Novel, in-natural-infection subdominant HIV-1 CD8+ T-cell epitopes revealed in human recipients of conserved-region T-cell vaccines. by Nicola Borthwick, Zhansong Lin, Tomohiro Akahoshi, Anuska Llano, Sandra Silva-Arrieta, Tina Ahmed, Lucy Dorrell, Christian Brander, Hayato Murakoshi, Masafumi Takiguchi, Tomáš Hanke

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Cryopreserved lymphocytes from vaccine recipients were expanded by stimulation with 15-mer responder peptides for 10 days to establish short term-cell-line (STCL) effector cells. These were subjected to intracellular cytokine staining using serially truncated peptides and peptide-pulsed 721.221 cells expressing individual HLA class I alleles to define minimal epitope length and HLA restriction by stimulation of IFN-γ and TNF-α production and surface expression of CD107a.…”
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Convergent evolution of a mobile bony tongue in flighted dinosaurs and pterosaurs. by Zhiheng Li, Zhonghe Zhou, Julia A Clarke

“…The elaboration of the avian tongue includes the evolution of multiple novel midline hyoid bones and a larynx suspended caudal to these midline elements. While variable in dentition and skull shape, most bird-line archosaurs show a simple hyoid structure. …”
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Research on the Simulation Model of Dynamic Shape for Forest Fire Burned Area Based on Grid Paths from Satellite Remote Sensing Images by Xintao Ling, Gui Zhang, Ying Zheng, Huashun Xiao, Yongke Yang, Fang Zhou, Xin Wu

“…The straight path distances from the ignition point grid to each grid on fire line in Sentinel-2 imageries for each forest fire were used as the target variables. …”
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Occupational Risks in a Brazilian Aluminum Forming Industry: Risk Analysis and Work Environment by Maressa Fontana Mezoni, Antonio Augusto de Paula Xavier, Sheila Regina Oro, Sergio Luiz Ribas Pessa, Maiquiel Schmidt de Oliveira, Vilmar Steffen

“…Data on work accidents reflect the incidence of harm to workers’ health and occupational diseases, supported by studies that indicate the influence of length of service on service, age, and dominant skills as contributing factors to occupational accidents. …”
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Development of a human colorectal carcinoma cell-based platform for studying inducible nitric oxide synthase expression and nitric oxide signaling dynamics by Xi Chen, Elizabeth A. Grimm, Yong Qin

“…While iNOS induction has been linked to immune activation and tumor progression, its expression in cancer cells is highly variable and often inconsistently reported across different tumor models. …”
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An Analytical study of Optimal Die Design of Elliptic Tube by Muthanna H. S.

“…Developed manner in determining the relative extrusion power by dividing the extrusion die for different sector and calculate the relative deformation power of each sector under different condition which are reduction of area, friction factor and relative die length. The study predicts a new equation for determining the optimum die length with taking in the count the effects of those variables.  …”
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FACTORS RELATED TO COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME (CVS) COMPLAINTS IN PROGRAMMERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Marvita, Noeroel Widajati, Shafira Nurul Ramadhani, Vitria Wuri Handayani

“…Conclusion: There is a relationship between gender, visual aids, and the position of the top of the screen with the horizontal line of the eye with CVS complaints. There is no relationship between age, length of rest, duration of computer use, working time, and screen viewing distance. …”
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EVALUATION PERFORMANCE AND ESTIMATION OF GENETIC PARAMETERS IN FABA BEAN (Vicia faba L.) by Ahmad Ibrahim Y. Al-Abadee

“…Information on genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance was estimated in six genotype of faba bean from different origin viz; Aquadulce, Spanish, Syrian, Babil, Twethah and white flower line. …”
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Anatomical Changes Related to Age in Maxillary Sinus by Noor Ghazi Saab

“…In females, the maxillary sinus length and height were variable across Groups A and B, with an increase in Group C followed by a decrease in Group D, while width showed an initial fill in Group A and then a gradual decline through Groups B, C, and D. …”
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Research of the Influence of Structure Parameter on the Mechanics Property of Heavy Vehicle Drive Axle Housing by Ni Jinshang

“…To solve the problems of high design margin and high manufacturing cost of heavy vehicle drive axle housing,the parametric finite element model of heavy vehicle drive axle housing is established,through the drive axle housing of key structure parameters are set for the analysis variables,the influence of the structure parameter variables on the heavy vehicle drive axle housing mechanics characteristic is researched by using static,dynamic and fatigue life method,the reference for the design and choice parameters for the heavy vehicle drive axle housing is provided.The results show that the axle housing body length and the axle housing both sides of the baffle plate distance increase,the maximum stress value and deformation value of drive axle housing will increase;the axle housing body length and the axle housing around both sides of baffle plate distance of two parameters have less influences on natural frequency of driving axle housing,and the distance of the center line of the spring seat has great influences on natural frequency of drive axle housing.…”
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Prediction of Landslide Susceptibility in the Karakorum under the Context of Climate Change by Yanqian Pei, Haijun Qiu, Yaru Zhu

