Immunomodulatory effects of thymol and cinnamaldehyde in chicken cell lines by C. Shen, L.G. Christensen, S.Y. Bak, N. Christensen, K. Kragh

“…The viability, transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) and phagocytic capacity of co-cultured LMH cells, with or without stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), was subsequently evaluated. …”
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Personalized auricular vagus nerve stimulation: beat-to-beat deceleration dominates in systole-gated stimulation during inspiration - a pilot study by Johannes Tischer, Jozsef Constantin Szeles, Eugenijus Kaniusas

“…When considering individual respiration phases, the inspiratory systole-gated aVNS seems to show the largest slope values and thus the largest cardiovagal modulatory capacity of the personalized time-gated aVNS. This pilot study indicates aVNS capacity to modulate the heartbeat and thus the parasympathetic activity which is attenuated in chronic diseases. …”
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2′-O-Methylperlatolic Acid Enhances Insulin-Regulated Blood Glucose-Lowering Effect through Insulin Receptor Signaling Pathway by Wang Yinghao, Guan Qiaoli, Liu Guanfu, Wu Xiaoyun, Wang Xuanjun, Sheng Jun

“…The protein levels of IR-β, p-IR, AKT, and p-AKT in Hepa and C2C12 cell lines and liver and muscle tissues were determined by western blotting. Glucose uptake capacity was determined in C2C12 cells. Streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice were randomly divided into four groups: the control, insulin treated, 2-O-M treated, and combined insulin and 2-O-M treated. …”
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Antifungal, Insecticidal, and Repellent Activities of Rosmarinus officinalis Essential Oil and Molecular Docking of Its Constituents against Acetylcholinesterase and β-Tubulin by Ghizlane Houzi, Youness El abdali, Ghada Beniaich, Mohamed Chebaibi, Mohamed Taibi, Amine Elbouzidi, Samiha Kaioua, Abdeslam Asehraou, Mohamed Addi, Khalid Chaabane, Rachid Flouchi, Aimad Allali, Soad Khal-Layoun

“…In terms of insecticidal capacity, the EO induced complete mortality of C. maculatus adults at a concentration of 1 μL/L air, with an inhalation test LC50 value of 0.62 μL/L air. …”
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A Program for Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation (PGDME) by Kabale University

“…The overall goal of the Master of Monitoring and Evaluation Program is to strengthen the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of interventions by governments, civil society and non-government organizations as well as development partners in Sub-Saharan Africa through the development and enhancement of capacity for evaluation The program broadly aims to impart knowledge, skills and competences to students interested in building a career in monitoring and evaluation. …”
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Roles of Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation in the Development of Ectopic Fat Deposition by Lulu Liu, Mei Mei, Shumin Yang, Qifu Li

“…As a depot of energy, the storage of triglycerides in adipose tissue contributes to the normal fat distribution. Decreased capacity of fat storage in adipose tissue may result in ectopic fat deposition in nonadipose tissues such as liver, pancreas, and kidney. …”
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Recognition of Emotions in Mexican Spanish Speech: An Approach Based on Acoustic Modelling of Emotion-Specific Vowels by Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales

“…For this, a standard phoneme-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system was built with Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), where different phoneme HMMs were built for the consonants and emotion-specific vowels associated with four emotional states (anger, happiness, neutral, sadness). Then, estimation of the emotional state from a spoken sentence is performed by counting the number of emotion-specific vowels found in the ASR’s output for the sentence. …”
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Thiol-Functionalized Mesoporous Carbons as Adsorbents of Heavy-Metal Ions by Katarzyna Michalak-Zwierz, Karolina Gdula, Katarzyna Tyszczuk-Rotko, Witold Zawadzki, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Mariusz Barczak

“…The observed static adsorption capacities are very high up to 0.76 mmol/g. Adsorption kinetics is also very fast: approximately 90% of the equilibrium amount is adsorbed after several minutes.…”
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Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester as a Protective Agent against Nephrotoxicity and/or Oxidative Kidney Damage: A Detailed Systematic Review by Sumeyya Akyol, Veli Ugurcu, Aynur Altuntas, Rukiye Hasgul, Ozlem Cakmak, Omer Akyol

“…One of the most studied organs for the effects of CAPE is the kidney, particularly in the capacity of this ester to decrease the nephrotoxicity induced by several drugs and the oxidative injury after ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). …”
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Application of Distributed Parallel Computing in Super-Resolution Image Enbancement by Jie Zheng, Sheng Bao, Ying Yang

