An Enhanced Human Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm for Global Optimization and Multi-Threshold Image Segmentation by Liang Xiang, Xiajie Zhao, Jianfeng Wang, Bin Wang

“…Thresholding image segmentation aims to divide an image into a number of regions with different feature attributes in order to facilitate the extraction of image features in the context of image detection and pattern recognition. However, existing threshold image-segmentation methods suffer from the problem of easily falling into locally optimal thresholds, resulting in poor image segmentation. …”
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Analysis of characteristics and therapeutic outcomes in children with Dubberley type IIA capitellar fractures by Chi Kang, Yuan Xiao, Yuhan Huang, Qinghua Liu, ZhiQiang Deng, Xin Liu

“…The MEPS excellent/good rate was 100%. Conclusions The displacement pattern of Dubberley Type IIA capitellar fractures in children predominantly involves proximal rotation of the lateral aspect of the fracture fragment in the coronal plane, centered on the medial aspect of the fracture fragment. …”
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Does Glass Size and Shape Influence Judgements of the Volume of Wine? by Rachel Pechey, Angela S Attwood, Dominique-Laurent Couturier, Marcus R Munafò, Nicholas E Scott-Samuel, Andy Woods, Theresa M Marteau

“…<h4>Background</h4>Judgements of volume may influence the rate of consumption of alcohol and, in turn, the amount consumed. …”
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MIR155HG promotes metastasis and cisplatin resistance of cervical cancer cells by regulating the miR-409-3p and ZEB1 axis by Yanxia Chen, Jing Wang, Youqiang Heng, Yu Guo, Ka Ding, Cailing Ma

“…We analyzed the expression pattern of MIR155HG in CC patients using public database TCGA, and overexpressed its expression in HeLa cells to explore its cellular functions. …”
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The influence of the molecular weight of hyaluronic acid on the mangiferin release kinetics from the polymer matrix by P. P. Snetkov, R. O. Shaikenov, V. I. Klimshina, Yu. E. Generalova, S. N. Morozkina

“…Mangiferin release kinetic from a polymer matrix based on hyaluronic acid has a release sigmoidal pattern. The release mechanism has a complex nature of the Super Case II transport type, with the exception of a sample with a low content of mangiferin and hyaluronic acid with molecular weight equal to 1.3 MDa, for which an abnormal release pattern is detected (non-Fickian diffusion), due to the hydrophilic nature of hyaluronic acid, the rapid swelling of the polymer matrix, as well as a significant leading in the diffusion of mangiferin compared to the relaxation rate of the polymer. …”
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Effect of Different Commercial Fertilizers, Harvest Date, and Storage Time on Two Organically Grown Blackberry Cultivars: Physicochemical Properties, Antioxidant Properties, and Su... by George Cavender, Mingyang Liu, Javier Fernandez-Salvador, Deborah Hobbs, Bernadine Strik, Balz Frei, Yanyun Zhao

“…Antioxidant and sugar profile data revealed an interesting pattern: “Obsidian” had ORAC and lower sugar than “Triple Crown” at harvest and also had greater differentiation due to fertilizer treatments. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Comprehensive investigations of mixed convection of Fe–ethylene-glycol nanofluid inside an enclosure with different obstacles using lattice Boltzmann method by Chenqi Fu, Amin Rahmani, Wanich Suksatan, S. M. Alizadeh, Majid Zarringhalam, Supat Chupradit, Davood Toghraie

“…A change in the attack angle of the enclosure leads to changes in the movement distance for fluid between hot and cold sources and passing fluid through case E, which affects the flow pattern strongly. In each attack angle, on colliding with an obstacle, the fluid heat transfers between two sources, which leads to uniform heat transfer in the enclosure. …”
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Influence of Introduction and Cultivation on the Content of Active Ingredients and Elements in Gastrodia elata by Weijin HUANG, Yufan LIANG, Dan TANG, Qi ZHANG, Dongdong LIU, Qiuying WANG

“…The heavy metal content of G. elata from various regions complied with national standards, and there was no universal pattern in element across different production areas. …”
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Modulatory effect of dianthrone rich alcoholic flower extract of Cassia auriculata L. on experimental diabetes by Syed Zameer Ahmed Khader, Sidhra Syed Zameer Ahmed, Senthil Kumar Balasubramanian, Thanga kumar Arunachalam, Geetha Kannappan, Mohamed Rafi Mahboob, Ponmurugan Ponnusamy, Kishore Ramesh

“…The pure compounds were confirmed with thin layer chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography pattern and further subjected for characterization. …”
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Estimating Future Surface Water Availability Through an Integrated Climate‐Hydrology‐Management Modeling Framework at a Basin Scale Under CMIP6 Scenarios by Manqing Shao, Nelun Fernando, John Zhu, Gang Zhao, Shih‐Chieh Kao, Bingjie Zhao, Elizabeth Roberts, Huilin Gao

