Similarities between Tumour Immune Response and Chronic Wound Microenvironment: Influence of Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells by Kimberly Thando Peta, Melvin Anyasi Ambele, Michael Sean Pepper

“…Some studies have suggested that MSCs promote tumourigenesis while others have suggested the contrary. To better evaluate the role of MSCs in the TME, it may be helpful to understand the role of MSCs in chronic wounds. …”
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Bioinformatics Analysis of Transcriptomic Data Reveals Refined Functional Networks for the Self-Renewal of Mouse Spermatogonial Stem Cells by Min Wang, Wene Zhao, Fuqiang Wang, Xiufeng Ling, Daozhen Chen, Tao Zhou, Ying Wang

“…Several extrinsic factors such as GDNF are reported to switch the transition, activating various intrinsic signaling pathways. …”
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ELAB:end-host-based congestion aware load balancing for data center network by Guo CHEN, Weifeng ZHANG

“…A good load balance mechanism is the key to effectively use the network of the data center network.In current production data center,ECMP is the de facto load balancing scheme.However,it has two drawbacks.1) the load balance unit is too coarse-grained,2) it’s not congestion aware.To solve these problems,several fine-grained and congestion-aware load balancing works have emerged in recent years.These works either need to modify the switch hardware to collect congestion in various parts of the network in real time,and it is difficult to deploy; or only need to modify the end system,but the inaccurate sense of congestion cannot achieve a good load balancing effect.A novel edge-based load balancing scheme ELAB was proposed,which addresses above existing problems and improves the network performance up to 20%.…”
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Therapeutic drug monitoring and neutralizing anti-drug antibody detection to optimize TNF-alpha inhibitor treatment for uveitis by Howard C. Chen, Jenny Shunyakova, Amit K. Reddy, Srujay Pandiri, Lynn Hassman

“…Every two-week dosing of adalimumab was either escalated to weekly dosing or switched to infliximab, an alternate TNF-alpha inhibitor, based on these findings. …”
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Research of the Trajectory Tracking Method for Four-wheeled Omnidirectional Mobile Robot based on the Adaptive Sliding Mode Control by Xing Yanrong, Qin Jiawei, Su Caiyun

“…At the same time a parameter adaptive control algorithm is proposed in order to achieve the online estimation of the robot dynamics parameters,and real- time switch gain adjustment of trajectory tracking controller is achieved by using RBF neural network as to reduce the chattering of the system. …”
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An anti-parallelogram ring four-array rolling mechanism with multiple rolling gaits for mobile robots by Z. Xun, Z. Xun, G. Du, W. Zhu, W. Yu, C. Liu, J. Wang, Q. Guan, Q. Guan

“…Furthermore, in the initial state of the mechanism, the mechanism enables flexible switching between multiple rolling gaits.</p>…”
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Finite-Time Tracking Control for Nonstrict-Feedback State-Delayed Nonlinear Systems with Full-State Constraints and Unmodeled Dynamics by Yangang Yao, Jieqing Tan, Jian Wu

“…In order to avoid the inherent problem of “complexity of explosion” in the backstepping-design process, the DSC technology with a novel nonlinear filter is introduced to simplify the structure of the controller. …”
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Treatment and prescribing trends of antihypertensive drugs in 2.7 million UK primary care patients over 31 years: a population-based cohort study by Tibor Schuster, Laurent Azoulay, Julie Rouette, Emily G. McDonald, James M. Brophy

“…Future research should aim to better understand the implication of this finding.…”
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Influence of food availability on the diet and activity budget of two western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) groups of differing size in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park,... by Terence Fuh Neba, Giuseppe Donati, Angelique Todd, Shelly Masi

“…Such flexibility may better allow WLG groups to track ripe fruits when available but, unlike sympatric chimpanzees, switch to more herbivorous diets when necessary, adjusting activity budgets accordingly ; WLGs thus may be considered more resilient faced with environmental change such as forest degradation.…”
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Investigating Optical Properties of One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Containing Semiconductor Quantum Wells by Mahshid Mokhtarnejad, Morteza Asgari, Arash Sabatyan

“…Thus, by employing the mechanism of stark effect MQWs band-gaps can be easily controlled which is useful in designing MWQ based optical switches and filters. By comparing the results, we observe that the reflectivity of MWQ containing 200 periods of InAlAs/InP quantum wells shows the maximum reflectivity of 96%.…”
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A Molecular and Whole Body Insight of the Mechanisms Surrounding Glucose Disposal and Insulin Resistance with Hypoxic Treatment in Skeletal Muscle by R. W. A. Mackenzie, P. Watt

