Penthorum chinense Pursh improves type 2 diabetes mellitus via modulating gut microbiota in db/db mice.

Penthorum chinense Pursh (P. chinense) has been traditionally used as hepatoprotective food and medicine for hundreds of years due to its significant antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. However, the efficacy and mechanisms of action of P.

Datasets for gravelly soil liquefaction case histories.

This data article provides summarized information on the liquefaction case histories of gravelly soil from 17 earthquakes. 234 historical cases based on the shear wave velocity test and dynamic penetration test are carefully compiled and corrected according to the data processing procedures recommended in the related research article [1]. All necessary information that helps develop the corresponding deterministic or probabilistic prediction models for gravelly soil liquefaction, including earthquake name and time, site name and its location, moment magnitude (M), peak ground acceleration, epicentral distance, bracketed duration, fines content, gravel content, average particle size, normalized dynamic penetration test blow count or normalized shear wave velocity, groundwater table, depth of gravelly soil deposit, total and effective overburden stress, the thickness of the impermeable capping layer, the thickness of the unsaturated zone between the groundwater table and capping layer, cyclic stress ratio for M = 7.

Supervised Learning Methods for Modeling Concrete Compressive Strength Prediction at High Temperature.

Supervised learning algorithms are a recent trend for the prediction of mechanical properties of concrete. This paper presents AdaBoost, random forest (RF), and decision tree (DT) models for predicting the compressive strength of concrete at high temperature, based on the experimental data of 207 tests. The cement content, water, fine and coarse aggregates, silica fume, nano silica, fly ash, super plasticizer, and temperature were used as inputs for the models' development.

Key factors influencing earthquake-induced liquefaction and their direct and mediation effects.

Many factors impact earthquake-induced liquefaction, and there are complex interactions between them. Therefore, rationally identifying the key factors and clarifying their direct and indirect effects on liquefaction help to reduce the complexity of the predictive model and improve its predictive performance. This information can also help researchers understand the liquefaction phenomenon more clearly.

[Apoptosis and differentiation induced with TCLA in rat glioblastoma cells in vitro].

Objective: To investigate the effect of conjugated trienoic fatty acids on the growth inhibition, apoptosis in rat glioblastoma cells and to elucidate its mechanism of activity.

Methods: Rat glioblastoma cells were tested in vitro cytotoxicity, colony formation inhibition, Brdu incorporation after treatment with TCLA. Its effect of apoptosis induction was detected through Hoechst 33342 staining, cell cycle analysis.