Japi 2.0, a gaming platform to stimulate cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood: protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial by Jorge Gaete, Saray Ramírez, Cristian A. Rojas-Barahona, Valentina Romo, Natalia Ríos, Ricardo Araya

“…Evaluating the acceptability and feasibility of this technological solution for children is expected to produce relevant information about these novel designs. It may help guide future studies, such as a randomized controlled trial on a larger scale. …”
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Broad-spectrum bioactivities of a sulfated heteropolysaccharide from Bacillus tequilensis MYG163: antioxidant, anti-Inflammatory, anticancer, antimicrobial, and antibiofilm propert... by Maha Abdullah Alwaili, Mohammed A. Alshehri, Thanaa R. Abdulrahman, Faisal Miqad K. Albaqami, Abdullah Alghamdi, Mona Othman I. Albureikan, Taghreed Shamrani, Abdullah Albelasi, Mohammad El-Nablaway, Samy Selim, Ahmed Ghareeb

“…A novel exopolysaccharide (EPS-R1) from the Red Sea bacterium Bacillus tequilensis MYG163 was isolated and characterized. …”
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The Back Mutation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide by Fırat Yıldız

“…At the beginning of the novel she appears as a young American who is on a work trip. …”
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Association between weight-adjusted-waist index and the prevalence of gallstone disease in Minhang District, Shanghai: a cross-sectional study by Jian Wang, Zixuan Zheng, Hongyu Tan, Shan Wei, Yufeng Gu, Yingsheng Cheng, Chengyan Xu, Wei Wang

“…The Weight-Adjusted-Waist Index (WWI) is a novel anthropometric measure that incorporates both weight and waist circumference, potentially offering a better assessment of GSD risk associated with adiposity. …”
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Direct Photocoagulation Guided by Merged Retinal Images for the Treatment of Focal Diabetic Macular Edema by Yoshihiro Takamura, Takehiro Matsumura, Shogo Arimura, Makoto Gozawa, Masakazu Morioka, YutakaYamada, Masaru Inatani

“…Purpose. To introduce a novel laser photocoagulation (PC) protocol named merged image-guided PC (MIG-PC), which included merging the images of the fundus, optical coherence tomography (OCT) map, and fluorescein angiography (FA). …”
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NCOA4 linked to endothelial cell ferritinophagy and ferroptosis:a key regulator aggravate aortic endothelial inflammation and atherosclerosis by Li Zhu, Zijian Liu, Jiahui Liu, Zhenglong Li, Youli Bao, Xin Sun, Wenchen Zhao, An Zhou, Hongfei Wu

“…Our previous study found that Atherosclerotic endothelial injury is closely associated with ferroptosis in ApoE−/− mice. Ferroptosis is a novel mode of cell death induced by decreased antioxidant capacity of the organism and accumulation of reactive oxygen species. …”
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Advancements in the Treatment of Mucopolysaccharidoses: From Established Therapies to Gene Therapy by Joanna Wanat, Wojciech Homa, Aleksandra Warunek, Gabriela Gronowicz, Izabela Dzikowska, Agata Siejka, Daria Stefaniak, Weronika Zielińska, Michał Chról

“…State of knowledge Numerous studies and clinical trials suggest that novel therapies could be game-changers in managing MPS. …”
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Dual-Band Eight-Element MIMO Array Using Multi-Slot Decoupling Technique for 5G Terminals by Wei Hu, Long Qian, Steven Gao, Le-Hu Wen, Qi Luo, Hang Xu, Xuekang Liu, Ying Liu, Wei Wang

“…To reduce the mutual coupling between antenna elements, a novel dual-band decoupling method is proposed by employing a multi-slot structure. …”
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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

“…Perfusion alterations of the TD subtype were related to dopamine, serotonin, other excitatory neurotransmitters such as glutamate and opioid, which may provide novel insights into pathophysiological processes and guide new therapeutic targets.…”
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Magnolol induces cell death through PI3K/Akt‐mediated epigenetic modifications boosting treatment of BRAF‐ and NRAS‐mutant melanoma by Abdullah Al Emran, Brinda Reddy Chinna Chowdary, Farzana Ahmed, Heinz Hammerlindl, Antje Huefner, Nikolas K. Haass, Wolfgang Schuehly, Helmut Schaider

“…Combination of magnolol with targeted therapy or chemotherapy also led to analogous effects on histone marks, which was rescued by Akt pathway activation. Our study revealed a novel epigenetic mechanism of magnolol‐induced cell death in melanoma. …”
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Electrogastrogram-based detection of cybersickness with the application of wavelet transformation and machine learning: A case study by Ilija V. Tanasković, Nenad B. Popović, Jaka J. Sodnik, Sašo J. Tomažič, Nadica S. Miljković

