Effect of 4DryField® PH, a Novel Adhesion Barrier, on Recurrence of Intestinal Adhesions after Extensive Visceral Adhesiolysis by Gerhard Blumhardt, Matthias Haas, Stefanie Polte

“…Five female patients (age 65–83 years) underwent extensive open adhesiolysis with application of 4DF gel for adhesion prevention, premixed extracorporeally with saline or Ringer’s solution (60–70 mL per 5 g 4DF) for homogeneous gel distribution on intestinal loops and in the peritoneal cavity. …”
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Analysis of the Thymidylate Synthase Gene Structure in Colorectal Cancer Patients and Its Possible Relation with the 5-Fluorouracil Drug Response by A. Calascibetta, Flavia Contino, S. Feo, G. Gulotta, M. Cajozzo, A. Antona, G. Sanguedolce, R. Sanguedolce

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Copolymer Based on Polyglycerol-Acrylate-Lactate as Potential Water Viscosifier and Surfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery by M. P. Amaya-Gómez, L. M. Sanabria-Rivas, A. M. Díaz-Lasprilla, C. Ardila-Suárez, R. H. Castro-García, H. I. Quintero-Pérez, G. E. Ramírez-Caballero

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Acoustic Emission Analysis of the Cracking Behavior in ECC-LWSCC Composites by Yara Zaki, Ahmed Abouhussien, Assem Hassan

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Protective Effect of the Ethanol Extract from Hericium erinaceus Against Ethanol-Induced Gastric Ulcers by Guoying Lv, Xiaoya Song, Zuofang Zhang

“…Administration of EEH at doses of 0.625, 1.25, and 2.5 g/kg body weight prior to ethanol ingestion dose-dependently inhibited gastric ulcers. …”
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Current Status of CT Imaging Before Common Transcatheter Interventions for Structural Heart Disease by Rodrigo Salgado, Farah Cadour, Riccardo Cau, Luca Saba

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Experimental Investigations on Static, Dynamic, and Morphological Characteristics of Bamboo Fiber-Reinforced Polyester Composites by N. Santhosh, B. A. Praveena, H. V. Srikanth, Santosh Angadi, Amaresh Gunge, M. Rudra Naik, G. Shankar, K. Ramesha, G. Ravichandran

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Honeypot defense and transmission strategy based on offensive and defensive games in vehicular networks by Jie YI, Tengfei CAO, Shuai GAO, Jianqiang HUANG

“…With the rapid development of the Internet of Vehicles, service providers can efficiently provide caching services for vehicle users by deploying 5G base station-type RSUs adjacent to vehicles.However, due to the presence of malicious attackers, the controlled base station is turned to be malicious for the purpose of identity forgery attack.When messages are sent in the name of malicious base stations to interfere with the communication link between vehicles and the trusted base stations, it is easy to cause serious driving safety problems.To solve the above problem, an efficient transmission and honeypot defense strategy was proposed, which was based on the offensive and defensive game in the Internet of Vehicles to reduce the risk of identity forgery attacks and improve the security of data transmission.The interaction between trusted base stations and malicious base stations in the Internet of Vehicles scenario was modeled as an attack-defense game model.On this basis, trusted base stations and honeypot base stations were jointly used as defenders to defend against malicious attacks.Then, the trusted base station and the malicious base station, as the two sides of the offensive and defensive game, chose their respective strategies to construct a model of the benefit function of both sides.Combined with the vehicle delay feedback mechanism, the defender and the malicious base station dynamically adjusted their respective strategies.By adjusting the interaction between the honeypot base station and the vehicle, and also the degree of IP randomization, the overall benefit of the defender was effectively improved.Besides, the optimal solution was obtained by using the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium theory.Simulation experimental results show that the proposed strategy can improve the secure transmission performance of the Internet of Vehicles service in the presence of malicious attackers, and the defender’s expected benefit is improved by 48.9% and the data transmission delay is reduced by 57.1% compared to the no-honeypot defense scheme.…”
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Antifibrotic Effect of Lactulose on a Methotrexate-Induced Liver Injury Model by Banu Taskin, Mümin Alper Erdoğan, Gürkan Yiğittürk, Damla Günenç, Oytun Erbaş

“…Group 1 subjects were given lactulose 5 g/kg/day, and group 2 subjects were given saline 1 ml/kg/day for 10 days. …”
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Phytotherapeutics and Probiotics as an Alternative to the Use of Antimicrobials in the Diets of Laying Quails by J Zanella, JK Valentim, AA Almeida, RG Garcia, CM Komiyama, PH Braz, MFC Burbarelli, FC Serpa, FR Caldara, BB Przybulinski, VARC Heiss, DD Moraleco

