Supplementation with serine-enriched non-essential amino acids from minimum essential medium promotes blastocyst development of in vitro-fertilized bovine embryos by Nobuhiko ITAMI, Yuji HIRAO

“…DNA methylation is a critical event for blastocyst formation in bovines, and serine is a common NEAA that serves as a methyl donor and participates in DNA methylation. Serine is generally added at a concentration of 100 µM in bovine embryo culture medium. …”
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Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-Scale Representation and Shifting Transformer by Geng Fu, Ziyu Wang, Cuijuan Zhang, Zerong Qi, Mingzheng Hu, Shujun Fu, Yunfeng Zhang

“…The outstanding performance demonstrates that Swin-MIQ possesses robust learning and generalization capabilities across all referenced distorted databases.…”
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Life satisfaction of Palestinian and Polish students after pandemic COVID-19 by Krzysztof Zdziarski, Anna Knyszyńska, Katarzyna Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Mariam Awad, Salam Awad, Narmeen Qumsieh, Marek Landowski, Beata Karakiewicz

“…The results indicate a generally positive assessment of students’ life satisfaction after the pandemic. …”
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Strawberry Germplasm Influences Fruit Physicochemical Composition More than Harvest Date or Location by Brianna Haynes, Gina Fernandez, Guoying Ma, Hsuan Chen, Penelope Perkins-Veazie

“…As harvest dates advanced, pH, TAC, P3G, P3R, and pelargonidin-3-O-(6″-malonylglucoside) (P3MG) generally decreased, while Tacid, SSC, and cyanidin-3-O-glucoside (C3G) increased. …”
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How to Achieve Efficiency and Accuracy in Discrete Element Simulation of Asphalt Mixture: A DRF-Based Equivalent Model for Asphalt Sand Mortar by Yu Liu, Peifeng Su, Miaomiao Li, Hui Yao, Junfu Liu, Mei Xu, Xiaodong Zhou, Zhanping You

“…Larger-sized balls (generally 2.0–2.36 mm) were usually used to model the smaller particles and asphalt binder, but this replacement may result in the mixture’s unrealistic volumetric features. …”
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Determinants of UK companies’ dividend policy by Munther Momany, Khaled Bataineh, Omar Al-Bataineh

“…The outcomes of a wide range of panel data analysis regressions, such as Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) regressions, clearly show that the catering dividend significantly impacts UK firms' dividend policy. …”
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Is It Possible to Observe Society in Its Totality? Niklas Luhmann as Perseus and Medusa as Society by A. Yu. Antonovskiy

“…This circumstance gives rise to the paradox of self-applicability or self-reference in their social specification, since generalizing statements about society, if they claim to be universal in description, are always applicable to the statements themselves. …”
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Investigation on Fluid Flow Heat Transfer and Frictional Properties of Al2O3 Nanofluids Used in Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger by Debabrata Barik, Sreejesh S. R. Chandran, Milon Selvam Dennison, T. G. Ansalam Raj, K. E. Reby Roy

“…Nanofluids are generally utilized in providing cooling, lubrication phenomenon, and controlling the thermophysical properties of the working fluid. …”
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Preference learning based deep reinforcement learning for flexible job shop scheduling problem by Xinning Liu, Li Han, Ling Kang, Jiannan Liu, Huadong Miao

“…Given the complexity and diversity of FJSP, improving the generalization and quality of scheduling methods has become a hot topic of interest in both industry and academia. …”
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Identification of Potential Serum Metabolic Biomarkers of Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Widely Targeted Metabolomics Study by Hang Zhang, Jing-jing Zuo, Si-si Dong, Yuan Lan, Chen-wei Wu, Guang-yun Mao, Chao Zheng

“…A total of 11 differential metabolites, including Hexadecanoic Acid (C16:0), Linolelaidic Acid (C18:2N6T), Linoleic Acid (C18:2N6C), Trans-4-Hydroxy-L-Proline, 6-Aminocaproic Acid, L-Dihydroorotic Acid, 6-Methylmercaptopurine, Piperidine, Azoxystrobin Acid, Lysopc 20:4, and Cuminaldehyde, were determined as the potential biomarkers for the DKD early identification, based on the multivariable generalized linear regression model and receiver operating characteristic analysis. …”
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Quality Evaluation of Ethiopian 100% Cotton Carded Ring Spun Yarn with Respect to USTER Standards by Biruk Fentahun Adamu, Desalegn Atalie, Erkihun Zelalem Liyew

