Surfactin alleviated hyperglycaemia in mice with type 2 diabetes induced by a high-fat diet and streptozotocin by Xiaoyu Chen, Hongyuan Zhao, Fanqiang Meng, Libang Zhou, Zhaoxin Lu, Yingjian Lu

“…Furthermore, surfactin also improved hepatic glucose metabolism by activating the adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signalling pathway, increasing glycogen synthesis and glucose transporter 2 (GLUT2) protein expression while reducing glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) protein expression. …”
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What Online User Innovation Communities Can Teach Us about Capturing the Experiences of Patients Living with Chronic Health Conditions. A Scoping Review. by Julia Amann, Claudia Zanini, Sara Rubinelli

“…The third set of studies focused on the idea selection process and measures of success with respect to online user innovation initiatives. Finally, the findings from the review are presented in the light of the particularities and challenges discussed in current healthcare research.…”
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VRU-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Scenes by Yunxiang Liu, Yuqing Shi

“…Additionally, a lightweight Optimized Shared Detection Head (OSDH-Head) is introduced, reducing computational complexity while improving detection efficiency. Finally, to alleviate the deficiencies of traditional loss functions in shape matching and computational efficiency, we propose the Wise-Powerful Intersection over Union (WPIoU) loss function, which further optimizes the regression of target bounding boxes. …”
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Semantic Segmentation Method for High-Resolution Tomato Seedling Point Clouds Based on Sparse Convolution by Shizhao Li, Zhichao Yan, Boxiang Ma, Shaoru Guo, Hongxia Song

“…The feature fusion module based on the attention mechanism is designed by giving the corresponding attention weights to the voxel diffusion features and the point features in order to avoid the ambiguity of points with different semantics having the same characteristics caused by the diffusion module, in addition to suppressing noise. Finally, to solve model training class bias caused by the uneven distribution of point cloud classes, the composite loss function of Lovász-Softmax and weighted cross-entropy is introduced to supervise the model training and improve its performance. …”
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An Assessment of City Council Performance in Improving Urban Management and Development Process from Citizen\'s Perspective: Case Study Tabriz Metropolitan by Abolfazl Ghanbari

“…Also, the average of all indicators of empowerment of Islamic city councils in the field of empowerment of Islamic councils is lower than numerical utility 3 and their t-statistic is negatively estimated. Finally, the performance of the Islamic councils in the economic dimension (employment, income and investment) has had the greatest effect with an overall effect of 0.608 and the least effect in the physical dimension with an overall effect of 0.210 in the realization of sustainable development. …”
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ادارة البيانات المفتوحة وتفعيلها عبر مواقع الجامعات الحکومية السعودية by غيداء عبد الحفيظ شقدار

“…In addition, all portals and open data platforms should havedevelopment to achieve the high percentage of completeness. Finally, increasethe awareness of open data and its importance through the open data platformsin the Saudi public universities…”
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Modeling Impact of Land Use Dynamics on Hydrology and Sedimentation of Megech Dam Watershed, Ethiopia by Abebe Tarko Assfaw

“…This shows that streamflow, surface runoff, and sediment yield increases by 10.2%, 26.03%, and 33.3% in 2016 land use as compared with 1998 land use. Finally, the most dynamic subbasins that have a significant impact on streamflow and sediment yield were identified. …”
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Probable Relationship between COVID-19, Pollutants and Meteorology: A Case Study at Santiago, Chile by Giovanni A. Salini, Patricio R. Pacheco, Eduardo Mera, María C. Parodi

“…The Hurst exponent was found to be greater than 0.5 and less than 1 for all time-series, indicating positive long-term autocorrelation. Finally, the correlation dimension was less than 5, revealing that new time-series constructed are not random.…”
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Legal Framework for the Police Commissions: Current State and Prospects for Development by I. O. Sviatokum

“…Therefore, it was proposed to establish a list of the positions, for which the contest would be mandatory. Finally, the article deals with the issue of the policing priorities. …”
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A soy glycinin derived octapeptide protects against MCD diet induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice by Peng Ma, Rongrong Huang, Yu Ou

“…The results of Western blotting showed that SGP8 increased expression of Sirtuin-1 (SIRT1) and phosphorylation level of AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK) in hepatocytes. Through activation of SIRT1/AMPK pathway, SGP8 downregulated the expression of sterol regulatory element binding protein 1c (SREBP-1c) and its target genes ACC and FAS expression levels, and increased the phosphorylation level of acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACC). …”
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Deterrent Effects of Clary Sage Oil and Two Major Constituents against <em>Drosophila suzukii</em> (Diptera: Drosophilidae) by Yu Wang, Fengyi Wen, Xiangyi Zhou, Guoxing Chen, Chunxia Tian, Jiali Qian, Huiming Wu, Mengli Chen

