Serum miRNA-186-3P and miRNA-382-3P constitute a novel Diagnostic miRNA signature for palindromic rheumatism by Fangfang Yuan, Zefu Weng, Qiong Yang, Jing Luo, Lina Ying, Haiyan Huang, Xin Zhang, Yahui Chen, Jixia Lin, Junhong He

“…RT-qPCR was used to verify the differential expression of the miRNA signature in three validation cohorts of patients with PR (N=27) and RA (N=30), and healthy individuals (N=31). The efficiency of the miRNA signature was evaluated using receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves, an analytical method that assesses diagnostic accuracy.ResultsA total of 130 miRNAs were differentially expressed in the PR exploration cohort, including 35 upregulated and 95 downregulated compared to levels in the RA and healthy cohorts. miRNA-186-3p showed the largest upregulated difference and miRNA-382-3p the largest downregulated difference; these were selected to construct the miRNA signature. …”
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Effects of conversion of Chinese fir forest to broad-leaved forests on phosphorus components and transformation in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils by XIANG Mingzhu1, LI Jiajun1, HUANG Haimei1, LI Changhang1, XIAO Na3, YOU Yeming1,2, ZHAO Lijun1, HUANG Xueman1,2*

“…Chinese fir(Cunninghamia lanceolata)is mainly distributed in subtropical areas of China, and its soil acidification and phosphorus utilization efficiency are low. It is of great significance to study the effects of Chinese fir plantation transformation on soil P for the stability of ecosystem and sustainable forest management. …”
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Bioinformatics-based analysis of autophagy-related genes and prediction of potential Chinese medicines in diabetic kidney disease by Yufeng Xing, Zining Peng, Chaoyang Ye

“…The external validation set demonstrated high diagnostic efficiency for these genes. Finally, 146 kinds of potential Chinese medicines were predicted using the SymMap database, with heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine and blood-activating and stasis-eliminating medicine accounting for the largest proportion (25/146 and 13/146, respectively). …”
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Effect of P Reduction on <i>phoD</i>-Harboring Bacteria Community in Solar Greenhouse Soil by Ting Bian, Zhen Wang, Shuang Wang, Xuan Shan, Tianqi Wang, Hongdan Fu, Zhouping Sun

“…Without P fertilizer, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, <i>phoD</i> gene abundance, and bacterial community diversity were significantly increased. …”
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Vitamin D3 supplementation alleviates lipid accumulation, lipid metabolism disorder, and oxidative stress caused by a high-fat diet in juvenile black seabream (Acanthopagrus schleg... by Hao Cheng, Wenli Zhao, Yizhou Jiang, Yangguang Bao, Jiayun Zhu, Xinyan Zhi, Tingting Zhu, Peng Sun, Qicun Zhou, Min Jin

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The effects of experimental conditions on extraction of polyphenols from African Nutmeg peels using NADESs-UAE: a multifactorial modelling technique by Udodinma Jude Okeke, Matteo Micucci, Dasha Mihaylova, Achile Cappiello

“…The responses studied are total phenolic compounds (TPC), total flavonoid compounds (TFC), and antioxidant activity (AA) based on cupric ion reducing antioxidant capacity (CUPRAC) and ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP). …”
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Cubosomes as Delivery System to Repositioning Nitrofurantoin in Breast Cancer Management by Louis D, Rizkalla CMZ, Rashad A

“…The factors studied included the ratio of drug to oily phase (1:10 and 2:10), the ratio of oily to aqueous phase (1:10 and 1:5), and the ratio of Glyceryl mono-oleate (GMO) to Poloxamer 407 (PX407) (0.25:1 and 0.5:1). A total of 8 systems were proposed and evaluated by measuring particle size, zeta potential, polydispersity index, and percentage of entrapment efficiency.Results: S6 (1:10 drug: oily phase, 1:5 oily: aqueous phase and 0.5:1 GMO: PX407) with particle size 45.5 ±c1.1 nm and an entrapment efficiency of 98.6 ± 1.8% exhibited highest desirability and was selected for further analysis. …”
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Artificial intelligence and IoT for water saving in agriculture: A systematic review by Lucio Colizzi, Giovanni Dimauro, Emanuela Guerriero, Nunzia Lomonte

“…Smart irrigation and fertigation offer three key benefits: sustainability through water conservation, increased productivity via targeted fertigation that activates only when necessary, and enhanced efficiency through remote control and high-precision sensors. …”
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Transfer of knowledge through reverse annealing: a preliminary analysis of the benefits and what to share by Eneko Osaba, Esther Villar-Rodriguez

