Application of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics in patients with breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol for randomised controlled trials by Wenjie Liu, Wenyao Cui, Xinrong Chen, Dan Duan, Maojun Chen

“…Microbial agents play an important role in maintaining the balance of gut microbiota and modulating intestinal immunity, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. …”
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The R&D of HTR-STAC Program Package: Source Term Analysis Codes for Pebble-Bed High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor by Hongyu Chen, Chuan Li, Haoyu Xing, Chao Fang

“…High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor-Pebble-bed Modules (HTR-PM) design by China is a typical Gen-IV and due to different safety concepts and systems, the implements of source term analysis in light water reactors are not entirely applicable to HTR-PM. …”
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Pengembangan panduan konseling rational emotive behavioral teknik dispute cognitive untuk meningkatkan konsep diri dan resiliensi terhadap kemandirian pada siswa by I Gst. Agung Diah Rusdayanti, Ni Ketut Suarni, I Ketut Dharsana, Nyoman Dantes, Putu Ari Dharmayanti

“…Guidance and counseling teachers' efforts to help students develop positive self-concept and resilience towards independence still experience obstacles due to limited facilities in the form of guidance modules that can assist in providing services. This research aims to compile and produce a design for a guidebook, determine the validity of the contents of the guidebook, determine the practicality of implementing the guidebook, and determine the effectiveness of implementing the rational emotive behavioral counseling guidebook, cognitive dispute techniques to increase self-concept and resilience towards independence in students. …”
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Conditioned Medium from Human Amnion-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Regulates Activation of Primary Hepatic Stellate Cells by Qingjie Fu, Shunsuke Ohnishi, Naoya Sakamoto

“…These findings demonstrated that hAMSC-CM can modulate HSC function via secretory factors and provide a plausible explanation for the protective role of hAMSCs in liver fibrosis.…”
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Microsporidian Nosema bombycis secretes serine protease inhibitor to suppress host cell apoptosis via Caspase BmICE. by Maoshuang Ran, Jialing Bao, Boning Li, Yulian Shi, Wenxin Yang, Xianzhi Meng, Jie Chen, Junhong Wei, Mengxian Long, Tian Li, Chunfeng Li, Guoqing Pan, Zeyang Zhou

“…Apoptosis is an important defense mechanism by which host cell control intracellular pathogens. Microsporidia modulating host cell apoptosis has been reported previously, however the molecular mechanism is not yet clear. …”
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Dual Control of Host Actin Polymerization by a Legionella Effector Pair by M. Pillon, C. Michard, N. Baïlo, J. Bougnon, K. Picq, O. Dubois, C. Andrea, L. Attaiech, V. Daubin, S. Jarraud, E. Kay, P. Doublet

“…We demonstrated that LegK2 and VipA do not modulate each other’s activity in a “metaeffector” relationship. …”
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Integration of predictive and computational intelligent techniques: A hybrid optimization mechanism for PMSM dynamics reinforcement by Shaswat Chirantan, Bibhuti Bhusan Pati

“…The heart of the work deals with the optimal switching states and subsequent voltage injection to the inverter fed PMSM drive by a predefined minimization principle of a current modulated objective function, where MPC constitutes an integral finite control set (IFCS) mechanism for voltage vector selection and thereby selects the optimized integral gains Kd and Kq for direct and quadrature axes, respectively, with the FCS gain Kfcs obtained from implemented intelligent techniques. …”
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Cultural Aspects of Type-2 Diabetes-related Social Stigma: A Cultural Epidemiological Study among General Community Members in Urban Pune, India by Abhay Machindra Kudale, Mayuri Dnyandeo Ghawat, Akshada Vikram Gopale, Mugdha Sharad Phutane, Saju Joseph

“…A cross-sectional community-based survey using a locally adapted Explanatory Module Interview Catalog was conducted among 100 randomly selected general community members who did not have diabetes from slum pockets of Pune city. …”
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Chelate compounds and their use for correction of trace element deficiencies in livestock (review) by A. G. Koshchaev, N. E. Gorkovenko, A. V. Kosykh, D. V. Antipova

“…Due to the immunostimulatory activity resulting from increase in the content of sialic acids, properdin, ceruloplasmin, gamma globulin protein fraction, the metal chelates (copper, cobalt, iodine) can be used as immune response modulators. Iron chelate compounds are used for therapy and prevention of iron deficiency anemias not only in veterinary, but also in human medicine. …”
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Interpretable DWT-1DCNN-LSTM Network for Power Quality Disturbance Classification by Shuangquan Yang, Tao Shan, Xiaomei Yang

