Manufacturing and characterization of conductive threads based on twisting process for applying smartwear by Hyelim Kim, Soohyeon Rho, Wonyoung Jeong

“…As the number of twists increased, the packing density of samples increased, and the bulkiness of DT was decreased. In addition, the elongation at break tended to increase as the number of twists increased, especially for samples manufactured with DT with a curved surface appeared larger. …”
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Reliability-Based Analysis of Sight Distance Modelling for Traffic Safety by César de Santos-Berbel, Mohamed Essa, Tarek Sayed, María Castro

“…The results of the comparison emphasized the importance of considering the 3D modelled sight distance when evaluating the associated risk either in highway design or during the service life. In addition, the results indicated that the ASD modelling approach can have a significant impact on the estimation of the safety of highway design.…”
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Unconventional secretion of unglycosylated ORF8 is critical for the cytokine storm during SARS-CoV-2 infection. by Xiaoyuan Lin, Beibei Fu, Yan Xiong, Na Xing, Weiwei Xue, Dong Guo, Mohamed Zaky, Krishna Pavani, Dusan Kunec, Jakob Trimpert, Haibo Wu

“…Evidence on the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 is accumulating rapidly. In addition to structural proteins such as Spike and Envelope, the functional roles of non-structural and accessory proteins in regulating viral life cycle and host immune responses remain to be understood. …”
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Association between macular vessel density and microvascular biomarkers in pediatric chronic kidney disease by Engy R. Mohamed, Samira Z. Sayed, Lamia H. Ali, Mohamed Tarek A. Moustafa, Mohamed H. Mahgoob

“…Results Compared with controls, both CKD groups showed significantly lower VD in the macula. Additionally, both CKD groups had a larger foveal avascular zone area. …”
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Clopidogrel Protects Endothelium by Hindering TNFα-Induced VCAM-1 Expression through CaMKKβ/AMPK/Nrf2 Pathway by Huabing Yang, Pengjun Zhao, Shiliu Tian

“…The CaMKKβ/AMPK pathway and Nrf2 transcriptional factor were implicated in the induction of HO-1 by INN. Additionally, TNFα dramatically augmented VCAM-1 expression at protein and mRNA levels. …”
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Assessment of Renal Function in Women with Preeclampsia by Measuring of Serum Cystatin C Level by Marwa Basim Yarmurad, Miami Abdul Hassan Ali

“…The GraphPad Prism Software was used for data analysis and graphical presentations in addition to SPSS version 28; 0.05 was selected as a cutoff point for statistical significance. …”
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Experience of tricuspid valve replacement: immediate and long-term results by G.I. Darwish, M.F. Rotari, N.S. Gnoianko

“…The category of patients with rheumatic multiple valve lesions entails an additional risk as a result of multiple procedures that have to be performed. …”
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Sustainable production through biostimulants under fruit orchards by Vishal Singh Rana, Sunny Sharma, Neerja Rana, Umesh Sharma

“…The use of biostimulants can be extensively exploited under fruit crops as they contribute towards a crucial role in enhancing the anatomical, morphological, physiological, that ultimately ameliorated the fruit productivity, and quality of the fruits. In addition, the application of biostimulants helps in promoting physiological actions like photosynthesis, nutrients metabolism, enzymatic activities, chlorophyll, protein and carbohydrate content. …”
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The Effect Wilting Tangerine Peel on Characteristics of Powder Used In Food Self-Heater by Rini Rini, Daimon Syukri, Puja Nadia Sukma

“…The research findings indicated that the duration of drying tangerine peels had a notable impact on various factors including water content, yield, pH, color, duration for the aromatic self-heating meal to attain the optimal temperature, and aroma. …”
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Rain removal method for single image of dual-branch joint network based on sparse transformer by Fangfang Qin, Zongpu Jia, Xiaoyan Pang, Shan Zhao

“…UEDB incorporates a feature refinement unit to maximize the contribution of the channel attention mechanism in recovering local detail features. Additionally, since tokens with low relevance in the Transformer may influence image recovery, this study introduces a residual sparse Transformer branch (RSTB) to overcome the limitations of the Convolutional Neural Network’s (CNN’s) receptive field. …”
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Cardiovascular health in perspective: a comprehensive five-year geodatabase of hospitalizations and environmental factors in Mashhad, Iran by Shahab MohammadEbrahimi, Mohammad Dehghan, Behzad Kiani

