How Capital Intervention Impacts Rural Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Two Suburban Villages near Wuhan by Yongwei Tang, Yong Zhou, Hui Ci, Helin Liu, Mei Luo, Ying Xu, Maomao Zhang

“…This comparative study of the two villages can provide insights into policy formulation for the purpose of rural revitalization in China and other countries in the Global South undergoing rapid urbanization.…”
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Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists in obesity treatment - a literature review by Aleksander Jentkiewicz, Esmail Haj Obeid, Jakub Ulrych, Jan Krupa, Maciej Malinowski, Michał Krasowski, Alicja Kalinowska, Wiktoria Pietras, Adrian Kozieł, Zofia Kurek

“…Introduction and Purpose: Obesity is an escalating global health challenge, affecting over 2 billion individuals worldwide, contributing to many challenges for healthcare providers such as cardiovascular disorders, cancers, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. …”
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Potential use of the Maroua (Far North, Cameroon) river sand as construction materials and degreasing agent for earthenware ceramics by Mahamad Nafissatou, Bertin Pagna Kagonbé, Arnaud Ghislain Anombogo Mouthe, Bouba Nafissa, Viviane Djaoyang Bakaïné, Etienne Yanné, Likiby Boubakar, Armand Kagou Dongmo

“…The most abundant oxides in the five samples are SiO2, Al2O3, and K2O, while Fe2O3, MgO, TiO2, and P2O5 are in small amounts except for CaO and Na2O which are present in high amounts in NS1, and NS2 samples. Globally, the studied sands have given satisfactory results, and they are suitable for use in concrete. …”
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Development and characterization of a chicory extract fermented by Akkermansia muciniphila: An in vitro study on its potential to modulate obesity-related inflammation by A. Chervet, R. Nehme, C. Defois-Fraysse, C. Decombat, C. Blavignac, C. Auxenfans, B. Evrard, S. Michel, E. Filaire, J.-Y. Berthon, A. Dreux-Zigha, L. Delort, F. Caldefie-Chézet

“…Obesity, the fifth leading cause of death globally and linked to chronic low-grade inflammation and development of numerous severe pathologies, is a major public health problem. …”
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A methodological approach to assess the ropy character of stirred acid dairy gels based on the measure of adhesiveness by Siwar Nahali, Audrey Gilbert, Charlotte Marchand, Marie-Hélène Lessard, Donna Miller, Sébastien Fraud, Steve Labrie, Sylvie L. Turgeon

“…Visually ropier commercial yogurts with high protein and fat contents presented higher adhesiveness. Globally, adhesiveness analysis was not affected by probe material, but larger probes resulted in higher adhesiveness values. …”
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Brain glucose metabolism as a neuronal substrate of the abnormal behavioral response to stress in the mdx mouse, a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy by Sébastien Goutal, Marion Lancien, François Rivier, Nicolas Tournier, Cyrille Vaillend

“…Restraint-stress induced a global decrease in [18F]FDG uptake in mdx mice, while no difference was found between genotypes when mice were tested one week later under non-stressful conditions. …”
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Is It Scaly Anteater or Bat A Real Origin of The 2019-Novel CoV: A Probable Hypothesis? by Salar Ali, Taib Hama-Soor, Muhammed Babakir-Mina, Salvatore Dimonte, Francesco Greco

“…Today, the emerging of the new coronavirus 2019nCoV possesses a global health problem and little is known about its origin. …”
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Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm by Xingyu Liu, Yuanfeng Chu, Yiheng Hu, Nan Zhao

“…Following this, this paper introduces the Global Attention Module (GAM), which markedly improves the efficiency and accuracy of extracting key target information in complex data environments. …”
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Medical image segmentation based on frequency domain decomposition SVD linear attention by Liu Qiong, Li Chaofan, Teng Jinnan, Chen Liping, Song Jianxiang

“…However, the Vision Transformer (ViT) model, with its capability of extracting global information, offers a significant advantage in contextual information compared to the limited receptive field of convolutional kernels in CNNs. …”
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Assessment of oat varieties with different levels of breeding refinement from the Vavilov Institute’s collection applying the method of metabolomic profiling by I. G. Loskutov, T. V. Shelenga, A. V. Konarev, V. I. Khoreva, Yu. A. Kerv, E. V. Blinova, A. A. Gnutikov, A. V. Rodionov, L. L. Malyshev

“…This diversity is still preserved and maintained in the global germplasm collection at VIR.…”
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From ecological to anthropogenic factors: unraveling the drivers of blue crab Callinectes sapidus occurrence along the Mediterranean coasts by Anna Gavioli, Giuseppe Castaldelli, David B. Eggleston, Robert R. Christian

