Filtration Performance and Fiber Shedding Behavior in Common Respirator and Face Mask Materials by Qingfeng Cao, Seong Chan Kim, Qisheng Ou, Hoo Young Chung, Weiqi Chen, William Durfee, Susan Arnold, Marc A. Hillmyer, Linsey A. Griffin, David Y. H. Pui

“…The technique of scanning electron microscope (SEM) was applied to observe the dimensions and structures of those materials, which are made of nonwoven-fabrics electret-treated media, cotton woven fabrics, or nanofiber media. …”
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Algorithm of Strawberry Disease Recognition Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Li Ma, Xueliang Guo, Shuke Zhao, Doudou Yin, Yiyi Fu, Peiqi Duan, Bingbing Wang, Li Zhang

“…In today's era of increasing demand for strawberry yield and quality, it is obvious that the traditional strawberry disease identification methods mainly rely on personal experience and naked eye observation and cannot meet the needs of people for strawberry disease identification and control. …”
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Research on wireless monitoring system for internal temperature field of coal gangue mountain by Xiaofei Liu, Chunhao Liang, Jifa Qian, Xiaolin Li, Xuemei Li, Baoli Li, Guang Xu, Bin Zhou

“…In the laboratory, active temperature rise monitoring was conducted on the simulated coal gangue pile to effectively observe the range of temperature diffusion. Simultaneously, field tests were performed in the coal gangue mountain at the coal mine. …”
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Higher Income and Integration into the Workforce Are the Main Factors Associated with Quality of Life in Acromegalic Patients in Northeastern Brazil by Adriana Maria GuimarãesSá, Pedro Antônio Muniz Ferreira, Marinilde Teles Souza, Gilvan Cortês Nascimento, Sabrina da Silva Pereira Damianse, Viviane Chaves de Carvalho Rocha, Manuel dos Santos Faria, Adalgisa de Souza Paiva Ferreira

“…The multivariate linear regression analysis indicated a positive association between being integrated into the job market and quality of life scores in the overall domain (β=0.288, p=0.003), psychological domain (β=0.291, p=0.032), and personal relationship domain (β=0.314, p=0.019). We also observed a positive association with income and the quality of life scores in all domains as follows: overall domain (β=0.037, p=0.003), physical domain (β=0.988, p=0.001), psychological domain (β=0.342, p=0.008), physical appearance domain (β=0.270, p=0.049), and personal relationship domain (β=0.315, p=0.012). …”
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Interrelationship of the Kinin System, Nitric Oxide and Eicosanoids in the Antigen-Induced Arthritis in Rabbits by Fernando Alfonso Salamea Palácios, Gilberto Santos Novaes, Maria Luiza Guzzo, Ieda Maria Magalhães Laurindo, Suzana Beatriz Verissimo de Mello

“…The simultaneous treatment with HOE 140 abolished this reversion and returned the inflammatory parameters to the levels observed in L-NAME treated animals. Our results suggest that pressoric alterations induced by L-NAME could not account for all its anti-inflammatory action in this model of experimental arthritis. …”
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Comprehensive Complication Index Predicts Cancer-Specific Survival of Patients with Postoperative Complications after Curative Resection of Gastric Cancer by Ru-Hong Tu, Jian-Xian Lin, Ping Li, Jian-Wei Xie, Jia-Bin Wang, Jun Lu, Qi-Yue Chen, Long-long Cao, Mi Lin, Chao-Hui Zheng, Chang-Ming Huang

“…A total of 5327 patients were included in the study. Complications were observed in 767 patients. When the C-D classification system was applied, for patients with grade I–II complications, the length of stay (LOS) of those with high CCI (CCI ≥ 26.2) was significantly longer than that of patients with low CCI (CCI < 26.2) (p<0.001). …”
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An Enigmatic Wild Passerine Mortality Event in the Eastern United States by Sabrina S. Greening, Julie C. Ellis, Nicole L. Lewis, David B. Needle, Cristina M. Tato, Susan Knowles, Valerie Shearn-Bochsler, Jaimie L. Miller, Daniel A Grear, Jeffrey M. Lorch, David S. Blehert, Caitlin Burrell, Lisa A. Murphy, Erica A. Miller, C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, Andrea J. Ayala, W. Kelley Thomas, Joseph L. Sevigny, Lawrence M. Gordon, Tessa Baillargeon, Lusajo Mwakibete, Megan Kirchgessner, Christine L. Casey, Ethan Barton, Michael J. Yabsley, Eman Anis, Roderick B. Gagne, Patrice Klein, Cindy Driscoll, Chelsea A. Sykes, Robert H. Poppenga, Nicole M. Nemeth

“…We report on the response to a mortality event observed predominantly in wild passerines in the eastern United States. …”
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Effects of Composition of Iron-Cross-Linked Alginate Hydrogels for Cultivation of Human Dermal Fibroblasts by Ikuko Machida-Sano, Sakito Ogawa, Hiroyuki Ueda, Yoshitaka Kimura, Nao Satoh, Hideo Namiki

“…High-G and high-M Fe-alginate gels showed comparable efficacy in promoting initial cell adhesion and similar protein adsorption capacities, but superior cell proliferation was observed on high-G than on high-M Fe-alginate as culture time progressed. …”
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Comparative Antiviral Efficacy of Generic Sofosbuvir versus Brand Name Sofosbuvir with Ribavirin for the Treatment of Hepatitis C by L. Tang, M. Kamat, A. Shukla, M. Vora, C. Kalal, S. Kottilil, S. Shah

