Potentially Toxic Elements’ Accumulation and Health Risk of Consuming Vegetables Cultivated along the Accra-Tema Motorway by Ebenezer Boahen, Benedicta Yayra Fosu-Mensah, Samuel S. Koranteng, Daniel A. Darko, Gerald Obuobi, Michael Mensah

“…Of the seven PTEs investigated, Cd, Cr, and Ni contributed the most to the overall HI in all the vegetables. It was further observed that the carcinogenic risk (CR) and total carcinogenic risk (TCR) for chromium and cadmium in the vegetables exceeded the threshold level of CR > 10−6 and TCR > 10−4 except for the cadmium value found in African eggplant at 200 m from the road. …”
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Deciphering the potential of plant metabolites as insecticides against melon fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae): Exposing control alternatives to assure food security by Zinat Jahan Chowdhury, Anik Banik, Tanjin Barketullah Robin, Mohammed Rashed Chowdhury

“…The control compound, malathion, showed lower binding affinities across all three proteins. Stability of the top compound-protein complexes was further confirmed through a 100 ns molecular dynamics simulation. …”
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Dynamic of seismic noise sources in the Mediterranean Sea: implication for monitoring using noise correlations by Stehly, Laurent, Delouche, Estelle, Tomasetto, Lisa, Ranjan, Pratul

“…Instead, the goal of this work is to study how the dynamics of the seismic noise affect the possibility of monitoring the evolution of the crust, in particular the temporal resolution and accuracy of the velocity change that can be detected.To that end, we perform a single station analysis at all available European broadband stations in 2021 using a proxy that quantifies the extent to which the frequency content of the noise wavefield is stationary over time, independently of its amplitude variations. …”
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The impact of the Hsp67Bc gene product on Drosophila melanogaster longevity, fecundity, and acute heat stress tolerance by D. Malkeyeva, S. A. Fedorova, E. Kiseleva

“…At the same time, the fecundity of the mutant females was lower by 6–13 % in all tested environments, except for permanent maintenance at 29 °C, where the mean numbers of eggs laid by the mutant and control f lies were equal. …”
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Analgesic Effect of Ultrasound-Guided Anterior Quadratus Lumborum Block at the L2 Level in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy: A Single-Center, Randomized Control... by Ying He, Mingying Huang, Qiangui Zhong, Huijuan Ni, Zenggui Yu, Xinjian Zhang

“…The postoperative follower was blinded to the group allocations. All patients received total intravenous anesthesia, the same multimodal analgesic regimen, and rescue analgesia when needed. …”
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MetArea: a software package for analysis of the mutually exclusive occurrence in pairs of motifs of transcription factor binding sites based on ChIP-seq data by V. G. Levitsky, A. V. Tsukanov, T. I. Merkulova

“…The multiprotein complex mapped in a ChIP-seq experiment includes target and other “partner” TFs linked by protein-protein interactions. Not all these TFs bind to DNA directly. Therefore, both target and partner TFs recognize enriched BS motifs in peaks. …”
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Diplomatic activities of M.M. Litvinov in the USA during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1943) by A. A. Vershinin, P. A. Tupikin

“…The authors show that M.M. Litvinov used all the diplomatic tools available to defend the interests of the USSR, instantly reacting to any changes in the moods of the U.S. military and political establishment and immediately reporting them to Moscow. …”
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Finite Local Rings of Length 4 by Sami Alabiad, Alhanouf Ali Alhomaidhi, Nawal A. Alsarori

“…</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> In particular, we have listed all finite local rings of 4-length and of order <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>p</mi><mn>8</mn></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>256</mn><mo>.…”
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Comprehensive analysis of disulfidptosis-related genes and the immune microenvironment in heart failure by Linna Zhao, Juanjuan Zhang, Juanjuan Zhang, Qiuhang Song, Cheng Dai, Yiping Qin, Aiying Li, Aiying Li

“…The effect of these DRGs on the characteristics of the immune microenvironment was further explored, such as infiltrating immune cells, immune response gene sets, and HLAs genes.ResultsAll four DRGs were dysregulated in HF samples. The predictive model based on these four DRGs effectively differentiated between HF patients and healthy individuals, which was validated in the experiment. …”
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Assessing Sensory Characteristics and Consumer Preference of Legume-Cereal-Root Based Porridges in Nandi County by Peninah W. Gitau, Catherine N. Kunyanga, George O. Abong', John O. Ojiem, James W. Muthomi

