Assessment of Serum Dynamic Thiol/Disulfide Homeostasis and Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress in Patients with Crohn’s Disease by Ancel Aysun Bağdaş, Sezgin Barutçu, Ahmet Saracaloğlu, Abdullah Tuncay Demiryürek

“…Results: We observed significant augmentation in nitric oxide (NO) levels in both A-CD and R-CD patients compared to healthy controls. …”
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Availability of support systems for youth who left child and youth care centres during COVID-19 by Fadzaishe B. Zingwe, Maditobane R. Lekganyane

“…It was therefore, essential for them to have the necessary support systems to aid them both during their period in care as well as when they left these centres. …”
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NATIONAL SECURITY AND BORDER MANAGEMENT IN WEST AFRICA: A STUDY OF NIGERIA-NIGER RELATIONS by IYANU-OLUWA AYOBAMI AYODELE, UMARU TOYIN SHIRU

“…National security cannot be guaranteed without a proper border management strategy put in place by both Nigeria and Niger as most issues arise from poor border management.  …”
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Benefits of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis’s floral volatile components on human emotions and moods by Yan Cai, Hannan Chen, Xin Zhang, Wanning Bu, Wei Ning

“…The findings revealed that the subjects in both the olfactory group (G1) and the control group (G2) exhibited a decrease in blood pressure, pulse, β wave power, and skin electrical signal, alongside an increase in α wave power and heart rate variability (HRV) index. …”
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Groundwater quality evaluation and its suitability for domestic and irrigation use in the hard rock terrain of Olakkur block, Tamilnadu, India by D. Vinodh., S. Senthilkumar, B. Gowtham, Talelign Wegene, M. Jeevanandam

“…Groundwater samples were collected from twenty five locations in both pre-monsoon and post-monsoon months and examined for various physico-chemical parameters such as pH, total dissolved solids, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, bicarbonate, sulphate, Nitrate and chloride. …”
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Equations for estimating binary mixture toxicity: Methyl-2-chloroacetoacetate-containing combinations by Douglas A. Dawson, T. Wayne Schultz

“…Mixture toxicity vs. the models showed various combined effects, including toxicity that was slightly greater than IA and/or CA, consistency with CA, IA or both models, effects that were less toxic than expected for either model and antagonism. …”
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Scaling species interactions: implications for community ecology and biological scaling theory by Douglas S. Glazier

“…Conclusion: The major findings of this review provide further foundation for a “mortality theory of ecology” and a comprehensive theory of allometry that embraces both internal physical and external ecological factors, both currently under development. …”
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The influence of sex on sleep characteristics in the adult and older adult population: findings from the EPISONO sleep study by Mayra dos Santos Silva, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Monica Levy Andersen, Monica Levy Andersen, Sergio Tufik, Sergio Tufik, Dalva Poyares, Dalva Poyares

“…All examinations and tests were undertaken using the same protocols at both times, at baseline and 8 years later. All participants completed an institutional questionnaire and a range of other questionnaires on health and sleep parameters. …”
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Seasonal Variations in the Composition and Distribution of Planktonic Fauna in the Eastern Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria by AS Yakup, KJ Balogun, GE Ajani, KO Renner, BO Bello, JA Nkwoji, JK Igbo

“…Higher species abundance was recorded for both adult zooplankton (20) and juvenile stages (10) in rainy than dry season when 14 and 8 were recorded for the two groups respectively. …”
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The natural course of cystic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours in MEN1 by Eline N M van Vliembergen, Carolina R C Pieterman, Annenienke C van de Ven, Arthur J A T Braat, Gerlof D Valk, Joanne M de Laat

“…Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PanNETs) significantly impact life expectancy in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1). Both solid and cystic pancreatic lesions are observed in MEN1, yet limited research has been focused on cystic lesions in MEN1. …”
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Targeting transforming growth factor-β1 by methylseleninic acid/seleno-L-methionine in clear cell renal cell carcinoma: Mechanisms and therapeutic potential by Aseel O. Rataan, Yan Xu, Sean M. Geary, Yousef Zakharia, Eman S. Kamel, Youcef M. Rustum, Aliasger K. Salem

“…In patient samples, TGF-β1 was significantly upregulated in both non-sarcomatoid and sarcomatoid ccRCC tumors. …”
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INTERNET FINANCIAL REPORTING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Tarik Zaimović, Azra Zaimović, Anela Fazlić

“…Building on earlier studies, we analyzed the IFR practices of companies traded on two stock exchanges in Bosnia and Herzegovina by estimating multiple regressions separately for both stock exchanges. Our findings clearly show that voluntary disclosure of reports and other forms of company information for analyzed companies is still simplistic. …”
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Examining different approaches for short-term load demand forecasting in microgrid management: a case study of a university in Nigeria by Barnabas Iliya Gwaivangmin

“…The study concluded that ARIMA outperforms both RG and SVM in accurate microgrid load forecasting, emphasizing the importance of selecting suitable forecasting techniques in energy resource allocation decisions.…”
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Efficacy of natural killer T and gammadelta T cells in mesothelin-targeted immunotherapy of pancreatic cancer by Yuankui Zhu, Yaxi Yang, Linghe Yue, Lei Wan, Xuqian Ma, Qing Yang, Xuan Tian, Yuguan Li, Ke Wang, Shaozhong Wei, Shaozhong Wei, Shaozhong Wei, Dianbao Zuo, Mingqian Feng, Mingqian Feng

“…Furthermore, under the influence of MSLN/CD3 BsAb, γδT and NKT cells exhibited notably superior anti-tumor activity compared to PBMCs, both in vitro and in vivo, while demonstrating low cytokine release. γδT cells showed almost negligible toxic side effects. …”
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Orden dentro del desorden: circulación de libros de derecho en Nueva España, 1585–1640 by Idalia García

“… Law books circulated widely in New Spain; we find evidence of them both in the private libraries of Crown officials and in the institutional libraries of religious orders. …”
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Knee rotation in patients with and without patellofemoral instability and its correlation with patellar tendon trochlear groove distance by Himanshu Gupta, Vineet Jain, Nilansh Kataria, Ashish Dutt Upadhyay, Pallav Mishra, Himanshu Kataria

“…Results: Lateralisation of patellar tendon insertion and external knee rotation were both found to be higher in PFI patients as compared to non-PFI patients. …”
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Future climate and agricultural farming systems affect the fungal plastisphere of different biodegradable plastics at the early stage of field degradation by Benjawan Tanunchai, Martin Schädler, Matthias Noll

“…We found that agricultural systems affect both fungal richness and community composition of the plastisphere. …”
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Attractive lives on attractive pages. Polish illustrated biographical books for young readers by Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna

“…Polish publishing houses, especially Muchomor from Warsaw, for the last few years have been coming up with a number of intriguing titles, both in the matter of words, and also in their graphic contents, especially the series “Gdansk Trilogy”. …”
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Human-like face pareidolia emerges in deep neural networks optimized for face and object recognition. by Pranjul Gupta, Katharina Dobs

“…Finally, interpretability methods revealed that only a CNN trained for both face identification and object categorization relied on face-like features-such as 'eyes'-to classify pareidolia stimuli as faces, mirroring findings in human perception. …”
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Mechanical properties and mechanism of damage and deterioration of coal under cyclic loading by Ziwei Ding, Qingbao Tang, Xinwei Gong, Jindui Jia, Guangqing Di, Long Chen

“…During the cyclic loading and unloading phase, both the loading elastic modulus and the damage parameters of coal samples increase proportionally with the level of loading and the number of cycles. …”
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