Using Generative Adversarial Networks for the synthesis of emotional facial expressions in virtual educational environments by William Villegas-Ch, Alexandra Maldonado Navarro, Araceli Mera-Navarrete

“…Traditional GAN architectures, such as StyleGAN and DCGAN, have proven highly effective in synthesizing positive emotions such as joy. …”
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Schisandrin B Attenuates Airway Inflammation by Regulating the NF-κB/Nrf2 Signaling Pathway in Mouse Models of Asthma by Yaqin Chen, Yu Kong, Qili Wang, Jian Chen, Hua Chen, Huihui Xie, Lan Li

“…Schisandrin B is an active ingredient of the traditional Chinese herbal medicine Schisandra with various proven physiological activities such as anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. …”
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Safety and Tolerance of Donor-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Pediatric Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: The MYSTEP1 Study by Steffen Hartleif, Michael Schumm, Michaela Döring, Markus Mezger, Peter Lang, Marc H. Dahlke, Joachim Riethmüller, Alfred Königsrainer, Rupert Handgretinger, Silvio Nadalin, Ekkehard Sturm

“…Our secondary objective is to evaluate efficacy of MSC treatment as measured by the individual need for immunosuppression and the incidence of biopsy-proven acute rejection. We will perform detailed immune monitoring to investigate immunomodulatory effects. …”
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Crosstalk between the Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy: From the Perspective of Gut Microbiota by Yuying Fan, Hua Wang, Xueyan Liu, Junmei Zhang, Gang Liu

“…Although the ketogenic diet has proven successful in the treatment of refractory epilepsy and other illnesses, the underlying mechanisms of its neuroprotective effects have yet to be fully elucidated. …”
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Antidiabetic Activity of Benzopyrone Analogues in Nicotinamide-Streptozotocin Induced Type 2 Diabetes in Rats by Yogendra Nayak, Venkatachalam Hillemane, Vijay Kumar Daroji, B. S. Jayashree, M. K. Unnikrishnan

“…Benzopyrones are proven antidiabetic drug candidate in diabetic drug discovery. …”
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Earliest Detection of Oral Cancer Using Non-Invasive Brush Biopsy Including DNA-Image-Cytometry: Report on Four Cases by Torsten W. Remmerbach, Horst Weidenbach, Alexander Hemprich, Alfred Böcking

“…After at least one to 15 months the occurrence of cancer was finally proven histologically on a second scalpel biopsy each (three microinvasive and one in situ carcinoma). …”
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Analgesic, Anti-Inflammatory, and Antioxidant Activities of Byrsonima duckeana W. R. Anderson (Malpighiaceae) by Maria Christina dos Santos Verdam, Fernanda Guilhon-Simplicio, Kleyton Cardoso de Andrade, Karina Lorena Meira Fernandes, Tallita Marques Machado, Felipe Moura Araújo da Silva, Mayane Pereira de Souza, Hector Henrique Ferreira Koolen, Cristiane da Silva Paula, Beatriz Cristina Konopatzki Hirota, Vinícius Bednarczuk de Oliveira, Cristina Mayumi Sasaki Miyazaki, Milena Kalegari, Marilis Dallarmi Miguel, Patricia Maria Stuelp-Campelo, Obdulio Gomes Miguel

“…Byrsonima is a promising neotropical genus, rich in flavonoids and triterpenes, with several proven pharmacological properties. Nevertheless, Byrsonima duckeana W. …”
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Stellar X-Ray Variability and Planetary Evolution in the DS Tucanae System by George W. King, Lía R. Corrales, Vincent Bourrier, Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Lauren Doyle, Baptiste Lavie, Gavin Ramsay, Peter J. Wheatley

“…We find a clear, monotonic decline in the quiescent level of the star by a factor of 1.8 across 8 months, suggesting stellar variability that might be due to an activity cycle. If proven through future observations, DS Tuc A would be the youngest star for which a coronal activity cycle has been confirmed. …”
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Connexin-Based Therapeutics and Tissue Engineering Approaches to the Amelioration of Chronic Pancreatitis and Type I Diabetes: Construction and Characterization of a Novel Prevascu... by J. Matthew Rhett, Hongjun Wang, Heather Bainbridge, Lili Song, Michael J. Yost

“…Connexin43 (Cx43) channels play a key role in early inflammation and have proven to be viable therapeutic targets. Even if cell death due to early inflammation is avoided, insufficient vascularization is a primary obstacle to maintaining the viability of implanted cells. …”
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Time Series Analysis of Production Decline in Carbonate Reservoirs with Machine Learning by Liqiang Wang, Mingji Shao, Gen Kou, Maoxian Wang, Ruichao Zhang, Zhengzheng Wei, Xiao Sun

