Movement in the Shadow of Sadness: How Physical Activity Supports the Fight Against Depression by Agata Ossolińska, Patrycja Marta, Filip Huzarski, Gabriela Ferfecka, Klaudia Pawełek, Lucyna Stolarska, Magdalena Rosa-Bończak, Natalia Morawiecka, Olivier Carlton, Weronika Kłosowicz

“…Research indicates that regular physical exercise, such as aerobic or strength training, aids in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease. The biological mechanisms associated with physical activity include improved cerebral blood flow, modulation of neurotransmitter systems, and increased levels of neurotrophic factors like BDNF. …”
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Assessment of Salivary Adipokines Resistin, Visfatin, and Ghrelin as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Biomarkers by Mythily Srinivasan, Melinda L. Meadows, Lisa Maxwell

“…Pathologically, dysregulation of many biological pathways precedes hyperglycemia and the clinical diagnosis of T2DM. …”
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Multidisciplinary Oral Rehabilitation of a Severely Compromised Dentition by Carlo Maiorana, Dario Andreoni, Paola Polacco, Pier Paolo Poli

“…The involvement of different specialists ensured the achievement of a good result from biological, functional, and aesthetic aspects. The patient was satisfied with the final outcome. …”
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السلامة والصحة المهنیة فى أعمال تخزین مصادر المعلومات دراسة حالة على المکتبة المرکزیة الجدیدة بجامعة القاهرة... by د. أحمد جابر حامد

“…This study aims at: identifying hazards of storing information resources inlibraries and information centers which affect occupational safety and health,evaluating the procedures to overcome and prevent them and planning thecorrect procedures, with the aim of increasing librarians' knowledge about thesehazards and the scientific manners for detecting and preventing them, whetherindividual or in groups.The study followed "The Case Study Method", depending on "A ChickList" which applied in the new central library of Cairo University as a model ofArabian libraries.The main findings of this research: there were several hazards in storageprocedures of information resources, which badly effect on occupational safetyand health, caused by: occupational safety and health administration,construction hazards, physical hazards, biological hazards, fire hazards, storageprocedures hazards and individual hazards. …”
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Follow-Up and Risk Assessment in Patients with Myocardial Infarction Using Artificial Neural Networks by Tatjana Gligorijević, Zoran Ševarac, Branislav Milovanović, Vlado Đajić, Marija Zdravković, Saša Hinić, Marina Arsić, Milica Aleksić

“…Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are machine learning technique, inspired by the principles found in biological neurons. This technique has been used for prediction and classification problems in many areas of medical signal processing. …”
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Optical Nanotweezers Based on All-Dielectric Resonant Structures by Hongyang Xu, Xi Xie, Siwei Chen, Yanan Fu, Yuquan Zhang, Xiaocong Yuan, Changjun Min

“…These features render them highly valuable for applications such as biological detection and precision measurement. Although current optical nanotweezers technologies like surface plasmon polariton tweezers have surpassed the optical diffraction limit and enabled nanoscale manipulation of particles, they are limited by issues such as complexities in optical systems and substantial thermal effects, which hinder their practical applications. …”
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Convalescence. Some comments about COVID-19 by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito, Alfredo Alberto Espinosa Roca

“…It insists on the factors that can influence convalescence: the characteristics of each person (biological, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual); the "state of seriousness" that the patient had in the acute phase of the disease and whether there was a need for admission to intensive care; adverse effects of medications and other procedures carried out during care and comorbidities.…”
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Notes from the Packaging Laboratory: Hot Tack Measurements of Thin Sealant Films by Kenneth R. Berger, Matthew Knoelke, Bruce Welt

“…This document is ABE340, one of a series of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Diverse Effects of Phytoestrogens on the Reproductive Performance: Cow as a Model by Izabela Wocławek-Potocka, Chiara Mannelli, Dorota Boruszewska, Ilona Kowalczyk-Zieba, Tomasz Waśniewski, Dariusz J. Skarżyński

“…In most of the cases, these chemicals are much less potent than endogenous estrogens but exert their biological effects via similar mechanisms of action. …”
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Agrobiodiversité et pratiques agricoles dans le pays Jbala (Tafza et Bellota) by Alexandrine Barontini, Younes Hmimsa

“…Physical, natural, socio-economic and historic particularities created favorable conditions maintaining several rare cultivated plants and practices.Thanks to the international scientific cooperation project (PICS) « La Montagne et ses Savoirs », we have collected (between October 2013 and April 2014) a series of interviews with farmers, merchants or inhabitants of the region, in two sites: Tafza and Bellota.We present here the results of a modest comparison between the agro-biological diversity and the linguistic diversity, through some of the vernacular taxinomy concerning fruits and fruit trees.…”
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Optimal Intervention in Semi-Markov-Based Asynchronous Probabilistic Boolean Networks by Qiuli Liu, Qingguo Zeng, Jinghao Huang, Deliang Li

