Multicenter Evaluation of Morbidity and Predictors of Response to Imiquimod Treatment for Penile Intraepithelial Neoplasia by Ofir Avitan, Laura Elst, Manon Vreeburg, Tynisha Rafael, Katja Jordanova, Niels Graafland, Kees Hendricksen, Bas W.G. van Rhijn, Henk G. van der Poel, Maarten Albersen, Oscar Brouwer

“…Patient summary: Our study looked at responses to imiquimod (IQ), an immune-based treatment in cream format, for precancerous lesions on the penis, called penile intraepithelial neoplasia. …”
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Performance of Noninvasive Indices for Discrimination of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Young Adults by Jaejun Lee, Chang In Han, Dong Yeup Lee, Pil Soo Sung, Si Hyun Bae, Hyun Yang

“…Methods: Data from patients under 35 years of age who visited the Liver Health Clinic at the Armed Forces Goyang Hospital between July 2022 and January 2024 were retrospectively collected. …”
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Inter-subjectivity and Domestication in the Making of a Global Region: Territorialization of Salmon in the Chilean Patagonia by Gustavo Blanco Wells, Alberto Arce, Eleanor Fisher

“…In a complex and globalized world, assembly theory permits us to understand how forms of bio-power stimulate regional transformations that then generate new relationships between life, agency and nature. …”
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Entre um sistema eleitoral dispersivo e um regramento parlamentar concentrador: O Comportamento dos Deputados Federais by Júlio Roberto de Souza Pinto

“…A análise comparada das últimas tentativas de reforma do sistema eleitoral-partidário, de uma banda, e de limitação dos poderes de agenda do presidente, de outra, deixa claro que o governo é a grande força mobilizadora das estruturas existentes na Câmara dos Deputados.…”
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La conquête du littoral « indien » d’Afrique du Sud  by Sylvain Guyot, Julien Dellier

“…The “neo-colonisation process” of this southern frontier of the African continent by outside forces implies problematic stakes like poor integration of local people, privatisation of the coastal zone and contradictory environmental management.  …”
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Preparation of N-TiO2 Using a Microwave/Sol-Gel Method and Its Photocatalytic Activity for Bisphenol A under Visible-Light and Sunlight Irradiation by Chung-Hsin Wu, Chao-Yin Kuo, Chin-Jung Lin, Peng-Ke Chiu

“…The N-TiO2 was immobilized in glass balls to form N-TiO2/glass beads and applied to degrade Bisphenol A (BPA) under visible-light and sunlight irradiation. …”
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The Bidirectional Signal Communication of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Hypertension by Xiaoqi Wang, Zhenzhen Chen, Bin Geng, Jun Cai

“…The bidirectional communication mechanisms were proposed for the first time that the descending signals from the brain and the ascending connections from the gut form a vicious circle of hypertension progression, acting as a premise for hypertension therapy.…”
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Systematic expression analysis of cysteine‐rich secretory proteins, antigen 5, and pathogenesis‐related 1 protein (CAP) superfamily in Arabidopsis by Megumi Matsuzawa, Takumi Nakayama, Masa H. Sato, Tomoko Hirano

“…According to the promoter‐β‐glucuronidase (GUS) analysis, members of the Arabidopsis CAP family were expressed in various young tissues or organs, such as root and shoot meristems, reproductive tissues, and particularly at the lateral root initiation site before the formation of the lateral root primordium, with distinct expression specificity. …”
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Optical control of sphingolipid biosynthesis using photoswitchable sphingosines by Matthijs Kol, Alexander J.E. Novak, Johannes Morstein, Christian Schröer, Tolulope Sokoya, Svenja Mensing, Sergei M. Korneev, Dirk Trauner, Joost C.M. Holthuis

“…Photo-isomerization of the azobenzene moiety enables reversible switching between a straight trans- and curved cis-form of the lipid’s hydrocarbon tail. Combining in vitro enzyme assays with metabolic labeling studies, we demonstrate that trans-to-cis isomerization of caSphs profoundly stimulates their metabolic conversion by ceramide synthases and downstream sphingomyelin synthases. …”
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The Code of Maya Kings and Queens: Encoding and Markup of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing by Martin de la Iglesia, Franziska Diehr, Uwe Sikora, Sven Gronemeyer, Maximilian Behnert-Brodhun, Christian Prager, Nikolai Grube

