The occurrence and safety evaluation of phthalic acid esters in Oasis agricultural soils of Xinjiang, China by Hejiang Liu, Xiuting Liu, Kai Wang, Xingwang Ma, Haihe Gao, Xuejun Liu, Changrong Yan

“…The most abundant PAEs detected were Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP), and diethyl phthalate (DEP), which accounted for 49.82 %, 23.74 %, and 20.96 % of the total, respectively. …”
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Chronic Pain in the Emergency Department: A Pilot Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Study Examining Patient Characteristics and Reasons for Presentations by Patricia A. Poulin, Jennifer Nelli, Steven Tremblay, Rebecca Small, Myka B. Caluyong, Jeffrey Freeman, Heather Romanow, Yehudis Stokes, Tia Carpino, Amanda Carson, Yaadwinder Shergill, Ian G. Stiell, Monica Taljaard, Howard Nathan, Catherine E. Smyth

“…Background. Chronic pain (CP) accounts for 10–16% of emergency department (ED) visits, contributing to ED overcrowding and leading to adverse events. …”
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Mechanical Properties, Impermeability, and Microstructure of Mortar Containing Recycled Fine Aggregates Modified by Graphene Oxide After High-Temperature Exposure by Zhao Xiang, Guofu Chen, Zhiwei Cai, Jiaxing Shao

“…Furthermore, the incorporation of GO refined the pore size and improved the densification of the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) of the mortar after high-temperature exposure. Taking into account the mechanical properties, water absorption, and microstructure of the mortar containing RFAs, a GO dosage of 0.04~0.06% could be recommended as the optimum engineering dosage.…”
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Experimental Verification of Impact of Sprinkled Area Length on Heat Exchange Coefficient by Petr Kracik, Marek Balas, Martin Lisy, Jiri Pospisil

“…However, experiments (tests) have always been performed under strict laboratory conditions on one to three relatively short tubes and behaviour of the flowing fluid on a real tube bundle has not been taken into account, which is the primary aim of our research. …”
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Classical swine fever: a retrospective analysis of the epizootic situation in the Russian Federation (2007–2021) and forecast for 2022 by A. S. Oganesyan, A. A. Shevtsov, A. V. Shcherbakov, F. I. Korennoy, A. K. Karaulov

“…For purposes of analysis, current trends of CSF spread in domestic pigs and wild boars in the Russian Federation, as well as the volume of the vaccine used, were visualized in relative numbers (taking into account total number of pigs in the country) used to build a regression model. …”
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Effects of fishing and environmental parameters on the commercial bony fish assemblage in the southern Caspian Sea by Fazli Hasan, Kaymaram Farhad, Daryanabard Gholam Reza

“…Of the 13 bony fish species identified, only two species Rutilus kutum and Chelon aurata accounted for 47.14% and 62.65%, and 40.80% and 29.34% of CPUE and NPUE, respectively. …”
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The Effect of Backfill Gas Pressure on the Thermal Response of a Dry Cask for Spent Nuclear Fuel by Michela Angelucci, Salvatore A. Cancemi, Rosa Lo Frano, Sandro Paci

“…In this regard, both heat production and heat removal mechanisms have to be taken into account. On this basis, the present paper addresses the variation in the system heat removal capacity when considering different backfill gas pressures. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities in Fog Computing Scheduling: A Literature Review by Wu Chia Chuan, Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari, Selvakumar Manickam, Erum Ashraf, Shankar Karuppayah

“…It meticulously compares and contrasts various scheduling methodologies, taking into account critical aspects like the characteristics of fog computing, case studies, performance metrics, and simulation tools for evaluation, in addition to outlining their advantages and limitations. …”
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Nonfluent/Agrammatic PPA with In-Vivo Cortical Amyloidosis and Pick’s Disease Pathology by Francesca Caso, Benno Gesierich, Maya Henry, Manu Sidhu, Amanda LaMarre, Miranda Babiak, Bruce L. Miller, Gil D. Rabinovici, Eric J. Huang, Giuseppe Magnani, Massimo Filippi, Giancarlo Comi, William W. Seeley, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini

