A Comprehensive Review of Niobium Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, Applications in Health Sciences, and Future Challenges by Muhammad Usman Khalid, Austeja Rudokaite, Alessandro Marcio Hakme da Silva, Monika Kirsnyte-Snioke, Arunas Stirke, Wanessa C. M. A. Melo

“…Surface modifications, such as coatings with biocompatible polymers, have demonstrated the ability to mitigate these risks while enhancing therapeutic efficacy. …”
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Symptom clusters and resting cardiovascular autonomic measures in adolescents: From acute concussion to recovery by Wenjie Ji, Haley M. Chizuk, John J. Leddy, Sue A. Sisto, Mohammad N. Haider

“…Although some correlations between individual symptom domains and ANS activity were observed, they were not significantly different from asymptomatic controls, limiting the ability to interpret these findings.…”
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Oil-Based Drilling Fluid Plugging Method for Strengthening Wellbore Stability of Shale Gas by Pengcheng Wu, Chengxu Zhong, Zhengtao Li, Zhen Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, Weian Huang

“…Compared with previous field drilling fluids, the constructed oil-based drilling fluid system has a greatly improved plugging ability and excellent performance in other aspects.…”
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Oxidative Stress in Hypertensive Patients Induces an Increased Contractility in Vein Grafts Independent of Endothelial Function by Claudio Joo Turoni, Rodrigo Marañón, Maria Karbiner, Juan Muntaner, Víctor Proto, María Peral de Bruno

“…However, this action could be altered in hypertensive situations by an increased oxidative stress or a decreased ability of nNOS to produce NO. Further studies should be performed to evaluate the implication of these results in graft patency rates.…”
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Specific Antibody Production by Blood B Cells is Retained in Late Stage Drug-naïve HIV-infected Africans by Lydie Béniguel, Evelyne Bégaud, Fabrice Cognasse, Philippe Gabrié, Christophe D. Mbolidi, Mary A. Marovich, Céline Cazorla, Frédéric Lucht, Christian Genin, Olivier Garraud

“…Unseparated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) obtained from drug-naïve African individuals living in a context of multi-infections and presenting with high viral load (VL), were cultured in vitro and tested for their ability to produce antibodies (Abs) reacting with HIV-1 antigens. …”
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The Nrf-2/HO-1 Signaling Axis: A Ray of Hope in Cardiovascular Diseases by Xueyan Zhang, Yihan Yu, Hanyu Lei, Yufeng Cai, Jie Shen, Ping Zhu, Qingnan He, Mingyi Zhao

“…Nrf2/HO-1 also has the ability to modulate calcium levels to prevent ferroptosis, pyroptosis, autophagy, programmed cell necrosis, alkaliptosis, and clockophagy. …”
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A red pomegranate fruit extract-based formula ameliorates anxiety/depression-like behaviors via enhancing serotonin (5-HT) synthesis in C57BL/6 male mice by Xiping Zhu, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Chun Cui

“…The RPFE formula exhibited the abilities to normalize the levels of serum inflammatory cytokines (NF-κB, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β and IFN-γ) and malondialdehyde (MDA), and activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS), as well as relieve the injury of hippocampal neurons. …”
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The specificity of ten non-digestible carbohydrates to enhance butyrate-producing bacteria and butyrate production in vitro fermentation by Jingjing Xu, Ruyue Wang, Weibao Liu, Zhongwei Yin, Jianrong Wu, Xun Yu, Wen Wang, Hongtao Zhang, Zhitao Li, Minjie Gao, Li Zhu, Xiaobei Zhan

“…Furthermore, XGOS and GGOS fermentations showed a better ability to consistently modulate gut microbiota composition and metabolic properties between individuals of healthy donors or T2D patients when compared to inulin, FOS, APS, AOS, OGS, OGOS, COS and POS fermentation. …”
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Nitrogen Dioxide Monitoring with Satellite Imagery over Ankara, Turkey by Maryam Zare Shahne, Mostafa Jazari, Zahra Amiri

“…Remote sensing technology, with its ability to measure concentration and intensity, as well as track the movement and changes in pollutant locations, has multiple applications in assessing air quality. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Manipulators: Exploring Object Detection and Grasping Innovations by Montassar Aidi Sharif, Hanan Hameed Ismael, Muamar Almani Jasim, Farah Zuhair Jasim

“…Our findings demonstrate a marked enhancement in the robotic arm’s ability to adapt to and interact with its surroundings, opening new avenues for automation in industrial, medical, and domestic applications. …”
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Heavy Traffic Feasible Hybrid Intracycle and Cyclic Sleep for Power Saving in 10G-EPON by Xintian Hu, Liqian Wang, Zhiguo Zhang, Xue Chen

