Kinetics of Supercritical CO₂ Extraction from Burrito (<i>Aloysia polystachya</i>) Leaves and Sucupira-Preta (<i>Bowdichia virgilioides</i>) Seeds by Gabrielle Vaz Vieira, Michel Rubens dos Reis Souza, Carlos Toshiyuki Hiranobe, José Eduardo Goncalves, Cristiane Mengue Feniman Moritz, Otávio Akira Sakai, Leila Maria Sotocorno e Silva, Michael Jones da Silva, Erivaldo Antônio da Silva, Renivaldo José dos Santos, Edson Antônio da Silva, Lucio Cardozo-Filho, Leandro Ferreira-Pinto

“…The supercritical extraction technique was chosen for its ability to produce high-purity extracts without residual solvents and to reduce the environmental impact. …”
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The role of size in PEGylated liposomal doxorubicin biodistribution and anti‐tumour activity by Saba Dadpour, Amin Mehrabian, Mahdieh Arabsalmani, Elaheh Mirhadi, Anis Askarizadeh, Mohammad Mashreghi, Mahmoud Reza Jaafari

“…Abstract The size of nanoliposome‐encapsulated drugs significantly affects their therapeutic efficacy, biodistribution, targeting ability, and toxicity profile for the cancer treatment. …”
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The Role of Morphological Information in Processing Pseudo-words in Italian L2 Learners: It’s a Matter of Experience by Simona Amenta, Francesca Foppolo, Linda Badan

“…Most importantly, the ability to extract and exploit morphological information is linked to language proficiency.…”
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Determination of Cefoperazone Sodium in Presence of Related Impurities by Linear Support Vector Regression and Partial Least Squares Chemometric Models by Ibrahim A. Naguib, Eglal A. Abdelaleem, Hala E. Zaazaa, Essraa A. Hussein

“…For method validation, an independent test set consisting of 9 mixtures was used to test predictive ability of established models. The introduced results show the capability of the two proposed models to analyze cefoperazone in presence of its impurities 7-aminocephalosporanic acid and 5-mercapto-1-methyl-tetrazole with high trueness and selectivity (101.87 ± 0.708 and 101.43 ± 0.536 for PLSR and linear SVR, resp.). …”
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A Novel, Cell-Compatible Hyaluronidase Activity Assay Identifies Dextran Sulfates and Other Sulfated Polymeric Hydrocarbons as Potent Inhibitors for CEMIP by Anja Schmaus, Sofia Spataro, Paul Sallmann, Stephanie Möller, Leonardo Scapozza, Marco Prunotto, Jonathan P. Sleeman

“…Heparin and dextran sulfate are used in numerous established and experimental biomedical applications. Their ability to inhibit CEMIP needs to be taken into account in these contexts.…”
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The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans by Lovorka BRAJKOVIĆ, Dora KORAĆ, Dajana ALIĆ, Vanja KOPILAŠ

“…These findings emphasize the importance of developing interventions and programs for offspring of war veterans that aim to improve their ability to establish close relationships and regulate emotions adequately. …”
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Highly sensitive and real-simultaneous CH4/C2H2 dual-gas LITES sensor based on Lissajous pattern multi-pass cell by Haiyue Sun, Ying He, Shunda Qiao, Yahui Liu, Yufei Ma

“…Two self-designed trapezoidal-head QTFs with low resonant frequencies of less than 10 kHz and quality factor of ~12000 were adopted to enhance the detection ability. Two kinds of fiber amplifier, erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and Raman fiber amplifier (RFA), were combined to amplify the output power of two diode lasers to improve the excitation strength. …”
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The Increased Expression of HLA-DR and ICAM-1 Molecules by Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells, Induced by Activated Mononuclear Cells, is Downregulated by Nedocromil Sodium by O. Sacco, S. Lantero, L. Scarso, V. Frangova, V. Ottolini, G. A. Rossi

“…The addition to BEC cultures of different concentrations of PHA-stimulated BMC-CM, or of IFN-γ induced a dosedependent increase of HIA-DR and ICAM-1 expression, while no effect was observed with unstimulated BMC-CM. The ability of nedocromil sodium and, as control, of dexamethasone, to prevent the upregulation of HLA-DR and ICAM-1 expression on BECs was then tested. …”
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Culture and Characterization of Microglia from the Adult Murine Retina by Gayathri Devarajan, Mei Chen, Elizabeth Muckersie, Heping Xu

“…Cultured retinal microglial cells were phenotyped using the surface markers CD45, CD11b, and F4/80. Their ability to secrete proinflammatory cytokines in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation was examined using cytometric bead array (CBA) assay. …”
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CUSE-TD Algorithm for Precision Detection of Coherent and Uncorrelated Signals by Rohini Dakulagi, Ravi Raushan, Soham Dutta, Mohammed Theeb Alosaimi, Miguel Villagomez-Galindo

“…The paper provides an in-depth assessment of the algorithm&#x2019;s performance, highlighting its computational efficiency and ability to handle diverse sensor-driven scenarios. …”
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Twenty-Four-Hour Urinary Aldosterone Predicts Inappropriate Left Ventricular Mass Index in Patients with Primary Aldosteronism by Chi-Sheng Hung, Yi-Lwun Ho, Yi-Yao Chang, Vin-Cent Wu, Xue-Ming Wu, Jen-Kuang Lee, Shih-Chieh Chueh, Yen-Hung Lin, Yuan-Shian Changh, Shao-Yu Yang, Ya-Hui Hu, Ming-Jai Sui, Ming-Fong Chen, Kwan-Dun Wu

