Global mapping of epidemic risk assessment toolkits: A scoping review for COVID-19 and future epidemics preparedness implications. by Bach Xuan Tran, Bach Xuan Tran, Long Hoang Nguyen, Linh Phuong Doan, Tham Thi Nguyen, Giang Thu Vu, Hoa Thi Do, Huong Thi Le, Carl A Latkin, Cyrus S H Ho, Roger C M Ho

“…Preparedness and responses to infectious disease epidemics and pandemics require the understanding of communities' and multisectoral systems' characteristics with regards to diseases transmission and population's vulnerabilities. …”
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Environmental influence and species occurrence of yellowjacket drones in an invaded area by Agustina P. Porrino, Maité Masciocchi, Andrés S. Martínez

“…This constitutes the first exploratory field study reporting the heterospecific occurrence of Vespula spp. drones and overall, our results contribute to the understanding of yellowjackets mating systems.…”
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Recent advances in nanotechnology for Parkinson’s disease: diagnosis, treatment, and future perspectives by Virendra Kumar Yadav, Seshathiri Dhanasekaran, Nisha Choudhary, Deepak Nathiya, Vishal Thakur, Rachna Gupta, Sheersha Pramanik, Pankaj Kumar, Nishant Gupta, Ashish Patel

“…Additionally, nanocarrier systems like liposomes, nanogels, dendrimers, and solid lipid nanoparticles offer controlled and sustained release of therapeutic agents, enhancing their bioavailability and reducing side effects. …”
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Comprehensive Study on Elastic Moduli Prediction and Correlation of Glass and Glass Ceramic Derived from Waste Rice Husk by Chee Sun Lee, Khamirul Amin Matori, Sidek Hj. Ab Aziz, Halimah Mohamed Kamari, Ismayadi Ismail, Mohd Hafiz Mohd Zaid

“…Zinc silicate (ZnO–SiO2) systems were fabricated using zinc oxide (ZnO) and white rice husk ash (WRHA) with compositions of (ZnO)x(WRHA)1−x (x = 0.55, 0.60, 0.65, and 0.70 wt.%) was symbolized by S1, S2, S3, and S4, respectively. …”
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A Review on Software-Defined Networking for Internet of Things Inclusive of Distributed Computing, Blockchain, and Mobile Network Technology: Basics, Trends, Challenges, and Future... by Shakila Shafiq, Md. Sazzadur Rahman, Shamim Ahmed Shaon, Imtiaz Mahmud, A. S. M. Sanwar Hosen

“…The study articulates the challenges of managing and orchestrating IoT systems and how SDN can be used to address these challenges by enabling dynamic and flexible network configurations. …”
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Equiaxed growth of interacting Al–Cu dendrites in thin samples: a phase-field study at copper concentrations relevant for practical applications by Gong, Tong Zhao, Boukellal, Ahmed Kaci, Chen, Yun, Debierre, Jean-Marc

“…Purely diffusive conditions are considered in order to describe systems where convection and gravity effects can be neglected. …”
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Effect of exercise training on modulating the TH17/TREG imbalance in individuals with severe COPD: A randomized controlled trial by Juliana Tiyaki Ito, Luan Henrique Vasconcelos Alves, Luana de Mendonça Oliveira, Rafaella Fagundes Xavier, Regina Maria Carvalho-Pinto, Iolanda de Fátima Lopes Calvo Tibério, Maria Notomi Sato, Celso R. F. Carvalho, Fernanda Degobbi Tenorio Quirino dos Santos Lopes

“…The primary outcome was the change in the phenotypic characteristics of Tregs and Th17 profile differentiation in systemic inflammation.Results Exercise training increased the frequency of total and activated Tregs and decreased the frequency of Th17 cells in between-group comparisons. …”
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Using Solar Orbiter as an Upstream Solar Wind Monitor for Real Time Space Weather Predictions by R. Laker, T. S. Horbury, H. O’Brien, E. J. Fauchon‐Jones, V. Angelini, N. Fargette, T. Amerstorfer, M. Bauer, C. Möstl, E. E. Davies, J. A. Davies, R. Harrison, D. Barnes, M. Dumbović

“…Abstract Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can create significant disruption to human activities and systems on Earth, much of which can be mitigated with prior warning of the upstream solar wind conditions. …”
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Alternatives for Decarbonising High-Temperature Heating Facilities in Residential Buildings by Juan Carlos Roca Reina, Johan Carlsson, Jonathan Volt, Agne Toleikyte

“…The results indicate that, depending on the EU region, reducing CO₂ emissions in buildings through these types of systems is feasible, leading to CO₂ emission reductions of 40% to 70%.…”
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The Evaluation of Uterine Sarcomas: Tertiary Center Experience by Onur Yavuz, Kadir Alper Mankan, Asli Akdoner, Sultan Ot, Hasan Bahadir Saatli

