Antiviral activity of natural compounds extracted from Mediterranean medicinal plants against SARS-CoV-2 by Stephanie Ghio, Jean-Pierre Brincat, Yuksel Cetin, Frederick Lia

“…Host-directed therapies include the inhibition of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2). …”
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Exchange Characteristics of Lead, Zinc, and Cadmium in Selected Tropical Soils by Tope O. Bolanle-Ojo, Abiodun D. Joshua, Opeyemi A. Agbo-Adediran, Ademola S. Ogundana, Kayode A. Aiyeyika, Adebisi P. Ojo, Olubunmi O. Ayodele

“…These values indicated that the Ca/soil systems were readily converted to the cation/soil system. The thermodynamic parameters calculated for the exchange of these cations were generally low, but values suggest spontaneous reactions.…”
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MnGA with multiple enzyme-like properties for acute wound healing by reducing oxidative stress and modulating signaling pathways by Xueting Guo, Wenqi Wang, Liting Lin, Jie Shan, Junyao Zhu, Shipeng Ning, Hanmei Li, Xianwen Wang, Decheng Lu

“…Specifically, MnGA scavenges superoxide anions and produces H2O2 via SOD-like activity and then consumes H2O2 to convert it to nontoxic H2O and O2 via CAT-like activity, resulting in a cascade of catalytic reactions to scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS). …”
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Defect Detection in Concrete Structures Based on Characteristics of Hammer Reaction Force and Apparent Stiffness of Concrete by Koki Shoda, Jun Younes Louhi Kasahara, Qi An, Atsushi Yamashita

“…Our method employs wavelet transformation to convert short-duration force signals into high-resolution time-frequency features, capturing their non-stationary behavior in detail. …”
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Immunoreactivity of the SARS-CoV-2 entry proteins ACE-2 and TMPRSS-2 in murine models of hormonal manipulation, ageing, and cardiac injury by Susan Bengs, Alexia Rossi, Martina Haberecker, Nidaa Mikail, Alexander Meisel, Achi Haider, Muriel Grämer, Angela Portmann, Atanas Todorov, Christof Schönenberger, Caroline E. Gebhard, Gabriela M. Kuster, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Catherine Gebhard

“…Abstract Previous work indicates that SARS-CoV-2 virus entry proteins angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2) and the cell surface transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS-2) are regulated by sex hormones. …”
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Evaluation of serum amylase and lipase in diagnosed Covid-19 survivors in a North Indian Hospital, Lucknow, India by Nabeela Usmani, Mukhtar Ahmad, Saba Khan, Mohammad Mustufa Khan, Haseeb Ahsan, Sadaf Parveen, Roshan Alam

“…It was suggested that upregulation of angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE-II) cell receptors or inflammatory cytokines play a major role in predisposing pancreatic injury in SARS-CoV-2 patients. …”
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A CNN-RF Hybrid Approach for Rice Paddy Fields Mapping in Indramayu Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data by Dodi Sudiana, Mia Rizkinia, Rahmat Arief, Tiara De Arifani, Anugrah Indah Lestari, Dony Kushardono, Anton Satria Prabuwono, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo

“…In Indonesia, a substantial number of rice paddy fields have been converted into residential or industrial areas, threatening food security. …”
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Digitize-HCD: A dataset for digitization of handwritten circuit diagramsMendeley Data by Nadim Ahmed, Mirza Fuad Adnan, Ahmad Shafiullah, Hayder Jahan Parash, Md. Saifur Rahman, Irfan Chowdhury Akib, Golam Sarowar

“…Automating this process would enable the development of tools capable of converting handwritten circuit diagrams into machine-readable formats that can be instantly interpreted by circuit simulation software. …”
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Tailored biomimetic nanoreactor improves glioma chemodynamic treatment via triple glutathione depletion and prompt acidity elevation by Ya Wen, Qiansai Qiu, Feng Feng, Yujuan Zhu, Jianquan Zhang, Zesheng Sun, Tuodi Zhang, Wei Shi, Jinlong Shi

“…Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) is an emerging antitumor strategy utilizing iron-initiated Fenton reaction to destroy tumor cells by converting endogenous H2O2 into highly toxic hydroxyl radical (OH). …”
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ZenLDA: Large-Scale Topic Model Training on Distributed Data-Parallel Platform by Bo Zhao, Hucheng Zhou, Guoqiang Li, Yihua Huang

