Correlation between plasma glutamate and adiponectin in patients with type 2 diabetes by Hirofumi Nagao, Hitoshi Nishizawa, Shiro Fukuda, Yuya Fujishima, Shunbun Kita, Norikazu Maeda, Takeshi Bamba, Eiichiro Fukusaki, Iichiro Shimomura

“…Here, we show the relationship between plasma glutamate and the clinical features of patients with type 2 diabetes. The study subjects were 62 (28 men and 34 women) Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Simulation Study of Ultrasonic Vibration Effect on Abrasive Grain Distribution and Movement Behavior in Laser Cladding Melt Pool for Abrasive Layer Fabri... by Zixuan Wang, Ying Chen, Chuang Guan, Jiahui Du, Tianbiao Yu, Ji Zhao, Jun Zhao

“…The CBN abrasive grains in the melt pool were subjected to gravity, the buoyancy force, the drag force of the metal fluid, and the sonophoretic radiation force of the ultrasonic vibration. …”
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Estimation of the Corneal Young’s Modulus In Vivo Based on a Fluid-Filled Spherical-Shell Model with Scheimpflug Imaging by Po-Jen Shih, Chun-Ju Huang, Tzu-Han Huang, Hung-Chou Lin, Jia-Yush Yen, I-Jong Wang, Hui-Jyun Cao, Wen-Pin Shih, Chi-An Dai

“…The tests were applied to 536 right eyes of 536 healthy subjects (228 male and 308 female) between March of 2012 and April of 2016. …”
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The attitude of the People’s Labor Union of Russian Solidarists and its subsidiaries to national administrative construction in 1987–1998 by M. S. Novikov

“…However, the created atmosphere of rejection of the national administrative reforms of the USSR led the solidarists and their supporters to justify and glorify the dissolution of the USSR, the loss of a number of territories and the creation of numerous points of confrontation between the federal government and the subjects of the federation.…”
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The mattering citizen: young adults with mental illness and complex needs’ experiences and perceived opportunities of social inclusion by Silje Nord-Baade, Silje Nord-Baade, Ottar Ness, Michael Rowe, Michael Rowe, Camilla Bergsve Jensen, Anne Landheim, Anne Landheim

“…There is a pressing need to better define and promote social inclusion in mental health and substance use services, addressing both objective and subjective factors. The aim of this qualitative study was to examine the experiences and perceived opportunities of social inclusion among young adults with mental illness and complex needs. …”
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Investigation on taste characteristics and sensory perception of soft-boiled chicken during oral processing based on electronic tongue and electronic nose by Na Xu, Xianming Zeng, Peng Wang, Xing Chen, Xinglian Xu, Minyi Han

“…It's not only affected by the food material, but also subjected to the individual oral environment. To explore the oral processing characteristics of soft-boiled chicken, the sensory properties, texture, particle size, viscosity, characteristic values of electronic nose and tongue of different chicken samples were investigated. …”
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Comprehensive Screening of Cell Surface Markers Expressed by Adult-Derived Human Liver Stem/Progenitor Cells Harvested at Passage 5: Potential Implications for Engraftment by Pierre-Edouard Dollet, Joachim Ravau, Floriane André, Mustapha Najimi, Etienne Sokal, Catherine Lombard

“…In this study, we conducted an extensive surface molecule screening of adult-derived human liver stem/progenitor cells (ADHLSC) in an attempt to shed some light on this subject. We observed that ADHLSCs lack expression of most of the costimulatory molecules tested. …”
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Distance learning course for scientific articles writting. by Míriam Gutiérrez Escobar, Raúl López Fernández., Loreta Sánchez Ortiz., Rachel Yanes Seijo, Rosa María Rodríguez Arencibia, Ana María Molina Gómez

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> All the surveyed individuals referred that among the main causes limiting their ability to publish scientific articles are: little practical knowledge about the requirements to write scientific articles, not receiving any subject enhancing textual composition during their academic formation, and not attending to any post-graduate course aimed at improving academic writing for publication. …”
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Effects of Posttreatments on the Storage Stability of Reclaimed Rubber by Na Lu, Mei Shen, Juan Liu, K. Prakashan, Zhenxiang Xin

“…Then, the reclaimed rubber was subjected to further mechanical shearing using a two-roll mill, rubber extruder, and rubber strainer. …”
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Discriminating between flint outcrops in central north Bulgaria: archaeological implications by Maria Gurova, Polina Andreeva, Elitsa Stefanova

