A high fat, high sugar diet exacerbates persistent post-surgical pain and modifies the brain-microbiota-gut axis in adolescent rats by Sabrina Salberg, Matthew Macowan, Angela Doshen, Glenn R. Yamakawa, Marissa Sgro, Benjamin Marsland, Luke A. Henderson, Richelle Mychasiuk

“…The von Frey task measured mechanical nociceptive sensitivity at a chronic timepoint (p65–67). …”
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hucMSC-Ex Alleviates IBD-Associated Intestinal Fibrosis by Inhibiting ERK Phosphorylation in Intestinal Fibroblasts by Yifei Wang, Yaqin Zhang, Bing Lu, Jianbo Xi, Dickson Kofi Wiredu Ocansey, Fei Mao, Donglin Hao, Yongmin Yan

“…In this study, we explored the role of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes (hucMSC-Ex) in IBD-related fibrosis and its associated mechanism to provide new ideas for the prevention and treatment of IBD-related intestinal fibrosis. …”
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Agriculture data sharing review by Jorge Chamorro-Padial, Jordi Virgili-Gomá, Rosa Gil, Mercè Teixidó, Roberto García

“…Our findings emphasize the necessity for targeted policy interventions and support mechanisms to bridge the gap and enable small and medium farmers to benefit from advancements in agricultural data spaces and digitization.…”
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Hybridizing Evolutionary Computation and Deep Neural Networks: An Approach to Handwriting Recognition Using Committees and Transfer Learning by Alejandro Baldominos, Yago Saez, Pedro Isasi

“…This process is enhanced by using specific mechanisms to preserve the diversity of the population. …”
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A Feature-Extraction-Based Lightweight Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks Adaptive Computing Model for Container Terminal Liner Handling Volume Forecasting by Bin Li, Yuqing He

“…Subsequently, a feature-extraction-based lightweight convolutional and recurrent neural network adaptive computing model (FEB-LCR-ACM) is presented initially to predict the LHV by the fusion of multiple deep learning algorithms and mechanisms, especially for the specific feature extraction package of tsfresh. …”
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Characteristics of strong mine pressure manifestation in composite hard roofs and determination of main controlling layers by LI Yanjun

“…The study revealed the mechanism behind strong mine pressure in composite hard roofs and identified the main controlling layers for hydraulic fracturing. …”
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Butyric Acid Modulates Gut Microbiota to Alleviate Inflammation and Secondary Bone Loss in Ankylosing Spondylitis by Ke You, Lianjun Yang, Zhihai Su, Jun Shen, Xinyang Fan, Yuanqing Guo, Zhen Yuan, Hai Lu

“…While the exact pathogenetic mechanism of AS remains unclear, previous reports have highlighted the involvement of genetic factors, immune responses, and gut microbiota dysregulation in the development of this condition. …”
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The Suitability of the CdC field Triage for Korean Trauma Care by Kang Kook Choi, Myung Jin Jang, Min A Lee, Gil Jae Lee, Byungchul Yoo, Youngeun Park, Jung Nam Lee

“…The AUC values of the separate components of each step (physiologic criteria, anatomic criteria, mechanism-of-injury criteria, and special considerations) were 0.722, 0.648, 0.647, and 0.456, respectively. …”
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Armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine as a threat to the collective security system by A. V. Voitsikhovkyi, O. S. Bakumov

“…At the same time, the role of the UN should not be minimized, as the documents adopted by it are important for improving the collective security system and the international mechanism for bringing the aggressor state to justice. …”
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Development of an advanced multimode refractive index plasmonic optical sensor utilizing split ring resonators for brain cancer cell detection by Ali Khodaie, Hamid Heidarzadeh, Farrokhfar Valizadeh Harzand

“…The novelty of this work lies in the dual-mode sensing mechanism, which enables robust detection by exploiting the resonance characteristics of gold, silver, and aluminum. …”
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Risk Factors for Decreased Pelvic Floor Muscle Strength: Which is More Effective? by Omer Demir, Cihan Comba

