Functional food products in Japan: A review by Shun Iwatani, Naoyuki Yamamoto

“…However, a novel functional regulatory system/called “Foods with Function Claims” was established in 2015 based on the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act system established in the USA. Major health claims in the new regulation system are associated with fatigue, eyes, memory, stress, sleep, joints, blood flow, body temperature, muscles, and Body Mass Index. …”
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ALTERATION OF SULFIDE ORES OF THE SAMOLAZOVSKOE DEPOSIT, ALDAN SHIELD, IN AN EXPERIMENTAL BIOLEACHING HEAP by E.V. Belogub, K.A. Novoselov, I.B. Fadina, M.A. Rassomakhin

“…Pyrite and marcasite are the major minerals of primary ores. They form fine-grained crystalline and micrometer-grained to cryptocrystalline aggregates. …”
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Continuous Auditing as a Strategic Tool in Public Sector Internal Audit: The Turkish Case by Rasim Sarıkaya, Sezer Bozkuş Kahyaoğlu, Bahadır Topal

“…After a short transition period, the public administrations have started to establish their internal audit functions with the full support of Internal Audit Coordination Board of Turkey based on IIA standards in such a tiny period of time. The major aim of this paper is to analyze the current state of public sector internal audit in Turkey and provide an example for the best practice. …”
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Simile in the Realm of Story (A Study of the Regional Similes in Stories from Five Domains of Story-writing in Iran) by Reza Sadeghi shahpar

“…Thus, the present study aims at identifying the differences among the similes used in regional stories and considers such differences as major stylistic features of the stories. It also means to answer this main question whether there are important differences among the similes used in the stories from different regions or the detected differences can be taken as stylistic characteristics distinguishing stories from various regions. …”
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PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CROSS INFECTION AT DENTAL LABORATORIES IN EAST JAVA PROVINCE OF INDONESIA by Eny Inayati, Sri Redjeki Indiani, Nanda Rachmad Putra Gofur

“…Background: infectious disease is one major important health issue. Dental technician is an occupation which has a risk to get infectious disease transmitted from saliva, blood or contaminated tools if universal precaution utensils did not use properly. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE NORTH SEA OIL RESOURCES IN NORWAY’S ECONOMY by D. A. Talagaeva, A. A. Trashchenko

“…However, oil continues to play a major role in the life of the state and society as one third of state revenues is based on oil resources, while export of raw materials totals more than a half of the country's overall export. …”
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Socio-demographic disparities in global trends of lip and oral cavity neoplasms from 1990 to 2021 by Amr Sayed Ghanem, Ágnes Tóth, Attila Csaba Nagy

“…Despite advances in care, it remains a major health concern due to high mortality and its impact on quality of life. …”
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Identification and Prevalence of Ixodid Ticks of Cattle in case of Haramaya Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia by Anteneh Wondimu, Yehualashet Bayu

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2017 to April 2018 to determine the prevalence and identify major species of ixodid ticks of cattle and tick burden of different sex, age, breed, and body condition of cattle. …”
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Frequency Of Prolonged Qtc in Patients With Decompensated Chronic Liver Disease In A Rural Cohort Of Sindh by Adeel Ahmed, Bushra Rabbani, Muhammad Kamran, Ammarah Saeed, Jameel Ahmed

“…Pregnant females, patients with other major co-morbid illnesses, electrolyte imbalances and those on medications affecting QTc interval were excluded. …”
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Spatiotemporal economic impact analysis of the Taal Volcano eruption using electricity consumption and nighttime light data by Ma. Flordeliza P. Del Castillo, Toshio Fujimi, Hirokazu Tatano

“…The second peak emerged upon the influx of the affected population, evacuees, earthquake occurrences, and road closures. Major assistance distribution spurred recovery towards the end of the analysis period. …”
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From the Ocean to the Gulf: One Region’s Identity in the Context of Neomodernity by V. A. Kuznetsov

