US Deterrence against Russia and China (based on strategic documents of J. Biden administration) by V. I. Batyuk

“…A closer examination of key strategic documents published in recent years shows that if from a political and military point of view, the US strategists come up with a generally rational list of measures aimed at countering the challenge, posed by Russia and China, from an ideological point of view they doggedly follow liberal-hegemonic premises that are increasingly inconsistent with current international political realities. …”
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Enzyme supplementation (phytase and xylanase) improves low quality diets in Nile tilapia by Roel M. Maas, Fotini Kokou, Marc C.J. Verdegem, Johan W. Schrama

“…The growth for the control-quality diet without enzymes was comparable to the growth for the low-quality diet with enzymes, indicating that the enzymes countered the negative impact of the low-quality diet (about 190 g NSP/kg diet higher compared to the control diet). …”
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Investigating the Effects of Ionospheric Scintillation on Multi‐Frequency BDS‐2/BDS‐3 Signals at Low Latitudes by Hang Liu, Xiaodong Ren, Xiaohong Zhang, Dengkui Mei, Pengxin Yang

“…The results illustrate that S4(B2) and S4(B3) linearly increase with S4(B1) for S4(B1) ≤ 0.6, which is consistent with weak scattering theories, and average experimental ratios of S4(B2)/S4(B1), S4(B3)/S4(B1), and S4(B2)/S4(B3) are less than corresponding theoretical ones by 6.1%, 4.4%, and 1.9%, respectively. …”
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General principles of combating corruption in the countries of the Visegrad Four: the experience of the Czech Republic by V. S. Makarenko, O. S. Bakumov

“…The purpose of the article is to study the experience of implementing anti-corruption activities on the territory of one of the countries of the Visegrad Group, namely the Czech Republic, establishing the path taken by the Czech Republic in the field of prevention and countering corruption, building its anti-corruption bodies, forming a strategy and clarifying the possibility of taking into account certain aspects in the activities of state bodies authorities and local self-government of Ukraine. …”
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Assessing the Cognitive Sign Features and Guessability of Laboratory Safety Signs for Pharmacy Students by Hajiomid Kalteh, Aghigh Salarian, Solale Ramzani, Jamshid Yazdani Cherati, Siavash Etemadinezhad

“…Despite the varying responses, two “general mandatory action” and “disconnect before carrying out maintenance or repair” signs had significantly scattered coefficients of variation. According to the overall scores for cognitive sign features, the simplicity criterion had the highest score (85.73%). …”
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Social and psychological features of the mental component of the modern hybrid war against Ukraine by N. V. Bobro

“…Taking into account the peculiarities of the hybrid war and its components, recommendations have been formulated for countering the hybrid aggression of the enemy, which is trying to destroy and change the mentality of Ukrainians for its own use: increase the number of publications and video materials in the information space about the opinions of foreign politicians and experts condemning russian aggression; to create an Institute for the study of war, the work of which will involve both domestic specialists in the field of hybrid warfare and mental warfare, as well as leading scientists of Western countries; to develop the National Doctrine of mental protection of the population in the conditions of a full-scale war against Ukraine.…”
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Euphorbia serpens extracts mediated synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles and their biological applications by Sana Idrees, Banzeer Ahsan Abbasi, Javed Iqbal, Mohsin Kazi

“…The orchestrated nanoparticles were validated using several analytical techniques; Ultraviolet–Visible spectroscopy, XRD, SEM, FT-IR (Fourier‐transform infrared), EDS, FT-IR and DLS (Dynamic light scattering). The average/mean size of the greenly fabricated nanoparticles was found to be 20.39 nm. …”
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Potentiation of Doxorubicin Cytotoxicity Utilizing Clarithromycin Loaded-PEGylated Liposomes by Islam Alfreahat MS, Hamdi Nsairat PhD, Ibrahim Deeb Aldeeb PhD, Ali Al-Samydai PhD, Walhan Alshaer PhD

“…Clarithromycin (CAM), a macrolide antibiotic, inhibits multiple metabolic pathways including CYP3A and P-gp, potentially countering DOX resistance. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the potentiation of DOX and its effectiveness against the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line by encapsulating both DOX and CAM in PEGylated liposomes. …”
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Nano-chitosan-coated, green-synthesized selenium nanoparticles as a novel antifungal agent against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: in vitro study by Mohamed M. Desouky, Radwa H. Abou-Saleh, Tarek A. A. Moussa, Heba M. Fahmy

“…Transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, X-ray diffraction, UV-VIS spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to characterize all produced nanostructures. …”
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From a dictionary to an atlas: segmental mapping of the linguistic picture of the world by S. N. Gagarin

