“Great Flood-Gates of the Wonder World”: Baptisms of Water and Fire in Melville and Hawthorne by Ariel Clark Silver

“…Through fire in texts from “Main Street” to The House of the Seven Gables to Septimius Felton, Hawthorne finds the energy for an imaginative human life, for poetic genius and emotional purity, and for intimations of immortality, even as he engages this element as “Earth’s Holocaust” to burn whatever will not rise. …”
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The results of the ecological study of different ecotypes of spring barley varieties in the dry conditions of the Volgograd Province by G. V. Kozubovskaya, V. I. Balakshina

“…Background. The main limiting factor for achieving high barley yields is the insufficient moisture availability for crops in certain periods of development. …”
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Femtosecond Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis Treatment of Residual Refractive Error following Femtosecond Laser-Enabled Keratoplasty by Elizabeth Shen, Lester Tsai, Hannah Muniz Castro, Matthew Wade, Marjan Farid

“…A total of 14 eyes in 13 patients met this criterion, and their comprehensive examinations performed at standard intervals were reviewed. Main outcome measures include uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) and corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) expressed as the logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR), manifest refractive astigmatism, and spherical equivalent. …”
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Application of Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface in Rehabilitation of Neurological Diseases by YANG Banghua

“…Specifically, the overview of BCI technology mainly introduces BCI technology, MI-BCI technology and AR-MI-BCI rehabilitation training system (the process and overall structure of the AR-MI-BCI rehabilitation training system). …”
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How geomagnetic storms affect the loss of Starlink satellites in February 2022? by Nizam Ahmad, La Ode Muhammad Musafar Kilowasid, Hanif Fakhrurroja, Neflia, Abdul Rachman, Asnawi Husin, Haries Fathoni

“…We inferred that magnetic substroms significantly affected species densities, mainly O, O2, and N2, around some Starlink satellites, leading to an increase in atmospheric drag. …”
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Adults with Treacher Collins Syndrome Share Comparable 3D Upper Airway Dimensions with Nonsyndromic Individuals by Renan Jhordan Mettelziefen dos Inocentes, Alexandre de Almeida Ribeiro, Maria Noel Marzano-Rodrigues, Marília Sayako Yatabe-Ioshida, Ivy Kiemle Trindade-Suedam

“…The reduced airway in the adolescent population suggests significant potential for growth, mainly in pharyngeal dimensions.…”
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Traces of archaic mitochondrial lineages persist in Austronesian-speaking Formosan populations. by Jean A Trejaut, Toomas Kivisild, Jun Hun Loo, Chien Liang Lee, Chun Lin He, Chia Jung Hsu, Zheng Yan Lee, Marie Lin

“…Considering the lack of a common specific Y chromosomal element shared by the Taiwanese aboriginals and Polynesians, the mtDNA evidence provided here is also consistent with the suggestion that the proto-Oceanic societies would have been mainly matrilocal.…”
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Milling Characteristics and Damage Assessment of Ultrasonic Vibration-Assisted End Milling Cf/SiC Composites by Zhongwang Wang, Zhigang Dong, Yan Bao, Yichuan Ran, Renke Kang

“…On the other hand, the forms of SSD in CM and UVAEM are mainly fiber pullout, subsurface crack, crack extension and machining pits. …”
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Suicide following the death of a sibling: a nationwide follow-up study from Sweden by Ichiro Kawachi, Jan Saarela, Mikael Rostila

“…Associations with other main causes of death—such as external other than suicide, cardiovascular diseases or cancer—were generally much smaller and statistically not significant in either sex. …”
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Optimized Removal of Hydroquinone and Resorcinol by Activated Carbon Based on Shea Residue (Vitellaria paradoxa): Thermodynamics, Adsorption Mechanism, Nonlinear Kinetics, and Isot... by Liouna Adoum Amola, Theophile Kamgaing, Rufis Fregue Tiegam Tagne, Cyrille Donlifack Atemkeng, Idris-Hermann Tiotsop Kuete, Solomon Gabche Anagho

“…The central composite design (CCD) was used to optimize the main factors that influence the adsorption of HQ or R by activated carbon such as the initial concentration, the pH of the solution, the contact time, and the mass of the carbon on the expected response, which is the adsorbed quantity of the target pollutants. …”
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Effect of Weathering on Cd Mobilization in Different Sedimentary Bedrock Soils by Yongqiang Ning, Minglong Yang, Chutong Liu, Jiazhong Huang, Tianyi Wang, Yong Pang, Quanheng Li

