Engineering properties and life cycle assessment of a rapidly clayey soil stabilizer utilizing alkali-activated GFRP waste powder and slag by Zhenying Xie, Dan Yu, Jun Wang

“…This research offers a practical solution for effectively utilizing GFRP waste in a sustainable manner, with minimal energy consumption and pollution, thereby contributing to the sustainable development of soil stabilization.…”
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Mining label-free consistency regularization for noisy facial expression recognition by Yumei Tan, Haiying Xia, Shuxiang Song

“…Initially, we employ instance-level embedding consistency regularization to learn instance-level discriminative information from identical facial samples under perturbations in an unsupervised manner. This facilitates the efficacy of mitigating inherent noise in data. …”
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Staging of esophageal cancer using PET/MRI: a systematic review with head-to-head comparison by Alisa Mohebbi, Saeed Mohammadzadeh, Zahra Moradi, Afshin Mohammadi, Hossein Poustchi, Seyed Mohammad Tavangar

“…., endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS), computed tomography (CT), MRI, and PET/CT) in a full head-to-head manner. Methods Protocol was pre-registered a priori at ( http://osf.io/6qj5m/ ). …”
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Influence of Inflammatory Cytokines IL-1β and IFNγ on Sarcoplasmic Aggregation of p62 and TDP-43 in Myotubes by Bryony McCord, Richard M. Day

“…IL-1β increased p62 protein expression in an autophagy-independent manner. None of the cytokine treatments affected TDP-43 protein expression, size, or frequency of TDP-43 aggregates or localization, suggesting IL-1β and IFNγ may influence TDP-43 processing in human skeletal muscle cells. …”
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Cardiac-Specific Gene Expression Facilitated by an Enhanced Myosin Light Chain Promoter by Wolfgang Boecker, Oliver Y. Bernecker, Joseph C. Wu, Xinsheng Zhu, Tomohiro Sawa, Luanda Grazette, Anthony Rosenzweig, Federica del Monte, Ulrich Schmidt, Roger J. Hajjar

“…Methods: To minimize extracardiac gene expression, we have constructed a tissue-specific promoter for cardiac gene transfer, namely, the 250-bp fragment of the myosin light chain-2v (MLC-2v) gene, which is known to be expressed in a tissue-specific manner in ventricular myocardium followed by a luciferase (luc) reporter gene (Ad.4 × MLC 250 .Luc). …”
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Sophocarpine inhibits the proliferation and induces apoptosis of glioblastoma cells through regulating the miR-21/PTEN/PI3K/AKT axis by Feng Si, Qian Wang, Fei Chen, Xiangdong Lu

“…The results indicated that SC inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis of LN229 and SF539 cells in a dose-dependent manner. The arrest of the G0/G1 phase of GBM cells was increased after SC treatment. …”
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Convolutional Neural Network Compression via Dynamic Parameter Rank Pruning by Manish Sharma, Jamison Heard, Eli Saber, Panagiotis Markopoulos

“…By using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to model low-rank convolutional filters and dense weight matrices, and training the SVD factors with back-propagation in an end-to-end manner, we achieve model compression. We evaluate our method on modern CNNs, including ResNet-18, ResNet-20, and ResNet-32, using datasets like CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and ImageNet (2012). …”
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Proton pump inhibitors enhance chemosensitivity, promote apoptosis, and suppress migration of breast cancer cells by Ihraiz Worood G., Ahram Mamoun, Bardaweel Sanaa K.

“…Our results indicated that PPIs treatment significantly inhibited the growth of breast cancer cells in a dose-dependent manner. The antiproliferative activity of PPIs was significantly induced by apoptosis in all tested cell lines. …”
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ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS, WORK LIFE BALANCE AND EMPLOYEES’ EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S (BiH) IT SECTOR by Ognjen Riđić, Adnan Avdibegović, Senad Bušatlić

“…The study was conducted in a cross-sectional time manner in the period June-July 2016. A modified, 18 questions, primary quantitative survey instrument with a 5-point Likert scale was conducted on 503 Bosnian IT employees. …”
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Empirical Analysis for Improving Food Quality Using Artificial Intelligence Technology for Enhancing Healthcare Sector by S. K. UmaMaheswaran, Gaganpreet Kaur, A. Pankajam, A. Firos, Piyush Vashistha, Vikas Tripathi, Hussien Sobahi Mohammed

“…This study has stated that these models support in enhancing the overall food quality in an effective manner. The present research analyses the importance of these AI technologies in enhancing service quality in healthcare and food industries. …”
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Study on Layered-Backfill-Based Water Protection Technology of Thick Coal Seam in the Ecologically Fragile Mining Area in Western China by Lei Zhu, Tianqi Song, Wenzhe Gu, Kai Xu, Zhicheng Liu, Fengqi Qiu, Xinfu Zhang

