Exploring the link between fat-soluble vitamins and aging-associated immune system status: a literature review by Hendrik Schmieder, Christian Leischner, Alban Piotrowsky, Luigi Marongiu, Sascha Venturelli, Markus Burkard

“…Abstract The importance of vitamin D for a well-functioning immune system is becoming increasingly evident. …”
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Geoscience Job Advertisements as a Barrier to Employment for People With Disabilities by G. W. Shafer, K. Viskupic, A. E. Egger

“…In this study, we analyzed over 2,500 job advertisements (ads) for entry-level geoscience positions across 19 industries to assess how inclusive the United States job market is for people with physical disabilities. …”
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Urbanization enhances body condition, but not innate immune defences, in a common waterbird by Amelia Chyb, Kevin D. Matson, Radosław Włodarczyk, Joanna Drzewińska-Chańko, Piotr Minias

“…There is a growing body of evidence that urbanization can affect body condition and immune function in wild birds, although these effects may be complex and taxa-specific. …”
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Strain-Specific developmental cardiovascular physiology landmarks of embryonic red jungle fowl and black Sumatran bantam chickens (Gallus gallus) by Dane A. Crossley, II, Kent Thornburg

“…Collectively our data suggest that timing of functional cholinergic tone on heart rate is strain dependent, while beta adrenergic tone on heart rate was functional on similar days of incubation.…”
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A Unified Model for the Soil Freezing Characteristic Curve Based on Pore Size Distribution and Principles of Thermodynamics by Hao Wang, Sai K. Vanapalli, Xu Li

“…This study presents a unified SFCC model by transforming pore size into pore volumes using the POSD function (Weibull function) and extending the Gibbs‐Thomson equation to account for solute effects. …”
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A Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Wild Horse Optimizer-Enhanced VMD and Improved GoogLeNet by Xiaoliang He, Feng Zhao, Nianyun Song, Zepeng Liu, Libing Cao

“…The vibration signal is decomposed, and the top five intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) are selected based on the kurtosis criterion. …”
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Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation with ABO-Incompatible Grafts: A German Single Center Experience by Armin D. Goralczyk, Aiman Obed, Andreas Schnitzbauer, Axel Doenecke, Tung Yu Tsui, Marcus N. Scherer, Giuliano Ramadori, Thomas Lorf

“…Adult living donor liver transplantations (ALDLTs) across the ABO blood group barrier have been reported in Asia, North Americas, and Europe, but not yet in Germany. …”
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The Iroquois (Iro/Irx) homeobox genes are conserved Hox targets involved in motor neuron development by Catarina Catela, Stavroula Assimacopoulos, Yihan Chen, Konstantinos Tsioras, Weidong Feng, Paschalis Kratsios

“…We also found that HOX proteins, which are conserved regulators of MN development across species, control Irx gene expression both in mouse and Caenorhabditis elegans MNs. …”
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Structure and evolution of metapolycentromeres by E. O. Grishko, P. M. Borodin

“…Apparently, metapolycentromeres are more common across different species than it was believed until recently. …”
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Experimental study on the effects of low pressure and acoustic characteristics on heart rate and acoustic comfort by Tieming Guo, Songtao Hu, Qingqing Li

“…Third, we established both an acoustic comfort evaluation function and frequency-band-specific comfort zones, which enable differentiated noise control standards across frequency bands and identify 75 dB as a critical threshold and low-frequency noise as key design parameters. …”
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A potential tumor suppressor role of PLK2 in glioblastoma by Xiangping Xia, Peirui Wang, Hua Xiao, Qishan Ran, Yan Li, Shengtao Yao

“…Our findings suggest that PLK2 may potentially function as a tumor suppressor in GBM. Hence, PLK2 overexpression could potentially be leveraged as a therapeutic strategy to inhibit tumor progression and enhance apoptosis, providing new avenues for GBM treatment.…”
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Temperature and salinity distribution of sea ice cover according to experimental and model data (case study of Novik Bay of the Sea of Japan) by A. N. Chetyrbotsky, A. U. Lazaryuk

