Gender and Handedness Prediction from Offline Handwriting Using Convolutional Neural Networks by Ángel Morera, Ángel Sánchez, José Francisco Vélez, Ana Belén Moreno

“…Our research was carried out on two public handwriting databases: the IAM dataset containing English texts and the KHATT one with Arabic texts. …”
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Aquathermolysis of heavy oil catalyzed by transition metal salts and clay by Du, Yingna, Zhang, Liyuan, Jing, Rui, Li, Yongfei, Yang, Bo, Chen, Gang

“…Therefore it is reasonable to believe that the minerals in reservoirs may act as a catalyst support with the metal-containing catalyst added from outside during the thermal recovery of heavy oil. …”
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Preparation of Ethosome Gel with Total Flavonoids from <i>Vernonia anthelmintica</i> (L.) Willd. for the Treatment of Vitiligo by Dongmei Qin, Yongjie Cui, Mengyue Zheng, Zhiguo Yang, Xinbing Wang

“…To improve transdermal absorption and enhance the antioxidant effectiveness of the treatment, ethosome containing total flavonoids were prepared utilizing the ultrasound injection technique. …”
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Can a Positive Allosteric Modulation of GABAergic Receptors Improve Motor Symptoms in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease? The Potential Role of Zolpidem in the Treatment of Parkinso... by Antonio Daniele, Francesco Panza, Antonio Greco, Giancarlo Logroscino, Davide Seripa

“…Zolpidem, an imidazopyridine widely used as sleep inducer, shows high affinity only for GABAA receptors containing the α-1 subunit and facilitates GABAergic neurotransmission through a positive allosteric modulation of GABAA receptors. …”
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Hydrocele of the Canal of Nuck with Endometriosis: Right-Side Dominance Confirmed by Literature Review and Statistical Analysis by Shunsuke Nagase, Kanako Ogura, Karin Ashizawa, Asumi Sakaguchi, Ryo Wada, Toshiharu Matsumoto

“…The excised mass was a cyst containing yellow-tan serous fluid, and the cyst wall was lined by mesothelium. …”
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SerpensGate-YOLOv8: an enhanced YOLOv8 model for accurate plant disease detection by Yongzheng Miao, Yongzheng Miao, Wei Meng, Wei Meng, Xiaoyu Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhou

“…The model leverages the PlantDoc dataset, a highly generalizable dataset containing 2,598 images across 13 plant species and 27 classes (17 diseases and 10 healthy categories). …”
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Development of BRS-Pontal beans growing with treated domestic wastewater in protected environment by Raimundo Gomes Filho, Silvaneide Silva, Clayton Carvalho, Gregorio Faccioli, Tatiana Nunes, Simone Feitosa, Leonaria Carvalho

“…Purpose To evaluate the development of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), variety of BRS Pontal, in protected environment, irrigated with different irrigation levels due to crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and concentrations of treated domestic wastewater. …”
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Facile Method for Obtaining Gold-Coated Polyester Surfaces with Antimicrobial Properties by M. Drobota, M. Butnaru, N. Vornicu, O. Plopa, M. Aflori

“…The changes induced in the treated polymer samples were investigated in terms of AuNp adsorption efficiency on polyester film by contact angle, profilometry, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectroscopy-Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR), and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) measurements. …”
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pVAXhsp65 Vaccination Primes for High IL-10 Production and Decreases Experimental Encephalomyelitis Severity by Sofia Fernanda Gonçalves Zorzella-Pezavento, Fernanda Chiuso-Minicucci, Thais Graziela Donegá França, Larissa Lumi Watanabe Ishikawa, Larissa Camargo da Rosa, Priscila Maria Colavite, Bianca Balbino, Camila Marques, Maura Rosane Valerio Ikoma, Ana Paula Masson, Célio Lopes Silva, Alexandrina Sartori

“…Considering the presence of an immune response directed to heat shock proteins (hsps) in autoimmune diseases and the immunoregulatory potential of these molecules, we evaluated the effect of a previous immunization with a genetic vaccine containing the mycobacterial hsp65 gene on EAE development. …”
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Inhibition of KLF5 promotes ferroptosis via the ZEB1/HMOX1 axis to enhance sensitivity to oxaliplatin in cancer cells by Zheng Zhang, Huaxiang Xu, Junyi He, Qiangsheng Hu, Yuxin Liu, Zijin Xu, Wenhui Lou, Wenchuan Wu, Lei Zhang, Ning Pu, Chenye Shi, Yaolin Xu, Wenquan Wang, Liang Liu

“…In the preliminary research, we found that F-box and WD repeat domain-containing 7 (FBW7) inhibited the migration and proliferation of pancreatic cancer cells through its substrate c-Myc. …”
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The immunity-promoting activity of porcine placenta in mice as an immunomodulator for functional foods by Zhiwei Zhou, Dan Wang, Wei Liu, Lang He, Pengkuan Liang, Junli Hao, Qun Sun

