Statins—Their Effect on Lipoprotein(a) Levels by Marcin Mateusz Granat

“…The mean difference of absolute change in Lp(a) concentration for all 43 studies equaled 0.22 mg/dL and was not clinically significant. …”
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Jack London and White Fang: a lost struggle by Zilberstein, Gleb, Zilberstein, Svetlana, Rocco, Richard M., Righetti, Pier Giorgio

“…A medicine case, drug vials, and various paper documents that covered the period of his life from 1906 to 1915 were examined for drug residues left on their surface. All the objects were tested with the non-invasive surface analysis EVA (ethylene-vinyl acetate) technology, which consist of a foil studded with ground mixed-bed cation/anion exchangers as well as with C$_{8}$ and C$_{18}$ resins. …”
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The Ventilatory and Diffusion Dysfunctions in Obese Patients with and without Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome by Sonia Rouatbi, Ines Ghannouchi, Rim Kammoun, Helmi Ben Saad

“…Anthropometric data (height, weight, and body mass index (BMI)) were collected. All adults responded to a medical questionnaire and underwent polysomnography or sleep polygraphy for apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and percentage of desaturation measurements. …”
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Exploring the gender gap in young adult mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from the UK. by Mhairi Webster, Sarkis Manoukian, John H McKendrick, Olga Biosca

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Although across all ages and genders, mental health had returned to near pre-pandemic levels by September 2021, young people and especially women continue to have worse mental health compared to other age groups, which is consistent with pre-COVID age and gender inequalities. …”
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Enhancement of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Poly(L-lactide) Nanocomposites Filled with Synthetic Layered Compounds by Telma Nogueira Caio, Núria Gonçalves, Fernando Wypych, Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona

“…Compared to PLLA, almost all the nanocomposites exhibited an enhancement on thermal resistance. …”
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The Dader Method in pharmaceutical attention of hypertensive patients at Pontal do Araguaia/MT, Brazil by Maria Fernanda Spegiorin Sala Brune, Ellen Eliane Ferreira, Carlos Kusano Bucalen Ferrari

“…After the pharmaceutical interventions, all patients had a reduction in blood pressure, and only 8% did not reach the normal blood pressure levels. …”
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Fatigue life assessment of thin-walled welded joints under non-proportional load-time histories by the shear stress rate integral approach by A. Bolchoun, C. M. Sonsino, H. Kaufmann, T. Melz

“…This measure is computed as an area covered by the shear stress vectors in all planes over a certain time interval, its computation involves the shear stress and the shear stress rate vectors in the individual planes. …”
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A evolução das ilhas de calor noturnas em Três Lagoas/MS no período de fevereiro a junho de 2019 by Juliana Carla Pereira de Freitas, Gislene Figueiredo Ortiz Porangaba, Mauro Henrique Soares da Silva

“…The results show that during the analyzed period, the formation of nocturnal heat islands was observed in all months, being up to 10.7ºC in February, 5.8ºC in March, 6.2ºC in April, 7.1ºC in May and 7.7ºC in June. …”
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Review and Selection Strategy for High-Accuracy Modeling of PWM Converters in DCM by Yu-Jun Mao, Chi-Seng Lam, Sai-Weng Sin, Man-Chung Wong, Rui Paulo Martins

“…Some research studies claimed that the improved SSA can obtain the highest accuracy among all the modeling methods, but this paper discovers and clearly verifies that this is not the case. …”
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SWOT Analysis on the Use of Haba Inggreh Android Application in High Schools in Nagan Raya Regency by Veni Nella Syahputri, Nyak Mutia Ismail, Kismullah, Herri Darsan

“…Classroom observations and interviews were employed as the data collection techniques, and all the obtained data were analyzed using thematic analysis. …”
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Lumbar Spondylolysis in Juveniles from the Same Family: A Report of Three Cases and a Review of the Literature by Atsuhisa Yamada, Koichi Sairyo, Isao Shibuya, Ko Kato, Akira Dezawa, Toshinori Sakai

