Epigenetic regulation of organ-specific functions in Mikania micrantha and Mikania cordata: insights from DNA methylation and siRNA integration by Yatong Sang, Yitong Ma, Ruonan Wang, Zhen Wang, Ting Wang, Yingjuan Su

“…However, the role of DNA methylation in regulating the organ-specific functions of the invasive weed Mikania micrantha remains unknown. …”
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Method of thromboembolism prediction in advanced atherosclerosis by A. V. Bykov

“…At the first stage, speciali­zed experts generated signs characterizing the severity of prothrombotic conditions. …”
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Evaluating the role of AI-simulated patients compared with peer-to-peer learning models in the enhancement of medical education: is it beyond theoretical functionality? by Pegin Poulose

“…Compared with peer-to-peer learning, SIMPAT was perceived as more time-efficient, because, traditionally, one peer within a pair had to be the ‘patient actor’. …”
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Genetic manipulation of porcine deltacoronavirus reveals insights into NS6 and NS7 functions: a novel strategy for vaccine design by Mengjia Zhang, Wan Li, Peng Zhou, Dejian Liu, Rui Luo, Anan Jongkaewwattana, Qigai He

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A Comparison of Quantitative Pupillometry and VOMS in Division 1 Female Soccer Players by John Duane Heick

“…Authors have suggested that subconcussive head impacts, common in soccer, may disrupt visual function. The following study aimed to explore and compare quantitative pupillometry and Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) in female soccer athletes. …”
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PUF-Based Secure and Efficient Anonymous Authentication Protocol for UAV Towards Cross-Domain Environments by Qi Xie, Haohua Wang

“…Computationally, it is 5–92% more efficient. Regarding communication overhead, it is 9–68% lower than relevant schemes. …”
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Co-exposure of ferruginous components of subway particles with lipopolysaccharide impairs vascular function: A comparative study with ambient particulate matter by Oluwatoyin Hannah Owokoniran, Akiko Honda, Takamichi Ichinose, Raga Ishikawa, Megumi Nagao, Natsuko Miyasaka, Zaoshi Wang, Satsuki Takai, Issei Omori, Kerui Zhang, Wei Liu, Yuya Higaki, Takayuki Kameda, Tomonari Matsuda, Taku Fujiwara, Tomoaki Okuda, Hirohisa Takano

“…Thus, iron oxide-rich subway particulate poses more health risks than outdoor ambient particles since they can significantly impair endothelial function, particularly through gross cellular and vascular homeostatic protein damage, and induce exacerbated inflammatory responses during co-exposure. …”
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Nutritional risk, functional decline, and symptom burden in lung cancer: a study based on PG-SGA scores and biochemical data by Shasha Shen, Shasha Shen, Shiyun Xing, Shiyun Xing, Tingting Shen, Li Niu, Xiaojing Tian, Xiaojing Tian, Hu Ma, Hu Ma, Xiaoxia Gou, Xiaoxia Gou

“…Patients with higher PG-SGA scores had significantly lower scores in physical functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning, and social functioning, alongside more severe symptoms such as fatigue, nausea, and pain. …”
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Biosynthesis of a dual growth factors (GFs) functionalized silk sericin hydrogel to promote chronic wound healing in diabetic mice by Hanxin Deng, Fangyu Wang, Yujuan Zhou, Hexu Lei, Hongji Zhou, Siyu Chen, Zihan Meng, Mengyao He, Ding Tu, He Wang, Xian Li, Qingyou Xia, Xueming Li, Feng Wang

“…In present study, two silk gland bioreactor silkworm stains were generated to successfully synthesize functional silk fibers incorporating high expressions of EGF and PDGF-BB. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Routing Method for Low Earth Orbit Mega-Constellation Satellite Networks with Service Function Constraints by Yan Chen, Huan Cao, Longhe Wang, Daojin Chen, Zifan Liu, Yiqing Zhou, Jinglin Shi

“…Low-orbit satellite communication networks have gradually become the research focus of fifth-generation (5G) beyond and sixth generation (6G) networks due to their advantages of wide coverage, large communication capacity, and low terrain influence. …”
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A Coupling Electromechanical Inhomogeneous Cell-Based Smoothed Finite Element Method for Dynamic Analysis of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Beams by Bin Cai, Liming Zhou