“…The distributed parallel computing in the super-resolution image enhancement applications was introduced.Super resolution image enhancement refers to improving the image resolution of 1080P video to 4K by software without upgrading existing acquisition device and increasing the transmission bandwidth.Due to the fact that super resolution image enhancement technology needs enormous computing power,super resolution image enhancement system and performance comparison testing by distributed parallel computing was studied.The conclusion shows that the super-image enhancement processing ability can be enhanced hundreds of times with distributed parallel computing technology,so that the production capacity of 4K video can be improved in rea1-world application.…”
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Development and Validation of a Semi-Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire to Assess Dietary Intake of Turkish School-Aged Children by Güneş Fatma Esra, Elmacıoğiu Funda, Aktaç Şule, Sağlam Duygu

“…The Pearson correlation coefficient, weighted kappa, the Bland-Altman scatter plots between averages of the reported (FFQ) and the references method (DR) were used as validity coefficient.…”
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Relay-Assisted Aerial Communication over a Single-Shadowed Communication Channel by Haider Mehdi, Zakir Hussain, Syed Areeb Ahmed, Syed Muhammad Atif Saleem

“…The utilization of characteristic function leads to the derivation of outage, success probabilities, and capacity with outage expressions. These expressions represent the impact of path-loss, aerial vehicle-relay, relay-receiver distances, and channel characteristics of desired and interference signals. …”
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Gérard Marty, Sociologie des institutions marchandes : le cas de la mise en vente des bois publics en Lorraine by Gérard Marty

“…We have shown that the point in using auctions has to do with its capacity to collectively find a consensus about the value and the distribution of timber lots. …”
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Comparison of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms for Operations Scheduling under Machine Availability Constraints by M. Frutos, M. Méndez, F. Tohmé, D. Broz

“…One of those problems is that of scheduling operations subject to constraints on the availability of machines and buffer capacity. In this paper we analyze different Evolutionary multiobjective Algorithms (MOEAs) for this kind of problems. …”
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Experimental Study on Bending Stress of Spur Gear with Tooth Profile Modification and Finite Element Verification by Chen Xueshi, Tang Jinyuan, Chen Siyu, Fu Zhihong

“…The study of static and dynamic meshing characteristics of gears has high theoretical value for improving gear carrying capacity and dynamics performance. The influence of tooth profile modification on bending stress is studied by experiment and finite element. …”
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Evaluation of the State of Institutional Electronic Information and Records Management Practices in Turkey: Analyzing the 57 Case Institutions by Özgür Külcü

“…The evaluation of the institutional condition seems so im­portant to create effective and continuous systems and analysis of the existing ca­pacity in administrative bodies and records management applications is regarded as crucial. …”
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Book review: Promoting healthy childhood development today. James R. Harris, Jr., Ph.D. Holyoke, MA., Neari Press, 2007. 92pp, ISBN: 1-929657-30-7 by George Hollowell

“…., serves as a useful introduction to those working with children and young people in many different capacities, including parents, foster carers and residential child care practitioners, among others. …”

Creative tourism: opportunities for smaller places? by Greg Richards

“…We argue that smaller places should not attempt to emulate big city models of creative development, such as attracting the creative class, but should find their own creative mode based on using their endogenous resources, capacity building and bottom-up creativity. In this way they can avoid the ‘creativity trap’ of following generic creativity models and develop modes of creative tourism more appropriate to their size and capabilities.…”
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THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF SCHOOL EDUCATION QUALITY by N. Y. Yerganova, L. V. Kolyasnikova, Y. V. Igonina

“…The paper describes the advantages and theoretical potential of the Rasch method, and emphasizes its capacity for solving the key problem of quality modeling – i.e. suitability and utility of the indicator variables for the given research.…”
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Research on Grid Scheduling of Super-Peer Model Based on QoS by Shanliang Pan, Xi Huang, Qinjiao Mao

“…Firstly，a kind of grid resource management model——super-peer model was proposed.For this model，economic mechanism was introduced，allowing a grid user to put forward the task’s expected execution deadline，cost limit and the weight parameters between them.Those are the QoS parameters of application-level.Then，a corresponding resource scheduling algorithm was shown.Next，hierarchical colored Petri net and price timed Petri net were used to model and the dynamic process of grid resource scheduling was simulated.Lastly，reachable task graph（RTG）of Petri net model was constructed and the system’s scheduling performance was analyzed，such as throughout capacity，load-balancing，scheduling time and cost through an example.…”
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