Effect of Attapulgite Nanorods and Calcium Sulfate Microwhiskers on the Reaction-Induced Phase Separation of Epoxy/PES Blends by Xiaolin Tang, Xinhui Zhong, Guozhu Zhan, Yingfeng Yu, Hongdong Zhang

“…The influence of two kinds of mesoscale inorganic rod fillers, nanoscale attapulgite and micron-sized CaSO4 whisker, on the reaction-induced phase separation of epoxy/aromatic amine/poly- (ether sulfone) (PES) blends has been investigated by optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and time resolved light scattering (TRLS). By varying the PES concentration and curing temperature, we found that the incorporation of attapulgite and CaSO4 had dramatic impact on the phase separation process and the final phase morphology of blends. …”
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Antibacterial Effect of Black Pepper Petroleum Ether Extract against Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella typhimurium by Wenxue Chen, Hui Tang, Ningxin Jiang, Qiuping Zhong, Yueying Hu, Haiming Chen, Weijun Chen

“…The activities of key metabolic enzymes shed some light on the biochemical mechanism of aglycon cell growth inhibition, indicating that the energetic metabolism of L. monocytogenes and S. typhimurium was markedly influenced by the BPPE. …”
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Ueji, le précurseur du jardin japonais moderne et les hommes qui l’ont influencé by Yagasaki Zentarō

“…The purpose of this article is to shed light on the particularities of the modern Japanese garden (from the late 19th century to the early 20th century). …”
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Surgical Treatment of Osteopetrosis-Related Femoral Fractures: Two Case Reports and Literature Review by Ahmet Aslan, Yakup Barbaros Baykal, Emin Uysal, Tolga Atay, Vecihi Kirdemir, Metin Lütfi Baydar, Nevres Hürriyet Aydoğan

“…In this study, we aimed to present two new cases of ADO type II with an osteopetrotic femoral fracture along with the clinical and radiological findings in the light of a comprehensive literature review. Orthopaedics surgeons should be aware of intraoperative technical difficulties and possible postoperative complications during the follow-up period. …”
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Microenvironment modulation of TiO2 nanosheets for highly selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction by Xingxing Zheng, Jun Yang

“…In this study, we design and prepare a modified TiO2 surface with phosphate to reduce CO2 using light. The TiO2+PO43- composite performs exceptionally well, producing CO at a rate of 36.93 μmol g-1 h-1, which is three times higher than pure TiO2, with nearly 100% selectivity for CO. …”
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Digital technology and mental health: Chinese university students' perspectives on the impact of social media by Chi Zhang

“…This study intends to shed light on how these students' use of social media platforms contributes to these mental health issues, given that it has been estimated that up to 30% of university students in China suffer from mental health issues…”
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Investigation of photophysical properties and potential biological applications of substituted tris(polypyridyl)ruthenium(II) complexes by T. Sumitha Celin, G. Allen Gnana Raj, T. S. Prathima, M. M. Balamurali

“…The potential of these complexes to serve as bioanalytes was investigated by their ability to bind with quinones, the well-known electron mediators in numerous light-driven reactions. Following the above, the anticancer properties were evaluated against breast cancer-related proteins. …”
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PRIVATIZATION OF RUSSIA’S ENERGY ASSETS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT by Y. V. Borovsky

“…For example, it sheds light on some considerable achievements of the Russian state-controlled companies in oil production amid a widespread belief that more than a decade-long growth in the Russian oil industry is due only to private firms that were created in the 1990s. …”
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Global Warming, Air Pollution and Health by Robin Attfield

“…More immediate remedies for air pollution include restricting the use of roads and streets in urbanised areas by vehicles to bicycles and light vehicles with small engines. Medical and nursing education should include the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions resulting from increased levels of carbon oxides, nitrogen oxides and particulates. …”
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Experience modulates gaze behavior and the effectiveness of information pickup to overcome the inversion effect in biological motion perception. by Xiaoye Michael Wang, Zhichen Feng, Mingming Yang, Jing Samantha Pan, Margaret A Wilson, Qin Zhu

“…The inversion effect in biological motion suggests that presenting a point-light display (PLD) in an inverted orientation impairs the observer's ability to perceive the movement, likely due to the observer's unfamiliarity with the dynamic characteristics of inverted motion. …”
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A new species of Hemiphyllodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from western Yunnan, China by Hongxin Zhou, Xiaohan Wang, Liangwei Cui, Dongru Zhang, Ziqi Shen, Xiuyan Li, Shuo Liu, Dingqi Rao

