Measuring Chinese negative emotion towards climate change: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Climate Change Anxiety Scale by Sam SS Lau, Kubi Appiah, Cherry CY Ho, Marco CH Cheng, Bo-Yi Yang

“…Introduction: In response to growing concerns over negative emotions towards climate change worldwide, it is essential that a validated and reliable scale is available for the generalizability of the constructs being measured, and it is not just applicable to Western context, but also the East. Method: The present study aims to conduct a psychometric investigation of the 13-item Climate Change Anxiety Scale (CCAS) of Clayton and Karazsia in Traditional Chinese using a large sample (N = 1,567) of Chinese individuals in Hong Kong, China. …”
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Overexpression of metalloproteinase PAPPA accelerates cancer progression and correlates with immune cell infiltration in gastric cancer: insights from bioinformatics and in vitro i... by Shiya Yu, Shiyao Zheng, Jinwei Qiu, Hongming Lin, Xiaojuan Yu, Huiyan Chen, Junhong Wu, Weihang Wu, Jiong Chen, Yongyuan Chen, Jianwei Chen, Hu Zhao, Yu Wang

“…Cellular assays, including CCK-8, Western blotting, and flow cytometry, were utilized to examine PAPPA's role in gastric cancer cell apoptosis, migration, and invasion. …”
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Towards a Standard Benchmarking Framework for Domain Adaptation in Intelligent Fault Diagnosis by Mohammed M. Farag

“…The framework is applied to two popular datasets – the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Paderborn University (PU) bearing fault datasets. …”
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Jeśli nie naiwność, to co? Próba rekonstrukcji idei dziecka u J.J. Rousseau by Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…Categories of childlike innocence, immaturity and helplessness, which constitute the idea of a child accepted in Western societies, are regarded as obvious and undisputed. …”
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Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics data revealed role of insulin resistant SNW1 gene in the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes by Ravi Bhushan, Rimjhim Trivedi, Ritu Raj, Anjali Rani, Sangeeta Rai, Anima Tripathi, Shiv Govind Rawat, Ajay Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Pawan K. Dubey

“…High-throughput RNA sequencing and computational bioinformatics analyses were conducted to identify novel hub genes, and their regulatory mechanisms were validated through qRT-PCR, western blot, and siRNA-mediated knockdown studies. …”
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Protein C deficiency with recurrent systemic thrombosis associated with compound heterozygous PROC missense variants by Mikio Shiba, Shuichiro Higo, Yu Morishita, Yasuhiro Ichibori, Yoshihiro Kin, Yasushi Sakata, Yoshiharu Higuchi

“…PCR amplification of genomic DNA spanning these exons followed by Sanger sequencing analysis revealed that the c.76G>A and the synonymous c.423G>T variants were in the same allele, whereas the c.1000G>A variant was on the opposite allele, indicating compound heterozygosity. Western blot analysis of Huh-7 and HEK293T cells transfected with expression vectors encoding PROC with or without these variants demonstrated that Gly334Ser-PROC expression levels were significantly decreased in culture media collected from HEK293T cells, while the expression levels of protein C with these variants were not significantly altered in cell lysates. …”
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Legal Transplants, Legal Survivals, and Legal Revivals: Towards a Reconceptualisation of The Circulation of Legal Forms in Time and Space by Rafał Mańko

“…However, his notion of a legal transplant conflates two quite different realities: on the one hand, the borrowing of legal forms from other, simultaneously existing legal systems (such as the transplant of the Swiss Civil Code to Atatürk’s Turkey) and, on the other hand, the rediscovery of old legal forms and their “borrowing” from long defunct legal systems (such as the rediscovery of Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis by medieval lawyers in Western Europe, and the infusion of Roman ideas about contract law into existing customary rules). …”
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NRBF2 plays a crucial role in the acquisition process of learning and memory, independent of the Vps34 complex by Songfen Wu, Songfen Wu, Songfen Wu, Haicai Zhuang, Haicai Zhuang, Haicai Zhuang, Xidan Zhou, Kuan Li, Kuan Li, Kuan Li

“…Employing quantitative PCR, Western blot analysis, behavioral tests, and electrophysiology, we investigated the mechanisms through which NRBF2 affects memory processing.ResultsWe observed an increase in Nrbf2 mRNA levels at 6 and 12 h, and protein levels at 6 h post fear conditioning. …”
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Spatial Variations in PAHs and Nitro-PAHs Bound to Total Suspended Solids in Urban Locations in Taiwan by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Bo-Wun Huang, Justus Kavita Mutuku, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…Abstract The concentration of 16 PAHs and 13 nitro-PAHs bound to total suspended particles were evaluated in outdoor environments in three cluster study locations in the western side of Taiwan. Samples were collected based on U.S. …”
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New biomarkers for diagnosis of bladder cancer: a bibliometric analysis by Roberto Falabella, Valentina De Simone, Felice Crocetto, Francesco Del Giudice, Angelo Porreca, Nazario Foschi, Biagio Barone, Luca Di Gianfrancesco, Valentina Di Pasquale, Vincenzo Francesco Caputo

