Value propositions for improving the competitiveness of short food supply chains built on technological and non-technological innovations by Andras Sebok, Kinga Varsányi, Katalin Kujáni, Vilma Xhakolari, Ágnes Szegedyné Fricz, Alessanda Castellini, Diana Di Gioa, Francesca Gaggia, Maurizio Cannavari

“…The success factors and bottlenecks of each short food supply chain operation and their current value propositions were identified. From the inventory, those innovations were selected for each short food chain case study which can be applied to eliminate or reduce the bottlenecks or enhance the success factors leading to new, upgraded value propositions with increased added value for the consumers. …”
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Examining Stromal Cell Interactions in an In Vitro Blood–Brain Barrier Model with Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells by Andrea Margari, Simon Konig, Vignesh Jayarajan, Silvia Rizzato, Giuseppe Maruccio, Emad Moeendarbary

“…Understanding the function of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) in health and disease, as well as improving drug delivery across the BBB, remains a critical priority in neuroscience research. However, current in vitro models of the BBB have become increasingly complex and challenging to implement. …”
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Effects of Organic Mineral Chelates of Zinc, Manganese, and Chromium on Growth Performance, Physiological, Hematological, Intestinal Microflora, Immunological, and Bone Traits in B... by A Rezapour, S Gharahveysi, KJ Khorshidi, R Abdolahpour

“…The highest antibody titers against bronchitis were observed in the control treatment, as well as the highest percentages of ash and phosphorus. The current findings showed that organic chrome improved body weight gain and FCR in the starter phase, and that the use of organic zinc increased the villi width of the jejunum in broiler chickens.…”
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Exploring the Role of Stent Strut Geometry in Cellular Behavior: An In Vitro Chip Model to Understand In‐Stent Restenosis by Emmie J.D. Schoutens, Juul Verbakel, Heleen M.M. van Beusekom, Jaap M.J. den Toonder, Olaf van der Sluis, Jan de Boer

“…Stent design plays a crucial role in ISR, yet current clinical research cannot isolate the effects of geometry alone. …”
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PVA: The Persistent Volume Autoscaler for Stateful Applications in Kubernetes by Ji-Hyun Na, Hyeon-Jin Yu, Hyeongbin Kang, Heeju Kang, Hee-Dong Lim, Jae-Hyuck Shin, Seo-Young Noh

“…With the evolution of container technology, there has been increasing interest in the operation of stateful applications in cloud environments. …”
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High Temperature Corrosion of Nickel in NaVO3-V2O5 Melts by J. Porcayo-Calderon, J. J. Ramos-Hernandez, Jan Mayén, E. Porcayo-Palafox, G. K. Pedraza-Basulto, J. G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, L. Martinez-Gomez

“…V2O5 addition considerably increases the current densities of the anodic and cathodic reactions. …”
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MSANet: LiDAR-Camera Online Calibration with Multi-Scale Fusion and Attention Mechanisms by Fengguang Xiong, Zhiqiang Zhang, Yu Kong, Chaofan Shen, Mingyue Hu, Liqun Kuang, Xie Han

“…Sensor data fusion is increasingly crucial in the field of autonomous driving. …”
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A promising view to the Moon: Anticipations for Tianwen-2 samples returned from Kamo’oalewa by WenZhe Li, Yong Wei, Jian-Yang Li, Wei Yang

“…The exploration of asteroids has received increasing attention since the 1990s because of the unique information these objects contain about the history of the early solar system. …”
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Towards Therapeutic Delivery of Extracellular Vesicles: Strategies for In Vivo Tracking and Biodistribution Analysis by Giuliana Di Rocco, Silvia Baldari, Gabriele Toietta

“…Extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as microvesicles and exosomes, are membranous structures containing bioactive material released by several cells types, including mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs). …”
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Disruption of small intestinal mucosal homeostasis in mice with amiodarone induced steatohepatitis by Shoji Kawauchi, Sayo Horibe, Toru Tanaka, Naoto Sasaki, Junichi Kunimasa, Yoshiyuki Rikitake

