Fibrocyte enrichment and myofibroblastic adaptation causes nucleus pulposus fibrosis and associates with disc degeneration severity by Yi Sun, Yan Peng, Zezhuo Su, Kyle, K. H. So, Qiuji Lu, Maojiang Lyu, Jianwei Zuo, Yongcan Huang, Zhiping Guan, Kenneth M. C. Cheung, Zhaomin Zheng, Xintao Zhang, Victor Y. L. Leung

“…Depleting the fibrocytes in CD11b-DTR mice in which myeloid-derived lineages were ablated by diphtheria toxin could markedly attenuate fibrous modeling and myofibroblast formation in the NP of the degenerative discs, and prevent disc height loss and histomorphological abnormalities. …”
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Multimodal Fusion and Cutting-Edge AI-Based Smart Vending Machines for Electronic Component Management by M. Karthiga, Syarifah Bahiyah Rahayu, E. Suganya, S. Sankarananth, S. Sountharrajan, K. Venkatesan

“…The results of this study could greatly improve electronic component management, increasing the usefulness of smart vending machines for professionals and students working in lab environments. …”
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Open resection and reconstruction of a Nasoseptal Chondrosarcoma: case report and literature review by Changseok Lee, David Forner, Martin Bullock, Matthew H. Rigby, Martin Corsten, Jonathan R. Trites, S. Mark Taylor

“…Conclusion This report describes a case of nasal septal chondrosarcoma successfully treated with surgical excision using an open rhinoplasty approach. …”
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Quantifying the Effect of Soil Ameliorants on Soil Crusting by Means of Field Experiments in a Wildlife Protected Area, South Africa by Anélle Human, Gerhardus P. Nortjé, Michiel C. Laker

“…In this study, mineral soil crusts were found to be the problem in the Dinokeng Game Reserve (DGR), South Africa. Large areas of bare soil crusted areas were found in this reserve. …”
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MSTD: A Multi-Scale Transformer-Based Method to Diagnose Benign and Malignant Lung Nodules by Xiaoyu Zhao, Jiao Li, Man Qi, Xuxin Chen, Wei Chen, Yongqun Li, Qi Liu, Jiajia Tang, Zhihai Han, Chunyang Zhang

“…Its average performance was superior to the state-of-the-art method by about 1%, 3.4%, and 3.6% in terms of the area under the curve (AUC), Accuracy, and F1Score, respectively.…”
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Evolution of a seafloor massive sulfide deposit on axial volcanic ridges: a case study of the Duanqiao hydrothermal field, Southwest Indian Ridge by Weifang Yang, Chunhui Tao, Chunhui Tao, Shili Liao, Huichao Zhang, Huichao Zhang, Chuanwei Zhu, Wei Li, Guoyin Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Lisheng Wang

“…In this study, we conducted mineral texture, geochemical, 230Th/U dating, and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer analyses of a drill core containing shallow sulfide deposits to study their evolution process. …”
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I-PAttnGAN: An Image-Assisted Point Cloud Generation Method Based on Attention Generative Adversarial Network by Wenwen Li, Yaxing Chen, Qianyue Fan, Meng Yang, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu

“…In addition, the effectiveness of the newly added modules is verified by ablation experiments, and the experimental results show that these modules play a key role in the generation process. …”
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PZS‐Net: Incorporating of Frame Sequence and Multi‐Scale Priors for Prostate Zonal Segmentation in Transrectal Ultrasound by Jianguo Ju, Qian Zhang, Pengfei Xu, Tiange Liu, Cheng Li, Ziyu Guan

“…Extensive experiments on TRUS image datasets show that the PZS‐Net achieves higher accuracy in both the transitional zone (dice coefficient [Dice]: 68.90% ± 1.73%, mean intersection over union [mIoU]: 59.19% ± 2.09%, 95% Hausdorff distance [HD95]: 5.02 ± 0.83 mm) and the peripheral zone (Dice: 63.99% ± 3.16%, mIoU: 54.60% ± 3.35%, HD95: 5.28 ± 1.12 mm) and demonstrates the effectiveness and competitiveness of its key components via comprehensive ablation studies.…”
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Attenuation of Myocardial Injury by HMGB1 Blockade during Ischemia/Reperfusion Is Toll-Like Receptor 2-Dependent by Jan Mersmann, Franziska Iskandar, Kathrina Latsch, Katharina Habeck, Vera Sprunck, René Zimmermann, Ralf R. Schumann, Kai Zacharowski, Alexander Koch

“…Genetic or pharmacological ablation of toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) protects against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (MI/R). …”
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SSL-MBC: Self-Supervised Learning With Multibranch Consistency for Few-Shot PolSAR Image Classification by Wenmei Li, Hao Xia, Bin Xi, Yu Wang, Jing Lu, Yuhong He

“…Nevertheless, fully utilizing SSL in PolSAR classification tasks is still a great challenge due to the data complexity. Based on the abovementioned issues, we propose an SSL model with multibranch consistency (SSL-MBC) for few-shot PolSAR image classification. …”
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SCM-YOLO for Lightweight Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images by Hao Qiang, Wei Hao, Meilin Xie, Qiang Tang, Heng Shi, Yixin Zhao, Xiaoteng Han

