Serum Concentration of Interleukin-6 Is Increased Both in Active and Remission Stages of Pemphigus Vulgaris by Joanna Narbutt, Jolanta Lukamowicz, Jarosław Bogaczewicz, Anna Sysa-Jedrzejowska, Jolanta Dorota Torzecka, Aleksandra Lesiak

“…As most studies on pemphigus vulgaris (PV) pathogenesis concern its active stage, we aimed to evaluate the serum concentration of TNF-α, IL-1, and IL-6 in PV patients in clinical remission. …”
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Comparative study of PCR test kits for ASFV DNA detection by M. S. Krasnikova, S. P. Yatsentyuk, M. B. Bryusova, A. D. Kozlova, М. А. Gergel

“…Thus, during the study, one kit showed its inactivity, demonstrating the absence of accumulation curves of the fluorescent signal during amplification of both positive controls and DNA of ASFV isolates. …”
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Enhancing decay resistance and maintaining quality of stored apples (Malus domestica ‘Golden Delicious’) through essential oil-enriched edible coatings by Atiyeh Oraee, Yahya Selahvarzi, Mona Ghazimoghadam, Bahram Abedy, Mohammad Ali Sabokkhiz

“…Research limitations: Thyme essential oil (EO) has limitations when used directly, inculding its strong odor and flavor, low stability, low water solubility, and high volatility. …”
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Mean Platelet Volume and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Zhongwei Zhou, Hongmei Chen, Mingzhong Sun, Huixiang Ju

“…Subgroup analyses revealed that such trend was consistent in the third-trimester (SMD: 1.35; 95% CI: 0.72–1.98), Turkish (SMD: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.43–1.19), and Italian (SMD: 2.78; 95% CI: 2.22–3.34) patients with GDM and the patients diagnosed based on Carpenter and Coustan criteria (SMD: 1.04; 95% CI: 0.42–1.65). …”
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The Assessment of Agroforestry Practices in Mukura Sector, Huye District, Southern Rwanda by Doreen Mukoobwa, Benitha Zaninka, Canisius Patrick Mugunga

“…Agroforestry has the potential to contribute to the improvement of household livelihood, since its various forms offer multiple alternatives and opportunities to farmers. …”
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Two Cysteines in Raf Kinase Inhibitor Protein Make Differential Contributions to Structural Dynamics In Vitro by Hyun Sang Cho, Mohammad Faysal Al Mazid, Eun-Young Lee, Md Abu Rayhan, Hyoun Sook Kim, Byung Il Lee, Hye Jin You

“…Despite its structural stability as a monomer, RKIP may form a dimer, resulting in the switching of binding partners. …”
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Premières impressions sur l'Exposition universelle de Shanghai by Florence Padovani

“…First the article explains what are the different processes to organize a World Exposition, then it shows that in Shanghai it was done in such a way that the emphasis was more on China facing its own history and its own population rather than China facing the world. « Shanghai Expo 2010 » was a huge popular fair which did not provide many hints for the future urban planning.…”
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De la crainte de la damnation éternelle aux prémisses de l’angoisse existentielle contemporaine : inquiétudes sotériologiques et eschatologiques chez William Hale White (« Mark Rut... by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…Gradually, however, the fear of a final degeneration of our world began to be induced by scientific knowledge itself, particularly by discoveries in the field of thermodynamics, which predicted the extinction of the sun as well as the thermal death of the universe.To what extent did traditional uncertainties concerning man’s salvation increase in this context? …”
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Microwave Thermal Ablation in an Unusual Case of Malignant and Locally Advanced Rare Tumor of Pancreas in ASA IV Old Male Patient and Literature Review by Francesco D’Amico, Michele Finotti, Chiara Di Renzo, Alessio Pasquale, Alessandra Bertacco, Giorgio Caturegli, Gabriel E. Gondolesi, Umberto Cillo

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Properties and applications of Magnetorheological fluids by A. Spaggiari

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Enhanced energy storage performance in Ag(Nb,Ta)O3 films via interface engineering by Xiao Zhai, Jun Ouyang, Weijie Kuai, Yinxiu Xue, Kun Wang, Nengneng Luo, Hongbo Cheng, Hanfei Zhu, Chao Liu, Limei Zheng

