HLA Class II Defects in Burkitt Lymphoma: Bryostatin-1-Induced 17 kDa Protein Restores CD4+ T-Cell Recognition by Azim Hossain, Jason M. God, Faisal F. Y. Radwan, Shereen Amria, Dan Zhao, Jennifer R. Bethard, Azizul Haque

“…While the defects in HLA class I-mediated Ag presentation by Burkitt lymphoma (BL) have been well documented, CD4+ T-cells are also poorly stimulated by HLA class II Ag presentation, and the reasons underlying this defect(s) have not yet been fully resolved. …”
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Validation of a Spanish Version of the Lille Apathy Rating Scale for Parkinson’s Disease by Rocio García-Ramos, Clara Villanueva Iza, María José Catalán, Abilio Reig-Ferrer, Jorge Matías-Guíu

“…To date, no rating scales for detecting apathy in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients have been validated in Spanish. For this reason, the aim of this study was to validate a Spanish version of Lille apathy rating scale (LARS) in a cohort of PD patients from Spain. …”
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Atmospheric Ionizations by Solar X‐Rays, Solar Protons, and Radiation Belt Electrons in September 2017 Space Weather Event by Kiyoka Murase, Ryuho Kataoka, Takanori Nishiyama, Kaoru Sato, Masaki Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Tanaka, Yasunobu Ogawa, Tatsuhiko Sato

“…We conclude that the PHITS simulation results reasonably reproduce (within the error of a factor of two) those ionizations measured by ground‐based instruments with inputs of observed ionization sources by satellites.…”
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Association of Sociodemographic Variables and Healthy Habits with Body and Visceral Fat Values in Spanish Workers by María Gordito Soler, Ángel Arturo López-González, Pedro Juan Tárraga López, Emilio Martínez-Almoyna Rifá, Cristina Martorell Sánchez, María Teófila Vicente-Herrero, Hernan Paublini, José Ignacio Ramírez-Manent

“…<i>Background and Objectives</i>: The accumulation of fat in the body, especially visceral fat, is associated with various cardiometabolic conditions such as diabetes mellitus and fatty liver. The reasons for the accumulation of this fat are diverse. …”
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A Low-Power DNN Accelerator With Mean-Error-Minimized Approximate Signed Multiplier by Laimin Du, Leibin Ni, Xiong Liu, Guanqi Peng, Kai Li, Wei Mao, Hao Yu

“…At the same time, we explored the PPM truncation method, found out the impact of different partial product (PP) truncation numbers on circuit benefit and error, and achieved a more ideal performance-error tradeoff through a reasonable error compensation method. In the optimal case of 8 bits, the proposed approximate multiplier saves 49.84&#x0025; power, 46.41&#x0025; area and 24.65&#x0025; delay compared to the exact multiplier. …”
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Evidences of +896 A/G TLR4 Polymorphism as an Indicative of Prevalence of Complications in T2DM Patients by Carmela Rita Balistreri, Anna Rita Bonfigli, Massimo Boemi, Fabiola Olivieri, Antonio Ceriello, Stefano Genovese, Claudio Franceschi, Liana Spazzafumo, Paolo Fabietti, Giuseppina Candore, Calogero Caruso, Domenico Lio, Roberto Testa

“…Thus, new strategies for its prevention and therapy are necessary. For this reason, the research interest has focused its attention on TLR4 and its polymorphisms, particularly the rs4986790. …”
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Oil-Based Drilling Fluid Plugging Method for Strengthening Wellbore Stability of Shale Gas by Pengcheng Wu, Chengxu Zhong, Zhengtao Li, Zhen Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, Weian Huang

“…Finding out the reasons for wellbore instability in the Longmaxi Formation and Wufeng Formation and putting forward drilling fluid technical countermeasures to strengthen and stabilize the wellbore are very crucial to horizontal drilling. …”
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Comparison of a 4-Day versus 2-Day Low Fiber Diet Regimen in Barium Tagging CT Colonography in Incomplete Colonoscopy Patients by Kaan Meric, Nuray Bakal, Ebubekir Şenateş, Sibel Aydın, Zeynep Gamze Kılıçoğlu, Fatma Esra Bahadır Ülger, Esin Yencilek, Banu Erkalma Şenateş, Masum Şimşek

“…Our study shows that 2-day limited bowel preparation regimen for fecal tag CT colonography is a safe and reasonable technique to evaluate the entire colon, particularly in incomplete conventional colonoscopy patients.…”
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Mechanical problem solving by plush-crested jays: are tools special after all? by Jimena Lois-Milevicich, Lauriane Rat-Fischer, María Alicia de la Colina, Raúl Orencio Gómez, Juan Carlos Reboreda, Alex Kacelnik

“…This association, however, is not known to be causally determinant of tool-related competence since flexibility and innovativeness are often observed in the absence of tool use and vice versa. For this reason, it is interesting to explore whether animals that can be loosely categorized as outstanding, or ‘intelligent’ physical problem solvers, are also remarkable using tools innovatively, rather than tool use presenting special constraints. …”
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Evaluating Sampling Uncertainty in the Quantitative 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis of Lignin by Shrikant Shivaji Pawade, Lauri Toom, Koit Herodes, Ivo Leito

