Unreliable information and fear: Barriers to vaccination among IBD patients in China by Jingwen Liu, Zelin Yan, Wen Hu, Shuyan Li, Yan Chen

“…Making efforts to spread true information about the COVID-19 vaccine is of great importance.…”
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Determinants of Weight Loss following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: The Role of Psychological Burden, Coping Style, and Motivation to Undergo Surgery by Andrea Figura, Anne Ahnis, Andreas Stengel, Tobias Hofmann, Ulf Elbelt, Jürgen Ordemann, Matthias Rose

“…The amount of excess weight loss (%EWL) among obese patients after bariatric surgery varies greatly. However, reliable predictors have not been established yet. …”
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Reprogramming of Melanoma Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Hidehito Saito, Keisuke Okita, Noemi Fusaki, Michael S. Sabel, Alfred E. Chang, Fumito Ito

“…Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from somatic cells of patients hold great promise for autologous cell therapies. One of the possible applications of iPSCs is to use them as a cell source for producing autologous lymphocytes for cell-based therapy against cancer. …”
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A Two-Phased Guidance Law for Impact Angle Control with Seeker’s Field-of-View Limit by Haoqiang Zhang, Shengjing Tang, Jie Guo, Wan Zhang

“…To evaluate the specific navigation gains for both initial and final phases, the scaling coefficient between them is discussed by solving a quadratic equation with respect to the initial navigation gain. To avoid a great abrupt acceleration change at the switching instant, a minimum coefficient is chosen. …”
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Effect of Moisture Content on Bursting Liability of Sandstone due to Freeze-Thaw Action by Kesheng Li, Maotong Li, Deng Zhang, Chuanxiao Liu, Depeng Ma

“…In addition, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of rock is of great importance in evaluating weathering durability, frost resistance, and bursting liability of rock. …”
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Fine-tuning d-p hybridization in Ni-B x cocatalyst for enhanced photocatalytic H2 production by Haoyu Long, Xidong Zhang, Zhenyi Zhang, Jianjun Zhang, Jiaguo Yu, Huogen Yu

“…However, achieving precise regulation of the H-adsorption and H-desorption equilibrium (Hads/Hdes) still remains a great challenge. Herein, we propose a fine-tuning d-p hybridization strategy to precisely optimize the Hads/Hdes kinetics in a Ni-B x modified CdS photocatalyst (Ni-B x /CdS). …”
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Data Fusion Applied to the Leader-Based Bat Algorithm to Improve the Localization of Mobile Robots by Wolmar Araujo-Neto, Leonardo Rocha Olivi, Daniel Khede Dourado Villa, Mário Sarcinelli-Filho

“…Bio-inspired algorithms effectively address intricate optimization challenges, but their computational cost increases with the number of particles, which is great when implementing algorithms of high accuracy. …”
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Image Characterization of Cancer of the Colon by Thaimi Conde Cueto, Martha Yudey Rodríguez Pino, Pedro Juan Barrios Fuentes, Bárbara Aleida García Hernández, Julio Suz Piña, Nery M. Díaz Yanes

“…<strong><br />Conclusion:</strong> Ultrasound was of great usefulness, but barium enema is the test of choice in our environment for the diagnosis of cancer of the colon.…”
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Exponential distribution of wave-driven near-bed water speeds under short-crested waves: a case study in the eastern Gulf of Riga, the Baltic Sea by Maris Eelsalu, Laura Piho, Juris Aigars, Loreta Kelpšaitė-Rimkienė, Vitalijus Kondrat, Maarja Kruusmaa, Kevin E. Parnell, Asko Ristolainen, Ilona Šakurova, Māris Skudra, Maija Viška, Tarmo Soomere

“…The empirical distributions of velocity components are symmetric but greatly deviate from the expected Gaussian distribution. …”
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HPGCN: A graph convolutional network-based prediction model for herbal heat/cold properties by Qikai Niu, Jing’ai Wang, Hongtao Li, Lin Tong, Haiyu Xu, Weina Zhang, Ziling Zeng, Sihong Liu, Wenjing Zong, Siqi Zhang, Siwei Tian, Huamin Zhang, Bing Li

“…Herbal properties are part of the fundamental theories of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which has been of great significance for herbal formulas and disease treatment in clinics for thousands of years. …”
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Highly Sensitive Amperometric α-Ketoglutarate Biosensor Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide-Gold Nanocomposites by Gang Peng, Yadong Yu, Xiaojun Chen, He Huang

“…The recovery and the RSD values were calculated in the range of 97.9–102.4% and 3.8–4.5%, respectively, showing a great prospect for its real application.…”
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Nonlinear conductive behavior of MoS2/PDMS composites for self-adaptive electrostatic protection by Hongfei Li, Zhaoming Qu, Yazhou Chen, Wei Cao, Kaihui Li

