Nonnutritive, Low Caloric Substitutes for Food Sugars: Clinical Implications for Addressing the Incidence of Dental Caries and Overweight/Obesity by Michael W. Roberts, J. Timothy Wright

“…Although there are only five artificial sweeteners that have been approved as food additives by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are additional five non-/low caloric sweeteners that have FDA GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) designation. Given the health impact of sugars and other carbohydrates, dental professionals should be aware of the nonnutritive non-/low caloric sweeteners available on the market and both their benefits and potential risks. …”
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Therapeutic Potential of Dietary Phenolic Acids by Venkata Saibabu, Zeeshan Fatima, Luqman Ahmad Khan, Saif Hameed

“…Phenolic acids (PAs) are a class of secondary metabolites spread throughout the plant kingdom and generally involved in plethora of cellular processes involved in plant growth and reproduction and also produced as defense mechanism to sustain various environmental stresses. …”
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Automatic Measurement Method of Slump Flow of Cement Paste Based on Dynamic Image Processing Technology by Shiqin He, Pengfei Gao, Chunyue Wang, Ding Nie, Hui Wang

“…The slump flow and flow time T200 are the main parameters to evaluate the rheological properties of cement paste. Generally, the manual measurement method is used and it is difficult to get T200 accurately. …”
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Imprecisiones en la demarcación de los límites departamentales de la província del Neuquén by Luis A. Bertani, Miriam B. Ambrosio, Osear R. Peña

“…Los mismos, s.eratifican en el (lijo .195:8 a través. de la .Ley No 45, al constituirse .el territorio en provincia que es tal como se muestra. en el map.a que figura en el anexo 1. En términos generales, la importancia de las unidades departamentales es relativa, son tenidas en cuenta para establecer las jurisdicciones de.los Juzgados.de Paz y algunas circ.unscripciones electorales, como así también, para la organización de la información .estadística y censal, tanto nacional como provincial. …”
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A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Precise Emotion Recognition in Domestic Animals Using EfficientNetB5 Architecture by Rashadul Islam Sumon, Haider Ali, Salma Akter, Shah Muhammad Imtiyaj Uddin, Md Ariful Islam Mozumder, Hee-Cheol Kim

“…The model exhibited robust generalization abilities for the subtle identification of emotional states, achieving 98.2% accuracy in training and 91.24% during validation on a separate dataset. …”
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NF-κB Inhibitory Activity of the Di-Hydroxy Derivative of Piperlongumine (PL-18) by Yael Schlichter Kadosh, Subramani Muthuraman, Ariel Kushmaro, Rajendran Saravana Kumar, Jacob Gopas

“…While acute inflammation generally protects against harmful stimuli, prolonged and chronic inflammation have detrimental effects and disrupts tissue homeostasis. …”
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Thinning Southern Pines - A Key to Greater Returns by Chris Demers, Michael Andreu, Babe McGowan, Alan Long, Jarek Nowak

“…In addition, thinning provides periodic income, improves access for equipment, recreation and hunting, and creates a generally healthier stand. Thinning is also beneficial for wildlife, especially when combined with prescribed fire or herbicide use to control competing vegetation. …”
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Natural variation of OsWRKY23 drives difference in nitrate use efficiency between indica and japonica rice by Siyu Zhang, Zhe Ji, Wu Jiao, Chengbo Shen, Yaojun Qin, Yunzhi Huang, Menghan Huang, Shuming Kang, Xuan Liu, Shunqi Li, Zulong Mo, Ying Yu, Bingyu Jiang, Yanan Tian, Longfei Wang, Qingxin Song, Shaokui Wang, Shan Li

“…Abstract Between the two major rice subspecies, indica varieties generally exhibit higher nitrate (NO3 ‒) uptake and nitrogen (N)-use efficiency (NUE) than japonica varieties. …”
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Preparations of the Shipping Company “Żegluga Polska SA” for the Second World War by Jordan Siemianowski

“…Moreover, the company entered into a conflict with the Ministry of Industry and Trade regarding the mobilisation of seamen, ship handling and management staff, which created a serious risk of immobilisation of the shipowner’s ships. Generally, the preparations of „Żegluga Polska SA” to the war included communication (radio and optical), coordination of ship traffic with units of other shipowners and the activities of the Navy, as well as protection of ships against possible acts of sabotage. …”
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Facial Emotion Recognition in Parkinson's Disease: An fMRI Investigation. by Albert Wabnegger, Rottraut Ille, Petra Schwingenschuh, Petra Katschnig-Winter, Mariella Kögl-Wallner, Karoline Wenzel, Anne Schienle

