Attitudes and perspectives of healthcare workers on treating chronic hepatitis C infection in children and adolescents by Farihah Malik, Philippa Easterbrook, Giuseppe Indolfi, Giuseppe Indolfi, Claire Thorne

“…The survey was circulated by the WHO to nine networks providing care to children and adolescents living with HCV infection, with respondents requested to cascade further within their networks.ResultsA total of 137 individuals from 38 countries responded to the survey. …”
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Cross-Spectral Cross-Distance Face Recognition via CNN with Image Augmentation Techniques by Nisa Adilla Rahmatika, Fitri Arnia, Maulisa Oktiana

“…These findings underscore the robustness of VGG16 in effectively adapting to the CSCD setting and managing variations in both lighting and distance.…”
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Relationship between social determinants of health and cognitive performance in an older American population: a cross-sectional NHANES study by Zhen-Guo Yang, Xu Sun, Xue Han, Xiao Wang, Lei Wang

“…Cognitive performance was evaluated using three tests: the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) for processing speed, the Animal Fluency Test (AFT) for executive function, and a subtest from the Coalition to Establish an Alzheimer’s Disease Registry (CERAD) for memory. Multifactorial linear regression modeling was employed to explore the association between SDoH and cognitive performance. …”
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Pac-Man-Shaped Patch-Driven Broadband Circularly Polarized Metasurface Antenna With CMA-Based Quadruple-Mode Excitation by Deepak K. Naik, Dhruba Charan Panda, Rajanikanta Swain, Arjuna Muduli, Sambhudutta Nanda

“…Further, to increase the design’s axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW), two additional OMs of the MTS layer are cascaded with the PSP modes. Consequently, the four OMs exhibit quadruple-mode excitation, and the design achieves broadband CP radiation. …”
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Comprehensive Insight of Neurodegenerative Diseases and The Role of Neurotoxin Agents — Glutamate by Hui-Min Yap, Kwan-Liang Lye, Loh Teng-Hern Tan

“…It causes neuronal dysfunction and degeneration in the central nervous system (CNS). Glutamate neurotoxicity can be categorized into two forms, which are receptor-mediated glutamate excitotoxicity and non-receptor mediated glutamate oxidative toxicity. …”
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Solastalgia y despoblamiento rural en contextos de desplazamiento forzado por minería a cielo abierto by Sergio Elías Uribe-Sierra, Alejandra Toscana-Aparicio, Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones

“…Se utilizaron métodos cualitativos para la recolección de información en terreno, y métodos cuantitativos para la comparación de indicadores censales entre 1990 y 2020. Asimismo, se estudió el caso de Salaverna, localidad ubicada en Zacatecas, México, que atraviesa una experiencia de desplazamiento forzado. …”
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ALDOA contributes to colorectal tumorigenesis and metastasis by targeting YAP by Liang Sun, Ting Lu, Linhua Jiang, Huihui Yao, Qixuan Xu, Jie Sun, Xiaoqin Yang, Songbing He, Xinguo Zhu

“…Abstract Metabolic reprogramming is considered one of the hallmarks of cancer in which cancer cells reprogram some of their metabolic cascades, mostly driven by the specific chemical microenvironment in cancer tissues. …”
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Arriendo y desigualdad en las tierras altas de Jujuy (Argentina) a fines del siglo XIX by Cecilia A. Fandos

“…A partir de fuentes fiscales y censales de la década de 1890 que contienen datos de la actividad agropecuaria y de informes sobre la rentabilidad de los distintos productos de origen agrícola o ganaderos de la misma época, reconstruimos el ingreso bruto de esas unidades para cada uno de los actores involucrados en ellas y analizamos los niveles de desigualdad para ese conjunto social.…”
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Epigenetic regulation of the inflammatory response in stroke by Jingyi Liang, Fei Yang, Zixiao Li, Qian Li

“…Suppressing the inflammatory response has been shown to mitigate this cascade of events in experimental stroke models. However, in clinical trials of anti-inflammatory agents, long-term immunosuppression has not demonstrated significant clinical benefits for patients. …”
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An Emerging Role for IQGAP1 in Regulating Protein Traffic by Mahasin Osman

