<i>Alaria esculenta, Ulva lactuca</i>, and <i>Palmaria palmata</i> as Potential Functional Food Ingredients for the Management of Metabolic Syndrome by Emer Shannon, Maria Hayes

“…In humans, enzymes that play a role in the prevention and development of MS include angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE-1) associated with hypertension, α-amylase associated with T2D, and lipase linked to the development of obesity. …”
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Probiotic Amelioration of Azotemia in 5/6th Nephrectomized Sprague-Dawley Rats by Natarajan Ranganathan, Beena Patel, Pari Ranganathan, Joseph Marczely, Rahul Dheer, Tushar Chordia, Stephen R. Dunn, Eli A. Friedman

“…The present study was to test the hypothesis that selected bacteria instilled into the gastrointestinal tract could help in converting nitrogenous wastes accumulated due to renal insufficiency into nontoxic compounds; thereby, ameliorating the biochemical imbalance. …”
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Double diffusive MHD stagnation point flow of second grade fluid in non-Darcy porous media under radiation effects by Walid Aich, Amir Abbas, Adebowale Martins Obalalu, Walid Hassen, Lotfi Ben Said, Rejab Hajlaoui, Lioua Kolsi

“…Porous media appear in a variety of high-speed phenomena and devices, including catalytic converters, condensers, and gas turbines. Due to above physical significance, the influence of solar radiation and Lorentz forces on the behavior of non-Newtonian second-grade fluids in a Darcy-Forchheimer porous medium at a stagnation point is tackled in this study on both assisting and opposing flow regimes. …”
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Patient-reported Outcomes and Muscle Strength after a Physiotherapy-led Exercise and Support Brace Intervention in Patients with Acute Injury of the Posterior Cruciate Ligament: A... by Randi Gram Rasmussen, Julie Sandell Jacobsen, Birgitte Blaabjerg, Torsten Grønbæk Nielsen, Lene Lindberg Miller, Martin Lind

“…Over two years, seven patients converted to PCL surgical reconstruction. One and two-year follow-up were completed by 46 and 31 patients, respectively…”
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Amplifying the Sensitivity of Electrospun Polyvinylidene Fluoride Piezoelectric Sensors Through Electrical Polarization Process for Low-Frequency Applications by Asra Tariq, Amir H. Behravesh, Muhammad Tariq, Ghaus Rizvi

“…Piezoelectric sensors convert mechanical stress into electrical charge via the piezoelectric effect, and when fabricated as fibers, they offer flexibility, lightweight properties, and adaptability to complex shapes for self-powered wearable sensors. …”
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Artificial intelligence-driven ensemble deep learning models for smart monitoring of indoor activities in IoT environment for people with disabilities by Munya A. Arasi, Hussah Nasser AlEisa, Amani A. Alneil, Radwa Marzouk

“…First, data preprocessing is performed using min–max normalization to convert input data into useful format. Furthermore, the marine predator algorithm is employed in feature selection. …”
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The effect of different amounts of bıotin in broilers' ration on growth performance and fatty liver syndrome by Şakir Doğan Tuncer, Reşat Aştı, Behiç Coşkun, Erdoğan. Şeker, Ülker Demirci

“…There was no large variation among the groups related to feed consumption. Feed convertion were found to be 2.340; 2.312; 2.405 and 2.324 kg, respectively, during the experiment. …”
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Shielding factors for a fission-powered mars exploration rover [version 4; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations, 3 not approved] by Jason Cassibry, L. Dale Thomas, William Emrich, Alexander C. Bendoyro

“…Background With the advances in compact fission power systems and Stirling converters, the efficiency and portability of electrical energy production systems has increased substantially thanks to NASA’s Kilopower project. …”
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TARREAN: A Novel Transformer with a Gate Recurrent Unit for Stylized Music Generation by Yumei Zhang, Yulin Zhou, Xiaojiao Lv, Jinshan Li, Heng Lu, Yuping Su, Honghong Yang

“…The music sequences are encoded using a compound word method, converting them into discrete symbol-event combinations for input into the TARREAN model. …”
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EventSegNet: Direct Sparse Semantic Segmentation from Event Data by Pengju Li, Yuqiang Fang, Jiayu Qiu, Jun He, Jishun Li, Qinyu Zhu, Xia Wang, Yasheng Zhang

