Pharmacological Inhibition of p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases Affects KC/CXCL1-Induced Intraluminal Crawling, Transendothelial Migration, and Chemotaxis of Neutrophils In Viv... by Najia Xu, Mokarram Hossain, Lixin Liu

“…SB203580 (100 nM) did not change leukocyte rolling but significantly attenuated neutrophil adhesion, emigration, and transmigration and impaired the initiation of neutrophil crawling and transmigration. …”
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CONCEPTUALIZING THE LIVEABLE AFRICAN CITY by Taibat Lawanson, Taofiki Salau, Omoayena Yadua

“… This paper attempts to conceptualize the liveable African City using indices of liveability as advanced by Africans. …”
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Enhance Oil Recovery in Fracture-Cave Carbonate Reservoirs Using Zwitterion-Anionic Composite Surfactant System by Wei Peng, Qing You, Xiaoqiang Liu, Bojie Zhou, Xingxing Ding, Yuechun Du, Liangfei Xiao

“…Surfactant flooding is usually adopted in these conditions because it can mitigate water channeling and enhance sweep efficiency by lowering the interfacial tension (it refers to the force that is generated due to the unbalanced molecular attraction on the liquid surface layer and causes the liquid surface to contract) between oil and water. …”
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Simile in the Realm of Story (A Study of the Regional Similes in Stories from Five Domains of Story-writing in Iran) by Reza Sadeghi shahpar

“…Comparing such similes in regional stories taken from the five regions of story-writing in Iran, namely north, south, Khorasan (east), Kermanshah (west) and Azerbaijan regions, is a worthwhile undertaking which highlights both the stylistic differences and the regional atmosphere affecting their creation. Thus, the present study aims at identifying the differences among the similes used in regional stories and considers such differences as major stylistic features of the stories. …”
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A Gauss type functional equation by Silvia Toader, Themistocles M. Rassias, Gheorghe Toader

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Research on scenario-based mechanism in privacy-aware mobile networks by Ben NIU, Feng-hua LI, Jia-feng HUA, Yuan-yuan HE

“…The well-developed information services has infiltrated in each part of our daily life,various novel ser-vice modes and applications provide us conveniences at the cost of our privacy.This situation becomes more serious with the increasing number of applications and users’ requirements.The privacy issues of scenario-based mechanism in mobile networks have been studied based on analyzing the state-of-the-art research trends.The threat and chal-lenges of privacy disclosure caused by the mobile network services,and review the scenarios,service models and attack models were introduced firstly.Followed,a comprehensive study on current status of background information,quality of services,and resource-restricted related privacy preservation were made.Finally,some key technologies on privacy preservation such as background information modeling and descripting,multi-background information fusion,quality of services descripting and modeling,self-adaptive methods based on historical information,pri-vacy-preserving solutions optimizing energy resources and privacy-preserving schemes equalizing multiple factors etc were posted.…”
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Application of in vitro and in vivo models in the study of food allergy by Jianjian Huang, Changjun Liu, Yanbo Wang, Chong Wang, Menghua Xie, Yi Qian, Linglin Fu

“…Food allergy is one of the most important food safety problems that has attracted increasing attention. The food allergy experimental models provide not only the accurate allergen detection and evaluation methods but also the powerful approaches for mechanism investigations. …”
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Navigating Suicidal Crisis in a Traditional Setting of Kyrgyzstan by Leila Salimova

“…Azat's family grapples with financial instability, parent’s labor migration, and sibling abuse, all of which have led to distressing experiences for him, including two suicide attempts. The analysis emphasizes the significance of understanding ecological systems and societal constructs in social work practice. …”
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Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“…These successes are attributed to the contributions of editors, reviewers, authors, readers and the production staff.   …”
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Choroid vascular index in myopic patients – A mini review by Sheng-Chu Chi, Yi-Ming Huang

“…Abnormal axial growth is an intrinsic characteristic of myopia, accompanied by ocular biomechanical changes that result in chorioretinal atrophy, thinning, and other complications particularly in the choroidal vasculature. …”
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Contribution Degree of Different Surface Factors in Urban Interior to Urban Thermal Environment by Jikang Wan, Min Zhu

