SEROLOGICAL MONITORING FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2017–2018 by M. A. Volkova, Ir. A. Chvala, P. S. Yaroslavtseva, V. Yu. Sosipatorova, O. S. Osipova, I. A. Chvala

“…Avian influenza is a highly contagious avian viral disease notifiable to the World Organiza­tion for Animal Health that causes huge economic losses and poses a great threat to poultry farms worldwide. A total of 60,697 serum samples from poultry and 581 serum samples from wild and synanthropic birds were submitted to the Reference Laboratory for Avian Viral Diseases of the FGBI “ARRIAH” (Vladimir) from 34 regions in 2017–2018 in the frame­work of monitoring carried out by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of the Russian Federation. …”
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Dissolution improvement of solid self-emulsifying drug delivery systems of fenofi brate using an inorganic high surface adsorption material by Shazly Gamal, Mohsin Kazi

“…Solidification of lipid formulations using adsorbents is a recent technique attracting great interest due to its favourable properties including flexibility in dose division, reduction of intra-subject and inter-subject variability, improvement in efficacy/safety profile and enhancement of physical/ chemical stability. …”
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Electric Signals on and under the Ground Surface Induced by Seismic Waves by Akihiro Takeuchi, Kan Okubo, Nobunao Takeuchi

“…Their waveforms were damped oscillations, with greatly differing signal amplitudes among sites. Good positive correlation was found between the amplitudes of signals detected by all electrodes. …”
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Experimental and analytical study of the residual performance of reinforced concrete deep beams with circular web openings by Mohammad Shabanlou, Zeinab Meghdadi, Seyed Hamidreza Ghaffar

“…Reinforced concrete deep beams with web openings are of great importance in tall buildings that serve as a transfer girder. …”
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Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations of the Hydrogen and Methane storage capacities of a novel Co-MOF by A. Granja-DelRío, I. Cabria

“…Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) have shown great promise in achieving the stringent storage targets set by the Department of Energy (DOE) for hydrogen and methane. …”
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Stress Uniformity Analyses on Nonparallel End-Surface Rock Specimen during Loading Process in SHPB Tests by Pu Yuan, Qin-yong Ma, Dong-dong Ma

“…And the influence on shortening stress equilibrium time is weak, while the influence on extending stress equilibrium time is great. When end-surface nonparallelism is 0.10%, stress equilibrium time achieves its lowest value whatever Young’s modulus is. …”
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Evaluation of the Perspectives of Individuals with Older Adults in Their Families about the Concepts of Institutional Care and Ageing in Place Care and Ageing in Place by İlknur Çetinkaya, Ali Fuat Ersoy

“…The older adults, who have experienced great disadvantages in the process of transition from an agricultural society to an industrial society, have faced psychological problems as well as problems such as health, housing, care and employment. …”
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Effects of Furrow Irrigation on the Growth, Production, and Water Use Efficiency of Direct Sowing Rice by Chunlin He

“…Traditional irrigation methods used in rice farming often result in great water loss. New water-saving methods are urgently needed to reduce water consumption. …”
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Vitamin Bs as Potent Anticancer Agents through MMP-2/9 Regulation by Ha Vy Thi Vo, Namdoo Kim, Hyuck Jin Lee

“…Understanding the mechanisms by which these coenzymes regulate metalloenzymes holds great promise for developing novel anticancer strategies. …”
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Green Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Moringa oleifera Leaves and Its Antimicrobial and Cytotoxicity Activities by Gufran Mahmood Mohammed, Sumaiya Naeema Hawar

“…The plant occupied the largest area in the biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles, especially the medicinal plants, and it has shown great potential in biotechnology applications. In this study, green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from Moringa oleifera leaves extract and its antifungal and antitumor activities were investigated. …”
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Proposal to use LHC general-purpose detectors in “beam-dump” measurements for long-lived particles by Bhaskar Dutta, Doojin Kim, Hyunyong Kim

“…We further show that the LHC does not suffer from a barrier, dubbed beam-dump “ceiling”, that typical beam-dump experiments hardly surpass. This gives the LHC great potential to explore a wide range of parameter space. …”
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Soil Contamination by Metals/Metalloids around an Industrial Region and Associated Human Health Risk Assessment by Hale Demirtepe

“…Non-carcinogenic risk assessment revealed acceptable risks of exposure to Aliağa soils, while exposure scenarios had a great impact on estimated risks. Arsenic, chromium (Cr), and Pb appeared to be significant contributors to non-carcinogenic risk. …”
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Study of Bank erodibility and its effective factors in the Lavij River (Mazandaran Province, Chamestan) by taher valipour, Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Saeedeh M.biranvand

“…According the BEHI model, cross sections 5, 4, 3, 1 and 6 show a high incidence of instability and have a great potential for bank erosion and sediment production. …”
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Interacting with Compatriots in Russian Regions: the Experience of Tatarstan by R. R. Gimatdinov, I. R. Nasyrov

“…The Days of the Republic of Tatarstan are also held abroad with great success,and they are aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation together with the promotion of Tatar culture in the world.A special place in the activities of all the Tatar communities takes the honoring and support of the WWII and labor veterans. …”
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Analysis on Deformation Failure and Structural Mechanical Characteristics of Multistage Loess Slope Supported by Frame Structure with Anchors by Kui-bin Yang, Yan-peng Zhu, Lin-ping Wu, Xin-guo Duan, Duo-bang Shi, Xiao-tao Du

“…However, the development between theory and practice is not synchronous, and there exist experience and uncertainty in the design process to a great extent. In response to this problem, the multistage loess slope supported by frame structure with anchors is taken as the research object, and the model test is carried out with the help of the large-scale geotechnical centrifuge under the condition of using prototype materials as much as possible. …”
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Research on the Prediction of the Water Demand of Construction Engineering Based on the BP Neural Network by Hao Peng, Han Wu, Junwu Wang

“…The scientific and effective prediction of the water consumption of construction engineering is of great significance to the management of construction costs. …”
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Peculiarities of Grammatical Properties in Nominal Word Combinations by I. B. Klienkova

“…Secondly, it has been established that the choice of syntactic relations in word combinations of the above-mentioned type of word combinations greatly depends on the semantic meaning of the noun - the first component of the word combination - and does not always coincide with the grammatical properties in nominal combinations in Germany. …”
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Current understanding of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in bacteria (analytical review) by O. V. Pruntova, V. S. Russaleyev, N. B. Shadrova

“…All three mechanisms are widespread in nature, although some bacterial species use one mechanism to a great extent than the other two. Transduction is supposed to play an important role, in particular, in the antibiotic resistance gene transfer, but the significance of transformation or transduction in the resistance gene transfer under the laboratory or environmental conditions has not been clarified so far due to the difficulty of naturally emerging recombination detection. …”
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Hierarchical CuO/ZnO Membranes for Environmental Applications under the Irradiation of Visible Light by Zhaoyang Liu, Hongwei Bai, Darren Delai Sun

“…All the above characteristics of this hierarchical CuO/ZnO membrane indicate its great potential in environmental applications with solar visible light.…”
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Characteristics Analysis of Generalized Rock Quality Designation (RQD) Based on Degree of Joint Development by Lin Jun, Sha Peng, Gao Shuyu, Ni Jiji

“…It is also indicated that the fracture spacing has a great influence on both the anisotropy of RQD and the selection of the optimal threshold. …”
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