“…Synchronous probabilistic Boolean networks (PBNs) and generalized asynchronous PBNs have received significant attention over the past decade as a tool for modeling complex genetic regulatory networks. From a biological perspective, the occurrence of interactions among genes, such as transcription, translation, and degradation, may require a few milliseconds or even up to a few seconds. …”
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Optimizing cluster head selection in wireless sensor networks using firefly and genetics algorithm by Navid Moshtaghi Yazdani, Mohammad Hasan Olyaei Torqabeh

“…For this purpose, the evolutionary firefly algorithm and genetic algorithm that itself has been modeled after natural biological evolution modeling have been used, and instead of randomly choosing cluster heads, it works on the possible answers that have superior attributes and also have a higher survival rate. …”
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Most British Surgeons Would Consider Using a Tissue-Engineered Anterior Cruciate Ligament: A Questionnaire Study by Sarah Rathbone, Nicola Maffulli, Sarah H. Cartmell

“…We produced an online questionnaire relating to tissue engineering of the ACL to obtain input from practising clinicians who currently manage these injuries. 300 British orthopaedic surgeons specialising in knee surgery and soft tissue injury were invited to participate. 86% of surgeons would consider using a TE ACL if it were an option, provided that it showed biological and mechanical success, if it significantly improved the patient satisfaction (63%) or shortened surgical time (62%). 76% felt that using a TE ACL would be more appropriate than a patellar tendon, hamstring, or quadriceps autograft. …”
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Precarity as Resistance and Cultural Solidarity by Abdul Aziz Hafiz

“…Through the conscientisation of prospective graduates towards a ‘being-with-the-world’ and the associated mental habits and bodily practices that focus on the principles of a Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), solidarity, reciprocity and sustainability, as a response to precarity, is possible by creating local solidarity-based associational spaces for critical education and praxis, we advocate for critical pedagogical practices alongside more opportunities for collective action that engender solidarity, reciprocity and sustainability in graduates’ bodily practices and modes of thinking and being, through a critical pedagogy that facilitates cultural action for freedom, self-help and collective forms of social provisioning of biological and social needs: housing, food, energy production, social caring and welfare needs in general. …”
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Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury and Autism: Elucidating Shared Mechanisms by Rahul Singh, Ryan C. Turner, Linda Nguyen, Kartik Motwani, Michelle Swatek, Brandon P. Lucke-Wold

“…Recent data, both preclinical and clinical, show that pediatric TBI and ASD share not only similar symptoms but also some of the same biologic mechanisms that cause these symptoms. Prominent symptoms for both disorders include gastrointestinal problems, learning difficulties, seizures, and sensory processing disruption. …”
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Oral submucous fibrosis: pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches by Jianfei Tang, Junjie Liu, Zekun Zhou, Xinyan Cui, Hua Tu, Jia Jia, Baike Chen, Xiaohan Dai, Ousheng Liu

“…Then, we highlight how cell-intrinsic changes in significant structural cells can drive fibrotic response by regulating biological behaviors, secretion function, and activation of ECM-producing myofibroblasts. …”
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Factors Affecting Phosphorus Leaching and Groundwater Concentrations for the Plasticulture Vegetable-Production System by Sanjay Shukla, Gregory S. Hendricks, Thomas A. Obreza, Willie Harris

“…Obreza, and Willie Harris, and published by the UF Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, August 2014. …”
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A note on dynamics of an age-of-infection cholera model by Jinliang Wang, Ran Zhang, Toshikazu Kuniya

“…The model is incorporated with both the infection age of infectious individuals and biological age of pathogen in the environment. The basic reproduction number is proved to be a sharp threshold determining whether or not cholera dies out. …”
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Accelerating Smith-Waterman Alignment for Protein Database Search Using Frequency Distance Filtration Scheme Based on CPU-GPU Collaborative System by Yu Liu, Yang Hong, Chun-Yuan Lin, Che-Lun Hung

“…The Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm has been widely utilized for searching biological sequence databases in bioinformatics. Recently, several works have adopted the graphic card with Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and their associated CUDA model to enhance the performance of SW computations. …”
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Neoadjuvant anti-PD-1-based immunotherapy: evolving a new standard of care by Drew M Pardoll, Suzanne L Topalian

“…As this field is evolving, it is addressing gaps in our understanding of biological mechanisms underlying PD-1 pathway blockade and their synergy with other antineoplastic drugs, probing mechanisms of response and resistance to neoadjuvant immunotherapy, optimizing efficacious clinical strategies, and analyzing commonalities and differences across cancer types. …”
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