Considerations for Defining Cytokine Dose, Duration, and Milieu That Are Appropriate for Modeling Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes by Craig S. Nunemaker

“…We conclude that new cytokine models may be needed to reflect the pathophysiology of T2D more effectively than what are currently employed.…”
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The electronic structure of 1/1 ZnMgHf and its consequences for the electronic transport of the quasicrystal by Ireneusz Buganski, Stanislav Vrtnik, Radoslaw Strzalka, Jože Luzar, Janusz Wolny, Nobuhisa Fujita

“…Study utilizes Electron Localization Function, non-covalent bond analysis and Maximally Localized Wannier Functions. …”
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Non-Permanent Transcatheter Proximal Renal Artery Embolization for a Grade 5 Renal Injury with Delayed Recanalization and Preserved Renal Parenchymal Enhancement by Abhishek Jairam, Bradley King, Zachary Berman, Gerant Rivera-Sanfeliz

“…In such cases, surgical nephrectomy remains the more common treatment modality to ensure hemodynamic control. …”
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Cardiac Sarcoidosis or Giant Cell Myocarditis? On Treatment Improvement of Fulminant Myocarditis as Demonstrated by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hari Bogabathina, Peter Olson, Vikas K. Rathi, Robert W. W. Biederman

“…This resulted in excellent improvement of patient’s cardiac function as shown by delayed hyperenhancement images, early perfusion images, and SSFP videos.…”
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Machine learning algorithms can predict emotional valence across ungulate vocalizations by Romain A. Lefèvre, Ciara C.R. Sypherd, Élodie F. Briefer

“…Summary: Vocalizations can vary as a function of their context of production and provide an immediate measure of an animal’s affective states. …”
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Modeling and Solving the Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times by Firefly Algorithm (Case Study: Automotive Industry) by Mustafa Mohammadi, Seyed Ahmad Shayannia, Mohamadreza Lotfi, Javad Rezaeian Zaidi

“…Therefore, considered objective function is to minimize the total completion time. …”
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Ionotropic and Metabotropic Proton-Sensing Receptors Involved in Airway Inflammation in Allergic Asthma by Haruka Aoki, Chihiro Mogi, Fumikazu Okajima

“…They function in a variety of airway responses related to the pathophysiology of inflammatory diseases, including allergic asthma. …”
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Optimizing spatial allocation schemes with a focus on carbon fixation services by the integration of GIS and a robust algorithmic approach by Eryan Guo, Jing He

“…As global climate change becomes more severe, forests, as important carbon sinks, are of great significance for mitigating climate change and protecting the ecological environment. …”
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Performance evaluation of CA-, GO- and SO-CFAR processors in a non-centered Lévy-distributed clutter by El-Hadi Meftah, Abdelhalim Rabehi, Slimane Benmahmoud

“…Lévy distributions, with heavy tails and a location parameter (δ), provide a more accurate model for non-Gaussian and non-centered clutter in complex environments. …”
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Understanding Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis by Tushar Chopra, Kiran Kandukurti, Silvi Shah, Raheel Ahmed, Mandip Panesar

“…Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) is a rare and a debilitating disease noted uncommonly in patients with impaired renal function when exposed to low-stability gadolinium-based contrast agents (Gd-CAs). …”
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Osteopontin and Its Clinical Correlation to Type 1 Cardiorenal Syndrome: A Literature Review by Yongki Welliam, Citrawati Dyah Kencono Wungu, Hendri Susilo

“…Further findings suggest that, more specifically, urinary OPN describes renal injury events in type 1 CRS patients.…”
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Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) and dung removal in Mexican livestock pastures by Carmen Huerta, Lucrecia Arellano, Magdalena Cruz

“…Nocturnal tunnelers reincorporated the largest quantity of dung over the first 24 hours; in contrast, rollers only removed dung at the lowest areas of the gradient (< 250 m asl). However, much more information is still required regarding the capacity of the different functional groups and dung beetle species for dung burial in the livestock production zones of Mexico.…”
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Survey of Traffic Engineering Solution for Telecommunication Network Optimization by Ahmad M. Hailan, Hisham Alshaheen

“…It emphasizes the need for more advanced traffic engineering solutions that can cope with the growing complexity of telecommunication networks. …”
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3D complex: a structural classification of protein complexes. by Emmanuel D Levy, Jose B Pereira-Leal, Cyrus Chothia, Sarah A Teichmann

“…Most of the proteins in a cell assemble into complexes to carry out their function. It is therefore crucial to understand the physicochemical properties as well as the evolution of interactions between proteins. …”
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Features of expression of oncoprotein p16ІNK4a in squamous cell carcinomas of the oropharynx. by O. V. Poslavskaya

“…Presence of excessive amount of p16INK4a in a free state shows its reduced suppressor function and is an indication of the active expression of viral oncogene E7. …”
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High-Performance Emulator for Fixed Photovoltaic Panels by Youssef Mallal, Lhoussain El Bahir, Touria Hassboun

“…The practical tests were performed on a prototype designed using a MATLAB C MEX S-function, dSPACE board 1104, and a controlled DC/DC converter. …”
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China-Arab academic engagement as track II diplomacy: a counter-narrative to Western securitization of knowledge exchange by Mohamad Zreik

“…This paper examines how these collaborations function as a tool for China to engage with the Arab world on the basis of shared academic and cultural values, promoting understanding and cooperation. …”
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DEGNN: A Deep Learning-Based Method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Software Security Analysis by Jiang Du, Qiang Wei, Yisen Wang, Xingyu Bai

“…With the increasing utilization of drones, the cyber security threats they face have become more prominent. Code reuse in the software development of drone systems has led to vulnerabilities in drones. …”
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Measuring the Phase of an Optical Field from Two Intensity Measurements: Analysis of a Simple Theoretical Model by Damien P. Kelly

“…Under the scalar paraxial approximation, an optical wavefield is considered to be complex function dependent on position; i.e., at a given location in space the optical field is a complex value with an intensity and phase. …”
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Surface crack growth in cylindrical hollow specimen subject to tension and torsion by V. Shlyannikov, R. Yarullin, R. Yarullin

“…The experimental and numerical results of the present study provided the opportunity to explore the suggestion that fatigue crack propagation may be governed more strongly by the plastic stress intensity factor rather than the magnitude of the elastic SIFs alone. …”
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