Russian-Persian Schools as an Element of Imperial Russia’s Soft Power Policy in Northern Persia: Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries by Vladimir O. Kulakov

“…The study seeks to examine the phenomenon of Russian educational institutions in Northern Persia as another way of pursuing own national political goals in the designated country. The work aims at confirming — with evidence from archival documents — the activities of Russian-Persian schools during the specified period were to shape a positive image of Russia in Persian society. …”
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Golden Tandem of Photothermal Ablation and Simultaneous Anti-Inflammation in One Nanoparticle for Activated Macrophage-Targeted Atherosclerosis Treatment by Lu Y, Wang Y, Li Y, Li Y, Jiang YW, Li J

“…The preparation and characterization of GSNPD, their cellular toxicity, photothermal conversion and targeted ablation efficiency, anti-inflammation and ROS scavenging effect, as well as the inhibition of foam cell formation were studied in vitro.Results: The experimental results showed that the fabricated GSNPD NPs displayed positive effects on anti-atherosclerosis by pro-inflammatory macrophages ablation, NO production and ROS scavenging.Discussion: GSNPD NPs were designed to effectively and accurately ablate pro-inflammatory macrophages by recognizing and targeting to SR-A overexpressed on the activated macrophages of arterial plaques via PTT, and simultaneous inhibit the PTT-induced inflammation through the laser-activated NO release in situ. …”
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PyBootNet: a python package for bootstrapping and network construction by Shayan R. Akhavan, Scott T. Kelley

“…The package offers functions for generating bootstrapped network metrics, statistically comparing network metrics among datasets, and visualizing bootstrapped networks. PyBootNet is designed to be accessible and efficient with minimal dependencies and straightforward input requirements. …”
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ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY AND MODERATING EFFECT OF PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ON PERFORMANCE OF NIGERIAN LISTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS by Mubaraq Sanni, Muhammed Basiru Mustapha, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman

“…Performance measurement is said to be critical for efficient business management and thus, when selecting measurement system, organisations seem to be mostly dependant on certain designs for effective and efficient organisational operations. …”
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Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study by Moisés Damián Perales-Escudero, Mizael Garduño Buenfil, Vilma Esperanza Portillo Campos

“…The ETICOLEC Likert scale was originally designed to measure the reading comprehension beliefs of middle school teachers of several subjects. …”
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Effect of notch shape on the fracture toughness behavior by Jiseung Lee, Wonjun Jo, Junseok Seo, Gyubaek An

“…This study evaluates the effect of notch shape on the fracture toughness of a 500 MPa base material designed for liquefied carbon dioxide storage tanks. …”
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Clinical study on the treatment of acute epidural hematoma by embolization of middle meningeal artery through radial artery access combined with minimally invasive burr hole draina... by Cui Zhang, Qingbo Wang, Chenglong Li, Zixuan Jing, Xinyu Zhao, Yang Chen, Zefu Li

“…The 37 patients treated with embolization were designated as the experimental group, while the remaining 97 patients formed the control group. …”
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Development of an expectation management intervention for patients with Long COVID: A focus group study with affected patients. by Manuel Funk, Max Reinke, Bernd Löwe, Petra Engelmann

“…To ensure that an expectation management intervention, designed for the research project SOMA.COV, addresses relevant patient needs as well as to promote treatment acceptance and adherence, a participatory approach was chosen.…”
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Mape: defending against transferable adversarial attacks using multi-source adversarial perturbations elimination by Xinlei Liu, Jichao Xie, Tao Hu, Peng Yi, Yuxiang Hu, Shumin Huo, Zhen Zhang

“…SAPE utilizes a thoughtfully designed channel-attention U-Net as the defense model and employs adversarial examples generated by a pre-trained model (e.g., ResNet) for its training, thereby enabling the elimination of known adversarial perturbations. …”
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Smart Filter Performance Monitoring System by Chenxing Pei, Weiqi Chen, Qisheng Ou, David Y. H. Pui