“…The most cited reason for liking or disliking a particular porridge was taste (38.9%) and texture (32.2%), respectively. However, all the sensory attributes positively correlated with overall acceptability. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of injury in 7–22-year-old badminton players by age and sex by Xiao Zhou, Kazuhiro Imai, Xiao-Xuan Liu, Zhuo Chen, Eiji Watanabe, Hongtao Zeng

“…Badminton-related injuries were normalized to rate per 1000 training-hours calculated by Poisson distribution in the collected data according to age and gender. Among all the 711 badminton players, 60.3% (429 players) suffered from at least one badminton-related injury. …”
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Antimicrobial and Mechanical Properties of Orthodontic Acrylic Resin Containing Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Supported on 4A Zeolite by Mahdiyeh Esmaeilzadeh, Baharak Divband, Bahram Ranjkesh, Fatemeh Pournaghi Azar, Fatemeh Yeganeh Sefidan, Mojgan Kachoei, Behnaz Karimzadeh

“…The addition of 2 and 4 wt% of ZnO/4A, TiO2/4A, and ZnO/TiO2/4A caused colony reduction in all types of tested microorganisms more than 99% and 100%, respectively. …”
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Canadian healthcare capacity gaps for disease-modifying treatment in Huntington’s disease: a survey of current practice and modelling of future needs by Sylvain Chouinard, Blair R Leavitt, Angèle Bénard, Nathalie Budd, Jennifer W Wu, Kerrie Schoffer

“…The average national incremental nursing, room, neurologist and social worker support required to provide IT DMT to all eligible patients is 0.73, 0.36, 0.30 and 0.21 FTE per HD centre, respectively. …”
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Understanding role of cadmium substitution on the structural, microstructural, transport properties of ferrites synthesized by different methods by Kulkarni Akshay B., Mathad Shridhar N., Manohara S.R., Deshpande Sandeep M., Kulkarni Kajal A., Mane Vaishali

“…The XRD confirms the cubic spinel structure of all the samples. The SEM images show the agglomeration of particles observed to be increasing with increase in Cd doping. …”
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Moral and exhausting distress working in the frontline of COVID-19: a Swedish survey during the first wave in four healthcare settings by Mia Svantesson, Lars Sandman, Linda Durnell, Erik Hammarström, Gustav Jarl

“…Preventive measures for major events should focus on connectedness between all parties concerned, preventing inhumane care and burn-out.…”
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A longitudinal study to COVID-19 infection among university students: Physical fitness changes and psychological responses by Yuning Hao, Jay Lee, Water Soi Po Wong, Frankie U. Kei Wong, Walter Heung Chin Hui, Gasper Chi Hong Leong, Zhaowei Kong

“…Sex (β = .164, p < .05), previous infection (β = .277, p = .019) and anxiety (β = .373, p = .002) were predictive of PSQI scores, accounting for 37.5 % of the variance. Conclusions: All participants experienced a decline in physical fitness compared to their pre-infection levels, regardless of infection status. …”
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Executive Function Strengths in Athletes: a Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Shuangquan Ren, Peng Shi, Xioasu Feng, Kai Zhang, Wenchao Wang

“…Elite and sub‐elite, and sub‐elite and amateur athletes all showed more positive performance on the cognitive flexibility task compared to the latter. …”
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Choroidal Detachment after XEN Gel Stent Implantation by Carlo Alberto Cutolo, Letizia Negri, Sara Olivari, Francesca Cappelli, Carlo Enrico Traverso, Michele Iester

“…Complete resolution was observed in all the cases. Wide-field imaging and ultrasonography were useful tools to diagnose and follow up CD until resolution. …”
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Prognostic analysis of helical tomotherapy stereotactic body radiotherapy in multiple primary or second primary lung cancers by Jintao Ma, Xiaohong Xu, Wenhan Huang, Yong Hu, Gang Chen, Jian He

“…Results After adjusting for competing risks, the LR rates for all lesions (n = 150) was 15.3%, with 2- and 4-year rates of 7.5% and 11.4%. …”
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An optimized method for counting viral particles using electron microscopy by B. N. Zaitsev, O. S. Taranov, N. B. Rudometova, N. S. Shcherbakova, A. A. Ilyichev, L. I. Karpenko

“…Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. …”
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