Telomere length varies with sex, hatching rank and year of birth in the Little Owl, Athene noctua by Criscuolo, François, Fache, Inès, Scaar, Bertrand, Zahn, Sandrine, Bleu, Josefa

“…We did not find any effect of the environmental covariates on nestlings’ TL. Finally, we found that nestlings’ TL were shorter the last year of the study, while nestlings’ body condition stayed unchanged over the same period. …”
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Horizontal Detection Range Estimation of Deep-Sea Acoustic Shadow Area Based on Vertical Phased Emission Array by Naibin Chen, Dayong Peng, Li Ma, Tao Hu, Haijun Liu, Haifeng Li

“…To address the issue of reduced scanning efficiency at large phased angles, the grating lobe-focused sound beam generated by phased emission array parameters is used to achieve angle scanning within the close deep-sea sound shadow zone, increasing the phased angle scanning efficiency. Finally, the deep-sea phased emission active target detection experiments were carried out, and the echo signal generated by the phased focused sound beam and received by the vertical receiving array was recorded. …”
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Genes Involved in the Transcriptional Regulation of Pluripotency Are Expressed in Malignant Tumors of the Uterine Cervix and Can Induce Tumorigenic Capacity in a Nontumorigenic Cel... by Graciela Ruiz, Heriberto A. Valencia-González, Delia Pérez-Montiel, Felipe Muñoz, Rodolfo Ocadiz-Delgado, Jorge Fernández-Retana, Carlos Pérez-Plasencia, Osbaldo Reséndis-Antonio, Patricio Gariglio, Alejandro García-Carrancá

“…When we performed a meta-analysis using microarray data from cervical cancer biopsies and normal tissues, we found that the expression of OSKM-N and some target genes allowed separating tumor and normal tissues between samples, which enhanced the importance of OSKM-N in the tumorigenesis. Finally, we analyzed and compared both transcript and protein expression profiles of these factors within a cohort of patients with cervical cancer. …”
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A novel imatinib analogue inhibitor of chronic myeloid leukaemia: design, synthesis and characterization—explanation of its folded conformation by Rodolfo Moreno-Fuquen, Juan F. Avellaneda-Tamayo, Kevin Arango-Daraviña, Javier Ellena, Alan R. Kennedy

“…Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is primarily treated using imatinib mesylate, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) targeting the BCR::ABL1 oncoprotein. …”
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Thermo-mechanical viscoelastic characterization and modeling of 4D printed shape memory polymers by Israr Ud Din, Siddhesh S. Kulkarni, Kamran A. Khan

“…A shape fixity of ∼97 % and a recovery ratio of ∼99 % was obtained in the shape memory tests. Finally, the experimental results were successfully utilized to calibrate a thermo-viscoelastic model from the literature. …”
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Baseline hydro-geochemical characteristics of groundwater in Abu Ali watershed (Northern Lebanon) by Rachad Al Haj, Mohammad Merheb, Jalal Halwani, Baghdad Ouddane

“…The remaining two groups consist mostly of wells exploiting the Miocene aquifer at lower altitudes, where agricultural activity is more intense. Finally, this study provides a preliminary assessment of Abu Ali’s groundwater hydrogeochemistry, and further investigations are certainly needed.…”
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Site Prediction Model for the over Rooftop Path in a Suburban Environment at Millimeter Wave by Young Keun Yoon, Kyung Won Kim, Young Jun Chong

“…Therefore, the definition of the propagation model of this sight-specific case is very important so clearly as to show the difference for the over rooftop according to the different displacements of houses in a non-line-of-sight environment. Finally, we suggest the improved propagation model of pathloss that can reflect various environments in a small town.…”
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Determination of susceptible areas to water erosion in the Hervi watershed by Mohammad Javad vahidi, Rasoul Mirabbasi

“…Then, status of erosion and sediment in watersheds and sub-watersheds was studied using Hjulstrom curve (based on the mean diameter size of sediment particles and the maximum potential velocity of outlet), and was comparatively classified in term of erodibility. Finally, delineation map of susceptible regions to water erosion in the study area were obtained. …”
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Optimizing ternary hybrid nanofluids using neural networks, gene expression programming, and multi-objective particle swarm optimization: a computational intelligence strategy by Tao Hai, Ali Basem, As’ad Alizadeh, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Husam Rajab, Chemseddine Maatki, Nidhal Becheikh, Lioua Kolsi, Narinderjit Singh Sawaran Singh, H. Maleki

“…Then, the high-performing models provide the foundation for optimization using the well-established multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm. Finally, the decision-making technique TOPSIS is employed to identify the most desirable points from the Pareto front, based on various design scenarios. …”
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Assessing power-to-heat technologies for industrial electrification: A multi-criteria decision analysis approach by Arman Ashabi, Mohamed Mostafa, Andriy Hryshchenko, Ken Bruton, Dominic T.J. O’sullivan

