Use of Micronization and Complex Coacervation to Preserve Antioxidant Properties of Flavonoids by Rinat Fatkullin, Irina Kalinina, Natalya Naumenko, Ekaterina Naumenko

“…Under conditions of their real consumption, all this can lead to a significant reduction or complete loss of bioactivity of these flavonoids. …”
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Decomposition of a Pythagorean fuzzy topological space and its application in determining topological relations between indeterminate spatial objects by Subhankar Jana, Anjali Patel, Juthika Mahanta

“…Finally, a simple Pythagorean fuzzy region is defined and all possible relations between such two Pythagorean fuzzy regions are examined.…”
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Dendrimer functionalized folate-targeted gold nanoparticles for luciferase gene silencing in vitro: A proof of principle study by Mbatha Londiwe Simphiwe, Maiyo Fiona Chepkoech, Singh Moganavelli

“…This study is aimed at developing and evaluating the safety and efficiency of siRNA delivery using unmodified and folic acid (FA) modified poly(amidoamine) generation 5 (PAMAM G5D) functionalized gold nanoparticles (Au:G5D/Au:G5D:FA) in vitro. All formulations were physico--chemically characterized and nanocomplexes were evaluated using the band shift, dye displacement, nuclease protection, MTT cell viability, and luciferase reporter gene assays. …”
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Effects of Surfactant Warm-Mix Additives on the Rheological Properties of High-Viscosity Asphalt by Jingtao Shi, Weiyu Fan, Yi Lin, Pinhui Zhao, Jian Ouyang

“…With the increase of the content of WMA, the modulus, failure temperature, viscosity, and recovery rate of warm-mix HVA all increased at first and then decreased, and the maximum value appeared when the modifier content was 1.0%–1.5%. …”
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To Assess the Impact of Oral Quality of Life (QoL) in Teenage Population with Habit History of Tobacco/Areca Nut/Gutka/Smoking Using OHIP-14 in Bhilai Region by Swati Prasad, Alok Avinash, M. C. Shashikanth, Umesh C. Chaudhary

“…(study) and Group II: comprise of 250 subjects without any deleterious habit as (control). All the subjects were explained about the questions and were asked to fill up their responses in the questionnaire using OHIP-14. …”
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Postthoracotomy Ipsilateral Shoulder Pain: A Literature Review on Characteristics and Treatment by Fardin Yousefshahi, Oana Predescu, Melissa Colizza, Juan Francisco Asenjo

“…To review data and collect all present experiences about postthoracotomy IPS and its management and suggest future research directions. …”
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Towards a spectrally multiplexed quantum repeater by Tanmoy Chakraborty, Antariksha Das, Hedser van Brug, Oriol Pietx-Casas, Peng-Cheng Wang, Gustavo Castro do Amaral, Anna L. Tchebotareva, Wolfgang Tittel

“…Through coincidence measurements, we demonstrate quantum correlations between energy-correlated photon pairs and a strong reduction of the correlation strength between all other photons. This constitutes an important step towards a frequency-multiplexed quantum repeater.…”
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Injectable hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel niches to create localized and time-controlled therapy delivery by Veronica Torresan, Alessandro Gandin, Paolo Contessotto, Francesca Zanconato, Giovanna Brusatin

“…Here we aimed to develop an injectable hydrogel that can fulfill all these requirements. We designed a system based on hyaluronic acid, crosslinked via click-reaction with multi-arm polyethyleneglycol and functionalized with RGD peptides. …”
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A Subgroup of First-Degree Relatives of Crohn's Disease Patients Shows a Profile of Inflammatory Markers in the Blood Which Is More Typical of Crohn's Disease Patients Than of Norm... by Broide Efrat, Goren Iris, Hongbin Wang, Scapa Eitan, Keisari Yona

“…Hematological profile and C-reactive protein were determined. Results. All hematological parameters were significantly different in CD patients compared to controls, with significantly higher levels of CRP, WBC, PMN, MONO, and PLT and lower Hb and lymphocyte count. …”
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Spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression during development of a complex colony morphology. by Gareth A Cromie, Zhihao Tan, Michelle Hays, Amy Sirr, Aimée M Dudley

