Stosunek religii do nauki. Punkt widzenia prawosławnego by Henryk Paprocki

“…The contradiction between science and culture on one side and religion on the other is something superficial and, indeed, must not be present, if we understand properly the role of all these areas in their mutual relations. …”
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Long-term cardiac MRI follow up of MANTICORE (Multidisciplinary Approach to Novel Therapies in Cardio-Oncology REsearch) by Dina Labib, Mark Haykowsky, Emer Sonnex, John R. Mackey, Richard B. Thompson, D. Ian Paterson, Edith Pituskin

“…However, a significant reduction in LV mass was observed across all groups, the clinical implications of which remain unclear. …”
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Using machine learning models to plan HIV services: Emerging opportunities in design, implementation and evaluation by T Dzinamarira, E Mbunge, I Chingombe, D F Cuadros, E Moyo, I Chitungo, G Murewanhema, B Muchemwa, G Rwibasira, O Mugurungi, G Musuka, H Herrera

“…Considerable progress has been made to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS in the past years through successful multiple HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment interventions. However, barriers such as lack of engagement, limited availability of early HIV-infection detection tools, high rates of HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs), barriers to access antiretroviral therapy, lack of innovative resource optimisation and distribution strategies, and poor prevention services for vulnerable populations still exist and substantially affect the attainment of the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. …”
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‘You Choose No Time to Live and Die’: Dinmukhamed A. Kunayev and His Time by Ziyabek Y. Kabuldinov, Konstantin V. Cherepanov, Didar B. Kassymova

“…Materials and methods. The study covers a variety of sources, including personal memories of D. …”
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The Relationship Between First-Trimester Aneuploidy Markers and Birth Weight by Cenk Soysal, Hatice Sari, Ozlem Erten, Ismail Biyik, Onur Ince, Yasemin Tasci, Nadi Keskin

“…Those weighing above the 3rd percentile and below the 10th percentile were defined as small for gestational age, and those over the 90th percentile were defined as large for gestational age. …”
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Efficacy of Benzocaine and Lidocaine Bioadhesive Patches in Various Minor Oral Surgical Procedures in Children - An Evaluative Study by Nisha E. John, Ramakrishnan Erakkodan, Natta Sreelakshmi

“…Results: A significant difference in pain scores was observed favouring the use of Benzocaine over Lidocaine patches (P < 0.05). However, no significant differences in pulse oximeter readings were observed. …”
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Effects of dump site soil on the leaf structures of <i>Luffa cylindrical</i> (sponge gourd) and <i>Amaranthus viridis</i> (green amaranth) by S.I. Musa, K.O. Awayewaserere, K.I. Njoku

“…The plants obtained from both the dumpsite and control sites didn’t show marked visible morphological changes. However, anatomical changes in the leaves epidermis such as irregular shape of the epidermis, absence of trichomes and decrease in quality and stomata size were all witnessed in the dumpsite plant as against the control. …”
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Altered resting-state cerebral blood flow and its relationship with molecular architecture in tremor dominant Parkinson’s disease by Shangpei Wang, Yajie Cai, Yibin Zhao, Yongqiang Yu, Xianwen Chen, Longsheng Wang

“…Background: The resting-state cerebral blood flow (CBF) alterations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and tremor-dominant (TD) subtype have been explored. However, the underlying molecular architecture correlated with the altered CBF remains unknown. …”
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Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm From Computed Tomography Angiography Using a Patch-Based Dilated UNet Model by Merjulah Roby, Juan C. Restrepo, Haehwan Park, Satish C. Muluk, Mark K. Eskandari, Seungik Baek, Ender A. Finol

“…In a clinical setting, computed tomography angiography (CTA) is the imaging modality of choice for monitoring and/or presurgical planning of AAA patients. However, manual segmentation of CTA images is labor intensive and time consuming. …”
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Impacts of data consistency levels in cloud-based NoSQL for data-intensive applications by Saulo Ferreira, Júlio Mendonça, Bruno Nogueira, Willy Tiengo, Ermeson Andrade

