Does Lagenaria siceraria seed oil-enriched extender regulate sperm quality, oxidant/antioxidant markers, and sperm mitochondrial enzymes in chilled diluted rabbit semen? by Ramya Ahmad Sindi, Sameh A. Abdelnour, Ehab El-Haroun, Mohammed A. Alfattah, Yasser H. A. Saber, Asmaa M. Sheiha

“…Thereafter, the researchers hypothesized that BG, potentially due to its antioxidant properties, could mitigate these detrimental effects. For the experiment, semen samples were diluted in extender and assigned to treatment groups receiving BG at concentrations of 0 (BG0), 100 (BG100), 200 (BG200), or 400 (BG400) µL/mL, followed by storage at 4 °C. …”
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Functional efficiency of pancreatic cell-engineered construct in an animal experimental model for type I diabetes by N. V. Baranova, A. S. Ponomareva, L. A. Kirsanova, A. O. Nikolskaya, G. N. Bubentsova, Yu. B. Basok, V. I. Sevastianov

“…The creation of a cell-engineered pancreatic construct (CEPC) from islets of Langerhans and biocompatible matrix carrier (framework/scaffold), which imitates the native microenvironment of pancreatic tissue, is an approach to the treatment of type I diabetes mellitus (T1D).The objective of this work is to conduct a comparative analysis of the functional efficacy of CEPC and isolated rat islets of Langerhans after intraperitoneal administration into rats with experimental T1D.Materials and method. T1D was induced in rats by injecting low-dose (15 mg/ kg) streptozotocin (STZ) for 5 days. …”
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Characteristics of NH₃–H₂ Reducing Pellets by Xiaoping Zhang, Zihao Fan, Ao Mi, Junqiang Cong, Zhenghong Hu, Jialong Yang, Baoliang Wen

“…The reduction of hematite with ammonia is a potentially environmentally friendly method of ironmaking. Previous studies on ammonia reduction of pellets typically involved samples weighing only 2.8 g and lacked detailed activation energy analysis for the ammonia-hydrogen co-reduction of pellets. …”
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Enhancing Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Multi-Source Subdomain Distribution Alignment Network by Yong Wang, Zhehao Shu, Yinzhi Feng, Rui Liu, Qiusheng Cao, Danping Li, Lei Wang

“…It is noteworthy that our MSSDANet is developed in an unsupervised manner for domain adaptation, indicating that no label information from the target domain is required during training. Extensive experiments on four common RS image datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance for cross-domain RS scene classification. …”
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Comparative analysis of bacterial communities and environmental interactions in seawater and saline-alkali aquaculture ponds for Scylla paramamosain in northern China by Dongping Zhou, Dongping Zhou, Yuanyuan Fu, Lei Liu, Weichuan Lin, Zhibin Lu, Yangfang Ye, Minglei Zhang

“…Over the course of a five-month aquaculture experiment, water samples were collected from seawater and saline-alkali ponds and subsequently analyzed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing technology to examine the bacterial community composition and its relationship with physicochemical water quality parameters. …”
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Visualization and semi-quantitative analysis of dissolution processes at artificial structures in carbonate rocks using optical, 3D micro-scanning and confocal laser scanning micro... by Annette Dietmaier, Justin Mattheis, Daniel Weller, Ingrid Stober, Michael Drews, Thomas Baumann

“…This study used a time-lapse experiment to evaluate microscopic changes during dissolution in limestone samples exposed to elevated $$\text {CO}_{2}$$ CO 2 partial pressure in an autoclave. …”
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SCRM-Net: Self-Supervised Deep Clustering Feature Representation for Urban 3D Mesh Semantic Segmentation by Jiahui Wang, Wei Leng, Xinjie Hao, Rongting Zhang, Guangyun Zhang

“…Extensive comparative experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and show its competitiveness against the state-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods.…”
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Extracting Target Components from Fresh and Refined Sac Roe: Kinetic Patterns by Zarema M. Arabova, Albert Kh.-Kh. Nugmanov, Dmitry M. Borodulin, Igor Yu. Aleksanyan, Olga I. Konnova

“…The acetone extraction lasted 45 min for the dry sample and 65 min for the fresh sample; the alcohol extraction of the refined sample was 35 min. …”
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Title not available by Elena Gurková, Júlia Šinglárová, Katarína Žiaková

“…Design: A cross-sectional correlational study. Methods: The sample involved 130 nurses in surgical departments, and 112 patients assigned to nurses during various shifts were included. …”
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Dynamics of the In vitro Growing of Mycobacterium bovis from the Lungs of Vaccinated and Infected Mice by Federico Carlos Blanco, Laura Inés Klepp, Cristina Lourdes Vazquez, Fabiana Bigi

“…We compared the CFU counts from vaccinated and challenged mice with M. bovis using data from a previous experiment. Methods: CFUs obtained from the lungs of vaccinated and M. bovis-challenged mice of a previous experiment were registered at 3 and 4 weeks of culturing in solid media. …”
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Uncertain reflective functioning, anxious attachment, and cumulative impact of early relational trauma as predictors of severity in borderline personality disorder by K Dharani Devi, Poornima Bhola, Prabha S. Chandra

