FTO rs9939609 Does Not Interact with Physical Exercise but Influences Basal Insulin Metabolism in Brazilian Overweight and Obese Adolescents by Gabrielle Araujo do Nascimento, Neiva Leite, Lupe Furtado-Alle, Mayza Dalcin Teixeira, Ricardo Lehtonen Rodrigues de Souza, Gerusa Eisfeld Milano, Larissa Rosa da Silva, Juliana Pizzi, Wendell Arthur Lopes, Maria de Fátima Aguiar Lopes, Ana Cláudia Kapp Titski, Luciane Viater Tureck

“…Methods. The sample was composed by 432 children and adolescents grouped in three ways (obese, overweight, and normal weight); of these, 135 children and adoloescents who are obese and overweight were submitted to a physical exercise program for 12 weeks. …”
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Macroporous scaffolds based on biomass polymers and their applications in wound healing by Daqian Gao, William D. Shipman, Yaping Sun, Joshua Zev Glahn, Leleda Beraki, Henry C. Hsia

“…We highlight key techniques, such as microparticles assembly, leaching template, and bioprinting that can create macropores within scaffolds composed of biomass materials and their composites. …”
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Numerical study of bioheat transfer in a vascular bed with counter-flow mechanisms by K.R. Sreegowrav, R. Indira, Sushma M. Puranik, S. Jagadeesha, S.J. Vishwanatha, K. Ganesh Kumar

“…Simulating and analyzing thermal behavior in the human body is crucial for various biomedical applications. The skin, composed of multiple layers, is connected to the vascular bed, which comprises venules and capillaries. …”
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Effect of Curvature-Dependent Surface Elasticity on the Flexural Properties of Nanowire by Mengjun Wu, Quan Yuan, Honglin Li, Bin Wu, Lin Fang, Mengyang Huang

“…We find that flexural rigidity is composed of three parts. The first term is defined by the precept of continuum mechanics, and the last two terms are defined by surface elasticity. …”
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Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm for Preemptive Project Scheduling Problems with Resource Vacations Based on Patterson Set by Yi Han, Ikou Kaku, Jianhu Cai, Yanlai Li, Chao Yang, Lili Deng

“…A recent popular metaheuristic shuffled frog leaping algorithm, which is enlightened by the predatory habit of frog group in a small pond, is adopted to investigate the project makespan improvement on Patterson benchmark sets which is composed of different small and medium size projects. …”
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Digital Three-Dimensional Atlas of Quail Development Using High-Resolution MRI by Seth W. Ruffins, Melanie Martin, Lindsey Keough, Salina Truong, Scott E. Fraser, Russell E. Jacobs, Rusty Lansford

“…We present an archetypal set of three-dimensional digital atlases of the quail embryo based on microscopic magnetic resonance imaging (μMRI). The atlases are composed of three modules: (1) images of fixed ex ovo quail, ranging in age from embryonic day 5 to 10 (e05 to e10); (2) a coarsely delineated anatomical atlas of the μMRI data; and (3) an organ system-based hierarchical graph linked to the anatomical delineations. …”
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Myosin-based nucleation of actin filaments contributes to stereocilia development critical for hearing by Zane G. Moreland, Fangfang Jiang, Carlos Aguilar, Melanie Barzik, Rui Gong, Ghazaleh Behnammanesh, Jinho Park, Arik Shams, Christian Faaborg-Andersen, Jesse C. Werth, Randall Harley, Daniel C. Sutton, James B. Heidings, Stacey M. Cole, Andrew Parker, Susan Morse, Elizabeth Wilson, Yasuharu Takagi, James R. Sellers, Steve D. M. Brown, Thomas B. Friedman, Gregory M. Alushin, Michael R. Bowl, Jonathan E. Bird

“…To tune their mechanosensivity, stereocilia form bundles composed of graded rows of ascending height, necessitating the precise control of actin polymerization. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Chaos in a Phononic Crystal Waveguide with Circular Inclusions of Real Materials by Hugo Enrique Alva-medrano, Héctor Pérez-aguılar, Alejandro Bucio

“…With this in consideration, in the present work an acoustic system of a two-dimensional PnCW is modeled, composed of two plane-parallel plates and a periodic arrangement of circular cylindrical inclusions with acoustic surfaces of real materials. …”
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Characterization of Triphenylamino-Based Polymethine Dyes by Saleem Ullah, Irshad Ahmad, Yatimah Alias, Ismail Yusoff, Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf

“…Keeping this in mind, our research is composed of an investigation of two triphenylamino-based polymethine dyes, a known polymethine dye 3 and a new one polymethine dye 5, which have been synthesized by the reaction of 4-(diphenylamino) benzaldehyde 2 and 4,4′-(phenylazanediyl) dibenzaldehyde 4 with 4,4′-vinylidene-bis(N, N-dimethylaniline) 1. …”
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Practical Aspects of Broken Rotor Bars Detection in PWM Voltage-Source-Inverter-Fed Squirrel-Cage Induction Motors by Hong-yu Zhu, Jing-tao Hu, Lei Gao, Hao Huang

“…The proposed techniques are composed of five modules of anti-aliasing signal acquisition, optimal-slip-estimation based on torque-speed characteristic curve of squirrel cage motor with different load types, fault characteristic frequency determination, nonparametric spectrum estimation, and fault identification for achieving MCSA efficiently. …”
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A Comparison between Two Force-Position Controllers with Gravity Compensation Simulated on a Humanoid Arm by Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Kenji Hashimoto, Atsuo Takanishi, Paolo Dario

“…The force control of the two systems is composed of an external proportional (P) closed-loop for one system (P system) and an external proportional-integrative (PI) closed-loop for the other system (PI system). …”
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Efficacy and safety of local lysozyme treatment in patients with oral mucositis after chemotherapy and radiotherapy by Eminagić Dzenana, Lokvančić Aida, Hasanbegović Berisa, Mekić-Abazović Alma, Avdičević Asmir, Marijanović Inga, Janković Slobodan M., Kapo Belma

“…This observational clinical study was composed of two substudies: a non-comparative one (n = 166), testing only lysozyme-based compounds (LBCs), and a comparative substudy (n = 275), testing both LBCs and bicarbonate-based local compounds (BBCs) on the healing of oral mucositis during radio- or chemotherapy. …”
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Assessment of the Influence of Formation Conditions of Embankments and Spoil Heaps on Their Stability When Dumped on Clay-Salt Slurries by Maxim Karasev, Tatsiana Astapenka

“…The formation of geotechnical structures on foundations composed of low-strength soils is associated with a number of risks and difficulties. …”
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Production Response and Digestive Enzymatic Activity of the Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931) Intensively Pregrown in Microbial Heterotrophic and Autotrophic-... by Manuel J. Becerra-Dórame, Marcel Martínez-Porchas, Luis R. Martínez-Córdova, Martha E. Rivas-Vega, José A. Lopez-Elias, Marco A. Porchas-Cornejo

“…The presence of biofilm and bioflocs composed by either autotrophic or heterotrophic organisms in combination with formulated feed improved the growth performance and survival of shrimp. …”
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Low-threshold dual-polarization electro-optic nonlinear activation functions by Tao Jin, Jian Lin, Pengjun Wang, Qiang Fu, Yuhan Sun, Yi Zou, Shixun Dai, Weiwei Chen, Jun Li, Tingge Dai, Jianyi Yang

“…This scheme relies on a structure composed of an optical power splitter and a thermo-optic modulator based on Mach–Zehnder interferometer, which are optimized by using direct binary search and particle swarm optimization algorithms. …”
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Coaxial Pipes Used as Ground Buried Heat Exchangers—A Review of Research in Recent Years by Geng Wang, Nai Rong, Xuefei Li, Ning Hu, Zhi Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Yuhan Wang

“…Coaxial pipe is a high-efficiency heat exchanger composed of two nested tubes of different diameters. …”
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Microgrid energy management strategy considering source-load forecast error by Kaikai Zhang, Guibin Zou, Jinliang Zhang, Houlei Li, Yazhong Sun, Guoliang Li

“…Aiming at the microgrid (MG) composed of photovoltaic (PV) and HESS, an energy management strategy (EMS) of MG considering forecast errors is proposed. …”
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Development of a HPLC Method for the Quantitative Determination of Capsaicin in Collagen Sponge by Chun-Lian Guo, Hong-Ying Chen, Bi-Ling Cui, Yu-Huan Chen, Yan-Fang Zhou, Xin-Sheng Peng, Qin Wang

“…The chromatographic method was performed by using isocratic system composed of acetonitrile-water (70 : 30) with a flow rate of 1 mL/min and the detection wavelength was at 280 nm. …”
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Power Load Event Detection and Classification Based on Edge Symbol Analysis and Support Vector Machine by Lei Jiang, Jiaming Li, Suhuai Luo, Sam West, Glenn Platt

“…The load classification method is composed of two processes including frequency feature analysis and support vector machine. …”
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A novel lectin from mushroom Phellodon melaleucus displays hemagglutination activity, and antitumor activity in a B16 melanoma mouse model by Yuanhui Li, Peng Wang, Zejun Zhang, Qinghong Liu

“…Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopic analysis showed that PML was composed primarily of β-sheets with low α-helix content. …”
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