Simulation of Load–Sinkage Relationship and Parameter Inversion of Snow Based on Coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian Method by Ming Zhu, Pengyu Li, Dongqing Li, Wei Wei, Jianfeng Liu, Xixing Long, Qingkai Meng, Yongjie Shu, Qingdong Yan

“…A coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian (CEL) model of plate loading in snow was established; the sensitivity of snow parameters to the macroscopic load–sinkage relationship was studied; a plate-loading experiment was carried out; and the parameters of snow at the experimental site were inverted. …”
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Examining Internal and External Consent in Consensual and Non-Consensual Contexts in Women by Nieves Moyano, Antonio Rafael Hidalgo-Muñoz, María del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes, Kristen Jozkowski, Reina Granados

“…The aim of this work is to examine women’s internal and external consent to both consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences. Method: Building on this research, we applied these measures to both consensual and nonconsensual contexts in a sample of 764 adult women from Spain. …”
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Cancer patients’ sense of coherence – psycho-oncological consultations and therapeutic alliance as salutogenic factors by Natalia Cecon-Stabel, Ibrahim Demirer, Holger Pfaff, Antje Dresen

“…Participants and procedure Patients who received PC were surveyed twice (after 3 and 12 months) about their care experiences, including therapeutic alliance and SoC. …”
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Exploratory Investigation of Intestinal Structure and Function after Stroke in Mice by Diya Ye, Yuting Hu, Ning Zhu, Weizhong Gu, Gao Long, Enfu Tao, Marong Fang, Mizu Jiang

“…Ischemic stroke was made as a disease model in mice, in which brain and ileal tissues were collected for experiments on the 1st and 7th day after stroke. Intestinal motility of mice was inhibited, and intestinal permeability was increased after stroke. …”
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Co-inoculation of Trichoderma viride with Azospirillum brasilense could suppress the development of Harpophora maydis-infected maize in Egypt by Rasha M. Elmeihy, Omar A. Hewedy, Maryam S. Alhumaidi, Khadijah A. Altammar, Eman O. Hassan, Samah A. El-Debaiky

“…A significant change in the metabolites secreted by T. viride was observed using GC/MS in the presence of H. maydis. A field experiment was conducted on susceptible and resistant hybrids of maize to evaluate the antagonistic activity of T. viride combined with A. brasilense on LWD incidence as well as plant growth promotion under field conditions. …”
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Navigating complex choices through legitimation: Narrative strategies in risk-reduction mastectomy decision-making among unaffected women with genetic risk for breast cancer in Swi... by Maria Caiata-Zufferey, Reka Schweighoffer, Monica Aceti, Carla Pedrazzani, Maria C. Katapodi, Souria Aissaoui, Mekdes Alemu, Murat Aykut, Fulvia Brugnoletti, Rachel Bunger, Nicole Bürki, Pierre O. Chappuis, Muriel Fluri, Rossella Graffeo, Karl Heinimann, Ashley Machen, Christian Monnerat, Olivia Pagani, Manuela Rabaglio, Eveline Schönau, Simon Wieser, Ursina Zürrer-Härdi

“…Findings indicate that the decision to undergo RRM was influenced by femininity and body image, current life engagements, anticipation of surgery risks and outcomes, perception and acceptance of cancer risk, surveillance experiences, attitudes of healthcare providers and family, and financial considerations. …”
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Synergistic toughening of welds through adding SiC nanoparticles and modulating oscillating laser by Mingjun Zhang, Rui Wang, Xiaobing Pang, Jian Zhang, Cong Mao, Bo Cheng, Longzhou Dai, Heqing Li, Jing Guo, Zhuming Bi

“…The effects of power modulation on macroscopic morphology, microstructure, and mechanical properties of welds were investigated systematically. The experiments showed that an oscillating laser with the modulated power has not only reduced various defects including spatters, weld beads, and humping significantly; but also decreased gas porosities in welds and eliminated an agglomeration of nanoparticles. …”
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Predictive models for the surface roughness and subsurface damage depth of semiconductor materials in precision grinding by Shang Gao, Haoxiang Wang, Han Huang, Zhigang Dong, Renke Kang

“…The models were validated through systematic experiments on three different semiconductor materials, demonstrating excellent agreement with experimental data, with prediction errors of 6.3% for surface roughness and 6.9% for SDD. …”
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A CNN-LSTM Phase Compensation Method for Unidirectional Two-way Radio Frequency Transmission System by Jiahui Cheng, Zhengkang Wang, Yaojun Qiao, Hao Gao, Chenxia Liu, Zhuoze Zhao, Jie Zhang, Baodong Zhao, Bin Luo, Song Yu

“…The performance is verified by experiments on a unidirectional two-way RF transmission system, in which both the two 259-km-long separate fibers are coupled into one optical cable. …”
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METTL3-Mediated m6A Modification Regulates the Osteogenic Differentiation through LncRNA CUTALP in Periodontal Mesenchymal Stem Cells of Periodontitis Patients by Xin Chen, Yuan Qin, Xian Wang, Hao Lei, Xiaochen Zhang, Houzhuo Luo, Changgang Guo, Weifu Sun, Shishu Fang, Wen Qin, Zuolin Jin

