Evaporation-Induced Water and Solute Coupled Transport in Saline Loess Columns in Closed and Open Systems by Jian Xu, Wei Lan, Yanfeng Li, Wen-Chieh Cheng, Jun Yuan, Qinghai Tan

“…In the former case, a range of stability was noted in the lower part of the column where the heat, water, and solute coupled transport only exhibited a weak response to a specified evaporation environment. …”
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Optimization of hybrid photovoltaic-thermal systems integrated into buildings: Impact of bi-fluid exchangers and filling gases on the thermal and electrical performances of solar c... by Kokou Aménuvéla Toka, Yawovi Nougbléga, Komi Apélété Amou

“…The upper channel contains a stagnant fluid, which acts as a heat shield, while the lower, open channel ensures the continuous circulation or evacuation of heat transfer air. …”
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Boy’s love fans versus non-fans in the sexual identity and neural response in the digital age’s young females by Na Ao, Xiaowei Jiang, Yanan Chen, Feng Du, Yingying Chen, Huihui Niu, Shuoyan Hu, Minghui Wang

“…Neural results confirmed that the Oxy-Hb responses for BL-love stimuli in BL-fans was significantly lower than the non-BL-fans. In addition, the interaction effect showed that the Oxy-Hb responses was significantly higher for BL-love stimuli than for heterosexual love stimuli in non-BL-fans, and no difference was found in BL-fans. …”
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Association of Estimated Insulin Resistance with N-Terminal B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Concentration in Men with Metabolic Syndrome by Paweł Krzesiński, Wiesław Piechota, Katarzyna Piotrowicz, Grzegorz Gielerak, Agnieszka Woźniak-Kosek

“…In younger subjects with eIR, mean NT-proBNP level was lower than in corresponding healthy age males.…”
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An experimental and numerical study of the ballistic behavior of an epoxy matrix hybrid composite reinforced with aramid fabric and fique fabric by Bernardo Soares Avila de Cêa, Raí Felipe Pereira Junio, Douglas Santos Silva, Fábio da Costa Garcia Filho, Sergio Neves Monteiro, Lucio Fabio Cassiano Nascimento

“…Hybrid composites, which combine natural and synthetic fibers, were developed to combine efficiency, cost reduction and lower environmental impact. In this study, an epoxy matrix composite reinforced with synthetic aramid fibers and fique fibers was evaluated. …”
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Siponimod supports remyelination in the non-supportive environment by Johann Krüger, Newshan Behrangi, David Schliep, Leo Heinig, Elise Vankriekelsvenne, Nicole Wigger, Markus Kipp

“…This enhanced recovery was paralleled by the trend of lower densities of Ki67+ proliferating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells. …”
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Multi‐Model Assessment of Groundwater Recharge Across Europe Under Warming Climate by Rohini Kumar, Luis Samaniego, Stephan Thober, Oldrich Rakovec, Andreas Marx, Niko Wanders, Ming Pan, Falk Hesse, Sabine Attinger

“…Central Europe shows minimal changes (±5%) with larger uncertainty at lower warming levels. The southeastern Balkan and Mediterranean region exhibited high sensitivity to warming, with changes nearly doubling between 1.5 and 3.0 K. …”
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Estimating Weak Pulse Signal in Chaotic Background with Jordan Neural Network by Liyun Su, Xiu Ling

“…Compared with the traditional method, (1) the presented method can estimate the weak pulse signal in strong chaotic noise under lower error than ENN-based, BPNN-based, SVM-based, and -ased models and (2) the proposed method can extract the weak pulse signal under a higher output SNR than BPNN-based model.…”
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Hydroxychloroquine Potentiates Apoptosis Induced by PPARα Antagonist in 786-O Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Cells Associated with Inhibiting Autophagy by Ruizhe Mao, Jian Shi, Xuyi Ma, Haiyan Xu

“…The findings also revealed that the PPARα antagonist GW6471 can lower cell viability and induce autophagy in the 786-O ccRCC cell line. …”
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The Epidemiology of Depression and Diabetes Distress in Type 2 Diabetes in Kuwait by Ebaa Al-Ozairi, Abdulla Al Ozairi, Clare Blythe, Etab Taghadom, Khalida Ismail

“…In conclusion, people with type 2 diabetes in Kuwait have a high prevalence of depression but lower diabetes distress and this was associated with worse glycaemic control.…”
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Metformin Facilitates Osteoblastic Differentiation and M2 Macrophage Polarization by PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Min Shen, Huihui Yu, Yunfeng Jin, Jiahang Mo, Jingni Sui, Xiaohan Qian, Tong Chen

