The Effects of Storage on Sachet Water Quality in Ogun State, Nigeria by ZO Ajekunle, VO Ojekunle, AO Eruola, FF Oyebanji, KA Olatunde, BT Amujo, OR Sangowusi, AA Adekttan, AG Taiwo

“…Five brands (50%) of the water had total viable and coliform count above the recommended count of 100cfu/m and zero cfu/ml, respectively. pH values increased in all brands to acceptable WHO limits within 2 months of storage except for sample 3 and 4 which decreases below the acceptable limit.  …”
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The Low Friction Coefficient and High Wear Resistance UHMWPE: The Effect of Pores on Properties of Artificial Joint Materials by Chunmin Yang, Junhua Zhang, Honglin Yue, Xueqin Kang

“…. % sodium chloride (NaCl) was added and the pore size was about 200 μm. The crystallinity, hardness, creep resistance, strength, and elongation decreased after NaCl was added and dissolved. …”
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Prognostic Value of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Diabetic Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Ailed Elena Rodríguez Jiménez

“…A glomerular filtration rate less than 53 mL/min increases the risk of suffering an adverse event during hospitalization eight times.…”
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Endogenous Cushing’s Syndrome with Precocious Puberty in an 8-Year-Old Boy due to a Large Unilateral Adrenal Adenoma by Muhammad Rajib Hossain, Md. Mashiul Alam, Junaid Nabi, Mahzabin Kibria

“…The biochemical evaluation revealed that his serum cortisol levels were 25.80 g/dL, with a concomitant plasma ACTH level of 10.0 pg/mL and nonsuppressed serum cortisol on high-dose dexamethasone suppression test (HDDST) to be 20.38 g/dL. …”
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Prepared with Mexican Pre-Hispanic Dyes by Mario Alberto Sánchez-García, Xim Bokhimi, Sergio Velázquez Martínez, Antonio Esteban Jiménez-González

“…In this study, both dyes are used to sensitize the mesoporous TiO2m semiconductor to prepare DSSCs.…”
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Efecto de la suplementación con germen de maíz sobre el consumo y la digestibilidad de heno en bovinos estabulados by D. BOCANEGRA, D. ROCHINOTTI

“…Se usaron 4 bovinos cruza cebú, enteros de 135 kg promedio, mantenidos en corrales individuales de 16 m2 en un diseño Cuadrado Latino 4x4. La digestibilidad se analizó por el método de Ceniza Insolubles en Ácido, colectando materia fecal en forma continua y tras cada deyección durante un período de 3 días. …”
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Average daily cooling capacity of radiation conditioning system by V. I. Karagusov, I. N. Pogulyaev

“…Experimental studies have shown that the radiation conditioning system has a cooling capacity in summer from 4 to 7 kW with a radiation cooler of 100 m2…”
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Durability of Mortar Made with Fine Glass Powdered Particles by Rosemary Bom Conselho Sales, Fernando Augusto Sales, Enio Pazini Figueiredo, White José dos Santos, Nelcy Della Santina Mohallem, Maria Teresa Paulino Aguilar

“…This study addresses the influence of cement replacement by 10 and 20% of the colorless and amber soda-lime glass particles sized around 9.5 μm on the performance of Portland cement mortars. …”
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Long-Term Effect of Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (Anti-VEGF) Injections in Choroidal Neovascularization Secondary to Angioid Streaks by Sónia Torres-Costa, João Bernardes, Sofia Sousa Mano, Joana Medeiros-Pinto, Ana Carolina Abreu, Maria João Furtado, Rufino Silva, Carlos Marques-Neves, Fernando Falcão-Reis, Ângela Carneiro, Luísa Colaço, Manuel Falcão

“…The mean foveal thickness decreased from 343.3 ± 120.2 μm at baseline to 268.3 ± 65.4 at 48 months (P=0.021). …”
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Ukrainian adaptation of the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS) by T. Yablonska, A. Shevchuk

“…The research sample consisted of 297 students aged 18 to 22 (M = 20.4, SD = 1.49), including 82 males and 215 females. …”
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Forest Fire Smoke Layers Observed in the Free Troposphere over Portugal with a Multiwavelength Raman Lidar: Optical and Microphysical Properties by Sérgio Nepomuceno Pereira, Jana Preißler, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Ana Maria Silva, Frank Wagner

“…The inversion of the lidar signals provided a set of microphysical properties including particle effective radius below 0.2 μm, which is less than values previously observed for aged smoke particles. …”
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Augmenter of Liver Regeneration (ALR) Protects Kidney from Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R) Injury via Regulation of TLR4/MAPK Signaling Pathway by Ying Li, Yanying Xiong, Huihui Li, Yan Luo, Ling Zhang, Qin Zhang, Weijian Xiong, Haitao Tu

