EMOTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY by Kenul E. Abdurehmanova

“…The research confirms that certain aspects of emotional expression — such as increased vocal intensity for anger and decreased speech rate for sadness — remain relatively consistent across language groups, supporting the universality hypothesis. …”
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Altruism Enhances Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Reduces Sympathetic Activity: A Multimodal EEG‐ECG Study With Implications for Therapeutic Interventions by Junya Orui, Keigo Shiraiwa, Takao Inoue, Masaya Ueda, Keita Ueno, Yasuo Naito, Ryouhei Ishii

“…Parasympathetic activity negatively correlated with temporal‐gamma connectivity (p = 0.002), and heart rate change negatively correlated with temporal‐prefrontal theta connectivity (p = 0.048). …”
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Spatial disparities of population aging in Shenzhen: from China’s Hukou perspective by Qing Luo, Zhuoying Li, Yuanjun Li, Yunhao Yang, Jiaxin Liu, Guangbo Liu, Huayi Wu

“…Although its overall aging rate remains below the international aging society threshold, the city confronts unique challenges as a migrant receiving metropolis without domestic precedents. …”
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Quality of Wild Passion Fruit at Different Ripening Stages Under Irrigated and Rainfed Cultivation Systems by Giuliana Naiara Barros Sales, Marília Hortência Batista Silva Rodrigues, Toshik Iarley da Silva, Rodolfo Rodrigo de Almeida Lacerda, Brencarla Lima Medeiros, Larissa Felix Macedo, Thiago Jardelino Dias, Walter Esfrain Pereira, Fabio Gelape Faleiro, Ivislanne de Sousa Queiroga Lacerda, Franciscleudo Bezerra da Costa

“…Additionally, the rainfed cultivation reduced the fruit color index by 14.82% and altered the respiratory pattern, causing a linear decrease of 73.37% in the respiration rate during ripening, in contrast to the behavior observed in the irrigated system, which reached an estimated minimum rate of 33.74 mg CO₂ kg⁻¹ h⁻¹ at 110 days after anthesis.…”
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Experimental study on the damage characteristics of cyclic disturbance and acoustic emission characteristics of different types of sandstones under high stress in deep mines by Yujing Jiang, Bin Liang, Dong Wang, Ling Dong, Hengjie Luan, Changsheng Wang, Jiankang Liu

“…Cyclic dynamic perturbations under sinusoidal waves with a frequency of 5 Hz, a loading rate of 0.1 mm/min, a cyclic amplitude of 5 MPa, and a loading rate of 0.1 mm/min were applied to the three rock samples during the experiments. …”
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Longitudinal Changes in Kidney Solute Clearance in a Prospective Cohort of Patients Initiating Chronic Hemodialysis by Tammy L. Sirich, Zijian Tan, Benjamin R. Highland, Zhidong Lin, Gregory B. Russell, Mariana Murea

“…Urine volume declined at a steady rate with median (quartile 1, quartile 3) percentage change relative to baseline of −10% (−36 to 29) at week 6 and −47% (−76 to 5) by week 48. …”
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Modern Percutaneous Hallux Valgus Surgery for Revision of Recurrent Hallux Valgus by Andreas Kurt Toepfer MD PhD, Pawel Chomej MD, Pablo Mococain MD, Henryk Liszka MD PhD, Robbie Ray MBChB, ChM(TO), FRCSed(Tr&Orth), FEBOT, Tom Lewis MBChB (Hons) BSc. (Hons) MFSTEd FRCS(Tr&Orth), Peter Lam MBBS (Hons), FRACS, FAOA, David Gordon MB ChB, MRCS, MD, FRCS (Tr&Orth)

“…Results: The complication rate was 21%. Most complications could be managed non-surgically. …”
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Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes and Its Predictors among Tuberculosis Patients Registered at Tefera Hailu Memorial General Hospital, Sekota Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A Seven-Year R... by Habtu Debash, Jemberu Nega, Habtye Bisetegn, Gebru Tesfaw, Daniel Getacher Feleke, Hussen Ebrahim, Alemu Gedefie, Mihret Tilahun, Ousman Mohammed, Ermiyas Alemayehu, Melaku Ashagrie Belete, Abdurahaman Seid, Agumas Shibabaw

“…The overall treatment success rate among TB patients was 93.8%. The maximum number of successful treatment outcomes was 94.9% in 2021, while the lowest was 86.7% in 2020. …”
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Combining Hepatic Arterial Interventional Therapies with Lenvatinib and Programmed Cell Death-1 Inhibitors for Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Portal Vein Tumor Thrombosis: A Single-... by Shen X, Shao T, Yu J, Zhang Z

“…After PSM, there were 74 patients per group, the H-L-P group showed significantly better median OS (19 months vs 14 months, p < 0.001) and median PFS (10 months vs 4 months, p < 0.001) than L-P group; higher objective response rate (ORR) (37.8% vs 16.2%, p < 0.001) and disease control rate (DCR) (78.4% vs 47.3%, p < 0.001) were observed in the H-L-P group. …”
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Geochemical Characteristics and Thermal Evolution History of Jurassic Tamulangou Formation Source Rocks in the Hongqi Depression, Hailar Basin by Junping Cui, Wei Jin, Zhanli Ren, Hua Tao, Haoyu Song, Wei Guo

