Evaluation of e-Lung automated quantitative computed tomography biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by Peter M. George, Christian Rennison-Jones, Giacomo Benvenuti, Aliki Sifostratoudaki, Finja A. Ottink, Wassim Bou-Zeid, Roberta E. Ledda, Roqia F. Abul Kadir, Bushra Johari, Claire Fernandez, George W.J. Harston, Olivier Joly, Stephen Gerry, Anand Devaraj

“…A threshold of WRVS ≥15% at baseline CT was most strongly associated with transplant-free survival (HR 3.00, 95% CI 1.47–6.10, p=0.002) when adjusted for baseline forced vital capacity (FVC) and age. In patients with 12-month follow-up CT and lung function tests (n=89) an increase in 3% of WRVS (the minimal clinically important difference) was also significantly associated with reduced survival independent of FVC, and outperformed visual evaluation of progressive fibrosis. …”
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Microplastics in food products: Prevalence, artificial intelligence based detection, and potential health impacts on humans by M. Amin Mir, Muhammad Azhar Ali Khan, Bimal Krishna Banik, Syed M. Hasnain, Lina Alzayer, K. Andrews, Sani I. Abba

“…Concerns about nanoplastics' toxicity are heightened by their capacity to cross biological barriers and build up in tissues. …”
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Study of the effect of ultrasonic-assisted extraction based on the Box-Behnken design on the phenolic compound content of Hammada scoparia leaves and evaluation of their antioxidan... by Meriam Salemi, Hassiba Metrouh-Amir, Nadir Amir, Hamza Moussa

“…This research was carried out to evaluate the influence of ultrasound-assisted extraction parameters (ethanol concentration (30-70%), temperature (20-60 °C), time (10-30 min), and solvent-to-solid ratio (30-60 v/w) on total phenolic compound and total flavonoid contents, as well as the antioxidant capacity (DPPH assay) of H. scoparia, using the response surface methodology (RSM) approach and a Box-Behnken design (BBD). …”
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Comparing the Structural and Physicochemical Properties of Highland Barley <i>β</i>-Glucan from Different Sources: A Focus on Color by Ping Yu, Xuemin Kang, Pengfei Liu, Zhengzong Wu, Yue Cheng, Bo Cui, Wei Gao

“…Additionally, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy revealed that the <i>β</i>-linkage of LBG had a greater capacity to develop stronger hydrogen bonds, due to the absence of 3,4-Glc(p). …”
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Association of Fontan Pathophysiology With Plasma Bile Acids by Ashish H. Shah, MD, MD-Research, Arun Surendran, MSc, Pedram Hassan-Tash, BSc, MD, C. Nolan Turnbull, BSc, Nicole Johnston, MSc, David Goodlett, BSc, PhD, Jun Han, PhD, Robin A. Ducas, MD, James W. Tam, MD, Eberhard Renner, MD, Todd A. Duhamel, PhD, Michel Aliani, MSc, PhD, Amir Ravandi, MD, PhD, Richard A. Krasuski, MD

“…Background: Patients with Fontan circulation are frail and experience multisystem dysfunction including impaired exercise capacity, low resting and exercise-augmented cardiac output, and progressive liver fibrosis. …”
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(State) empathy: how context matters by Katrin Heyers, Katrin Heyers, Robin Schrödter, Lena Sophie Pfeifer, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Onur Güntürkün, Ursula Stockhorst

“…Empathy is a pivotal capacity that is essential for human interaction. It encompasses cognitive empathy, which is the ability to understand another individual’s emotional state, and affective empathy, which is to express an appropriate affective response to another person’s emotional state. …”
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Wedge‐Like Microstructure of Al2O3/i‐Ti3C2Tx Electrode with “Nano‐Pumping” Effect for Boosting Ion Diffusion and Electrochemical Defluoridation by Junce Wang, Jinfeng Chen, Ningning Liu, Jingjing Lei, Hong‐Wen Gao, Fei Yu, Fanghui Pan, Jie Ma

“…Benefiting from the interfacial conversion‐intercalation pseudocapacitance, such electrode is endowed with a high defluoridation capacity (69.9 mg g−1 at 1.6V) and an outstanding instantaneous adsorption rate (9.51 mg g−1 min−1), and shows satisfactory stability in more than 200 cycles. …”
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Impacts of home-based physical exercises on the health of people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review by José Igor Vasconcelos de Oliveira, Lúcia Inês Guedes Leite de Oliveira, Manoel da Cunha Costa, Raphael José Perrier-Melo, Mário Antônio de Moura Simim, Saulo Fernandes Melo de Oliveira

“…The studies showed improvements in muscle strength and morphology, in the ability to perform daily activities, in quality of life and in functional capacities, with no reported adverse situations. Although our review included a low number of randomized studies, we can conclude that several modes of exercise in the home environment promote benefits for people with SCI and can be options for maintaining or developing the health of this population. …”
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Evaluation of Roundabout Safety Performance through Surrogate Safety Measures from Microsimulation by Orazio Giuffrè, Anna Granà, Maria Luisa Tumminello, Tullio Giuffrè, Salvatore Trubia, Antonino Sferlazza, Marko Rencelj

“…AIMSUN and VISSIM were calibrated for single-lane, double-lane and turbo roundabouts using the corresponding empirical capacity function which included critical and follow-up headways estimated through meta-analysis. …”
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Implementing an intrahospital transport preparation (IHT) and management project for critically ill patients: identification of barriers and facilitators using consolidated framewo... by Jing Wang, Li Ma, Ying Lu, Baohua Li, Xiaotian Zhang, Rui Xie, Guifen Li, Man Cui, Lanfang Du

