Phagocytosis by macrophages decreases the radiance of bioluminescent Staphylococcus aureus by Elles C. Boonstra, Liliana Agresti, Henny C. van der Mei, Paul C. Jutte, Jelmer Sjollema

“…Simultaneously, bacterial numbers as measured by colony-forming units remained constant over time. S. aureus was released extracellularly as a result of macrophage cell death. …”
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Perspectives for Titanium-Derived Fillers Usage on Denture Base Composite Construction: A Review Article by Nidal W. Elshereksi, Mariyam J. Ghazali, Andanastuti Muchtar, Che H. Azhari

“…The clinical problem of using silanes in adhesion promotion is bond degradation over time in oral environment. In addition, silanes do not bond effectively to nonsilica-based dental restorative materials. …”
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Determination of the management of a patient with stable ischemic heart disease according to the data of fractional flow reserve study by M.V. Stan, A.V. Khokhlov, О.J. Zharinov, O.V. Zelenchuk, B.M. Todurov

“…The combination of functional class II angina with unclear result of a stress test, as well as the lack of optimal drug therapy at the time of examination led to the decision to assess physiological significance of all existing stenoses by determining the FFR. …”
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Reproductive Cycle of Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1815) (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) in the Lagoon of Tunis by Monia El Barhoumi, Patrick Scaps, Fathia Zghal

“…Mature males show all stages of spermiogenesis at any one time. The ovaries of M. sanguinea consist of coelomic germ-cell clusters surrounded by a thin envelope of follicle cells derived from the peritoneum. …”
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Validation of preoperative predictor score for difficult laparascopic cholecystectomy and a modified intraoperative grading score of the difficulty of laparascopic cholecystectomy:... by Nurhussen Mossa Ahmed, Surafel Mulatu Djote, Getachew Desta Alemayehu, Wondwossen Amtataw, Sitotaw Mossa Ahmed

“…Result prevalence of difficult LC was 40%. age greater than or equal to 50years, history of admission for acute cholecystitis, BMI > 30, palpable GB, impacted stone on imaging, adhesion burying GB, time to identify cystic artery/duct, bile/stone spillage and type of ligature were statistically significantly factors for difficult laparascopic cholecystectomy. …”
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Variational Quantum Algorithms for the Allocation of Resources in a Cloud/Edge Architecture by Carlo Mastroianni, Francesco Plastina, Jacopo Settino, Andrea Vinci

“…Moreover, experiments executed on real quantum hardware show that the execution time, when increasing the size of the problem, grows much more slowly than the trend obtained with classical computation, which is known to be exponential.…”
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‘Gel-Stacks’ gently confine or reversibly immobilize arrays of single DNA molecules for manipulation and study by Susana Calle-Casteñeda, Eamon Winden, Alejandro Vasquez-Echeverri, Matthew Schickling, Evelyn Browning, Juan Pablo Hernandez Ortiz, David C Schwartz

“…Molecules are locally confined between two hydrogel surfaces without covalent tethering to support time-lapse imaging and multistep workflows that accommodate large DNA molecules. …”
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Lymphangiogenesis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Correlation with VEGF-C Expression and Lymph Node Metastasis by Manar A. Abdul-Aziz, Amina K. Amin, Dalia H. El-Rouby, Olfat G. Shaker

“…The expression of VEGF-C was also assessed using immunohistochemistry and real-time polymerase chain reaction in 6 normal oral mucosa cases and 72 cases of OSCC. …”
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The Dependence of Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensification Rates on Environmental Factors by Xinyan Lyu, Xuguang Wang, Lance M. Leslie

“…The initial location and intensity, the preceding intensity change, the motion direction, the occurrence month, and the intensification duration time are all found to differ for RI cases compared with NI and SI cases. …”
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Uptake and Distribution of Cd in Sweet Maize Grown on Contaminated Soils: A Field-Scale Study by Wending Xu, Guining Lu, Zhi Dang, Changjun Liao, Qiangpei Chen, Xiaoyun Yi

“…Therefore, this study shows that it is possible to conduct maize phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated soil while, at the same time, harvesting a crop, for subsequent consumption.…”
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PHARMACOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA IN THE ABSENCE OF RISK OF DISEASE PROGRESSION by A. A. Kamalov, A. M. Tahirzade

