Comparative study of the effects of Tartary buckwheat seed and sprout consumption on the physiological indices and gut microbiota of C57BL/6J mice by Guohui Nan, Haixia Zhao, Qiong Wu, Lisong Liu, Zichao Guan, Chenglei Li, Huala Wu, Dabing Xiang, Qi Wu

“…Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is a well-known pseudocereal for its health and economic value.However, abundant antinutritional factors (ANFs) reduces its health benefits.As reported, germination can improve the nutritional prof ile of grains.In this study, we systematically evaluate the safety of Tartary buckwheat seeds (TB) and Tartary buckwheat sprouts (TBS) used as high active ingredients.After evaluating nutrition levels, bioactive compounds and ANFs in TBS during germinating, 5th-day TBS were selected as the raw material.C57BL/6J mice were gavaged daily with distilled water, TB, or TBS for 6 weeks.The physiological indices related to ANFs were determined.Results showed that the TB intake tends to generate negative effects on the gut microbiota, and organs.Additionally, upon TB intake, the Fe3+ content in serum, trypsin activity in pancreas and jejunum decreased, while the cytokine, IgE, and histamine levels in serum, water content in faeces, cytokine levels in liver and jejunum increased.Conversely, TBS did not induce any obvious negative effects on the above relevant indices and showed better lipid-lowering effect.Altogether, TBS are safer and more effective as a raw material to produce the functional food for long-term consumption with the intention of preventing and treating hyperlipidaemia.…”
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Electro-spun piezoelectric PLLA smart composites as a scaffold on bone fracture: A review by Melika Mirghaffari, Asal Mahmoodiyan, Shahram Mahboubizadeh, Atefeh Shahbazi, Yaser Soleimani, Sana Mirghaffari, Zahra Shahravi

“…The intrinsic ability of these scaffold materials to generate piezoelectric currents presents a major proposition for increasing the complexity of the scaffold and facilitating tissue healing. …”
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Zmiany modelu poznawczego uczniów w kontekście prac nad e-podręcznikiem by Jolanta Dyrda

“…The computer and multi-function mobile telephones accompany young people incessantly. …”
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Prescribing Peritoneal Dialysis for Elderly Patients Starting Peritoneal Dialysis by Andrew Davenport

“…As dietary intake is often lower in the elderly, coupled with the physiological loss of muscle mass, this results in a reduced generation of waste products of metabolism and consequently requires less dialytic clearance. …”
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Transmission Scheme for Massive MIMO Systems Using Nulling-Based Approach by Prateek Anand, Arti M.K., Manoranjan Kumar

“…The statistical properties of the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio are characterized at the receiver by deriving closed-form expressions of the moment-generating function (MGF). An approximate expression of the symbol error rate (SER) of the proposed scheme-based system is obtained by using the MGF expression. …”
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Inorganic-bacterial biohybrids for efficient solar-driven nitrogen fixation by Xue Zhou, Dan Wu, Yingjie Zhang, Tianhang Feng, Wenming Zhang, Zhonghai Zhang

“…This study underscores the potential of inorganic-bacterial biohybrid systems in solar-chemical conversion, paving the way for more diverse and functional approaches to harnessing solar energy for sustainable chemical production.…”
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Designing wind turbines for profitability in the day-ahead market by M. K. Mehta, M. Zaaijer, D. von Terzi

“…A simplified market model that can generate hourly day-ahead market prices is developed and coupled with a wind-farm-level multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization (MDAO) framework to evaluate key economic indicators of the wind farm. …”
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Balancing public safety and civil rights: Successes and challenges of AI-based video surveillance systems by S.S. Vaddiparti, F. Babaiev

“…The research examined the functional capabilities of intelligent video systems based on machine learning and deep learning. …”
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Integrated ATAC‐seq and RNA‐seq analysis identifies key regulatory elements in NK cells activated with feeder cells and IL‐2 by Pedram Motallebnejad, Zion Lee, Jennifer L. One, Frank Cichocki, Wei‐Shou Hu, Samira M. Azarin

“…Abstract Natural killer (NK) cells are in development for allogeneic immunotherapy; however, for such use as off‐the‐shelf medicines, NK cells need to undergo ex vivo expansion, typically through activation with feeder cells and cytokines, to generate sufficient cells for clinical applications. …”
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A comparative study of deep reinforcement learning for crop production management by Joseph Balderas, Dong Chen, Yanbo Huang, Li Wang, Ren-Cang Li