“…The novelty of ZenLDA consists of three main aspects: (1) it converts the commonly used serial Collapsed Gibbs Sampling (CGS) inference algorithm to a Monte-Carlo Collapsed Bayesian (MCCB) estimation method, which is embarrassingly parallel; (2) it decomposes the LDA inference formula into parts that can be sampled more efficiently to reduce computation complexity; (3) it proposes a distributed LDA training framework, which represents the corpus as a directed graph with the parameters annotated as corresponding vertices and implements ZenLDA and other well-known inference methods based on Spark. …”
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An annotated high-content fluorescence microscopy dataset with EGFP-Galectin-3-stained cells and manually labelled outlineszenodo by Salma Kazemi Rashed, Malou Arvidsson, Rafsan Ahmed, Sonja Aits

“…Labels can also easily be converted to boxes for object detection tasks. The dataset is already pre-divided into training, development, and test sets. …”
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A Tensor-Based Go Decomposition Method for Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection by Meiping Song, Xiao Zhang, Lan Li, Hongju Cao, Haimo Bao

“…However, some LRaSMD models need to convert the hyperspectral data into a two-dimensional matrix. …”
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Association of Haemostatic and Inflammatory Biomarkers with Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Caroline Pereira Domingueti, Rodrigo Bastos Fóscolo, Janice Sepúlveda Reis, Fernanda Magalhães Freire Campos, Luci Maria S. Dusse, Maria das Graças Carvalho, Karina Braga Gomes, Ana Paula Fernandes

“…Cytokines and haemostatic biomarkers remained associated with nephropathy after adjustments (use of statin, acetylsalicylic acid, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, and angiotensin antagonist). …”
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Advances of wearable silicone rubber-based triboelectric nanogenerators: from manufacturing to application by Dianlong Shen, Taili Du, Fangyang Dong, Hu Cai, Aziz Noor, Xiannan Du, Yongjiu Zou, Chengkuo Lee, Minyi Xu

“…Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) provide an efficient solution by converting irregular, low-frequency bioenergy from the human body into electrical energy. …”
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Establishment of a bat lung organoid culture model for studying bat-derived infectious diseases by Mohamed Elbadawy, Nagisa Saito, Yuki Kato, Kimika Hayashi, Amira Abugomaa, Mio Kobayashi, Toshinori Yoshida, Makoto Shibutani, Masahiro Kaneda, Hideyuki Yamawaki, Kazuaki Sasaki, Tatsuya Usui, Tsutomu Omatsu

“…BLO expressed the entry receptors for coronavirus, Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), and Transmembrane Protease Serine 2 (TMPRSS2), and alveolar type 2 cells were successfully sorted from BLO, which has an important role for the development of viral infection in the respiratory system. …”
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Development of a Cost-Effective Plasma Thawer: A Potential Game-Changer in Blood Transfusion Technology by Shamrez Shahid, Muhammad Danish Mujib Mujib, Ahmad Zahid Rao, Muhammad Abul Hasan, Saad Ahmed Qazi

“…Relays activated heater to maintain water temperature above the lower limit and activated DC motor which converted rotational motion into linear motion through gears. …”
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Carbon circular utilization and sequestration in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs: Towards a carbon-neutral China by Lin Wu, Zhengmeng Hou, Yang Li, Weidong Wang, Long Cheng, Junzhang Lin, Zhifeng Luo, Liangchao Huang

“…Compared to conventional CCUS technologies, CCCUS stands out through both its modes of carbon utilization and the forms in which carbon exists, by cyclically biochemically converting endogenous and exogenous CO2 into renewable natural gas (RNG). …”
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Frequency Spectrum-Based Optimal Texture Window Size Selection for High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Image Analysis by Min Cao, Dongping Ming, Lu Xu, Ju Fang, Lin Liu, Xiao Ling, Weizhi Ma

“…Then the multiscale texture feature images are converted into the frequency domain by Fourier transform. …”
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Biochar filtration of drug-resistant bacteria and active pharmaceutical ingredients to combat antimicrobial resistance by Paul-Enguerrand Fady, Alexandra K. Richardson, Leon P. Barron, A. James Mason, Roberto Volpe, Meredith R. Barr

“…Through pyrolysis, waste LCB can be converted into biochars, which have excellent attributes for adsorption of pollutants–though no studies have yet reliably correlated production conditions with efficacy, nor considered adsorption of human pathogens. …”
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The Modification Effect of Influenza Vaccine on Prognostic Indicators for Cardiovascular Events after Acute Coronary Syndrome: Observations from an Influenza Vaccination Trial by Apirak Sribhutorn, Arintaya Phrommintikul, Wanwarang Wongcharoen, Usa Chaikledkaew, Suntara Eakanunkul, Apichard Sukonthasarn

“…The prognosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients has been improved with several treatments such as antithrombotics, beta-blockers, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) as well as coronary revascularization. …”
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