XRN2 suppresses aberrant entry of tRNA trailers into argonaute in humans and Arabidopsis. by Briana Wilson, Zhangli Su, Pankaj Kumar, Anindya Dutta

“…This exclusion provides a paradigm for identifying mechanisms of RISC selectivity. Here, we show that 5' to 3' exoribonuclease XRN2 contributes to human RISC selectivity. …”
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C–H Trifluoromethylthiolation of aldehyde hydrazones by Victor Levet, Balu Ramesh, Congyang Wang, Tatiana Besset

“…The selective C–H trifluoromethylthiolation of aldehyde hydrazones afforded interesting fluorinated building blocks, which could be used as a synthetic platform. …”
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RAFT Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Free-Base Porphyrin Cored Star Polymers by Lin Wu, Ronan McHale, Guoqiang Feng, Xiaosong Wang

“…In methanol, a selective solvent for PDMA, spherical micelles were observed for both block copolymers as characterized by TEM. …”
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Contextual interference effects on volleyball serve acquisition: a controlled trial with physical-education majors by Luping Qu, Wenxian Xiao, Shun Zhang, Ke Wang, Hui Li

“…To address limitations in previous domestic and international studies on “the effect of background interference on volleyball learning“, the present study selected 60 students majoring in physical education from the 2021 class at Qufu Normal University as experimental subjects to examine their skill acquisition. …”
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BIBF1120 Protects against Diabetic Retinopathy through Neovascularization-Related Molecules and the MAPK Signaling Pathway by Xin Cao, Tao Li, Yongshen Tian, Yajing Tian, Chuang Gao, Dongmei Zhang, Yu Song

“…Nintedanib (BIBF1120) is an oral selective dual receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor of VEGFR2, FGFR1, and PDGFRβ. …”
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Hyaluronic Acid Dipeptide Gels Studied by Raman Spectroscopy by Vlasta Mohaček-Grošev, Jože Grdadolnik

“…This study presents a detailed Raman spectroscopic investigation of hydrogels composed of sodium hyaluronate and two N-terminally blocked dipeptides: N-acetyl-L-alanine-methyl-amide (NAcAlaNHMA) and N-acetyl-L-tyrosine-methyl-amide (NAcTyrNHMA). …”
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No-Reference High Dynamic Range Omnidirectional Image Quality Metric: From the Perspective of Global and Local Statistical Characteristics by Rongyao Yu, Fang Yang, Yi Liu, Jianghui He, Qingjiang Pang, Yang Song

“…Meanwhile, combined with the visual perception for HOI, the key blocks are determined in equatorial region, and the local statistical characteristics of the key blocks are extracted by analyzing the distribution of multiscale structure information. …”
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Analysis of a semi-open queueing network with adaptation of service rates to the rates of arriving requests by A. N. Dudin, O. S. Dudina, S. A. Dudin

“…The generator blocks of this chain are calculated using algorithms and formulas, which allows the invariant probability distribution to be determined. …”
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Multiscale Feature Filtering Network for Image Recognition System in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Xianghua Ma, Zhenkun Yang, Shining Chen

“…To solve this problem, a multiscale feature filtering network (MFFNet) is proposed in this paper for image recognition system in the UAV. A novel building block, namely, multiscale feature filtering (MFF) module, is proposed for ResNet-like backbones and it allows feature-selective learning for multiscale context information across multiparallel branches. …”
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Development of a Forced-Choice Personality Inventory via Thurstonian Item Response Theory (TIRT) by Ioannis Tsaousis, Amjed Al-Owidha

“…A total of 200 items were generated to represent the five dimensions, and through Principal Axis Factoring and the composite reliability index, a final pool of 75 items was selected. These items were then organized into 25 blocks, each containing three statements (triplets) designed to balance social desirability across the blocks. …”
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Blockade of acute grade IV skin and eye graft-versus-host disease by anti-interleukin-2 receptor monoclonal antibody in genoidentical bone marrow transplantation setting by H Ozşahin, P Tuchschmid, R Lauener, K Waldvogel, D Nadal, R A Seger

