Integrating RNA-seq and scRNA-seq to explore the prognostic features and immune landscape of exosome-related genes in breast cancer metastasis by Guanyou Huang, Yong Yu, Heng Su, Hongchuan Gan, Liangzhao Chu

“…Immune cell infiltration, immune escape and drug sensitivity disparities between high- and low-risk groups were assessed using CIBERSORT and single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) methods. …”
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Government Subsidy Decision-Making for Waste Tire Recycling under the Coexistence of the Retailer and the Internet Recycling Platform by Fangmei Qi, Yuqi Fan, Gaofeng Guan, Jin’e Zheng

“…At the same time, this paper investigates the effects of government subsidies on social welfare and the profits of supply chain members under different scenarios and then verifies the optimal government subsidy decision with MATLAB software through numerical examples and sensitivity analysis. The results show that the government subsidy coefficient is positively correlated with social welfare under four subsidy scenarios. …”
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Disrupting USP39 deubiquitinase function impairs the survival and migration of multiple myeloma cells through ZEB1 degradation by Jessy Sirera, Saharnaz Sarlak, Manon Teisseire, Alexandrine Carminati, Victoria J. Nicolini, Coline Savy, Patrick Brest, Thierry Juel, Christophe Bontoux, Marcel Deckert, Mickael Ohanna, Sandy Giuliano, Maeva Dufies, Gilles Pages, Frederic Luciano

“…The impact of USP39 knockdown via SiRNA was assessed through in vitro assays measuring cellular metabolism, clonogenic capacity, cell cycle progression, apoptosis, and sensitivity to BTZ. Co-immunoprecipitation and deubiquitination assays were conducted to elucidate the interaction and regulation of ZEB1 by USP39. …”
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Effect of retaining wall leakage on the deformation behavior of foundation pit in water-rich sandy strata by Mingming QIU, Xiaomin LI, Guolin YANG, Junyi DUAN

“…The ground settlement curve of behind the retaining wall successively transformed from “flat ladle bottom” shape, “shallow ladle bottom” shape to “deep ladle bottom” shape with excavation depth; the sensitive zone of settlement trough is 1.00he to 1.20he (he is excavation depth). …”
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Importance of benzoyltransferase GcnE and lysine benzoylation of alcohol dehydrogenase AdhB in pathogenesis and aflatoxin production in Aspergillus flavus by Xuan Chen, Lihan Wu, Yuqi Zhang, Sen Wang, Shihua Wang

“…Both adhB deletion mutant and benzoylated site mutants (K321R and K321A) exhibited similar phenotype, including decreased conidiation and seed colonization, increased sclerotia formation and aflatoxin production, and more sensitive to cell wall damage stress. We also found that GcnE has benzoyltransferase activity in vitro and in vivo, and its repression leads to decreased Kbz level and enzymatic activity of AdhB. …”
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Rapid Detection of microRNA-122 in Serum and Finger Blood Using a Lateral Flow Nucleic Acid Biosensor by Min Zhang, Meijing Ma, Jiahui Wang, Yurui Zhou, Xueji Zhang, Guodong Liu

“…In this paper, we present a novel rapid testing method utilizing a lateral flow nucleic acid biosensor (LFNAB) for the sensitive and time-efficient detection of miR-122. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of Catheter Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Canadian Perspective by Yaariv Khaykin, Peter J. Mallow, John A. Rizzo, Atul Verma, Lauren Chun, Shelby Olesovsky, Matthew R. Reynolds

“…The 5-year probability of achieving cost-effectiveness was 0%, 0.9%, and 100% at the 3 cost per QALY thresholds. Results were most sensitive to time horizon, probability of repeat AF ablation, and stroke rate. …”
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Process Optimization and Flavor Substance Analysis of Probiotic Fermented Apple Juice by Xiaomin WU, Fang WANG, Yingyin GAO, Xiaobo WEI, Haitian FANG, Huiyan LIU

“…Electronic nose analysis demonstrated higher response values for the fermented apple juice across all sensors compared to the unfermented counterpart, indicating that probiotics could increase the content of aromatic volatile flavor substances in apple juice.…”
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Metrological studies of the characteristics of multilayer surface coatings using synchrotron radiation by A. S. Sigov, O. A. Minaeva, S. I. Anevsky, A. M. Lebedev, R. V. Minaev

“…At a photon energy of 40 ev, the absolute spectral sensitivity was 70 ma / W for a photodiode with a surface multilayer filter applied. …”
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Comparative Lipid-Lowering/Increasing Efficacy of 7 Statins in Patients with Dyslipidemia, Cardiovascular Diseases, or Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analyse... by Xiaodan Zhang, Lu Xing, Xiaona Jia, Xiaocong Pang, Qian Xiang, Xia Zhao, Lingyue Ma, Zhiyan Liu, Kun Hu, Zhe Wang, Yimin Cui

