Impact of HIF-1α, LOX and ITGA5 Synergistic Interaction in the Tumor Microenvironment on Colorectal Cancer Prognosis by Hayriye Tatlı Doğan, Mehmet Doğan, Seda Kahraman, Doğukan Çanakçı, Mehmet Ali Nahit Şendur, Mustafa Tahtacı, Fazlı Erdoğan

“…Our study should be supported by more comprehensive studies addressing the tumor stroma and its prognostic importance.…”
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Evaluation of Sparse Acoustic Array Geometries for the Application in Indoor Localization by Georg K.J. Fischer, Niklas Thiedecke, Thomas Schaechtle, Andrea Gabbrielli, Fabian Hoflinger, Alexander Stolz, Stefan J. Rupitsch

“…Sparse arrays additionally have the ability to estimate the direction-of-arrival (DoA) of more sources than available sensors by placing sensors in a specific geometry. …”
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Evaluation Methods for the Human–Land Coupling Coordination Relationship in a Metro Station Area: A Case Study of Chengdu Metro Line 1 by Zhiyue Qiu, Shirui Wen, Hong Yuan, Ziyi Liu, Yao Wei, Siqi Yanling, Runlong Dai, Xiang Li, Yuxin Gu

“…At present, more than 200 cities in the world have developed metro systems. …”
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Suitability of walnut and pistachio shells as soilless substrates for producing Genovese basil in aquaponic systems by Gina P. Suárez-Cáceres, Sandamali Lokuhitige, Nathan T. Kaufman, Alharith Alghaithy, Mikaila B. Hishaw, Irwin R. Donis-Gonzalez, Víctor M. Fernández-Cabanás, Jackson A. Gross

“…These findings support the potential of regionally sourced nutshell by-products as viable alternatives to imported growing media, contributing to a more diversified and resilient horticultural supply chain.…”
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A developed TaqMan probe-based qPCR was used to quantify the distribution of AMDV in various tissues of infected mink and its prevalence in northern China by Zaixing Yang, Zaixing Yang, Yifan Li, Yuxuan Jiang, Yuxuan Jiang, Jingqi Wu, Zhenhong Guan, Junwei Ge, Lili Zhao

“…Tissue distribution analysis showed that viral loads were generally high in all organs, especially in the mesenteric lymph nodes and spleen, and the virus was also detected in non-lymphoid tissues such as the brain, confirming the widespread distribution of AMDV throughout the body of mink. …”
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Trading Community Analysis of Countries’ Roll-On/Roll-Off Shipping Networks Using Fine-Grained Vessel Trajectory Data by Shichen Huang, Tengda Sun, Jing Shi, Piqiang Gong, Xue Yang, Jun Zheng, Huanshuai Zhuang, Qi Ouyang

“…The paper’s findings support these conclusions: (1) From 2020 to 2023, the number of nodes in the RO/RO shipping network increased by 22%, primarily concentrated in African countries. …”
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Construction and validation of a test for the assessment of psychological complexes based on Jungian analytical psychology by Mohammad Khorsandi, Fatemeh Golshani, Fariba Hassani, Roya Koochak Entezar

“…Conclusion: Given the obtained results, it can be said that the test for measuring psychological complexes possesses acceptable psychometric properties and can assist psychologists in gaining a deeper understanding of complexes and in establishing more effective therapeutic pathways for their clients.…”
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Predicting the treatment outcomes of major depressive disorder interventions with baseline resting-state functional connectivity: a meta-analysis by Yanyao Zhou, Na Dong, Letian Lei, Dorita H. F. Chang, Charlene L. M. Lam

“…Pearson correlations or their equivalents were analyzed between baseline rsFC and treatment outcome. Nodes were categorized according to the type of brain networks they belong to, and pooled coefficients were generated for rsFC connections reported by more than three studies. …”
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Distributed Consensus Gossip-Based Data Fusion for Suppressing Incorrect Sensor Readings in Wireless Sensor Networks by Martin Kenyeres, Jozef Kenyeres, Sepideh Hassankhani Dolatabadi

“…In this paper, we examine the applicability of seven distributed consensus gossip-based algorithms for sensor fusion (namely, the Randomized Gossip algorithm, the Geographic Gossip algorithm, three initial configurations of the Broadcast Gossip algorithm, the Push-Sum protocol, and the Push-Pull protocol) to compensate for incorrect data in WSNs. More specifically, we consider a scenario where the sensor-measured data (measured by a set of independent sensor nodes) are skewed due to Gaussian noise with a various standard deviation <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>σ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, resulting in discrepancies between the measured values and the true value of observed physical quantities. …”
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Factors influencing the accuracy and precision in dating single gene trees by Louvel, Guillaume, Roest Crollius, Hugues

“…By contrast, when dating gene-specific events, fossil calibrations only inform about speciation nodes, and concatenation does not apply to divergences other than speciations. …”
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Exogenous acetylsalicylic acid mitigates cold stress in common bean seedlings by enhancing antioxidant defense and photosynthetic efficiency by Barkat Ali, Sujon Kumar, Xiyu Sui, Jianpo Niu, Junqi Yang, Mengni Zheng, Yi Tang, Huanxiu Li

