Renewable Energy in Sudan: Current Status and Future Prospects by Ihab Jabbar Al‐Rikabi, Adil A. M. Omara, Mohamed Ali Abuelnour, Abuelnuor A. A. Abuelnuor, Ahmed Elbashir Mohamed, Najib Aminu Ismail

“…Sudan's hydropower capacity stands at 1907 MW, with plans to add 2197 MW. As a Sunbelt country, Sudan has immense solar energy potential, yet it has only constructed a 10‐MW solar PV plant (5 MW on‐grid). …”
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Impact of endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases 1 (ERAP1) and 2 (ERAP2) on neutrophil cellular functions by Irma Saulle, Irma Saulle, Fiona Limanaqi, Micaela Garziano, Micaela Garziano, Maria Luisa Murno, Valentina Artusa, Valentina Artusa, Sergio Strizzi, Matteo Giovarelli, Carsten Schulte, Jacopo Aiello, Mario Clerici, Mario Clerici, Claudia Vanetti, Mara Biasin

“…IntroductionEndoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases 1 (ERAP1) and 2 (ERAP2) modulate a plethora of physiological processes for the maintenance of homeostasis in different cellular subsets at both intra and extracellular level.Materials and methodsIn this frame, the extracellular supplementation of recombinant human (rh) ERAP1 and ERAP2 (300 ng/ml) was used to mimic the effect of stressor-induced secretion of ERAPs on neutrophils isolated from 5 healthy subjects. …”
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Lip-Reading Classification of Turkish Digits Using Ensemble Learning Architecture Based on 3DCNN by Ali Erbey, Necaattin Barışçı

“…The dataset has divided into two subsets: the face region and the lip region. CNN, LSTM, and 3DCNN-based models, including C3D, I3D, and 3DCNN+BiLSTM, were used. …”
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The role of sociodemographic factors on the acceptability of digital mental health care: A scoping review protocol. by Nagi Abouzeid, Shalini Lal

“…The study selection strategy will be piloted by two reviewers on subsets of 30 articles until agreement among reviewers reaches 90%, after which one reviewer will complete the remaining screening of titles and abstracts. …”
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Serial Paediatrics Omics Tracking in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (SPOT-ME): protocol paper for a multidisciplinary, observational study of clinical and biological markers of paediatr... by Adam Scheinberg, Natalie Thomas, Katherine Huang, Paul R Gooley, Elisha K Josev, Tracey Chau, Darcy Tantanis, Sarah J Knight, Christopher W Armstrong

“…Data generated will be compared with controls and over several time points within each patient to potentially develop a biomarker signature of the disease, identify subsets or clusters of patients, and to unveil the pathomechanisms of the disease.Methods and analysis This protocol paper outlines a comprehensive, multilevel, longitudinal, observational study in paediatric ME/CFS. …”
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Hematopoietic stem cell discovery: unveiling the historical and future perspective of colony-forming units assay by Nur Afizah Yusoff, Zariyantey Abd Hamid, Siti Balkis Budin, Izatus Shima Taib

“…Over time, more sophisticated tools have been developed to evaluate the behaviour of specifically purified subsets of hematopoietic cells that have the capacity to produce blood cells. …”
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Migration, Distribution, and Safety Evaluation of Specific Phenotypic and Functional Mouse Spleen-Derived Invariant Natural Killer T2 Cells after Adoptive Infusion by Dongzhi Chen, Wenbin Xu, Jingfang Teng, Huifang Liu, Yuanyuan Wang, Yan Wang, Shujie Cheng, Ming Meng

“…The percentage of the iNKT2 subgroup was the highest in 3 days after intraperitoneal injection of α-GalCer, and iNKT2 subsets accounted for more than 92% after separation and purification by magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS). …”
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Blood-based biomarkers in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with immune checkpoint blockade by Yo-Ting Tsai, Jeffrey Schlom, Renee N. Donahue

“…Here we review studies in which multiple blood-based biomarkers encompassing circulating soluble analytes, immune cell subsets, circulating tumor DNA, blood-based tumor mutational burden, and circulating tumor cells have shown promising associations with the clinical response of NSCLC patients to ICI therapy. …”
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Neoadjuvant apatinib addition to sintilimab and carboplatin-taxane based chemotherapy in patients with early triple-negative breast cancer: the phase 2 NeoSAC trial by Guoshuang Shen, Zhilin Liu, Miaozhou Wang, Yi Zhao, Xinlan Liu, Yujin Hou, Wenbiao Ma, Jingqi Han, Xiaofeng Zhou, Dengfeng Ren, Fuxing Zhao, Zitao Li, Shifen Huang, Yongzhi Chen, Yingjian He, Yan Liu, Zijun Zhu, Yongxin Li, Jinming Li, Mengting Da, Hongnan Mo, Feng Du, Liang Cui, Jing Bai, Zhen Liu, Fei Ma, Jiuda Zhao

“…Comparison of pre-neoadjuvant and post-surgery data revealed that the pCR group treated with this novel regimen exhibited an upregulation of distinct immune cell subsets, thereby activating the tumor microenvironment. …”
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Low-density SNP marker sets for genetic variation analysis and variety identification in cultivated citrus by Phuong Linh Nguyen, Jin-Kee Jung, Jee-Soo Park, Sung-Chur Sim

“…With the 481 SNPs, four subsets (192, 96, 48, and 24 SNPs) were generated to evaluate their performance for variety identification. …”
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UN CASO DE DESORDEN DEL DESARROLLO SEXUAL EN UN CANINO MESTIZO by S. Valencia, J. C. González, J. C. Rincón

