Assessment of epicardial adipose tissue thickness as a novel cardiac risk factor in type 2 diabetic patients: a cross-sectional study by Aya Tarabay, Nehal Hamdy, Eman Al Kady, Amir Mostafa

“…EAT thickness has been determined utilizing a transthoracic echocardiogram in the parasternal short and long axis views in front of the right ventricle-free wall at end-diastole along with an assessment of left ventricular diastolic function. …”
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THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND DEMOCRATIC DIVIDENDS FOR RURAL AREAS: A STUDY OF JIGAWA STATE, 2015-2023 by DR. YAHAYA ABUBAKAR, MAINA MACKSON ABGA, HON. SANI ISYAKU ABUBAKAR

“… This study appraised the role of the State Legislature in the delivery of dividends of democracy to rural areas in Jigawa State, Nigeria; the study sought to assess the extent to which the State Legislature has effectively translated the principles of democracy into tangible benefits for rural communities to have access to basic services, infrastructure development, and socio - economic well-being; Data was generated through both primary and secondary sources, the research utilized the qualitative and quantitative technique while explanatory and expository approach was used in the analysis of data. …”
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Glucose Sensing in Saliva by Jacopo Giaretta, Riccardo Zulli, Theja Prabhakar, Ronil J. Rath, Sina Naficy, Sara Spilimbergo, Paul S. Weiss, Syamak Farajikhah, Fariba Dehghani

“…Abstract Glucose plays critical roles in many human body functions, above all as a source of energy. Abnormal levels of glucose are correlated to different diseases, importantly including diabetes. …”
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By-Products Valorization: Peptide Fractions from Milk Permeate Exert Antioxidant Activity in Cellular and In Vivo Models by Valeria Scalcon, Federico Fiorese, Marica Albanesi, Alessandra Folda, Gianfranco Betti, Marco Bellamio, Emiliano Feller, Claudia Lodovichi, Giorgio Arrigoni, Oriano Marin, Maria Pia Rigobello

“…Altogether, the results unveil novel recovery strategies for food by-products as sources of antioxidant bioactive peptides that might be utilized for the development of functional foods.…”
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Structural Basis and Mechanism of a Unique Haemophore in the Haem‐Iron Acquisition by Riemerella anatipestifer by Mengying Wang, Dandan Zhang, Xiu Tian, Jiangyang Tong, Yizhou Yao, Mingshu Wang, Dekang Zhu, Renyong Jia, Shun Chen, Xinxin Zhao, Shaqiu Zhang, Juan Huang, Xumin Ou, Bin Tian, Di Sun, Yu He, Zhen Wu, Songying Ouyang, Mafeng Liu, Anchun Cheng

“…Abstract Several bacterial pathogens employ haemophores to scavenge haem from host haemoprotein to obtain an iron source. However, no homologues of well‐characterized haemophores are found in Riemerella anatipestifer, a bacterium belonging to the order Flavobacteriales that encodes haem uptake systems. …”
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Human Supernumerary Teeth-Derived Apical Papillary Stem Cells Possess Preferable Characteristics and Efficacy on Hepatic Fibrosis in Mice by Jun Yao, Nan Chen, Xiaojing Wang, Leisheng Zhang, Jiali Huo, Ying Chi, Zongjin Li, Zhongchao Han

“…Dental tissue has been acknowledged as an advantaged source for high-quality dental pulp stem cell (DPSC) preparation. …”
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Natural Hydroxybenzoic and Hydroxycinnamic Acids Derivatives: Mechanisms of Action and Therapeutic Applications by Sergio López-Herrador, Julia Corral-Sarasa, Pilar González-García, Yaco Morillas-Morota, Enrica Olivieri, Laura Jiménez-Sánchez, María Elena Díaz-Casado

“…Their biological properties are distinctive, as they combine antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic functions, which can be utilized for therapeutic purposes in humans. …”
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Quasi-weekly oscillation of regional PM_2.5 transport over China driven by the synoptic-scale disturbance of the East Asian winter monsoon circulation by Y. Bai, T. Zhao, K. Meng, Y. Zhou, J. Xiong, X. Sun, L. Shen, Y. Yue, Y. Zhu, W. Hu, J. Yao

“…By constructing the data of daily PM<span class="inline-formula">_2.5</span> transport flux in CEC in the winters of 2015–2019, we utilize the extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) decomposition and other statistical methods to extract the moving spatial distribution of regional PM<span class="inline-formula">_2.5</span> transport over CEC, recognizing the QWO in regional PM<span class="inline-formula">_2.5</span> transport with the spatial–temporal variations over CEC. …”
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Enhanced production and purification of L-asparaginase from Bacillus paralicheniformis AUMC B-516 with potent cytotoxicity against MCF-7 cell lines by Abdullah Abobakr Saleh, Hamdy M. El-Aref, Azza M. Ezzeldin, Rania M. Ewida, Osama A. M. Al-Bedak

