Efficient and Effective Diabetes Care in the Era of Digitalization and Hypercompetitive Research Culture: A Focused Review in the Western Pacific Region with Malaysia as a Case Stu... by Boon-How Chew, Pauline Siew Mei Lai, Dhashani A/P Sivaratnam, Nurul Iftida Basri, Geeta Appannah, Barakatun Nisak Mohd Yusof, Subashini C. Thambiah, Zubaidah Nor Hanipah, Ping-Foo Wong, Li-Cheng Chang

“…This urgently calls for nothing less than concerted and preventive efforts from all stakeholders to invest in transforming healthcare professionals and reforming the healthcare system that prioritizes primary medical care setting, empowering allied health professionals, improvising health organization for the healthcare providers, improving health facilities and non-medical support for the people with DM. …”
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Drosulfakinin signaling encodes early-life memory for adaptive social plasticity by Jiwon Jeong, Kujin Kwon, Terezia Klaudia Geisseova, Jongbin Lee, Taejoon Kwon, Chunghun Lim

“…Given the functional conservation of mammalian Dsk homologs, we propose that animals may have evolved a dedicated neural mechanism to encode early-life experience and transform group properties adaptively.…”
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“Doctor, I Want to Be Like This!”: Exploring Global Beauty Body Standards Through a Multicenter Survey by Damiano Tambasco, MD, Jordi Mir, MD, Alfredo Hoyos, MD, David Sieber, MD, Mauricio Viaro, MD, Jack Zamora, MD, Carlos Manfrim, MD, Edwin Zara, MD, Federica Tomaselli, MD, Christian Montes, MD, Miriam Isola, MD, Maria De Martino, MD, Pier Camillo Parodi, MD, Roberta Albanese, MD, Mario Mendanha, MD

“…Plastic surgery aims to enhance patients’ positive features and improve perceived flaws without seeking complete transformation. The body is a living organism, not a sculptural object to be reshaped at will. …”
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Influence of Curing Humidity on the Compressive Strength of Gypsum-Cemented Similar Materials by Weiming Guan, Dongsheng Zhang, Yingyuan Wen, Xufeng Wang

“…Our results indicated that the needle-like phases of similar materials began to develop in the early stage of the hydration process through intersecting with each other and eventually transformed into mat-like phases. Increase of humidity may inhibit the development of needle-like phases; thus the compressive strength changes more smoothly, and the time required for the material strength to reach the peak value will be prolonged. …”
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Projected loss of rock glacier habitat in the contiguous western United States with warming by Abigail C. Lute, John T. Abatzoglou, Andrew G. Fountain, Timothy C. Bartholomaus

“…Under future conditions, we find limited potential for glacier to rock glacier transformation (3% of glacierized area), concentrated in cold, high elevation, moderate precipitation areas.…”
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Spectroscopic investigation of the ultrasound impacts on the molecular structures of blood proteins by Aysh Y. Madkhli, Waad A. Al-Otaibi, Sahar M. AlMotwaa, Amal Mohsen Alghamdi, Norah T.S. Albogamy, Manal A. Babaker, Eida M. Alshammari, Mohammed J. Al Nahari, Abdu Saeed

“…This study explores how LFUWs alter blood protein structures, utilizing ultraviolet-visible (UV–vis), Raman, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopies. Blood samples from five volunteers were subjected to LFUWs for periods of 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 min. …”
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Green growth: a bibliometric analysis of digital innovation and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by Hephzibah Beula John, Mini Agrawal, Priyanka Nema, Arif Hasan, Isha Kaur Rakhra, Abhilasha Singh

“…This bibliometric analysis not only underscores the transformative potential of digital tools in advancing sustainable practices but also emphasizes the necessity for targeted strategies that align technological advancements with the principles of green growth and inclusivity. …”
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A Proposed Bearing Load Identification Method to Uncertain Rotor Systems by Wengui Mao, Nannan Zhang, Dan Feng, Jianhua Li

“…The perturbation analysis method based on Taylor expansion is used to transform the problem of the bearing load identification involving in probability parameters into two kinds of certain inverse problem, namely, the bearing load identification combining the mean value of uncertain parameters with calculated transient response function and the sensitivity identification of bearing load to each probability parameter. …”
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Fast Low Rank and Sparse Decomposition Based on Greedy Bilateral Smoothing for Infrared Small Target Detection by Yan-Shan Zhang, Ze-Yin Li, Dong-Dong Pang, Lu-Yao Wang, Cheng-Jun Wu, Kang Duan, Jun-Ming Gao

“…Firstly, an infrared image patch model is constructed based on the local autocorrelation characteristics of the image, where the original infrared image can be transformed into a new infrared image through matrix decomposition and vector reconstruction. …”
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Improving the technical and economic efficiency of a derivation-type inverter of micro hydro power plant by B. V. Lukutin, M. M. Popov