“…This study first classifies the ground features with different attributes, conducts LST statistics for each category, and conducts multivariate linear analysis, instead of setting some fuzzy exponent and forcing a threshold to calculate. …”
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Compartir datos de investigación: reflexiones desde el ethos de la ciencia de Robert K. Merton by Omar Díaz Fragoso, Gabriela María Luisa Riquelme Alcantar, Gibrán Rivera González

“…Se revisaron treinta documentos científicos, resultado de búsquedas en bases de datos como Scopus y Web of Science; el análisis interpretativo del contenido se realizó con el programa ATLAS.ti. Entre los hallazgos destacan diversos factores asociados a la negación de los científicos para compartir datos en la ciencia. …”
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Buffalo Immune Competence Under Infectious and Non-Infectious Stressors by Maria Giovanna Ciliberti, Antonella Santillo, Mariangela Caroprese, Marzia Albenzio

“…Recently, buffalo breeding has attracted the interest of the research communities due to their high resilience; however, little is known about the immune mechanism activated under specific stressors. …”
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Socialinio darbuotojo konfliktų su klientais valdymo patirtys by Indrė Juriavičienė, Laima Milkintaitė

“…Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad socialiniai darbuotojai, atsidūrę konfliktinėse situacijose, su klientais stengiasi prisitaikyti prie kliento bei situacijos, elgtis profesionaliai bei lanksčiai, keisti savo atliekamus vaidmenis, nes klientams nelabai patinka, kai socialinis darbuotojas vienu metu atlieka kelis dažniausiai prieštaraujančius vaidmenis ir todėl reiškia nepasitenkinimą. …”
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Dilated SE-DenseNet for brain tumor MRI classification by Yuannong Mao, Jiwook Kim, Lena Podina, Mohammad Kohandel

“…Abstract In the field of medical imaging, particularly MRI-based brain tumor classification, we propose an advanced convolutional neural network (CNN) leveraging the DenseNet-121 architecture, enhanced with dilated convolutional layers and Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) networks’ attention mechanisms. This novel approach aims to improve upon state-of-the-art methods of tumor identification. …”
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Risk Factors for Incident Myopia among Teenaged Students of the Experimental Class of the Air Force in China by Lin-song Qi, Lu Yao, Xue-feng Wang, Jiu-mei Shi, Yong Liu, Teng-yun Wu, Zhi-kang Zou

“…In May 2015, this 3-year prospective cohort study enrolled 522 boys (age, 14–16 years) attending grade 10 in 16 high schools in 15 cities in China. …”
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A review on speech recognition approaches and challenges for Portuguese: exploring the feasibility of fine-tuning large-scale end-to-end models by Yan Li, Yapeng Wang, Lap Man Hoi, Dingcheng Yang, Sio-Kei Im

“…The Portuguese speech recognition task is gradually receiving attention due to its unique language stance. However, the relatively scarce data resources have constrained the development and application of Portuguese speech recognition systems. …”
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Prediking in die wêreld van die hoorders by HJC Pieterse

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Heterogeneous and Homogenous Multistabilities in a Novel 4D Memristor-Based Chaotic System with Discrete Bifurcation Diagrams by Lilian Huang, Wenju Yao, Jianhong Xiang, Zefeng Zhang

“…Finally, the chaotic attractors are captured through circuit simulation, which verifies numerical simulation.…”
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Relación entre estilos parentales y conductas autolesivas sin intención suicida en población ecuatoriana by Jose L. Vilchez, Oscar Santiago Vanegas Quizhpi, María J. Samaniego-Chalco, Miriam Vilchez Tornero, Wilson Guillermo Sigüenza Campoverde

“…El dato más claro reside en la correlación positiva entre la negligencia parental (la falta de atención) con las conductas autolesivas. Conclusiones: Se concluye que la llamada de atención es un factor inherente a las conductas autolesivas, aunque tan solo es uno de tantos factores.     …”
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