An Analysis and Research on the Transmission Ratio of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Photoelectrodes by Using Different Etching Process by Chin-Guo Kuo, Cheng-Fu Yang, Mu-Jung Kao, Wen-Pin Weng, Chi-Cheng Chang, Lih-Ren Hwang, Jian-Lan Nil

“…In this study, at first three different methods were used to etch Ti templates from 10 to 17 min, (1) polishing-chemical etching: Ti template was annealed at 450°C for 1 h, abraded using number 80 to 1500 SiC sheet, and then etched in a solution of 5% HF + 95% H2O; (2) electrochemical polishing-chemical etching: Ti template was annealed at 450°C for 1 h, electrolytic polishing with 42% CH3OH + 5% HClO4 + 53% HOCH2CH2OC4H9 solution, and the chemical-etching in a solution of 5% HF + 95% H2O; (3) chemical etching: Ti template was etched in a solution of 5% HF + 95% H2O and annealed at 450°C for 1 h. When the etching time was changed from 10 to 17 min, the thicknesses of Ti templates decreased from 75.3 μm to 14.8 μm, depending on the etching method. …”
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Retrospective Study Looking at Cinacalcet in the Management of Hyperparathyroidism after Kidney Transplantation by Habib Mawad, Hugues Bouchard, Duy Tran, Denis Ouimet, Jean-Philippe Lafrance, Robert Zoël Bell, Sarah Bezzaoucha, Anne Boucher, Suzon Collette, Vincent Pichette, Lynne Senécal, Michel Vallée

“…Twenty-one were already taking cinacalcet at the time of transplantation. Cinacalcet was stopped within the first month in 12 of these patients of which 7 had to restart therapy. …”
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Patch validation: an observational study protocol for the evaluation of a multisignal wearable sensor in patients during anaesthesia and in the postanaesthesia care unit by Marc Fischler, Morgan Le Guen, Pierre Squara, Sabrina Ma, Shérifa Adjavon, Bernard Trillat, Messaouda Merzoug, Philippe Aegerter

“…Introduction Except for operating rooms, postanaesthesia care units and intensive care units, where the monitoring of vital signs is continuous, intermittent care is standard practice. However, at a time when only the patients with the most serious conditions are hospitalised and only a fraction of these patients are in intensive care units, this type of monitoring is no longer sufficient. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Tear Film and Corneal Surface in Chronic Smokers and Non Smokers: A Cross-sectional Study by Ruchi Dabas, Meena Kumari, Manisha Rathi, Monika Dahiya, Rajni Yadav, Sumit Sachdeva

“…All participants underwent a series of measurements: Schirmer I test, Tear Breakup Time (TBUT), Central Corneal Thickness (CCT) and endothelial cell count using specular microscopy. …”
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Assessing the inflammation in pediatric MOGAD: Significance of CSF HMGB1 and related biomarkers by Xin Wang, Ruibin Zhao, Jiayu Fan, Chong Liu, Li Zhang, Huafang Yang, Weiyi Wang

“…Evaluation and monitoring of biomarkers associated with its pathogenesis would provide vital information on disease progression and therapeutic assessment.MethodsWe assessed NLRP3, HMGB1, IL-6, and IL-33 levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of pediatric patients with MOGAD at different time points and their association with the risk of disease. …”
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Swine manure management by bokashi fermentation and composting with biological activators in a Colombian High Mountain Region by Patricia Martinez-Nieto, Carlos Abaunza, Gustavo Garcia

“…Highlights ·       Biological activators reduce the swine manure composting time. ·       The inoculation benefits compost maturation…”
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From Voxels to Viruses: Using Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing to Understand a Virus Factory by Avery Pennington, Oliver N. F. King, Win Min Tun, Mark Boyce, Geoff Sutton, David I. Stuart, Mark Basham, Michele C. Darrow

“…Depending on the complexity of the system and imaging, instance segmentation is often done manually, and automated approaches still require weeks to months of an individual’s time to acquire the necessary training data for AI models. …”
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A Cost-Effective and Robust Cell-Based Bioassay Method for Evaluating the Bioactivity of Trastuzumab-like Antibodies by Pooja Bharali, Subhash Chand, Harish Chander

“…The biological activity of trastuzumab was determined using the inhibition of proliferation (IOP) assay on the SKBR3, which was optimized based on the parameters of cell seeding density, drug dilution range, and incubation time, and it was further validated as per the compendial guidelines and found valid for the parameters of specificity, accuracy (% relative bias = 0.0067%), precision (repeatability: % GCV = 1.21%), linearity (R2 = 0.99), and range (50% to 200%). …”
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E46K α-Synuclein Mutation Fails to Promote Neurite Outgrowth by Not Inducing Cdc42EP2 Expression, Unlike Wild-Type or A53T α-Synuclein in SK-N-SH Cells by Hyunja Jung, Seonghan Kim

“…We also analyzed the differential regulation of cell division control 42 effector protein 2 (Cdc42EP2) using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blot analysis. …”
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The therapeutic potential of vitamins A, C, and D in pancreatic cancer by Alban Piotrowsky, Markus Burkard, Hendrik Schmieder, Sascha Venturelli, Olga Renner, Luigi Marongiu

“…While treatment options have generally become more diverse, little progress has been made in the treatment of PDAC and the median survival time for patients with locally advanced PDAC is between 8.7 and 13.7 months despite treatment. …”
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Essential oils from Amorpha fruticosa against hepatocellular carcinoma based on network pharmacology by Yixian Liu, Xiaojun Zhang, Jiacong Hao, Ying Zhao, Min Zou, Huiping Chen, Jintao Zhang