“…The second and third boys are identical twins, and all three cases exhibited concomitant spina bifida occulta. …”
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Passage through phenophases by milkvetches introduced into the environments of the Kulunda Steppe by T. V. Kornievskaya

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The Influence of Ultrasonic Melt Treatment on Microstructural Evaluation of the Al7Si2.5Cu Alloy for Semisolid Processing by Luis Vanderlei Torres, João Paulo de Oliveira Paschoal, Luciano Augusto Lourençato, Eugênio José Zoqui

“…When comparing the microstructural evolution of the Al7Si2.5Cu alloy via UST with the ultra-grain refining technique, UST presents superior results in all analyzed scenarios.…”
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Evaluating the effects of Melastoma malabathricum and Dicranopteris linearis as amendments for acid sulfate soil by Syazwan Sulaiman, Kathereen Liew

“…Additionally, both plant materials consistently enhanced soil exchangeable K across all addition rates by up to an order of magnitude compared with dolomite (end value 52.87 – 174.53 mg kg−1 vs. 17.49 – 25.79 mg kg−1). …”
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Comparison of the Screening Tests for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus between “One-Step” and “Two-Step” Methods among Thai Pregnant Women by Suchaya Luewan, Phenphan Bootchaingam, Theera Tongsong

“…A prospective study was conducted on singleton pregnancies at low or average risk of GDM. All were screened between 24 and 28 weeks, using the one-step or two-step method based on patients’ preference. …”
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Wavelength Tuning Free Transceiver Module in OLT Downstream Multicasting 4λ × 10 Gb/s TWDM-PON System by M. S. Salleh, A. S. M. Supa’at, S. M. Idrus, S. Yaakob, Z. M. Yusof

“…We propose a new architecture of dynamic time-wavelength division multiplexing-passive optical network (TWDM-PON) system that employs integrated all-optical packet routing (AOPR) module using 4λ×10 Gbps downstream signal to support 20 km fiber transmission. …”
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The expression of different gene constructs in Escherichia coli SM lux biosensor after exposure to drugs by Grażyna Łaska, Marzena Matejczyk, Urszula Dauksza

“…It was found that incubation of the E. coli SM strain in various concentrations of analytes results in differentiation in gene expression at each of the tested concentrations (from 0.625 to 10 µg/mL) and during all three measurements, in “time 0”, after 30 min. and after 1 h. …”
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“I learned a lot about me as a person”: University students’ development as non-formal education professionals by Amber Simpson, Jada McCann, Diana Murtaugh, Laurie E. Miroff

“…This group of professionals includes university students who volunteer their time in educational and youth-service organizations.MethodsIn this collective case study, we utilized Cultural-Historical Activity Theory to (a) understand how undergraduate and graduate students negotiated their development as a non-formal educational professional within an afterschool program and (b) consider how contradictions influenced their growth as educators, if at all. Three forms of data were collected from 10 graduate and undergraduate students as they volunteered their time as an educator in a 10-week afterschool program in partnership with two rural middle schools.ResultsResults highlighted shared contradictions among university students, such as lack of content knowledge and being viewed as friend versus being viewed as an educator, as they individually and collectively reflected upon their development and growth as non-formal educators within the afterschool program. …”
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Influence of Ionic Liquid Structure on Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes Effectiveness in Carbon Dioxide/Methane Separation by Iwona Cichowska-Kopczyńska, Monika Joskowska, Bartosz Dębski, Justyna Łuczak, Robert Aranowski

“…Moreover, CO2 permeability exhibited an increase with increasing temperature for all investigated systems. Stability of supported ionic liquid membranes was studied. …”
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Smart Defect Detection in Aero-Engines: Evaluating Transfer Learning with VGG19 and Data-Efficient Image Transformer Models by Samira Mohammadi, Vahid Rahmanian, Sasan Sattarpanah Karganroudi, Mehdi Adda

“…We conclude that the difference in performance across all metrics can be attributed to the adoption of the transformer-based architecture by the DeiT model as it does this well in capturing complex patterns in data. …”
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