INTEGRATION OF THE BALTIC STOCK MARKETS WITH GLOBAL MARKETS DURING THE PREVIOUS DECADE by Anmar Pretorius

“…There are some indications that the Estonian stock exchange was less integrated in 2019 than in 2010, while the other two show signs of increasing integration.…”
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Characterization and Identification of Coal and Carbonaceous Shale Using Visible and Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy by En Yang, Shirong Ge, Shibo Wang

“…Only one carbonaceous shale could be easily identified from the three bituminite samples according to obvious absorption valleys near 1400 nm, 1900 nm, and 2200 nm of its reflectance curve while the other two carbonaceous shales have similar reflectance curves to the three bituminite samples. …”
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Parametric Study on the Thermal Performance and Optimal Design Elements of Solar Air Heater Enhanced with Jet Impingement on a Corrugated Absorber Plate by Alsanossi M. Aboghrara, M. A. Alghoul, B. T. H. T. Baharudin, A. M. Elbreki, A. A. Ammar, K. Sopian, A. A. Hairuddin

“…An energy balance model was developed to compare the performance parameters of the proposed SAH with the other two SAHs. At a clear sky day and a mass flow rate of 0.04 kg/s, the hourly results revealed that the max fluid outlet temperatures for the proposed SAH, jet-to-flat plate SAH, and cross-corrugated plate SAH are 321, 317, and 313 K, respectively; the max absorber plate temperatures are 323.5, 326.5, and 328 K, respectively; the maximum temperature differences between the absorber plate and fluid outlet are ~3, 9, and 15 K, respectively; the max efficiencies are 65.7, 64.8, and 60%, respectively. …”
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Screening and Characterizing Tyrosinase Inhibitors from Salvia miltiorrhiza and Carthamus tinctorius by Spectrum-Effect Relationship Analysis and Molecular Docking by Ya-Li Wang, Guang Hu, Qian Zhang, Yu-Xiu Yang, Qiao-Qiao Li, Yuan-Jia Hu, Hua Chen, Feng-Qing Yang

“…Among them, three compounds including protocatechuic aldehyde, hydroxysafflor yellow A, and tanshinone IIA were verified to have high TYR inhibitory activity (IC50 value of 455, 498, and 1214 μM, resp.) and bind to the same amino acid residues in TYR catalytic pocket according to the results of the molecular docking test. However, the other two compounds lithospermic acid and salvianolic acid A had a weak effect on TYR, as they do not combine with the active amino acid residues or act on the active center of TYR. …”
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Growth and bioactivity of Phellinus linteus in the mushroom farm, at different cultivation times by Jitchum Supapitch, Tabtimmai Lueacha, Phoohinkong Weerachon, Thumthanaruk Benjawan, Zhang Xiaoshuan, Suttisintong Khomson, Rungsardthong Vilai

“…The Bottom zone indicated the higher CO2 than the other two zones. The bioactivity in PL extracts from the cultivation during at 3-18 months showed a non-significant difference in both TPC, and antioxidant activities analyzed by DPPH. …”
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Maternal Fructose Intake Induces Insulin Resistance and Oxidative Stress in Male, but Not Female, Offspring by Lourdes Rodríguez, Paola Otero, María I. Panadero, Silvia Rodrigo, Juan J. Álvarez-Millán, Carlos Bocos

“…After fasting, HOMA-IR and ISI (estimates of insulin sensitivity) were worse in male descendents from fructose-fed mothers in comparison to the other two groups, and these findings were also accompanied by a higher leptinemia. …”
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Brain-Specific SNAP-25 Deletion Leads to Elevated Extracellular Glutamate Level and Schizophrenia-Like Behavior in Mice by Hua Yang, Mengjie Zhang, Jiahao Shi, Yunhe Zhou, Zhipeng Wan, Yicheng Wang, Yinghan Wan, Jun Li, Zhugang Wang, Jian Fei

“…Compared with Ctrls, SNAP-25 was dramatically reduced by about 60% both in cytoplasm and in membrane fractions of cerebral cortex of cKOs, while the other two core members of SNARE complex: Syntaxin-1 (increased ~80%) and Vamp2 (increased ~96%) were significantly increased in cell membrane part. …”
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Unıversal legal standards of sustaınable socıalıty from the context of the rıght to a decent lıfe by M. S. Rahımova

“…In addition, the author puts forward the idea of ensuring social interests as the most important condition for achieving sustainable development, defends the idea that this goal is the main condition for the path to the other two (economic and ecological) goals, and makes suggestions and recommendations in this direction. …”
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A comparative evaluation of retention of record bases fabricated digitally in various types of posterior palatal seal area by Swapna Bettanapalya Venkatesh, Vaishnavi M. Nayak, Kavishma Sulaya, Smitha Sammith Shetty

“…When compared between the three groups at 45 and 90°, statistically significant difference in the retentive values between the control and other two groups were observed. Conclusion: All three of the fabrication processes have retention that falls within a clinically acceptable range. 3D printed dentures had better adaptation on the PPS area whereas the milled dentures had a better peripheral seal although the conventional process showed highest retention values.…”
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Single-session upper limb plyometric training is as effective as two sessions for improving muscle strength, power, and serve velocity in male youth tennis players: a randomized pa... by Jian Wang, Qi Xu

