ESTIMATION OF THE FIRST MATURITY SIZE OF SILVER BARB (Barbonymus gonionotus) IN SIDENRENG LAKE, SOUTH SULAWESI by Hasrianti Hasrianti, Gondo Puspito, Budhi Hascaryo Iskandar, Mohammad Imron, Wazir Mawardi

“…The fishing activity for the silver barb was carried out year-round using gill nets with various mesh sizes, ranging from small to large (1.5”, 2”, 2.5”, 3”, and 3.5”). These activities have led to a decline in the fish population in the Lake. …”
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Chronic Benign CD8+ Proliferation: A Rare Affection that Can Mimic a Lymphoma Relapse by Marcela Osovská, Andrea Janíková, Leoš Křen, Andrea Marečková

“…The treatment, which differed from treatments of lymphoma relapse, consisted of corticosteroids and IVIG substitutions and has led to a regression of clinical symptoms. With more frequent usage of rituximab, one can expect increased occurrence of a very rare CD8+ expansion that can reliably emulate the relapse of a lymphoma.…”
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Comparison of the efficacy and adverse effects of long pulsed 1064 nm Nd: YAG laser and sclerotherapy in the treatment of pyogenic granuloma in children: a retrospective study by Jun Cheng, Hua Yuan, Ronghua Fu, Pingliang Jin, Mengyu Huang, Zhiping Wu, Hanxiang Bai, Xiangqun Huang, Yun Zou

“…The traditional treatment is surgical removal, but its bleeding, pain, and trauma have led doctors to look for more minimally invasive methods. …”
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Unawareness of a Prolonged Retained Capsule Endoscopy: The Importance of Careful Follow-Up and Cooperation between Medical Institutions by Susumu Saigusa, Masaki Ohi, Hiroki Imaoka, Tadanobu Shimura, Ryo Uratani, Yasuhiro Inoue, Masato Kusunoki

“…Each ulcer had different histopathological findings such as the degree of fibrosis and monocyte infiltration. These differences led us to consider that the proximal ulcer may have been secondarily induced by capsule retention. …”
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Community hydric monitoring: homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia by Astrid Ulloa, Julieta Godfrid, Gerardo Damonte, Catalina Quiroga, Ana Paula López

“…The expansion of large- scale mining projects in Latin America has led to the application of several different institutional and business-endorsed water monitoring systems. …”
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Performance Improvement of a Flash-Binary Geothermal Power System Using Zeotropic Working Fluid; A Comprehensive Exergoeconomic Analysis and Optimization by Seyed Sajad Mosaviasl, Ali Dezhdar, Sajjad Keykhah, Ehsan Farhadi, Mojtaba Nedaei

“…The mass, energy, exergy, and exergoeconomic analysis is applied to evaluate the proposed system performance, in which the system led generated 3841 kW net power with 61.09% exergetic efficiency and 3.55 years of payback period. …”
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Cancer Stem Cell Marker Endoglin (CD105) Induces Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) but Not Metastasis in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Junhui Hu, Wei Guan, Libin Yan, Zhangqun Ye, Lily Wu, Hua Xu

“…The knockdown of CD105 by RNA interference led to the downregulation of N-cadherin and the upregulation of E-cadherin and reduced motility and invasiveness of CD105(+) cells. …”
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Dynamic Support Culture of Murine Skeletal Muscle-Derived Stem Cells Improves Their Cardiogenic Potential In Vitro by Klaus Neef, Philipp Treskes, Guoxing Xu, Florian Drey, Sureshkumar Perumal Srinivasan, Tomo Saric, Erastus Nembo, Judith Semmler, Filomain Nguemo, Christof Stamm, Douglas B. Cowan, Antje-Christin Deppe, Maximilian Scherner, Thorsten Wittwer, Jürgen Hescheler, Thorsten Wahlers, Yeong-Hoon Choi

“…In contrast to static culture conditions, dynamic culture with or without previous hanging drop preculture led to significantly increased cluster diameters and the expression of cardiac specific markers on the protein and mRNA level. …”
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A model of competing saturable kinetic processes with application to thepharmacokinetics of the anticancer drug paclitaxel by Rebeccah E. Marsh, Jack A. Tuszyński, Michael Sawyer, Kenneth J. E. Vos

“…Two dominant fractional power law exponents were found to characterize the tails of paclitaxel concentration-time curves. Short infusion times led to a power exponent of $-1.57 \pm 0.14$, while long infusion times resulted in tails with roughly twice the exponent. …”
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Melt quality induced failure of electrical conductor (EC) grade aluminum wires by Khaliq A., Rafiq M.A., Ali H.T., Ahmed F., Mehmood S., Grandfielde J., Ranjha S.A.