“…Analysis of sample distributions of temperature and salinity within depths of sea ice allowed revealing a high negative correlation between temperature of the surface air layer and the salinity vertical distribution across the ice thickness. Tis situation is explained by the fact that when temperature inside the ice rises the vertically oriented pores flled with brine, and this causes increased flow of brine. …”
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Flat and complex temperate reefs provide similar support for fish: Evidence for a unimodal species-habitat relationship. by Avery B Paxton, Emily A Pickering, Alyssa M Adler, J Christopher Taylor, Charles H Peterson

“…Results of this study are essential to the process of evaluating habitat function provided by different types and shapes of reefs on the seafloor so that all EFH across a wide range of habitat complexity may be accurately identified and properly managed.…”
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Improving locomotor performance with motor imagery and tDCS in young adults by Hope E Gamwell-Muscarello, Alan R. Needle, Marco Meucci, Jared W. Skinner

“…Participants engaged in a cognitively demanding obstacle course, with time and prefrontal activation (ΔO2Hb and ΔHHb) measured across three-time points (Baseline, Post-test, 1-week follow-up). …”
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Effects of Urbanization on Ventral Patch Size and Phenotypic Correlates of Patch Expression in Male Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) by Breanna J. Putman, Bayley Stevens, Nina A. Fresco, Emily R. Urquidi

“…Our results may indicate an effect of urbanization on immune function affecting male patch expression, although this idea remains untested. …”
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Study on the relationship between in-stent neoatherosclerosis and chronic kidney disease: an optical coherence tomography study by Yixuan Gao, Ning Gu, Yanna Zhou, Yan Wang, Ranzun Zhao, Bei Shi

“…Baseline clinical characteristics, angiographic parameters, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) data were collected and analyzed across all groups. No significant differences in angiographic characteristics were found between the three groups (p > 0.05). …”
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An all-atom model of the human cardiac sodium channel in a lipid bilayer by Garrett M. Knotts, Spencer K. Lile, Emily M. Campbell, Taylor A. Agee, Senal D. Liyanage, Steven R. Gwaltney, Christopher N. Johnson

“…Abstract Voltage-gated sodium channels (NaV) are complex macromolecular proteins that are responsible for the initial upstroke of an action potential in excitable cells. Appropriate function is necessary for many physiological processes such as heartbeat, voluntary muscle contraction, nerve conduction, and neurological function. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review of the Epidemiology, Health-Related Quality of Life Impact, and Economic Burden of Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy by Christina Soeun Kwon, Patrick Daniele, Anna Forsythe, Christopher Ngai

“…US rates of transition to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) ranged from 12.5% to 23% during 3-3.9 years of observation, rising to 53% during 19 years of observation. Across 8 studies reporting HRQoL, pain and fatigue were the most reported symptoms, and patients consistently ranked kidney function and mortality as the most important treatment outcomes. …”
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Efficacy of ginkgo biloba extract in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Xuxin Sun, Ling Peng, Wenchao Xiao, Keying Li, Sheng Chen

“…ObjectiveThis systematic review and meta-analysis aims to assess the efficacy of GBE in the treatment of IPF by evaluating its impact on total effective rate, blood gas analysis, pulmonary function tests, and markers of inflammation and fibrosis.MethodsWe conducted a comprehensive search across seven databases, including PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang DATA, VIP, and CBM, without restrictions on publication date. …”
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Remote sensing image Super-resolution reconstruction by fusing multi-scale receptive fields and hybrid transformer by Denghui Liu, Lin Zhong, Haiyang Wu, Songyang Li, Yida Li

“…Finally, the model incorporates a Charbonnier loss function and total variation (TV) loss function, which significantly improve training stability and accelerate convergence. …”
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