Suitability mapping of native tree species in dry-hot valleys of Yunnan based on InVEST-MaxEnt coupled modeling: model validation framework with native tree species actual distribu... by Meng Xie, Xiaobo Song, Xuexing Zhang, Yongpeng Ma, Zhilin Song, Fengjuan Li, Wei Li, Linyuan Fan, Hong Ma, Hong Ma, Hong Ma

Get full text

Dual Role of Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF)-I in American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis by Carolina de O Mendes-Aguiar, Camilla Lopes-Siqueira, Fabrício Pettito-Assis, Márcia Pereira-Oliveira, Manoel Paes de Oliveira-Neto, Claude Pirmez, Alda Maria Da-Cruz, Hiro Goto

“…We may relate this finding to the efficient anti-inflammatory response and the known action of IGF-I in wound repair. …”
Get full text

Study of thermal resistance and regulation mechanisms in nickel slag-slag based binary geopolymers by Jize Wang, Sixiang Kang, Dongliang Zhang, Wenda Wu, Feng Zhang, Xuefang Wang, Liwei Xu, Jipeng Zhang

“…To efficiently and environmentally utilize industrial waste nickel slag and enhance the high-temperature performance of construction materials, this study prepared a binary geopolymer using nickel slag and blast furnace slag as raw materials. …”
Get full text

Physical activity for people with chronic kidney disease: an international survey of nephrologist practice patterns and research priorities by Carmel Hawley, Natasha Wiebe, Stephanie Thompson, Airis Astiani Taryana, Rathika Krishnasamy, Clara Bohm, Suetonia C Palmer, Neil Boudville, Jennifer MacRae, Jeff Scott Coombes, Nicole Isbel

“…Ninety per cent of respondents thought regular exercise provides ‘health benefits’ for all CKD stages; 59% reported that exercise counselling was within the nephrologists’ scope of practice and 47% reported ‘frequently’ or ‘always’ counselling patients. In multivariable analysis, female gender (OR 2.31; 95% CI 1.16 to 4.58) and older age (OR 1.94 per age category increase; 95% CI 1.15 to 3.26) were associated with exercise counselling. …”
Get full text

Ammonia Gas Adsorption in Fixed Bed and Fluidized Bed Using Bentonite Particles by Gabriela Muntianu, Ana-Maria Georgescu, Ana-Maria Rosu, Nicoleta Platon, Vasilica Alisa Arus, Cosmin Valeriu Jinescu, Ileana Denisa Nistor

“…Fluidized bed adsorption can be an efficient technique to accelerate mass transfer between ammonia from air and adsorbent particles.…”
Get full text

Preparation of alkali-activated steel slag-fly ash based full solid waste filling material and strength formation mechanism research by Tingye QI, Siyuan CHENG, Guorui FENG, Linfei WANG, Hongtao XU, Lubin LI, Xinkai QI, Kexin XU, Xingyue YANG

“…The effects of activator (Na2SiO3) modulus and alkali concentration on both macroscopic properties and microstructural evolution of the cementitious system were systematically investigated. …”
Get full text

Improving porcine in vitro blastocyst development using fetal bovine serum, amino acids, and insulin-transferrin-selenium by Ba Anh My LE, Lien Boi Linh NGUYEN, Chi Thien LAM, Nhat-Thinh NGUYEN, Ngoc Thao Vy NGUYEN, Van Thuan NGUYEN, Hong-Thuy BUI

“…In in vitro fertilized embryos, the combination also significantly improved the hatching rate (8.3-fold) and cell number (2.7-fold). Analysis of the effects of FBS on hatching dynamics revealed that FBS enhanced hatching by increasing the number of blastomeres and blastocoel diameter. …”
Get full text

Modeling and optimization of protein extraction from sunflower seed Cake: RSM and ANN-GA approaches by Pooja Vartiya, Piyush Kashyap, Bhagya Raj, Maanas Sharma, Mohd Adnan, Syed Amir Ashraf, Rahul Mehra

“…Furthermore, this research highlights the potential to utilize industrial byproducts as economical substrates for protein isolation efficiently.…”
Get full text

Enhancing neurological disease diagnostics: fusion of deep transfer learning with optimization algorithm for acute brain stroke prediction using facial images by Fadwa Alrowais, Mohammed Alqahtani, Jahangir Khan, Achraf Ben Miled, Da’ad Albalawneh, Abdulwhab Alkharashi, Samah Al Zanin, Radwa Marzouk

