Clinical Course of Untreated and Treated Chronic Hepatitis B in Pregnant Patients: A Prospective Study by Yasemin Nadir, Ayse Batirel, Ayse Yasemin Karsidag, Fatma Kaya Narter, Ahmet Nadir

“…We conducted this prospective study to observe the clinical course and outcomes of untreated and treated HBV in pregnant. …”
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Pyrolysis Kinetics of Spirulina platensis and Non-condensable Gas Product Distribution in a Fixed-Bed Reactor by Ahmad Yusril Aminullah, Sukarni Sukarni, Retno Wulandari, Muhammad Shahbaz

“…Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was conducted to observe SP kinetics parameters, especially activation energy. …”
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Pretreatment Strategies to Improve Crude Glycerol Utilisation and Metabolite Production by Aspergillus terreus by Muhamad Hafiz Abd Rahim, Hanan Hasan, Elicia Jitming Lim, Phebe K. Samrani, Ali Abbas

“…The largest increase in toluene (Tol) was observed in sulochrin production, at 67.22% (versus CG) and 183.85% (versus PG). …”
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Piezoresistive Cantilever Microprobe with Integrated Actuator for Contact Resonance Imaging by Tianran Ma, Michael Fahrbach, Erwin Peiner

“…A novel piezoresistive cantilever microprobe (PCM) with an integrated electrothermal or piezoelectric actuator has been designed to replace current commercial PCMs, which require external actuators to perform contact-resonance imaging (CRI) of workpieces and avoid unwanted “forest of peaks” observed at large travel speed in the millimeter-per-second range. …”
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Characterization of patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease and cognitive impairment. Cienfuegos, 2018 by Beatriz Perdomo Borges, Teresa Rodríguez Rodríguez, Marianela Fonseca Fernández, Isabel Urquiza Pozo, Idalmis Luisa Martínez Serrano, Belkis Rosa Bilaboy Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, carried out in the Neurology Service of the Gustavo Aldereguía Lima Hospital in Cienfuegos, which included 27 patients hospitalized in this center, with cognitive impairment, after the first event of ischemic cerebrovascular disease. …”
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Effect of precursor molarities on structural correlation with optoelectronic property of Zn2SnO4 nanostructured thin films by Isha Arora, Praveen Kumar Sharma, Harkawal Singh, Vanasundaram Natarajan

“…The grain size has wide variations with a majority of large sized grains for highly precursor molarity. Raman spectroscopy observes the characteristic peaks of the cubic inverse spinel structure of ZTO and variation of their intensities with the precursor concentration. …”
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Investigation of Structural, Electrical, and Vibrational Properties of Bi1.98A0.02Fe4O9 (A = Ba, Ce) Multiferroic Ceramics by Ashwini Kumar, Poorva Sharma, Nikhil Bhardwaj, Jingyou Tang, Guolong Tan

“…The ε′ values of Bi2Fe4O9(650–850), Bi2Fe4O9(800–850), Bi1.98Ba0.02Fe4O9, and Bi1.98Ce0.02Fe4O9 samples at 10 Hz frequency are about 37, 75, 90, and 393, respectively. The observed properties signify that these materials are very useful in advanced technological and practical applications.…”
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Injection-Triggered Occlusion of Flow Pathways in Geothermal Operations by Maren Brehme, Simona Regenspurg, Peter Leary, Fatih Bulut, Harald Milsch, Sigitas Petrauskas, Robertas Valickas, Guido Blöcher

“…Mineral precipitation and corrosion are the main chemical processes observed at our site. Microbial activity causes biofilm while fines migration is caused by changes in physical boundary conditions. …”
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Blinded by the Mind: Exploring the Hidden Psychiatric Burden in Glaucoma Patients by Jeniffer Jesus, João Ambrósio, Dália Meira, Ignácio Rodriguez-Uña, João Melo Beirão

“…Other less frequent but still significant conditions like sleep disorders, psychosis, dementia, and post-traumatic stress disorder were also observed. The findings also indicated that psychiatric severity was influenced by socio-demographic factors, glaucoma severity, and treatment duration. …”
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Natural Killer Cell-Secreted IFN-γ and TNF-α Mediated Differentiation in Lung Stem-like Tumors, Leading to the Susceptibility of the Tumors to Chemotherapeutic Drugs by Kawaljit Kaur, Angie Perez Celis, Anahid Jewett

“…Therefore, IFN-γ and TNF-α released from NK cells play a significant role in differentiating tumors, resulting in increased susceptibility of tumors to chemotherapeutic drugs. We also observed the different effects of MHC-class I antibodies in CSCs vs. differentiated tumors. …”
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Chromium Removal from Tannery Wastewater via a Hydroponic Technique with Vetiver Grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) by Ismot Zereen, Md. Zainul Abedin, Md. Siddikur Rahman, Debasish Pandit

