The Analysis of The Absorption Capabilities of The Heavy Metal Mercury (Hg) in Mangrove Crab (Scylla serrata), Mangrove Snail (Telescopium telescopium) and Mangrove Clams (Polymeso... by Irsan Irsan, Yusthinus T. Male, Saifuddin Koto, Rosita Mangesa, Irwan Ismail, Siti Nuraisah, Widyawati Kabau, Firman Banjar

“… Mercury is a neurotoxic heavy metal with high bioaccumulation ability in aquatic biota, such as mangrove crabs (Scylla serrata), mangrove snails (Telescopium telescopium), and mangrove mussels (Polymesoda erosa), which are widely consumed by humans, and used as bioindicators of pollution. …”
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Altitude adaptation: The unseen work of gut microbiota by Jingling Guo, Runzhou Zhao, Kun Li, Yafang Tan, Likun Wang, Hui Ling, Huan Zhang, Guha Dharmarajan, Yujing Bi, Ruifu Yang

“…Evidence indicates that gut microbiota significantly impacts an organism's ability to adapt to high-altitude conditions by adjusting its composition, and hence impacting its function and ability to release microbial metabolites. …”
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A Beautician’s Dystonia: Long-Lasting Effect of Botulinum Toxin by Siria Di Martino, Stefania Dalise, Giuseppe Lamola, Martina Venturi, Bruno Rossi, Carmelo Chisari

“…In conclusion, botulinum toxin is an effective treatment for focal dystonia that can have long-lasting effects and can improve patients’ ability to work and quality of life.…”
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Influence of the Addition of Selected Spices on Sensory Quality and Biological Activity of Honey by Aleksandra Wilczyńska, Joanna Newerli-Guz, Piotr Szweda

“…All tested samples showed the ability to inhibit the growth of bacteria and, contrary to the assumptions, the addition of spices did not cause an increase of antimicrobial activity. …”
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Regulatory Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on T Cell Phenotypes in Autoimmune Diseases by Zhiping Wei, Jintao Yuan, Gaoying Wang, Dickson Kofi Wiredu Ocansey, Zhiwei Xu, Fei Mao

“…In addition to BM-MSCs, several sources of MSCs have been reported to possess tissue repair and immunoregulatory abilities, making them potential treatment options for many diseases. …”
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Malvidin-3-galactoside from blueberry suppresses the growth and metastasis potential of hepatocellular carcinoma cell Huh-7 by regulating apoptosis and metastases pathways by Jie Lin, Jinlong Tian, Chi Shu, Zhen Cheng, Yunen Liu, Weisheng Wang, Ruihai Liu, Bin Li, Yuehua Wang

“…The results showed that Mv-3-gal inhibited the cell proliferation and colony formation ability, induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. …”
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Longitudinal Reservoir Evaluation Technique for Tight Oil Reservoirs by Yutian Luo, Zhengming Yang, Zhenxing Tang, Sibin Zhou, Jinwei Wu, Qianhua Xiao

“…In this study, according to the characteristics of longitudinal physical properties of tight oil reservoirs, advanced experimental techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, high pressure mercury intrusion, and X-ray diffraction were adopted; the flow capacity, reservoir capacity, ability to build an effective displacement system, and the ability to resist damage in reservoir reconstruction were considered as evaluation indexes; average throat radius, percentage of movable fluid, start-up pressure gradient, and the content of clay minerals were taken as the evaluation parameters. …”
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Detection of breast cancer lesions using APT weighted MRI: a systematic review by Ryan C. Lee, Montek Singh Boparai, Tim Q. Duong

“…Abstract Amide proton transfer (APT) is a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that has shown promising ability to study cancers. This paper systematically reviewed the literature on the use of APT MRI in the prognosis of breast cancer. …”
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Porous Materials to Support Bilayer Lipid Membranes for Ion Channel Biosensors by Thai Phung, Yanli Zhang, James Dunlop, Julie E. Dalziel

“…To identify materials suitable as membrane supports for ion channel biosensors, six filter materials of varying hydrophobicity, tortuosity, and thickness were examined for their ability to support bilayer lipid membranes as determined by electrical impedance spectroscopy. …”
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Modelling the human immune response mechanisms to mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the lungs by Gesham Magombedze, Winston Garira, Eddie Mwenje

“…This is attributed to the CTLs’ ability to directly killinfected macrophages and the bacteria inside the infected macrophages. …”
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COMPARISON OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN INSTITUTIONALIZED HEALTHY AND OLDER PERSON WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE by Carla M. Teixeira, Ana Filipa Pinto

“…Results show that active older person had higher scores in cognitive abilities (p = .001) and a lower incidence of depression (p = .001). …”
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Parameter Identification of the 2-Chlorophenol Oxidation Model Using Improved Differential Search Algorithm by Guang-zhou Chen, Jia-quan Wang, Ru-zhong Li

“…And the experimental results demonstrate that the DS with the Latin hypercube sampling method does not present better performance, while the hybrid methods have the advantages of strong global search ability and local search ability and are more effective than the other algorithms.…”
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An Improved Method of EWT and Its Application in Rolling Bearings Fault Diagnosis by Zhicheng Qiao, Yongqiang Liu, Yingying Liao

“…The classification prediction ability of SVM is also better than that of K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and extreme learning machine (ELM).…”
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Personalized Recommendation Model of High-Quality Education Resources for College Students Based on Data Mining by Chaohua Fang, Qiuyun Lu

“…These problems may lead to disagreement between the learner’s learning ability and the difficulty of the recommended learning resources and may lead to the cognitive overload or disorientation of learners in the learning process. …”
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Level of knowledge about information searching in health professional by Ana María Molina Gómez, María Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias, Oristela Mora Rodríguez

“…It demands the development of abilities to take them back, understand them, and place them in the adequate format in the case of those needed for its organization or for the individual. …”
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Lingguizhugan decoction enhances autophagy of Alzheimer’s disease via regulating the mTOR/ p70s6K pathway in vivo and in vitro by Xiaojing Chen, Qingrong Tian, Min Gao, Xibin Zhou, Chunxiang Zhou

“…Results: LGZG could greatly improve learning and memory ability of APP/PS1 mice, and enhance autophagy in vitro and in vivo. …”
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Application of Diversified Health Education Combined with Psychological Nursing in the Treatment of Patients with Infectious Bone Defects by Induction Membrane Surgery by Ni Wang, Ling Wei, Rui Xiong, Dong Cheng

“…Diversified health education combined with psychological nursing is beneficial to reduce negative emotions, improve self-care ability, and reduce the incidence of complications in the treatment of patients with infectious bone defects by induction membrane surgery.…”
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Dynamic Contagion of Systemic Risks on Global Main Equity Markets Based on Granger Causality Networks by Qiuhong Zheng, Liangrong Song

“…Stock markets with high intermediate contagion ability play an important role in systemic risk contagion. …”
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PULSim: User-Based Adaptable Simulation Tool for Railway Planning and Operations by Yong Cui, Ullrich Martin, Jiajian Liang

“…Users and researchers gain the ability to rapidly develop their own algorithms, supported by the tailored simulation process in a flexible manner. …”
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Customer’s Perception and Preference towards Packaged Drinking Water by Minyahel Tilahun, Melaku Beshaw

“…Customers were not well aware of what they were purchasing and even customer’s ability to read was not related to customer’s ability to understand what was written in the labels. …”
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