The effect of conditioned media on the cellular proliferation of pancreatic cancer cells, pancreatic stellate cells, and myeloid-derived suppressor cells by Y. Chong, S. Samsudin, D. Bahrani, C. Chang, A. Masamune, S. Ng, N. Ismail, K. Ho

“…Factors from primary tumour cells support cancer cell survival more than those from metastatic cells, indicating potential targets for immunotherapy in early-stage cancers.…”
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Advanced Algorithmic Model for Real-Time Multi-Level Crop Disease Detection Using Neural Architecture Search by Slimani Hicham, El Mhamdi Jamal, Jilbab Abdelilah

“…Among the evaluated models, our NAS-based model emerges as the top performer, highlighting the importance and effectiveness of this method in developing state-of-the-art models. It achieves a mean average precision of 94.10% and an impressive overall recall of 96.96%. …”
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Atomistic Insight into the Effects of Collision Angle on the Characteristics of Cu-Ta Joining by Explosive Welding by Van-Thuc Nguyen, Nguyen Quang Hien, Pham Minh Duc, Tran Duy Nam, Van Huong Hoang, Van Thanh Tien Nguyen

“…The stress evolution experiences three stages: quick increasing, spreading out, and stabling. …”
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Evaluation of sex-based differences in below-the-knee plaque histology in patients who underwent amputation for chronic limb-threatening ischemia by Fouzul Kansul, Deborah Vela, MD, Judit Csore, MD, Bright Benfor, MD, Sasha Suarez, MD, Anahita Dua, MD, MBA, MSC, Trisha L. Roy, MD, PhD

“…Methods: A total of 35 lower limbs were collected from 34 patients with end-stage PAD undergoing major amputation. We selected, harvested, and cross-sectioned at 3- to 4-mm intervals 163 diseased below-the-knee arterial segments resulting in 1260 arterial rings. …”
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FBI-Net: Frequency-Based Image Forgery Localization via Multitask Learning With Self-Attention by A-Rom Gu, Ju-Hyeon Nam, Sang-Chul Lee

“…Finally, in the decoder stage, region and edge information of the label are learned through multi-task learning to provide more extensive supervision for forged region localization; the edge stream will give a deeper understanding of features between forged and authentic images and help learn how to predict exquisite representations in images. …”
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Segmented evolution and exploration targets of the Cambrian platform margin in the Manxi area, Tarim Basin by Zongquan Hu, Fan Feng, Chengming Fang, Zicheng Cao, Tieyi Wang, Kangkang Guo, Yang Li, Shi Wang

“…Both segments were in a submarine buildup stage during the Early Cambrian, resulting in overall limited scales of their reservoirs. …”
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Caption Generation Based on Emotions Using CSPDenseNet and BiLSTM with Self-Attention by Kavi Priya S, Pon Karthika K, Jayakumar Kaliappan, Senthil Kumaran Selvaraj, Nagalakshmi R, Baye Molla

“…The proposed work encapsulates the facial emotional features to produce more expressive captions similar to human-annotated ones with the help of Cross Stage Partial Dense Network (CSPDenseNet) and Self-attentive Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network. …”
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Dynamic Reliability Management for FPGA-Based Systems by Jahanzeb Anwer, Sebastian Meisner, Marco Platzner

“…Moreover, the redundant circuit implementations vary in structure and resource usage with the redundancy insertion algorithms as well as number of used redundant stages. The radiation environment varies during the operation time span of the mission depending on the orbit and space weather conditions. …”
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Les limites de la cartographie des risques littoraux : des perspectives pour la compréhension de tous by Aurélie Arnaud

“…With this in mind we emit some recommendations in the adaptation maps areas to end users. It has a major stake in the decision making to local actors and public communication (locals as tourists).…”
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Antihuman Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Activity of Rare Earth Metal Complexes of 4-Hydroxycoumarins in Cell Culture

“…Detection of endogenous reverse transcriptase (RT) activity and RT processivity by PCR indicative for proviral DNA synthesis demonstrated that anti-HIV activity has not been linked to early stages of viral replication. No effect on late steps of viral replication has been found using cells chronically producing HIV-<mml:math alttext="$1_{LAI}$"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mtext>LAI</mml:mtext> </mml:mrow> </mml:msub> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> virus. …”
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Transgenic plants as genetic models for studying functions of plant genes by A. V. Kochetov, V. K. Shumny

