Antimicrobial and Mechanical Properties of Orthodontic Acrylic Resin Containing Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Supported on 4A Zeolite by Mahdiyeh Esmaeilzadeh, Baharak Divband, Bahram Ranjkesh, Fatemeh Pournaghi Azar, Fatemeh Yeganeh Sefidan, Mojgan Kachoei, Behnaz Karimzadeh

“…However, since the porous structure, cold-curing acrylic resins are susceptible to bacterial adhesion and colonization. …”
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Inhaled corticosteroids' effect on COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Yasra Badi, Mohamed Hammad, Abdelrahman G. Tawfik, Mona Muhe Eldeen Eshag, Mahmoud M. Elhady, Khaled Mohamed Ragab, Anas Zakarya Nourelden, Mohamed Hesham Gamal, Ahmed Hashem Fathallah

“…Current data do not demonstrate an effect on mortality or time to sustained self-reported cure. However, the evidence is inconclusive, and more studies are needed for more precise data.…”
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Application of microbially induced calcite precipitation to mitigate soil frost heave by M.F. Nikshoar, M.A. Rowshanzamir, S.M. Abtahi, S. Soleimanian-Zad

“…The influence of three factors in four levels, including bacteria concentration, cementing solution concentration, and curing time, was investigated based on a plan set by Taguchi design of experiment method. …”
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Strength, Hydraulic, and Microstructural Characteristics of Expansive Soils Incorporating Marble Dust and Rice Husk Ash by Fazal E. Jalal, Sultani Mulk, Shazim Ali Memon, Babak Jamhiri, Ahsan Naseem

“…By using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses, the effect of curing on UCS after 3, 7, 14, 28, 56, and 112 days was studied from the standpoint of microstructural changes. …”
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Cost Analysis of Reclaimed Asphalt Concrete for Rigid Pavement Construction. by Ariho, Dan

“…Concrete samples of nominal mixes1:3:6 and 1:2:4 at varying water cement ratios of 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 were prepared and tested for slump. 15 concrete cubes of 150mm x 150 mm x 150 mm per concrete mix per w/c ratio were cast and subjected to curing under water after 24 hours of casting. The cubes were then tested for compressive strength after 3, 7, 14, 28 and 56 days of curing and a minimum of 3 cubes were crushed and results recorded. …”
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Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on the Internal Structure and Performance of Semirigid Base Materials by Yiqi Wang, Yiqiu Tan, Meng Guo, Xinglong Wang

“…Increasing the cement content and extending the curing time decreased the average number of voids, average void area, and average void diameter and decreased the mass loss ratio and strength loss ratio of the SRBMs. …”
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Simulation of the Compressive Strength of Cemented Tailing Backfill through the Use of Firefly Algorithm and Random Forest Model by Qi-Ang Wang, Jia Zhang, Jiandong Huang

“…Tailing to cement ratio and curing time are the two most important parameters to the compressive strength of the cemented tailing backfill.…”
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An Assessment of Factors Influencing Forest Harvesting in Smallholder Tobacco Production in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe: An Application of Binary Logistic Regression Model by Chipo Chivuraise, Tafireyi Chamboko, Godfrey Chagwiza

“…Deforestation is one of the major effects posed by the smallholder tobacco farming as the farmers heavily depend on firewood sourced from natural forest for curing tobacco. The research aims at assessing the factors that influence the harvesting of natural forest in the production of tobacco. …”
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Effects of Fine Gangue on Strength, Resistivity, and Microscopic Properties of Cemented Coal Gangue Backfill for Coal Mining by Tingye Qi, Guorui Feng, Yanrong Li, Yuxia Guo, Jun Guo, Yujiang Zhang

“…In this study, the effects of the weight content (ranging from 20% to 60%) of fine gangue (0–5 mm) on the microscopic characteristics, resistivity, and compressive strength of CGB were investigated at 3 d and 28 d curing times, respectively. The test results indicate that the strengths of the CGB, regardless of the curing time, increased with fine gangue content changing from 20% up to 40%. …”
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Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Targeting Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells by Ahmad Hamad, Zeyad Sahli, Maya El Sabban, Maha Mouteirik, Rihab Nasr

