Effects of dietary xylanase-treated rice husk on performance characteristics of West African Dwarf goats Capra hircus by Isiaka Oyeniyi Kolade, Mahmud Baba Yousuf, Abiola Yemi Salako, Kamoldeen Abiodun Ajijolakewu, Tajjudeen Zakari Abdulkareem, Lawal Wasiu Sesan

“…The inclusion of xylanase-treated rice husk up to 30% in goat’s diet may have increased nutrients and dry matter digestion, total volatile fatty acids (TVFA's) and microbial protein production. …”
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Endoscopic Submucosal Single- or Multi-tunnel Dissection for Near-Circumferential and Circumferential Superficial Esophageal Neoplastic Lesions by Lin-Lin Zhu, Jun-Chao Wu, Yi-Ping Wang, Du He, Wen-Yan Zhang, Tao Gan, Jin-Lin Yang

“…En bloc dissection was achieved in all lesions, and the R0 resection rate was 70.2 percent. No matter how large the lesion area was, there were no significant differences in the dissection speed and the R0 resection rate when lesions were at least three-quarters of the esophageal circumference. …”
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Seasonal profile of trace metal contamination (Hg, Cd, Pb and Al) and biological contamination of atmospheric air in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo by M. T. Mondo, I. C. Nsimanda, Willy LUSASI SWANA, K. C. Mulaji, K. V. Pwema, E. A. D. Musibono

“…Biological pollution was assessed by measuring organic matter in dust and cultivating diaspores from dust samples, with plant species identified using the APG III botanical classification. …”
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Enhancing patient engagement: the influence of an in-consult patient decision aid on shared decision-making for lung tumour radiation – protocol for the randomised trial ‘SDM Lung... by Karina Dahl Steffensen, Signe Timm, Torben Frøstrup Hansen, Thomas Leth Fink, Charlotte Kristiansen, Torben Schjødt Hansen, Rune Slot Thing

“…We believe that the patients should be engaged in such a decision.To explore this matter, we have designed a randomised trial, ‘SDM Lung SBRT’, for which we present our study protocol with a special focus on a patient decision aid (PtDA), which is being tested in this trial.Methods and analysis This study includes patients with a lung tumour located ≤1 cm from the thoracic wall. …”
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Local structural–functional coupling with counterfactual explanations for epilepsy prediction by Jiashuang Huang, Shaolong Wei, Zhen Gao, Shu Jiang, Mingliang Wang, Liang Sun, Weiping Ding, Daoqiang Zhang

“…The structural–functional brain connections coupling (SC–FC coupling) describes the relationship between white matter structural connections (SC) and the corresponding functional activation or functional connections (FC). …”
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Health Benefits Due to Reduction in Respirable Particulates during COVID-19 Lockdown in India by Anubha Goel, Pallavi Saxena, Saurabh Sonwani, Shubham Rathi, Ananya Srivastava, Akash Kumar Bharti, Supreme Jain, Shubhanshi Singh, Anuradha Shukla, Anju Srivastava

“…This quantification of the health benefits due to a decrease in PM2.5 may help policymakers implement suitable control measures, especially for NACs, where the respirable particulate matter concentrations remain very high.…”
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Trade-off strategies between growth and defense of spring ephemeral plants in early spring by Liben Pan, Liben Pan, Tianqi Wang, Tianqi Wang, Vladimir L. Gavrikov, Xiaorui Guo, Xiaorui Guo, Liqiang Mu, Zhonghua Tang, Zhonghua Tang

“…Plants at higher elevations demonstrated higher leaf dry matter content and leaf total flavonoid concentration, and lower nitrogen concentration, influenced by temperature, precipitation, and soil nutrients.DiscussionThese results demonstrated that spring ephemerals have a strong nutrient uptake capacity, and adopt resource competition strategies to rapidly accumulate nutrients and reproduce. …”
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Morphological Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Tinnitus: Evidence Obtained by Applying Machine Learning by Yawen Liu, Haijun Niu, Jianming Zhu, Pengfei Zhao, Hongxia Yin, Heyu Ding, Shusheng Gong, Zhenghan Yang, Han Lv, Zhenchang Wang

“…For each subject, the gray matter volume of 61 brain regions was extracted as an original feature pool. …”
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Investigating the effect of the teaching method of peer education in medical students of surgical internship on satisfaction, grade at the end of the section, and implementation ab... by Keivan Sabooni, Madjid Shafiayan, Farzaneh Zarei, Behzad Khalafi

“…Conclusion: Based on the results obtained in this study, peer-to-peer teaching in the teaching of surgery topics can have a more effective role than classical teaching in terms of gaining satisfaction, ease of implementation, and improving students' grades. However, in this matter, the limitations and special characteristics of learners should be considered.…”
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Predicting nonequilibrium Green’s function dynamics and photoemission spectra via nonlinear integral operator learning by Yuanran Zhu, Jia Yin, Cian C Reeves, Chao Yang, Vojtěch Vlček

