VEGF Promotes Proliferation of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme Stem-Like Cells through VEGF Receptor 2 by Chengshi Xu, Xing Wu, Jianhong Zhu

“…Our observations demonstrate that exogenous VEGF stimulates GBSC proliferation in a dose-dependent manner via VEGF Receptor 2 (VEGFR2); while VEGF Receptor 1 (VEGFR1) has a negative feedback effect on VEGFR2 when cells were exposed to higher concentration of VEGF. …”
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Influence of Unloading Conditions of Confining Pressure on the Compressive Strength and Permeability of Deep Mudstone by Tianyu Xin, Yashengnan Sun, Junguang Wang, Weiji Sun

“…Under constant axial pressure and unloading of the confining pressure, the mudstone with a depth of 200 m exhibits brittle failure, and the strain fluctuates in a pointwise manner with the increase in axial stress. In this case, the mudstone with a depth of 1000 m exhibits a transition from brittle failure to ductile failure, and the strain fluctuates linearly with the axial stress. …”
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Tolerogenic Splenic IDO+ Dendritic Cells from the Mice Treated with Induced-Treg Cells Suppress Collagen-Induced Arthritis by Jie Yang, Yiming Yang, Huahua Fan, Hejian Zou

“…Collectively, these findings suggest that transferred iTregs could induce tolerogenic characteristics in splenic DCs and these cells could effectively dampen CIA in an IDO-dependent manner. Thus, the potential therapeutic effects of iTregs in CIA are likely maintained through the generation of tolerogenic DCs in vivo.…”
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Intimate Partner Violence from Schema Therapy Perspective by Ayse Gokcen Gundogmus, Suheyla Dogan Bulut, Yasir Safak

“…Considering that personality traits are more frequently detected in cases of domestic violence, the use of schema therapy, which integrates many therapeutic techniques into a therapy model (especially in a problematic area with multi-faceted manner such as violence), is promising even though there are few studies on the effectiveness of schema therapies in couples. …”
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A New Nonlinear Controller Design for a TCP/AQM Network Based on Modified Active Disturbance Rejection Control by Anwer S. Aljuboury, Subhi R. M. Zeebaree, Firas Abedi, Zahraa Sabah Hashim, Rami Q. Malik, Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem, Ahmed Alkhayyat

“…The proposed ADRC consists of a new NLPID and a new super-twisting sliding mode controller (STC-SM), which functions as a novel NLSEF, and a proposed NLESO estimates the applied disturbance and cancels it in a responsive manner. A new tracking differentiator with a novel function is also used to generate a smooth and accurate reference signal and derivative. …”
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Analisis Manajemen Pengelolaan Dana Desa di Desa Jungke Kecamatan Permata Kabupaten Bener Meriah by Irhas Jaya, Humaizi Humaizi, Nurman Achmad

“…Likewise with the Responsibility for the use of village funds so that the community cannot evaluate the results of the work of the village government and the Accountability to the Regional Government which is not carried out in a timely manner. Second: Factors that influence the management of village funds include supporting and inhibiting factors. …”
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South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…Besides shaping the way that communities perceive others, it also influenced the manner in which communities are dealing with one another. …”
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Power management of cluster-based DC microgrid system for remote areas by Agustinus Yudhistira Wicaksono Setyanto, Arwindra Rizqiawan, Tri Ardiani

“…The strategy is based on the voltage and battery SoC as the system's local parameters in a decentralized manner. By using decentralized control, the proposed strategy allows the system to operate in both independent and connected configurations. …”
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Similarities and Differences between Composite Belts of the IX–XI Centuries in the Vetluga–Vyatka Interfluve and the Perm Cis-Urals by Natalya B. Krylasova

“…Belts, found at the burial sites of the Vetluga–Vyatka interfluve, are characterized by unique preservation of belts, which allowed not only studying separate elements of these composite belts, but also to see what they are made of, design and manners of use as articles of clothing. Based on materials from the Rozhdestvensk burial site in the Perm Krai the classification developed by T.B. …”
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PTEN depletion reduces H3K27me3 levels to promote epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in epithelial colorectal cancer cells. by Ahmed H Ghobashi, Jane W Kimani, Christopher A Ladaika, Heather M O'Hagan

“…Interestingly, PTEN KD reduced the global levels of trimethylation of histone 3 at lysine 27(H3K27me3) in an EZH2-phosphorylation-dependent manner. Additionally, EZH2 phosphorylation at serine 21 reduced the interaction of EZH2 with another polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) component, suppressor of zeste 12 (SUZ12), suggesting that the reduced H3K27me3 levels in PTEN KD cells were due to a disruption of the PRC2 complex. …”
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Inflammasomes, Autophagy, and Cell Death: The Trinity of Innate Host Defense against Intracellular Bacteria by Teresa Krakauer

