Strontium Promotes the Proliferation and Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Placental Decidual Basalis- and Bone Marrow-Derived MSCs in a Dose-Dependent Manner by Yi-Zhou Huang, Cheng-Guang Wu, Hui-Qi Xie, Zhao-Yang Li, Antonietta Silini, Ornella Parolini, Yi Wu, Li Deng, Yong-Can Huang

“…Collectively, this study demonstrated that human PDB- and BM-MSCs shared a great similarity in response to strontium, which promoted their proliferation and osteogenic differentiation in a dose-dependent manner.…”
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A case report of confirmed difficult pulmonary tuberculosis based on the hybrid capture-based tNGS method by Weiqian Chen, Huimin Chen, Ze Liu, Xinle Chi, Yaomeng Chen, Huan Ye, Wenjie Huang, Chenlei Cao, Wei Weng

“…Abstract Background Early diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis can greatly reduce the harm caused by the disease. However, traditional diagnostic methods have various shortcomings in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis. …”
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Psychological Impacts among Older and Younger People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nanning, China by Hongjie Liu, Xin He, Judith A. Levy, Yongfang Xu, Chunpeng Zang, Xinqin Lin

“…Intervention programs dedicated to improving mental health and quality of life are greatly needed for HIV infected older adults.…”
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Three-Dimensional Wave-Field Characteristics of Earth-Rock Dams with Different Hidden Hazards by Kui Wang, Jie Liu, Ying Zou, Mingjie Zhao, Yue Qiang

“…The elasticity modulus and density of the defects have great effect on the wave field, and alternately, Poisson’s ratio of the defects has little effect on the wave field. …”
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Effects of Elevated Ambient Temperature on Reproductive Outcomes and Offspring Growth Depend on Exposure Time by Huda Yahia Hamid, Md Zuki Abu Bakar Zakaria, Goh Yong Meng, Abd. Wahid Haron, Noordin Mohamed Mustapha

“…Reproductive performance has been shown to be greatly affected by changes in environmental factors, such as temperature. …”
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Characteristics of water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) long fiber reinforced composite modified by NaOH and hot water by Ninis Hadi Haryanti, Suryajaya, Tetti Novalina Manik, Khaipanurani, Adik Bahanawan, Setiawan Khoirul Himmi

“…The length and diameter of the reinforcing fibers in a composite greatly influence its tensile strength. This research investigated the physical and mechanical properties of composites reinforced with water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) long fibers. …”
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Antarctic krill antioxidant peptides show inferior IgE-binding ability and RBL-2H3 cell degranulation by Jie Ding, Chunyan Zhu, Pengfei Jiang, Libo Qi, Na Sun, Songyi Lin

“…Enzymatic hydrolysis, isolation, and purification might make a great deal of difference in antioxidant activity and antigenicity of peptide components. …”
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A Hybrid FEM-CNN for Image-Based Severity Prediction of Corroded Offshore Pipelines by Mohammad Fadzil Najwa, Muda Mohd Fakri, Abdul Shahid Muhammad Daniel, Aziz Norheliena, Mohd Mohd Hairil, Mohd Amin Norliyati, Mohd Hashim Mohd Hisbany

“…This work substantially augments the effectiveness of structural analyses that provide a better safety feature for critical infrastructural assets within the oil and gas industry and has great advantages to engineers, researchers, and academicians working on pipeline integrity management.…”
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Spatial Variation of Arsenic in Soil, Irrigation Water, and Plant Parts: A Microlevel Study by M. S. Kabir, M. A. Salam, D. N. R. Paul, M. I. Hossain, N. M. F. Rahman, Abdullah Aziz, M. A. Latif

“…Arsenic pollution became a great problem in the recent past in different countries including Bangladesh. …”
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Sophocarpine Attenuates LPS-Induced Liver Injury and Improves Survival of Mice through Suppressing Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Apoptosis by Zhengyu Jiang, Yan Meng, Lulong Bo, Changli Wang, Jinjun Bian, Xiaoming Deng

“…Septic liver injury/failure that is mainly characterized by oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis led to a great part of terminal liver pathology with limited effective intervention. …”
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Vitamin Status as a Determinant of Serum Homocysteine Concentration in Type 2 Diabetic Retinopathy by Pandelis Fotiou, Athanasios Raptis, George Apergis, George Dimitriadis, Ioannis Vergados, Panagiotis Theodossiadis

