Harmonizing multisite neonatal diffusion-weighted brain MRI data for developmental neuroscience by Alexandra F. Bonthrone, Manuel Blesa Cábez, A. David Edwards, Jo V. Hajnal, Serena J. Counsell, James P. Boardman

“…Our aim was to investigate the utility of ComBat, an empirical Bayes tool for multisite harmonization, in removing site effects from white matter (WM) dMRI measures in healthy infants born at 37 gestational weeks+ 0 days-42 weeks+ 6 days from the Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort (n = 86) and Developing Human Connectome Project (n = 287). Skeletonized fractional anisotropy (FA), mean, axial and radial diffusivity (MD, AD, RD) maps were harmonized. …”
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Compact wearable microstrip antenna design using hybrid quasi-Newton and Taguchi optimization by Archana Tiwari, Aleefia A. Khurshid, Kanhaiya Sharma

“…The biosafe wearable antenna demonstrated compliant specific absorption rate (SAR) (1.2 W/kg), robust mechanical performance (up to 40° bending), and underwent human body effect investigation. Comparison of computed and measured antenna parameters confirms solution accuracy. …”
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Economic vs. ecological benefit for organic food: the role of perceived values in online consumer reviews by Hong Huo, Hong Huo, Junru Yao, Junru Yao, Qiutong Li, Qiutong Li, Rong Wu, Rong Wu, Chen Wang, Chen Wang, Dingyao Yu, Dingyao Yu

“…IntroductionWith the growing awareness of sustainable development, organic food has been favored by consumers due to its advantages in both human health and environmental sustainability. However, the economic and ecological values of organic food have been two factors that consumers weigh. …”
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Dynamic distribution and accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Pueraria lobata during growth based on field experiment by Qing-xiang Jiang, Zhi-xin Wang, Xiang Zhou, Qiu-Fang Cao, Si-qi Hu, Jiang-nan Luo, Wen-wen Deng, Hui Li

“…The regulation investigation of the uptake, distribution, and accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the crop growing is essential for human health risk assessments. As an important crop with Chinese medicine homologous food function, Pueraria lobata (P. lobata) was selected as the model crop with rhizome as the products to explore the absorption, and distribution of PAHs under the natural field environment for the first time. …”
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La Seguridad en la Producción de Alimentos en la Granja - Resumen de Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas by Federico G. Caro, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, Keith R. Schneider, Douglas L. Archer

“…Archer, and published by the UF Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, May 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fs230 …”
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Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira by María Cecilia Roa-García, Alejandro Quecedo del Val, Nils Lagrève, Ana Manuela Amaya Morales

“…Such regimes suppress individuality expressed through voice, imposing homogenization, obscurity, and impoverishment on human experience. Extractivism systematically ignores territorial voices, enforcing its dominance by silencing them. …”
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Effects of exogenous selenium application on quality characteristics, selenium speciation, and in vitro bioaccessibility of rice pancakes by Feiran An, Kun Zhuang, Lingling Shangguan, Lan Yao, Jun Dai

“…Selenium is an essential trace element for human health. To date, a hotspot of functional foods is strengthening the content of organic Se in food using biological Se enrichment. …”
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Effectiveness of Nanoparticles in Enhancing Bond Strength in Adhesive Dentistry by Ullash Kumar, Dewanshu Kumar, Khyati N Gosai, Dhanashree Dalal, B Pragnya, Sayeeganesh Nagarajan

“…Materials and Methods: The adhesive treatments applied to 60 removed human molars were separated into three groups at random: ordinary adhesive, adhesive combined with silica nanoparticles, and adhesive combined with zirconia nanoparticles. …”
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A Hybrid Framework for Detection and Analysis of Leaf Blight Using Guava Leaves Imaging by Sidrah Mumtaz, Mudassar Raza, Ofonime Dominic Okon, Saeed Ur Rehman, Adham E. Ragab, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…Fruit is an essential element of human life and a significant gain for the agriculture sector. …”
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Unlocking Patient Resistance to AI in Healthcare: A Psychological Exploration by Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih, Asma Chaibi, Riadh Brini, Tamer Mohamed Abdelghani Ibrahim

“…Strategies to balance AI’s efficiency with human interaction, mitigate technological dependence, and foster trust are recommended for successful implementation of AI. …”
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Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Achilles Tendon Total Rupture Score (ATRS) into Spanish: a study protocol by Armando Calleja-Rodríguez, Beatriz Ruiz-Ruiz, Ángel González-de-la-Flor, María García Arrabé

