A City for People in the Light of Studies on Urban Stress: Case Study of a Medium-sized City in Poland - Zduńska Wola by Agnieszka Rzeńca, Oliwia Wierucka

“…Based on the study of the literature on the issue of stress, it appears that among the most often listed stressors are the ones connected with the condition and quality of the environment, which was confirmed by opinions expressed by inhabitants of Zduńska Wola (more than 70% of respondents mentioned pollution as a stress factor). …”
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Speech-based personality prediction using deep learning with acoustic and linguistic embeddings by Martin Lukac

“…This approach captures the subtle ways in which personality traits are expressed through both how people speak and what they say. …”
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Analysis of Flexural Buckling Capacity of Stainless Steel Columns under Axial Compression by Yong Liang, Gapi Shu, Shaohua Li

“…According to the collected test data of square tube, rectangular tube, circular tube, elliptical tube, welded H-shaped steel, and cold-formed C-shaped steel for 199 section columns and according to the influence of cold-formed effect and residual stress on the stability of axial compression members, the members are divided into three categories: A, B, and C according to the section form, in which the columns with cold-formed square, rectangular hollow section, and lipped C-section were included in A, columns with circular and oval hollow section were sorted into B, columns with welded H-section were separated into C, and the three categories of axial compression stability curves are expressed in the form of Perry formula. The comparison with the test data shows that the three kinds of curves can well estimate the stability bearing capacity of members, and the discreteness is small. …”
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What We Know about Student Families: A Sociological Analysis by K. A. Vilkova, I. A. Gruzdev, E. D. Shmeleva, E. A. Tarasova, S. V. Startsev

“…The importance of support from partners and relatives was also noted. Student mothers expressed a demand for more flexible study formats, material support, and infrastructure development (e.g. kindergartens at universities). …”
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The Application of FTIR Spectroscopy Combined Chemometrics for Analysis of Keting Fish Oil in Binary Mixture with Patin Fish Oil and Palm Oil by Nadia Miftahul Jannah, Abdul Rohman, Lily Arsanti Lestari

“…The results showed that PLS with second derivative FTIR spectra was well suited for quantitative analysis of KFO-PFO with a value of the coefficient of determination (R2) = 0.997 and the error expressed as root mean square error of calibration (RMSEC) = 0.0204. …”
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Modulating DDAH/NOS Pathway to Discover Vasoprotective Insulin Sensitizers by Li Lai, Yohannes T. Ghebremariam

“…The concentration of ADMA in plasma and tissue is enzymatically regulated by dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH), a widely expressed enzyme in the cardiovascular system. In preclinical studies, overexpression of DDAH has been shown to reduce ADMA levels, improve vascular compliance, and increase insulin sensitivity. …”
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The Societal Impact of Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia on Patients, Life Partners, and Children of Patients in Germany by Thomas Weinke, Andrea Glogger, Isabelle Bertrand, Kati Lukas

“…Some former patients and family members participated in face-to-face interviews or in a T-group meeting (qualitative phase) and some participated in telephone interviews (quantitative phase). They all expressed feelings of helplessness and frustration mixed with depression, sadness, or rage. …”
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Encyclical Laudato si’ on the Question of Progress by Witold Kania

“…Progress has both good and bad sides. The latter are expressed in terms that have a fundamental significance to the encyclical, such as, “irrational faith in progress” and “the myth of unlimited material progress”. …”
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Vilnius as a Center of the Jewish Bund by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…The essence of this break was expressed perhaps most explicitly by M. Goldman (Liber). …”
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Fine-grained analysis of aspects, sentiments and types of attitudes in restaurant reviews by Marcirio Silveira Chaves, André Laurel, Nélia Sacramento, Cristiane Drebes Pedron

“…Positive appreciation is the attitude expressed in most of the sentences. Most of the reviews present a positive evaluation of the restaurants. …”
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Ascl1 (Mash1) defines cells with long-term neurogenic potential in subgranular and subventricular zones in adult mouse brain. by Euiseok J Kim, Jessica L Ables, Lauren K Dickel, Amelia J Eisch, Jane E Johnson

“…Here we show that in the adult brain Ascl1 is dynamically expressed during neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus subgranular zone (SGZ) and more rostral subventricular zone (SVZ). …”
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Infant and Young Child Feeding in the Developed and Developing Countries by Enos, Mirembe Masereka, Clement, Munguiko, Alex, Tumusiime, Linda Grace, Alanyo

