A Rare Case of Cladophialophora bantiana Intracranial Infection: Highlighting the Utility of Next-Generation Sequencing in Diagnosis by Melissa Whitman, Nicole Vissichelli

“…Here, we report a rare case of cerebral ventriculitis with development of a cerebral abscess due to C. bantiana diagnosed by cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing. Noninvasive diagnostics led to earlier disease identification and initiation of antifungal therapy, which has the potential to reduce mortality in this highly fatal disease.…”
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Activity measurement of solid Cu-In alloys by EMF method with solid electrolyte by Katayama I., Miyakusu K., Iida T.

“…The thermodynamic activity of indium in the solid Cu-In alloys was obtained from the EMF measurement of cell: In,In2O3, ZrO2(+11mol%CaO), Cu-In,In2O3 for 16 alloys in the temperature range 773 to 900K. …”
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Application of Corticosteroids in Dentistry: A Review by Souptik Satpathi, Yogesh V. Rathod, Kamil N. Rajpari, Rohit Kandlikar, Y. Rajiv Kumar, Arti Gachake, Pratik Surana

“…By inhibiting pro-inflammatory mediators and immune cell activity, they offer significant symptomatic relief and promote healing. …”
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Multidimensional Analysis of PANoptosis-Related Molecule CASP8: Prognostic Significance, Immune Microenvironment Effect, and Therapeutic Implications in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Fei Peng, Fang Zhu, Baodi Cao, Liang Peng

“…In the tumor microenvironment, CASP8 showed correlations with various immune cell types. A nomogram plot was developed for better clinical prognostication. …”
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Recurrence of Herpetic Keratitis after COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Two Cases by Ali Mahdavi Fard, Jeffrey Desilets, Sangita Patel

“…The general activation of the T-cell-mediated immune response and proinflammatory cytokines such as IFNγ may underlie the role of the COVID vaccines in reactivation of herpetic stromal keratitis and the clinical findings in our reported cases.…”
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Experimental Study on the Structural Performance Degradation of Corrosion-Damaged Reinforced Concrete Beams by Ju-Seong Jung, Bang Yeon Lee, Kang-Seok Lee

“…We also propose a relationship between the half-cell potential of corroded reinforcing bars and the structural performance degradation behavior of RC beams. …”
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New Bioactive Metabolites from the Thermophilic Fungus Penicillium sp. Isolated from Ghamiqa Hot Spring in Saudi Arabia by Raha Orfali, Shagufta Perveen

“…All isolated metabolites were studied for their antibiotic effect against several pathogenic bacteria and for their cytotoxicity against the lymphoma human cancer cell line HTB-176. Austinol 3 exhibited strong antibacterial activity against P. aeruginosa bacterial strain with an MIC value of 0.13 ± 0.4 µg·mL−1, whereas emodin 4 demonstrated significant cytotoxicity against the tested HTB-176 cell line with an IC50 value of 2 ± 7.6 µM, while the other compounds were moderate to inactive with IC50 ranging from 4.3 ± 0.25–22 ± 2.94 µM in this assay.…”
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Question Sequences and Salience in TED Talks by Michele Cardo, Agnès Celle

“…Furthermore, question sequences in TED talks may be used to manipulate the audience’s attention in either a forward- or backward-looking manner.Through the analysis of a transcribed corpus of TED talks in English, as studied in Celle and Liégeois (2021), this paper examines question sequences in a corpus of 18 transcribed TED talks by presenters with various backgrounds. …”
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Design and characterization of curcumin-loaded electrospun nanofibers based on poly(vinyl alcohol) and sodium alginate by Delia Mihaela Raţă, Anca Niculina Cadinoiu, Luiza Mădălina Grădinaru, Paul Codrin Fuioaga, Gabriela Vochita, Christelle Delaite, Leonard Ionuţ Atanase

“…Nanofibers showed good hemocompatibility, the values being between 2.36–3.22% after the first 90 min of contact, and after 180 min of treatment, the degree of erythrocyte lysis was between 3.78 and 4.93%. Cell viability assay on V79-4 Chinese hamster fibroblasts demonstrated that treatment with free CRC led to a value of 39% whereas for CRC-loaded nanofibers, the cell viability value increased to 59.66%. …”
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Analysis of hematology quality control using six sigma metrics by Shreya Goel, Amit R. Nisal, Ankita Raj, Ravindra C. Nimbargi