“…The results indicate that climate change has a significant impact on surface water availability by increasing reservoir evaporation, altering the seasonal pattern of naturalized streamflow, and reducing FY.…”
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Exciton-phonon coupling and phonon-assisted exciton relaxation dynamics in In1-xGaxP quantum dots by Beiye C. Li, Kailai Lin, Ping-Jui E. Wu, Aritrajit Gupta, Kaiyue Peng, Siddhartha Sohoni, Justin C. Ondry, Zirui Zhou, Caitlin C. Bellora, Young Jay Ryu, Stella Chariton, David J. Gosztola, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Richard D. Schaller, Dmitri V. Talapin, Eran Rabani, Gregory S. Engel

“…We identify a slower hot exciton cooling rate in In0.62Ga0.38P/ZnS, attributed to the presence of ‘energy-retaining’ valley exciton states with strong exciton-phonon coupling. …”
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Annual variation of temperature and mass balance of first-year and second-year land-fast sea ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica by Dinglong Zhao, Bin Cheng, Matti Leppäranta, Jingkai Ma, Xuejing Chen, Jiechen Zhao

“…Snow–ice and superimposed ice formation were most sensitive to the precipitation pattern, followed by the initial snow depth and initial ice thickness. …”
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Transarterial chemoembolization for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma after failure of first-line systemic treatment: a single-center case series by Qingyu Xu, Bin Leng, Ran You, Lingfeng Diao, Chendong Wang, Zeyu Yu, Guowen Yin

“…The most common progression pattern was the development of new intrahepatic lesions. …”
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RNAi-mediated suppression of toll-like receptor NlToll1 enhances Nilaparvata lugens susceptibility to entomopathogenic fungal infection by Zhu-Long Shao, Chen-Ping Lan, Xiao-Ping Yu, Zheng-Liang Wang

“…Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a family of crucial pattern recognition proteins that are responsible for the immunologic recognition of invading pathogen in insects. …”
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Reward-related neural activation during social media exposure in young women with non-suicidal self-injury: evidence for a continuum of severity in the reward network by Stella Nicolaou, Anna Julià, Daniela Otero, Carlos Schmidt, Juan Carlos Pascual, Joaquim Soler, Josep Marco-Pallarés, Daniel Vega

