Effect of Particle Size and Solution Leaching on Water Retention Behavior of Ion-Absorbed Rare Earth by Zhong-qun Guo, Yuan-ming Lai, Jie-fang Jin, Jian-rong Zhou, Zheng Sun, Kui Zhao

“…The soil water content after solution leaching is smaller than that before under the same matric suction, indicating that solution leaching can decrease water retention capacity of soil. This is mainly because thickness of the double diffuse layer and pore water pressure are increased as a response to the ion exchange, thus decreasing matric suction.…”
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Human leukocyte Antigen-B*27 allele subtype prevalence and disease association of ankylosing spondylitis among south indian population by Vikram Haridas, Praveenkumar Shetty, M Nirmal Kumar, K C Vasanthakumar, Kiran Haridas, Vitthal Khode, Anil Bargale

“…Aim: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis mainly affecting articular and extraarticular structures. …”
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Meteorological Issues and Technological Progress in the Development of New Energy Systems by Yanbo SHEN

“…Additionally, it examined the forecast demand and forecast period divisions for wind and solar energy, introduced the technical progress and main products of the China meteorological administration in ultra-short, short, medium, and long-term forecasts, and discussed the implementation of the precise meteorological service demonstration plan for wind and solar power generation (SDP). …”
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Migration in Elista during the Restoration of the Kalmyk ASSR and the Return of Kalmyks from Places of Deportation. 1957–1963 by Sergey S. Belousov

“…Since the city did not have its own resources for reconstruction, financial and other types of material assistance played the main role in this process from the state and population migrations organized by it. …”
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Effectiveness of the Federal ‘Clean Air’ Project to Improve Air Quality in the Most Polluted Russian Cities by Roman V. Gordeev, Anton I. Pyzhev, Ekaterina A. Syrtsova

“…The emissions reduction target was lowered from 22% to 20%, the methodology for measuring pollution was revised, and new targets were set. One of the main reasons for this was the suboptimal quality of the data on which the initial plan was based. …”
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Formulation of Salam (Syzygium polyanthum (wight) walp) Leaves Ethanolic Extract Matrix Patch and Its Evaluation by Dian Eka Ermawati, Novi Andriani, Ulfa Afrinurfadhilah Darojati

“…Polymers were the patch's main component to control the drug release. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and alpha-cellulose (AC) were polymers that can increase the rate of drug diffusion and form a strong film layer. …”
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Holocaust and its Legacy in the Light of the Contemporary Humanitarian Issues by E. S. Gromoglasova

“…The presence of the ‘grey zone’ as a main characteristic of the Nazi camp allows us to conceptualize it as a ‘space’ where ‘the starry heavens and internal moral law’ were no more present. …”
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The effect of Garcinia livingstonei aqueous leaf extract on hyperglycaemic-induced human sperm cell: An in-vitro study by Murendeni Nethengwe, Kunle Okaiyeto, Chinyerum S. Opuwari, Oluwafemi O. Oguntibeju

“…Hyperglycaemia is the main instigator of the development of male infertility in men with diabetes mellitus (DM). …”
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DNA marker identification of downy mildew resistance locus <i>Rpv10</i> in grapevine genotypes by E. T. Ilnitskaya, M. V. Makarkina, S. V. Toкmakov, L. G. Naumova

“…Cultivars of Vitis vinifera, the basis of high-quality viticulture, are mainly not resistant to downy mildew. Varieties with natural resistance to downy mildew belong to the vine species of North America and Asia (V. aestivalis, V. berlandieri, V. cinerea, V. labrusca, V. amurensis, etc.), as well as Muscadinia rotundifolia. …”
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EMERGENCY DISTANCE EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN UKRAINE AND THE WORLD by Nadiya Figol, Yuriy Kolisnyk, Tetiana Faichuk, Bogdan Figol

“…The aim is to explore and analyze the concepts of "distance education" and "emergency distance learning," focusing on their main characteristics, differences, and specific implementation features. …”
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Effective Feature Selection on Transfer Deep Learning Algorithm for Thyroid Nodules Ultrasound Detection by Ghufran Basim Alghanimi, Hadeel Aljobouri, Khaleel Akeash Alshimmari, Rasha Massoud

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Technical means as sources of evidence in cases of administrative offenses: under the prism of observing human rights and freedoms by M. A. Sambor

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Assessment of Medication Use by Publics in Sulaimani Province by Kamal Aziz Enayat, Mariwan Abdulla Hama Salih, Muhammed Babakir-Mina

“…Then to build correlations between demographic characteristics and medication uses, in order to show the main impact of widely used medication on public health status. …”
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Beutin (Pas-de-Calais) : une installation thermale domestique en pays morin by David Labarre

“…The first building lies on an artificial terrace and several indirect markers tend to demonstrate his bathing vocation: it is mainly about architectural elements observed in reuse in the thermal baths of the following period. …”
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The role of Beringia in human adaptation to Arctic conditions based on results of genomic studies of modern and ancient populations by B. A. Malyarchuk

“…The results of studies in Quaternary geology, archeology, paleoanthropology and human genetics demonstrate that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in mid-latitude North America mainly along the Pacific Northwest Coast, but had previously inhabited the Arctic and during the last glacial maximum were in a refugium in Beringia, a land bridge connecting Eurasia and North America. …”
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Shear strength and behavior of eco-friendly RC corbels by Kadhim Z. Naser, Abdulamir Atalla Almayah, Abdulnasser M. Abbas

“…Additionally, the study assesses the amount of main and secondary reinforcement, the shear span-effective depth ratio (a/d), and compressive strength. …”
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Metagenomic next-generation sequencing for lung cancer low respiratory tract infections diagnosis and characterizing microbiome features by Yao Liu, Bohan Yang, Qi Qi, Shijie Liu, Yiheng Du, Linlin Ye, Qiong Zhou

“…Furthermore, in the specific detection of bacteria (95.7% vs. 22.6%) and fungi (96.0% vs. 22.2%), the detection rate of mNGS was also significantly higher than that of CMTs mainly based on culture (p&lt;0.001, p&lt;0.001). …”
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Will the increase of medical equipment affect medical expenditure? Empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment in China by Qiwei Deng, Zhongliang Zhou, Chi Shen, Dan Cao, Dantong Zhao, Yaxin Zhao, Jianmin Gao

“…Conclusions Our findings show that the medical expenditure differs significantly with the increase in the number of large-scale medical equipment. This study mainly revealed the relationship between the growth of the number of large-scale medical equipment and medical expenditure. …”
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How Delphi studies in the health sciences find consensus: a scoping review by Julia Schifano, Marlen Niederberger

“…The practical research was analyzed for the qualitative content of the publications according to three deductive main categories, to which an influence on the result of Delphi studies can be imputed (expert panel, questionnaire design, process and feedback design). …”
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Mechanical Properties and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Thawing Frozen Sandstone by Gengshe Yang, Bo Liang, Hui Liu, Yanjun Shen, Hailiang Jia

“…In addition, acoustic emission technology was used to analyze the damage and failure characteristics of the rock. The main findings of the study are as follows: (1) the results of the uniaxial compression tests revealed that the thawing of frozen sandstone comprises five stages. …”
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