“…A new series of 10 raw material and 15 archaeological samples were collected and subjected to an analytical procedure combining macro- and micropetrography with geochemical analysis using LA-ICP-MS. …”
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Assessment of the Temporal and Spatial Variation of the Mercury Content of Lake Nokoué in Southern Benin Republic (West Africa) by Julien G. Adounkpe, N. B. Nadia Azon, Hermione W. Dégila, Peace Hounkpe, Robertson Amoussou

“…Lake Nokoué in Benin Republic, the most fishery products provider in West Africa, is subject to mercury pollution. The health threat to both the benthic and the consumers of the fishery products from this lake has to be anticipated by precisely determining the dynamics of mercury contamination of the waters and sediments of Lake Nokoué, taking into account the anthropogenic contribution. …”
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Impact of empowerment guidance on discharge readiness and self-management ability in elderly patients at high risk of falls by Jinglin Cao, Yuehui Wang, Ying Li, Weixin Huang

“…[Methods] A total of 80 elderly patients with high risk of falls admitted to the Geriatrics Department of the First Hospital of Jilin University from March to December 2023 were selected as the study subjects and divided into the conventional group and the empowerment group according to the random number table method, with 40 cases in each group.Routine falls prevention health education was given to the conventional group, and empowerment guidance was given to the empowerment group.The scores of Discharge Readiness Scale and Adult Health Self-management Ability Scale were compared between the two groups.Results After the intervention, the empowerment group was significantly higher than the conventional group in the discharge readiness scores and self-management ability scores, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). …”
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Assessment of the occurrence of postural abnormalities in children aged 10-12 practicing various sports disciplines by Dagna Balińska, Piotr Ożóg, Magdalena Weber-Rajek, Agnieszka Radzimińska

“…The examination can be performed objectively, for instance, with the aid of specific instruments, or subjectively, through visual inspection of the alignment of individual body parts in relation to one another. …”
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MCADFusion: a novel multi-scale convolutional attention decomposition method for enhanced infrared and visible light image fusion by Wangwei Zhang, Menghao Dai, Bin Zhou, Changhai Wang

“…Experimental results demonstrate that MCADFusion surpasses existing techniques in both subjective visual evaluation and objective assessment on publicly available TNO and MSRS datasets, underscoring its superiority.…”
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Association, Haplotype, and Gene-Gene Interactions of the HPA Axis Genes with Suicidal Behaviour in Affective Disorders by Anna Leszczyńska-Rodziewicz, Aleksandra Szczepankiewicz, Joanna Pawlak, Monika Dmitrzak-Weglarz, Joanna Hauser

“…We did not observe any significant differences in the studied polymorphisms between the group of patients with a history of suicide attempts and the control subjects. Our haplotype analysis of the AVPR1b gene revealed an association between the GCA haplotype and suicide attempts; however, this association was not significant after correcting for multiple testing. …”
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Exploring Tension Fabric Structure and Material- A Review of The Bigo Arena and Denver International Airport by Merve Sumeyye Taha, Abdulmajeed Mamhusseini Asmaa, Shino Abdullah

“…It aims to give ideas to researchers working on this subject by researching the materials and techniques used during construction and examining the possibilities, such as their impact on progress and sustainability in architecture. …”
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Management of Digital Communications with Target Groups by Leading Russian Universities by E. V. Brodovskaya, A. Yu. Dombrovskaya, V. A. Lukushin

“…A sample of universities is based on the «QS World University Ranking by Subjects 2021: Social Sciences and Management 2021». …”
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Deep Learning Approach for Automatic Classification of Ocular and Cardiac Artifacts in MEG Data by Ahmad Hasasneh, Nikolas Kampel, Praveen Sripad, N. Jon Shah, Jürgen Dammers

“…In total, 7122 samples were used after data augmentation, in which task and nontask related MEG recordings from 48 subjects served as the database for this study. Artifact rejection was applied using the combined model, which achieved a sensitivity and specificity of 91.8% and 97.4%, respectively. …”
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Single Objective Optimization Methods in Electrical Power Systems: A Review by Ali Abdulmunim Ibrahim Al-kharaz, Ahmed Bahaaulddin A.Wahhab, Mohammed Fadhil Ibrahim, Shahab Abdulla

“…The objective function includes binary variables to indicate whether a generator is undergoing maintenance at a given time and is subject to several restrictions described in this paper.  …”
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Geophysical flows over topography, a playground for laboratory experiments by Vidal, Jérémie, Noir, Jérôme, Cébron, David, Burmann, Fabian, Monville, Rémy, Giraud, Vadim, Charles, Yoann

“…In particular, complexities arise because geophysical fluids are rotating and subject to density variations, but also because the fluid boundaries have complex geometries (e.g. the ocean floor) with wavelengths ranging from metres to thousands of kilometres. …”
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