Correlation between blood pressure control status and cognitive impairment in older adults: A national cross-sectional study. by Junxiu Yao, Shengshu Wang, Meiling Li, Baomei Song, Cong Lan, Jianjun Jia, Yongjian Yang

“…No significant correlation was found between blood pressure control and cognitive impairment in patients aged <80 years, with hearing impairment, or with cerebrovascular diseases, whether in the hypotension or hypertension groups. …”
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Phenology analysis for trait prediction using UAVs in a MAGIC rice population with different transplanting protocols by Shoji Taniguchi, Toshihiro Sakamoto, Haruki Nakamura, Yasunori Nonoue, Di Guan, Akari Fukuda, Hirofumi Fukuda, Kaede C. Wada, Takuro Ishii, Jun-Ichi Yonemaru, Daisuke Ogawa

“…We previously showed using a rice population with our regular cultivation protocol that canopy height (CH) parameters extracted from time-series RGB data are useful for predicting manually measured traits such as days to heading (DTH), culm length (CL), and aboveground dried weight (ADW). …”
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Single-Cell protein for feed and food by Ledbetter Fred

“…Research indicates that SCP can constitute significant portions of nitrogen intake in livestock, supporting performance without inducing adverse heat production. These findings underscore the potential of SCP and oleaginous yeasts in addressing protein shortages while promoting sustainable practices in animal nutrition. …”
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Minimizing Energy Consumption Based on Clustering & Data Aggregation Technique in WSN (MECCLADA) by Dhulfiqar Talib Abbas, Dalal Abdulmohsin Hammood, Seham ahmed hashem, Saidatul Norlyana Azemi

“…By aggregating duplicated data before transmitting, it to the base station (BS), these methods aim to shorten the distance between sensor nodes and the base station as well as the amount of transmitted data, while maintaining a reasonable level of accuracy for the data received at the BS or Cluster Head (CH). The efficiency of the proposed strategies is evaluated by extensive simulated experiments. …”
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Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis in Determining Factors Associated with Socioeconomic Status of Household in Tepi Town, Southwest Ethiopia by Mesfin Esayas Lelisho, Abebe Argaw Wogi, Seid Ali Tareke

“…Results. Of all 382 household heads, 170 (45.5%), 120 (31.4%), and 92 (24.1%) were at low, medium, and high SES of households, respectively. …”
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Prevalence of Risk Factors of the Female Athlete Triad among Young Elite Athletes of Pakistan by Jaweria Syed, Anam Jamil, Nazma Namroz, Madiha Shakeel, Ayesha Malik, Sumaira Kanwal, Huma Riaz

“…# Background Female athletes who are not vigilant about their food choices and choose extraneous physical activities may head towards negative health effects. # Purpose The purpose was to determine the prevalence of risk factors that may lead to the Female Athlete Triad among young elite athletes in Pakistan…”
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Tracheostomy care quality improvement in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. by Msiba Selekwa, Ivy Maina, Tiffany Yeh, Aslam Nkya, Isaie Ncogoza, Roger C Nuss, Beatrice P Mushi, Sumaiya Haddadi, Katherine Van Loon, Elia Mbaga, Willybroad Massawe, David W Roberson, Nazima Dharsee, Baraka Musimu, Mary Jue Xu

“…Tracheostomy is a lifesaving, essential procedure performed for airway obstruction in the case of head and neck cancers, prolonged ventilator use, and for long-term pulmonary care. …”
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CO2 Adsorption from Biogas Using Amine-Functionalized MgO by Preecha Kasikamphaiboon, Uraiwan Khunjan

“…However, apart from CH4, biogas also contains carbon dioxide (CO2) which is noncombustible, thus reducing the biogas heating value. Therefore, upgrading biogas by removing CO2 is needed for most biogas applications. …”
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Carboxylesterase 4A Inhibits the Malignant Biological Behavior of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma via the PI3K/AKT Pathway by Qiaoli Chen MS, Quanxiang Hao MBBS, Yanping Yang MBBS, Limei Li PhD, Danping Li MS, Ran Zhao MS, Wanqi Wei MBBS, Lixian Deng MBBS, Jiaming Su MBBS, Ziyuan Liang MBBS, Shiyue Tang MS, Yaomin Lu MBBS, Yushan Liang PhD, Zhe Zhang PhD, Xiaoying Zhou PhD, Xue Xiao PhD, Ping Li PhD, Yi Huang PhD, Weilin Zhao PhD

“…CCK-8, colony formation, wound healing and transwell assays were utilized to estimate cellular growth and metastasis, respectively. …”
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Drosophila melanogaster inhabiting northern regions of European Russia are infected with Wolbachia which adversely affects their life span by N. V. Roshina, A. V. Symonenko, A. V. Krementsova, Е. A. Tsybul’ko, V. E. Alatortsev, E. G. Pasyukova, D. V. Mukha