“… Background/Objectives: Bladder cancer is a multifactorial disease, ranking as the 10th most common cancer globally and the fourth most common cancer in men and the ninth in women in the Western world. This bibliometric analysis aims to identify and evaluate scientific literature addressing new biomarkers for bladder cancer diagnosis, as well as to identify the most prolific organizations, authors, journals, countries, and keywords within this research domain. …”
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Barriers to and facilitators of access to mental health services among pregnant adolescents and young mothers in Belize by Olusola Oladeji, Joanna Lai, Natalia R. Velazquez, Mohammed I. Bammai, Ghanshyam Kandel, Andria Spyridou, Natalia L. Beer, Angella E. Baitwabusa, Juliet Simmons, Fidel L. Cuellar, Iveth Quintanilla, Jeffan Augustine

“…Participants included pregnant adolescents, adolescent mothers and young mothers from rural and urban areas in three regions of the country (Southern, Northern, and Western). The data were analyzed using thematic analysis and the results were organized into themes. …”
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Neural progenitor cell-derived exosomes in ischemia/reperfusion injury in cardiomyoblasts by Oiva Arvola, Virpi Stigzelius, Minna Ampuja, Riikka Kivelä

“…Small extracellular vesicles were enriched with serial ultracentrifugation, validated via nanoparticle tracking analysis, transmission electron microscopy and Western blot analysis prior to utilization as post-injury treatment for H9c2 cardiomyoblasts following oxygen and glucose deprivation. …”
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Effects of atractylodin and β-Eudesmol on P-glycoprotein and Caco-2 cells permeability by Artitaya Thiengsusuk, Wiriyaporn Sumsakul, Kesara Na–Bangchang

“…Methods: The transport and modulatory effects of both compounds on the expression of MDR-1 mRNA and protein, including P-gp function were investigated using the Caco-2 cells, RT-PCR, western blot analysis, and Rhodamine 123 (R123) assay, respectively. …”
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Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Metema and Quara districts, Northwestern Ethiopia by Daniel Tadesse, Getinet Masresha, Ermias Lulekal, Asmamaw Alemu

“…Therefore, this study aimed to document WEPs, and the indigenous knowledge associated with them in the Metema and Quara districts of north-western Ethiopia. Methods Data on WEPs were collected through semi-structured interviews with 396 informants, guided field walks, focus group discussions, and market surveys. …”
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Genetically edited human placental organoids cast new light on the role of ACE2 by Anya L. Arthurs, Bianca Dietrich, Martin Knöfler, Caleb J. Lushington, Paul Q. Thomas, Fatwa Adikusuma, Jessica M. Williamson, Susan Babikha, Tyla Damhuis, Tanja Jankovic-Karasoulos, Melanie D. Smith, Kirsty G. Pringle, Claire T. Roberts

“…Parameters of cell and organoid growth were measured, together with qPCR, Western Blotting, and ELISA assessments, in all groups from both organoid models. …”
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Alpine, Variscan, eo-Variscan belts: comparison between hot and cold orogens from the examples of French segments by Faure, Michel

“…Though the nappe stack is mainly developed in the subducted European or Gondwana crust in the western Alps and Eo-variscan cases, the Moldanubian nappes formed in the upper plate in the Variscan case. …”
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METTL14 modulates the progression and ferroptosis of colitis by regulating the stability of m6A-modified GPX4 by Yuhua Chen, Weicong Fan, Ying Lyu, Jingsheng Liao, Ying Zhou

“…The expression levels of METTL14 were analyzed via qRT-PCR and western blot. In vitro functional experiments evaluated the effects of METTL14 overexpression on the viability of DSS-induced NCM460 cells and ferroptosis markers. …”
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Consumer Attitudes towards Femvertising in Russia and Türkiye: A Netnographic Study by Iana Aleksandrova, Tuba Çevik Ergin

“…Russian men displayed substantial resistance, with many viewing the advertisement’s feminist undertones negatively and interpreting it as an imposition of Western feminist ideas that undermine traditional values. …”
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A comparison of the parasitoid wasp species richness of tropical forest sites in Peru and Uganda – subfamily Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) by Hopkins, Tapani, Tuomisto, Hanna, Gómez, Isrrael C., Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.

“…During the past decades, we have carried out long-term Malaise trapping using a standardised approach in the tropical forests of Peru (western Amazonia) and Uganda (eastern Africa). Here, we test how well such data can be used for global comparisons, by comparing the results for the subfamily Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). …”
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New insight into the controlling factors of differences in carbonate buried-hills driven by tectonic activity: a case study of the Weixinan Sag, Beibuwan Basin, China by Yanying Li, Kongyou Wu, Jia Zhong, Yannan Du, Jinyou Wang

“…Abstract As the main field for crude oil exploration in the western of the South China Sea, the Weixinan Sag, Beibuwan Basin, has discovered multiple hydrocarbon-bearing structures. …”
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