“…By synthesizing the results and defining different scenarios, this detailed analysis provides decision-makers, industry stakeholders, and researchers with useful insights into the many alternatives for direct electrification of heat supply. Finally, the MCDA in this study is designed for current and future scenarios, allowing new technologies to be analyzed and ranked with the proposed algorithm.…”
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“La Dirección de Instrucción Pública (…) hará imprimir y circular libros elementales”. Textos para las escuelas, Oaxaca siglo XIX by Daniela Traffano

“…El presente artículo tiene el objetivo de proporcionar una primera aproximación a la presencia de los manuales escolares en el estado de Oaxaca, en particular entre la década de los sesenta y finales del siglo xix. A través de informes de gobierno, fuentes legislativas y relaciones de profesores se documenta el interés del gobierno del estado por la impresión y circulación de estos materiales y se esboza un análisis cualitativo de su presencia real en las escuelas. …”
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The Impact of Advertising and Sales Performance in Mukwano Industry Kampala Branch. by Atamba, Peter

“…The industry should use most of the local languages commonly used in Uganda to win customers from all tribes, use of e marketing to be adopted by the industry to reach most of the people who can access the internet than listen to radios and televisions, and also the use of celebrities in advertising their products, and finally the researcher recommends the use of other forms of advertising for example sponsoring events and also the use of mobile phones to advertise.…”
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Assess the Effect of Cultural Resources on Tourism Development in and Around Lake Mburo National Park. by Nahabwe, Leticia

“…These problems, consequently, hinder the comprehensive management of cultural resources tourism. Finally, it suggests a Sustainable Cultural Resources Tourism Framework, incorporating social and cultural elements.…”
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Service Delivery strategies and Poverty Reduction in Kidagoni Village, Zanzibar. by Makame, Ahmadakishindo.

“…The challenges which include: Poor health services, Unequal distribution of resources, Climatic conditions, unemployment and increasing domestic needs. Finally the government of Zanzibar should encourage the services delivery in rural areas in order to achieve the objectives and improvement life standard to the people of Kidagoni village.…”
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Information Technology and development of Small and medium Enterprises in Kabale Municipality, Kabale District. by Gastone, Twesigye

“…To gather primary data for the study during the field, the researcher used the documentary review, questionnaire, interview observation guides and focused group discussion guide. Data was finally analysed using Microsoft Excel later presented in tables, pie-charts, and graphs. …”
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Analysis of Monetary Policy Objectives as Applied to Uganda’s Economy: The Dream to Achieve the Middle-Income Status in 2020 is Gone by George Stanley, Kinyata, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun

“…The weaknesses in implementation of the monetary objectives which caused the government failure to achieve Uganda’s goal and finally the important strategies and areas which Uganda should use to generate high rates of economic growth to transfer in the economy and maintain macroeconomic stability are recommended in this aricle.…”
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Effects of Hypoxia Stress on Biochemical Indices and Expression of Hypoxia-Related Genes in the Heart of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) by Jiuju MA, Jinqiang HUANG, Yongjuan LI, Shenji WU, Lu ZHAO, Yue ZENG

“…The results showed that the pyruvate kinase (PK), total cholesterol (TC), lactic acid (LD), and glutamine aminotransferase (GPT) reactivates increased at 8 h, decreased at 24 h, and were significantly higher than the control levels after reoxygenation (P < 0.05) under moderate hypoxic stress. …”
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Caesalpinia sappan L. ethyl acetate extract regulated angiogenesis in atherosclerosis by modulating the miR-126/VEGF signalling pathway by Yue He, Chao Huang, Jingjing Chen, Weizeng Shen

“…Moreover, RT‒PCR assay and Western blot analysis results showed that CSEAE significantly upregulated the expression of miR-126 (p value < 0.01), downregulated the expression of VEGF mRNA (p value < 0.01), and decreased the protein expression levels of VEGF (p value < 0.01), phosphatidyl-inositol-3-kinase (PI3K) (p value < 0.01), and Ser/Thr-protein kinase (AKT1) (p value < 0.01) in mouse aortas, while ELISA showed that CSEAE significantly reduced the serum levels of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR2) (p value < 0.01) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) (p value < 0.01) in mice. …”
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Increased susceptibility to diet-induced obesity in female mice impairs ovarian steroidogenesis: The role of elevated leptin signalling on nodal activity inhibition in theca cells by Karolina Wołodko, Tjaša Šentjurc, Edyta Walewska, Elżbieta Laniecka, Magdalena Jura, António Galvão

“…Following the characterisation of the mouse phenotype, gonadal fat (GON), whole ovaries (WO), ovarian TC and granulosa cell (GC) fractions were collected for mRNA transcription and protein expression analysis. Finally, in vitro treated ovarian explants obtained from B6 mice were used to further elucidate the effects of Nodal on steroidogenesis. …”
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The Genealogy of Šemetas' in 15th-16th century by Saulė Viskantaitė-Saviščevienė

“…After that, he became the governor (tivun) of Palanga, Tendžiogala, and Beržėnai. Finally, he occupied the place of the castellan of Samogitia. …”
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