Genetic Analysis of Cytokine Promoters in Nonhuman Primates: Implications for Th1/Th2 Profile Characteristics and SIV Disease Pathogenesis by Pavel Bostik, Melanie Watkins, Francois Villinger, Aftab A. Ansari

“…Paradoxically, antigen activated PBMC's from sooty mangabeys (SM), which are naturally infected with SIV and are disease resistant despite high viral loads, maintain a predominant Th2 cytokine profile. It has been reasoned that the resistance to perturbations of cytokine synthesis by slow and/or nonprogressor HIV infected patients and SIV infected disease susceptible RM is secondary to inherited polymorphisms within the promoter regions for cytokines. …”
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Thermally Induced Phenomena in Amorphous Nifedipine: The Correlation Between the Structural Relaxation and Crystal Growth Kinetics by Roman Svoboda

“…Overall, nifedipine was found to be prone to the rapid glass-crystal growth that occurs below the glass transition temperature; a tendency of low-temperature degradation of the amorphous phase markedly increased with decreasing particle size (the main reason being the increased number of surface and bulk micro-cracks and mechanically induced defects). …”
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Migraine in men by Mira P. Fitzek, Deirdre M. Boucherie, Tessa de Vries, Cleo Handtmann, Haniyeh Fathi, Bianca Raffaelli, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink

“…They also tend to have fewer psychological comorbidities, respond more favorably to pharmacological treatments, yet are less likely to seek medical support. The reasons for these sex disparities are complex, involving biological, psychosocial, and cultural factors, such as brain structural differences, differences in functional responses to painful stimuli, hormonal effects, and behavioral influences like adherence to masculine norms and stigma. …”
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Optimization of Barrier Pillar Design in Longwall Mining with Top Coal Caving in Spontaneous Combustion Coal Seam by Qiang Fu, Ke Yang, Qinjie Liu, Shuai Liu, Xiang He, Xin Lyu

“…Determining a reasonable barrier pillar along gob-side entry of spontaneous combustion coal seam is of great significance to the prevention of spontaneous combustion. …”
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Assessing the Projection Correction of Coronal Mass Ejection Speeds on Time‐of‐Arrival Prediction Performance Using the Effective Acceleration Model by Evangelos Paouris, Angelos Vourlidas, Athanasios Papaioannou, Anastasios Anastasiadis

“…Our method is uniquely capable to produce physically reasonable deprojected speeds across the full range of source longitudes. …”
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An Approach to the Investigation of Thrombocytosis: Differentiating between Essential Thrombocythemia and Secondary Thrombocytosis by Ala Almanaseer, Benjamin Chin-Yee, Jenny Ho, Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Laila Schenkel, Pratibha Bhai, Bekim Sadikovic, Ian H. Chin-Yee, Cyrus C. Hsia

“…Thrombocytosis is a common reason for referral to Hematology. Differentiating between secondary causes of thrombocytosis and essential thrombocythemia (ET) is often clinically challenging. …”
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Water management for rice production: a key component of food security in East Africa by Denis Bwire, Hirotaka Saito, Roy C. Sidle, Moses Mugisha

“…Nonetheless, climate-smart water management technologies such as AWD, SRI, and drip irrigation are less used by paddy and upland rice smallholder farmers for several reasons including limited awareness, funding, and technical knowledge. …”
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Forecasting the Applied Deep Learning Tools in Enhancing Food Quality for Heart Related Diseases Effectively: A Study Using Structural Equation Model Analysis by Sunil L. Bangare, Deepali Virmani, Girija Rani Karetla, Pankaj Chaudhary, Harveen Kaur, Syed Nisar Hussain Bukhari, Shahajan Miah

“…It has been stated that unhealthy habits and other related aspects adopted by individuals are considered as the primary reasons for an increase in the risk of heart diseases. …”
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Caminate axe and Chiaruccia di Fano (PU) settlement between Middle Bronze Age 3 and Recent Bronze Age 1. Matched review in relation to interactions between north-eastern Italy and... by Gaia Pignocchi, Elisa Dalla Longa, Giovanni Tasca

“…an abandonment?). For this reason, to give a better chronological and cultural framework for the finding, a typological study has been performed. …”
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Intelligent Electronic Device-in-the-Loop: A Real-Time Simulation as Modern Educational Aid by Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt, LE Nam Hai Pham

“…With the support of real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop technologies, these challenges can be addressed by utilising virtual and realistic IED devices, making it easier for learners to gain hands-on experiences in a controlled and safe environment without disrupting actual power supplies or damaging expensive equipment. For this reason, this article introduces the concept of “IED-in-the-loop” as an educational aid to enhance the existing electrical power engineering curriculum. …”
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A feasibility study on using soft insoles for estimating 3D ground reaction forces with incorporated 3D-printed foam-like sensors by Nick Willemstein, Saivimal Sridar, Herman van der Kooij, Ali Sadeghi

