Ginsenoside F1 administration promotes UCP1-dependent fat browning and ameliorates obesity-associated insulin resistance by Yuhan Meng, Weili Li, Chenxing Hu, Si Chen, Haiyang Li, Feifei Bai, Lujuan Zheng, Ye Yuan, Yuying Fan, Yifa Zhou

“…Obesity-induced type 2 diabetes is mainly due to excessive free fatty acids leading to insulin resistance. …”
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The Impact of Movement Control Order (MCO) during Pandemic COVID-19 on Local Air Quality in an Urban Area of Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir, Maggie Chel Gee Ooi, Kemal Maulana Alhasa, Mohd Aftar Abu Bakar, Anis Asma Ahmad Mohtar, Mohd Fadzil Firdzaus Mohd Nor, Mohd Talib Latif, Haris Hafizal Abd Hamid, Sawal Hamid Md Ali, Noratiqah Mohd Ariff, Johary Anuar, Fatimah Ahamad, Azliyana Azhari, Norfazrin Mohd Hanif, Mohammed Ahmed Subhi, Murnira Othman, Mohd Zaim Mohd Nor

“…Local burning activities in the residential area of KD are believed to be the main cause of the increased PM levels. This study has proven that air pollutant levels have significantly fallen due to the MCO. …”
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Analysis of Method Performance for Quantitative Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in Queso Fresco Cheese by Neha Singh, Ravinder Reddy, Karina Hettwer, Kirstin Frost, Matthew Kmet, Steffen Uhlig

“…The participant results indicated that the repeatability of standard deviation, which reflects the scatter of results within a laboratory (participant), was mainly driven by the MPN procedure. Out of forty reported results from twenty laboratories, 85% were satisfactory. …”
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Mobile base station site as a virtual power plant for grid stability by Jussi Laimio, Mika Keski-Heikkilä, Matti Pärssinen, Roope Lahti, Olli Salmela, Topi Volkov, Jari Collin, Petri Rannikko, Henri Koskela, Jukka Manner

“…The system consists of a live mobile base station site with a mobile connection to the site, local controller, an existing battery, and a power system that, in combination, can function as part of a power grid balancing system. Our main finding indicates that the rectifier reaction time within an installed base station site infrastructure ranges from 5 to 8 s, and the time when the base station is entirely off from the grid varies from 7 to 10 s. …”
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Analysis and Application of the Mechanical Properties of the Karst Collapse Column Fillings by Zhibin Lin, Boyang Zhang, Xiaofei Gong, Limin Sun, Wenzhen Wang, Dafang Yang, Yanlin Yang, Ming Guo, Xia-Hui Pan

“…A mechanism for the lagging water inrush of KCC in the process of mining is proposed. The main results of the present study can be concluded concisely as follows. (1) The KCC fillings show obvious soft rock characteristics in the process of uniaxial compression and Brazilian split. …”
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Improving hierarchical ammonium control operation in wastewater treatment with non-ideal sensors and actuators using filters, adaptive control and measurement error prediction by I. Santín, M. Meneses, C. Pedret, M. Barbu, R. Vilanova

“…Filters are applied with the main goal of reducing variations in ammonium measurement and, consequently, in the actuator, while improving dissolved oxygen set-point tracking. …”
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Smart technologies to improve the management and resilience to climate change of livestock housing: a systematic and critical review by Francesco Bordignon, Giorgio Provolo, Elisabetta Riva, Maria Caria, Giuseppe Todde, Gabriele Sara, Francesco Cesarini, Giampiero Grossi, Andrea Vitali, Nicola Lacetera, Andrea Pezzuolo

“…The articles were categorised based on the main livestock farming systems (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, small-ruminants, and pasture-based systems) and the type of smart technologies used, including wearable and non-wearable devices for monitoring animal health and behaviour, as well as systems for controlling environmental conditions in livestock housing. …”
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Dielectric spectroscopy and TD-NMR investigation for assessing water solid dynamics in normal and wooden breast chicken by Francesca Soglia, Eleonora Iaccheri, Luca Laghi, Luigi Ragni, Pedro José Fito Suñer, Massimiliano Petracci

“…WB showed a higher dielectric constant of relaxation and thus polarizability mainly due to free water, and lower relaxation frequency imputable to a more complex solid structure. …”
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Growth resilience of Pinus latteri to extreme drought events across aridity gradients in southern Laos by Dao-Xiong Gao, Nakhonekham Xaybouangeun, Zaw Zaw, Rao-Qiong Yang, Ze-Xin Fan

“…This study developed tree ring-width chronologies across three sites along aridity gradients in southern Laos and assessed the growth resilience of Pinus latteri to severe droughts and the main climatic drivers. The results indicated that pine trees in the drier site (Mounlapamok, MM) experienced greater decline and higher recovery compared to those in the wetter sites (Dong Phou Vieng, DPV, and Xe sap, TX). …”
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Unraveling Community Potential Interactions by Environmental DNA in the Hong Kong Coastal Waters by Sangwook Scott Lee, Zhimeng Xu, Yingdong Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Jinping Cheng, Hongbin Liu

