Performance comparison of nitrile rubber 4105 with high-bound acrylonitrile content and similar products by "HU Hai-hua, WU Yu, XU Dian-hong, ZHAO Hong-guo, HUANG Xi-dai, HE Lian-cheng, GONG Zi-qing, ZHOU Lei"

“…NBR 3604 had the lowest trans-1,4-unit content and the highest cis-1,4-unit content. Scorch time of the four kinds of NBR were basically the same, NBR 3604 had the slowest vulcanization rate, the processabilities of NBR 3604 and NBR 4105 were slightly worse than those of N 220 S and NBR 4155 with of NBR 3604 having the worst processability. …”
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Local government in Kazakhstan: an attempt to create a national model by Nikolay Yuvitsa

“…These structures, in accordance with the legislation, are partially endowed with the functions of self-government of the territories. At the same time, taking into account the world experience, the Republic is in the process of formation of self-government institutions of the territories. …”
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Antinociceptive and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Teucrium persicum Boiss. Extract in Mice by Abdolhossein Miri, Javad Sharifi-Rad, Kaveh Tabrizian, Ali Akbar Nasiri

“…T. persicum aqueous extracts (100, 200, and 400 mg/kg) were orally gavaged for one week. On 8th day, the time spent and the number of lickings were recorded in formalin test. …”
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How does BMI correlate with menarche onset? Evidence from the Italian HBSC cross-sectional study by Domitilla Marconi, Dario Lipari, Andrea Pammolli, Paola Dalmasso, Paola Nardone, Alessio Vieno, Rita Simi, Giacomo Lazzeri

“…Abstract Background Menarche is an important period in a female’s life; its time of onset may depend on various factors and could correlate with the development of diseases in adulthood. …”
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Bovine mycoplasmosis occurrence on livestock farms in the Russian Federation for 2015–2018 by Mohammad Abed Alhussen, A. A. Nesterov, V. V. Kirpichenko, S. P. Yatsentyuk, A. V. Sprygin, O. P. Byadovskaya, A. V. Kononov

“…The samples were tested with real-time polymerase chain reaction (rtPCR) for genomes of the following mycoplasmosis agents: Mycoplasma bovis, Mycoplasma bovigenitalium, Mycoplasma dispar. …”
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Early stroke behavior detection based on improved video masked autoencoders for potential patients by Meng Wang, Guanci Yang, Kexin Luo, Yang Li, Ling He

“…The proposed method begins with novel time interval-based sampling strategy, capturing video frame sequences enriched with sparse motion features. …”
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A systematic scoping review on the consequences of stress-related hyperglycaemia. by Elena Olariu, Nicholas Pooley, Aurélie Danel, Montserrat Miret, Jean-Charles Preiser

“…Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were searched for publications between January 2000 and December 2015 that reported on SHG and mortality, infection rate, length of stay, time on ventilation, blood transfusions, renal replacement therapy, or acquired weakness.…”
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Design and Verification of Simulation Data Generator for Rail Transit Switch Machine Oriented to Intelligent Operation and Maintenance by ZOU Jinbai, WEI Shiyan, LIU Jiang, SHA Quan, WU Jie, JI Guoyi

“…Through building a platform for SD generator, and using the time series features of learning the power data by LSTM (long short-term memory) prediction model, three characteristics of the generated gradual fault power data such as the crest factor, standard deviation, and variance are tested. …”
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Settlements of the Serbian Župa/Ottoman nahiye of Topolnica (15th-16th century) by Katić Tatjana M.

“…Since the time of Konstantin Jireček and Stojan Novaković, the Serbian medieval county (župa) of Topolnica, well-known as Anđelova Topolnica, has been incorrectly identified with the area of Kriva Reka in the Novo Brdo region. …”
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Assessing psychosocial risk factors in children with Sickle Cell Disease by Nicole Frey, Julia E. LaMotte, Jillian R. Bouck, Lauren Fancher, Genese T. Parker, Allie Carter, Seethal A. Jacob

“…Conclusions Universal implementation of a psychosocial risk screener identified financial challenges for many families, as well as caregiver burden and mental health concerns, allowing for timely resource support. However, overall risk for many of these families was categorized as Universal or low risk, indicating that distribution of resources and support cannot be based on PAT category alone.…”
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Self-Regulated Learning Skills in Vocational Students Based on Their Self-Evaluation by Meidi Sirk

“…On this basis, the study identified three clusters, consisting of students with: 1) Difficulties in organisation and behaviour (30%), 2) difficulties in planning and time management (20%), and 3) good and balanced SRL skills (50%).  …”
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In vivo mapping of sodium homeostasis disturbances in individual ALS patients: A brain 23Na MRI study. by Aude-Marie Grapperon, Mohamed Mounir El Mendili, Adil Maarouf, Jean-Philippe Ranjeva, Maxime Guye, Annie Verschueren, Shahram Attarian, Wafaa Zaaraoui

