Natural variation in growth and yield to waterlogging across climate-diverse pennycress accessions by Rachel Combs-Giroir, John Lagergren, Daniel A. Jacobson, Andrea R. Gschwend

“…Many winter annual crops, such as pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.), are subjected to heavy precipitation events during their growing season. …”
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The Role of T Helper (TH)17 Cells as a Double-Edged Sword in the Interplay of Infection and Autoimmunity with a Focus on Xenobiotic-Induced Immunomodulation by Nasr Y. A. Hemdan, Ahmed M. Abu El-Saad, Ulrich Sack

“…Extensive research in recent years suggests that exposure to xenobiotic stimuli plays a critical role in autoimmunity induction and severity and that the resulting response would be exacerbated in individuals with an infection-aroused immune system. In this context, heavy metals constitute a prominent category of xenobiotic substances, known to alter divergent immune cell responses in accidentally and occupationally exposed individuals, thereby increasing the susceptibility to autoimmunity and cancer, especially when accompanied by inflammation-triggered persistent sensitization. …”
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Optimizing the Composite Cost Involved in Road Motor-Transporting Trucks by Taking into Account Traffic Condition by Hongying Fei, Chengyi Zhang

“…Since the vehicle transporters mainly are the severe-polluting heavy-duty vehicles and their exhaust emissions vary under different traffic conditions, it is necessary to improve the planning of road motor-transporting services by taking into account road traffic condition, especially for urban areas. …”
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Kinematics Analysis of Rigid Flexible Coupling Elbow Joint Power Assisted Mechanism by Zehui Li, Shengtao Song, Fengping Ning, Ruiqin Li

“…Aiming at people cannot provide enough strength in lifting heavy objects， an urgent need of power supporting devices attached to the human body， a wearable elbow joint power mechanism with rigid and flexible coupling is proposed to provide assistance for the human body in the lifting process. …”
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Antiswing Control and Trajectory Planning for Offshore Cranes: Design and Experiments by Ronny Landsverk, Jing Zhou, Daniel Hagen

“…In offshore environments, safe management of heavy payloads requires precise crane operations to avoid collisions with obstacles and adjacent equipment. …”
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KNOWLEDGE ON HIV/AIDS AND STIGMA OF THE COMMUNITY TOWARD CHILDREN AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS: RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN DISTRICT 8 AND BINHTHANH DISTRICT, HOCHIMINH CITY by Võ Hoàng Sơn

“…The labelling of the community towards people living with HIV is quite heavy. However, prejudice and misperceptions about HIV do not affect people’s attitude. …”
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Infant Exposure to Metals through Consumption of Formula Feeding in Mekelle, Ethiopia by Tadele Eticha, Melat Afrasa, Getu Kahsay, Hailekiros Gebretsadik

“…This study aimed at determination of heavy metals (cadmium, lead, and zinc) in milk-based infant formulas collected from Mekelle, Ethiopia, and their associated health risks to the infants through consumption of these products. …”
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A deep neural network for general scattering matrix by Jing Yongxin, Chu Hongchen, Huang Bo, Luo Jie, Wang Wei, Lai Yun

“…Nevertheless, except for scatterers with high symmetry like spheres or cylinders, the scattering matrix does not have any analytical forms and thus can only be calculated numerically, which requires heavy computation. Here, we have developed a well-trained deep neural network (DNN) that can calculate the scattering matrix of scatterers without symmetry at a speed thousands of times faster than that of finite element solvers. …”
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Current Concepts of Fracture-Related Infection by Si-ying He, Bin Yu, Nan Jiang

“…Moreover, such a disorder still poses heavy economic burdens to the patients, both personally and socially. …”
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Metallothioneins in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Importance in Pathogenesis and Potential Therapy Target by Anna Socha-Banasiak, Patrycja Sputa-Grzegrzółka, Jędrzej Grzegrzółka, Krzysztof Pacześ, Piotr Dzięgiel, Beata Sordyl, Hanna Romanowicz, Elżbieta Czkwianianc

“…Metallothioneins (MTs) belong to the group of low molecular weight proteins, which, among others, regulate the inflammation and homeostasis of heavy metals as well as participating in the regulation of the intensity of oxidative stress. …”
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Mountains at Work. The Geopolitics of Refuge in the Clarée Valley by Pierre Chomette

