Acceptability of the social uses of the COVID-19 screening test among women in southern Benin by Mingnimon A. Affo

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Security Challenges: Appraisal of Threats to Nigeria’s Sovereignty in the Fourth Republic (1999-2019) by Olanrewaju Rafiu Memud, Solomon A. Ojo

“… Peace and security asprimacy of sovereign states is crucial forharmonious human relations and economic development. In the recent past, insecurity has been the greatest challenge to Nigeria‟s corporate existence as a sovereign state.Ironically, these challenges are not externally propelled rather, they areinternally impelled byinter-ethnic conflict, religious insurrection, electoral violence, banditry, kidnapping, ritualism, pipeline vandalism, separatists‟ agitation, and farmers[1]herders crises among many others.These generate insecurity in the polity to the boiling point of fractured and failed state.The objective of the study, therefore, is to investigate the nexus between internally induced insecurity and failed stateposture experienced in the Nigeria‟s Fourth Republic. …”
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Citizens of the Global South value urban green space: an example from Iran by Sahel Azizkhani Shadisheh, Kamran Shayesteh, Michael Farmer, Gad Perry

“…Urban green spaces (UGSs) provide many benefits for both human and nonhuman life. We investigated whether residents of Hamedan City, Iran, value UGSs and explored their specific preferences. …”
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NATIONAL SECURITY AND BORDER MANAGEMENT IN WEST AFRICA: A STUDY OF NIGERIA-NIGER RELATIONS by IYANU-OLUWA AYOBAMI AYODELE, UMARU TOYIN SHIRU

“…Borders between states are porous, unsafe and this allows the illegal movement of people mostly allowing increased insecurity such as terrorism, smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking and proliferation of arms and small weapons. …”
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A light in the darkness: Early phases of development and the emergence of cognition by Elisa Cainelli, Giulia Stramucci, Patrizia Bisiacchi

“…However, the specific nature of the human nervous system, intended for brain plasticity that is varied by brain area and prolonged over time, requires much time for environmental experiences to shape the cerebral circuitries. …”
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SURVEY AND PROPOSED METHOD TO DETECT ADVERSARIAL EXAMPLES USING AN ADVERSARIAL RETRAINING MODEL by Thanh Son Phan, Quang Hua Ta, Duy Trung Pham, Phi Ho Truong

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) has found applications across various sectors and industries, offering numerous advantages to human beings. One prominent area where AI has made significant contributions is in machine learning models. …”
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Colony-Forming and Cell Viability Assay to Assess Nanotoxicity of Maleic Acid and N-vinyl Caprolactam-Based Nanoarchitectures by Bekar Buse, Akar Burcu, Akan Handan Sevim, Can Hatice Kaplan

“…The cytotoxicity of Org-MMT, poly(MA-alt-VCL), and their nanocomposites were tested on HeLa (cervical carcinoma), A549 (lung cancer), and HDF (human dermal fibroblast) cells using MTT and colony formation assays. …”
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Hydrological drought in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (China): a 70-year data analysis by Hua Ge, Hua Ge, Lingling Zhu, Bing Mao, Bing Mao

“…The combined impact of climate change and human activity has brought uncertainty regarding hydrological drought in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (LYR), thereby threatening the security of regional water resources. …”
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Scaling species interactions: implications for community ecology and biological scaling theory by Douglas S. Glazier

“…Body-size scaling of biotic interactions has not only important implications for the development of synthetic theory bridging community ecology and biological scaling, but also practical applications for understanding the effects of human exploitation and climate change on living systems.…”
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FIRM image analysis: A machine learning workflow for quantifying extracellular matrix components from electron microscopy images. by Nicholas T Gigliotti, Justin Lee, Emily H Mang, Giancarlo R Zambrano, Mitra L Taheri

“…FIRM had similar deviation from the ground truth in the number of identified fibrils, fibril size, and size distributions when compared to human analyses. The results suggest that FIRM performs as well as manual analysis and requires a fraction of the time. …”
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A comprehensive transcriptional reference for severity and progression in spinal cord injury reveals novel translational biomarker genes by Rubén Grillo-Risco, Marta R. Hidalgo, Beatriz Martínez-Rojas, Victoria Moreno-Manzano, Francisco García-García