“…Then, subgroup analyses were conducted according to different baseline diseases. At last, sensitivity analyses were conducted according to age and follow-up duration. …”
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Effect of Jin's Three-Needle Therapy Combined with Standing Digital OT Training on Upper Extremity Motor Function of Patients with Hemiplegia after Stroke by CHEN Xuanfang, WANG Chengling, ZHENG Huanchi, FU Wenkang, MAI Yunyi, WANG Junhua

“…The even reinforcing-reducing method was conducted, and when the patients brought about the desired sensation, the needle was retained for 30 minutes, once a day, six times a week, lasting for eight weeks. …”
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Bladder mucosal smoothness predicts early recovery of urinary continence after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy by Le Yu, Ye Yan, Hongling Chu, Shaohui Deng, Jianfei Ye, Guoliang Wang, Yi Huang, Fan Zhang, Shudong Zhang

“…The model achieved a highest area under the curve of 0.900 in the training set and the validation set. The sensitivity and specificity of the prediction model were 0.800 and 0.816. …”
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The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Therapy on Disease signs and Symptoms and Psychological Distress in Women with Oral Lichen Planus by Fatemeh Sarebannezhad, Abdollah Omidi, Zahra Zanjani, Elaheh Ghasemzadeh Hoseini, Narges Gholizadeh

“…The mean intensity of pain or burning sensation in the experimental group during the post-test phase was 2.94±1.85, compared to 3.65±1.69 in the control group; however, this difference was not statistically significant. …”
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Winery By-Products In Vitro and In Vivo Effects on Atherothrombotic Markers: Focus on Platelet-Activating Factor by Maria Choleva, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Elizabeth Fragopoulou

“…Evidence from long-term studies shows that consumption may lower total and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, improve insulin sensitivity, decrease lipid and protein oxidative damage, enhance antioxidant capacity, and have mild anti-inflammatory action toward reducing cytokine expression and levels. …”
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A Framework for Early Detection of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Its Subtypes From Peripheral Blood Smear Images Using Deep Ensemble Learning Technique by Sajida Perveen, Abdullah Alourani, Muhammad Shahbaz, M. Usman Ashraf, Isma Hamid

“…Experimental results are obtained and comparative analysis among 7 well-known CNN Network architectures (AlexNet, VGGNet, Inception, ResNet-50, ResNet-18, Inception and DenseNet-121) is also performed that demonstrated that the proposed platform achieved comparatively high accuracy (99.95%), precision (99.92%), recall (99.92%), F1-Score (99.90%), sensitivity (99.92%) and specificity (99.97%). …”
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Cross-culturally adapted psychological interventions for the treatment of depression and/or anxiety among young people: A scoping review. by Masuma Pervin Mishu, Lucy Tindall, Philip Kerrigan, Lina Gega

“…Six studies used the ecological validity and cultural sensitivity framework. Planned adaptation, cultural adaptation of content, and surface and deep structure level adaptations were used in other studies. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…Drawing on William Whyte’s analyses of changing attitudes towards church architecture in the 19th century in Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space (OUP 2017), it shows how literary representations of church interiors in fin-de-siècle literature reflect the shift from the Protestant aniconic, congregation-centred approach to church design, in favour of an architecture of affect and sensation, where space and ornamentation lead the worshipper to experience the divine through a sensory overload. …”
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Multi-scale channel attention U-Net: a novel framework for automated gallbladder segmentation in medical imaging by Yiming Zhou, Xiaobo Wen, Xiaobo Wen, Kang Fu, Meina Li, Lin Sun, Xiao Hu

“…Our proposed MCAU-Net model was employed for gallbladder segmentation and its performance was evaluated using Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), Jaccard Similarity Coefficient (JSC), Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Sensitivity (SE), Hausdorff Distance (HD), Relative Volume Difference (RVD), and Volumetric Overlap Error (VOE) metrics.ResultsOn the test set, MCAU-Net achieved DSC, JSC, PPV, SE, HD, RVD, and VOE values of 0.85 ± 0.22, 0.79 ± 0.23, 0.92 ± 0.14, 0.84 ± 0.23, 2.75 ± 0.98, 0.18 ± 0.48, and 0.22 ± 0.42, respectively. …”
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Scaling Arctic landscape and permafrost features improves active layer depth modeling by Wouter Hantson, Daryl Yang, Shawn P Serbin, Joshua B Fisher, Daniel J Hayes

“…We showed that airborne sensors such as AVIRIS-NG and medium-resolution satellite Earth observation systems like Sentinel-2 can capture the average ALD at the landscape scale. …”
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Predictive value of integrated pulmonary index for the outcome of ventilator withdrawal failure in elderly patients with hypoxic respiratory failure by Nan Wu, Jin Liu, Xianrong Feng

“…ROC curves showed that the AUC was 0.820 [95% CI: 0.719-0.920, P<0.001] , the sensitivity was 70.3%, the specificity was 82.6%, the maximum Youden index was 0.529, and the optimal cut-off value for IPI score was 4.77 scores. …”
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