Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Ghrelin and Obestatin Levels in Obesity or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Rat Model by Donglei Zhou, Xun Jiang, Weixing Ding, Dingyu Zhang, Lei Yang, Chengzhu Zhen, Liesheng Lu

“…Obese rats were randomly assigned to receive sleeve gastrectomy (SG, n=8), minigastric bypass (MGBP, n=8), roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP, n=8), and sham operation (SO, n=4). Another 4 rats served as control. Besides, Goto-Kakisaki (GK) rats were also randomly divided into similar groups except for total gastrectomy (TG, n=8) group. …”
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Providing a New Multiobjective Two-Layer Approach for Developing Service Restoration of a Smart Distribution System by Islanding of Faulty Area by Hasan Keshavarz Ziarani, Seyed Hossein Hosseinian, Ahmad Fakharian

“…Solving the problem using the multiobjective method with the epsilon-constraint method is another goal of the paper, which simultaneously minimizes the cost and the emissions of the smart distribution network. …”
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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…Indeed, while before it was passed, only sodomy had been a criminal offence, this amendment extended the scope of the criminal law by making a misdemeanour ‘the commission of or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of any act of gross indecency with another male person’. As a consequence, it marked the beginning of a ‘homosexual exception’ surrounding its adoption as it was part of a wider bill—the Criminal Law Amendment Bill—, intended to protect younger girls from vice and prostitution. …”
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Wychować czy formować człowieka przetrwania? by Irena Grochowska

“…In nowadays era of fast changes, it is not enough to be a mature man in a sense of human cultural behavior, the needs are greater, anticipated thought and the ability to communicate with another man is necessary. Survival of man and overcoming the ecological crisis becomes a complex problem, which should be regarded as a system, a synthesis of theory and practice in many disciplines of science. …”
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Passivation of substrates with hydrogen to reduce the number of electron traps in the buffer layer at the contact of silicon with Ba1-xSrxTiO3 by Dmitry A. Belorusov, Evgeniy I. Goldman, Galina V. Chucheva, Mikhail S. Afanasyev, Vladimir A. Pilipenko, Alina V. Semchenko

“…The performance of FeRAM non-volatile cells including those on ferroelectric insulating layers requires full-scale development of the field effect at the semiconductor–dielectric interface. …”
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A deep learning-driven multi-layered steganographic approach for enhanced data security by Yousef Sanjalawe, Salam Al-E’mari, Salam Fraihat, Mosleh Abualhaj, Emran Alzubi

“…At the same time, the deep learning encoder adds layer of protection by concealing an image within another. Extensive evaluations using benchmark datasets, including Tiny ImageNet, COCO, and CelebA, demonstrate the approach’s superior performance. …”
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Repositioning of the Severe Prolapsed Silicone Tubes after Bicanalicular Nasal Intubation: A Novel Technique by Jinjing He, Jingwen Gong, Qingqing Zheng, Jin Jiang

“…One line was coiled to the prolapsed tube and tied to another line. This nylon turned into a “lasso” to capture the silicone tube and then lock its knot. …”
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Effects of Telbivudine Treatment on the Circulating CD4+ T-Cell Subpopulations in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients by Yanhua Zheng, Zemin Huang, Xianhua Chen, Yi Tian, Jun Tang, Yi Zhang, Xiaomin Zhang, Jijun Zhou, Qing Mao, Bing Ni, Qinghong Wang, Yuzhang Wu

“…No obvious changes were observed in Th1 cell frequencies; although, IFN-γ expression was upregulated in response to telbivudine treatment, suggesting another cell source of IFN-γ in CHB patients. Statistical analyses indicated that Th17 and Tr1 (a Treg subtype) cells were the most sensitive subpopulations of the peripheral blood CD4+ T cells to telbivudine treatment over 52 weeks. …”
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Jurisprudential Analysis of the Nature of Money Creation with an Emphasis on Mudaraba on Debt in the Banking System by Sadegh Elham, Mohammad Mahdi Shariatinejad, Muhammad Rasul Fakhreh

“…Economists in their analysis of the process of money creation have defined it with two approaches: multiplier and endogenous money creation (money creation from nothing). Proponents of the multiplier approach define money creation as an operation dependent on deposits, and on the other hand, another group does not accept the dependence on deposits in money creation and believe that banks can create credit only by granting loans. . …”
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When Your Judgment (Mis)Matches Mine: How One’s Self and Others’ Metacognitive Judgments Impact Our Perception of Others by Yoonhee Jang, Heungchul Lee, Lisa K. Son