“…Aim: To examine mentalizing, attachment, and early relational trauma as predictors of the severity of symptoms in BPD. Materials and Methods: The sample included 60 individuals diagnosed with BPD, aged 18–45 years, recruited from inpatient and outpatient services in a tertiary care mental health center. …”
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Detecting implicit biases of large language models with Bayesian hypothesis testing by Shijing Si, Xiaoming Jiang, Qinliang Su, Lawrence Carin

“…While the exact Binomial test fails to distinguish between no evidence of bias and evidence of no bias, our results underscore the advantages of Bayes factors, particularly their capacity to quantify evidence for both competing hypotheses and their robustness to small sample size. Additionally, our experiments reveal that the bias behavior of LLMs is largely consistent across the English and French versions of the CrowS-Pairs dataset, with subtle differences likely arising from variations in social norms across linguistic and cultural contexts.…”
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Histopathological evaluation of bone regeneration using human resorbable demineralized membrane by Tatić Zoran, Stamatović Novak, Bubalo Marija, Jančić Snežana, Račić Alek, Miković Nikola, Tatić Natalija, Rakić Mia

“…The aim of this study was to show a pathohistological view of bone regeneration and the significance of human resorbable demineralized membrane (HRDM), 200 μ thick in bone regeneration regarding mandibular defects in an experiment on dogs. Methods. The experiment was performed on six dogs. …”
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Extracting Vitabiotic Pharmaceutical Substances from Berry Raw Materials: Optimization of Processes by Shkol’nikova M., Bakin I., Mustafina A., Aleksenko L.

“…The research features new processing methods of extraction of active antibacterial components from Siberian berries. …”
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Modelling multi-pulse population dynamics from ultrafast spectroscopy. by Luuk J G W van Wilderen, Craig N Lincoln, Jasper J van Thor

“…Finally, the implementation includes the interaction with multiple pulses in addition to depth averaging in optically dense samples. In summary, we show that mathematical modelling is essential to model and resolve the details of physical behaviour of populations in ultrafast spectroscopy such as pump-probe, pump-dump-probe and pump-repump-probe experiments.…”
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Identification of CTSC-driven progression in ESCC by single-cell sequencing and experimental validation by Xin Sui, Yongxu Jia, Jing Li, Jiayao Xu, Wenjia Wang, Yanru Qin

“…Therefore, we aimed to investigate the TME of ESCC and construct a risk signature based on apoptosis-related genes to identify prognosis-related genes in ESCC.MethodsWe integrated a total of 92,714 cells from 18 samples across three single-cell datasets to analyze the differences in cellular landscapes between primary tumor tissues and adjacent normal tissues. …”
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Testing Rural Early Educators Attitudes toward Children's Outdoor Recreation in Nature and Science: a new framework for exploring early educators' situated science teaching by Sarah Pedonti, Derek R. Becker, Myra K. Watson, Cathy Lauren Grist

“…This study introduces a new framework and development of associated tool-the Testing Rural Early Educators' Attitudes toward Children's Outdoor Recreation in Nature and Science (TREE-ACORNS)-to assess early educators' perspectives on outdoor science learning.MethodsA sample of 108 early childhood educators, 66% of whom identified as residing in rural areas, completed the TREE-ACORNS survey. …”
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Effect of Cu-, Zn-containing complex based on a porous matrix on fibroblast proliferation, apoptosis, necrosis and nitric oxide production by A. P. Lykov, L. N. Rachkovskaya, O. V. Poveshchenko, E. E. Rachkovsky, A. Yu. Letyagin

“…A comparative study of the effect of a matrix based on porous aluminum oxide and a silicon organic polymer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) (А12O3@PDMS) and a matrix complex with copper and zinc sorbed on its surface (Cu@Zn- А12O3@PDMS) on the functional properties of fibroblasts has been carried out. Material and methods. The effect of the Cu@Zn- А12O3@PDMS complex and the matrix on the cell proliferative potential (MTT test), apoptosis, necrosis and the production of stable nitric oxide (NO) metabolites were studied in an in vitro experiment with a human embryo fibroblast cell line (HEF-15). …”
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An accurate DNA and RNA based targeted sequencing assay for clinical detection of gene fusions in solid tumors by Gang Ji, Qianlan Yao, Min Ren, Qianming Bai, Xiaoli Zhu, Xiaoyan Zhou

“…This assay accurately identified all 10 different types of fusion in 8 commercial fusion spiked-in reference standards and 29 fusions including 16 different fusion forms in 60 clinical solid tumor samples previously identified by clinical testing methods. …”
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Nuclear Morphological Characteristics in Breast Cancer: Correlation with Hormone Receptor and Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 by Jiayu Li, Yehan Zhou, Yunzhu Li, Yang Liu

“…We combined nuclear morphological characteristics with HR and HER2 status to observe the relationship and provide ideas for machine learning. Methods. We reanalyzed fine-needle aspiration cytology samples and core-needle puncture histological specimens from 142 patients with invasive breast cancer between March 2019 and December 2019, and the findings were compared with the two groups (HR+/HER2- and HR-/HER2+) following nuclear cytomorphological features: nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio, difference of nuclear size, nuclear pleomorphism, chromatin feature, nuclear membrane and nucleoli, and Nottingham grading. …”
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