“…Network analysis further confirmed that ASA2 strengthened the connections between photosynthesis and antioxidant activity, with more resilient and interconnected nodes indicating improved stress adaptability. …”
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Secure Cooperative Dual-RIS-Aided V2V Communication: An Evolutionary Transformer–GRU Framework for Secrecy Rate Maximization in Vehicular Networks by Elnaz Bashir, Francisco Hernando-Gallego, Diego Martín, Farzaneh Shoushtari

“…To further enhance convergence and secrecy performance, we incorporate an improved gray wolf optimizer (IGWO) to adaptively regulate the model’s hyper-parameters and fine-tune the RIS phase shifts, resulting in a more stable and optimized learning process. Extensive simulations demonstrate the superiority of the proposed framework compared to existing baselines, such as transformer, bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), deep reinforcement learning (DRL), long short-term memory (LSTM), and GRU models. …”
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Federated Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation and Task Scheduling in Edge for IoT Applications by Saroj Mali, Feng Zeng, Deepak Adhikari, Inam Ullah, Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Khasawneh, Osama Alfarraj, Fahad Alblehai

“…Additionally, for edge server power consumption, the hybrid offloading algorithm reduces fluctuations compared to existing methods, ensuring more stable energy usage across edge nodes. This corroborates that the proposed method can preserve privacy by handling issues related to fairness in model updates and improving efficiency better than state-of-the-art alternatives.…”
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Chemoradiotherapy effcacy in squamous cell rectal cancer: a propensity score matched analysis by V. V. Murzo, S. S. Gordeev, V. S. Myshlyakov, Z. Z. Mamedli

“…In the aSCC group, 60 % of patients had metastases to pelvic lymph nodes, while in the rSCC group metastases had 46.67 % (p=1). …”
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Assessing the Prevalence and Histopathology of Linguatula serrata Infection of Camels and Cattle in Zabol County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran by Mohammad Rahnama, Tayebeh Bameri, Soheil Sadr, Narges Lotfalizadeh, Majid Alipour Eskandani, Javad Khedri

“…Moreover, cattle older than 3 years had significantly more infections with L. serrata nymphs (16.07%, 9/56) than cattle of other ages (p < 0.001). …”
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The clinical application value and the imaging characteristic of 18F-FDG PET/CT in tuberculous pericarditis by Xiaoqing Du, Feng Zhu, Qian You

“…Additionally, all tuberculous lesions in lymph nodes and other organs within the scanning range were systematically evaluated. …”
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Evaluating short-term air pollution-related mental health resilience using a directional network by Mengwei Song, Quanjun Liu, Qiulin Huang, Yuxin Zhang, Qing Wang

“…Memory lapses for sex/education disparities, irritability and feeling afraid for age disparities demonstrated the steepest disparities across demographic subgroups and bridge nodes—critical junctures that mediate resilience dynamics between populations. …”
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Short-term outcomes of bronchoplastic lobectomies performed from video-assisted thoracoscopic and thoracotomic approaches by M. A. Atyukov, I. Yu. Zemtsova, A. S. Petrov, O. A. Zhgemchugova-Zelenova, O. V. Novikova, S. A. Mischeryakov, P. K. Yablonskii

“…There were no significant differences in time of operation, blood loss, duration of drainage of the pleural cavity, incidence of postoperative complications, length of hospital stay, number of dissected lymph nodes between the groups. Factor analysis of the influence of pre- and intraoperative factors on the development of postoperative complications showed that the risk of a complicated course of the postoperative period significantly decreased at normal values of FEV1 and FVC (OR=0.942, p&lt;0.05; OR=0.932, p&gt;&lt;0.05) and increased in the presence of adhesions (obliteration of the pleural cavity more than 50%), requiring total pneumolysis, and the absence of interlobar fissures (OR=5.5, p&gt;&lt;0.05; OR=6.5, p&gt;&lt;0.05). …”
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TCMHTI: a Transformer-based herb-target interaction prediction model for Qingfu Juanbi Decoction in rheumatoid arthritis by Zhenzhong Liang, Changsong Ding

“…The enrichment analysis demonstrated that the TCMHTI model predicted 49 targets and enriched more pathways directly associated with RA, whereas classical network pharmacology identified 64 targets but enriched pathways showing weaker relevance to RA. …”
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CROSS AND RADIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE SALIVARY GLAND IN CATTLE by S . AL Sadi

“…The present work includes morphological and radiological studies of the salivary gland , saliva is the mixed secretion of these gland the secretion of saliva in ruminants is continuous ,it has been moistest oral mucosa, provide medium for dissolved food and control bacterial flora of the oral cavity , the aim of present work to report more detailed information about the salivary gland and duct in cattle which may be help in both anatomy and surgery aspect, for value impartment can easily removal all salivary gland tissue during surgical operation, the large salivary ducts occasionally cannulated to remove obstructions or to inject a contrast medium for radiographic examination and to be able to palpate the parotid and mandibular salivary gland and different the mandibular salivary gland from lymph nodes ,to be able to trace the ducts of the salivary glands and palpate the parotid duct in the cheek of cattle , to be extirpate the mandibular and monostomac sublingual salivary glands . …”
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