Older Adults Accessing HIV Care and Treatment and Adherence in the IeDEA Central Africa Cohort by Jamie Newman, Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez, Jennifer Hemingway-Foday, Anna Freeman, Wilfred Akam, Ashu Balimba, Lucien Kalenga, Marcel Mbaya, Brigitte Mfangam Molu, Henri Mukumbi, Théodore Niyongabo, Joseph Atibu, Innocent Azinyue, Modeste Kiumbu

“…Adults who were not heavy drinkers reported better adherence as compared to those who reported drinking three or more alcoholic beverages per day (P<0.001). Conclusions. Older adults differed from their younger counterparts in terms of medication adherence, sociodemographic, behavioral, and clinical characteristics.…”
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Design Optimization of a Multistage Axial Flow Compressor Based on Full-Blade Surface Parameterization and Phased Strategy by Jinxin Cheng, Shengfeng Zhao, Zhaohui Dong, Chengwu Yang

“…The method mainly contains three aspects: full-blade surface parametrization can significantly reduce the number of control variables per blade row and increase the degrees of freedom of the leading edge blade angle compared with the traditional semiblade parametric method; secondly, the artificial bee colony algorithm improved initialization and food source exploration and exploitation mechanism to enhance the global optimization ability and convergence speed, and a distributed optimization system is built on the supercomputing platform based on this method; finally, a phased optimization strategy based on the “synchronous change in multirow blades” is proposed, and expert experience is introduced to achieve a better balance between exploration and exploitation. …”
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Telemonitoring of Daily Activity and Symptom Behavior in Patients with COPD by Monique Tabak, Miriam M. R. Vollenbroek-Hutten, Paul D. L. P. M. van der Valk, Job van der Palen, Thijs M. Tönis, Hermie J. Hermens

“…Objective daily activity was assessed by accelerometry and expressed as amount of activity in counts per minute (cpm). Patients' baseline subjective activity and stage of change were assessed prior to measurements. …”
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Emergy Evaluation of a Production and Utilization Process of Irrigation Water in China by Dan Chen, Zhao-Hui Luo, Jing Chen, Jun Kong, Dong-Li She

“….; sej/J = solar emjoules per joule) represent their different emergy efficiencies. …”
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Integrated system for electrolyte recovery, product separation, and CO2 capture in CO2 reduction by Peng Wang, An Pei, Zhaoxi Chen, Peilin Sun, Chengyi Hu, Xue Wang, Nanfeng Zheng, Guangxu Chen

“…Compared to the conventional acid-base neutralization process, ERSS saves $119.76 per ton of KOH recovered and is applicable to other aqueous alkaline electrosynthesis reactions.…”
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Grid-Connected Semitransparent Building-Integrated Photovoltaic System: The Comprehensive Case Study of the 120 kWp Plant in Kunming, China by Yunfeng Wang, Ming Li, Reda Hassanien Emam Hassanien, Xun Ma, Guoliang Li

“…The total amount of power generation of the BIPV system measured from October 2014 to September 2015 was 64.607 MWh, and the simulation results with TRNSYS (Transient Systems Simulation Program) provided the 75.515 MWh predicted value of annual electricity production with the meteorological database of Meteonorm, while, based on the average value of the performance ratio (PR) of 60% and the life cycle assessment (LCA) of the system, the energy payback time (EPBT) of 9.38 years and the potential for pollutant emission reductions have been evaluated and the environmental cost is RMB ¥0.01053 per kWh. Finally, an economic analysis was carried out; the net present value (NPV) and the economic payback time of the BIPV system were estimated to be RMB ¥359,347 and 15 years, respectively.…”
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Population dynamics and feeding ecology of the western tubenose goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) in the Stugna River, Dnieper River basin, Ukraine by Didenko Alexander, Volikov Yuriy, Gurbyk Alexander, Kruzhylina Svitlana, Buzevych Igor, Bekh Vitaliy

