Curcumin and α/β-Adrenergic Antagonists Cotreatment Reverse Liver Cirrhosis in Hamsters: Participation of Nrf-2 and NF-κB by José Roberto Macías-Pérez, Bruno Jesús Vázquez-López, Martin Humberto Muñoz-Ortega, Liseth Rubí Aldaba-Muruato, Sandra Luz Martínez-Hernández, Esperanza Sánchez-Alemán, Javier Ventura-Juárez

“…The individual administration of doxazosin or carvedilol showed less ability to reverse cirrhosis in relation to concomitantly curcumin administration. …”
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS IN TEACHING SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN DISCIPLINES by Anna Kyrpa, Olena Stepanenko, Viktoriia Zinchenko, Tetiana Datsiuk, Iryna Karpan, Neonila Tilniak

“…At the control stage, the authors analysed and summarized the dynamics of the levels of formation of the indicators of teachers’ competence like awareness of the use of AI tools in educational activities; flexibility and ability to adapt when working with AI tools; assessment of confidence when implementing AI tools in educational activities. …”
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Modelling the mode choice behaviour of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) users in the Solent area of the UK by Nazam Ali, Seda Sucu Sagmanli, Nima Dadashzadeh, Djamila Ouelhadj

“…Factors such as car and bike ownership, travel-related impairment, education, profession, public transport pass ownership, and residential area type were found to be significant predictors of most frequent mode choice selection. …”
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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…CONCLUSION Those living with severe mental illness experience disproportional disadvantages that limit their ability to access mental health resources that protect their autonomy during a crisis. …”
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Depth-Dependent Cellular Response from Dental Bulk-Fill Resins in Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells by Su-Min Lee, Soo-Youn Kim, Jae-Heon Kim, Soo-Kyung Jun, Hae-Won Kim, Jung-Hwan Lee, Hae-Hyoung Lee

“…Therefore, careful consideration of choice of bulk-fill resins is necessary especially for restoration of deep cavities for maintaining the viability and differentiation ability of dental pulp stem cells.…”
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Perancangan User Experience Aplikasi Bimbingan Akademik Mahasiswa FILKOM Menggunakan Metode Human-Centered Design by Farassulthana Azzahra Willary Yaasiin, Herman Tolle, Hanifah Muslimah Az-Zahra

“…Abstract Academic guidance is a consultation activity between academic advisory lecturers and students in helping to solve study problems and planning studies according to their interests and abilities. The new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guidelines at the Faculty of Computer Science (FILKOM) have been specially developed so that lecturers and students can periodically monitor the progress of student studies and see the shortcomings of student studies based on data analysis of student study results. …”
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Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Early Stages of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease in a Sample of Egyptian Patients by Yasser A Elmotaleb Gazar, Hesham Salah Hamoud, Sherif Mohamed Ismail

“…Therefore, it aids in the recognition of alternations in nailfold capillaries making an early prediction of course of illness in MCTD patients possible and suggests a potential ability to differentiate from early SSc, thus helps in preventing morbidities and sequelae of the disease.…”
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A Case Study on Multi-Real-Option-Integrated STO-PF Models for Strengthening Capital Structures in Real Estate Development by Jung Kyu Park, Jun Bok Lee, Young Mee Ahn, Ga Young Yoo

“…The traditional discounted cash flow (DCF) method is frequently ill-suited to the dynamic and uncertain nature of long-term real estate projects, particularly in regard to the ability to adapt to market fluctuations. In order to address these limitations, this study employs a multi-real-option model with a binomial lattice framework, thereby facilitating flexible decision-making in various investment stages. …”
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The <i>Meq</i> Genes of Nigerian Marek’s Disease Virus (MDV) Field Isolates Contain Mutations Common to Both European and US High Virulence Strains by Joseph N. Patria, Luka Jwander, Ifeoma Mbachu, Levi Parcells, Brian Ladman, Jakob Trimpert, Benedikt B. Kaufer, Phaedra Tavlarides-Hontz, Mark S. Parcells

“…Several of the <i>meq</i> genes were cloned for expression and their localization ability to interact with the chicken NF-IL3 protein, a putative Meq dimerization partner, were assessed. …”
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qPRF: A system to accelerate population receptive field modeling by Sebastian Waz, Yalin Wang, Zhong-Lin Lu

