Production of probiotic dark chocolate by alginate-chitosan microcapsules containing protective yeast with potent anti-Salmonella activity by Sara Shahryari, Alireza Sadeghi, Maryam Ebrahimi, Delasa Rahimi, Seid Mahdi Jafari

“…In the present study, sequencing results of the PCR products led to the identification of Pichia kudriavzevii as the selected yeast isolate (YI) with high thermo-osmotolerance ability and low survival under simulated gastrointestinal (SGI) conditions. …”
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Adapting the concept of functionally dominant species for observational data by Audréanne Loiselle, Raphaël Proulx, Stéphanie Pellerin

“…While the keystone species approach is an appealing framework for that purpose, it has been criticized for its lack of a clear threshold to identify functionally important species and for its limited ability to handle observational data variability. …”
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Silencing LINC00663 inhibits inflammation and angiogenesis through downregulation of NR2F1 via EBF1 in bladder cancer by Xiulong Zhong, Lijiang Sun, Junxiang Liu, Xiaokun Yang, Minghui Hou, Xinning Wang, Huifeng Diao

“…After transfection, functional experiments were conducted to test cell proliferation and invasion, tube formation ability, and content of inflammatory factors, Snail, E-cadherin, and VEGFA. …”
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Developing an effective teaching model in order to improve the educational level of schools by Mehdi Mohammadi, fardin Abdollahy, Rafigh Hasani

“…The most basic definition of effective teaching is the teacher's ability to help students and learners reach high standards (Hoseini hesam abadi et al, 2023). …”
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SmartFSCV: An Artificial Intelligence Enabled Miniaturised FSCV Device Targeting Serotonin by Dean M. Corva, Egan H. Doeven, Brenna Parke, Scott D. Adams, Susannah J. Tye, Parastoo Hashemi, Michael Berk, Abbas Z. Kouzani

“…<italic>Conclusions:</italic> These tests confirmed the ability of SmartFSCV to accurately sense and make informed decisions about the presence of serotonin using AI.…”
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Mechanical and shape-memory properties of TPMS with hybrid configurations and materials by Tianzhen Liu, Wei Zhao, Yongtao Yao, Cheng Lin, Hanxing Zhao, Jianguo Cai

“…The combined methods of experiments and numerical simulation are adopted to evaluate mechanical properties, which presents multi-stage energy absorption ability and tunable vibration isolation performances associated with temperature and hybridization designs. …”
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Land Stewardship and Development Behaviors Under an Ecological-Impact-Weighted Land Value Tax Scheme: A Proof-of-Concept Agent-Based Model by Dakota B. Walker, Alican Mertan, Joshua Farley, Donna Rizzo, Travis Reynolds

“…Perverse incentives arise from the ability to privatize collectively created value in land rents and socialize ecological costs. …”
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Preliminary Insights into the Cyto/Genoprotective Properties of Propolis and Its Constituent Galangin In Vitro by Mateo Jakac, Irena Brčić Karačonji, Andreja Jurič, Dražen Lušić, Danijel Milinčić, Aleksandra Dramićanin, Mirjana Pešić, Nediljko Landeka, Nevenka Kopjar

“…Cyto- and genoprotective effects were tested using a cytokinesis-block micronucleus cytome assay. …”
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Predicting the Degree of Fresh Tea Leaves Withering Using Image Classification Confidence by Mengjie Wang, Yali Shi, Yaping Li, Hewei Meng, Zezhong Ding, Zhengrui Tian, Chunwang Dong, Zhiwei Chen

“…To enhance the feature extraction ability and classification accuracy of the model, we introduce the Receptive-Field Attention Convolution (RFAConv) and Cross-Stage Feature Fusion Coordinate Attention (C2f_CA) modules. …”
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Copper-Induced Neurodegenerative Disorders and Therapeutic Potential of Curcumin-Loaded Nanoemulsion by Govind Hake, Akshada Mhaske, Rahul Shukla, Swaran Jeet Singh Flora

“…These results emphasize the ability of CUR-NE to augment the therapeutic effects of curcumin, presenting a novel approach for managing copper-induced neurodegeneration. …”
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Implementation of serial peripheral interface slave device based on uncommitted logic arrays by Sinyukin Alexander, Denisenko Mark, Isaeva Alina, Kots Ivan, Kovalev Andrey