“…Recent evidence suggests that IQGAP1 plays its role in cell growth through regulating the conserved mTOR pathway. The mTOR signaling cascade has been implicated in membrane traffic and is activated in nearly all human cancers, but clinical response to the mTOR-specific inhibitor rapamycin has been disappointing. …”
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A Hidden Surveillant Transmission Line Protection Layer for Cyber-Attack Resilience of Power Systems by Hossein Ebrahimi, Sajjad Golshannavaz, Amin Yazdaninejadi, Edris Pouresmaeil

“…The EDAS method allows for dynamic adjustments to the integration level of FDCUs based on an analysis of potential cascading failures from various cyber-attack target sets. …”
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Intestinal oxygen utilisation and cellular adaptation during intestinal ischaemia–reperfusion injury by Paraschos Archontakis‐Barakakis, Theodoros Mavridis, David‐Dimitris Chlorogiannis, Georgios Barakakis, Eleni Laou, Daniel I. Sessler, George Gkiokas, Athanasios Chalkias

“…The primary cellular mechanism for sensing hypoxia and for activating a cascade of cellular responses to mitigate the injury is a family of heterodimer proteins called hypoxia‐inducible factors (HIFs). …”
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American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) as wetland ecosystem carbon stock regulators by Christopher M. Murray, Tyler Steven Coleman, Wray Gabel, Ken W. Krauss

“…These conclusions are concordant with previous findings that apex predators, through trophic cascade theory, play a key role in regulating soil carbon stock and that alligators are functional apex predators in carbon dynamics and a key commercialized natural resource.…”
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Effect of Synthetic Bone Graft Substitutes in Management of Nonunion in Long Bones: A Case Series by Muthamilselvan Kumanan, Manikandan Navaneethakrishnapandian, Mohamed Ibrahim

“…In the future, the use of these synthetic bone graft materials in bone regeneration under specific indications and with safety roles will simulate the normal bone formation cascade with reduced morbidity and cost in the long-term.…”
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Integrating Visible Light Communication and AI for Adaptive Traffic Management: A Focus on Reward Functions and Rerouting Coordination by Manuela Vieira, Gonçalo Galvão, Manuel A. Vieira, Mário Vestias, Paula Louro, Pedro Vieira

“…In rerouting scenarios, it dynamically prevents queuing spillovers at neighboring intersections, mitigating cascading congestion and ensuring safe, timely pedestrian crossings. …”
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Compact and full-range carbon dioxide sensor using photoacoustic and resonance dependent modes by Yifan Li, Lixian Liu, Liang Zhao, Xueshi Zhang, Le Zhang, Jialiang Sun, Huiting Huan, Yize Liang, Jiyong Zhang, Xiaopeng Shao, Andreas Mandelis, Roberto Li Voti

“…The integrated laser module equipped with three lasers (a quantum cascade laser (QCL), a distributed feedback laser (DFB) and a He-Ne laser) working in a time-division multiplexing mode was used as an integrated set of spectroscopic sources for detection of the designated concentration levels of CO2. …”
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Functional Analysis of Monkeypox and Interrelationship between Monkeypox and COVID-19 by Bioinformatic Analysis by Eun Jung Sohn

“…The outbreak of monkeypox may be considered a novel and urgent threat after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). …”
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Event-Type Identification in Power Grids Using a Spectral Correlation Function-Aided Convolutional Neural Network by Ozgur Alaca, Ali Riza Ekti, Jhi-Young Joo, Nils Stenvig

“…The proposed method employs a six-stage cascaded structure consisting of: (1) data collection, (2) clipping, (3) augmentation, (4) feature extraction (FE), (5) training, and (6) testing. …”
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Family Aggregation and Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Affected Individuals by Julio Armando Sánchez Delgado, Nailé Edita Sánchez Lara

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> an analytical, retrospective, case-control type study was carried out, from individuals who attended the municipal genetic risk consultation located at the César Fornet Frutos University Polyclinic, Banes municipality, Holguín province in the period July-December 2019 aimed at verifying the existence or not of family aggregation of breast cancer. …”
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Harvesting Solar Energy: Prediction of Daily Global Horizontal Irradiance Using Artificial Neural Networks and Assessment of Electrical Energy of Photovoltaic at North Eastern Ethi... by Tegenu A. Woldegiyorgis, Abera D. Assamnew, Gezahegn A. Desalegn, Sentayehu Y. Mossie

“…Feed forward back propagation (FFBP) and cascade forward back propagation (CFBP) with tansig, logsig, and purelin of ANNs were used. …”
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