Regulatory Role of GSK-3β on NF-κB, Nitric Oxide, and TNF-α in Group A Streptococcal Infection by Yu-Tzu Chang, Chia-Ling Chen, Chiou-Feng Lin, Shiou-Ling Lu, Miao-Huei Cheng, Chih-Feng Kuo, Yee-Shin Lin

“…Group A streptococcus (GAS) imposes a great burden on humans. Efforts to minimize the associated morbidity and mortality represent a critical issue. …”
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Nonlinear Static Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis of Time-Dependent Soil Deformation Effects on RC Structures by Ayat Errahmane Remadna, Kamel Bezih, Rafik Demagh, Mohamed Saddek Remadna

“…Ultimately, the results demonstrate that accounting for these complex interactions can greatly improve the durability and reliability of RC structures in diverse soil conditions.   …”
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Unified Quantile Regression Deep Neural Network with Time-Cognition for Probabilistic Residential Load Forecasting by Zhuofu Deng, Binbin Wang, Heng Guo, Chengwei Chai, Yanze Wang, Zhiliang Zhu

“…With ablation experiments, the proposed model achieved the best results in the AQS, AACE, and inversion error, and especially the average of the AACE is grown by 34.71%, 75.22%, and 32.44% compared with QGBRT, QCNN, and QLSTM, respectively, indicating that our method has excellent reliability and robustness rather than the state-of-the-art models obviously. Meanwhile, great performances of efficient time response demonstrate that our proposed work has promising prospects in practical applications.…”
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Cost Management at Higher Education Institutions – Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia by Martina Dragija Kostić, Tatjana Jovanović, Jelena Jurić

“…Therefore, our paper employs research methodology based on the survey conducted. The results show great differences in legal and organizational characteristics of accounting systems among the countries as well as in the development stages of cost accounting systems, which mainly focus on inconsistent overhead allocation as well as different accounting basis usage. …”
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Almond cold-pressed oil by-product as ingredient for cookies with potential health benefits: Chemical and sensory evaluation by João C.M. Barreira, M. Antónia Nunes, Beatriz Vieira da Silva, Filipa B. Pimentel, Anabela S.G. Costa, M. Alvarez-Ortí, J.E. Pardo, M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira

“…Nowadays, food security is a global concern and a great scientific challenge. Agro-industrial by-products can be used as potential ingredients of innovative food products, contributing to solve this societal demand. …”
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4,5-Diamino-2-Thiouracil-Powered Dual-Mode Biosensor for Sensitive, Nonenzymatic Determination of Saliva Uric Acid Levels by Zipeng Wu, Lingyan Cheng, Shuhua Cai, Baochang Su, Yaowei Chen, Chunzong Cai, Weijin Guo, Dong Ma, Xin Cui

“…Nonenzymatic and rapid monitoring of uric acid levels is of great value for early diagnosis, prevention, and management of oxidative stress–associated diseases. …”
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Loss of Lkb1 cooperates with BrafV600E and ultraviolet radiation, increasing melanoma multiplicity and neural‐like dedifferentiation by Kimberley McGrail, Elena González‐Sánchez, Paula Granado‐Martínez, Roberto Orsenigo, Yuxin Ding, Berta Ferrer, Javier Hernández‐Losa, Iván Ortega, Juan Martín‐Caballero, Eva Muñoz‐Couselo, Vicente García‐Patos, Juan A. Recio

“…The mechanisms that work alongside BRAFV600E oncogene in melanoma development, in addition to ultraviolet (UV) radiation (UVR), are of great interest. Analysis of human melanoma tumors [data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)] revealed that 50% or more of the samples expressed no or low amounts of serine/threonine protein kinase STK11 (also known as LKB1) protein. …”
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A universal gelation strategy of bivalent anions to construct nanofibrous lysozyme hydrogels for immunomemory anti‐recurrence of diabetic wound infection by activating the cGAS‐STI... by Aihui Wang, Liqun Li, Liqian Zheng, Bang‐Ping Jiang, Yihao Liu, Rimei Huang, Huimin Qiu, Shichen Ji, Hong Liang, Xing‐Can Shen

“…Unfortunately, the development of such hydrogels is still greatly limited due to the lack of universal gelation strategies. …”
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Microstructured Liquid Metal‐Based Embedded‐Type Sensor Array for Curved Pressure Mapping by Haoyu Li, Chengjun Zhang, Hongyu Xu, Qing Yang, Zexiang Luo, Cheng Li, Lin Kai, Yizhao Meng, Jialiang Zhang, Jie Liang, Feng Chen

