Herpes simplex virus type 1 impairs mucosal-associated invariant T cells by Lauren Stern, Zoe Emanuel, Renee Traves, Katherine Willis, Shivam K. Purohit, Carolyn Samer, Jeffrey Y. W. Mak, David P. Fairlie, David C. Tscharke, Alexandra J. Corbett, Allison Abendroth, Barry Slobedman

“…Furthermore, HSV-1 infection profoundly inhibits the functional capacity of MAIT cells to respond to T cell receptor (TCR)-dependent stimulation by the MAIT cell activating ligand 5-(2-oxopropylideneamino)-6-D-ribitylaminouracil (5-OP-RU) and to cytokine stimulation by IL-12/IL-18. …”
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Are Expert Patients an Untapped Resource for ART Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa? by Tom Decroo, Wim Van Damme, Guy Kegels, Daniel Remartinez, Freya Rasschaert

“…There is a need for careful design of models in which expert patients are involved in essential care functions, capacitated, and empowered to manage their condition and support fellow peers, as an untapped resource to control HIV/AIDS.…”
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Legged Robot with Tensegrity Feature Bionic Knee Joint by Qi Wen, Meiling Zhang, Jianwei Sun, Weijia Li, Jinkui Chu, Zhenyu Wang, Songyu Zhang, Luquan Ren

“…Abstract Legged robots, designed to emulate human functions, have greatly influenced numerous sectors. …”
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Vision-Related Quality of Life in Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma Patients with or without Visual Field Dysfunction by Pingping Ma, Yingru Liu, Yufang Su, Yajun Yang

“…Furthermore, patients with VF loss had significantly lower NVE-VFQ-25 subscale scores for general health, general vision, ocular pain, near activities, distance activities, social functioning, mental health, role difficulties, dependency, driving, and peripheral vision than PACG patients without VF loss and healthy controls (all P<0.05). …”
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Unusual violation of the Wiedemann–Franz law at ultralow temperatures in topological compensated semimetals by Yi-Yan Wang, Xin Rao, Ying Zhou, Xiang-De Zhu, Xia Zhao, Gang Chen, Na Li, Hui Liang, Tian-Long Xia, Xue-Feng Sun

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Upgrading fuzzy logic by GA-PS to determine asphaltene stability in crude oil by Saeid Ahmadi, Mohammad Sadegh Amiribakhtiar, Amin Gholami, Nader Bahrami

“…While SC solely optimizes mean of input Gaussian membership functions (GMFs), GA-PS tool optimizes both mean and variance of input GMFs. …”
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Incompatibility Between Regulations and Implications: Under-Explored Impacts of Sindh’s Local Government Policies on Sukkur’s Urban Governance by Zubair Ahmed Pirzada, Nida Shafaat, Dr. Shoukat Ali Mahar

“… Although Article 140-A mandates the decentralisation of political, administrative, and fiscal authority to local governments, Sindh retains key municipal functions. This study investigates whether such partial devolution impairs Sukkur’s local governance and whether the resulting governance gap is genuine or overstated by political rhetoric. …”
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The role of cholesterol in modifying the lipid-lowering effects of Fuzhuan brick-tea in Caenorhabditis elegans via SBP-1/SREBP by Lianyun Pan, Yan Lu, Shen Dai, Xiangyue Tang, Ligui Xiong, Zhonghua Liu, Yushun Gong

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Rethinking energy security in the condition of a rise in public–private partnership in energy: Fresh insights from new estimation by Le Thanh Ha

“…Our findings suggest that improving energy efficiency extends the longevity of power sources and lessens dependency on inefficient financial investments. High energy efficiency increases the energy system's resilience by ensuring that systems with restricted funds continue functioning in the event of energy restrictions or global uncertainty.…”
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Measuring a family sense of coherence: a rasch-based study extending dyadic data analyses by Marie-Louise Möllerberg, Kristofer Årestedt, Peter Hagell, Jeanette Melin

“…However, most items had disordered thresholds and some problems with local dependency. Item hierarchies were similar in both set-ups and there was no differential item functioning (DIF) by role from the dyadic informant perspective. …”
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Gaussian Process with Vine Copula-Based Context Modeling for Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits by Jong-Min Kim

“…Context vectors are generated using Gaussian and vine copulas to capture nonlinear dependencies, while arm-specific reward functions are modeled via GP regression with Beta-distributed targets. …”
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Polymorphisms of surfactant protein A genes and the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants by B Weber, A Borkhardt, S Stoll-Becker, I Reiss, L Gortner