“…Understanding the dynamics of nonequilibrium quantum many-body systems is an important research topic in a wide range of fields across condensed matter physics, quantum optics, and high-energy physics. …”
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Highly sensitive, responsive, and selective iodine gas sensor fabricated using AgI-functionalized graphene by Zhuo Chen, Qiong Lei, Yinchang Ma, Jinrong Wang, Yuan Yan, Jun Yin, Jiaqiang Li, Jie Shen, Guanxing Li, Tingting Pan, Xinglong Dong, Bambar Davaasuren, Yaping Zhang, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Jun Tao, Yu Han

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Chemical characterization of Siraitia grosvenorii granules and their efficacy and mechanism of action on PM2.5-induced acute lung injury by Qi Shao, Yan Zhao, YuYu Shi, Fafeng Cheng, ZeHan Zhang, Ying Liu, ChangXiang Li, ZiLin Ren, Hua Bai, Haojie Cheng, Rolando Maddela, Junqiang Tian, Xueqian Wang

“…The lung-protective effects of SGG against particulate matter (PM2.5) were investigated via in vivo experiments. …”
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Correction of CAMS PM₁₀ Reanalysis Improves AI-Based Dust Event Forecast by Ron Sarafian, Sagi Nathan, Dori Nissenbaum, Salman Khan, Yinon Rudich

“…The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) offers global reanalysis datasets and forecasts of particulate matter with a diameter of under 10 μm (PM₁₀), which approximate dust, but recent studies highlight discrepancies between CAMS data and ground <i>in-situ</i> measurements. …”
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Diurnal variation in brain injury after cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation by Fei Peng, Fei Wang, Bowen Gao, Ping Sun

“…Based on the CA/CPR onset time, all patients were divided into two cohorts: daytime and nighttime groups. The gray-to white-matter signal intensity ratio (GWR) was analyzed using brain computed tomography (CT) images. …”
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Characterization of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Isolated from the Testis by Letizia De Chiara, Elvira Smeralda Famulari, Sharmila Fagoonee, Saskia K. M. van Daalen, Stefano Buttiglieri, Alberto Revelli, Emanuela Tolosano, Lorenzo Silengo, Ans M. M. van Pelt, Fiorella Altruda

“…Spontaneously arising pluripotent stem cells can be obtained in culture from murine spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), while the pluripotency of the human counterpart remains a matter of debate. Recent gene expression profiling studies have demonstrated that embryonic stem cell- (ESC-) like cells obtained from the human testis are indeed closer to mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) than to pluripotent stem cells. …”
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Scalar Field Kantowski–Sachs Solutions in Teleparallel <i>F</i>(<i>T</i>) Gravity by Alexandre Landry

“…Some new <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>T</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> solution classes may be relevant for future cosmological applications, especially concerning dark matter, dark energy quintessence, phantom energy leading to the Big Rip event, and quintom models of physical processes.…”
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A Decontamination Process to Remove Metals and Stabilise Montreal Sewage Sludge by G. Mercier, J.F. Blais, F. Hammy, M. Lounes, J.L. Sasseville

“…Dissolved organic carbon measurements have showed that little organic matter is brought in solution during the treatment. …”
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Metacavities by harnessing the linear-crossing metamaterials by Wu Jiaju, Guo Zhiwei, Qi Xin, Wei Qian, He Li, Fang Kai, Sun Yong, Li Yunhui, Chen Yuguang, Jiang Haitao, Chen Hong

“…Our work offers a new avenue for designing optical resonators excited by the point source in integrated photonics, which is very useful for high-efficiency filters, ultrasensitive sensors, and enhancement of light–matter interactions.…”
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Enhancement of Fertilizer Efficiency Through Chinese Milk Vetch and Rice Straw Incorporation by Tahir Shah, Adnan Anwar Khan, Yahya Mohammed Ali Aljerib, Muhammad Tariq, Donghui Li, Mingjian Geng, Yajun Gao, Qiang Zhu

“…MSF80 treatment also improved nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) use efficiencies, sustainable yield index, and partial factor productivity. Soil organic matter (SOM), total nitrogen (TN), ammonium N (NH₄⁺-N), nitrate N (NO₃⁻-N), available phosphorus (AP), and available potassium (AK) contents were significantly enhanced under MSF80 across different growth stages in both 2020 and 2021 seasons over F100. …”
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Silver Ecotoxicity Estimation by the Soil State Biological Indicators by S. I. Kolesnikov, N. I. Tsepina, L.V. Sudina, T. V. Minnikova, K. Sh. Kazeev, Yu. V. Akimenko

“…The light granulometric composition of sierosands and the acidic reaction of the environment of brown forest soils, as well as the low content of organic matter, contribute to high mobility and, consequently, high ecotoxicity of silver in these soils. …”
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