“…Research regarding Cd pollution mainly centers on the source of anthropogenic pollution. …”
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Tumor-associated macrophage-derived exosome miR-194 confers cisplatin resistance in GC cells by Yi Zhou, Yang-cheng Sun, Qiong-yan Zhang, Jing Wang, Xian-ya Zhu, Xiang-yu Su

“…Results Results indicate that M2 macrophages enhance cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer cells mainly through miR-194, as demonstrated by CCK-8 and apoptosis assays. …”
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HIV/AIDS and HBV co-infection with optimal control strategies and cost-effectiveness analyses using integer order model by Shewafera Wondimagegnhu Teklu, Abushet Hayalu Workie

“…Abstract Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV/AIDS co-infection is a common infectious disease that has been spreading through different nations in the world. The main objective of the study is to minimize the number of HBV and HIV co-infected individuals in the community and the cost incurred to the effort applied towards protection and treatment control strategies. …”
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Formation of an effective schedule of work during the construction of a monolithic reinforced concrete house by N. V. Ryazantseva, V. V. Zolotarev

“…The scientific novelty of the work lies in the development of such combinations of various technological stages that made it possible to reduce the duration of construction without violating construction production technologies; to make decisions promptly in a specific situation and maintain full control over the consumption of building materials, possible losses and labour costs not aimed at fulfilling the main tasks, in order to improve the technical and economic indicators of construction.Materials and methods. …”
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Natural Gas Accumulation Characteristics in the Linxing Area, Ordos Basin, NW China: Revealed from the Integrated Study of Fluid Inclusions and Basin Modeling by Yong Shu, Shuxun Sang, Yuxiang Lin, Huiming Zheng

“…In this paper, fluid inclusion analysis and basin modeling are the main means to clarify the gas accumulation mechanism of the Upper Paleozoic in the Linxing area. …”
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Mechanism Analysis of the Influence of Freeze-Thaw on the Damage and Debonding Evolution of Sandstone-Concrete Interface by Yanjun Shen, Tao Luo, Xin Wei, Xueting Li, Long Jin, Liangdong Wen, Hui Peng, Yanjun Ji

“…Concrete as a water retaining plate inhibits the migration of water to its interior, and a pot cover effect exists at the interface to provide better storage space for water accumulation. (3) The C-S-H group is the main source of the bond force of sandstone-concrete interface, and the freeze-thaw effect aggravates the fracture of the C-S-H group, which leads to the interface debonding. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding FoodDrug Interaction in the Intensive Care and Emergency Hospitals by Samir Y Lafi, Aram Salih Mohammed Amin Kamali, Bayan Omar Sharif

“…Usually supplement is essential and fundamental components for ensure and creating the human body, also drugs seem to survey the life of each individual and ensure the wellbeing for a long life aimed most of illness, but in case nourishment sedate interaction ignored since of information shortage almost it or any reason maybe lead to futile of medicine for the patients or cause life threatening condition because of that, one of the most significant ethical point in every health care setting in the world is patient's safety;  and  the care for patients must be improved in every country to prevent complication of interaction between food and drug. The main objective of this cross-sectional study has been conducted to assess the nurses' knowledge regarding food-drug interaction (FDI) at the intensive care in both of Shar and emergency hospitals in the Slemani city, the data were collected during the period of October up to the end of December. …”
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Finite element analysis on implant-supported bar with different geometric shapes by Peerakan Kupprano, Krid Kamonkhantikul, Woraporn Homsiang, Hidekazu Takahashi, Mansuang Arksornnukit

“…Results In centric loading, vMS was mainly at the distal screw channel across most ISBCs. …”
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Restoration of Lost Functions in Students after Blast Traumatic Brain Injuries in the Process of Inclusive Physical Education by Oksana Blavt, Oleksandr Herasymenko

“…It has been determined that the main task of higher education today is to solve the problem of providing students who have been injured as a result of war with opportunities along with higher education and rehabilitation conditions. …”
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A Novel Metabolic Connectome Method to Predict Progression to Mild Cognitive Impairment by Min Wang, Zhuangzhi Yan, Shu-yun Xiao, Chuantao Zuo, Jiehui Jiang

“…The discriminative brain regions associated with MCI conversion were mainly located in the precentral gyrus, precuneus, lingual, and inferior frontal gyrus. …”
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