Rosiglitazone, a Ligand to PPARγ, Improves Blood Pressure and Vascular Function through Renin-Angiotensin System Regulation by María Sánchez-Aguilar, Luz Ibarra-Lara, Leonardo Del Valle-Mondragón, María Esther Rubio-Ruiz, Alicia G. Aguilar-Navarro, Absalom Zamorano-Carrillo, Margarita del Carmen Ramírez-Ortega, Gustavo Pastelín-Hernández, Alicia Sánchez-Mendoza

“…In this work, we hypothesized that RGZ exerts a PPARγ–dependent regulation of blood pressure through modulation of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-type 2 (ACE2)/angiotensin-(1-7)/angiotensin II type-2 receptor (AT2R) axis in an experimental model of high blood pressure. …”
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Response of alcohol fermentation strains, mixed fermentation and extremozymes interactions on wine flavor by Ling-Zhi Zhao, Ling-Zhi Zhao, Jing Chen, Jing Chen, Jing Chen, Xiang-Ying Wei, Xiang-Ying Wei, Xiang-Ying Wei, Bo Lin, Feng-Jin Zheng, Krishan K. Verma, Gan-Lin Chen, Gan-Lin Chen, Gan-Lin Chen

“…Winemaking, one of the ancient technologies, is simply the process of converting sugar into alcohol through a complex biochemical reaction. …”
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Long-term effect of repeated application of pig slurry digestate on microbial communities in arable soils by Daniela Mora-Salguero, Lionel Ranjard, Thierry Morvan, Samuel Dequiedt, Vincent Jean-Baptiste, Sophie Sadet-Bourgeteau

“…Anaerobic digestion represents an opportunity for converting organic waste (OW) into valuable products: renewable energy (biogas) and a fertilizer (digestate). …”
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Pyrolysis-catalytic gasification of plastic waste for hydrogen-rich syngas production with hybrid-functional Ni-CaOCa2SiO4 catalyst by Tian Heng Qin, Guozhao Ji, Boyu Qu, Alan J McCue, Shaoliang Guan, Jos Derksen, Ye Shui Zhang

“…The finding could guide the industry for future large-scale application to convert abundant plastic waste into H2-rich syngas, therefore contributing to the global ‘net zero’ ambition.…”
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Low-Dose Ketamine Infusion for Perioperative Pain Management in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Mitchell T. Seman, Shawn H. Malan, Matthew R. Buras, Richard J. Butterfield, Kristi L. Harold, James A. Madura, David M. Rosenfeld, Andrew W. Gorlin

“…Data collected included total perioperative opioids used converted to oral morphine equivalents (ME), pain scores, side effects, hospital length of stay, and patient satisfaction captured via postoperative questionnaires. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation and Driving Factors of Carbon Sequestration Rate in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Ningxia, China by Yi Zhang, Chunxiao Cheng, Zhihui Wang, Hongxin Hai, Lulu Miao

“…Among land use change types, the carbon sequestration enhancement capacity significantly increased when grassland was converted to forest or shrubland, farmland to forest–grassland, and bare land to forest–grassland, with increases of 42.9%, 9.2%, and 34.6%, respectively. …”
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Lidar estimates of birch pollen number, mass, and CCN-related concentrations by M. Filioglou, P. Tiitta, P. Tiitta, X. Shang, A. Leskinen, P. Ahola, S. Pätsi, A. Saarto, V. Vakkari, V. Vakkari, U. Isopahkala, M. Komppula

“…</p> <p>A pivotal role in these estimations is played by the conversion factors necessary to convert the optical measurements into microphysical properties. …”
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Concentration-dependent effects of immunomodulatory cocktails on the generation of leukemia-derived dendritic cells, DCleu mediated T-cell activation and on-target/off-tumor toxici... by Hazal Aslan Rejeski, Hazal Aslan Rejeski, Anne Hartz, Anne Hartz, Elias Rackl, Elias Rackl, Lin Li, Lin Li, Christoph Schwepcke, Christoph Schwepcke, Kai Rejeski, Kai Rejeski, Christoph Schmid, Christoph Schmid, Andreas Rank, Andreas Rank, Jörg Schmohl, Doris Kraemer, Peter Bojko, Helga Maria Schmetzer, Helga Maria Schmetzer

“…Both targeted dendritic cells (DC) and particularly leukemia-derived dendritic cells (DCleu) can exert potent anti-leukemic activity. By converting AML blasts into immune activating and leukemia-antigen presenting cells, DC/DCleu-generating protocols can induce immune responses against AML blasts. …”
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A novel nomogram to predict all‐cause readmission or death risk in Chinese elderly patients with heart failure by Mengxi Yang, Liyuan Tao, Hui An, Gang Liu, Qiang Tu, Hu Zhang, Li Qin, Zhu Xiao, Yu Wang, Jiaxai Fan, Dongping Feng, Yan Liang, Jingyi Ren

“…Anaemia, abnormal neutrophils, and admission without angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers were the specific independent risk factors of 30 day all‐cause readmission or death (all P < 0.05), whereas serum sodium ≤ 140 mmol/L and admission without beta‐blockers were the specific independent risk factors of 1 year all‐cause readmission or death (all P < 0.05). …”
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Late-stage diversification strategy for the synthesis of peptide acids and amides using hydrazides by Shoko Tanaka, Mizuki Kanno, Yosuke Tashiro, Tetsuo Narumi, Nobuyuki Mase, Kohei Sato

