Health risks from heavy metals in cosmetic products available in the online consumer market by Alicja Kicińska, Magdalena Kowalczyk

“…The MoS, HQ and HI values calculated for all the samples of cosmetics indicated that the products do not present a risk to human health.…”
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Model keunggulan bersaing UMKM kerajinan anyaman bambu di Bali by I Made Kartika, I Made Sumada, I Made Adi Suwandana, Dewa Gede Putra Sedana, Putu Gede Denny Herlambang, Yudistira Adnyana, I Gusti Bagus Rai Utama

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all business sectors, including micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). …”
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Towards a unified regional surveillance system: the Gulf CDC’s first initiatives by Sami Al Mudarra, Lamis Alghamdi, Ahmed AlHatlan, Andrew Amato Gauci, Aleksandra Polkowska Kramek, Alaa Alqurashi, Nouf Alzuhayri, Sadeem AlShiban, Bushra Alghamdi, Pasi Penttinen

“…Prior to the introduction of this system, senior experts in this field from all GCC member states were surveyed and a consensus process launched to agree on the first steps. …”
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Germline-restricted chromosomes of the songbirds by P. M. Borodin

“…Germline-restricted chromosomes (GRCs) are present in the genomes of germline cells and absent from somatic cells. A GRC is found in all species of the songbirds (Passeri) and in none of the other bird orders studied to date. …”
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Virtual Node-Driven Cloud–Edge Collaborative Resource Scheduling for Surveillance with Visual Sensors by Xinyang Gu, Zhansheng Duan, Guangyuan Ye, Zhenjun Chang

“…Experimental results show that all the scheduling algorithms can effectively address the challenge of offloading multiple priority tasks under resource constraints. …”
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Seismic Behavior of a Novel Buckling-Restrained Steel Plate Shear Wall by Yang Li, Xiaofeng Zhao, Ping Tan, Fulin Zhou, Jin Jiang

“…The failure pattern, hysteretic characteristics, skeleton curve, equivalent stiffness, ductility, and energy dissipation have all been systematically analysed. A stiffened steel plate shear wall (SPSW) has also been tested in order to determine the differences between these two steel shear walls in load-carrying capability and the function and significance of the gap. …”
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Storage Stability of Additive-free Salacca sp. Fruit Leather by Umi Purwandari, Mojiono Mojiono, Ninik Wulandari K Putri, Miftakhul Efendi, Alfan Wijaya

“…Storage time increased water activity, titratable acidity, but reduced all colour parameters. Higher storage temperature led to higher L and b values. …”
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Prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in children with transfusion-dependent thalassemia: A hospital-based cross-sectional study by Aniruddha Rathore, Mukesh Dhankar, Sharmila B. Mukherjee, Suvasini Sharma, Shailaja Shukla, Piali Mandal

“…Neurological examinations focusing on peripheral neuropathy followed by NCS were performed on all the patients. Age-wise cutoff values outside of 2.5 SD of normal were taken as abnormal. …”
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The Importance of the Structure and Content Analysis of the Exit Interview in Companies for the Success of its Implementation by Lana Milivojević

“…When conducting exit interviews in companies, these interviews should certainly be structured, so the paper explains in detail and with examples all phases of a structured interview, starting with the phase of planning and preparation for conducting an exit interview, the introductory phase, the phase of free expression (thinking), the phase of asking questions, the final phase of the exit interview and the evaluation phase of the exit interview. …”
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Closed Fuel Cycle and Minor Actinide Multirecycling in a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor by W. F. G. van Rooijen, J. L. Kloosterman

“…The GCFR targets sustainability, which is achieved by the use of a closed nuclear fuel cycle where only fission products are discharged to a repository; all Heavy Metal isotopes are to be recycled in the reactor. …”
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Efficacies of corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis vaccines against caseous lymphadenitis in mice and sheep by Osman Erganiş, H. Hüseyin Hadimli, Kürşat Kav, Aslı Sakmanoğlu, Zafer Sayın, Yasemin Pınarkara

