Exogenous nitric oxide relieves iron-inhibitory effect on wheat seed germination by Shuqian Shi, Zhe Zhang, Rongrong Ma, Yihui Tao, Ziling Wang, Yingli Yang

“…Additionally, Fe and PTIO treatments reduced endogenous NO levels, increased starch, sucrose, and soluble sugar contents, induced oxidative stress, suppressed antioxidant enzymes, and downregulated nitrate reductase, NO synthase, and amylase activities. However, SNP treatment ameliorated Fe stress-induced inhibition of seed germination, increased NO levels, upregulated starch degradation, and improved the antioxidant system and reactive oxygen species scavenging. …”
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The role of candidate genetic polymorphisms in covid-19 susceptibility and outcomes by Anthony Yazbeck, Reem Akika, Zainab Awada, Nathalie K. Zgheib

“…PRS was not associated with COVID-19 susceptibility and hospitalization, it however significantly predicted COVID-19 severity (P = 0.01). …”
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Hypergravity as a Possible Way of Bone Tissue Engineering in Osteoblastic Differentiation from Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A Systematic Review by Wisnu Sudrajad, Andre Erica Indrawan, Devangga Kusuma, Bagus Wibowo Soetojo, Heri Suroto

“…Methods: A literature search was conducted using online databases including Sciencedirect, PubMed, and Proquest, covering the period from 2008 to 2022. This search considered only experimental studies published in English. …”
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Young people and parent or carers views on type 2 diabetes mellitus care in England and Wales: analysis of parent and patient-reported measures survey by Pooja Sachdev, Katherine Hawton, Hannah Hickingbotham

“…Only just over half of the patients and parents felt well prepared for transferring to adult care. …”
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Aspirations, Apprehensions and the Availability of Career Guidance among Dental Interns in Kerala, India by PS Sajitha, Susan Thomas, Vivek Narayan

“…Background: Dental graduates undergo stress owing to factors such as academic pressure and job uncertainty. …”
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Overexpression of metalloproteinase PAPPA accelerates cancer progression and correlates with immune cell infiltration in gastric cancer: insights from bioinformatics and in vitro i... by Shiya Yu, Shiyao Zheng, Jinwei Qiu, Hongming Lin, Xiaojuan Yu, Huiyan Chen, Junhong Wu, Weihang Wu, Jiong Chen, Yongyuan Chen, Jianwei Chen, Hu Zhao, Yu Wang

“…Abstract Background Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in the digestive system. However, the development of its targeted therapies has been slow. …”
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Inhibition of STING-mediated type I IFN signaling by African swine fever virus DP71L by Lakmal Ranathunga, Sachini Abesinghe, Ji-Won Cha, Niranjan Dodantenna, Kiramage Chathuranga, Asela Weerawardhana, D. K. Haluwana, Nuwan Gamage, Jong-Soo Lee

“…Especially, evasion strategies of type I interferon (IFN-I)-mediated immune responses are crucial for early ASFV replication. However, there is still a lack of information regarding the immune evasion mechanism of ASFV proteins. …”
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Ultrasound evaluation of gallbladder wall thickness for predicting severe dengue: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Amirhossein Shahsavand Davoudi, Hamid Harandi, Reza Samiee, Shayan Forghani, Keyhan Mohammadi, Maryam Shafaati

“…Conclusions A reliable ultrasound indicator, GBWT can help identify patients at risk for severe dengue early on, improving clinical decision-making and patient outcomes. However, the possibility of differential diagnosis requires cautious interpretation.…”
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Structure-activity relationship and in silico docking analysis of dicarboximide fungicides on 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 of human, rat, and pig by Huiqian Chen, Sailing Chen, Yunbing Tang, Yingfen Ying, Shaowei Wang, Yang Zhu, Yiyan Wang, Ren-shan Ge, Ping Duan

“…Among them, captan showed the strongest potency, with its IC50 of 1.28 μM, whereas procymidone had an IC50 of 100.71 μM. However, both rat and pig 17β-HSD1 enzymes were less sensitive to the inhibition of these fungicides compared to the human enzyme, with captan displaying an IC50 of 5.65 μM for the rat enzyme and 7.36 μM for the pig enzyme. …”
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Enhancing depression recognition through a mixed expert model by integrating speaker-related and emotion-related features by Weitong Guo, Qian He, Ziyu Lin, Xiaolong Bu, Ziyang Wang, Dong Li, Hongwu Yang

“…Speech, as a sensitive indicator, reveals noticeable acoustic changes linked to physiological and cognitive variations, making it a crucial behavioral marker for detecting depression. However, existing studies often overlook the separation of speaker-related and emotion-related features in speech when recognizing depression. …”
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CORRELATION BETWEEN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA) GRADE AND BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) IN OUTPATIENTS OF ORTHOPAEDIC AND TRAUMATOLOGY DEPARTMENT RSUD DR. SOETOMO by Lukas Widhiyanto, Andre Triadi Desnantyo, Lilik Djuari, Maynura Kharismansha

