Invariant Natural Killer T Cells as Key Players in Host Resistance against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis by Joes Nogueira-Neto, Flavio V. Loures, Alessandra S. Schanoski, David A. G. Andrade, Michelangelo B. Gonzatti, Tania A. Costa, Bruno C. Vivanco, Patrícia Xander, Daniela S. Rosa, Vera L. G. Calich, Alexandre C. Keller

“…Besides, the activation of iNKT cells in vivo by administration of the exogenous iNKT ligand α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) improved host resistance to P. brasiliensis infection. Although the mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon remain to be clarified, α-GalCer treatment boosted the local inflammatory response and reduced pulmonary fungal burden. …”
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Comparative investigation of specific enzyme activities in the organs and tissues of the skin parasite Macrogyrodactylus congolensis (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) by Safaa Zaky Arafa, El-Sayed Kasem Abd El-Hady, Samir Ahmed El-Abbassy

“…The subtegumental cells showed positive reactions only for alkaline phosphatase and acid phosphatase, implying a specialized function in the parasite’s protective mechanisms and host-parasite interaction. Compared to other gyrodactylids infecting the same host, M. congolensis exhibited more pronounced enzymatic activities. …”
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Association of socio-demographic characteristics, comorbidities, lifestyle habits, and saliva parameters with dental caries in adults with obesity by Virginie Chuy, Marie Mayoute, Maud Monsaingeon-Henry, Blandine Gatta-Cherifi, Élise Arrivé

“…Acting on salivary composition may also be of interest, and further studies are required to explore the underlying mechanisms. …”
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Thermodynamic analysis and energy balance for environmental sustainability of simple gas turbine inlet cooling system in AFAM power plant by Aniekan Ikpe, Imoh Ekanem, Enefiok Usungurua

“…Three turbine air cooling technologies, including spray cooler and wetted media, fogging system technology, and mechanical chiller system, were utilized in order to ensure the sustainability of the system. …”
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Mineral composition and ratios in aortic valves, serum, and epicardial fat among patients with aortic stenosis undergoing aortic valve replacement by Barbara Poniedziałek, Bartłomiej Perek, Aleksandra Proch, Anna Komosa, Przemysław Niedzielski, Piotr Buczkowski, Marek Jemielity, Piotr Rzymski

“…Future longitudinal research should address mineralization across earlier disease stages, exploring additional trace elements and molecular contributors to advance understanding of calcification mechanisms, ultimately aiding in developing biomarkers or therapeutic strategies for postponing or preventing AS onset.…”
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Thinking on the Meteorological Services to Ensure the Development of a System for New Energy Sources by Yongchang ZHU, Xiaofeng ZHANG, Zhenghong CHEN, Dong YE, Juan TAN, Yong QIN, Zhaohui LIU, Zhiqi XU

“…[Conclusion] According to the requirements of a system for new energy sources construction, proposals are put forward from aspects such as optimizing the layout of meteorological services, improving service support capabilities, strengthening talent and cooperation mechanisms.…”
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Sentimentally enhanced conversation recommender system by Fengjin Liu, Qiong Cao, Xianying Huang, Huaiyu Liu

“…To refine the recommendation strategy, we design an emotional weighting mechanism to quantify and distinguish the importance of different entities in shaping user preferences. …”
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Biotin's protective effects against nicotine withdrawal-induced anxiety and depression: Mechanistic insights into serotonin, inflammation, BDNF, and oxidative stress in male rats by Dawood Hossaini, Mohammad Jalal Nazari, Khan Baba Ghazanfar, Mohammad Edris Amiri, Mohammad Tariq Anwary, Mohammad Jawad Jawad, Murtaza Haidary

“…Given the complex neurobiological mechanisms underlying withdrawal symptoms, biotin's ability to modulate critical signaling pathways such as serotonin metabolism, neuroinflammation, and oxidative stress could provide a multifaceted treatment approach.…”
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Survey on intellectual property protection for deep learning model by Xinya WANG, Guang HUA, Hao JIANG, Haijian ZHANG

“…With the rapid development of deep learning technology, deep learning models have been widely used in many fields such as image classification and speech recognition.Training a deep learning model relies on a large amount of data and computing power, thus selling the trained model or providing specific services (DLaaS, e.g.) has become a new business.However, the commercial interests of model trainers and the intellectual property rights of model developers may be violated if the model is maliciously stolen.With deep neural network watermarking becoming a new research topic, multimedia copyright protection techniques were used for deep learning model protection.Numerous methods have been proposed in this field and then a comprehensive survey is needed.the existing deep neural network watermarking methods were elaborated and summarized and the future research directions of this field were discussed.The overall framework of neural network watermarking was presented, whereby the basic concepts such as classification model and model backdoor were introduced.Secondly, the existing methods were divided into two types according to the mechanism of watermark embedding, one is to embed the watermark bits into the carrier of internal information of the network, and the other one uses the established backdoor mapping as the watermark.These two existing deep neural network watermarking methods were analyzed and summarized, and attacks to the watermarks were also introduced and discussed.By analyzing the white-box and black-box conditions in watermarking scenario, it comes to the conclusion that the model is difficult to be effectively protected when it is distributed in the white-box manner, and the neural network watermark defenses in the black-box distribution and black-box verification are both worthy for further research.…”
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Analysis on Influence Factors of Roadway Instability in High-Stress, Steeply Inclined Extra-Thick Coal Seam by Hai Rong, Liting Pan, Xiaoyan Li, Ming Wang, Zeliang Qu, Mengsheng Lu, Kaipeng Guo

