A novel adaptive droop-based SoC balancing control strategy for distributed energy storage system in DC microgrid by Liangliang Guo, Xinrui Liu, Xinyu Li, Rui Wang, Hanwen Ren, Zhiliang Wang, Qiuye Sun

“…In the secondary control layer, a virtual voltage equalization controller (VVEC) is designed to reduce the influence of line impedance on SoC balance. …”
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Isotopic Composition of Abiogenic Gas Produced in Closed-System Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: Implications for the Origins of the Deep Songliao Basin Gases in China by Zhifu Wei, Yongli Wang, Gen Wang, Xueyun Ma, Wei He, Ting Zhang, Xiaoli Yu, Yan-Rong Zou

“…Furthermore, experimental data on the control of NaBH4 content indicates that the carbon isotopes demonstrate a reverse order on condition that the H2/CO2 (mole ratio) is equal to or greater than 4.0; meanwhile, the hydrogen isotopes show a normal order. …”
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Dietary Nannochloropsis oculata ameliorates lead acetate induced reproductive toxicity in Barki rams: NF-κB and cytokines pathways by Doaa H. Elsayed, Sameer A. Nagadi, Heba M.A. Abdelrazek, Ahmed. S. El‑Hawy, Moharram F. El-Bassiony, Seham A. Helmy, Yasmina K. Mahmoud, Ibrahim E. Helal, Shady T. Hassan

“…Sixteen Barki rams were divided equally in to 4 groups; group A: control, group B: was administered 3 % dietary N. oculate, group C: was gavaged 5 mg/kg/day lead acetate and group D: was supplemented with 3 % dietary N. oculata and gavaged with 5 mg/kg/day lead acetate. …”
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Comparative Study of Three Different BACTEC Culture Media for the Detection of Bacteremia in Ambulatory and Hospitalized Children by Deirdre L Church, H Dele Davies, G Cadrain, Cynthia L Trevenen

“…Over an 18-month period, equal blood volumes (minimum of 1 mL/bottle) were inoculated into a three-bottle culture set including aerobic BACTEC NR 6A, aerobic BACTEC PEDS Plus and anaerobic NR 7A broths. …”
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Development of a novel encystment medium: Enhancing diagnostic potential of Acanthamoeba spp. by Julalak Chuprom, Suthinee Sangkanu, Watcharapong Mitsuwan, Rachasak Boonhok, Alok K. Paul, Sonia M. Rodrigues Oliveira, Maria L. Pereira, Tajudeen O. Jimoh, Mohammed Rahmatullah, Polrat Wilairatana, Christophe Wiart, Ajoy K. Verma, Veeranoot Nissapatorn

“…A spray-dried powdered version of this medium was equally effective, achieving a 98.77% encystation rate for A. castellanii American Type Culture Collection 50739 in glucose-free conditions. …”
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Adherence to guidelines for incidental pulmonary nodules: insights from a Nordic survey by Kirill Neumann, Janna Berg, Haseem Ashraf, Johan Isaksson, Aija Knuuttila, Morten H. Borg, Torben R. Rasmussen

“…Available international guidelines were equally represented, with 35% using the Fleischner Criteria, 30% using British Thoracic Society guidelines, and 35% using others (e.g. …”
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DIFFERENCES OF BONE REGENERATION USING BOVINE HYDROXYAPATITE AND BOVINE HYDROXYAPATITE WITH FREEZE-DRIED PLATELET RICH PLASMA ALLOGRAFT IN BONE DEFECT OF FEMORAL WHITE RABBIT by Mouli Edward, Henry Dominica, Ferdiansyah Mahyudin, Fedik Abdul Rantam

“…This study compares the effects of regeneration on the bone between bovine hydroxyapatite (BHA) and bovine hydroxyapatite with freeze-dried platelet-rich plasma (FD-PRP) as a bone graft in bone defect of the femoral white rabbit. Methods: The 12 equal New Zealand white rabbits aged 6-9 months are divided into two groups. …”
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Comparison of Reference Heights of O/N2 and ∑O/N2 Based on GUVI Dayside Limb Measurement by Tingting Yu, Zhipeng Ren, You Yu, Xinan Yue, Xu Zhou, Weixing Wan

“…We choose the transition height of O and N2 (transition height hereafter), a special reference height at which O number density is equal to N2 number density, to verify the connection with ∑O/N2 during geomagnetically quiet periods. …”
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Impact of Bone Marrow Aspirate Tregs on the Response Rate of Younger Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients by Mario Delia, Paola Carluccio, Anna Mestice, Claudia Brunetti, Francesco Albano, Giorgina Specchia

“…Actually, higher dBMA Tregs were associated with the good intermediate molecular/cytogenetic risk group (p=0.02), whose median OS was confirmed to be better as compared with that of the poor risk group (18 versus 5 months, p=0.05) and equal to the dBMA Tregs ≥ 21/μL group (5 versus 5 months, p=0.902), respectively. …”
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Performance analysis of PCM-based lithium-ion battery module thermal management system under mechanical vibration by Jiebo Yang, Qinghua Yu, Wenjie Ye, Yang Yu, Sheng Chen

“…Lastly, the BTMS's performance is able to strengthened by raising vibrational amplitude, but the impact is negligible when the amplitude is equal to or greater than 50 mm, and the thermal absorption capability of the BTMS can be augmented by raising the vibrational frequency, but there exists an enhancement limit. …”
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Evaluation of the New Digital Goldmann Applanation Tonometer for Measuring Intraocular Pressure by Yuta Sakaue, Jun Ueda, Masaaki Seki, Takayuki Tanaka, Tetsuya Togano, Takaiko Yoshino, Takeo Fukuchi

