The Comparison of Food and Nutrient Intake among Iranian Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Adults by Najmeh Maayeshi, Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi, Sayyed Saeid Khayyatzadeh, Hossein Fallahzadeh

“…On the other hand, diabetic patients revealed significantly higher amounts of vegetables, fruits, dietary fiber, biotin, potassium, and magnesium consumption compared to non-diabetic participants. Conclusion: Given that diet and nutrition are widely believed to play an important part in the development of T2D, significant differences were found in dietary habits of diabetic patients in comparison with participants without diabetes. …”
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Cardiotoxicity of polystyrene nanoplastics and associated mechanism of myocardial cell injury in mice by Ziyi Xiong, Qiling Kong, Juan Hua, Qi Chen, Dandan Wang

“…The main target organs of NP accumulation are the lungs, liver, heart, and kidneys. However, compared with that for other target organs, research on the adverse effects of NPs on the heart is limited. …”
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Gut microbiota dysfunction in Crohn’s disease by Sylvie Buffet-Bataillon, Sylvie Buffet-Bataillon, Gabriela Durão, Isabelle Le Huërou-Luron, Olivier Rué, Olivier Rué, Yann Le Cunff, Vincent Cattoir, Guillaume Bouguen

“…Major shifts in oxidative stress pathways and reduced carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism in favour of nutrient transport were identified in CS compared to CR. Virulence factors involved in host invasion, host evasion and inflammation were also increased in CS.ConclusionsThis functional metagenomic information provides new insights into community-wide microbial processes and pathways associated with CD pathogenesis. …”
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Fucosylated haptoglobin promotes inflammation via Mincle in sepsis: an observational study by Taylor Roh, Sungeun Ju, So Young Park, Yeonghwan Ahn, Jiyun Chung, Miyako Nakano, Gyoungah Ryu, Young Jae Kim, Geumseo Kim, Hyewon Choi, Sung-Gwon Lee, In Soo Kim, Song-I Lee, Chaeuk Chung, Takashi Shimizu, Eiji Miyoshi, Sung-Soo Jung, Chungoo Park, Sho Yamasaki, Seung-Yeol Park, Eun-Kyeong Jo

“…Our study reveals elevated levels of terminal fucosylation at Asn207 and Asn211 of Hp in SP plasma, along with heightened inflammatory responses, compared to healthy controls (trial registration NCT05911711). …”
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Phytochemical Constituents, Antimicrobial activities and Isolation of Eupatorin from the Seed Extract of <i>L. inermis</i> LINN by R.S. Ochu, H. Ibrahim, A.O. Oyewale

“…The eupatorin was found to show significant microbial activity against P. vulgaris, S. typhi, E. coli, S. pneumonia and S. pyogenes when compared with standard antibiotics used against these microbes. …”
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Evaluation of serum amylase and lipase in diagnosed Covid-19 survivors in a North Indian Hospital, Lucknow, India by Nabeela Usmani, Mukhtar Ahmad, Saba Khan, Mohammad Mustufa Khan, Haseeb Ahsan, Sadaf Parveen, Roshan Alam

“…Results:  The study showed that the serum amylase (p=0.023) and lipase (p=0.002) levels were significantly elevated in Covid-19 patients compared to the control subjects. The findings indicated that Covid-19 patients had a substantially higher mean serum amylase and lipase levels than the control subjects. …”
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Bioeffects of EM Radiation on Human Skin Health: A Theoretical SAR Analysis by Rockey Choudhary, Vijay Kumar, Soni Mishra

“…It is observed that the tower that has the minimum height produces more electric field inside the skin as compared to the longer-height tower. Conclusion: The amount of energy absorption by the tissues of the skin is higher for the transmission tower of 50 m height. …”
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Identification of quantitative trait loci for yield traits and fine-mapping of qGW4 using the chromosome segment substitution line-Z708 and dissected single-segment substitution li... by Kai Zhou, Jinjin Yu, Zhaopeng Yu, Chunyu Chi, Jialin Ren, Zhuowen Zhao, Han Zhang, Yinghua Ling, Changwei Zhang, Fangming Zhao

“…These lines (S1-S4) exhibited a significant increase in yield per plant compared to that of Xihui18. Among them, qGW4, which controls wide grains, belongs to a single dominant gene action in S1 based on the frequency distribution of grain width and chi-square test analysis. …”
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Numerical investigation of segmental baffle design in shell and tube heat exchangers with varying inclination angles and spacing by A. M. Mohammadzadeh, Bahram Jafari, Khashayar Hosseinzadeh, E. Paikar

“…The findings indicate that the PD in the shell section rises by a range of 56.8–60.9% for baffles inclined 0° to 30°. Additionally, compared to the 0° inclined baffles, the 30° inclined baffles exhibit a greater OHT of 4.5–6%. …”
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Reduction in Aviation Volume due to COVID-19 and Changes in Air Pollution near the International Airport in Taiwan by Tuan Hung Ngo, Wen Chi Pan, Alexander Waits