“…Individual deletion of 26 genes sampled from different clusters identified 5 with strong effects on colony morphology (BUD8, CIS3, FLO11, MSB2 and SFG1), all of which eliminated or greatly reduced the structure of the F13 outer region.…”
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Atmospheric Sounding from Fengyun-3C GPS Radio Occultation Observations: First Results and Validation by Shuanggen Jin, Chao Gao, Junhai Li

“…The difference between FY-3C and COSMIC temperatures at all heights is within 1°C, and the tropopause temperature and height have a good consistency. …”
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Acceptability of improved cook stoves-a scoping review of the literature. by Bipin Adhikari, Sophie Suh Young Kang, Aaryan Dahal, Salum Mshamu, Jacqueline Deen, Christopher Pell, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jakob Knudsen, Thomas Chevalier Bøjstrup

“…A scoping review was carried out using a systematic search strategy of literature. All articles identified in three major databases that included Pubmed/Medline, Scopus and Web of Science underwent screening followed by content analysis to generate major and minor themes using a structured social level analysis. …”
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Kinetic Studies of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisations of Styrene and Chloromethylstyrene with Poly(3-hexyl thiophene) Macroinitiator by Nattawoot Rattanathamwat, Jatuphorn Wootthikanokkhan, Nonsee Nimitsiriwat, Chanchana Thanachayanont, Udom Asawapirom

“…The kinetics of these ATRP systems were studied as a function of monomers to the macroinitiator molar ratio. It was found that all of the three types of ATRP systems led to first order kinetics with respect to monomers. …”
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Investigating the key principles in two-step heterogeneous transfer learning for early laryngeal cancer identification by Xinyi Fang, Chak Fong Chong, Kei Long Wong, Marco Simões, Benjamin K. Ng

“…Additionally, to compensate for the absence of twisted patterns in the intermediate domains, we propose the Step-Wise Fine-Tuning (SWFT) technique, guided by the Layer Class Activate Map (LayerCAM) visualization result, getting 20.4% accuracy increases compared to accuracy from THTL’s, even higher than fine-tune all layers.…”
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Proinflammatory Mediators of Toxic Shock and Their Correlation to Lethality by Teresa Krakauer, Marilyn J. Buckley, Diana Fisher

“…In vivo, SEB alone induced moderate levels of IL-2 and MCP-1 and all mice survived even with a high dose of SEB (100 μg/mouse). …”
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Clinical Presentation and Magnetic Resonance Findings in Sellar Tuberculomas by Dulce Bonifacio-Delgadillo, Yolanda Aburto-Murrieta, Citlaltepetl Salinas-Lara, Julio Sotelo, Ivonne Montes-Mojarro, Arturo Garcia-Marquez

“…We report four cases of sellar tuberculoma, 3/1 female/male, age range: 50–57 years. All patients had visual disturbances and low levels of cortisol. …”
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Comparative Effects of MMT Clay Modified with Two Different Cationic Surfactants on the Thermal and Rheological Properties of Polypropylene Nanocomposites by Meshal Al-Samhan, Jacob Samuel, Fatema Al-Attar, Gils Abraham

“…The crystallinity analysis showed that crystallization improved in all nanocomposites irrespective of surface modification; the thermogravimetric analysis showed that the imidazolium modified polymer composites are more thermally stable than conventional ammonium modified composites. …”
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Tropical Atlantic Hurricanes, Easterly Waves, and West African Mesoscale Convective Systems by Yves K. Kouadio, Luiz A. T. Machado, Jacques Servain

“…At this step, using the Meteosat-7 satellite dataset, we selected all the MCSs around this time and region, and tracked them from their initiation until their dissipation. …”
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Zone Fare System Design in a Rail Transit Line by Yi Yang, Lianbo Deng, Qing Wang, Wenliang Zhou

“…To achieve the goal of minimizing fare deviations for all trips, we introduce three indexes: average absolute deviation, average squared deviation, and maximum mileage fare deviation. …”
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN TRADE AS A DRIVER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by N. R. Masumova

“…Russia also suspended the visa-free regime for Turkish citizens, all charter flights to Turkey are prohibited. Nevertheless economic sanctions inevitable affect both the Turkish and Russian economies, but Russia is still one of the main partners of Turkey.…”
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