Vitamin D and Selenium: Review of Clinical Trials of Synergistic Effects on Thyroid Antibody Levels and Disease Progression in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis by Agnieszka Starzyk, Piotr Charzewski

“…Vitamin D deficiency correlated with elevated TSH, anti-TPO, and anti-TG levels, with HT patients showing significantly lower vitamin D levels than healthy controls or hypothyroid patients. …”
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Techno-Economic Feasibility of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Scale Coupled with Solar Energy: Case of Algeria by Asma Adda, Salah Bezari, Mohamed Abbas, Salah Hanini

“…The result shows that the water production cost of the Off-Grid system (0.33 $/m3) was about 1.14 times lower than the water production cost of the On-Grid system (0.38 $/m3). …”
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Hybrid Movie Recommendation System With User Partitioning and Log Likelihood Content Comparison by Yongmao Yang, Kampol Woradit, Kenneth Cosh

“…Specifically, our model achieves a lower Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 0.82 and 0.88, alongside a higher F1 score of 0.94 and 0.92 in two datasets. …”
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Resiliency Improvement of Distribution Network Considering the Charge/Discharge Management of Electric Vehicles in Parking Lots through a Bilevel Optimization Approach by Mohammad Alizadeh, Meysam Jafari-Nokandi, Majid Shahabi

“…Knowing the islands’ boundaries and the energized EVPLs from the UL problem, the changes in travels characteristic including destination EVPLs are determined in the Lower-Level (LL) problem to identify the nearest energized EVPL to the out-of-service destination EVPL. …”
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Laser-Induced Fluorescence Decay of 2-Methyl-, 2-Methoxy-, and 2-Ethylnaphthlene on α-Alumina during Temperature Programmed Desorption by Bradly B. Baer, Shanan Lau, Hannah E. Ryan, K. A. Martin, A. M. Nishimura

“…In separate experiments, the effect of a molecule that does not fluoresce and has a lower desorption temperature than the fluorophores was studied by deposition of a bilayer. 1-Chlorohexane (1-CH) was chosen as the second layer to the fluorophore and the results gave clues to the complexity of the surface dynamics that occur as the surface is heated. …”
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Action Selection and Operant Conditioning: A Neurorobotic Implementation by André Cyr, Frédéric Thériault

“…We propose simulating an AS process by using a small spiking neural network (SNN) as the lower neural organisms, in order to control virtual and physical robots. …”
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Simulation Analysis and Experimental Study on the Working State of Sinking Headframe in the Large Underground Shaft by Yin Qixiang, Zhao Weiping, Xin Wen, Yang Hailin, Zhang Linglei

“…The results show that with the increase of shaft sinking depth, the theoretical stress of finite element simulation and the field measured stress of each member of the sheave wheel platform and the headframe increase linearly, and for the maximum member stress in the upper, middle, and lower layers of the headframe, the numerical simulation value is greater than the field measured value and less than the designed steel strength. …”
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Amorphous organic-hybrid vanadium oxide for near-barrier-free ultrafast-charging aqueous zinc-ion battery by Mingzhuang Liu, Xinghua Li, Mengxia Cui, Feiyu Chen, Jiaxing Li, Weijian Shi, Yu Liu, Xiaowei Li, Yan Wang, Wei Zhang, Changlu Shao, Yichun Liu

“…AOH-VO cathode demonstrates an exceptionally low E a of 7.8 kJ·mol−1 for Zn2+ diffusion in solids and 6.3 kJ·mol−1 across the cathode-electrolyte interface, both significantly lower than that of electrolyte (13.2 kJ·mol−1) in zinc ion battery. …”
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Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper) by Aryan Kaushik, Evangelos Vlachos, John Thompson, Maziar Nekovee, Fraser Coutts

“…Joint radar‐communication systems with a multi‐antenna setup leads to higher degrees of freedom, and hybrid beamforming can be exploited to achieve lower hardware complexity than conventional fully digital systems. …”
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Previously Undiagnosed Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy as a Cause of Airway Obstruction after Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy by Miyuki Niki, Taihei Tachikawa, Yuka Sano, Hiroki Miyawaki, Aisa Matoi, Yukari Okano, Nobutaka Kariya, Tsuneo Tatara, Munetaka Hirose

“…Although no muscle weakness of either upper or lower extremities was observed, rocuronium showed hypersensitivity during total laryngectomy under general anesthesia. …”
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Monocyte eukaryotic initiation factor 2 signaling differentiates 17-hydroxy-docosahexaenoic acid levels and pain by Peter R.W. Gowler, Asta Arendt-Tranholm, James Turnbull, Rakesh R. Jha, David Onion, Tony Kelly, Afroditi Kouraki, Paul Millns, Sameer Gohir, Susan Franks, David A. Barrett, Ana M. Valdes, Victoria Chapman

