Inflammatory Chemokine Expression via Toll-Like Receptor 3 Signaling in Normal Human Mesangial Cells by Hiroshi Tanaka, Tadaatsu Imaizumi

“…Based on our recent experimental studies using cultured normal human mesangial cells (MCs), we found that novel TLR3-mediated signaling pathways in MCs may be involved in the pathogenesis of glomerular diseases. …”
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Ultrasound Assessment of Synovial Thickness of Some of the Metacarpophalangeal Joints of Hand in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients and the Normal Population by Zuhudha Hussain Manik, John George, Sargunan Sockalingam

“…To compare ultrasound synovial thickness of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th metacarpophalangeal joints (MCPJ) in a group of patients with proven rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a control group of normal individuals. Materials and Methods. This is a cross-sectional study comprising 30 rheumatoid arthritis patients and 30 healthy individuals. …”
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Modeling vegetation density with remote sensing, normalized difference vegetation index and biodiversity plants in watershed area by R.Z. Ekaputri, T. Hidayat, H.K. Surtikanti, W. Surakusumah

“…The assessment of the normalized difference vegetation index demonstrates that the watershed is comprised of multiple sections abundant in high-density vegetation, primarily dedicated to plantations. …”
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Can humanitarian interventions help create global peace? Common practices, normative change and the end of nationalism by Michael Haiden

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Technology independent optimization when implementing sparse systems of disjunctive normal forms of Boolean functions in ASIC by P. N. Bibilo, S. N. Kardash

“…The problem of choosing the best methods and programs for circuit implementation as part of digital ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) sparse systems of disjunctive normal forms (DNF) of completely defined Boolean functions is considered. …”
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Quasi-Normal Modes: The “Electrons” of Black Holes as “Gravitational Atoms”? Implications for the Black Hole Information Puzzle by Christian Corda

“…Some recent important results on black hole (BH) quantum physics concerning the BH effective state and the natural correspondence between Hawking radiation and BH quasi-normal modes (QNMs) are reviewed, clarified, and refined. …”
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Comparison of intensity normalization methods in prostate, brain, and breast cancer multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging by Savannah R. Duenweg, Samuel A. Bobholz, Allison K. Lowman, Aleksandra Winiarz, Biprojit Nath, Michael J. Barrett, Fitzgerald Kyereme, Stephanie Vincent-Sheldon, Peter LaViolette

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Adsorption Behaviour of Normal Paraffins in a Fixed Bed Adsorber Containing 5 Å Molecular Sieves by Liu Jichang, Shen Benxian, Sun Hui

“…Long-chain normal paraffins had a notable displacement desorption relative to short-chain normal paraffins.…”
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The Impact of Pixel Resolution, Integration Scale, Preprocessing, and Feature Normalization on Texture Analysis for Mass Classification in Mammograms by Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Jaime Melendez, Antonio Moreno, Domenec Puig

“…In this paper, we study the effect of factors such as pixel resolution, integration scale, preprocessing, and feature normalization on the performance of those texture methods for mass classification. …”
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Hawking Radiation-Quasi-Normal Modes Correspondence and Effective States for Nonextremal Reissner-Nordström Black Holes by C. Corda, S. H. Hendi, R. Katebi, N. O. Schmidt

“…It is known that the nonstrictly thermal character of the Hawking radiation spectrum harmonizes Hawking radiation with black hole (BH) quasi-normal modes (QNM). This paramount issue has been recently analyzed in the framework of both Schwarzschild BHs (SBH) and Kerr BHs (KBH). …”
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Generalizability of machine learning models for diabetes detection a study with nordic islet transplant and PIMA datasets by Dinesh Chellappan, Harikumar Rajaguru

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Pharmacological Inhibition of Glutaminase 1 Normalized the Metabolic State and CD4+ T Cell Response in Sjogren’s Syndrome by Jiayao Fu, Yiping Pu, Baoli Wang, Hui Li, Xiujuan Yang, Lisong Xie, Huan Shi, Zhijun Wang, Junhao Yin, Tianle Zhan, Yanxiong Shao, Changyu Chen, Qi Luo, Jiabao Xu, Zirui Zong, Xindi Wei, Wanwen Xiao, Chuangqi Yu, Lingyan Zheng

