Periodontitis promotes tumor growth and immune evasion via PD-1/PD-L1 by Suli Wang, Fujiao Nie, Qiuyue Yin, Haoyang Tian, Pizhang Gong, Jinhong Ju, Jiayi Liu, Pishan Yang, Chengzhe Yang

“…And the promoting effect of periodontitis on tumor growth and immune evasion was significantly attenuated after anti-PD-1 therapy. Conclusion Periodontitis may facilitate tumor growth and immune escape evidenced by the increased immune-suppressive cells and the decreased functional T cells, via enhancing PD-1/PD-L1 expression in the tumor microenvironment.…”
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Le nécrophile, pervers insaisissable (France, XIXe siècle) by Amandine Malivin

“…The extraordinary case of this young soldier visiting cemeteries in the middle of the night to exhume, mutilate and perform sexual acts on dead bodies quickly gets the attention of the medical doctors. This inaugural case becomes the basis of necrophilia discourses, and Bertrand the model of a new perverse figure. …”
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Los desequilibrios geodemográficos en Canarias: una expresión de su especialización económica by Luis Manuel Jerez Darias, Juan Israel García Cruz

“…Este estudio pretende actualizar el análisis geodemográfico sobre la distribución de la población en Canarias, atendiendo a la relación economía-población. Se plantea que la creciente especialización de su economía en el sector terciario, con fuerte dependencia del turismo, ha profundizado el desequilibrio geodemográfica en las Islas. …”
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Clinical Significance of Optic Disc Progression by Topographic Change Analysis Maps in Glaucoma: An 8-Year Follow-Up Study by D. Kourkoutas, Y. M. Buys, J. G. Flanagan, N. Karamaounas, G. Georgopoulos, E. Iliakis, M. M. Moschos, G. E. Trope

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Sequential separation of anti-diabetic drugs in the presence of melamine as impurity using chromatographic methods by Maimana A. Magdy, Maha M. Abdelrahman, Doaa G. Mohamed, Amal B. Ahmed

“…Abstract The study of green analytical chemistry has garnered significant attention in the context of mitigating global environmental contamination. …”
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Healthy Eating Index-2015 and Dietary Total Antioxidant Capacity as Predictors of Prediabetes: A Case-Control Study by Jamal Rahmani, Karim Parastouei, Maryam Taghdir, Heitor O. Santos, Farinaz Hosseini Balam, Mohsen Saberi Isfeedvajani

“…The overall dietary quality, as well as the dietary total antioxidant capacity (DTAC), deserves central attention in the management of borderline high glucose levels since nonpharmacological strategies are imperative in this regard. …”
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Verifica a fatica dei giunti saldati sulla base di misure di deformazione locale by V. Dattoma, R. Nobile, F.W. Panella

“…In questo lavoro, partendo da una breve panoramica sui principali indicatori e metodi che sono stati utilizzati nel corso degli anni per la stima dello stato di sollecitazione in un giunto saldato e della vita residua a fatica, si presenta l’approccio basato sulla misura della deformazione locale che è stato seguito da diversi autori nel corso degli anni, evidenziandone i vantaggi ma anche le limitazioni rilevate attraverso le numerose attività sperimentali direttamente eseguite.…”
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A fair non-collateral consensus protocol based on Merkle tree for hierarchical IoT blockchain by Seyedeh Somayeh Fateminasab, Davoud Bahrepour, Seyed Reza Kamel Tabbakh

“…Additionally, we argue that our proposed consensus protocol is scalable and energy-aware, thereby mitigating consensus attacks such as Sybil, Eclipse, and 51%, as well as addressing Fork occurrences issues.…”
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MLHI-Net: multi-level hybrid lightweight water body segmentation network for urban shoreline detection by Jianhua Ye, Pan Li, Yunda Zhang, Ze Guo, Shoujin Zeng, Youji Zhan

“…Then, we design a multi-branch two-layer attention fusion module (MDA), which achieves diverse attention and global optimisation of edge details by connecting spatial attention, channel attention and pixel attention in parallel. thereby guiding feature fusion and solving the problem of receptive field mismatch. …”
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A hybrid CNN-Bi-LSTM model with feature fusion for accurate epilepsy seizure detection by Xiaoshuai Cao, Shaojie Zheng, Jincan Zhang, Wenna Chen, Ganqin Du

“…In recent years, advancements in the analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have garnered widespread attention, particularly in the area of seizure recognition. …”
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Composites Based on Poly(ortho-toluidine) and WS₂ Sheets for Applications in the Supercapacitor Field by Teodora Burlanescu, Ion Smaranda, Andreea Androne, Cristina Stefania Florica, Madalina Cercel, Mirela Paraschiv, Adelina Udrescu, Adam Lőrinczi, Petru Palade, Andrei Galatanu, Catalin Negrila, Elena Matei, Monica Dinescu, Radu Cercel, Mihaela Baibarac

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Application of environmental, social and governance practices in agriculture by Dzhamilia Sakkaraeva, Akasbek Abdurashitov

“…These achievements have been made possible by the countries’ engagement in cross-border cooperation aimed at equitable and fair distribution of funds, attracting young professionals and promoting innovation in the agricultural sector. …”
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Willingness for Active Case Finding of Tuberculosis among Community Pharmacists in Puducherry by Dhanajayan Govindan, Palanivel Chinnakali, Sonali Sarkar, Govindarajan Soundappan

“…Background: In India, there is significant attrition in the cascade of care for tuberculosis (TB) in the public health sector. …”
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Opening the Trinity: developing the "open theism" debate by D. T. Williams

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Negociación de los Pesticidas utilizados para el control de plagas y enfermedades- Rubro Papa. Municipio Rangel- Estado Mérida by ISMAIRA CONTRERAS, OLGA MOLINA, BIRNAY GONZÁLEZ

“…Se presenta una investigación exploratoria acerca de los principales virus, plagas y enfermedades que atacan el proceso productivo del rubro papa, los controles que se ejercen para atacarlos, así como las formas de negociación de los pesticidas más utilizados en el proceso productivo por los productores de papa del Municipio Rangel del estado Mérida. …”
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Reconstructing a lightweight security protocol in the radio‐frequency identification systems by Alireza Abdellahi Khorasgani, Mahdi Sajadieh, Mohammad Rouhollah Yazdani

“…The authors reveal its vulnerability to various attacks, such as tag impersonation, reader impersonation and de−synchronisation attacks. …”
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De l’or noir à l’or vert : le gaz de mine, une ressource de transition dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais ? by Antoine Fontaine, Laurence Rocher

“…The emissions of this gas, which do not stop when mining activities cease, generate risks of explosion and significant atmospheric pollution. In the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield, mine gas, an emblematic legacy of the coal mining past, is now seen as an energy resource and a vector for the renewal of the region. …”
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Fourier Transform Infrared Radiation Spectroscopy Applied for Wood Rot Decay and Mould Fungi Growth Detection by Bjørn Petter Jelle, Per Jostein Hovde

“…Material characterization may be carried out by the attenuated total reflectance (ATR) Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) radiation spectroscopical technique, which represents a powerful experimental tool. …”
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Tripartite organization of brain state dynamics underlying spoken narrative comprehension by Lanfang Liu, Jiahao Jiang, Hehui Li, Guosheng Ding

“…These results are reproducible with different brain network atlas and generalizable to two datasets consisting of young and older adults. …”
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Electrical Response of CdS Thin Film and CdS/Si Heterojunction to Gamma Radiation by M. R. Balboul, A. Abdel-Galil, I. S. Yahia, A. Sharaf

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