“…Abstract In the current study, we sought to investigate the pathogenesis of amiodarone (AMD)-induced steatohepatitis, focusing on the pathological changes in the small intestine and liver. …”
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Effect of Cr content on the structure and corrosion properties of (FeCoNi)0.75Cu0.25-xCrx high entropy alloys in 1 M H2SO4 by Y. Heidari, Kh. Gheisari, M. Yeganeh

“…The data reveal that Cr considerably enhances both uniform and pitting corrosion resistance. The passivation current density and passivation potential range significantly increased with the incorporation of Cr, reaching 0.7 μA/cm2 and 1156 mV, respectively, at a Cr concentration of 25 at% in 1 M H2SO4. …”
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Enlargement of the Surface Area of High‐Entropy Alloys with Acid Treatment as Positive Electrode for High Specific Capacitance Supercapacitors by Mahir Gülen, Recep Taş, Hamza Dünya, Shashanka Rajendrachari

“…The acid treatment significantly increased the surface area by ~20 times, the pore volume by ~10 times, and improved microstructural homogeneity. …”
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Multi-Omics Analysis of Mouse Fecal Microbiome Reveals Supplier-Dependent Functional Differences and Novel Metagenome-Assembled Genomes by Zachary L. McAdams, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Kevin L. Gustafson, Nathan Bivens, Craig L. Franklin, Paul Wilmes, Aaron C. Ericsson

“…We reconstructed high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes, frequently containing genomic content unique to each supplier. …”
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Investigating Performance of Spatial Organization of One-Sided Houses Built in the First Pahlavi of Shiraz (Case Study: Zakeri House) by Fatemeh Kakaei, Tahereh Nasr, Hadi Keshmiri, Hamed Moztarzadeh

“…Therefore, the current research is an applied research in terms of the objective, and in terms of data collection method, it is a non-experimental descriptive research of survey and case type. …”
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Immunopharmacology of gastric cancer–deciphering immune cell subset responses and nanoparticle-mediated targeting by Yanting Wang, Ning Ding, Lina Qi, Wenwen Chen, Panyisha Wu

“…Progress in immunopharmacology, aided by single-cell analytics, increasingly highlights immune complexity and functional heterogeneity. …”
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THSD1 Is a Multifaceted Regulator in Health and Disease by Mengjun Dai, Kuizhi Qu, Sophie Liu, Zhen Xu, Yan-Ning Rui

“…Thrombospondin Type 1 Domain-Containing Protein 1 (THSD1) is a transmembrane protein increasingly recognized for its critical roles in vascular biology and disease pathogenesis. …”
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Regions of homozygosity in the porcine genome: consequence of demography and the recombination landscape. by Mirte Bosse, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Ole Madsen, Yogesh Paudel, Laurent A F Frantz, Lawrence B Schook, Richard P M A Crooijmans, Martien A M Groenen

“…Size and number of ROHs are in agreement with known demography of the populations, with population bottlenecks highly increasing ROH occurrence. Nucleotide diversity outside ROHs is high in populations derived from a large ancient population, regardless of current population size. …”
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In Silico identification and characterization of SOS gene family in soybean: Potential of calcium in salinity stress mitigation. by Anam Hameed, M Asaf Khan, M Hammad Nadeem Tahir, Madeeha Shahzad Lodhi, Saima Muzammil, Muhammad Shafiq, Tsanko Gechev, Muhammad Faisal

“…Results show that germination increased by 7% in calcium primed non-stressed seeds under non-stressing, whereas an improvement of 15%-25% was observed in germination under NaCl stress. …”
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Characterizing Discourse and Engagement Across Topics of Misinformation on Twitter by Dominika Nadia Wojtczak, Claudia Peersman, Luisa Zuccolo, Ryan McConville

“…In recent years, online misinformation has become increasingly prevalent, leading to significant issues such as political polarisation and distrust of genuine information. …”
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Human infection with an infectious disease agent: analysis of constructive objective features of criminal offences by O. V. Shamsutdinov

“…The article states that current legislation does not contain any lists of incurable and venereal diseases. …”
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