“…Conducted over 42 days with 300 quails, starting at 21 days of age and an average weight of 87 ± 3.5 g, the quails were divided into five groups: negative control (no additives), commercial antibiotics, probiotics (BS Gold®), essential oils (Phyto 100®), and natural pollen. …”
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Purification of arsenic-contaminated drinking water by Fe-Al-CO3 layered double hydroxide derived from secondary aluminum dross: adsorption and stabilization studies by Mohammad Bozorgi, Mostafa Mahinroosta, Ali Allahverdi

“…The results showed that the amount of arsenic adsorbed by the LDH was 0.144 mg/g at room temperature, the adsorbent dose of 0.5 g/L, pH = 7 and the initial arsenic concentration of 80 µg/L. …”
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Optimization Technology of Frequency Conversion Constant Pressure Control System of Mine Emulsion Pump Station in Electrical Engineering and Automation Specialty by Cong Tian, Xiwen Wei, Chao Yang, Chang Su

“…Combined with 3D laser scanning technology based on self-scanning of road contours, the blast method is input to the terminals of the emulsion pump station for automatic blast hole positioning and semiautomation of the emulsion pump station. Combined with 5 g communication and other intelligent key technologies, it realizes high-end functions such as fault self-diagnosis, remote operation, and remote monitoring of the emulsion pump station and rock drill, which can be called full intelligent stage. …”
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Optimization of CO2 Concentration on Mortality of Various Stages of Callosobruchus maculatus and Development of Controlled Atmosphere Storage Structure for Black Gram Grains by V. Siva Shankar, G. Velmurugan, S. Kaliappan, S. Baskara Sethupathy, S. Sekar, Pravin P. Patil, G. Anitha, Geremew Geidare Kailo

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Physicochemical Study of Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Supported Palygorskite Clay Mineral by Lahcen Bouna, Benaissa Rhouta, Francis Maury

“…This amount is interestingly lower than the 2.5 g·L−1 generally reported when using pure unsupported TiO2 powder. …”
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Two Synchronous Neonatal Tumors: An Extremely Rare Case by M. Rodríguez-Zubieta, K. Albarenque, C. Lagues, A. San Roman, M. Varela, D. Russo, G. Podesta, D. Steinberg, C. Schauvinhold, A. Etchegaray, M. T. G. de Dávila

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Comparison of Birth Weights of Pre-Delivery Anemic and Non-Anemic Routine Iron Supplemented Pregnant Women by Tolga Atakul

“…When all patients are evaluated, 300 (28%) of them were found to be anemic according to Word Health Organization criteria but not for the former ACOG cut-off, which was 9.5 g/dL. There was no significant association between pre-delivery anemia and birth weight. …”
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Study on the preparation of calcium modified coal gangue and its adsorption performance of phosphate by Yanrong Dong, Hongyu Zhai, Ziqing Gao, Guohao Gong, Fengjuan Li

“…Batch adsorption experiments showed that when the phosphate concentration was 100 mg/L, the optimal CaMCG dosage was 0.5 g and the optimal reaction time was 48 h. At pH 3–7, the adsorption capacity of CaMCG for phosphate was always good. …”
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Endothelial Function in Women with and without a History of Glucose Intolerance in Pregnancy by Shireen Brewster, John Floras, Bernard Zinman, Ravi Retnakaran

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Maternal erythrocytosis as a risk factor for small for gestational age at term in high altitude by Wilfredo Villamonte-Calanche, Marco Antonio Salazar-Zegarra, Cleto De-la-Torre-Dueñas, Alexandra Villamonte-Jerí, Adaí Vera-Luza, Milagros Hilari Bustinza-Apaza, Nuria Huanca-Huirse

“…A logistic regression with the goodness of fit to the proposed model was also performed with the Hosmer and Lemeshow test, evaluating the small-for-gestational-age results with or without exposure to hemoglobin >14.5 g/dl. Results The incidence of small-for-gestational-age was 6.9% for this entire cohort. …”
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Preliminary results of open comparative randomized study PHG-M3/P01-09 «ORION» on application of «Phosphogliv» in combined therapy of chronic hepatitis C by M. V. Mayevskaya

“…Four-week application of phosphogliv (glycirrhizinic acid) in a dose of 2,5 g iv 5 times per week, previous to onset of antiviral therapy (AVT) by standard interferon α-2b/ribavirin in the mode corresponding to revealed genotype, has resulted in statistically significant decrease of serum transaminases: alanineaminotransferase (ALT), asparaginaminotransferase (AST) and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) activity in comparison to the group of the patients, that received only standard interferon α-2b/ribavirin (р <002, Wilcoxon T) to the 4-th week of treatment. …”
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