“…The doubles increasing trend of obesity from 1980, might possibly causes the escalation of OA case. However, there is still no study that explains the correlation between OA grade, especially knee OA, with Body Mass Index (BMI). …”
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Small-vessel-disease-induced white matter damage in occipital lobe epilepsy by Jinseung Kim, Dong Ah Lee, Ho-Joon Lee, Kang Min Park

“…In addition, PSMD positively correlated with age (r = 0.412, p = 0.032). However, the PSMD of the patients with OLE was not associated with other clinical factors such as age at seizure onset and duration of epilepsy.ConclusionWe demonstrated that patients with OLE had a higher PSMD than healthy controls, indicating evidence of small vessel disease in patients with OLE. …”
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A Feasibility Study on Nano-Particle Properties for Signal Generation at NaI(Tl) Scintillation Detectors by Siamak Hooshmand Koochi, Ahmad Esmaili Torshabi

“…An experimental verification was also performed, using Silver Nanoparticle material in powder form, irradiated by 420 nm visible photons. …”
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INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF NON-PERFORMING LOANS OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA by Olusegun Opeyemi Oni, Henry Jonathan

“…The study adopted an ex-post facto research design using a panel data covering the period 2006-2020. The data was collated from the World Bank Governance Indicators, World Bank Development Indicators and Heritage Foundation Database for the period under study. …”
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Jeśli nie naiwność, to co? Próba rekonstrukcji idei dziecka u J.J. Rousseau by Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…Categories of childlike innocence, immaturity and helplessness, which constitute the idea of a child accepted in Western societies, are regarded as obvious and undisputed. However, more and more often their obviousness is questioned by modern researchers, particularly the representatives of the new sociology of childhood, including A.W. …”
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THE PREFERENCE OF FOREIGN-BASED (MIGRANT) PLAYERS OVER HOME-BASED PLAYERS IN THE SUPER EAGLES OF NIGERIA: A COLORATION OF ‘COLONIAL MENTALITY’ by JOSEPH OKECHUKWU NWOKE

“…Both home-based and foreign-based players were always invited to the camp of the Super Eagles when there was a competition. However,when it was time for the final list to be drawn there might not be any home-based players in the list or there might be an insignificant number that might end up not playing in such competition.There has been a lot of talk on the preference of foreign-based players over home-based players in the Super Eagles team.Hence, this study analyses the rate of selection in terms of percentage of home-based and foreign-based players in the Super Eagles team by some selected foreign and Nigerian coaches.The Hamitic hypothesis of Seligman is applied to show the nexus to the preference for foreign-based players.This study makes use of   primary and tertiary sources of data.Findings reveal that not only foreign coaches solely relied on foreign-based players, as some Nigerian coaches were equally masterminds of the unpatriotic act. …”
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Planning for the unexpected: Exploring the 2024 Global IT Outage (GITO) impact on critical infrastructures by Jaime Santos-Reyes

“…The energy sector's robustness has to do with its inhouse-software system and its no dependency on the CrowdStrike's software; water and food seem not to be having a strong dependence on the software; however, it is unclear whether this could have been maintained had the emergency lasted for more days or months, c). …”
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Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals the underlying molecular mechanism for the neurotoxicity of triclosan in zebrafish by Shasha Zhao, Yuhang Ling, Baohua Zhang, Danting Wang, Limei Sun

“…As a new type of environmental endocrine disruptor, it causes range of toxicities, including hepatotoxicity and reproductive toxicity. However, few research has examined the toxicity of long-term TCS-induced exposure in zebrafish at ambient concentrations, in contrast to the early life stage investigations. …”
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Acquisition of Current and Vibration Data for Rewound Burnt Three-Phase Induction Motor by A.I. Abdullateef, O.S. Fagbolagun, M.F. Sanusi

“… Induction motors are used in the industries for various applications because they are reliable and rugged. However, late detection of faults and inappropriate maintenance of the machine often leads to damage of the windings which results in production losses and outright replacement. …”
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THE EFFECT OF GENRE-BASED MENTORING ON LINGUISTIC FEATURE QUALITY OF RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSRACTS BY INDONESIAN LECTURERS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES by Dedi Jasrial, Safnil Arsyad, Arono Arono

“…It is because the meta-discourse serves as a textual and interpersonal marker that can help readers to organize, classify, interpret, evaluate, and react to the contents of a propositions or meanings of sentences in the research article abstracts. However, Indonesian authors still have a problem in the use of meta-discourse based on its function in writing a research article abstract that meets to reputable international journals. …”
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