"CYCLIST ON THE MARSH": LESSONS AND PROSPECTS OF THE LAST EU ENLARGEMENT by A. I. Tevdoy-Bourmouli

“…Though the scale of the eventual problems was evident to the EU leaders long before the official entry of Central and East-European (CEE) countries to the European Union, it neither blocked the admission of new members nor entailed a refusal to pursue the plans of further enlargement at the time when Brussels’ fears have panned out. …”
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Long-Term Use of Ruxolitinib in an AML Patient with Posttransplant Steroid Refractory GVHD by Philip T. Sobash, Achuta K. Guddati, Vamsi Kota

“…Its anti-inflammatory properties by blocking interleukin pathways have made it a novel therapeutic approach to inflammatory disease processes, such as GVHD. …”
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Placemaking through guerilla gardens at the TOKI mass housing grounds in Bor (Niğde) by Ufuk Soyöz

“…As opposed to the rigidity and uniformity of TOKI blocks, the architecture of guerilla gardens displays the spontaneity and ingenuity that characterized the original gecekondu. …”
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Study on Engineering Performance of Green Porous Sponge Ecological Concrete by Xiao Sun

“…The results show that the compressive strength of the specimens peaked at the 0.9% admixture of sponge; based on the optimal admixture of sponge, the compressive strength of the specimens peaked at the 12% admixture of mineral powder; compared with the ordinary concrete, the water-retaining property of green porous sponge ecological concrete is twice than ordinary, and green porous sponge ecological concrete has high permeability and low evaporation; under the same external temperature, the maximum temperature of concrete surface is lower than ordinary; and under three work conditions, the volumes of water going through the green porous sponge ecological concrete, respectively, are 1.78 kg/(s·m2), 1.47 kg/(s·m2), and 1.62 kg/(s·m2), and the value of second totally dry condition is minimum because of water blocking affection of the internal sponge. The research results will provide help for the infrastructure construction of sponge city and play an important guiding significance to promote the construction of resource-saving and environment-friendly cities.…”
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Manufacture of a chitosan-based bioink with gelatin and hydroxyapatite and its potential application in 3D bioprinting by Sarahí Bautista Reberte, Esmeralda Zuñiga Aguilar, Solange Ivette Rivera Manrique, Carlos Alberto Martínez-Pérez

“…Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a technique currently used for creating tissue engineering scaffolds, using bioinks as the building blocks. These bioinks are composed of biomaterials that provide structural integrity and are synthesized from organic polymers to enhance biocompatibility with the printed constructs. …”
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Shared genetic risk and causal associations between Post-traumatic stress disorder and migraine with antithrombotic agents and other medications by Charlotte K. Bainomugisa, Dagmar Bruenig, Heidi G. Sutherland, Lyn R. Griffiths, Dale R. Nyholt, Divya Mehta

“…PTSD showed significant genetic correlation with 11 other medication use traits including beta blocking agents (rG = −0.11, PFDR = 0.034). Of the 2495 genomic regions tested, PTSD showed significant local genetic correlation with 12 medication use traits at 43 loci; while migraine showed significant genetic correlation with only anti-inflammatory agents and anti-rheumatic products at locus 12:57522282–57607142 (DAB1) (P < 2 x 10−5). …”
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Therapeutic depletion of CCR8+ tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells elicits antitumor immunity and synergizes with anti-PD-1 therapy by James Dooley, Bart Neyns, Elizabeth Allen, Frank Tacke, Louis Boon, Damya Laoui, Julia Katharina Schwarze, Helena Van Damme, Bruno Dombrecht, Máté Kiss, Heleen Roose, Eva Van Overmeire, Daliya Kancheva, Liesbet Martens, Aleksandar Murgaski, Pauline Madeleine Rachel Bardet, Gillian Blancke, Maude Jans, Evangelia Bolli, Maria Solange Martins, Yvon Elkrim, Kiavash Movahedi, Niels Vandamme, Sebahat Ocak, Isabelle Scheyltjens, Lars Vereecke, Frank Aboubakar Nana, Pascal Merchiers, Jo Agnes Van Ginderachter

“…These Nbs were formulated as tetravalent Nb-Fc fusion proteins for optimal CCR8 binding and blocking, containing either an antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC)-deficient or an ADCC-prone Fc region. …”
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TGF-β induces cholesterol accumulation to regulate the secretion of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles by Dorival Mendes Rodrigues-Junior, Chrysoula Tsirigoti, Konstantina Psatha, Dimitris Kletsas, Michalis Aivaliotis, Carl-Henrik Heldin, Aristidis Moustakas

“…EV-associated latent-TGF-β1 activated SMAD signaling, even when EV uptake was blocked by heparin, indicating competent signaling capacity from target cell surface receptors. …”
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Electrochemical Sandwich Immunoassay for the Ultrasensitive Detection of Human MUC1 Cancer Biomarker by Zahra Taleat, Cecilia Cristea, Giovanna Marrazza, Robert Săndulescu

