Protection of Corneal Limbus from Riboflavin Prevents Epithelial Stem Cell Loss after Collagen Cross-Linking by Hyo Kyung Lee, Jin Suk Ryu, Hyun Jeong Jeong, Mee Kum Kim, Joo Youn Oh

“…Robust expression of CK3/12 was observed in the limbal epithelium in the group with a ring. …”
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Exposure to perchlorate via drinking water from eight major water basins in China and its health risks across different age groups by Jia Lyu, Yongyan Chen, Lan Zhang, Xu Yan, Muyesaier Tudi

“…A significant difference in perchlorate contamination was observed, ranging from 5.03 µg/L to 1.80 mg/L, and high perchlorate contamination levels were detected in industrial areas with a high concentration of firework production. …”
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Analysis of Amino Acid Changes in the Fusion Protein of Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus from Vaccinated Poultry in Nigerian Isolates by Olubukola O. Funsho-Sanni, Elijah E. Ella, Lawal D. Rogo, Olufunsho S. Sanni, Helen I. Inabo, Sodangi A. Luka, Ismaila Shittu

“…Many substitutions were observed along the region and some of their functions are yet to be determined. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices on household food waste: Bases for formulation of a recycling system by M.R. Limon, C.B.J. Villarino

“…Data were collected through the use of researcher-made questionnaire with Cronbach’s Alpha at .82, and was supplemented by observations. Factor analysis, Pearson <em>r</em>, and point-biserial correlation were used to yield findings in the study. …”
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Comparison of Satellite-based PM2.5 Estimation from Aerosol Optical Depth and Top-of-atmosphere Reflectance by Heming Bai, Zhi Zheng, Yuanpeng Zhang, He Huang, Li Wang

“…In this study, satellite observations of TOA reflectance and AOD from the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) onboard the Himawari-8 geostationary satellite in 2016 over Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and meteorological data are used to estimate hourly PM2.5 based on four different machine learning algorithms (i.e., random forest, extreme gradient boosting, gradient boosting regression, and support vector regression). …”
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Osmanlı Öncesi İpekçiliğe Dair İzler ve Osmanlı Dönemi Edirne İpekçiliği by Hüsnü YÜCEKAYA

“…In the second quarter of the 19th century, it is observed that the silk output of Edirne came close to one-third of the total silk output of the entire Ottoman Empire. …”
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Properties enhancement of asphalt mortar incorporating phosphogypsum based on surface activation by Wei Guo, Kaipeng Gu, Haiyang Xu, Yingsong Li, Wei Tian

“…Through dynamic shear rheological test, it observed a significant increase in the complex modulus of asphalt mortar containing activated PG, ranging from 25.2 % to 41.7 %, coupled with a decrease in irrecoverable compliance by 46.8–51.4 % compared to traditional asphalt mortar. …”
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A Critical Assessment of Friedenwald’s Technique for Estimating the Coefficient of Rigidity of the Cornea by Larysa Tutchenko, Sudi Patel, Mykhailo Skovron, Olha Horak, Oleksiy Voytsekhivskyy

“…According to the technique, the change in Ko following CXL is on par with the expected intersessional change observed in controls.…”
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Overall Survival of Elderly Patients Having Surgery for Colorectal Cancer Is Comparable to Younger Patients: Results from a South Asian Population by Pramodh Chitral Chandrasinghe, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, Thaaqib Nazar, Sumudu Kumarage, Janaki Hewavisenthi, Kemal Ismail Deen

“…Overall survival in CRC patients ≥70 is comparable to <70 (P=0.45) and <60 years (P=0.08). Poor OS was observed in the ≥70 versus <50 years (P=0.03). TDM in the elderly was poor (P<0.05). …”
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Family Support and Its Association with Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adwa M. AlHaidar, Norah A. AlShehri, Munira A. AlHussaini

“…This cross-sectional observational study assessed adolescents aged 10–19 years diagnosed with T1DM on insulin and receiving follow-up care at the King Saud University Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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AUDIOMETRIC PROFILE AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT IN ADULTS AT NANGARHAR UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL by Abdul Azeem Rasouli, Mohammad Azim Azimee, Fahima Azeem

“…Tinnitus was reported by 37.63%, while vertigo was observed in 13.97%, predominantly among individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. …”
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Grazing regime rather than grazing intensity affect the foraging behavior of cattle by You Wang, Rui Yu, Xin Li, Ronghao Chen, Jiahui Liu