“…Metformin, a glucose-lowering drug, exerts powerful impact on metabolic signaling. …”
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Genome-wide identification and characterization of transcription factors involved in defense responses against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Brassica juncea by Xu Yang, Shaomin Guo, Hairun Jin, Jinze Zhang, Lijing Xiao, Qingjing Ouyang, Xu Long, Zhongbin Yan, Entang Tian

“…In the present study, a total of 4807 TFs from 48 families were expressed and identified at 12, 24, and 36 h after inoculation (HAI) in two B. juncea lines: G21-912, exhibiting higher S. sclerotiorum resistance (HR), and G21-853, displaying lower S. sclerotiorum resistance (LR). The number of differentially expressed TFs (DETs) between the HR and the LR lines peaked at 24 HAI, with 202 upregulated and 105 downregulated TFs. …”
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Gaussian process latent variable models-ANN based method for automatic features selection and dimensionality reduction for control of EMG-driven systems by Maham Nayab, Asim Waris, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Dokhyl AlQahtani, Ahmed Imran, Syed Omer Gilani, Umer Hameed Shah

“…In individual comparisons, GPLVM had the shortest computational time (29 s), which was significantly less than that of all the other models (p < 0.05), with PCA following at approximately 35 s and Relief at approximately 57 s, while PPCA took approximately 69 s, and Lasso exhibited higher computational costs than all the models but lower computational costs than did the original set. …”
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Discharge and Optical Emission Spectrum Characteristics of a Coaxial Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma-Assisted Combustion Actuator by Pengfei Liu, Liming He, Bingbing Zhao

“…However, within the range of 0–280 L/min, when r was lower than 15 mm, the vibrational temperatures first increased rapidly and then decreased slowly; when r was greater than 15 mm, the vibrational temperatures first increased and then basically remained stable.…”
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Pregnancies in Women with a Previous Complete Uterine Rupture by Iqbal Al-Zirqi, Siri Vangen

“…Among 72 maternities, there were thirty-seven with previous ruptures in the lower segment (LS) and 35 outside the LS. We found three new complete ruptures and six uneventful partial ruptures, resulting in a rate of 4.2% and 8.3%, respectively. …”
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Anthracyclines disaggregate and restore mutant p63 function: a potential therapeutic approach for AEC syndrome by Fabiana Boncimino, Ludovica D’Auria, Kristina Todorova, Sabina Y. van der Zanden, Jacques Neefjes, Anna Mandinova, Caterina Missero, Stefano Sol

“…A chemical analog of Doxorubicin, diMe-Doxorubicin, which exhibits lower tissue and organ toxicity, was also found to be effective in promoting the disaggregation of mutant p63 and rescuing its transcriptional activity. …”
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Willingness to Pay for Safe Chicken Meat in Bangladesh: A Contingent Valuation Approach by Sourav Mohan Saha, Md. Masudul Haque Prodhan, Md. Shahidur Rahman, A.B.M. Mahfuzul Haque, Khandkar Iffah, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan

“…The results reveal that conventional broiler meat losses its appeal to consumers after a certain income level and is mainly consumed by lower- and middle-income groups. This study divulges a unanimous demand for safe broiler meat among the consumers who intend to consume about 36% higher than their present consumption level if the availability was ensured in their local market. …”
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Seasonal Prevalence of Helminthic Infections in the Gastrointestinal Tract of Sheep in Mazandaran Province, Northern Iran by Alireza Salehi, Mahsa Razavi, Nasrollah Vahedi Nouri

“…No significant difference was observed between the infection level in females and males, with 56.9% and 43.94% rates of infection, respectively. Significantly lower infection was observed in winter compared with the other seasons. …”
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Assessment of Some Biochemical Parameters in Iraqi Women with Recurrent Miscarriage by Ruqaya K. Abbas, Amani M. Jasim, Qater Al-nada A. Al-Ibady

“…Serum zinc levels were lower in women who had an abortion compared to those who were pregnant and healthy. …”
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Total Psoas Area Predicts Complications following Radical Cystectomy by Timothy D. Lyon, Nicholas J. Farber, Leo C. Chen, Thomas W. Fuller, Benjamin J. Davies, Jeffrey R. Gingrich, Ronald L. Hrebinko, Jodi K. Maranchie, Jennifer M. Taylor, Tatum V. Tarin

“…TPA was significantly lower for patients who experienced any complication (7.8 cm2/m2 versus 8.8 cm2/m2, P=0.023) and an infectious complication (7.0 cm2/m2 versus 8.7 cm2/m2, P=0.032) than those who did not. …”
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