Academic Articles & Research Papers

C3a Enhances the Formation of Intestinal Organoids through C3aR1

C3a is important in the regulation of the immune response as well as in the development of organ inflammation and injury. Furthermore, C3a contributes to liver regeneration but its role in intestinal stem cell function has not been studied....

Causal analysis between altered levels of interleukins and obstructive sleep apnea

BackgroundInflammation proteins including interleukins (ILs) have been reported to be related to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The aims of this study were to estimate the levels for several key interleukins in OSA and the causal effects be...

Current Trends in Tolerance Induction in Cow's Milk Allergy: From Passive to Proactive Strategies

This review addresses the current strategies of inducing tolerance development in infant and childhood cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA). The change in prevention strategies for CMPA has been emphasized based on the lack of evidence to supp...

Genetic Markers of Adaptation of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Plasmodium falciparum</named-content> to Transmission by American Vectors Identified in the Genomes of Parasites from Haiti and South America

ABSTRACT The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, was introduced into Hispaniola and other regions of the Americas through the slave trade spanning the 16th through the 19th centuries. During this period, more than 12 million Africans w...

Loss of PRSS56 function leads to ocular angle defects and increased susceptibility to high intraocular pressure

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness, affecting up to 70 million people worldwide. High intraocular pressure (IOP) is a major risk factor for glaucoma. It is well established that inefficient aqueous humor (AqH) outflow resulting from s...

Analysing interventions designed to reduce tuberculosis-related stigma: A scoping review.

Stigma is a critical barrier for TB care delivery; yet data on stigma reduction interventions is limited. This review maps the available literature on TB stigma reduction interventions, using the Health Stigma and Discrimination framework a...

The Effects of N-acetylcysteine on Inflammatory Markers and Homocysteine: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Background: Recently a number of trials investigated the effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) administration on inflammatory markers and homocysteine (Hcy). However, their findings are controversial. The aim of this paper is to present a meta-a...

Electromagnetically Driven Robot for Multipurpose Applications

This paper presents a novel design of a continuum robot driven by electromagnets and springs, offering enhanced precision in multi-degree-of-freedom bending for diverse applications. Traditional continuum robots, while effective in navigati...

Purple reign: the outsized impact and potential of Chromobacterium on quorum sensing research.

Outdoor access practices in the Canadian dairy industry

ABSTRACT: Dairy cows are highly motivated to access pasture and have a partial preference for alternative forms of outdoor access (e.g., deep-bedded outdoor sand or wood-chip packs). In addition, Canadians value the provision of outdoor acc...

Spatial patterns in the contribution of biotic and abiotic factors to the population dynamics of three freshwater fish species

Background Population dynamics are driven by a number of biotic (e.g., density-dependence) and abiotic (e.g., climate) factors whose contribution can greatly vary across study systems (i.e., populations). Yet, the extent to which the contri...

AMALGAMATION OF BUSINESS INT ELL IGENCE WITH ENT ERPRISE RESOURCEPLANN ING SYSTEMS FOR IND USTRY 4.0

Businesses today are incredibly data rich, and dealing with large amount of data, so making some inferences andconclusions, depending on the organisation size and complexity of its processes, it has been a challenge, especially that thenext...

Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era

The purpose of the study is to examine how cybersecurity knowledge, password security, and self-perception of skill affect cybersecurity awareness issues via the mediating lens of cybersecurity attitude among university students in Banglade...

Enhancing sentiment classification on small datasets through data augmentation and transfer learning

Abstract Small-scale sentiment classification often suffers from data scarcity, which limits the generalization ability of the models. This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of three data augmentation strategies: Easy Data Augm...

Urdu poetry and Eco Criticism

&nbsp;Eco-criticism is relatively considered a new term in Urdu literature although a brief review of Urdu literature particularly poetry indicates that environmental problems have always been critically observed by the literary minds. Eco...

Few-shot learning for automated content analysis: Efficient coding of arguments and claims in the debate on arms deliveries to Ukraine

Pre-trained language models (PLM) based on transformer neural networks developed in the field of natural language processing (NLP) offer great opportunities to improve automatic content analysis in communication science, especially for the ...

Biodegradable Foam Synthesized from Lignin-Rich Brewer’s Spent Grain Waste with Potential Use as a Sustainable Alternative for Packaging Applications.

SAM-trace: a fuzzy logic approach in identifying interaction effects in the exacerbation of childhood malnutrition severity

Abstract Pediatric malnutrition remains a major global health challenge. Conventional WHO-based binary classification (Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) / Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) relies solely on anthropometric thresholds. It fails ...

Diasporic Urdu Novel: Basics and Legacy

''Diaspora literature'' is a term that came into use in Urdu some time ago but has been used in the world of literature for years. It is called &ldquo;Adab-al-Mahjar&rdquo; in Arabic and &ldquo;Diaspora Literature/Immigrant Literature&rdquo...

Transformer-Based Abstractive Summarization for Reddit and Twitter: Single Posts vs. Comment Pools in Three Languages

Abstractive summarization is a technique that allows for extracting condensed meanings from long texts, with a variety of potential practical applications. Nonetheless, today’s abstractive summarization research is limited to testing the mo...