ELEVATED BLOOD LEAD LEVELS IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE DUE TO LEADS EXPOSURE FROM CONTAMINATED WATER by Perdina Nursidika, Dedeh Kurnia, Ganthina Sugihartina

“…Background: Water quality can decrease due to population growth, domestic waste handling, climate, and human activities. Most of the people in Cimahi use well water for drinking and eating. …”
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The effect of two commonly consumed energy drinks on the bond strength of conventional and APC® brackets by Saya Mustafa Azeez, Omar Fawzi Chawshli

“…Materials and Methods: Sixty sound human premolars were divided into two groups of conventional and APC® brackets, and each group had three subgroups of control (artificial saliva), Wild Tiger and Red Bull storage. …”
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Study of Abiotic and Biotic Parameters Affecting the Abundance of Mosquito Larvae (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Region of Fez (Morocco) by Touria Filali Mouatassem, Abdelhakim El Ouali Lalami, Chafika Faraj, Noureddine Rais, Raja Guemmouh

“…Mosquitoes cause significant human health issues. However, very few studies have attempted to examine the question of how abiotic and biotic factors affect the abundance of Culicidae in the larval habitat. …”
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Prognostic Value of Metastatic Tumoral Caveolin-1 Expression in Patients with Resected Gastric Cancer by Der Sheng Sun, Soon Auck Hong, Hye Sung Won, Su Hyun Yoo, Han Hong Lee, Okran Kim, Yoon Ho Ko

“…Caveolin-1 (Cav-1), as the main component of caveolae, has complex roles in tumourigenesis in human malignancies. We investigated Cav-1 in primary and metastatic tumor cells of gastric cancer (GC) and its association with clinical outcomes. …”
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Triglycerides mediate the relationships of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) risk in US participants by Wenying Qiao, Jiashuo Li, Lijia Luo, Wenjuan Peng, Xi Wang, Ronghua Jin, Junnan Li

“…In conclusion, our study suggested that PFAS mixtures exposure may influence NAFLD risk score by mediating TG in human metabolism. This result could provide more comprehensive epidemiological evidence and guide clinical applications.…”
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Optimizing water resource management in tropical drought-prone regions through hybrid MCDM techniques: A water-stress mapping approach by Suman Mukherjee, Suman Paul, Subhasis Bhattacharya, Aznarul Islam, Sadik Mahammad, Edris Alam

“…Study focus: Mapping regional water-stress due to climate change and human interventions received less attention in the previous works. …”
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Land use and land cover spatiotemporal dynamic pattern and predicting changes using integrated CA-Markov model by A. Azizi, B. Malakmohamadi, H. Jafari

“…Agricultural lands and human-built environment constitute the majority of changes and are increasing continuously. …”
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Parental kidnapping as a form of abuse of parental rights by O. G. Yushkevych, M. Yu. Burdin

“…Statistical data from the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for 2022–2023 regarding the number of parental requests for the unauthorized change of the child’s place of residence by one of the parents is provided. …”
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Effect of Topically Administered Chitosan-N-acetylcysteine on Corneal Wound Healing in a Rabbit Model by Corinna Fischak, Robert Klaus, René M. Werkmeister, Christine Hohenadl, Martin Prinz, Leopold Schmetterer, Gerhard Garhöfer

“…Ultra-high-resolution OCT is considered a noninvasive, dye-free alternative to conventional fluorescein staining in assessing corneal wound healing also in humans.…”
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Modeling dynamic changes in type 1 diabetes progression:Quantifying $\beta$-cell variation after the appearance ofislet-specific autoimmune responses by Patrick Nelson, Noah Smith, Stanca Ciupe, Weiping Zou, Gilbert S. Omenn, Massimo Pietropaolo

“…Because of the limited access to pancreatic tissue and pancreatic lymph nodes during the normoglycemic phase of the disease, little is known about the dynamics involved in the chain of events leading to the clinical onset of the disease in humans. In particular, during T1DM progression there is limited information about temporal fluctuations of immunologic abnormalities and their effect on pancreatic $\beta$-cell function and mass. …”
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Interleukin-4 (IL-4) enhances and soluble interleukin-4 receptor (sIL-4R) inhibits histamine release from peripheral blood basophils and mast cells in vitro and in vivo by B. Niggemann, T. Zuberbier, U. Herz, K. Enssle, U. Wahn, H. Renz

“…The aim of the study was to analyse the effect of interleukin-4 (IL-4) on allergen and anti-IgE mediated histamine release from basophils and human skin mast cells and to assess whether soluble recombinant interleukin-4 receptor (sIL4R) can inhibit these effects. …”
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Selenoprotein S Attenuates Tumor Necrosis Factor-α-Induced Dysfunction in Endothelial Cells by Siyuan Cui, Lili Men, Yu Li, Yingshuo Zhong, Shanshan Yu, Fang Li, Jianling Du