“…Transgenic plants are widely used for the investigation of functions of particular genes as well as for reconstruction of complex gene networks controlling plant morphology, biochemistry, and physiology during different development stages and in response to various external stimuli. …”
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Polymorphism of renin — angiotensin system genes in progression of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C by O. V. Taratina, T. N. Krasnova, L. M. Samokhodskaya, T. N. Lopatkina, V. A. Tkachuk, N. A. Mukhin

“…Overall 109 patients with CHC and liver cirrhosis C with established stage of fibrosis and duration of disease have been divided into group of «rapidly progressing fibrosis» (55 patients, ≥0,130 fibrosis points/year) and «slowly progressing fibrosis» (54 persons, &lt;0,130 fibrosis units/year). …”
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Application of palliative care in pain management of terminally ill patients (安宁疗护在临终患者疼痛管理中的应用) by CHEN Mingming (陈明明), REN Li (任丽), JIN Qi (金琦)

“…Conclusion Palliative care is effective to reduce the pain of terminally ill patients, and it helps to improve the quality of life in terminal stage. (目的 探讨安宁疗护在临终患者疼痛管理中的应用。方法 选取医院老年科2021年1月—2022年12月收治的50例临终患者为研究对象, 均伴有不同程度的疼痛。…”
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Challenges and Development in Suzhou Laboratory Animal Industry Over the Past Five Decades by ZHAO Lijuan, XIAO Chunlan, SHENG Yajie, LU Xi, ZHOU Zhengyu

“…Since the 1970s, the laboratory animal industry in Suzhou has gone through five stages: its inception, emergence, growth, transformation, and scaling up. …”
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Genetic background and embryonic temperature affect DNA methylation and expression of myogenin and muscle development in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). by Erik Burgerhout, Maren Mommens, Hanne Johnsen, Arnfinn Aunsmo, Nina Santi, Øivind Andersen

“…Eggs from salmon families with either high or low estimated breeding values for body growth, referred to as Fast and Slow genotypes, were incubated at 8°C or 4°C until the embryonic 'eyed-stage' followed by rearing at the production temperature of 8°C. …”
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Study of the landslide process in conditions of seasonally frozen soils (landslide slope of the Vorkuta river valley) by A. N. Vikhot

“…In view of recent trends in melting of permafrost strata, the state of cryolithozone is noted as unstable, so such exogenous geological processes as landslides are widespread.Materials and methods. …”
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Features of the resource species Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Hack. when introduced in West Siberia by Yu. A. Gismatulina, V. V. Budaeva, G. V. Sakovich, O. Yu. Vasilyeva, G. A. Zueva, A. S. Gusar, O. V. Dorogina

“…The full ontogenetic patterns of the plants grown from seeds that had been collected in native habitats were compared to show that M. sacchariflorus and M. sinensis Anderss. accessions are distinguished by longer being at the most vulnerable developmental stages: seedlings and plantlets. Hence, it is preferable to cultivate seedlings on protected ground, and plantations are advisable to establish with more stable cloned vegetative material. …”
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Length-weight relationship, condition factors and reproductive biology of the spineless cuttlefish Sepiella inermis (Ferussac &amp; d’Orbigny, 1848) in the southeastern regions of... by Roksana Jahan, Md. Nasim Mahmud

“…Five gonadal (immature, maturing, mature, spawning, and spent) and four testis maturation stages were observed. The highest percentage of mature females (100 %) and males (75 %) were observed between 10-10.99 and 9–9.99 cm DML, respectively. 50 % of the females and males matured at 7.2 cm and 5.2 cm DML, respectively. …”
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CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND VALUE DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA by Evgeniya K. Belikova

“…Since the first stages of society’s development, such phenomena as “culture” and “value” have been of particular importance, since value development necessarily leads to a change in culture, and a renewed culture forms new values in society. …”
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Community social capital and depressive symptoms among older adults relocated for poverty alleviation in Shanxi, China: a cross-sectional study by Le Yang, Yang Yang, Yuting Guo, Zeyuan Li, Qi Yu

“…Methods Through the multi-stage stratified sampling, 1882 relocated older adults (≥ 60) were surveyed in 24 resettlement sites in Shanxi Province, China. …”
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