Fibrocyte enrichment and myofibroblastic adaptation causes nucleus pulposus fibrosis and associates with disc degeneration severity by Yi Sun, Yan Peng, Zezhuo Su, Kyle, K. H. So, Qiuji Lu, Maojiang Lyu, Jianwei Zuo, Yongcan Huang, Zhiping Guan, Kenneth M. C. Cheung, Zhaomin Zheng, Xintao Zhang, Victor Y. L. Leung

“…In injury-induced mouse disc degeneration model, fibrocytes were found recruited into the NP undergoing fibrosis and adopted a myofibroblast phenotype. Depleting the fibrocytes in CD11b-DTR mice in which myeloid-derived lineages were ablated by diphtheria toxin could markedly attenuate fibrous modeling and myofibroblast formation in the NP of the degenerative discs, and prevent disc height loss and histomorphological abnormalities. …”
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MGScoliosis: Multi-grained scoliosis detection with joint ordinal regression from natural image by Xiaojia Zhu, Rui Chen, Zhiwen Shao, Ming Zhang, Yuhu Dai, Wenzhi Zhang, Chuandong Lang

“…Specifically, we regard scoliosis estimation as an ordinal regression problem, and transform it into a series of binary classification sub-problems. Besides, we adopt the visual attention network with large kernel attention as the backbone for feature learning, which can model local and global correlations with efficient computations. …”
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Dynamic Splitting Behavior and the Constitutive Relationship of Frozen Sandstone Containing a Single Fissure by Tao Zhao, Gengshe Yang, Lei Wang, Hailiang Jia, Yuzhe Qiao

“…Fractured sandstone is widely distributed in mining areas throughout western China where the artificial freezing method is extensively adopted to construct vertical shafts. Blasting and excavation generate stress waves and break frozen fractured sandstone. …”
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Tax Incentives and Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria by Iyen Don-Pedro Izevbigie

“… This broad objective of this study is to investigates the relationship between tax incentives and entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design approach through administration of questionnaire to infinite population which comprises of entrepreneurs drawn from highly commercialised States (including Lagos, Edo, Kano, Rivers, Anambra, and Federal Capital Territory) in Nigeria, staff of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), staff of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), and staff of Bank of Industries (BOI) respectively. …”
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A co-registration method to validate in vivo optical coherence tomography in the breast surgical cavity by Rowan W. Sanderson, Renate Zilkens, Peijun Gong, Imogen Boman, Ken Y. Foo, Skandha Shanthakumar, James Stephenson, Wei Ling Ooi, José Cid Fernandez, Synn Lynn Chin, Lee Jackson, Mireille Hardie, Benjamin F. Dessauvagie, Anmol Rijhumal, Saud Hamza, Christobel M. Saunders, Brendan F. Kennedy

“…Several intraoperative tumor margin assessment techniques have been proposed to overcome this issue, however, none have been widely adopted. Furthermore, tumor margin assessment of the excised specimen provides only an indirect indication of residual cancer in the patient following excision of the primary tumor. …”
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Assessment of cardio-oncology knowledge and practice among healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia: a comprehensive nationwide survey by Hisham A. Badreldin, Nada Alsuhebany, Lama Alfehaid, Mohammed Alzahrani, Maha Aldoughaim, Abdullah M. Alrajhi, Jumanah Alsufyani, Dania Elsherif, Kanan Alshammari

“…To bridge this gap, integrating cardio-oncology into training programs, establishing institutional guidelines, and adopting multidisciplinary care models are crucial. …”
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Spatial Transmission Optimization for Secondary Users in Next-Gen Directional Networks by Zeinab Kteish, Jad Abou Chaaya, Abbass Nasser, Koffi-Clement Yao, Ali Mansour

“…In future telecommunication generations, PU can be expected to adopt directional transmission. This allows SU to exploit the spatial dimension in addition to the time-frequency dimensions, as in classical CR. …”
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An “initial-engineering-end use” quasi-market pricing mechanism under cascading risk for cross-regional water rights trading by Xuxia Li, Huimin Wang, Gang Liu, Liu Yang, Zhou Fang, Yi Xiao, Xiaoying Lai, Li Gao, Ying Teng

“…In Pingxiang, the local government has successfully adopted and implemented this mechanism. Empirical results and practical applications reveal several key findings. (1) A comparative analysis of national governance across different countries indicates that the quasi-market pricing mechanism effectively determines end use water prices in China. (2) Initial corporate and government investments mitigate trading risks and enhance stability. (3) Overlooking ecosystem service value leads to the undervaluation of initial and end use water prices. (4) Practical applications of the proposed mechanism in Inner Mongolia, China, and the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia, demonstrate that end use water prices are generally higher in water-scarce regions. …”
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Microstructure modulation of hard carbon derived from long-flame coal to improve electrochemical sodium storage performances by Hai-Tao Zeng, Wei-Wei Kang, Bao-Lin Xing, Guang-Xu Huang, Qiang Li, Han Hu, Fang-Le Su, Jian-Bo Jia, Chuan-Xiang Zhang

“…Herein, long-flame coal was adopted as the precursors to prepare hard carbon by carbonization at different temperatures, and the influences of carbonization temperatures on the microstructure together with electrochemical properties of hard carbon were systematically investigated. …”
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Retracted: A Novel Adaptive Terahertz System for Reliable and Efficient Maritime Communications Under Hostile Sea Conditions by Jianxin Feng, Jingjing Xu, Chengsheng Pan, Yuanming Ding, Hui Fang

