Transient ocular hypertension remodels astrocytes through S100B. by Weiran Huang, Kenji Matsushita, Rumi Kawashima, Susumu Hara, Yuichi Yasukura, Kaito Yamaguchi, Shinichi Usui, Koichi Baba, Andrew J Quantock, Kohji Nishida

“…Here, we investigated the morphology of retinal and optic nerve head (ONH) astrocytes under mechanical stress, and explored whether a specific phase is present that precedes astrocyte remodeling. …”
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Interspecific medicinal knowledge and Mahout-Elephant interactions in Thongmyxay district, Laos by Jean-Marc Dubost, Eric Deharo, Sysay Palamy, Chithdavone Her, Chiobouaphong Phaekovilay, Lamxay Vichith, Sébastien Duffillot, Sabrina Krief

“…The part of humanity attributed to the elephants is reflected in particular in the self-agency that is recognised in their ability to heal themselves when they are suffering, which leads to the therapeutic use of their dung by Mahouts. …”
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Field Assessment of Neighboring Building and Tree Shading Effects on the 3D Radiant Environment and Human Thermal Comfort in Summer within Urban Settlements in Northeast China by Jing Du, Lin Liu, Xin Chen, Jing Liu

“…Shading is one of the most effective strategies to mitigate urban local-scale heat stress during summer. Therefore, this study investigates the effects of shading caused by buildings and trees via exhaustive field measurement research on urban outdoor 3D radiant environment and human thermal comfort. …”
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Sunflower lines originated from varieties with high oil content in their seed by V. A. Gavrilova, I. N. Anisimova, T. G. Stupnikova

“…It was in this country that single-headed highly productive forms were obtained, industrial oil production was invented, first local varieties were developed, accessions with increased oil content in seeds were identified by V. …”
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Effects of public roads on wildlife-vehicle collisions in two protected areas, Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Cameron T. Cormac, Cormac Price, Wendy Collinson, Dave J. Druce, Jarryd P. Streicher, Colleen T. Downs

“…Species composition of vertebrate mortalities, and heat maps of mortalities, combined with a suite of ecological factors, were used to identify drivers of wildlife-vehicle collisions. …”
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Microspore embryogenesis in vitro: the role of stresses by T. I. Djatchouk, O. V. Khomyakova, V. N. Akinina, I. A. Kibkalo, A. V. Pominov

“…Physical or chemical pretreatments (cold and heat shock, sugar starvation, colchicine, n-butanol, gametocydes) act as a trigger for inducing the sporophytic pathway, preventing the gametophytic pathway development of microspore. …”
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Computational Analysis of an Ammonia Combustion System for Future Two-Stroke Low-Speed Marine Engines by Jose R. Serrano, Ricardo Novella, Héctor Climent, Francisco José Arnau, Alejandro Calvo, Lauge Thorsen

“…The investigation incorporates diverse simulation scenarios involving direct fuel injection through dedicated valves into the cylinder head of a six-cylinder, turbocharged compression-ignition engine. …”
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Emerging Strategies in Cartilage Repair and Joint Preservation by Mircea Adrian Focsa, Sorin Florescu, Armand Gogulescu

“…<i>Background and Objectives:</i> Cartilage repair remains a critical challenge in orthopaedic medicine due to the tissue’s limited self-healing ability, contributing to degenerative joint conditions such as osteoarthritis (OA). …”
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Psychological readiness for innovative activity and the ability to self-management of the police chiefs by O. M. Voluiko

“…The sample consisted of 316 heads of police departments. The author has theoretically grounded that psychological readiness for innovative activity and ability to self-management are considered as important personal traits of a police chief within professional activity. …”
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Thermodynamic Analysis of Ozone-Safe Low Boiling Working Media for Turbo-Expander Plants by A. V. Ovsyannik, V. P. Kliuchinski

“…Thermodynamic analysis of working media based on the classical turbo-expander scheme with a heat exchanger designed to cool the superheated LBWM that has left the turbo-expander has been performed. …”
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Comparison of clinical and pharmacodynamic features of proton pump inhibitors efficacy in gastroesophageal reflux disease by O. A. Storonova, A. S. Trukhmanov

