The biodegradation of low-density polyethylene by Bacillus species by Felicia E. Uwakwe, Tobias I.N. Ezejiofor, Ernest A.A. Anyalogbu, Toochukwu E. Ogbulie

“…The observations showed that these Bacillus spp. indigenous to Owerri Metropolis have the ability to degrade PE and utilize it as a carbon source, and it was concluded that biodegradation was achieved, and that PE which was regarded to be inert can be biodegraded when exposed to the right microorganisms.…”
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Exploring the Acceptance and Application of a Humanoid Robot: Insights from Three Field Studies

“…In culture, the robot primarily served as an information provider, whereas in daycare, it was most effective as a source of entertainment. Although participants found the robot intuitive and engaging, its limited perceived usefulness highlights the need for enhanced interactivity and functionality to maximize its economic and operational potential in addressing skilled labour shortages. …”
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Development of a warning model for drug-induced liver injury in the older patients by Qiaozhi Hu, Qiaozhi Hu, Xiaoqi Li, Xiaoqi Li, Dan Zou, Zhiyao He, Zhiyao He, Ting Xu

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A Digital Software Support Platform for Hyperthyroidism Management in South Korea: Markov Simulation Model-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analysis by Jung Hyun Kim, Jaeyong Shin, Man S Kim, Jae Hoon Moon

“… Abstract BackgroundThe integration of wearable technology for heart rate monitoring offers potential advancements in managing hyperthyroidism by providing a feasible way to track thyroid function. Although digital health solutions are gaining traction in various chronic conditions, their cost-effectiveness in hyperthyroidism management requires deeper investigation. …”
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Interdisciplinary medical education practices: building a case-driven interdisciplinary simulation system based on public datasets by Kangli Qiu, Tianshu Zeng, Wenfang Xia, Miaomiao Peng, Wen Kong

“…Conclusion The “Data-case-simulation” trinity practice teaching model enables students to utilize open-source datasets for case analysis, employing clinical index modeling and statistical thinking. …”
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Emerging roles of intratumoral microbiota: a key to novel cancer therapies by Pengzhong Fang, Jing Yang, Jing Yang, Jing Yang, Huiyun Zhang, Huiyun Zhang, Huiyun Zhang, Diankui Shuai, Min Li, Lin Chen, Liping Liu

“…This review summarizes the latest advancements in this field, including techniques and methods for identifying and culturing intratumor microbiota, their potential sources, functions, and roles in the efficacy of immunotherapy. …”
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Recent Advances in Understanding the Keys Factors Influencing Pressurized Liquid Extraction of Secondary Metabolites: A Comprehensive Review by Pauline Donn, Sepidar Seyyedi-Mansour, Franklin Chamorro, Paula Garcia-Oliveira, Javier Echave, Ana Perez-Vazquez, Paula Barciela, Lucia Cassani, Miguel Angel Prieto

“…., phenolic compounds) from botanical sources, with implications spanning across pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and functional foods. …”
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Advances in Stem Cell Therapy for Huntington’s Disease: A Comprehensive Literature Review by Siddharth Shah, Hadeel M. Mansour, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“…Recent research indicates that NSCs have been the most often utilized stem cell type for treating HD. NSCs have been generated and extracted from a variety of sources, including HD patients’ somatic cells and the brain itself. …”
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Smart building energy management with renewables and storage systems using a modified weighted mean of vectors algorithm by Mohamed Ebeed, Sabreen hassan, Salah Kamel, Loai Nasrat, Ali Wagdy Mohamed, Abdel-Raheem Youssef

“…The EM problem tackled involves optimizing the scheduling of multiple energy sources, including diesel generators, PV units, and batteries, within a smart building context. …”
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A Two-Stream Deep Learning Framework for Robust Coral Reef Health Classification: Insights and Interpretability by Arslan Abdul Ghaffar, Gyu Sang Choi

“…We created a specialized dataset of 20,000 images by combining five public datasets, applying a class fusion process to ensure consistent class definitions across diverse data sources. Our methodology addresses challenges such as underwater variation and class imbalance through tailored data augmentation, multi-scale feature analysis, temporal modeling, and weighted loss functions. …”
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Eco‐Friendly Biomass‐Based Carbon Dots, Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, and Their Derivatives for Enhanced Oil Recovery: A New Horizon for Petroleum Industry by Ruhul Amin Foisal, Prof. Dr. Abu Bin Imran, Prof. Dr. Al‐Nakib Chowdhury

