The role of TRECs/KRECs as immune indicators that reflect immunophenotypes and predict the risk of infection in systemic autoimmune diseases by Takuji Itakura, Hirokazu Sasaki, Tadashi Hosoya, Natsuka Umezawa, Tetsuya Saito, Hideyuki Iwai, Hisanori Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Sato, Akihiro Hirakawa, Kohsuke Imai, Tomohiro Morio, Naoki Kimura, Shinsuke Yasuda

“…Among 35 patients, TREC and KREC levels were associated positively with the proportion of recent thymic emigrants, naïve T and B cells at all the timepoints. TREC and KREC levels decreased after treatment. …”
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An Educational Web-Based Expert System for Novice Highway Technology in Flexible Pavement Maintenance by Abdalrhman Milad, Nur Izzi Md. Yusoff, Sayf A. Majeed, Zainab Hasan Ali, Mohmed Solla, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Riza Atiq Rahmat, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…Their lectures have included very little knowledge about asphalt pavement construction as highway engineering consists of many areas that are not studied in detail during their studying years subject to their traditional education. Due to all mentioned, a new drive to promote online learning paves the way to evaluate our future approach to curriculum development and delivery of educational materials for engineering courses. …”
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Variability of the structure of correlations between the morphological and commercial traits of soybeans with different growth habit and branching characters by M. O. Burlyaeva, N. S. Rostova

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Dynamic changes in peripheral blood lymphocyte trajectory predict the clinical outcomes of sepsis by Dongkai Li, Jiahui Zhang, Wei Cheng, Guoyu Zhao, Xianli Lei, Yawen Xie, Na Cui, Hao Wang

“…In the prospective cohort (n=1,056), all lymphocyte subset counts differed among phenotypes on admission (P <.001) and were lower in non-survivors (P<.05). …”
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Versatile and efficient fabrication of signal “turn‐on” lateral flow assay for ultrasensitive naked eye detection of small molecules based on self‐assembled fluorescent gold nanocl... by Mengjia Chao, Shengmei Tai, Minxin Mao, Wenbo Cao, Chifang Peng, Wei Ma, Yongwei Feng, Zhouping Wang

“…Moreover, we evaluated the performances of this FONLFA platform by using carbendazim as a model target and investigated four typical nanomaterials as colorimetric nanoprobes and fluorescence quenchers. We found that all the nanoprobes demonstrated significantly improved naked eye detection sensitivity (vLOD) and limits of detection (LODs) in quantitative analysis. …”
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The Hereditary Hyperferritinemia-Cataract Syndrome in 2 Italian Families by Katia Perruccio, Francesco Arcioni, Carla Cerri, Roberta La Starza, Donatella Romanelli, Ilaria Capolsini, Maurizio Caniglia

“…HHCS was definitively diagnosed in all three children. HHCS is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by increased L-ferritin production. …”
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A high-entropy alloy showing gigapascal superelastic stress and nearly temperature-independent modulus by Junming Gou, Guoxin Liu, Tianzi Yang, Xiaolian Liu, Yun Pan, Chang Liu, Yu Qian, Yao Liu, Ying Chen, Xuefeng Zhang, Tianyu Ma, Xiaobing Ren

“…Here, we report a (TiZrHf)44Ni25Cu15Co10Nb6 high-entropy alloy that meets all these requirements. This alloy also shows good cyclic stability, thermally-stable capacity for elastic energy storage, high micro-hardness and good corrosion resistance, allowing it to operate stably in hostile environments. …”
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Evaluation of the extraction of antioxidant compounds from buriti pulp (Mauritia flexuosa L.) by response surface methodology by Gabriela Mota Nogueira, Flávia Aparecida Reitz Cardoso, Márcia Regina Ferreira Geraldo Perdoncini, Marcos Vieira da Silva, Eliane Sloboda Rigobello

“…Total carotenoids were most effectively extracted with 20 % buriti pulp, intermediate ethanol concentrations, and temperatures around 70 °C. All other bioactive compounds were more efficiently extracted with 5 % buriti pulp, intermediate ethanol concentrations, and temperatures close to 30 °C. …”
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Comparison of combined suprascapular and axillary nerve pulsed radiofrequency and nerve block for the treatment of primary frozen shoulder: a prospective cohort study by Yue Wu, Jiangyou Huang, Weibo Zhang, Suming Tian, Gang Chen

“…There was a significant improvement in all outcome measures from baseline to 6 months after the procedure. …”
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Modifications in aroma characteristics of ‘Merlot’ dry red wines aged in American, French and Slovakian oak barrels with different toasting degrees by Haocheng Lu, Binhao Cheng, Yibin Lan, Changqing Duan, Fei He

“…The fermenters, oak species and toasting degrees of the barrels all had significant effects on the aroma profiles of the aged ‘Merlot’ dry red wines, but the influence of the geographic origin was not obvious.…”
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The Effects of Concentrate Supplement Levels on Feed Utilization and Red Meat Production of Blackhead Somali Sheep Fed Natural Pasture Grass Hay as a Basal Diet by Shashie Ayele Yimenu, Mengistu Urge Letta

