RNASeq analysis of drought-stressed guayule reveals the role of gene transcription for modulating rubber, resin, and carbohydrate synthesis by Chen Dong, Grisel Ponciano, Naxin Huo, Yong Gu, Daniel Ilut, Colleen McMahan

“…The rubber content of guayule plants subjected to water stress is higher compared to that of well-irrigated plants, a fact consistently reported in guayule field evaluations. …”
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β-Tricalcium Phosphate Interferes with the Assessment of Crystallinity in Burned Skeletal Remains by Giampaolo Piga, Ana Amarante, Calil Makhoul, Eugénia Cunha, Assumpció Malgosa, Stefano Enzo, David Gonçalves

“…Samples of 36 bones and 12 teeth were heated at 1050°C and afterwards subjected to XRD and ATR-IR. The crystallinity index was calculated for every sample. …”
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Phenotype of Hypertension-altered Waist and its Association with the Components of Metabolic Changes in Gerontics by Giorgiet Galiano Guerra, Yamila Lastre Diéguez, Grettel Galiano Guerra, Dailenys García Céspedes, Yordanis Alberto Fonseca Atencio, Ariel Sosa Remón

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> phenotype hypertension diagnosis was established – altered waist in 157 subjects out of 180 studied, while in the age group of 70 to 79 and male sex were the most affected. …”
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Voluntary Spatial Attention has Different Effects on Voluntary and Reflexive Saccades by Stephanie K. Seidlits, Tammie Reza, Kevin A. Briand, Anne B. Sereno

“…Antisaccades were always greatly facilitated following the engagement of spatial attention by symbolic cues (arrows) informing the subject where the upcoming saccade should be directed. …”
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Insulin Resistance of Normal Weight Central Obese Adolescents in Korea Stratified by Waist to Height Ratio: Results from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys... by Won Kyoung Cho, Hyojin Kim, Hyun Young Lee, Kyung Do Han, Yeon Jin Jeon, In Ah Jung, Shin Hee Kim, Kyoung Soon Cho, So Hyun Park, Min Ho Jung, Byung-Kyu Suh

“…Central obesity was defined as that in the upper quartile of age and sex specific WHR. Subjects were classified into no central obesity normal weight (NW), central obesity normal weight (CONW), no central obesity overweight (OW), and central obesity overweight (COOW). …”
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Salivary IL-17A, IL-17F, and TNF-α Are Associated with Disease Advancement in Patients with Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer by Kinga Zielińska, Bożenna Karczmarek-Borowska, Konrad Kwaśniak, Justyna Czarnik-Kwaśniak, Aleksandra Ludwin, Bogumił Lewandowski, Jacek Tabarkiewicz

“…Saliva samples were collected from subjects on an empty stomach. Cytokine concentrations in the saliva were measured with ELISA and Luminex Multiplex Assays. …”
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Organizational Internal Factors and Sustainable Performance: A Serial Mediation Model by Faisal Ejaz, Sidra Abid, Aemin Nasir, Jorge Alberto Esponda-Pérez, Sarmad Ejaz, Md Billal Hossain

“…Finally, the results highlighted that each relationship is subject to partial mediation, which indicates the role of employee-perceived usefulness and data-driven culture in the relationship between big data analytics and sustainable performance and employee-perceived usefulness associated with the relationship between circular economy practices and sustainable performance. …”
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Soft Lithography and Minimally Human Invasive Technique for Rapid Screening of Oral Biofilm Formation on New Microfabricated Dental Material Surfaces by Marta Alvarez-Escobar, Sidónio C. Freitas, Derek Hansford, Fernando J. Monteiro, Alejandro Pelaez-Vargas

“…However, individual analysis of two subjects showed greater bacterial adhesion on the micropatterned surfaces than on the flat surfaces. …”
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Metabolomics-Driven Biomarker Discovery for Breast Cancer Prognosis and Diagnosis by Rasanpreet Kaur, Saurabh Gupta, Sunanda Kulshrestha, Vishal Khandelwal, Swadha Pandey, Anil Kumar, Gaurav Sharma, Umesh Kumar, Deepak Parashar, Kaushik Das

“…The scientific intradisciplinary subject of “metabolomics” examines every metabolite found in a cell, tissue, system, or organism from different sources of samples. …”
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The Role of Active Breaks and Curriculum-Based Active Breaks in Enhancing Executive Functions and Math Performance, and in Reducing Math Anxiety in Primary School Children: A Syste... by Rosa Bellacicco, Francesca Capone, Clarissa Sorrentino, Valeria Di Martino

“…However, its integration into the classroom remains a challenge, particularly in STEM subjects, despite this area being a central component of school curricula worldwide. …”
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The use of topical antiseptic solutions in the healing process of post-surgical skin wounds in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) by Thomás Souza e Silva, Soke Gninlome Cedril Hounkonnou, Hiasmin Marcia de Souza Lima, Joana Luiza Crispiano Cunha Santos, Fábio de Souza Mendonça, Rinaldo Florencio-Silva, Ricardo dos Santos Simões, Fabrício Bezerra da Sá, Joaquim Evêncio-Neto

