Pilot Clinical Trial of Indocyanine Green Fluorescence-Augmented Colonoscopy in High Risk Patients by Rahul A. Sheth, Pedram Heidari, Kevin Woods, Daniel Chung, Andrew T. Chan, Umar Mahmood

“…White light colonoscopy is the current gold standard for early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer, but emerging data suggest that this approach is inherently limited. …”
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The Potential of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Treat and Model Alzheimer’s Disease by Joseph M. Schulz

“…An estimated 6.2 million Americans aged 65 or older are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease that disrupts an individual’s ability to function independently through the degeneration of key regions in the brain, including but not limited to the hippocampus, the prefrontal cortex, and the motor cortex. …”
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Analysis of plant metabolomics data using identification‐free approaches by Xinyu Yuan, Nathaniel S. S. Smith, Gaurav D. Moghe

“…In this review, we first summarize current approaches for metabolite identification, highlighting their challenges and limitations. …”
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‘Crises, chaos and contemplations’: the impact of economic downturn on academic performance: a study of undergraduate students in private universities in Colombo, Sri Lanka by Sayuri Himara Thennakoon, Kalani Shashikala Wijesinghe, Ranitha Sachinthana Weerarathna, Pubuddi Shamila, Yamuna Wickramasinghe

“…This study examined the impact of the current economic recession on the academic achievements of undergraduate students enrolled in private universities in the Colombo district. …”
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Numerical simulation of magnetic drug targeting for lung cancer therapy using a bulk superconducting magnet by Zhenyang Xu, Tayebeh Mousavi, Mark Ainslie

“…However, current research in this area is still in its infancy, and numerical simulations exploring the guidance ability of this technology have been limited to only two-dimensional geometries, which limits further exploration toward clinical transformation. …”
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Biological Motion Perception Is Affected by Age and Cognitive Style in Children Aged 8–15 by Parisa Ghanouni, Amir Hossein Memari, Monir Shayestehfar, Pouria Moshayedi, Shahriar Gharibzadeh, Vahid Ziaee

“…The current paper aims to address the question of how biological motion perception in different social contexts is influenced by age or also affected by cognitive styles. …”
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ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTION-RELATED FACTORS AFFECTING THE EFFICIENCY OF CONSTRUCTION LABOUR by Oluseyi J. ADEBOWALE, Ayodeji J. FAPOHUNDA

“…Adequate application of findings presented in this study will significantly reduce the current prevalent construction time and cost overruns through an improved construction workforce performance. …”
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Experience modulates gaze behavior and the effectiveness of information pickup to overcome the inversion effect in biological motion perception. by Xiaoye Michael Wang, Zhichen Feng, Mingming Yang, Jing Samantha Pan, Margaret A Wilson, Qin Zhu

“…The inversion effect in biological motion suggests that presenting a point-light display (PLD) in an inverted orientation impairs the observer's ability to perceive the movement, likely due to the observer's unfamiliarity with the dynamic characteristics of inverted motion. …”
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Extracting organs of interest from medical images based on convolutional neural network with auxiliary and refined constraints by Fenghui Lian, Yingjie Sun, Meiyu Li

“…Experimental results show that the proposed network achieves comparable performance to current pancreas segmentation algorithms and outperforms most state-of-the-art liver segmentation methods. …”
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Thiazide and Thiazide-like Diuretics in the Treatment of Arterial Hypertension: are there Any Differences? by A. I. Kochetkov

“…In the current clinical guidelines for arterial hypertension, diuretics are considered one of the first line antihypertensive drugs, which are equivalent in their effectiveness to other main pharmacological classes used in the treatment of this disease. …”
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HDCTfusion: Hybrid Dual-Branch Network Based on CNN and Transformer for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion by Wenqing Wang, Lingzhou Li, Yifei Yang, Han Liu, Runyuan Guo

“…Specifically, the residual gradient module is used to enhance the ability of the network to extract texture information. …”
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Demonstrator training needs to be active and focused on personalized student learning in bioscience teaching laboratories by Raheela Awais, Elliott Stollar

