One-pot synthesis and characterization of a BSA-Cu2S/CuS quantum dots drug delivery system based on biuret’s reaction by Porfirio Estrada-Rojas, Juan Francisco Hernández-Paz, Claudia Alejandra Rodríguez-González, Mónica Elvira Mendoza-Duarte, Santos Adriana Martel-Estrada, Laura Elizabeth Valencia-Gómez, Héctor Camacho-Montes, Imelda Olivas-Armendáriz

“…Sample D was synthesized with lower BSA concentration (2.5 mg ml ^−1 ) and was used only for comparison in few analyses. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy confirmed the structural integrity of BSA after functionalization, while x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis verified the formation of CuS and Cu _2 S crystals. …”
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DFT and molecular docking analyses of the effects of solvent polarity and temperature on the structural, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of p-coumaric acid: Insights for a... by Umer Sherefedin, Abebe Belay, Kusse Gudishe, Alemu Kebede, Alemayehu Getahun Kumela, Tadesse Lemma Wakjira, Dereje Gelanu, Tesfaye Feyise, Jebel Haji Mahamud, Abdulkerim Abdela, Kebede Shankute Gizew

“…Furthermore, the results indicated that solvent polarity caused variations in the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra, absolute and solvation energies, dipole moment, and HOMO–LUMO gap. …”
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How Earth System Models Can Inform Key Dimensions of Marine Food Security in the Alaskan Arctic by Georgina A. Gibson, Hajo Eicken, Henry P. Huntington, Clara J. Deal, Olivia Lee, Katherine M. Smith, Nicole Jeffery, Josephine-Mary Sam

“…While communities monitor the abundance and health of food webs and environments as part of subsistence harvest practices, anticipating major transformations and changes in these systems is challenging. …”
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miRNAs and Hematological Markers in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease—A New Diagnostic Path? by Agata Michalak, Małgorzata Guz, Joanna Kozicka, Marek Cybulski, Witold Jeleniewicz, Ilona Telejko, Karolina Szczygieł, Ewa Tywanek, Halina Cichoż-Lach

“…Direct indices of liver fibrosis [procollagen I carboxyterminal propeptide (PICP), procollagen III aminoterminal propeptide (PIIINP), platelet-derived growth factor AB (PDGF-AB), transforming growth factor-α (TGF-α) and laminin] together with indirect markers (AAR, APRI, FIB-4 and GPR) were also evaluated. …”
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Green Extraction of Bioactives from <i>Curcuma longa</i> Using Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents: Unlocking Antioxidative, Antimicrobial, Antidiabetic, and Skin Depigmentation Potenti... by Jelena Jovanović, Marko Jović, Jelena Trifković, Katarina Smiljanić, Uroš Gašić, Maja Krstić Ristivojević, Petar Ristivojević

“…The NADES formulations, prepared using choline chloride (ChCl) combined with sugars, carboxylic acids, glycerol, amino acids, urea, polyols, and betaine, were assessed for their extraction efficiency based on the total phenolic content and curcumin concentration. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was employed to characterize the synthesized NADES and confirm their chemical composition. …”
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Role and prognostic value of growth differentiation factor 15 in patient of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: insights from the PURSUIT-HFpEF registry by Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Shungo Hikoso, Takahisa Yamada, Yoshio Yasumura, Akito Nakagawa, Toshihiro Takeda, Hirota Kida, Akihiro Sunaga, Tomoharu Dohi, Katsuki Okada, Daisaku Nakatani, Yasushi Matsumura, Yasushi Sakata, Shunsuke Tamaki, Takaharu Hayashi, Yoshiharu Higuchi, Masaharu Masuda, Mitsutoshi Asai, Toshiaki Mano, Hisakazu Fuji, Daisaku Masuda, Shizuya Yamashita, Masami Sairyo, Yusuke Nakagawa, Haruhiko Abe, Yasunori Ueda, Kunihiko Nagai, Masamichi Yano, Masami Nishino, Jun Tanouchi, Yoh Arita, Shinji Hasegawa, Takamaru Ishizu, Minoru Ichikawa, Yuzuru Takano, Eisai Rin, Tetsuya Watanabe, Shiro Hoshida, Masahiro Izumi, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Hiroyasu Kato, Kazuhiro Nakatani, Mayu Nishio, Keiji Hirooka, Takahiro Yoshimura, Akihiro Tani, Yasushi Okumoto, Yasunaka Makino, Katsuomi Iwakura, Yoshiyuki Kijima, Takashi Kitao, Masashi Fujita, Koichiro Harada, Masahiro Kumada, Osamu Nakagawa, Ryo Araki, Takayuki Yamada, Fusako Sera, Kei Nakamoto, Hidetaka Kioka, Tomohito Ohtani, Nobuyuki Ogasawara, Yukinori Shinoda, Koichi Tachibana, Yohei Sotomi, Taiki Sato, Yuji Yasuga, Toshinari Onishi, Kazunori Kashiwase, Ryu Shutta, Masahiro Seo, Yuki Matsuoka, Yasuhiro Akazawa, Daisuke Sakamoto