“…Although lignin is a reasonably homogeneous substance, it is nevertheless a solid, and individual samples collected from the same bulk may have somewhat different compositions depending on mixing and the amount of sample taken. …”
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Possible Role of Large Fluid Intake in Delaying Formation of Encrustations and, thereby, Prolonging Working Life of Memokath Stent for Nearly 14 Years in a Spinal Cord Injury Patie... by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M. Soni, Peter L. Hughes, Gupreet Singh

“…This case is also a reminder to health professionals that if a tetraplegic patient, in whom a Memokath stent has been deployed for treatment of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia, presents with autonomic dysreflexia, encrustations blocking the lumen of the stent or calculus formation around the stent should be considered as possible reasons for autonomic dysreflexia.…”
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Performance Comparison between Neutralization Tailings and Flotation Tailings Used for Backfill Mix and Mechanism Analysis by Bin Han, Wei Sun, Shaofeng Yu, Chao Liu, Song Yao, Jianxun Wu

“…Slurry fluidity of neutralized tailings is lower than that of flotation tailings, while, in these two tailings, the difference of slump and diffusivity values is less than 6%, which is not a significant difference in slurry fluidity. The reason for neutralized tailings showing higher UCS is as follows: during backfill curing, neutralization tailings produce abundant crystals of CaSO4·2H2O in interlaced structure which helps in combining aggregates closely; CaSO4·2H2O hydrates with C3A C4AF contained in the cement and forms clavate cement bacillus which works as a micro reinforcing steel bar. …”
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Ups and downs of expatriate health sciences students: towards an understanding of experiences, needs, and suggested recommendations in an Emirati university by Fatma Refaat Ahmed, Ramadan Ezat Awad, Huda M. Nassir, Shahd Tarek Mostafa, Batool Ghiath Oujan, Basem Ali Mohamed, Loai A. H. Abumukheimar, Mini Sara Abraham, Nabeel Al-Yateem, Muna Al-tamimi, Richard Mottershead, Jacqueline Maria Dias, Muhammad Arsyad Subu, Mohannad Eid AbuRuz

“…AimTo describe the lived experiences of expatriate students enrolled in an academic institution in the UAE and explore suggested improvement strategies to address their challenges.BackgroundExploring the experiences of expatriate students is crucial for three main reasons. First, expatriate students play a key role in the UAE’s sustainable socio-economic development and diversification. …”
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Sincere behaviour: Moderating leadership, culture and lecture performance in higher education by Fullchis Nurtjahjani, Forbis Ahamed, Ayu F. Puspita, Kadek S. Batubulan, Ane F. Novitasari

“…Orientation: Higher education institutions have the potential to produce quality human resources. For this reason, it is necessary to monitor the quality of its teaching workforce. …”
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Parametric Study on the Ground Control Effects of Rock Bolt Parameters under Dynamic and Static Coupling Loads by Zequan Sun, Lishuai Jiang, Jinquan Jiang, Xingyu Wu, Naser Golsanami, Wanpeng Huang, Peipeng Zhang, Zhongtao Niu, Xiaoyi He

“…The results contribute to the design of supports in the field of underground coal mines and provide a basis for determining the reasonable support scheme for roadways.…”
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Effects of Bone Young’s Modulus on Finite Element Analysis in the Lateral Ankle Biomechanics by W. X. Niu, L. J. Wang, T. N. Feng, C. H. Jiang, Y. B. Fan, M. Zhang

“…In the future study, more ideal model should be constructed to represent the nonlinearity, anisotropy and inhomogeneity, as the same time to provide reasonable outputs of the interested parameters.…”
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Experimental and numerical simulation study on microstructure, residual stress and mechanical properties of Fe–Mn–C–Cr cryogenic high-manganese steel arc-welded joint by Jiang Yang, Honggang Dong, Guangfeng Wu, Feng Xiong

“…Novel Fe–23Mn-0.45C-3.5Cr cryogenic steel welded joint was fabricated by a gas metal arc welding process. To determine the reason for the degraded impact toughness in heat-affected zone (HAZ), the microstructure and carbide precipitates were investigated. …”
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The Earth-Mars Transfer Trajectory Optimization of Solar Sail Based on hp-Adaptive Pseudospectral Method by Yufei Guo, Dongzhu Feng, Xin Wang, Cong Li, Yunzhao Liu

“…The simulation results show that the adopted method is not sensitive to the initial values and has more reasonable distribution and less computational cost than the Gauss pseudospectral method.…”
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Coupling Vibration Analysis of Turbine Shared Support Rotor-Bearing System with Squeeze Film Dampers by Jiaqi Han, Guihuo Luo, Wei Chen, Fei Wang, Lulu Liu, Zhenhua Zhao, Gang Luo

“…The amplitude of the coupling response can be suppressed effectively by (i) selecting reasonable parameter values for the turbine shared support structure and (ii) exerting strict control over the spool unbalance.…”
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Cyclic testing of a steel-tube-enabled emulative precast column-to-column connection by Ming-Ming Ji, Ming-Ming Ji, Wei Chen, Shi Zeng, Yan Xiong, Xin-Yu Zhao

“…Nevertheless, the anchorage of the column longitudinal rebars played a critical role, as inadequate anchorages led to significant reductions in the columns’ lateral capacity. For this reason, increasing the tube thickness was shown to be insufficient as a substitute for proper anchorage detailing. …”
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