“…The device is able to work properly at clock frequency up to 5 MHz. Tests of speed performance, interference resistance, and ability to operate at different voltage levels were carried out. …”
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Agenda of Early Life Experience and Its Association with Sensitivity to Human Presence and Familiarity in Wild-Born Orphaned Captive Cheetahs by Alessandro Gallo, Anne Schmidt-Küntzel, Lea Petersen, M. Justin Moya, Laurie Marker, Alban Lemasson, Martine Hausberger

“…It has been argued that domestication explains the ability of domestic animals to use human cues, but similar abilities exist in wild animals repeatedly exposed to humans. …”
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Brain Aging and AD-Like Pathology in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats by Jian-Qin Wang, Jie Yin, Yan-Feng Song, Lang Zhang, Ying-Xiang Ren, De-Gui Wang, Li-Ping Gao, Yu-Hong Jing

“…Cognitive ability was evaluated through the Morris water maze and inhibitory avoidant box. …”
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Unraveling the influence of political marketing on electoral decision-making: A robust analysis with PLS-SEM by Jorge Alberto Vargas-Merino, Cristhina del Pilar Pillaca-Villarruel, Gian Pierre Silvera-Otañe, Gisela Analy Fernández-Hurtado, Luis Miguel Olórtegui-Alcalde, Alfredo Martín Berrospi-Ytahashi

“…Political marketing constructs such as product, price, promotion, physical evidence and people significantly influence the electoral decision while processes and others were not tested. Finally, the electoral decision does influence decisional conflict (0.469∗∗∗). …”
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Advancing Pressure-Based Flow Rate Soft Sensors: Signal Filtering Effects and Non-Laminar Flow Rate Determination by Faras Brumand-Poor, Tim Kotte, Abdulaziz Hanifa, Christian Reese, Marius Hofmeister, Katharina Schmitz

“…This study advances a previously introduced analytical soft sensor, demonstrating its ability to accurately determine the transient pipe flow beyond laminar conditions, without requiring a dedicated flow rate sensor. …”
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Evaluation of Health Literacy and its influencing factors on dormitory students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran by Rahman Panahi, Ali Ramezankhani, Mahmoud Tavousi, Fereshteh Osmani, Elaheh Ghazanfari, Shamsodin Niknami

“…Background and Objectives: Health literacy represents the cognitive and social skills, which are used to determine the motivation and ability of individuals to acquire access and understand the methods to use the information in order to maintain and improve the health. …”
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A Novel Fibrous Polycaprolactone/Gelatin Wound Dressing Containing Vitamin C and Antibacterial Drug For Wound Healing by Z. Ashuri, M. Tayibi, A. Zargar Kharazi, E. Pourazizi

“…The wound dressing showed a suitable wide range of swelling ability and durability within 35 days. The tensile strength increased up to 3.5times by addition of ciprofloxacin and vitamin C due to the morphological changes. …”
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DNS (v1.0): an open-source ray-tracing tool for space geodetic techniques by F. Zus, K. Balidakis, K. Balidakis, A. H. Dogan, R. Thundathil, R. Thundathil, G. Dick, J. Wickert, J. Wickert

“…We review the current status of the software and test its performance. For example, the one-to-one comparison with the open-source software RADIATE shows the high speed and precision of our ray-tracing tool. …”
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Retrieval of Passive Seismic Virtual Source Data Under Non-Ideal Illumination Conditions Based on Enhanced U-Net by Wensha Huang, Pan Zhang, Binghui Zhao, Donghao Zhang, Liguo Han

“…Numerical tests show that the proposed method effectively recovers waveform information in PVS retrieval records with non-ideally distributed sources, suppressing coherent noise and false events. …”
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Parameter sensitivity analysis for diesel spray penetration prediction based on GA-BP neural network by Yifei Zhang, Gengxin Zhang, Dawei Wu, Qian Wang, Ebrahim Nadimi, Penghua Shi, Hongming Xu

“…The model was trained using experimental data from diesel injector spray tests, and its accuracy was evaluated through parametric sensitivity analysis, examining the influence of various input factors. …”
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