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Islet autoantibody (iAb)-positive individuals have a high risk of progression to type 1 diabetes (T1D), although the rate of progression is highly variable and factors involved in the rate of progression are largely unknown. The ratio of unmethylated...

The aim of the present paper is to completely characterize the boundedness and compactness of a sum operator defined by some more complex products of composition, multiplication, and mth iterated radial derivative operators from Bloch-type spaces to...

Interferons (IFNs) are very powerful cytokines, which play a key role in combatting pathogen infections by controlling inflammation and immune response by directly inducing anti-pathogen molecular countermeasures. There are three classes of IFNs: typ...

Background: Botulinum toxin type A is an effective treatment for trigeminal neuralgia. Moreover, its efficacy in type 2 trigeminal neuralgia and comparative studies between type 1 and type 2 trigeminal neuralgia (TN) still need to be improved. Method...

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) are chronic diseases that affect nearly 425 million people worldwide, leading to poor health outcomes and high health care costs. High-throughput metabolomics screening can provide vital insight into the patho...

Type I interferons (IFNs) are produced by most cells in response to virus infection and stimulate a program of anti-viral gene expression in neighboring cells to suppress virus replication. Type III IFNs have similar properties, however their effects...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is classified as a type 2 disease owing to the majority of type 2 lymphocytes that constitute the skin-infiltrating leukocytes. However, all of the type 1–3 lymphocytes intermingle in inflamed skin lesions. Here, using an...

Recent studies have led to considerable advances in the identification of genetic variants associated with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. An approach for converting genetic data into a predictive measure of disease susceptibility is to add the risk effe...

This paper presents an initial proposal for the utilization of mediative fuzzy logic in control problems. Mediative fuzzy logic (MFL) was originally proposed with the idea of modeling situations in which there exists contradictory knowledge among sev...

This paper introduces a generalized class of Weyl-type, Witt-type, and non-associative algebras constructed over an exponential–polynomial (expolynomial) framework. For fixed scalars ${\iota }_1,\dots ,{\iota }_r\in \mathcal{A}$ and for fixed integers $\mathbf{p}=(p_1,$...

Soundscapes are one of the main means of creating a religious atmosphere in Han Chinese Buddhist temples, which are the most important religious sites in China. This paper selected several representative forest-type and urban-type Han Chinese Buddhis...

In this paper, we address the study of the Kobayashi–Nomizu type and the Yano type connections on the tangent bundle $TM$ equipped with the Sasaki metric. Then, we determine the curvature tensors of these connections. Moreover, we find conditions under...

This article focuses on the dynamic parameter adaptation in the harmony search algorithm using Type-1 and interval Type-2 fuzzy logic. In particular, this work focuses on the adaptation of the parameters of the original harmony search algorithm. At p...

Background: Despite distinct etiologies, type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) share chronic inflammation as a core feature. Interleukins, key immune mediators, play important yet still not fully understood roles in the development and comp...

Mast cells are highly differentiated, widely distributed cells of the innate immune system, that are currently considered as key regulators of both innate and adaptive immunity. Mast cells play a key role in health and survival mechanisms, especially...

We studied the properties of generalized solutions in unbounded domains and the asymptotic behavior of solutions of elliptic boundary value problems at infinity. Moreover, we studied the unique solvability of the mixed Dirichlet–Steklov-type an...

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a collection of techniques for personality development. Meta programmes, which are habitual ways of inputting, sorting and filtering the information found in the world around us, are a vital factor in NLP. Differ...

This paper proposes a dynamic high-type control (DHTC) method based on an interval type-2 fuzzy logic controller (IT2FLC), which is used in the photoelectric tracking system to improve the steady-state accuracy and response speed. Adding integrators...

(1) Background: This study aimed to analyze epidemiological data to identify risk factors for silent myocardial ischemia in patients with long-term type 1 and type 2 diabetes. (2) Methods: An analysis was performed on 104 patients with long-term type...

This analysis highlights the significant role that domestic actors play in determining the outcomes of economic sanctions. It models the behavior of the main opposition party during an economic sanction episode, and introduces two commonly used varia...

Epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC) consist of several sub-types based on histology, clinical, molecular and epidemiological features that are termed “histo-types”, which can be categorized into less aggressive Type I and more aggressive Typ...

We have investigated the interface dislocations in In_xGa_1−xN/GaN heterostructures (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.20) using diffraction contrast analysis in a transmission electron microscope. The results indicate that the structural properties of interface d...

This paper is dedicated to the memory of the esteemed Serbian mathematician Slaviša B. Prešić (1933–2008). The primary aim of this survey paper is to compile articles on Prešić-type mappings published since 1965....

We discuss a method of constructing solutions of the initial value problem for diffusion-type equations in terms of solutions of certain Riccati and Ermakov-type systems. A nonautonomous Burgers-type equation is also considered. Examples include, but...

Diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2 is associated with cognitive impairment. Previous studies have reported a relationship between changes in cerebral metabolite levels and the variability of glycemia. However, the specific risk factors that affect the me...

Paramyxoviridae is a viral family within the order of Mononegavirales; they are negative single-strand RNA viruses that can cause significant diseases in both humans and animals. In order to replicate, paramyxoviruses–as any other viruses&ndash...