“…We also assess the qPRF method’s model-recovery ability using a simulated dataset. The qPRF may facilitate the development and use of more elaborate models based on the PRF framework and may pave the way for novel clinical applications.…”
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Experimental Investigations of Offshore Sand Production Monitoring Based on the Analysis of Vibration in Response to Weak Shocks by Yichen Li, Gang Liu, Zongwen Jia, Min Qin, Gang Wang, Yinan Hu, Jialin He, Kai Wang

“…The time-frequency parameters are further optimized, and the ability to identify weakly excited vibration signals of sand particles in the fluid stream is enhanced. …”
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Portable X-ray fluorescence of zinc and selenium with nail clippings-Mother and Infant Nutrition Investigation (MINI). by David E B Fleming, Nelly Madani, Michaela G Kaiser, Jong Sung Kim, Erin Keltie, Natashia Drage, Ying Jin, Jane Coad, Louise Brough

“…This work investigates a novel portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) method with the ability to rapidly assess zinc and selenium in nail clippings. …”
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Evaluating Tech Neck: A Pilot Study Using a Self-Developed Questionnaire on Symptoms, Posture, and Preventive Measures by Brigitte Osser, Csongor Toth, Carmen Delia Nistor-Cseppento, Gyongyi Osser, Caius Calin Miuța, Iosif Ilia, Diana Carina Iovanovici, Cristina Aur, Laura Ioana Bondar

“…Increased symptom intensity was associated with reduced ability to perform daily activities (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Fractional-order PID feedback synthesis controller including some external influences on insulin and glucose monitoring by Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, Muhammad Farman, Khadija Jamil, Saba Jamil, Evren Hincal

“…The key advantage of this model is its ability to incorporate these physiological stressors and use fractional-order derivatives to describe the nonlocal dynamics within the system. …”
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Characterization of a chitinase from Trichinella spiralis and its immunomodulatory effects on allergic airway inflammation in mice by Jia Xu, Ye Yao, Qisheng Zhuang, Zixuan Li, Min Zhang, Shouan Wang, Hongxin Hu, Jianbin Ye

“…This study aimed to evaluate the ability of Trichinella spiralis chitinase (Ts-chit) to ameliorate the symptoms of allergic airway inflammation. …”
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Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Associated Factors Among Public Primary Second‐Cycle Schoolchildren in Debre Markos Town, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Abtie Abebaw, Gebreselassie Demeke, Hylemariam Mihiretie Mengist, Mengistu Endalamaw, Gizew Damtie Demeke

“…The burden of intestinal parasites is worse in schoolchildren, which leads to absenteeism from school, lower cognitive ability, affects academic performance, and causes malnutrition and anemia. …”
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Predictive Laboratory Markers for Gastrointestinal Complications in Children with Henoch-Sch&ouml;nlein Purpura by Guo Q, Xia S, Ding Y, Liu F

“…Furthermore, a predictive model was developed by a Random Forest classifier to identify key markers and assess their ability to distinguish between patients with and without GIS complications.Results: Significant differences were observed in several laboratory parameters between HSP patients and the control group, and between patients with and without GIS complications. …”
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Evaluating sowing uniformity in hybrid rice using image processing and the OEW-YOLOv8n network by Zehua Li, Zehua Li, Yihui Pan, Xu Ma, Yongjun Lin, Xicheng Wang, Hongwei Li

“…This improvement can enhance the feature extraction ability of the Backbone network, as the new modules can fully utilize the information of all dimensions of the convolutional kernel. (2) An Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) module is added to the Neck for improving the network’s capability to extract deep semantic feature information of the detection target. (3) In the Bbox module of the prediction head, the Complete Intersection over Union (CIoU) loss function is replaced by the Weighted Intersection over Union version 3 (WIoUv3) loss function to improve the convergence speed of the bounding box loss function and reduce the convergence value of the loss function. …”
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A novel method to determine background concentrations and spatial distributions of heavy metals in soil at large scale using machine learning coupled with remote sensing-terrain at... by Magboul M. Sulieman, Fuat Kaya, Abdullah S. Al-Farraj, Eric C. Brevik

“…Machine learning algorithms show great ability to use available environmental variables and investigate the relationships between the factors influencing HMs accumulation under a given soil environment. …”
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Validation of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II and IV Score in COVID-19 Patients by Jeroen Vandenbrande, Laurens Verbrugge, Liesbeth Bruckers, Laurien Geebelen, Ester Geerts, Ina Callebaut, Ine Gruyters, Liesbeth Heremans, Jasperina Dubois, Bjorn Stessel

“…Only in the subgroup analysis, discriminative abilities of APACHE IV were very good. This trial is registered with NCT04713852.…”
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