“…For the proposed mechanism, power saving ability with QoS guarantee even under heavy traffic and better power saving performance than existing approaches are verified by the quantitative analysis. …”
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Antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of 2-oxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidines by Sarosh Iqbal, Shahida Perveen, M. Iqbal Choudhary, Musarrat Jabeen, Shumaila Kiran, Faiza Qayyum, Khalid Mohammed Khan

“…Oxidative stress (OS) is an imbalance between ROS and antioxidants which is caused by increased synthesis and buildup of reactive oxygen species as well as a reduced ability to detoxify them. It contributes to the onset and progression of chronic inflammation, cancers, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, ocular disease, nephropathy, and premature aging. …”
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Protective effects of peptide KSPLY derived from Hericium erinaceus on H2O2-induced oxidative damage in HepG2 cells by Zhengli Xu, Qiuhui Hu, Minhao Xie, Jianhui Liu, Anxiang Su, Hui Xu, Wenjian Yang

“…Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced oxidative damage is strongly associated with the pathogenesis of chronic diseases, and natural antioxidant peptides have good abilities of scavenging ROS. The antioxidant activity of peptide Lys-Ser-Pro-Leu-Tyr (KSPLY) derived from Hericium erinaceus remains unclear. …”
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Intelligent recognition algorithm of connection relation of substation secondary wiring drawing based on D-LLE algorithm by Hongzhi Liu, Bojie Yang, Fang Kang, Qian Li, Hongyang Zhang

“…It shows that the proposed algorithm can accurately and quickly identify the connection relationship in the substation secondary wiring drawings, significantly improve the recognition efficiency, and has strong robustness and versatility, which can provide strong support for the intelligent operation and maintenance of the power system.…”
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ThyroNet-X4 genesis: an advanced deep learning model for auxiliary diagnosis of thyroid nodules’ malignancy by Xiaoxue Wang, Yupeng Niu, Hongli Liu, Fa Tian, Qiang Zhang, Yimeng Wang, Yeju Wang, Yijia Li

“…Built on the ResNet architecture, the model enhances feature extraction by incorporating grouped convolutions and using larger convolution kernels, improving its ability to analyze thyroid ultrasound images. The model was trained and validated using publicly available thyroid ultrasound imaging datasets, and its generalization was further tested using an external validation dataset from HanZhong Central Hospital. …”
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Study of effective removal of nickel and cobalt from aqueous solutions by FeO@mSiO2 nanocomposite by Wahran M. Saod, Nisreen Jassam Alaallah, Ekhlas A. Abdulkareem, Nahla Naji Hilal, Mohammad I. AlBiajawi

“…Tests and evaluations were conducted to determine FeO@mSiO2 nanocomposite ability to remove nickel (II) and cobalt (II) from solution, and the ideal removal conditions were determined at different condition Adsorption isotherms, Freundlich and Temkin isotherms to the data. …”
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The Synergistic Effect of Nitrogen Dopant and Calcination Temperature on the Visible-Light-Induced Photoactivity of N-Doped TiO2 by Yao-Tung Lin, Chih-Huang Weng, Hui-Jan Hsu, Yu-Hao Lin, Ching-Chang Shiesh

“…The N-doped TiO2 catalyst prepared with ammonia to titanium isopropoxide molar ratio of 2.0 and calcinated at 400°C showed the best photocatalytic ability.…”
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A novel multivariate time series dataset of outdoor sport activities by Matarmaa Jarno

“…The dataset includes three features: Heart Rate, Speed, and Altitude, and covers five sport categories: walking, running, skiing, roller-skiing, and biking. The data was collected using two types of Garmin sport watches. …”
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Long-Term Cultured Human Term Placenta-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells of Maternal Origin Displays Plasticity by Vikram Sabapathy, Saranya Ravi, Vivi Srivastava, Alok Srivastava, Sanjay Kumar

“…Further soft agar assays revealed that placental MSCs do not have the ability to form invasive colonies. Taking together all these characteristics into consideration, it indicates that placental MSCs could serve as good candidates for development and progress of stem-cell based therapeutics.…”
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Absence of Substantial Copy Number Differences in a Pair of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder by Marina Laplana, José Luis Royo, Anton Aluja, Ricard López, Damiàn Heine-Sunyer, Joan Fibla

“…It is initially characterized by altered cognitive ability which commonly includes impaired language and communication skills as well as fundamental deficits in social interaction. …”
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