“…Control of intragastric рН level is the key moment of healing of erosions and ulcers of the upper gastro-intestinal tract, as well as for Н. рylori eradication efficacy. …”
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Investigating the effect of 1,25 dihydroxycholecalciferol-glycosides and phytogenic antioxidants against bacterial chondronecrosis induced by aerosol transmission model by Khawla Alharbi, Andi Asnayanti, Amer Hasan, Wesley J. Vaught, Kathrin Buehler, Jan Dirk Van der Klis, Javier Gonzalez, Michael T. Kidd, Adnan Alrubaye

“…Pathogens enter the bloodstream via respiratory and intestinal epithelial translocation and infect the tibia and femoral heads of the birds. Supplementation of 1,25(OH)2D3 is crucial in regulating calcium and phosphorus homeostasis, immune system, and bone metabolism. 1,25(OH)2D3 glycosides derived from Solanum glaucophyllum (G-1,25(OH)2D3) were hypothesized to mitigate BCO lameness in broilers. …”
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TRANSFORMATION AND SCATTERING OF SURFACE WAVES ON THE ACOUSTIC LOAD TO ULTRASONIC EVALUATION AND MEASUREMENTS. Part 2. The object to study – solid with ledge by A. R. Baev, A. L. Mayorov, M. V. Asadchaya, G. E. Konovalov, O. S. Sergeeva

“…As it was found, the second source of the edge transverse waves – the edge head longitudinal waves to appear in the results of transformation of surface waves on the ledge′s radius transition. …”
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A two‐stage reactive power optimization method for distribution networks based on a hybrid model and data‐driven approach by Ghulam Abbas, Wu Zhi, Aamir Ali

“…For the second stage, a transformer network framework with a self‐attention mechanism and multi‐head attention for deep learning training is applied to uncover the intrinsic and physical spatial relationships among high‐dimensional features. …”
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Spatiotemporal optimization of irrigation practices for winter wheat in China: Rationale, implications, and solutions by Luchen Zhang, Yuan Cao, Weihao Qian, Junning Tian, Shengshi Huang, Xiaolei Qiu, Bing Liu, Liang Tang, Liujun Xiao, Weixing Cao, Yan Zhu, Leilei Liu

“…Drought stress was most severe during the jointing to heading period; furthermore, the greatest increase in drought stress was also observed during this period. …”
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Energy-Efficient Harvested-Aware Clustering and Cooperative Routing Protocol for WBAN (E-HARP) by Zahid Ullah, Imran Ahmed, Fakhri Alam Khan, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Nawaz, Tamleek Ali, Muhammad Khalid, Fahim Niaz

“…The presented protocol mainly proposes a novel multi-attribute-based technique for dynamic cluster head (CH) selection and cooperative routing. In the first phase of this two-phased technique, optimum CH is selected among the cluster members, based on calculated cost factor (CF). …”
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Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study by Raphaël Porcher, Djillali Annane, Andrea Polito, Tarek Sharshar, Takoua Merhbene, Morgane Blanc, Marion Antona, Marie-Christine Durand, Diane Friedman, David Orlikowski, Marie-Hélène Marcadet

“…Either language barrier or cognitive decline that precluded understanding was considered as exclusion criteria.Primary outcome Acute respiratory failure.Interventions At admission, anxiety and clinical factors (including known predictors of respiratory failure: delay between GBS onset and admission, inability to lift head, vital capacity (VC)) were assessed and related to subsequent need for mechanical ventilation (MV). …”
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Urea enhances the yield and quality of bio-oil produced from corncob through pyrolysis by Sakina Ibrahim Bello, Taofik Olatunde Uthman, Serdar Surgun, Abdullahi Muhammad Sokoto

“…Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectroscopy, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC–MS), Ultimate Analysis, and High Heating Value (HHV) analyses were employed to evaluate the quality of bio-oil produced. …”
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Comparison between Satellite Water Vapour Observations and Atmospheric Models’ Predictions of the Upper Tropospheric Thermal Radiation by J. R. Dim, T. Y. Nakajima, T. Takamura, N. Kikuchi

“…The impact of the above low clouds heat distribution on the models is studied through the relation between the low clouds cover and their effective emissivity. …”
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SMARCA4-related Coffin-Siris syndrome in newborn: a case report and literature review by Yuqian Wang, Li Zhang, Jing Zhu, Liu Yang, Chan Wang, Ning Zou

“…The common otolaryngologic features of 23 patients with CSS in SMARCA4 gene variant included palate abnormalities, feeding difficulties, ear abnormalities and hearing loss.ConclusionCoffin-Siris syndrome is a rare genetic disease inherited in an autosomal-dominated manner. …”
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