“…This review aims to explore biomass‐derived carbon nanoparticles and investigate their possible functions in GEOR. Furthermore, the use of carbon particles in the GEOR approach is still poorly understood; thus, there needs to be a lot of credentials. …”
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Harnessing evanescent photoacoustic waves for multi-domain imaging by Rong Zhou, Liying Zhang, Beibei Li, Jingtao Xiao, Yiheng Xing, Chang Chen, Yuecheng Shen, Hao Shen, Deng Pan, Hongxing Xu

“…Leveraging these features, we develop a proof-of-concept for supercritical angle photoacoustic microscopy (SA-PAM), which utilizes evanescent PA waves to enable new PAM functionalities, such as surface topography reconstruction and edge detection. …”
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Global Multivariable Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for Mechanical Elastic Energy Storage System under Multiclass Nonharmonic External Disturbances by Yang Yu, Zengqiang Mi, Yikun Xu, Tong Zhao

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Phytobacter sp. RSE02 is a rice seed endophytic plant probiotic bacterium with human probiotic features and cholesterol-lowering ability by Santosh Kumar Jana, Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Sunanda Mukherjee, Samudra Gupta, Subhra Prakash Hui, Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Swadesh Ranjan Biswas, Sukhendu Mandal

“…We examine the safety and probiotic potential of RSE02 in human cell lines, zebrafish, and mice. Notably, RSE02 can utilize cholesterol as its sole carbon source; however, it does not adhere to the Caco-2 cell line or the zebrafish gut. …”
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Preparation and stability of angiotensin-I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptides from protein hydrolysate of Wuyi rock tea residues by Xiaoliang Cao, Huiyuan Zhou, Jindong Xie, Linxia Huang, Songbin Guo, Zexiao Zhang, Qun Chen, Chun Meng, Feng Zhang, Jing Hong

“…These peptides could be utilized in the development of nutraceuticals, functional foods, and pharmaceuticals.…”
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In Vitro Osteogenic Potential of Green Fluorescent Protein Labelled Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Osteoprogenitors by Intekhab Islam, Gopu Sriram, Mingming Li, Yu Zou, Lulu Li, Harish K. Handral, Vinicus Rosa, Tong Cao

“…Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are potentially an unlimited source of healthy and functional osteoprogenitors (OPs) that could be utilized for bone regenerative applications. …”
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AMMap tool for additive manufacturing design, alloy discovery, and path planning by Alexander M Richter, Adam M Krajewski, Zhening Yang, Allison M Beese, Zi-Kui Liu

“…To define and navigate the high order chemical systems of CCMs/FGMs, the open-source tool, AMMap, has been developed utilizing open models and CALPHAD methods for thermodynamic computation. …”
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Architecture and the Time of Space by Deborah Hauptman

“…As Foucault suggested, one of the great problems that arose in the 1950s was that of the political status of science and the ideological functions that it could serve. Another rebuke can be seen as the challenge to the primacy of truth as an adequation of subject to thing. …”
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AI-powered literature search: some observations and concerns by Farooq Azam Rathore, Fareeha Farooq

“…This raises questions about the data sources utilized by these AI tools and the overall reliability of their outputs. …”
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Determination of Total Phenolics, Flavonoids, Carotenoids, β-Carotene and DPPH Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Biscuits Developed with Different Replacement Levels of Pumpkin (... by Ashiq Hussain, Tusneem Kausar, Sawera Sehar, Ayesha Sarwar, Abdul Haseeb Ashraf, Muhammad Abdullah Jamil, Saima Noreen, Ayesha Rafique, Khansa Iftikhar, Muhammad Yousaf Quddoos

“…Peel, flesh and seeds of this fruit are heavily loaded with phenolics, flavonoids and carotenoids, which are the main tributes of this functional and medicinal food. Present study was designed to utilize these parts of pumpkin in the form of powders, at 0, 5, 10 and 15% replacement levels with white flour, to develop biscuits and to obtain methanolic extracts of these biscuits to determine their phytochemical parameters. …”
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