“…By way of demonstrating the feasibility of this approach, a new type of dictionary has been compiled by the author, which captures and reveals in a semantically structured way the verbal side of the transcendental notion "countering" in the socio-political discourse of English-language media. …”
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Identifikasi Hama dan Penyakit Pada Tanaman Anggrek Bulan (Phalaenopsis amabilis) by Ari Monawati, Desi Rhomadhoni, Nur Rokhimah Hanik

“…It is estimated that worldwide there are around 15,000-20,000 species of orchids with 900 genera (clans) that grow endemic to forests scattered in various countries. Of all orchid species in the world, 5,000 of them are in Indonesia. …”
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Impact of the Westerly Jet on Rainfall/Runoff in the Source Region of the Yangtze River during the Flood Season by Xin Lai, Yuanfa Gong, Sixian Cen, Hui Tian, Heng Zhang

“…When the intensity of the WJ over the key region is greater (less) than normal, the jet position moves northward (southward), and the easterly (westerly) wind anomalies over the region to the west of the SRYR become unfavorable (favorable) to the transport of water vapor from high-latitude regions to the SRYR. In addition, the southerly wind over the equatorial region cannot (can) easily advance northward, which is unfavorable (favorable) to the northward transport of water vapor from the low-latitude ocean. …”
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Antifungal Activity of Gelatin-Tapioca Starch Film and Coating Containing Copper Nanoparticles against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Causing Anthracnose by Vinh Tien Nguyen, My-Sam Dang-Thi, Khanh Son Trinh

“…Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and dynamic light scattering studies showed that the sizes of 90% of CuNPs were in 100–300 nm range. …”
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The record-breaking precipitation event of December 2022 in Portugal by T. M. Ferreira, T. M. Ferreira, R. M. Trigo, T. H. Gaspar, J. G. Pinto, A. M. Ramos

“…The week before the EPE, there was a combined effect of a large-scale sea-level-pressure (SLP) gradient resembling the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) negative phase, a southerly position of the jet stream, and above-normal positive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies over the North Atlantic that led to the development of several low-pressure systems at relatively low latitudes, all traveling along the same mean path towards western Europe. …”
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Upper Elevational Limit of Vegetation in the Himalayas Identified from Landsat Images by Bo Wei, Yili Zhang, Linshan Liu, Binghua Zhang, Dianqing Gong, Changjun Gu, Lanhui Li, Basanta Paudel

“…The image was then smoothed by filling (or removing) small non-vegetated (or vegetated) patches scattered within vegetated (or unvegetated) areas. …”
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An Integrated Time-Series Relative Soil Moisture Monitoring Method Based on a SAR Backscattering Model by Xin Bao, Rui Zhang, Xu He, Age Shama, Gaofei Yin, Jie Chen, Hongsheng Zhang, Guoxiang Liu

“…However, the existing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) soil moisture retrieval algorithms suffer from insufficient decoupling of surface scattering characteristics and poor RSSM time-series monitoring capabilities. …”
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Self-Rated Recovery and Mood Before and After Resistance Training and Muscle Microcurrent Application by Bernd A. C. Stößlein, Kim P. C. Kuypers

“…There were no MS effects on ratings of feeling sad, happy, or exhausted, although the workout, independent of MS, negatively influenced the level of exhaustion.ConclusionThe combination of enhanced sociableness, reduced fatigue, and exercise-induced exhaustion after a workout, followed by microstimulation, has important implications for professional sporters and nonprofessionals who try to get the best result after a workout. …”
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Near-infrared Integral-field Spectroscopy of the Wind Forming Region of CW Leo by Hyosun Kim, Youichi Ohyama, Ho-Gyu Lee, Ji Hoon Kim

“…Its northeastern quadrant lacks circumstellar absorption features and scattered light in the near-infrared regime, which are possibly manifestations of its conical cavity in both gas and dust. …”
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Mitochondrial dysfunction-driven AMPK-p53 axis activation underpins the anti-hepatocellular carcinoma effects of sulfane sulfur by Xue Zheng, Yuhua Luo, Rui Huo, Yiwen Wang, Youbang Chen, Mianrong Chen, Qi Zhao, Kexin Li, Hanyi Zhang, Xiaotong Li, Xiang Li, Hui Zhang, Zaopeng He, Li Huang, Chun-tao Yang

“…Supplementation with ATP significantly countered PSCP-induced SNU398 cell injury. Our findings suggest that the reprogramming of sulfur-related metabolic pathways is pivotal in HCC. …”
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Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Distinguish between Mare, Cryptomare, and Light Plains in Central Lunar South Pole−Aitken Basin by Frank C. Chuang, Matthew D. Richardson, Jennifer L. Whitten, Daniel P. Moriarty, Deborah L. Domingue

“…Head, (2) that the presence of scattered maria within large patches of cryptomaria indicates possible incomplete and/or uneven ejecta deposits or sheet flows covering cryptomare surfaces, and (3) a 79% increase in the total extent of cryptomaria compared to that by J. …”
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