Effects of Nicotine on the Thermodynamics and Phase Coexistence of Pulmonary Surfactant Model Membranes by Fadi S. S. Magalhães, Ernanni D. Vieira, Mariana R. B. Batista, Antonio J. Costa-Filho, Luis G. M. Basso

“…Phase separation is essential for membrane function, and alterations in phase coexistence by membrane-interacting molecules, such as nicotine, can impair membrane stability. …”
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Research on Buckwheat Weed Recognition in Multispectral UAV Images Based on MSU-Net by Jinlong Wu, Xin Wu, Ronghui Miao

“…The neuron death caused by the original ReLU activation function may lead to misidentification, so it was replaced by the Swish function to improve the adaptability to complex inputs. …”
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Progesterone Upregulates Gene Expression in Normal Human Thyroid Follicular Cells by Ana Paula Santin Bertoni, Ilma Simoni Brum, Ana Caroline Hillebrand, Tania Weber Furlanetto

“…Thyroid cancer and thyroid nodules are more prevalent in women than men, so female sex hormones may have an etiological role in these conditions. …”
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Efficacy and safety of immunotherapy combined with targeted therapy and chemotherapy in third-line treatment of microsatellite stable metastatic colorectal cancer by ZHAO Wensi, SONG Jian

“…The incidence of adverse events at all grade and at grade 3 and above was 96.4% and 32.7% in the group of immunotherapy plus targeted therapy, and 100.0% and 36.0% in the group of immunotherapy combined with targeted therapy and chemotherapy, which mainly included bone marrow hematopoietic inhibition, hand-foot skin reaction, liver function impairment and thyroid function abnormality. …”
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Serum Cortisol, 25 (OH)D, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Yuxi Jin, Dandan Wei, Pengling Liu, Fei Chen, Rongrong Li, Jinyu Zhang, Ruyi Zhang, Zuoxiang Liu, Wenqian Huo, Linlin Li, Chongjian Wang, Jinbao Ban, Zhenxing Mao

“…In addition, modification analyses suggested that the associations of cortisol with ß cell function, fasting insulin, FPG, and HbA1c were modified by 25 (OH)D. …”
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Molecular Modelling in Bioactive Peptide Discovery and Characterisation by Clement Agoni, Raúl Fernández-Díaz, Patrick Brendan Timmons, Alessandro Adelfio, Hansel Gómez, Denis C. Shields

“…Many models predicting bioactive peptide function or structure rely on their intrinsic properties, including the influence of amino acid composition, sequence, and chain length, which impact stability, folding, aggregation, and target interaction. …”
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A Remedy for Crime? A Systematic Review on the Effects of Pharmacological ADHD Treatment on Criminal Recidivism and Rehabilitation in Inmates With ADHD by A. Carlander, M. Rydell, H. Kataoka, M. Hildebrand Karlén, A.‐S. Lindqvist Bagge

“…We point to the need for more targeted research in this area.…”
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Adipocyte-expressed SIRT3 manipulates carnitine pool to orchestrate metabolic reprogramming and polarization of macrophages by Jiali Chen, Fei Zhou, Lei Zhang, Ruohan Lou, Cangman Zhang, Jianbo Wan, Xiaojun Ma, Ligen Lin

“…Impaired lipid metabolism and endocrine function in adipocytes is recognized as a culprit in the onset of adipose tissue inflammation. …”
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Attenuated African swine fever viruses and the live vaccine candidates: a comprehensive review by Jiaqi Fan, Haisheng Yu, Faming Miao, Junnan Ke, Rongliang Hu

“…The ASFV genome is 170–193 kb in length, contains approximately 150 open reading frames, and encodes more than 200 proteins, most of which have unknown functions. …”
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Experimental and Mathematical Modeling of Monotonic Behavior of Calcareous Sand by Haotian Zhang, Zongmu Luo, Yanyu Qiu, Huachao Liu, Juan Gu, Jian Tang

“…A mathematical model composed of a hyperbolic function and an inverted S-shaped function was formulated to describe the multiphase characteristic, in which the setting of parameter p expands its applicability. …”
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Erythrodermic Psoriasis Causing Uric Acid Crystal Nephropathy by John Ellis, Jeffrey Lew, Sumir Brahmbhatt, Sarah Gordon, Troy Denunzio