“…Our proposed framework is particularly relevant to the current pandemic which has affected young people’s mental health, confidence and openness to new experiences.…”
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A Worldwide Competition to Compare the Speed and Chemotactic Accuracy of Neutrophil-Like Cells. by Monica Skoge, Elisabeth Wong, Bashar Hamza, Albert Bae, Joseph Martel, Rama Kataria, Ineke Keizer-Gunnink, Arjan Kortholt, Peter J M Van Haastert, Guillaume Charras, Christopher Janetopoulos, Daniel Irimia

“…Chemotaxis is the ability to migrate towards the source of chemical gradients. …”
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Recent Advances in Natural and Nanoparticle-Based Therapies for Naegleria fowleri Infections by Alexia Chloe Meunier, Reetashini Nair, Lee Yeong Zher, Natasha Sura Anak Lubau, Niwasini Krishna Kumar, Devandran Apparasamy, Usman Ahmed, Ayaz Anwar, Yuan Seng Wu, Kavitha Rajendran

“…Terpenes such as thymol and forskolin effectively targeted both trophozoites and cysts by disrupting intracellular signalling and cell membrane integrity. The ability to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) was exhibited by marine-derived oxasqualenoids and sesquiterpenes a key requirement for effective PAM therapy, with the added ability to induce apoptosis in trophozoites. …”
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Insights into Liposomal and Gel-Based Formulations for Dermatological Treatments by Giovanni Strazzabosco, Alessia Liboni, Giulia Pezzi, Andrea Alogna, Daria Bortolotti

“…The integration of liposomal and gel-based technologies offers a promising strategy to overcome current challenges and optimize dermatological drug delivery. …”
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Involvement of circadian clock protein PER2 in controlling sleep deprivation induced HMGB1 up-regulation by targeting p300 in the cortex by Min Zhang, Zhuoyao Ma, Haoran Cui, Yumeng Miao, Yu Yin, Qing Wen, Zhihui Liu, Xin Huang, Chen Xing, Kun Liu, Hui Peng, Lun Song

“…Abstract Lack of sleep is a common problem in current society, which can induce various brain dysfunctions. …”
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Endowing photothermal/electrothermal superhydrophobic material with electrical insulation property for all-weather anti-icing and deicing by Deyu Li, Chengcheng Ma, Ke Liu, Junhe Miao, Shihui Wang, Hongxia Cao

“…Additionally, the sample had outstanding mechanical stability and self-cleaning ability. As a result, the developed photothermal/electrothermal superhydrophobic material with electrical insulation property can not only achieve all-day, low-energy and efficient anti-icing/deicing but also prevent the risk of current leakage during electrical heating for deicing, which shows broad application prospect in anti-icing and deicing fields.…”
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LANGUAGE SPACE OF NEURAL NETWORKS: FEATURES AND DIFFERENCES FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE by Natalia B. Egorchenkova, Olga V. Korobova

“…This allows for the accumulation of experience and the ability to think with insights, which are essential for AI to progress beyond its current limitations.…”
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OPTIMIZING FUEL CELL MEMBRANE EFFICIENCY THROUGH COMPARATIVE THERMAL ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FUEL VARIANTS by Jawad Ahmed, Imdad Ali, Sudheer Hussain, Abdul Latif, Qadir Baksh, Waqar Ahmed, Muhammad Ahmed

“…This demonstrates hydrogen’s advantages over other fuel cells because the current density correlates with temperature. For all temperatures, hydrogen provides higher current densities than hydrogen-methanol, supporting its usefulness in improving fuel cell efficiency. …”
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DC-Link Capacitance Estimation for Energy Storage with Active Power Filter Based on 2-Level or 3-Level Inverter Topologies by Maksim Dybko, Sergey Brovanov, Aleksey Udovichenko

“…It was found that the AC component of the DC-link current is shared between the DC-link capacitors and the rest of the DC stage, including the battery. …”
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