“…Indeed, hypoxia has been widely implicated in the development of insulin resistance either via the direct action on insulin receptor substrate (IRS) and protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) or indirectly through adipose tissue expansion and systemic inflammation. …”
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A Reconfigurable Systolic Array Architecture for Multicarrier Wireless and Multirate Applications by H. Ho, V. Szwarc, T. Kwasniewski

“…The RSA consists of coarse-grained processing elements that can be configured as complex DSP functions that are the basic building blocks of Polyphase-FIR filters, phase shifters, DFTs, and Polyphase-DFT circuits. …”
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Comparing the Technological and Intraoperative Performances of Da Vinci xi and DaVinci 5 Robotic Platforms in Patients Undergoing Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy by Ahmed Gamal, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Shady Saikali, Sumeet Reddy, Yu Ozawa, Rohan Sharma, Avaneesh Kunta, Travis Rogers, Vipul Patel

“…Another modification regards the ability to switch instruments and camera. Conclusion: While using and evaluating the DV5 in more than 100 cases, we noticed some improvements in the ergonomics and digital interface. …”
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A vain attempt: why a change in the reproductive strategy of a rodent population failed to restore ecological balance by Stanislav Myakushko

“…The first scenario turned out to be unsuccessful and, without adequate ecological support in the form of sufficient feeding resources, caused even higher mortality rates. The size and number of litters dropped to minimum values, and reproduction parameters indicated only a slight success in realising the breeding potential. …”
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Single-Phase Voltage-Doubler High-Power-Factor &#x0106;uk Rectifier Operating in Discontinuous Conduction Mode by Mateus Nava Mezaroba, Carlos Henrique Illa Font, Telles Brunelli Lazzarin

“…The proposed topology integrates two classic &#x0106;uk rectifiers through a three-position switch, allowing for either a doubled output voltage or reduced voltage efforts compared to the conventional topology. …”
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Issues with the Organic and Elemental Carbon Fractions in Recent U.S. Chemical Speciation Network Data by Philip K. Hopke, Yunle Chen, David Q. Rich, John G. Watson, Judith C. Chow

“…Abstract The carbon fractions of organic (OC1, OC2, OC3, OC4, OP) and elemental (EC1, EC2, and EC3) carbon obtained from IMPROVE (Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environments) thermal/optical carbon analysis of quartz-fiber filters have been implemented to help distinguish spark-ignition engine exhaust particulate matter (PM) contributions from those of heavy-duty diesel exhaust. …”
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Challenges and Novelties in the Treatment of Obesity in Adults. A review by Karolina Kuczapska, Marek Kurowski, Anna Gliwa, Monika Ryglewicz, Dariusz Fabian, Elżbieta Leszczyńska-Knaga, Natalia Jakubczyk, Weronika Rutkowska-Kawalec, Paweł Moczydłowski, Karolina Michalczuk

“…Deeper insight into the available database would help to provide better understanding of obesity and of its treatment.  …”
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Active queue management algorithm focusing on fairness and low delay by Cheng-long SU, Guang JIN, Xian-liang JIANG, Jun NIU

“…The popularity of delay sensitive applications and high throughput applications in the Internet made the caches of routers and switches larger,resulting in the high latency and high jitter rate of network traffic.With the growth of mobile applications based on the high bandwidth non-response flows,the network bottleneck resource utilization becomes more unbalanced,and the resources distribution of the whole network was difficult to be guaranteed.In order to alleviate these problems,considering the delay control and suppression of high bandwidth non-response flow,an active queue management algorithm focusing on fairness and low delay named FLDA was proposed based on Sample-Match,L-LRU cache and probabilistic packets dropping.Experimental results show that under the interference with high bandwidth non-responsive flows,FLDA can better maintain the queue stability,the fairness of resource utilization of the bottleneck link and the low delay.…”
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Distinct role of primate DLPFC and LIP in hierarchical control of learned saccade sequences by Qingjun Wang, Binchao Shi, Jing Jia, Jingyu Hu, Haoran Li, Xin Jin, Aihua Chen

“…Although electrical microstimulation on DLPFC weakly affected sequence performance, inactivating DLPFC significantly increased the initiation latency of the entire sequences, indicating that DLPFC was involved in the sequence initiation. In contrast, either microstimulation or inactivation of area LIP caused improper switches between subsequences, suggesting that LIP played a role in subsequence switch. …”
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GBS-DP: a bioinformatics pipeline for processing data coming from genotyping by sequencing by A. Y. Pronozin, E. A. Salina, D. A. Afonnikov

“…Due to the similarity of data processing steps, existing pipelines are mainly characterised by a combination of software packages specifically selected either to process data for certain organisms or to process data from any organisms.  …”
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