Combating plastic pollution in international law: <i>lex lata</i> and <i>lex ferenda</i> by A. M. Solntsev

“…The life cycle of plastics covers the entire spectrum of activities, from raw material extraction, production, distribution, use, to disposal as waste, and environmental problems can arise at any stage of the plastic life cycle. Most plastic degrades very slowly in the environment. …”
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Lipid Clinic is an Efficacious Model of Preventive Medicine by A. V. Blokhina, A. I. Ershova, A. N. Meshkov, A. S. Limonova, V. I. Mikhailina, O. M. Drapkina

“…Female persons attend lipid clinic more often (61.5%). 48.5% of patients had low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) &gt;4.9 mmol/L, 7.7% had triglycerides level &gt;5.5 mmol/L. Most of the patients were diagnosed with type IIa hyperlipidemia (44,1%) or type IIb (28,0%). …”
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“I feel reassured, but there is no guarantee.” How do women with a future childbearing desire respond to active surveillance of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2? A qualit... by Joan Hansen, Pia Kirkegaard, Birgitte Folmann, Helle Folge Bungum, Anne Hammer

“…Their main concern was whether they had cancer. Most women carried on with their everyday lives with only minor occasional worries about CIN2, often prompted just before check‐up. …”
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Denoised Improved Envelope Spectrum for Fault Diagnosis of Aero-Engine Inter-Shaft Bearing by Danni Li, Longting Chen, Hanbin Zhou, Jinyuan Tang, Xing Zhao, Jingsong Xie

“…This excitation is caused by the wide span of vibration source frequency distribution that results from the quite different rotational speeds of the high-pressure rotor and low-pressure rotor. Consequently, most existing fault diagnosis methods cannot effectively extract inter-shaft bearing characteristic frequency information from the casing signal. …”
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War’s youngest victims: a descriptive cross-sectional study on injury distributions, severity patterns, and outcomes among paediatric trauma patients in Kharkiv, Ukraine by Filippa Sennersten, Safora Frogh, Gustav Falk, Mariia Matvieienko, Olha Karafulidi, Olha Konstantynovska, Yohan Robinson, Andreas Wladis, Denise Bäckström

“…Analysis of the war-related injuries indicated that the most affected body regions included the upper extremities (31%), lower extremities (28%), and thorax (28%). …”
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Comparison of different treatments for lumbar disc herniation: a network meta-analysis and systematic review by Ke Song, Jie Liang, Meiling Zhang, Songlin Cai, Yanfei Wang, Weifei Wu

“…The GRADE assessment revealed that the quality of most of the evidence was low or very low. Conclusion The implantation of internal fixation devices was shown to have no impact on quality of life. …”
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Brunelleschi's mirror, Alberti's window, and Galileo's 'perspective tube' O espelho de Brunelleschi, a janela de Alberti e o 'tubo' de Galileu by Samuel Y. Edgerton

“…Indeed, it subsequently had the most profound - and quite unanticipated - influence on the rise of modern science. …”
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Efficacy and safety of therapies for acute ischemic stroke in China: a network meta-analysis of 13289 patients from 145 randomized controlled trials. by Bowen Yang, Jingpu Shi, Xin Chen, Bing Ma, Hao Sun

“…Edaravone + Kininogenase and Sodium ozagrel + Edaravone appeared the most effective treatments. And Sodium ozagrel, Sodium ozagrel + edaravone, Edaravone + Kininogenase can improve the nerve dysfunction.…”
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Characteristics of B-lymphocyte subpopulations in renal transplant recipients by S. V. Zybleva, S. L. Zyblev

“…The presence of multiple subsets of B-cells with specific regulatory functions capable of modulating inflammatory responses havebeen detected. Most of the studies of Bregs function were carried out in the context of autoimmune and infectious diseases, whereas the objective of this research was to study the characteristics of the main, activated and tolerogenic subpopulations of B lymphocytes in patients who underwent kidney transplantation. …”
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Impact of second victim experience and support and psychological empowerment on depressive symptoms among nurses in China -a latent class analysis by HongZhe Liu, Yi Xiao, Hong Qu

“…Abstract Background Nurses, as the largest professional group in the healthcare industry, often face different psychological problems, among which depressive symptoms is the most common. This study used the latent class analysis (LCA) to classify nurses’ depressive symptoms, analyzing the differences in their second victim experience and support, psychological empowerment, and psychological detachment, providing reference for promoting nurses’ mental health. …”
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Risk Factors of Klebsiella pneumoniae Infections in Pediatric Healthcare Settings by S. A. Kuzmenko, M. A. Shmakova, E. B. Brusina