“…The project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan approaches this challenge with an encoding strategy relying on stand-off markup, which is enriched with additional information sources. Using different formats (RDF, XML) and standards (CIDOC CRM, TEI P5), the inscriptions are encoded in a multilevel corpus: (1) a tei_all-compliant schema defining values and rules for the encoding of the text’s topological and structural features, (2) a “Sign Catalogue” for the classification of Maya hieroglyphs, and (3) the tool ALMAH (Annotator for the Linguistic analysis of MAya Hieroglyphs) for linguistic analyses. …”
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Quantifying the Pain Experience in Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis by Rajiv Gandhi, Dmitry Tsvetkov, Herman Dhottar, J Roderick Davey, Nizar N Mahomed

“…PURPOSE: The present study investigated whether the conceptualization of hip and knee osteoarthritis pain implicit in the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) and Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36 (SF-36) scales is complete, or whether the addition of another scale, such as the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ-SF), provides a more complete characterization. …”
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On Nano β_pc-Open Set and Some of Its Application by Saif Saleh, Jamil Mahmoud Jamil

“…The major objective of this work is to establish and assemble a new type of Nano pre-open termed a Nano-  open set, which is an advanced form of Nano pre-open. Additionally, we identify a class of Nano -open sets in terms of Nano topology elements. …”
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Diacoptical Z–Y Mathematical Model for Correction of Steady-State Mode of Large Electric Power System by K. V. Khachatrian

“…The paper proposes a new method for construction of a Z–Y diacoptical mathematical model for correction of steady-state electric power system mode in the case when a state of a passive part of the electric power network is assigned in the Z–Y form.…”
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Double-Cropping Systems Based on Maize, Sorghum, and Alfalfa: Impact of Annual Combination on Biomass and Nutritional Yield by Zhongya Ji, Yu Shi, Liqiu Jiang, Xiaoshan Wang, Guanglong Zhu, Guisheng Zhou

“…In a three-round field test, two double-cropping systems (DCSs) based on maize and sorghum as the summer forage crop and alfalfa as the preceding winter forage crop were compared. …”
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Non-Markovian spiking statistics of a neuron with delayed feedback in presence of refractoriness by Kseniia Kravchuk, Alexander Vidybida

“…    We conclude that it is namely the delayed feedback presencewhich results in non-Markovian statistics of neuronal firing.As delayed feedback lines are common forany realistic neural network, the non-Markovian statistics of the networkactivity should be taken into account in processing of experimental data.…”
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Abundant geographical divergence of Clostridioides difficile infection in China: a prospective multicenter cross-sectional study by Lulu Bai, Telong Xu, Wenzhu Zhang, Yajun Jiang, Wenpeng Gu, Wei Zhao, Yang Luan, Yanfeng Xiong, Nianli Zou, Yalin Zhang, Ming Luo, Jinxing Lu, Bike Zhang, Yuan Wu

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Growth Regimes in Japan and the United States in the 1990s by Hiroyuki Uni

“…For this purpose, we formalize mathematically and descriptively two-way routes between labour productivity growth and demand growth; these routes are known as ‘demand regime’ and ‘productivity regime’. …”
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Stage deformation characteristics of natural and saturated crushed gangue with large particle size by LU Wei, LU Yao, LIAO Changlong, LI Qinghai, LI Weiyu, JIANG Ning, MU Wenqiang, WANG Changxiang

“…By observing the gangue compression process, we found that the crushed gangue shows a more uniform internal force chain distribution in the saturated state, with a higher number of cracks, crack growth rate and secondary crushing rate than those in the natural state. …”
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Multi-omic and single-cell profiling of chromothriptic medulloblastoma reveals genomic and transcriptomic consequences of genome instability by Petr Smirnov, Moritz J. Przybilla, Milena Simovic-Lorenz, R. Gonzalo Parra, Hana Susak, Manasi Ratnaparkhe, John KL. Wong, Verena Körber, Jan-Philipp Mallm, George Philippos, Martin Sill, Thorsten Kolb, Rithu Kumar, Nicola Casiraghi, Konstantin Okonechnikov, David R. Ghasemi, Kendra Korinna Maaß, Kristian W. Pajtler, Anna Jauch, Andrey Korshunov, Thomas Höfer, Marc Zapatka, Stefan M. Pfister, Wolfgang Huber, Oliver Stegle, Aurélie Ernst

“…Abstract Chromothripsis is a frequent form of genome instability, whereby a presumably single catastrophic event generates extensive genomic rearrangements of one or multiple chromosome(s). …”
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Stability and Hopf Bifurcation Analysis of Coupled Optoelectronic Feedback Loops by Gang Zhu, Junjie Wei

“…Employing the center manifold theorem and normal form method introduced by Hassard et al. (1981), we give an algorithm for determining the Hopf bifurcation properties.…”
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