“…The fMRI data showed similar activation in both groups except for a generally stronger recruitment of somatosensory regions in the patients.…”
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Relationship between empathy and burnout as well as potential affecting and mediating factors from the perspective of clinical nurses: a systematic review by Hongyan Zhou

“…The included studies showed consistent results that empathy and burnout were generally negatively related. When considering the different components of empathy or burnout independently, as well as the mediating factors involved, relations between empathy and burnout may alter. …”
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Transforming small business ventures for a greener tomorrow: the interplay between green transformational leadership, organizational green culture, and environmental sustainability by Ismail Juma Ismail

“…Finally, organizational green culture was found to be a significant mediator of the relationship between green transformational leadership and environmental sustainability. Generally, the findings suggest that a shift from traditional transformational leadership to green transformational leadership can be a key initiative toward environmental sustainability among small businesses. …”
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Improving Monocular Depth Estimation Through Knowledge Distillation: Better Visual Quality and Efficiency by Chang Yeop Lee, Dong Ju Kim, Young Joo Suh, Do Kyung Hwang

“…These evaluations were conducted on benchmark datasets, including NYU Depth V2 and SUN RGB-D for indoor environments and KITTI for outdoor scenarios, to ensure a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of robustness and generalization capabilities. The results demonstrate that the proposed KD framework outperforms existing methods in visual quality across all datasets while achieving notable computational benefits, including a 15.45% reduction in Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) for the LocalBins model and 7.72% for the ZoeDepth model.…”
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Analysis of Internal Structure of Cement-Stabilized Macadam Based on Industrial CT Scanning by Chunyu Liang, Yinghan Wang, Guojin Tan, Lidong Zhang, Yutong Zhang, Zhihua Yu

“…Under different compaction methods, the variation coefficient of the coarse aggregate area ratio of two kinds of CSM mixture generally has the same change trend, and the vibration method can make its inner structure more uniform.…”
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Deep learning in defects detection of PV modules: A review by Katleho Masita, Ali Hasan, Thokozani Shongwe, Hasan Abu Hilal

“…Despite achieving high accuracy, challenges such as the need for large datasets and model generalization across different PV modules and environmental conditions remain. …”
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A Review of AI Applications in Unconventional Oil and Gas Exploration and Development by Feiyu Chen, Linghui Sun, Boyu Jiang, Xu Huo, Xiuxiu Pan, Chun Feng, Zhirong Zhang

“…However, challenges such as data quality, model generalization, and interpretability remain significant. …”
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The irreconcilability of insight by Eli Shupe

“…Putative cases of animals demonstrating insight have generally attracted two types of criticism: first, that insight is being conflated with other cognitive capacities (e.g., causal cognition, or mental trial and error); and, second, that the relevant performances merely reflect associative learning—and on the received understanding of insight within comparative cognition, insight necessarily involves non-associative processes. …”
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A review on speech recognition approaches and challenges for Portuguese: exploring the feasibility of fine-tuning large-scale end-to-end models by Yan Li, Yapeng Wang, Lap Man Hoi, Dingcheng Yang, Sio-Kei Im

“…Whisper obtained a WER of 5.11% which indicates that multilingual joint training can enhance the generalization ability. Finally, to the existing problems in Portuguese speech recognition, it explores future research directions, which provides new ideas for the next stage of research and system construction.…”
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Pharmacological Therapy in the Heart as an Alternative to Cellular Therapy: A Place for the Brain Natriuretic Peptide? by Nathalie Rosenblatt-Velin, Suzanne Badoux, Lucas Liaudet

“…Clinical studies evaluating the potential of stem cells (from heart, blood, bone marrow, skeletal muscle, and fat) to regenerate the myocardium and improve its functional status indicated that although the method appeared generally safe, its overall efficacy has remained modest. …”
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A Bus-Service-Based Zone Division Approach for the Spatial Analysis of Public Bus: A Case Study in South China by Fanghao Fu, Jiemin Xie, Ming Cai, Wei Huang

“…Hence, the analysis of public bus is always a hot research topic. Generally, to consider the heterogeneity in the studied area and reduce the computation difficulties, the study area is divided into multiple zones and then various analytical methods are applied. …”
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