Suberoylanilide Hydroxamic Acid Attenuates Autoimmune Arthritis by Suppressing Th17 Cells through NR1D1 Inhibition by Da Som Kim, Hong-Ki Min, Eun Kyung Kim, Seung Cheon Yang, Hyun Sik Na, Seon-Yeong Lee, Jeong-Won Choi, Kyung-Ah Jung, Seung-Ki Kwok, Sung-Hwan Park, Mi-La Cho

“…The same results were obtained when mouse splenocytes were cultured under Treg cell differentiation conditions and then converted to Th17 cell differentiation conditions. …”
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Investigation of Coolant Local Hydrodynamics in the Mixed Core of the VVER Reactor by S. M. Dmitriev, A. V. Gerasimov, A. A. Dobrov, D. V. Doronkov, A. N. Pronin, A. V. Ryazanov, D. N. Solntsev, A. E. Khrobostov

“…The flow pressure field was converted to the direction and value of the coolant velocity vector according to the dependencies obtained during calibration. …”
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Health and associated economic benefits of reduced air pollution and increased physical activity from climate change policies in the UK by Heather Walton, David Dajnak, Mike Holland, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Dylan Wood, Christian Brand, Nosha Assareh, Gregor Stewart, Andrew Beddows, Shawn YC Lee, Daniela Fecht, Yunzhe Liu, Bethan Davies, Anna Goodman, Tuan Vu, Sean Beevers

“…Shifts from car to walking and cycling for transport were converted to METhrs/week. Literature concentration–response functions were combined with baseline rates from routine statistics/other sources. …”
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MRD-driven phase 2 study of daratumumab, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma by Manisha Bhutani, Myra Robinson, David Foureau, Shebli Atrash, Barry Paul, Fei Guo, Jason M. Grayson, Anna Ivanina-Foureau, Mauricio Pineda-Roman, Cindy Varga, Reed Friend, Christopher J. Ferreri, Xhevahire Begic, Sarah Norek, Tiffany Drennan, Michelle B. Anderson, James T. Symanowski, Peter M. Voorhees, Saad Z. Usmani

“…MRD-positive transplant-eligible patients (n = 8, group B) underwent autologous stem cell transplantation, with 62.5% converting to MRD-negative at 10−5 (37.5% at 10−6) posttransplant. …”
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A HOMER-Aided Study for PV System Design and Cost Analysis for a College Campus in Baghdad by Luqman Q. Ibrahim, Ahmed J. Abid, Adel A. Obed, Ameer L. Saleh, Reheel J. Hassoon

“…When the grid was absent, the winning scenario was using a PV solar system with a 100-kWh lithium battery storage and a converter. Despite that scenario being the best solution, the produced energy cost is 372% higher than the grid energy cost (0.1 $/kWh) in Iraq, with an NPC, operation cost ($/yr.), and initial capital ($) equal to $337,291, $7,855, and 236878 respectively. …”
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Genetic determinants of COVID-19 severity and mortality: ACE1 Alu 287 bp polymorphism and ACE1, ACE2, TMPRSS2 expression in hospitalized patients by João Locke Ferreira de Araújo, Átila Duque Rossi, Jessica Maciel de Almeida, Hugo José Alves, Isabela de Carvalho Leitão, Renata Eliane de Ávila, Anna Carla Pinto Castiñeiras, Jéssica da Silva Oliveira, Rafael Mello Galliez, Marlon Daniel Lima Tonini, Débora Souza Faffe, Shana Priscila Coutinho Barroso Barroso, Gustavo Gomes Resende, Cássia Cristina Alves Gonçalves, Terezinha Marta Pereira Pinto Castiñeiras, Amilcar Tanuri, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Renato Santana Aguiar, Cynthia Chester Cardoso, Renan Pedra de Souza

“…Background The angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and the transmembrane serine protease 2 (TMPRSS2) are central human molecules in the SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction. …”
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An Objective Pain Score for Chronic Pain Clinic Patients by Agnes K. Pace, Melanio Bruceta, John Donovan, Sonia J. Vaida, Jill M. Eckert

“…Subjective scales require patients to convert a subjective feeling into a quantitative number. …”
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Evidence that the domesticated fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus recycles its cytoplasmic contents as nutritional rewards to feed its leafcutter ant farmers by Caio Ambrosio Leal-Dutra, Lok Man Yuen, Bruno Augusto Maciel Guedes, Marta Contreras-Serrano, Pedro Elias Marques, Jonathan Zvi Shik

“…Abstract Leafcutter ants farm a fungal cultivar (Leucoagaricus gongylophorus) that converts inedible vegetation into food that sustains colonies with up to millions of workers. …”
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The potential of buffalo as a meat producer by Néstor Simón Montiel-Urdaneta

“…They should also be appreciated for converting forage into quality meat and their use as a work animal. …”
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Characterization of food wastes from the hotel industry as a potential feedstock for energy production by Emily Machuma Muchele, Booker Osodo, Isaiah Omosa, Emmanuel Yeri Kombe

