Equilibrium Studies of Fluoride Adsorption onto a Ferric Poly−mineral from Kenya by EW Wambu, CO Onindo, W Ambusso, GK Muthakia

“…The adsorption of F onto FPM was found to be a fast process and, at 1000 mg/L initial F concentration at pH 3.32 and 293 K and using 0.2 g/mL adsorbent dosage, over 90% F removal from solution could be achieved in 30 min. …”
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Genotoxic and antigenotoxic properties of selenium compounds in the in vitro micronucleus assay with human whole blood lymphocytes and tk6 lymphoblastoid cells by Eduard Cemeli, Ricard Marcos, Diana Anderson

“…In general, the compounds were more active in TK6 cells than they were in blood lymphocytes. Only 1 μM selenous acid increased the frequency of binucleated cells containing micronuclei (BNMN) in blood lymphocytes, while all three selenium compounds increased BNMN in TK6 cells. …”
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Differential Impacts of Soybean and Fish Oils on Hepatocyte Lipid Droplet Accumulation and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Primary Rabbit Hepatocytes by Xueping Zhu, Zhihui Xiao, Yumin Xu, Xingli Zhao, Ping Cheng, Ningxun Cui, Mingling Cui, Jie Li, Xiaoli Zhu

“…SOLE also significantly upregulated glucose-regulated protein 94 mRNA and protein expression. These data indicate that SOLE, but not FOLE, damage the ER and mitochondria, resulting in lipid droplets accumulation and ER stress and, finally, hepatocyte injury. …”
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Food-Insecure Women Eat a Less Diverse Diet in a More Temporally Variable Way: Evidence from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-4 by Daniel Nettle, Melissa Bateson

“…Food-insecure women had higher BMIs (2.25 kg/m2), and around 15% of the BMI difference between food-insecure and food-secure women was accounted for by their more variable time gaps between eating, their lower diversity of foods, and their lower fibre consumption. …”
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Multi-objective optimization of kitchen comfort based on arithmetic superposition index P by Shunyu Zhang, Xiangrui Zhao, Liangguo Cheng, Zhihang Shen, Zhenlei Chen

“…Optimizing range hood parameters (178°angle, 1.544m height, 20.57 Pa pressure) increased PM10 capture efficiency by 25.68 % and reduced PM10 intake fraction by 72.55 %. …”
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Preliminary screening of new biomarkers for sepsis using bioinformatics and experimental validation. by Hao Wang, Wei Xiong, Wu Zhong, Yingchun Hu

“…<h4>Results</h4>Differential analysis yielded a total of 5125 mRNA. WGCNA identified 5 modules and screened 3 core genes (S100A11, QPCT, and IFITM2). …”
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Triptolide Inhibits Th17 Response by Upregulating microRNA-204-5p and Suppressing STAT3 Phosphorylation in Psoriasis by Qi He, Xingyue Wu, Quan Shi

“…Methyl thiazol tetrazolium (MTT) cytotoxicity assay was performed for evaluating the influence of triptolide on cell viability. Gene expression at mRNA and protein levels were examined by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction and Western blot analysis, respectively. …”
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Manufacture and Analysis of Activated Carbon from Rubber Fruit Shell with Chemical and Physical Processing by Lisna Efiyanti, Suci Aprianty Wati, Mamay Maslahat

“…The FTIR results from activated carbon are contain of several functional groups, like OH; CH aliphatic, CH aromatic, C=O; C-C; C=C and C-O, meanwhile the degree of crystallinity from activated carbon formed are ranged 11,34-30,78% with 5-9 μm of pore size. The activated carbon with KOH activator has good adsorption in iod and methylene blue compound meanwhile activated carbon from steam activation can be a good adsorbent on the benzene compound.…”
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Optimization, Characterisation and Evaluation of Biochar Obtained from Biomass of Invasive Weed Crotalaria burhia by Loveena Gaur and Poonam Poonia

“…It possesses a honeycomb structure having mesoporous surface porosity with a surface area of 155.19m²/g and the presence of a remarkable concentration of mineral elements calcium and potassium. …”
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High-Serum Angiopoietin-Like Protein 3 Levels Associated with Cardiovascular Outcome in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Ming-Chun Chen, Bang-Gee Hsu, Chung-Jen Lee, Ji-Hung Wang

