A New Topological Degree Theory for Perturbations of Demicontinuous Operators and Applications to Nonlinear Equations with Nonmonotone Nonlinearities by Teffera M. Asfaw

“…The theory is applied to prove existence of weak solutions in X=L20,T;H01Ω of the nonlinear equation given by ∂u/∂t-∑i=1N(∂/∂xi)Aix,u,∇u+Hλx,u,∇u=fx,t,  x,t∈QT;  ux,t=0,  x,t∈∂QT; and ux,0=ux,T,  x∈Ω, where λ>0, QT=Ω×0,T, ∂QT=∂Ω×0,T, Aix,u,∇u=∂/∂xiρx,u,∇u+aix,u,∇u  (i=1,2,…,N), Hλx,u,∇u=-λΔu+gx,u,∇u, Ω is a nonempty, bounded, and open subset of RN with smooth boundary, and ρ,ai,g:Ω¯×R×RN→R satisfy suitable growth conditions. In addition, a new existence result is given concerning existence of weak solutions for nonlinear wave equation with nonmonotone nonlinearity.…”
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Factors Associated with High Prevalence of Multibacillary Leprosy in West Bengal: A Case–Control Study by Dipta Kanti Mukhopadhyay, Tarun Kumar Sarkar, Supantha Chatterjee, Soumalya Ray, Pritam Roy, Asit Kumar Biswas

“…Requisite data were collected through structured interview with a validated questionnaire in Bengali. R, version 4.1.1 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, 2021, Vienna, Austria) was used for data analysis. …”
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Why do people use a mobile wallet? The case of fintech companies in Jordan by Ohoud Khasawneh, Rana AlBahsh

“…Notably, perceived usefulness, ease of use, and facilitating conditions significantly influenced user decisions, evidenced by R-square values of 0.78%, 0.758% and 0.684%, respectively. …”
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PCSK9: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Sepsis by Yuan Yuan, Wei Wu, Shanshan Sun, Yi Zhang, Zhi Chen

“…In sepsis, PCSK9 degraded the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) receptors (LDL-R) of the hepatocytes and the very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol receptors (VLDL-R) of the adipocytes, which then subsequently reduced pathogenic lipid uptake and clearance/sequestration. …”
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RSM-, ANN-, and GA-Based Process Optimization for Acid Centrifugation Treatment of Cane Molasses Toward Mitigating Calcium Oxide Fouling in Ethanol Plant Heat Exchanger by Lata Deso Abo, Sintayehu Mekuria Hailegiorgis, Mani Jayakumar, Sundramurthy Venkatesa Prabhu, Gadissa Tokuma Gindaba, Abas Siraj Hamda, B. S. Naveen Prasad

“…The appropriateness of the developed model was determined by regression analysis, which yielded a higher R-squared value of 0.99334 ± 0.01. At the optimum process parameters of 100°C temperature, 50°Bx, and 3.50 pH, the CaO clarification efficacy of 66.17 wt.% was achieved. …”
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Identification of Signal Pathways and Hub Genes of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension by Bioinformatic Analysis by Rui-Qi Wei, Wen-Mei Zhang, Zhe Liang, Chunmei Piao, Guangfa Zhu

“…All the raw data were processed by R, and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened out by the “limma” package. …”
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Biodegradation of Congo Red Azo Dye Using Lysinibacillus Capsici Immobilized on Polyurethane foam Biocarrier in Moving Bed Bioreactor by Soroush Dayani Najafabadi, Maryam Hasani Zonoozi, Roya Aliaskarian

“…Kinetic modeling was employed to study biodegradation. The R² value for the first-order model was 0.9457, while for the second-order model it was 0.9791. …”
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Does accountability for reasonableness work? A protocol for a mixed methods study using an audit tool to evaluate the decision-making of clinical commissioning groups in England by Sarah Clark, Katharina Kieslich, Peter Littlejohns, Albert Weale

“…Accounts of what constitutes fair and legitimate priority setting in healthcare include Daniels’ and Sabin's accountability for reasonableness (A4R) and Clark's and Weale's framework for the identification of social values. …”
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Neural Density Functional Theory of Liquid-Gas Phase Coexistence by Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt, Robert Evans

