Immunity and growth of freshwater prawn fed with dietary β-glucan supplementation by Julie Ekasari, Jhon Lamhot F. Napitupulu, Enang Harris Surawidjaja

“…Phenoloxydase activity, total and differential haemocyte counts, survival, and specific growth rate of the prawn were measured and calculated on the final day of experiment (day 42). Phenoloxydase activity, total and differential haemocyte counts of β-glucan treatments were higher than control, whereas no significant difference was observed in survival. …”
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Ovario- protective effect of Moringa oleifera leaf extract against cyclophosphamide-induced oxidative ovarian damage and reproductive dysfunction in female rats by Seham Samir Soliman, Ahmed A. Suliman, Khaled Fathy, Ahmed A. Sedik

“…The third and fourth groups were given M. oleifera leaf extract (150 and 250 mg/kg; orally) for 20 days before receiving CP on the final day of the experiment. Hormonal assessments, including follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), and estrogen (ES), were performed 24 h after CP administration. …”
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Nitrogen Uptake Efficiency and Total Soil Nitrogen Accumulation in Long-Term Beef Manure and Inorganic Fertilizer Application by Peter Omara, Lawrence Aula, William R. Raun

“…Data (1990–2015) from a long-term continuous winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) fertility experiment at Stillwater in Oklahoma, USA, were used in this report. …”
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Hippocampal Anti-inflammatory Effect of Electroacupuncture at Baihui and Shenting on Cognitive Dysfunction Induced by Systemic Inflammation by CHEN Xiaomei, PANG Lina, WANG Zhifu

“…After the behavioral experiment, immunofluorescence and ELISA were used to detect the changes of hippocampal Iba-1, TNF-α and serum TNF-α.Results1) Compared with the control group, the learning and memory time related to "what-where-when" in the model group was decreased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01), and serum TNF-α (3 h after LPS) and hippocampal TNF-α (24 h) were significantly increased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01); immunofluorescence and ELISA detection showed that hippocampal Iba-1 was significantly increased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01) in the model group. 2) Compared with the model group, "what" and "when" learning time in the EA group increased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01); the serum and hippocampal TNF-α were obviously decreased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01 and <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05); hippocampal Iba-1 in the EA group was decreased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).ConclusionElectroacupuncture at Baihui and Shenting may improve the cognitive dysfunction caused by systemic inflammation via inhibiting the activation of hippocampal microglia and reducing the release of inflammatory factor TNF-α in the peripheral blood and hippocampal regions.…”
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An Investigation of Infrared Small Target Detection by Using the SPT–YOLO Technique by Yongjun Qi, Shaohua Yang, Zhengzheng Jia, Yuanmeng Song, Jie Zhu, Xin Liu, Hongxing Zheng

“…The above methods are based on a public tool, the eighth version of You Only Look Once (YOLO) improved, it is named SPT–YOLO (SPDConv + P2 + Adaptive Threshold + YOLOV8s) in this paper. Some experiments on datasets such as infrared small object detection (IR-SOD) and infrared small target detection 1K(IRSTD-1K), etc. have been executed to verify the proposed algorithm; and the mean average precision of 94.0% and 69% under the condition of threshold at 0.5 and over a range from 0.5 to 0.95 is obtained, respectively. …”
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Histopathological evaluation of the effects of thymoquinone and resveratrol on the liver in rats administered doxorubicin by Mehmet Burak Ates, Ozgur Ozdemir, Ali Erdem Ozturk, Mustafa Numan Bucak, Aysegul Bulut

“…Animals were divided in to 10 groups: Control (physiological saline, PO); Doxorubicin (physiological saline, PO and Dox,15mg/kg Dox in 10th days, IP); Thymoquinone -5 (TQ-5, 5 mg/kg TQ, PO); TQ-20 (20 mg/ kg TQ, PO); Resveratrol-5 (Res-5, 5 mg/kg Res, PO); Res-20 (20 mg/kg Res, PO); Dox+TQ-5 ; Dox+TQ-20; Dox+Res-5; Dox+Res-20. After the 21-day experiment, 6 replicates were randomly selected from the groups. …”
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Task-related errors as a catalyst for empathy towards embodied pedagogical agents by Oliver Rehren, Oliver Rehren, Sebastian Jansen, Sebastian Jansen, Martina Seemann, Martina Seemann, Peter Ohler, Peter Ohler

“…Furthermore, the manipulated language styles did not show a significant direct effect on perceived anthropomorphism, empathy, sympathy, or persuasion in the main experiment, despite pretest results indicating differences in perceived personality based on language cues.DiscussionThese results have important implications for the design of embodied pedagogical agents. …”
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Motor modules are largely unaffected by pathological walking biomechanics: a simulation study by Mohammad Rahimi Goloujeh, Jessica L. Allen

“…Results The motor modules identified from our simulations were similar to those identified from previously published experiments of non-pathological walking. Moreover, our findings indicate that the same motor modules can be used to generate a range of pathological-like waking biomechanics by modulating their recruitment over the gait cycle. …”
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A successful case study of using HCl and viscoelastic diverting acid systems for carbonate matrix acidizing in an oil well with optimized predictive model by Javad Mahdavi Kalatehno, Ehsan Khamehchi, Mostafa Keihanikamal, Fatemeh Yousefmarzi, Matin Dargi, Peyman Daneshfar