“…Se clasifican en tres grupos de anormalidades: del desarrollo cromosómico, del desarrollo gonadal y del sexo fenotípico, y presentan diferentes subcate - gorías. El objetivo de este trabajo fue describir las características fenotípicas, cromosómicas y anatómicas de los órganos reproductores de un paciente canino, aparentemente hembra, de 3 años de edad, con desorden del desarrollo sexual, que presentaba una protuberancia a nivel vaginal con sangrado y presencia de pus; en la anamnesis reportan comportamien - to de macho. …”
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Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer: updates and best practices for multiplex immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence (IF) image analysis and data sharing by Ignacio I Wistuba, Michael T Tetzlaff, Carlo B Bifulco, Benjamin Green, Sacha Gnjatic, Scott J Rodig, Joel C Sunshine, Janis M Taube, Keith E Steele, Marlon C Rebelatto, David L Rimm, Ana Lako, Edwin R Parra, Guray Akturk, Michael Angelo, Shirley Greenbaum, Noah F Greenwald, Cyrus V Hedvat, Travis J Hollmann, Kurt A Schalper, Cláudia S Ferreira, Konstanty Korski, Emanuel Schenck, Michael J Surace, Jennifer H Yearley, Jeffrey S Roskes, Margaret Eminizer, Logan L Engle, Daniel Jiménez-Sánchez, Jamie Rodriguez-Canales, Alexander S Szalay

“…Objectives Multiplex immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence (mIHC/IF) are emerging technologies that can be used to help define complex immunophenotypes in tissue, quantify immune cell subsets, and assess the spatial arrangement of marker expression. mIHC/IF assays require concerted efforts to optimize and validate the multiplex staining protocols prior to their application on slides. …”
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Blocking the CD39/CD73 pathway synergizes with anti-CD20 bispecific antibody in nodal B-cell lymphoma by Carsten Müller-Tidow, Peter Dreger, Joseph Kauer, Wolfgang Huber, Clara Kolbe, Berit Brinkmann, Sascha Dietrich, Tobias Roider

“…Previously, we and others demonstrated that CD39+ T-cell subsets may have an adverse impact on the efficacy of T-cell-engaging immunotherapies. …”
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Blood Genomics Identifies Three Subtypes of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: “IFN-High,” “NE-High,” and “Mixed” by Mintian Cui, Taotao Li, Xinwei Yan, Chao Wang, Qi Shen, Hongbiao Ren, Liangshuang Li, Ruijie Zhang

“…We identified 92 genes as a signature of the SLE subtypes and three intrinsic subsets (“IFN-high,” “NE-high,” and “mixed”), which varied in disease severity. …”
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Early childhood caries risk prediction using machine learning approaches in Bangladesh by Fardous Hasan, Maha El Tantawi, Farzana Haque, Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan, Jorma I. Virtanen

“…Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) and Random Forest (RF) was applied to identify the optimal subsets of features. Random forest classifier (RFC), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), support vector machine (SVM), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models were used to identify the best fitted model as the predictor of ECC. …”
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Impact of Anterior Commissure Involvement and Frozen Guided Resections on Oncological Outcomes after Laser Cordectomy in Early Glottic Cancers – A 10-year Retrospective Analysis fr... by Elizabeth Mathew Iype, Ankit Vishwani, Bipin T Varghese, Shaji Thomas, Sahya S Lal

“…TLM provides similar oncological benefits to OPL in a few subsets of patients, and the quality of voice is comparable to RT, while hospitalization time is reduced. …”
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EXamining the feasibility of exerCisE to manage symptoms of Lupus (EXCEL): a protocol for a randomised controlled pilot study by John Reynolds, Katie Hesketh, Matthew Cocks, Megan Quickfall, Alex J Wadley, Scott Green, Jet Veldhuijzen Van Zanten

“…Measures of feasibility and acceptability will be reported, and peripheral blood will be collected at weeks 0, 12 and 18 to explore whether the frequency, phenotype and metabolic profile of lymphocyte subsets has changed. Biomarkers of SLE activity, and self-reported measures of fatigue, sleep quality and health-related quality of life will also be monitored at these timepoints. …”
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The safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in children, adolescents, and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Pedro C.A. Reis, João Evangelista Ponte Conrado, Mariana Macambira Noronha, Luís Felipe Leite da Silva, Erick Figueiredo Saldanha, Jonathan Metts

“…Conclusions: Overall, ICB is well tolerated in CAYA patients with different cancer types, and certain subsets of CAYA cancer are ICB-responsive.…”
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The magnitude of exercise‐induced progenitor cell mobilisation and extravasation is positively associated with cardiorespiratory fitness by Mark Ross, Sarah Aldred, Mark T. Drayson, Jos A. Bosch, James E. Turner

“…There were statistically significant correlations between V̇O2max and ingress (r > 0.70, P < 0.025) and egress (r > −0.77, P < 0.009) of progenitor cell subsets (CD34+, CD34+CD45dim, CD34+CD133+), showing that cardiorespiratory fitness influences the magnitude of progenitor cell mobilisation into the blood and subsequent extravasation. …”
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A single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals astrocyte heterogeneity and identifies CHI3L1 as a diagnostic biomarker in Parkinson's disease by Zhongying Gong, Dan Guo, Yufeng Lin, Zhiwei Liu, Mengdi Lv, Xinxin Liu, Yang Yao, Sijia Wang, Yuan Wang, Zhiyun Wang

“…Methods: The single-cell transcriptomic profiles of PD samples were collected from the GEO database. We have identified subsets of astrocytes and analyzed their functions. …”
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