Stability Analysis of Host Claystone under T-M Coupling of HLW Disposal Repository in China: Experiments and Numerical Simulation by Haian Liang, Tan Tang, Longpeng Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Shuai Liu, Ting Yang, Xinjun Cheng, Juan Zhang

“…While, the variation law of surrounding rock’s temperature, stress, and deformation corresponding to the embedding time is obtained from the numerical calculation. Finally, the stability of the deep geological repository is comprehensively evaluated. …”
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Research on Rheological Properties by Desulfurized Rubber Powder/SBS Composite-Modified Asphalt and Road Performance of Its Mixture by Ping Guo, Qingwei Ma, Yan Li, Chenguang Yang, Yeji Qiu, Liangyu Sun, Xilun Zhang, Fayong Yang

“…Second, the high-temperature and low-temperature rheological properties of asphalt were evaluated by using a dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) and bending beam rheometer (BBR). Finally, their high-temperature stability, low-temperature crack resistance, and water stability under the gradation of AC-13 and SMA-13 were evaluated. …”
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Inhibitory Effect of Natural Anti-Inflammatory Compounds on Cytokines Released by Chronic Venous Disease Patient-Derived Endothelial Cells by Veronica Tisato, Giorgio Zauli, Erika Rimondi, Sergio Gianesini, Laura Brunelli, Erica Menegatti, Paolo Zamboni, Paola Secchiero

“…Among the cytokines/chemokines released by VEC, which recapitulated the systemic profile (IL-8, TNF-α, GM-CSF, INF-α2, G-CSF, MIP-1β, VEGF, EGF, Eotaxin, MCP-1, CXCL10, PDGF, and RANTES), we identified those targeted by ex vivo treatment with α-Lipoic acid and/or Ginkgoselect phytosome (GM-CSF, G-CSF, CXCL10, PDGF, and RANTES). Finally, by investigating the intracellular pathways involved in promoting the VEC release of cytokines/chemokines, which are targeted by natural anti-inflammatory compounds, we documented that α-Lipoic acid significantly counteracted TNF-α-induced NF-κB and p38/MAPK activation while the effects of Ginkgo biloba appeared to be predominantly mediated by Akt. …”
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Prediction Mathematic Model and Influencing Factors of Contact Stress of Cylindrical Gear with Arc Tooth by Qi Zhang, Guang Wen, Shuang Liang, Qin Tong, Li Hou, Guangchun Yang

“…The amplitude of contact stress of the cylindrical gear with arc tooth was the largest due to the change of tooth radius, followed by the change of modulus, while the influence of tooth width was less. Finally, the influence of modulus-tooth line radius interaction and pressure angle-tooth line radius interaction on contact stress of cylindrical gear with arc tooth was significant.…”
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Tool wear prediction based on XGBoost feature selection combined with PSO-BP network by Zhangwen Lin, Yankun Fan, Jinling Tan, Zhen Li, Peng Yang, Hua Wang, Weiwei Duan

“…Subsequently, time-domain, frequency-domain, and time–frequency domain features are extracted from the preprocessed data using FFT and wavelet packet decomposition, followed by feature screening for tool wear mapping via Pearson correlation and XGBoost feature importance analysis as model input. Finally, PSO is employed to optimize BPNN parameters. …”
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Neural Differentiation of Human Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells Involves Activation of the Wnt5a/JNK Signalling by Sujeong Jang, Jong-Seong Park, Han-Seong Jeong

“…Wnt5a level was upregulated after neural differentiation and Wnt3, Dvl2, and Naked1 levels were downregulated. Finally, we found that the JNK expression was increased after neural induction and ERK level was decreased. …”
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A Dynamic Source Tracing Method for Food Supply Chain Quality and Safety Based on Big Data by Jun Song, Hong Huo, Teng Li, Lingyun Chu

“…Then, this paper applied two data analysis and processing methods—the density-based clustering algorithm and the cosine similarity algorithm—to preliminarily process the collected quality tracing information of each link in the food supply chain and analyzed the influencing factors of food quality. Finally, experimental results proved the effectiveness of the constructed model. …”
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Retracted: Internet of Things Technology in Monitoring System of Sustainable Use of Soil and Land Resources by Zhaoya Chen, Daobo Wang, Lijun Ma, Yaheng Chen

“…In order to further verify the reliability of the system, this paper carries out the performance test, accuracy test, and monitoring test in extremely harsh environment. Finally, the data show that the system can be applied to most of the land environment to monitor the sustainability of land resources.…”
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The ERK1/2 Inhibitor U0126 Attenuates Diabetes-Induced Upregulation of MMP-9 and Biomarkers of Inflammation in the Retina by Ghulam Mohammad, Mohammad Mairaj Siddiquei, Mohammad Imtiaz Nawaz, Ahmed M. Abu El-Asrar

“…This study was conducted to determine the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) in a time-dependent manner and the effect of extracellular-signal-regulated kinases-1/2 (ERK1/2) inhibition on the expressions of MMP-9, TIMP-1, and inflammatory biomarkers in the retinas of diabetic rats. …”
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Rapid and non-destructive classification of rice seeds with different flavors: an approach based on HPFasterNet by Helong Yu, Helong Yu, Zhenyang Chen, Shaozhong Song, Shaozhong Song, Shaozhong Song, Chunyan Qi, Junling Liu, Chenglin Yang