“…In addition, the identified HW models showed the best estimation performance (on average root mean squared (RMS) error 9.3%, $ {R}^2 $ =0.85 and mean absolute error (MAE) 7%) of the vertical, mediolateral, and anteroposterior GRFs, thereby showing that these sensors can estimate the resulting 3D force reasonably well. These results were comparable to or outperformed other works that used commercial force-sensing resistors with machine learning. …”
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A Novel Necroptosis-Associated lncRNA Signature Can Impact the Immune Status and Predict the Outcome of Breast Cancer by Xin Zhang, Xingda Zhang, Guozheng Li, Yi Hao, Lei Liu, Lei Zhang, Yihai Chen, Jiale Wu, Xinheng Wang, Shuai Yang, Shouping Xu

“…The difference in the tumor immune microenvironment between the low- and high-risk populations may be the reason for the resistance to immunotherapy in some patients.…”
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Study on the safety distance determination model for natural gas wells in Ordos Basin subsidence areas of coal mining by Wen Wang, Yang Zhang, Shuang Gong, Junqi Lei, Jiandong Ren, Yanxiong Ding, Xiaowei Lu

“…Through comparison, it was found that the discriminant model reduced the reserved safety distance between the coal mining working face and the natural gas well by 58% compared with the currently used avoidance method of the surface subsidence boundary, liberated coal resources, and achieved a "win–win" situation of the coordinated mining of natural gas resources and coal resources. It can reasonably adjust the coordinated mining problem without a natural gas-coal co-mining mechanism, provide a new method for the layout of natural gas wells in gas-coal overlapping areas, and provide new ideas for the coordinated mining of coal-related associated resources.…”
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A New Modified Peck Formula for Predicting the Surface Settlement Based on Stochastic Medium Theory by Zhanping Song, Xiaoxu Tian, Yuwei Zhang

“…The table of recommendation for the number of units can be obtained by a discussion of reasonable n values. Finally, the difference between the original Peck formula and the modified Peck formula was analysed, and the results showed that the change rule of the surface settlement is consistent under the tunnel depth, internal friction angle, and ground loss of the tunnel. …”
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How geomagnetic storms affect the loss of Starlink satellites in February 2022? by Nizam Ahmad, La Ode Muhammad Musafar Kilowasid, Hanif Fakhrurroja, Neflia, Abdul Rachman, Asnawi Husin, Haries Fathoni

“…However, some Starlink satellites were not affected by geomagnetic substorms due to insignificant changes in their environment. The reason for this is that, despite having lower altitudes, all decaying Starlinks were located in the midnight-dawn sector, in which the drift of ionospheric currents was predominantly driven by westward electrojets. …”
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Local Policies in the Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic: Ankara and Rome Municipal Councils’ Decisions by Hicran Hamza Çelikyay, Hülya Küçük Bayraktar

“…Both cities have gained the status of metropolitan cities under the legal regulations adopted in recent years. For this reason, Ankara and Rome present similarities in terms of both the areas they serve and the responsibilities of being the capital. …”
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Prognostic impact of psychoeducation program completion on inpatients with schizophrenia: a pilot cohort study by Hiroki Noguchi, Seiichiro Tarutani, Yoshiki Takei, Koichi Matsumoto, Takehiko Okamura, Hiroshi Yoneda

“…Among these patients, 18 completed the institutional psychoeducation program by discharge, whereas 14 missed one or more sessions for various reasons. The primary outcome was the duration of outpatient treatment (DOT) during the 5-year follow-up period, and the secondary outcomes were comparisons of the risk of all-cause discontinuation for outpatient treatment and correlations between the program participation rates and DOT. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding FoodDrug Interaction in the Intensive Care and Emergency Hospitals by Samir Y Lafi, Aram Salih Mohammed Amin Kamali, Bayan Omar Sharif

“…Usually supplement is essential and fundamental components for ensure and creating the human body, also drugs seem to survey the life of each individual and ensure the wellbeing for a long life aimed most of illness, but in case nourishment sedate interaction ignored since of information shortage almost it or any reason maybe lead to futile of medicine for the patients or cause life threatening condition because of that, one of the most significant ethical point in every health care setting in the world is patient's safety;  and  the care for patients must be improved in every country to prevent complication of interaction between food and drug. …”
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Incidence and Predictors of Outcome in the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis with Drug-Eluting Balloons, a Real-Life Single-Centre Study by Kyle Murnaghan, Helen Bishop, Navjot Sandila, Bakhtiar Kidwai, Lawrence Title, Ata Ur Rehman Quraishi, Catherine Kells, Hussein Beydoun, Osama Elkhateeb

“…This is offset by a reasonable five-year rate of TLR, indicating that DEB provides both short-term and long-term benefits in ISR.…”
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Influence of hybrid air-cooled based strategy on thermal management system performance by Olanrewaju M. Oyewola, Emmanuel T. Idowu, Mebougna L. Drabo

“…Abstract Existing cooling strategies have shown reasonable performance enhancement in the design of air-cooled battery thermal management systems (BTMSs). …”
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