“…The results indicate that metacognitive judgments need not necessarily be matching when assessing the performance of another to form relationships, and that both the context and the relation between one’s self and other’s judgments play a large role in social perception.…”
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Mechanical Recanalization following i.v. Thrombolysis: A Retrospective Analysis regarding Secondary Hemorrhagic Infarctions and Parenchymal Hematomas by J. Höltje, F. Bonk, A. Anstadt, C. Terborg, C. Pohlmann, P. P. Urban, R. Brüning

“…In acute stroke by occlusion of the proximal medial cerebral artery (MCA) or the distal internal carotid artery, intravenous thrombolysis is an established treatment. Another option is mechanical recanalization. It remains unclear if the combination of both methods poses an additional bleeding risk. …”
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An Enhanced Version of Second-Order Synchrosqueezing Transform Combined with Time-Frequency Image Texture Features to Detect Faults in Bearings by Xiaohan Cheng, Aiming Wang, Zongwu Li, Long Yuan, Yajing Xiao

“…We discussed a vertical synchrosqueezing transform, which is a second-order synchrosqueezing transform based on the short-time Fourier transform and compared it to the traditional short-time Fourier transform, synchrosqueezing transform, and another form of the second-order synchrosqueezing transform, the oblique synchrosqueezing transform. …”
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EEG-to-EEG: Scalp-to-Intracranial EEG Translation Using a Combination of Variational Autoencoder and Generative Adversarial Networks by Bahman Abdi-Sargezeh, Sepehr Shirani, Antonio Valentin, Gonzalo Alarcon, Saeid Sanei

“…A generative adversarial network (GAN) makes it possible to map a data sample from one domain to another one. It has extensively been employed in image-to-image and text-to image translation. …”
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A New Sensors-Based Covert Channel on Android by Ahmed Al-Haiqi, Mahamod Ismail, Rosdiadee Nordin

“…New platforms invoke thorough investigations to assess their security. Now is the time for Android platform to analyze its security model, in particular the two key principles: process-isolation and the permissions system. …”
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COLLOCATIONAL PATTERNS AND SENSE RELATIONS IN THE EXPLICATION OF MEANING IN ARMAH’S NOVELS by GODWIN F. AKPAN

“…It concludes that Armah relied on both habitual co-occurrence and abnormal co-occurrence of lexical items to convey his meanings. …”
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Unity of tradition and innovation as a sustainable development factor of digital society by Yu. A. Chernavin

“…In general, we are talking about the transition from one social type of thinking and activity to another, corresponding to the digital civilization and capable of ensuring the sustainable development of society and the individual.…”
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Exploring the anticandida potentials of nanoparticles fabricated from tea leaf (Camellia sinensis) extracts: a systematic review by Naheem Adekilekun Tijani, Abdullateef Opeyemi Afolabi, Fred Mutanule, Sujithkumar Ganesh Moorthy, Danladi Makeri

“…The studies analysis showed the potency of plant extract-mediated NPs against Candida species, regardless of the heterogeneity of results that was spotted in the diameter of ZOI presented from one study to another.…”
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Welding Deformation of Hydraulic Support Measurements by Using FBG Sensors by Shangyu Du, Guofa Wang, Yajun Xu, Ying Ma, Desheng Zhang, Qiang Ma, Xingtong Yue

“…It indicates that the hydraulic support changes from one stable state to another stable state. This work not only provides a feasible solution for welding deformation monitoring but also provides a possibility for the whole life cycle monitoring of hydraulic supports.…”
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Révolution sociale et utopie chez les premiers Fabiens (1884-1890) : un positionnement complexe by Marie Terrier

“…Additionally, even if the Fabians distanced themselves from Owenism, often criticised as ‘utopian’, they still held favourable views on Owen and his followers. While in another way, as the Fabians were convinced that a better world was reachable, some of their ideas can be called utopian. …”
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Identifying and determining the spatial organization model of CBD\'s (Case Study: Mashhad Metropolis) by mohammadreza mirsaeedi, moslem seyed alhossaini, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Amir Hossain Shabani

“…The adoption of location determination strategies and that of the comunicational centers and the city activities has made the cities continue the developement process while cosidering the fairly service destribution and the spatial equalities.The goal of this research is the recognition and determination of the city spatial organization working centers and activity model and the relation of service functioning with one another so that the mono central and poly central cities can have a important effect on the destribution system and service centers and the vast changes of the citizens .The analysis method is a kind of quantity and quality one. …”
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