“…We carried out a series of experiments, including methylated RNA immunoprecipitation-PCR, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, and western blotting. …”
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Patient Perspectives on Evolving Diverticulitis Treatment: An Assessment of Patient Willingness to Enroll in a Randomized Controlled Trial by Annie Altman-Merino, MD, Kemberlee Bonnet, MA, David Schlundt, PhD, Jesse Wrenn, MD, PhD, Wesley H. Self, MD, MPH, Elisa J. Gordon, PhD, MPH, Alexander T. Hawkins, MD, MPH

“…The interviews assessed patients’ experiences with diverticulitis and perceptions of participation in a trial comparing antibiotics versus placebo. …”
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Optimization of UAE-NADES green extraction of bioactive compounds from chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) sprouts using simplex lattice mixture design methodology by Waseem Khalid, Hyrije Koraqi, Imed E Benmebarek, Andrés Moreno, Tawfiq Alsulami, Robert Mugabi, Gulzar Ahmad Nayik

“…Furthermore, our research has shown that mixture designs are an efficient and useful method for structuring and optimizing experimental parameters to achieve the most accurate results with the minimum number of experiments.…”
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Do wolframin, P-glycoprotein, and GRP78/BiP cooperate to alter the response of L1210 cells to endoplasmic reticulum stress or drug sensitivity? by Simona Kurekova, Lucia Pavlikova, Mario Seres, Viera Bohacova, Jana Spaldova, Albert Breier, Zdena Sulova

“…Immunoprecipitation experiments revealed the formation of complexes between wolframin and ERS related proteins (PERK, ATF6 and GRP78/BiP), the amount of which varied depending on the presence of the above ER stressors. …”
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IL-6-Inducing Peptide Prediction Based on 3D Structure and Graph Neural Network by Ruifen Cao, Qiangsheng Li, Pijing Wei, Yun Ding, Yannan Bin, Chunhou Zheng

“…Finally, the extracted features from both channels are merged for the classification of IL-6-inducing peptides. A series of experiments including cross-validation, independent testing, ablation studies, and visualizations demonstrate the effectiveness of the DGIL-6 method.…”
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Emotional analysis of operating room nurses in acute care hospitals in Japan: insights using ChatGPT by Kentaro Hara, Reika Tachibana, Ryosuke Kumashiro, Kodai Ichihara, Takahiro Uemura, Hiroshi Maeda, Michiko Yamaguchi, Takahiro Inoue

“…Keyword co-occurrence networks and cluster analysis highlighted connections between themes and distinct emotional experiences. Conclusions Combining generative AI with human expertise offered nuanced insights into the emotions of operating room nurses. …”
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Transcription factor FOXD1 and miRNA-204-5p play a major role in B4GALNT2 downregulation in colon cancer by Martina Duca, Nadia Malagolini, Michela Pucci, Virginie Cogez, Anne Harduin-Lepers, Fabio Dall’Olio

“…The latter inhibited B4GALNT2 also in the middle B4GALNT2 expresser cell line Caco2. Deletion experiments of the putative FOXD1 binding sites in the ~ 2800 bp sequence upstream of the B4GALNT2 transcriptional start site cloned in frame with the luciferase reporter gene, confirmed the regulatory role of FOXD1. …”
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‘We need to be part of the solution’: lessons from the 2024 PPRI Conference on ensuring access to affordable medicines through innovative policies by Sabine Vogler, Nina Zimmermann, Verena Knoll, Maximilian Salcher-Konrad, Friederike Windisch, Jaime Espin, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse, Dimitra Panteli, Fatima Suleman, Veronika J. Wirtz, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

“…Among the policy options that drew the most attention during the PPRI Conference were procurement with targeted instruments to achieve strategic objectives, innovative payment models such as different variants of managed-entry agreements, and new models to fund pharmaceutical research and development. Experiences on established policy options that are being newly introduced in several countries, such as price regulation, health technology assessment, evidence-based selection for reimbursement decisions and measures to enhance the uptake of biosimilar medicines were also shared. …”
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Infrared dim tiny-sized target detection based on feature fusion by Peng Zhang, Yaman Jing, Guodong Liu, Ziyang Chen, Xiaoyan Wu, Osami Sasaki, Jixiong Pu

“…Furthermore, ablation experiments demonstrate that the proposed two modules can effectively tackle the tiny-size, low contrast and dark intensity issues, providing a solution for detecting dim and small-size infrared targets.…”
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Adsorptive Removal of Malachite Green Dye onto Coal-Associated Soil and Conditions Optimization by T. R. Sundararaman, A. Saravanan, P. Senthil Kumar, M. Millicent Mabel, R. V. Hemavathy, S. Karishma, S. Jeevanantham, R. Hemavathi, A. Ishwariya, S. Kowsalya

“…The adsorbent material was characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR) analyses. Batch experiments were performed to investigate the different factors which affect the adsorption study. …”
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Biosynthesis of Lysosomally Escaped Apoptotic Bodies Inhibits Inflammasome Synthesis in Macrophages by Jiayi Mao, Wenzheng Xia, Yanglin Wu, Minxiong Li, Yun Zhao, Peisong Zhai, Yuguang Zhang, Tao Zan, Wenguo Cui, Xiaoming Sun

“…These nanovesicles exhibited lysosomal escape, anti-inflammatory, mitochondrial protection, and endothelial cell vascularization properties. In vivo experiments demonstrated that BHB-dABs enhance the recovery of diabetic wound inflammation and angiogenesis, accelerating wound healing. …”
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