“…Tensile properties of A2 (32.85Ne and 36.2Ne) had fallen under 5% USTER statistics percentile which indicates excellent yarn strength. Generally, from studied mills, it was seen that 61.5% of cotton yarn CVm and thin places falls at above 95% and 15% of yarn tenacity falls at ≤5% of Uster statistical percentile.…”
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Concrete damage–plasticity model with double independent hardening by A. M. Budarin, G. I. Rempel, A. A. Kamzolkin, V. N. Alekhin

“…This research is based on the analytical generalization and systematization of the data received from domestic and foreign sources devoted to the plasticity theory and fracture mechanics of concrete and reinforced concrete.Results. …”
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A nomogram to predict sarcopenia in middle-aged and older women: a nationally representative survey in China by Jiayi Yang, Zihao Chen, Xinxin Dai, Liyao Jiang, Liyan Dai, Yu Zhao

“…Studies have shown that sarcopenia is generally higher in women than in men. Therefore, this study used the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) data to explore further the risk factors associated with sarcopenia in middle-aged and older Chinese women.MethodsIn this study, data from the 2015 CHARLS database were analyzed, comprising 7,805 eligible participants. …”
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Assessment and Modelling of Walk Trips in Akure, Nigeria by Yinka Benjamin Oluwadiya, Arafat Ayodeji Adeowu, Emmanuel Femi Adebayo, Adekunle Isaac Omole, Musa Odunayo Sabit, Olatunji Akhigbe Akinyeye

“…The key factors that greatly influenced decision of respondents to walk included socioeconomic factors, such as income, personal car ownership, educational qualifications, and employment status, with age and sex being the least significant socioeconomic determinants. Generally, the factors that motivated respondents to choose walking as a travel mode included its relative affordability, the lack of personal vehicles, awareness of health benefits, safety and security concerns, avoidance of motorized traffic congestion, and favorable weather conditions. …”
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Climate variability, population growth, and globalization impacting food security in Pakistan by Sohail Abbas, Ahtisham Haider, Shazia Kousar, Heli Lu, Siqi Lu, Fang Liu, Huan Li, Changhong Miao, Wanfu Feng, Muhammad Irfan Ahamad, Muhammad Sajid Mehmood, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain

“…A two-layer principal component analysis was utilized to develop the food security index. Multivariate Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity was used to assess the impact of globalization, population growth, and climate variability on food security. …”
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Unveiling the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of the Berlengas Archipelago in Portugal as a Hotspot of Fish Species Using eDNA Metabarcoding and the Collaboration of Fishing Crews by Marco Simões, Cátia Costa, Maria da Luz Calado, Nuno Vasco-Rodrigues, Maria Jorge Campos, Sérgio Miguel Leandro, Agostinho Antunes

“…Fisher-collected samples were generally less diverse than those by the research team but detected species typical of deeper and open-ocean habitats, validating this sampling method. …”
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The bristle pattern development in Drosophila melanogaster: the prepattern and achaete-scute genes by D. P. Furman, T. V. Bukharina

“…This review systematizes the available data on the regular patterns of this interaction and shows that local expression of these genes is determined by hierarchical two-level control system comprising both direct and indirect regulators of their activities. A generalized scheme of the system containing the functional interactions of its components is proposed. …”
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Deep learning-based prediction of autoimmune diseases by Donghong Yang, Xin Peng, Senlin Zheng, Shenglan Peng

“…These results demonstrate the high accuracy, stability, and good generalization ability of the two models, which makes them promising tools in the field of autoimmune disease prediction and provides support for the use of the TCR bank for the noninvasive detection of autoimmune disease non-invasive detection is supported.…”
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Cyberstalking Practices Among Youth in Türkiye: Motivational Drivers, Digital Avenues, and Perceptual Paradigms by Zindan Çakıcı

“…Notably,LinkedIn elicits the greatest participant unease due to notification mechanisms, while WhatsApp is leastutilized owing to data limitations. While participants generally perceive cyberstalking as normative, manyresort to various stratagems, including the creation of fictitious accounts, to access restricted profiles.Despite intensive engagement in these practices, the majority eschew self-identification as ‘stalkers,’ citingperceived excessiveness and intimidation associated with the label.…”
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Policy research on role of traditional medicine in emergency health system construction based on the PMC index model: evidence from China by Yujing Zhang, Xia Tian, Zhao Chen, Ziteng Hu, Huizhen Li, Xingyu Zong, An Li, Fuqiang Zhang, Yaxin Chen, Haili Zhang, Lijiao Yan, Ning Liang, Nannan Shi, Yanping Wang

“…This indicates that the policy quality related to TCM use in emergency response was normally distributed and generally qualified, although room for further improvement exists; policies should follow the principles of science, reasonableness, and operability, and should be updated in a timely manner with continuous development of the governance period while focusing on the policy content, safeguards, and role measures. …”
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