“…Furthermore, we have included a description of how mothers who are unable to breastfeed can feed their infants on expressed breastmilk or replace breastmilk with appropriate homemade or commercial formula. …”
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Enhanced Immunogenicity of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus-like Particles Using a Water-in-Oil-in-Water Adjuvant by Yujie Zhou, Wenzhu Yin, Zhidong Teng, Yanyan Zhao, Yu Lu, Yingjuan Qian, Bihua Deng

“…It also upregulated genes associated with MHC and interferon stimulation while promoting the expression of MyD88, PI3K, AKT, p65, and p-p65 proteins. …”
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Inhibition of RAC1 activator DOCK2 ameliorates cholestatic liver injury via regulating macrophage polarisation and hepatic stellate cell activation by Jianli Qiu, Yitong Qu, Yinli Li, Cancan Li, Junling Wang, Lu Meng, Xiaojin Jing, Jiangping Fu, Yan Xu, Yuna Chai

“…This study aimed to investigate the expression and role of DOCK2 in cholestasis-induced liver fibrosis and to further explore the potential mechanisms. …”
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Anticancer effect of the antirheumatic drug leflunomide on oral squamous cell carcinoma by the inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by Chieko Niwata, Takayuki Nakagawa, Takako Naruse, Miyuki Sakuma, Nao Yamakado, Misaki Akagi, Shigehiro Ono, Kei Tobiume, Jing Gao, Eijiro Jimi, Kouji Ohta, Tomonao Aikawa

“…LEF significantly inhibited DHODH expression, and uridine supplementation rescued the inhibitory effect of LEF. …”
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Hepatic Stellate Cell-Derived Microvesicles Prevent Hepatocytes from Injury Induced by APAP/H2O2 by Renwei Huang, Qunwen Pan, Xiaotang Ma, Yan Wang, Yaolong Liang, Bingyan Dai, Xiaorong Liao, Mingyi Li, Huilai Miao

“…Western blot was used for analyzing the expression of activated caspase-3. Liver injury indicators, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in culture medium were also assessed. …”
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UBE2J1 is identified as a novel plasma cell-related gene involved in the prognosis of high-grade serous ovarian cancer by Yunjie Tian, Ruoyu Dong, Yingxia Guan, Ying Wang, Wei Zhao, Jun Zhang, Shan Kang

“…Methods We utilized single-cell sequencing data from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database to identify key immune cell types within HGSOC tissues and to extract related markers via the Seurat package. …”
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IL-6 Inhibition Reduces STAT3 Activation and Enhances the Antitumor Effect of Carboplatin by Zhi-Yong Wang, Jun-Ai Zhang, Xian-Jin Wu, Yan-Fang Liang, Yuan-Bin Lu, Yu-Chi Gao, You-Chao Dai, Shi-Yan Yu, Yan Jia, Xiao-Xia Fu, Xiaoquan Rao, Jun-Fa Xu, Jixin Zhong

“…IL-6 blockade and carboplatin synergistically reduced cyclin D1 expression and enhanced caspase-3 activity in LoVo cells. …”
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Establishment of the fingerprint of ganoderma lucidum spore powder and study on the anti-inflammatory activity of ganoderma lucidum spore oil by Yu Zhang, Lihui Hou, Le Wang, Yunshan Si, Hongjuan Wen, Ying Gao, Xiuhua Yu

“…Ganoderma lucidum spore oil concentration less than or equal to 180 μg/mL had no significant effect on the activity of RAW264.7 cells; the protective effect on LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells was dose-dependent; compared with the model group, the medium-dose group (90 μg/mL) significantly decreased the expression of IL-1β (P<0.05), and the high-dose group (180 μg/mL) significantly decreased the expression of IL-6 and TNF-α release (P<0.05), slightly reduced IL-1β release, but not significant (P>0.05). …”
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Increments in cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases in skeletal muscle after injection of tissue-damaging toxins from the venom of the snake Bothrops asper by Alexandra Rucavado, Teresa Escalante, Catarina F. P. Teixeira, Cristina María Fernándes, Cecilia Díaz, José María Gutiérrez

“…Despite the conspicuous expression of latent forms of MMPs in muscle, evidenced by zymography, there were no increments in activated MMP-2 and only a small increase in activated MMP-9, as detected by a functional enzymatic assay. …”
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