Subjects: “…spotted-wing drosophila…”
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Determination of the Hydration Damage Instability Period in a Shale Borehole Wall and Its Application to a Fuling Shale Gas Reservoir in China by Haicheng She, Zaiqiang Hu, Zhan Qu, Yao Zhang, Hu Guo

“…Then, combined with the shale hydration stress and strength deformation theory, a damage evolutionary equation for shale with water was derived, and the shale damage evolutionary limit equation and the method of determining the collapse cycle were established. Finally, the method was applied to the Fuling Shale Gas Field, the largest shale gas field in China, and a shale wellbore collapse cycle of approximately seven days in the field was obtained. …”
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Embryonic, Larval, and Early Juvenile Development of the Tropical Sea Urchin, Salmacis sphaeroides (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) by M. Aminur Rahman, Fatimah Md. Yusoff, A. Arshad, Mariana Nor Shamsudin, S. M. N. Amin

“…Pluteus larva started to feed unicellular algae in 2 d, grew continuously, and finally attained metamorphic competence in 35 d after fertilization. …”
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Research on the Relationship Between Urban Visual Quality and Students’ Emotional Experience Driven by Multimodal Data: A Case Study of Beijing Olympic Park Museum Group by Ruoshi Zhang, Dingnan Chai, Zhenzhi Zhou, Rui Sun, Zekai Zhang, Chuhuan Chen

“…A total of 298 participants aged between 20 and 25 were recruited to participate in the experiment voluntarily and 229 valid data were finally obtained. The results show that different types of museum facades and external environmental elements have different effects on visual quality and people’s emotional experience: (1) Interactive elements show the most significant impact on visual quality and emotional experience. (2) The impact of artificial elements on visual quality is related to their size and spatial composition on the museum facade. …”
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Sunitinib Reduced the Migration of Ectopic Endometrial Cells via p-VEGFR-PI3K-AKT-YBX1-Snail Signaling Pathway by Xiaodan Fan, Yanyan Tong, Yiting Chen, Yichen Chen

“…Next, the expression of p-VEGFR, PI3K, AKT, YBX1, and snail was measured in the control group and sunitinib group (compared with the control group: p-VEGFR, PI3K, AKT, YBX1, and snail, ∗∗∗∗P<0.0001) and the VEGFR+sunitinib group (compared with the sunitinib group: p-VEGFR, PI3K, AKT, and snail, ∗∗∗∗P<0.0001; YBX1, ∗∗∗P<0.001); finally, the outcome was as expected. In addition to in vitro experiments, we also conducted in vivo experiments in mice. …”
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Faith, Understanding, Proof by A. E. Razumov

“…One can also call the judgment of faith in a sufficiently finite number of expert checks to finally confirm the law relating to an infinite (in potency) number of cases. …”
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Application of Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Materials in Architectural Design by Zixiang Yan

“…The area of reinforcement required for the member control section is obtained according to the structural analysis program, the main purpose of reinforcement selection is to select safe, economical, and reasonable reinforcement on the premise of meeting the provisions of the code and the requirements of reinforcement structure. Finally, this paper conducts experimental research on the application of phase change energy storage building material SP28 in building energy conservation. …”
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Experimental Study on Acoustic Emission and Resistivity Response of Sandstone under Constant Amplitude Cyclic Loading by Kui Wang, Xue Li, Zheng Huang, Mingjie Zhao

“…The damage of rocks gradually accumulates under the action of periodic cyclic load, and finally, fatigue damage occurs, which affects the stability of the project. …”
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Optimization and action mechanism of pollutant removal performance of unsaturated vertical flow constructed wetland (UVFCW) driven by substained-release carbon source by Yuechang Wang, Lin-Lan Zhuang, Shuang Liu, Yuanjun Su, Zhen Hu, Jian Zhang, Xiaoping Wang, Shaoming Cui, Gang Peng, Shuting Xie

“…The placement method of sustained-release carbon source mainly affected the distribution of carbon source and DO in water body, thus influencing the relative abundance of microorganisms, finally affecting the removal of pollutants. Among them, the removal efficiency of total nitrogen (TN), NO3−-N, and total phosphorus (TP), and the relative abundance of denitrifying microorganisms in the CWR-Cu (uniform placement of sustained-release carbon source) were significantly higher than those in the CWR-Ca (centralized placement above) and CWR-Cb (centralized placement below) (p < 0.05). …”
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Occurrence Mechanism of Roof-Fall Accidents in Large-Section Coal Seam Roadways and Related Support Design for Bayangaole Coal Mine, China by Shitan Gu, Bangyou Jiang, Gensheng Wang, Huabin Dai, Mingpeng Zhang

“…Moreover, high pretightening force was applied. Finally, a field test was performed, and the mining-induced roof displacement and stress on anchor cable (bolt) were monitored in the test section. …”
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