“…During wire drawing process, these inclusions were pulled out of the aluminum matrix by the wiredrawing forces to produce micro-voids which led to ductile tearing and final fracture of wires. …”
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Science and opinion in decision making: A case study of the food security collapse in Sri Lanka by Akila Wijerathna‐Yapa, Robert J. Henry, Matt Dunn, Christine A. Beveridge

“…However, this abrupt change led to the rapid collapse of Sri Lanka's food supply, a significant decline in GDP, and hardships for both rural and urban communities. …”
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Hemoglobin Variant (Hemoglobin Aalborg) Mimicking Interstitial Pulmonary Disease by Vasiliki Panou, Peter-Diedrich Mathias Jensen, Jan Freddy Pedersen, Lars Pilegaard Thomsen, Ulla Møller Weinreich

“…Initially she was suspected of idiopathic interstitial lung disease, yet a series of tests uncovered various abnormal physiological parameters and set the diagnosis of hemoglobinopathy Aalborg. This led us to examine a group of the index person’s relatives known with hemoglobinopathy Aalborg in order to study whether the same physiological abnormalities would be reencountered. …”
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Prescribers’ approval rate of pharmacist-initiated interventions to optimise patients’ clinical status of hypertension in the ambulatory care setting by Brajković Andrea, Bićanić Lucija Ana, Orehovački Helena, Prkačin Ingrid, Oliveira Djenane Ramalho De, Mucalo Iva

“…These results reinforce the need to integrate pharmacy-led services in the primary care setting with the aim of improving patients’ health outcomes.…”
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Application of psychobiotics in clinical treatment of mental disorders: Neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, depression and anxiety by Jingwei Cui, Wenxin Wang, Yue Tang, Siyuan Feng, Hong Liu, Zikai Hao

“…It is precisely this potential that has led to the widespread use of psychobiotics over the past decade to improve and treat mental disorders. …”
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Use of pattern recognition in photoacoustic imaging to identify neuronal ensembles in the prefrontal cortex of rats undergoing conditioned fear learning by Shane A. Perrine, Mohammad Beirami, James I. Matchynski, Rayyan Manwar, Srinivasu Kallakuri, Alana C. Conti, Kamran Avanaki

“…Pattern recognition analysis in brain research has improved understanding of sensory processing and led to the identification of default brain networks in neuroimaging studies. …”
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Use of Immunostimulants in Shrimp Farming—A Bioeconomic Perspective by Héctor Rodrigo Nolasco-Alzaga, Elizabeth Monreal-Escalante, Mariel Gullian-Klanian, Juan Antonio de Anda-Montañez, Antonio Luna-González, Fernando Aranceta, Marcelo E. Araneda-Padilla, Carlos Angulo

“…However, the trade-off of this production scheme has led to infectious disease outbreaks that harm food production with economic impacts. …”
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Land-cover Dynamics and Oriental Honey-buzzard Winter Habitat Preference in Borneo, Indonesia by Utami Meirani, Lilik Budi Prasetyo, Yeni A. Mulyani, Syartinilia, Horoyoshi Higuchi

“…The confluence of deforestation, industrialization, and urbanization has placed Kalimantan at a critical juncture. Borneo Island has led to the fragmentation habitat. ARGOS is a satellite tracking tool that has been used to monitor the movements and behavior of Oriental Honey-buzzards since 2003. …”
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Mutual-information of meteorological-soil and spatial propagation: Agricultural drought assessment based on network science by Qingzhi Wen, Xinjun Tu, Lei Zhou, Vijay P Singh, Xiaohong Chen, Kairong Lin

“…The spatial propagation of information on drought led to the key source areas for the occurrence of drought. …”
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Prenatal Silicon Dioxide Nanoparticles Exposure Reduces Female Offspring Fertility Without Affecting Males by Min Lei, Zhenye Zhu, Chenlu Wei, Huihui Xie, Ruizhi Guo, Yanqing Zhao, Keer Wang, Mengchen Wang, Wenhui Chen, Xiqiao Xu, Xinxin Zeng, Yining Xu, Wandi Zhang, Yizhe Chu, Yingpu Sun, Qingling Yang

“…Here, it is found that prenatal SiO2 NPs exposure led to subfertility in female offspring, evidenced by decreased ovulation potential, ovarian reserve, and litter size. …”
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A Consecutive Genome Engineering Method Reveals a New Phenotype and Regulation of Glucose and Glycerol Utilization in Clostridium Pasteurianum by Tom Nguyen, Luca W. G. Meleski, Minu P. Belavatta, Sivasubramanian Gurumoorthi, Chijian Zhang, Anna‐Lena Heins, An‐Ping Zeng

“…Additionally, examination of the phenotype of the generated mutant strain led to discovery of 2,3‐butanediol (2,3‐BDO) production of up to 0.48 g L−1, and this metabolite was not reported to be produced by C. pasteurianum before. …”
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