“…Macroscopically evaluation of wounds on days 1, 5, and 10 after procedures, and hematological parameters were performed. Data were subjected to statistical analysis (p 0.05) Results: No significant differences in the macroscopic evaluation of the wounds and hematological parameters were observed among groups, in the healing of clean elective surgical wounds. …”
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Ecofriendly dyeing of silk fabric with yellow natural and synthetic dye by Hamid Ali Tanveer, Shahid Adeel, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Ibrahim, Al Mojnun Shamim, Muhammad Aftab, Muhammad Imran, Rony Mia

“…The study's novelty arises from its comparative analysis of natural and synthetic dyes subjected to microwave-assisted heating technology. …”
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Initial Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Radiologic Assessment for Renal Mass Edge Detection as an Indication of Tumor Roughness to Predict Renal Cancer Subtypes by Rahul Rajendran, Kevan Iffrig, Deepak K Pruthi, Allison Wheeler, Brian Neuman, Dharam Kaushik, Ahmed M Mansour, Karen Panetta, Sos Agaian, Michael A. Liss

“…Results. We investigated 30 subjects that underwent partial or radical nephrectomy. …”
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Association between Endocrine Disrupting Phenols in Colostrums and Maternal and Infant Health by B. Yi, C. Kim, M. Park, Y. Han, J. Y. Park, M. Yang

“…We performed biomonitoring of these phenols in colostrums to assess risk of the phenols in breast-fed neonates. Study subjects were the lactating mothers who delivered babies within 2 weeks (N=325; 30.67 ± 3.45 years) and their neonates (N=326; embryonic period, 39.1 ± 1.5 weeks). …”
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Transcriptome Profile Analysis of Strawberry Leaves Reveals Flowering Regulation under Blue Light Treatment by Yuntian Ye, Yongqiang Liu, Xiaolong Li, Qing Chen, Yong Zhang, Ya Luo, Zejing Liu, Yan Wang, Yuanxiu Lin, Yunting Zhang, Xiaorong Wang, Haoru Tang

“…To reveal the mechanism of early flowering under blue light treatment at the transcriptional regulation level, seedlings of cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) “Benihoppe” were subjected to a white light treatment (WL) and blue light treatment (BL) until their flowering. …”
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Toward sustainable bioproducts from lignocellulosic biomass: Influence of chemical pretreatments on liquefied walnut shells by Jovičić Nives, Krička Tajana, Antonović Alan, Matin Božidar, Pezo Lato, Brandić Ivan, Matin Ana

“…The results reveal that samples subjected to alcohol pretreatment exhibited the lowest degree of liquefaction (85.00% at 120°C for 45 min), while the highest degree of liquefaction was observed in samples after alkaline pretreatment (90.76% at 90°C for 15 min). …”
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Comparative transcriptomics and metabolomics provide insight into degeneration‐related physiological mechanisms of Morchella importuna after long‐term preservation by Ying Chen, Xuelian Cao, Liyuan Xie, Jie Tang, Lixu Liu, Di Wang, Xiang Wu, Tianhai Liu, Yang Yu, Yong Wang, Francis Martin, Weihong Peng, Hao Tan

“…This study compared M. importuna cultures subjected to five different long‐term preservation treatments, using transcriptomics and metabolomics. …”
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Quantification of Upper Limb Motor Recovery and EEG Power Changes after Robot-Assisted Bilateral Arm Training in Chronic Stroke Patients: A Prospective Pilot Study by Marialuisa Gandolfi, Emanuela Formaggio, Christian Geroin, Silvia Francesca Storti, Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo, Marta Bortolami, Leopold Saltuari, Alessandro Picelli, Andreas Waldner, Paolo Manganotti, Nicola Smania

“…Methods. In a within-subject design, seven right-handed chronic stroke patients with upper limb paresis received 21 sessions (3 days/week) of the robot-assisted BAT. …”
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Altered mitochondrial unfolded protein response and FGF21 secretion in MASLD progression and the effect of exercise intervention by Xinmeng Yuan, Wen Sun, Ye Xu, Mengqi Xiang, Yaran Gao, Wanyu Feng, Hongjian Xiao, Liumei Zhang, Qiang Tang, Jiao Lu, Yuan Zhang

“…Some of the mice were then subjected to voluntary wheel running, while the other mice were fed a normal or AMLN diet until 14 and 18 weeks. …”
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Internal Integrated Temperature Sensor for Lithium-Ion Batteries by Pengfei Yang, Kai Su, Shijie Weng, Jiang Han, Qian Zhang, Zhiqiang Li, Xiaoli Peng, Yong Xiang

“…External sensors are subject to the necessity for additional space and ancillary equipment. …”
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