Poly-γ-Glutamic Acid Attenuates Angiogenesis and Inflammation in Experimental Colitis by Munkhtugs Davaatseren, Jin-Taek Hwang, Jae Ho Park, Myung-Sunny Kim, Shuaiyu Wang, Mi Jeong Sung

“…Experimental colitis was induced in male C57BL/6 mice by administering 3% DSS. Disease activity index (DAI), histopathological scores, microvascular density, myeloperoxidase activity, and VEGF-A and VEGFR2 expression were compared among control mice, DSS-treated mice, and mice receiving 3% DSS along with γ-PGA at 50 mg/kg body weight per day or 3% DSS with γ-PGA at 200 mg/kg body weight per day. …”
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Evaluation of Reliability and Validity of Three Common Dry Eye Questionnaires in Chinese by Fan Lu, Aizhu Tao, Yinu Hu, Weiwei Tao, Ping Lu

“…To investigate the psychometric properties of three commonly used dry eye questionnaires including McMonnies Questionnaire (MQ), the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), and the Salisbury Eye Evaluation Questionnaire (SEEQ) in Chinese. …”
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Safety Risk Evaluation of Large and Complex Bridges during Construction Based on the Delphi-Improved FAHP-Factor Analysis Method by Teng Ji, Ji-Wei Liu, Qing-Fu Li

“…First, the Delphi method was used to conduct a general survey of safety risk factors during the bridge construction period, and then the work breakdown structure-risk substructure (WBS-RBS) was used to establish the evaluation index system. Second, the improved FAHP was combined with it to calculate the weight of each risk factor. …”
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The Analysis of E-Government Services Adoption and Use in Slovenian Information Society between 2014 and 2017 by Mitja Dečman

“…The well-known European Digital Economy and Society Index ranks Slovenia to the lower half of member states indicating possibilities for improvement. …”
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Análise da dinâmica temporal da cobertura vegetal na microrregião de Umarizal (2000 a 2022), semiárido do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil by Islânia dos Santos Nunes, Alfredo Marcelo Grigio, Marco Antônio Diodato

“…For vegetation analysis, the following index was used: SAVI. QGIS Software, version 3.28.3, was used to create vegetation cover maps. …”
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Association between Sleep Habits and Metabolically Healthy Obesity in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by Thirumagal Kanagasabai, Ramandeep Dhanoa, Jennifer L. Kuk, Chris I. Ardern

“…Higher body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, but nearly a third of the people living with obesity (BMI: ≥30 kg/m2) are metabolically healthy (MHO). …”
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Novel Intravenous Nanoemulsions Based on Cannabidiol-Enriched Hemp Oil—Development and Validation of an HPLC-DAD Method for Cannabidiol Determination by Agnieszka Sobczak, Piotr Zieliński, Anna Jelińska, Aleksandra Gostyńska-Stawna

“…The formulated NEs were characterized by droplet size of below 200 nm and polydispersity index PDI ≤ 0.14 satisfactory for intravenous application. …”
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Operation time as a prognostic indicator on postoperative complications following percutaneous nephrolithotomy by Alireza Pakdel, Abdolreza Mohammadi, Amirreza Shamshirgaran, Ehsan Zemanati Yar, Leila Zareian Baghdadabad, Farshid Alaeddini, Roghayeh Koohi Ortakand, Leonardo Oliveira Reis, Seyed Reza Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir

“…Multivariate analysis indicated that longer operation times and lower body mass index correlated with higher complication rates. …”
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Lawsone encapsulated polylactic‐co‐glycolic acid nanoparticles modified with chitosan‐folic acid successfully inhibited cell growth and triggered apoptosis in Panc‐1 cancer cells... by Helia Ghafaripour, Masoud Homayouni Tabrizi, Ehsan Karimi, Niloofar Barati Naeeni

“…The nanoparticles were analysed in means of shape/size and zeta potential index using scanning electron microscope and dynamic light scattering. …”
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Fermi Unassociated Sources in the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey by Morgan Himes, Preshanth Jagannathan, Dale A. Frail, Frank Schinzel, Neeraj Gupta, S. A. Balashev, F. Combes, P. P. Deka, H.-R. Klöckner, E. Momjian, J. D. Wagenveld

