Risk Factors of Mortality from All Asbestos-Related Diseases: A Competing Risk Analysis by Rafael Abós-Herràndiz, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Isabel Garcia-Allas, Isabel-Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Constança Albertí-Casas, Josep Tarrés, Illona Krier-Günther, Xavier Martinez-Artés, Ramon Orriols, Isidre Grimau-Malet, Jaume Canela-Soler

“…The incidence rate after diagnosis was 3,600 per 100,000 person-years. In 7.5% of patients death was non-asbestos-related, while pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma were identified in 87 (16.0%) and 18 (3.3%) patients, respectively. …”
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Thymoglobulin Induction Dosing Strategies in a Low-Risk Kidney Transplant Population: Three or Four Days? by Karen L. Hardinger, Rafia S. Rasu, Rebecca Skelton, Brent W. Miller, Daniel C. Brennan

“…A cost savings of $920 per patient for rATG were seen in the 2 mg/kg group (P=.122). …”
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Loading and Skeletal Development and Maintenance by P. Bergmann, J. J. Body, S. Boonen, Y. Boutsen, J. P. Devogelaer, S. Goemaere, J. Kaufman, J. Y. Reginster, S. Rozenberg

“…The most practical advice for patients is to walk a minimum of 30 to 60 minutes per day. Other exercises like swimming or cycling have less effect on bone, but could reduce fracture risk indirectly by maintaining muscle mass and force.…”
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Roquefort Cheese Proteins Inhibit Chlamydia pneumoniae Propagation and LPS-Induced Leukocyte Migration by Ivan M. Petyaev, Naylia A. Zigangirova, Natalie V. Kobets, Valery Tsibezov, Lydia N. Kapotina, Elena D. Fedina, Yuriy K. Bashmakov

“…Moreover, short term feeding of mice with Roquefort cheese (twice, 10 mg per mouse with an interval of 24 hours) led to the inhibition of the migration of peritoneal leukocytes caused by intraperitoneal injection of E. coli lipopolysaccharide. …”
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Scale Effect on the Anisotropy of Acoustic Emission in Coal by Honghua Song, Yixin Zhao, Yaodong Jiang, Jiehao Wang

“…The cumulative AE counts and energy dissipation increase with the specimen size, while the energy dissipation per AE count behaves in the opposite way. This may result from the increasing amount of both preexisting discontinuities and cracks (volume/number) needed for specimen failure and the lower energy dissipation AE counts generated by them. …”
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Recent Advances in Ultrahigh-Speed Wireline Receivers With ADC-DSP-Based Equalizers by Seoyoung Jang, Jaewon Lee, Yujin Choi, Donggeun Kim, Gain Kim

“…High-speed wireline data transceivers (TRX) with analog-to-digital converter (ADC) followed by digital signal processor (DSP) on the receiver (RX) equalizer became popular for applications requiring >100-Gb/s per-lane data rate over long-reach (LR) channels, especially for datacenter applications. …”
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Ultrahigh-Performance Radio Frequency System-on-Chip Implementation of a Kalman Filter-Based High-Precision Time and Frequency Synchronization for Networked Integrated Sensing and... by Roghayeh Ghasemi, Patrick Fenske, Tobias Koegel, Markus Hehn, Ingrid Ullmann, Martin Vossiek

“…Due to the deterministic processing time inherent in the FPGA, the proposed synchronization method achieves exceptional precision, with clock offset deviations in the nanosecond range and clock rate deviations limited to only a few parts per billion, even across considerable distances between the network nodes.…”
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Dynamic Compressive Characteristics of Sandstone under Confining Pressure and Radial Gradient Stress with the SHPB Test by Shiming Wang, Yunsi Liu, Jian Zhou, Qiuhong Wu, Shuyi Ma, Zhihua Zhou

“…Finally, with an increase in the incident energy, the absorbed energy per unit volume would increase, but would not be affected obviously by the radial gradient stress.…”
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RESPONSE OF WHEAT TO DIFFERENT ABIOTIC STRESS CONDITIONS: A REVIEW by Harikala Paudel, Radhakrishna Bhandari, Anjali Dhakal, Shivalal Nyaupane, Binod Panthi, Mukti Ram Poudel

“…Impact on important yield-related traits such as spike length, grains per spike, grain weight, thousand-grain weight, and reduces the yield of wheat. …”
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Quantification and optimization of platinum–molybdenum carbide interfacial sites to enhance low-temperature water-gas shift reaction by Ruiying Li, Jingyuan Shang, Fei Wang, Qing Lu, Hao Yan, Yongxiao Tuo, Yibin Liu, Xiang Feng, Xiaobo Chen, De Chen, Chaohe Yang

“…By combining sacrificial CO adsorption per Pt atom, Density Functional Theory calculations, and CO chemisorption measurements, we establish a direct correlation between the monolayer Pt nanocluster size and the number of interfacial perimeters on Pt/α-MoC1-x catalysts. …”
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Geographic Information System-Based Framework for Sustainable Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Logistics Operations by Jonathan Agoo, Renz Joshua Lanuza, Jonathan Lee, Paul Anthony Rivera, Neil Oliver Velasco, Marielet Guillermo, Arvin Fernando

