The Effects of Early-Life Predator Stress on Anxiety- and Depression-Like Behaviors of Adult Rats by Lu-jing Chen, Bing-qing Shen, Dan-dan Liu, Sheng-tian Li

“…The 2-week predator stress decreased spontaneous activities immediately following stress but did not increase depression- or anxiety-like behaviors 4 weeks after the stimulation in adulthood. Instead, juvenile predator stress had some protective effects, though not very obvious, in adulthood. …”
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The Effect of Inflammation on the Formation of Thyroid Nodules by Zexin Li, Yiteng Huang, Xiang Chen, Chiju Wei, Peixuan Yang, Wencan Xu

“…In bioinformatics study, inflammation did not promote TNs formation directly. Instead, it inhibited the synthesis of thyroid hormone, which might be the cause of the elevated TSH coexisting with inflammation. …”
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An Efficient Solid-Phase Extraction-Based Liquid Chromatography Method to Simultaneously Determine Diastereomers α-Tocopherol, Other Tocols, and Retinol Isomers in Infant Formula by Baifen Huang, Zengxuan Cai, Jingshun Zhang, Jiaojiao Xu

“…., Ltd.) was employed for eluting each target compound. Instead of conventional solvent extract, a green and eco-friendly solid-phase extraction column, packing with nonpolar polystyrene divinylbenzene, was optimized in terms of capacity and solvent used in steps. …”
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Estimates of Prevalence of Pulmonary Hypertension according to Different International Definitions by Richa Tyagi, Surya Kant, Akshyaya Pradhan, Anupam Wakhlu, Darshan Kumar Bajaj, Jyoti Bajpai

“…The importance of early detection of this complication has been realized worldwide, and recently, the definition of pulmonary hypertension was revised to set the cutoff of mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) at 20 mmHg instead of 25 mmHg at rest. In our study, we have tried to estimate the difference this new definition brings to the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension among interstitial lung disease patients at our centre. …”
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Regulation of Temperature on Multitrays in an Indirect Solar Dryer (ISD) with Energy Storage and Three Airflow Modes by G. B. Tchaya, E. Tchoffo Houdji, J. H Tchami, C. Kapseu, M. Kamta

“…When the energy source is unstable, humidity which is a variable parameter is used to mark the end of drying instead of time.…”
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Ulnar variance detection from radiographic images using deep learning by Sahar Nooh, Abdelrahim Koura, Mohammed Kayed

“…Advanced Convolutional Neural Networks are exploited instead of traditional manual methods. Specifically, U-Net is used in the segmentation of ulna and radius bones, while DenseNets are applied to classify the type of ulnar variance. …”
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Hydromagnetic Flow of Two Immiscible Couple Stress Fluids through Porous Medium in a Cylindrical Pipe with Slip Effect by Punnamchandar Bitla, Yitagesu Daba Kore

“…The flow is driven by a constant pressure gradient applied in a direction parallel to the cylinder’s axis, and an external uniform magnetic field is applied in the direction perpendicular to the direction of fluid motion. Instead of the classical no-slip condition, the slip velocity along with vanishing couple stress boundary conditions is taken on the surface of the rigid cylinder, and continuity conditions of velocity, vorticity, shear stress, and couple stress are imposed at the fluid-fluid interface. …”
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Vitamin K and Bone Health: A Review on the Effects of Vitamin K Deficiency and Supplementation and the Effect of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants on Different Bone Para... by Celia Rodríguez-Olleros Rodríguez, Manuel Díaz Curiel

“…The reduction in risk of fracture with the use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants instead of warfarin is also of interest although once again, the available evidence offers disparate results. …”
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Adaptive genetic algorithm based deep feature selector for cancer detection in lung histopathological images by Avigyan Roy, Priyam Saha, Nandita Gautam, Friedhelm Schwenker, Ram Sarkar

“…., a candidate solution) using a filter method, instead of a classifier. Further, the GA optimized feature vector is fed to the K-nearest neighbors classifier for final classification. …”
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Predicting and synthesizing terahertz spoof surface plasmon polariton devices with a convolutional neural network model by Vahid Najafy, Bijan Abbasi-Arand, Maryam Hesari-Shermeh

