For 2≤t≤m, let Zm denote the group of integers modulo m, and let TCm(t) denote the t-uniform hypergraph with vertex set Zm and hyperedge set {{i,i+1,i+2,…,i+t−1}:i∈Zm}. Any hypergraph isomorphic to TCm(t) is a t-uniform tight...
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) causes the most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted disease leading to ectopic pregnancy and infertility. Swine not only have many similarities to humans, but they are also susceptible to Ct. Despite these benefits and...
Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is widely prevalent in foods and animal feeds and is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic aflatoxin subtypes. Existing studies have proved that the intestine is targeted by AFB1, and adverse organic effects have been observed. T...
Pulse hydraulic fracturing is capable of creating intricate seam networks for improved reservoir recovery, but its dynamic damage mechanism remains unclear, limiting its scientific guidance for fracturing construction. This study combined the statist...
Hiring workers takes resources. Firms may require funding before they can expend resources on recruiting workers. The search for credit reduces funds that firms can allocate to job creation. In the presence of such costs, a given change in productivi...
Low-porosity tight rocks are widely used as building and engineering materials. The freeze–thaw cycle is a common weathering effect that damages building materials in cold climates. Tight rocks are generally supposed to be highly frost-resistan...
Macadamia pericarps that fail to abscise (‘stick-tights’) are an important trait to select against in breeding as they can harbour pests and diseases. Traditional macadamia breeding cycles are lengthy and expensive due to long juvenilitie...
CO2 huff-n-puff is regarded as an effective method to improve the recovery of low permeability and tight oil reservoirs. To understand the impact of CO2 huff-n-puff on crude oil mobilization in tight reservoirs with different fracture scales, this st...
Due to a lack of investigated materials for the additive manufacturing of multi-use functional parts in bioprocess engineering, this study aimed to evaluate the influence of multiple autoclaving cycles on the properties of a heat-resistant material (...
Although tight oil reservoirs have abundant resources, their recovery efficiency is generally low. In recent years, CO2 injection huff-n-puff has become an effective method for improving oil recovery on the basis of depleted production of volume-frac...
Energy efficiency renovation of building stock is an essential aspect of the climate change mitigation strategies in many countries. A large proportion of building stock is historical buildings. For this building stock, developing technology for safe...
Given the difficulty in developing waterflooding in tight oil reservoirs, using waterflooding huff-n-puff is an effective method to improve oil recovery. Online nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can detect the change in internal oil and water during t...
CO2-Huff-n-Puff (CO2-HnP) is an effective method for improving oil recovery in conventional reservoirs and has been widely applied to tight oil reservoirs. Recently, there has been a series of studies published on the oil increase mechanism and huff-...
Air tightness is a challenging task for 3D-printed components, especially for fused filament fabrication (FFF), due to inherent issues, related to the layer-by-layer fabrication method. On the other hand, the capability of 3D print airtight cavities...
Maintaining a robust epithelial barrier requires the accumulation of tight junction proteins, LSR/angulin-1 and tricellulin, at the tricellular contacts. Alterations in the localization of these proteins temporarily cause epithelial barrier dysfuncti...
Several sleep-related breathing disorders provoke repeated hypoxia stresses, which potentially lead to neurological diseases, such as cognitive impairment. Nevertheless, consequences of repeated intermittent hypoxia on the blood-brain barrier (BBB) a...
Integrity of wellbores and near wellbore processes are crucial issues in geological carbon storage (GCS) projects as they both define the confinement and injectivity of CO2. For the proper confinement of CO2, any flow of CO2 along the wellbore trajec...
Tight junction (TJ) proteins (Tjps), Tjp1 and Tjp2, are tight junction-associated scaffold proteins that bind to the transmembrane proteins of tight junctions and the underlying cytoskeleton. In this study, we first analyzed the tumorigenic character...
The ureolytic bacteria and nutrients were immobilized in the artificial functional carrier (AFC) and the self-healing cement mortar, based on the AFC-encapsulated bacteria, was prepared for this paper. The crack self-healing effect of mortars with an...
Fastener holes are among the most common natural stress concentrators in metal structures. The life cycles of various structural elements, such as those in aircraft structures, automobiles, and rail-end bolt joints, are limited by fatigue damage arou...
A vertex–edge Roman {2}-dominating function on a graph G=(V,E) is a function f:V⟶{0,1,2} satisfying that, for every edge uv∈E with f(v)=f(u)=0, ∑w∈N(v)∪N(u)f(w)≥2. The weight of the function f is the sum ∑a∈...
Curve squeal is a highly disturbing tonal noise produced by railway vehicles on tight curves, primarily attributed to lateral sliding at the wheel–rail interface. An essential step to estimate curve squeal noise levels is to determine the nonli...
The reduction of electricity use for heating and domestic hot water in cold climates can be achieved by: (1) reducing the heating loads through the improvement of the thermal performance of house envelopes, and (2) using solar energy through a reside...
Successful cell proliferation requires efficient and precise genome duplication followed by accurate chromosome segregation. The Cdc10-dependent transcript 1 protein (Cdt1) is required for the first step in DNA replication, and in human cells Cdt1 is...
The EPyC process (Epi-Poly-Cycle) (by Robert Bosch GmbH) opens up unique opportunities for manufacturing complex 3D MEMS structures having high effectiveness in small space. EPyC40 is an EPyC process with up to 40 μm thick polysilicon layers and sacr...