“…Results showed that porcine placenta contained placental peptides and 15 free amino acids, and the amounts of estrogen and progesterone in products developed from porcine placenta were within the limit of national standard. …”
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Hormonal Implications of SARS-CoV-2: A Review of Endocrine Disruptions by Aliya Yskak, Yevgeniy Sokharev, Kuanysh Zhumalynov, Elizaveta Koneva, Natalia Afanasyeva, Dmitri Borodulin, Dmitrii Babaskin, Almabek Nugmanov, Murat Nurushev, Vadim Chashkov

“…The information in the published literature mentioned here contains some unclear aspects and contradictory data, but much remains to be studied and clarified regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the endocrine system. …”
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Norfloxacin and N-Donor Mixed-Ligand Copper(II) Complexes: Synthesis, Albumin Interaction, and Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Activity by Darliane A. Martins, Ligiane R. Gouvea, Gabriel S. Vignoli Muniz, Sonia R. W. Louro, Denise da Gama Jaen Batista, Maria de Nazaré C. Soeiro, Letícia R. Teixeira

“…Copper(II) complexes with the first-generation quinolone antibacterial agent norfloxacin containing a nitrogen donor heterocyclic ligand 2,2′-bipyridine (bipy) or 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) were prepared and characterized by IR, EPR spectra, molar conductivity, and elemental analyses. …”
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Spin angular momentum at the sharp focus of a cylindrical vector vortex beam by V.V. Kotlyar, S.S. Stafeev, A.M. Telegin

“…., the longitudinal SAM component averaged over the beam-cross section, is zero and preserved upon focusing. Due to the beam containing an optical vortex with charge m, the transverse energy flow rotates on a spiral path near the focal plane, rotating on a circle in the focal plane. …”
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Inclusion of Ora-Pro-Nóbis (<i>Pereskia aculeata</i>) Leaf Meal in the Diet of Adult Nile Tilapia Improves Growth Performance and Intestinal Absorption Capacity Without Compromisin... by Émerson J. A. Matos, Jailson Novodworski, Rafaela M. Gonçalves, Elisabeth C. Urbinati, Robie A. Bombardelli, Fábio Meurer

“…Five diet variations containing OLM (0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%) were tested. …”
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Magnetic polydimethylsiloxane microspheres as hydrophobic collectors for oil removal by J G Cabal-Velarde, A Lobo Guerrero, E Araujo, E Romero-Tela, J L Sánchez-Llamazares, A Encinas

“…The ferrofluid-PDMS mixture was emulsified in warm water containing a surfactant, stabilizing the microparticles during polymerization. …”
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Poly ADP-Ribosylation in a Plant Pathogenic Oomycete <i>Phytophthora infestans</i>: A Key Controller of Growth and Host Plant Colonisation by Viktoriya O. Samarskaya, Sofya Koblova, Tatiana Suprunova, Eugene A. Rogozhin, Nadezhda Spechenkova, Sofiya Yakunina, Andrew J. Love, Natalia O. Kalinina, Michael Taliansky

“…Here, we show that the <i>Phytophthora infestans</i> genome contains two PARP-like protein genes (PiPARP1 and PiPARP2), and provide evidence of PARylation activity for one of them (PiPARP2). …”
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Adaptive Robust SMC-Based AGC Auxiliary Service Control for ESS-Integrated PV/Wind Station by Xiao-Ling Su, Zheng-Kui Zhao, Yang Si, Yong-Qing Guo

“…The ARSMC colligates the advantages of adaptive control and SMC contains state feedback term, robust control term, and adaptive compensation term. …”
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Hippocampal Proliferation Is Increased in Presymptomatic Parkinson’s Disease and due to Microglia by Karlijn J. Doorn, Benjamin Drukarch, Anne-Marie van Dam, Paul J. Lucassen

“…This brain region also contains stem cells that can proliferate. This is a well-regulated process that can, for example, be altered by neurodegenerative conditions. …”
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UniLF: A novel short-term load forecasting model uniformly considering various features from multivariate load data by Shiyang Zhou, Qingyong Zhang, Peng Xiao, Bingrong Xu, Geshuai Luo

“…To address the above problems, we design a novel STLF model called UniLF based on Transformer framework, which contains the proposed convolutional enhancement-fusion embedding method to capture the correlations between load and covariates for embedding, the proposed feature reconstruction-decomposition block to distill multiscale features as well as more detailed local-global variations from 2D space and the core mask-guided multiscale interactive self-attention mechanism to further realize the enhanced interactions of scale features and temporal features. …”
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