“…The reduction percentage of SO2 and NOx was higher in the airport cluster (17.7% and 7.3%, respectively) compared to the total station observation (14.7% and 6.8% respectively). …”
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INVESTIGATING POINTS-OF-GENERATION POWER LOSSES ON THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL GRID FOLLOWING UNBUNDLING OF THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY by AJEWOLE TITUS OLUWASUJI, OLABODE OLAKUNLE ELIJAH, OKAKWU IGNATIUS KEMA, EGBEDINNI OLAKUNLE FEMI

“…Yearly averages of the three operational capacities of each plant are estimated, and by comparing the respective capacities, generation losses are computed for each of the plants. …”
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AI-driven prediction of drug activity against Toxoplasma gondii: Data augmentation and deep neural networks for limited datasets by Natalia V. Karimova, Ravithree D. Senanayake

“…The model was further validated using two FDA-approved drugs for T. gondii treatment—pyrimethamine and trimethoprim—yielding relative errors of 3.35 % and 2.15 % in pIC50 predictions compared to experimental values. Finally, the model was applied to screen FDA-approved drugs after filtering out molecules that did not align with the characteristics of the training dataset. …”
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Flow stress-strain curves and dynamic recrystallization behavior of high carbon low alloy steels during hot deformation by D.Z. Li, X.M. Zhao, H.L. Zhang, J. Li

“…In the DRX type curve, when the strain rate reduced from 0.1 s−1 to 0.01 s−1, the inoculation temperature for the rapid growth of DRX grains in HCLA steel was reduced from 1050 °C to 1000 °C. Compared to the initial microstructure, the average grain size at 1050 oC-0.1 s−1 decreased by 79.4%, while the aspect ratio of the grain shape increased by only 9.1%. …”
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Calibration of miniature air quality detector monitoring data with PCA–RVM–NAR combination model by Bing Liu, Yirui Zhang

“…Root mean square error, goodness of fit, mean absolute error and relative mean absolute percent error are used to compare the calibration effect of PCA–RVM–NAR model and other commonly used models such as multiple linear regression model, support vector machine, multilayer perceptron neural network and nonlinear autoregressive models with exogenous input. …”
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Hyperbolic Graph Convolutional Network Relation Extraction Model Combining Dependency Syntax and Contrastive Learning by Jinzhe Li

“…The experiments indicate that the proposed model in this paper can effectively enhance the performance of relation extraction on public datasets, especially achieving significantly higher precision on datasets with complex sentence structures compared to in-context learning.…”
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Personal air cleaning by a user-tracking robot equipped with a nanofiber air cleaner in a large work space by Chengzhong Deng, Zhuolun Niu, Chun Chen

“…The user-tracking robot with nanofiber air cleaner outperformed the stationary nanofiber air cleaner by reducing the concentration of 0.3–0.4 μm particles in the breathing zone of the user by 16.4 %. Furthermore, compared with commercial panel-type high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters, the use of nanofiber air filters can extend the battery service life, consequently facilitating the practical application of the moving robot.…”
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Assessment of the essential oil extracted from Citrus aurantifolia leaves using solvent-free microwave extraction technique by G.M. Masud Rana, Md. Jasim Uddin, Jaytirmoy Barmon, Bijoy Chandra Ghos, Tahmina Akter Chowdhury, Amit Kumar Dey, Bijoy Maitra, Ismat Moin Tamanna, AHM Mahbubur Rahman, Barun Kanti Saha, Mst. Sarmina Yeasmin

“…The IC50 value of the extracted EO was 8.05 ppm comparing with the value of 10.63 ppm for Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). …”
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Integrated Gaussian Processes for Tracking by Fred Lydeard, Bashar I. Ahmad, Simon Godsill

“…Example results from real radar measurements and synthetic data are presented to demonstrate the ability of the proposed iGP modelling to facilitate more accurate tracking compared to conventional GP.…”
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Identification of the immune infiltration and biomarkers in ulcerative colitis based on liquid–liquid phase separation-related genes by Zhixing Hong, Shilin Fang, Haihang Nie, Jingkai Zhou, Yuntian Hong, Lan Liu, Qiu Zhao

“…Two distinct clusters were identified, in which cluster A displayed higher immune infiltration level compared with the cluster B. The top targeted biological pathways of two clusters were distinct, glutamate receptor antagonist ranked top for cluster A while HDAC inhibitor ranked top in cluster B. …”
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Automated quantification of axonal and myelin changes in contusion, dislocation, and distraction spinal cord injuries: Insights into targeted remyelination and axonal regeneration by Xuan Li, Yuan He, Fangyao Chen, Xin Tong, Yunlong Fan, Yuzhe Langzhou, Jie Liu, Kinon Chen

“…This study proposes and validates an automated method to measure axons and myelin, applied to compare contusion, dislocation, and distraction SCIs in a rat model. …”
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