Photoaging smartphone app promoting poster campaign to reduce smoking prevalence in secondary schools: the Smokerface Randomized Trial: design and baseline characteristics by Michael Kreuter, Fabian N Fries, Titus J Brinker, Ute Mons, David A Groneberg, Anil Batra, Werner Seeger, Felix Herth, Julia Holzapfel, Tanja G Baudson, Katharina Sies, Lena Jakob, Hannah Maria Baumert, Marlene Heckl, Ana Cirac, Janina L Suhre, Verena Mathes, Hannah Spielmann, Nancy Rigotti, Tobias Raupach, Henning Gall, Claudia Bauer, Pat Marek, Chase H Harrison, Lava Taha, Andreas Owczarek, Felix J Hofmann, Roger Thomas

“…This study aims to evaluate its effectiveness regarding smoking prevalence and students’ attitudes towards smoking.Methods and analysis A randomised controlled trial is conducted with 9851 students of both genders with an average age of 12 years in grades 6 and 7 of 126 secondary schools in Germany. …”
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Protection of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells using different preservation solutions by Julia H E Houtzager, Anne-Marieke van Stalborch, Charlotte Hofstee, Thomas M van Gulik, Jaap D van Buul

“…ICAM-1 expression was increased in both LSECs and HUVECs in all preservation solutions plus TNF-α. …”
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Sleep Disorders and Reproductive Health: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Potential Interventions by Magdalena Rosa-Bończak Rosa, Patrycja Marta, Filip Maciej Huzarski, Klaudia Anna Pawełek, Gabriela Monika Ferfecka, Agata Ossolińska, Natalia Morawiecka, Lucyna Stolarska, Oliver Carlton, Weronika Kłosowicz

“…This approach provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between sleep and fertility, considering both biological and psychological mechanisms. Conclusions In both sexes, sleep disturbances can lead to reproductive health problems due to hormonal imbalances, resulting in the deterioration of reproductive cell quality. …”
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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 most important sources characterizing the process of opening Russian-Persian schools in Northern Persia (their goals and objectives, training agenda, certain results) are documents of both central authorities and diplomatic, economic and military institutions of the Russian Empire to Persia discovered at the Russian State Historical Archive. …”
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Effect of Wheat Germ on Quality of Wheat Bread Dough by Lehat Yousif M. Noori, Dler Amin Sabir

“…Afterward, the dough’s rheological characteristics and the endmost quality characteristics of the bread were analyzed and compared to the control sample from both the Sensory evaluation and physical evaluation sentiments. …”
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Influence of tension cracks on moisture infiltration in loess slopes under high-intensity rainfall conditions by Xuancheng Ren, Weifeng Sun, Hengxing Lan, Han Bao, Langping Li, Shijie Liu, Changgen Yan, Xiaochan Wang, Zhouchen Li, Chaoyang Tian

“…However, after prolonged rainfall, the migration speeds of wetting fronts in both scenarios converged. A strong linear correlation was observed between the average migration depth of the horizontal wetting front at the slope crest and the parallel wetting front on the slope surface, for both slope types. …”
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Substrate system outperforms water-culture systems for hydroponic strawberry production by George Kerrigan Hutchinson, Lan Xuan Nguyen, Zilfina Rubio Ames, Krishna Nemali, Rhuanito Soranz Ferrarezi

“…Strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa) are a globally cultivated fruit crop known for their economic significance and versatility in both fresh markets and processed food industries. …”
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Vascular endothelial growth factor A: friend or foe in the pathogenesis of HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections? by Mieke A. van der Mescht, Helen C. Steel, Ronald Anderson, Theresa M. Rossouw

“…This review article discusses the role of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) in the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 and HIV infection, both conditions being renowned for their impact on the vascular endothelium. …”
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Oversized cells activate global proteasome-mediated protein degradation to maintain cell size homeostasis by Shixuan Liu, Ceryl Tan, Chloe Melo-Gavin, Miriam B Ginzberg, Ron Blutrich, Nish Patel, Michael Rape, Kevin G Mark, Ran Kafri

