Screening of Efficient Antifreeze Agents to Prevent Low-Temperature Stress in Vines by Yali Zhang, Mengyao Han, Langjie Wu, Haoyu Wang, Yanying Liang, Xianhang Wang, Zhumei Xi

“…Additionally, the antifreeze agents significantly increased the soluble solid content in berries and enhanced the levels of anthocyanins, total phenols, total tannins, total flavonoids, and total flavonols in the berries’ skin. They had minimal impact on the fruit set rate, cluster weight, and berries shape index, indicating that these agents can improve berries quality to some extent.…”
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Evaluation of compliance and accuracy in Parkinson’s disease motor symptom tracking: a comparative study of digital and traditional paper diaries using a smartphone application (My... by Nazli Durmaz Celik, Nazli Durmaz Celik, Asli Yaman Kula, Naci Murat, Müge Kuzu Kumcu, Aydan Topal, Serhat Özkan

“…LaOerly, patients’ diary preferences were also evaluated.ResultsThe digital diary had significantly beOer compliance and accuracy than the paper diaries, with substantial/almost perfect levels of agreement (κ = 0.615 to 0.818) between logged symptoms and clinical examination notes. 65% of patients preferred the digital diary for follow-ups, and there was no significant difference in ease of use compared to paper diaries.ConclusionDigital diaries are helpful in the clinical management of PD patients as they minimize recall bias and reduce data errors in appropriately selected patients. …”
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Multi-tissue network analysis reveals the effect of JNK inhibition on dietary sucrose-induced metabolic dysfunction in rats by Hong Yang, Cheng Zhang, Woonghee Kim, Mengnan Shi, Metin Kiliclioglu, Cemil Bayram, Ismail Bolar, Özlem Özdemir Tozlu, Cem Baba, Nursena Yuksel, Serkan Yildirim, Shazia Iqbal, Jihad Sebhaoui, Ahmet Hacımuftuoglu, Matthias Uhlen, Jan Boren, Hasan Turkez, Adil Mardinoglu

“…Skeletal muscle exhibited minimal transcriptional changes to sucrose overconsumption but underwent substantial metabolic adaptation following the JNK inhibition. …”
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Adsorption of iron by using hybrid Akar Putra and commercialized chicken eggshells as bio-sorbents from aqueous solution by H.M. Nasir, A. Azmi, A.Z. Aris, S.M. Praveena

“…Numerous remediation methods had been developed to encounter with the contamination problem prior to degrade, decrease and to purify the contaminated water at minimal concentration as low as possible. Therefore, in current study, commercialized chicken eggshells and hybrid Akar Putra chicken eggshells were conducted in batch experiment to testify the capabilities of bio-sorbent materials in iron (II) ion removal from aqueous solution at optimized level of dosage and equilibrium contact time. …”
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CD4+CD25highCD127low/−FoxP3+ Regulatory T Cell Subpopulations in the Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood of Children with ALL: Brief Report by M. Niedźwiecki, O. Budziło, M. Zieliński, E. Adamkiewicz-Drożyńska, L. Maciejka-Kembłowska, T. Szczepański, P. Trzonkowski

“…Furthermore, statistical analysis revealed low negative correlation between the number of Tregs in the bone marrow and the minimal residual disease measured on day 15th, the percentage of blasts in the bone marrow and leukocytosis after 15 days of chemotherapy. …”
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Prior Knowledge-Based Two-Layer Energy Management Strategy for Fuel Cell Ship Hybrid Power System by Lin Liu, Xiangguo Yang, Xin Li, Xingwei Zhou, Yufan Wang, Telu Tang, Qijia Song, Yifan Liu

“…Furthermore, the simulation results closely align with the offline optimization results, indicating that the proposed strategy achieves near-optimal energy management in real-time ship operations with minimal computational overhead.…”
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Clinical and Radiological Outcome of Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Polyether Ether Ketone Cage in Patients with Lumbar Spondylolisthesis by Rishab Chandraprakash, Rajavel Kalirajan, Milap Bhalodiya, Vijayanand Balasubramanian, Gowthaman Nambiraj, Mohan Mahendramani

“…Around 68.4% of patients showed minimal disability. Around 60.5% of patients showed excellent outcomes. …”
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Perception, Trust, and Motivation in Consumer Behavior for Organic Food Acquisition: An Exploratory Study by Elena Moroșan, Violeta Popovici, Ioana Andreea Popescu, Adriana Daraban, Oana Karampelas, Liviu Marian Matac, Monica Licu, Andreea Rusu, Larisa-Marina-Elisabeth Chirigiu, Sinziana Opriţescu, Elena Iuliana Ionita, Alina Saulean, Maria Nitescu

“…Obese respondents exhibited minimal satisfaction and opted for “abstention” from eco-food recommendations (<i>p</i> < 0.05). (4) Conclusions: The present study extensively analyzed Romanian people’s knowledge, perception, and trust regarding organic foods. …”
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Comparison of the Effects of Sugammadex Recommended Dose (2 mg/kg) and Fixed Dose of 200 mg on the Reversal of Moderate Neuromuscular Block and Recovery Profile in Adult Patients by Ji-Yoon Jung, Sung-Ae Cho, Woojin Kwon, Hongwook Kim, Tae-Yun Sung

“…Secondary outcomes, including recovery time and time to extubation showed no significant differences. Adverse events were minimal and comparable between groups. <i>Conclusions</i>: The fixed-dose sugammadex (200 mg) demonstrated similar efficacy and safety to weight-based dosing (2 mg/kg) in reversing moderate neuromuscular blockade. …”
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Evaluation of the degradation of mortar with volcanic tuff replacement via destructive and non-destructive testing by Hebah Mohammad Al-jabali, Walid. Fouad Edris, Mahmoud Al-Tamimi, Abd Al-Kader A. Al Sayed, Tarek Ibrahim Selouma