“…The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by a significant genetic divergence of greater than 4.8% in the mitochondrial ND2 gene and a combination of the following characters: maximum SVL of 38.5 mm; 10 or 11 chin scales; enlarged postmentals; 6 circumnasal scales; 2 or 3 internasal scales; 8 or 9 supralabial scales; 8 or 9 infralabial scales; 15 or 16 dorsal scales; 9 ventral scales; a manual lamellar formula of 3-4-4-4 and a pedal lamellar formula of 3(4)-4-4-4; 26–28 precloacal and femoral pore-bearing scales contiguous in males; 1–3 cloacal spur on each side; a dark postorbital stripe extending to at least base of neck; dorsolateral light–colored spots on trunk present; dark ventrolateral stripe on trunk present; dark dorsal transverse blotches present; and a dark and brown postsacral mark bearing anteriorly projecting arms.…”
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Differential Effects of Dopaminergic Therapies on Dorsal and Ventral Striatum in Parkinson's Disease: Implications for Cognitive Function by Penny A. MacDonald, Oury Monchi

“…We consider the extant literature in light of this principle. We also survey the effect of dopamine replacement on functional neuroimaging in PD relating the findings to this framework. …”
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Advancing Insights into Large-Artery Stiffening in Humans Through the Application of Multi-omics by Marie-Joe Dib

“…This review aims to (i) provide an overview of insights from genetic research on LAS pathophysiology, and explore the scope of next-generation sequencing methods in the field arterial research; (ii) shed light on the utility of emerging state-of-the-art multi-omics approaches to unravel mechanisms underlying LAS to identify candidate therapeutic targets; (iii) highlight the potential of emerging state-of-the-art integrative multi-omics, motivating their use to address current gaps in understanding sex- and ancestry-specific mechanisms of LAS.…”
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Deconvolution Filtering for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Randomly Occurring Sensor Delays via Probability-Dependent Method by Yuqiang Luo, Guoliang Wei, Hamid Reza Karimi, Licheng Wang

“…The obtained design algorithm is finally verified in the light of simulation examples.…”
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«BRAIN DRAIN» FROM RUSSIA AS PROBLEM OF POLITICAL GOVERNANCE by A. A. Kazantsev, K. P. Borishpolets

“…The significance of these steps is high, particularly in the light of outflow of the Russian specialists abroad. …”
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On the interaction between implicit statistical learning and the alternation advantage: Evidence from manual and oculomotor serial reaction time tasks. by Arianna Compostella, Marta Tagliani, Maria Vender, Denis Delfitto

“…Our aim was to disentangle perceptual from motor aspects of learning, as well as to shed light on the cognitive sources of this alternation effect. …”
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Migration humaine et diffusion de variétés de riz by Mathieu Fribault

“…Although the author's hypothesis proved interesting when little was known about the history of the Baga people in his time, it appears to be audacious today, supported by arguments that are disputed or even rejected in the light of the research published after his article. …”
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Melatonin in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Analysis Using Modern Mathematical Modeling Methods by Justyna Paprocka, Marek Kijonka, Łukasz Boguszewicz, Maria Sokół

“…To describe the diurnal melatonin secretion, mathematical model was constructed and nonlinear least squares method with the Levenberg-Marquardt optimization algorithm was applied to approximate its parameters. The dim light melatonin onset (DLMO) parameters were also estimated from the model. …”
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Effect of Web Openings on Flexural Behaviour of Underground Metro Station RC Beams under Static and Cyclic Loading by Ting-jin Liu, Si-wei Chen, Zi-hang Feng, Hong-yuan Liu

“…The laboratory experiments presented herein not only provide guidelines for the use of RC beams with web openings in actual engineering projects, especially underground projects where RC beams with web openings have seldom been investigated, but also shed light on improving the related design specifications.…”
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Short startup, batteryless, self‐starting thermal energy harvesting chip working in full clock cycle by Arun Kumar Sinha, Marcio Cherem Schneider

“…Energy harvesting is the common proposed solution to supply such sensors, and many different sources such as light, mechanical vibrations, temperature differences can be considered individually or in combination. …”
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