“…This was an open-label, single-center, prospective, nonrandomized observational study for the comparative safety and efficacy of generic versus brand name sofosbuvir with ribavirin therapy for chronic hepatitis C infection (all genotypes). …”
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Ability of Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography to Detect Retinal and Choroidal Changes in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis by Elena Garcia-Martin, Laura Jarauta, Elisa Vilades, Jose Ramon Ara, Jesus Martin, Vicente Polo, Jose Manuel Larrosa, Luis Emilio Pablo, Maria Satue

“…Significant macular thinning was observed in all ETDRS areas (p<0.001) in MS patients. …”
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Effects of Telbivudine Treatment on the Circulating CD4+ T-Cell Subpopulations in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients by Yanhua Zheng, Zemin Huang, Xianhua Chen, Yi Tian, Jun Tang, Yi Zhang, Xiaomin Zhang, Jijun Zhou, Qing Mao, Bing Ni, Qinghong Wang, Yuzhang Wu

“…No obvious changes were observed in Th1 cell frequencies; although, IFN-γ expression was upregulated in response to telbivudine treatment, suggesting another cell source of IFN-γ in CHB patients. …”
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Can Effects of a Generalized Uncertainty Principle Appear in Compact Stars? by João Gabriel Galli Gimenez, Dimiter Hadjimichef, Peter Otto Hess, Marcelo Netz-Marzola, César A. Zen Vasconcellos

“…The corresponding results for the equation of state and the mass-radius relation for neutron stars are in tune with recent observations with a maximum mass around 2.5 M_⊙ and radius close to 12 km. …”
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Sex disparities in the association between rare earth elements exposure and genetic mutation frequencies in lung cancer patients by Mengyuan Liu, Jiali Zhang, Xiaohong Duan, Qiming Zhou, Jing Chen, Siyao Liu, Junyan Su, Li Han, Fan Yang, Niansong Qian

“…Specifically, Ce levels and mutation load were positively correlated in males but negatively correlated in females, while La exposure exhibited opposite associations in the two sexes. This observation was validated using the Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR) model. …”
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Changes in Polyphenols Contents and Antioxidant Capacities of Organically and Conventionally Cultivated Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Fruits during Ripening by Dea Anton, Ingrid Bender, Tanel Kaart, Mati Roasto, Marina Heinonen, Anne Luik, Tõnu Püssa

“…During ripening, four different changing patterns were observed: (1) high level in green fruits with minimal changes; (2) continuous increase with maximum level in red-ripe fruits; (3) decrease; (4) increase and achieving maximum level at half-ripe stage. …”
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Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia: A Report of Two Cases, One with Severe Retinopathy and One with Renal Failure by Naoko Kudo, Masakatsu Usui, Yukiharu Nakabo, Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kenji Miki, Takashi Osafune, Keisuke Nishimura, Shinsaku Imashuku

“…In both cases, the serum IgM levels exceeded 3,000 mg/dL and monoclonal IgM-kappa was observed in the blood. At onset, Case 1, a 63-year-old female, developed CNS symptoms—namely, drowsiness and syncope. …”
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Ultraviolet-B Radiation and Nitrogen Affect Nutrient Concentrations and the Amount of Nutrients Acquired by Above-Ground Organs of Maize by Carlos M. Correia, João F. Coutinho, Eunice A. Bacelar, Berta M. Gonçalves, Lars Olof Björn, José Moutinho Pereira

“…Significant interactions UV-B x N were observed for NUE and for concentration and mass of some elements. …”
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Human Milk Archaea Associated with Neonatal Gut Colonization and Its Co-Occurrence with Bacteria by Maricarmen Salas-López, Juan Manuel Vélez-Ixta, Diana Laura Rojas-Guerrero, Alberto Piña-Escobedo, José Manuel Hernández-Hernández, Martín Noé Rangel-Calvillo, Claudia Pérez-Cruz, Karina Corona-Cervantes, Carmen Josefina Juárez-Castelán, Jaime García-Mena

“…In this study, we aimed to characterize the archaeal composition in samples of mother-neonate pairs to observe the potential vertical transmission. We performed a cross-sectional study characterizing the archaeal diversity of 40 human colostrum-neonatal stool samples by next-generation sequencing of V5–V6 16S rDNA libraries. …”
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The SGLT-2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin Has a Therapeutic Effect on Atherosclerosis in Diabetic ApoE−/− Mice by Weiling Leng, Xinshou Ouyang, Xiaotian Lei, Mingxia Wu, Liu Chen, Qinan Wu, Wuquan Deng, Ziwen Liang

“…Background. Our study aimed to observe the effect of sodium glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dapagliflozin on diabetic atherosclerosis and investigate the subsequent mechanism. …”
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Assessment of High-resolution Local Emissions and Land-use in Air Quality Forecasting at an Urban, Coastal, Desert Environment by Christos Fountoukis, Yasir Mohieldeen, Luis Pomares, Ivan Gladich, Azhar Siddique, Adam Skillern, Mohammed A. Ayoub

“…The overall forecast error decreased from –51% to 8% for PM2.5 and from –88% to 20% for NOx while a significant improvement was observed in the diurnal profile of predicted ozone. …”
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Effects of different wet distillers’ grains ratios on fermentation quality, nitrogen fractions and bacterial communities of total mixed ration silage by Ermei Du, Ning Mao, Shihao Liu, Hanyu Zhang, Meiling Fan, Hong Sun, Yulong Zheng, Qiming Cheng, Chunmei Wang, Ping Li, Yixiao Xie

“…Non-protein nitrogen (NPN) production was slower in T30, with significant increases observed in NPN levels for T0 and T15 after 30 days (p < 0.05). …”
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