“…Anti-IL-2 receptor monoclonal antibodies (anti-IL-2R moAb) in combination with steroids were administered to selectively block the activated T cells. After 27 days of daily administration, followed by 17 doses of alternate-day therapy with anti-IL-2R moAb, the severe skin and eye GVHD resolved. …”
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Evaluation of plant landscape at east Zijingang area of Zhejiang University based on analytic hierarchy process by ZHU Yunchen, MAO Yiping

“…This area was divided into A, B, C three large plots and 10 blocks named by its original name. Based on AHP, the quantitative indicators were selected such as diversity of species, ornamental characteristics, and structure of life style at the three sample plots, and the qualitative indicators such as harmony of campus plants with whole habitat and hard landscape were screened by using the methods of questionnaire survey and examination on the spot.The results showed that the east area of Zijingang campus had rich vegetation and plant species diversity. …”
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Anatomical and Embryological Development of the Chick Cerebrum in Different Embryonic Periods by Muhammet Lutfi Selcuk, Fatma Kayikci

“…Sections 5 µm thick were taken from the blocks, with an additional 10 µm thick section taken every 50th section. …”
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Ultrasonic Method for Monitoring Environmental Risks Associated with Precipitation by Tadeusz GUDRA, Dariusz BANASIAK, Krzysztof HERMAN, Krzysztof OPIELIŃSKI

“…The results obtained this way make it possible to select a configuration of device operation depending on the required measurement precision and limitations associated with installing the system for actual operation.…”
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Effect of Cross-Sectional Designs of Different Ni-Ti Files on Shaping Ability After Repeated Usage in Simulated Root Canals. by Fikrat Shawqi Qaddori, Raid Fahim Salman

“…The first 4 rotary systems were used with a fixed speed (350 rpm), and fixed torque (3 Ncm), except for the fifth system which was used with a speed of (500 rpm), and torque (4 Ncm). All the 250 resin blocks were prepared for Glide Path with manual reamers size 10, and 15, with a fixed working length 16 mm, then all the 250 samples were prepared with a Proglider rotary file from Dentsply (size 16 taper 3%), then finally were prepared with Edge Files (USA), with size 20 and taper 6%, reaching to the step of master preparation with the selected files of the 5 systems. …”
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An Over-the-Air Multi-User Convolutional Code for URLLC by Rafael Santos, Daniel Castanheira, Adao Silva, Atilio Gameiro

“…These applications typically involve the exchange of small information blocks. Convolutional codes (CC) exhibit near-optimal performance when encoding short blocks. …”
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THE DIETARY PATTERNS AND THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER by L. A. Radkevich, D. A. Radkevich

“…Data on incidence of breast cancer in 160 countries is selected from the database GLOBOCAN 2008. Levels of consumption of food and nutrients (53 species) for each country selected from the FAO database for 1990–2005 and 2003–2005 years. …”
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High proton conductivity through angstrom-porous titania by Yu Ji, Guang-Ping Hao, Yong-Tao Tan, Wenqi Xiong, Yu Liu, Wenzhe Zhou, Dai-Ming Tang, Renzhi Ma, Shengjun Yuan, Takayoshi Sasaki, Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo, Andre K. Geim, Pengzhan Sun

“…Although 2D materials exhibit this perfect selectivity, the reported proton conductivities have been relatively low. …”
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Video watermarking algorithm for resisting collusion attacks by LIU Shao-hui, HAN Lu, YAO Hong-xun

“…These components may be then used as building blocks to construct a self-adaptive content dependent spread spectrum watermark solution. …”
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Performance evaluation of extreme value prediction methods for bridge traffic load effects by Miaomiao Xu, Xiao-Yi Zhou, Jie Shen, Deliang Ding, Sugong Cao, C. S. Cai

“…Methods including the Peaks Over Threshold, the block maxima approach, fitting to a Normal distribution, and the Rice formula based level crossing method, are investigated. …”
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