“…One of the most recent threats to Mediterranean ecosystems is the invasion of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus.MethodsThe occurrences of the crab throughout the Mediterranean coastline were indexed from citizen science through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Using spatial analysis and linear mixed models, we investigated geomorphology (i.e., water depth and coastal wetlands extension), water physical variables (i.e., salinity and winter and summer water temperature), water quality variables (i.e., chlorophyll-a, nitrate and orthophosphate) and anthropogenic factors (i.e., ship density and population size) potentially affecting the blue crab occurrence along the coast.ResultsOur results showed that nitrate, as an indicator of riverine nutrient loading, and water depth, as an indicator of slope of the bottom, were the most influential variables in explaining the occurrences of blue crabs. …”
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Isolation and characterization of a novel lytic phage K14-2 infecting diverse species of the genus Klebsiella and Raoultella by Seomin Kang, Jeong-Eun Han, Young-Sik Choi, In-Chul Jeong, Jin-Woo Bae, Jin-Woo Bae, Jin-Woo Bae

“…Multi-drug-resistant bacteria pose a significant global threat to public health, particularly among patients with critical nosocomial infection. …”
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DSMF-Net: Dual Semantic Metric Learning Fusion Network for Few-Shot Aerial Image Semantic Segmentation by Xiyu Qi, Yidan Zhang, Lei Wang, Yifan Wu, Yi Xin, Zhan Chen, Yunping Ge

“…To exploit multiscale global semantic context, we construct scale-aware graph prototypes from different stages of the feature layers based on graph convolutional networks (GCNs), while also incorporating prior-guided metric learning to further enhance context at the high-level convolution features. …”
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The genomes of the most diverse AA genome rice species provide a resource for rice improvement and studies of rice evolution and domestication by Muhammad Abdullah, Agnelo Furtado, Ardashir Kharabian Masouleh, Pauline Okemo, Robert Henry

“…Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa) is a staple food crop globally, with origins in wild progenitors within the AA genome group of Oryza species. …”
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Multicenter research in dialysis centers in Brazil: recruitment and implementation of the SARC-HD study by Marvery P. Duarte, Otávio T. Nóbrega, Barbara P. Vogt, Fábio A. Vieira, Dário R. Mondini, Maryanne Z.C. Silva, Henrique S. Disessa, Rodrigo R. Krug, Bruna R.M. Sant’Helena, Daiana C. Bundchen, Maristela Bohlke, Angélica N. Adamoli, Marco C. Uchida, Carla M. Avesani, Maycon M. Reboredo, Heitor S. Ribeiro

“…Data collection challenges were mainly reported with the subjective 7-point global assessment and the international physical activity questionnaire. …”
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Fumar em Área Aberta é o Suficiente para Proteção das Crianças? by Maria Alice Santos Tavares, Leandro Alberto Calazans Nogueira, Ney Armando de Mello Meziat Filho, Renato Santos de Almeida, Camila Drumond Muzi, Raphael Mendonça Guimarães, Raquel de Souza Ramos, Gisele Fragoso Mendes, Selma Cristina de Jesus Mesquita, Manassés Moura dos Santos Santos, Maria Victória de Jesus Mesquita Palazzo, Juliana Miranda Batista Moura dos Santos, Agnaldo José Lopes

“…Destas, 168.840 (28%) são crianças. O The Global Burden of Disease 3 alertou que morrem aproximadamente 47 mil crianças menores de 5 anos em decorrência do tabagismo passivo. …”
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Improving dexamethasone drug loading and efficacy in treating rheumatoid arthritis via liposome: Focusing on inflammation and molecular mechanisms by Mohammad Yasin Zamanian, Hamidreza Zafari, Maria K. Osminina, Alla A. Skakodub, Raed Fanoukh Aboqader Al‐Aouadi, Maryam Golmohammadi, Nikta Nikbakht, Iman Fatemi

“…Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects approximately 0.46% of the global population. Conventional therapeutics for RA, including disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and corticosteroids, frequently result in unintended adverse effects. …”
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Assessing Thermospheric Neutral Density Models Using GEODYN's Precision Orbit Determination by Z. C. Waldron, K. Garcia‐Sage, J. P. Thayer, E. K. Sutton, V. Ray, D. D. Rowlands, F. G. Lemoine, S. B. Luthcke, M. Kuznetsova, R. Ringuette, L. Rastaetter, G. D. Berland

“…Abstract This study focuses on utilizing the increasing availability of satellite trajectory data from global navigation satellite system‐enabled low‐Earth orbiting satellites and their precision orbit determination (POD) solutions to expand and refine thermospheric model validation capabilities. …”
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Psoralidin: emerging biological activities of therapeutic benefits and its potential utility in cervical cancer by Tanya Tripathi, Apoorva Chaudhary, Divya Janjua, Udit Joshi, Nikita Aggarwal, Chetkar Chandra Keshavam, Alok Chandra Bharti

“…Cervical cancer (CaCx) is the fourth most prevalent cancer in women contributing to 341,831 annual deaths globally in 2020. Owing to its high mortality rate, the identification of novel inhibitors preventing CaCx progression is of utmost importance. …”
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Bypassing primary antiretroviral therapy centres in Sub-Saharan Africa: An integrative review of the theoretical and empirical literature by Maximillian Kolbe Domapielle, Sadat Zakari Abugbila, Marshall Kala

“…The uptake of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical to meeting the global HIV treatment goal of 95-95-95 by 2025. Although a few Sub-Saharan African countries have already achieved this target, the prevalence of bypassing primary ART centres in many countries in the subregion has negative implications for ART uptake and use. …”
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