Identification of Potential Diagnostic Biomarkers of Carotid Atherosclerosis in Obese Populations by Wu X, Pan J, Pan X, Kang J, Ren J, Huang Y, Gong L, Li Y

“…Xize Wu,1,* Jiaxiang Pan,2,* Xue Pan,1,3,* Jian Kang,1 Jiaqi Ren,1 Yuxi Huang,1 Lihong Gong,2,4 Yue Li2,4 1Graduate School, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110847, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110032, People’s Republic of China; 3College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dazhou Vocational College of Chinese Medicine, Dazhou, Sichuan, 635000, People’s Republic of China; 4Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of TCM Geriatric Cardio-Cerebrovascular Diseases, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110032, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Lihong Gong; Yue Li, Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 33, Beiling Street, Huanggu District, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110032, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 024-82961105, Email Linda1795@sina.com; med_liyue@163.comObjective: This study aimed to investigate the potential mechanisms and biomarkers between Obesity (OB) and carotid atherosclerosis (CAS).Methods: The GSE12828, GSE125771, GSE43292, and GSE100927 datasets were combined and normalized to obtain CAS-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs), and OB-related DEGs were obtained from the GSE151839 dataset and the GeneCards database. …”
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Protective effects and possible mechanisms of mesenchymal stem cells and mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles against kidney fibrosis in animal models: a systematic... by Yuanchen Lv, Zibo Hua, Xiaomei Lu

“…Alpha-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) is a specific protein that is normally expressed in myofibroblasts. The term “CD68+ macrophages” refers to macrophages that express the CD68 protein on their cell surface. …”
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European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.): Quasi-Virgin Forest Stand of the Gorgany Mts.: Structure, Vascular Plants Diversity, Health Conditions by Yuriy Shparyk, Ivan Danylyk, Oleksandr Kuzyarin, Ivan Senchak, Nazar Kruk

“…It has been established that the 190-year-old beech quasi-virgin forests of Gorgan are 3-storeyed spruce-fir-beech (Norway spruce – Silver fir – European beech) primary uneven-aged stands with the following parameters: high productivity; normal number of trees; a large stock of growing timber; a low stock of dead-standing trees; a significant stock of dead down trees; a large proportion of trees with damaged crowns; close to the average values of IUFRO classes; successful natural regeneration. …”
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Orchard-Wide Visual Perception and Autonomous Operation of Fruit Picking Robots: A Review by CHEN Mingyou, LUO Lufeng, LIU Wei, WEI Huiling, WANG Jinhai, LU Qinghua, LUO Shaoming

“…For example, low-level feature fusion utilizes basic attributes such as color, shapes and texture to distinguish fruits from backgrounds, while high-level feature learning employs more complex models like convolutional neural networks to interpret the contextual relationships within the data. …”
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An optimized approach for predicting water quality features and a performance evaluation for mapping surface water potential zones based on Discriminant Analysis (DA), Geographical... by Abhijeet Das

“…Again, this research used a strong methodology by incorporating Machine learning (ML) algorithms, such as: Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Linear Regression Model (LRM), were applied to forecast and confirm the quality of the water. …”
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Editorial by Teddy Surya Gunawan

“…Healthcare and safety remain pivotal in this issue, with studies delving into early autism screening using federated learning and diabetic retinopathy detection leveraging deep convolutional neural networks. These works underscore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in improving diagnostic accuracy and protecting sensitive medical data. …”
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Factors influencing pregnancy rate following estradiol-free fixed TAI protocols in water buffaloes by Adriana Camacho de Gutiérrez, Obdulio Camacho, Steward Fernández, Yerixo González, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Añez

“…Furthermore, animals treated with PGF2α and antibiotics to correct abnormal uterine status showed a higher PR 86% vs 50% than animals with apparently normal uterine status. Tech-nical-inherent factors such as IVD type, expulsion of IVDs before the end of treatment, and straw size did not affect the PR (p>0.05). …”
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Effects of Functional Electrical Stimulation Based on Walking Pattern with Different Treatment Time on Lower Limb Function in Stroke Patients：A Randomized Controlled Study by XUE Jingjing, KONG Huimin, LIAO Meixin, XUE Yunlian, XIAO Lingjun

“…ObjectiveFocusing on the intelligent and multi-channel functional electrical stimulation (FES) based on normal walking patterns, we explored the correlation between therapeutic effect and stimulating time for improving lower extremity motor function of stroke patients, to provide evidence for further clinical applications of FES based on walking patterns.MethodsThe Minimize software was used to divided 18 stroke patients randomly into a group treated with 60 min FES in walking pattern (9 patients, 60 min-stimulation group), and the rest were treated with 30 min FES in walking pattern (9 patients, 30 min-stimulation group). …”
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Intelligent prediction method of virtual network function resource capacity for polymorphic network service slicing by Julong LAN, Di ZHU, Dan LI

“…For the extraction of temporal features, the temporal dependencies of the input data are perceived through the information transfer between the units via gated recurrent units.Then,based on the mapping relationship between the data flow sequence and the number of VNF instances, the feedforward neural network performs data dimension transformation and finally outputs the VNF resource demand prediction results. …”
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Exploraciones personales sobre las condiciones precedentes de la violencia sexual en el marco del conflicto armado enColombia by Paula Natalia Rincón Chitiva, Juan Felipe Monroy Simbaqueba

