Diurnal Variation of Chemical Characteristics and Source Identification of Fine Particles in the Kaohsiung Harbor by Yu-Lun Tseng, Kwok-Wai Wong, Chung-Shin Yuan, Chitsan Lin

“…Crustal elements dominated the metallic content of PM2.5, but trace elements mainly originated from anthropogenic sources. The V/Ni ratios of PM2.5 in the Kaohsiung Harbor were generally higher than 2.0. …”
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Micro CT evaluation of marginal discrepancies of endocrown restored molars with different intrapulpal depths and materials of fabrication. (in-vitro study) by Mohamed Aly Mohamed Badr Elagwany, Amina Mohamed Hamdy, Maged Mohamed Zohdy, Aliaa Mahrous, Ahmed Tawfik, Soha Osama Nabih

“…Materials and methods Sixty mandibular natural molars were collected as abutments for the restorations of this study, and grouped in three main groups of different cavity depths (0, 2 and 4). …”
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Woody Species Diversity and Structure of Protected Woodlands Adjacent to Free Grazing Land Woodland at Dugda Woreda, Oromia, Ethiopia by Tsegu Ereso Denbel

“…The vegetation data were collected from 30 plots from each woodland with a size of 900 m2 (30 m × 300 m) for tree/shrub, while subplots of size 400 m2 (20 m × 20 m) for sapling, respectively, were established in the main plots. Individual tree and shrub diameters at breast height (DBH) ≥2.5 cm and height ≥ 2 m were measured using a tape meter and clinometer, respectively. …”
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Enhanced Light Response Performance of Ceria-Based Composites with Rich Oxygen Vacancy by Yanping Li, Xue Bian, Hui Dong, Hongtao Chang, Wenyuan Wu

“…The remarkable light response performance of Ce-O-S composites can be mainly attributed to the high proportion of oxygen vacancy. …”
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El desbanque del Usted, y el uso del Tú, al rescate de la igualdad comunicativa en un entorno universitario español by María Gemma Sánchez González

“…The results obtained highlighted the main reasons for the use of Tú in educational environments and its relevance as a facilitating communication tool.   …”
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An Automatic Recognition Method of Microseismic Signals Based on S Transformation and Improved Gaussian Mixture Model by Kaikai Wang, Chun’an Tang, Ke Ma, Xintang Wang, Qiang Li

“…Blast vibration signals have short duration, high frequency, and complex frequency spectrum, and their dominant frequencies are mainly over 100 Hz. However, rock-fracturing signals are relatively slow, with low frequency and stable spectrum change, and their dominant frequencies are generally below 100 Hz. …”
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Epidemiological study on Buccal Health in the 12 years old population of Health Care Area VIII in Cienfuegos. by Yumaidi Colina Sánchez, Beatriz García Alpízar, Esther María Castillo Betancourt, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Raúl López Fernández, Manuel Rodríguez Rodríguez

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> The 12 years-old children population is worldwide taken as a reference age to compare the buccal health condition of different countries, by means of various indicators that measure the presence of the main buccal diseases. The knowledge of these epidemiological profiles generates information to guide the services planning policies of the Primary Health Care. …”
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Small Airway Dysfunction in Chronic Bronchitis with Preserved Pulmonary Function by Qi Ding, Bai-Bing Mi, Xia Wei, Jie Li, Jiu-Yun Mi, Jing-Ting Ren, Rui-Li Li

“…Because small airway function was the main focus, in the COPD group, only patients in accordance with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) grades 1 and 2 were included. …”
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Risk assessment method for the organization of environmental safety in the sphere of residential and industrial construction by A. N. Larionov, E. E. Smirnova

“…The authors faced the task to find the optimal distribution of funds aimed at reducing the probability of occurrence of environmental risk, and funds for preventing possible environmental damage, as well as to analyze and compare methods for determining the amount of risk during the design and construction of facilities. The main goal was to conduct research on the formation of a complete algorithm and methodology for using risk scenarios to ensure environmental safety in construction. …”
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A Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Human Placental Trophoblasts in Response to Pathogenic and Probiotic Enterococcus faecalis Interaction by Qianglai Tan, Zhen Zeng, Feng Xu, Hua Wei

“…GO analysis revealed that these DEGs were mainly related to cellular and metabolic processes and biological regulation. …”
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Diet of smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826) in the Moyar River, Western Ghats, South India by Kannadasan Narasimmarajan, Manu Thomas Mathai, Matt W. Hayward, Sonaimuthu Palanivel

