Myogenesis gone awry: the role of developmental pathways in rhabdomyosarcoma by Annika L. Gustafson, Annika L. Gustafson, Annika L. Gustafson, Adam D. Durbin, Kristin B. Artinger, Heide L. Ford, Heide L. Ford, Heide L. Ford

“…In FN-RMS, re-expression of MRFs, as well as other myogenic TFs, blocks terminal differentiation and holds cells in a proliferative, stem-cell-like state. …”
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An FPGA-Based Omnidirectional Vision Sensor for Motion Detection on Mobile Robots by Jones Y. Mori, Janier Arias-Garcia, Camilo Sánchez-Ferreira, Daniel M. Muñoz, Carlos H. Llanos, J. M. S. T. Motta

“…The overall architecture has been mapped onto a commercial low-cost FPGA device, using a hardware/software co-design approach, which comprises a Nios II embedded microprocessor and specific image processing blocks, which have been implemented in hardware. The background subtraction algorithm was also used to calibrate the system, allowing for accurate results. …”
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A Computational Model of Attention-Guided Visual Learning in a High-Performance Computing Software System by Alice Ahmed, Md. Tanim Hossain

“…It reveals how attention increases responses to attentive stimuli, thereby normalizing activity across the population. Transformer blocks use parallelism and less localized attention than current or convolutional models. …”
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Bionic Silk Fibroin Film Promotes Tenogenic Differentiation of Tendon Stem/Progenitor Cells by Activating Focal Adhesion Kinase by Kang Lu, Xiaodie Chen, Hong Tang, Mei Zhou, Gang He, Zhisong Lu, Kanglai Tang

“…The TSPCs on SF films with a bionic microstructure exhibited a slender cell morphology, promoted the expression of tenogenic genes and proteins, such as SCX, TNC, TNMD, and COLIA1, and activated FAK. FAK inhibitors blocked the enhanced expression of tenogenic genes and proteins. …”
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hUC-MSC extracellular vesicles protect against hypoxic-ischemic brain injury by promoting NLRP3 ubiquitination by Shanshan Xiao, Ying Lv, Xuejing Hou, Shuqiang Qu

“…These effects were linked to the inhibition of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and enhanced ubiquitination via the protein kinase A (PKA) pathway. Blocking PKA partially reversed these protective effects. …”
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PPAR-γ Signaling Crosstalk in Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Ichiro Takada, Alexander P. Kouzmenko, Shigeaki Kato

“…We found that the TNF-α/IL-1-activated TAK1/TAB1/NIK (NFκB-inducible kinase) signaling cascade inhibited both the adipogenesis and Tro-induced transactivation by PPAR-γ by blocking the receptor binding to the cognate DNA response elements. …”
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The Role of Concerned Countries in the Effectiveness of Unilateral Sanctions (Relying on the Unilateral Sanctions of the United States of America Against Iran) by Ahdieh Zangi Ahrami, Ahad Bagherzadeh, Hamid Azizi Moradpour

“…Third countries can also support their nationals who are engaged in trade with the sanctioned country by imposing blocking regulations while preventing the violation of their sovereignty by the sanctioned countries. …”
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Sarcoidosis: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies by Danfeng Xu, Xiaohua Tao, Yibin Fan, Yan Teng

“…The current therapeutic strategies focus on blocking the formation and spread of granulomas to protect organ function and alleviate symptoms. …”
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Effect of a bovine manure vermicompost leachate on yield of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) hybrid Nathalie by Eduardo Fidel Héctor Ardisana, Antonio Torres García, Osvaldo Alberto Fosado Téllez, José Lincoln Cedeño Guerra, Juan Bautista Zambrano Alcívar

“…The experimental design was randomized blocks with four replications. The variables measured were the height of the plants, the diameter of the stem, the number of leaves, the total chlorophyll content, the length, the circumference and the weight of the fruits in four harvests. …”
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Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) in New World Monkeys (Primates) Reveals the Distribution of Repetitive Sequences in Cebinae and Callitrichinae by Vanessa Milioto, Vincenzo Arizza, Aiti Vizzini, Polina L. Perelman, Melody E. Roelke-Parker, Francesca Dumas