“…As surfactant protein A (SP-A) has several major immunological and metabolic intrapulmonary functions, we aimed at investigating an association of polymorphisms of SP-A1 and SP-A2 encoding genes and the risk of BPD. …”
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Effect of Instrument-assisted Soft-tissue Mobilisation of Iliotibial Band with Conventional Exercise Therapy versus Conventional Exercise Therapy Alone on Clinical Performance in P... by Janvhi Balbir Gandotra, Pranita Dattatraya Ganjave, Riddhi Ashish Shroff

“…Aim: To evaluate the impact of combining IASTM with conventional exercise therapy versus conventional exercise therapy alone on knee Range of Motion (ROM), pain, functional performance, and functional disability in patients with grade 1 and 2 knee OA. …”
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Analysis of the Matching Media Effects by Microwave Field Distribution Simulations for the Cylindrically Layered Human Arm Model by Tanju Yelkenci

“…Then, based on this solution, a frequency-dependent functional in terms of the electromagnetic parameters of the matching medium was defined, and the parameters that minimize this functional were determined through the graphs of this functional. …”
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Red Seaweed (Rhodophyta) Phycocolloids: A Road from the Species to the Industry Application by Madalena Mendes, João Cotas, Diana Pacheco, Kay Ihle, Alina Hillinger, Miguel Cascais, João Carlos Marques, Leonel Pereira, Ana M. M. Gonçalves

“…Seaweed polysaccharides are versatile both in their functions in seaweed physiology and in their practical applications in society. …”
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Ultrasound-activated bimetallic PtRu alloy nanozymes for synergistic sonodynamic and chemodynamic therapy of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection by Xiang Zheng, Lingxia Pang, Youpei Wang, Qianlei Zhao, Guoquan Pan, Xiaojun He, Yafeng Liang

“…In this study, guided by density functional theory (DFT) predictions, we designed an ultrasound (US)-activated bimetallic PtxRuy alloy nanozyme (PR) that synergistically combines US-activated sonodynamic therapy (SDT) with chemodynamic therapy (CDT) for precise control of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. …”
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The anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-37 improves the NK cell-mediated anti-tumor response by Nadine Landolina, Francesca Romana Mariotti, Andrea Pelosi, Valentina D’Oria, Tiziano Ingegnere, Claudia Alicata, Paola Vacca, Lorenzo Moretta, Enrico Maggi

“…IL-37 is a member of the IL-1 superfamily exerting anti-inflammatory functions in a number of diseases. Extracellular IL-37 triggers the inhibitory receptor IL-1R8 that is known to regulate different NK cell pathways and functional activities including their anti-tumor effect. …”
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Factor H-related 1 and heparan sulfate architecture contribute to complement dysregulation in C3 glomerulopathy by Amanda K. Slagle, Amanda K. Slagle, Nicolo Ghiringhelli Borsa, Kai Wang, Amanda O. Taylor, Nicole C. Meyer, Michael B. Jones, William D. Walls, Angela F. M. Nelson, Sarah M. Roberts, Mingyao Sun, Elena Goicoechea de Jorge, Santiago Rodriguez de Cordoba, Diana I. Jalal, Diana I. Jalal, Carla M. Nester, Yuzhou Zhang, Richard J. H. Smith, Richard J. H. Smith

“…Functional studies showed that FHR-1 competes with FH to increase C3b deposition on mouse mesangial cell surfaces, an effect enhanced by heparan sulfate cleavage.DiscussionAltogether, we show that as renal function declines, a change in the FHR-1:FH ratio combined with changes in heparan sulfate architecture increase complement activity. …”
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Alterations of Regional Spontaneous Brain Activity and Gray Matter Volume in the Blind by Aili Jiang, Jing Tian, Rui Li, Yong Liu, Tianzi Jiang, Wen Qin, Chunshui Yu

“…In this study, we performed resting-state functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging on 50 sighted controls and 91 blind subjects (20 congenitally blind, 27 early blind, and 44 late blind individuals). …”
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Class II Malocclusion Treatment Using Combined Twin Block and Fixed Orthodontic Appliances: A Case Series by Kasturi Mukherjee, Prakash Banerjee, Vikrant Omprakash Shetty, Poulomi Roy, Shyamal Bar, Shweta Sunil Bakre

“…The effect of the Twin Block functional orthodontic appliances is mostly dento-alveolar with small skeletal effect. …”
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