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Vibrio alginolyticus is a major aquaculture pathogen whose virulence is largely mediated by the type II secretion system (T2SS). However, the functions of key T2SS components, including gspJ, gspL, and gspM, remain unclear. Earlier research indicated...

Background: It is still controversial if activating mutations in the stimulatory G-protein α subunit (gsp mutation) are a biomarker of response to first generation somatostatin receptor ligands (fg-SRL) treatment in acromegaly. Thus, we aimed to eval...

Background: Smoking is considered the most important preventable risk factor in relation to the development of complications during pregnancy and delivery. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive 6-week gold standard p...

The wide variety of pathogenic Leptospira serovars and the weak protection offered by the available vaccines encourage the search for protective immunogens against leptospirosis. We found that the secretin GspD of the type II secretion system (T2S) o...

Grouted Semi-flexible Pavement (GSP) is a novel pavement composed of open-graded asphalt concrete grouted with high-fluidity cement mortar. Due to its excellent load-bearing and anti-rutting performance, it has great potential as anti-rutting overlay...

Trade policy is increasingly being used as a policy instrument to pursue non-trade objectives such as environmental protection or the protection of labour rights. A key example is the European Union’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP). Th...

In this study, the effect of the intensive “Quitter” intervention for smoking cessation was examined and compared to the standardized intensive intervention used in Denmark. The Quitter intervention, based on the Gold Standard Program (Q-...

The Gaia DR3 GSP-spec/TESS (GST) catalog combines asteroseismic data from NASA’s TESS mission with spectroscopic data from ESA’s Gaia mission, and contains about 116,000 Red Clump and Red Giant Branch stars, surpassing previous datasets i...

Designing a functional and efficient blood-clotting agent is a major challenge. In this research, hemostatic scaffolds (GSp) were prepared from the superabsorbent, inter-crosslinked polymer sodium polyacrylate (Sp) bound to a natural protein gelatin...

We consider the problem of how to apply a generalized second price (GSP) auction to a buyer–seller network. GSP auctions are often used to sell online ads where buyers care about the position or placement of the ad. GSP auctions can also be app...

Massive high-strength concrete structures tend to have a high risk of cracking. Ground slag powder (GSP), a sustainable and green industrial waste, is suitable for high-strength concrete. We carried out an experimental study of the effects of GSP wit...

Forty percent of somatotroph tumors harbor recurrent activating GNAS mutations, historically called the gsp oncogene. In gsp-negative somatotroph tumors, GNAS expression itself is highly variable; those with GNAS overexpression most resemble phenotyp...

Oxidative stress leads to a decrease in semen quality during semen cryopreservation and fresh semen production. Grape seed proanthocyanidins (GSPs) are endowed with well-recognized antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and anti-aging activitie...

Smoking is a major risk factor for bladder cancer and postoperative complications. Therefore, urological guidelines strongly recommend smoking cessation. Notwithstanding, many patients continue to smoke beyond the time of diagnosis. By using the qual...

The primary objective of this study is to provide an empirical research using structural equation modeling to identify the factors that motivate shipping firms to adopt green shipping practices (GSP). Furthermore, it also examines if adopting GSP can...

This paper considers the problem of estimating the states in an unobservable power system, where the number of measurements is not sufficiently large for conventional state estimation. Existing methods are either based on pseudo-data that is inaccura...

(1) Background: Smoking cessation may be very difficult, even if smoking aggravates the prognosis of a disease, which has been shown to be the case for persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In contrast, an association in patients with osteoarthriti...

The Soil Moisture Active–Passive (SMAP) mission has greatly contributed to the use of remote sensing technologies for monitoring the Earth’s land surface and estimating geophysical parameters that influence the climate system. Since the S...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD/Duchenne) is a progressive X-linked disease and is the most common pediatric-onset form of muscular dystrophy, affecting approximately 1:5000 live male births. DNA testing for mutations in the dystrophin gene confirms...

With the strengthening of environmental awareness, the government pays much more attention to environmental protection and thus implements carbon trading schemes to promote the reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions. The carbon Generalized Syst...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal X-linked disorder with a birth prevalence of 19.8:100,000 males worldwide. Elevated concentration of the muscle enzyme creatine kinase-MM (CK-MM) allows for presymptomatic screening of newborns using Dried...

Global greening and its relationship with climate change remain the hot topics in recent years, and are of critical importance for understanding the interactions between the terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle and the climate system. China, especially...

The Perkin Elmer Genetic Screening Processor (GSP)™ is a fully automated system for the processing of immunoassays for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP), immuno reactive trypsin (IRT), biotinidase, and total T4, as we...

The rheological properties and end-use qualities of many foods are mainly determined by the types and levels of grain storage proteins (GSPs) in wheat. GSP levels are influenced by various factors, including tillage management, irrigation, and fertil...

Topological signal processing is emerging alongside Graph Signal Processing (GSP) in various applications, incorporating higher-order connectivity structures—such as faces—in addition to nodes and edges, for enriched connectivity modeling...

