Active Joint Mechanism Driven by Multiple Actuators Made of Flexible Bags: A Proposal of Dual Structural Actuator by Hitoshi Kimura, Takuya Matsuzaki, Mokutaro Kataoka, Norio Inou

“…This report also discusses a new actuator which has dual cylindrical structure. The cylinders are composed of flexible bags with different diameters. …”
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Primary Signet-Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Urinary Bladder Treated with Partial Cystectomy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Umesh Jayarajah, D. M. Hilary Fernando, Kasun Bandara Herath, M. V. Chandu de Silva, S. A. S. Goonewardena

“…A deep transurethral resection of bladder tumour was done and histology revealed an adenocarcinoma composed of mucinous and signet-ring cell components. …”
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KCNJ11: Genetic Polymorphisms and Risk of Diabetes Mellitus by Polin Haghvirdizadeh, Zahurin Mohamed, Nor Azizan Abdullah, Pantea Haghvirdizadeh, Monir Sadat Haerian, Batoul Sadat Haerian

“…This channel is a heteromeric protein, composed of four inward-rectifier potassium ion channel (Kir6.2) tetramers, which form the pore of the KATP channel, as well as sulfonylurea receptor 1 subunits surrounding the pore. …”
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Recurrence of Mitotically Active Cellular Fibroma of the Ovary by Dario Bucella, Jean-Frédéric Limbosch, Frédéric Buxant, Philippe Simon, Isabelle Fayt, Vincent Anaf, Jean-Christophe Noël

“…On microscopic examination, it was composed of a densely cellular proliferation of fibrolastic-like cells with bland nuclear features and arranged in a fascicular pattern. …”
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AlphaFold 2, but not AlphaFold 3, predicts confident but unrealistic β-solenoid structures for repeat proteins by Olivia S. Pratt, Luc G. Elliott, Margaux Haon, Shahram Mesdaghi, Rebecca M. Price, Adam J. Simpkin, Daniel J. Rigden

“…Prompted by a highly confident prediction for a biologically meaningless, randomly permuted repeat sequence, we assessed AF2 performance on sequences composed of perfect repeats of random sequences of different lengths. …”
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Fabrication of Core-Shell PLGA-Chitosan Microparticles Using Electrospinning: Effects of Polymer Concentration by Nguyen Thi Hiep, Nguyen Dai Hai, Vo Van Toi

“…This investigation aims to fabricate the core-shell microparticles composed of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) and chitosan (PLGA-CS MPs) using electrospinning. …”
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Cellular Automata Based Modeling for Evaluating Different Bus Stop Designs in China by Haoyang Ding, Wei Wang, Tianming Luo, Zhen Yang, Ye Li, Zhibin Li

“…A cellular automaton model is proposed to simulate mixed traffic flow composed of motor vehicles and bicycles near bus stops. …”
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Active Fault-Tolerant Control for Wind Turbine with Simultaneous Actuator and Sensor Faults by Lei Wang, Ming Cai, Hu Zhang, Fuad Alsaadi, Liu Chen

“…The paper’s key contribution is proposing a descriptor sliding mode method, in which for establishing a novel augmented descriptor system, with which we can estimate the state of system and reconstruct fault by designing descriptor sliding mode observer, the paper introduces an auxiliary descriptor state vector composed by a system state vector, actuator fault vector, and sensor fault vector. …”
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Supplementation with yak (Bos grunniens) bone collagen hydrolysate altered the structure of gut microbiota and elevated short-chain fatty acid production in mice by Zitao Guo, Dalong Yi, Bo Hu, Lingyu Zhu, Ji Zhang, Yuliang Yang, Chunyu Liu, Yi Shi, Zhenghua Gu, Yu Xin, Huaigao Liu, Liang Zhang

“…It was found that YBCH was mainly composed of small molecular peptides whose molecular weight below 2000 Da. …”
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Structural Performance of a Hybrid FRP-Aluminum Modular Triangular Truss System Subjected to Various Loading Conditions by Dongdong Zhang, Yaxin Huang, Qilin Zhao, Fei Li, Feng Li, Yifeng Gao

“…A novel hybrid FRP-aluminum truss system has been employed in a two-rut modular bridge superstructure composed of twin inverted triangular trusses. The actual flexural behavior of a one-rut truss has been previously investigated under the on-axis loading test; however, the structural performance of the one-rut truss subjected to an off-axis load is still not fully understood. …”
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Drag-Reduction Performance Evaluation of Controllable Hybrid Steering Drilling System by Jianyan Zou, Ping Chen, Tianshou Ma, Yang Liu, Xingming Wang