“…Through model validation and comparative analysis of prediction effects, it was proven that the EP-GEP model exhibited good prediction accuracy, and the average relative error was significantly smaller than those of the traditional Arps model and existing machine learning methods. …”
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Effect of the Mg/Al Ratio on Activated Sol-Gel Hydrotalcites for Photocatalytic Degradation of 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol by Esthela Ramos-Ramírez, Norma L. Gutiérrez-Ortega, Francisco Tzompantzi-Morales, Gloria A. Del Ángel, Claudia Martínez-Gómez, Elizabeth Pabón-Gelves

“…The results were obtained on having proven the photocatalytic degradation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol as a pollutant model by water. …”
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Characterization of cryo-rolled low carbon steel using ferrite-martensite starting microstructure by Zakaria S.A., Ahmad M.S., Anasyida A.S., Zuhailawati H., Dhindaw B.K., Abioye T.E.

“…Cryo-rolling, a technique of severe plastic deformation (SPD) performed at cryogenic temperatures, has proven to be a promising technique for improving the microstructure and mechanical properties of low-carbon steels. …”
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Finding Lensed Radio Sources with the Very Large Array Sky Survey by Michael N. Martinez, Yjan A. Gordon, Keith Bechtol, Gillian Cartwright, Peter S. Ferguson, Miranda Gorsuch

“…Lensed radio sources have proven difficult to identify, in large part due to the limited depth and angular resolution of the previous generation of radio sky surveys, and, as such, only a few dozen lensed radio sources are known. …”
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Lepidium sativum Seed Extract-Mediated Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: Structural, Morphological, Optical, Hemolysis, and Antibacterial Studies by Adnan Alnehia, Annas Al-Sharabi, Abdel-Basit Al-Odayni, A. H. Al-Hammadi, Fares H. AL-Ostoot, Waseem Sharaf Saeed, Naaser A. Y. Abduh, Ali Alrahlah

“…Besides, biologically synthesized nanoparticles (NPs) have proven superior to other methods. This work aimed to biosynthesize zinc oxide (ZnO) NPs using an aqueous extract of Lepidium sativum seed. …”
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Atomically resolved imaging of radiation-sensitive metal-organic frameworks via electron ptychography by Guanxing Li, Ming Xu, Wen-Qi Tang, Ying Liu, Cailing Chen, Daliang Zhang, Lingmei Liu, Shoucong Ning, Hui Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Gu, Zhiping Lai, David A. Muller, Yu Han

“…Abstract Electron ptychography, recognized as an ideal technique for low-dose imaging, consistently achieves deep sub-angstrom resolution at electron doses of several thousand electrons per square angstrom (e−/Å2) or higher. Despite its proven efficacy, the application of electron ptychography at even lower doses—necessary for materials highly sensitive to electron beams—raises questions regarding its feasibility and the attainable resolution under such stringent conditions. …”
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Intermediate Stage Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 Is Unrelated to Proinflammatory Cytokines by Renate J. M. Munnikes, Christel Muis, Martine Boersma, Claudia Heijmans-Antonissen, Freek J. Zijlstra, Frank J. P. M. Huygen

“…In this study, 25 patients with proven CRPS 1 (Bruehl criteria) were included. All patients participated in one of our earlier studies during the acute stage of their disease. …”
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Spatial Interpolation of Annual Runoff in Ungauged Basins Based on the Improved Information Diffusion Model Using a Genetic Algorithm by Mei Hong, Ren Zhang, Dong Wang, Longxia Qian, Zhenghua Hu

“…In recent years, geostatistical methods have proven valuable for estimating hydrological variables in ungauged catchments. …”
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Diagnosis of Vitreoretinal Aspergillosis with Transvitreal Retinochoroidal Biopsy by Krishi Peddada, Nida M. Khan, Jascha Rubin, Haykanush Zakaryan, Yaobin Liu, Nikolay Popnikolov, Roshun Sangani, Weiye Li

“…Diagnosing culture-proven endophthalmitis is complicated by the insufficient yield of intraocular samples and the variety of etiologies which mimic true endophthalmitis. …”
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Passivation of substrates with hydrogen to reduce the number of electron traps in the buffer layer at the contact of silicon with Ba1-xSrxTiO3 by Dmitry A. Belorusov, Evgeniy I. Goldman, Galina V. Chucheva, Mikhail S. Afanasyev, Vladimir A. Pilipenko, Alina V. Semchenko

“…The capacities of the test specimens have proven to be low sensitive to hydrogen saturation of the wafers. …”
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Interprofessional approach to personalized medication management and therapy optimization in IBD care by Daniel Fleischmann, Benedicta Binder, Muriel Huss, Tanja Elger, Claudia Wolf, Johanna Loibl, Hauke Christian Tews, Arne Kandulski, Stephan Schmid, Martina Müller, Alexander Kratzer

“…Despite this, pharmaceutical co-supervision—proven to mitigate adverse drug events and enhance patient adherence to treatment—is generally lacking in routine clinical settings. …”
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