“…Our results showed that primary consumers, mainly dinoflagellates and ciliates, were the dominant actors within the interaction networks, although their distributions varied between the two regions. …”
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Chronic Glucocorticoid-Rich Milieu and Liver Dysfunction by Hernán Gonzalo Villagarcía, Vanesa Sabugo, María Cecilia Castro, Guillermo Schinella, Daniel Castrogiovanni, Eduardo Spinedi, María Laura Massa, Flavio Francini

“…These features, shared by both metabolic and Cushing’s syndrome human phenotypes, support that a chronic glucocorticoid-rich endogenous environment mainly impacts on hepatic glucose cycle, displacing local metabolism to lipogenesis. …”
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The Developing Progress of Australian Cellular Agriculture in 2023—2024 by TAN Hong-zhuo, FANG Zhong-xiang, YI Cui-ping

“…We have also introduced 3 main technology challenges that Australia agriculture is facing: culture medium for cells, achieving desired taste and texture, and access to infrastructure. …”
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Vulnerability Assessment for Excessive Acceleration Failure Mode of an Indonesian Ro-Ro Ferry by Model Experiment by Daeng Paroka, Andi Haris Muhammad, Sabaruddin Rahman

“…The passenger and crew accommodations are located at a significantly higher position from the roll axis because the main deck is used as a vehicle deck. The damping factor corresponding to criteria levels 1 and 2 of the excessive acceleration failure mode given by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) may not be applied to the Indonesian ro-ro ferry due to the large breadth-to-draught ratio and the ratio between the distance of the center of gravity from the sea surface and ship draught. …”
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The Prevalence of Undiagnosed HIV Infection in Those Who Decline HIV Screening in an Urban Emergency Department by M. Czarnogorski, J. Brown, V. Lee, J. Oben, I. Kuo, R. Stern, G. Simon

“…After insuring that the samples came from patients not known to be HIV positive, they were deidentified, and rapid HIV testing was preformed using 5 μL of whole blood. Main Outcome Measures. The prevalence of occult HIV infection in those who declined testing compared with prevalence in those who accepted testing. …”
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High Dose Dexmedetomidine: Effective as a Sole Agent Sedation for Children Undergoing MRI by Sheikh Sohail Ahmed, Tamara Unland, James E. Slaven, Mara E. Nitu

“…Data was analyzed using Student’s t-test, Fisher’s exact test, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Main Results. Dexmedetomidine infusion was associated with bradycardia (3.9%) and hypotension (18.4%). …”
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Impact of lifestyle factors on oral cancer risk and prevention: Oral cancer epidemiology by Iadalin Ryntathiang, N. Aravindha Babu, Silambarasan Tamil Selvan, Mukesh Kumar Dharmalingam Jothinathan

“…The world is facing a major health problem represented by oral cancer, which poses a lot of problems mainly in India where it is the third highest prevalent cancer and predominately affects men. …”
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia in a Young Boy following Mumps Infection: A Case Report by Jayakanthan Saravanan, AP Krithika, M Geetha

“…Mumps infection is regarded as one of the main vaccine-preventable diseases in the world. Although mumps is considered one of the most innocuous infections, it can also cause serious complications such as meningoencephalitis, pancreatitis, myocarditis, and long-term issues like deafness and multiple cranial nerve palsies. …”
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Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset by Irene Goyenechea Mayer‐Goyenechea, Gustavo Montiel‐Canales, Juan Márquez, Claudia T. Hornung‐Leoni, Jesús M. Castillo‐Cerón, Norma L. Manríquez‐Morán

“…Different grid sizes and specific parameters were used to identify areas of endemism, with an Endemicity Index (EI) assigned to measure the consistency of these areas. Six main areas of endemism (EA) were identified: two in the northern region and four in the southern region of the SMO. …”
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Genome assembly of <i>Vitis rotundifolia</i> Michx. using third-generation sequencing (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) by M. M. Agakhanov, E. A. Grigoreva, E. K. Potokina, P. S. Ulianich, Y. V. Ukhatova

“…The modified technique included the main stages of the original protocol recommended by the MinION producer: 1) DNA extraction; 2) preparation of libraries for sequencing; 3) MinION sequencing and bioinformatic data processing; 4) de novo whole-genome sequence assembly using only MinION data or hybrid assembly (MinION+Illumina data); and 5) functional annotation of the whole-genome assembly. …”
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Dynamic changes of extracellular vesicles during zebrafish organogenesis by Linda-Marie Mulzer, Tim Felger, Luis E. Muñoz, Gesa Engl, Heiko Reutter, Mario Schiffer, Leila Pourtalebi Jahromi, Fanni Annamária Boros, Friederike Zunke, Philipp Arnold, Alina C. Hilger

“…Since most organs are formed during the first 72 hpf and from then on mainly maturation and growth occur, the elevated number and larger size before 72 hpf suggests an important role of EVs during zebrafish organogenesis. …”
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