“…We analyze the bulk radial distribution function g(r) obtained from automatic differentiation and the Ornstein-Zernike route and determine (i) the Fisher-Widom line, i.e., the crossover of the asymptotic (large distance) decay of g(r) from monotonic to oscillatory, (ii) the (Widom) line of maximal correlation length, (iii) the line of maximal isothermal compressibility, and (iv) the spinodal by calculating the poles of the structure factor in the complex plane. …”
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Addressing the mental health needs of India’s aging population: Understanding depression prevalence and social risk factors in tertiary care outpatients by Joanne Lydia Rajkumar, Surekha Viggeswarapu, Suja Kurian, Munaf B. Nandyal, Mahasampath Gowri

“…The prevalence of depression was found to be 53.2% with PHQ-2 and 35.6% with GDS. Using CIS-R, 41.5% had an ICD-10 diagnosis of depression. …”
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A Study to Assess the Carrying Angle in Children Aged between 8 to 16 Years of Age by Pradip Patil, Umesh D. Jain, Amol Gowaikar, Salim A. Lad, Shivaji Kolli

“…The correlation coefficient r is highest with age in boys and girls while the r values with other variables show only negligible correlation. …”
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Glycolytic pathways: The hidden regulators in Parkinson's disease by Jing Shen, Ensheng Yao, Weidong Tian, Jia He, Yukai Gu, Dong Zhao

“…Further analysis showed that ABHD5 most strongly correlated with neutrophils (r = 0.507). The key gene SMAD3 was strongly negatively associated with gamma delta T cells (r = −0.488). …”
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Interactions between Neutrophils, Th17 Cells, and Chemokines during the Initiation of Experimental Model of Multiple Sclerosis by Dagmara Weronika Wojkowska, Piotr Szpakowski, Dominika Ksiazek-Winiarek, Marcin Leszczynski, Andrzej Glabinski

“…Modulation of EAE by anti-IL-23R antibodies ameliorated EAE by decreasing the intracerebral accumulation of Th17 cells.…”
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Nighttime Blue Lighting and Downward Airflow to Manage Tipburn in Indoor Farm Lettuce by John Ertle, Chieri Kubota

“…Dim light of blue (B100) or blue/red (B80R20) were applied at a photosynthetic photon flux density of 30 µmol·m−2·s−1 to ‘Klee’ and ‘Rex’ lettuce plants during the nighttime for the final 14 days of the 28 days of growth after transplanting. …”
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Multifaceted taxonomy of two Dactylogyrus species on Enteromius paludinosus: Integrating light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and molecular approaches by Maduenyane Mpho, Dos Santos Quinton Marco, Avenant-Oldewage Annemariè

“…Soft tissues of SEM analysed specimens were genetically characterised using CO1 mtDNA, 18S-ITS1-5.8S rDNA and partial 28S rDNA fragments. Phylogenetic topologies were constructed using Bayesian inference. …”
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Approximation Characteristics of Weighted Sobolev Spaces on Sphere in Different Settings by Jiayi Qiu, Guanggui Chen, Yanyan Xu, Ying Luo, Hang Ren

“…This article primarily examines the approximation properties of a weighted Sobolev space <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msubsup><mi>W</mi><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mi>r</mi></msubsup></semantics></math></inline-formula> defined on a sphere <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi mathvariant="double-struck">S</mi><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> equipped with Gaussian measures. …”
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Drying of Malaysian Capsicum annuum L. (Red Chili) Dried by Open and Solar Drying by Ahmad Fudholi, Mohd Yusof Othman, Mohd Hafidz Ruslan, Kamaruzzaman Sopian

“…The Page model resulted in the highest R2 and the lowest mean bias and root-mean-square errors.…”
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Triterpenoids from Chios Mastiha Resin Against MASLD—A Molecular Docking Survey by Nataša Milošević, Maja Milanović, Milica Medić Stojanoska, Varomyalin Tipmanee, Ilias Smyrnioudis, George V. Dedoussis, Nataša Milić

“…The observed compounds had moderate and high affinity for LXR, GR, MC4R, and PPARγ in comparison to proven ligands, while their affinity for PPARα, AMPK, and VEGFR was less pronounced. …”
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Role of Lipotoxicity and Contribution of the Renin-Angiotensin System in the Development of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Alexandre Connolly, Samuel Leblanc, Jean-Patrice Baillargeon

“…Furthermore, our group and others found that angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R) activation is able to improve lipotoxicity. …”
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Implementation of Process-Based and Data-Driven Models for Early Prediction of Construction Time by Silvana Petruseva, Valentina Zileska-Pancovska, Diana Car-Pušić

“…The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the BTC-GRNN is 3.34% and the coefficient of determination R2, which reflects the global fit of the model, is 93.17%. …”
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