Przejawy i przyczyny altruizmu u zwierząt by Janusz Uchmański, Sylwia Niczyporuk

“…Celem pracy jest przedstawienie ewolucyjnych wyjaśnień współpracy i altruizmu w świecie zwierząt oraz takich form relacji międzygatunkowych, które przynoszą korzyści stronom biorącym w nich udział. Przy wyjaśnianiu posługiwano się pojęciem doboru indywidualnego, doboru grupowego i doboru krewniaczego. …”
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Digital Camouflage Pattern Design Based on the Biased Random Walk by Yuanying Gan, Chuntong Liu, Zhenxin He, Hongcai Li, Zhongye Liu

“…In addition, the results of simulation camouflage image detection in multiple scenes show that the proposed method can effectively deal with camouflage target detection on the basis of fully retaining the original background texture information and has strong camouflage concealment effect in the scene.…”
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Aging Effects on the Mechanical Performance of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Composites by Ayesha Afzal, Muhammad Kashif Bangash, Asif Hafeez, Khubab Shaker

“…These environmental factors strongly affect the performance of CFRC, and they tend to age with time. …”
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A systematic review on the impact of breastfeeding on cancer risk, weight loss, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus in mothers, and the role of fathers, medical person... by Olga Krupa, Daria Rybak, Katarzyna Kamińska-Omasta, Bartosz Omasta, Kuba Borys Romańczuk, Magdalena Agata Czerska, Paulina Dorota Pietrukaniec, Szymon Przemysław Stolarczyk, Zofia Martyna Wójcik, Kinga Furtak

“… Introduction Breastfeeding has a significant impact on maternal health, in the long term it reduces the risk of certain cancers, cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes, supports the process of weight loss after                                                                                                                                pregnancy and the formation of a strong bond between mother and child. In order to increase effectiveness among breastfeeding women, it is extremely important to educate them, as well as help from fathers and medical staff.     …”
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Purification and Characterization of a New Lectin from Loach Skin Mucus by Peng-peng Sun, Yuan-yuan Ren, Jie Zheng, Ai-jun Hu

“…Besides, LML depended on Ca2+ to induce hemagglutination and was strongly inhibited by D-lactose. The lectin exhibited powerful resistance to alkali and kept about 30% hemagglutination activity at pH 14.0, whereas its capacity of acid resistance was weak. …”
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Characterization of HIV-1 Infection and Innate Sensing in Different Types of Primary Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages by Elisabeth A. Diget, Kaja Zuwala, Randi K. Berg, Rune R. Laursen, Stine Søby, Lars Østergaard, Jesper Melchjorsen, Trine H. Mogensen

“…By contrast, all MDM types were activated to a comparable extent by intracellular DNA, and the macrophage serum-free medium-(Mac-SFM-)differentiated MDMs responded strongly to membrane fusion through expression of CXCL10. …”
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Hyperactivity and Pro-inflammatory Functions of Platelets in Diabetes by Jordan Greaves, Giordano Pula

“…Taken together, the growing evidence of the different and unexpected roles of platelets in the progression of DM provides a strong rationale for the design of cardiovascular drugs targeting specifically platelets, their pro-inflammatory activity and their activation mechanisms in this disease. …”
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How macroeconomic factors impact residential real estate prices in Eastern Europe by Laima Okunevičiūtė Neverauskienė, Dominykas Linkevičius, Daiva Andriušaitienė

“…Findings – The findings show a strong correlation between macroeconomic indicators and residential real estate prices, with the key influencing factor varying by country, reflecting diverse market sensitivities and regional economic contexts. …”
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Assessing Air-Pocket Pressure Peaks During Water Filling Operations Using Dimensionless Equations by Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, Francisco J. Sánchez-Romero, Manuel Saba, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez

“…A practical application involving a water pipeline with an irregular profile demonstrates the model’s effectiveness, showing strong agreement between calculated and chart-predicted (proposed methodology) values. …”
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NCK2 Is Significantly Associated with Opiates Addiction in African-Origin Men by Zhifa Liu, Xiaobo Guo, Yuan Jiang, Heping Zhang

“…By employing both SNP- and gene-based methods of analysis, we identified a strong (odds ratio = 13.87) and significant (P value = 1.33E−11) association of an SNP in the NCK2 gene on chromosome 2 with opiates addiction in African-origin men. …”
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Drug Target Identification and Elucidation of Natural Inhibitors for : An Study by Surya Narayan Rath, Manisha Ray, Animesh Pattnaik, Sukanta Kumar Pradhan