Neuroinflammation plays a vital role in neurodegenerative diseases and neuropsychiatric disorders, and microglia and astrocytes chiefly modulate inflammatory responses in the central nervous system (CNS). Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which are express...

The quantification of dissolved metals in seawater requires pre-treatment before the measurement can be done, posing a risk of contamination, and requiring a time-consuming procedure. Despite the development of automated preconcentration units and so...

Background: The selection of an optimal referencing method in event-related potential (ERP) research has been a long-standing debate, as it can significantly influence results and lead to data misinterpretation. Such misinterpretation can produce fla...

Globally, the seasonal snow cover is the areal largest, the most short-lived and the most variable part of the cryosphere. Remote sensing proved to be a reliable tool to investigate their short-term variations worldwide. The medium-resolution sensor...

Ralstonia solanacearum (Rs), the causative agent of devastating wilt disease in several major and minor economic crops, is considered one of the most destructive bacterial plant pathogens. However, the mechanism(s) by which Rs counteracts host-associ...

Non-toxic derivatives of the cholera toxin are extensively used in neuroscience, as neuronal tracers to reveal the location of cells in the central nervous system. They are, also, being developed as vaccine components and drug-delivery vehicles. Prod...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a major global public health crisis. In response, researchers and pharmaceutical companies worked together for the rapid development of vaccines to reduce the morbidity and morta...

This paper presents a four-channel time-interleaved 3GSps 12-bit pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The combination of master clock sampling and delay-adjusting is adopted to remove the time skew due to channel mismatches. An early comparis...

Functional analysis of a GSP1/Ran ortholog, CpRan1, from Cryphonectria parasitica was conducted. Genotype analysis revealed that the putative CpRan1-null mutant was a heterokaryotic transformant harboring two different types of nuclei, one with the w...

A total of 300 day old broiler chicks (Hubbard) were assigned to 30 floor pens (10 birds per pen) under cyclic heat stress. Three diets including a control, as well as two levels of grape seed powder (GSP) and zinc (OZ) at the rates of 2.5 g/kg GSP +...

This study investigates the complementary noise control capabilities of two passive jet noise mitigation strategies: a traditional ejector nozzle and a novel application of 3M™ Nextel™ 312 ceramic fabric as a thermal–acoustic liner...

Background: Tobacco smoking is more prevalent among the elderly than among the young, and the elderly also have the most frequent contact with the health care system. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Gold Standard Progra...

The simulation of the physical movement of multi-body systems at an atomistic level, with forces calculated from a quantum mechanical description of the electrons, motivates a graph partitioning problem studied in this article. Several advanced algor...

Background/Objective: Smoking is an individual risk factor for bladder cancer. Many patients are still smoking at the time of their diagnosis, yet few trials have examined smoking cessation interventions (SCIs) in relation to transurethral resection...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention due to their versatility in applications such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue operations. In GPS-denied environments, where traditional navigation systems fail,...

A comprehensive analysis was conducted to explore whether feeding inclusion procyanidin-rich grape seed powders (GSPs) affected the faba bean-induced muscle crispness in the aquaculture of crisped grass carp. The procyanidin content in the prepared G...

To meet the demand for edible packaging materials that possess both pH-responsive properties and antibacterial performance in the field of meat preservation, this study developed an edible GSP-TEO-SA film using sodium alginate (SA) as the film-formin...

This study investigates the therapeutic potential of grape skin polysaccharides (GSP) for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Employing a T2D model developed via a high-fat diet combined with STZ, three intervention groups were established: low-dose GSP (25 mg/kg...

This paper presents a case study of Green Social Prescribing (GSP) in Walsall, a medium-sized urban area located in the West Midlands, UK. GSP is a means of enabling health professionals to refer people to a range of local non-clinical nature-based a...

Grape seed proanthocyanidin (GSP) contains polyphenolic bioflavonoids ubiquitously found in the lignified portions of grape seeds from the winery and distillery industries, as an antioxidant. To explore its potential as a rumen modifier in methanogen...

The Gram–Schmidt process (GSP) plays an important role in algebra. It provides a theoretical and practical approach for generating an orthonormal basis, QR decomposition, unitary matrices, etc. It also facilitates some applications in the field...

The current study was conducted to evaluate the impact of grape (Vitis vinifera) seed powder and zinc-glycine complex on growth parameters and cecal health of broiler following Eimeria tenella challenge. A total of 250 day-old male broilers (Hubbard)...

The study was conducted to study the sustainability and enhanced nutrition gains obtained from incorporating grape skin powder (GSP) extracted from both Fetească Neagră and Rară Neagră grape varieties into yogurt. Grape skins are...

Fumonisin B₁ (FB₁), as the most prevalent and toxic fumonisin, poses a health threat to humans and animals. The cytotoxicity of FB₁ is closely related to oxidative stress and apoptosis. The purpose of this study is to explore whether Grape seed proan...

This study investigated the effects of gallnut tannins (GT, hydrolysable tannin) and grape seed proanthocyanidins (GSP, condensed tannin), applied alone or in combination, on fermentation quality, protein preservation, and in vitro ruminal performanc...