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Populations Digitally Excluded from Education: Issues, Factors, Contributions and Actions for Policy, Practice and Research in a Post-Pandemic Era

Populations Digitally Excluded from Education: Issues, Factors, Contributions and Actions for Policy, Practice and Research in a Post-Pandemic Era

Don Passey, Jean Gabin Ntebutse, Manal Yazbak Abu Ahmad, Janet Cochrane, Simon Collin, Asmaa Ganayem, Elizabeth Langran, Sadaqat Mulla, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Toshinori Saito, Miri Shonfeld, Saunand Somasi

A laptop or internet connection can look like a ticket into education. But this paper argues that access alone may leave people just as excluded, because the surrounding choices can quietly reproduce the barriers they were meant to remove.

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Prediction of pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for HER2-negative breast cancer patients with routine immunohistochemical markers

Prediction of pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for HER2-negative breast cancer patients with routine immunohistochemical markers

Lothar Häberle, Ramona Erber, Paul Gaß, Alexander Hein, Melitta Niklos, Bernhard Volz, Carolin C. Hack, Rüdiger Schulz‐Wendtland, Hanna Huebner, Chloë Goossens, Matthias Christgen, Thilo Dörk, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Andreas Schneeweiß, M. Untch, Valentina Nekljudova, Sibylle Loibl, Arndt Hartmann, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter Andreas Fasching

Before chemotherapy even begins, information from a breast biopsy may help estimate whether the treatment is likely to erase all visible cancer, and whether that result will matter for the person’s future.

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A synthesis of machine learning and internet of things in developing autonomous fleets of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles for enhancing the regenerative farming cycle

A synthesis of machine learning and internet of things in developing autonomous fleets of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles for enhancing the regenerative farming cycle

Faris A. Almalki, Marios C. Angelides

Regenerative farming asks agriculture to do more than produce food: it must also rebuild soil, support living variety, and reduce harm to the climate. This paper asks whether a self-directing fleet of flying machines can help make that practical.

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Effects of cervical rotatory manipulation on the cervical spinal cord complex with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in the vertebral canal: A finite element study

Effects of cervical rotatory manipulation on the cervical spinal cord complex with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in the vertebral canal: A finite element study

Xue Fan, Hao Deng, Zujiang Chen, Han Seok Yang, Yikai Li, Shiguo Yuan, Nansheng Zheng, Meixiong Chen

A neck movement that may feel routine can become a much riskier event when bone has narrowed the space around the spinal cord. This study found that twisting the neck under those conditions can sharply raise mechanical stress.

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Yeast-extracted nucleotides and nucleic acids as promising feed additives for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles

Yeast-extracted nucleotides and nucleic acids as promising feed additives for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles

Nicole Francesca Pelusio, Luca Parma, Enrico Volpe, Sara Ciulli, Francesca Errani, Silvia Natale, Alessandra De Cesare, Valentina Indio, Paolo Carcano, Oliviero Mordenti, Pier Paolo Gatta, Alessio Bonaldo

Fish farming depends heavily on fishmeal, but fishmeal is costly and difficult to sustain. This study asks whether a small yeast-derived food additive can help sea bass grow well on diets containing less of it.

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Life satisfaction 18 months and 10 years following spinal cord injury: results from a New Zealand prospective cohort study

Life satisfaction 18 months and 10 years following spinal cord injury: results from a New Zealand prospective cohort study

Ruby Dixon, Sarah Derrett, Ari Samaranayaka, Helen Harcombe, Emma Wyeth, Carolyn Beaver, Martin J. Sullivan

A spinal cord injury can change almost every part of daily life. Yet this study found something many people may not expect: satisfaction with life was more common ten years later than it was eighteen months after the injury.

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Milankovitch-paced erosion in the southern Central Andes

Milankovitch-paced erosion in the southern Central Andes

G. Burch Fisher, Lisa Luna, William H. Amidon, Douglas W. Burbank, Bas de Boer, Lennert B. Stap, Bodo Bookhagen, Vincent Godard, M. E. Oskin, Ricardo N. Alonso, E. Tuenter, Lucas Joost Lourens

A mountain landscape can react dramatically to surprisingly small changes in rainfall. In the southern Andes, erosion rose and fell in step with a slow rhythm in Earth’s orbit.

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Assessment of Bacillus species capacity to protect Nile tilapia from A. hydrophila infection and improve growth performance

Assessment of Bacillus species capacity to protect Nile tilapia from A. hydrophila infection and improve growth performance

Leslye Macias, Víctor Mercado, Jorge Olmos

Fish farms can raise production, but crowded conditions also make fish more vulnerable to infection. This study tested whether helpful bacteria mixed into feed could protect fish and help them grow.

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Feature selection with a genetic algorithm can help improve the distinguishing power of microbiota information in monozygotic twins' identification

Feature selection with a genetic algorithm can help improve the distinguishing power of microbiota information in monozygotic twins' identification

Guangping Fu, Guanju Ma, Shujie Dou, Qian Wang, Lihong Fu, Xiaojing Zhang, Chaolong Lu, Bin Cong, Shujin Li

Identical twins can share the same DNA, yet the microscopic life in their mouths may still carry clues that separate one person from the other. The surprising part is that using less information can make those clues stronger.

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Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys

Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys

M. Jansen

Many people can succeed and still feel like frauds. The challenge is finding out how common those feelings are, and whether social circumstances help shape them, without making people answer a long questionnaire.

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Mechanism of action of nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg

Mechanism of action of nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg

Vikram M. Narayan, Joshua J. Meeks, Jørn S. Jakobsen, Neal D. Shore, Grannum R. Sant, Badrinath R. Konety

When bladder cancer returns despite standard treatment, preserving the bladder can become difficult. This therapy takes a gene into bladder cells so they keep making a signal that can attack the tumor directly and call immune defenses to the scene.

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Cerebellar contributions across behavioural timescales: a review from the perspective of cerebro-cerebellar interactions

Cerebellar contributions across behavioural timescales: a review from the perspective of cerebro-cerebellar interactions

Ellen Boven, Nadia L. Cerminara

The cerebellum is usually pictured as the brain’s movement specialist. But evidence suggests it may also help us learn events that unfold over seconds or longer, by predicting what feedback will come next.

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