“…Conclusions: The developed protocols allow hydrazides to be converted to acids or amides, enabling late-stage diversification of peptide C-terminal residues.…”
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Synergistic effects of allantoin and Achyranthes japonica-biochar profoundly alleviate lead toxicity during barley growth by Ghulam Murtaza, Najmaldin Ezaldin Hassan, Muhammad Usman, Gang Deng, Zeeshan Ahmed, Javed Iqbal, Mohamed S. Elshikh, Humaira Rizwana, Basharat Ali, Rashid Iqbal, Maximilian Lackner

“…The resistance towards Pb2+ was enhanced by biochar, allantoin, and their combined application, with lower Pb2+ concentrations in shoots (59.9 %, 40.1 %, and 49.8 %), roots (48.2 %, 24.1 %, and 58.3 %), and grains (60.2 %, 29.7 %, and 40.1 %) compared to solely Pb-stress, respectively. In summary, converting the weed Achyranthes japonica into biochar and integrating it with allantoin provides an eco-friendly approach to control its proliferation while efficiently alleviating Pb-induced toxicity in plants.…”
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TPDTNet: Two-Phase Distillation Training for Visible-to-Infrared Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection by Siyu Wang, Xiaogang Yang, Ruitao Lu, Shuang Su, Bin Tang, Tao Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu

“…The source-domain image is converted to an image with the style of the target domain, thereby achieving image-level domain alignment. …”
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Gut bacterium Intestinimonas butyriciproducens improves host metabolic health: evidence from cohort and animal intervention studies by Elena Rampanelli, Nadia Romp, Antonio Dario Troise, Jakshana Ananthasabesan, Hao Wu, Ismail Sahin Gül, Sabrina De Pascale, Andrea Scaloni, Fredrik Bäckhed, Vincenzo Fogliano, Max Nieuwdorp, Thi Phuong Nam Bui

“…Our previous work has shown that Intestinimonas butyriciproducens is a prevalent commensal bacterium with the unique ability to convert dietary fructoselysine to butyrate, a well-known signaling molecule with proven health benefits. …”
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What Affects Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in China? A Configurational Perspective Based on Dynamic Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis by Danni Lu, Xinhuan Zhang, Degang Yang, Shubao Zhang

“…Simultaneously, two modes constraining AGTFP enhancement were uncovered: economy–policy suppression and human capital–economy suppression, highlighting the pivotal role of regional economic development and the conditionality of converting natural resource advantages. Moreover, the contributions of these pathways to AGTFP exhibited notable temporal dynamics. …”
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Energy-Accuracy Trade-Offs for Resistive In-Memory Computing Architectures by Saion K. Roy, Naresh R. Shanbhag

“…At high-output signal magnitude, we can find that the maximum achievable SNDR is limited by the pre-analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) array nonidealities, such as the conductance variations (CVs), parasitic resistances, and current mirror mismatch (MM), whereas the ADC thermal (AT) noise limits the SNDR at small signal magnitudes. …”
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Post-evaluation model for 500 kV substation engineering projects using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method by Jianquan Chen, Yi Zhuang, Shaoyong Chen, Zhongtian Zhang, Yu Zhang

“…Through the FCE method, qualitative indicators are converted into quantitative data, with expert opinions aggregated using the Delphi method to derive the final evaluation results. …”
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Metabolic Performance of Mealworms and Black Soldier Fly Larvae Reared on Food and Agricultural Waste and By-Products by Frederik Kjær Nielsen, Rasmus Juhl Hansen, Asmus Toftkær Muurmann, Simon Bahrndorff, Niels Thomas Eriksen

“…It thus seems that BSF larvae are more versatile and somewhat more efficient at converting diverse feed substrates into growth than mealworms. …”
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Adult-plant resistance and a suitable method of reaction determination to scald and net form net blotch in malt barley genotypes at a hot spot location in Ethiopia by Girma Ababa, Tigist Shiferaw, Wami Hailu, Wondimu Fekadu, Sentayehu Alamerew

“…The grain yield of ten middle rows (5 m2) was evaluated, and the results were converted to t ha−1. The relationship between independent and dependent variables was analyzed using the Pearson correlation in ellipses predictor at a P-value of 0.05 and 0.01. …”
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Design and Analysis of Two-Port Self-Decoupled Highly Efficient MIMO Antenna for 5G New Radio Mid-Band (n1/n2/n3) Wireless Communication by Durai Pandurangan, Naveen Mishra

“…To achieve antenna diversity, single unit is replicated and converted into two-port MIMO. Further, to show the effectiveness of antenna orientation on inter- element isolation two ports are placed in 0&#x00B0;, 90&#x00B0; and 180&#x00B0; orientation. …”
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Statistical match reports of the 2022 volleyball World Championship in the context of network analysis with Gephi by Sergii Iermakov, Tetiana Yermakova, Krzysztof Wnorowski

“…Data from six matches were extracted into Microsoft Excel tables and then converted into CSV format. The data from these tables were processed using the PyCharm programming environment and Python code. …”
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