Atherogenic Cytokines Regulate VEGF-A-Induced Differentiation of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Endothelial Cells by Izuagie Attairu Ikhapoh, Christopher J. Pelham, Devendra K. Agrawal

“…IL-6 or TNFα caused a dose-dependent attenuation of EC marker expression in VEGF-A-stimulated MSCs. In contrast, Ang II enhanced EC marker expression in VEGF-A-stimulated MSCs. …”
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Microstructure Characterisation and Modelling of Pre-Forging Solution Treatment of 7075 Aluminium Alloy Using Novel Heating Methods by Hao Wu, Zisong Lu, Steven Hill, Richard Turner

“…Results have shown that the 7075 billets heated by conventional heating methods sufficiently dissolved the stable precipitates, achieving hardness ranging from 137 to 141 HV, in contrast to the benchmark unheated, as-received sample of approximately 70 HV. …”
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Sensorimotor Cortical Neuroplasticity in the Early Stage of Bell’s Palsy by Wenwen Song, Minhui Dai, Lihua Xuan, Zhijian Cao, Sisi Zhou, Courtney Lang, Kun Lv, Maosheng Xu, Jian Kong

“…We found that the period directly following the onset of BP (less than 14 days) is associated with significant decreases in regional homogeneity (ReHo), fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (fALFF), and intrinsic connectivity contrast (ICC) values in the contralateral S1/M1 and in ReHo and ICC values in the ipsilateral S1/M1, compared to healthy controls. …”
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Development of a Confocal Optical System Design for Molecular Imaging Applications of Biochip by Guoliang Huang, Shukuan Xu, Jiang Zhu, Cheng Deng, Zhonghua Dong, Yang Yang, Xiaoyong Yang, Xianhua Wang, Guofan Jin

“…This confocal optical system has a high scanning resolution, an excellent contrast and signal-to-noise ratio, and an efficiency of collected fluorescence of more than 2-fold better than that of other commercial confocal biochip scanners. …”
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Tailoring convolutional neural networks for custom botanical data by Jamie R. Sykes, Katherine J. Denby, Daniel W. Franks

“…Results ResNet18 showed some signs of overfitting, while EfficientNet variants showed distinct signs of overfitting. By contrast, PhytNet displayed excellent attention to relevant features, almost no overfitting, and an exceptionally low computation cost of 1.19 GFLOPS. …”
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DCE-MRI and DWI Integration for Breast Lesions Assessment and Heterogeneity Quantification by C. Andrés Méndez, Francesca Pizzorni Ferrarese, Paul Summers, Giuseppe Petralia, Gloria Menegaz

“…In order to better predict and follow treatment responses in cancer patients, there is growing interest in noninvasively characterizing tumor heterogeneity based on MR images possessing different contrast and quantitative information. This requires mechanisms for integrating such data and reducing the data dimensionality to levels amenable to interpretation by human readers. …”
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Essential Oils as Bioinsecticides Against <i>Blattella germanica</i> (Linnaeus, 1767): Evaluating Its Efficacy Under a Practical Framework by Ana Manzanares-Sierra, Eduard Monsonís-Güell, Crisanto Gómez, Sílvia Abril, Mara Moreno-Gómez

“…The results showed significant variations in efficacy, as follows: thyme, sweet orange, and lavender oils were the most effective, achieving 100% mortality within 24 h and a less than 30 s knockdown effect. In contrast, linseed and cottonseed oils were the least effective, resulting in 70% and 40% 24 h mortality. …”
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A Novel Cortex Phellodendri Chinensis–Based Carbon Dots Platform for Remarkable Analgesia for Clinical Pain Management by Huimin Peng, Xingxing Zeng, Songbai Li, Xin Wang

“…The cellular uptake studies revealed the phase contrast images of MG‐63 cells at wavelength 488 nm clearly depicted the aggregation of green, fluorescent CCDs within the cells while leaving nuclei unobscured. …”
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Geometric barriers impacted rupture processes and stress releases of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, earthquake doublet by Jiangcheng Zhou, Yueyi Xu, Yong Zhang, Wanpeng Feng, Tuncay Taymaz, Yun-Tai Chen, Chenyu Xu, Beibei Xu, Rongjiang Wang, Fuqiang Shi, Zhigang Shao, Qinghua Huang

“…We speculate that the geometric barriers of the first event hindered the stress release, leading to rupture of more small asperities and generation of high-frequency signals. In contrast, the simpler fault geometry of the second event facilitates a larger stress drop and a more complete stress release.…”
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Predictors and outcomes of angioplasty and stenting in acute intracranial atherosclerosis-related vertebrobasilar artery occlusion by Seol Bin Park, Byung Hyun Baek, Yun Young Lee, Seul Kee Kim, Chan Park, Byung Chan Lee, Hyoung Ook Kim, Woong Yoon