“…Material was collected monthly in 2015–2016 and 2018 at one sampling site located in the Stugna River, at a distance of 1100 m from the point where it enters the Kaniv reservoir. Catch-per-unit-efforts (CPUE) of this species at the sampling site varied considerably, both between different months within a given year and between the analyzed years, from 1.1 to 127.1 fish 100 m-2. …”
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Tumor cell-based liquid biopsy using high-throughput microfluidic enrichment of entire leukapheresis product by Avanish Mishra, Shih-Bo Huang, Taronish Dubash, Risa Burr, Jon F. Edd, Ben S. Wittner, Quinn E. Cunneely, Victor R. Putaturo, Akansha Deshpande, Ezgi Antmen, Kaustav A. Gopinathan, Keisuke Otani, Yoshiyuki Miyazawa, Ji Eun Kwak, Sara Y. Guay, Justin Kelly, John Walsh, Linda T. Nieman, Isabella Galler, PuiYee Chan, Michael S. Lawrence, Ryan J. Sullivan, Aditya Bardia, Douglas S. Micalizzi, Lecia V. Sequist, Richard J. Lee, Joseph W. Franses, David T. Ting, Patricia A. R. Brunker, Shyamala Maheswaran, David T. Miyamoto, Daniel A. Haber, Mehmet Toner

“…High CTC yields (mean 10,057 CTCs per patient; range 100 to 58,125) reveal considerable intra-patient heterogeneity. …”
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Influence of the cleaning method employed prior to the use of ionomeric materials in micro filtration of cavities at the cervical level by María Muñoz Estrella, Alexander Cruz Gallegos, Ana del Carmen Armas Vega

“…After the process of thermal aging, pigmentation with methylene blue and cutting in the lingual buccal direction, the fragments with the highest integrity were analyzed to the stereomicroscope by three evaluators who established the degree of micro filtration at the cervical and occlusal levels; the average obtained by surface per tooth was analyzed statistically. Results: The analysis performed revealed normality in the data, finding through the Tukey test that all groups are equal, with no difference in treatment and material used. …”
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Global Teleconnections of Rapid Ionospheric Fluctuations as Observed via GNSS Measurements by Enric Monte-Moreno, Manuel Hernandez-Pajares, Heng Yang

“…The two findings concerning rapid fluctuations in the electron content of the ionosphere are: 1) evidence of synchronous teleconnections in rapid local electron content variations across a wide range of geographical regions of the globe; and 2) the influence of the solar cycle on the geographic distribution of teleconnections is relatively minor, primarily impacting the frequency of teleconnections per unit of time. We characterize teleconnection patterns for different space weather variables throughout the 2016&#x2013;2022 study period, encompassing the descending and ascending phases of solar cycles 24 and 25. …”
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Scenario Based Municipal Wastewater Estimation: Development and Application of a Dynamic Simulation Model by Yong Zhang, Tingsheng Zhao, Aijiao Zhou, Zhengzhu Zhang, Wen Liu

“…The results show that (1) GDP growth leads to an increase in municipal wastewater quantity, but an increase in wastewater treatment fee can be in favor of reducing urban water pollution, and (2) the impact of per ten thousand yuan GDP water consumption on the amount of municipal wastewater is larger in the near future, while the impact of GDP growth rate is much larger in the long term. …”
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Growth Modeling of the Maternal Cytokine Milieu throughout Normal Pregnancy: Macrophage-Derived Chemokine Decreases as Inflammation/Counterregulation Increases by Shernan G. Holtan, Yiyi Chen, Rajani Kaimal, Douglas J. Creedon, Elizabeth Ann L. Enninga, Wendy K. Nevala, Svetomir N. Markovic

“…Levels of 42 cytokines were determined using a multiplex bead-based assay on archived serum from a cohort of pregnant women N=16 at median of 18 time points tested, from the first trimester through to parturition, per woman. Unconditional growth modeling was then used to determine time-dependent changes in levels of these cytokines. …”
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Detection of Total Phenol in Green and Black Teas by Flow Injection System and Unmodified Screen Printed Electrode by Ivanildo Luiz de Mattos, José Heraclito Zagal

