Pro-inflammatory interactions of streptolysin O toxin with human neutrophils in vitro by D. Joseph, A. J. Theron, C. Feldman, R. Anderson, G. R. Tintinger

“…The current study was designed to investigate the effects of pretreatment of isolated human PMN with purified SOT on several pro-inflammatory activities, including generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), degranulation (elastase release), influx of extracellular calcium (Ca2+) and release of extracellular DNA (NETosis), using chemiluminescence, spectrophotometric and fluorimetric procedures, respectively. …”
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Damping characteristic analysis of grid-forming PMSG-based WT under different power oscillation damping controls by Xiaotian Yuan, Zhengchun Du, Yujun Li, Tong Qu, Han Jiang

“…To this end, two cost-effective reactive power-based damping controllers are designed using the internal DC signals, where the reactive power and the stored DC energy are jointly harnessed for damping enhancement. …”
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Gastrodin Suppresses the Amyloid β-Induced Increase of Spontaneous Discharge in the Entorhinal Cortex of Rats by Peng-zhi Chen, Hui-hui Jiang, Bo Wen, Shuan-cheng Ren, Yang Chen, Wei-gang Ji, Bo Hu, Jun Zhang, Fenglian Xu, Zhi-ru Zhu

“…The present study was designed to examine the effects of soluble Aβ1−42 on the discharge properties of EC neurons, using in vivo extracellular single unit recordings. …”
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Economical sustainability of integrated photo voltaic and hydroponic systems for rural areas by Conny K Wachjoe, Hermagasantos Zein, Annisa Syafitri Kurniasetiawati, Teguh Sasono, Yanti Suprianti, Fitria Yulistiani

“…The components of photo voltaic systems have been designed to the needs of the hydroponic system. Photo voltaic technology has been used for a long time for lighting in remote areas. …”
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FEVT-SAR: Multicategory Oriented SAR Ship Detection Based on Feature Enhancement Vision Transformer by Minding Fang, Yu Gu, Dongliang Peng

“…Moreover, a selective CopyPaste augmentation paradigm is designed to rebalance ship data distribution through data sampling. …”
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A Subgradient Extragradient Framework Incorporating a Relaxation and Dual Inertial Technique for Variational Inequalities by Habib ur Rehman, Kanokwan Sitthithakerngkiet, Thidaporn Seangwattana

“…This paper presents an enhanced algorithm designed to solve variational inequality problems that involve a pseudomonotone and Lipschitz continuous operator in real Hilbert spaces. …”
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Petroselinum crispum extract ameliorates scopolamine-induced cognitive dysfunction: role on apoptosis, inflammation and oxidative stress by Göksel Şener, Gözde Karakadıoglu, Dilek Ozbeyli, Seren Ede, Refiye Yanardag, Ozlem Sacan, Asli Aykac

“…This study was designed to investigate whether Petroselinum crispum (PC) extract has protective effects on the brain in the scopolamine-induced Alzheimer’s disease (AD) rat model. …”
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Blind super-resolution network based on local fuzzy discriminative loss for fabric data augmentation by Ning Dai, Xiaohan Hu, Kaixin Xu, Xudong Hu, Yanhong Yuan, Bo Cao, Luhong Shi

“…Subsequently, a novel loss function named Local Blur Discrimination Loss is designed to address the local blur phenomenon and suppress the generation of fabric artifacts during the super-resolution process. …”
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Spatially mapping the tumour immune microenvironments of non-small cell lung cancer by Lysanne Desharnais, Mark Sorin, Morteza Rezanejad, Bridget Liu, Elham Karimi, Aline Atallah, Anikka M. Swaby, Miranda W. Yu, Samuel Doré, Saskia Hartner, Benoit Fiset, Yuhong Wei, Baharak Kadang, Roni Rayes, Philippe Joubert, Sophie Camilleri-Broët, Pierre-Olivier Fiset, Daniela F. Quail, Jonathan D. Spicer, Logan A. Walsh

“…Recognizing these distinctions is essential for designing precision therapies tailored to each subtype’s unique immune architecture, ultimately enhancing patient outcomes.…”
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Predictors of Medical Students’ Adoption of Emergency Medicine Virtual Simulation Platforms by Lingjiao Tang, Yu Ning, Hui Lv, Xuebin Li, Aihe Tang