“…In this experiment, 19 categories of japonica rice seeds were selected, and a total of 36735 images were finally obtained. The lightweight network High Precision FasterNet (HPFasterNet) proposed in this study combines the Ghost bottleneck and FasterNet_T0 and introduces group convolution to compare the model performance. …”
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Exploration of the mechanism of 5-Methylcytosine promoting the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma by Qiyao Zhang, Zhen Cao, Yuting He, Ziwen Liu, Wenzhi Guo

“…Immune, metabolic, and tumor-related pathways in HCC subtypes with differences in methylation status were analyzed and a prognostic model based on m5C-related genes was constructed. Finally, using RIP and molecular interaction analysis, we demonstrated that YBX1 binds to TPM3 in an m5C dependent manner and regulates HCC progression. …”
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Credit factor of investment development of the Russian economy under sanctions by B. B. Loginov

“…Thirdly, in the list of Western sectoral sanctions, measures to break credit connections were the very first and still remain the most painful for the Russian business. Finally, the excessively high interest rate used by the Central Bank to cool currency profiteers and accelerated inflation even aggravates the problem of a compressed credit base for investment in capital stock.…”
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Mechanical Properties of Microsteel Fiber Reinforced Concrete and Its Gradient Design in the Partially Reinforced RC Beam by Xiaobing He, Yakun Fang, Qi Luo, Yong Cao, Han Lu, Runping Ma

“…Moreover, the width and height of the cracks in the partially reinforced beam developed much slower than those in the reference beam, and the steady state in which all cracks emerged appeared later; meanwhile, the crack spacing in the pure bending region was smaller, and the number of cracks in the bending-shear region was less, which means that the partially reinforced beam is of excellent properties to resist cracking and bending. Finally, the calculation formula of the bearing capacity of the partially reinforced beam was proposed, which was in good agreement with experimental results.…”
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Moisture Loss from Cheese During Baking: Influence of Cheese Type, Cheese Mass, and Temperature by Justyna Tarapata, Ewa Szymańska, Liesbeth van der Meulen, Joost Miltenburg, Thom Huppertz

“…Initially, the drying rate increased as the cheese reached the wet bulb temperature; this was followed by a steady rate, and finally, a reduction in dehydration rate as the moisture decreased, limiting further evaporation. …”
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Assessing the situation of cities from the perspective of urban crisis management components (Case study: Shirvan city) by Mehdi Mohammadzadeh moghafam, mohammad motamedi, Ezzatollah Mafi

“…The research method in this research is a combination of research, applied (using the results and output of research in Shirvan) and development; Statistical population In the present study, according to the determination and classification of related organizations, each organization was selected as a statistical sample from each organization according to the percentage of the total statistical population, which in total 227 People were selected as the statistical sample of the present study. Finally, the quota non-probability sampling method, in which the number of samples is determined in advance and is from experts, was distributed. …”
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Photocatalytic Activity and Optical Properties of Blue Persistent Phosphors under UV and Solar Irradiation by C. R. García, L. A. Diaz-Torres, J. Oliva, M. T. Romero, P. Salas

“…The morphology of the phosphors changed from micrograins (1000°C) to a mixture of bars and hexagons (1200°C) and finally to only hexagons (1300°C) as the annealing temperature is increased. …”
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Comparison of physical fitness level among different competition categories in women's basketball: A systematic review by Adriano Vretaros

“…In general results, professional basketball players presented better averages in the group of indicators (63.1%), followed by formative (21.0%), college (10.5%) and semi-professional (5.26%) players. Finally, it was evident that as female players progress in chronological age, they mature biologically and acquire training support, advancing between the competitive categories. …”
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Waste heat recovery cycles integration into a net-Zero emission solar-thermal multi-generation system; Techno-economic analysis and ANN-MOPSO optimization by Pradeep Kumar Singh, Ali Basem, Rebwar Nasir Dara, Mohamed Shaban, Sarminah Samad, Raymond Ghandour, Ahmad Almadhor, Samah G. Babiker, Iskandar Shernazarov, Ibrahim A. Alsayer

“…To optimize the system's performance, an artificial neural network is integrated with a multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm to reduce computational time from approximately 16 h to 4 min. Finally, under optimal conditions, the system achieves an exergy efficiency of 31.69 %, freshwater production of 19.53 kg/s, cooling production of 441.6 kW, and a total cost rate of $87.2/h.…”
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Cell-membrane targeting sonodynamic therapy combination with FSP1 inhibition for ferroptosis-boosted immunotherapy by Jian Chen, Qiyu Zhan, Lie Li, Simin Xi, Longmei Cai, Ruiyuan Liu, Lujia Chen

“…Furthermore, TiF NPs could suppress FSP1, induce CoQ10 depletion, down-regulate the NADH, enhance LPO accumulation, and finally induce ferroptosis. In vitro results demonstrated that synergetic cell membrane targeting SDT/FSP1 inhibition triggered immunogenic cell death (ICD). …”
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Additive manufacturing of continuous carbon fiber reinforced PETG with ultra-high interlaminar shear strength by Wenbo Wang, Yong Hu, Lei Yang, Yudong Lin, Lei Zhou, Jiayun Ma, Bing Liu, Xuan Cai, Chunze Yan, Yusheng Shi, Xiyong Chen

“…After the optimization, the maximum interlaminar shear strength and the maximum relative density of the produced samples reach 27.41 MPa and 99.47% with the parameters of hatch spacing 0.8 mm and printing speed 2 mm/s. Finally, the mechanism analysis of the above improvement and parameter optimization is carried out by relative density and surface morphology. …”
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