“…During the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, the Hongqi Depression experienced significant fault-controlled subsidence and sedimentation, with a maximum sedimentation rate of 340 m/Ma, accompanied by intense volcanic activity that created a high-temperature geothermal gradient of 40–65 °C/km, with paleotemperatures exceeding 140 °C and a heating rate of 1.38–2.02 °C/Ma. …”
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A ten-year trend analysis of malaria prevalence at Sunyani Municipal Hospital, Ghana by Antwi Joseph Barimah, Rebecca Dorcas Commey, Nyantakyiwaa Duah Salomey, James Dumba, Yaw Boakye Nketiah, Bernard Opoku Amoah, Larry Agyemang, Tweneboah Yvonne Ofosua, Deborah Arhinful, Gyamfi Opoku Sandra

“…Although there is a mixed but decreased trend, the region’s confirmed malaria case rate is nevertheless concerning and indicates a substantial public health burden. …”
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The Role of Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer Patients With Residual Nodal Disease After Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Kristina Shaffer, Lilian Harris, Lori Gentile, Amelia Merrill, Lori Kellam, Michelle Fillion, Peter Turk

“…Conversely, there was a significantly increased rate of lymphedema in the ALND, 57.9%, vs the SLNB group, 35.3% ( P  = 0.03). …”
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The prevalence and genetic characteristics of human bocavirus in patients with acute respiratory infection in China during 2012–2021 by Haoran Jiang, Baicheng Xia, Xujing Chi, Liwei Sun, Hongmei Xu, Wenhui Wang, Min Mu, Pengbo Yu, Xingyu Xiang, Feng Zhang, Hui Zhang, Caixiao Jiang, Linqing Zhao, Zhenguo Gao, Kongxin Hu, Yan Zhang, Aili Cui

“…The age group with the highest detection rate shifted from infants under 2 years in 2012–2019 to children aged 2–4 years in 2020–2021. …”
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Serrated Lesions of the Colon-Rectum: A Focus on New Diagnostic Tools and Current Management by Gianluca Cassese, Alfonso Amendola, Francesco Maione, Mariano Cesare Giglio, Gianluca Pagano, Marco Milone, Giovanni Aprea, Gaetano Luglio, Giovanni Domenico De Palma

“…The high risk of incomplete resection, together with the high rate of postcolonoscopy interval cancers, suggests the need of an extra care when facing this kind of lesions. …”
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Daily night-time lights reveal prolonging global electric power system recovery times following tropical cyclone damage by Yu Mo, Fred Thomas, Jianan Rui, Jim W Hall

“…We also found that blackout durations have significantly ( P < 0.05) increased over the study period across all levels of urbanization, at a similar rate of 0.9 ± 0.1 d per decade. The temporal variations (i.e. annual means) of blackout duration of high and low density urban clusters negatively correlated with storm travel speed, while those of low density urban clusters and rural areas positively correlated with pre-storm NTL ( P ⩽ 0.05 in all cases). …”
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Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public by Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Yu-Chen Juang, Chun-Tung Kuo, Ping-Hsueh Lee, Duan-Rung Chen

“…However, given the low completion rate and prevalent preference patterns, policymakers should increase efforts to ensure that those in need have access to appropriate resources and consider implementing a tiered signing process.…”
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Subgroup analysis of treatment pathways and clinical outcomes in Hodgkin lymphoma in Latin America from the retrospective B-HOLISTIC study by Alvaro Hernandez-Caballero, Ruben Salazar, Marta Zerga, Silvia Rivas-Vera, Zhongwen Huang, Amado Karduss

“…Median PFS and OS in the RRHL group was 20.2 and 87 months, respectively; the 5-year PFS rate was 27.1%. Survival outcomes were improved in patients who underwent SCT than those without SCT. …”
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Multimorbidity incidence following hospitalization for SARS-CoV-1 infection or influenza over two decades: a territory-wide retrospective cohort study by Cuiling Wei, Chor Wing Sing, Eric Yuk Fai Wan, Ching Lung Cheung, Ian Chi Kei Wong, Francisco Tsz Tsun Lai

“…Overall crude multimorbidity incident rates were 1.5 per 100 person-years among SARS patients and 5.6 among influenza patients. …”
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Herbal medicine evaluation for reimbursement-based facial palsy (HERB-FP): a retrospective analysis using Korean health insurance claim data 2020–2024 by Soo-Dam Kim, Man Young Park, Eunbyul Cho, Jiyun Cha, Changsop Yang, Sungha Kim

“…Among patients with symptom severity scores at both baseline and follow-up (n = 2,161), 49.2% showed improvement, 45.6% remained unchanged, and 5.2% worsened. The overall AE rate was low (1.76%), with gastrointestinal issues being most frequent. …”
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Global burden of liver cancer attributable to drug use: trends from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2040 by Cong Chen, Ying Zhou, Weiwei Gu, Zhuxin Gu, Pengfei Jia, Luyi Si, Suming Zhao, Hui Zhao

“…Women exhibited higher EAPC values for ASDR (2.36) and DALYs (1.87) compared to men, indicating that the relative rate of increase in the disease burden over time is greater for women. …”
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