“…Studies have shown that RL can generate crop management policies that compete with, and even outperform, expert-designed policies within simulation-based crop models. …”
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Advanced Digital System for International Collaboration on Biosample-Oriented Research: A Multicriteria Query Tool for Real-Time Biosample and Patient Cohort Searches by Alexandros Fridas, Anna Bourouliti, Loukia Touramanidou, Desislava Ivanova, Kostantinos Votis, Panagiotis Katsaounis

“…This study presents a novel platform designed to address these issues, enabling researchers to conduct high-quality research more efficiently and at reduced costs. The platform employs a modular, distributed architecture that ensures high availability, redundancy, and interoperability among diverse stakeholders, as well as integrates advanced features, including secure access management, comprehensive query functionalities, real-time availability reporting, and robust data mining capabilities. …”
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Knockout of Apolipoprotein E in rabbit promotes premature intervertebral disc degeneration: A new in vivo model for therapeutic approaches of spinal disc disorders. by Anja Beierfuß, Hermann Dietrich, Christian Kremser, Monika Hunjadi, Andreas Ritsch, Thomas Rülicke, Claudius Thomé, Demissew Shenegelegn Mern

“…Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration that accelerates the loss of disc structural and functional integrities is recognized as one of the major factors of chronic back pain. …”
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Comparison of dCas9-activator complexes for the activation of PDX1 and NGN3 pancreatic genes using the CRISPR system by Ersin Akıncı, Mehmet Fatih Cengiz, Fatma Akçakale Kaba, Adem Kaba

“…This study presents a novel approach to generate insulin-producing β cells from non-β cell sources using the CRISPR/dCas9 gene activation system. …”
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The legal conflictology in constitutional and municipal law by Irina A. Tretyak

“…Constitutional conflict is a political type of social conflict – a disagreement between the subjects of constitutional and municipal legal relations over constitutional values, which can be transformed into legally significant conflict and generate legal consequences.Conclusions. The object of scientific knowledge of legal conflictology in constitutional and municipal law is a constitutional and legal conflict, the study of which should be based on the above postulates of the general theory of conflictology, and can not be limited to purely legal knowledge.…”
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Barriers and challenges: a descriptive qualitative study of job satisfaction among direct care workers who provide long-term care services in Shandong Province, China by Qiang Sun, Jia Yin, Jing Gao

“…Background The special nature of the functional ability of older individuals with disabilities places higher demands on the quantity and quality of long-term care (LTC) services. …”
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Recent Advances in Glutathione Depletion-Enhanced Porphyrin-Based nMOFs for Photodynamic Therapy by Bin Gong, Qiuyun Zhang, Jiayi Chen, Yijie Qu, Xuanxuan Luo, Weiqi Wang, Xiaohua Zheng

“…Moreover, the excess glutathione within cells can disrupt the structure of porphyrin-based metal–organic frameworks, which not only increases the capacity of porphyrin molecules to generate singlet oxygen upon light exposure but also aids in the recovery of their fluorescence imaging capabilities. …”
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PDGF-BB overexpressing dental pulp stem cells improve angiogenesis in dental pulp regeneration by Wentao Jiang, Wentao Jiang, Wentao Jiang, Wentao Jiang, Shuhan Duan, Shuhan Duan, Shuhan Duan, Shuhan Duan, Weiping Li, Huijiao Yan, Huijiao Yan, Huijiao Yan, Huijiao Yan, Chenli Si, Chenli Si, Chenli Si, Ningwei Xu, Ningwei Xu, Ningwei Xu, Ningwei Xu, Yishuai Li, Yishuai Li, Yishuai Li, Yishuai Li, Wenjie Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Shensheng Gu, Shensheng Gu, Shensheng Gu, Shensheng Gu

“…In vivo transplants generated more vascular structures containing CD31 (+) endothelia. …”
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An Extensive Study Using the Beetle Swarm Method to Optimize Single and Multiple Objectives of Various Optimal Power Flow Problems by K. Sriram, S. P. Mangaiyarkarasi, S. Sakthivel, L. Jebaraj

“…An electric energy generation system, under the economic operation mode, is an imperative mission in the power system function. …”
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qGO: a novel method for quantifying the diversity of mitochondrial genome organization by Haihe Shi, Shuai Yang, Meicai Wei, Gengyun Niu

“…Additionally, a comprehensive approach is employed for distance computation, generating an extensive matrix of rearrangement distances. …”
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A Multi-Agent Approach to Modeling Task-Oriented Dialog Policy Learning by Songfeng Liang, Kai Xu, Zhurong Dong

“…Dialogue policy is a critical research area in human-computer interaction, vital for guiding dialogue generation and improving controllability and interpretability. …”
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