Meals in children’s education units: planning, production process, distribution and adequacy of the main meal by Estefanini Libia Siqueira Teixeira de Almeida, Michelle Franklin Silva Fontes, Adriana Versiani dos Anjos, Luana Caroline dos Santos, Simone Cardoso Lisboa Pereira

“…It was investigated whether the production and nutritional adequacy indexes were consonant with the guidelines of the National School Meals Program (PNAE), by means of direct weighing of five menus for the main meal that were gathered randomly. It was observed that 78.4% of the menus produced had undergone changes, in comparison with what had been planned. …”
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Early Diabetic Nephropathy and Retinopathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Attending Sudan Childhood Diabetes Centre by Hana Ahmed, Tayseer Elshaikh, Mohamed Abdullah

“…High prevalence of incipient DN and early stages of DR were observed in this study. Longer diabetes duration and higher HbA1c were associated with the presence of diabetic retinopathy. …”
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Co-creation of a toolkit to assist risk communication and clinical decision-making in severe preeclampsia: SPOT-Impact study design by Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Bregje C. De Kok, Linda Lucy Yevoo, Klaartje M. Olde Loohuis, Emmanuel K. Srofenyoh, Daniel K. Arhinful, Koiwah Koi-Larbi, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Joyce L. Browne

“…Informed by ethnographic observations of care interactions, in-depth interviews and focus group and group discussions, the tool(kit) will be developed with survivors and women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and their families, health professionals, policy makers, and researchers. …”
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Effects of Thermodynamics on the Concurrent Accretion and Migration of Gas Giants in Protoplanetary Disks by Hening Wu, Ya-Ping Li

“…As cooling timescales increase, we observe a slight decrease in the planetary accretion rate, and a transition from the outward migrating into inward migration. …”
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Interactive effects of temperature, cadmium, and hypoxia on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver mitochondrial bioenergetics by John O. Onukwufor, Collins Kamunde

“…We investigated how warm acclimation affects mitochondrial responses to Cd, hypoxia, and acute temperature shifts (heat shock and cold snap) in rainbow trout. We observed that state 3 respiration driven by complex I (CI) was resistant to the stressors while warm acclimation and Cd reduced complex I +II (CI + II) driven state 3 respiration. …”
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Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva using a guanidium based transport medium suitable for RT-PCR diagnostic assays. by Sukalyani Banik, Kaheerman Saibire, Shraddha Suryavanshi, Glenn Johns, Soumitesh Chakravorty, Robert Kwiatkowski, David Alland, Padmapriya P Banada

“…When saliva was diluted 1:1 in eNAT, no cytopathic effect (CPE) on VeroE6 cells was observed, although SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be detected even after 30 min incubation and after two cell culture passages. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis Reveals PTK6 as a Prognostic Biomarker Involved in the Immunosuppressive Microenvironment in Breast Cancer by Lili Wang, Shuimei Luo, Ziming Wang, Yiqiang Huang, Yang Luo, Xianhe Xie

“…According to the results of a survival analysis, patients who had a high level of PTK6 expression had a shorter overall survival time than those who had a low level of PTK6 expression. Besides, we observed that PTK6 expressions were positively correlated with the abundance of NK CD56bright cells and Th17 cells and negatively correlated with that of Th1 cells, macrophages, B cells, T cells, aDC, DC, cytotoxic cells, Tem, TFH, NK CD56dim cells, Treg, and Tgd. …”
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Primary central nervous system lymphoma: Comprehension of cell-of-origin subtypes by Shruti Rao, Sridhar Epari, Tanuja M. Shet, Sumeet Gujral, Hasmukh Jain, Bhausaheb Bagal, Manju Senagar, Prakash Shetty, Aliasgar Moiyadi, Jayant Sastri Goda, Tejpal Gupta

“…A 91.8% concordance was observed between Hans and Choi algorithms. Among the 6 discordant cases, 5 cases were subtyped as GCB by Hans and ABC by Choi and 1 case as ABC by Hans and GCB by Choi. …”
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Analysis of Electromagnetic Interference Effects of 5G Signals on Radio Altimeters by Zhaobin Duan, Ke Xu, Zhenyang Ma, Peng Wang

“…Furthermore, the height error ratio significantly increases, with consistent trends observed across different test frequencies. The interference threshold for the RA is lower when the signal frequency is closer to the RA operational signal frequency. …”
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Towards neuromorphic compression based neural sensing for next-generation wireless implantable brain machine interface by Vivek Mohan, Wee Peng Tay, Arindam Basu

