Drug delivery strategies to improve the treatment of corneal disorders by Mahsa Fallah Tafti, Zeinab Fayyaz, Hossein Aghamollaei, Khosrow Jadidi, Shahab Faghihi

“…Nanocarriers are major platforms and promising candidates for the administration of ophthalmic drugs in an adjustable manner. This paper briefly introduces the advantages, disadvantages, and characteristics of delivery systems for the treatment of corneal diseases. …”
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Crack Initiation, Propagation, and Coalescence Experiments in Sandstone Brazilian Disks Containing Pre-Existing Flaws by Shijun Zhao, Qing Zhang, Limin Liu

“…Both initiate mostly from the tips of the pre-existing flaws and propagate in a stable manner. The results reveal that wing cracks appear first and propagate toward the loading direction. …”
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Peptide fraction from sturgeon muscle by pepsin hydrolysis exerts anti-inflammatory effects in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages via MAPK and NF-κB pathways by Ruichang Gao, Wanghui Shu, Yang Shen, Quancai Sun, Wengang Jin, Dajing Li, Ying Li, Li Yuan

“…PeH significantly reduced the inflammatory mediator (NO) and inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α and IL-1β) expression in a dose-dependent manner. Moreover, the purified sturgeon peptide (F2) possessed strong antioxidant potential and effectively inhibited DPPH and ABTS free radicals. …”
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'Gelukkig hij die uw kinderen zal grijpen' by H. G. L. Peels

“…After having delineated the indigenous horizon of interpretation of the Old Testament imprecatory prayers, a comparison with New Testament data is made, leading to the conclusion that on the one hand the condemnation of Old Testament imprecatory prayer from the perspective of New Testament ethics is incorrect, but on the other that it is also impossible within the New Testament situation to raise the imprecatory prayer in the same manner as was done by the psalmists of the Old Testament. …”
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Rotational Dynamics of Optically Trapped Human Spermatozoa by Elavarasan Subramani, Himanish Basu, Shyam Thangaraju, Sucheta Dandekar, Deepak Mathur, Koel Chaudhury

“…Optical trapping is a laser-based method for probing the physiological and mechanical properties of cells in a noninvasive manner. As sperm motility is an important criterion for assessing the male fertility potential, this technique is used to study sperm cell motility behavior and rotational dynamics. …”
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Nursing Challenges in Motivating Nursing Students through Clinical Education: A Grounded Theory Study by Hanifi Nasrin, Parvizy Soroor, Joolaee Soodabeh

“…The findings showed that the nurses’ manners of performance as well as the profession’s prospect have a fundamental role in the process of formation of motivation through clinical education. …”
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Unconventional ice nucleation pathway induced by irregular silver iodide surfaces by Yaochen Yu, Mingyi Chen, Yuefeng Lei, Haiyang Niu

“…Abstract In nature, water freezes predominantly in a heterogeneous manner. Silver iodide (AgI) serves as one of the most universal and efficient ice nucleating agents. …”
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Microbiota and metabolic dysfunction associated with steatotic liver disease by Q. Zhu, S. Francque, W. Kwanten

“…Understanding the factors that shape microbiome complexity may help improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in a precise and personalized manner. This review focuses on the recent data on the etiopathogenesis of MASLD linked to the gastrointestinal microbiome and looks critically into the research methods that should aim at comprehensively and accurately reflecting the true status of the GM.…”
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Essential Oils of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants as Botanical Biocide for Management of Coconut Eriophyid Mite (Aceria guerreronis Keifer) by Susmita Patnaik, Kadambini Rout, Sasmita Pal, Prasanna Kumar Panda, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Satyabrata Sahoo

“…The multilocational field trials revealed the overall efficiency of the biocide to significantly control the eriophyid mite in coconut crop in an ecofriendly and sustainable manner without adopting any chemical pesticide.…”
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A Review of“Basics of Islamic Law Inference” Book by Sayyid Abdolrahim Hosseini

“…According to the investigation on the manner of writing and configuration of scientific topics and contents of “Basics of Islamic Law Inference” book,  some issues such as lack of style cohesion in classifying topics, ignoring logic of complication and recent achievements, lack of logical relationship between some of the described issues, non-using required documents, impracticality of described issues, heterogeneity of reasoning, ignoring key doctrines, lack of using new legal findings and revised books made this book reviewable; on the other hand, the practical requirement for composing legal educational texts and its conformity with the latest finding and adaptation with applicable law in various areas, emphasizing the theories of jurisprudents and using their latest achievements are essential for jurisprudence texts. …”
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Coupling of Photonic Crystal Surface Modes by Melike Behiye Yücel

