Simultaneous Determination of Benzene and Toluene in Pesticide Emulsifiable Concentrate by Headspace GC-MS by Lidong Cao, Hua Jiang, Jing Yang, Li Fan, Fengmin Li, Qiliang Huang

“…Standard additions of benzene and toluene to blank different matrix solutions 1ead to recoveries of 100.1%–109.5% with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 0.3%–8.1%. …”
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A Stability-Indicating HPLC-DAD Method for Determination of Stiripentol: Development, Validation, Kinetics, Structure Elucidation and Application to Commercial Dosage Form by Hany W. Darwish, Ali S. Abdelhameed, Mohamed I. Attia, Ahmed H. Bakheit, Nasr Y. Khalil, Abdulrahman A. Al-Majed

“…The method was validated in accordance with the ICH requirements showing specificity, linearity (r2=0.9996, range of 1–25 μg/mL), precision (relative standard deviation lower than 2%), accuracy (mean recovery 100.08±1.73), limits of detection and quantitation (LOD = 0.024 and LOQ = 0.081 μg/mL), and robustness. …”
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Sea buckthorn cultivars promising for mechanized harvesting by cutting fruit-bearing branches by Yu. A. Zubarev, A. V. Gunin, E. I. Panteleeva, A. V. Vorobyeva

“…To evaluate the productivity of top branches, three of them with a length of 70–100 cm were cut from the plants of each accession. …”
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Analysis of Sunshine Temperature Field of Steel Box Girder Based on Monitoring Data by Hailin Lu, Jing Hao, Jiwei Zhong, Yafei Wang, Hongyin Yang

“…The analytical results show that the time of the bottom of pavement reaching the daily maximum temperature lags behind the top of pavement by 2 or 3 hours due to the thermal insulation effect of pavement, and the maximum vertical temperature gradient of the structure exceeds the existing standards. …”
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The Mosquito Repellent Activity of the Active Component of Air Freshener Gel from Java Citronella Oil (Cymbopogon winterianus) by Willy Tirza Eden, Dante Alighiri, Kasmadi Imam Supardi, Edy Cahyono

“…The results show that formula I has the best controlled release evaporation for citronellal, citronellol, and geraniol, as well as the best storage time of 16.82 days and 12.77 days for geraniol and citronellol, respectively. …”
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Isotherms and Kinetic Studies of Copper Removal from Textile Wastewater and Aqueous Solution Using Powdered Banana Peel Waste as an Adsorbent in Batch Adsorption Systems by Momina Seleman, Takele Sime, Abate Ayele, Assefa Sergawie, Thabo Nkambule, Jemal Fito

“…At pH 5, adsorbent dose of 2g/100 mL, initial copper (II) concentration of 80 mg/L, and contact time of 90 min, the maximum removal efficiency of synthetic wastewater was 96.8% and textile wastewater was 69.0%. …”
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Mechanical Behavior of Pericopsis elata Relative to Age during Growth by Foadieng Emmanuel, Fouotsa Woutsop Christian Martial, Azeufack Tonfack Ulrich Gaël, Talla Pierre Kisito, Fogue Medard

“…Moreover, little or no information is available for describing the variation of its mechanical properties over time in order to determine the age at which its wood mechanical properties are good enough to be marketable. …”
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Comparison of Trace Elements in High-Molecular-Mass Multiprotein Complex and in Female Milk from Which It Was Obtained by Svetlana E. Soboleva, Natalia P. Zaksas, Georgy A. Nevinsky

“…A very stable multiprotein complex (~1000±100 kDa) was separated from other proteins of nine samples of female milk by gel filtration on Sepharose 4B. …”
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Intraoperative dynamics of interleukin-6 levels during planned coronary stenting with different approaches to analgesic sedation by D.О. Dziuba

“…The level of pro-inflammatory IL-6 in routine coronary artery stenting tends to decrease after stent placement, with lower rates under propofol solution usage as an anesthetic. At the same time, in group 3 (where nonopioid analgesia was used) the level of interleukin-6 at point 10 min after stent implantation was significantly lower than in first group. …”
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<i>Ajuga reptans</i> L. Herb Extracts: Phytochemical Composition and Pharmacological Activity Screening by Svitlana Maliuvanchuk, Andriy Grytsyk, Oksana Popadynets, Taras Kotyk, Ain Raal, Oleh Koshovyi

“…<i>A. reptans</i> herb extracts are practically non-toxic, exhibit hepatoprotective activity (dose 25 mg/kg) in experimental carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatitis, moderate anti-inflammatory activity (dose 100 mg/kg) in carrageenan-induced edema models, and possess significant local hemostatic (reducing bleeding time by 40.6%) and wound-healing properties (complete wound healing after 9 days). …”
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Efficacy of an Intrathecal Multidrug Infusion for Pain Control in Older Adults and in End-Stage Malignancies: A Report of Three Cases by Sadegh Abdolmohammadi, Pierre-Olivier Hétu, Andrée Néron, Gilbert Blaise

“…The aim of the present study was to explore the effectiveness of an alternative method to manage pain based on a time-limited intrathecal (IT) infusion of an analgesic medication mixture. …”
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Effects of Enzymatic Liquefaction, Drying Techniques, and Wall Materials on the Physicochemical Properties, Bioactivities, and Morphologies of Zinc-Amaranth (Amaranthus viridis L.)... by Siti Faridah Mohd Amin, Roselina Karim, Yus Aniza Yusof, Kharidah Muhammad