“…Additionally, sexual violence is supported by masculinities and femininities that have normalized power relationships in which men dominate and demonstrate their violent actions, and women are taken as available bodies with limited abilities, whose ways of being respond to impositions of a patriarchal culture. …”
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A qualitative study on health education knowledge demands of patients after gastric cancer surgery before discharge (胃癌术后患者出院前健康教育知识需求的质性研究)... by LAI Shurong (赖淑蓉), LAI Xiaoning (赖小令), YU Xiaoqing (喻小青), HUANG Xiaoyi (黄小恬)

“…In terms of self-actualization, they were concerned about their ability to return to work or normal life. Conclusion The physiological and safety needs of patients after gastric cancer surgery were prominent, and more than half of the patients had psychological needs (such as the needs for respect and self-actualization). …”
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Traitement d’un lymphome agressif chez un babouin naturellement infecté par STLV-1 by Jocelyn Turpin, Sandrine Alais, Ambroise Marçais, Julie Bruneau, Anat Melamed, Nicolas Gadot, Olivier Hermine, Charles Bangham, Romain Lacoste, Renaud Mahieux

“…En conclusion, les primates non-humains infectés naturellement par STLV-1 représentent un modèle unique permettant d’étudier la pathogenèse rétrovirale et l’évaluation de nouveaux traitements.Nous remercions l’INSERM, l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, la Ligue Contre le Cancer (programme « équipe labellisée »), l’Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer et la région Rhône Alpes programme ARC1.…”
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Network and systems biology approaches help investigate gene regulatory interactions between Salmonella disease and host in chickens: Model‐based in silico evidence combined with g... by Reza Tohidi, Hoda Javaheri Bargourooshi, Arash Javanmard

“…The 2−∆∆Ct Livak and Schmittgen method was used to compare the expression of genes in treated and untreated samples. This method normalizes the expression of the target gene to that of actin, an internal control and estimates the change in expression relative to the untreated control. …”
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Report on the Academic Symposium: Youth Quotas − The Answer to Changes in Age Demographics? by Igor Dimitrijoski

“…Some speakers challenged the analogy of youth quotas to quotas for women or ethnic minorities, because women and ethnic minorities can’t change their status whereas today’s young people, in the normal course of life, will be old in the future. …”
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Multidimensional Stability of Planar Traveling Waves for Competitive–Cooperative Lotka–Volterra System of Three Species by Na Shi, Xin Wu, Zhaohai Ma

“…For planar traveling waves with speed <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>c</mi><mo>></mo><msup><mi>c</mi><mo>*</mo></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, we establish their exponential stability in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>L</mi><mo>∞</mo></msup><mrow><mo>(</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="double-struck">R</mi><mi>n</mi></msup><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, which is expressed as <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>t</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mstyle><mfrac><mi>n</mi><mn>2</mn></mfrac></mstyle></mrow></msup><msup><mi mathvariant="normal">e</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><msub><mi>ε</mi><mi>τ</mi></msub><mi>σ</mi><mi>t</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>σ</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> is a constant and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>ε</mi><mi>τ</mi></msub><mo>∈</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> depends on the time delay <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>τ</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> as a decreasing function <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>ε</mi><mi>τ</mi></msub><mo>=</mo><mi>ε</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>τ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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Agricultural Drought Assessment using Remote Sensing Data (Case study: Tuyserkan County) by Maedeh Malmir, Kamran Shayesteh, Iman Pazhouhan

“…In this study, the goal is to evaluate the spatial and temporal patterns of agricultural drought in Tuyserkan County using vegetation coverage indicators derived from satellite data, including the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI), the Plant Health Index (VHI), and the Thermal Condition Index (TCI), over a 20-year period and at seasonal and annual scales. …”
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An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25&thinsp;km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery by H.-S. Jung, S.-M. Lee, S.-M. Lee, J.-H. Kim, K. Lee

“…Each Landsat-8 scene was sorted into four categories depending on the state of the cloud mask. The normalized difference snow index and OLI band-5 reflectivity were used to differentiate between ice and open water within each selected Landsat-8 pixel. …”
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Nano-Zinc Oxide Can Enhance the Tolerance of Apple Rootstock M9-T337 Seedlings to Saline Alkali Stress by Initiating a Variety of Physiological and Biochemical Pathways by Jietao Zhai, Xulin Xian, Zhongxing Zhang, Yanxiu Wang

“…Six treatments were set up: CK (normal growth), SA (saline alkali stress,100 mmol/L NaCl + NaHCO₃), T1 (saline alkali stress + 50 mg/L ZnO NPs), T2 (saline alkali stress + 100 mg/L ZnO NPs), T3 (saline alkali stress + 150 mg/L ZnO NPs) and T4 (saline alkali stress + 200 mg/L ZnO NPs). …”
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Intelligent task-oriented semantic communications:theory, technology and challenges by Chuanhong LIU, Caili GUO, Yang YANG, Jiujiu CHEN, Meiyi ZHU, Lu’nan SUN

“…Furthermore, from the perspective of neural network interpretability,an interpretability-based semantic encoding method is proposed.Finally, a semantic communication platform for intelligent tasks is built based on software and hardware such as USRP and LabView,and the performance of the proposed algorithm is verified. …”
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Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase Is a Novel Predictor for the Severity in the Patients With MAFLD: A Cross-Sectional Study in Hefei, China by Yu L, Bao S, Zhu F, Xu Y, Zu F, Liu Y, Jiang R, Chen S, Chen W

“…The MASH subjects had significantly higher LDH levels than the other three less severe non-MASH cohorts, including normal liver, simple fatty steatosis, and B.MASH. …”
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