Effects of Sucrose, Trehalose, and Fructose on Whole Ovarian Cryopreservation in a Rat Model by Lingyun Xie, Yan Ding, Ping Xu, Keqin Hua, Xuyin Zhang

“…Methods: Intact ovaries with blood vessels were obtained from 20 adult Lewis female rats and divided accordingly into four groups: control (non-vitrified), sucrose, fructose, and trehalose. …”
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A Comparative Study of Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Urban Autonomous Driving: Addressing the Geographic and Regulatory Challenges in CARLA by Yechan Park, Woomin Jun, Sungjin Lee

“…This performance gap highlights the advantage of approaches like TQC and SAC, which address <i>Q</i>-value overestimation through statistical methods, in improving the robustness and effectiveness of autonomous driving in diverse urban environments.…”
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A pilot study on ecological momentary assessment in asylum-seeking children and adolescents resettled to Germany: Investigating compliance, post-migration factors, and the relation... by Lauritz Rudolf Floribert Müller, Katharina Gossmann, Regina F Schmid, Rita Rosner, Johanna Unterhitzenberger

“…Furthermore, we do not know if screening measures succeed in reflecting the daily mood of ASCs experienced in everyday life.<h4>Methods</h4>We undertook a smartphone-assisted EMA study over a two-week period with 3 measurements a day. …”
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Investigation of the Wear Resistance of a Journal Bearing with Polymer-Coated Grooved Support Ring by V. V. Vasilenko, V. I. Kirishchieva, M. A. Mukutadze, V. E. Shvedova

“…The study aims at establishing the dependence of the stable hydrodynamic regime on the width of the groove on the surface of the bearing profile.   Materials and Methods. Tribological tests of journal bearings with a nonstandard bearing profile having a polymer coating with a groove on the surface were carried out on samples in the form of partial bushes (blocks). …”
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Potential of two floating aquatic macrophytes in improving water quality: A case study in two tropical streams by David Silva Alexandre, Allan Pretti Ogura, Rodrigo de Almeida Mohedano, Lorena Bittencourt Guimarães Thibau

“…In this context, effective and sustainable methods to mitigate the impacts should be explored, such as the use of plants capable of removing or degrading contaminants from water. …”
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Estimation of the stability of barley regenerated lines within the current breeding process by S. Yu. Lugovtsova, V. Yu. Stupko

“…Parametric methods for estimating the phenotypic stability of «Agricultural crops require compliance with the normal distribution of data and a balanced design of the experiment, which is rarely achievable under the conditions of current breeding work. …”
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Assessing factors associated with nurses leaving the profession: A secondary analysis of cross-sectional data by Björn Lantz, Carina Fagefors

“…Methods: The analysis involved exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to identify and examine five latent factors contributing to nurses leaving the profession. …”
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Identification and Validation of Core Genes Involved in the Development of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma via Bioinformatics Analysis by Xiaoyan Li, Jing He, Mingxia Zhou, Yun Cao, Yiting Jin, Qiang Zou

“…PPI network analysis demonstrated the interactions between those DEGs, and top 10 pivotal genes (TGFB1, CXCL8, LRRK2, CD44, CCND1, JUN, DCN, BCL2, ACACB, and CXCL12) with highest degree of connectivity were extracted from the network and verified by TCGA dataset and RT-PCR experiment of PTC samples. Four of the hub genes (CXCL8, DCN, BCL2, and ACACB) were linked to the prognosis of PTC patients and considered as clinically relevant core genes via survival analysis. …”
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Civic engagement during crisis: Does volunteering buffer the impact of trauma on worsening physical and mental health? by Sharon Stein Merkin, Liat Orenstein

“…Research objective: Examine the association between war-related trauma and worsening health outcomes, and how volunteering may buffer the harmful health effects of trauma. Methods: We administered a population-based survey of Israelis ages 18+, with a total sample of n = 1129. …”
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Metabolic reprogramming signature predicts prognosis and immune landscape in small cell lung cancer: MOCS2 validation and implications for personalized therapy by Junyan Wang, Panpan Sun, Fan Zhang, Yu Xu, Shenghu Guo

“…IntroductionSmall cell lung cancer (SCLC) remains a leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, characterized by rapid progression and poor clinical outcomes, and the function of metabolic reprogramming remains unclear in SCLC.MethodsWe performed multi-omics analysis using public SCLC datasets, analyzing single-cell RNA sequencing to identify metabolic reprogramming patterns between chemotherapy-resistant and sensitive samples. …”
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Exploring the effects of audiovisual incongruence on working memory performance in the combined 2-back+ Go/NoGo paradigm by Yang He, Yang He, Yang He, Tianqi Yang, Yuanbei Zhang, Kewei Sun, Qingjun Guo, Qiong Chen, Xuefeng Wang, Xiang Xu, Ping Wei, Shengjun Wu, Tao Xu

