Evaluation of the daily routines and health behaviors of primary school children and their parents: what has changed with a pandemic? by Derya Ceyhan, Betül Karagür Çakmak, Furkan Burkay Gürel

“…For both parents (68.9%) and children (68.5%), the proportion of those who experienced changes in daily routines was high, and who experienced stress due to the pandemic changed their daily routines more (p < 0.01). The rate of unchanged oral hygiene habits was higher for both parents (74.0%) and their children (77.1%). …”
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Analysis of major human and foodborne pathogens and their resistance to antimicrobials in the USA in the past two decades: Implications for surveillance and control of antimicrobia... by PAN Hang, LI Xiaoliang, FANG Weihuan, YUE Min

“…Potential links between consumption of antimicrobials and patterns of antimicrobial resistance were discussed. …”
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Evaluation of Worker Fatigue During Exoskeleton-Assisted Tasks with Varying Intensities by Daehwi Jo, Gu Young Cho, Kyung-In Kang, Hyunsoo Kim

“…Time-series analysis further revealed that exoskeletons not only decrease overall fatigue accumulation but also slow the rate of fatigue increase, extending the period in which workers can maintain safe and efficient movement patterns. …”
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Contemporary problems of budget development of regional centers by M. A. Pechenskaya

“…It is shown that the risk of budget reduction in the social sphere and economy financing increased due to the growing cost of servicing municipal debt, which in the North-Western federal district regional centers increased 14 times in 2011-2018, while the average growth in Russia in that period was four-fold. The increase in the rate of budget expenditures centralization was revealed, which was manifested in an eight-fold increase in the delegated authority from higher levels to the budgets of regional centers of the North-Western federal district in 2011-2018.Scientific novelty: modern patterns of budget systems development of regional centers of Russia and the North-Western federal district are defined and justified, in particular for 2011-2018.Practical significance: the materials of the article can be used by professors of higher educational institutions in the educational process, and by researchers as a research base. …”
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Electricity Theft Detection Using Rule-Based Machine Leaning (rML) Approach by Sheyda Bahrami, Erol Yumuk, Alper Kerem, Beytullah Topçu, Ahmetcan Kaya

“…With an astounding 93% recall rate for the rule-based feature space combination of the random forest classifier, this novel approach has produced outstanding results. …”
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A multimodal functional structure-based graph neural network for fatigue detection by Dongrui Gao, Zhihong Zhou, Zongyao Peng, Haokai Zhang, Shihong Liu, Manqing Wang, Hongli Chang

“…The framework employs differential entropy (DE) features extracted from filtered EEG signals and heart rate variability (HRV) features derived from ECG signals as dual input streams, capturing distinct internal–external interaction patterns. …”
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Impact of stratifin/14-3-3σ on survival and interstitial lung disease in patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors by Daiki Murata, Koichi Azuma, Kenta Murotani, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Tomoaki Hoshino

“…Meanwhile, delta-SFN, representing the change in SFN values between ICI initiation and at the 6-week point, was associated with progression-free survival, overall survival, disease control rate, and ICI-ILD image patterns. Conclusion SFN levels in plasma were associated with therapeutic efficacy and ICI-ILD pattern in patients with NSCLC receiving cancer immunotherapy. …”
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Dramatic Decoupling Between Population and Construction Land in Rural China by Jiatong Han, Minghong Tan

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An Efficient RTL Design for a Wearable Brain–Computer Interface by Tahereh Vasei, Mohammad Ali Saber, Alireza Nahvy, Zainalabedin Navabi

“…To further illustrate the outperformance of our design, the proposed architecture is implemented on Virtex-7 field program gate array as a prototyping platform consuming 6 μJ energy with 1.52% area utilization.…”
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Silent Revolution in Research for Sustainability by Bruce Alder

“…A variety of new arrangements have come into existence that promote international collaboration, including Horizon 2020 with its emphasis on societal challenges, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation which has inspired a family of grand challenges funds on health and development, and the Future Earth joint program of research for global sustainability. …”
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Dorsal epidural disc migration—MRI characteristics and surgical microdiscectomy treatment: Case report and review of the literature by Antonios Michailidis, MD, Ioannis Tsifountoudis, MD, PhD, Dimitrios Kitridis, MD, FEBOT, MSc, PhDc, Konstantinos Tasoulis, MD, Kostas Charatsis, MD, Giannetopoulos Dimitrios, MD

“…Surgical intervention, particularly microdiscectomy, has shown favorable outcomes in resolving symptoms associated with nerve compression and minimizing recurrence rates. This report presents a case of DEDM in a 39-year-old male with persistent sciatica, analyzing MRI characteristics and surgical treatment.…”
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Bacterial Resistance in Ophthalmology – Resistance Profile, Influencing Factors and Prevention Methods. A Review by Matei POPA-CHERECHEANU, Alina POPA-CHERECHEANU, Dan George DELEANU, Mihai Aurelian GHITA