“…Conclusions: The unsupervised ML shows potential in identifying CSaffected EGG signal segments with feature extraction based on DWT, offering a novel approach for enhancing the prevention of CS occurrence in VR-based military training and other VR-related environments.…”
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Coculture with Eastern oysters is unlikely to reduce OsHV-1 impacts to farmed Pacific oysters: A modelling approach by Familusi Oluwatosin Adekunle, Gorka Bidegain, Tal Ben-Horin

“…In recent decades, the global expansion of Pacific oyster Magallana gigas aquaculture, driven by this species’ adaptability and rapid growth, has coincided with the emergence of novel and virulent microvariants (muvars) of Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1), causing significant industry losses. …”
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A hypomorphic mutation in the mouse Csn1s1 gene generated by CRISPR/Cas9 pronuclear microinjection by A. V. Smirnov, T. A. Shnaider, A. N. Korablev, A. M. Yunusova, I. A. Serova, N. R. Battulin

“…Of these, we describe a novel hypomorphic Csn1s1 (Csn1s1c.4-5insTCC) allele. …”
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CAIL: Cross-Modal Vehicle Reidentification in Aerial Images Using the Centroid-Aligned Implicit Learning Network by Haoran Gao, Yiming Yan, Yanming He, Jianzheng Zhou, Zhengning Zhang, Yunchao Yang

“…To address the above issues, we propose a novel centroid-aligned implicit learning (CAIL) network to achieve cross-modal Re-ID. …”
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Integrating ecological and recreational functions to optimize ecological security pattern in Fuzhou City by Junting Bai, Rui Sun, Yifan Liu, Jie Chen, Xiaohe Li

“…This study aimed to propose a novel method of constructing ESP considering both ecological and recreational functions, and to reconstruct ESP by weighing the relationship between ecological protection and recreational development. …”
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Regional hippocampal thinning and gyrification abnormalities and associated cognition in children with prenatal alcohol exposure by Blake A. Gimbel, Jeffrey R. Wozniak, Bryon A. Mueller, Kent A. Tuominen, Abigail M. Ernst, Mary E. Anthony, Erik de Water, the CIFASD, Donovan J. Roediger

“…Conclusions We used a novel MRI method to evaluate hippocampal structure in children with PAE and an unexposed comparison group. …”
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A Peptide Analogue of Selectin Ligands Attenuated Atherosclerosis by Inhibiting Monocyte Activation by Zhishuai Ye, Shanfeng Zhang, Yubo Liu, Shujing Wang, Jianing Zhang, Rongchong Huang

“…Here, we investigated the efficacy of a novel peptide analogue of selectin ligands IELLQAR in atherosclerosis. …”
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Identification, prevalence and pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species causing anthracnose of Capsicum annuum in Asia by Dilani D. de Silva, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Pedro W. Crous, Peter K. Ades, Andi Nasruddin, Orarat Mongkolporn, Paul W. J. Taylor

“…Taxonomic analysis of these straight conidia isolates based on multi-gene phylogenetic analyses (ITS, gapdh, chs-1, act, tub2, his3, ApMat, gs) revealed a further seven known Colletotrichum species, C. endophyticum, C. fructicola, C. karsti, C. plurivorum, C. scovillei, C. siamense and C. tropicale. In addition, three novel species are also described as C. javanense, C. makassarense and C. tainanense, associated with anthracnose of chili fruit in West Java (Indonesia); Makassar, South Sulawesi (Indonesia); and Tainan (Taiwan), respectively. …”
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A multicenter, single‐group, open feasibility study of a new individual cognitive behavioral therapy program for adult Japanese patients with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disord... by Naoki Takamatsu, Misuzu Nakashima, Kei Matsuura, Ikue Umemoto, Masaya Ito, Junichiro Kanazawa, Hirofumi Tomiyama, Masaki Kondo, Hisateru Tachimori, Tomohiro Nakao, Masaru Horikoshi, Hironori Kuga

“…This study will assess the feasibility of a novel CBT program for Japanese adult ADHD patients. …”
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Progressive Self-Prompting Segment Anything Model for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images by Xiaoning Zhang, Yi Yu, Daqun Li, Yuqing Wang

“…In this paper, we propose a novel progressive self-prompting model based on the SAM, termed PSP-SAM, which generates both internal and external prompts to enhance the network and overcome the limitations of SAM in ORSI-SOD. …”
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