Urban greeen areas in the reduction of cooling loads. Simulations in the Mediterranean climate by Carola Clemente, Massimo Palme, Anna Mangiatordi, Daniele La Rosa, Riccardo Privitera

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The Long-Term Uptake of Home Spirometry in Regular Cystic Fibrosis Care: Retrospective Multicenter Observational Study by Pia Bertram, Martinus C Oppelaar, Michiel AGE Bannier, Monique HE Reijers, Hester van der Vaart, Renske van der Meer, Josje Altenburg, Lennart Conemans, Bart L Rottier, Marianne Nuijsink, Lara S van den Wijngaart, Peter JFM Merkus, Jolt Roukema

“…Nevertheless, home spirometry and its intensity are not a goal on their own but should be used as a tool to reach individual goals within local contexts.…”
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Exploring the Concept of the Perfect Human Being in the Quran: An Analysis of Model Education by Farideh Rezaei, Naireh Sadat Saadatmand, Zohreh Taghavi

“…Methods: This study is qualitative in nature concerning its type, and practical with respect to its objectives, as it endeavors to formulate a paradigm for discerning the elements of an ideal human being as articulated within the verses of the Qur'an. …”
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Novel derivative of nicotinic acid ameliorates doxorubicin-induced cardiac injury via regulation of redox homeostasis by Yana V. Loboda, Mikhail V. Korokin, Alexey V. Kuznetsov, Tatiana N. Malorodova, Anton P. Danilenko, Anna A. Peresypkina, Oleg S. Gudyrev, Ol’ga A. Kop’eva, Tatyana G. Pokrovskaya, Liliya V. Korokina, Valeriya N. Khruslova, Valeriya A. Nazarenko, Tatyana V. Avtina, Alexey V. Deikin, Aleksandr A. Dolzhikov, Tatiana V. Puzanova, Lyudmila M. Danilenko

“…Introduction: Doxorubicin (DOX) is an anthracycline antibiotic with considerable significance in clinics as an anticancer agent, which is limited by its cardiotoxicity, though. A large number of possible therapeutic strategies for reducing cardiotoxicity with doxorubicin have been studied. …”
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Challenges of Corporate Misconduct: The Organisational, Social, Economic and Financial Dynamics of Workplace Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry in the USA by Darrell Norman Burrell, Stacey L. Morin, Theresia Wansi, Virginia Bianco Mathis, Carlo Ninassi, Susanne Ninassi

“…This case study inquiry examines the systemic nature of sexual harassment within the restaurant industry, catalyzed by the recent public disclosure of allegations against "The Best Restaurant Group" involving its founder and senior executives. It highlights the pervasive and structural issues contributing to workplace harassment in this sector, characterized by hierarchical systems and demanding environments that often enable misconduct. …”
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Intertextuální narativ? Vnímání vodoléčebné terapie pacienty Vincenze Priessnitze by Vladan Hanulík

“… Paper is aimed on comparison of different types of text narratives relating to hydropathy, coldwater cure and its founder Vincenz Priessnitz. Objective of comparison is the effort to determine extent or even the very potentiality of influence of textual corpuses on the individual perception of medical therapy in spa Gräfenberg from the patient’s point of view and the creation of unique metanarrative of hydropathical discourse in the third decade of 19th century. …”
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Innovative thermal control of fermentations through the use of phase change materials: A focus on wine fermentation by Piernicola Masella, Giulia Angeloni, Ferdinando Corti, Agnese Spadi, Francesco Garbati Pegna, Lorenzo Guerrini, Alessandro Parenti

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Self-Ligating Brackets and Their Impact on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescence Patients: A Longitudinal Prospective Study by Yu Zhou, MinLing Zheng, Jiaqiang Lin, Yi Wang, Zhen Yu Ni

“…One hundred fifty Chinese orthodontic adolescence patients completed the 14-item Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14, Chinese version) at five distinct intervals: after insertion of the fixed appliance at 1 week (T1), 1 month (T2), 3 months (T3), and 6 months (T4); and after treatment (T5). …”
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Adaptive temporal-difference learning via deep neural network function approximation: a non-asymptotic analysis by Guoyong Wang, Tiange Fu, Ruijuan Zheng, Xuhui Zhao, Junlong Zhu, Mingchuan Zhang

“…Abstract Although deep reinforcement learning has achieved notable practical achievements, its theoretical foundations have been scarcely explored until recent times. …”
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THE EFFECT OF ACTIVATING THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCENARIO THINKING IN INCREASING THE PERFORMANCE OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS by Башир Гессаби, Муса Гессаби

