Urology pathways for the primary care physician by J John

“… Urology provides critical medical treatment that has the potential to save lives and greatly improve quality of life. Although there is a growing need for urological care, South Africa (SA) now faces an unmet need for these services, and junior doctors have limited exposure to urology. …”
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Novel Chaos Secure Communication System Based on Walsh Code by Gang Zhang, Niting Cui, Tianqi Zhang

“…Also the multiuser interference is greatly suppressed due to the orthogonality of Walsh code.…”
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Stem Cell Tracking with Nanoparticles for Regenerative Medicine Purposes: An Overview by Lisa Accomasso, Clara Gallina, Valentina Turinetto, Claudia Giachino

“…Accurate and noninvasive stem cell tracking is one of the most important needs in regenerative medicine to determine both stem cell destinations and final differentiation fates, thus allowing a more detailed picture of the mechanisms involved in these therapies. Given the great importance and advances in the field of nanotechnology for stem cell imaging, currently, several nanoparticles have become standardized products and have been undergoing fast commercialization. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on SVM Optimized with Adaptive Quantum DE Algorithm by Yuanyuan Li, Qichun Sun, Hua Xu, Xiaogang Li, Zhijun Fang, Wei Yao

“…., the results show that the algorithm proposed in this study has a higher diagnosis accuracy and shorter running time, providing great practical engineering value in the application of rolling bearing fault diagnosis.…”
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Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Screening for Magnesium Deficiency by Paolo Severino, Lucrezia Netti, Marco Valerio Mariani, Annalisa Maraone, Andrea D’Amato, Rossana Scarpati, Fabio Infusino, Mariateresa Pucci, Carlo Lavalle, Viviana Maestrini, Massimo Mancone, Francesco Fedele

“…In consideration of the great public-health impact of cardiovascular disease, the recognition of the negative effects of magnesium deficiency suggests the possible role of hypomagnesaemia as cardiovascular risk factor and the use of serum magnesium level for the screening and prevention of cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular diseases. …”
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MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTER FOR OPERATING A TABLETOP COSMIC RAY DETECTOR UNDER LOOSELY CONTROLLED CONDITIONS by Hoang Duy Thanh Nguyen, Vu Chi Lan Nguyen, Van Son Cao, Van Ngoc Tran, Khoa Nguyen, Thi Hong Van Nguyen, To Quyen Phan

“…The multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) has recently emerged as a great type of silicon photomultiplier to replace or compensate for conventional vacuum-based photomultiplier tubes. …”
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Analyzing Ferroresonance Phenomena in Power Transformers Including Zinc Oxide Arrester and Neutral Resistance Effect by Hamid Radmanesh, Fathi Seyed Hamid

“…The simulation results show that connecting the neutral resistance exhibits a great mitigating effect on nonlinear overvoltage.…”
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The sequence and directions of doing business in the market by O. A. Zemlyanskiy

“…Entrepreneurial activity, its types and methods of action in the markets are very diverse. Markets also have great differences, features or specifics, therefore, a comparative analysis of the feasibility of entering or presence in them requires not only the calculation of economic indicators, but also the development of a single sequence and lines of business for any market, type and scale of business, allowing an analysis of the possibility of effective conducting different types of business, occupying desired positions in the market, compare these business opportunities in different markets. …”
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Study on Vibration Suppression of Bevel Gear with Integral Squeeze Film Damper by Liang Ma, Lidong He, Kaihua Lu, Yipeng Zhang, Zhao Chen

“…Comparing the vibrations of bevel gear transmission system at different speeds，it is verified that the ISFD elastic damping support has a great effect on vibration reduction over a wide speed range.…”
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Dehydrated and Freeze-dried Peach Fruit: A Prolonged Shelf-life Product through Modern Drying Techniques by Fariborz Habibi, Ali Sarkhosh, Steven A. Sargent, Jeffrey K. Brecht

