Influence of Acute High Glucose on Protein Abundance Changes in Murine Glomerular Mesangial Cells by Michelle T. Barati, James C. Gould, Sarah A. Salyer, Susan Isaacs, Daniel W. Wilkey, Michael L. Merchant

“…Additional studies confirmed the regulation of proteasomal subunit alpha-type 2 and the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone and oxidoreductase PDI (protein disulfide isomerase), suggesting altered ER protein folding capacity and proteasomal function in response to acute HG. …”
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Evaluating the Performance of the Rural Guide Plans in Physical Development of the Rural Settlements (Case Study: Nabovat and Khoran Villages in Eyvangharb Township) by Mehdi Pourtaheri, Abdolreza Rokneddin Eftekhari, Mohsen Abbasi

“…To evaluate the performance of the rural guide plan’s implementation in physical development of the mentioned villages we use two statistical methods: compare means and the Wilcoxon nonparametric test for evaluating the sample’s opinions before and after the implementation of the plan. to evaluate the performance of the plans we used questionnaire technique with the acceptable validity coefficient level 0.77 (conbach alpha).The findings indicate that the implementation of the plans in these two villages to achieve physical objectives such as improving the quality of canals, agricultural canals, improving housing and construction, has been successful in fact, but according to the Wilcoxon test results the rural plan has not been able to cause a positive change in the improvement of the rural services, compared to the previous period.…”
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INVESTIGATION OF MORAL DECISION-MAKING ATTITUDES OF YOUTH ATHLETES by Nurullah Emir Ekinci, Piyami Çakto, Ümmühan Tınaz, Büşra Işık, Alican Bayram

“…Reliability (Cronbach's Alpha), independent sample t-test, and one-way ANOVA were applied to the data. …”
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Data‐Driven Forecasting of Low‐Latitude Ionospheric Total Electron Content Using the Random Forest and LSTM Machine Learning Methods by Gebreab K. Zewdie, Cesar Valladares, Morris B. Cohen, David J. Lary, Dhanya Ramani, Gizaw M. Tsidu

“…We estimate the relative importance of 34 different parameters, including the solar flux, solar wind density, and speed the three components of interplanetary magnetic field, Lyman‐alpha, the Kp, Dst, and Polar Cap (PC) indices. The TEC measurements are taken with 15‐s cadence from an equatorial GPS station located at Bogota, Columbia (4.7110° N, 74.0721° W). …”
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Exploring the thermal-induced optical nonlinearity of crude oil via spatial self-phase modulation technique by Moein Golestanifar, Mohammad Ali Haddad, Amir Namiq Hassan, Kianoush Pakravan

“…This study focused on examining the $${n}_{2,th}/\alpha$$ ratios of different sample concentrations to identify the role of thermal effects in the observed NLO responses. …”
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Spiritual Needs and Resilience Women with Cervical Cancer by Supatmi Supatmi, Fathiya Lutfil Yumni, Reliani Reliani, Diah Priyantini

“…The collected data were analyzed using the Spearman rho test with a 95% confidence interval and an alpha (α) of 0.05. Results: A significant relationship was found between spiritual needs and resilience in women with cervical cancer (p = 0.000), with a correlation coefficient of r = 0.572, indicating a strong relationship. …”
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Persepsi Atlet Sepak Bola Liga 2 Persipa Pati Terhadap Pemberian Sport Massage by Riyaldi Noer, Azhar Ramadhana Sonjaya, Asep Angga Permadi

“…Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, diketahui pertanyaan pada kuisioner no 7 dikatakan tidak valid dan no 1-6 serta 8-22 dinyatakan valid, dan berdasarkan hasil uji reabilitas angket diketahui bahwa cronbach’s alpha pada variabel ini lebih tinggi dari pada nilai dasar yaitu 0,927 > 0,70 hasil tersebut membuktikan bahwa semua pernyataan dalam kuesioner dinyatakan reliabel. …”
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Systematically-designed mixtures outperform single fibers for gut microbiota support by T.M. Cantu-Jungles, V. Agamennone, T.J. Van den Broek, F.H.J. Schuren, B. Hamaker

“…The designed fiber mixtures outperformed individual fibers in supporting bacterial taxa across donors resulting in superior alpha diversity and unexpected higher SCFA production. …”
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Lise ve Üniversite Öğrencileri İçin KAR-YA Saldırganlık Ölçeği Geliştirilmesi ve Psikometrik Özelliklerinin İncelenmesi Development of KAR-YA Aggression Scale for High School and U... by Zeynep Karataş, Yasemin Yavuzer

“…Dört faktörün toplam açıklama varyansı %51.7’dir. Ölçeğin cronbach alpha iç tutarlık katsayısı tüm ölçek için 0.92, split-half test yarılama katsayısı her iki yarı için 0.80, test tekrar test güvenirliği katsayısı 0.86 olarak hesaplanmıştır. …”
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Unexpected species diversity in the understanding of selenium-containing soil invertebrates by Bin Mao, XiangLiang Fang, HongLing Lei, YunLi Xiao, Yue Fu