“…Abstract Air filters are widely used in residential and industrial applications. It is designed to remove particulate pollutants in the air to supply cleaner air to either occupants or industrial equipment. …”
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Introducing a Markov Chain-Based Energy Awareness Approach for Cloud Data Center Virtual Machine Dynamic Management by Xinbin Huang, Yu Huang, Cecılıa. Mercado

“…This paper introduces a novel model designed to address these challenges by enhancing existing algorithms and employing advanced techniques. …”
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Complement protein and Immunoglobulins Serum levels in Normal Pregnant and Spontaneous Aborted Women by Hiwa Abdulrahman Ahmad, Mehri Mirhaj Muhammd salih, Kamal Ahmed Khidir

“…Disorder of maternal immune responses during pregnancy triggers immunological rejection of fetus antigens by maternal immune components, contribute to spontaneous abortion or miscarriage. The study was designed to concentrated on immunoglobulins (IgM, IgG and IgA) and complement elements (C3 and C4)   serum levels changes in normal pregnant and abortion women. …”
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A SuperLearner-based pipeline for the development of DNA methylation-derived predictors of phenotypic traits. by Dennis Khodasevich, Nina Holland, Lars van der Laan, Andres Cardenas

“…Coupling SuperLearner with PCA in the predictor development process may be especially relevant for studies with longitudinal designs utilizing multiple array types, as well as for the development of predictors of more complex phenotypic traits.…”
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A Technical Overview on Beta-Attenuation Method for the Monitoring of Particulate Matter in Ambient Air by Kritika Shukla, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Our review reveals that federal equivalent method (FEM) designated beta gauge monitors in various studies performed better (with slope < 1.5 and intercept < 2 µg m−3) during high RH ambient conditions against reference or federal reference method (FRM). …”
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Effect of Pressure Equalization Groove Structure on Static Characteristics of Aerostatic Bearings by C. Yuanqi, X. Yaping, L. Weining, G. Ning

“…The results demonstrate that a groove structure designed to equalize pressure can enhance the load-bearing capacity and rigidity of orifice-throttle aerostatic bearings. …”
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A cost‐effective video system for a rapid appraisal of deep‐sea benthic habitats: The Azor drift‐cam by Carlos Dominguez‐Carrió, Jorge Fontes, Telmo Morato

“…Here we describe the Azor drift‐cam, a cost‐effective video platform designed to conduct rapid appraisals of deep‐sea benthic habitats. …”
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Indigenous Environmental Activism and Media Depiction by Raphaela G O Pavlakos

“…Here, I use a methodology that I am developing as part of my ongoing dissertation work, Critical Dispositioning, which is an ethical reading praxis designed for settlers to use when engaging with Indigenous literatures. …”
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CPP: a path planning method taking into account obstacle shadow hiding by Ruixin Zhang, Qing Xu, Youneng Su, Ruoxu Chen, Kai Sun, Fengchang Li, Guo Zhang

“…By accounting for these concealment effects, CPP aimed to enhance the safety and effectiveness of unmanned vehicles in complex and dynamic battlefield scenarios. It started by designing shadow areas in the configuration environment based on solar azimuth and altitude angles. …”
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A comprehensive analysis of deep learning and transfer learning techniques for skin cancer classification by Manishi Shakya, Ravindra Patel, Sunil Joshi

“…Experimental performance is measured on the ISIC 2018 dataset which contains 3300 images of skin disease including benign and malignant type cancer images. 80% of the images from the ISIC 2018 dataset are allocated for training, while the remaining 20% are designated for testing. All approaches are trained using different parameters like epoch, batch size, and learning rate. …”
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Assessing the Filtration Effectiveness of a Portable Ultraviolet Air Cleaner on Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Laden Droplets in a Patient Room: A Numerical Study by Yu Feng, Jianan Zhao, Michele Spinolo, Kyle Lane, Darren Leung, Dave Marshall, Peter Mlinaric

“…Therefore, a portable ultraviolet (UV) air cleaner is designed to mitigate the exposure risks to SARS-CoV-2 laden droplets in the patient room. …”
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