“…The multivariate analysis revealed the urinary aldosterone level as an independent predictor for LVMI and excess LVMI. Analyzing the ability of urinary aldosterone, plasma aldosterone concentration, and plasma aldosterone-to-renin ratio to identify the presence of LVH (ROC AUC = 0.701, 0.568, 0.656, resp.) and the presence of inappropriate LV mass index (defined as measured LVMI in predicting LVMI ratio >135%) (ROC area under curve = 0.61, 0.43, 0.493, resp.) revealed the better performance of 24-hour urinary aldosterone. …”
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Targeting AI-2 quorum sensing: harnessing natural products against Streptococcus suis biofilm infection by Shuji Gao, Shuo Yuan, Yingying Quan, Wenjie Jin, Yamin Shen, Rishun Li, Baobao Liu, Yuxin Wang, Li Yi, Shaohui Wang, Xiaogai Hou, Yang Wang

“…By inhibiting S. suis AI-2 quorum sensing, these compounds modulate the expression of adhesion genes and the synthesis of extracellular polysaccharides (EPS), reducing the adhesion ability of S. suis and ultimately inhibiting biofilm formation. …”
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Environmental behavior of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and the potential role of biochar for its remediation: a review by Haiyan Wang, Haiyan Zhang, Lizhi He, Jie Wang, Shuo Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Xiaokai Zhang, Hailong Wang, Feng He

“…Furthermore, this review discusses the ability of biochar to reduce the likelihood of PFASs entering the food chain through water and soil and evaluates the feasibility and limitations of using biochar for PFASs removal. …”
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The Interactions among the Heavy Metals in Soils and in Weeds and Their Antioxidant Capacity under the Mining Activities in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam by Ngoc-Lien Nguyen, Cam-Tu Vu, Hien-Minh To, Hoang-Nam Pham, Hai-Dang Nguyen, Tien-Dat Nguyen, Kieu-Oanh Nguyen Thi

“…In addition, the HM distribution and cocontamination phenomena in different soils significantly affected the HM residues and transportation abilities into different species as well as tissues. …”
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Evaluation of the Urban Low-Carbon Sustainable Development Capability Based on the TOPSIS-BP Neural Network and Grey Relational Analysis by Wei Zhang, Xinxin Zhang, Fan Liu, Yan Huang, Yuwei Xie

“…At the same time, the difference degree of low-carbon sustainable development level in these four cities is analyzed by standard deviation and coefficient of variation, and the influencing factors of urban low-carbon sustainable development ability are extracted by grey correlation analysis. …”
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Mode Shape Description and Model Updating of Axisymmetric Structures Using Radial Tchebichef Moment Descriptors by C. Zang, H. B. Lan, D. D. Jiang, M. I. Friswell

“…The reconstruction of mode shapes using RTM descriptors can accurately describe the mode shapes, and the simulation shows that the RTM function is superior to Zernike moment function in terms of its mathematical properties and its shape reconstruction ability. In addition, the proposed modal correlation coefficient of the RTM amplitude can overcome the main disadvantage of using the modal assurance criterion (MAC), which has difficulty in identifying double or close modes of symmetric structures. …”
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Phytomedicine Potential of <i>Oroxylum indicum</i> Root and Its Constituents: Targeting Alzheimer’s Disease by Rattana Summat, Pornthip Waiwut, Supawadee Daodee, Natsajee Nualkaew, Khemjira Phemphunananchai, Puguh Novi Arsito, Yaowared Chulikhit, Orawan Montakantirat, Charinya Khamphukdee, Chantana Boonyarat

“…In cell culture models, <i>O. indicum</i> extract showed an ability to protect neurons from the toxic effects of H₂O₂. …”
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Assistive Devices Analysis for Visually Impaired Persons: A Review on Taxonomy by Sadia Zafar, Muhammad Asif, Maaz Bin Ahmad, Taher M. Ghazal, Tauqeer Faiz, Munir Ahmad, Muhammad Adnan Khan

“…It is observed that most of the existing devices are constrained in their abilities. The paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the state-of-the-art assistive devices for VIPs. …”
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Measuring Hemoglobin Levels in the Optic Disc of Parkinson’s Disease Patients Using New Colorimetric Analysis Software by Maria Pilar Bambo, Elena Garcia-Martin, Maria Satue, Susana Perez-Olivan, Silvia Alayon, Marta Gonzalez-Hernandez, Vicente Polo, Jose Manuel Larrosa, Manuel Gonzalez-De la Rosa

“…Measurements of optic disc Hb levels obtained with the Laguna ONhE software had good ability to detect optic nerve color changes (more papillary paleness and consequently this could suggest optic atrophy and axonal loss) in PD patients.…”
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Deep Learning based Individual Cattle Face Recognition using Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning by Caner Koç, Kamil Ekinci, Ömer Ertuğrul, Dilara Gerdan Koc, Havva Eylem Polat

“…The process of identifying individual animals can be hindered by ear tags that fall off, and the ability to identify them over a long period of time becomes impossible when tags are missing. …”
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