Recent Advances in Dipeptidyl-Peptidase-4 Inhibition Therapy: Lessons from the Bench and Clinical Trials by Jixin Zhong, Quan Gong, Aditya Goud, Srividya Srinivasamaharaj, Sanjay Rajagopalan

“…DPP4 inhibitors (DPP4i) are a class of newly developed antidiabetic drugs which preserve incretin hormones and promote postprandial insulin secretion. …”
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Hurricane Dennis' Impact on Cuban Agriculture by William A. Messina, Jr., Thomas H. Spreen

“… Between July 7 and July 9, 2005, Hurricane Dennis moved along the southern coast of Cuba then moved across the island, enveloping nearly the entire country with strong hurricane and tropical storm force winds and driving rain. …”
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Phenothiazines and their Evolving Roles in Clinical Practice: A Narrative Review by Amber N. Edinoff, Grace Armistead, Christina A Rosa, Alexandra Anderson, Ronan Patil, Elyse M Cornett, Kevin S. Murnane, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye

“…Phenothiazines, a diverse class of drugs, can be used to treat multiple mental health and physical conditions. …”
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The Use of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields to Promote Bone Responses to Biomaterials In Vitro and In Vivo by Carlo Galli, Giuseppe Pedrazzi, Monica Mattioli-Belmonte, Stefano Guizzardi

“…The present review includes studies that investigated the effects of PEMFs on the response of bone cells to different classes of biomaterials and the reports that focused on in vivo investigations of biomaterials implanted in bone.…”
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Nonfragile H∞ Filter Design for Nonlinear Continuous-Time System with Interval Time-Varying Delay by Zhongda Lu, Guoliang Zhang, Yi Sun, Jie Sun, Fangming Jin, Fengxia Xu

“…This paper investigates nonfragile H∞ filter design for a class of continuous-time delayed Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems with interval time-varying delays. …”
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Text Extraction from Historical Document Images by the Combination of Several Thresholding Techniques by Toufik Sari, Abderrahmane Kefali, Halima Bahi

“…In the second stage, the remaining pixels are assigned to foreground or background classes based on local analysis. In this stage, several local thresholding methods are combined and the final binary value of each remaining pixel is chosen as the most probable one. …”
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Investigation of granulometric parameters in wind erosion studies (Case study:Gonabad) by Malihe Mohamadnia, Abolghasem Amirahmadi, MohamadAli ZanganeAsadi

“…The results showed that the highest frequency of particle diameter in sand samples was in the 250-225 micron class. And, given the average particle relationship with their transport intervals, it can be concluded that the distance between the particles was close to a point. …”
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Capitalizing on the wealth of chemical data in the accretionary structures of aquatic taxa: Opportunities from across the tree of life by Zoë A. Doubleday, Louise Hosking, Jasper Willoughby, Minoli Dias, Natasha Leclerc, Shanie Brault Nikolajew, Melita Peharda, Arieli Tristão Rézio, Clive Trueman

“…To expand focus to these “other” taxa and determine the state‐of‐play, we compiled a database of chemical sclerochronology studies spanning nine living phyla and 19 classes. We then examined research trends and knowledge gaps across these taxa and showcase their exciting potential to collect critical data and address pressing environmental and ecological challenges. …”
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Plautus’ Casina and its uses in General Education-Level Gender History by Terrance L. Lewis

“…For an introductory comparative gender history course which is designed for a wide time span, this play therefore offers the opportunity to look at two related cultures in just one work. …”
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An Improved Internal Model Principle Based Multivariable Nonlinear Control Method with Multiclass Nonharmonic Disturbances and Its Application to Speed Control of a Motor Drive Sys... by Yang Yu, Zengqiang Mi, Tong Zhao, Yikun Xu

“…We study the global disturbance rejection problem for a class of general multivariable nonlinear systems with multiclass nonharmonic disturbances. …”
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Stability of the thin shell from traversable Schwarzschild-like wormholes by Luis Liempi, Fabián Orellana, Mauricio Cataldo

“…The construction of these spherically symmetric thin shells focuses on a specific class of wormholes characterized by a shape function that is linearly dependent on the radial coordinate. …”
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Prophet: A Context-Aware Location Privacy-Preserving Scheme in Location Sharing Service by Jiaxing Qu, Guoyin Zhang, Zhou Fang

“…However, location sharing may introduce a new class of privacy threats ranging from localizing an individual to profiling and identifying him based on the places he shared. …”
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PSR J1947−1120: A New Huntsman Millisecond Pulsar Binary by Jay Strader, Paul S. Ray, Ryan Urquhart, Samuel J. Swihart, Laura Chomiuk, Elias Aydi, Eric C. Bellm, Kristen C. Dage, Megan E. DeCesar, Julia S. Deneva, Maura A. McLaughlin, Isabella Molina, Teresa Panurach, Kirill V. Sokolovsky

“…PSR J1947–1120 is the second confirmed pulsar in the huntsman class and establishes this as a bona fide subclass of millisecond pulsars. …”
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PPARs in Human Neuroepithelial Tumors: PPAR Ligands as Anticancer Therapies for the Most Common Human Neuroepithelial Tumors by Elisabetta Benedetti, Renato Galzio, Barbara D'Angelo, Maria Paola Cerù, Annamaria Cimini

“…Neuroepithelial tumors represent a heterogeneous class of human tumors including benignant and malignant tumors. …”
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Combining machine-learned and empirical force fields with the parareal algorithm: application to the diffusion of atomistic defects by Gorynina, Olga, Legoll, Frédéric, Lelièvre, Tony, Perez, Danny

“…In this work, the parareal algorithm uses a family of machine-learning spectral neighbor analysis potentials (SNAP) as fine, reference, potentials and embedded-atom method potentials (EAM) as coarse potentials. We consider a self-interstitial atom in a tungsten lattice and compute the average residence time of the system in metastable states. …”
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Statistical and synoptic analysis of cold waves in North West of Iran by yousouf ghavidel rahimi, manochehr farajzadeh asl, solmaz motalebizad

“…Out of occured cold wave in North West of the coldest identified wave pertaingt each class for synoptic analyzes were selected. This study suggests that the prevailing pressure pattern during the relevant wave indicates high pressure over the earth surface as well as deep trough in upper layer. …”
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Otsu Based Optimal Multilevel Image Thresholding Using Firefly Algorithm by N. Sri Madhava Raja, V. Rajinikanth, K. Latha

“…A bounded search technique is also presented to improve the optimization accuracy with lesser search iterations. Otsu’s between-class variance function is maximized to obtain optimal threshold level for gray scale images. …”
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Rotala: A New Aquatic Invader in Southern Florida by Lyn A. Gettys, Carl J. Della Torre

“…It is especially problematic in Lee and Collier Counties and along the west coast. Extremely dense submersed populations and large thick mats dominate the surface of the water, greatly reducing ecosystem services, because oxygen level and light penetration are hampered. …”
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A novel approach for solving bi-level mono-objective and multi-objective programming problems using evolutionary algorithms by Wafa Bouguern, Smail Addoune, Hanene Debbiche

“… Bi-level programming problems (BLP) constitute an important class of non-convex optimization problems, which makes it challenging to find a global optimal solution. …”
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High-Volume Fly Ash-Based Cementitious Composites as Sustainable Materials: An Overview of Recent Advances by Sen Du, Qingxin Zhao, Xianming Shi

“…High-volume fly ash (HVFA) cementitious composites (paste, grout, mortar, and concrete) have been widely investigated as a class of sustainable materials due to their lower carbon footprint and often better life cycle performance than conventional Portland cement mixtures. …”
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