HMGB-1 as a Novel Predictor of Disease Severity and Prognosis in Patients with Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome by Hong Du, Jing Li, Haitao Yu, Jianqi Lian, Ye Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xuefan Bai, Pingzhong Wang

“…To examine the predictive capacity of the high mobility group box protein-1 (HMGB-1) for disease severity and prognosis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). …”
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The Influence of Self-Perception on Manipulative Dexterity in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis by Rosa M. Martínez-Piédrola, Cristina García-Bravo, Elisabet Huertas-Hoyas, Patricia Sánchez-Herrera Baeza, Jorge Pérez-Corrales, Carlos Sánchez-Camarero, Marta Pérez-de-Heredia-Torres

“…The outcome measures used were the ABILHAND questionnaire, the Purdue Pegboard Test, the Nine Hole Peg Test, and the Box and Block Test. Results. No significant correlations were found between dexterity and self-perception tests; however, correlations were found between perceived dexterity and quality of life (p<0.001). …”
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Alleviation of Hepatic Ischemia Reperfusion Injury by Oleanolic Acid Pretreating via Reducing HMGB1 Release and Inhibiting Apoptosis and Autophagy by Wenwen Wang, Liwei Wu, Jingjing Li, Jie Ji, Kan Chen, Qiang Yu, Sainan Li, Jiao Feng, Tong Liu, Jie Zhang, Jiaojiao Chen, Yuting Zhou, Yuqing Mao, Fan Wang, Weiqi Dai, Xiaoming Fan, Chuanyong Guo, Jianye Wu

“…The results showed that OA preconditioning significantly alleviated hepatic injury, as evidenced by decreased alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels; improved histology, inhibition of JNK phosphorylation, and high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1); and tumor necrosis factor-α downregulation in hepatic IR mice. …”
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An Explainable Stacked Ensemble Model for Static Route-Free Estimation of Time of Arrival by Sören Schleibaum, Jörg P. Müller, Monika Sester

“…However, these models are mostly black box neural networks. Hence, the resulting predictions are difficult to explain to users. …”
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Enhanced YOLOv10 Framework Featuring DPAM and DALSM for Real-Time Underwater Object Detection by Suthir Sriram, Aburvan P., Arun Kaarthic T. P., Nivethitha Vijayaraj, Thangavel Murugan

“…The marine fusion loss (MFL) provides an object detection prediction that combines both binary cross-entropy loss and complete intersection over union (CIoU) loss to enhance bounding box localization while also including spatial context to incorporate important underwater features. …”
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Development of an adaptive neuro‐fuzzy inference system–based equivalent consumption minimisation strategy to improve fuel economy in hybrid electric vehicles by Krishna Veer Singh, Hari Om Bansal, Dheerendra Singh

“…The proposed non‐linear controller has also been tested for real‐time behaviour using a field‐programmable gate array–based MicroLabBox hardware controller to compare its performance against existing controllers. …”
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Study of Ventilation Strategies in a Passenger Aircraft Cabin Using Numerical Simulation by S. M. Abdul Khader, John Valerian Corda, Kevin Amith Mathias, Gowrava Shenoy, Kamarul Arifin bin Ahmad, Augustine V. Barboza, Sevagur Ganesh Kamath, Mohammad Zuber

“…A section of a Boeing 737-300 cabin, featuring four rows with 28 box-shaped mannequins, was used for simulation. …”
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Dust Dynamics in Radially Convective Regions of Protoplanetary Disks by Min-Kai Lin, Marius Lehmann

“…We revisit the interaction between dust and the COS with high-resolution spectral simulations in the unstratified, axisymmetric Boussinesq shearing box framework. We find zonal flows, or pressure bumps, formed by the COS trap dust, as expected, but dust densities increase at most by a factor of O (10) over its background value due to the zonal flows’ unsteady nature. …”
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Contribution to the experimental and theoretical study of the behavior of soil-structure interfaces by Saliha Benalia, Boubaker Benchiekh, Leila Zeghichi

“…The main purpose of the first part is to present the results of the monotonic and cyclic soil-structure interface tests which were carried out using a modified direct shear box apparatus. The tests were conducted using a local material, namely the sand from the town of Messâad in the Wilaya of Djelfa (Algeria), in accordance with a constant normal stress path. …”
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Involvement of the TGF-β pathway in epithelialmesenchymal transition promoted by the pulmonary microenvironment in Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia by Fan Lu, Wang Huixia, Xu Nuo, Guo Yun, Li Ling

