Analysis and Experimental Demonstration of Reflectarray Antennas in Quasi-Regular Lattices by Borja Imaz-Lueje, Juan Corcoles, Marcos R. Pino, Manuel Arrebola

“…The proposed technique uses the Method of Moments under local periodicity conditions (MoM-LP) to compute the field on the surface of each cell and then the far field radiated by the aperture. …”
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Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Fibril Binding to Catalase: A Transmission Electron Microscopy and Microplate Study by Nathaniel G. N. Milton, J. Robin Harris

“…The binding of biotinylated IAPP to catalase was high affinity with a KD of 0.77nM, and could be inhibited by either human or rat IAPP 1-37 and 8-37 forms. …”
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Modeling Highly Buoyant Flows in the Castel Giorgio: Torre Alfina Deep Geothermal Reservoir by Giorgio Volpi, Fabien Magri, Francesca Colucci, Thomas Fisher, Mattia De Caro, Giovanni B. Crosta

“…The resulting thermal plumes protrude vertically over 3 km at Darcy velocity of about 7⁎10-8 m/s. The analysis of the exploitation process demonstrated the sustainability of a geothermal doublet for the development of a 5 MW pilot plant. …”
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The Effects of Hemodialysis on Tear Osmolarity by Muhittin Taskapili, Kubra Serefoglu Cabuk, Rukiye Aydin, Kursat Atalay, Ahmet Kirgiz, Dede Sit, Hasan Kayabasi

“…Tear osmolarity of patients was statistically significantly decreased after hemodialysis (314.06±17.77 versus 301.88±15.22 mOsm/L, p=0.0001). In correlation analysis, pre-HD tear osmolarity was negatively correlated with pre-HD blood creatinine level (r=-0.366,  p=0.016). …”
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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment in Mangrove-Dependent Communities of Manoka Island, Littoral Region of Cameroon by Evariste Fongnzossie, Denis Jean Sonwa, Philippes Mbevo, Fabrice Kentatchime, Aurelie Mokam, Claude Tatuebu Tagne, Lydie Flora Essamba A. Rim

“…The dynamics of the coastline between 1975 and 2017 using EPR show average setbacks of more than ±3 m/year, with erosion levels varying depending on the period and location. …”
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Veronicastrum axillare Alleviates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Lung Injury via Suppression of Proinflammatory Mediators and Downregulation of the NF-κB Signaling Pathway by Quanxin Ma, Kai Wang, Qinqin Yang, Shun Ping, Weichun Zhao, Qiyang Shou, Weimin Zhou, Minli Chen

“…We observed that V. axillare suppressed the mRNA expression of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-6, monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in RAW264.7 cells challenged with LPS. …”
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A pooled analysis of the side effects of non-invasive Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) by Manon Giraudier, Carlos Ventura-Bort, Christoph Szeska, Mathias Weymar, Mathias Weymar

“…Analyses included effects of stimulation type (interval vs. continuous), stimulation duration, stimulation intensity and participant characteristics (age and gender) as potential modulators.ResultsThe findings support the safety of taVNS, with minimal and mild side effects reported across participants (M = 1.86, SD = 1.36). Although participants receiving sham stimulation were 32.4% less likely to report unpleasant feelings compared to participants receiving taVNS, this effect was driven primarily by low-end ratings (specifically, a rating of 1, indicating not at all when experiencing the corresponding side effect), thus suggesting limited clinical relevance. …”
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Antibiofilm of metabolites of the Proteus myxofaciens JB 20B for the prevention and treatment of vaname shrimp infected with Vibrio harveyi bacteria by Nanda Tri Rezeki, Dinamella Wahjuningrum, Widanarni Widanarni, Diana Elizabeth Waturangi

“…On day 15th, vaname shrimp were intramuscularly infected with 106 CFU/mL of V. harveyi. Examining clinical symptoms, viewing histology, assessing total haemocyte count, phagocytosis activity, phenoloxidase activity, respiratory burst, and growth performance. …”
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Characterization of Somatic Mutations in Malaysian Luminal Breast Cancer by Yock Ping Chow, Ryia Illani Mohd Yunos, Isa Mohd Rose, Norlia Abdullah, Rohaizak Muhammad, Shahrun Niza Abdullah Suhaimi, Saladina Jaszle Jasmin, Norshahidah Mahamad Nadzir, Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib, Rahman Jamal

“…Interestingly, genes involved in four key druggable cancer pathways, i.e. PI3K/AKT/mTOR, MAPK/ERK, NF-kβ and VEGF signalling pathways were found commonly mutated and require validation in a larger cohort. …”
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Hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor and microRNA gene expression and serum cortisol concentration in foxes selected for behavior toward humans by V. Yu. Ovchinnikov, E. V. Antonov, G. V. Vasilyev, S. G. Shihevich, D. V. Shepeleva, Yu. E. Herbeck