“…The stretchable and mechanically stable sensor arrays possess shape‐adaptability that enables pressure mapping on non‐flat surfaces, which has great potential for object recognition in robotic skins and human‐computer interaction.…”
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Strength Characteristics and the Reaction Mechanism of Stone Powder Cement Tailings Backfill by Jianhua Hu, Qifan Ren, Quan Jiang, Rugao Gao, Long Zhang, Zhouquan Luo

“…The results showed that the strength of the backfill was greatly reduced at an early stage and slightly reduced in the final stages. …”
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A strategy for controlling Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: inhibition of ClpV expression by Wenke Liu, Dan Wang, Qiangxing He, Shiwen Cao, Jiaxin Cao, Huajie Zhao, Junwei Cui, Fan Yang

“…Abstract The emergence and prevalence of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) have proposed a great challenge to control this infection. Therefore, exploring some new drugs or strategies for treating hvKP infection is an urgent issue for scientific researchers. …”
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Denoising Graph Inference Network for Document-Level Relation Extraction by Hailin Wang, Ke Qin, Guiduo Duan, Guangchun Luo

“…Most existing studies suffer from the noise in the text, and necessary pruning is of great importance. The conventional sentence-level RE task addresses this issue by a denoising method using the shortest dependency path to build a long-range semantic dependency between entity pairs. …”
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Faecalibacterium prausnitzii: A Next-Generation Probiotic in Gut Disease Improvement by Xiaoya He, Shuyang Zhao, Yan Li

“…While the ameliorative effects of traditional probiotics seem negligeable, emerging next generation probiotics (NGPs) start to receive great attention as new preventive and therapeutic tools. …”
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Study of evolution for 3D structured surface with nano-balls and walls-like features with thickness variation for WO3 thin films made by spray deposition by Mirela Petruta Suchea, Ioan Valentin Tudose, Cosmin Romanitan, Cristina Pachiu, Marian Popescu, Kyriakos Mouratis, Marina Manica, Stefan Antohe, Stelios Couris, Dragos Gabriel Zisopol, Octavian Narcis Ionescu, Emmanuel Koudoumas

“…Since in most optoelectronic applications the surface morphology and structure play a crucial role and WO3 is one of the most studied and used metal oxide semiconductors in a significant variety of optoelectronic applications, a detailed study of recently observed and reported unique 3D complex architecture of WO3 coatings fabricated by spray pyrolysis (starting from different precursors) is of great importance for further development of thin film coatings and devices. …”
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Evaluation of the Suitability of Urban Underground Space Development Based on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Geographic Information Systems by Peixing Zhang, Tianlu Jin, Meng Wang, Na Zhou, Xueting Jia

“…The rational development of urban underground space resources (UUSRs) is especially crucial for alleviating “urban diseases”, and it is of great significance for exploring the appropriateness of urban underground space (UUS) development under multiple constraints for the rational use of UUSRs. …”
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Microstructure and Fatigue Properties of 6061 Aluminum Alloy Laser-MIG Hybrid Welding Joint by Cong Fan, Shanglei Yang, Minqi Zhu, Yishan Bai

“…The morphology of the grains around the pores has a great influence on the initiation and propagation of the fatigue microcracks.…”
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Improving Physical Activity mHealth Interventions: Development of a Computational Model of Self-Efficacy Theory to Define Adaptive Goals for Exercise Promotion by Dario Baretta, Fabio Sartori, Andrea Greco, Marco D’Addario, Riccardo Melen, Patrizia Steca

“…Such interventions would greatly benefit from the inclusion of computational models framed on behaviour change theories and model-based reasoning. …”
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Mechanically Twisting‐Induced Top‐Down Chirality Transfer for Tunable Full‐Color Circularly Polarized Luminescent Fibers by Xiaoxiao Yu, Linfeng Chen, Qin Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Zhenduo Qiu, Xinhai Zhang, Meifang Zhu, Yanhua Cheng

“…Moreover, the weavability of CPL fibers greatly extend their applications in anti‐counterfeit encryption, as demonstrated by using embroidery techniques to design multilevel encryption patterns.…”
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A Study on the Performance of Soiled Solar Photovoltaic Panels at Different Tilt Angles in Al Seeb, Oman by Girma T. Chala, Shaharin A. Sulaiman, Xuecheng Chen

“…Climate and weather conditions greatly affect photovoltaic (PV) module performance and efficiency, particularly in desert environments. …”
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An Efficient GPU-Accelerated Algorithm for Solving Dynamic Response of Fluid-Saturated Porous Media by Wancang Lin, Qinglong Zhou, Xinyi Chen, Wenhao Shi, Jie Ai

“…PNAM has high computational efficiency and great compatibility, which can be used to solve not only saturated fluid problems but also a variety of other problems.…”
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