“…The robustness provided by the DWT module makes the model well suited for PQDs in environments with large disturbances, helping to detect and mitigate PQDs in a timely manner and ultimately contributing to improved power quality and system reliability.…”
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Natural Cyclic Peptides: Synthetic Strategies and Biomedical Applications by Devan Buchanan, Shogo Mori, Ahmed Chadli, Siva S. Panda

“…These compounds are employed in diverse roles, including antibiotics, antifungals, antiparasitics, immune modulators, and anti-inflammatory agents. Their unique ability to combine high specificity with desirable pharmacokinetic properties makes them valuable tools in addressing unmet medical needs, such as combating drug-resistant pathogens and targeting challenging biological pathways. …”
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Unveiling cell-type-specific microRNA networks through alternative polyadenylation in glioblastoma by Mert Cihan, Greta Schmauck, Maximilian Sprang, Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro

“…This study focuses on exploring the distinct cellular transitions in GBM, emphasizing the role of alternative polyadenylation (APA) in modulating microRNA-binding and post-transcriptional regulation. …”
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Soil erosion susceptibility maps and raster dataset for the hydrological basins of North Africa by Adil Salhi, Sara Benabdelouahab, Essam Heggy

“…Abstract Soil erosion in North Africa modulates agricultural and urban developments as well as the impacts of flash floods. …”
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Impact of developmental state, p53 status, and interferon signaling on glioblastoma cell response to radiation and temozolomide treatment. by Artem Berezovsky, Oluwademilade Nuga, Indrani Datta, Kimberly Bergman, Thais Sabedot, Katherine Gurdziel, Susan Irtenkauf, Laura Hasselbach, Yuling Meng, Claudius Mueller, Emanuel F Petricoin, Stephen Brown, Neeraja Purandare, Sidhesh Aras, Tom Mikkelsen, Laila Poisson, Houtan Noushmehr, Douglas Ruden, Ana C deCarvalho

“…We identified TP53 status as a critical determinant of transcriptional response to both RT and TMZ, which was also modulated by the differentiation state and treatment modality in wildtype (wt) p53 GBM cells. …”
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Nanosilicon application changes the morphological attributes and essential oil compositions of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) under water deficit stress by Ayyub Rezghiyan, Hassan Esmaeili, Mohsen Farzaneh

“…Nanosilicon plays a crucial role in alleviating the deleterious impacts of both abiotic and biotic stresses in plants by modulating various phyto-morphological and physiological processes. …”
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Inhibitory Effect of (2S)-Pinocembrin From Goniothalamus macrophyllus on the Prostaglandin E2 Production in Macrophage Cell Lines by Hilwan Yuda Teruna, Kamal Rullah, Rudi Hendra, Rahayu Utami, Deri Islami, Siti Munirah Mohd Faudzi, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi Mohd Aluwi, Kok Wai Lam

“…To evaluate deeper into the anti-inflammatory potential of the specific enantiomer of natural PCB, we conducted the first investigation into the efficacy of the pure enantiomer (2S)-PCB in modulating inflammatory mediators induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in both murine RAW 264.7 and human U937 macrophage cell lines. …”
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Very Short-Term Blackout Prediction for Grid-Tied PV Systems Operating in Low Reliability Weak Electric Grids of Developing Countries by Benson H. Mbuya, Aleksandar Dimovski, Marco Merlo, Thomas Kivevele

“…The model was composed of an adaptive similar day (ASD) module that predicts 15 minutes ahead from a sliding window lookup table spanning 2 weeks prior to the prediction target day, after which ASD prediction was fused with RF prediction, giving a final optimised RF-ASD blackout prediction model. …”
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Identification and Validation of a Potential Stemness-Associated Biomarker in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Yangyang Zhang, Ruike Zhang, Lingxiu Zeng, Haizhou Wang, Ruyi Peng, Meng Zhang, Hailin Zhang, Zhenwei Yang, Liping Gao, Meng Wang, Jing Liu

“…The positive stemness-associated (blue) module with 737 genes were screened based on WGCNA, and Budding uninhibited by benzimidazoles 1 (BUB1) was identified as the hub gene highly related to stemness in HCC. …”
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Identification of hypertension gene expression biomarkers based on the DeepGCFS algorithm. by Zongjin Li, Liqin Tian, Libing Bai, Zeyu Jia, Xiaoming Wu, Changxin Song

“…The algorithm then uses hybrid clustering methods for gene module detection. Finally, it combines integrated feature selection methods to determine the gene biomarkers. …”
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A novel differential evolution method with a hierarchical decoder for the photovoltaic layout optimization problem by Yuanqing Yao, Yibo Wang, Hongjie Jia, Yunfei Mu

“…A typical photovoltaic power plant spans over 1 km2 and includes more than 100,000 modules and 300 km of cabling, leading to substantial design complexities. …”
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