“…The same applies to NR3C1 mRNA as well. That is why we performed a miRNA-seq analysis on a portion of the fox dorsal hippocampus. …”
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Heterologous Expression of Laccase1 from Cryphonectria parasitica in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Kum-Kang So, Fatima Alejandra Hernandez Alvarado, Gui-Hwan Han, Jeong-Won Kim, Tae-Geum Kim, Dae-Hyuk Kim

“…The laccase activity was found to be 2.2 U/mL in optimal culture conditions, resulting in a 6.5-fold increase compared to the conventional culture medium.…”
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Effects of 15th January 2010 Annular Solar Eclipse on Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances and Equatorial Plasma Bubbles over Low Latitude Regions of East Africa by Davis Odhiambo Athwart, Boniface Ndinya, Paul Baki

“…The results revealed a wavelike perturbation with a virtual horizontal velocity of 830m/s and ∼1 TECU amplitude propagating eastward along the MOIU-RCMN-MAL2 GPS array. …”
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Experimental investigation on thermal management and performance enhancement of photovoltaic panel cooled by a sustainable shape stabilized phase change material by Ahmad Al Miaari, Khaled Own Mohaisen, Amir Al-Ahmed, Hafiz Muhammad Ali

“…Results showed that the novel SSPCM has a latent heat of 71.54 J/g and a high thermal conductivity of 0.7352 W/m·K. Moreover, the SSPCM can uniformly cool the PV by a maximum of 6.1 °C and enhance the efficiency by 9.02 %. …”
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Profile of Phenolic Acids and Flavonoids of Red Beet and Its Fermentation Products. Does Long-Term Consumption of Fermented Beetroot Juice Affect Phenolics Profile in Human Blood P... by Natalia Płatosz, Tomasz Sawicki, Wiesław Wiczkowski

“…However, it was observed that forty-two days of the regular intake of the fermented beetroot juice (200 mL/60 kg body weight) generally did not affect concentrations of phenolic acids and flavonoids in the volunteers' body fluids compared to their concentrations in fluids before fermented beetroot juice consumption.…”
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Intervention effectiveness in reducing the clustering of non-communicable disease risk factors in the workplace: A quasi-experimental study. by Nahla Guesmi, Sihem Ben Fredj, Nawel Zammit, Rim Ghammam, Imed Harrabi, Firas Chouikha, Maher Maoua, Jihen Maatoug, Hassen Ghannem

“…It involved an intervention group (Sousse-Jawhara and Sousse-Erriadh) and a control group (M'saken). The sample of participants in both groups was representative. …”
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Multi-Layer Perceptron Model Integrating Multi-Head Attention and Gating Mechanism for Global Navigation Satellite System Positioning Error Estimation by Xiuxun Liu, Zuping Tang, Jiaolong Wei

“…In particular, the root mean square error of the presented method in the first dataset is 0.239 m, which is <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>39.2</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>17</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> lower than the current state-of-the-art long short-term memory network and convolutional neural network, respectively. …”
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Aberrant T Helper 17 Cells and Related Cytokines in Bone Marrow Microenvironment of Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Tian Tian, Shuang Yu, Min Wang, Cunzhong Yuan, Hua Zhang, Chunyan Ji, Daoxin Ma

“…Moreover, a significant decrease of BM plasma TGF-β1 level was found in M3 patients compared with the other subtypes. Our findings suggest that Th17 and related cytokines may be implicated in AML pathogenesis.…”
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Assessment of Vascular Change Using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography: A New Theory Explains Central Visual Loss in Behcet’s Disease by Thanapong Somkijrungroj, Sritatath Vongkulsiri, Wijak Kongwattananon, Peranut Chotcomwongse, Sasivarin Luangpitakchumpol, Korrawan Jaisuekul

“…FRT was 118.1 ± 52.35 μm, which correlated with visual acuity (95% CI −60.47, −13.92). …”
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Heavier loads in flywheel exercise induce greater post-activation performance enhancement in countermovement jumps compared to heavy Smith machine squats in males by Jianhua Shi, Bing Yan, Mengjie Yu, Zhe Wang, Yang Wang, Haoyang Liu, Wei Zhang, Olivier Girard

“…Each flywheel protocol consisted of 3 sets of 8 repetitions with 3-minute rest intervals between sets, utilizing one of three inertial loads (0.0465, 0.0784, and 0.1568 kg · m 2 for light, moderate, and heavy, respectively). …”
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Liquid Chromatography/Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Identification of In Vitro and In Vivo Metabolites of Bornyl Gallate in Rats by Wei Lan, Liujiao Bian, Xinfeng Zhao, Pu Jia, Xue Meng, Yizhen Wu, Shixiang Wang, Sha Liao, Jie Yu, Xiaohui Zheng

“…Chromatographic separation was performed on an Agilent TC-C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) with gradient elution using methanol and water containing 0.2% (V : V) formic acid as the mobile phase. …”
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