“…Lifting the degeneracy between the surface modes as a consequence of bringing two identical photonic crystal surfaces to a sufficient distance results in evanescent coupling in a beating manner whose beat length linearly varies between 10 and 20 periods up to a frequency at which both surface modes travel with the same group velocity. …”
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Succinct scheme of DCT coefficient selection towards enhanced security of JPEG image steganography by Kang WANG, Bei-bei LIU, Shuo-wei LIU, Yong-jian HU

“…Based on the characteristics of JPEG compression,a succinct and effective scheme of DCT coefficients selection was proposed,in which not only the non-zero AC coefficients but also part of the zero coefficients were exploited.Moreover,the scheme embedded messages in a different order than the conventional practice and gave priority to the low frequency coefficients so as to achieve enhanced security.The embedding manners of two typical steganographic algorithms(EPES and APPM)were extended from the spatial to the compression domain and the proposed scheme was applied to them for coefficient selection and embedding.Experimental results showed that larger capacity and better security were achieved compare to three classical steganographic algorithms(JSteg,F5 and nsF5)and one current steganographic algorithm based on STC framework(LPD).The proposed coefficient se-lection and embedding scheme can effectively improved the performance of some classic DCT domain steg-anographic methods in terms of capacity and security.The scheme was general and could be easily applied to dif-ferent steganography methods.…”
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Malvidin-3-galactoside from blueberry suppresses the growth and metastasis potential of hepatocellular carcinoma cell Huh-7 by regulating apoptosis and metastases pathways by Jie Lin, Jinlong Tian, Chi Shu, Zhen Cheng, Yunen Liu, Weisheng Wang, Ruihai Liu, Bin Li, Yuehua Wang

“…The results showed that Mv-3-gal inhibited the cell proliferation and colony formation ability, induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. Regarding the metastasis potential, Mv-3-gal suppressed the migration and invasion potential of Huh-7 cells by regulating MMPs expression. …”
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Beyond high hopes: A scoping review of the 2019-2021 scientific discourse on machine learning in medical imaging. by Vasileios Nittas, Paola Daniore, Constantin Landers, Felix Gille, Julia Amann, Shannon Hubbs, Milo Alan Puhan, Effy Vayena, Alessandro Blasimme

“…Future trends are expected to shift towards multi-source models, combining imaging with an array of other data, in a more open access, and explainable manner.…”
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Species scale, worldsheet CFTs and emergent geometry by Christian Aoufia, Ivano Basile, Giorgio Leone

“…Moreover, under some technical assumptions on the spectrum of conformal weights, the cutoff scales with the spectral gap of the internal conformal field theory in the same manner as in decompactification or emergent string limits, regardless of supersymmetry or whether the internal sector is geometric. …”
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Functional and structural segregation of overlapping helices in HIV-1 by Maliheh Safari, Bhargavi Jayaraman, Henni Zommer, Shumin Yang, Cynthia Smith, Jason D Fernandes, Alan D Frankel

“…We find that functional segregation occurs even in this overlap, with each protein spacing its functional residues in a manner that allows a mutable non-binding face of one helix to encode important functional residues on a charged face in the other helix. …”
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Collaborative Effort Towards a FAIR and OPEN Indo-Pacific Pollen Database (IPPD) by Annika V. Herbert, Simon G. Haberle, Henry Munack, Alexandru T. Codilean

“…These collections are all available in the same flattened table format, thereby providing regional researchers with multiple data types in an easily accessible manner. This will enable new avenues of cross-disciplinary research in the region. …”
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L’identité argentine ou la construction d’un mythe littéraire entre Europe et Amérique by Lionel Souquet

“…A study of the portrayal by 19th intellectuals of the gaucho – a figure known for his emblematic strength but also the victim of all manner of ideological manipulations – shows how Argentinian identity was constructed around a Civilization / Barbarity opposition, traces of which can still be found today. …”
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Migraine with Prolonged Aura: Correlation of Clinical and EEG Features by A. O. Ogunyemi

“…The aura symptoms evolved in a manner consistent with posterior-to-anterior dysfunction of the cerebral cortex. …”
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Induction of cell cycle arrest via the p21, p27–cyclin E,A/Cdk2 pathway in SMMC-7721 hepatoma cells by clioquinol by Huang Zhiwei, Wang Lianqiu, Chen Lifeng, Zhang Yifei, Shi Ping

“…Our results indicated that clioquinol did not significantly affect survival of QSG-7701 cells, whereas it reduced cell viability in a concentration- and time-dependent manner in SMMC-7721 cells. Clioquinol did not trigger autophagy and apoptosis, while it induced cell cycle arrest in the S-phase in SMMC- 7721 cells. …”
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