“…GDF15 was linked to poor prognosis in this elderly multimorbid cohort with HFpEF (adjusted HR for log-transformed GDF15: 13.67, 95% CI: 2.78 to 67.22, p=0.001). …”
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Jianpi Yiqi Busui prescription alleviates myasthenia gravis by regulating Th17 through the TAK1/P38 MAPK/eIF-4E signaling pathway by Zhuming Chen, Jing Lu, Tianying Chang, Dongmei Zhang, Yibin Zhang, Miao Liu, Tong Wu, Peng Xv, Jian Wang

“…Western blot and immunofluorescence staining were used to detect the expression levels of key proteins and their phosphorylated forms, such as transforming growth factor beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1), P38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (P38 MAPK), and eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF-4E). …”
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High spatial resolution gene expression profiling and characterization of neuroblasts migrating in the peri-injured cortex using photo-isolation chemistry by Takuya Miyamoto, Kazuya Kuboyama, Mizuki Honda, Mizuki Honda, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Shinya Oki, Shinya Oki, Kazunobu Sawamoto, Kazunobu Sawamoto

“…In the injured brain, amoeboid microglia/macrophages expressed transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), and neuroblasts migrating in the peri-injured cortex expressed TGF-β receptors. …”
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Development a glycosylated extracellular vesicle-derived miRNA Signature for early detection of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Jianlin Chen, Yue Zheng, Zhen Wang, Qi Gao, Kun Hao, Xiongfeng Chen, Nantian Ke, Xiang Lv, Jiamiao Weng, Yuhong Zhong, Zhixin Huang, Miao Fu, Lilan Zhao, Fan Lin, Hui Mi, Haijun Tang, Chundong Yu, Yi Huang

“…Given that glycosylation alterations especially high sialylation and fucosylation, frequently occur during cellular malignant transformation, but their roles are not elucidated. We examined alterations in disease-specific glycosylated extracellular vesicles (EVs)-derived miRNAs in the serum of ESCC patients, evaluating their utility as diagnostic biomarkers. …”
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Multi-decade northward shift of loggerhead sea turtle pelagic habitat as the eastern North Pacific Transition Zone becomes more oligotrophic by Dana K. Briscoe, Dana K. Briscoe, Larry B. Crowder, George H. Balazs, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Alberto Abreu, Catherine A. Lee Hing, Masanori Kurita, Masanori Mori, Denise M. Parker, Marc R. Rice, Tomomi Saito, Bianca S. Santos, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Noah Yamaguchi, Jeffrey J. Polovina

“…In the last few decades, the region has undergone unprecedented physical and biological transformations in response to climate variability and change. …”
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Epigenetic «probes» for lung cancer monitoring: LINE-1 methylation pattern in blood- circulating DNA by A. A. Ponomaryova, Е. Y. Rykova, N. V. Cherdyntseva, A. A. Bondar, A. Y. Dobrodeev, A. A. Zavyalov, S. A. Tuzikov, L. O. Bryzgalov, T. I. Merkulova, V. V. Vlassov, P. P. Laktionov

“…Malignant cell transformation is accompanied by two processes of DNA methylation changes: promoter hypermethylation of specific genes and hypomethylation of retrotransposons. …”
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TPDTNet: Two-Phase Distillation Training for Visible-to-Infrared Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection by Siyu Wang, Xiaogang Yang, Ruitao Lu, Shuang Su, Bin Tang, Tao Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu

“…By minimizing the Kullback&#x2013;Leibler divergence between the probability maps of the teacher and student networks, the channel activations are transformed into probability distributions, thereby achieving knowledge distillation. …”
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Impact of witnessing abuse of their mother and childhood trauma on men's perpetration of intimate partner violence in the cross-sectional UN multi-country study on men and violence... by Rachel Jewkes, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Naeema Abrahams, Nwabisa Shai, Leane Ramsoomar, Bianca Dekel, Andrew Gibbs, Jani Nöthling, Samantha Willan, Esnat Chirwa

“…The effects were mediated by food insecurity, depression and gender inequitable and anti-social masculinities, all recognised risk factors for IPV perpetration. Thus, gender transformative IPV prevention interventions that include mental health and economic elements can mitigate the influence of these key exposures.…”
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Seasonal air concentration variability, gas–particle partitioning, precipitation scavenging, and air–water equilibrium of organophosphate esters in southern Canada by Y. Li, F. Zhan, C. Shunthirasingham, Y. D. Lei, J. Oh, J. Oh, A. Ben Chaaben, Z. Lu, K. Lee, F. A. P. C. Gobas, H. Hung, F. Wania, F. Wania

“…More research is needed to better understand the atmospheric gas–particle partitioning behaviour of the OPEs and how it may be influenced by transformation reactions.</p>…”
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VANDAL BEHAVIOUR OF ADOLESCENTS AS A LEGAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM by O. V. Gurova

“…It is known that small forms of vandal behaviour can be transformed to heavier types of destructive behaviour, right up to antisocial ones. …”
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Characterization and Selection of WiFi Channel State Information Features for Human Activity Detection in a Smart Public Transportation System by Roya Alizadeh, Yvon Savaria, Chahe Nerguizian

“…Our method first extracts multi-dimensional features using a Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) of CSI data to capture the relevant signal features. …”
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The role of ultrasound combined with water bath in the establishment of animal models of rat urethral stricture by Xiaojian Ye, Xianjing Lin, Yehui Chen, Rongquan Xu, Jiawei Zhou

“…The surgical groups underwent urethral injury induced by recombinant transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) solution, followed by the random selection of one surgical group (n = 6) to receive treatment with mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) exosomes. …”
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Embracing Generative Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Research and Beyond by Henry P. Foote, MD, Chuan Hong, PhD, Mohd Anwar, PhD, Maria Borentain, MD, Kevin Bugin, PhD, Nancy Dreyer, PhD, MPH, Josh Fessel, MD, PhD, Nitender Goyal, MD, Morgan Hanger, MPP, Adrian F. Hernandez, MD, Christoph P. Hornik, MD, PhD, MPH, Jennifer G. Jackman, PhD, MBA, Alistair C. Lindsay, MD, MPH, DPhil, Michael E. Matheny, MD, Kerem Ozer, MD, Jan Seidel, PhD, Norman Stockbridge, MD, PhD, Peter J. Embi, MD, Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD

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Issues of International and Interchurch Relations in the Work of Holy Council 1917–1918 of the Orthodox Russian Church by A. I. Mramornov

“…The author of the article draws a conclusion that during the year of the Council (August 1917 – September 1918) the issues of international and inter-church relationships transformed in its agenda from being of secondary to primary importance. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Adverse Drug Reactions Associated with Fluoroquinolones and Other Antibiotics: A Retrospective Pharmacovigilance Study by Alshareef H, Alenzi KA, Albalawi BR, Alanazi RM, Albalawi NS, Alasoufi WS, Alqifari S, Ahmed R, Ali MAS

“…Hanan Alshareef,1 Khalidah A Alenzi,2 Budor R Albalawi,3 Rinas M Alanazi,3 Nawal S Albalawi,3 Wedad Saleem Alasoufi,3 Saleh Alqifari,1 Rehab Ahmed,4 Mostafa AS Ali1 1Pharmacy Practice Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; 2Transformation and Business Development, Tabuk Health Cluster, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; 3Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; 4Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Biotechnology, Department of Natural Products and Alternative Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Hanan Alshareef, Pharmacy Practice Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, Email halsharef@ut.edu.saBackground: Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are among the most popular antimicrobials that are highly effective against various infections. …”
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