“…Previously, we showed that cell size control involves both cell size checkpoints, which delay cell cycle progression in small cells, and size-dependent regulation of mass accumulation rates (Ginzberg et al., 2018). …”
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Novel risk loci encompassing genes influencing STAT3, GPCR, and oxidative stress signaling are associated with co-morbid GERD and COPD. by Ava C Wilson, Alison Rocco, Joe Chiles, Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra, Wassim Labaki, Deborah Meyers, Bertha Hidalgo, Marguerite R Irvin, Surya P Bhatt, Hemant Tiwari, Merry-Lynn McDonald

“…To test for the influence of common etiology in both diseases, we aimed to identify shared genetic etiology between GERD and COPD. …”
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Determination of Acetyl Salicylic Acid in Aspirin tablets by Lana Mohammed Ali, Mariwan Abdulla Hama Salih, Omed Ismael Hayder

“…The result from Spectrophotometric method showed more accurate than both direct and indirect titration when compared to the reference value from standard HPLC technique due to the high rate of accuracy and precision of this method. …”
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International Experience of Innovative Development of the Forest Industry in the Post-War Period and Its Adaptation for Ukraine by Petrashchuk Mykola V.

“…The forest industry is one of the most promising in the economy of Ukraine, but in the context of the ongoing full-scale invasion, the industry has acutely faced both the problems that existed before, including forest fires, illegal deforestation, pests, etc., and the problems that became relevant during the period of hostilities, namely, demining of forest areas. …”
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Credit Policies and Business Success on Small Scale Business in Kabale District Hakashenyi SACCO. by Agaba, Peter

“…The research used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. …”
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A FRAMEWORK OF FIVE TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES FOR CHURCH LEADERS IN THE DRC by L. Venter, C.A.M. Hermans

“… What framework of transformational leadership competencies could guide the development of church leaders in the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) with regard to the changes facing the church in South Africa in the 21st century? …”
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Dziecko w działaniu – refleksje praktyka by Paulina Grzelecka

“…This article presents a teacher’s refl ection before action, focused on the goal of education, a refl ection in action, where the teacher is an observer, tutor and diagnostician, and a refl ection after action, where I analyzed children’s activity in classes with educational toys. …”
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The covenant in Ulrich Huber's enlightened theology, jurisprudence and political theory by A. W. G. Raath, S. A. de Freitas

“… In this article the 17th century Dutch theorist, Ulrich Huber’s contribution to the concept of the covenant is unveiled. …”
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The evolutionarily diverged single-stranded DNA-binding proteins SSB1/SSB2 differentially affect the replication, recombination and mutation of organellar genomes in Arabidopsis th... by Weidong Zhu, Jie Qian, Yingke Hou, Luke R. Tembrock, Liyun Nie, Yi-Feng Hsu, Yong Xiang, Yi Zou, Zhiqiang Wu

“…Based on accurate long-read sequencing results, ssb1 and ssb2 mutants had decreased copy numbers for both mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and plastid DNA (ptDNA), accompanied by a slight increase in structural rearrangements mediated by intermediate-sized repeats in mt genome and small-scale variants in both genomes. …”
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Perception of the filmed urban space: an analysis of the imaginaries of Madrid constructed through series and social networks by Diego Antonio Barrado-Timon, Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt, Antonio Palacios-García, Héctor Ochoa-Ortiz, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo

“…In this context, and taking the city of Madrid as a reference, this work proposes a line of research wherein analysis of the relationships between geographical and audiovisual spaces through cultural and tourist use unites the representation of both, by way of social networks (specifically, Twitter). …”
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3D convolutional deep learning for nonlinear estimation of body composition from whole body morphology by Isaac Y. Tian, Jason Liu, Michael C. Wong, Nisa N. Kelly, Yong E. Liu, Andrea K. Garber, Steven B. Heymsfield, Brian Curless, John A. Shepherd

“…Nonlinear GPR produced up to a 20% reduction in prediction error and up to a 30% increase in precision over linear regression for both sexes in 10 tested body composition variables. …”
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Deep Unfolding-Aided Parameter Tuning for Plug-and-Play-Based Video Snapshot Compressive Imaging by Takashi Matsuda, Ryo Hayakawa, Youji Iiguni

“…The plug-and-play (PnP) method is a promising approach for the video SCI reconstruction because it can leverage both observation models and denoising methods for videos. …”
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