Application of the Base Transceiver Station with Smart Antennas in the Power Distribution Sector by B. A. Kleinau, D. L. de Melo, M. T. de Melo, D. C. P. Barbosa, A. J. B. Oliveira, C. P. N. Silva, J. M. A. M. de Oliveira

“…Such system receives as inputs the geographic coordinates of network elements and automatically feeds an intelligent Yagi–Uda antenna array with the appropriate parameters, in order to optimize the radiation pattern into the desired directions. The presented model uses a stochastic optimization method to automatically achieve a set of optimal electrical parameters to excite the array and efficiently direct its beams in a fully controlled way. …”
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Case report: A case of type 1 diabetes with diabetic ketoacidosis induced by envafolimab treatment in hepatocellular carcinoma by Youjia Li, Kai Qu, Xiuli Li, Xin Yang, Kanghuai Zhang, Jiao Xie

“…The patient experienced a rapid onset of hyperglycemia and DKA after several cycles of Envafolimab, consistent with the pattern of diabetes induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). …”
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The different response of PM2.5 stimulated nasal epithelial spheroids in control, asthma and COPD groups by Paulina Misiukiewicz-Stępień, Elwira Zajusz-Zubek, Katarzyna Górska, Rafał Krenke, Magdalena Paplińska-Goryca

“…Methods The spheroids from 5 healthy controls, 8 asthma patients, and 8 COPD patients were exposed to 100 µg/ml of PM2.5 for 24 h. Results The common pattern for healthy asthma and COPD epithelium inflammatory response to PM2.5 stimulation include the increase in IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8 mRNA expression, and secretion of IL-6. …”
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Risk of autism spectrum disorder at 18 months of age is associated with prenatal level of polychlorinated biphenyls exposure in a Japanese birth cohort by Hirokazu Doi, Akira Furui, Rena Ueda, Koji Shimatani, Midori Yamamoto, Akifumi Eguchi, Naoya Sagara, Kenichi Sakurai, Chisato Mori, Toshio Tsuji

“…Furthermore, machine learning-based analysis showed the possibility that, when the information of the pattern of infants’ spontaneous bodily motion, a potential marker of ASD risk, was used as the predictors together, prenatal PCB exposure levels predict ASD risk at 18 months of age. …”
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Th1/17-Biased Inflammatory Environment Associated with COPD Alters the Response of Airway Epithelial Cells to Viral and Bacterial Stimuli by Yifan Chen, Rakesh K. Kumar, Paul S. Thomas, Cristan Herbert

“…Furthermore, increased expression of pattern recognition receptors for viruses (TLR3, TLR7, IFIH1, and DDX58) was induced by Th1/17 cytokines, in both primary AECs and Calu-3 cells. …”
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First identification of a Neanderthal bone spear point through an interdisciplinary analysis at Abric Romaní (NE Iberian Peninsula) by Paula Mateo-Lomba, Andreu Ollé, Juan Luis Fernández-Marchena, Palmira Saladié, Juan Marín, M. Gema Chacón, Josep Vallverdú, Isabel Cáceres

“…Furthermore, the observed wear pattern and a morphological adjustment of the trabecular tissue support the hafting hypothesis. …”
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Fracture Mechanism in Overlying Strata during Longwall Mining by Zhengyi Ti, Jiazhen Li, Meng Wang, Kang Wang, Zhupeng Jin, Caiwang Tai

“…Besides, we used numerical simulation methods to verify the evolution pattern of the overlying strata fracture. The results show that the fracture mechanisms of the elastic foundation clamped structure’s key stratum varied depending on the position under longwall mining. …”
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Evaluation of Wide Corneal Epithelial Remodeling after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) with Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography by Yiming Ye, Pei Chen, Na Yu, Linxi Wan, Min Lan, Hua Zheng, Keming Yu

“…An asymmetric lenticule-like pattern of epithelial remodeling occurred in 9 mm diameter cornea at six months after myopic SMILE. …”
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Morphological Model for Erosion Prediction of India’s Largest Braided River Using MIKE 21C Model by Kuldeep Pareta

“…The Brahmaputra River has a dynamic, highly braided channel pattern with frequent river bar formation, making it morphologically very dynamic, especially during the monsoon season with high discharge and sediment load. …”
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Exploring Aggregated wav2vec 2.0 Features and Dual-Stream TDNN for Efficient Spoken Dialect Identification by Ananya Angra, H. Muralikrishna, Dileep Aroor Dinesh, Veena Thenkanidiyoor