“…The in silico studies revealed the hypothesis that lpxD could be a potential drug target and with recommendation of a strong inhibitory effect of selected natural compounds against infection caused due to B. petrii, would be further validated through in vitro experiments.…”
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The Effect of Built-Up Area Density and Vegetation Density on Surface Temperature in Banjarmasin City by Sidharta Adyatma, Muhammad Muhaimin, Deasy Arisanty, Karunia Puji Hastuti

“…This means that the NDBI of the built-up area density in 2015 and 2019 strongly correlates with surface temperature. Correlation values between the vegetation density score and the surface temperature were -0.860 in 2015 and -0.949 in 2019. …”
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Design and Communication of City Brand Image Based on Big Data and Personalized Recommendation System by Yan Lin, Guofeng Hu

“…Based on the analysis of big data, it can provide strong decision support for the government and industry managers, and realize the image design and communication of the urban brand identification system. …”
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Another(’s) perspective on subjectivity in causal connectives: a usage-based analysis of volitional causal relations by Ninke Stukker, Ted Sanders

“…Indeed, corpus studies suggest that connectives strongly specialize in one specific causality category, but also that their use is not restricted to the causality categories they are prototypically associated with. …”
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Evaluation and Prediction Method of Rolling Bearing Performance Degradation Based on Attention-LSTM by Yaping Wang, Chaonan Yang, Di Xu, Jianghua Ge, Wei Cui

“…Compared with other models, the method proposed by this paper makes full use of the historical data and is more sensitive to the key information in the long time series, and the eRMSE index and the eMAE index of the two sets of experimental data are minimum, and the prediction accuracy of rolling bearing degradation performance is higher. The model has the strong robustness and the generalization ability, which has the important engineering practical value for the prediction of the equipment health state.…”
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Compilation and mapping of hydrogeological data for the Tadla irrigation perimeter by Iharzi Chaimae, Najine Abdessamad, Kassou Amina, Benmoussa Amroumousa, Mouzoun Ouafae, Essahlaoui Ali, Khrabcha Abdelali

“…With permeability between 10⁻⁵ and 10⁻³ m/s and transmissivity between 1×10⁻³ and 5×10⁻² m²/s, groundwater flows from northeast to southwest, indicating moderate to strong water transmission. Moderate storage capacity is indicated by storage coefficients ranging from 3×10⁻² to 6×10⁻². …”
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A Novel Improved Threshold Adaptive Forgetting Variable Step Size Blind Separation Model for Weak Signal Detection by Tianyi Yu, Houming Wang, Shunming Li, Jiantao Lu, Siqi Gong, Yanfeng Wang, Guangrong Teng

“…The online blind source separation (BSS) is seriously disturbed by strong noise when extracting weak signals and has the defects that it cannot both give consideration to convergence speed and steady-state error. …”
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Experimental Research on Damping Effect of Double-Layer Tuned Mass Damper for High-Rise Structure by Botan Shen, Jin Wang, Weibing Xu, Yanjiang Chen, Weiming Yan, Jianhui Huang, Zhenyun Tang

“…A double-layer tuned mass damper (DTMD) has advantages of wide damping frequency band and strong robustness. At present, there is a lack of seismic design methods for high-rise structures based on DTMDs. …”
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Ion‐Permeable Electrospun Scaffolds Enable Controlled In‐Vitro Electrostimulation Assay of Myoblasts by Serafina Pacilio, Francesco Decataldo, Roberta Costa, Tobias Cramer, Beatrice Fraboni, Giovanna Cenacchi, Maria Letizia Focarete

“…Scaffold porosity enables high ionic conductivity and strong electric field generation, orthogonally oriented to the scaffold surface. …”
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The Chromatin Pattern of Cell Nuclei Is of Prognostic Value for Renal Cell Carcinomas by Christine François, Myriam Remmelink, Michel Petein, Roland van Velthoven, André Danguy, Eric Wespes, Isabelle Salmon, Robert Kiss, Christine Decaestecker

“…An original method of data analysis related to artificial intelligence (decision tree induction) enabled a strong prognostic model to be set up. In the case of 10 new patients, this model identified all the dead patients as having a bad survival status, with a total of 8 correct predictions. …”
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