Emission Inventory for PFOS in China: Review of Past Methodologies and Suggestions by Theodore Chao Lim, Bin Wang, Jun Huang, Shubo Deng, Gang Yu

“…These varied emissions sources all contribute to PFOS' existence within nearly all environmental media. …”
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Conventional-Microwave Mediated Synthesis and In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Novel Carbazole-Efflux Pump Inhibitor Hybrid Antibacterials by Ghazala Yaqub, Zubi Sadiq, Almas Hamid, Amber Fatima, Zainab Ijaz

“…Both antibacterial compounds 2 and 3 were found effective against all tested bacterial strains at different concentrations. …”
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Biomechanical Investigation of the Efficacy of Conventional Bicycle Helmets at Preventing Facial Injury by Ghaidaa A. Khalid

“…Helmets failed to reduce face impact exposure, during all simulations, except for perpendicular cheek impacts. …”
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Influence of thermal processing on physicochemical properties and fatty acid composition of grape seed oils by U. Gecgel, D. Kırca, D. Apaydin

“…The highest total phenolic content values (from 259.67 to 524.77 mg GAE/kg) for all varieties were detected at the control temperature and decreased after both heat treatment applications. …”
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The Stoic Tradition by John Sellars

“…We cannot know the reasons why; all we do know is that as a result of this textual neglect more or less all of Chrysippus’ works are now lost, save for a few papyrus scraps recovered from Herculaneum. …”
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Robust Decentralized Formation Tracking Control of Complex Multiagent Systems by Naveed Mazhar, Rameez Khan, Abid Raza, Fahad Mumtaz Malik, Raja Amer Azim, Hameed Ullah

“…Therefore, starting inside a closed boundary, the agents are guaranteed to remain inside it for all future time. Under directed communication topology, decentralized time-varying formation tracking is achieved in finite time. …”
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Changes in Body Mass Index across Age Groups in Iranian Women: Results from the National Health Survey by Enayatollah Bakhshi, Behjat Seifi, Akbar Biglarian, Kazem Mohammad

“…It included 14176 women aged 20–69 years. Results. For all covariates, age was directly associated with overweight and obesity before 60 years of age. …”
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The Association Between Human Cytomegalovirus and Salivary Gland Cancer: An Analytical Study and Literature Review by Hagir Abd Rahman Mahmoud, Ahmed Mohamed Suleiman, Elwaleed Mohamed Elamin, Sawsan Abdel Rahim Mohammed

“…Results: CMV was detected in only 1 out of 84 SGC cases; an adenoid cystic carcinoma. All adjacent normal salivary gland tissues were negative for the virus. …”
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Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector by YU Nanjing, FENG Daquan, ZHU Ying, ZHANG Hengjia, LU Ping

“…Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images have been widely applied in military reconnaissance and traffic supervision, owing to their all-weather and all-day abilities. With excellent learning performance, convolutional neural networks are employed in the SAR ship detection algorithms. …”
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Bilateral orchidopexy for intermittent testicular torsion by Paul K. Hegarty, Mona Kalantar, Penelope A. Hegarty, Helen Zafirakis, Jack E. Monahan

“…Participants were men who underwent elective bilateral orchidopexy for intermittent testicular torsion. All consecutive cases were treated by a single surgeon in a single centre between 2015 and 2023. …”
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Skew-Forms and Galois Theory by Gupta, Ashish, Mandal, Sugata

“…We also establish that a subspace of dimension $\frac{n}{2}$ all of whose nonzero skew-forms are non-degenerate can always be found in $A^{\sigma ^i}$ where $\sigma ^i$ has order divisible by $2$.…”
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The Activity of Metalloproteases and Serine Proteases in Various Organs after Leiurus macroctenus Envenomation by Valery Gunas, Oleksandr Maievskyi, Nataliia Raksha, Tetiana Vovk, Oleksiy Savchuk, Serhii Shchypanskyi, Igor Gunas

“…Envenomation led to a significant increase in proteolytic activity levels in all assessed organs, mostly in the heart (by 3.34 times) and lungs (by 2.25 times). …”
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Parallel-mode EPR spectra of the hexaaqua manganese(II) Ion in tetrahedral symmetry by Juel Henrichsen, Margrete, Bendix, Jesper, Weihe, Høgni

“…A simple formalism, based on perturbation theory to grossly account for the observed intensities, is presented. We observe all parallel-mode-allowed hyperfine transitions associated with all fine-structure transitions.…”
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Analysis of Cause-Specific Mortality in Patients with Retinoblastoma by Lei Yang, Xiaolian Fang, Mei Jin, Jun Chen, Chengyue Zhang, Jianing Mou, Junyang Zhao, Xin Ni

“…The cause-specific mortality rate was 4.5% for all patients with RB who died and 0.3% for all patients with RB. …”
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Models for information propagation on graphs by Oliver R. A. Dunbar, Charles M. Elliott, Lisa Maria Kreusser

“…In a first class, propagation is modelled as a wave, which emanates from a set of known nodes at an initial time, to all other unknown nodes at later times with an ordering determined by the arrival time of the information wave front. …”
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Patient's Attitudes Towards the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Finland: an Ethnomedical Insight Based on Cancer Narratives by Piret Paal

“…However, patients with long-term illnesses are eager to try all available cures in their desire to become well and this leads to a situation in which complementary treatments are used in a somewhat secretive manner. …”
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Value Creation Assessment Tool for Green Buildings: Development and Implementation by Wael Alattyih, Husnain Haider, Nawaf K. Alsohiman

“…All the buildings showed moderate financial risks ranging between 40 and 50% and a higher potential of management risks with scores around 60% or higher. …”
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Effects of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers on the Growth of NH-Ae 47-4 Variety of Okra by Molik A Zainab, Eluwa C Vincent, Oluwatobi S Ayodele, Gayus Y Lakwannum, Olorunmaiye S Kehinde

“…The results obtained from the experiment showed that the effect of the treatments were significantly difference from the control for all the parameters accessed with urea fertilizer having least effect. …”
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IF-MABAC Method for Evaluating the Intelligent Transportation System with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Information by Yanping Li

“…Afterwards, relying on novel distance measures between intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs), the conventional MABAC method is extended to the IFSs to calculate the final value of each enterprise. Therefore, all enterprises can be ranked, and the one with the best environmental behaviors and awareness can be identified. …”
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Master Education and Academic Career Track in Russia by A. V. Garmonova, E. A. Opfer, D. V. Shcheglova

“…The Russian master’s degree programs shortly involve young researchers in projects, and this applies to all types of universities, including the research ones. …”
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