“…However, we encounter a significant challenge in event-based semantic segmentation tasks: the need to expend time on converting event data into frame images to align with existing image-based semantic segmentation techniques. …”
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Remote sensing for urban heat and cool islands evaluation in semi-arid areas by M. Reisi, M. Ahmadi Nadoushan, L. Aye

“…The results also showed changes in land use types during 1985 and 2017, with an increase in water bodies (148.82%) and built-up areas (39.67%) and a decrease in vegetation (20.08%) and bare soil (12.42%). The areas converted from vegetation to built-up experienced an increase in Landsat land surface temperature, which confirmed the effect of land-use/land-cover on microclimate.…”
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Smart Healthy Schools: An IoT-enabled concept for multi-room dynamic air quality control by Alessandro Zivelonghi, Alessandro Giuseppi

“…Moreover, through Modbus-LoRa I/O converters, AulaSicura can also control the same amount of mechanical ventilation units per node either in pure or hybrid mechanical ventilation modes.…”
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Potential Antioxidant Activity of New Tetracyclic and Pentacyclic Nonlinear Phenothiazine Derivatives by Godwill Azeh Engwa, Eugene Lekem Ayuk, Benardeth Ujunwa Igbojekwe, Marcellus Unaegbu

“…The synthesized phenothiazine derivatives exhibited reducing power potential to convert Fe3+ to Fe2+ and high ability to scavenge H2O2 free radical in vitro. …”
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TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION? by Yu. R. Vishnevsky, D. Yu. Narkhov, Ya. V. Didkovskaya

“…In this regard, it is important to find out the potential of the student's environment in order to convert it without any loss into social and cultural capital of the state. …”
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Information Geometry and Manifold Learning: A Novel Framework for Analyzing Alzheimer’s Disease MRI Data by Ömer Akgüller, Mehmet Ali Balcı, Gabriela Cioca

“…Preprocessed images were reduced via Principal Component Analysis (retaining 95% variance) and converted into statistical manifolds using estimated mean vectors and covariance matrices. …”
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Breathing time: a longue-durée multidisciplinary study of respiratory illnesses and airborne diseases in Switzerland (16th–21st century CE) by Tobias Hofstetter, Aude Fauvel, Silke Grabherr, Negahnaz Moghaddam

“…Accordingly, collected raw data were converted and normalized into crude mortality, natality, and RIAD mortality rates per thousand individuals and subsequently set within the demographic and epidemiological transition model. …”
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Evaluation of Dynamic Compaction Load Conversion Methods and Vibration Reduction Treatments by Jixuan Li, Wenli Wang, Longping Luo, Xiaoliang Yao, Jiangang Hu

“…Five classical methods were used to convert the DC loads into time-dependent surface loads, which were subsequently fed into Plaxis’s dynamic multiplier table for the numerical implementation of DC tests. …”
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Contribution à l’étude de la mobilité pollicale des primates actuels. Plaidoyer en faveur de l’importance du rôle de leur pouce by J Norbert Kuhlmann

“…These amplitudes were also measured on 26 animals asleep and many other animals were observed in relative freedom or in large aviaries. 419 skeletons of primates’ hands were measured and the measures converted in percentage with regard to the length of the 3rd metacarpal, in order to compare species in spite of their difference of size (collection of the Museum of Natural History in Paris). …”
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Prediction of Pt, Ir, Ru, and Rh complexes light absorption in the therapeutic window for phototherapy using machine learning by V. Vigna, T. F. G. G. Cova, A. A. C. C. Pais, E. Sicilia

“…This interpretability helps to understand classification rules and facilitates targeted structural modifications to convert inactive complexes into potentially active ones.…”
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Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A: Its Significance as a Single Biomarker for Adverse Obstetric Outcomes by Madhusudan Dey, Priyanshi Choudhury, Sunil Chawla, Pranjali Dhume, Suyash Goel, Ankur Shah, Mounica Gowda KN

“…Maternal serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A levels were assessed at 11 to 13+6 weeks of gestation, converted in multiples of the median and patients were followed till delivery. …”
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