“…The proposed system is robust, versatile, environmentally-friendly (since the reactive is used only in the presence of the sample), and allows the analysis of about 35–40 samples per hour with detection limit = 1 mg/L without the necessity for surface cleaning after each measurement. …”
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Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Determination of Trace Amounts of Silver after Solid-Phase Extraction with 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole Immobilized on Microcrystalline Naphthalene by Farid Shakerian, Ali Mohammad Haji Shabani, Shayessteh Dadfarnia, Mahdieh Shabani

“…Under the optimum experimental conditions, the adsorption capacity was found to be 1.18 mg of silver per gram of the sorbent. A sample volume of 800 mL resulted in a preconcentration factor of 160. …”
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Surface-hydrogenated CrMnO x coupled with GaN nanowires for light-driven bioethanol dehydration to ethylene by Zhouzhou Wang, Haotian Ye, Yixin Li, Bowen Sheng, Ping Wang, Pengfei Ou, Xiao-Yan Li, Tianqi Yu, Zijian Huang, Jinglin Li, Ying Yu, Xinqiang Wang, Zhen Huang, Baowen Zhou

“…Consequently, the surface-hydrogenated GaN@CMO-H illustrates a considerable ethylene production activity of 1.78 mol·gcat −1·h−1 with a high turnover number of 94,769 mole ethylene per mole CrMnO x . This work illustrates a new route for sustainable ethylene production with the only use of bioethanol and sunlight beyond fossil fuels.…”
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Intelligent Detector of Internal Combustion Engine Cylinder Pressure and Sensitivity Temperature Coefficient Compensation by Beirong Zheng, Chen Zhou, Xiaomin Pan, Quan Wang, Wei Xue

“…This pressure detection is under the environment of pulsed gas (over 500 times per one minute) and mechanical impactive vibration. …”
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ANALYSIS OF POROSITE-NEUTRON (NPHI) LOGGING DATA FROM THE KINKASI FIELD: THE CASE OF THE G UP, F AND E HORIZONS OF THE CENOMANIAN RESERVOIR (D.R. CONGO COASTAL BASIN) by Munene Asidi Djonive, Kanika Mayena Thomas, Manteko Matondo Emmanuel, Nsitu Nsitu Djeskin, Biduaya Ngalamulume Jeff, Bangama Kabongo Augustin

“…Despite the large number of wells drilled in this onshore area of the Coastal Basin and a multitude of development studies, it should be noted that production is stagnating at around 10,000 barrels per day. This report is a considerable contribution to addressing these major concerns. …”
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Effectiveness of Tephrosia vogelii and Tephrosia candida Extracts against Common Bean Aphid (Aphis fabae) in Malawi by Chicco D. M. Kayange, Dalo Njera, Stephen P. Nyirenda, Louis Mwamlima

“…The effectiveness of the treatments was based on reduction in aphid population per plant, pod length, and bean yield. Pod length and bean yield were higher in T. vogelii and Karate as compared to untreated and T. candida. …”
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Adaptive cycle and outcome response of farmers’ livelihoods under the background of rural transformation: a case study from the arid northwest region of China by Sha Yin, Xinjun Yang, Jia Chen

“…The sources of farmers’ livelihoods were gradually diversified and the per capita net income had gradually increased. The reform of the socialist market economy and the ecological governance policies were the fundamental factors influencing the change of potential and resilience in the adaptive cycle. …”
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Single-Path High-Resolution Digital PWM Architectures With Cascadability of Delay Lines by Marziyeh Hajiheidari, Joel Fushekati, Mohammad Emad, Bas J. D. Vermulst, Jeroen van Duivenbode, Henk Huisman

“…It is demonstrated that bothhldead time and duty cycle can be modified with high accuracy and resolution and updated twice per switching cycle.…”
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