“…., incubation times, concentrations, and blocking agent).…”
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Mixed representations of choice direction and outcome by GABA/glutamate cotransmitting neurons in the entopeduncular nucleus by Julianna Locantore, Yijun Liu, Jesse White, Janet Berrios Wallace, Celia Beron, Emily Kraft, Bernardo Sabatini, Michael Wallace

“…We then tested the effects of either permanently blocking cotransmission or modifying the GABA/glutamate ratio on behavior in well-trained animals. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Realization of Creative City Indicators in Urban Neighborhoods (Case Study: Zanjan City) by Hossien TahmasebiMogaddam, isa piri, zahra Rasolzadeh, Mahnaz Vaezlivari

“…The method of data collection is mainly library and documentary by means of catch-up, housing statistical blocks of 2016 and detailed plan map of 2015. Combined methods of  the factor analysis and spatial statistics in GIS are used for analysis. …”
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SAR-Assisted Energy-Efficient Hybrid ADCs by Kent Edrian Lozada, Dong-Jin Chang, Dong-Ryeol Oh, Min-Jae Seo, Seung-Tak Ryu

“…This article introduces several energy-efficient hybrid ADC architectures that incorporate SAR ADCs as their sub blocks, including the following: SAR-assisted subranging SAR, which saves DAC switching power and can detect skew errors for time-interleaved ADCs; SAR-flash hybrid for energy-efficient high-speed conversion; SAR-assisted dual-residue pipelined ADC, which eliminates the stringent requirement for residue gain accuracy; and SAR-assisted delta&#x2013;sigma modulator (DSM) with digital-domain noise coupling, which reduces the number of required analog integrators.…”
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Suppressive Effects of GSS on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Endothelial Cell Injury and ALI via TNF-α and IL-6 by Lei Yi, Zengding Zhou, Yijuan Zheng, Mengling Chang, Xiaoqin Huang, Feng Guo, Quanming Zhao, Jingning Huan

“…Importantly, we also found that GSS blocked LPS-induced TNF-α and IL-6 expression in ECs via the Myd88/NF-κB signaling pathway. …”
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Colloidal nanoparticles prepared from zein and casein: interactions, characterizations and emerging food applications by Yi Wang, Wusigale, Yangchao Luo

“…Protein colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) are ubiquitous present in nature and function as building blocks with multiple functions in both food formulations and biological processes. …”
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CC-Chemokine CCL15 Expression and Possible Implications for the Pathogenesis of IgE-Related Severe Asthma by Yasuo Shimizu, Kunio Dobashi

“…Omalizumab is a monoclonal antibody directed against immunoglobulin E, and its blocking of IgE signaling not only reduces inflammatory cell infiltration mediated by the Th2 immune response but also inhibits other immune responses. …”
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Suxamethonium-Induced Hyperkalemia: A Short Review of Causes and Recommendations for Clinical Applications by Henrik Lynge Hovgaard, Peter Juhl-Olsen

“…Proficiency in the use of suxamethonium includes identification of patients at risk, and selection of an alternative neuromuscular blocking agent is imperative.…”
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Mathematical modeling of Glassy-winged sharpshooter population by Jeong-Mi Yoon, Volodymyr Hrynkiv, Lisa Morano, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Sara Wilder, Forrest Mitchell

“…This bacterium grows in the xylem (water-conducting)vessels of the plant blocking movement of water. PD can kill vinesin one year and poses a serious threat to both the California andthe expanding Texas wine industries. …”
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Structural basis of phosphate export by human XPR1 by Qixian He, Ran Zhang, Sandrine Tury, Valérie Courgnaud, Fenglian Liu, Jean-luc Battini, Baobin Li, Qingfeng Chen

“…Loss of inositol pyrophosphate binding is accompanied by structural movements in TM9 and the W573 sidechain, closing the extracellular vestibule and blocking phosphate export. These findings provide insight into XPR1 mechanism and pave the way for further in-depth XPR1 studies.…”
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Discovery of potent allosteric antibodies inhibiting EGFR by Léxane Fournier, Lukas Pekar, Birgitta Leuthner, Harald Kolmar, Lars Toleikis, Stefan Becker

“…In particular, we identified one clone that is more potent than the approved blocking antibody cetuximab in inhibiting both PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK pathways. …”
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An Efficient Detector for Automatic Tomato Classification Systems by Duy-Linh Nguyen, Xuan-Thuy Vo, Adri Priadana, Jehwan Choi, Kang-Hyun Jo

“…In this idea, the original convolution blocks in the Backbone and Neck modules of the YOLOv8n architecture are replaced by a new version, called Receptive Field Attention Convolution (RFAConv). …”
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