Review: The need for holistic, sector-tailored sustainability assessments for milk− and plant-based beverages by E. Maree, J.N. Blignaut, C.J.L. Du Toit, H.H. Meissner, P. Ederer

“…In conclusion, a localised and holistic measure of sustainability is warranted which is both sector and context−specific and reported in sufficient detail to prevent the masking of poor results due to single metric expressions.…”
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Kojic Acid Derivative as an Antimitotic Agent That Selectively Kills Tumour Cells by Giuseppina Pichiri, Marco Piludu, Terenzio Congiu, Nicole Grandi, Pierpaolo Coni, Monica Piras, Mariusz Jaremko, Joanna Izabela Lachowicz

“…NGS investigation showed differentiated expressions of genes involved in mitosis and apoptosis processes. …”
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SIRT5‐mediated HOXA5 desuccinylation inhibits ferroptosis to alleviate sepsis induced‐lung injury by Lei Wang, Heng Fan, Min Sun, Ji‐Hui Ye

“…HOXA5, ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1), sirtuin 5 (SIRT5), and glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) expressions were measured using western blotting and Real‐Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT‐qPCR. …”
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Efficacy, Feasibility, and Acceptability of an Emotional Competence Tele-Intervention for Mandarin-Speaking Children Aged 5 to 7 Years With Developmental Language Disorder: Pilot S... by Hsin-Hui Lu, Shih-Yuan Liang, Yi-Chia Huang

“…We assessed the children’s emotional competence, nonverbal ability, verbal comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and expressive language skills. In study 2, all children with DLD included in study 1 engaged in an emotional competence tele-intervention. …”
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A Semianalytical Model for Analyzing the Infill Well-Caused Fracture Interference from Shale Gas Reservoirs by Sidong Fang, Yonghui Wu, Cheng Dai, Liqiang Ma, Hua Liu

“…In this way, three important issues can be further handled very naturally, including fracture connection between the parent and infill wells, different SRV properties for zones with different distances to the wellbore, and different production times for adjacent wellbores. The approximate expressions for different flow regimes are used in making production predictions in the time domain, and a flowing material balance method and a simple iteration are used to update the model parameters step by step. …”
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Guanxinning Tablet Attenuates Coronary Atherosclerosis via Regulating the Gut Microbiota and Their Metabolites in Tibetan Minipigs Induced by a High-Fat Diet by Qinqin Yang, Yanyun Xu, Liye Shen, Yongming Pan, Junjie Huang, Quanxin Ma, Chen Yu, Jiaojiao Chen, Yu Chen, Minli Chen

“…Additionally, histopathological findings revealed that GXNT could reduce lipid deposition, alleviate AS lesions, and restrain the expressions of NF-κB, TNF-α, and MMP-9. Furthermore, the composition of the gut microbiota was altered. …”
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Effects of dexmedetomidine combined with intravenous general anesthesia on hemodynamics and inflammatory factors in patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery by Chunling Liu, Yong Gui, Min Zeng, Zhidong Zhou

“…The levels of serum inflammatory factors (tumor necrosis factor α [TNF-α], interleukin [IL]-8, and IL-6) and stress response indicators (plasma epinephrine, norepinephrine, and plasma cortisol) at S1, S2, and S3 in the experimental group were lower than in the control group (P <⁠0.05). The expressions of TNF-α, IL-8, and IL-6 in the experimental group negatively correlated with SBP and DBP (P <⁠0.05), and with MAP and HR (P <⁠0.001). …”
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Influence of Prolonged Dental Bleaching on the Adhesive Bond Strength to Enamel Surfaces by Juliana C. P. Baia, Roberta P. Oliveira, Mara E. S. Ribeiro, Rafael R. Lima, Sandro C. Loretto, Mário H. Silva e Souza Junior

“…However, when bleached groups were compared to the control (G1), an expressive difference was detected (p≤0.0001). For prerestoration bleaching, all experimental groups were statistically different from G1 (p≤0.05), except G6 (p≥0.01), and for G5 and G6, statistical differences were found (p≤0.01). …”
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Virtual choir as a kind of digital musical art by Xinbin Fu

“…In addition, singing in a virtual project slows down the development of empathy of singers, reduces their ability to recognize the conductor’s gestures and facial expressions. The scientific novelty. For the first time, a reasoned answer has been received to the question of the possibility of classifying the so-called virtual choir as a type of choral performance. …”
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Correlation between Speeches of the President of Lithuania and the National Day Celebrations in the period 1920-1938: influential Communication by Vita Ulytė-Grigelevičienė

“…On the other hand, the strategy process, which disclosed the verbal effect and determined three main aspects of the President's speeches: firstly, the development of the patriotic arguments to enhance the feelings of dignity and honour and their substantiation; secondly, the use of terms encouraging enthusiasm and inspirational expressions; and thirdly, the use of figures of speech to evoke the spirit of community and solidarity, was not only constructed to charge the public ideologically but also aimed at making an emotional impact on the minds of the public, thus gaining control over the people's will. …”
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Unknown issues of digitalizing the tax domain by Dimitrijević Marina