“…DS-TDNN has two separate input branches, one for capturing global context and the other for local context which are combined in a parallel pattern. Results obtained on dialects of Kannada, Tamil, Konkani and Marathi, four low-resource languages of India show that aggregated wav2vec 2.0 features perform better compared to DS-TDNN approach.…”
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High-temperature tensile mechanical behavior and ablation mechanisms of three-dimensional multi-directions braided carbon/boron-modified phenolic composites by Wentao Yang, Yang Jin, Zhengyan Yang, Diantang Zhang

“…The high-temperature tensile damage pattern of 3D5d includes shear fracture of braiding yarns, tensile fracture of fifth yarns, matrix softening and interfacial debonding. 3D6d has an additional sixth yarn tearing. …”
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The effect of abiotic factors on apricot yield in the Southern Urals by F. M. Gasymov

“…Among the studied genotypes there were tree forms with irregular fruiting pattern, characterized by low resistance to adverse effects of abiotic factors: ‘Khabarovsky’ (0.9 kg/tree) and ‘Michurinsky No. 22’ (0.3 kg/tree). …”
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Evaluating land use ımpact on evapotranspiration in Yellow River Basin China through a novel GSEBAL model: a remote sensing perspective by Sheheryar Khan, Wang Huiliang, Umer Nauman, Muhammad Waseem Boota, Zening Wu

“…Maximum ET values rose from 214.217 mm in 1990 to 234.891 mm in 2000. The pattern flipped in 2020, decreasing to 221.456 mm. …”
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Elastography Evaluation of Benign Thyroid Nodules in Patients Affected by Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis by Carlo Cappelli, Ilenia Pirola, Elena Gandossi, Annamaria Formenti, Barbara Agosti, Maurizio Castellano

“…In order to evaluate the outcome of thyroid ultrasound echogenicity in relation to elastography features of nodule(s), all the patients with benign nodules were stratified according to their hypoechoic pattern of thyroid (mild-moderate and severe). Following stratification score 1 was found in 84.2% of benign nodules (sensitivity 75.0%; specificity 88.9%; PPV 27.3%; NPV 98.4%; accuracy 88.2%; p<0.0001) of patients with a mild-moderate ultrasound thyroid hypoechogenicity, whereas it was found in 60% of benign nodules (p=0.715) of patients with a marked thyroid hypoechogenicity. …”
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Propofol Ameliorates Microglia Activation by Targeting MicroRNA-221/222-IRF2 Axis by Xi Xiao, Yuanyuan Hou, Wei Yu, Sihua Qi

“…Real-time qPCR, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and Western blotting were used to identify the expression pattern of miR-221/222, inflammatory genes, cytokines, and IRF2. …”
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Revealing Genomic Profile That Underlies Tropism of Myeloma Cells Using Whole Exome Sequencing by Youngil Koh, Daeyoon Kim, Woo-June Jung, Kwang-Sung Ahn, Sung-Soo Yoon

“…When comparison analysis was performed using TCGA data, mutational pattern of SNU_MM1393_SC resembled that of melanoma mostly. …”
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The Clock Drawing Task reveals executive dysfunction in the dialysis population – an underrecognized and underestimated problem by Piotr Olejnik, Aleksandra Golenia, Oliwia Maciejewska, Ewa Wojtaszek, Paweł Żebrowski, Jolanta Małyszko

“…Moreover, remarkably similar pattern of clock drawing was observed, with numbers written outside the clock face in the CLOX1 test.Conclusions Executive dysfunctions in dialysis patients may manifest itself before the onset of global cognitive impairment. …”
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Effect of the Entorhinal Cortex on Ictal Discharges in Low-Mg2+-Induced Epileptic Hippocampal Slice Models by Ye-Jun Shi, Xin-Wei Gong, Hai-Qing Gong, Pei-Ji Liang, Pu-Ming Zhang, Qin-Chi Lu

“…However, the mechanism by which the EC affects the discharge patterns and the transmission mode of epileptiform discharges within the hippocampus needs further study. …”
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Kinetic Profiles of Inflammatory Mediators in the Conjunctival Sac Fluid of Patients upon Photorefractive Keratectomy by Veronica Tisato, Paolo Perri, Erika Rimondi, Elisabetta Melloni, Giuseppe Lamberti, Daniela Milani, Paola Secchiero, Giorgio Zauli

“…The results have firstly highlighted the different pattern of cytokine expression between the microenvironment at the anterior surface of the eye and the systemic circulation. …”
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Synthesis of Silica-Coated Fe3O4 Nanoparticles by Microemulsion Method: Characterization and Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity by Goshu Asab, Enyew Amare Zereffa, Teshome Abdo Seghne

“…The synthesized materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, thermal analyzer, and infrared spectroscopy. X-ray diffraction pattern of Fe3O4 showed that particles were phase pure with a cubic inverse spinel structure and FT-infrared spectra confirmed the presence of Fe-O bond in tetrahedral and octahedral interstitial sites. …”
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