“…Our study also demonstrated that hyperlipidemia and treatment with angioplasty alone were associated with favorable outcomes, in contrast, admission hyperglycemia and basilar artery occlusion were associated with unfavorable outcomes in these patients.…”
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Automatic Coastline Detection Using Coastsat Toolbox and GIS: A Case Study at Oued-Laou Beach, Morocco by Souiri Smail, Hakkou Mounir, Haddaoui Hatim, Oubdil Soufiane, Lmrimed Nargiss

“…Analysis with the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) showed significant erosion along the entire coastline, with the most severe erosion observed around the mouth of Oued-Laou, where erosion rates exceeded -2 m/year. In contrast, the northern sector experienced alternating periods of accretion (up to 0.5 m/year) and moderate erosion (around -0.5 m/year). …”
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Biodiversity of East Asian apple-tree species and their use in breeding by O. N. Barsukova

“…(k-14945): in addition to disease immunity, it demonstrates high annual yields, exceptional ornamental qualities, and late flowering, in contrast to other species of the Gymnomeles section.…”
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Pathological features and immunohistochemical characteristics of clear cell (glycogen-rich) urothelial carcinoma: a case report and systematic review of the literature by Weiming Wang, Baogang Zhang, Zhangli Wu, Chuanling Hou, Mengyao Li, Tianyi Zhang

“…The mass exhibited significant enhancement on contrast-enhanced scans, raising suspicion for malignancy. …”
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Actual areas of improvement of regulatory and organizational support for the training of specialists with higher legal education at institutions of higher education of the system o... by K. L. Buhaichuk

“…The Concept of the Development of Legal Education should provide for the obligation of state bodies to make a target order for the training of lawyers at civil higher education institutions, to monitor the quality of training and then mandatory provide them with the first workplace with the conclusion of a contract regarding the need to work in state bodies for at least three years after graduating from an educational institution. …”
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‘Bottom-up securitization’: A visual turn in security studies by M. A. Kucherov, M. V. Kharkevich

“…As a result, ‘visual securitization’ raises a number of new issues. In contrast to a traditional ‘speech act’, an image can be open to various interpretations and as such would make the process of interaction with the audience too complicated and inconsistent. …”
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An Analysis of Temperature-Dependent Timing Jitter Factors in the Structural Design of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Single-Photon Avalanche Detectors by Jau-Yang Wu, Yu-Wei Lu, Meng-Hsuan Liu, Tien-Ning Chang, Chun-Hsien Liu

“…This variation can be attributed to the higher temperature-dependent diffusion constant, as demonstrated by fitting the jitter diffusion tail with two diffusion time constants. In contrast, SPADs designed with modified electric field distributions exhibit smaller diffusion time constants and weaker temperature dependence, resulting in a much smaller temperature-dependent jitter value.…”
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Analysis of a multi-server retrial queue with a varying finite number of sources by Ciro D'Apice, Alexander Dudin, Sergei Dudin, Rosanna Manzo

“…A multi-server retrial queue with a finite number of sources of requests was considered. In contrast to similar models studied in the literature, we assumed this number is not constant but changes its value in a finite range. …”
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A Y-chromosome portrait of the population of Jerba (Tunisia) to elucidate its complex demographic history by Franz Manni, Pascal Leonardi, Étienne Patin, Alain Berrebi, Houssein Khodjet el Khil, Karl Skorecki, Dror Rosengarten, Hassan Rouba, Evelyne Heyer, Marc Fellous

“…We also sampled the Black group living in Jerba but typing ambiguities forced us to exclude it from further analyses.The results suggest a very low degree of genetic differentiation between Jerban Arabs and Berbers, who can be considered genetically, as belonging to the same group. In contrast, pairwise FST measures show that the genetic distances between the Jewish sample and the other ethnic groups are the highest in the island. …”
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The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature by Abby Franchitti

“…This will be followed by the examination of the Anti-Suffragists’ utilization of caricature in contrast with Suffragette imagery.A study of this imagery enables the historian to analyze the values and convictions that were behind the anti-suffrage movement. …”
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Inclined Aerial Image and Satellite Image Matching Based on Edge Curve Direction Angle Features by Hao Wang, Chongyang Liu, Yalin Ding, Chao Sun, Guoqin Yuan, Hongwen Zhang

“…Optical remote sensing images are easily affected by atmospheric absorption and scattering, and the low contrast and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of aerial images as well as the different sensors of aerial and satellite images bring a great challenge to image matching. …”
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