“…New initiatives now challenge the socio-spatial segregation of exiled people who are trying to cross the border amid the latter’s heavy militarization and in the context of the sensationalist coverage of events by the media. …”
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Aminoalkylated Merrifield Resins Reticulated by Tris-(2-chloroethyl) Phosphate for Cadmium, Copper, and Iron (II) Extraction by Mokhtar Dardouri, Fayçel Ammari, Faouzi Meganem

“…We aimed to synthesize novel substituted polymers bearing functional groups to chelate heavy metals during depollution applications. Three polyamine functionalized Merrifield resins were prepared via ethylenediamine (EDA), diethylenetriamine (DETA), and triethylenetetramine (TETA) modifications named, respectively, MR-EDA, MR-DETA, and MR-TETA. …”
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Overview of energy policy in Iran: the proper path to clean energy by Maryam Hasheminejad, Hasan Raei, Abbas Maleki

“… This article evaluates the existing energy policy in Iran, focusing on the nation’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels and the implications of such dependency. …”
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Warm Dark Matter Sterile Neutrinos in Electron Capture and Beta Decay Spectra by O. Moreno, E. Moya de Guerra, M. Ramón Medrano

“…Results are shown and discussed for the effect of heavy neutrino emission in electron capture in Holmium 163 and in two isotopes of Lead, 202 and 205, as well as in the beta decay of Tritium. …”
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A Novel Experiment to Study the Roll Motion Characteristics of a Sailing Ship in a Landslide-Generated Wave in the Three Gorges Reservoir by Peiyin Yuan, Pingyi Wang, Yu Zhao

“…Strong earthquakes, heavy rains, changes in reservoir water levels, and other external factors destabilize large rock masses causing them to fall into the water at high speed, thereby destroying the original ecological balance in the region. …”
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Montagnes en bataille. Une géopolitique du refuge depuis la vallée de la Clarée by Pierre Chomette

“…New initiatives now challenge the socio-spatial segregation of exiled people who are trying to cross the border amid the latter’s heavy militarization and in the context of the sensationalist coverage of events by the media. …”
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Coronary Plaque Boundary Enhancement in IVUS Image by Using a Modified Perona-Malik Diffusion Filter by S. Anam, E. Uchino, N. Suetake

“…The IVUS image is however very grainy due to heavy speckle noise. When the normal PMD filter is applied for speckle noise reduction in the IVUS image, the coronary plaque boundary becomes vague. …”
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QoE-aware video cooperative caching and transmission mechanism based on TWDM-PON and C-RAN by Dapeng WU, Xue LI, Hongxia LI

“…The quality of user experience suffers from performance deterioration dramatically due to the explosively growing data traffic.To improve the poor performance of cell-edge users and heavy-load cell users,which caused by dense network and load imbalance respectively,an QoE-aware video cooperative caching and transmission mechanism in cloud radio access network was proposed.Cooperative gain-aware virtual passive optical network was established to provide cooperative caching and transmission for video streaming by adopting collaborative approach in optical domain and wireless domain.Furthermore,user experience for video streaming,bandwidth provisioning and caching strategy were jointly optimized to improve QoE,which utilized the methods of dynamic caching in optical domain and buffer level-aware bandwidth configuration in wireless domain.The results show that the proposed mechanism enhances the quality of user experience and effectively improves the cache hit rate.…”
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Decoupling design and kinematic analysis of rope driven flexible wheelchair manipulators by WANG Lu, ZHAO Dongjie, ZHANG Weitao, WANG Yini, ZHANG Kun

“…ObjectiveAiming at the problems of large size, heavy weight and safety of human-machine interaction of traditional rigid wheelchair manipulators, a 6-degree-of-freedom rope driven flexible wheelchair manipulator was designed.MethodsThe manipulator adopted a flexible translation structure, which can keep the end posture unchanged while changing the end position, realized the decoupling of position and posture, and effectively improved the rigidity of the flexible manipulator. …”
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Investigating the interplay between initial hard processes and final-state effects measuring prompt and non-prompt J/ψ by Coquet Maurice

“…Both components can be distinguished experimentally by studying displaced topology, and represent valuable tools to investigate the properties of the strongly interacting medium produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. In particular, the study of non-prompt charmonium production can give access to the beauty-hadron production cross section and can be used to investigate the in-medium energy loss of beauty quarks. …”
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