“…Furthermore, consumers greatly value high-quality peaches due to their exceptional nutritional value and enjoyable sensory attributes. …”
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Analysis of graphical user interfaces of music services taking into account universal design principles by Damian Mydlak, Kacper Adamiak, Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska

“… While creating services, great emphasis is placed on usability and accessibility of the user interface. …”
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An Electrical Insulator Defects Detection Method Combined Human Receptive Field Model by Li Guo, Yu Liao, Hongying Yao, Jinhao Chen, Manran Wang

“…The breakage and defect of the insulator have great influence on the safe of transmission lines, and insulator defect detection with difference types is a complex work. …”
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Characterizations of rice husk based silica made from acid leaching extraction method by Muralli Arivalan, Hoe Kwan Wai, Aun Abbas Muhammad, Hasnolhadi Samsudin Muhammad

“…Rice husk is a material that is greatly acquired through agriculture, which opens up as a source for silica. …”
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First records of Anthidium florentinum (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) in the Canary Islands: insights on citizen science and exotic bee species by Diego Patiño-Sauma, Carlos Ruiz, John S. Ascher

“…This is important in the Canary Islands and other oceanic archipelagos, where invasive species pose a great risk to the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity monitoring strategies may not be completely adequate in their detection. …”
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Research on the Impact of Marine Environment on ICPT Transmission Efficiency by Da Li, Wei Gao, Xusheng Wu, Jianxin Gao, Shenqin Yang

“…The complicated marine environment has a great influence on the performance of ICPT. In the deep-sea high-pressure environment, due to the piezomagnetic effect, the magnetic core in the coupling structure will suddenly change the permeability, and the coupling coefficient, self-inductance, and other parameters will also change accordingly. …”
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Experimental study of the piezoelectricity of Middle Pleistocene loess in the Weibei region, China by Yanlin JING, Jie LIU, Qingying LIU, Xiaoxiao DUAN, Na XIE, Dengke YANG

“…Investigating the feasibility of replacing traditional car batteries with loess-based piezoelectric cells under the combined action of vibration and upper load is undoubtedly a topic of great interest. Furthermore, research based on the piezoelectricity of loess in loess regions, including soil moisture monitoring, seismic activity monitoring, and predominant period determination, holds great theoretical and practical significance. …”
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Death and disappearance: Measuring racial disparities in mortality and life expectancy among people in state prisons, United States 2000-2014. by Bryan L Sykes, Ernest K Chavez, Justin D Strong

“…In this paper, we explore changes in mortality and life-expectancy among different demographic groups, before and after the Great Recession, across forty-four states that reported deaths in custody to the federal government between 2000 and 2014.…”
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Community case study: an academia-industry-government partnership that monitors and predicts outbreaks in Tri-County Detroit area since 2017 by Irene Xagoraraki, Liang Zhao, Yabing Li, Brijen Miyani, John Norton, James Broz, Andrew Kaye, Anna Mehrotra, Anil Gosine, Scott Withington, Stacey McFarlane, Russell A. Faust

“…Since 2017, a project team including the College of Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), the City of Detroit, the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), industry, and local government and health departments, has been testing municipal wastewater from the TCDA to survey and predict surges in communicable diseases in the area. …”
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Determination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Craft Villages and Industrial Environments of Vietnam by Thi Vi Phung, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, Lan-Anh Phan Thi, Hung Viet Pham, Hong Anh Duong

“…Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have attracted great concern because of their great recalcitrant nature and harmful environmental health effects. …”
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Factors associated with risk analysis for asymptomatic left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in nondialysis patients with chronic kidney disease by Yajuan Gao, Shengnan Chen, Jiani Fu, Cui Wang, Yali Tang, Yongbai Luo, Xiaozhen Zhuo, Xueying Chen, Yan Shen

“…Therefore, exploring and intervention of the factors associated with risk for LVDD is of great importance in reducing the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications in CKD patients. …”
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