“…Additionally, rhALR could downregulate mRNA expression of TLR4 endogenous ligands and restrain its activation in renal I/R injury rats. …”
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Dopamine Suppresses Osteogenic Differentiation of Rat Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells via AKT/GSK-3β/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway by Zhili Kuang, Zheng Chen, Shaoqin Tu, Zhihui Mai, Lin Chen, Xiaoning Kang, Xiaochuan Chen, Jiaming Wei, Yuxuan Wang, Yun Peng, Hong Ai

“…Interestingly, dopamine suppressed the osteogenic differentiation of rBMSCs, as characterized by reduced ALP staining, ALP activity, mineralized nodule formation, and the mRNA and protein levels of osteogenesis-related genes (Col1a1, Alp, Runx2, Opn, and Ocn). …”
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The First European Maps of Muscovy (1525) by O. F. Kudryavtsev

“…Both maps have much in common, as a kind of introduction to them serves almost the same inscription: «Moscoviae tabula relatione Dimetrij legati descrypta sicuti ipse a pluribus accepit, cum totam prouinciam minime peragrasse fateatur anno M.D.XXV. octobris».After examining the two earliest maps of Muscovy I can support the opinion already expressed in historiography that for their resemblance they might be the variants of the same map. …”
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Estimating Smallholder Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Irrigation Water Use in North Western Ethiopia: A Contingent Valuation Method Study in Gumara Irrigation Project... by Aklok Getnet, Kassahun Tassie, Zewdu Brehanie Ayele

“…Ethiopia is the water tower of sub-Saharan Africa countries with 12 major river basins and 22 natural and artificial lakes, which make a median of 1,557.5 m3 of water available per person per year. This study specifically was aimed to estimate smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for sustainable irrigation water use in northwestern Ethiopia using double-bounded dichotomous choice with a follow-up of open-ended contingent valuation questions. …”
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Differences in phenotypes of normal and malignant cells concerning chromosomal fragility and ganglioside expression by Iskra Sainova, Vera Kolyovska, Desislava Drenska, Dimitar Maslarov, Dimitrina Dimitrova-Dikanarova, Tzvetanka Markova

“…Additionally, the presence and expression of the tumor-suppressor gene HACE-1 in the genome of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) and malignant human cervical carcinoma HeLa cells, both containing an additional copy of this gene, inserted by transfection with appropriate recombinant DNA vectors containing a copy of the tumor-suppressor gene, were tested. …”
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KARŞILAŞTIRMALI HUKUKTA KENDİSİ veya BAŞKALARI BAKIMINDAN ÖNEMLİ TEHLİKE YARATAN KİŞİLERE YÖNELİK ZORUNLU PSİKİYATRİK MÜDAHALE ve TÜRK HUKUKU BAKIMINDAN BİR ÖNERİ... by Duygu Koçakdiker, Nagehan Kırkbeşoğlu

“…Psikiyatrik bir bozukluk sebebiyle özgürlüğü kısıtlanan kişilere yönelik zorunlu psikiyatrik müdahalenin hangi şartlar altında mümkün olduğu karşılaştırmalı hukuktaki düzenlemeler ele alınarak tartışılmış ve Türk Hukuku bakımından TMK m. 432 hükmü ile düzenlenen koruma amaçlı özgürlüğün kısıtlanması hükümleri çerçevesinde bir öneri sunulmuştur.…”
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Orexitropic Signaling Proteins in Obese Children by Ljiljana Saranac, Bojko Bjelakovic, Hristina Stamenkovic, Borislav Kamenov

“…The mean body mass index (BMI) was 32.80 kg/m2 (range 23.30– 47.02) and the mean overweight 30.73 kg (range 8.00–74.00). …”
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Precise Crop Pest Detection Based on Co-Ordinate-Attention-Based Feature Pyramid Module by Chenrui Kang, Lin Jiao, Kang Liu, Zhigui Liu, Rujing Wang

“…Finally, several experiments were conducted on our constructed large-scale crop pest datasets, the AgriPest 21 dataset and the IP102 dateset, achieving accuracy scores of 77.2% and 29.8% for mAP (mean average precision), demonstrating promising detection results when compared to other detectors.…”
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Wound Myiasis Caused by Sarcophaga (Liopygia) Argyrostoma (Robineau-Desvoidy) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): Additional Evidences of the Morphological Identification Dilemma and Molecul... by Annunziata Giangaspero, Marianna Marangi, Antonio Balotta, Claudio Venturelli, Krzysztof Szpila, Antonella Di Palma

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