“…The results indicated that elevation, slope, groundwater, slope length gradient (LS) factor, Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), valley depth, and maximum precipitation were the key causes of slides below the snow line. …”
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Modeling and Testing Landslide Hazard Using Decision Tree by Mutasem Sh. Alkhasawneh, Umi Kalthum Ngah, Lea Tien Tay, Nor Ashidi Mat Isa, Mohammad Subhi Al-Batah

“…These factors are vegetation cover, distance from the fault line, slope angle, cross curvature, slope aspect, distance from road, geology, diagonal length, longitude curvature, rugosity, plan curvature, elevation, rain perception, soil texture, surface area, distance from drainage, roughness, land cover, general curvature, tangent curvature, and profile curvature. …”
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RESEARCH OF OSTEOINTEGRATION OF BICORTICALY FIXED IN SMALL DIAMETER IMPLANTS BY METHOD OF RESONANCE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS by I.V. Pavlish, V.M. Dvornyk

“…The group of 16 patients with the complete and partial loss of teeth on a lower jaw with the deficient of bone tissue in lateral departments aged from 34 to 72 was investigated. 98 Art Implants of Simplex line (Ukraine) with the sizes of endoosseal part in 2,8 mm of diameter and 10-14 mm of length was set. …”
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A STUDY ON THE FEASIBILITY AND REPEATABILITY OF FETAL BASILAR ARTERY DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS BETWEEN 11 AND 13+6 WEEKS OF GESTATION by Tuğba Saraç Sivrikoz, Selen Gürsoy Erzincan, Gürcan Türkyılmaz, Nihat Demirkol, Recep Has, İbrahim Halil Kalelioğlu

“…The BA was imaged in the midsagittal plane, the pulse Doppler was placed just caudal to the anterior echogenic line of the brainstem, and the insonation angle was kept below 30°. …”
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Construction of a Chimeric Secretory IgA and Its Neutralization Activity against Avian Influenza Virus H5N1 by Cun Li, Xiaoping An, Azeem Mehmood Butt, Baozhong Zhang, Zhiyi Zhang, Xiaona Wang, Yong Huang, Wenhui Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhiqiang Mi, Yigang Tong

“…Secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) acts as the first line of defense against respiratory pathogens. In this assay, the variable regions of heavy chain (VH) and Light chain (VL) genes from a mouse monoclonal antibody against H5N1 were cloned and fused with human IgA constant regions. …”
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Assessing medication use patterns in patients hospitalised with COVID-19: a retrospective study by Aziz Sheikh, Chris Robertson, Holly Tibble, Colin R Simpson, Marion Bennie, Amanj Kurdi, Stuart McTaggart, Tanja Mueller, Elliott Hall, Ian Bullard, Jo Wapshott, Anna Goodfellow, Niketa Platt, Euan Proud

“…The overall median (IQR) length of hospital stay among all patients included in the study cohort was 9 days (5–17); 24.7% of patients died in hospital.Conclusion The use of adjuvant medicines in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 appears in line with evolving evidence and changing treatment guidelines. …”
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CASE STUDY: DEVELOPING TANZANIA’S TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TIMS) by Glenn ROBINSON

“…In doing so an argument is made for developing a base line digital transport network analysis, as a starting point. …”
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Approximate Solution of Mixed Problem for Telegrapher Equation with Homogeneous Boundary Conditions of First Kind Using Special Functions by P. G. Lasy, I. N. Meleshko

“…The solution of the latter can be found by dividing the variables in the form of a series of trigonometric functions of a line point with time-dependent coefficients. …”
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Development of a Three-Dimensional Geometry Optimization Method for Turbomachinery Applications by Steffen Kämmerer, Jürgen F. Mayer, Heinz Stetter, Meinhard Paffrath, Utz Wever, Alexander R. Jung

“…This approach uses the fully parameterized blade geometry as variables for the optimization problem. Physical parameters such as stagger angle, stacking line, and chord length are part of the model. …”
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Mathematical Model of Drilling Mud Movement along a Shale Shaker Screen by I. Yu. Kichkar

“…However, in the first case, the volume flow along the length is variable (decreasing to zero), and in the second case, it is constant along the length. …”
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