“…Clinical data included the revised ALS functional rating scale (ALSFRS-R), ALSFRS-R slope, ALSFRS-R at 6-month and survival time.<h4>Results</h4>Individual maps quantifying voxels with TSC increase evidenced a high heterogeneity between patients consistent with clinical presentation. …”
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Cold Plasma as a Novel Pretreatment to Improve the Drying Kinetics and Quality of Green Peas by Jun-Wen Bai, Dan-Dan Li, Reziwanguli Abulaiti, Manqian Wang, Xiaozhi Wu, Zhenwei Feng, Yutong Zhu, Jianrong Cai

“…The results showed that CP treatment significantly improves drying efficiency by modifying the pea epidermis microstructure, reducing drying time by up to 18.18%. The moisture effective diffusivity coefficients (<i>D_eff</i>) for untreated and CP-pretreated green peas were calculated to range from 5.9629 to 9.9172 × 10⁻¹⁰ m²·s⁻¹, with CP pretreatment increasing <i>D_eff</i> by up to 66.31% compared to the untreated group. …”
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Benthic algal community dynamics on Palmyra Atoll throughout a decade with two thermal anomalies by Adi Khen, Maggie D. Johnson, Michael D. Fox, Jennifer E. Smith

“…Patterns in abundance fluctuated over time and/or in response to thermal anomalies in 2009 and 2015. …”
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Clinical Effect of Preservation or Nonpreservation of Left Colic Artery in Total Mesorectal Excision under Laparoscopy: A Meta-analysis by Jiefeng Liu, Yujing Gong, Miao He, Xinyu Zeng, Yiping Liu

“…As showed by the meta-analysis, compared with the LCA nonpreservation group, the LCA preservation group had significantly reduced incidence of anastomotic leakage (OR=0.44, CI=0.30,0.65, P<0.0001) and postoperative urinary and sexual dysfunction (OR=0.26, CI=0.09,0.78, P=0.02) and significantly shorter time for intestinal function recovery (WMD=−0.26, CI=−0.41,−0.11, P=0.0008). …”
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Design and validation of a new Healthcare Systems Usability Scale (HSUS) for clinical decision support systems: a mixed-methods approach by Peter J Watkinson, Abir Ghorayeb, Julie L Darbyshire, Marta W Wronikowska

“…These factors affect the quality of care and clinician’s ability to make informed and timely decisions when using CDSS. The HSUS has a very good reliability with global Cronbach’s alpha 0.914 and between 0.702 and 0.926 for the four subscales.Conclusion The HSUS is a valid and reliable tool for usability testing of CDSS and early identification of usability issues that may cause medical adverse events.…”
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Comprehensive assessment of the varietal fund of quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) in the conditions of Krasnodar region by T. G. Prichko, L. D. Chalaya, N. V. Mozhar

“…Varieties with horizontal resistance to monilia are Muskatnaya, Novogodnyaya, Urozaijnaya kubanskaya and Sophia. The timing of flowering was determined for early-flowering Dyuna and Nivushka and late-flowering Aurora, Novogodnyaya and Rumo. …”
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Distinctive Delta and Theta Responses in Deductive and Probabilistic Reasoning by Emir Faruk Sevim, Yasin Yildirim, Esra Ünsal, Esra Dalmizrak, Bahar Güntekin

“…Results We found that the reaction time was shorter and the accuracy rate was higher in deductive reasoning than in probabilistic reasoning. …”
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Ocular Surface Disorders in a Group of Egyptian Children with End Stage Renal Failure on Dialysis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mohamed Anbar, Ahmed R. H. Ahmed, Abdel-Azeem M. El-Mazary, Ramadan A. Mahmoud

“…Thirty children with ESRF and 20 age and sex matched controls during the period from January 2014 to May 2015 underwent full ophthalmologic examination and the tear function was investigated by the Schirmer and tear film break-up time (TBUT) tests. SMCE was evaluated by impression cytology and immunocytochemistry. …”
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Study on the Curative Effect and Safety of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation via Zero-Fluoroscopy Transseptal Puncture under the Dual Guidance of E... by Fei Hang, Liting Cheng, Zhuo Liang, Ruiqing Dong, Xinlu Wang, Ziyu Wang, Zefeng Wang, Yongquan Wu

“…The transseptal duration time was longer in the EAM-ICE group (19.8 ± 3.0 min vs. 8.6 ± 1.2 min, p≤0.01); however, fluoroscopy was not used in the EAM-ICE group compared with the F group (0 mGy vs. 109.1 ± 57.9 mGy). …”
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