Effect and Mechanism of Soluble Dietary Fiber from Corn Bran on Loperamide-induced Constipation in Mice by Xiangrui ZENG, Caixia JIANG, Xiaolan LIU, Xiqun ZHENG, Xuyao WEI

“…CSDF supplementation also increased the abundance of beneficial gut bacteria (Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Lachnospiraceae) and elevated levels of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), with typical SCFAs (acetic, propionic, and butyric acids) reaching 1.89-, 1.60-, and 4.35-fold higher levels, respectively, in the L-CSDF group than that in the model group. …”
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Regulation of NK cell development, maturation, and antitumor responses by the nuclear receptor NR2F6 by Johannes Woelk, Florian Hornsteiner, Stephanie Aschauer-Wallner, Patrizia Stoitzner, Gottfried Baier, Natascha Hermann-Kleiter

“…Despite normal NK cell development in the bone marrow, germline Nr2f6-deficient mice exhibit impaired terminal maturation of NK cells in the periphery. Short-term NK cell responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activation, independent of NKp46, are subsequently reduced in Nr2f6-deficient mice. …”
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Interventional effects of different track and field sports on human cardiovascular function indicators and physiological energy metabolism by Ruibin Jing, Zhengwei Wang, Choi Mee-Seong

“…The waist to hip ratios of the short-distance and long-distance running teams were 0.75 ± 0.03 and 0.76 ± 0.03, respectively, which showed significant differences compared to ordinary students (p < 0.05). …”
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Factors associated with recognition at work among nurses and the impact of recognition at work on health-related quality of life, job satisfaction and psychological health: a singl... by Latifa Alahiane, Youssef Zaam, Redouane Abouqal, Jihane Belayachi

“…HRQOL was measured using the Medical Outcome Study Short Form 12. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was used to assess anxiety and depression. …”
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Progress in research on strain glass transition in Ni-Ti based alloys by ZHAO Xinqing, WANG Kai, LYU Chao, ZHANG Kaichao, HOU Huilong

“…The theoretical and experimental studies in recent years indicated that when doping sufficient amounts of defects (excess solute atoms，foreign alloying dopants， dislocations and nanosized precipitates) into equiatomic Ni-Ti alloys，the resistance from such defects could suppress the first-order martensitic transformation and achieve strain glass transition with the formation of randomly short-range ordered nanodomains. The strain glass transition is characterized by some typical features such as invariant macroscopic structure，broken ergodicity，frequency dependence of dynamic mechanical properties and high damping capacity. …”
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UK multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme: a new natural history dataset and an improved Markov model by Jacqueline Palace, Martin Duddy, Thomas Bregenzer, Mike Boggild, Joel Oger, Helen Tremlett, Charles Dobson, Fheng Zhu

“…Objectives In 2002, the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence concluded that the multiple sclerosis (MS) disease modifying therapies; interferon-β and glatiramer acetate, were not cost effective over the short term but recognised that reducing disability over the longer term might dramatically improve the cost effectiveness. …”
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Book spreaders in the towns of Samogitian principality in the XVIII century by Elmantas Meilus

“…Besides, throughout the whole 18th century, there are mentions of Jewish bookbinders who obviously served not only their fellow countrymen but Christians as well. The above-presented short review reveals that in the 2nd half of the 18th century, the book trade in Samogitia—concentrated in Kražiai—was a profitable business in which some families were engaged. …”
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Screen of propionate-producing probiotic strains in attenuating murine colitis by modulating immune response and restoring the intestinal barrier by Ting Shu, Xizi Song, Silu Zhang, Xiaoli Zhou, Zhizhu Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Hu Canying, Jie Pan, Xiaoshuang Dai, Yan Tan, Wu Xiyang, Huicui Meng, Guoxun Xiao, Huaijie Hao

“…Probiotics produce propionate, a short-chain fatty acid that restores intestinal balance and reduces inflammation.Comparative genomic analysis of propionate pathway integrity was performed to nominate 41 candidate strains. …”
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Novel machine learning-driven comparative analysis of CSP, STFT, and CSP-STFT fusion for EEG data classification across multiple meditation and non-meditation sessions in BCI pipel... by Nalinda D. Liyanagedera, Corinne A. Bareham, Heather Kempton, Hans W. Guesgen

“…For two of those pipelines, Common Spatial Patterns (CSP) and Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) were successfully used as feature extraction algorithms where both these algorithms are significantly new for meditation EEG. …”
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Estimating the impact of school closures on the COVID-19 dynamics in 74 countries: A modelling analysis. by Romain Ragonnet, Angus E Hughes, David S Shipman, Michael T Meehan, Alec S Henderson, Guillaume Briffoteaux, Nouredine Melab, Daniel Tuyttens, Emma S McBryde, James M Trauer

“…However, their effect on viral transmission, COVID-19 mortality and health care system pressure remains incompletely understood, as traditional observational studies fall short in assessing such population-level impacts.…”
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EEG alpha/beta features as a biomarker for quantifying pain in patients with lumbar disk herniation by Rumei Li, Wanqi Shao, Shumei Zhao, Lingli Wang, Chao Yu, Lanying Liu, Kuiying Yin