“…Despite aggressive fluid resuscitation, renal function did not improve, and creatinine peaked at 4.61 mg/dL. …”
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Virally mediated enhancement of efferent inhibition reduces acoustic trauma in wild-type murine cochleas by Eleftheria Slika, Paul A. Fuchs, Megan Beers Wood

“…Transgenic knockin mice with a gain-of-function nAChR (α9L9′T) suffer less NIHL. α9 knockout mice are more vulnerable to NIHL but can be rescued by viral transduction of the α9L9′T subunit. …”
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Bilingualism Does Not Hinder Grammatical Development in Down Syndrome: Evidence from a Sentence Repetition Task by Alexandra Perovic, Katie Levy, Inès Aertsen, Andrea Baldacchino

“…Both groups produced a high proportion of ungrammatical repetitions, with more omissions of verbs than nouns, function words than content words, and significant difficulties producing complex structures such as relative clauses, wh-questions, and passives. …”
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Hydration practices and water intake among truck and tanker drivers in Ghana by Mustapha Amoadu, Susanna Aba Abraham, William Akoto-Buabeng, Jones Abekah Baah, Edward Wilson Ansah, Jessica Ayensu

“…Abstract Background Proper hydration is essential for long-distance drivers to maintain health and cognitive function while on the road. However, many drivers face barriers to meeting the recommended daily water intake, potentially compromising their health and safety and that of other road users. …”
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SFDA-MEF: An Unsupervised Spacecraft Feature Deformable Alignment Network for Multi-Exposure Image Fusion by Qianwen Xiong, Xiaoyuan Ren, Huanyu Yin, Libing Jiang, Canyu Wang, Zhuang Wang

“…We also design a feature point extraction loss function to render our output more conducive to subsequent IOS tasks. …”
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R package to estimate intracluster correlation coefficient for nominal and ordinal data by Hrishikesh Chakraborty, Nicole Solomon

“…Results: : The iccmult package provides two functions for users. The function rccat() generates clustered categorical data, while the function iccmulti() estimates ICC and its CI. …”
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Dual-task performance and balance in patients with severe COPD: a cross-sectional study by Crisan Alexandru Florian, Pescaru Camelia Corina, Maritescu Adelina, Carunta Vlad, Onofrei Roxana Ramona, Stoicescu Emil Robert, Oancea Cristian

“…Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) significantly impacts respiratory and motor function, balance, and cognition, leading to muscle weakness and impaired exercise capacity. …”
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Zirconium-89-Oxine Cell Tracking by PET Reveals Preferential Monocyte Recruitment to Cancer and Inflammation over Macrophages by Sho Koyasu, Hannah A. Minor, Kingsley O. Asiedu, Peter L. Choyke, Noriko Sato

“…While both maintained phagocytic function, monocytes showed higher CCL2-driven chemotaxis compared to macrophages. …”
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Hypnosis efficacy on nicotine addiction: An analysis of EEG microstates and brain oscillation entropy by Mi Zhang, Junjie Ren, Ni Li, Yongyi Li, Linxi Yang, Wenzhuo Wei, Juan Qiu, Xiaochu Zhang, Xiaoming Li

“…Despite hypnosis showing efficacy in treating nicotine dependence, its neurobiological impacts on a smokers' brain function remain underexplored. Thirty-three smokers underwent electroencephalography (EEG) recording during pre- and post-hypnosis sessions, each 8 minutes long, alongside Tobacco Craving Questionnaire (TCQ) assessments. …”
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Numerical Simulation Study of Coaxial Bubble Coalescence Based on VOF Method by HAO Wenjie, HAN Jinyu, LIU Yao, ZHAO Chenru, BO Hanliang

“…The bubble coalescence kernel function is one of the main kernel functions of PBM, which is used to describe the probability that two or more bubbles will coalesce into a larger bubble during collision, and its accuracy directly affects the study of bubble kinetic behavior and the prediction of thermal-hydraulic performance under the Euler-Euler frameworks. …”