EGFR Amplification and Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cells by Katrin Liffers, Katrin Lamszus, Alexander Schulte

“…GS-cells can be maintained in vitro using serum-free medium supplemented with epidermal growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor-2, and heparin. …”
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Thermodynamic Insights into the Separation of Carotenoids in Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography by Nicola Marchetti, Pier Paolo Giovannini, Martina Catani, Luisa Pasti, Alberto Cavazzini

“…Traditional Van’t Hoff analysis has been used to estimate changes of standard enthalpy (ΔH∘) and Gibbs free energy (ΔG∘) associated with the solute transfer from the mobile to the stationary phase at each mobile phase composition. …”
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The Ratio of Platelets to Lymphocytes Predicts the Prognosis of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Review and Meta-Analysis by Jinming Wang, Jing Li, Sheng Wei, Jie Xu, Xiaohui Jiang, Lei Yang

“…We used hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) to assess the associations of PLR and overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS). Results. A total of twelve studies containing 1452 patients were included in this meta-analysis. …”
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An Assessment of the Microbiological Quality and Physical Properties of Indoor Atmosphere in Port Harcourt by Chuku Aleruchi

“…The study revealed that no indoor atmosphere is completely free from microorganisms; rooms that carry above their original design capacity for occupancy are prone to have a high load of microorganism and indoor microorganism survive and multiply faster during the dry season compared to their growth in the rainy season. …”
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Male antennae of Armadillidium vulgare discriminate Wolbachia-infected females by Mouret, Nicolas, Tolassy, Vincent, Richard, Freddie-Jeanne

“…Further experiments are required to identify the involved molecule explaining the sexual preference of males towards Wolbachia-free females.…”
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Behavior of Zr�1Nb alloy in coarse- and ultrafine-grain states under laser-induced shock wave loading by Dmitry Ledon, Aleksandr Balakhnin, Sergey Uvarov, Irina Bannikova, Yuriy Bayandin, Oleg Naimark

“…Shock wave loading was carried out using a Beamtech SGR-Extra-10 high-energy nanosecond laser. The free surface velocity profiles were registered by the VISAR system. …”
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Improvement of the Asymptotic Properties of Zero Dynamics for Sampled-Data Systems in the Case of a Time Delay by Cheng Zeng, Shan Liang, Jiaqi Zhong, Yingying Su

“…The ideas presented here generalize well-known results from the delay-free control system to time-delay case.…”
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Basotho learners’ challenges affect effective learning in a rural high school during the COVID-19 era by Mofokeng Mantwa

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The Structure and Stability of Molybdenum Ditelluride Thin Films by Zhouling Wang, Wenwu Wang, Ya Yang, Wei Li, Lianghuan Feng, Jingquan Zhang, Lili Wu, Guanggen Zeng

“…The evolution of the chemistry for Mo-Te thin films was performed to investigate the growth of the MoTe2 thin films free of any secondary phase. And the effect of other postdeposition treatments on the film characteristics was also investigated.…”
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Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet for the Improvement of Wettability of Polypropylene by Hom Bahadur Baniya, Rajesh Prakash Guragain, Binod Baniya, Deepak Prasad Subedi

“…The surface properties of the controls and plasma-treated PP samples were characterized by contact angle measurement, surface free energy measurement, scanning electron microscopy, and the Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy analysis.…”
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The Impact of Media Coverage and Curfew on the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Model: Stability and Bifurcation by Afrah K. S. Al-Tameemi, Raid K. Naji

“…The occurrence of local bifurcation near the disease-free equilibrium point is investigated. Numerical simulation is carried out in applying the model to the sample of the Iraqi population through solving the model using the Runge–Kutta fourth-order method with the help of Matlab. …”
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Bile Leak following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy due to Perforated Duodenal Ulcer in Patient with Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass by Amanda M. Marsh, Ayman Almousa, Thomas Genuit, David Forcione, Karin Blumofe

“…The diagnosis of perforated ulcer after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass remains challenging as there is often absence of free air or contrast extravasation from the biliopancreatic limb. …”
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Morphological Investigation into Starch Bio-Nanocomposites via Synchrotron Radiation and Differential Scanning Calorimetry by Huihua Liu, Deeptangshu Chaudhary, Joseph John, Moses O. Tadé

“…Depending on the sorbitol and MMT concentration, these interactions also affected the free moisture content and crystalline domains. Domains of around 95 Å and 312 Å were found in the low-moisture-content samples as compared to a single domain of 95 Å in the high-moisture-content samples. …”
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Exploring Substituted Tetrazoloquinazoline: Biological Activities, Molecular Docking Analysis, and Anti-Breast Cancer MCF7/HER2 Effects by Neni Frimayanti, Ihsan Ikhtiarudin, Rahma Dona, Rahul Oktarizal, Aprilia Cindy Nurfatimah

“…The docking results revealed that substituted tetrazoloquinazoline exhibited a significantly different range of binding free energy compared to the positive control. Moreover, the substituted tetrazoloquinazoline compounds comply with Lipinski’s Rule of Five (Ro5), indicating that they are easily absorbable and have good permeability. …”
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Dynamics Analysis of an Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Epidemic Model with Vaccination and Seasonality by Juping Zhang, Yun Li, Zhen Jin, Huaiping Zhu

“…The global stability of the disease-free equilibrium and the existence of positive periodic solution are proved by the comparison theorem and the asymptotic autonomous system theorem. …”
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Artificial Intelligence‐Enhanced Metamaterial Bragg Multilayers for Radiative Cooling by David Osuna Ruiz, Maite Aznarez‐Sanado, Pilar Herrera‐Plaza, Miguel Beruete

“…Furthermore, it explains AI's success in producing these structures and enables the analysis of resonant conditions in metal‐free multilayers with unconventional layer thickness distributions, offering innovative tools for designing highly efficient structures in RC.…”
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Corpus literacy empowerment: taking stock of research to look forward for practice by Li Shuquan, Xu Manfei

“…This paper also offers detailed instructions on how to facilitate the teaching of vocabulary, grammar and discourse with free and user-friendly corpus tools (i.e., SKELL, VersaText and AntConc) in pre-tertiary language classrooms. …”
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Metal/Semiconductor and Transparent Conductor/Semiconductor Heterojunctions in High Efficient Photoelectric Devices: Progress and Features by M. Melvin David Kumar, Ju-Hyung Yun, Joondong Kim

“…Si nanopillar structures which are fabricated by photolithography-free technique are used to increase light-active surface region. …”
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Epidemiological Characteristics of Generalized COVID-19 Deterministic Disease Model by Shuo Li, Nasir Hussain, Ihsan Ullah Khan, Amjid Hussain, Shewafera Wondimagegnhu Teklu

“…The local stability of disease-free and endemic equilibria is demonstrated by constructing Jacobian matrices for NSFD scheme; nevertheless, the global stability of aforementioned equilibria is verified by using Lyapunov functions. …”
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Eosinophilic Angiocentric Fibrosis as a Stenosing Lesion in the Subglottis by Ivan Keogh, Rohana O’Connell, Sean Hynes, John Lang

“…Patient’s postoperative period was uneventful and had remained disease free for 1 year. To date, no consensus has been reached on the optimal treatment of subglottic EAF. …”
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