“…Developed countries have embraced Waste-to-Energy technologies, minimizing waste generation and converting generated waste into energy and other resources. …”
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Optimal design of off-grid hybrid system using a new zebra optimization and stochastic load profile by Ahunim Abebe Ashetehe, Fekadu Shewarega, Belachew Bantyirga, Getachew Biru, Samuel Lakeo

“…The study’s findings showed that the photovoltaic-battery (PV-BAT) system, with an optimal size of 3483.161 kW of PV, 3668 units of storage batteries (11,444.160 kWh), and 2082 kW of converter at 0.044030% LPSP, is the best configuration for electrifying the rural communities of the study site with the minimum annual total cost of 621,736.056 USD and 0.227063 $/kWh COE. …”
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Deep learning enhanced transmembranous electromyography in the diagnosis of sleep apnea by Ross Mandeville, Hooman Sedghamiz, Perry Mansfield, Geoffrey Sheean, Chris Studer, Derrick Cordice, Ghodsieh Ghanbari, Atul Malhotra, Shamim Nemati, Jejo Koola

“…Our approach involved three strategies to train a generalizable model on a relatively small dataset including, (1) transfer learning using an audio spectral transformer (AST), (2) the use of 6,000 simulated EMG recordings, converted to spectrograms and using standard backpropagation for fine-tuning, and (3) application of regularization to prevent overfitting and enhance generalizability. …”
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Fault diagnosis of mining rolling bearings based on Superlet Transform and OD-ConvNeXt-ELA by WU Xinzhong, LUO Kang, TANG Shoufeng, HE Zexu, CHEN Qi

“…To fully leverage the image feature extraction ability of the OD-ConvNeXt-ELA model, SLT was used to convert the collected one-dimensional vibration signal of the rolling bearing into a two-dimensional time-frequency image, which was then input into the OD-ConvNeXt-ELA for model training. …”
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Do all patients with rheumatic Diseases have a higher risk of COVID 19? Initial results from the Karnataka Rheumatology Association COVID 19 Cohort Study (KRACC) by Vineeta Shobha, K Chanakya, Vikram Haridas, Sharath Kumar, Pramod Chebbi, Benzeeta Pinto, Vikramraj Jain, Subramaniam Ramaswamy, Shiv Prasad, Abhishek Patil, Vijay K Rao, G C Yathish, B G Dharmanand, Ramesh Jois, Ashwini Kamath, Chethana Dharmapalaiah, K N Sangeeta, Ramya Janardana, C Srinivasa, A S Harshini, Nagaraj Srinivasulu, Yogesh Preet Singh, Shweta Singhai, K M Mahendranath, S Chandrashekara

“…Age >60 years (P = 0.01), diabetes (P = 0.009), hypertension (P = 0.001), preexisting lung disease (P = 0.0002), current prescription of either angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blockers (P = 0.01), and higher glucocorticoids dosage (P = 0.002) were identified as potential risk factors in our cohort. …”
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Energy-innovation knowledge common connection point management in preventing outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in a University by V. Shcherbak, I. Gryshchenko, L. Ganushchak-Yefimenko, O. Nifatova, V. Bobrovnyk, M. Verhun

“…In the future, it would be advisable to convert gradually all of the remaining 14 university buildings to the autonomous use of non-conventional renewable energy sources, using a common connection point for the knowledge management of the energy complexes.…”
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“BYKHOV PERIOD” OF RUSSIAN GENERAL KORNILOV by N. V. Shevtsov

“…Markov and other prominent figures of the White movement were soon placed in a converted women’s gymnasium in a prison. There they were about a month and a half, and then, shortly after the October events of 1918, they left it going to the Don. …”
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Prediction of lithium-ion battery SOC based on IGA-GRU and the fusion of multi-head attention mechanism by Pei Tang, Minnan Jiang, Weikai Xu, Zhengyu Ding, Mao Lv

“…The data preprocessing part adopts the sliding window technique, through which the original time series data is converted into several different training samples when training the machine learning model, as a way to increase the diversity of the dataset and improve the robustness of the model. …”
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Evaluating the therapeutic effect of different forms of silymarin on liver status and expression of some genes involved in fat metabolism, antioxidants and anti‐inflammatory in old... by Samira Faryadi, Ardashir Sheikhahmadi, Ayoub Farhadi, Himan Nourbakhsh

“…Conclusions Overall, the effects of silymarin when converted to NSM or LSM and offered at the level of 200 mg/kg BW were more pronounced on the hepatic variables and may be useful in the prevention of the liver disease in older laying hens.…”
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Measurement and Analysis of Gait Pattern during Stair Walk for Improvement of Robotic Locomotion Rehabilitation System by Sang-Eun Park, Ye-Ji Ho, Min Ho Chun, Jaesoon Choi, Youngjin Moon

“…The measured marker data were converted into joint kinematic data by using an algorithm that included resampling and normalization. …”
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FedBFGCN: A Graph Federated Learning Framework Based on Balanced Channel Attention and Cross-Layer Feature Fusion Convolution by Hefei Wang, Ruichun Gu, Jingyu Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Hui Wei

“…This proposed framework converts single graph data into node features and adjacency matrices for processing, and combines a customized Cross-Layer Feature Fusion Convolution(CLF) and an improved Attention Mechanism that is Balanced Channel Attention Mechanism (BCAM). …”
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