“…To deal with this problem, this paper developed a novel controllable hybrid steering drilling system (CHSDS) based on the friction-reducing principle of a rotating drill string. The CHSDS is composed of a gear clutch, hydraulic system, and measurement and control system. …”
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A Multilayer Model Predictive Control Methodology Applied to a Biomass Supply Chain Operational Level by Tatiana M. Pinho, João Paulo Coelho, Germano Veiga, A. Paulo Moreira, José Boaventura-Cunha

“…In this way, it is possible to react beforehand and avoid expensive impacts in the tasks execution. The methodology is composed of two interconnected levels that closely monitor the system state update, in the operational level, and delineate a new routing and scheduling plan in case of an expected deviation from the original one. …”
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Effect of the Fe Nanoparticles Generated by Pulsed Plasma in Liquid in the Catalyzed Ozone Removal of Phenolphthalein by O. Olea-Mejia, M. Fernández-Mondragón, C. Barrera-Díaz, A. Cabral-Prieto

“…Such nanoparticles have a mean size of 12 nm and are composed of ~80% Fe0, while the rest are a mixture of Fe+2 and Fe+3 oxides. …”
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Fine Tuning of Redox Networks on Multiheme Cytochromes from Geobacter sulfurreducens Drives Physiological Electron/Proton Energy Transduction by Leonor Morgado, Joana M. Dantas, Marta Bruix, Yuri Y. Londer, Carlos A. Salgueiro

“…The bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens (Gs) can grow in the presence of extracellular terminal acceptors, a property that is currently explored to harvest electricity from aquatic sediments and waste organic matter into microbial fuel cells. A family composed of five triheme cytochromes (PpcA-E) was identified in Gs. …”
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The impact of parameter variation in the quantification of forensic genetic evidence by Camila Costa, Carolina Figueiredo, Sandra Costa, Paulo Miguel Ferreira, António Amorim, Lourdes Prieto, Nádia Pinto

“…To reach this goal, three PGS, based on different statistical models, were used to analyze real casework pairs of samples composed of a mixture with either two or three estimated contributors, and a single-source sample associated. …”
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Karyotype Patterns of Hypsolebias antenori (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): An Endangered Killifish of the Semiarid Region of Brazil by Wallace Silva do Nascimento, Juliana Galvão Bezerra, Paulo Augusto Lima-Filho, Maria Emília Yamamoto, Sathyabama Chellappa, Wagner Franco Molina

“…The karyotype of this species is composed of 2n = 48 chromosomes (6m + 4sm + 36st; NF = 96); the heterochromatic regions are located in centromeric or pericentromeric position and are more pronounced in the nucleolar organizer regions. …”
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Experimental Investigations of the Resistance Performance of Commercial Cylinder Filters and Effect Factors under Humid Airflows by Shuang Zhang, Wanyi Zhang, Tailong He, Huan Zhao, Zhongping Lin

“…Seven clean cylinder filters composed of various materials (including synthetic, wood cellulose, nanofibers, and polyester fibers) are subjected to the airflow containing water mist. …”
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Emerging Perspectives in Scaffold for Tissue Engineering in Oral Surgery by Gabriele Ceccarelli, Rossella Presta, Laura Benedetti, Maria Gabriella Cusella De Angelis, Saturnino Marco Lupi, Ruggero Rodriguez y Baena

“…The biomimetic approach to create an ideal bone substitute provides strategies for developing combined scaffolds composed of adult stem cells with mesenchymal phenotype and different organic biomaterials (such as collagen and hyaluronic acid derivatives) or inorganic biomaterials such as manufactured polymers (polyglycolic acid (PGA), polylactic acid (PLA), and polycaprolactone). …”
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Neural-field-based image reconstruction for bioluminescence tomography by Xuanxuan Zhang, Xu Cao, Jiulou Zhang, Lin Zhang, Guanglei Zhang

“…Another simple neural network composed of two fully connected layers and a 1D convolutional layer is used to generate the neural features. …”
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Complete Mode Spectrum Decomposition of Complex‐Structured Light by Computer‐Generated Holography by Yunfei Ma, Zilong Zhang, Yuqi Wang, Hongzhi Yang, Wei He, Lingyu Kong, Suyi Zhao, Xiaotian Li, Yetong Hu, Changming Zhao

“…In this work, the diffractive optical method to extract the complete information of complex‐structured light field composed by eigenmodes superimposed state is detailly designed and proved. …”
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