“…ISFEM provides a close-to-exact stiffness of the continuous system, which could automatically and more easily generate for complicated domains and thus significantly decrease numerical errors. …”
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Enhanced Adsorption of Mercury(II) Ions from Aqueous Solution by Carbon-Based Adsorbents Containing Cl-, S- and N-functional Groups by Jianzhong Zhu, Baolin Deng, John Yang

“…Batch experiments to study the kinetics and equilibrium of Hg 2+ ion adsorption were performed to evaluate the efficacy of the functionalized carbon adsorbents. Sample characterizations indicated that chlorine, sulphur or nitrogen functional groups were effectively immobilized onto the activated carbon surface, thereby generating more negative surface charges favouring cation adsorption. …”
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Cross-Architecture Vulnerability Detection Combining Semantic and Attribute Feature by LI Kun, LI Bin, ZHU Wenjing, ZHOU Qinglei

“…The assembly code and attribute control flow diagram of binary function are used as input to extract the semantic information of all assembly code in basic block, and the basic block-level semantic information and attribute feature information are fused to generate a 139-dimensional basic block-level vector representation, in order to represent the semantic and attribute information of the function more comprehensively. …”
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Functional Studies on the <i>LiAG1</i> Gene of <i>Lilium</i> ‘Ice Pink Queen’ in Flower Development by Lili Xue, Jingqi Dai, Ruyu Fu, Nana Wu, Jiaxuan Yu, Jie Dong, Tao Yang, Jinping Fan

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Neuroligin-3 R451C induces gain-of-function gene expression in astroglia in an astroglia-enriched brain organoid model by Rui Dang, Mridul Dalmia, Ziyuan Ma, Mengmeng Jin, Kushal Aluru, Vincent R. Mirabella, Ava V. Papetti, Li Cai, Peng Jiang

“…Notably, the NLGN3 R451C astroglia demonstrate enhanced branching, indicating a more intricate morphology. Interestingly, our RNA sequencing data suggest that these mutant astroglia significantly upregulate pathways that support neural functions when compared to isogenic wild-type astroglia. …”
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Collision Attacks on Reduced RIPEMD-128 by Zhengrong Lu, Hongbo Yu, Xiaoen Lin, Sitong Yuan

“…To ensure practical attacks, we limit the number of conditions based on our message modification strategy and use multi-step message modification techniques to control more conditions. As a result, we successfully generate colliding message pairs for 46-step and 54-step reduced RIPEMD-128, with time complexities of approximately 242 and 254, respectively. …”
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Triple negative breast cancer initiating cell subsets differ in functional and molecular characteristics and in γ‐secretase inhibitor drug responses by Diana J. Azzam, Dekuang Zhao, Jun Sun, Andy J. Minn, Prathibha Ranganathan, Katherine Drews‐Elger, Xiaoqing Han, Manuel Picon‐Ruiz, Candace A. Gilbert, Seth A. Wander, Anthony J. Capobianco, Dorraya El‐Ashry, Joyce M. Slingerland

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Matrix-free human 2D organoids recapitulate duodenal barrier and transport properties by Kopano Valerie Masete, Dorothee Günzel, Jörg-Dieter Schulzke, Hans-Jörg Epple, Nina A. Hering

“…As this coat could potentially act as a diffusion barrier, we aimed to generate robust human duodenum-derived organoid monolayers that do not need a gelatinous matrix for anchorage to improve upon existing models to study epithelial transport and barrier function. …”
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Secure Smart Contract Based on Blockchain to Prevent the Non-Repudiation Phenomenon by Noor Sabah Mohammed, Omar Abdulrahman Dawood, Ali Makki Sagheer, Ahmed Adil Nafea

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The Application of a Joint Distribution of Significant Wave Heights and Peak Wave Periods in the Northwestern South China Sea by Gongpeng Liu, Qunan Ouyang, Zhanyuan He, Na Zhang

“…In addition, the environmental contours derived by an IFORM are used to generate the extreme sea states with return periods of 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years.…”
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