“…Environmental-friendly AgNbO3 family have been actively studied for its large polarization and antiferroelectric nature, which greatly boost the electric energy storage performance. …”
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Hypoplastic Modeling of Soil–Structure Contact Surface Considering Initial Anisotropy and Roughness by Jingtao Yu, Junwang Cao, Zixuan Chen, Jintao Zhu, Yulong Zhang, Pengqiang Yu

“…Utilizing the finite element software ABAQUS 2021, an FRIC subroutine was developed, which, through simulating direct shear tests on sand–structure contact surfaces, has proven its efficacy in predicting the shear behavior of these interfaces.…”
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The cAMP Pathway Amplifies Early MyD88-Dependent and Type I Interferon-Independent LPS-Induced Interleukin-10 Expression in Mouse Macrophages by Orna Ernst, Yifat Glucksam-Galnoy, Muhammad Athamna, Iris Ben-Dror, Hadar Ben-Arosh, Galit Levy-Rimler, Iain D. C. Fraser, Tsaffrir Zor

“…This report delineates the temporal regulation of early cAMP-accelerated vs. late type I IFN-dependent IL-10 transcription in LPS-stimulated murine macrophages that can limit inflammation at its onset.…”
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A New Approach for Studying Bond Rupture/Closure of a Spiro Benzopyran Photochromic Material: Reactivity Descriptors Derived from Frontier Orbitals and DFT Computed Electrostatic P... by M. S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb, Sarah N. Ali

“…Specifically, we report on 1′,3′-dihydro-8-methoxy-1′,3′,3′-trimethyl-6-nitrospiro[2H-1-benzopyran-2,2′-(2H)-indole] (SP) and its isomers. TD-DFT calculated UV-Vis electronic spectra of the closed and open isomers of this photochromic material are in excellent agreement with the experimental results. …”
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Gulf Fritillary Butterfly, Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) by Jaret C. Daniels

“…It describes this brightly colored butterfly common across the extreme southern United States — its distribution, description, life cycle and hosts. …”
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Urban Surface Water Mapping from VHR Images Based on Superpixel Segmentation and Target Detection by Qingwei Liu, Yugang Tian, Lihao Zhang, Bo Chen

“…The method includes three steps: clustering water bodies into sparse targets at the object level by an improved scale-adaptive simple non-iterative clustering (SA-SNIC) superpixel segmentation; generating new bands with additional spectral, spatial, and derived features, to increase the dimensions of original data and enhance the separability between water bodies and background covers; and constructing a positive-negative constrained energy minimization multitarget sparse detector to highlight the water bodies while suppressing shadows. …”
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Unleashing the potential of extracellular vesicles for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease therapy by George Chigozie Njoku, Cathal Patrick Forkan, Fumie Mitani Soltysik, Peter Lindberg Nejsum, Flemming Pociot, Reza Yarani

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Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice by James Alexander Kapaló

“…Firstly, I explore the discursive nature of the construction of ‘folk religion’ as a category of analysis and how its semantic loading functions to ‘pick up’ distinctive practices from the religious field. …”
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Originalita Kantovy nauky o trvalém míru by Chotaš, Jiří

“…The originality of Kant’s approach is seen by the author above all in the fact that, from the point of view of the philosophy of law, the doctrine of lasting peace in Toward Perpetual Peace is connected with a consideration regarding its realizability in history. He also draws attention to the fact that though this detail is known, it is often marginalized in secondary literature.…”

Exploring bio-remediation strategies by a novel bacteria Micrococcus sp. strain HX in Cr(VI)-contaminated groundwater from long-term industrial polluted by Yu Xia, Yujuan Wen, Yuesuo Yang, Xiaoming Song, Yunlong Wang, Zhipeng Zhang

“…Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) has emerged as a contaminant of heavy metal, owing to its wide use in industry. This study focuses on elucidating the interaction between microbial communities and environmental parameters in Cr(VI)-contaminated groundwater near a factory in Henan Province, and evaluating the bio-remediation potential of microorganisms toward Cr(VI) reduction. …”
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