A sociedade dos povos como solução dos conflitos internacionais by Guilherme Pinto Ravazi

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Sex-modulated association between thyroid stimulating hormone and informant-perceived anxiety in non-depressed older adults: Prediction models and relevant cutoff value by Asma Hallab

“…Non-depressed Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants with complete Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) and neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI/NPI-Q) were included. The association between anxiety and thyroid function was assessed by logistic regression and sex stratification. …”
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Genome-wide identification and analysis of the NF-Y transcription factor family reveal its potential roles in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) by Zhen Tian, Luyao Xue, Jincun Fu, Wenting Song, Baojian Wang, Jinhao Sun, Xiujiang Yue, Fanrui Cheng, Jingjing Mao, Jiangtao Chao, Dawei Wang, Shaopeng Li

“…Their tissue specificity and expression pattern analyses for leaf development, drought and saline-alkali stress, and ABA response were carried out using RNA-seq or qRT-PCR. These findings illuminate the role of NtNF-Ys in regulating plant leaf development, drought and saline-alkali stress tolerance, and ABA response. …”
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Stress-Related Gene Expression in Liver Tissues from Laying Hens Housed in Conventional Cage and Cage-Free Systems in the Tropics by María Paula Herrera-Sánchez, Roy Rodríguez-Hernández, Iang Schroniltgen Rondón-Barragán

“…Liver tissues from Hy-Line Brown hens housed in conventional cage and cage-free egg production systems at 60 and 80 weeks of production were used. mRNA transcript levels were determined by qPCR using the relative quantification method and ACTB as the reference gene. …”
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Optimizing Cutting Conditions for Minimum Surface Roughness in Face Milling of High Strength Steel Using Carbide Inserts by Adel Taha Abbas, Adham Ezzat Ragab, Essam Ali Al Bahkali, Ehab Adel El Danaf

“…Moreover, multiobjective optimization for minimizing Ra and maximizing metal removal rate Q is conducted and the results are presented.…”
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A Discrete Mathematical Modeling of the Influence of Alcohol Treatment Centers on the Drinking Dynamics Using Optimal Control by Bouchaib Khajji, Abderrahim Labzai, Abdelfatah Kouidere, Omar Balatif, Mostafa Rachik

“…In this paper, we propose a discrete mathematical model that describes the interaction between the classes of drinkers, namely, potential drinkers P, moderate drinkers M, heavy drinkers H, poor heavy drinkers Tp, rich heavy drinkers Tr, and quitters of drinking Q. We also focus on the importance of treatment within addiction treatment centers aiming to find the optimal strategies to minimize the number of drinkers and maximize the number of heavy drinkers who join addiction treatment centers. …”
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A Y-chromosome portrait of the population of Jerba (Tunisia) to elucidate its complex demographic history by Franz Manni, Pascal Leonardi, Étienne Patin, Alain Berrebi, Houssein Khodjet el Khil, Karl Skorecki, Dror Rosengarten, Hassan Rouba, Evelyne Heyer, Marc Fellous

“…The island was in contact with different civilizations and its population is heterogeneous (Arabs, Berbers, black Africans and Jews).We sampled 127 males (Jewish sample N = 32; Berber sample N = 46; Arab sample N = 47) in order to identify the Y-chromosome variability of the population according to 10 Unique Event Polymorphisms (UEPs): SRY-2627; SRY-10831a; SRY-4064; 92R7; Tat; YAP; M2; LLY22g; M9; 12f2q. We also sampled the Black group living in Jerba but typing ambiguities forced us to exclude it from further analyses.The results suggest a very low degree of genetic differentiation between Jerban Arabs and Berbers, who can be considered genetically, as belonging to the same group. …”
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Major Outer Membrane Protein from Legionella pneumophila Inhibits Phagocytosis but Enhances Chemotaxis of RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Regulating the FOXO1/Coronin-1 Axis by Zehui Yang, Yingying Chen, Qiang Zhang, Xiaodong Chen, Ze Deng

“…Target genes were detected by double-luciferase and pull down assays. qRT-PCR and Western blot were performed to analyze the expression of several important proteins involved in the immune response pathway, including coronin-1, interleukins (IL-10), forkhead transcription factor 1 (FOXO1), nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain protein (NOD) 1, NOD2, and receptor-interacting protein (RIP) 2. …”
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Bone Marrow-Derived Cells Contribute to the Maintenance of Thymic Stroma including TECs by Shami Chakrabarti, Mohammed Hoque, Nawshin Zara Jamil, Varan J. Singh, Daniel Pollacksmith, Neelab Meer, Mark T. Pezzano

“…We identified a new population of progenitor cells, present in both the thymus and bone marrow (BM) of mice, that coexpress the hematopoietic marker CD45 and the definitive thymic epithelial marker EpCAM and maintain the capacity to form functional thymic tissue. Confocal analysis and qRT-PCR of sorted cells from both BM and thymus confirmed coexpression of CD45 and EpCAM. …”
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Contribution of epidermal growth factor (EGF) in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania major in BALB/c mice. by Mohammad Saberi, Alireza Latifi, Majid Golkar, Pezhman Fard-Esfahani, Sina Mohtasebi, Aref Teimouri, Mohammad Javad Abbaszadeh Afshar, Elham Kazemirad, Mehdi Mohebali, Mehdi Mohebali