“…After vaccination at 15 days, mice were subcutaneously challenged with C. pseudotuberculosis and PLD of the challenge strain with LD50 dose. All mice were observed throughout 20 days for morbidity and mortality. …”
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Morphometric Evaluations and Yields from Commercial Cuts of Black Pacu Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1818) in Different Body Weights by Jucilene Cavali, Beatriz Andrade Nóbrega, Jerônimo Vieira Dantas Filho, Elvino Ferreira, Marlos Oliveira Porto, Rute Bianchini Pontuschka, Rilke Tadeu Fonseca de Freitas

“…The measures of total length and standard length have a high positive correlation with the yield of meat in all classes, as well as the average circumference and caudal circumference in classes 1, 2, and 4, which can be used to determine the yields of this commercial cut.…”
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Implementation of home visit method in offline learning during the Covid-19 pandemic by Benjamin Metekohy, Novita Sahertian, David Ming

“…So that not a few schools carry out offline learning, previously all educational institutions conducted offline learning by giving assignments to students as a substitute for studying at school. …”
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Study on Major Parasitic Diseases of Adult Honeybees in Three Districts of Kaffa Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Semere Solomon, Tadesse Degu, Haben Fesseha, Mesfin Mathewos

“…Since regular and timely control of all factors that endanger honeybee life and threaten their products is needed for effective apiculture, cross-sectional research was performed in the three districts (Bonga, Chena, and Gimbo) of the Kaffa Zone to assess the prevalence of major honeybee diseases. …”
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Realistic Facial Expression of Virtual Human Based on Color, Sweat, and Tears Effects by Mohammed Hazim Alkawaz, Ahmad Hoirul Basori, Dzulkifli Mohamad, Farhan Mohamed

“…The result shows that virtual human facial expression is enhanced by mimicking actual sweating and tears simulations for all extreme expressions. The proposed method has contribution towards the development of facial animation industry and game as well as computer graphics.…”
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Vergence and Accommodative Dysfunctions in Emmetropic and Myopic Chinese Young Adults by Martin Ming-Leung Ma, Anna Chwee Hong Yeo, Mitchell Scheiman, Xiang Chen

“…Baseline testing including binocular vision and accommodative testing was performed on all eligible participants. A multiple-sign classification system was used to analyze these data for the diagnosis of common nonstrabismic binocular vision and accommodative dysfunctions. …”
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Risk Factors Associated with First Time and Recurrent Shoulder Instability: A Systematic Review by Alexis Wright, Brandon Ness, Angela Spontelli-Gisselman, Dora Gosselin, Joshua Cleland, Craig Wassinger

“…Titles and abstracts were independently screened by at least two reviewers. All reviewers examined the quality studies using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS). …”
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Short‐term load forecasting at electric vehicle charging sites using a multivariate multi‐step long short‐term memory: A case study from Finland by Tim Unterluggauer, Kalle Rauma, Pertti Järventausta, Christian Rehtanz

“…The findings reveal that all charging sites exhibit distinct charging characteristics, which affects the forecasting accuracy and suggests a differentiated analysis of the different charging categories. …”
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Bruxism and familiar functioning in school-age children between 5 and 11 years by Ana Lury Morales, Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Ivelise Álvarez Rosa, Moraima Orbea González, Jeny Fernández Martínez, Jorge A. Rodriguez López

“…<strong>Methods:</strong> Analytical control-case design, developed from March to June, 2007, including children between 5 and 11 years from three urban elementary schools included in Health Area II of Cienfuegos municipality. All the children with bruxism were selected as cases and the controls were selected through pairing 2 to 1. …”
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Analysis of NEA-NSC PWR Uncontrolled Control Rod Withdrawal at Zero Power Benchmark Cases with NODAL3 Code by Tagor Malem Sembiring, Surian Pinem, Peng Hong Liem

“…The influence of radial and axial nodes number was investigated for all cases. The results of NODAL3 code are in very good agreement with the reference solutions if the radial and axial nodes number is 2 × 2 and 2 × 18 (total axial layers), respectively.…”
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