“…It is hoped that future reports show good results without the use of antibiotics will encourage ophthalmologists to limit the use of topical antibiotics, reducing the rate of antimicrobial resistance.…”
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Radiocleavable rare-earth nanoactivators targeting over-expressed folate receptors induce mitochondrial dysfunction and remodel immune suppressive microenvironment in pancreatic ca... by Tanvi Gupta, Shang-Rung Wu, Li-Chan Chang, Forn-Chia Lin, Yan-Shen Shan, Chen-Sheng Yeh, Wen-Pin Su

“…Abstract Pancreatic cancer is a fatal cancer with poor prognosis and survival rate, often diagnosed usually in the advanced stage of disease. …”
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Machine learning and microfluidic integration for oocyte quality prediction by Hassan Saffari, Davood Fathi, Peyman Palay, Hamid Gourabi, Rouhollah Fathi

“…Additionally, oocyte diameter and the critical flow rate (Q)—defined as the minimum flow rate necessary for an oocyte to pass through the channel—were included as predictive variables. …”
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Impact of Sodium Ion Stress on the Mechanism of Lead Ion Migration in Electrochemical Treatment of Lead-Contaminated Soil by Yinyin Zhang, Jiangtao Han, Libin Zang

“…This study specifically validates the migration patterns of lead ions under sodium ion stress in soil and concludes that a high concentration of sodium ions, when coexisting with lead ions, diminishes the migration rate of lead ions, consequently reducing the removal efficiency of lead ions. 1. …”
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Combining Autoregressive Models and Phonological Knowledge Bases for Improved Accuracy in Korean Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion by Sung-Ki Choi, Hyuk-Chul Kwon, Minho Kim

“…Experimental results show that a BiLSTM-LSTM AR model based on ELECTRA embeddings achieves a phoneme error rate (PER) of 0.2%, word error rate (WER) of 0.68%, and a sentence accuracy of 95.16%, outperforming both a traditional rule-based approach (24.51% sentence accuracy) and non-autoregressive variants implemented on the same dataset (achieving 81.32%&#x2013;85.72% sentence accuracy). …”
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¹³C metabolic flux analysis identifies an unusual route for pyruvate dissimilation in mycobacteria which requires isocitrate lyase and carbon dioxide fixation. by Dany J V Beste, Bhushan Bonde, Nathaniel Hawkins, Jane L Ward, Michael H Beale, Stephan Noack, Katharina Nöh, Nicholas J Kruger, R George Ratcliffe, Johnjoe McFadden

“…Here we show that deletion of one of the two icl genes impairs the replication of Mycobacterium bovis BCG at slow growth rate in a carbon limited chemostat. In order to further understand the role of isocitrate lyase in the central metabolism of mycobacteria the effect of growth rate on the in vivo fluxes was studied for the first time using ¹³C-metabolic flux analysis (MFA). …”
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Identification and Validation of the lncRNA BACE1-AS as Immune-Related Influencing Factor in Tumorigenesis following Pan-Carcinoma Analysis by Mengmeng Wang, Di Chen, Yushuang Xu, Mengjun Qiu, Xin Jiang, Zhifan Xiong

“…Overall, our results suggest that BACE1-AS is associated with the expression, prognosis, and rate of immune cell infiltration of most tumors. …”
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Spatial proximity effects on cognitive processing of multimedia learning among college students: evidence from functional near-infrared spectroscopy by Yan Ma, Yan Ma, Qiuyue Peng, Qiuyue Peng, Bowen Long, Bowen Long

“…In addition, the study also explored how disciplinary differences affect the strength of spatial proximity effects and corresponding brain activation patterns.ResultsThe findings revealed that activation levels in the middle temporal gyrus, frontal pole, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were significantly higher in the spatial proximity condition compared to the spatial separation condition, accompanied by an improved rate of correct answers. …”
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The 'Antiretrovirals, Sexual Transmission Risk and Attitudes' (ASTRA) study. Design, methods and participant characteristics. by Andrew Speakman, Alison Rodger, Andrew N Phillips, Richard Gilson, Margaret Johnson, Martin Fisher, Ed Wilkins, Jane Anderson, Rebecca O'Connell, Monica Lascar, Kazeem Aderogba, Simon Edwards, Jeffrey McDonnell, Nicky Perry, Lorraine Sherr, Simon Collins, Graham Hart, Anne M Johnson, Alec Miners, Jonathan Elford, Anna-Maria Geretti, William J Burman, Fiona C Lampe

“…In this paper we describe the study rationale, design, methods, response rate and the demographic characteristics of the participants. …”
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