“…A notable 9.41% of patients died during hospitalization. In addition to the CVD hospitalization case file and its shape file created by joining with 1301 census tracts, this dataset includes environmental factors such as air quality indicators (SO2, PM2.5, CO, etc.). …”
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Seismic Safety Review of Gravity Dam Based on Finite Element Method by Guanchao Xu, Bowen Guo, Zhuolun Meng, Jiwei Zhao

“…The results show the following: (1) after considering the effect of hydrodynamic pressure, the natural frequency of the dam body has been significantly reduced, and the first-order natural frequency has been reduced by about 10%; (2) in addition to the local tensile stress at the dam heel, the rest of the vertical stress on the foundation surface of the retaining dam section is compressive stress, and the length of the tensile stress is less than the distance from the dam heel to the curtain center line, which met the requirements; (3) the antisliding stability safety factor of the retaining dam section is greater than the design value in the specification and meets the safety requirements; and (4) the seismic safety of the retaining dam section meets the standard requirements, and the seismic grade is evaluated as grade A.…”
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Understanding the complex function of gut microbiota: its impact on the pathogenesis of obesity and beyond: a comprehensive review by Aref Yarahmadi, Hamed Afkhami, Ali Javadi, Mojtaba Kashfi

“…Considering the intricate nature and variety of the gut microbiota, additional investigations are necessary to clarify its exact involvement in the beginnings and advancement of obesity and related metabolic dilemmas. …”
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A Lightweight Network with Domain Adaptation for Motor Imagery Recognition by Xinmin Ding, Zenghui Zhang, Kun Wang, Xiaolin Xiao, Minpeng Xu

“…The proposed method was evaluated on an fNIRS motor imagery dataset, achieving an average accuracy of 87.76% in a three-class classification task. Additionally, lightweight experiments were conducted from two perspectives: model structure optimization and data feature selection. …”
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Preparation and Evaluation of Gelatin-Chitosan-Nanobioglass 3D Porous Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering by Kanchan Maji, Sudip Dasgupta, Krishna Pramanik, Akalabya Bissoyi

“…Higher cellular activity was observed in GCB 30 scaffold as compared to GCB 0 scaffold suggesting the fact that 58S bioglass nanoparticles addition into the scaffold promoted better cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation. …”
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Drug response is related to NR3C1 and FAAH polymorphism in Chinese pediatric epilepsy patients by Hongli Wang, Chu Li, Qian Li, Ning Li, Huiling Qin

“…In addition, polymorphisms in NR3C1 and FAAH were not associated with liver damage induced by epilepsy medication. …”
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ANALYSIS OF LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN UKRAINE AND POLAND IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ENERGY MANAGEMENT by Vitalii Vasyliev

“…The goal is to identify the factors that influence the success or failure of public administration in implementing energy norms and standards in both countries, including economic, social, and technological aspects. Additionally, the study highlights the importance of public administration in achieving energy independence, sustainable economic development, and energy security. …”
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Analyzing the Relationship Between City and its influence From Economic Dimension(Case study of Jiroft city) by sedighe mosazade, gholam reza miri, mahmodreza anvari

“…Also, considering the role of these relations in the process of development and development of urban and rural centers, in addition to the importance of studying the types of these relationships, the recognition of its socio-cultural, socio-cultural and spatial effects on urban and rural development in the context of sustainable development of rural and urban areas It is very important. …”
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Empowering women on screen: exploring the influence of female protagonists on contemporary culture and gendered enjoyment in film by Fokiya Akhtar, Azmat Rasul

“…This fear of alienating male audiences perpetuates patriarchal ideologies, objectifies female bodies, reinforces gender stereotypes, and alters perceptions of femininity. …”
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General anesthesia of endhotracheal tube in cholesistektomy with cholelithiasis with cholecystitis: A case report by Prayoga Esa Dahan, Suandika Made, Jerau Emiliani Elsi, Indriani

“…According to this study, a 33-year-old lady has experienced periodic nausea and recurrent upper right abdomen pain for a number of years. …”
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