“…The alpha/beta features of the frontal and parietal constructed in this study showed correlations with subjective pain scores and might serve as a biomarker of pain status in the short term in LDH.…”
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Physicochemical characterization and in vitro digestibility of resistant starch from corn starch sugar residue by Qianqian Dai, Xiaoke Li, Chuanbo He, Ying Liang, Hejian Xiong, Ying Ma, Shaowei Zhai

“…Compared with NS and HS, the short-range and long-range order of CSSR-RS were significantly higher, indicating excellent thermal stability. …”
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Altered O-Glycans in stimulated whole saliva from patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome and non-pSS sicca by Sarah Kamounah, Kristina A. Thomsson, Christiane Elisabeth Sørensen, Eric Paul Bennett, Niclas G. Karlsson, Anne Marie Lynge Pedersen

“…MS2 fragmentation analysis of salivary O-glycans suggests that altered sulfation, fucosylation, sialylation and distribution of core types may all contribute to the observed alteration, directly or indirectly. Additionally, the short disaccharide sialyl-Tn was most abundant in the saliva samples from patients with pSS. …”
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Calves gastrointestinal nematodes and Eimeria prevalence and associated risk factors in dairy farms, southern Ethiopia by Maireg Hailu, Kassahun Asmare, Endrias Zewdu Gebremedhin, Vincenzo Di Marco Lo Presti, Maria Vitale, Desie Sheferaw

“… Erratum to: Calves gastrointestinal nematodes and Eimeria prevalence and associated risk factors in dairy farms, southern Ethiopia Maireg Hailu1, Kassahun Asmare2, Endrias Zewdu Gebremedhin3, Vincenzo Di Marco Lo Presti4, Maria Vitale4, Desie Sheferaw2 On page 6 of the original publication, a short paragraph and a table (the second Table 4) were wrongly included from other article during layout preparation. …”
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Co-effects of COVID-19 and Meteorology on PM2.5 Decrease in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: A Comparison of 2016–2019 and 2020–2021 by Cong-Thanh Tran, Le My Thuan Nguyen, Tzong-Gang Wu, Chang-Fu Wu, To Thi Hien, Kuo-Liong Chien

“…This study aimed to compare PM2.5 variations during the COVID-19 period (2020–2021) with a short-term trend of PM2.5 (2016–2019) in HCMC in conjunction with meteorological conditions. …”
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Penerapan Metode Extreme Programming pada Rancang Bangun Sistem Analisis Sentimen Portal Berita by I Gede Bagus Premana Putra, Made Sudarma, Ida Bagus Gede Manuaba

“…The system was developed using the Laravel framework with the Extreme Programming development method which supports system development in short time. Selection of the website as the base system with aim that can be accessed from various devices, both mobile and desktop. …”
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A protocol to optimize non-invasive brain stimulation for post-stroke rehabilitation by Ayesha Juhi, Manul Das, Dinesh Bhatia, Suman Dhaka, Rajesh Kumar, Deepak Kumar, Shreya Sharma, Pritam Kumar Chaudhary, Chanchal Goyal, Md Asif Khan, Himel Mondal

“…Cognitive and motor assessments are conducted at 4 weeks, 6 weeks, and 6 months to measure short-term and sustained effects. • Hemodynamically stable post-stroke patients randomized in four groups in rTMS and tDCS each and their baseline cognitive and motor function assessed • Application of the two types of therapy for 6 weeks • Checking improvement of cognitive and motor function and compare the improvement among subgroups of recipient of various frequencies and currents…”
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Healthcare utilisation by pregnant patients with asthma in South Korea: a cohort study using nationwide claims data by Deog Kyeom Kim, Chang-Hoon Lee, Ho Il Yoon, Jae-Joon Yim, Eun Jin Jang, Jimin Kim, Yun Jung Kim, Seongmi Choi, Joon-Ho Lee

“…Among those with asthma requiring healthcare utilisation, 6.9% were hospitalised and treated with systemic steroids and short-acting β2-agonists during pregnancy. Oral drugs were prescribed less during the third trimester than during the first trimester (all p values for trends were &lt;0.001). …”
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Assessment of factors predicting the nutritional status of geriatric people in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia by Samar Lafi Aljohani

“…It includes demographic, habitual, and medical characteristics of the participants, anthropometric data (weight and height), and the validated short form of Mini Nutritional Assessment tool to assess their nutritional status. …”
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Outcomes of total hip replacement in adults with septic arthritis of the native hip joint: A systematic review by Teddy Cheong, Surya Varma Selvakumar, Ryan Kwang Jin Goh, Ing How Moo

“…Re-infection rate and various functional outcomes, measured in terms of the Harris Hip Score (HHS), Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Merle D'Aubigne and Postel (MAP), Western Ontario, McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) Short Form 12-Item (SF-12) scores, were analyzed. …”
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