“…Parasite load was determined in the skin biopsies using qPCR. We found that subcutaneous injection of EGF at 4.5 μg/kg, combined with each of the two antileishmanial drugs, significantly reduced the wound size and parasite load; however, EGF at 1.5 μg/kg failed to be effective. …”
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Identification of Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium) Self-Incompatibility by Fan Wang, Feng-Jiao Zhang, Fa-Di Chen, Wei-Min Fang, Nian-Jun Teng

“…However, only 10 of them produced self-pollinated seeds, and their seed sets and compatible indexes were 0.03–56.50% and 0.04–87.50, respectively. The cultivar “Q10-33-1” had the highest seed set (56.50%) and compatible index (87.50), but ten of its progeny had a wide range of separation in seed set (0–37.23%) and compatible index (0–68.65). …”
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Cloning, expression pattern analysis, and vector construction of the BvNAC40 gene in sugar beet by FAN Ziqi, SUN Yaqing, LI Ningning, ZHANG Shaoying, LI Guolong

“…Expression of BvNAC40 under drought stress was analyzed by qRT-PCR. Overexpression vectors and virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) vectors for BvNAC40 were constructed using homologous recombination. …”
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An Empirical Study on the Employment Monitoring and Early Warning Mechanism of Medical Graduates in Universities with Big Data and Complex Computing System by Haixia Wu, Sang-Bing Tsai

“…The experimental results show that the cyclic prosperity forecast results are consistent not only with the national employment demand prosperity in recent months, but also with the use of the structural measurement ARIMA (p, d, q) model. The alertness value is close, indicating that this indicator system has a good effect on the national employment demand boom monitoring and early warning.…”
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Heat transfer analysis of premixed low calorific value landfill gas impinging flame under oxygen and hydrogen enrichment by Kangdong Chen, Udaya Kahangamage, Kang Tan, Chun-wah Leung

“…The heat transfer from impinging flame on to the target plate was categorized into heat transfer from the heat generated in the boundary layer (QΦ) and convective heat transfer (Qs). The results demonstrate that BG30, after being enriched with 29% hydrogen and 39% oxygen, exhibits an LBV equivalent to that of BG60. …”
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Assessment of economic efficiency of hydrogen production using wind and solar energy by Oleg V. Marchenko, Sergei V. Solomin

“…It is shown that under good climatic conditions (V≥6 m/s, Q≥1400 kW×h/m2/year) and optimistic values of technical and economic indicators, the cost of hydrogen is 2.8–3.4 $/kg. …”
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Luteolin ameliorates rat model of metabolic syndrome-induced cardiac injury by apoptosis suppression and autophagy promotion via NR4A2/p53 regulation by Xiyan Dai, Bo Liang, Yaolin Sun

“…Cardiac NR4A2 and p53, as well as apoptotic (B-cell leukemia/lymphoma 2 [BCL-2], Caspase [CASP]-3, and CASP-9) and autophagic mediators (Sequestosome-1/p62, Microtubule-associated protein 1 A/1B-light chain 3 [LC3], and Beclin-1) were measured by RT-qPCR and ELISA. Results Luteolin remarkably restored MetS-induced biochemical derangements and related cardiac injury via the suppression of apoptosis, inflammation, and stress but promotion of autophagy (p-value < 0.001). …”
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Identification and Validation of TEAD Family’s Prognostic Effects and Immune Microenvironment Regulations in Glioma by Zhengyuan Huo, Shaorui Gu, Zheng Bian, Wenli Wang, Zhifeng Jiang

“…High TEAD expression was found to be substantially linked with isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild type, noncodeletion of 1p/19q, high WHO grade, and poor prognosis in glioma patients. …”
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Causal Relationship Between Emotional Disorders and Thyroid Disorders: A Bidirectional Two‐Sample Mendelian Randomization Study by Jiaying Fan, Kai Zhou, Cuiwen Yu

“…Additionally, sensitivity analyses were conducted using MR‐Egger, MR Pleiotropy Residual Sum and Outlier (MR‐PRESSO), Cochran's Q, and leave‐one‐out methods. Results IVW results showed negative causal relationships between bidirectional emotional disorders and hypothyroidism, toxic single thyroid nodules in thyrotoxicosis, and hyperthyroidism/toxicity. …”
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Interfacial reaction and thermomigration of copper/indium joints by Zi-Yu Huang, Yen-Ju Chu, Cheng-En Ho, Yu-An Shen, Chih-Ming Chen

“…The average product of the diffusivity and molar heat of transport (D × Q∗) for copper in molten indium is calculated to be (3.09 ± 0.21) × 10−2 J cm2 mol−1 s−1.…”
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Evaluation of the Repeatability and the Reproducibility of AL-Scan Measurements Obtained by Residents by Mehmet Kola, Hikmet Duran, Adem Turk, Suleyman Mollamehmetoglu, Ahmet Kalkisim, Hidayet Erdol

“…Corneal keratometry readings, horizontal iris width, central corneal thickness, anterior chamber depth, pupil size, and axial length values measured by both residents were recorded together with IOL power values calculated on the basis of four different IOL calculation formulas (SRK/T, Holladay, and HofferQ). Repeatability and reproducibility of the measurements obtained were analyzed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). …”
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