The hydroxynitrile lyase from Prunus amygdalus was immobilized on Celite R-633. The immobilized enzyme could successfully be utilized in buffer saturated MTBE and excellent conversions of benzaldehyde to R-mandelonitrile were observed. No leaching oc...
The GADD45 proteins are induced in response to stress and have been implicated in the regulation of several cellular functions, including DNA repair, cell cycle control, senescence, and apoptosis. In this study, we investigate the role of D-GADD45 du...
The paper presents the possibility of using the liquid crystal display (LCD) waste as a partial substitute of fine aggregate. Concretes with two types of cement, CEM I 42.5 R and CEM II/B-S 42.5 N, with and without LCD addition, were investigated. Th...
Caspase-2 is the most evolutionarily conserved member of the mammalian caspase family and has been implicated in both apoptotic and non-apoptotic signaling pathways, including tumor suppression, cell cycle regulation, and DNA repair. A myriad of sign...
Asynchronous injection–production cycle (AIPC) in a horizontal–vertical well pattern is an efficient strategy for enhancing water injection in tight reservoirs. However, current studies lack consideration of waterflood-induced fractures (...
The ConcePTION project aims at generating further knowledge about the risks related to the use of medication during breastfeeding, as this information is lacking for most commonly used drugs. Taking into consideration multiple aspects, the pig model...
The efficient development of oil and gas resources is inseparable from the progress of drilling technology and the safety of the long life cycle of wellbore. At present, exploration and development is expanding to deep and ultra-deep areas. The long...
In the first trimester of pregnancy, placental development involves a wide range of cellular processes. These include trophoblast proliferation, fusion, and differentiation, which are dependent on tight cell cycle control. The intrauterine environmen...
The determination of microscopic residual oil distribution is beneficial for exploiting reservoirs to their maximum potential. In order to investigate microscopic residual oil during the carbon dioxide (CO2) huff-and-puff process in tight oil reservo...
In tight sandstone gas reservoirs, proppant flowback severely limits stable gas production. This study uses laboratory flowback experiments and field analyses of the ShaXimiao tight sandstone in the Wenxing gas area to investigate the mechanisms cont...
Phosphorylation by kinases governs many key cellular and extracellular processes, such as transcription, cell cycle progression, differentiation, secretion and apoptosis. Unsurprisingly, tight and precise kinase regulation is a prerequisite for norma...
p21Waf/CIP1 is a small unstructured protein that binds and inactivates cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). To this end, p21 levels increase following the activation of the p53 tumor suppressor. CDK inhibition by p21 triggers cell-cycle arrest in the G1...
We compared two adjacent mature forest ecosystem types (spruce vs. beech) to unravel the fate of assimilated carbon (C) and the cycling of organic and inorganic nitrogen (N) without the risk of the confounding influences of climatic and site differen...
A major refurbishment of the toroidal complex of the RFX-mod device is in progress and it will include the removal of the Inconel vacuum vessel and a modification of the stainless steel supporting structure to be made vacuum-tight. The axisymmetric e...
Background: Both pathological conditions and hibernation can affect the barrier function of small intestine mucosa. However, the effect of hibernation on the barrier function of colonic mucosa remains unclear. Methods: We investigated morphological c...
Lactobacillus paracasei KW3110 (KW3110) has anti-inflammatory effects and mitigates retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell damage caused by blue-light exposure. We investigated whether KW3110 suppresses chronic inflammatory stress-induced RPE cell dam...
The intestinal epithelial barrier plays a key protective role in the gut lumen. Bovine lactoferrin (bLF) has been reported to improve the intestinal epithelial barrier function, but its impact on tight junction (TJ) proteins has been rarely described...
Low permeability tight gas resources account for 90% of the Xihu Sag. Under the background of extensive development of low permeability and tight reservoirs, the key to economic and effective development is to find sweet reservoir formation. To clari...
The fumonisins are a group of common mycotoxins found around the world that mainly contaminate maize. As environmental toxins, they pose a threat to human and animal health. Fumonisin B1 (FB1) is the most widely distributed and the most toxic. FB1 ca...
The Chang 7 continental shale oil reservoir is tight. The recovery factor is extremely low, the remaining oil is very high, and injecting water to improve oil recovery effectiveness is too hard. Therefore, in this paper, physical simulation experimen...
Eukaryotic cells must accurately and efficiently duplicate their genomes during each round of the cell cycle. Multiple linear chromosomes, an abundance of regulatory elements, and chromosome packaging are all challenges that the eukaryotic DNA replic...
We report a natural wind cycle, the Antarctic Centennial Wind Oscillation (ACWO), whose properties explain milestones of climate and human civilization, including contemporary global warming. We explored the wind/temperature relationship in Antarctic...
This paper discusses the effect of chrononutrition on the regulation of circadian rhythms; in particular, that of chocolate on the resynchronization of the human internal biological central and peripheral clocks with the main external synchronizers,...
Genome stability requires tight regulation of DNA replication to ensure that the entire genome of the cell is duplicated once and only once per cell cycle. In mammalian cells, origin activation is controlled in space and time by a cell-specific and r...
Descend technique and performance vary among elite racing cyclists and it is not clear what slower riders should do to improve their performance. An observation study was performed of the descending technique of members of a World Tour cycling team a...
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