“…Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of severe healthcare-associated infections in children, representing one of the six most widespread multidrug-resistant microorganisms worldwide and requiring the implementation of population-wide treatment strategies.Aim. …”
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Co-Incorporation of Green Manure and Rice Straw Increases Rice Yield and Nutrient Utilization by Cuilan Wei, Bingshuai Cao, Songjuan Gao, Hao Liang

“…Among the soil fertility indicators, TK and SOM were the most important factors influencing rice yield and N uptake. …”
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Multivalent design of the monoclonal SynO2 antibody improves binding strength to soluble α-Synuclein aggregates by Inga Petersen, Muhammad Ilyas Ali, Alex Petrovic, Anders Jimmy Ytterberg, Karin Staxäng, Monika Hodik, Fadi Rofo, Sina Bondza, Greta Hultqvist

“…Soluble aggregates are reported to be the most neurotoxic species of α-Synuclein (αSyn) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and hence are a promising target for diagnosis and treatment of PD. …”
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Effects of liposomal bupivacaine in preoperative fascia iliac block on postoperative pain and delirium in elderly patients undergoing hip fracture surgery: a study protocol for a r... by Xiang Li, Jinbao Li, Hongjiao Xu, Weiwen Li, Zhuang Yu, Yingxiang Hao, Minjia Zheng, Xinwan Wu, Shen Liu

“…Introduction Postoperative delirium (POD) is the most common acute fluctuating mental state change after hip fractures in older adults. …”
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Opioid and non-opioid analgesic regimens after fracture and risk of serious opioid-related events by Ashley A Leech, Andrew D Wiese, Kyle Hart, Andrew J Medvecz, Avi Vaidya, Stacie Dusetzina

“…In secondary analyses, we used separate models to compare those that filled a prescription for each specific non-opioid analgesic type with opioids to those that filled only opioids.Results Of 29 489 patients, most filled an opioid prescription alone (58.4%) or an opioid and non-opioid (22.0%). …”
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REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF POTATO ACCESSIONS FROM THE VIR COLLECTION IN MURMANSK PROVINCE by S. N. Travina, Т. Е. Zhigadlo

“…According to the data of the long-term analysis of perennial agrometeorological data, the most favorable conditions for setting berries after potato self-pollination recurred every five years in the north. …”
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One-Node One-Edge Dimension-Balanced Hamiltonian Problem on Toroidal Mesh Graph by Yancy Yu-Chen Chang, Justie Su-Tzu Juan

“…The design for the network-on-chip (NoC) problem is important. One of the most famous NoC is the toroidal mesh graph <i>T_m</i>_,<i>n</i>. …”
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Progress in Our Understanding of the Cross-Protection Mechanism of CTV-VT No-SY Isolates Against Homologous SY Isolates by Grazia Licciardello, Giuseppe Scuderi, Marcella Russo, Marina Bazzano, Giuseppe Paradiso, Moshe Bar-Joseph, Antonino F. Catara

“…In the Mediterranean area, the most prevalent CTV strains are VT and T30. The VT strain includes both mild and severe isolates, some of them associated with seedling yellows (SY) syndrome. …”
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Isolation, characterization, therapeutic and prophylactic applications of a lytic bacteriophage to combat multi-drug resistance Shigella flexneri: an animal study model by Abbasi Fashami, Parisa, Pournajaf, Abazar, Amirmozafari, Nour, Hallajzadeh, Masoume, Mahabadi, Vahid Pirhajati, Saghiri, Reza, Khafri, Soraya, Golmoradi Zadeh, Rezvan, Akrami, Sousan, Asgharzadeh, Sajjad, Rajabnia, Mehdi

“…Background: Shigella (S.) flexneri is one of the most important causes of disease in children with diarrhea in Iran. …”
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Preclinical approaches in regenerative medicine for treating end-stage renal disease: a scoping review by Andrea Vigezzi, Paola Brani, Daniela Dalla Gasperina, Lorenzo Azzi, Cristina Giaroni, Davide Inversini, Giuseppe Pettinato, Matthew Massaad, Giulio Carcano, Giuseppe Ietto, Andreina Baj

“…The findings underscore the therapeutic potential of regenerative medicine in ESRD, with kidney organoids and organ-on-a-chip platforms representing two of the most advanced and translationally relevant approaches currently under investigation. …”
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