“…Clinical participants rated positive comments as less pleasant and negative comments as more unpleasant than controls. …”
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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Kazunori Akiyama, Juan Carlos Algaba, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Richard Anantua, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Anne-Kathrin Baczko, David Ball, Mislav Baloković, John Barrett, Bradford A. Benson, Dan Bintley, Lindy Blackburn, Raymond Blundell, Wilfred Boland, Katherine L. Bouman, Geoffrey C. Bower, Hope Boyce, Michael Bremer, Christiaan D. Brinkerink, Roger Brissenden, Silke Britzen, Avery E. Broderick, Dominique Broguiere, Thomas Bronzwaer, Do-Young Byun, John E. Carlstrom, Andrew Chael, Chi-kwan Chan, Shami Chatterjee, Koushik Chatterjee, Ming-Tang Chen, Yongjun Chen, Paul M. Chesler, Ilje Cho, Pierre Christian, John E. Conway, James M. Cordes, Thomas M. Crawford, Geoffrey B. Crew, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Yuzhu Cui, Jordy Davelaar, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Roger Deane, Jessica Dempsey, Gregory Desvignes, Jason Dexter, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Ralph P. Eatough, Heino Falcke, Joseph Farah, Vincent L. Fish, Ed Fomalont, H. Alyson Ford, Raquel Fraga-Encinas, Per Friberg, Christian M. Fromm, Antonio Fuentes, Peter Galison, Charles F. Gammie, Roberto García, Zachary Gelles, Olivier Gentaz, Boris Georgiev, Ciriaco Goddi, Roman Gold, José L. Gómez, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, Minfeng Gu, Mark Gurwell, Kazuhiro Hada, Daryl Haggard, Michael H. Hecht, Ronald Hesper, Elizabeth Himwich, Luis C. Ho, Paul Ho, Mareki Honma, Chih-Wei L. Huang, Lei Huang, David H. Hughes, Shiro Ikeda, Makoto Inoue, Sara Issaoun, David J. James, Buell T. Jannuzi, Michael Janssen, Britton Jeter, Wu Jiang, Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales, Michael D. Johnson, Svetlana Jorstad, Taehyun Jung, Mansour Karami, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Tomohisa Kawashima, Garrett K. Keating, Mark Kettenis, Dong-Jin Kim, Jae-Young Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Junhan Kim, Motoki Kino, Jun Yi Koay, Yutaro Kofuji, Patrick M. Koch, Shoko Koyama, Michael Kramer, Carsten Kramer, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Tod R. Lauer, Sang-Sung Lee, Aviad Levis, Yan-Rong Li, Zhiyuan Li, Michael Lindqvist, Rocco Lico, Greg Lindahl, Jun Liu, Kuo Liu, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Wen-Ping Lo, Andrei P. Lobanov, Laurent Loinard, Colin Lonsdale, Ru-Sen Lu, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Jirong Mao, Nicola Marchili, Sera Markoff, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Martí-Vidal, Satoki Matsushita, Lynn D. Matthews, Lia Medeiros, Karl M. Menten, Izumi Mizuno, Yosuke Mizuno, James M. Moran, Kotaro Moriyama, Monika Moscibrodzka, Cornelia Müller, Gibwa Musoke, Alejandro Mus Mejías, Daniel Michalik, Andrew Nadolski, Hiroshi Nagai, Neil M. Nagar, Masanori Nakamura, Ramesh Narayan, Gopal Narayanan, Iniyan Natarajan, Antonios Nathanail, Joey Neilsen, Roberto Neri, Chunchong Ni, Aristeidis Noutsos, Michael A. Nowak, Hiroki Okino, Héctor Olivares, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, Tomoaki Oyama, Feryal Özel, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Jongho Park, Nimesh Patel, Ue-Li Pen, Dominic W. Pesce, Vincent Piétu, Richard Plambeck, Aleksandar PopStefanija, Oliver Porth, Felix M. Pötzl, Ben Prather, Jorge A. Preciado-López, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hung-Yi Pu, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Alexander W. Raymond, Luciano Rezzolla, Angelo Ricarte, Bart Ripperda, Freek Roelofs, Alan Rogers, Eduardo Ros, Mel Rose, Arash Roshanineshat, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Chet Ruszczyk, Kazi L. J. Rygl, Salvador Sánchez, David Sánchez-Arguelles, Mahito Sasada, Tuomas Savolainen, F. Peter Schloerb, Karl-Friedrich Schuster, Lijing Shao, Zhiqiang Shen, Des Small, Bong Won Sohn, Jason SooHoo, He Sun, Fumie Tazaki, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Paul Tiede, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Tyler Trent, Efthalia Traianou, Sascha Trippe, Ilse van Bemmel, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Daniel R. van Rossum, Jan Wagner, Derek Ward-Thompson, John Wardle, Jonathan Weintroub, Norbert Wex, Robert Wharton, Maciek Wielgus, George N. Wong, Qingwen Wu, Doosoo Yoon, André Young, Ken Young, Ziri Younsi, Feng Yuan, Ye-Fei Yuan, J. Anton Zensus, Guang-Yao Zhao, Shan-Shan Zhao, The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

“…We use the models to infer a mass accretion rate onto the black hole in M87 of (3–20) × 10 ^−4 M _⊙ yr ^−1 .…”
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Paradigm shift of respiratory viruses causing lower respiratory tract infection in children during COVID-19 pandemic in India by Mannat Kang, Subhabrata Sarkar, Suresh Kumar Angurana, Pankaj Singh, Meenakshi Rana, Ishani Bora, Rishi Chetanya, Bharatendu Singh, Jayashree Muralidharan, Radha Kanta Ratho

“…No significant difference in positivity rate of Inf A pdmH1N1, Inf A H3N2 and Inf B was seen. …”
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The Human IL-23 Decoy Receptor Inhibits T-Cells Producing IL-17 by Genetically Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Masoumeh Rostami, Kamran Haidari, Majid Shahbazi

“…The green fluorescent protein (GFP) positive transduction rate was up to 90%, and real-time PCR showed the expression level of RIL-23R. …”
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The Role of Spectral Focused Imaging (SFI) in Diagnosing Subtle Mucosal Changes in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis by Andreea DOBROMIRESCU, Simona-Andreea BALOSU, Adrian DUMITRU, Lucian NEGREANU

“…Conclusions: This pilot study showed that image-enhanced endoscopy using SFI might increase the rate of detection and demarcation for subtle inflammatory changes in the mucosa, correlating with potential histologic activity. …”
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Mesenchymal stromal cell therapy compared to SGLT2-inhibitors and usual care in treating diabetic kidney disease: A cost-effectiveness analysis. by Luke E Barry, Grainne E Crealey, Paul Cockwell, Stephen J Elliman, Matthew D Griffin, Alexander P Maxwell, Timothy O'Brien, Norberto Perico, Ciaran O'Neill

“…A threshold of $47,000 per quality-adjusted life year and a discount rate of 3% were used. The primary outcome measure was incremental net monetary benefit (INMB). …”
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