“…The potential of digital technologies is expressively transformative for proceedings of tax relation subjects and offers numerous possibilities for advancing the implementation of taxes and protection of the state's fiscal interest. …”
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Exploring the immunohistochemical profile of basosquamous carcinoma and its clinicopathological associations by Cemile Tuğba Altunel, Gonca Özgün, Arzu Karataş, Özlem Özen, Deniz Seçkin, Tülin Güleç, Deren Özcan

“…CK17, p53, and p63 expressions were higher on the scalp and face than in other sites. …”
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Analysis of Social Performance and Action Units During Social Skills Training: Focus Group Study of Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia by Hiroki Tanaka, Kana Miyamoto, Jennifer Hamet Bagnou, Elise Prigent, Céline Clavel, Jean-Claude Martin, Satoshi Nakamura

“…Furthermore, facial expressions could provide effective social and behavioral markers to characterize psychometric properties. …”
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Kabale University Policy on Promoting Staff Academic Growth and Professional Development by Kabale University

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Periplanta americana extract regulates the Th17/Treg cell balance via Notch1 in ulcerative colitis by Yanqiu Zheng, Yanqiu Zheng, Huibiao Li, Shiyu Qi, Fan Xiao, Jinbin Song, Shiyin Liu, Xinlin Chen, Yanwu Li, Muyuan Chen

“…After notch1-activated Jurkat T cells were co-cultured with HCoEpic cells, the expressions of Occludin, ZO1 were higher in the HCoEpic cells.ConclusionPAE could alleviate colon inflammation and mucosal barrier damage in UC, which are related to the inhibition of Notch1 and the regulation of the Th17/Treg balance. …”
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Gut microbiota modulation via fecal microbiota transplantation mitigates hyperoxaluria and calcium oxalate crystal depositions induced by high oxalate diet by Lingyue An, Shujue Li, Zhenglin Chang, Min Lei, Zhican He, Peng Xu, Shike Zhang, Zheng Jiang, Muhammad Sarfaraz Iqbal, Xinyuan Sun, Hongxing Liu, Xiaolu Duan, Wenqi Wu

“…Furthermore, FMT treatment could significantly decrease the urinary oxalate excretion and CaOx crystal depositions in rat kidneys via, at least in part, upregulating the expressions of intestinal barrier proteins and oxalate transporters in the intestine. …”
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Exendin-4 Improves Diabetic Kidney Disease in C57BL/6 Mice Independent of Brown Adipose Tissue Activation by Shu Fang, Yingying Cai, Fuping Lyu, Hongbin Zhang, Chunyan Wu, Yanmei Zeng, Cunxia Fan, Shaozhou Zou, Yudan Zhang, Ping Li, Ling Wang, YaomingXue, Meiping Guan

“…In vitro, we investigated the role of exendin-4 in the differentiation process of 3T3-L1 and brown preadipocytes and its effect on the rat mesangial cells induced by oleate. Results. The expressions of UCP-1, PGC-1α, ATGL, and CD36 in BAT of DM mice were all downregulated, which could be upregulated by exendin-4 treatment with significant effects on ATGL and CD36. …”
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Effect of Drying Methods on the Phenolic Profile and Antioxidant Capacity of <i>Pithecellobium dulce</i> (Roxb.) Benth. Aril and Its Inhibitory Properties on Human SW480 Colon Aden... by Ángel Félix Vargas-Madriz, Aarón Kuri-García, Ivan Luzardo-Ocampo, Roberto Augusto Ferriz-Martínez, Teresa García-Gasca, Carlos Saldaña, Haidel Vargas-Madriz, Salvador Horacio Guzmán-Maldonado, Jorge Luis Chávez-Servín

“…The <i>P. dulce</i> extract augmented p53 and decreased KRAS gene expressions. Results suggested pro-apoptotic mechanisms in colon cancer cells in vitro linked to <i>P. dulce</i> bioactive compounds, which are better preserved when oven-dried plants are subjected to methanolic extraction.…”
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The Conceptual Domain of Hunting and Its Negative Representation in Love: A Cognitive-Cultural Analysis by Raheleh Gandomkar, Masoomeh Hashemi

“…These metaphors employ linguistic expressions such as hunting, snapping, enthralling, grabbing, snatching, ensnaring, catching, trapping, capturing, enslaving, and harnessing to convey a negative emotional connotation, regardless of whether the subject is a man or a woman. …”
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GATA1-mediated macrophage polarization via TrkB/cGMP–PKG signaling pathway to promote the development of preeclampsia by Wushan Li, Fei Hou, Di Cheng, Fengchun Gao, Jin Wang, Baoxia Cui

“…In addition, the protein expressions levels of TrkB, cGMP, and PKG were significantly decreased in the sh-GATA1 group were significantly decreased compared with those in the control group (P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P < 0.05, respectively). …”
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