“…We investigated the potential transferability of severity-specific biomarkers and identified a twelve-gene signature that predicted injury prognosis from human blood samples. We also report the development of MetaSCI-app - an interactive web application designed for researchers - that allows the exploration and visualization of all generated results ( https://metasci-cbl.shinyapps.io/metaSCI ). …”
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PRODUCTION AND SECURITY OF FOOD IN GLOBAL CIRCLE by ILO MOSES I. OLATUNDE

“…Food production is the cultivation of plants and rearing of animal as well as preparing them for human consumption. The Food and Agricultural Organization has been preaching the need for the people around the world to be food secured. …”
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Blue light promotes conjunctival epithelial-mesenchymal transition and collagen deposition through ITGB4 by Qianjie Yang, Kuangqi Chen, Siyi Chen, Yinhao Wang, Yutong Xia, Jinbo Chen, Ye Shen

“…This study investigated the transcriptomic response of conjunctiva to BL exposure, highlighting potential biomarkers for conjunctival injury. We exposed human conjunctival epithelial cells and C57BL/6 mice to BL to establish in vitro and in vivo models and identified the responsive genes in mice’s conjunctiva to BL exposure by RNA sequencing transcriptome analysis. …”
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AN ANALYSIS OF FACILITY ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN NIGERIA: A MICRO-EVIDENCE FROM KADUNA SATE by Gimba Victor Kyari, Micah Dogara, Selbyen Evelyn Gimba

“… This survey was conducted on facility readiness at the selected 239 facilities to determine the level of site preparedness with respect to human resource (health providers and volunteer community mobilizers), equipment availability and rate of service utilization.The survey of program data spanned over a 3-day period with visits to 115 facilities (40 in the Southern and Northern Zones each and 35 in the Central Zone of the state) and questionnaires administered to 2 Healthcare workers and 5 Clients per facility on their ANC days. 23 enumerators were recruited for data collection. …”
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Insilico targeting of virus entry facilitator NRP1 to block SARS-CoV2 entry. by Nousheen Bibi, Maleeha Shah, Shahzad Khan, Muhammad Shahzad Chohan, Mohammad Amjad Kamal

“…The crystallographic structure of the b1 domain of human NRP1 (PDB entry: 7JJC) was used for this purpose. …”
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Immunopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases by Ye. A. Konovich, I. L. Khalif, M. V. Shapina

“…Investigations of experimental enterocolites and human IBD confirm immunologic hypothesis of pathogenesis: relation of their development to defects of innate and adaptive immune system.…”
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Determining factors affecting flood risk perception among local communities in Iran by Moslem Savari, Ahmad Jafari, Abbas Sheheytavi

“…Abstract Although climatic and environmental factors primarily determine the intensity of flood events, their impacts on residents are significantly influenced by human-related elements. Since the most floods are highly variable and unpredictable, it is crucial to enhance the capacity and resilience of residents to withstand and coexist with these disasters. …”
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The shear bond measurement of two self-adhesive composite resins to both enamel and dentin (An in vitro study) by Abdulkareem Ramadhan Ibrahim

“…Methods: Sixty freshly extracted human third molar teeth were chosen for this study (thirty for enamel samples and thirty for dentin samples). …”
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Financial and economic consequences of the war for Ukraine by Olena Lytvyn

“…Most of the companies that have already optimized their staff do not intend to reduce it further, seeing human resources as a prerequisite for a gradual economic recovery. …”
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The role of ESRP1 in solid tumor development through the regulation of CD44 splicing and EMT processes by Lili Wang, Min Zhang, Lei Ke Zhao, Xiaohan Yuan, Houyu Zhao, Yanting Liu, Yinghua Ji, Ping Lu

“…Despite significant progress in the field of cancer treatment in recent years, cancer remains one of the main factors shortening human life expectancy. The field of cancer research is increasingly focusing on the role of tumor-related oncogenes and heterogeneous proteins in the development of cancer. …”
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