“…Meanwhile, the feedback channel allows sender to use an adaptive mechanism to achieve the transmission efficiency with higher transmission rate over long communication distance. In addition, we adopt the Doppler frequency offset in maritime environment to compensate both relative movement between communication parties and adversarial maritime factors, e.g., strong wind and extreme sea states. …”
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Attitudes, Awareness, and Willingness of Iranians Toward Using Telemedicine in Post‐COVID Era: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Marsa Gholamzadeh, Hamidreza Abtahi, Reza Safdari, Elham Haghshenas, Mehrnaz Asadi Gharabaghi, Besharat Rahimi

“…ABSTRACT Background and Aims With the increased use of telemedicine during the pandemic, understanding patients' attitudes and readiness to adopt telemedicine is crucial. This study investigates the attitudes, willingness, and usage behaviors of Iranian patients toward telemedicine. …”
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Classification and Physical Characteristic Analysis of Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts Based on Deep Learning by Jia-Ming Chen, Ke-Rui Zhu, Zhao-Yang Peng, Li Zhang

“…We propose a new classification method based on convolutional neural networks and adopt a sample including 3774 GRBs observed by Fermi-GBM to address the T _90 overlap problem. …”
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Pavement Disease Visual Detection by Structure Perception and Feature Attention Network by Bin Lv, Shuo Zhang, Haixia Gong, Hongbo Zhang, Bin Dong, Jianzhu Wang, Cong Du, Jianqing Wu

“…To further improve robustness, the generalized intersection over union (GIoU) loss function is adopted, ensuring better stability across targets of varying shapes and sizes. …”
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Construction Control Technology and Monitoring Analysis of Walking Incremental Launching Construction of Small-Curvature Steel Box Girder Bridges Across Expressways by Hai Huang, Xiaomin Xue, Haitao Ma, Zhijun Zhou, Jianbo Dou, Heng Yang, Erwei Guo, Jianjun Ma

“…Firstly, the finite element tool MIDAS Civil is adopted to build a model for the construction. The five most unfavorable working conditions are selected from the entire incremental launch process to analyze the internal force and displacement state of the steel box girder bridge, which is and then compared with the site monitoring value. …”
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The Manufacture of GMP-Grade Bone Marrow Stromal Cells with Validated In Vivo Bone-Forming Potential in an Orthopedic Clinical Center in Brazil by Rhayra B. Dias, João A. M. Guimarães, Marco B. Cury, Leonardo R. Rocha, Elaine S. da Costa, Liebert P. Nogueira, Camila Hochman-Mendez, Anneliese Fortuna-Costa, Anna Karoline F. Silva, Karin S. Cunha, Sergio A. L. de Souza, Maria Eugênia L. Duarte, Rafaela C. Sartore, Danielle C. Bonfim

“…Here, we described standard procedures adopted in our facility for the manufacture of clinical-grade BMSC products with a preserved capacity to generate bone in vivo in compliance with the Brazilian regulatory guidelines for cells intended for use in humans. …”
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STLNet: Symmetric Transformer Learning Network for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection by Liye Mei, Andong Huang, Zhaoyi Ye, Yaxiaer Yalikun, Ying Wang, Chuan Xu, Wei Yang, Xinghua Li

“…Initially, we utilize an adaptive multigrain encoder to extract feature information from bitemporal images, thereby honing the focus on changing targets and providing deeper and more comprehensive information. Subsequently, we adopt an effective decoder architecture comprised of transformer structures, namely, local gather decoder (LGD). …”
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Associations of Sociodemographic Characteristics with Food Choice Motives’ Importance Among Mexican Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis by Miguel Amaury Salas-García, María Fernanda Bernal-Orozco, Andrés Díaz-López, Alejandra Betancourt-Núñez, Pablo Alejandro Nava-Amante, Barbara Vizmanos

“…Our findings highlight the influence of sociodemographic factors on FCMs that might act as barriers or drivers for adopting healthy diets.…”
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Protection Measures for Shield Tunneling Closely Under-passing Operating Metro Tunnels in Water-rich Soft Soil Area by MA Xifeng, JIN Hua, ZHOU You, CHEN Shaobo, WANG Yu, WU Yaojie

“…During the construction, the earth pressure and the amount of excavated soil are adjusted in real time based on the settlement amount of the existing tunnel, and methods are adopted including synchronous grouting and the distribution of grouting amounts in the upper and lower holes to further control the tunnel deformation. …”
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A compressive damage model for a rock considering the microcrack mechanical behavior by Cui LIU, Zhong LI, Feiya XU, Mo ZHANG, Xiaowei CAO, Heng LEI

“…Finally, the parametric sensitivity analysis was adopted to study the effects of the microcrack length, friction coefficient, and rock fracture toughness on the rock mechanical properties. …”
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Dynamic compressive characteristics of a green sandstone under coupled hydraulic-mechanical loading: Experiments and theoretical modeling by Bangbiao Wu, Geli Zhao, Ying Xu, Kaiwen Xia

“…A porous green sandstone (GS) was adopted as the testing rock material. The findings reveal that the dynamic behavior of rock specimens is significantly influenced by multiple factors, including the loading rate, confining stress, and pore pressure. …”
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