Conducting and automating the water Morris maze test in SPF conditions by N. V. Khotskin, V. A. Kulikov, E. L. Zavyalov, D. V. Fursenko, A. V. Kulikov

“…A white animal on the surface of whitened water is low contrast and this does not allow the animal to be traced automatically, which represents yet another major problem. …”
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Intraoperative dynamics of interleukin-6 levels during planned coronary stenting with different approaches to analgesic sedation by D.О. Dziuba

“…The statistically significant difference between the studied index before surgery and 10 min after stent implantation was in the groups 2 and 3, in contrast to that in patients of the group 1: the level of IL-6 decreased to 30 % in group 2 (p = 0.005) and in group 3 (p = 0.001). …”
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Dependence on Humidity and Aerosol Composition of the Gas-particle Partitioning of Weakly and Moderately Polar VOCs by Jeonghyeon Ahn, Guiying Rao, Eric P. Vejerano

“…At lower RH, partitioning proceeded by adsorbing onto the aerosol particles. In contrast, at higher RH, the extremely low mass fraction of the VOCs, absorbed onto the aerosol particle’s bulk by dissolving into the aqueous phase. …”
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Comparative Study of Regulatory T Cell Function of Human CD25+CD4+ T Cells from Thymocytes, Cord Blood, and Adult Peripheral Blood by Wakae Fujimaki, Nozomu Takahashi, Kei Ohnuma, Masayoshi Nagatsu, Hiromi Kurosawa, Satoko Yoshida, Nam H. Dang, Takehiko Uchiyama, Chikao Morimoto

“…CB CD25+CD4+ T cells displayed low-FOXP3 protein expression level and had no suppressive activity. In contrast, CD25+CD4+ T cells from thymocytes or APB expressed high expression level of FOXP3 protein associated with significant suppressive activity. …”
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Sorghum Malt Extract as a Growth Medium for Lactic Acid Bacteria Cultures: A Case of Lactobacillus plantarum MNC 21 by Stellah Byakika, Ivan Muzira Mukisa, Yusuf Byenkya Byaruhanga

“…Total sugars dropped by 95.2% and FAN by 2.1% in MRS broth. In contrast, total sugars and FAN dropped by 5.6–9.1% and 24.9–32.7% respectively, in the extracts. …”
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Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using Intravascular Ultrasound-Guided Rewiring Technique in a Case of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Involving Left Main Bifur... by Yohei Numasawa, Souichi Yokokura, Yasuhiro Hitomi, Shohei Imaeda, Makoto Tanaka, Ryota Tabei, Masaki Kodaira

“…Because coronary flow was impaired after contrast injection and the patient had chest pain with ST elevation, urgent percutaneous coronary intervention was performed. …”
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Risk Assessment of Non-Point Source Pollution Based on the Minimum Cumulative Resistance Model: A Case Study of Shenyang, China by Yongxin Wang, Jianmin Qiao, Yuanman Hu, Qian Zhang, Xiulin Han, Chunlin Li

“…Green spaces, business zones, public service zones, development zones, and educational zones demonstrate the highest average risk index values, exceeding 29. In contrast, preservation zones showed the lowest risk index (7.3). …”
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Identification of an Autophagy-Related Signature Based on Whole Bone Marrow Sequencing for the Prognosis and Immune Microenvironment Characterization of Multiple Myeloma by Licheng Li, Ting Chen, Jishi Wang, Mengxing Li, Qinshan Li

“…We constructed an autophagy-related risk prognostic model based on six ARGs: EIF2AK2 (ENSG00000055332), KIF5B (ENSG00000170759), MYC (ENSG00000136997), NRG2 (ENSG00000158458), PINK1 (ENSG00000158828), and VEGFA (ENSG00000112715) using LASSO-Cox regression analysis to predict risk outcomes, which revealed substantially shortened OS duration in the high-risk cohort in contrast with that in the low-risk cohort. Therefore, the ARG-based model significantly predicted the MM patients’ prognoses and was verified in an internal test set. …”
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Preparing strong and ductile AZ80 Mg alloy via warm rotary swaging by Zhenghao Li, Mengning Xu, Kaixuan Zhou, Yang Cao, Yonghao Zhao

“…Rotary swaging to an equivalent strain of 0.25 at room temperature, induced high densities of deformation twins and macrocracks, causing catastrophic failure of the swaged rods. In contrast, repetitive conduct of 260°C-swaging and water cooling promotes <c + a> dislocation slip and localized grain refinement via twinning and dynamic recrystallization, and thus to lower the number of large twin bands in coarse grains. …”
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Human-Gorilla and Gorilla-Human: Dynamics of Human-animal boundaries and interethnic relationships in the central African rainforest by Takanori Oishi

“…The dual nature of dzil-elizaliza expresses a contrast between the witch-controlled man-eater and the warm-hearted reincarnated ancestral relative in a human-gorilla. …”
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Stratifications and foliations in phase portraits of gene network models by V. P. Golubyatnikov, A. A. Akinshin, N. B. Ayupova, L. S. Minushkina