“…The incorporation of volcanic tuff, particularly at higher replacement levels, demonstrated improved sulfate resistance compared to control samples, as reflected in reduced porosity, minimized expansion, and enhanced UPV values over time in both cube and prism samples. …”
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A hybrid stochastic-interval Mean–CVaR model for the wind-storage system offering strategy under uncertainties by Ziang Wang, Xiuli Wang, Zhicheng Wang, Jing Huang, Xiancheng Ren, Mengfu Tu

“…Then, a virtual decision pre-construction and evaluation model is established to minimize the decision error. The corresponding solution process is designed accordingly. …”
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Directional Topography Influences Adipose Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Plasticity: Prospects for Tissue Engineering and Fibrosis by Gabriel Romero Liguori, Qihui Zhou, Tácia Tavares Aquinas Liguori, Guilherme Garcia Barros, Philipp Till Kühn, Luiz Felipe Pinho Moreira, Patrick van Rijn, Martin C. Harmsen

“…Our evidence highlights a minimal topographic environment required to facilitate the development of aligned and differentiated cell layers from ASC. …”
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Development of boron carbide concrete for enhanced radiation shielding in nuclear reactors by P. Gokul, J. Ashok Kumar, R. Preetha, Sudipta Chattopadhyaya, Pew Basu, M. Menaka, V. Subramanian, B. Venkatraman, Dhanya Sathyan, K. Jayanarayanan, Mini K. Madhavan

“…Hence the results demonstrate a substantial improvement in neutron shielding with minimal strength reduction. Additionally, gamma shielding showed comparable performance to normal concrete. …”
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Integrated AutoML-based framework for optimizing shale gas production: A case study of the Fuling shale gas field by Tianrui Ye, Jin Meng, Yitian Xiao, Yaqiu Lu, Aiwei Zheng, Bang Liang

“…The results empower domain experts to conduct more precise and objective data-driven analyses and optimizations for shale gas production with minimal expertise in data science.…”
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TDCN: A novel temporal depthwise convolutional network for short-term load forecasting by Mingping Liu, Chenxu Xia, Yuxin Xia, Suhui Deng, Yuhao Wang

“…The feature map is initially expanded to higher dimension and then projected back to a low-dimensional matrix, forming an improved depthwise separable convolution model with an inverted bottleneck structure. This design minimizes information loss and leakage during the transformation of compressed feature space, leading to enhanced prediction accuracy while reducing the number of training parameters. …”
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Polydatin-Induced Shift of Redox Balance and Its Anti-Cancer Impact on Human Osteosarcoma Cells by Alessio Cimmino, Magda Gioia, Maria Elisabetta Clementi, Isabella Faraoni, Stefano Marini, Chiara Ciaccio

“…Importantly, PD exhibits minimal toxicity to non-tumorigenic cells (hFOB), suggesting a favorable therapeutic profile. …”
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Variations in the Obesity Gene “LEPR” Contribute to Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis by Ming Ming Yang, Jun Wang, Jiao Jie Fan, Tsz Kin Ng, Dian Jun Sun, Xin Guo, Yan Teng, Yan-Bo Li

“…Meta-analysis showed that rs1137101 (p.R223Q) was significantly associated with T2DM in all genetic models: allele model (OR = 1.27, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.13–1.42), dominant model (OR = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.05–1.35), homozygote model (OR = 1.82, 95% CI = 1.38–2.39), and recessive model (OR = 1.75, 95% CI = 1.35–2.28), with minimal heterogeneity and no indication of publication bias. …”
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Jet Injection of Naked mRNA Encoding the RBD of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces a High Level of a Specific Immune Response in Mice by Denis N. Kisakov, Larisa I. Karpenko, Lyubov A. Kisakova, Sergey V. Sharabrin, Mariya B. Borgoyakova, Ekaterina V. Starostina, Oleg S. Taranov, Elena K. Ivleva, Oleg V. Pyankov, Anna V. Zaykovskaya, Elena V. Dmitrienko, Vladimir A. Yakovlev, Elena V. Tigeeva, Irina Alekseevna Bauer, Svetlana I. Krasnikova, Nadezhda B. Rudometova, Andrey P. Rudometov, Artemiy A. Sergeev, Alexander A. Ilyichev

“…<b>Background:</b> Although mRNA vaccines encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have demonstrated a safety profile with minimal serious adverse events in clinical trials, there is opportunity to further reduce mRNA reactogenicity. …”
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Drilling characteristics optimization of polymer composite fortified with eggshells using box-Behnken design and zebra optimization algorithm by B. Deepanraj, A.M. Saravanan, N. Senthilkumar, Abdul Aziz Afzal, Abdul Rahman Afzal

“…A bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, zebra optimization algorithm (ZOA), is adopted to maximize MRR and minimize SR, producing an ideal condition of 1000 rpm of RS, 0.02 mm/rev of FS, and 30 % ESP addition. …”
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Number plate recognition smart parking management system using IoT by Allah Ditta, Muhammad Maroof Ahmed, Tehseen Mazhar, Tariq Shahzad, Yazan Alahmed, Habib Hamam

“…ANPR and IoT-based sensors help users identify the available slots and pay only for the actual parking duration, which will help to minimize the fixed billing rates. The proposed ANPR system processes vehicle number plates at entry, ensuring seamless identification and eliminating manual registration. …”
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