“…Facilitators were identified in four primary domains: ease of implementation, scientific and project completion, patient advantages and enhanced capacity for safe and professional transfer. Additionally, hurdles were identified in the CFIR domains of intervention characteristics, outer settings and inner settings. …”
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Tuning lamella spacings for simultaneous strength-ductility improvements in heterogeneous lamella SiCp/2024Al composites by Kan Liu, Qifeng Cui, Lu Shi, Yunpeng Cai, Andong Hua, Yishi Su, Qiubao Ouyang, Di Zhang

“…The improved strain hardening capacity, achieved through synergy of extensive hetero-interfaces and dense long straight geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) arrays piled-up within FGs delays necking instability, while strain delocalization induced damage delocalization behavior inhibits premature fracture.…”
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PPARα Gene Is Involved in Body Composition Variation in Response to an Aerobic Training Program in Overweight/Obese by Glêbia A. Cardoso, Mateus D. Ribeiro, Bruno R. V. Sousa, Yohanna de Oliveira, Klécia F. Sena, Joane R. E. Batista, Antônio E. M. Almeida, João M. Filho, Raquel S. B. Silva, Darlene C. Persuhn, Alexandre S. Silva

“…Fifty-eight previously inactive men and women, body mass index (BMI) 31.5±2.8 kg/m2, 46.5% (n=27) genotyped as CC genotype and 53.5% (n=31) as CA+AA, underwent a 12-week aerobic training (walking/running). Aerobic capacity (ergospirometry), body composition (DXA), and nutritional assessment were made before and 48 h after the experimental protocol. …”
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A Tensor-Based Go Decomposition Method for Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection by Meiping Song, Xiao Zhang, Lan Li, Hongju Cao, Haimo Bao

“…This cannot well maintain the characteristics of the hyperspectral image (HSI) in each dimension, thus degenerating its representation capacity. In this context, this article proposes a tensor-based Go decomposition (GODEC) model, called TGODEC. …”
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Spinal Cord Stimulation for Refractory Angina Pectoris: Current Status and Future Perspectives, a Narrative Review by Roberto Gazzeri, Jacopo Mosca, Felice Occhigrossi, Marco Mercieri, Marcelo Galarza, Matteo Luigi Giuseppe Leoni

“…The included studies consistently demonstrated that SCS significantly reduces the frequency of anginal episodes and nitroglycerin use while improving exercise capacity and quality of life. Proposed mechanisms include modulation of pain signals via the gate control theory, enhancement of autonomic balance, and redistribution of myocardial perfusion. …”
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AI-Enhanced Design and Application of High School Geography Field Studies in China: A Case Study of the Yellow (Bohai) Sea Migratory Bird Habitat Curriculum by Binglin Liu, Weijia Zeng, Weijiang Liu, Yi Peng, Nini Yao

“…To this end, optimization strategies such as improving data quality and technical platforms, strengthening student technical training, enhancing teachers’ AI application capabilities, and enriching AI functions and teaching scenarios are proposed to enhance the application effect of AI in geographical research and promote innovation in educational models and student capacity building.…”
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Competence of corncob (Zea mays L.) powder with HCl activation as adsorbent to purify waste cooking oil: Reference in the batch adsorption process by Bode Haryanto, Rondang Tambun, Oktavia Merta Sitohang, Stephanie Yosepha Sidauruk, Gabriela Emma Naomi, Vikram Alexander

“…Based on the turbidimeter results, an adsorbent size of 100 mesh with a mass of 4 g has an adsorption capacity of 12,728 mg/g with percentage reduction of turbidity of 94.5%. …”
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Adsorption Performance of La(III) and Y(III) on Orange Peel: Impact of Experimental Variables, Isotherms, and Kinetics by Li Liu, Yunzhang Rao, Changshun Tian, Tao Huang, Jiacheng Lu, Meidao Zhang, Min Han

“…Equilibrium results show that Langmuir monolayer adsorption capacity of La(III) and Y(III) onto orange peel is up to 37.61 and 31.10 mg/g. …”
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Wnt5a Increases Properties of Lung Cancer Stem Cells and Resistance to Cisplatin through Activation of Wnt5a/PKC Signaling Pathway by Jiali Yang, Kangjian Zhang, Jing Wu, Juan Shi, Jing Xue, Jing Li, Juan Chen, Yongzhao Zhu, Jun Wei, Jinxi He, Xiaoming Liu

“…The role of noncanonical Wnt signaling in the regulation of properties of lung cancer stem cells and chemoresistance was interrogated, by accessing capacities of cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and clonogenicity as well as the apoptosis in A549 cell lines and cisplatin-resistant A549 cells treated with Wnt5a conditional medium or protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor GF109203X. …”
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A Novel Intensive Distribution Logistics Network Design and Profit Allocation Problem considering Sharing Economy by Mi Gan, Shuai Yang, Dandan Li, Mingfei Wang, Si Chen, Ronghui Xie, Jiyang Liu

“…The rapid growth of logistics distribution highlights the problems including the imperfect infrastructure of logistics distribution network, the serious shortage of distribution capacity of each individual enterprise, and the high cost of distribution in China. …”
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IGF2BP3 curbed by miR-15c-3p restores disrupted lipid storage and progesterone secretion in chicken granulosa cells under oxidative stress through AKT-Raf1-ERK1/2 signaling pathway by Zhongzhen Lin, Yanrong Gong, Chunlin Yu, Chaowu Yang, Lingqian Yin, Donghao Zhang, Yuan Tang, Feng Xu, Ye Wang, Yiping Liu

“…These findings offer new insights into the molecular mechanisms by which oxidative stress damages reproductive capacity and a theoretical basis for mitigating oxidative stress in laying hens through genetic improvement.…”
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