“…Such surfaces compose foliations in phase portraits of dynamical systems of Hamiltonian mechanics. In contrast with this classical mechanical case, the foliations considered in this paper have singularities: all their leaves have a non-empty intersection, they contain limit cycles on their boundaries. …”
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Mast Cells and Histamine: Do They Influence Placental Vascular Network and Development in Preeclampsia? by Grzegorz Szewczyk, Michał Pyzlak, Jakub Klimkiewicz, Wacław Śmiertka, Magdalena Miedzińska-Maciejewska, Dariusz Szukiewicz

“…In physiological pregnancies, a positive correlation was observed between the histamine concentration and V/VEVT index as well as MCD and the V/VEVT index. In contrast, a negative correlation was observed between MMCA and the V/EVT index in physiological pregnancies. …”
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Enhancing thermal performance of two-phase closed thermosyphons by inhibiting geyser boiling: Synergistic effects of carbon nanotube nanofluids by Seungyeop Baek, Cheol Park, Seunghyeon Lee, Yonmo Sung

“…In the TPCT operation experiments, DW exhibited aperiodic and drastic temperature fluctuations at inclination angles of 90°, 60°, and 30°; in contrast, the 0.5 wt% CNT nanofluid showed stable temperature profiles, significantly reducing the maximum and average temperature differences between the bottom and top of the evaporation section. …”
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SPARQ: Efficient Entanglement Distribution and Routing in Space&#x2013;Air&#x2013;Ground Quantum Networks by Mohamed Shaban, Muhammad Ismail, Walid Saad

“…Existing quantum routing algorithms focus on stationary ground nodes and utilize link distance as an optimality metric, which is unrealistic for dynamic systems, like SPARQ. Moreover, in contrast to the prior art that assumes homogeneous nodes, SPARQ encompasses heterogeneous nodes with different functionalities further complicates the entanglement distribution. …”
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Effects of Enzymatic Liquefaction, Drying Techniques, and Wall Materials on the Physicochemical Properties, Bioactivities, and Morphologies of Zinc-Amaranth (Amaranthus viridis L.)... by Siti Faridah Mohd Amin, Roselina Karim, Yus Aniza Yusof, Kharidah Muhammad

“…The results showed that all freeze-dried powders generally had higher process yield (except for that encapsulated by HICAP), higher moisture content (but similar water activities), higher retention of total Zn-chlorophyll derivatives, lower hygroscopicity with slab-like particles, larger particle size, and lower bulk density than those of spray-dried powders. In contrast, the spray-dried powders exhibited irregular spherical shapes with relatively high encapsulation efficiency and antioxidant activities. …”
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Defect Recognition: Applying Time-Lapse GPR Measurements and Numerical Approaches by Enas Abdelsamei, Diaa Sheishah, Mohamed Aldeep, Csaba Tóth, György Sipos

“…Results revealed that the pre-renovated road section exhibited significant fluctuations in dielectric values, ranging from 3.13 to 15.9. In contrast, the post-renovated section showed consistent values within a narrow range of 5 to 6.6. …”
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Individual and Obstetric Risk Factors of Preeclampsia among Singleton Pregnancy in Hospitals of Southern Ethiopia by Kassahun Fikadu Tessema, Feleke Gebremeskel, Firdawek Getahun, Nega Chufamo, Direslgne Misker

“…Preeclampsia is the second most common problem that causes maternal morbidity and complication in low-income countries. In contrast to death due to other direct causes, preeclampsia-related death is appeared to be connected with multiple factors; yet, factors have paucity and are limited. …”
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Solitary metastasis in the internal auditory canal from non-small cell lung carcinoma: A case report by Julie De Boos, Marie Bruyneel, Ionela Bold

“…MRI with gadolinium contrast is the imaging modality of choice. Biopsy, though challenging, is sometimes crucial for definitive diagnosis. …”
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Vegetation types shape the soil micro-food web compositions and soil multifunctionality in Loess Plateau by Zhiming Chen, Wenjuan Kang, Renyuan He, Guang Li, Zhuzhu Luo, Zhuzhu Luo

“…., and the control vegetation Stipa bungeana on soil micro-food webs and soil multifunctionality, as well as their response mechanisms to soil environmental drivers, were investigated using High-throughput sequencing technology.ResultsC. korshinskii significantly enhanced soil physicochemical properties and soil enzyme activities by facilitating the stability of the soil micro-food web structure driven by soil bacteria and fungi and increasing the soil multifunctionality in contrast to S. bungeana. Prunus armeniaca also improved soil multifunctionality by promoting soil organic carbon and alkaline phosphatase activity. …”
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Comparison of modelled diffusion-derived electrical conductivities found using magnetic resonance imaging by Sasha Hakhu, Leland S. Hu, Scott Beeman, Rosalind J. Sadleir

“…IntroductionMagnetic resonance-based electrical conductivity imaging offers a promising new contrast mechanism to enhance disease diagnosis. Conductivity tensor imaging (CTI) combines data from MR diffusion microstructure imaging to reconstruct electrodeless low-frequency conductivity images. …”
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