“…Self-adaptive electrostatic protection materials (SAEs) are in urgent demand yet still remain a great challenge. Here, flexible and exceptional molybdenum disulfide/polydimethylsilane (MoS2/PDMS) composites were developed using a facile hybrid approach as novel ESD smart protection materials. …”
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Investigation and Assessment of the CFD for Horizontal Flow in the VHTR Core by Yan Shengyuan, Jean Luc Habiyaremye, Wei Yingying, Cong Chi Tran

“…Core bypass and cross flows are significant elements to consider since the cross gap set hurdles to the flow field that are capable of diverting sufficient amount of coolant from reactor core location and initiating a possible fuel overheating. However, there is a great need to sufficiently validate this method by carrying out a thorough evaluation based on working environment analysis. …”
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Functions of BCL-XL at the Interface between Cell Death and Metabolism by Judith Michels, Oliver Kepp, Laura Senovilla, Delphine Lissa, Maria Castedo, Guido Kroemer, Lorenzo Galluzzi

“…Thus, BCL-XL appears to play a prominent role in the regulation of multiple distinct types of cell death, including apoptosis and regulated necrosis. More recently, great attention has been given to the cell death-unrelated functions of BCL-2-like proteins. …”
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Autoantibodies Targeting AT1 Receptor from Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Upregulate Proinflammatory Cytokines Expression in Endothelial Cells Involving NF-κB Pathway by Weijuan Li, Zhi Li, Yaoqi Chen, Songhai Li, Yuanyuan Lv, Wenping Zhou, Mengyang Liao, Feng Zhu, Zihua Zhou, Xiang Cheng, Qiutang Zeng, Yuhua Liao, Yumiao Wei

“…These results suggested that AT1-AAs, via the AT1 receptor, induce expression of proinflammatory cytokines involved in the activation of NF-κB. AT1-AAs may play a great role in the pathogenesis of the acute coronary syndrome by mediating vascular inflammatory effects involved in the NF-κB pathway.…”
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A Preferable Approach for the Quality Control of Xiaoer Chiqiao Qingre Granules Based on the Combination of Chromatographic Fingerprints and Chemometrics by Tong Xu, Xiaoqi Li, Mengmeng Huang, Qi Wang, Chao Li, Gang Tian, Yan Chen

“…OPLS-DA was further employed to prove that the above six main active ingredients made great contributions to clustering. In summary, this integrated analysis provided a better promoted and more comprehensive method to control the quality of XCQG.…”
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Curcumin-enhanced NIR-II-responsive gold nanobipyramids for targeted HSP 90 inhibition by Zhenying Diao, Youcheng Liang, Yong Liu, Dou Zhang, Long Qiu, Jianbo Sun, Qiaoyou Lu, Yanlei Liu, Daxiang Cui, Ting Yin

“…Blockade of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) expression in multimodal synergistic therapy has a great prospect for cancer treatment. Nanomaterials combined with bioinformatic analysis provides accurate guidance for the design of anti-HSP90 nanomedicines. …”
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Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity for TiO2 Nanotube Array Films by Codoping with Tungsten and Nitrogen by Min Zhang, Juan Wu, DanDan Lu, Jianjun Yang

“…The mechanism of the enhanced photocatalytic activity could be attributed to (i) increasing number of hydroxyl groups on the surface of TNAs after the hydrothermal treatment, (ii) a strong W-N synergistic interaction leads to produce new states, narrow the band gap which decrease the recombination effectively, and then greatly increase the visible light absorption and photocatalytic activity; (iii) W ions with changing valences in all codoped samples which are considered to act as trapping sites, effectively decrease the recombination rate of electrons and holes, and improve the photocatalytic activity.…”
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Explanation of Water Indices and Criteria in the Urban Landscape in Order to Improve the Quality of Urban Environments by Zeynab khaleghi, Farah Habib, Hossein Zabihi

“…Water as one of the most essential natural elements of landscape and consequently urban landscape from yesterday till today has had a great impact on the formation and effectiveness of urban spaces and its various effects have always stimulated human tendency towards beauty. …”
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Improved insulator location and defect detection method based on GhostNet and YOLOv5s networks by Jianjun Huang, Xuhong Huang, Ronghao Kang, Zhihong Chen, Junhan Peng

“…The proposed method not only ensures the precision of insulator defect detection, but also greatly decreases the complexity of the model. Therefore, the GhostNet-YOLOv5s algorithm can meet the requirements of real-time detection in complex outdoor environments.…”
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