“…Both AFLEO and AFFEO inhibited the proliferation of HCC cells in a time and dose-dependent manner. 10 compounds of AFLEO and 9 compounds of AFFEO were screened out for further analysis. 28 hub targets of AFLEO and 40 hub targets of AFFEO were detected by PPI network. …”
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Accurate Needle Localization in the Image Frames of Ultrasound Videos by Mohammad I. Daoud, Samira Khraiwesh, Rami Alazrai, Mostafa Z. Ali, Adnan Zayadeen, Sahar Qaadan, Rafiq Ibrahim Alhaddad

“…Ultrasound imaging provides real-time guidance during needle interventions, but localizing the needle in ultrasound videos remains a challenging task. …”
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Combining Software-Defined and Delay-Tolerant Networking Concepts With Deep Reinforcement Learning Technology to Enhance Vehicular Networks by Olivia Nakayima, Mostafa I. Soliman, Kazunori Ueda, Samir A. Elsagheer Mohamed

“…It optimally deploys DTN routing protocols (Spray and Wait, Epidemic, and PRoPHETv2) and buffer schedules (Random, Defer, Earliest Deadline First, First In First Out, Large/smallest bundle first) based on network state information (that is; traffic pattern, buffer size variance, node and link uptime, bundle Time To Live (TTL), link loss and capacity). These are implemented in three environment types; Advanced Technological Regions, Limited Resource Regions and Opportunistic Communication Regions. …”
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Minimal differences observed when comparing the morphological profiling of microglia obtained by confocal laser scanning and optical sectioning microscopy by Sânziana Godeanu, Sânziana Godeanu, Mădălina Iuliana Mușat, Anja Scheller, Anja Scheller, Eugen Osiac, Bogdan Cătălin, Bogdan Cătălin

“…Additionally, by investigating the difference in acquisition time between techniques and personal costs we were able to establish that the amortization could be made in 6.11 ± 2.93 years in the case of countries with a Human Development Index (HDI) = 7–9 and 7.06 ± 3.13 years, respectably, for countries with HDI < 7. …”
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Development of a GIS-based register of biogas plant sites in Lower Saxony, Germany: a foundation for identifying P2G potential by Mareike Plinke, Jonas Berndmeyer, Jochen Hack

“…The greatest advantages over existing registers and at the same time the unique characteristics of our register were the exact spatial localisation of the plants and the highly up-to-date nature of the data. …”
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Return to sports activities following posterior scoliosis correction and instrumented fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and its correlation to Lenke classification by Tahir Khaleeq, Ibrahim Jaly, Matthew Lea, Devi Prakash Tokala, Neil Davidson, Jayesh Trivedi, Sudarshan Munigangaiah

“…Results: The average age at the time of surgery was 14.81 (11–18) years. There were Lenke 1 (31), Lenke 2 (7), Lenke 3 (12), Lenke 4 (8), Lenke 5 (7), and Lenke 6 (1). …”
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The Protective Effect of Beraprost Sodium on Diabetic Cardiomyopathy through the Inhibition of the p38 MAPK Signaling Pathway in High-Fat-Induced SD Rats by Jie Li, Li Peng, Hong Du, Yangtian Wang, Bin Lu, Yixin Xu, Xiaozhen Ye, Jiaqing Shao

“…The model group was fed a high-fat diet followed by a one-time dose of streptozotocin (STZ) to establish the diabetes mellitus model. …”
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Gender disparity in care-seeking behaviours and treatment outcomes for dehydrating diarrhoea among under-5 children admitted to a diarrhoeal disease hospital in Bangladesh: an anal... by Subhasish Das, Tahmeed Ahmed, Imteaz Mahmud, Soroar Hossain Khan, A S G Faruque

“…The median distance travelled to come to the hospital for admission was 10 miles (IQR: 6–25) and was significantly higher for boys (10 miles, IQR: 6–25) than girls (9.5 miles, IQR: 6–23) (p<0.001). Girls had 1.11 times higher odds (adjusted OR: 1.11, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.20, p=0.007) of presenting with dehydrating diarrhoea than boys at the time of hospital admission. …”
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The Anticancer Activity of Lycium barbarum Polysaccharide by Inhibiting Autophagy in Human Skin Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells In Vitro and In Vivo by Meihua Zeng, Qingtao Kong, Fang Liu, Jun Chen, Hong Sang

“…LBP at concentrations of 400 μg/ml and above was significantly cytotoxic to A431 cells, whereas, within the dose range of 50 μg/ml~200 μg/ml, LBP significantly inhibited the expression of Ki67 and PCNA proteins, promoted the expression of cl-caspase-3, inhibited the expression of Bcl-2 protein, downregulated the expression of autophagy marker LC3II, and reduced the phosphorylation of ERK1/2, whereas the level of JNK phosphorylation was upregulated. At the same time, the regulation of Beclin1, LC3II, Bcl-2, and cl-caspase-3 by LBP was effectively reversed by the cotreatment of SP600125. …”
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EASTERN SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW by Tetiana V. Danylova

“…Humanity faces such a chaotic, uncertain worldview not for the first time. Duality and attempts to overcome it permeate the entire history: from traditional archaic cultures to modern civilized societies. …”
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