“…This patient demonstrates that biomarkers indicating brain amyloidosis should not be considered conclusive evidence that AD pathology accounts for a typical FTD clinical/anatomical syndrome.…”
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Critical Segments Identification for Link Travel Speed Prediction in Urban Road Network by Xiaolei Ru, Xiangdong Xu, Yang Zhou, Chao Yang

“…The results show that the designed model achieves a high accuracy compared to the conventional method using only two critical segments which account for 2.7% in the road networks. The proposed method is cost-efficient which generates the critical segments scheme that reduces the cost of traffic information collection greatly and is more sensible without the demand for extremely high prediction accuracy. …”
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Understanding mediation as an out-of-judicial procedure for the settlement of civil-legal and labor disputes by Mahnovskyi I.

“…The formation, adaptation and development of mediation in Ukraine are accompanied by national character and features, which will contribute, taking into account the standards in this field of foreign experience, to the development of appropriate professional approaches and competencies for the effectiveness of the legal regulation of the procedure for its application. …”
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Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden by Lotta Vikström, Helena Haage, Erling Häggström Lundevaller

“…Having access to micro-data that report disabilities in a population of 8,874 individuals from the parish registers digitised by the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, we employ sequence analysis on a series of events that are expected to occur in life of young adults: getting a job, marrying and becoming a parent, while also taking into account out-migration and death. Through this method we obtain a holistic picture of the life course of disabled people. …”
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Postoperative complications and long-term outcomes after total and subtotal thyroidectomy: a retrospective study by Sobhan Javidi, Sepehr Sadrizadeh, Ali Sadrizadeh, Shokoufeh Bonakdaran, Lida Jarahi

“…In this study, women accounted for 863 and men for 159 of the total population. …”
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Coal Facies and Its Effects on Pore Characteristics of the Late Permian Longtan Coal, Western Guizhou, China by Yi Lou, Yuliang Su, Wendong Wang, Peng Xia, Ke Wang, Wei Xiong, Yin Yu, Linjie Shao, Fuqin Yang, Xiangping Chen

“…Among them, the moist forest peat swamp facies accounts for the largest proportion, followed by the shallow-water covered forest peat swamp and dry forest peat swamp facies. …”
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Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus crispatus Do Not Have Cytotoxic Effects on HN5 Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cell Line by Sepideh Mokhtari, Saede Atarbashi-Moghadam, Elahe Motevaseli, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard, Ardeshir Hesampour

“…Squamous cell carcinomas account for more than 90% of cancers in oral cavity. …”
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Selection Path for Energy-Efficient Food Waste Management in Urban Areas: Scenario Analysis and Insights from Poland by Anna Rolewicz-Kalińska, Krystyna Lelicińska-Serafin, Piotr Manczarski

“…The criteria for the selection of technologies for the energy-efficient processing of food waste from households in Poland were identified, taking into account the current state of these technologies, their prospective development, demographic changes, the nature of the regions, the trajectory of food waste generation, the spatial food waste generation rate, and the energy potential. …”
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Absence of Substantial Copy Number Differences in a Pair of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder by Marina Laplana, José Luis Royo, Anton Aluja, Ricard López, Damiàn Heine-Sunyer, Joan Fibla

“…Recent studies suggest that rare genomic variations, in particular copy number variation (CNV), may account for a significant proportion of the genetic basis of ASD. …”
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Analyzing the impact of social media sentiments on government response during natural disasters in Pakistan by Fazal Tariq, Muhammad Tufail, Taj Rehman

“…The study therefore establishes social media as an accountability forum that provides real-time feedback to government agencies in the course of calamity management. …”
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Patterns of Brucellosis Infection Symptoms in Azerbaijan: A Latent Class Cluster Analysis by Rita Ismayilova, Emilya Nasirova, Colleen Hanou, Robert G. Rivard, Christian T. Bautista

“…Patients in cluster 2 accounted for one-quarter of brucellosis cases and had a more severe clinical presentation. …”
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An Adsorption Model Considering Fictitious Stress by Xiaohua Tan, Xinjian Ma, Xiaoping Li, Yilong Li

“…In this article, we introduce a fractal capillary bundle model that accounts for the expansion of coal seam adsorption. …”
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