“…At the end of the feeding period, all sheep were slaughtered, and carcass and non‐carcass data were recorded. …”
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Individual patterns of anadromy determine the cost of salmon lice exposure in brown trout by K. L. Hawley, H. A. Urke, T. Kristensen, T. O. Haugen

“…Despite an equal distribution of lice exposure for all populations within the fjord, diverse mortality consequences among populations were estimated, largely resulting from individual selection of migration trajectory. …”
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A Retrospective Evaluation of the Utility of Capsule Endoscopy and Double-Balloon Endoscopy in Crohn’s Disease by Masanao Nakamura, Yoshiki Hirooka, Osamu Watanabe, Takeshi Yamamura, Kohei Funasaka, Eizaburo Ohno, Hiroki Kawashima, Ryoji Miyahara, Hidemi Goto

“…Multivariate analysis indicated small bowel stenosis and abdominal pain as factors significantly associated with useful indications. All patients with a poor indication on CE had small bowel stenosis. …”
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Estimating the impact of the Mongol expansion upon the gene pool of Tuvans by L. D. Damba, Е. V. Balanovskaya, M. K. Zhabagin, Y. М. Yusupov, Y. V. Bogunov, Z. M. Sabitov, A. T. Agdzhoyan, N. A. Korotkova, M. B. Lavryashina, B. B. Mongush, U. N. Kavai-ool, O. P. Balanovsky

“…The opposite ratio was revealed in Mongols: there were 10 % North Eurasian haplogroups and 75 % Central Asian haplogroups in their gene pool. All the results derived – “genetic portraits”, the matrix of genetic distances, the dendrogram and the multidimensional scaling plot, which mirror the genetic connections between Tuvinian clans and populations of South Siberia and East Asia, demonstrated the prominent similarity of the Tuvinian gene pools with populations from and Khakassia and Altai. …”
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Prophylactic and therapeutic effects of EsV3 on atherosclerotic lesions in ApoE−/− mice by Yaze Wang, Hifumi Ohishi, Rongji Wu, Hui Liu, Rong Xu

“…Prophylactic EsV3 administration was more effective than therapeutic administration in regulating TG and LDL-C levels and had comparable effects to atorvastatin on TC and HDL-C. All treatment groups exhibited reduced body weight compared to the model group, with no significant differences in food intake. …”
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Multifield Coupling Mechanism of Unloading Deformation and Fracture of Composite Coal-Rock by Zhen Yang, Yan Li, Xin Li, Jiayu Zhuang, Hao Li, Xue Wang, Yuning Wang

“…Simulation results show that, during the loading and unloading process, the three physical fields of the composite coal-rock all change regularly. During the unloading of coal and rock, there is a transition period in which the temperature increases sharply and reaches the maximum. …”
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Adaptive decentralized AI scheme for signal recognition of distributed sensor systems by Shixiong Zhang, Hao Li, Cunzheng Fan, Zhichao Zeng, Chao Xiong, Jie Wu, Zhijun Yan, Deming Liu, Qizhen Sun

“…By fine-tuning pre-trained model with the unlabeled data in each domain, the ADAI scheme can train a series of adaptive AI models for all target domains, significantly reducing the false alarm rate (FAR) and missing alarm rate (MAR) induced by domain differences. …”
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Photon-counting-detector CT outperforms state-of-the-art cone-beam and energy-integrated-detector CT in delineation of dental root canals by Stephan Rau, Martin Peter Pichotka, Alexander Rau, Marco Reisert, Markus Jörg Altenburger, Rainer Schmelzeisen, Fabian Cieplik, Fabian Bamberg, Maximilian Frederik Russe, Wiebke Semper-Hogg

“…PCD-CT was able to delineate all artificial canals down to 200 μm diameter. In CBCT and EID-CT canals could only be reliably detected down to 300 μm. …”
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Antibiotic exposure is associated with minimal gut microbiome perturbations in healthy term infants by Alain J. Benitez, Ceylan Tanes, Elliot S. Friedman, Joseph P. Zackular, Eileen Ford, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Patricia A. DeRusso, Andrea Kelly, Hongzhe Li, Michal A. Elovitz, Gary D. Wu, Babette Zemel, Kyle Bittinger

“…Antibiotic exposure (predominantly amoxicillin) was associated with minimal microbiome differences, whereas all tested taxa were modified by breastfeeding. …”
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Emission Characteristics, OFPs, and Mitigation Perspectives of VOCs from Refining Industry in China’s Petrochemical Bases by Gulbanu Hini, Kexin Gao, Yi Zheng, Maimaiti Simayi, Shaodong Xie

“…It is estimated that 75.05 and 228.67 Gg of VOC from all refineries can be reduced under the NPC 2030 and the HC 2030 scenarios. …”
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