“…The mining areas in Western China are characterized by water shortage and ecological fragility, and the coal resources in these areas are extracted in a large-scale and highly intensive manner, which is highly likely to induce ecological problems, such as soil erosion and grassland degradation. …”
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Using Milk Urea Nitrogen to Evaluate Diet Formulation and Environmental Impact on Dairy Farms by J.S. Jonker, R.A. Kohn

“…Target values calculated in this manner were 8 to 14 mg/dl for a typical lactation and were most sensitive to change in milk production and crude protein intake. …”
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Double Barrel Nasal Trumpets to Prevent Upper Airway Obstruction after Nasal and Non-Nasal Surgery by Macario Camacho, Justin M. Wei, Lauren K. Reckley, Sungjin A. Song

“…The technique described in the manuscript provides a method for placing one long and one short nasal trumpet in a manner that helps prevent postoperative upper airway obstruction. …”
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Development and validation of a deep learning system for detection of small bowel pathologies in capsule endoscopy: a pilot study in a Singapore institution by Bochao Jiang, Michael Dorosan, Justin Wen Hao Leong, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Sean Shao Wei Lam, Tiing Leong Ang

“…The value of our work can be further evaluated in a pragmatic manner that is sensitive to existing clinician workflow and resource constraints.…”
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Expression and Secretion of CXCL-8 and CXCL-10 From Mycobacterium Bovis BCG-Infected Human Epithelial Cells: Role of IL-4 by Patricia Méndez-Samperio, Elena Miranda, Abraham Vázquez

“…In addition, IL-4 decreased CXCL-8 (in a graded and significant manner) but not CXCL-10 secretion. These results were further confirmed, since a significant reversion was obtained with a neutralizing antibody to human IL-4, whereas an isotype-matched control antibody had no significant effect on CXCL-8 secretion. …”
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Evaluation of common COL2A1 gene variants in Iranian patients suspected with Stickler syndrome type I by Fatemeh Abolhasani, Hossein Abdali, Mohammad Kazemi, Bijan Movahedian Attar, Fatemeh Derakhshandeh, Majid Hosseinzadeh

“…Stickler syndrome type I, which is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner, is specifically linked to mutations in the COL2A1 gene. …”
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Stress contingent changes in Hog1 pathway architecture and regulation in Candida albicans. by Alison M Day, Min Cao, Alessandra da Silva Dantas, Olga Ianieva, Carmen Herrero-de-Dios, Alistair J P Brown, Janet Quinn

“…Notably, we find Ssk1 regulates Hog1 in a two-component independent manner by functioning to promote interactions between the Ssk2 and Pbs2 kinases. …”
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An implementation trial to mAnage siCkle CELl disEase through incReased AdopTion of hydroxyurEa in Nigeria (ACCELERATE): Study protocol. by Emmanuel Peprah, Joyce Gyamfi, John Patena, Hazal Kayalioglu, Tania Hameed, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Hyungrok Do, Dike Ojji, Deborah Adenikinju, Tayo Ajaye Oba, Maxwell Nwegbu, Hezekiah Isa, Grace Shedul, Alayo Y Sopekan, Obiageli E Nnodu

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>This study's findings will offer crucial insights into effective SCD management strategies, leveraging existing SCD clinical networks and resources in Nigeria to enhance HU adoption among providers in a scalable and sustainable manner. Additionally, the study will inform best practices for implementing HU therapy in resource-constrained settings, benefiting healthcare providers, policymakers, and stakeholders invested in improving SCD care delivery.…”
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Deep Temporal Clustering of Pathological Gait Patterns in Post-Stroke Patients Using Joint Angle Trajectories: A Cross-Sectional Study by Gyeongmin Kim, Hyungtai Kim, Yun-Hee Kim, Seung-Jong Kim, Mun-Taek Choi

“…Deep temporal clustering was employed to cluster them in an end-to-end manner by simultaneously optimizing feature extraction and clustering, with hyperparameter tuning tailored for kinematic gait cycle data. …”
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Levistolide A and periplogenin inhibit the growth of gastric cancer cells in vitro and in vivo by Jia Li Guo, Hong Mei Hu, Shao Chin Lee, Ji Zhong Zhao

“…Results: The results in the present study shown that the two compounds were able to inhibit the viability of the cancer cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner by MTT method. They could trigger apoptosis when used alone, and more potently, in combination with 5-FU detected by TUNEL positivity and the cleavage of caspase substrate PARP. …”
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