“…., Viscozyme L, Pectinex Ultra SP-L, and Rapidase PAC) with varying concentrations (0–3% v/w) and incubation time (0.5–24 h) at pH 5 and 45°C before the drying process. …”
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The Covid Crisis and CEO Pay Balance by Halil D. Kaya, Zahar Rosinsky

“…The results show that the increase in the CEO pay ratio (i.e. compared to the average worker) was statistically significant. At the same time, the change in the other three variables were insignificant. …”
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Adversarial examples defense method based on multi-dimensional feature maps knowledge distillation by Baolin QIU, Ping YI

“…The neural network approach has been commonly used in computer vision tasks.However, adversarial examples are able to make a neural network generate a false prediction.Adversarial training has been shown to be an effective approach to defend against the impact of adversarial examples.Nevertheless, it requires high computing power and long training time thus limiting its application scenarios.An adversarial examples defense method based on knowledge distillation was proposed, reusing the defense experience from the large datasets to new classification tasks.During distillation, teacher model has the same structure as student model and the feature map vector was used to transfer experience, and clean samples were used for training.Multi-dimensional feature maps were utilized to enhance the semantic information.Furthermore, an attention mechanism based on feature map was proposed, which boosted the effect of distillation by assigning weights to features according to their importance.Experiments were conducted over cifar100 and cifar10 open-source dataset.And various white-box attack algorithms such as FGSM (fast gradient sign method), PGD (project gradient descent) and C＆amp;W (Carlini-Wagner attack) were applied to test the experimental results.The accuracy of the proposed method on Cifar10 clean samples exceeds that of adversarial training and is close to the accuracy of the model trained on clean samples.Under the PGD attack of L2 distance, the efficiency of the proposed method is close to that of adversarial training, which is significantly higher than that of normal training.Moreover, the proposed method is a light-weight adversarial defense method with low learning cost.The computing power requirement is far less than that of adversarial training even if optimization schemes such as attention mechanism and multi-dimensional feature map are added.Knowledge distillation can learn the decision-making experience of normal samples and extract robust features as a neural network learning scheme.It uses a small amount of data to generate accurate and robust models, improves generalization, and reduces the cost of adversarial training.…”
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<i>In vitro</i> clonal micropropagation of selected <i>Malus niedzwetzkyana</i> Dieck forms demonstrating high resilience when introduced into urban environments by A. P. Belanova, Yu. G. Zaytseva, E. M. Lyakh

“…It was shown for M. niedzwetzkyana that the most favorable time for taking its plant material for introduction into in vitro culture is the beginning of the active growth of vegetative shoots after flowering. …”
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Effect of dolutegravir on weight changes and lipid profile compared with efavirenz in people living with HIV: A retrospective cohort study by Rachawit Setpakdee, Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul

“…Methods: Eighty-one and 100 PLHIV initiating DTG-based and efavirenz (EFV)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART), respectively, were retrospectively investigated for weight changes and lipid profiles at 6 and 12 months after ART initiation. …”
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Single-Stage Microwave-Assisted Coconut-Shell-Based Activated Carbon for Removal of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) from Aqueous Solution: Optimization and Batch Studies by Azrina Aziz, Mohamad Nasran Nasehir Khan, Mohamad Firdaus Mohamad Yusop, Erniza Mohd Johan Jaya, Muhammad Azan Tamar Jaya, Mohd Azmier Ahmad

“…Response surface methodology (RSM) revealed that the optimum preparation conditions in preparing CSAC were 502 W and 6 min for radiation power and radiation time, respectively, which corresponded to 84.83% of DDT removal and 37.91% of CSAC’s yield. …”
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Vancomycin population pharmacokinetic models: Uncovering pharmacodynamic divergence amid clinicobiological resemblance by Peggy Gandia, Sahira Chaiben, Nicolas Fabre, Didier Concordet

“…Simulations of time–concentration profiles revealed differences, leading us to determine the probability of achieving microbiological efficacy (AUC/MIC ≥ 400) with each model. …”
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Improved Outcomes of Combined Main Branch Stenting and Side Branch Drug-Coated Balloon versus Two-Stent Strategy in Patients with Left Main Bifurcation Lesions by Hengdao Liu, Hailong Tao, Xufei Han, Yang Lu, Xiaofei Xue, Ruihan Feng, Fenghua Lv, Yanwei Liu, Hongrui Jin, Lianjie Li, Heping Gu

“…We aim to explore the efficacy and safety of DES plus DCB in the treatment of LM bifurcation lesions. Methods. A total of 100 patients diagnosed with LM bifurcation lesions by coronary angiography were retrospectively enrolled at our center from January 2018 to December 2019. …”
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Visual-Evoked-Response-Supported Outcome of Intravitreal Erythropoietin in Management of Indirect Traumatic Optic Neuropathy by Mohammad Ahmad Rashad, Ahmed Abdel Meguid Abdel Latif, Hazem A. Mostafa, Samah Mahmoud Fawzy, Mahmoud Abdel Meguid Abdel Latif

“…In patients who received second injection, further clinical but statistically insignificant improvement was noted in BCVA in 60% of patients, VER amplitude in 50% of patients, and in VER latency in 100% of patients. No complications were recorded. …”
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