“…Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed higher cumulative incidence of CV events in the high ANGPTL3 group (median ANGPTL3 level ≥ 222.37 ng/mL) than in the low ANGPTL3 group (log-rank P=0.046). …”
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Pollen Sources for Melipona capixaba Moure & Camargo: An Endangered Brazilian Stingless Bee by Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da Luz, Tânia Maria Fernandes-Salomão, Lorena Gusmão Alvarenga Lage, Helder Canto Resende, Mara Garcia Tavares, Lucio Antonio de Oliveira Campos

“…Although the majority of the pollen types showed low percentage values, the results demonstrated that M. capixaba has taken advantage of the polliniferous sources available in the Atlantic Rainforest as well as in the “Capoeira” (brushwood, secondary forest) and “ruderal” (field) plants, probably implying its importance as a pollinator of the native flora and of the exotic species.…”
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Climate change and crop yield of oats (Avena sativa L.) in Yakutia by L. V. Petrova, L. Yu. Novikova, A. V. Alekseeva, I. G. Loskutov

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Psychometric Properties of the Bangla Version of the Beck Depression Inventory‐II (BDI‐II) With University Students in Bangladesh: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Md. Torun Hasan, Mozibul H. A. Khan

“…Methods The sample consisted of 1128 undergraduate students (55.9% males) aged from 18 to 28 (M = 22.35, SD = 1.41) from the university of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. …”
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Effects of Gamma Irradiation on Agromorphological Characteristics of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench.) by Aaron Tettey Asare, Francis Mensah, Samuel Acheampong, Elvis Asare-Bediako, Jonathan Armah

“…Optimum growth and yield in okra were induced by 400 Gy but the higher doses had growth retardation effects and the induced variability can be assessed at M2 generation.…”
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Population Pharmacokinetics of Vancomycin in Thai Patients by Tunggul Adi Purwonugroho, Suvatna Chulavatnatol, Yupaporn Preechagoon, Busba Chindavijak, Kumthorn Malathum, Pakwan Bunuparadah

“…In the final model, there was a linear relationship between vancomycin clearance, CL (L/h), and creatinine clearance calculated by Cockcroft-Gault equation, CLCr (mL/min): CL=0.044×CLCr. Meanwhile, volume of central compartment, 𝑉1 (L), was linearly related with the age (years old): 𝑉1=0.542× Age. …”
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Development of a novelly selective HPLC-chemiluminescence method by targeting degradation intermediates of nitroimidazoles and its application in animal food products by Mengdie Cai, Xinyu Wang, Kun Lu, Bixiao Zhou, Lijun Wei, Xianglei Cheng

“…Six studied NDZs achieved baseline separation within 24 min with detection limits as low as 3 ng/mL (S/N = 3). The proposed method is efficient, cost-effective, and does not require complicated purification steps. …”
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Methane Extraction from Abandoned Mines by Surface Vertical Wells: A Case Study in China by Shengyong Hu, Ao Zhang, Guorui Feng, Xiangqian Guo, Xuyang Miu, Chao Li, Dandan Han, Jin Wang, Lixun Kang

“…The overall maximum methane volumetric flow rate, average concentration, and extraction span were 210 m3/h, 83%, and 1100 days, respectively.…”
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Pharmacokinetics and Biodistribution of Zinc-Enriched Yeast in Rats by Shuangqing Zhang, Yan Zhang, Ning Peng, Haibo Zhang, Juan Yao, Zhihong Li, Liegang Liu

“…Maximum plasma concentration values were 3.87 and 2.81 μg/mL for ZnY and ZnSO4, respectively. Both ZnY and ZnSO4 were slowly eliminated with a half-life of over 7 h and bone had the highest Zn level in all tissues. …”
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Socio-psychological diagnostics and forecasting protest behavior of youth in the digital environment by R. V. Len’kov, O. A. Kolosova, S. V. Kovalyova

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Rapid Monitoring of Mercury in Air from an Organic Chemical Factory in China Using a Portable Mercury Analyzer by Akira Yasutake, Jin Ping Cheng, Masako Kiyono, Shimpei Uraguchi, Xiaojie Liu, Kyoko Miura, Yoshiaki Yasuda, Nikolay Mashyanov

“…Mercury concentrations of up to 600 ng/m3 in air over the contaminated area provided evidence of the mercury transformation to volatile Hg(0). …”
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