“…Biochemical analyses revealed significant increases in aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activities, while blood glucose, other electrolyte levels, and indicators of renal function remained unchanged. These findings highlight B. paralicheniformis AUMC B-516 as a promising source of L-asparaginase for future biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications.…”
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Joint P- and S-Wave VSP Traveltime Tomography via Well Log-Guided Physics-Informed Neural Networks by Tengyu Wang, Dingding Deng, Duoming Zheng, Zhen Zhang, Wenjun Luo, Yang Liu

“…Since the original PINNtomo loss function relies on multiplicative-factor eikonal equations that depend on background traveltimes based on uniform velocities at the source location, we introduce a source-independent multiplicative decomposition of the eikonal equation to eliminate this velocity dependence. …”
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Effects of Different Levels of Carbohydrates on Growth Performance, Hepatic and Intestinal Health, and Intestinal Microflora of Juvenile Pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) by Jie Zhao, Yang Liu, Zhipeng Sun, Liansheng Wang, Ze Fan, Yadan Pan, Jiamin Gao, Cuiyun Lu, Xianhu Zheng

“…Adding carbohydrates to the feed as an energy source is a viable approach to reduce costs and to improve the culture status of pikeperch. …”
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Network security traffic detection and legal supervision based on adaptive metric learning algorithm by Liu Zhen

“…This paper proposes an adaptive algorithm of metric learning based on deep learning, which classifies and learns the source domain images, and adds and modifies the classification margin to enrich the aligned classification boundary images. …”
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Determination of the reduced electric field in surface dielectric barrier discharge plasmas by А.А. Муталип, Е.А. Усенов, А.К. Акильдинова, М.Қ. Досболаев, М.Т. Габдуллин, Т.С. Рамазанов

“…The main transport properties of electrons, such as mobility, mean average energy, and diffusion coefficients were calculated using the BOLSIG+ open source software. The dependence of the ratio of intensities of the nitrogen spectral lines on the reduced electric field, the dependence of the E/n on plasma power, and the dependence of the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) on E/n were obtained. …”
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Visual Metaphor: Likeness of Unlike Things in Cartoons by Mohsen Zarifian

“…Guided by Conceptual Metaphor Theory, developed by Lakoff and Johnson as the theoretical framework, this study aims to examine how metaphors in political cartoons function as essential components in conveying complex socio-political messages. …”
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KnowVID-19: A Knowledge-Based System to Extract Targeted COVID-19 Information from Online Medical Repositories by Muzzamil Aziz, Ioana Popa, Amjad Zia, Andreas Fischer, Sabih Ahmed Khan, Amirreza Fazely Hamedani, Abdul R. Asif

“…We present KnowVID-19, a knowledge-based system that assists medical researchers and scientists in extracting targeted information quickly and efficiently from online medical literature repositories, such as PubMed, PubMed Central, and other biomedical sources. The system utilizes various open-source machine learning tools, such as GROBID, S2ORC, and BioC to streamline the processes of data extraction and data mining. …”
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Engineered hybrid cell membrane nanosystems for treating cardiovascular diseases by He Lu, Yaohui Jiang, Rui Luo, Dexing Zhou, Feihu Zheng, Liran Shi, He Zhang, Yong Wang, Xiaodong Xu, Renfang Zou, Yujing Zhou, Shuai Ren, Xiaocheng Wang, Haiqiang Sang

“…A significant benefit associated with this technology lies in its capacity to retain the functional and intrinsic properties of the source cells. …”
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Interactions of silicon and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on phosphorus uptake during rice vegetative growth by Li-Xue Qiu, Dong-Xing Guan, Yi-Wen Liu, Yu Luo, H. Henry Teng, Yakov Kuzyakov, Lena Q. Ma

“…This could strengthen cooperation between AMF and PSB, as AMF mycelial secretions provide easily available carbon sources for PSB, and PSB dissolved insoluble P forms for AMF uptake. …”
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A study on commodity criticism from the perspective of marxist semiotics by Yi Li, Xinpeng Wang

“…Secondary data sources, including case studies and theoretical analyses, are utilized to explore real-world contexts that demonstrate the material and symbolic roles of digital commodities. …”
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Mankind’s Relationship with the Environment in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation by Hossein Mohseni

“…The present study believes that the various aspects of this shattering gives us a glimpse of the kind of relationship we could have with the environment in the Anthropocene, the human epoch. By utilizing the theoretical concepts in key secondary sources – such as Pieter Vermeulen’s Literature and the Anthropocene (2020) and Benjamin Robertson’s None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer (2018) – the study identifies that various demarcational means fail to fulfill their binary making function due to the vastness and unmappable nature of environments such as Area X. …”
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Ultrasound-guided photoacoustic image annotation toolkit in MATLAB (PHANTOM) for preclinical applications by Allison Sweeney, Aayush Arora, Skye A. Edwards, Srivalleesha Mallidi

“…We modelled the light source configuration with Monte Carlo eXtreme and utilized 3D segmented tissues from ultrasound to generate fluence maps to depth compensate PA images. …”
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