“…We have carried out an image-based search for steep spectrum radio sources, with in-band spectral index < −1.4, within the error regions of Fermi unassociated sources using 1–1.4 GHz radio data from the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) data release. …”
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Influence of cataract surgery in biopsychosocial adaptation in the elderly by Leonor Rosario Diaz Alfonso, Elvira Machado Héctor, Bárbara Suárez Rodríguez, Mariela Julia Curbelo Gómez

“…It was applied before and 3 months after cataract surgery and included the Yesavage Geriatric Depression Rating Scale to measure emotional function and the Katz index for functional evaluation. The variables used are part of the preoperative geriatric assessment. …”
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Detection of macular and peripheral ocular microvascular changes after carotid artery revascularization using widefield SS-OCTA by Ting Luo, Lu Wang, Li Zhang

“…In the peripheral regions, significant increases were detected in both VDRSVC and the three-dimensional choroidal vascularity index (3D-CVI) post-CAR.ConclusionThe findings of this study demonstrated that CAR can improve perfusion in both the macular and peripheral fundus and lead to a decreased area and circumference of the FAZ in the ipsilateral eye. …”
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Risk factors burden in Cuba, Latin American and the Caribbean region by Armando Seuc Jo, Mayelin Mirabal Sosa, Yanet García Serrano, Karen Alfonso Sague, Oscar Díaz Díaz, Delia María Gálvez Medina

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> Smoking, elevated fasting glucose, elevated body mass index, and elevated systolic blood pressure accounted for more than 50% (55.2%) of the global burden in Cuba for 2019. …”
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Network Graph Analysis of Gene-Gene Interactions in Genome-Wide Association Study Data by Sungyoung Lee, Min-Seok Kwon, Taesung Park

“…The proposed method was applied to Korean Association Resource (KARE) data, containing 8838 individuals with 327,632 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, in order to perform GxG interaction analysis of body mass index (BMI). Our network graph analysis successfully showed that many identified GxG interactions have known biological evidence related to BMI. …”
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Surface Flaw Detection of Plug Valve Material Using Infrared Thermography and Weighted Local Variation Pixel-Based Fuzzy Clustering Technique by V. Jacintha, S. Karthikeyan, P. Sivaprakasam

“…The defects were measured against parametric quantities such as F-value, precision, recall, accuracy, Jaccard index, TP, FP, TN, FN, FP rate, TP rate, and MCC. …”
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Experimental Study on the Effect of Brittleness on the Dynamic Mechanical Behaviors of the Coal Measures Sandstone by Junce Xu, Hai Pu, Ziheng Sha

“…The results revealed that the brittleness indexes BI3 and BI5 of the samples under uniaxial compression follow a linearly decreasing trend affected by the temperature changes, while the brittleness of the sample shows an increasing trend with the increase of strain rate under the dynamic loading. …”
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Influence of Foundation Rigidity on the Structural Response of Mat Foundation by Sami W. Tabsh, Magdi El-Emam

“…A parametric study is included to demonstrate the impact of the variables that affect the rigidity index on the response of the mat.…”
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Machine learning-based prediction of antipsychotic efficacy from brain gray matter structure in drug-naive first-episode schizophrenia by Xiaodong Guo, Enpeng Zhou, Xianghe Wang, Bingjie Huang, Tianqi Gao, Chengcheng Pu, Xin Yu

“…Machine learning algorithms were applied to predict treatment outcomes based on GM volume, cortical thickness, and gyrification index, and the model performance was evaluated. Widespread regions, such as the superior temporal gyrus, middle frontal gyrus, supramarginal gyrus, the posterior central gyrus, anterior cingulate gyrus, and parahippocampal gyrus showed substantial predictive value for 3-month treatment efficacy (74.32% accuracy). …”
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State Administration of Retirement Age in the terms of Budget Crisis by A. K. Solovyev

“…Methodological approaches, grounded in the work, and quantitative results of the actuarial calculations will be used in the formation of public pension policy in the preparation of the regulations to rise the retirement age, the pension formula of calculating the pension rights of insured persons, the mechanism of pension indexation.…”
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Classification of Performance Grades of High Modulus Asphalt and Its Mixture: Taking China as an Example by Lu Zhou, Kaixi Duan, Feng Gao, Yi Fu, Qian Chen

“…In order to further improve the durability and use quality of Chinese roads, realize the scientific evaluation of the performance of high modulus asphalt and its mixture, and further promote the development of high modulus asphalt technology in China, the performance indexes of high modulus asphalt and its mixture in China were comprehensively investigated. …”
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