“…Transcriptome sequencing revealed significant upregulation of pathways including transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), tumor protein 53 (P53), protein kinase Hippo, Ras-proximate-1 or Ras-related protein 1 (Rap1), and members of class O forkhead box proteins (FoxO) in cells exposed to bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from MPP patients with atelectasis. …”
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WORK CONDITIONS AND EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE OF TITO YOGURT COMPANY LIMITED MAKURDI BENUE STATE NIGERIA by UCHERWUHE SAMUEL IGBABEE, AKORGA MAMKPEGA CLEMENT

“…The study recommended amongst others that management of Tito yogurt company limited Makurdi Benue State Nigeria should strike a balance between work and personal life for employee well-being to make employees think outside the box and contribute new ideas when they feel encouraged and valued. …”
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Instance Segmentation and 3D Pose Estimation of Tea Bud Leaves for Autonomous Harvesting Robots by Haoxin Li, Tianci Chen, Yingmei Chen, Chongyang Han, Jinhong Lv, Zhiheng Zhou, Weibin Wu

“…Quantitative experiments demonstrate that the instance segmentation model achieves an mAP@50 of 92.0% for box detection and 91.9% for mask detection, improving by 3.2% and 3.4%, respectively, compared to the YOLOv8s-seg instance segmentation model. …”
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Improved insulator location and defect detection method based on GhostNet and YOLOv5s networks by Jianjun Huang, Xuhong Huang, Ronghao Kang, Zhihong Chen, Junhan Peng

“…Finally, Focal-EIoU was introduced to optimize the CIoU bounding box regression loss function in the original algorithm to improve the convergence speed and target location accuracy of the model. …”
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The involvement of CgCaspase-3 in regulating the expressions of proinflammatory cytokines through NF-κB/Rel signaling pathway in oysters by Zihan Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Jiejie Sun, Shuyi Mu, Wei Wu, Renle Chang, Lingling Wang, Linsheng Song

“…The mRNA expressions of interleukins 17s (CgIL17–2, CgIL17–3, and CgIL17–6), tumor necrosis factor-1 (CgTNF-1), high mobility group box-1 protein (CgHMGB1) and interferon-like protein (CgIFNLP) were significantly decreased in haemocytes of CgCaspase-3-RNAi or CgRel-RNAi oysters, respectively. …”
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Vehicle-Bridge Coupling Vibration Analysis for Simply Supported Girders of High-Speed Railway Bridges Based on the Cross-Sectional Decentralized Centre of Mass and Shear by Chen Daihai, Zhou Shuai, Xu Shizhan, Li Zheng, Fang Yilin

“…Taking the simply supported box girder bridge of high-speed railway as an example, the effect of cross-sectional decentralized centre of mass and shear on the spatial beam element stiffness matrix was theoretically derived. …”
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Limits and Risks of Digital Transformation by T. S. Akhromeeva, G. G. Malinetskiy, S. A. Posashkov

“…They have to be considered as "black boxes". It is very likely that the tester of artificial intelligence systems will become one of the mass professions in the close future.We give examples to show that the "translation" from "continuous" to "discrete" language can lead to qualitatively different behavior of mathematical models. …”
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Processing of Super Tough Plasticized PLA by Rotational Molding by Antonio Greco, Francesca Ferrari, Alfonso Maffezzoli

“…In contrast, PEG plasticized PLA showed a very high degree of crystallinity, as highlighted by DSC and XRD analysis, which made the extraction of the rotomolded box-shaped specimens impossible. The plasticizing effectiveness of cardanol derivatives was proven by tensile testing of rotational molded prototypes, which highlighted the reduced modulus and strength and improved strain to break, compared to neat PLA. …”
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Forecast uncertainties real-time data-driven compensation scheme for optimal storage control by Arbel Yaniv, Yuval Beck

“…These advancements yield a reliable and efficient real-time correction algorithm for optimal site management, designed as an independent white box that can be integrated with any day-ahead optimization control system.…”
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Enhanced Production of Xylitol from Corncob by Pachysolen tannophilus Using Response Surface Methodology by S. Ramesh, R. Muthuvelayudham, R. Rajesh Kannan, T. Viruthagiri

“…The selected components were optimized with Box-Behnken design using response surface methodology (RSM). …”
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BiAF: research on dynamic goat herd detection and tracking based on machine vision by Yun Hou, Mingjuan Han, Wei Fan, Xinyu Jia, Zhuo Gong, Ding Han

“…In this paper, we propose a machine vision-based grazing goat herd detection algorithm that enhances the streamlined ELAN module in YOLOv7-tiny, incorporates an optimized CBAM attention mechanism, refines the SPPCSPC module to reduce the parameter count, and improves the anchor boxes in YOLOv7-tiny to enhance target detection accuracy. …”
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