“…The study integrates design of experiments (DOE) and multi-objective optimization techniques to assess the impact of various operational parameters on acidizing performance. …”
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Crop residue degradation by fungi isolated from conservation agriculture fields under riceâwheat system of North-West India by Madhu Choudhary, Parbodh C. Sharma, Hanuman S. Jat, Vibha Nehra, Andrew J. McDonald, Neelam Garg

“…Selected potential isolates were further tested in pot experiment for their effect on wheat plants. The interaction among isolates was also studied. …”
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Study on Fracture Morphological Characteristics of Refracturing for Longmaxi Shale Formation by Yintong Guo, Lei Wang, Xin Chang, Jun Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhang

“…A series of large-scale true triaxial fracturing experiments were carried out to characterize the refracturing fracture initiation and propagation. …”
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Advanced Detection of AI-Generated Images Through Vision Transformers by Darshan Lamichhane

“…Our study shows the strength of transformer based models in addressing the increasing challenge of AI-generated image detection, laying a foundation for future research in this critical area. This experiment highlights that when the ViT model is fine tuned with optimal data augmentation techniques, it gains state of the art performance in AI-generated image detection, emphasizing its potential for real-world applications.…”
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Research on the Oil-Bearing Difference of Bedding Fractures: A Case Study of Lucaogou Formation in Jimsar Sag by Jia Lu, Chen Zhang, Jianhui Zeng, Haowei Yuan

“…In this paper, we examine and finely characterize the development of the bedding fractures found in the upper and lower sweet spots of Lucaogou formation of tight oil reservoir through field outcrop and core observation, cast thin section analysis, and imaging log recognition and investigate the factors affecting their differentiated oil-bearing by means of inclusion temperature measurement, TOC testing, physical property testing, high-pressure mercury injection, and physical simulation experiment. By comparison with the linear density, bedding fractures are more developed in the lower sweet spot. …”
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Hypericin mediated photodynamic therapy induces ferroptosis via inhibiting the AKT/mTORC1/GPX4 axis in cholangiocarcinoma by Wei An, Kai Zhang, Guangbing Li, Shunzhen Zheng, Yukun Cao, Jun Liu

“…Next, a series of in vitro and in vivo experiments were performed to confirm that HY-PDT could trigger cholangiocarcinoma cells ferroptosis through inhibiting the expression of GPX4 protein. …”
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THE GENE POOL FOR TABLE BEET BREEDING (MODERN ASPECTS OF STUDY AND USE) by V. I. Burenin, D. V. Sokolova, T. M. Piskunova

“…The accessions were studied at Pushkin and Pavlovsk Laboratories of VIR, at the Genetic Diversity and Plant Bioresources Center of the All-Russian Breeding and Technological Institute of Horticulture and Nursery (VSTISP) and at Maikop Experiment Station, a branch of VIR, according to VIR’s guidelines. esults. …”
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Artificial Neural Networks as a Tool for High-Accuracy Prediction of In-Cylinder Pressure and Equivalent Flame Radius in Hydrogen-Fueled Internal Combustion Engines by Federico Ricci, Massimiliano Avana, Francesco Mariani

“…Additionally, the artificial neural network is employed to predict the equivalent flame radius, thereby obviating the need for repeated tests using dedicated high-speed cameras in optical access research engines, due to the resource-intensive nature of data acquisition and post-processing. Experiments were conducted on a single-cylinder research engine operating at low-speed and low-load conditions, across three distinct relative air–fuel ratio values with a range of ignition timing settings applied for each air excess coefficient. …”
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Effect of drying methods on phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of Capparis spinosa L. fruits by Shima Babaei Rad, Hasan Mumivand, Saeed Mollaei, Ali Khadivi

“…This study aimed to investigate the effects of various drying methods on the total phenolics, flavonoids, anthocyanins, antioxidant activity, and phenolic acids in caper (Capparis spinosa L.) fruits. The experiment was performed using a completely randomized design with three replications and included 11 treatments: shade drying, sun drying, oven drying (at 50 °C, 60 °C, and 70 °C), microwave drying (at 300 W, 600 W, and 900 W), freeze-drying, salt-drying, and a fresh plant sample as a control. …”
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A novel hybrid inception-xception convolutional neural network for efficient plant disease classification and detection by Wasswa Shafik, Ali Tufail, Chandratilak Liyanage De Silva, Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong

“…To assess the presented IX-CNN model performance, different classifiers, namely, support vector machine (SVM), decision tree (DT) and random forest (RF), were used. The experiments used six datasets, including PlantVillage, Turkey Disease, Plant Doc, Rice Disease, RoCole, and NLB datasets. …”
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A modified droplet vitrification method for cryopreservation of shoot tips from <i>in vitro</i> potato plants by T. A. Gavrilenko, N. A. Shvachko, N. N. Volkova, Yu. V. Ukhatova

“…The modifications of stages 1, 2 and 6 proposed at VIR lead to a significant reduction in the duration of cryopreservation experiments in comparison with the original method of B. …”
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Intra- and Interspecies Conjugal Transfer of Plasmids in Gram-Negative Bacteria by Julia R. Savelieva, Daria A. Kondratieva, Maria V. Golikova

“…In pharmacodynamic experiments, an <i>E. coli</i> transconjugant with MIC of 2 mg/L within the “susceptibility range”, failed to respond to meropenem treatment. …”
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