“…In addition, we validate the effectiveness of the three modules, SPID, CBCC, and MAGI, through ablation experiments. The comparison experiments on the AI-TOD dataset show that the mAP50 and mAP50-95 metrics of SCM-YOLO reach 64.053% and 27.283%, respectively, which are significantly better than other models with the same parameter size.…”
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Characterization of a Novel Male Pheromone Compound in <i>Leucoptera sinuella</i> (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) and Its Role in Courtship Behavior by Laura Sánchez-Aros, Abel F. O. Queiroz, Jorge Guajardo, Wilson Barros-Parada, Glenn P. Svensson, Jan Bergmann

“…Although electrophysiological assays did not show detectable antennal responses to (<i>Z</i>)-3-decenyl hexanoate, behavioral bioassays demonstrated its role as a short-range courtship signal in <i>L. sinuella</i>. Males with ablated hairpencils exhibited significantly reduced courtship success compared to controls; however, exposure of females to synthetic (<i>Z</i>)-3-decenyl hexanoate or HP extract restored male courtship success. …”
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy applied to cattle compost for phosphorus quantification by Alberto Lencina, Gustavo Romagnoli, Andrea Alonso, Noelia Ramos, Cristian D’Angelo, Lina Lett, Silvia Mestelan

“…As a reference method to determine total P concentration, wet digestion and colorimetry were employed. The area of the P I line emission obtained by laser-induced ablation of the samples was measured to estimate the total P concentration. …”
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The Effects of Palm Oil Fuel Ash on Mechanical and Durability Properties of Sustainable Foamed Concrete by Dahlia Patah, Amry Dasar, Nurazuwa Md. Noor

“… In recent years, mortar bricks or autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC), also known as foamed concrete, have been widely used as masonry wall materials. …”
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Original Personalized Reconstruction Method for Certain Large Tumors of the Lower Lip (Not Including Oral Commissures) by Ovidiu Dan Grigorescu, Marius Irimie, Nadinne Roman, Roxana Steliana Miclaus, Maria-Cristina Cîmpeanu, Bogdan-Radu Necula, Christian-Gabriel Strempel, Simona Grigorescu, Marius Alexandru Moga, Dana Gabriela Festila

“…<i>Results</i>: Applied in a personalized manner, impressive results were obtained in several patients with lip tumors affecting about one-half of the lower lip length and in whom oncological surgical ablation produced defects in more than two-thirds of it. …”
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Anti-IL-22 Antibody Attenuates Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease via Increasing Foxp3+ T Cell through Modulation of CD11b+ Cell Function by Jianbo Wu, Jian Gu, Shun Zhou, Hao Lu, Yunjie Lu, Ling Lu, Xuehao Wang

“…We therefore conclude that IL-22Ab administration represents a viable approach for treating aGVHD.…”
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Typology of historical baths of Kermanshah with emphasis on the location by amin ghahramani tolabi, sayed ali nouri

“…Kermanshah is one of the cities that during the historical period, especially in the Qajar period, due to its location on the path of Atbat-e-Aliat, was considered by the rulers of the time and has many textures and examples of historical baths. …”
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Survival after Locoregional Treatments for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Cohort Study in Real-World Patients by Simona Signoriello, Annalisa Annunziata, Nicola Lama, Giuseppe Signoriello, Paolo Chiodini, Ilario De Sio, Bruno Daniele, Giovanni G. Di Costanzo, Fulvio Calise, Graziano Olivieri, Vincenzo Castaldo, Rosario Lanzetta, Guido Piai, Giampiero Marone, Mario Visconti, Mario Fusco, Massimo Di Maio, Francesco Perrone, Ciro Gallo, Giovanni B. Gaeta

“…All patients first diagnosed with HCC and treated with any locoregional therapy from 1998 to 2002 in twelve Italian hospitals were eligible. …”
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Study protocol of the METAPANC trial - intensified treatment in patients with local operable but oligometastatic pancreatic cancer - multimodal surgical treatment versus chemothera... by Michael Ghadimi, Uwe Pelzer, Marc G. Besselink, Jens Siveke, Ralph Telgmann, Rickmer Braren, Hanneke Wilmink, Marie Crede, Alexander Koenig, Ute Koenig, Sven Thorsten Liffers, Kai Antweiler, Bas Uijterwijk, Hanna Seppanen, Arno Nordin, Pauli Puolakkainen, Olav F. Dajani, Knut Jørgen Labori, Mia Johansson, Svein Olav Bratlie, Tim Friede, Peter Jo

“…Methods After an induction therapy with eight cyles of mFOLFIRINOX and a response assessment after four and eight cycles, patients will be randomized to either Arm 1 (perioperative mFOFIRINOX plus resection of the primary tumor with resection or ablation of all hepatic metastases) or Arm 2 (continuation of 4 cycles of the standard-of-care mFOLFIRINOX chemotherapy). …”
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A novel high-resolution eco-functional vegetation mapping of coastal dunes by Michele Innangi, Mirko Di Febbraro, Marco Balsi, Ginevra Colonna, Michele Finizio, Federica Pontieri, Maria Laura Carranza

“…The second class bridged dynamic foredune and more stable areas, featuring ruderal species like Scabiosa atropurpurea. …”
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