“…The author emphasizes that within the framework of neomodernity these two concepts may evolve in parallel, transforming uncertainty and ambivalence of the regional IR subsystem into major feature of a new century.…”
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Exploring knowledge gaps and research needs in respiratory therapy: A qualitative description study by Marco Zaccagnini, Andrew West, Esther Khor, Shirley Quach, Mika L. Nonoyama

“… # Results We identified four major themes relating to what these experts perceive as the practice-oriented gaps and necessary research priorities across the respiratory therapy profession: 1) system-level impact of RTs, 2) optimizing respiratory therapy practices, 3) scholarship on the respiratory therapy profession and 4) respiratory therapy education…”
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Foliage est-il à leaves ce que jewellery est à jewels ? Etude de rapports entre dénombrables au pluriel et indénombrables singuliers by Laure Gardelle

“…Like the nouns that denote aggregates of heterogeneous units, nouns of the foliage type exist because they foreground the common function of the units, to the detriment of their individuality.Foliage type nouns differ from nouns that denote heterogeneous aggregates in one major respect, beyond the lack of heterogeneity: the units are construed as being fixed on a support (typically a branch, or branches, for foliage). …”
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Physically non-cloneable arbiter-type function with non-linear path pairs by A. A. Ivaniuk, A. Y. Shamyna

“…Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are basic physical cryptographical primitives, providing to solve tasks such as unclonable identification, digital device authentication and copyright authentication, true random sequence generation, etc. The major features of PUFs are stability, unpredictability and irreproducibility, due to uncontrollable random variations of distinctive features of the raw materials and technological processes used during their manufacturing. …”
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Effects of Furrow Irrigation on the Growth, Production, and Water Use Efficiency of Direct Sowing Rice by Chunlin He

“…Rice farming is the major crop production in Asia and is predicted to increase significantly in the near future in order to meet the demands for the increasing human population. …”
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Protective Effect of Aqueous Crude Extract of Neem (Azadirachta indica) Leaves on Plasmodium berghei-Induced Renal Damage in Mice by Voravuth Somsak, Sukanya Chachiyo, Ubonwan Jaihan, Somrudee Nakinchat

“…Malaria is a major public health problem in the world because it can cause of death in patients. …”
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A limited number of antibody specificities mediate broad and potent serum neutralization in selected HIV-1 infected individuals. by Laura M Walker, Melissa D Simek, Frances Priddy, Johannes S Gach, Denise Wagner, Michael B Zwick, Sanjay K Phogat, Pascal Poignard, Dennis R Burton

“…The results suggest that broad and potent serum neutralization arises in most donors through a limited number of specificities (1-2 per donor). The major targets recognized are an epitope defined by the bNAbs PG9 and PG16 that is associated with conserved regions of the V1, V2 and V3 loops, an epitope overlapping the CD4 binding site and possibly the coreceptor binding site, an epitope sensitive to a loss of the glycan at N332 and distinct from that recognized by the bNAb 2G12 and an epitope sensitive to an I165A substitution. …”
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Developed Mathematical Model for Indeterminate Elements with Variable Inertia and Curved Elements with Constant Cross-Section by Mohamed A. El Zareef, Mohamed E. El Madawy, Mohamed Ghannam

“…Issues such as analysis of indeterminate structural elements that have variable inertia as well as a curved shape still have no closed form solution and are considered one of the major problems faced by design engineers. One method to cope with these issues is by using suitable the finite element (FE) software for analyzing these types of elements. …”
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Breeding for disease resilience: opportunities to manage polymicrobial challenge and improve commercial performance in the pig industry by Xuechun Bai, Graham S. Plastow

“…Genome editing to produce pigs resistant to major diseases may complement selection for disease resilience along with continued efforts in the more traditional areas of biosecurity, vaccination and treatment. …”
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Meteorological Drought Monitoring Based on Satellite CHIRPS Product over Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Amba Shalishe, Anirudh Bhowmick, Kumneger Elias

“…Lack of rainfall monitoring network, instrument measurement, and failure are major bottlenecks for agro-and hydroclimate research in developing countries. …”
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