“…Pharmacological inhibition of Gls1 with BPTES could normalize the effector functions of CD4+ T cells and effectively attenuate the symptoms of SS.…”
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Perbedaan Rerata Kadar Profil Lipid pada Preeklampsia dengan Kehamilan Normal pada Etnik Minangkabau by Helen Evelina Siringoringo, Yusrawati ., Eva Chundrayetti Chundrayetti

“…Hasil penelitian diperoleh rerata kadar total kolesterol pada kelompok preeklampsia dan kehamilan normal adalah 270,19<span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span>68,955 mg/dL dan 247,56<span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span>44,415 mg/dL dengan nilai p=0,158, rerata kadar trigliserida pada kelompok preeklampsia dan kehamilan normal adalah 296,07±157,993 mg/dL dan 272,89±84,608 mg/dL dengan nilai p=0,504, rerata kadar HDL pada kelompok preeklampsia dan kehamilan normal adalah 51,93±19,882 mg/dL dan 63,33±11,222 mg/dL dengan nilai p=0,012, rerata kadar LDL pada kelompok preeklampsia dan kehamilan normal adalah 159±52,038 mg/dL dan 129,67±38,692 mg/dL dengan nilai p=0,023, rasio perbandingan LDL/HDL pada kelompok preeklampsia dan kehamilan normal adalah 3,86 dan 2,04. …”
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Dielectric spectroscopy and TD-NMR investigation for assessing water solid dynamics in normal and wooden breast chicken by Francesca Soglia, Eleonora Iaccheri, Luca Laghi, Luigi Ragni, Pedro José Fito Suñer, Massimiliano Petracci

“…Dielectric Spectroscopy (DS) and TimeDomain-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (TD-NMR) were exploited to investigate water and solid dynamics in chicken's Pectoralis major muscles having macroscopically normal appearance (N) and affected by Wooden Breasts (WB) abnormality. 147 PMM were collected and classified as macroscopically normal (N) (N=74) or Wooden Breast (WB) (N=73) based on their visual appearance and manual palpation. …”
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Potential transmission test of GP25 vaccine in normal flora bacteria of common carp culture media by Sri Nuryati, , Alimuddin, Ayu Dhita Juliadiningtyas

“…This research was conducted to test potential transmission of DNA vaccine encoding glycoprotein 25 (vaccine GP25) toward normal flora bacteria of media cultivation of common carp. …”
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Differences in gene expression profile between vocal cord Leukoplakia and normal larynx mucosa by gene chip by Jianhua Peng, He Li, Jun Chen, Xianming Wu, Tao Jiang, Xiaoyun Chen

“…Conclusions Our results revealed that many lncRNAs were differentially expressed between vocal cord leukoplakia tissues and normal tissue, suggesting that they may play a key role in vocal cord leukoplakia tumorigenesis.…”
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Non-Thrombotic Filling Defects in Cerebral Veins and Sinuses: When Normal Structures Mimic a Disease by Marialuisa Zedde, Rosario Pascarella

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Powdery mildew resistance of Nordic spring bread wheat accessions from the collection of the Vavilov Institute (VIR) by T. V. Lebedeva, A. N. Brykova, E. V. Zuev

“…One hundred and five accessions of old landraces and modern cultivars of Nordic origin were studied under field and laboratory conditions for their response to a natural population of the fungus. …”
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Involvement of PPARs in Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis in Human Colon Cancer Specimens and in Normal and Cancer Cell Lines by G. Martinasso, M. Oraldi, A. Trombetta, M. Maggiora, O. Bertetto, R. A. Canuto, G. Muzio

“…“In vitro” PPARγ and PPARα were evaluated in human tumor and normal cell lines, treated with natural or synthetic ligands. …”
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Spermatozoal Fractalkine Signaling Pathway Is Upregulated in Subclinical Varicocele Patients with Normal Seminogram and Low-Level Leucospermia by Salwa M. Abo El-khair, Mohammad A. Gaballah, Mamdouh M. Abdel-Gawad, Sherif Refaat M. Ismail, Ayman Z. Elsamanoudy

“…To investigate the possible effect of low-level leucospermia on spermatozoa oxidative stress and sDNA fragmentation in patients with subclinical varicocele and apparently normal seminogram, and also to study the role of spermatozoal fractalkine and its receptor (CX3CR1) gene expression as a marker of spermatozoa inflammatory response. …”
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