“…The CGH shows bright signals with balanced and imbalanced DNA involving different genome regions: such as predominantly repetitive DNA at centromeric positions, and interstitial distribution with extended blocks. Cross-species CGH demonstrated the origin of some heterochromatic regions and identified apomorphic heterochromatin expansion events. …”
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Accelerating Multiple Compound Comparison Using LINGO-Based Load-Balancing Strategies on Multi-GPUs by Chun-Yuan Lin, Chung-Hung Wang, Che-Lun Hung, Yu-Shiang Lin

“…Four LINGO-based load-balancing strategies are considered in CUDA-MCC in order to accelerate the computation speed among thread blocks on GPUs. CUDA-MCC was implemented by C+OpenMP+CUDA. …”
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Comparison between the WNBA and WEL: differences and key performance indicators in top women basketball leagues by Jorge Lorenzo Calvo, Rafael Manuel Navarro Barragán, Carlos Serrano Luengo, Guillermo Muñoz Andradas

“…The results showed differences between the number of possessions per team, blocks and points between the leagues. Discussion: The comparison between the best teams showed differences in points, total rebounds and defensive rebounds. …”
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Orlistat ameliorates lipid dysmetabolism in high-fat diet-induced mice via gut microbiota modulation by Chengyan Huang, Yuanhui He, Ping Chai, Zongxin Liu, Sirui Su, Yanhui Zhang, Yuelan Luo, Shuiping Fu

“…Orlistat reduces obesity by inhibiting gastrointestinal lipases, thereby blocking the absorption and accumulation of triglycerides in the intestine. …”
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Effect of Motor Blockage on Transient Characteristics of Asymmetric Flow in a Double-suction Centrifugal Fan by S. Du, X. Wu, Z. Wang, W. Yang, Z. Yang, Z. Wang, W. Zhang

“…One of the two inlets of the double-suction fan is partially blocked by the motor, and the flow in the fan becomes asymmetric and non-uniform. …”
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IMPACTS OF REPLACING THE AMAZON RAINFOREST WITH PASTURE ON SOIL PROPERTIES by Sandra Cátia Pereira Uchôa, Sasha de Souza Farage, José Maria Arcanjo Alves, Carlos Henrique de Lima Matos, Ingridy do Nascimento Tavares, Valdinar Ferreira Melo

“…Soil samples were collected at two depths (0-0.10 m and 0.10-0.20 m) in four representative blocks of 1 ha in each system. Chemical, physical, and biochemical properties, and microbial and metabolic coefficients were analyzed. …”
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Load-Frequency Control of a Hybrid Islanded Microgrid with a Fractional Order Fuzzy PID Controller Optimized by Cheetah Algorithm by Siavash Shirali, Saeed Zolfaghari Moghaddam, Mortaza Ali Asghary

“…For more accurate modeling of energy storage resources, limiting blocks are included in the output of these resources. …”
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Investigating the performance parameters of solar cell for efficiency enhancement by Muhammad Muneeb Khan, Sadiq Ahmad, Jahangeer Faiz, Rubab Nazeer, Muhammad Amir Shafi, Ahmad Bin Ishtiaq

“…In addition to nickel oxide (NiO) serving as the electron-blocking HTL, transparent conductor oxide films such as aluminum zinc oxide (AlZnO) and cadmium sulfide (Cds) were added as electron transport layers. …”
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Acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation in non-contrast CT images using 3D convolutional neural networks by A.V. Dobshik, S.K. Verbitskiy, I.A. Pestunov, K.M. Sherman, Yu.N. Sinyavskiy, A.A. Tulupov, V.B. Berikov

“…Our deep-learning approach is based on the popular 3D U-Net convolutional neural network architecture, which was modified by adding the squeeze-and-excitation blocks and residual connections. Robust pre-processing methods were implemented to improve the segmentation accuracy. …”
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Delta Cell Hyperplasia in Adult Goto-Kakizaki (GK/MolTac) Diabetic Rats by Lukáš Alán, Tomáš Olejár, Monika Cahová, Jaroslav Zelenka, Zuzana Berková, Magdalena Smětáková, František Saudek, Radoslav Matěj, Petr Ježek

“…Somatostatin analog octreotide completely blocked insulin secretion, impaired proliferation at low autocrine insulin, and decreased PPY secretion and mitochondrial DNA in INS-1E cells. …”
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Combining Region-Guided Attention and Attribute Prediction for Thangka Image Captioning Method by Fujun Zhang, Wendong Kang, Wenjin Hu

“…This predictor leverages feature maps from four different convolutional blocks within the region-guided module to incorporate more detailed information into the model. …”
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