“…Some of our findings include, for instance, that opting for strong data consistency significantly impacts Cassandra’s reading operations in the single-region deployment, while MongoDB writing operations are most affected in a multi-region scenario. …”
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The Role of PM2.5 Chemical Composition and Meteorology during High Pollution Periods at a Suburban Background Station in Southern Poland by Barbara Błaszczak, Natalia Zioła, Barbara Mathews, Krzysztof Klejnowski, Krzysztof Słaby

“…The PM2.5 was dominated by carbonaceous aerosol, especially POC, although the SOC rose significantly during high pollution periods. …”
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TMFN: a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning for multimodal sentiment analysis by Junsong Fu, Youjia Fu, Huixia Xue, Zihao Xu

“…Text, visual, and audio each have unique characteristics in MSA, with text often providing more emotional cues due to its rich semantics. However, current approaches treat modalities equally, not maximizing text’s advantages. …”
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the risk of stroke: a systematic review protocol by Jennifer K Quint, Ann D Morgan, Chetna Sharma, Kieran J Rothnie

“…The relationship between stroke and COPD, however, is not as well established, and studies conducted to date have generated conflicting results.Methods and analysis MEDLINE and Embase will be searched for relevant articles using a prespecified search strategy. …”
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Regulatory mechanisms for underground waste disposal in Nigeria: review and implications for environmental management by Irwin Anthony Akpoborie

“…The regulations also allow no role for resident communities in environmental monitoring. …”
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Significant role of anionic behavior of cocoyl glutamate on lead(II) ion adsorption towards activated carbon adsorbent from cigarette butts by Moh Zeinur Ridho, Retno Pertiwi, Eldo Delta Bagaskara, Raya Rambu Rambani, Chika Synthia Pitaloka, Fanta Mei Wahyuni, Istiqomah Rahmawati, Muhammad Reza

“…Cigarette butts can be converted to activated carbon (CA) which can be used as an adsorbent. However, the synthesized CA lacks functional groups facilitating the interaction with adsorbate, like heavy metal. …”
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Analysis of Arc Re-Ignition in Vacuum Interrupter-Based HVdc Circuit Breakers by Tamer Eliyan, Ali Saeed Almuflih, Z. M. S. Elbarbary, Fady Wadie

“…The protection of HVdc systems has long been challenged by the absence of natural current zero-crossing, typically addressed using L-C branches. However, the phenomenon of multiple arc reignitions in vacuum interrupter (VI) based HVdc circuit breakers (CBs) has been insufficiently investigated in existing literature. …”
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Family adoption program (FAP) as a learning tool—perceptions of students and faculty of community medicine by Rajyalakshmi Chepuru, Kuppli Sai Sushma, Sarada Vadlamani, Rongala V. Manasa, Bodhi Srividya Vennam

“…However, it has its own challenges and opportunities. …”
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Preferences of melanoma patients to accept adjuvant therapy and toxicity – a qualitative substudy of the GerMelaTox-A project by Toni Maria Janke, Laura Moysig, Christine Blome, Katharina C. Kähler

“…Therefore, this study investigates the motives of melanoma patients for tolerating or rejecting adjuvant therapy and its side effects. …”
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FTO effects the proliferation, invasion, and glycolytic metabolism of colon cancer by regulating PKM2 by Kongyan Zhang, Fei Zhang, Jiahe Wang

“…The protein expression of PKM2 and the intensity of fluorescence staining in the nucleus of PKM2 were detected to be increased in colon carcinoma cells with over-expression of FTO. Conclusion FTO plays a significant role in CRC progression by regulating PKM2 and promoting glycolysis.…”
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Mid-Term to Long-Term Outcomes of Total Hip Arthroplasty Using a Cementless Trochanteric Sparing Short Stem Through Direct Anterior Approach: A Single-Center Study by Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi, MD, Pouya Tabatabaei Irani, MD, Mohammad Poursalehian, MD, Mahsa Mahanrad, MD, Peyman Mirghaderi, MD, Mohammadreza Razzaghof, MD, Sadegh Saberi, MD

“…Metaphyseal engaging short stems offer potential benefits by reducing stress shielding and preserving bone stock. However, lacking long-term data in large quantities and younger patients in the literature led this study to assess mid-term to long-term outcome of these short stems. …”
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