“…Internal quality control (IQC) data sets of five analytes- Red Blood Cell count (RBC), Hemoglobin (Hb), Hematocrit (Hct), White blood cell count (WBC), and Platelet count (PLT) were analyzed retrospectively of six months using Beckman Coulter DXH 800 hematology analyzers. …”
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Differential Micronuclei Induction in Human Lymphocyte Cultures by Imidacloprid in the Presence of Potassium Nitrate by Polychronis Stivaktakis, Dimitris Vlastos, Evangelos Giannakopoulos, Demetrious P. Matthopoulos

“…Comparing micronuclei (MN) frequencies in control and imidacloprid-treated blood cell cultures, statistically significant differences were not detected. …”
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Delineating a “non-place” in the UK?10 notes on experimental poetry written by women: Caroline Bergvall and Redell Olsen by Vincent BROQUA

“…Leur poésie du territoire déconstruit, et de l’identité en question se donne à lire dans deux œuvres particulières : celle de Caroline Bergvall, poète dont la langue inassignable bouscule la syntaxe du monde en redéfinissant les frontières entre les langues, et celle de Redell Olsen dans laquelle les territoires fixes, familiers et controversés de « l’identité nationale » sont constamment battus en brèche dans Secure Portable Space, notamment par une hybridation des textes du poète américain Charles Olson.…”
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FACS‐Sortable Triple Emulsion Picoreactors for Screening Reactions in Biphasic Environments by Samuel Thompson, Yanrong Zhang, Zijian Yang, Lisa Nichols, Polly M. Fordyce

“…For screening biphasic reactions at high throughput, a platform based on microfluidic double emulsions can use widely available FACS (Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting) machines to screen millions of picoliter reactors in a few hours. …”
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p19Arf suppresses growth, progression, and metastasis of Hras-driven carcinomas through p53-dependent and -independent pathways. by Karen S Kelly-Spratt, Kay E Gurley, Yutaka Yasui, Christopher J Kemp

“…Here, we used a multistage model of squamous cell carcinoma development to investigate the functional interactions between Ras, p19(Arf), and p53 during tumor progression in the mouse. …”
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Ultraviolet B irradiation-induced keratinocyte senescence and impaired development of 3D epidermal reconstruct by Wattanapitayakul Suvara K., Chularojmontri Linda, Schäfer-Korting Monika

“…UVB enhanced the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and halted cell replication as detected by BrdU cell proliferation assay. …”
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Fault detection for Li-ion batteries of electric vehicles with segmented regression method by Muaaz Bin Kaleem, Yun Zhou, Fu Jiang, Zhijun Liu, Heng Li

“…Thirdly, an optimized gated recurrent unit network is developed and integrated with the segmented regression to enable accurate cell voltage estimation. Lastly, an adaptive threshold algorithm is proposed to integrate driving behavior and environmental factors into a Gaussian process regression model. …”
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Experimental Investigation and Comparison of the Net Energy Yield Using Control-Based Solar Tracking Systems by Ibrahim Sufian Osman, Ibrahim Khalil Almadani, Nasir Ghazi Hariri, Taher Saleh Maatallah

“…As the world trend is going towards renewable energy, solar photovoltaic (PV) energy shines the most due to the low generation cost especially by using the latest PV cell technologies and materials, although the conventional silicon cell has an efficiency in the range of 15-16%. …”
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Patients by Marie-Laure Matthey-Giè, Ariane Boubaker, Igor Letovanec, Nicolas Demartines, Maurice Matter

“…The management of lymph nodes in nonmelanoma skin cancer patients is currently still debated. Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma (PEM), and other rare skin neoplasms have a well-known risk to spread to regional lymph nodes. …”
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A Novel Ferroptosis-Related Gene Signature for Prognosis Prediction in Ewing Sarcoma by Runhan Zhao, Zefang Li, Yanran Huang, Chuang Xiong, Chao Zhang, Hao Liang, Jingtao Xu, Xiaoji Luo

“…Ferroptosis, as a form of programmed cell death independent of apoptosis, has been demonstrated that plays a major role in tumorigenesis and cancer treatment. …”
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Exploring TNFR1: from discovery to targeted therapy development by Yingying Li, Ruiwei Ye, Haorui Dai, Jiayi Lin, Yue Cheng, Yonghong Zhou, Yiming Lu

“…Abstract This review seeks to elucidate the therapeutic potential of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1) and enhance our comprehension of its role in disease mechanisms. As a critical cell-surface receptor, TNFR1 regulates key signaling pathways, such as nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), which are associated with pro-inflammatory responses and cell death. …”
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