“…Monotherapy with α1-adrenoblocker at all times led to a significant improvement in 4 parameters (IPSS, QoL, Qmax, residual urine volume), but had no effect on erectile function. …”
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Drying Grain Pretreated by Low-Voltage Spark-Discharge Plasma Channel by Ivan A. Shorstkii

“…This treatment made it possible to reduce the drying time by 15–25%, compared to the control sample. The drying rate curves demonstrated acceleration in the initial period, associated with additional electroosmotic forces and changes in the absorption properties. …”
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Biomedical application of gelatin-PVA-silk fibre composite reinforced with copper and manganese substituted hydroxyapatite by Sabareeswari Kalidas, Shanmugam Sumathi

“…From the ALP activity it was found that osteoblast mineralization on the scaffolds increased as increasing the time interval. The fabricated scaffold, owing to its high porosity, mechanical properties and significant biological compatibility holds promise for Bone tissue engineering applications.…”
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Using crafted features and polar bear optimization algorithm for short-term electric load forecast system by Mansi Bhatnagar, Gregor Rozinaj, Radoslav Vargic

“…Short-term load forecasting (STLF) can be utilized to predict usage fluctuation in a short time period and accurate forecasting can save a big chunk of a country's economic loss. …”
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Deep Eutectic Solvent-Based Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Baicalin from Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi by Hui Wang, Xiaodi Ma, Qibin Cheng, Xiaoli Xi, Liwei Zhang

“…Based on the extraction yield of baicalin, response surface methodology (RSM) was employed to model and optimize the parameters (extraction temperature, liquid-solid ratio, and extraction time). Furthermore, the maximum yield of 106.96 mg·g−1 was achieved under optimum conditions in DES-containing aqueous solutions (33 vol% water content), which reached a similar level that was conducted using the pharmacopoeia procedure (104.94 mg·g−1). …”
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Research progress of Traditional Chinese and Western medicine early rehabilitation and its influencing factors in severe stroke patients (中风重症患者中西医早期康复及影响因素研究进展)... by LUO Hong (罗红), YU Yanlan (余艳兰)

“…However, there are still many deficiencies in the implementation of early rehabilitation of Chinese and western medicine, which will lead to missing the best time for rehabilitation. Therefore, this paper reviewed the progress of traditional Chinese and western medicine early rehabilitation measures and influencing factors for severe stroke patients. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Neural-Network and Fuzzy Auto-Tuning Sliding Mode Controls for Overhead Cranes under Payload and Cable Variations by Muhammad A. Shehu, Ai-jun Li, Bing Huang, Yu Wang, Bojian Liu

“…Control applications were conducted, and results based on graphical, integral absolute error (IAE), and integral time absolute error (ITAE) proved the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms. …”
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POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR AND THE MACRO-ECONOMIC INSTABILITY IN EUROPE by CELESTINE OGECHUKWU OKAFOR, WOYINMO TIMI AMAKOROMO, VICTOR IHEANYI ASIEGBU

“…This has created a power struggle between Russia and Western nations, impacting the stability of Eastern Europe and beyond. Thus, we employed a time-series research design and documentary methods of data collection while relying on content analysis. …”
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A Novel Discontinuous PWM Method With Hybrid Three-Step Commutation to Reduce Common-Mode Voltage for Direct Matrix Converter by Sahel Solemanifard, Cheng-Chin Hu, Tzung-Lin Lee, Mohammadreza Lak

“…The conventional discontinuous pulsewidth modulation (PWM) can provide several advantages in a direct matrix converter (DMC), such as less switching number and less execution time for modulation signals' calculation. However, it suffers from high common-mode voltage (CMV), which may cause damage to the DMC-based system. …”
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Deep Learning-Based English-Chinese Translation Research by Yao Huang, Yi Xin

“…However, because NMT only employs single neural networks to convert natural languages, it suffers from two drawbacks in terms of reducing translation time: NMT is more sensitive to sentence length than statistical machine translation and the end-to-end implementation process fails to make explicit use of linguistic knowledge to improve translation performance. …”
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