“…It was pilot tested with an actual dispatch operation of a logistics company, yielding decreases of 92% and 43% in the average turnaround time and carbon footprint per completed service request, respectively, a decrease of 57% in operations cost, and an increase of 72% in profit. …”
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Hair Loss Associated with Sertraline: A Case Report by Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini, Hamed Ghazvini, Seyedeh Masoumeh Seyedhosseini Tamijani, Raheleh Rafaiee

“…She developed severe hair loss two weeks post-initiation of treatment with sertraline 50 mg per day. She stopped the medication after two months when she had lost 50% of her hair. …”
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Millimetre-Wave Metamaterial-Based Sensor for Characterisation of Cooking Oils by Suhail Asghar Qureshi, Zuhairiah Zainal Abidin, Adel Yahya Isa Ashyap, Huda A. Majid, Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin, Ma Yue, Mohd Syis Zulkipli, Jamel Nebhen

“…The presented structure designed on 12 × 8 mm2 Rogers substrate offers a sensitivity of 1.12 GHz per unit change in dielectric constant. The phase's shift demonstrates a lower percentage error than the amplitude and linearly moves towards higher frequencies with the increase in dielectric constant and tangent loss of MUT. …”
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Creation of novel solid-state PSII fuel cells without platinum anodes and determination of optimal anode composition by Hitoki Semizo, Haruyoshi Oshima, Yusuke Takahashi, Shoma Nishizaki, Yasumitsu Matsuo, Hinako Kawakami

“…The solid-state PSII fuel cell was found to achieve the highest power density when using solid fuel with 8.5 × 10–1 mg of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) per 1 g of chitin. This result suggests that photosynthetic proton generation reactions are important for the power generation properties of solid-state PSII fuel cells. …”
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Endoscopic Dilation of Refractory Postlaryngectomy Strictures: A Case Series and Literature Review by Patrick L. Stoner, Amy L. Fullerton, Alyssa M. Freeman, Neil N. Chheda, David S. Estores

“…The median number of dilations per patient was 12 (range 7 to 48). The average interval in between dilations was six weeks. …”
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Impact of Sustainability Reporting on Financial Performance: Evidence from an Emerging Economy by Sohag Ahmed Sunny, Fatema Ali Apsara

“…Using a sample of 270 firm-year observations, the study employs pooled OLS regression to analyze the impact of sustainability reporting on return on assets (ROA) and earnings per share (EPS). The findings reveal that economic and environmental sustainability reporting have significant positive relationships with both financial performance measures, while social sustainability reporting shows no significant impact. …”
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L'infragilimento da idrogeno. Un caso di studio In una barra di comandi di un velivolo dell'aviazione generale. by M. Amura, V. Di Paolo, M. Bernabei, M. Colavita, L. Aiello

“…Tale degradazione si può manifestare sia per l'effetto combinato tra l'ambiente nel quale il velivolo opera e le sollecitazioni cui è sottoposto sia che a causa di anomalie avvenute in fase produttiva che, dopo un periodo di incubazione, manifestano il loro pericoloso effetto: è questo il caso dell'infragilimento da idrogeno che, nel presente articolo che esamina sia i punti critici del processo di produzione che possono indudo che la morfologia delle superfici di rottora che ad esso si possono ricondurre. …”
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Review on life cycle analysis (LCA) studies of reusable plastic crates for fruit and vegetables by Si Gao, Juanjuan Yao, Xuchen Zhao, Pinqiao Ren, Mathias Gustavsson, Chunfei Wu

“…The review presents global warming potential (GWP) results associated with the use of reusable plastic crates, which were observed to be 65–628 g CO2 eq. per cycle of crate during service life. Meanwhile, cross-cutting issues are discussed which can reduce food losses as part of transportation, providing additional benefits for this system as compared to conventional crate solutions.…”
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A Novel Gel Polymer Electrolyte by Thiol-Ene Click Reaction Derived from CO2-Based Polycarbonate for Lithium-Ion Batteries by Wenhan Luo, Kuirong Deng, Shuanjin Wang, Shan Ren, Dongmei Han, Yufei Wang, Min Xiao, Yuezhong Meng

“…The battery delivers a good reversible charge-discharge capacity close to 140 mAh g-1 at 1 C rate and 25°C with only 0.022% per cycle decay after 200 cycles. This work provides an interesting molecular design for polycarbonate application in gel electrolyte lithium-ion batteries.…”
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TOPS-speed complex-valued convolutional accelerator for feature extraction and inference by Yunping Bai, Yifu Xu, Shifan Chen, Xiaotian Zhu, Shuai Wang, Sirui Huang, Yuhang Song, Yixuan Zheng, Zhihui Liu, Sim Tan, Roberto Morandotti, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, David J. Moss, Xingyuan Xu, Kun Xu

“…Here, we report a complex-valued optical convolution accelerator operating at over 2 Tera operations per second (TOPS). With appropriately designed phasors we demonstrate its performance in the recognition of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images captured by the Sentinel-1 satellite, which are inherently complex-valued and more intricate than what optical neural networks have previously processed. …”
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