“…This study investigated how audiovisual incongruence affects WM performance under varying cognitive loads.MethodsTwo experiments employed a dual 2-back+Go/NoGo paradigm with 120 college students. …”
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Assessment of the 3-substituted thietane-1,1-dioxide derivative antidepressant effect using rat model of depression induced by reserpine by Irina L. Nikitina, Gulnara G. Gaisina, Elena E. Klen, Lyubov A. Tkachenko

“…The aim of the study was to evaluate the antidepressant effect of 3ETD in a model of depressive-like state in rats induced by seven-fold administration of reserpine. Materials and Methods: We conducted two sets of experiments in white outbred male rats. …”
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Effect of Weekend Alcohol Consumption on Hepatic Antioxidant Enzyme Activity: Role of Concentration and Gender by Elda Victoria Rodríguez-Negrete, Jazmín García-Machorro, Eduardo Osiris Madrigal-Santillán, Ángel Morales-González, José A. Morales-González

“…At the end of the experiment, liver samples were obtained. The activity of the enzymes catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione reductase, and glutathione peroxidase, as well as the levels of total antioxidant capacity and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances, were determined. …”
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Development and application of GlycanDIA workflow for glycomic analysis by Yixuan Xie, Xingyu Liu, Li Yi, Shunyang Wang, Zongtao Lin, Chenfeng Zhao, Siyu Chen, Faith M. Robison, Benson M. George, Carlito B. Lebrilla, Ryan A. Flynn, Benjamin A. Garcia

“…With the improved sensitivity and precision, we perform experiments to profile N-glycans from RNA samples, which have been underrepresented due to their low abundance. …”
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Modeling the relationship between the moral charter derived from Islamic teachings and performance with the mediating variable of employees' perception by leila jahantigh, Abbas Babaeenezhad, Mohsen Zayandehroudi, saeed sayadi

“…Third, foreign-owned companies use different management approaches and therefore codes of ethics differ in terms of extent and content.Fallahi (2021) investigated a research entitled professional ethics in education and training centers, emphasizing the statement of the second step of the Islamic revolution. 5 categories of professional ethics; individual, social, training, education, education and training centers are important, as well as the values ​​of professional ethics will lead to self-improvement in the first degree, and in the second degree, to community building, and in the third degree, to civilization.Research methodologyThe current research is applicable in terms of purpose, and survey type in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of the present study includes the employees of Sistan and Baluchistan province in the number of 48011 thousand people, due to the large sample size, 384 employees in the cities of Zabul, Zahedan and Khash were considered as sample, using the Morgan Karjesi table. …”
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Single-cell RNA sequencing integrated with bulk RNA sequencing analysis of clock circadian regulator with prognostic and immune microenvironment in thyroid cancer by Zhen shen, Yuelei Zhao, Xinxin Xu, Huini Yang, Shuting He, Junchi Ma, Shaoqiang Zhang, Peng Hou, Fang Sui

“…Confirmatory in vitro experiments and immunohistochemical assays in human samples further linked high CLOCK expression to reduced T cell cytotoxicity and infiltration. …”
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Storage and permeation space development characteristics and water production capacity evaluation of deep coal reservoirs in Linxing-Shenfu area of Ordos Basin by Jinwei WANG, Hao XU, Yinan LIU, Bing ZHANG, Yanyong XU, Ding LIU, Peng ZONG, Yajuan WANG, Xuejing SONG

“…This study conducted multi-scale characterizations of coal samples from the 8#+9# coal seams in the Linxing-Shenfu area using high-pressure mercury intrusion porosimetry, low-temperature CO2 adsorption, low-temperature N2 adsorption, and CT scanning experiments. …”
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CGREF1 modulates osteosarcoma proliferation by regulating the cell cycle through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway by Zicheng Wei, Kezhou Xia, Wenda Liu, Xinghan Huang, Zhun Wei, Weichun Guo

“…However, its role in osteosarcoma remains unclear. Methods Tumor Immune Estimation Resource (TIMER), The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases were utilized for bioinformatics analysis. …”
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Development of one general and six country-specific algorithms to assess societal health utilities based on ASAS HI by Désirée van der Heijde, Annelies Boonen, Juergen Braun, Uta Kiltz, Ivette Essers, Mickael Hiligsmann, Nick Bansback

“…This study aims to develop one general and six country-specific algorithms to calculate societal preference values for health of patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA), as assessed by the disease-specific Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society Health Index (ASAS HI).Methods A survey was performed in random population samples from six European countries. …”
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Beyond BRCA: A scoping review of person-centred care for women diagnosed with a BRCA gene mutation by Jane Murray Cramm, Cornelia van Diepen, Leonie Emilia Witte

“…The aim was to provide a first overview of the evidence of women’s experiences with person-centred care (PCC) within BRCA care and their needs for further PCC implementation.Design A scoping review, guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews, was conducted.Data sources Medline, Embase, Web of Science Core Collection, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL Plus and Google Scholar were searched for literature published between January 2004 and February 2024.Eligibility criteria Peer-reviewed, primary studies on BRCA and PCC using quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods designs were eligible. …”
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