Unlocking iron: nutritional origins, metabolic pathways, and systemic significance by Zoha Imtiaz Malik, Muhammad Umer Ghafoor, Syed Hassan Bin Usman Shah, Juweria Abid, Umar Farooq, Abdul Momin Rizwan Ahmad, Abdul Momin Rizwan Ahmad

“…This review aims at providing a comprehensive analysis of iron’s dietary sources, metabolic role, physiological functioning, absorption enhancers and inhibitors, and systemic regulation, such as hepcidin’s role in iron homeostasis. …”
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Incorporating Crowdsourced Annotator Distributions into Ensemble Modeling to Improve Classification Trustworthiness for Ancient Greek Papyri by Graham West, Matthew I. Swindall, Ben Keener, Timothy Player, Alex C. Williams, James H. Brusuelas, John F. Wallin

“…As such, we apply stacked generalization consisting of nearly identical ResNets with different loss functions: one utilizing sparse cross-entropy (CXE) and the other Kullback-Liebler Divergence (KLD). …”
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Exploring phytochemicals and their pharmacological applications from ethnomedicinal plants: A focus on Lycium barbarum, Solanacea by Baiken Baimakhanova, Amankeldi Sadanov, Andrey Bogoyavlenskiy, Vladimir Berezin, Lyudmila Trenozhnikova, Gul Baimakhanova, Aibat Ibraimov, Elmira Serikbayeva, Zhalgaskali Arystanov, Tanagul Arystanova, Rakhym Nazakat, Ainura Khammetova, Gulnaz Seitimova, Aknur Turgumbayeva

“…Lycium barbarum have been recognized as a valuable source of functional ingredients with promising applications in the food and medical sectors. …”
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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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The Challenges of Safety Culture: No more risk! by Julija Melnikova

“…Program equipment should be elaborated in order to ensure the supervision of exploitation of technical devices, their service and utilization as well as to protect from injuries. The aspect of utilization should be solved by the organization that projects or produces the equipment or devices.  …”
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Laser powder bed fusion of biodegradable magnesium alloys: process, microstructure and properties by Xuehua Wu, Junying Liu, Youwen Yang, Jing Bai, Cijun Shuai, Joseph Buhagiar, Xinghai Ning

“…Additive manufacturing (AM) provides high design flexibility and enables the creation of implants with personalized complex shapes and internal porous structures tailored to individual anatomical and functional needs. Particularly, laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), one prevalent AM technique, utilizes a fine laser beam as heat source and results in tiny molten pool with extremely fast cooling rate, which effectively restricts grain growth, inter-metallic precipitation and macroscopic segregation, thus facilitating the fabrication of high-performance metal parts. …”
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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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Meaning in Life Among Aged People: A Qualitative Study of an Institutionalized Elderly Sample by Lăcrămioara Cojocaru, Camelia Soponaru, Daniela Muntele-Hendreș, Ciprian Ceobanu

“…The research utilized thematic analysis within a qualitative methodology to investigate the subjective sources of meaning among elderly people living in Romanian institutional settings. …”
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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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lncRNA CYTOR Facilitates Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells by Modulating SOX11 via Sponging miR-6512-3p by Shaoqin Tu, Yihua Chen, Yi Feng, Zhili Kuang, Yuxuan Wang, Lin Chen, Zhihui Mai, Jiaming Wei, Sai Zhang, Yiting Shao, Hong Ai, Zheng Chen

“…Periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs) are considered ideal cell sources for the regeneration of periodontal and alveolar bone tissue. …”
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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

“…Abstract Oil extraction from reservoirs has never been easy, particularly when easily accessible oil sources run out. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a dynamic area of petroleum engineering that seeks to maximize the quantity of crude oil that can be retrieved from an oil field. …”
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Nonlinearity of optoacoustic signals and a new contrast mechanism for imaging by Jaber Malekzadeh-Najafabadi, Jaya Prakash, Daniel Razansky, Jorge Ripoll, Vipul Gujrati, Vasilis Ntziachristos

“…These findings may have far-reaching implications for improving the accuracy of optoacoustics and utilizing the proposed new contrast mechanism would advance our understanding of cellular and tissue functionality.…”
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The dynamic theoretical analysis of performance characteristics for open-cycle absorption energy storage system using HCOOK-H2O as the working fluid under full and partial mode by Yaqi Ding, Qingpu Li, Bicui Ye, Muhammad Kashif Shahzad, Neng Gao, Guangming Chen

“…Open absorption energy storage systems can efficiently address the temporal and spatial mismatches between the solar energy driving heat source and the user. The energy storage mode of operation of a single-stage open absorption heat pump system with HCOOK-H2O solution and compact structure utilized for waste heat recovery of industrial humid gases, was firstly investigated. …”
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Physicochemical Properties of Avocado Seed Extract Model Beverages and Baked Products Incorporated with Avocado Seed Powder by Clinton O. Nyakang’i, Eunice Marete, Rebecca Ebere, Joshua M. Arimi

“…Studies have shown that the seeds are rich in phytochemicals that can be utilized in food systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of Hass avocado seed as a source of polyphenols in the processing of model beverages and baked products with functional properties. …”
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Islet cell transplantation by CAMILLO RICORDI

“…That is why the work on xenogeneic islets, embryonic and adult stem cells, islet regeneration and proliferation, as well as engineering of insulin producing cells must be continued, to identify the most ideal source of insulin producing tissue that could be utilized on a large scale once the impediments and limitations of immunosuppression will be resolved.…”
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Therapeutic role of mesenchymal stem cells in neurogenesis for management of neurological disorders: a scientometric study to an in-depth review by Qian Wang, Weifeng Jiang, Yan Feng, Lin Li, Lisheng Chu, Yan Fang

“…To comprehend the many processes and mechanisms of neurogenesis and the role of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as active contributors to pathologic events influencing neurogenesis. We utilized the Web of Science (core collection) as the data source.MethodsThe search was performed in the Web of Science core collection database until April 30, 2024, with the terms “Mesenchymal stem cells” as the title and “neurogenesis” as the topic.ResultsA total of 407 papers about mesenchymal stem cells in neurogenesis published from 2004 to 2024 were retrieved. …”
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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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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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