and CG. …”
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