Oxidative Stress Markers and C-Reactive Protein Are Related to Severity of Heart Failure in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Celina Wojciechowska, Ewa Romuk, Andrzej Tomasik, Bronisława Skrzep-Poloczek, Ewa Nowalany-Kozielska, Ewa Birkner, Wojciech Jacheć

“…Increased MnSOD activity indicates the mitochondrial source of ROS in patients with advanced heart failure.…”
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Enhancing Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Delivery Through Bigel Technology by Manuela Machado, Eduardo M. Costa, Sara Silva, Sérgio C. Sousa, Ana Maria Gomes, Manuela Pintado

“…This study presents the development and characterization of medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA)-loaded bigels, using coconut oil as the MCFA source. The bigels exhibited high oil binding capacity, ranging from 87% to 98%, effectively retaining MCFAs within the matrix, with lauric acid (C12) being the main component detected within the bigels at 178.32 ± 0.10 mg/g. …”
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Preparation of Straw Biochar by Solid Phase Activation and Its Deodorization Performance Ｒesearch by LI You-jing, LI Fen, YANG Ying, GE Bao-cai, MENG Fan-zhu

“…To solve the waste of biomass resources and the accumulation of by-product charcoal in the process of biomass pyrolysis. …”
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Nuclear structure study of even-even 24-42Si isotopes using Skyrme - Hartree - Fock and Hartree - Fock - Bogolyubov methods by Ali A. Abdul Hasan, Ehsan M. Raheem, Saad S. Dawood, Aqeel M. Jary, Rasha Z. Ahmed

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Joint Survey Processing. III. Compact Oddballs in the COSMOS Field—Little Red Dots and Transients by Yu-Heng Lin, Andreas L. Faisst, Ranga-Ram Chary, Anton M. Koekemoer, Joseph Masiero, Daniel Masters, Vihang Mehta, Harry I. Teplitz, Gregory L. Walth, John R. Weaver

“…We present the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) G800L grism spectroscopy observation of the faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) candidates in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field at redshift of 6 selected by the point-source morphology and the photometry drop-off at 8000 Å. …”
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A Data-Driven Front Tracking Algorithm for Autonomous Undersea Vehicles by Jieyang LU, Yongpeng WEN, Qian GUO, Xinke ZHU, Junsheng JIAO

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Research note: Harnessing the potential of chicken blastodermal cells as a new frontier in poultry science and biotechnology – Establishment of embryonic stem cells and their diffe... by Małgorzata Duda, Patrycja Maciak, Grzegorz Tylko, Kamil Wartalski, Monika Trzcińska, Marek Romek, Marcin Samiec

“…These findings highlight the potential of B-ESCs as a valuable source for propagating SC-LCs, with implications for regenerative medicine and neural/glial tissue engineering applications. …”
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Targeted proteomics for absolute quantification of glucose transporter 1 in mammalian brain cells using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry by Yash Mehta, Dhavalkumar Patel, Iqra Pervaiz, Ulrich Bickel, Abraham Jacob Al-Ahmad

“…Glucose represents a major source of energy for mammalian brains. Its uptake is tributary to a functional glucose transporter (GLUT1) expression at the blood-brain barrier (BBB). …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Clear Twin Block and Conventional Twin Block in the Correction of Skeletal Class II Malocclusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Shubhangi Amit Mani, Vinaya Kumar Kulkarni, Dhananjay Gandage, Vikranth Omprakash Shetty, Sourabh Ramesh Joshi, Vandana Tripathi

“…The study followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, and it was registered under PROSPERO. Studies were selected using Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, and Study (PICOS) criteria and electronic data resources such as Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and PubMed. …”
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Analysis of value-based healthcare (VBHC) framework by incremental cost-effectiveness of surgical and therapeutic interventions: a retrospective study at tertiary private health gr... by Mona Khamis, Zainab Almoosa, Marie Santos, Engineer Diaa Kamal, Suhail Yaghmor, Muhammad Daniyal, Abbas Al Mutair

“…Knee and ACL therapies were the most cost-effective, while lower cost-effectiveness in CP and LBP treatments may stem from the chronic nature, variable patient responses, and high resource use. Improving patient selection, standardizing treatment protocols, and enhancing early intervention and care coordination can boost efficiency and outcomes. …”
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Mechanism analysis of mechanical extraction of Pleioblastus amarus fibers by saturated steam pretreatment by Xiaofeng Xu, Weipeng Yu, Xingduo Fan, Zhenhong Gong, Wei Zhang

“…Infrared spectroscopy (IR) was performed on the functional groups of bamboo after alkali boiling and saturated steam softening to investigate changes in cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. …”
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Toward global rooftop PV detection with Deep Active Learning by Matthias Zech, Hendrik-Pieter Tetens, Joseph Ranalli

“…In the simulations, the entropy-based acquisition function shows the highest performance with only 3% of the data needed in case-imbalanced data, while remaining simple to implement. …”
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A complete telomere-to-telomere chromosome-level genome assembly of X-ray tetra (Pristella maxillaris) by Chao Bian, Changxing Hu, Zhe He, Zigang Li, Qiong Shi

“…This high-quality T2T genome assembly provides a valuable genetic resource for investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying transparency, and supporting in-depth studies on functional genomics, genetic diversity, and selective breeding for this economically important species.…”
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Perception of a child with a chronic disease and mothers' involvement in parenting tasks by Monika Parchomiuk, Beata Antoszewska, Elżbieta Kręcisz-Plis

“…Based on regression analyses, we demonstrated the relationships between the perception of selected positive aspects of the child's functioning, the significance of the child's illness, and the mothers’ involvement in caregiving, educational and therapeutic tasks. …”
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Nitrate-Nitrogen Leaching and Modeling in Intensive Agriculture Farmland in China by Ligang Xu, Hailin Niu, Jin Xu, Xiaolong Wang

“…Protecting water resources from nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) contamination is an important public health concern and a major national environmental issue in China. …”
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A study of mental health of EMS personnel during COVID-19 (A qualitative study) by Alireza Sanatkhah, Ali Rahmani Ravari, Reza Ghanizade Shoabjarei

“…BackgroundMedical staff that was under a lot of pressure and had insufficient resources and facilities during the outbreak of COVID-19. …”
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Research on underwater disease target detection method of inland waterway based on deep learning by Tao Yu, Yu Xie, Jinsong Luo, Wei Zhu, Jie Liu

“…Then, EIoU is used as the frame loss function to speed up the network convergence rate and solve the problem of difficult and easy sample imbalance. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Productivity among Broiler Farmers by Godfrey Onuwa

“…Profitability and productivity and analysis are important considerations in measuring efficiency or performance of a farm business; hence, improved output and income are not only a function of increase in the scale of production, but also how efficiently the resources are being utilized. …”
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Epidemic Process of Haemophilus influenzae Infection in WHO Regions by S. O. Vysokochanskaya, S. Y. Kombarova, R. V. Polibin, A. A. Basov

“…Although Hib infection is classified as vaccine-preventable, WHO and CDC do not post annual incidence information on their resources, unlike other vaccine-preventable infections. …”
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Analyzing Hospital Services Quality Using a Hybrid Approach: Evidence from Information Technology by Farshid Jahanshahee Nezhad, Ali Zamani Babgohari, Mohammadreza Taghizadeh-Yazdi

“…The statistical population of the study consisted of patients of the hospital and due to the difficulty of access to the patient, a limited sample of 50 patients was selected. After collecting data, the identified needs were classified into three categories called basic, functional, and motivational using the Kano model, and 7 needs were set as basic needs. …”
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