Relationship between butyrylcholinesterase activity and hepatic transaminases: a cross-sectional study in agricultural workers from Peru by Emily Ortiz-Delgado, Guido Bendezu-Quispe, Fernando Soncco-Llulluy, Jair Li, Jaime Rosales-Rimache

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was designed based on medical-occupational records of workers from an agro-export company in Peru to associate the levels of butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) transaminases (ALT and AST). …”
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Informed circular fields: a global reactive obstacle avoidance framework for robotic manipulators by Marvin Becker, Philipp Caspers, Torsten Lilge, Sami Haddadin, Matthias A. Müller

“…In this paper, we present a global reactive motion planning framework designed for robotic manipulators navigating in complex dynamic environments. …”
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An Experimental Study on the Reinforcement of Silt with Permeable Polyurethane by Penetration Grouting by Chaojie Wang, Qi Liu, Chengchao Guo, Yangyang Xia, Yanjie Hao, Mingsheng Shi, Peng Zhao

“…A visual steady-pressure grouting test device was designed to study the law of polyurethane diffusion and reinforcement in silt under different pressure, and the interaction mechanism of grout and soil body structure was explored microscopically. …”
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An Investigation of the Effects of Different Warm-Up Protocols on Some Performance Values of Young Football Players by Mihri Barış KARAVELİOĞLU, Serkan Hüsnü KORKMAZ, Gökhan HADİ, Serkan AYDIN

“…These different warm-up protocols were designed as; a 10 minute-warm-up run (Method A), a dynamic + static warm-up (Method B) and a static + dynamic warm-up (Method C). 30 m. speed, agility, dribbling and ball juggling performance values of the participants were measured after each warm-up. …”

Site-specific substitution in atomically precise carboranethiol-protected nanoclusters and concomitant changes in electronic properties by Vivek Yadav, Arijit Jana, Swetashree Acharya, Sami Malola, Harshita Nagar, Ankit Sharma, Amoghavarsha Ramachandra Kini, Sudhadevi Antharjanam, Jan Machacek, Kumaran Nair Valsala Devi Adarsh, Tomas Base, Hannu Häkkinen, Thalappil Pradeep

“…These results demonstrate a tunable platform for designing nanoclusters with tailored electronic properties, with implications for optoelectronics and catalysis.…”
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Identification of CTL Epitopes on Efflux Pumps of the ATP-Binding Cassette and the Major Facilitator Superfamily of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Yan Lin, Yu Dong, Yanfeng Gao, Ranran Shi, Yubing Li, Xiuman Zhou, Wenwen Liu, Guodong Li, Yuanming Qi, Yahong Wu

“…Two drug-resistant T lymphocyte epitopes, designated Rv1218c-p24 and Rv2477c-p182, were selected, and their immunogenic activities studied in vivo in genetically engineered mice. …”
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Optimization of a large-area grid electrode for negative ion source in fusion neutral beam injector by Jinhong Wang, Yan Wang, Yuwen Yang, Yuming Gu, Yahong Xie, Lizhen Liang, Jianglong Wei

“…This paper mainly studies three designs of minor cooling channels (double bending channels, double straight channels, and single straight channel). …”
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MambaShadowDet: A High-Speed and High-Accuracy Moving Target Shadow Detection Network for Video SAR by Xiaowo Xu, Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Wensi Zhang, Xiao Ke, Tianjiao Zeng

“…By introducing SSM with the linear complexity into YOLOv8, MambaShadowDet effectively captures the global feature dependencies while relieving computational load. Specifically, it designs Mamba-Backbone, combining SSM and CNN to effectively extract both global contextual and local spatial information, as well as a slim path aggregation feature pyramid network (Slim-PAFPN) to enhance multi-level feature extraction and further reduce complexity. …”
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Modeling the Combined Effects of Temperature, pH, and Sodium Chloride and Sodium Lactate Concentrations on the Growth Rate of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014 by Francieli Dalcanton, Elena Carrasco, Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez, Guiomar Denisse Posada-Izquierdo, Gláucia Maria Falcão de Aragão, Rosa María García-Gimeno

“…The developed model could be useful for designing foods with L. plantarum ATCC 8014 added as a probiotic.…”
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The Role of Immersive Experience in Anxiety Reduction: Evidence from Virtual Reality Sessions by Dominika Wilczyńska, Tamara Walczak-Kozłowska, David Alarcón, María José Arenilla, Jose Carlos Jaenes, Marcelina Hejła, Mariusz Lipowski, Joanna Nestorowicz, Henryk Olszewski

“…Therefore, this study investigates the potential of a newly designed VR experience to alleviate anxiety by focusing on the mediating role of VR-induced immersion. …”
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Nonlinear Failure Analysis of Critical Area of Transmission Towers Based on the Continuum Damage Theory by Nailong Zhang, Jie Chen, Chao Gao, Xiao Tan, Hongze Li