Strain sensing technology using fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors is an attractive capability for aerospace structural health monitoring (SHM) and assessment because they offer resistance to harsh environments, low maintenance, and potential for high...

Both endogenous and exogenous factors cause skin aging. This study aimed to compare the differential expressions of collagen type I (COL I) and collagen type VI (COL VI) in skins with biological aging and photoaging. In order to comprehend the impact...

The objective of this paper is to derive new Hille type and Ohriska type criteria for third-order nonlinear dynamic functional equations in the form of ${\left\{a_2\left(\zeta \right){\phi }_{{\alpha }_2}\left({\left[a_1\left(\zeta \right){\phi }_{{\alpha }_1}\left(x^{\Delta }\left(\zeta \right)\right)\right]}^{\Delta }\right)\right\}}^{\Delta }+q\left(\zeta \right){\phi }_{\alpha }\left(x(\right)$...

In this paper, we introduce two new image-sharing types to extend the applicability of sharing. Type 1 is our so-called forbidden type. In its sharing system, any t of the n shares can recover the secret image, unless the t shares form a forbidden gr...

The aim of this review was to investigate existing guidelines and scientific evidence on determining insulin dosage in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and in particular to check whether the prandial insulin dose should be calculated based on...

Comparative lifetime tests are extremely significant when the experimenters study the reliability of the comparative advantages of two products in competition. Considering joint type-II censoring, we deal with the inference when two product lines con...

Understanding the structural intricacies of RNA molecules is essential for deciphering numerous biological processes. Traditionally, scientists have relied on experimental methods to gain insights and draw conclusions. However, the recent advent of a...

In heterothallic basidiomycete fungi, sexual compatibility is restricted by mating types, typically controlled by two loci: PR, encoding pheromone precursors and pheromone receptors, and HD, encoding two types of homeodomain transcription factors. We...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, perceptions and concerns of individuals living with diabetes mellitus regarding the disorder and its associated long-term health complications. Individuals living with type 1 (N = 110) and t...

The objective of this work is focused on improving the optimization ability of the cuckoo search algorithm (CS), and, for this reason, a comparison is made between type-1 and interval type-2 fuzzy logic to look for more promising results in the cucko...

In the paper, by virtue of the p-adic invariant integral on ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$ , the authors consider a type 2 w-Daehee polynomials and present some properties and identities of these polynomials related with well-known special polynomials. In addition, we p...

Recently, there has been increasing attention on the use of renewable energy in buildings, particularly, the photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system that uses both solar power and thermal energy. However, there is a limit to adopting the PVT system in real...

The aim of this study was to determine whether plasma concentrations of sCD36 (soluble CD36) are associated with the presence of type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Plasma levels of sCD36 were analysed in 1023 subjects (225 type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients, 276...

The effect on the photophysical properties of sulfur- and selenium-for-oxygen replacement in the skeleton of the oxo-4-dimethylaminonaphthalimide molecule (DMNP) has been explored at the density functional (DFT) level of theory. Structural parameters...

In this manuscript, we consider some hybrid contractions that merge linear and nonlinear contractions in the abstract spaces induced by the Branciari distance and the Branciari b-distance. More precisely, we introduce the notion of a $(p,c)$...

This study investigates the geometry of osculating type-2 ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-space ${\mathbf{E}}_1^3$, formulated through the Type-2 Bishop frame associated with a spacelike curve whose principal normal is timelike and binormal is spacelike. Using the hy...

Diabetes is a common chronic disease. Untreated diabetes may lead to complications such as nephropathy, neuropathy, retinopathy, and macroangiopathies. The main goal in treating diabetes is to limit the development of vascular complications. The FGF...

In this paper, we state and establish a new fixed point theorem for generalized Ćirić-type contraction in Kaleva-Seikkala’s type fuzzy b-metric space. Our results improve and extend some well-known results in the literature. Some exam...

Background: Different specific surfactant proteins (SPs) have been associated with various pathological conditions, not only of the respiratory system, but also more recently with cardiovascular diseases, such as heart failure. The aim of the present...

In this paper, we examine the oscillatory behavior of solutions to a class of half-linear third-order dynamic equations with deviating arguments ${\left\{{\alpha }_2\left(\eta \right){\varphi }_{{\delta }_2}\left({\left[{\alpha }_1\left(\eta \right){\varphi }_{{\delta }_1}\left(u^{\Delta }\left(\eta \right)\right)\right]}^{\Delta }\right)\right\}}^{\Delta }+p\left(\eta \right){\varphi }_{\mathrm{\&delt}}$...

Background: Limited data exist comparing how type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and type 2 DM may have differential effects on peripheral artery disease (PAD) severity. We aimed to study the association of type of DM with the procedure utilized in hospita...

In today’s fierce market competition, enterprises must quickly attract consumers’ attention to products and prompt them to make purchases. Based on regulatory focus theory, this study examines the impact of the congruence between different types of g...

This paper presents the design and development of a new type of planetary traction drive bearing-type reducer. In this design, the transmission outer ring is replaced with an elastic ring. The design constructs a circular arc at the axial end of the...

Photocatalytic technology holds significant promise for sustainable development and environmental protection due to its ability to utilize renewable energy sources and degrade pollutants efficiently. In this study, BiOI nanosheets (NSs) were synthesi...