“…QIAGEN ingenuity pathway analysis identified the top ranked canonical biological pathway to be eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (EIF2) signaling (lower activation level in the low 17-HDHA-high pain group compared to the high 17-HDHA-low pain group (Z score −3)), followed by EIF4 and P70S6K signaling pathways and mTOR signaling. …”
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The Study of Tourism Comfort Climate Index in Desert Area (Case Study: Yazd Province) by Esmail Heydari Alamdarloo, Hassan Khosravi, Sahar Nasabpour Molaei

“…Generally, the mountainous area with an altitude of more than 2,700 to 3,000 meters and their surrounding areas when rainfall and lower temperatures is not a limiting factor have the best tourism conditions in the dry season. …”
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Optimal active defense decision model of wireless communication network under APT attack by Meng MENG, Danni WANG, Jun LYU, Fuliang ZHANG

“…The optimal active defense decision can ensure the security and stability of wireless communication networks.In order to improve the defense effectiveness of wireless communication networks, an optimal active defense decision model for wireless communication networks under APT attacks was proposed.Wireless communication network logs were associated, a set of APT attack objects were constructed, the absolute compatibility of APT attack events was calculated through feedback compatibility coefficients, and APT attack behaviors were predicted.Based on the channel bandwidth of APT attack sources on wireless communication networks, the location of the wireless communication network being attacked by APT was obtained, and the weight coefficients of wireless communication network nodes were used to extract the APT attack characteristics of the wireless communication network.Using the attack and defense diagram, the degree of damage caused by APT attacks to wireless communication networks was calculated.By defining the security status of wireless communication networks, an optimal active defense decision model for wireless communication networks was constructed.The experimental results show that the proposed model can increase the packet rejection rate and throughput of attack packets to over 90% and 16 000 bit/s respectively when defending against APT attacks in wireless communication networks, with lower time delay and better defense effectiveness.…”
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Leaf and Root Functional Traits of Woody and Herbaceous Halophytes and Their Adaptations in the Yellow River Delta by Yan Wang, Hao Wu, Jian Wang, Liqiang Mu, Zhongyue Li

“…Our results showed that, compared with herbaceous species, woody species had greater root diameter, cortex thickness, and stele diameter, but lower specific root length and leaf area. Meanwhile, root diameter was strongly correlated with cortex thickness and stele diameter; leaf thickness was also tightly related with palisade tissue thickness. …”
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Distance Measurement and Error Compensation of High-Speed Coaxial Rotor Blades Based on Coded Ultrasonic Ranging by Yaohuan Lu, Shan Zhang, Wenchuan Hu, Zhen Qiu, Zurong Qiu, Yongqiang Qiu

“…Coaxial rotor helicopters have many advantages and have a wide range of civilian and military applications; however, there is a risk of blade collision between the upper and lower rotor blades, and the challenge still exists in balancing rotor parameters and flight control. …”
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Analysis of Proximal Femoral Parameters in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis by Máté Burkus, Ádám T. Schlégl, Kristóf József, Ian O’Sullivan, István Márkus, Miklós Tunyogi-Csapó

“…Patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were found to have a small but significantly lower neck shaft angle and higher femoral mechanical axis–femoral shaft angle, which related to the curve direction. …”
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A case of large uterine cystic adenomyosis outside the uterus after laparoscopic myomectomy: a case report and literature review by Wancheng Zhao, Chunmei Zhang

“…She returned to our hospital due to excessive menstruation and intermittent right lower abdominal pain for one year. Pelvic computed tomography revealed an endometriotic cyst on the right posterior side of the uterus seemingly connected to the uterine cavity. …”
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Seaweed and yeast extracts as sustainable phytostimulant to boost secondary metabolism of apricot fruits by Noemi Gatti, Moez Maghrebi, Graziella Serio, Carla Gentile, Victor V. Bunea, Ivano Vigliante, Camille Boitte, Christian Garabello, Valeria Contartese, Cinzia M. Bertea, Giuseppe Mannino

“…Principal Component Analysis (PCA) revealed distinct effects of the 5.0 and 4.0 L/ha treatments, distinguishing them from lower doses and the control group. Our findings emphasize the potential of Expando to enhance the phytochemical profile of apricot fruits, positioning biostimulants as pivotal tools for improving fruit quality and sustainability in agriculture. …”
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Study on the Emergency Management System considering Victims’ Self-Rescue Abilities by Wei Liang, Yanyan Huang, Jianyu Wang

“…It can be found that when there are many disaster victims, the collective rescue operation can reduce the overall emergency response time; when the movement speed of the victims is lower than that of the rescuers, the effect of the clustered rescue is similar to that of the victims waiting for rescue. …”
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Ultrasonic Dissection versus Conventional Dissection for Pancreatic Surgery: A Meta-Analysis by Haiming Lei, Dong Xu, Xinghua Shi, Koulan Han

“…In comparison with CD in distal pancreatectomy, UD was associated with lower rates of pancreatic fistula (RR = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.27–0.76) and abdominal abscess and shorter operation time and hospital stay (P<0.05). …”
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