“…We first demonstrated that the upregulation of SelS enhances the levels of nitric oxide and endothelial nitric oxide synthase in tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) α-treated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). …”
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Early Diagnosis and Severity Assessment of Weligama Coconut Leaf Wilt Disease and Coconut Caterpillar Infestation Using Deep Learning-Based Image Processing Techniques by Samitha Vidhanaarachchi, Janaka L. Wijekoon, W. A. Shanaka P. Abeysiriwardhana, Malitha Wijesundara

“…Currently, both WCWLD and CCI are detected through on-field human observations, a process that is not only time-consuming but also limits the early detection of infections. …”
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An epigenetic memory at the CYP1A gene in cancer-resistant, pollution-adapted killifish by Samantha Carrothers, Rafael Trevisan, Nishad Jayasundara, Nicole Pelletier, Emma Weeks, Joel N. Meyer, Richard Di Giulio, Caren Weinhouse

“…Abstract Human exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) is a significant public health problem that will worsen with a warming climate and increased large-scale wildfires. …”
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Comparative Study of Ectopic Lymphoid Aggregates in Sheep and Murine Models of Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis by Udari Eshani Perera, Louise Organ, Simon G. Royce, Chrishan S. Samuel, Habtamu B. Derseh, Sasika N. V. Dewage, Emmanuel Koumoundouros, Andrew Stent, Kenneth J. Snibson

“…This study evaluated the histopathological and inflammatory components of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mouse and sheep models, in terms of their ability to translate to the human IPF. Merino sheep (n = 8) were bronchoscopically administered with two bleomycin infusions, two weeks apart, into a caudal lung segment, with a saline (control) administered into a caudal segment in the opposite lung. …”
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M-Sec promotes the accumulation of intracellular HTLV-1 Gag puncta and the incorporation of Env into viral particles. by Masateru Hiyoshi, Youssef M Eltalkhawy, Randa A Abdelnaser, Akira Ono, Kazuaki Monde, Yosuke Maeda, Reem M Mahmoud, Naofumi Takahashi, Yasuyoshi Hatayama, Akihide Ryo, Satoshi Nozuma, Hiroshi Takashima, Ryuji Kubota, Shinya Suzu

“…We have demonstrated that the cellular protein M-Sec promotes the transmission of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) in vitro and in vivo. …”
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LEAF-YOLO: Lightweight Edge-Real-Time Small Object Detection on Aerial Imagery by Van Quang Nghiem, Huy Hoang Nguyen, Minh Son Hoang

“…Furthermore, LEAF-YOLO attains 23% AP.50 on the TinyPerson dataset, outperforming models with ≥ 20 million parameters, making it suitable for UAV-based human detection.…”
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Ex vivo detection of recreational consumed nitrous oxide in exhaled breath by Dinesh Durán Jiménez, Frederick Vinckenbosch, Joris Busink, Jerro van Zijl, Hendrik J. F. Helmerhorst, Desirée van Tuin, Albert Dahan, Johannes Gerardus Ramaekers, Marcel J. van der Schans, Floris J. Bikker

“…This study focused on ex vivo detection of $$\hbox {N}_{2}$$ O in exhaled breath and examining its persistence in the human body. Firstly, a low-cost portable infrared based detector was selected and validated to detect $$\hbox {N}_{2}$$ O in air. …”
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A Facile Electrode Modification Approach Based on Metal-Free Carbonaceous Carbon Black/Carbon Nanofibers for Electrochemical Sensing of Bisphenol A in Food by Jin Wang, Zhen Yang, Shuanghuan Gu, Mingfei Pan, Longhua Xu

“…Bisphenol A (BPA) is a typical environmental estrogen that is distributed worldwide and has the potential to pose a hazard to the ecological environment and human health. The development of an efficient and sensitive sensing strategy for the monitoring of BPA residues is of paramount importance. …”
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Harmonizing multisite neonatal diffusion-weighted brain MRI data for developmental neuroscience by Alexandra F. Bonthrone, Manuel Blesa Cábez, A. David Edwards, Jo V. Hajnal, Serena J. Counsell, James P. Boardman

“…Our aim was to investigate the utility of ComBat, an empirical Bayes tool for multisite harmonization, in removing site effects from white matter (WM) dMRI measures in healthy infants born at 37 gestational weeks+ 0 days-42 weeks+ 6 days from the Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort (n = 86) and Developing Human Connectome Project (n = 287). Skeletonized fractional anisotropy (FA), mean, axial and radial diffusivity (MD, AD, RD) maps were harmonized. …”
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