Harmonic Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Thunderstorms in Iran (1961–2010) by Ali Akbar Sabziparvar, Seyed Hossein Mir Mousavi, Mostafa Karampour, Mehdi Doostkamian, Esmaeil Haghighi, Iman Rousta, Haraldur Olafsson, Md Omar Sarif, Rajan Dev Gupta, Md Moniruzzaman, Khairul Hasan, Ali Ghasemi

“…The results showed that the maximum of positive anomalies mainly occurred in the northwestern and western parts of Iran due to their special topography, during all the five studied periods. …”
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Leptin Inhibits the Proliferation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Induced by Angiotensin II through Nitric Oxide-Dependent Mechanisms by Amaia Rodríguez, Javier Gómez-Ambrosi, Victoria Catalán, Ana Fortuño, Gema Frühbeck

“…Inducible NOS (iNOS) and NADPH oxidase subutnit Nox2 expression was determined by Western-blot. The proliferative responses to Ang II were evaluated through enzymatic methods. …”
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Kontribusi Indo Europeesch Verbond (IEV) pada Penguatan Identitas Keeropaan dan Solidaritas Indo by Raden Welling Praheningtyo, Mutiah Amini

“…The identity concept developed by the Indo group was to act as an intermediary between Western and Eastern cultures. Using historical methodology, this study outlines the background of the formation of the IEV and the programs organized to assert the existence of the Indo group. …”
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The Impact of Antibiotics on the Development of Colorectal Cancer – A Review of Current Insights and Directions for Future Research by Karol Zagórski, Mateusz Kozik, Nina Skalska-Dziobek, Weronika Małagocka, Karolina Chybowska, Maria Naruszewicz, Przemysław Cetnarowski

“…There are numerous well-established risk factors for CRC, such as a western diet, low physical activity, alcohol consumption, and cigarettes smoking. …”
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Advantages of Shear Wave Seismic in Morrow Sandstone Detection by Paritosh Singh, Thomas Davis

“…The Upper Morrow sandstones in the western Anadarko Basin have been prolific oil producers for more than five decades. …”
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Vivre de paysage dans le Morvan ou l’impensé de la gestion forestière morvandelle by Damien Marage

“…This coupling of subject and object which is specific to the Western definition of the landscape could be replaced by a vision derived from Chinese thought. …”
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Therapeutic effect of selective interleukin-2-inducible tyrosine kinase inhibitor in orbital fibroblasts from patients with Graves’ orbitopathy by Yeonjung Yoon, Hyun Young Park, Min Kyung Chae, Sun Young Jang, Jin Sook Yoon

“…ITK mRNA expression was evaluated using western blotting, and inflammatory cytokine production and downstream transcription factor expression were analyzed after pretreatment with BMS. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Effects of Binary Interaction between Typhoons Tembin and Bolaven in 2012 by Zhipeng Xian, Keyi Chen

“…In this paper, a typical case of this type, typhoons Tembin and Bolaven, occurred in the western North Pacific in August 2012, was selected to study how one typhoon impacts the track and intensity of the other one. …”
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CircRNA FAT1 Regulates Osteoblastic Differentiation of Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells via miR-4781-3p/SMAD5 Pathway by Yu Ye, Yue Ke, Liu Liu, Tong Xiao, Jinhua Yu

“…The abilities of circFAT1 and miR-4781-3p in regulating PDLSC differentiation were analyzed by western blot, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and Alizarin red staining (ARS). …”
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Bioactive milk-derived nutrient MFG-E8 ameliorates skeletal muscle atrophy induced by mitochondria damage in aging rats via activating the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway by Kaifang Guan, Xiaolin Liu, Weihong Lu, Yuhao Mao, Yirong Mao, Ying Ma, Rongchu Wang, Qiming Li

“…This in vivo experiment showed that MFG-E8 can improve the antioxidant status and increase soleus muscle mass (35.61%) and fiber diameter (39.72%) in the aging rats. The western blot assay preliminarily proved that increased ERK phosphorylation determines the repairment of injured skeletal muscle, but not JNK and p38. …”
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Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus α-Hemolysin Production Using Nanocurcumin Capped Au@ZnO Nanocomposite by Majid S. Jabir, Taha M. Rashid, Uday M. Nayef, Salim Albukhaty, Faizah A. AlMalki, Jawaher Albaqami, Amal A. AlYamani, Zainab J. Taqi, Ghassan M. Sulaiman