“…These findings highlight the importance of establishing supportive environments and designing user-friendly virtual simulation tools to promote technology adoption in medical education. …”
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The Spectrum of Histopathological Lesions in Children Presenting with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome at a Single Center in Pakistan by Muhammed Mubarak, Javed I. Kazi, Shaheera Shakeel, Ali Lanewala, Seema Hashmi

“…There is currently little information in the literature on the spectrum of histopathologic lesions in children presenting with SRNS in Pakistan. This study was designed to determine the histopathologic lesions in children presenting with SRNS at our center. …”
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Three-dimensional direct lithography of stable quantum dots in hybrid glass by Dezhi Zhu, Shangben Jiang, Ying Wang, Dejun Liu, Weijia Bao, Liwei Liu, Junle Qu, Yiping Wang, Changrui Liao

“…However, the fabrication of stable QDs with designed functional structures has long been challenging. …”
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High-Level Interpretation of Urban Road Maps Fusing Deep Learning-Based Pixelwise Scene Segmentation and Digital Navigation Maps by Carlos Fernández, Jesús Muñoz-Bulnes, David Fernández-Llorca, Ignacio Parra, Iván García-Daza, Rubén Izquierdo, Miguel Á. Sotelo

“…The high-level interpretation module is designed to learn the best set of parameters of a function that maps all the available features to the actual parametric model of the urban road, using a weighted F-score as a cost function to be optimized. …”
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Research progress on modification of hemodialysis membranes with anticoagulant properties by Xuan WANG, Zehua LI, Runjie SHI, Tiantian LI, Ruolin WANG, Chunmei NIU

“…This review also puts forward prospect on the developing direction of anticoagulant modification technology for dialysis membranes: 1) developing intelligent responsive materials to achieve dynamic anticoagulant functions; 2) constructing a biomimetic membrane surface to reduce the body's rejection reaction; 3) designing dynamic and renewable surfaces that can self-recover or regenerate; 4) carrying out green modification methods which can not only achieve efficient anticoagulant modification but also reduce environmental pollution.…”
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Advanced R-GAN: Generating anomaly data for improved detection in imbalanced datasets using regularized generative adversarial networks by Junhak Lee, Dayeon Jung, Jihoon Moon, Seungmin Rho

“…The discriminator is meticulously designed, leveraging the CELU (short for continuously differentiable exponential linear unit) activation for optimal feature extraction, ensuring diverse and representative sample generation. …”
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Cement Removal from the Femur Using the ROBODOC System in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty by Mitsuyoshi Yamamura, Nobuo Nakamura, Hidenobu Miki, Takashi Nishii, Nobuhiko Sugano

“…The ROBODOC system has been designed to selectively remove bone cement from the femoral canal, but results have not been reported yet. …”
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Unmanned roller lateral positioning method for asphalt road construction by Pengju Yue, Xiaohua Xia, Yongbiao Hu, Xuebin Wang, Pengcheng He, Xufang Qin

“…Subsequently, the lateral distances are measured by the designed lateral positioning methods. Finally, field validation experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed lateral positioning method. …”
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Communication System Using Natural Language for Robotic Laparoscope Guidance by Pan Yan, Bernhard Lukas, Fan Cheng, Beckendorf Lukas, Wilhelm Dirk, Feußner Hubertus, Groh Georg

“…To help with the critical nurse staffing shortages in hospitals worldwide, robotic assistants are designed to handle frequently required tasks in the digital operating room (DOR), such as the guidance of the laparoscopic camera. …”
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The Impact of Cinema and Film Screening Places on Improving the Art Cinema Market and Cultural Promotion of Urban Spaces (Case Study: District 6 of Tehran) by Farzin Nematbakhsh Abkenar, Mansoureh Aligholi, Hossein Safarzadeh, Seyed Kamran Nourbakhsh

“…Cinemas and local movie theaters belong to the people of the city, which are designed to have a meaningful presence of citizens in the environment, as well as to strengthen intellectual and social relations. …”
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Burden, Positive Aspects, and Predictive Variables of Caregiving: A Study of Caregivers of Patients with Pediatric Glaucoma by Yingting Zhu, Jinyun Gao, Xinyan Li, Qiongman Yang, Yu Lian, Huiming Xiao, Wenmin Huang

“…Method. This study was designed to be cross-sectional and descriptive. The Chinese version of the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) and the Positive Aspects of Caregiving (PAC) questionnaires were used to evaluate the caregivers. …”
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