“…Regression analysis revealed that homocysteine was an independent risk factor for diabetic retinopathy and there was a threshold in its serum level (13.7 μmol/L), above which the risk of diabetic retinopathy greatly increases (OR=1.66, P=0.001). Folic acid was associated with decreased odds for diabetic retinopathy (OR=0.73, P<0.001). …”
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Densely populated macrocyclic dicobalt sites in ladder polymers for low-overpotential oxygen reduction catalysis by Zhen Zhang, Zhenyu Xing, Xianglin Luo, Chong Cheng, Xikui Liu

“…Abstract Dual-atom catalysts featuring synergetic dinuclear active sites, have the potential of breaking the linear scaling relationship of the well-established single-atom catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction; however, the design of dual-atom catalysts with rationalized local microenvironment for high activity and selectivity remains a great challenge. Here we design a bisalphen ladder polymer with well-defined densely populated binuclear cobalt sites on Ketjenblack substrates. …”
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Shoot Organogenesis and Plant Regeneration from Leaf Explants of Lysionotus serratus D. Don by Qiansheng Li, Min Deng, Jie Zhang, Wei Zhao, Yigang Song, Quanjian Li, Qingjun Huang

“…The gesneriaceous perennial plant, Lysionotus serratus, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine. It also has a great development potential as an ornamental plant with its attractive foliage and beautiful flowers. …”
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High‐performance and flexible thermoelectric generator based on a robust carbon nanotube/BiSbTe foam by Myeong Hoon Jeong, Eun Jin Bae, Byoungwook Park, Jong‐Woon Ha, Mijeong Han, Young Hun Kang

“…The BST sub‐micronparticles effectively create an electrically conductive network within the three‐dimensional porous CNT foam to greatly improve the electrical conductivity and the Seebeck coefficient and reinforce the mechanical strength of the composite against applied stresses. …”
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The joint policy of production, maintenance, and product quality in a multi-machine production system by reinforcement learning and agent-based modeling by Mohammad Reza Nazabadi, Seyed Najafi, Ali Mohaghar, Farzad Movahedi Sobhani

“…Adopting an integrated production, maintenance, and quality policy in production systems is of great importance due to their interconnected influence. …”
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Community structure of heritable viruses in a Drosophila-parasitoids complex by Varaldi, Julien, Lepetit, David, Burlet, Nelly, Faber, Camille, Baretje, Bérénice, Allemand, Roland

“…Our analysis revealed the presence of 53 viruses (including 37 new viruses), the great majority of which were RNA viruses. The "species" factor was by far the most significant one, explaining more than 50% of the variance in viral structure. …”
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Metal and Precursor Effect during 1-Heptyne Selective Hydrogenation Using an Activated Carbon as Support by Cecilia R. Lederhos, Juan M. Badano, Nicolas Carrara, Fernando Coloma-Pascual, M. Cristina Almansa, Domingo Liprandi, Mónica Quiroga

“…The TPR trace of the PdNRX catalyst shows that the support surface groups are greatly modified as a consequence of the use of HNO3 during the catalyst preparation. …”
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Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity of Mesoporous Anatase TiO2 Codoped with Nitrogen and Chlorine by Xiuwen Cheng, Xiujuan Yu, Zipeng Xing, Lisha Yang

“…DRS exhibited that the light absorption of N-Cl-TiO2 in visible region was greatly improved. As a result, the band gap of TiO2 was reduced to 2.12 eV. …”
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CD4 T-Cell-Independent Antibody Response Reduces Enterovirus 71 Lethality in Mice by Decreasing Tissue Viral Loads by Li-Chiu Wang, Chia-Min Kao, Pin Ling, Ih-Jen Su, Tung-Miao Chang, Shun-Hua Chen

“…Collectively, our results show that the CD4 T-cell-independent antibody response promotes the survival of EV71-infected mice and suggest great potential for the use of vaccines and neutralizing antibodies to reduce fatal symptoms in patients.…”
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Computer-Aided Rapid Establishment of Fingerprint of Xiaojin Capsule by HPLC by Hui Jiang, Yuansheng Xiao, Xingya Xue, Hongli Jin, Yang Xiang, Yanfang Liu, Gaowa Jin

“…Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formulas have a significant clinical efficacy, and the fingerprint technology has been widely accepted to fully reveal the quality of TCM. Whereas, it is a great challenge to establish the fingerprint chromatogram which can fully reflect every single herb material in a short time. …”
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