“…Even in patients with equal IOP (zero left-right difference) with sGAT (n=30), dGAT detected IOP differences between the left and right eyes (0.47 ± 0.31 mmHg). …”
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LC-MS-Based Global Metabolic Profiles of Alternative Blood Specimens Collected by Microsampling by Marlene N. Thaitumu, Daniel Marques De Sá e Silva, Philippine Louail, Johannes Rainer, Glykeria Avgerinou, Anatoli Petridou, Vassilis Mougios, Georgios Theodoridis, Helen Gika

“…<b>Results:</b> BµS devices, especially Mitra and Capitainer, provided equal or even superior information on the metabolic profiling of human blood based on the number and intensity of features and the precision and stability of some annotated metabolites compared to plasma. …”
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Rapid estimation method of lithium battery state of health based on novel health feature by DONG Xiaohong, DONG Jinbo, WANG Mingshen, ZENG Fei, PAN Yi

“…The charging data of the battery is firstly analyzed in the method, and based on the existing health characteristics of time interval of an equal charging voltage difference (TIECVD) in the constant current charging process of the battery, constructs a new health feature, that is, the health feature of charging voltage at the same starting point and charging time interval. …”
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Cocaine-Induced Giant Bullous Emphysema by Steven Douedi, Vandan D. Upadhyaya, Ishan Patel, Usman Mazahir, Eric Costanzo, Mohammad A. Hossain

“…Emphysematous bullae, defined as airspaces of greater than or equal to one centimeter in diameter, have a variety of etiologies such as tobacco use and alpha-1 antitrypsin being the most common. …”
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Evaluation of deceased-donor kidney offers: development and validation of novel data driven and expert based prediction models for early transplant outcomes by Christoph F. Mahler, Felix Friedl, Christian Nusshag, Claudius Speer, Louise Benning, Daniel Göth, Matthias Schaier, Claudia Sommerer, Markus Mieth, Arianeb Mehrabi, Christoph Michalski, Lutz Renders, Quirin Bachmann, Uwe Heemann, Markus Krautter, Vedat Schwenger, Fabian Echterdiek, Fabian Echterdiek, Martin Zeier, Christian Morath, Florian Kälble

“…Compared to KDRI, our described models are sparse with only four and three predictors respectively and account for paired grafts from the same donor, while maintaining a discriminative accuracy equal or better than the established KDRI-score.…”
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Pharmacokinetics of tebipenem pivoxil used in children suffering from shigellosis: a pilot study in Bangladesh by Sharika Nuzhat, Md Ridwan Islam, Syed Jayedul Bashar, Subhasish Das, Rukaeya Amin, Firdausi Qadri, Farhana Khanam, Dilruba Ahmed, Patricia B. Pavlinac, Cindy X. Zhang, Samuel L. M. Arnold, Amy Newlands, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Tahmeed Ahmed

“…Thirty suspected shigellosis cases aged 24–59 months were randomized across two treatment groups equally: tebipenem pivoxil and azithromycin. Pharmacokinetics of tebipenem was assessed among fifteen children who received tebipenem pivoxil using Noncompartmental analysis (NCA). …”
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Effect of icatibant on sweating-induced dermal pain by Shunsuke Takahagi, Shunsuke Takahagi, Daiki Matsubara, Emi Murakami, Yumi Aoyama, Shinya Imamura, Atsushi Fukunaga, Atsushi Fukunaga, Yoshiko Oda, Hiroyuki Murota, Michihiro Hide, Michihiro Hide

“…The pain duration decreased more with icatibant than with saline in two patients, whereas it decreased equally with both treatments in the other. Icatibant did not affect the changes in whole blood and plasma histamine, and serum angiotensin-converting enzyme levels after the induction of the dermal pain. …”
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Supportive care needs of the family caregivers of urostomy patients: a qualitative study by Kaixia Gao, Shaoguo Zhang, Jie Liu, Fang Zhang, Na Liu, Jiyan Dong, Tingting Zhang, Junping Gao, Sufang Qin, Junhong An, Xiaojuan Han

“…The respondents reported that they felt equally under pressure as the urostomy patients they were caring for, although the medical staff appeared to be paying little attention to them. …”
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Investigation of Kidney Histopathology in Rats Receiving Methamphetamine Simultaneously with Berberine Hydrochloride and Aerobic Exercise by Danial Naghipour, Aref Arminfar, Zahra Sahraneshin Samani, Lida Sepanloo, Hessamedin Babaei, Mohammad Hossein Hasani, Behrooz Yahyaei

“…Methods: Forty rats were randomly divided into five equal groups: control, methamphetamine, methamphetamine with exercise, methamphetamine with berberine hydrochloride, and methamphetamine with both exercise and berberine hydrochloride. …”
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Evaluation of Anthropometric and Metabolic Parameters in Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Yaşar Yildirim, Süreyya Yilmaz, Mehmet Güven, Faruk Kılınç, Ali Veysel Kara, Zülfükar Yilmaz, Gökhan Kırbaş, Alpaslan Kemal Tuzcu, Fatma Yılmaz Aydın

“…Patients were divided equally into 2 groups according to polysomnography results: control group with an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) <5 (n=25) and OSA group with an AHI ≥5 (n=25). …”
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