The Strategies Used by Animal Viruses to Antagonize Host Antiviral Innate Immunity: New Clues for Developing Live Attenuated Vaccines (LAVs) by Na Chen, Baoge Zhang

“…Studies have indicated that animal viruses may antagonize the antiviral innate immunity by directly or indirectly blocking the antiviral signaling pathways. In addition, viruses also do this by antagonizing host restriction factors targeting the viral replication cycle. …”
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Improved lung nodule segmentation with a squeeze excitation dilated attention based residual UNet by Dhafer Alhajim, Karim Ansari-Asl, Gholamreza Akbarizadeh, Mehdi Naderi Soorki

“…Then, the extracted features are given to the decoder part, which involves transposed convolutions, Squeeze-Excitation Dilated Residual blocks, and skip connections equipped with an Attention Gate, to decode the feature maps and construct the segmentation mask. …”
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Biochemical Behaviours of Salmeterol/Fluticasone Propionate in Treating Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) by Hilla Mills, Ronald Acquah, Nova Tang, Luke Cheung, Susanne Klenk, Ronald Glassen, Magali Pirson, Alain Albert, Duong Trinh Hoang, Thang Nguyen Van

“…The respiratory tract may be blocked, robbed of the adequate amounts of oxygen; hence, death ensues if a quick medical attention is not provided. …”
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Some Aspects of legal Regulation of restricting the Rights and Freedoms of Police Officers by S. M. Bortnyk

“…Based on the conducted analysis the author has offered to combine all prohibitions and restrictions into four blocks unequal in scope and nature of the impact on individual rights: a) prohibitions and restrictions of a political nature; b) prohibitions and restrictions of an economic nature; c) restrictions arising from the specifics of the police service and its special nature; d) prohibitions and restrictions in the field of mass media and freedom of speech. …”
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Ustilago maydis Trf2 ensures genome stability by antagonizing Blm-mediated telomere recombination: Fine-tuning DNA repair factor activity at telomeres through opposing regulations. by Shahrez Syed, Sarah Aloe, Jeanette H Sutherland, William K Holloman, Neal F Lue

“…Over-expression of Blm alone triggers aberrant telomere recombination and the accumulation of aberrant telomere structures, which are blocked by concurrent Trf2 over-expression. Together, these findings highlight the suppression of Blm as a key protective mechanism of Trf2. …”
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Ventricular Depolarization Abnormalities and Their Role in Cardiac Risk Stratification — A Narrative Review by Maarten Blondeel, Tomas Robyns, Rik Willems, Bert Vandenberk

“…This includes QRS alterations directly corresponding to cardiac conditions, such as bundle branch blocks, or the presence of a delta wave, and also metrics aiming to qualitatively or quantitatively assess myocardial scarring, such as QRS (micro)fragmentation and QRS-scoring, and techniques assessing abnormal late depolarizations, such as signal-averaged ECG. …”
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Laccase-mimicking Cu@CDs-enabled bioinspired immunosensor using CuO nanoparticles for voltametric detection of serum thyroxine level in patients with hyperthyroidism or hypothyroid... by Mohammad Ali Farzin, Seyed Morteza Naghib

“…In this study, for the first time, a voltammetric bioinspired immunosensor was fabricated to determine free thyroxine (T4) based on the blocking nanozyme-dependent signaling pathway through masking the active sites of the laccase-mimicking Cu-doped CDs (Cu@CDs). …”
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A Multi-Branch Anchor-Free Detection Algorithm for Hospital Pedestrian by Keqiang Li, Yifan Li, Yiyi Wang, Haining Yu, Huan Zhang

“…Furthermore, using ResNet34 as the baseline feature generation network, four upsampling blocks are appended at the end to form a hourglass structure, enhancing the branch network’s understanding of spatial information in pedestrian local features. …”
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Is hypercalcaemia immediately life-threatening? A prospective study by David Trewick, Mathilde Le Borgne, Julie Regnault, Camille Guimard

“…The primary outcome was the number of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias (ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, sinus arrest and second- or third-degree atrioventricular blocks) or neurological complications defined by a Glasgow Coma Scale score <9 during the stay in the ED. …”
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Technologies of psychological rehabilitation of a personality after traumatic events (on the example of the rehabilitation programme for psychologists of the security and defence s... by N. E. Miloradova, V. V. Dotsenko

“…The programme lasts a week and includes five consecutive blocks: 1) getting acquainted and getting into a new experience; 2) actualisation of problematic issues, peculiarities of experiencing stressful and traumatic situations; 3) grief and loss; 4) prevention and overcoming professional burnout; 5) acquiring resources. …”
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Channelling and taxation in European online gambling markets: evolution and policy implications by Virve Marionneau, Nicola Matteucci, Sabrina Vieira Lima, Janne Nikkinen, Jani Selin