“…This paper introduces a nonlinear damage analysis method rooted in the continuous damage theory, specifically designed for critical areas of transmission towers. …”
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Downregulation of CD4+LAP+ and CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells in Acute Coronary Syndromes by Ying-zhong Lin, Shan-he Lu, Zheng-de Lu, Ying Huang, Ying Shi, Ling Liu, Xiao-yan Wang, Qing-wei Ji

“…The present study was designed to investigate whether CD4+LAP+ Treg cells are involved in the onset of ACS. …”
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Light-YOLO: a lightweight detection algorithm based on multi-scale feature enhancement for infrared small ship target by Ji Tang, Xiao-Min Hu, Sang-Woon Jeon, Wei-Neng Chen

“…Furthermore, a novel loss function is designed to dynamically adjust the proportions of its components during training, improving the regression accuracy of small targets towards real annotation boxes and enhancing the localization ability of detection boxes. …”
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Sound-Induced Round Window Vibration—Experiment and Numerical Simulations of Energy Transfer Through the Cochlea of the Human Ear by Robert Zablotni, Sylwester Tudruj, Jaroslaw Latalski, Marcin Szymanski, Andrzej Kucharski, Grzegorz Zając, Rafał Rusinek

“…These findings provide new insights into cochlear acoustics and offer a potential tool for evaluating pathological disorders and designing prosthetic devices.…”
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Biomechanical evaluation of the modified proximal femoral nail for the treatment of reverse obliquity intertrochanteric fractures by Qian Wang, Liang Sun, Lu Liu, Teng Ma, Zhong Li, Kun Zhang, Qiang Huang

“…Abstract The best treatment method for reverse obliquity intertrochanteric fractures (ROIFs) is still under debate. Our team designed the modified proximal femoral nail (MPFN) specially for treating such fractures. …”
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Structural and Functional Annotation of Hypothetical Proteins of O139 by Md. Saiful Islam, Shah Md. Shahik, Md. Sohel, Noman I. A. Patwary, Md. Anayet Hasan

“…Structural prediction of these proteins and detection of binding sites from this study would indicate a potential target aiding docking studies for therapeutic designing against cholera.…”
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Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Nanoparticles Loaded with Callistemon citrinus Phenolics Exhibited Anticancer Properties against Three Breast Cancer Cell Lines by Rashid Ahmed, Muhammad Tariq, Irfan S. Ahmad, Hanafy Fouly, Fakhar-i-Abbas, Anwarul Hasan, Mosbah Kushad

“…Nanotechnology has been used to deliver various therapeutic drugs to specific targets overcoming many of the limitations of direct treatments. This study was designed to develop poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoencapsulated phenolic-rich extracts from Callistemon citrinus and berberine and to evaluate their effectiveness against extremely invasive MDA-MB 231, moderately invasive MCF-10A, and minimally invasive MCF-7 breast cancers. …”
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Socio-educational intervention program for the smoking prevention in dentistry students by Miguel Ángel Toledo Méndez, Midiala Veloz Fariñas, Tania Quesada Rabelo, Yanexis Valdés Gárciga, José Carlos Toledo Quirós

“…From this, an educational intervention program was designed, which was evaluated by expert criteria.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> there was a predominance of young smokers with an extended practice between three and five years, in whom moderate dependence was confirmed. …”
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Endotracheal Intubation by Paramedics Using Neodymium Magnet and Modified Stylet in Simulated Difficult Airway: A Prospective, Randomized, Crossover Manikin Study by Sedat Bilge, Onur Tezel, Yahya Ayhan Acar, Guclu Aydin, Attila Aydin, Gokhan Ozkan

“…The technicians used a stylet modified with an iron ball affixed to the tip and a neodymium magnet, designed specifically for the study. The intention was to guide the endotracheal tube into the trachea at the level of the thyroid and cricoid cartilages on the manikin with the aid of the modified stylet and the magnetic force of the neodymium magnet. …”
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Combination of Two‐Stage Continuous Feeding and Optimized Synthetic Medium Increases Lipid Production in Lipomyces starkeyi by Chih‐Chan Wu, Kenji Okano, Pijar Religia, Yuki Soma, Masatomo Takahashi, Yoshihiro Izumi, Takeshi Bamba, Kohsuke Honda

“…In the first stage, the specific growth rate was maintained at a designated level by maximizing the cell density through optimizing the feeding rate, molar carbon‐to‐nitrogen (C/N) ratio, and phosphate concentration in feeding media, achieving a high cell density of 213 ± 10 × 107 cells mL−1. …”
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