“…Furthermore, fusion models such as Inception-V3 and EfficientNet-B0 perform the feature extraction. …”
Get full text

Use ATCCfinder to identify commercially available American Type Culture Collection strains based on sequence queries by Samuel I. Koehler, Earl A. Middlebrook, Blake T. Hovde, Erik R. Hanschen

Get full text

An interval-valued type 2 intuitionistic fuzzy theory-based approach to assess the biofuel production and adoption drivers in emerging economies: Implications for sustainability by Shah Murtoza Morshed, Md Shihab Shakur, Rafat Rahman, Mohammad Mynul Islam Mahin, Binoy Debnath, Arman Hossain Apu, Fairuz Al Nafiz, A.B.M. Mainul Bari

Get full text

Low‐head pumped hydro storage: An evaluation of energy balancing and frequency support by Justus Peter Hoffstaedt, Daan Truijen, Antonio Jarquin Laguna, Jeroen De Kooning, Kurt Stockman, Jonathan Fahlbeck, Hakan Nilsson

Get full text

Research on High-Accuracy, Lightweight, Superfast Model for Nitrogen Diagnosis and Plant Growth in Lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i> L.) by Xuyang Li, Iftikhar Hussain Shah, Xiaohao Gong, Muhammad Azam, Wu Jinhui, Pengli Li, Yidong Zhang, Qingliang Niu, Liying Chang

Get full text

On the utility of immobilized phenylarsine oxide in the study of redox sensitive cardiac proteins by Asvi Arora Francois, Xiaoke Yin, Shinichi Oka, Junichi Sadoshima, Manuel Mayr, Philip Eaton

Get full text

Design of a novel and robust 2-DOF PIDA controller based on enzyme action optimizer for ball position regulation in magnetic levitation systems by Serdar Ekinci, Davut Izci, Mostafa Jabari, Mohit Bajaj, Olena Rubanenko

Get full text

Direct detection from sputum for drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a CRISPR-Cas14a-based approach by Guohui Xiao, Houming Liu, Hui Xu, Hongyu Shi, Dongxin Liu, Min Ou, Peng Liu, Guoliang Zhang

“…Abstract The increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) highlights the urgent need for an efficient approach to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains resistant to rifampicin (RIF) and isoniazid (INH). …”
Get full text

Assessment of Floor-Level Impact on Natural Ventilation and Indoor Thermal Environment in Hot–Humid Climates: A Case Study of a Mid-Rise Educational Building by Emeka J. Mba, Peter I. Oforji, Francis O. Okeke, Ikechukwu W. Ozigbo, Chinyelu D. F. Onyia, Chinelo A. Ozigbo, Emmanuel C. Ezema, Foluso C. Awe, Rosemary C. Nnaemeka-Okeke, Stephanie C. Onyia

“…Through a mixed-method approach combining empirical measurements, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, and thermal performance analysis, the research examined variations in ventilation rates and temperature distributions across different floor levels of a six-story educational building over an annual cycle, focusing on the hottest (27 February), coldest (28 December), most windy (3 April), and least windy (17 September) days. …”
Get full text

NEW METABOLIC INDEX USE POTENTIALITIES IN EVALUATION OF INSULIN RESISTANCE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE by G. E. Roytberg, J. V. Dorosh, O. O. Sharkhun, T. I. Ushakova, E. A. Trubino

Get full text

Automated on-site broiler live weight estimation through YOLO-based segmentation by Mahmoud Y. Shams, Wael M. Elmessery, Awad Ali Tayoush Oraiath, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Ali Salem, Pankaj Kumar, Tamer M. El-Messery, Tarek Abd El-Hafeez, Mohamed F. Abdelshafie, Gomaa G. Abd El-Wahhab, Ibrahim S. El-Soaly, Abdallah Elshawadfy Elwakeel

Get full text

Dust Scattering Albedo at Millimeter Wavelengths in the TW Hya Disk by Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Hideko Nomura, Takashi Tsukagoshi, Kiyoaki Doi, Kenji Furuya, Akimasa Kataoka

“…The derived dust size may suggest efficient fragmentation with a threshold velocity of ~0.08 m s ^−1 . …”
Get full text