“…Pathogens, PAMPs, and DAMPs activate TLRs and intracellular inflammasomes, inducing apoptotic and inflammatory caspases in a context-dependent manner to promote various forms of cell death to eliminate pathogens. …”
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The quality of licensing services: an analysis of the impact of leadership and communication on the effectiveness of licensing services in Indonesia by Rachmat Rachmat

“…This implies that organization is an activity aimed at achieving goals in an effective and efficient manner. Therefore, the objective of the OSS system should be genuinely perceived by the community, rather than becoming an impediment to business activities.…”
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Fault Detection and Classification in Two -Interconnected AC Microgrid at by Modal and Superimposed Analysis by Saber Armaghani, Zahra Moravej

“…This theory is implemented in this paper to identify and classify all types of faults in a timely manner. Additionally, comparing to another signal processing methods based on frequency domain analysis or frequency-time domain, it has the advantage of requiring a telecommunication system with lower bandwidth and cost. …”
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Ultra-Low Temperature Coefficient of Capacitance (Tcc) of the SrSnO3-Based Electrical Components by Abdul-Majeed Azad, Toh Yen Pang, Mohammad A. Alim

“…These ac electrical data were found to exhibit relaxation in more than one complex plane formalisms in a simultaneous manner. The magnitude of the terminal capacitance was found to be in a narrow window of 3 pF to 6 pF possessing very weak temperature dependence. …”
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Shionone Relieves Urinary Tract Infections by Removing Bacteria from Bladder Epithelial Cells by Hao Yin, Jiaoli Zhu, Yi Jiang, Yijing Mao, Chenquan Tang, Hui Cao, Yufang Huang, Huijun Zhu, Jianping Luo, Qingjiang Jin, Qinglei Jin, Yi Xue, Xin Wang

“…In addition, the levels of proinflammatory factors were significantly reduced in a dose-dependent manner in UTI cell model treated with different doses of Shionone (5, 10, and 20 μg/kg). …”
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THE EFFECT OF TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE – CASE STUDY OF 5 ALGERIAN BANKING INSTITUTIONS by Ali Bousbia Brahim, Ognjen Riđić, Tomislav Jukić

“…As far as the research time frame was concerned, it was performed in a crosssectional manner, in the summer of 2014. Out of 174 sent out surveys, the responses were collected from 132 surveyed individuals. …”
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A Cross-sectional Study on the Levels of Anxiety and Depression of People under Treatment for COVID-19 in Relation to Emotional Intelligence by Gopi Rajendhiran, V. Veera Balaji Kumar

“…It shows that people high in EI are able to handle the sense of isolation and uncertainty in an effective manner.…”
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Noise-attention-based forgery face detection method by Bolin ZHANG, Chuntao ZHU, Qilin YIN, Jingqiao FU, Lingyi LIU, Jiarui LIU, Hongmei LIU, Wei LU

“…With the advancement of artificial intelligence and deep neural networks, the ease of image generation and editing has increased significantly.Consequently, the occurrence of malicious tampering and forgery using image generation tools is on the rise, posing a significant threat to multimedia security and social stability.Therefore, it is crucial to research detection methods for forged faces.Face tampering and forgery can occur through various means and tools, leaving different levels of forgery traces during the tampering process.These traces can be partly reflected in the image noise.From the perspective of image noise, the noise components reflecting tampering traces of forged faces were extracted through a noise removal module.Furthermore, noise attention was generated to guide the backbone network in the detection of forged faces.The training of the noise removal module was supervised using SRM filters.In order to strengthen the guidance of the noise removal module, the noise obtained by the noise removal module was added back to the real face image, forming a pair of supervised training samples in a self-supervised manner.The experimental results illustrate that the noise features obtained by the noise removal module have a good degree of discrimination.Experiments were also conducted on several public datasets, and the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 98.32% on the Celeb-DF dataset, 92.61% on the DFDC dataset, and more than 94% on the FaceForensics++ dataset, thus proving the effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Parties of the Shareholders’ Agreement by E. M. Bondariev

“…On the basis of the analysis of the legislation of Ukraine and other countries, as well as the legal doctrine of corporate law, the author has concluded that exclusively shareholders of a particular company should be recognized as such persons, since they as the holders of subjective corporate rights, have the opportunity to exercise them in the manner determined by such an agreement. Contracts between third-party entities and shareholders, where the latter undertake to exercise their corporate rights in shares, in accordance with the directions of third parties, can not be attributed to shareholders’ agreements because the subject matter and purpose of such agreements and shareholders’ agreements do not coincide. …”
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Effects of IL-6 and TNF-α Cytokines on Cell Proliferation in Androgen Dependent/Independent Prostate Cancer Cell Lines by Serhad Onat, Feray Köçkar, Sümeyye Aydoğan Türkoğlu

“…According to our results, IL-6 cytokine caused a high increase in proliferation in androgen-dependent LNCaP cells, while androgen-independent PC-3 cells showed different proliferative effects in time and dose-dependent manner. TNF-α cytokine had a negative effect on the proliferation of androgen-dependent LNCaP cells, while it increased the proliferation level of androgen-independent PC-3 cells. …”
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