“…Based on bolt support theory and instability mechanism of the coal rock dynamic system, this paper puts forward the evaluation of support effect and the optimization parameters of bolt support, and the scheme of mine pressure monitoring and the corresponding support optimization system are established. …”
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Adsorption Characteristics of Chitosan-Modified Bamboo Biochar in Cd(II) Contaminated Water by Anxiang Huang, Wenlian Bai, Shoulu Yang, Zhongwei Wang, Nengying Wu, Yanxiong Zhang, Ning Ji, Dan Li

“…In addition, the adsorption isotherm results revealed that the possible adsorption mechanisms might include surface adsorption, electrostatic adsorption, and ion exchanges. …”
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Investigation of the Pulmonary Artery Hypertension Using an Ad Hoc OpenFOAM CFD Solver by Francesco Duronio, Paola Marchetti

“…The analysis of the data confirmed the importance of CFD as a supportive tool in understanding, diagnosing, and monitoring the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying cardiovascular diseases, proving to be a powerful means for personalizing surgical treatments.…”
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Interleukin‐37 promotes DMBA/TPA skin cancer through SIGIRR‐mediated inhibition of glycolysis in CD103+DC cells by Fan‐lian Zeng, Xiao‐yan Wang, Ya‐wen Hu, Zhen Wang, Ya Li, Jing Hu, Jia‐dong Yu, Pei Zhou, Xiu Teng, Hong Zhou, Hua‐ping Zheng, Fu‐lei Zhao, Lin‐na Gu, Cheng‐cheng Yue, Shu‐wen Chen, Juan Cheng, Yan Hao, Qi‐xiang Zhao, Chen Zhang, Song Zou, Zhong‐lan Hu, Xiao‐qiong Wei, Xiao Liu, Guo‐lin Li, Nong‐yu Huang, Wen‐ling Wu, Yi‐fan Zhou, Wei Li, Kaijun Cui, Jiong Li

“…However, the specific molecular mechanism and role of IL‐37 in skin cancer remain unclear. …”
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Characterization of Chromatin Structure-associated Histone Modifications in Breast Cancer Cells by Chang Pyo Hong, Moon Kyung Choe, Tae-Young Roh

“…Our results might provide an insight into epigenetic regulatory mechanisms explaining the association of histone modifications with open chromatin structure in breast cancer cells.…”
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Effectiveness and safety of eptinezumab in anti-CGRP(R) mAbs-naïve and mAbs-non responders’ patients: A retrospective observational study by Alessia Bellotti, Caterina Podella, Paola Sarchielli

“…Background and Aim Eptinezumab is a quarterly intravenous infusion monoclonal antibody (mAb) with high affinity for calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) and a long-lasting mechanism of action. In our retrospective observational study, we sought to investigate the effectiveness and safety of eptinezumab both in mAbs-naïve and mAbs-non responders’ patients. …”
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Ecologization of tourist activities as a factor of sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine by Hanna Haponenko, Denys Listratenko, Olena Yevtushenko, Irina Shamara

“…Tasks that were set to achieve the goal: to investigate the management mechanism of sustainable development of regional tourism; to analyze the impact of military actions on the ecological state of the regions of Ukraine; to propose a program model for the sustainable development of tourism in Ukraine. …”
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Unveiling cellular changes in leukaemia cell lines after cannabidiol treatment through lipidomics by David Chamoso-Sanchez, Martina Panini, Clarissa Caroli, Matilde Marani, Lorenzo Corsi, Francisco J Rupérez, Antonia Garcia, Federica Pellati

“…The results highlight some important lipid alterations related to CBD treatment, plausibly connected with different metabolic mechanisms involved in the process of cell death by apoptosis in cancer cell lines.…”
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Podocyte-related biomarkers' role in evaluating renal toxic effects of silver nanoparticles with the possible ameliorative role of resveratrol in adult male albino rats by Eman El-Sayed Khayal, Mona G. Elhadidy, Sulaiman Mohammed Alnasser, Manal Mohammad Morsy, Azza I. Farag, Samah A. El-Nagdy

“…The present study aimed to estimate the renal toxic effects of Ag NPs in adult male albino rats and the underlying relevant mechanisms while studying the possible role of resveratrol in ameliorating these effects. …”
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STGAN: Swin Transformer-Based GAN to Achieve Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction by Wei Huo, Xiaodan Zhang, Shaojie You, Yongkun Zhang, Qiyuan Zhang, Naihao Hu

“…In this paper, a super-segmental reconstruction model STGAN for remote sensing images is proposed, which fuses the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and self-attention mechanism based on the Reference Super Resolution method (RefSR). …”
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Global Marine Ecosystem Response to a Strong AMOC Weakening Under Low and High Future Emission Scenarios by A. A. Boot, J. Steenbeek, M. Coll, A. S. von derHeydt, H. A. Dijkstra

“…In CESM2, the AMOC weakening has a large impact on phytoplankton biomass and temperature fields through various mechanisms that change the supply of nutrients to the surface ocean. …”
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