“…No statistically significant effect of adjuvant systemic chemotherapy, adjuvant radiotherapy, and combined treatments on median overall survival and median disease-free survival was detected (p>0.05). …”
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QTFN: A General End-to-End Time-Frequency Network to Reveal the Time-Varying Signatures of the Time Series by Tao Chen, Yang Jiao, Lei Xie, Hongye Su

“…Nonstationary time series are ubiquitous in almost all natural and engineering systems. Capturing the time-varying signatures from nonstationary time series is still a challenging problem for data mining. …”
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To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features by Olivier Rosanne, Danielle Benesch, Gregory Kratzig, Simon Paré, Nicole Bolt, Tiago H. Falk

“…Despite these advancements, widespread usage of VR systems is still limited, mostly due to motion sickness symptoms, such as dizziness, nausea, and headaches, which are collectively termed “cybersickness”. …”
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Self-propelled ferroptosis nanoinducer for enhanced cancer therapy by Wenxin Xu, Hao Tian, Yanzhen Song, Hanfeng Qin, Junbin Gao, Yichi Chen, Weichang Huang, Lin Lin, Haixin Tan, Yicheng Ye, Xiaoting Zhang, Daniela A Wilson, Guang Yang, Fei Peng, Yingfeng Tu

“…However, the development of ferroptosis-based nanotherapeutics is generally hindered by the limited penetration depth in tumors, poor active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) loading content and the systemic toxicity. Herein, self-propelled ferroptosis nanoinducers composed of two endogenous proteins, glucose oxidase and ferritin, are presented to show enhanced tumor inhibition via ferroptosis while maintaining high API and biocompatibility. …”
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Seronegative Arthritis and Whipple Disease: Risk of Misdiagnosis in the Era of Biologic Agents by Luca Quartuccio, Ivan Giovannini, Stefano Pizzolitto, Maurizio Scarpa, Salvatore De Vita

“…The second patient was a 55-year-old man, presenting with arthritis, fever, serositis, lymphadenopathy, thoracic rash, and systemic inflammation; at the beginning he was diagnosed as adult onset Still’s disease. …”
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The spatiotemporal response of land-use carbon emissions to climate change by Shenjie Yang, Lanjiao Wen, Anlu Zhang

“…Local governments should adopt appropriate land-use measures to cope with climate change in land-use systems.…”
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Barriers and drivers of near-term climate change mitigation: a Canadian case study by Jeffrey Sauer, I Daniel Posen, Shoshanna Saxe

“…This work investigates, through semi-structured interviews, the prospects for rapid transitions towards low-carbon civil infrastructure systems. Rapid greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation is critical to facilitate the near-term (i.e. within five years) reductions needed to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C. …”
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Soil Microbial Community Structure and Target Organisms under Different Fumigation Treatments by Sadikshya R. Dangi, James S. Gerik, Rebecca Tirado-Corbalá, Husein Ajwa

“…The ability of nontarget soil microorganisms to recover after fumigation treatment is critical because they play an important role in sustaining the health of agricultural and natural soil systems. Fumigation trial was conducted in Parlier, CA, and the study focuses on the effects of different rates of Telone C35 and also methyl bromide fumigation with polyethylene (PE) and totally impermeable film (TIF) tarps on target and nontarget soil microorganisms using field samples. …”
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Transient Voltage Information Entropy Difference Unit Protection Based on Fault Condition Attribute Fusion by Zhenwei Guo, Ruiqiang Zhao, Zebo Huang, Yongyan Jiang, Haojie Li, Yingcai Deng

“…To this end, the propagation characteristics of high-frequency components of transient voltage in bus and line systems are explored, and a new method of unit protection based on the entropy difference in transient voltage information is proposed. …”
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General and Electrophysiological Toxic Effects of Manganese in Rats following Subacute Administration in Dissolved and Nanoparticle Form by Edina Horváth, Zsuzsanna Máté, Szabolcs Takács, Péter Pusztai, András Sápi, Zoltán Kónya, László Nagymajtényi, András Papp

“…Organ weights signalized systemic stress and effect on lungs. Changes in evoked electrophysiological responses (cortical sensory evoked potential and nerve action potential) indicated that the 3 plus 3 weeks combined exposure caused equal or higher changes in the latency of these responses than 6 weeks of exposure, although the calculated summed Mn dose in the former case was lower. …”
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TGF-β1 Induces the Dual Regulation of Hepatic Progenitor Cells with Both Anti- and Proliver Fibrosis by Ai-Ting Yang, Dou-Dou Hu, Ping Wang, Min Cong, Tian-Hui Liu, Dong Zhang, Ya-Meng Sun, Wen-Shan Zhao, Ji-Dong Jia, Hong You

“…In this study, both in vitro (HPCs cocultured with hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) in transwells) and in vivo (CCl4-injured liver fibrosis rat) systems were used to evaluate the impacts. We found that HPCs pretreated with TGF-β1 for 12 hours inhibited the activation of HSCs, while sensitization for 48 hours increased the activation of HSCs. …”
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