“…A number of proposasls are presented that can fenefit the domestic electrical engineering industry in increasing its productivity. It is necessary to develop and streng then the practice of scenario thinking in organizations of this industry by environment for the introduction of such thinking among manager and officials…”
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Distributed K-Means algorithm based on a Spark optimization sample. by Yongan Feng, Jiapeng Zou, Wanjun Liu, Fu Lv

“…This ensures that the initial centers better represent the distribution and structure of the dataset, leading to improved clustering performance. During the iteration process, a novel distance comparison method is employed to reduce computation time, optimizing the overall efficiency of the algorithm. …”
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Effects of permafrost stability changes on vegetation dynamics in the middle part of the Greater Khingan Mountains by Jiaman Sun, Wei Shan, Chengcheng Zhang

“…Permafrost in the middle section of the Greater Khingan Mountains is highly sensitive to climate change; however, the specific mechanisms by which its degradation affects vegetation dynamics remain unclear. …”
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Bisecting GlcNAc modification of vesicular GAS6 regulates CAFs activation and breast cancer metastasis by Jing Li, Xueting Ren, Lin Cao, Kaixiang Min, Meng Wang, Shuai Lin, Lei Lei, Zengqi Tan, Xiaoliang Cheng, Xiang Li, Feng Guan

“…While glycosylation is known to regulate various cellular processes, its impact on CAFs activation remains insufficiently explored. …”
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Head and Neck Schwannomas: A Surgical Challenge—A Series of 5 Cases by Ishtyaque Ansari, Ashfaque Ansari, Arjun Antony Graison, Anuradha J. Patil, Hitendra Joshi

“…As a rule, treatment is surgical and dictated by the location of the tumor and nerve of origin. Due to its rarity, complex anatomical location and morbidity risk postexcision, they can pose a formidable challenge to surgeons. …”
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Clinical Application of the Socket-Shield Concept in Multiple Anterior Teeth by G. Esteve-Pardo, L. Esteve-Colomina

“…The combination of a staged extraction approach, the sequence of provisionals together with the minimal bone loss of vestibular volume, allowed solving this high aesthetic demanding case in a satisfactory way for the patient both in duration of the treatment and in its final outcome.…”
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BI-DIRECTIONAL EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION USING ADAPTIVE P-VERSION FINITE ELEMENT METHOD by XU JiaoE, YAO Song, LIU Rong

“…According to the error control parameter setting,the element order is improved adaptively through the element energy error analysis,which effectively improves the finite element calculation accuracy,and the sensitivity filtering algorithm and the stabilization strategy are adopted to mitigate the checkerboard and iterative oscillation phenomenon. The feasibility of the method is verified by the example calculation of the minimum compliance topology optimization problem,the results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of topology optimization under rougher meshes,and obtain higher optimization efficiency and better optimization results.…”
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UDP-Induced Phagocytosis and ATP-Stimulated Chemotactic Migration Are Impaired in STIM1−/− Microglia In Vitro and In Vivo by Hye Min Lim, Heo Woon, Jung Woo Han, Yoshihiro Baba, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Min Goo Lee, Joo Young Kim

“…STIM1 function in immune cell calcium signalling has been studied extensively; however, its role in microglia, innate immune cells in brain, has not been fully understood. …”
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Co-design and content validation of psychosis care assessment material for medical, pharmacy, nursing, and occupational therapy curricula by Jenny Chen, Jack Charles Collins, Justin Newton Scanlan, Andrea McCloughen, Rosa Howard, Claire Ashton-James, Claire L. O’Reilly, Rebekah J. Moles, Tina X. Ung, Carl R. Schneider, Bandana Saini, Jennifer Ong, Paul Beckett, Karen Watson, Margaret McGrath, Timothy F. Chen, Sarira El-Den

“…Content validity indices of all items were deemed satisfactory, ranging from 0.8 to 1. …”
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Insights into <i>Solea senegalensis</i> Reproduction Through Gonadal Tissue Methylation Analysis and Transcriptomic Integration by Daniel Ramírez, Marco Anaya-Romero, María Esther Rodríguez, Alberto Arias-Pérez, Robert Mukiibi, Helena D’Cotta, Diego Robledo, Laureana Rebordinos

“…These findings underscore the crucial role of methylation in regulating gene expression and its potential role in sex differentiation, highlighting the complex interplay between epigenetic modifications and gene expression.…”
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Comparison of Antioxidant and Alpha-Glucosidase Inhibitory Properties of Moringa peregrina and Ferulago carduchorum Leaf Extracts and Microencapsulation of Superior Plant by Shiva Nouri, Maryam Moslehishad, Seyede Marzieh Hosseini, Mina Etemadi

“…In the second stage, total phenolic content (TPC) and GC-MS analysis were conducted on MP extract to investigate the reason behind its antioxidant capacity and α-glucosidase inhibitory properties. …”
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