“…Life spans were compared in sub-lines of the same IL, one infected with Wolbachia and the other treated with tetracycline healing this infection. In four out of five ILs, the lifespan of both males and females was severely affected by Wolbachia; in different ILs, the mean life spans reduced from 1.8 to 5.4 times and from 1.4 to 2.4 times, respectively. …”
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Exhaust gas after treatment using air preheating and selective catalytic reduction by urea to reduce NOx in diesel engine by Mohammad Shahed H.K. Tushar, Musa Ibne Mannan, Afra Azmain

“…The experimental setup involved a mechanical urea injection system, a platinum-rhodium catalyst, and an air-preheating mechanism utilizing exhaust gas heat. Tests were conducted at varying engine speeds and loads to evaluate the combined system's performance. …”
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Conflict Probability Prediction and Safety Assessment of Straight-Left Traffic Flow at Signalized Intersections by Yingying Ma, Zihao Zhang, Jiabin Wu

“…To address these issues, this study proposes a SICP (signalized intersection conflict probability) model to predict a straight-left traffic flow conflict with a spatial-temporal distribution in the heat map, which could effectively evaluate the traffic safety of the existing or prebuilt signalized intersections on urban roads. …”
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High-resolution Observations of an X-1.0 White-light Flare with Moving Flare Ribbons by Xu Yang, Meiqi Wang, Andrew Cao, Kaifan Ji, Vasyl Yurchyshyn, Jiong Qiu, Sijie Yu, Jinhua Shen, Wenda Cao

“…The simultaneous occurrence of high-cadence HXR, microwave, and white-light emissions strongly suggests that the energetic particles from the flare directly contribute to the heating. The inverted HXR energy flux density corresponding to 10% TiO brightening is 2.07 ± 0.23 × 10 ^11 erg cm ^−2 s ^−1 during the flare peak.…”
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Oxymatrine inhibits the development of radioresistance in NSCLC cells by reversing EMT through the DcR3/AKT/GSK-3β pathway by Jianming Tang, Yu Cao, Hong Zhang, Rui Wang

“…Invasion and migration by NSCLC cells were quantified using Transwell and wound healing assays. Plasmids were used to overexpress decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) in A549 cells. …”
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Constructing meaningful code changes via graph transformer by Shikai Guo, Mengxuan Li, Xin Ge, Hui Li, Rong Chen, Tingting Li

“…Subsequently, the code transformation learning component uses the multi‐head attention mechanism and positional encoding mechanism to address the long‐range dependencies limitation. …”
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Myeloid cell-derived apCAFs promote HNSCC progression by regulating proportion of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells by Feilong Ren, Lin Meng, Shize Zheng, Jiasen Cui, Shaoyi Song, Xing Li, Dandan Wang, Xing Li, Qilin Liu, Wenhuan Bu, Hongchen Sun

“…Abstract It is well-known that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are involved in the desmoplastic responses in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC). CAFs are pivotal in the tumor microenvironment (TME) molding, and exert a profound influence on tumor development. …”
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Do gender disparities in socioeconomic status affect Teff productivity? A comparative analysis in Ethiopia by Nahusenay Teamer Gebrehiwot, Catherine Ndinda

“…Results suggest that, although women were fully engaged in Teff production activities, due to a low level of ownership of productive resources such as land, labour, and oxen, there is a statistically significant difference in Teff production between female and male-headed households which needs the attention of the government and stakeholders. …”
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‘An Important Exercise of Care and Attention’: How the International Geological Expedition Was Established in Mongolia by Narma A. Kamandzhaev

“…The long and sometimes heated negotiation process resulted in that key provisions of the Agreement on the establishment of IGE were dramatically different from the initial proposals of the Mongolian side. …”
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VETOZIM MULTI - AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION FOR THE POULTRY INDUSTRY by O. Khodakivskyi, Ye. Baranovskyi

“…The presence of thermostable enzymes in the composition of the Vetozym Multi preparation allows it to be used in the production of compound feeds with advanced heat treatment at a conditioning and granulation temperature of up to +90 °C, which will contribute to a more complete breakdown and assimilation of raw material components, in particular carbohydrates, proteins and fiber. …”
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ABA enhances the apoptotic effect of docetaxel in the multidrug-resistant DU145 prostate cancer cell line by Şumnulu Deniz, Doğanlar Zeynep Banu

“…RT-PCR analysis showed that treatment of resistant cells with 50.07 nM docetaxel and 500 μM ABA (ABA) resulted in the following changes in gene expression: heat shock protein (HSP) 70 (0.63-fold), glucose-regulated protein 94 (GRP94) 0.33-fold, inositol-requiring transmembrane kinase endoribonuclease-1α (IRE1α) 1.62-fold, ER degradation- enhancing alpha-mannosidase-like 1 (EDEM1) 1.77-fold, X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) 1.53-fold, p21 (2.53-fold), cellular tumor antigen p53 (p53) 2.49-fold, bcl-2-like protein 4 (Bax) 2.7-fold, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) 6.35-fold. …”
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