“…Environmental factors such as Se concentration, water content, and pH were strongly associated with species beta diversity of soil invertebrates in Se-rich areas, reshaping their distribution and abundance, while alpha diversity remained relatively stable. Among these, Se notably emerges as the primary regulatory factor increasing soil invertebrate diversity. …”
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Smad2/3 Upregulates the Expression of Vimentin and Affects Its Distribution in DBP-Exposed Sertoli Cells by Xi Zhang, Xiaogang Wang, Taixiu Liu, Min Mo, Lin Ao, Jinyi Liu, Jia Cao, Zhihong Cui

“…In a previous study, we found that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) influenced the distribution of vimentin by affecting its phosphorylation in DBP-exposed SCs. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of naturally occurring radionuclides in well water: Isotopic ratios, mitigation, and dose assessment by Francisco Piñero-García, Rimon Thomas, Eva Forssell-Aronsson, Mats Isaksson

“…For that, a well water survey was done in 2020 along Sweden, focusing the study on the determination of 210Po, 210Pb, 226Ra, 228Ra, 238U and 234U by alpha spectrometry. The results of the present study showed that the naturally occurring radionuclides distributions in the well water investigated were highly variable. …”
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Genetic Algorithm-Enhanced Direct Method in Protein Crystallography by Ruijiang Fu, Wu-Pei Su, Hongxing He

“…This method provides an effective alternative for solving structures that are difficult to predict accurately by AlphaFold3 or challenging to solve by molecular replacement and experimental phasing methods. …”
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Reliability and Validity of the Persian Version of the Fatigue Severity Scale in Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease Patients by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Hasti Hadizadeh, Farzaneh Farhadi, Gholam Ali Shahidi, Ahmad Delbari, Johan Lökk

“…The internal consistency coefficient was larger than 0.8 for all of the items with a total Cronbach’s alpha of 0.96 (95% CI: 0.95–0.97). The FSS-Per score correlated with the UPDRS score (, ) and the “Hoehn and Yahr” (HY) stage (, ). …”
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Lazer e consumo na percepção dos estudantes universitários by Márcia Botelho Oliveira, Neuza Maria da Silva, Renato Mareto

“…Data were quantitatively analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences – SPSS, version 17.0, with which we performed exploratory and variance analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha cal- culation, frequency analysis and cross tabulations. …”
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Same or Different? Comparing the Coverage Rate of Five Different Approaches for Testing the Difference of Two Groups Means by Bittmann, Felix

“…We utilize the coverage of confidence intervals as it corresponds to nominal type-I-error rates (Alpha), yet is more adequate since confidence intervals are preferred in contrast to p-values, which often facilitate binary conclusions. …”
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A Precocious Cerebellar Ataxia and Frequent Fever Episodes in a 16-Month-Old Infant Revealing Ataxia-Telangiectasia Syndrome by Luigi Nespoli, Annapia Verri, Silvia Tajè, Francesco Paolo Pellegrini, Maddalena Marinoni

“…Since the clinical presentation is extremely variable, a high clinical suspicion will allow an early diagnosis. Serum alpha-fetoprotein is elevated in 80–85% of patients and therefore could be used as a screening tool. …”
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A comparative study of EEG microstate dynamics during happy and sad music videos by Ashish Gupta, Chandan Kumar Srivastava, Braj Bhushan, Laxmidhar Behera, Laxmidhar Behera

“…This study delved into the emotional responses of happiness and sadness triggered by music videos, employing microstate analysis and eLoreta source-level investigation in the alpha band. The results of the microstate analysis showed that regardless of gender, participants during happy music video significantly upregulated class D microstate and downregulated class C microstate, leading to a significantly enhanced global explained variance (GEV), coverage, occurrence, duration, and global field power (GFP) for class D. …”
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BWFER-YOLOv8: An Enhanced Cascaded Framework for Concealed Object Detection by Khalid Ijaz, Ikramullah Khosa, Ejaz A. Ansari, Syed Farooq Ali, Asif Hussain, Faran Awais Butt

“…This paper proposes a novel three-stage cascaded framework named BWFER-YOLOv8, which implements a new alpha-reshuffled bootstrap random sampling method in the first stage, followed by image reconstruction using an adaptive Wiener filter in the second stage. …”
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Preliminary Study on the Impact of Ruminal Ciliate Inoculation in Fauna-Free Conditions on the Ruminal Fermentation and Ciliate–Prokaryote Association In Vitro by Geonwoo Kim, Woohyung Lee, Tansol Park

“…Small entodinia inoculation increased <i>Streptococcus</i> abundance, while isotrichids enriched <i>Megasphaera</i>, enhancing butyrate production. Alpha diversity indices indicated reduced richness in the ciliate-inoculated groups, reflecting predation on prokaryotes. …”
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