“…To optimally control the generating and transforming equipment of an autonomous power supply system, a control algorithm is proposed based on criteria for limiting the range of hydrogenerator rotational frequencies and ensuring the rational operating mode of the electric energy storage batteries according to the load's power consumption schedule. …”
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Cropland non-agriculturization and agricultural green development: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China by Chunxia Zhu, Yangyang Sun, Haolun Xu

“…As a carrier of agricultural production, the transformation of cropland non-agriculturalization (CLN) poses a significant challenge to the green development of agriculture. …”
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Predicting the hub interactome of COVID-19 and oral squamous cell carcinoma: uncovering ALDH-mediated Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation via salivary inflammatory proteins by Pradeep Kumar Yadalam, Deepavalli Arumuganainar, Prabhu Manickam Natarajan, Carlos M. Ardila

“…Differential gene expression analysis was performed using log transformation and a fold change of two. Hub proteins were identified using Cytoscape and Cytohubba, and machine learning algorithms including naïve Bayes, neural networks, gradient boosting, and random forest were used to predict hub genes. …”
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Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Collaborative Representation Using Projection Dictionary Pair by Dan Ma, Yixiang Lu, Yushun Zhang, Hua Bao, Xueming Peng

“…The proposed algorithm mainly consists of three components. First, a wavelet transform is employed to extract features, which takes advantage of the observation that vibration signals under different conditions have similar frequency spectra. …”
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Impact of Comb Cell Diameter on Nectar Evaporation Efficiency in Honey Bees by Shunhua Yang, Qingxin Meng, Tao Ye, Jianming Wang, Wenzheng Zhao, Yakai Tian, Kun Dong

“…Honey bees transform nectar into honey through a combination of physical and chemical processes, with the physical process primarily involving the evaporation of excess water to concentrate the nectar. …”
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Effects of annealing and quenching temperature on microstructure evolution and mechanical properties in Fe-0.17C-2.10Mn-0.51Si steel by Panpan Yuan, Depeng Shen, Wei Sun, Bingtao Tang

“…This is attributed to a higher volume fraction (13.1 %) and mechanical stability of retained austenite (RA), along with smaller grain size (3.99 µm) and a high proportion of high-angle grain boundaries (83.3 %), enhancing the transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) effect. With increasing annealing and quenching temperatures, grain size increases. …”
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Exploring students’ experience of ChatGPT in STEM education by Federico Valeri, Pernilla Nilsson, Anne-Marie Cederqvist

“…This phenomenon has been exacerbated since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, which has permanently transformed various educational activities and sparked widespread scientific interest. …”
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Advancing the genetic engineering toolbox by combining AsCas12a knock-in mice with ultra-compact screening by Wei Jin, Yexuan Deng, John E. La Marca, Emily J. Lelliott, Sarah T. Diepstraten, Christina König, Lin Tai, Valentina Snetkova, Kristel M. Dorighi, Luke Hoberecht, Millicent G. Hedditch, Lauren Whelan, Geraldine Healey, Dan Fayle, Kieran Lau, Margaret A. Potts, Moore Z. Chen, Angus P. R. Johnston, Yang Liao, Wei Shi, Andrew J. Kueh, Benjamin Haley, Jean-Philippe Fortin, Marco J. Herold

“…We demonstrate efficient single and multiplexed gene editing in vitro, using primary and transformed cells from enAsCas12a mice. We further demonstrate successful in vivo gene editing, using normal and cancer-prone enAsCas12a stem cells to reconstitute the haematopoietic system of wild-type mice. …”
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Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Using Resonance-Based Sparse Signal Decomposition by Jiaquan Yan, Haixin Sun, En Cheng, Xiaoyan Kuai, Xiaoliang Zhang

“…Second, HMS of high resonance component is extracted by Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) as the feature vector. Finally, support vector machine (SVM) is adopted as a classifier. …”
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Growing meat on autoclaved vegetables with biomimetic stiffness and micro-patterns by Ye Liu, Anqi Gao, Tiantian Wang, Yongqian Zhang, Gaoxiang Zhu, Sida Ling, Zhaozhao Wu, Yuhong Jin, Haoke Chen, Yuming Lai, Rui Zhang, Yuchen Yang, Jianyong Han, Yulin Deng, Yanan Du

“…Here we propose an autoclaving strategy to transform common vegetables into muscle- and adipose-engineering scaffolds, without undergoing conventional plant decellularization. …”
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Radiofrequency Ablation Compared to Surgery for the Treatment of Benign Thyroid Nodules by Stella Bernardi, Chiara Dobrinja, Bruno Fabris, Gabriele Bazzocchi, Nicoletta Sabato, Veronica Ulcigrai, Massimo Giacca, Enrica Barro, Nicolò De Manzini, Fulvio Stacul

“…Conclusions. RFA might transform our approach to benign thyroid nodules.…”
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