“…The Achilles tendon is the strongest and largest tendon in the human body, yet it is also the most frequently ruptured. …”
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ET-1 Promotes Differentiation of Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells into Osteoblasts through ETR, MAPK, and Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathways under Inflammatory Microenvironment by Li Liang, Wei Zhou, Nan Yang, Jifeng Yu, Hongchen Liu

“…The aim of this study is to investigate how ET-1 affects proinflammatory cytokine expression and differentiation in human periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs). PDLSCs were isolated from the periodontal ligament tissues of periodontitis patients and then treated with ET-1 (1, 10, or 100 nM) for 12 h, 24 h, or 72 h. …”
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Different harvesting dates influence the growth, seed yield and quality of two rice varieties in Ghana by Paul Kweku Tandoh, Irene Akua Idun, Philip Amponsah Duodu, Bridget Dwomoh

“…Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food which contains a high amount of nutrients essential for human nutrition, energy supply, and food security. …”
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Behind the scenes with genomics researchers by Renata Mont’Alverne, Lori Bradford, Cheryl Buckmaster, Graham Strickert, Jason MacLean, Diane Dupont

“…These two problems may not only impact a project’s progress but also the ability to gauge success, affecting budgeting, human resource needs, and overall stress. At the macrosystem level, scientists voiced concerns about how different social groups perceive and accept genomics applications, as those tend to be viewed by lay persons as genetic interventions. …”
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Ion channel traffic jams: the significance of trafficking deficiency in long QT syndrome by Gema Mondéjar-Parreño, Ana I. Moreno-Manuel, Juan Manuel Ruiz-Robles, José Jalife

“…Finally, we discuss how using human induced pluripotent stem cell technology to model ion channel trafficking and its defects may help accelerate drug discovery toward preventing life-threatening arrhythmias. …”
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Older people at risk in times of pandemic? A qualitative study of coping narratives that support resilience in older people by Lucía Pérez Sánchez, Beatriz Guadalupe Maza Pérez, Guiana Fernández De Lara López

“…Special attention was paid to the discourse on psycho-emotional consequences, social beliefs about old age, discrimination, as well as the omissions of human rights and dignity of the elderly. Method: qualitative descriptive cross-sectional ethnomethodological design, with a continuous inclusion sample, corresponding to 15 participants, between 64 and 85 years old, living in Mexico. …”
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Internet of things enabled smart agriculture: Current status, latest advancements, challenges and countermeasures by Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne, Muhammad Saifullah Abu Bakar, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas, Hayati Yassin

“…It is no wonder that agriculture plays a vital role in the development of some countries when their economies rely on agricultural activities and the production of food for human survival. Owing to the ever-increasing world population, estimated at 7.9 billion in 2022, feeding this number of people has become a concern due to the current rate of agricultural food production subjected to various reasons. …”
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Detention of a person committed a criminal offence: criminal procedural and forensic characteristics by V. G. Drozd

“…The practice of using administrative detention for the purposes of criminal proceedings is unacceptable, as the European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly pointed out. Prospect for the further research is the need to analyse the measures of restraint used during the pre-trial investigation of criminal offences, as well as to clarify the existential content and essence of the relevant institution, and its importance for the criminal justice system in general.…”
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Differential Effects of Angelicin Analogues on NF-κB Activity and IL-8 Gene Expression in Cystic Fibrosis IB3-1 Cells by Ilaria Lampronti, Maria Giulia Manzione, Gianni Sacchetti, Davide Ferrari, Susanna Spisani, Valentino Bezzerri, Alessia Finotti, Monica Borgatti, Maria Cristina Dechecchi, Giorgia Miolo, Giovanni Marzaro, Giulio Cabrini, Roberto Gambari, Adriana Chilin

“…These findings encouraged us to analyze new synthetic analogues of TMA in order to evaluate their biological activities on human bronchial epithelial CF IB3-1 cells and to find more potent anti-NF-κB agents exhibiting only minor antiproliferative effects. …”
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Extreme Environment Streptomyces: Potential Sources for New Antibacterial and Anticancer Drug Leads? by Periyasamy Sivalingam, Kui Hong, John Pote, Kandasamy Prabakar

“…Conversely, cancer is a growing complex human disease that demands new drugs with no or fewer side effects. …”
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