“…Abstract With the increasing global attention to deep learning and the advancements made in applying convolutional neural networks in electromagnetics, we have recently witnessed the utilization of deep learning-based networks for predicting the spectrum and electromagnetic properties of structures instead of traditional tools like fully numerical-based methods. …”
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Soil Assessment along Toposequences in Rural Northern Nigeria: A Geomedical Approach by Lena Hartmann, Marvin Gabriel, Yuanrong Zhou, Barbara Sponholz, Heinrich Thiemeyer

“…Fluoride toxicities in the environment are known to not be related to the disease. To investigate if, instead, CDR is caused by a nutrient deficiency in the environment, subsistence farms in an endemic CDR area near Kaduna, northern Nigeria, were investigated for bedrock, slope forms, soil types, and soil characteristics. …”
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Research on Grid Scroll Chaotic Extended Sequence Algorithm and Its Circuit Implementation for F-OFDM System by Yingjie Ma, Ya Li, Geng Zhao, Ping Zeng, Yatao Yang

“…The proposed grid multiscroll chaotic maps are used as random phase sequence vectors instead of the traditional pseudo random sequence, which provide a large number of random sequences with good correlation characteristics, random characteristics, and high security. …”
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Persistently High Hip Circumference after Bariatric Surgery Is a Major Hurdle to Successful Hip Replacement by Menachem M. Meller, Amber B. Courville, Anne E. Sumner

“…Therefore a traditional cup placement could not be achieved. Instead, a hemiarthroplasty was performed. After surgery her pain and reliance on external support decreased. …”
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Regeneration in the absence of canonical neoblasts in an early branching flatworm by Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Chew Chai, Andrei Rozanski, Gargi Purandare, Fruzsina Ficze, Athanasia Mizi, Bo Wang, Jochen C. Rink

“…Furthermore, the cohort of germline multipotency genes, which are considered canonical neoblast markers, are not expressed in dividing cells, but in the germline instead, and we experimentally show that they are neither necessary for proliferation nor regeneration. …”
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Education of the Post-Industrial Era: Setting on Person and Intelligence by O. K. Krokinskaya

“…But if students are offered well-organized research practices instead of imitations of scientific work, then they form the true key competencies necessary for modern society – a willingness to be in search, continuously learn and create new solutions for new tasks, contribute to the development of good conceptual language, cooperation in group work, courage in posing problems, readiness to work with complex problems. …”
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Function of boundary rivers in hydropolitics cooperation:Danube river study by Murad Kaviani Rad, Afshin Motaghi Disfani, Hossein Mokhtari Hashi, Ahmad Rashidinejad

“…In some parts of the world, common water resources in the form of rivers have used as a linking factor between nations and governments. So that, instead of conflict, the beneficiary countries take the path of cooperation and convergence and they have taken important steps with regard to the development of the region as optimal management of common water resources. …”
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The Highly Sensitive Child as a challenge for education – introduction to the concept by Monika Baryła-Matejczuk, Małgorzata Artymiak, Rosario Ferrer-Cascales, Moises Betancort

“…Understanding its main characteristics (DOES) will allow one to appreciate the potential of this condition instead of focusing on its deficiencies. Such a perspective opens up possible avenues of supporting the Highly Sensitive Child’s resources by both parents and teachers. …”
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Life cycle comparison of industrial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling and mining supply chains by Michael L. Machala, Xi Chen, Samantha P. Bunke, Gregory Forbes, Akarys Yegizbay, Jacques A. de Chalendar, Inês L. Azevedo, Sally Benson, William A. Tarpeh

“…Recycling batteries to mixed metal products instead of discrete salts further reduces environmental impacts. …”
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An Airfield Soil Pavement Design Method Based on Rut Depth and Cumulative Fatigue by Duoyao Zhang, Liangcai Cai, Shaohui Zhou

“…The proposed method avoids the use of the “designed aircraft” concept and instead adopts the cumulative fatigue theory widely used in permanent airfield design at present. …”
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Torque Prediction In Deep Hole Drilling: Artificial Neural Networks Versus Nonlinear Regression Model by Ngoc Hung- Chu, Hoai Nam- Nguyen, Van Du- Nguyen, Dang Binh- Nguyen

“…Unlike many previous studies, this model uses hole depth as an input vector element instead of hole diameter. The model has been validated through experiments drilling AISI-304 stainless steel with hole depth-to-diameter ratios of 8 under continuous drilling conditions with ultrasonic-assisted vibration. …”
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