“…This highlights the need to develop new therapeutic strategies for CML to achieve a permanent cure, and to allow TKI interruption. This review summarizes recent research done on alternative targeted therapies with a particular focus on some important signaling pathways (such as Alox5, Hedgehog, Wnt/b-catenin, autophagy, and PML) that have the potential to target CML stem cells and potentially provide cure for CML.…”
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Preparation of non-sintered sludge based material and mechanism of phosphorus adsorption by WANG Wei, XU Bin, WU Wei, WU Bingdang, GAN Yonghai, Cui Yibin

“…The non-sintered materials were prepared using sludge as raw materials, and four influencing factors were selected, including the mass ratio of silt/cement, the amount of activator, the amount of sodium silicate and the curing time, to determine the optimal preparation conditions by the Box-Behnken(BB) response surface method. …”
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Comparative Study on River Manufactured and Rock Sand on the Compressive Strength of Concrete Grade-25. by Rukundo, Patrick

“…It is noted that compressive strength does not only depend on water-cement ratio but also on some other factors such as cement strength class and fineness, concrete age, duration of curing, admixtures, and aggregate properties such as size, shape, texture, and strength. …”
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Epidemiology and Treatment Patterns of Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease in a Large, Real-World Australasian Cohort by Jack McNamara, William Wilson, Joseph L. Pipicella, Simon Ghaly, Jakob Begun, Ian C. Lawrance, Richard Gearry, Jane M. Andrews, Susan J. Connor

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Treatment-Resistant Hepatitis C Viral Infection: A Case Report and Literature Review by Victoria Green, Marina Roytman

“…Increasing recognition of its impact and recent advances towards HCV prevention and cure have provided incentive for the World Health Organization to call for global elimination by 2030. …”
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Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties of Cement-Mixed Gravel by Chen Wang, Wentao Li

“…Basic factors including the curing period, the water-binder ratio, the cement content, and the strain rate were evaluated. …”
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Investigating the repair of cracks through bacterial self-healing for sustainable concrete in aggressive sulfate attack environments by Yasmine Elmenshawy, Seleem S. E. Ahmad, Yasser Osman El Gammal, Hamees Mohamad El-Sheikh, Mohamed Moawad, Ahmed A. Elshami, Mohamed A.R. Elmahdy

“…The results show that in both curing in freshwater, FW, and sulfate, SUL, the optimum bacteria ratio was 2.5% BM, and the compressive strength improved by 43.34% for FW and 47.65% for sulfate. …”
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Towards Curative Therapy in Burkitt Lymphoma: The Role of Early African Studies in Demonstrating the Value of Combination Therapy and CNS Prophylaxis by Ian Magrath

“…Complete response was observed with many drugs used as single agents, but Ziegler and colleagues showed that patients resistant to one drug could achieve cure and potentially long-term survival with other drugs. …”
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An Ensemble Feature Selection Approach-Based Machine Learning Classifiers for Prediction of COVID-19 Disease by Md. Jakir Hossen, Thirumalaimuthu Thirumalaiappan Ramanathan, Abdullah Al Mamun

“…This deadly disease has taken a toll on the life of the entire human race, and an exact cure for it is still not developed. Thus, the control and cure of this disease mainly depend on restricting its transmission rate through early detection. …”
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Large Multinodular Toxic Goiter: Is Surgery Always Necessary? by Roberto Negro, Gabriele Greco

“…Thyroidectomy may be preferable especially when the volume of hyperfunctioning tissue is so large that a single administration of 131I is unlikely to cure the patient in terms of nodule’s volume reduction and thyroid function. …”
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Frost-Resistant Epoxy-Urethane Binders Containing Diglycidyl Urethane by Vladimir N. Strel’nikov, Valeriy Yu. Senichev, Alexey I. Slobodinyuk, Anna V. Savchuk, Elena R. Volkova

“…The microheterogeneous elastic materials obtained by curing these mixtures by the cycloaliphatic amines have a low glass transition temperature and high mechanical properties.…”
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