“…We also analyzed the collision handling capability for up to 10K channels and observed no significant error, indicating the scalability of the proposed pipeline. …”
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Comparison Of Maternal And Perinatal Outcome Of Isolated Borderline Amniotic Fluid Index Versus Normal Amniotic Fluid In Low-Risk Pregnancies At Term by Shabana Kalsoom, Noreen Majeed Majeed, Mamoona Riaz, Mehreen Mehdi, Khair-un-Nisa Asif, Iram Mushtaq

“…Methods: This prospective observational study, included 540 low-risk pregnant women admitted at POF Hospital Wah Cantt between 1st June 2020-31st Dec 2022. …”
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CMIP6 GCMs Projected Future Koppen‐Geiger Climate Zones on a Global Scale by Young Hoon Song, Eun‐Sung Chung, Brian Odhiambo Ayugi

“…While temperature discrepancies of 1–2°C may not drastically alter the Köppen‐Geiger climate zone classifications, precipitation‐based classifications are significantly impacted by the observed errors. Thus, it is crucial to recognize that despite the advancements in GCMs, they still possess limitations in accurately predicting “real” future climate changes. …”
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What happens when you stop using the combined contraceptive pill? A qualitative study protocol on consequences and supply needs for women who discontinued the combined contraceptiv... by Matthias Richter, Liane Schenk, Gertraud Stadler, Jana Niemann

“…The question remains as to what physical and psychological consequences can be observed after discontinuing COCs. In addition, the consequent healthcare needs and situations of affected individuals in Germany have not been explored. …”
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Spatial-temporal characteristics and influence factors of high-quality development of animal husbandry industry in China. by Tiantian Su, Cuixia Li

“…The level of high-quality development in a given region is significantly influenced by the development levels observed in neighbouring regions, illustrating a phenomenon akin to the adage that One who is near vermilion is stained red, one who is near ink is stained black. …”
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Comparison of survival outcomes and anatomically specific severe injuries following traffic accidents among occupants of standard and K-car vehicles: A retrospective cohort study a... by Yuko Ono, Tasuku Uzawa, Jun Sugiyama, Nozomi Tomita, Takeyasu Kakamu, Tokiya Ishida, Joji Kotani, Kazuaki Shinohara

“…In propensity score-matched analysis with 1947 pairs, we observed an increase for in-hospital mortality in the K-car vehicle group (2.6% vs. 4.0%, odds ratio 1.53, 95% confidence interval 1.07-2.19). …”
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4-Thiobenzoic acid-functionalized nanocomposite probes for surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy-based detection of CA19-9 in colorectal adenocarcinoma by Yinan Hu, Tao Liu, Bo Guo, Miao Ni, Yanrong Li

“…Excellent selectivity was observed against common serum interferents, with normalized SERS intensities within 10 % of CA19–9 alone. …”
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Enhancing shear stability in laminated rock masses: A comparative study of traditional and resilient rock bolts by Chang Zhou, Chunni Han, Chunye Ying, Yaluo Mi, Qiang Wang, Tao Liu

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Sex Differences in the Effect of Type 2 Diabetes on Major Cardiovascular Diseases: Results from a Population-Based Study in Italy by Paola Ballotari, Francesco Venturelli, Marina Greci, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Valeria Manicardi

“…The excess risk is similar in women and men for stroke (1.8 times) and heart failure (2.7 times), while for myocardial infarction, the excess risk in women is greater than the one observed in men (IRR 2.58, 95% CI 2.22–3.00 and IRR 1.78, 95% CI 1.60–2.00, resp.; P of interaction <0.0001). …”
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Influence of sulfur and selenium application on wheat growth in arsenic-contaminated soil by Huan Luo, Chipeng Zhang, Shunyuan Zhang, Wansheng Song, Han Chen

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Experimental Study on Water-Jet Shock Microforming Process Using Different Incident Pressures by James Kwasi Quaisie, Wang Yun, Xu Zhenying, Yu Chao, Fuzhu Li, Philip Baidoo, Joseph Sekyi-Ansah, Emmanuel Asamoah

“…In this experiment, a KEYENCE VHX-1000C digital microscope, confocal laser-scanning microscope (Axio CSM 700), and micro-Vickers hardness tester were utilized to observe the forming depth, surface quality, thickness distribution, and section hardness distributions under different incident pressures. …”
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