“…Cyprinidae family occurred more frequently in otter diet in the post-monsoon, winter, and summer seasons, while Cichlidae were eaten mainly in the summer (analysis of variance; F = 2.442; d.f. = 1; P = 0.2161). …”
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Влияние сочетаний аминокислот и дипептидов на жизнеспособность культур тканей нервной и иммунной систем молодых и старых крыс... by Наталья Иосифовна Чалисова, Галина Анатольевна Рыжак, Екатерина Александровна Никитина, Артемий Владимирович Рубинский

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Multiple Roles of the Y Chromosome in the Biology of Drosophila melanogaster by Roberto Piergentili

“…This is due to the intrinsic nature of this genetic element, namely, (1) its molecular composition (mainly transposable elements and satellite DNA), (2) its genetic inertia (lack of recombination due to its heterochromatic nature), (3) the absence of homology with the X (with the only exception of the nucleolar organizer), (4) the lack of visible phenotypes when it is missing (indeed, except for their sterility, X0 flies are normal males), and (5) its low density as for protein-coding sequences (to date, only 13 genes out of approximately 14,000 have been mapped on this chromosome in D. melanogaster, i.e., ~0.1% of the total). …”
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Prospective directions for the development of means and methods for detection and fixation of handprints by V. V. Korniienko

“…The scientists have managed to improve the results regarding the detection of outdated traces by combining homogeneous chemical compounds. The main ones among them are ninhydrin, which works well with dirty and wet surfaces, as well as silver nitrate and DFO solution, which reacts with organic secretions of human skin well. …”
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Acute Renal Failure in a Patient with Rivaroxaban-Induced Hypersensitivity Syndrome: A Case Report with a Review of the Literature and of Pharmacovigilance Registries by Gisela Marcelino, Ould Maouloud Hemett, Eric Descombes

“…We report on the case of an 82-year-old patient who, two weeks after the prescription of rivaroxaban for atrial fibrillation, was hospitalized for a drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome whose main clinical manifestations were low-grade fever with a petechial rash in the legs and acute renal failure (ARF). …”
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Reactive dye extraction utilizing regenerated bleaching earth by M. Shahi, M.R. Sabour, G.A. Dezvareh

“…Response surface methodology was used to design the experiments and determine the optimal parameters in order to run the dye adsorption process. The main experimental parameters have been concluded as temperature (200-800 °C), acid solution concentration (0.1-3 M), dye solution concentration (1-35 ppm), and ratio of activated earth to dye solution (0.1-2 %, w/w). …”
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Assessment of the Nutrients in the Leachate and the Groundwater Quality for Drinking and Farming around the Nkolfoulou Landfill in Yaoundé, Cameroon by Gilbert Feuyit, John Ngolui Lambi, Estella Njoyim-Tamungang, Samuel Laminsi

“…From the statistical analysis, the Nkolfoulou landfill may not be the main source of major ions to the nearby groundwater.…”
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Mechanism of steel slag powder stabilization and improvement of expansive clay by Yinlei SUN, Chuan YU, Lei LIAO, Zhifei LI

“…Additionally, the excitation principle of alkali exciters on the activity of SSP was described, and the micro-mechanism and mechanical properties of SSP improved expansive clay were revealed. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) SSP contains abundant active mineral components that can undergo ion exchange and hydration reaction with clay particles, thus changing the microstructure and physicochemical properties of clay. (2) The chemical composition and structural properties of SSP will be affected by the production process and the use of the environment, which in turn affects its chemical activity. …”
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Clinical Outcome Differences in Mucinous Versus Non-Mucinous Colonic Adenocarcinoma: A Comparative Study by Adrian Cote, Roxana Loriana Negrut, Hany Abdulateif Salem, Bogdan Feder, Mircea Gheorghe Pop, Adrian Marius Maghiar

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Colon cancer is one of the main causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. …”
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The causal impact of smoking behavior on osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization analysis by Qiang Xiao, Susu Dong, Yafen Tan, Xuan Zhang, Lu Yao, Qiuping Li, Tianli Wang

“…The discovery MR analysis involved 12 OA traits (177,517 cases and 649,173 controls) while the replication MR analysis incorporated an additional OA GWAS dataset consisting of 36,185 cases and 135,185 controls. The main analytic approach we used was the inverse variance weighted (IVW) method. …”
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