“…The findings showed that the floating platform method of cultivating vetiver grass was significantly effective (p<0.05) in eliminating pollutants. The observed reduction rate for pH was 15.19%, whereas the treatment efficiencies for electrical conduc-tivity, biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, turbidity, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, and Cr were 35.42%, 84.66%, 81.21%, 33.17%, 83.28%, 72.55%, and 79.71%, respectively. …”
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Cognition Deficits in Parkinson’s Disease: Mechanisms and Treatment by Congcong Fang, Longqin Lv, Shanping Mao, Huimin Dong, Baohui Liu

“…On the basis of numerous studies, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a harbinger of dementia in PD, which is observed as an intermediate state with considerable variability; some patients remain stable and some even revert to normal cognition. …”
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Plasma Levels of High-Mobility Group Box 1 during Peptide Vaccination in Patients with Recurrent Ovarian Cancer by Kayoko Waki, Kouichiro Kawano, Naotake Tsuda, Kimio Ushijima, Kyogo Itoh, Akira Yamada

“…However, no correlation was observed between HMGB1 and overall survival (OS). The correlation between plasma HMGB1 levels and other biomarker levels was further analyzed by scatter plot, revealing that HMGB1 levels after the 1st cycle of vaccination were significantly correlated with myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) frequency after the 1st cycle of vaccination (r=0.357, p=0.032). …”
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Automated Subfield Volumetric Analysis of Hippocampus in Patients with Drug-Naïve Nondementia Parkinson’s Disease by Jin-Woo Park, Chan-Nyoung Lee, Youngbo Sim, Hyung-Kyu Ham, Woo-Suk Tae, Byung-Jo Kim

“…We suggest that the hippocampal volume asymmetry, especially in CA4-DG and CA2-3, could be observed in drug-naïve PD patients even in the early stage of the disease.…”
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Teak-Soil Interaction: Teak (Tectona grandis) Plantations Impact and are Impacted by Soil Properties and Fertility in Southwestern Ghana by Michael Asigbaase, Michael Annan, Daniel Adusu, Simon Abugre, Collins Ayine Nsor, Samuel Kumi, Selina Adutwumwaa Acheamfour

“…Also, soil textural characteristics, acidity, and nutrient ratios were observed to influence tree-related characteristics such as DBH and crown dimensions (crown, diameter, breadth, length, and volume). …”
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Origin of Boron and Brine Evolution in Saline Springs in the Nangqen Basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau by Ji-long Han, Feng-qing Han, Syed-Asim Hussain, Wen-yu Liu, Xiu-qing Nian, Qing-fei Mao

“…The δ11B-B characteristics of the springs are similar to those observed in the Tibetan geothermal area, indicating that these two places have the same B source. …”
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BACTERIAL PROFILE AND ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST AMONG DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS WITH GANGRENE IN SURABAYA by Imro`atul Qona`ah, Aliyah Siti Sundari, Ratna Wahyuni, Dwi Wahyu Indriati

“…Method: The method used in this study is observational analytical cross-sectional, which is based on secondary data and is analyzed using the percentage formula and Chi-Square test. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Natural Fibre Reinforced Composite Material Using ANSYS by K. G. Saravanan, R. Prabu, A. Sivapragasam, Nahom Daniel

“…This project revolves around the design of the composite fibre sheet and analysis of the mechanical parameters such as equivalent stress, shear stress, strain, deformation, and so on. The studies and observations of the analysis showed that the natural fibre with the aluminium reinforcement proved to be much stronger than that without the reinforcement. …”
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De la façon de nommer aux usages des plantes adventices des cultures en pays Jbala (nord du Maroc) by Louise Clochey, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas

“…In fact, an ethnobotanical approach —involving botanical surveys and targeted investigations into the use of spontaneous plants of the agro-ecosystem combined with ethnographic field methods including participant observation and open interviews as well as the extended follow-up of the inhabitants’ activities and relations among themselves - underpins our work. …”
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Pangenome mining of the Streptomyces genus redefines species’ biosynthetic potential by Omkar S. Mohite, Tue S. Jørgensen, Thomas J. Booth, Pep Charusanti, Patrick V. Phaneuf, Tilmann Weber, Bernhard O. Palsson

“…Conclusions Our analysis of a genomic dataset at a scale of thousands of genomes refines predictions of BGC diversity using Mash-clusters as a basis for pangenome analysis. The observed conservation in the order of BGCs’ genomic locations shows that the BGCs are vertically inherited. …”
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