“…Furthermore, the activity of Cur-Au@ZnO NPs against the S. aureus α-hemolysin toxin was evaluated using the western blot technique, using human alveolar epithelial cells (A549), and through histopathology examination in a mouse model. …”
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A Cocktail Method for Promoting Cardiomyocyte Differentiation from Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Qing Gao, Maojuan Guo, Xijuan Jiang, Xiantong Hu, Yijing Wang, Yingchang Fan

“…Immunofluorescence results showed that cTnT expression in the 5-aza+salB+CLM group was stronger than other groups. Real-time qPCR and Western blotting analyses showed that cTnT, alpha-cardiac actin, mef-2c, Cx43, and GSK-3beta expression increased while beta-catenin expression decreased. …”
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Programmed Cell Death, Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and p53 Expression in Mouse Colon Mucosa during Diet-Induced Tumorigenesis by Mauro Risio, Ivana Sarotto, Francesco Paolo Rossini, Harold Newmark, Kan Yang, Martin Lipkin

“…Western‐style diets (WDs) trigger and sustain the early phases of tumorigenesis in mouse colon, and when continued throughout the life span lead to the development of dysplastic crypts. …”
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Beef handling practices at Abattoirs and Butcher shops in Uganda: implications for meat safety and health of consumers by Juliet Kyayesimira, Florence Muheirwe

“…Thus, this study aimed to examine beef handling practices at the abattoirs and butcher shops in Uganda's Central, Western, and Eastern regions. A mixed-methods approach was employed to collect data through a survey, in-depth interviews, and on-site observations. …”
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Development and Validation of the Patient Experience Assessment Scale (PXAS) in Tertiary Care Hospital - Oman by Naima Khamis Al-Bulushi MD, FFR RCSI, Zainab Ali Al-Mukhaini MD, DCH, DTM&H, MSc, PhD, Jehan Al Fannah BSc, MSc, MBA, Afaf Ali Al Zadjali BSN, MBA, Huda Al Zidi BSc, Zubaida Mahmood Al-Balushi NNP BSN, MBA, Aida Khalfan Al-Hadidi IBCLC, Samir Al-Adawi BSc, MSc, PhD

“…Valid ecological measures are lacking in non-western populations. Objective: Validate Patient Experience Assessment Scale (PXAS) for tertiary care hospital. …”
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Implementation of International Norms in Russia: The Case of Higher Education by A. Crowley-Vigneau, A. A. Baykov, Ye. Kalyuzhnova

“…It investigates how Russia strives to adopt international and western educational norms by adhering to the Bologna process and launching projects such as 5-100 to reinforce the competitiveness of its universities on the global stage, but remains concerned about security and national identity issues. …”
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Identifying and determining the spatial organization model of CBD\'s (Case Study: Mashhad Metropolis) by mohammadreza mirsaeedi, moslem seyed alhossaini, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Amir Hossain Shabani

“…In the areas of planning, a great difference is seen in the levels of land uses so that the land use of higher educations in the western metropolitan city of Mashhad area is 84 percent while that of the eastern area is 3 percent. …”
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Comparison of intra articular autologous platelet-rich plasma with steroids in osteoarthritis knee: Experience from a North Indian tertiary care center by M N Arjun, Vivek Vasdev, Kunal Kishore, Arun Hegde, Krishnan Shanmuganandan, Abhishek Kumar, Uday Bhanu Kovilapu, Roopa Shivashankar

“…The primary endpoint was an improvement in Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Index (WOMAC) and 100 mm Visual Analog Scale (VAS) pain at 24 weeks postinjections. …”
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Normalization-Guided and Gradient-Weighted Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Network for Transfer Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing Faults Under Class Imbalance by Hao Luo, Xinyue Wang, Li Zhang

“…Experiments conducted across three imbalanced scenarios using the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Paderborn University (PU) datasets demonstrate that NG-UDAN is effective in both single-source and mixed-source domain adaptation. …”
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Prevalence of Intestinal Protozoa among Saudi Patients with Chronic Renal Failure: A Case-Control Study by Yousry A. Hawash, Laila Sh. Dorgham, El-Amir M. Amir, Osama F. Sharaf

“…We tested this hypothesis with a matched case-control study to determine the prevalence of these protozoa and their diarrhea associated symptoms among 50 patients with CRF (cases) from Taif, western Saudi Arabia. Fifty diarrheal patients without CRF were recruited in the study as controls. …”
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