“…Conclusion: Although the mechanism of the effect of cigarette smoking on the pelvic floor is not known, it should be remembered that this effect has an adverse impact together with other factors which also have proven detrimental effects. …”
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Effects of Porosity of Dry and Saturated Sandstone on the Energy Dissipation of Stress Wave by Yexue Li, Jing Wang

“…Results show that the number of wave peaks in the T2 spectrum before and after the impact test of sandstone is unchanged, but the wave peak value corresponding to small pores increases. …”
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Asthma-associated prostate enlargement and bladder smooth muscle hypercontractility: unveiling a potential link to LUTS by Peibin Cen, Ming Chen, Xin Qiu, Wenbin Guo, Hongyu Lan, Xingyu Zhou, Ming Lei, Guohua Zeng, Qingfeng Yu

“…However, the potential link and mechanism remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the structural and molecular characteristics of the prostate, and the structural and functional characteristics of the bladder in an asthma rat model. …”
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Functional Verification of Differentially Expressed Genes Following DENV2 Infection in <i>Aedes aegypti</i> by Xiaoli Chen, Xinyu Zhou, Xiaoxue Xie, Bo Li, Teng Zhao, Haotian Yu, Dan Xing, Jiahong Wu, Chunxiao Li

“…In this study, to assess the role of genes related to DENV2 replication, and transient transfection and overexpression models in Aag2 cells and mosquito gene knockdown models were established, and five genes, defensin-A, defensin-A-like, SMCT1, UGT2B1, and ND4, were found to have an impact on the replication of DENV2, providing a reference basis for studying the complex mechanism of mosquito–virus interactions.…”
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Evaluation of parent reminder-recall letters to promote human papillomavirus vaccination by Joan M. Griffin, Xuan Zhu, Wei Yi Kong, Robert M. Jacobson, Kathy L. MacLaughlin, Jennifer L. St. Sauver, Jeph Herrin, Gregory D. Jenkins, Nicole L. Larson, Lila J. Finney Rutten

“…Subsequently, we conducted a process evaluation to assess the mechanisms of the letter's effectiveness. This study evaluated who remembered the letter, use of provided resources, and child vaccination status. …”
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Few-shot Remote Sensing Imagery Recognition with Compositionality Inductive Bias in Hierarchical Representation Space by Shichao Zhou, Zhuowei Wang, Zekai Zhang, Wenzheng Wang, Yingrui Zhao, Yunpu Zhang

“…We introduce a hierarchical context prediction mechanism for compositional representation learning, utilizing a predictive NCE loss function to encourage global remote sensing scenes to accurately predict similar local parts, and thus automatically inferring compositional representations of high-level but discriminative latent concepts. …”
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Seasonal Pattern of Endo-β-Mannanase Activity During Germination of <i>Jeffersonia dubia</i>, Exhibiting Morphophysiological Dormancy by Young Hyun Kwon, Seung Youn Lee, Yong Ha Rhie

“…The seasonal pattern of endo-β-mannanase activity observed in seeds with deep simple MPD was distinct from that of seeds with PD, MD, or non-deep MPD, highlighting the unique mechanisms underlying dormancy break and germination in <i>J. dubia</i>.…”
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The concept and current state of legal regulation on staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine by K. Yu. Sverdlin

“…It has been noted that a proper transformation of the penitentiary system of Ukraine is impossible without improving the mechanism of the staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine, the effectiveness of which, in turn, depends on the state of legal regulation of the social relations which are part of the above-mentioned staffing process. …”
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Use and impact of social prescribing: a mixed-methods feasibility study protocol by Uy Hoang, Harshana Liyanage, Simon de Lusignan, Victoria Tzortziou Brown, Filipa Ferreira, Ivelina Yonova, Lucy Moore, Anant Jani

“…The objective for the qualitative component of the study isto explore approaches to understand the contextual factors that will have influenced our quantitative findings to identify mechanisms to encourage adoption of social prescribing in primary care while improving data quality. …”
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The effect of plasma nitriding duration on the tribological performance of Ni-B-Gr self-lubricant composite coatings on AISI 4140 steel by Vahid Niksefat, Farzad Mahboubi

“…Plasma nitriding significantly mitigated adhesive, abrasive, and oxidative wear mechanisms, enhancing the coating's resistance to high-stress conditions in gear applications.…”
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