“…The data consist of estimated channelling rates, information on taxation levels, and controls including blocking policies. We produce a descriptive overview of the recent evolution of market channelling and taxation for online gambling products across Europe. …”
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Blockchain sharding storage scheme based on concatenated coding by TIAN Youliang, HUANG Yuqing, WANG Shuai

“…Existing research has reduced the storage overhead of blockchain based on erasure coding theory, but it brings high computational and communication spending during the decoding and recovery of blocks. To solve these problems, a blockchain sharding storage scheme based on concatenated coding was proposed. …”
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Design of a Free-Ruthenium In2S3 Crystalline Photosensitized Solar Cell by Byeong Sub Kwak, Younghwan Im, Misook Kang

“…The In2S3 crystals on the surface of the TiO2 bottom blocking layer were grown as a solid-state dye material. …”
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State-of-the-art anesthesia practices: a comprehensive review on optimizing patient safety and recovery by Guolu Fu, Lili Xu, Huaqing Chen, Jinping Lin

“…Innovations in regional anesthesia and ultrasound-guided nerve blocks have led to better pain management, reduced recovery time, and minimized morbidity. …”
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Formas de relevo da bacia hidrográfica do Rio Ibicuí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: Obtidas por classificação topográfica automatizada by Romario Trentin, Luís Eduardo de Souza Robaina

“…By visual interpretation in GIS environment allowed the definition of 12 landforms units to the Ibicuí Basin, so called: Ibicuí-Uruguay Unit formed by large areas with a flat element; Flood Plain Unit characterized by the flat element associated with tributaries of the Ibicuí river; Altitude Hills Unit, with broad slopes and altitudes above 200m; Volcanic ridge Unit forming relief dissected with valleys and ridges; Sedimentary Edge Unit defined by shoulders and secondary elevations associated with relief of flat elements; Cacequi Unit formed by undulating relief marked by wide slopes and areas with hollow forms and short valleys; Santa Maria Unit of smooth wavy relief and isolated elevations; High Course of Ibirapuitã Unit, constituting the areas in the headwaters of the upper course of the Ibirapuitã and Ibirapuitã Chico rivers; Serra do Caverá Unit composed of a relief of hills and morrotes; Taquarembó Unit characterized by slopes with narrow and elongated tops with substrate composed of granite rocks; Santa Maria Chico Unit forming slopes with broad bases with rebounds of metamorphic and granite rock outcrops; Alegrete Unit with flat forms associated to bumps between the middle and top of the slope that mark outcrops of blocks and slabs.. The units distinguished differences of physiographic aspects that it can be observed in the field and has geomorphological representation.…”
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The main types and mineral composition of bauxites of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly by A.D. Savko, M.Yu. Ovchinnikova

“…Laterites with bauxite appeared in the Early Carboniferous and only in the Belgorod region of the KMA, because the latter was not blocked by the sea basin, unlike the rest of the territory. …”
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Dynamic Response Characteristics of the Structures under Excavation by High-Efficiency Blasting in the Urban Ultradeep Foundation Pit by Zhen Lei, Qing Chen, Wen Zhao, Yu-Jing Li, Zheng-Hua Gao

“…The results show that the electronic detonator carried out peak shaving within the group, unloading waves between the groups, and the blocking effect of the vibration-isolating slot, and all these effectively reduced the peak stress and peak particle vibration velocity, evenly distributed the vibration velocity, and guaranteed the safety of the surrounding existing buildings, proving the feasibility of the efficient blasting method. …”
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TNF-α Autocrine Feedback Loops in Human Monocytes: The Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Roles of the TNF-α Receptors Support the Concept of Selective TNFR1 Blockade In Vivo by Jennie M. Gane, Robert A. Stockley, Elizabeth Sapey

“…Monocytes were isolated from healthy human subjects and exposed to LPS, plus/minus the addition of blocking antibodies to TNF-α or its receptors. Pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine production was quantified using real-time PCR and ELISAs. …”
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Structural and Economic Approach to the Selection of Peak Regulating Capacities at Thermal Power Plants by E. V. Bohdan, M. B. Karnitski

“…The almost complete use of the adjusting range of the CHP will forcibly cause, on a larger scale, to the shutdown of the blocks during the load failures at night, followed by the start-up from the non-cooled and hot statuses. …”
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Reduced Occurrence of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Chinese Infants Fed Minimally Processed Commercially Available Formula: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study by Xiao Yang Sheng, Vanitha Buthmanaban, Glenn A. A. van Lieshout, Panam Parikh

“…Healthy Chinese infants consuming one of four commercially available infant formulas (IF) were assessed on the occurrence of gastrointestinal symptoms associated with suboptimal digestion of processed milk proteins. The IF differed in blocked lysine (BL) levels, a proxy indicator of heat processing as well as the nutritional quality of milk. …”
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