“…Cattle location trajectories were tracked using Global Positioning System collars, and livestock behavior was simultaneously observed and recorded in the field. Five machine learning models—XGBoost, Random Forest, Decision Tree, Extra Trees, and CatBoost—were employed to classify cattle's behavior and to assess the impact of grazing strategies on these behaviors. …”
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Comparison of CRP, Procalcitonin, Neutrophil Counts, Eosinophil Counts, sTREM-1, and OPN between Pneumonic and Nonpneumonic Exacerbations in COPD Patients by Shan Mou, Wei Zhang, Yan Deng, Zhijun Tang, Depeng Jiang

“…Methods. 52 subjects with AECOPD + CAP and 93 subjects with AECOPD from two clinical centers were enrolled in this prospective observational study. The values of osteopontin (OPN), soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1), C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), eosinophil (EOS) counts, and neutrophil (Neu) counts in blood on the first day of admission and clinical symptoms were compared in AECOPD and AECOPD + CAP. …”
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Mesomechanism of Effects of Water on Strain Rockburst Prevention by Beibei Liu, Fujun Zhao, Qiuhong Wu, Bin Wang, Jianuo Tan, Tao Feng

“…The effect of water on rockburst prevention and control has been observed by many researchers in rock engineering. However, the mechanism of rockburst prevention by means of water is seldom researched. …”
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Colonic stenting in acute malignant large bowel obstruction: audit of efficacy and safety in a Singapore tertiary referral centre by James Weiquan Li, James Chi-Yong Ngu, Kok Ren Lim, Shu Wen Tay, Bochao Jiang, Ramesh Wijaya, Sulaiman Yusof, Calvin Jianming Ong, Andrew Boon Eu Kwek, Tiing Leong Ang

“…Local recurrence and distant metastasis were observed in 4 (10.3%) and 5 (12.8%) patients, respectively. …”
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Revealing excitation-inhibition imbalance in Alzheimer’s disease using multiscale neural model inversion of resting-state functional MRI by Guoshi Li, Li-Ming Hsu, Ye Wu, Andrea C. Bozoki, Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Pew-Thian Yap

“…Method In this work, we apply a Multiscale Neural Model Inversion (MNMI) framework to the resting-state functional MRI data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) to identify brain regions with disrupted E-I balance in a large network during AD progression. Results We observe that both intra-regional and inter-regional E-I balance is progressively disrupted from cognitively normal individuals, to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and to AD. …”
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Comparison of Local Load Influence on Crack Evolution of Coal and Briquette Coal Samples by Hongbao Zhao, Tao Wang, Huan Zhang, Ziqiang Wei

“…The results show that the raw coal and briquette coal samples are different mainly in number, dimension, and complexity of the internal microstructures, so it is not right to replace raw coal with briquette coal when performing observational study of the crack evolution of microstructures; under the effect of local load, local property, randomness of crack initiation position, and crack initiation stress of raw coal samples are greater than those of briquette coal samples; law of instantaneous maximum effective cut-through rate of raw coal samples is more complex than that of briquette coals; under the effect of uniformly distributed load, end effect factor Fe, sample microstructure influencing factor Fs, and preset center hole factor Fh are the major factors influencing crack growth, among which the amplified end effect factor Fe and sample microstructure influencing factor Fs are dominant factors; under the effect of local load, local load influencing factor Fp, end effect factor Fe, sample microstructure influencing factor Fs, and preset center hole factor Fs are the major factors influencing crack growth, among which the local load influencing factor Fp, end effect factor Fe, and sample microstructure influencing factor Fs are dominant factors. …”
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Exploring Antibacterial Activity of Fish Protein Hydrolysate In Vitro Against Vibrio Strains and Disease Resistance to V. harveyi in Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) by Yuliang Wei, Lu Wang, Yanlu Li, Qiang Ma, Mengqing Liang, Houguo Xu

“…Agar well diffusion showed the clearest inhibition zone of FPH was observed against V. harveyi, followed by V. scophthalmi. …”
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A Comparison between the Effects of Glucantime, Topical Trichloroacetic Acid 50% plus Glucantime, and Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser plus Glucantime on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Les... by Fariba Jaffary, Mohammad Ali Nilforoushzadeh, Amirhossein Siadat, Elaheh Haftbaradaran, Nazli Ansari, Elham Ahmadi

“…Complete improvement was observed in 10 (38.5%), 27 (90%), and 20 (87%) patients of glucantime, glucantime + TCA, and glucantime + laser groups, respectively (P<0.001). …”
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AMMI analysis of elite bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) selections for genotype by environment interaction and stability of grain yield in Southern Ethiopia. by Liyew Alemayehu, Mesfin Kebede, Eyasu Wada

“…The genotype plus genotype by environment interaction (GGE) bi-plot analysis explained 92.44% of the total variation observed. AMMI and GGE-biplot analyses indicated G11, G9, G10, and G8 as high yielders and well-adaptive in the favourable locations. …”
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