“…This study aimed to compare the effects of one vs. two weekly sessions of upper limb plyometric training (ULPT) on muscle strength, power, and serve velocity in male youth tennis players.MethodsWe conducted a randomized controlled study with two ULPT groups: one receiving one session weekly (ULPT1w) and the other two sessions (ULPT2w), alongside a control group maintaining regular tennis training. …”
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Quantifying the Location Error of Precipitation Nowcasts by Arthur Costa Tomaz de Souza, Georgy Ayzel, Maik Heistermann

“…We evaluated the performance of four extrapolation models, two of which are based on the linear extrapolation of corner motion from t − 1 to t (LK-Lin1) and t − 4 to t (LK-Lin4) and the other two are based on the Dense Inverse Search (DIS) method: motion vectors obtained from DIS are used to predict feature locations by linear (DIS-Lin1) and Semi-Lagrangian extrapolation (DIS-Rot1). …”
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Unit commitment in microgrid systems using artificial intelligence techniques by Barnabas I. Gwaivangmin, Ganiyu A. Bakare, Ya’U S. Haruna, Abdullahi L. Amoo

“…The research concluded that E-HPSO–SA significantly outperformed the other two techniques in terms of power generation cost, making it the most suitable method for unit commitment planning. …”
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Health inequalities, welfare state regimes and economic crisis: A comparative analysis in Sweden, Greece and Poland by Stefania Kalogeraki

“…Overall the lack of different forms of social capital was more strongly related to poor self-rated health in Sweden than in the other two countries. Discussion and Conclusion: Material explanations might be relatively more important in elucidating health outcomes in contexts with less generous welfare states, which were more severely affected by the recent economic crisis such as Greece and Poland, whereas social capital might be more decisive for health outcomes in a wealthy country with a universal welfare state such as Sweden.…”
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Unpacking the “Black Box”: Understanding the Effect of Social Network Characteristics on Safety Behaviors of Construction Workers by Shuquan Li, Pei Yang, Xiuyu Wu, Ge Wang, Meng Fan

“…Degree centrality has a positive effect on both safety compliance and safety participation, whereas the other two centrality characteristics exhibit no significant effect in informal networks. …”
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Transition towards circular economy: Exploiting open innovation for circular product development by Juan I. Dorrego-Viera, Andrea Urbinati, Valentina Lazzarotti

“…Two of them operate in European industrialized regions, and other two operate in less developed regions of South America, emphasizing the need for context-specific approaches to circular economy implementation and circular product development. …”
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Boron, Copper, and Zinc Affect the Productivity, Cup Quality, and Chemical Compounds in Coffee Beans by Junia Maria Clemente, Herminia Emilia Prieto Martinez, Adriene Woods Pedrosa, Yonara Poltronieri Neves, Paulo Roberto Cecon, John Lonfover Jifon

“…Adult plants received B, Cu, and Zn, each micronutrient alone or combined with the other two, by foliar fertilization or by tablets inserted in the trunk base. …”
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Effect of Salt Solution on the Mechanical Behaviours of Geopolymer Concrete under Dry-Wet Cycles by Zhiyu Tang, Nianchun Deng

“…Chloride salt solution erosion causes middle damage to geopolymer concrete. Compared with the other two salt solutions, sulfate solution erosion leads to the least damage to geopolymer concrete and then sulfate has a certain inhibitory effect on the damage of geopolymer concrete. …”
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Deoxycholic Acid as a Modifier of the Permeation of Gliclazide through the Blood Brain Barrier of a Rat by Mladena Lalić-Popović, Velibor Vasović, Boris Milijašević, Svetlana Goločorbin-Kon, Hani Al-Salami, Momir Mikov

“…One diabetic group and one healthy group were given a bolus gliclazide intra-arterially (20 mg/kg), while the other two groups apart from gliclazide got deoxycholic acid (4 mg/kg) subcutaneously. …”
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The Role of Beta-hCG Progesterone and Creatine Kinase in the Early Diagnosis of Ectopic Pregnancies by Nagihan Sarı, Hatice Işık, Hatice Başar, Ali Seven, Ahmet Bostancı

“…RESULTS: Serum progesterone levels in normal pregnancies were statistically significantly higher than the levels in other two groups (p<0.001). But the progesterone levels in spontaneous abortion and ectopic pregnancy groups were not significantly different from each other. …”
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Efficacy of Robotic-Assisted Prostatectomy in Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials by Carolina Sandoval Salinas, Andrés L. González Rangel, Juan G. Cataño Cataño, Juan C. Fuentes Pachón, Juan S. Castillo Londoño

“…In one study, laparoscopic surgery was associated with fewer blood loss and transfusion rates than the open procedure, in spite of longer operating time. The other two trials compared laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery in which no differences in perioperative outcomes were detected. …”
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