“…To properly guide the tests in this paper, the well-known knapsack problem has been chosen for benchmarking purposes, using a total of 34 instances composed of 14 and 16 items.…”
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A Graph-Based Ant Colony Optimization Approach for Process Planning by JinFeng Wang, XiaoLiang Fan, Shuting Wan

“…Extensive comparative experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed approach.…”
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Analysis of the global energy resources evolution in the context of the population growth by Mădălina-Gabriela ANGHEL, Ștefan Virgil IACOB

“…The analysis of the situation of total energy sources and how they are consumed is essential and some key aspects must be followed in this regard in order to understand how energy resources are managed and used. …”
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Flow shop scheduling decisions through Techniques for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) by Arun Gupta, Shailendra Kumar

“…Some of these techniques offer excellent effectiveness and efficiency at the expense of substantial implementation efforts and being extremely complicated. …”
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The impact of river sand mining and waste management on the Volta Lake: A case study of Asutsuare by Daniel Kwaku Amoah, Esi Awuah, Isaac O.A. Hodgson, Miriam Appiah-Brempong, Elizabeth Von-Kiti, Isaac Nii Yartey Nyarko

“…The safety of drinking water is becoming more crucial as the world's population is increasing and anthropogenic activities which pollute water resources are intensifying. …”
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DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CHANGES CHARACTERIZING THE RURAL POPULATION IN ROMANIA by Agatha POPESCU, Toma Adrian DINU, Elena STOIAN

“…About 4 million persons, i.e. 44.73 % of the country active population is in the rural space. Also, the elder age groups have a higher share in the economically active rural population. …”
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Improving antioxidant scavenging effect of fruit peel waste extracts and their applicability in biodiesel stability enhancement by Usman Bello, Nurul Aini Amran, Muhammad Syafiq Hazwan Ruslan

“…Subsequently, blends of the recovered extracts were formulated in mono, binary, and ternary dosage ratios (S.1–S.10) to assess their free radical scavenging efficiency (RSE) in terms of inhibitory concentration at 50% (IC50) using a 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay, total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), and total carotenoid content (TCC). …”
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Autological bone marrow concentrate for the treatment of early stages of femoral head avascular necrosis (literature review) by M. A. Panin, N. V. Zagorodnii, A. V. Boiko, A. S. Petrosyan

“…In the treatment of the early stages of the femoral head osteonecrosis core decompression is widely used, which reduces intraosseous pressure and increases blood flow to the femoral head. To increase the efficiency of the core decompression the use of various bioadjuvants, including concentrate of autologous bone marrow cells is needed, the appropriateness of which is actively discussed.Purpose of the systematic review: evaluation of the effectiveness of autologous bone marrow cells in core decompression in the treatment of the early stages of the femoral head osteonecrosis according to the literature.Material and methods. …”
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Magnesium‐Mediated Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia by Ishita Goyal, Vamsi V. Gande, Rajan R. Bhawnani, Rebecca Hamlyn, Ahmed A. Farghaly, Meenesh R. Singh

“…Abstract Metal‐mediated electrochemical synthesis of ammonia (NH3) is a promising method to activate N2 at room temperature. While a Li‐mediated approach has been optimized to produce NH3 at high current density and selectivity, Li's scarcity and its highly negative plating potential limit scalability and energy efficiency. …”
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Photocatalytic membrane modules for drinking water purification in domestic and community appliances by Ignazio Renato Bellobono, Franca Morazzoni, Paola Maria Tozzi

“…In the present paper, the performance of a pilot plant for domestic use was investigated, able to operate continuously, and in which tap water was fed (inorganic carbon IC: 81.6±0.5 ppm; total organic carbon TOC content: 1.52±0.02 ppm). …”
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Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production through tuning charge transfer in TiO2/CdSxSe1–x-DETA nanocomposites with S-scheme heterojunction structure by Aoyun Meng, Renqiang Yang, Wen Li, Zhen Li, Jinfeng Zhang

“…Specifically, the sample containing 20% (in mass) TiO2, denoted as 20-TO, exhibited the best photocatalytic activity. In particular, the activity of 20% (in mass) TiO2/CdS0.25Se0.75-DETA (abbreviated as 20-TO/CS0.25E0.75) reached 32.7 mmol·g−1·h−1, maintaining high hydrogen evolution performance over ten consecutive cycles (totaling 40 h). …”
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Increases in mitochondrial biogenesis impair carcinogenesis at multiple levels by Xiao Wang, Carlos T. Moraes

“…To better understand this phenomenon, instead of further inhibiting mitochondrial function, we induced mitochondrial biogenesis in transformed cells by activating the peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptors (PPARs)/peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor gamma co‐activator 1α (PGC‐1α) pathways. …”
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