Sustainability by extraction of bioactive compounds from onion seeds by Mestour, Selma, Meniai, Abdeslam-Hassen, Melloul, Sarra, Louaer, Mehdi

“…To achieve this, the effects of four key operating parameters like pressure, temperature, particle size and CO2 mass flowrate were investigated in ranges of [150, 250 bars], [35, 65 °C], [0.25, 0.85 mm] and [50, 100 g/min], respectively, using a Box-Behnken experimental design, for a constant extraction time of 3 h. …”
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Prevalence, determinants and knowledge about herbal medicine and non-hospital utilisation in southwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Olujimi Aina, Lata Gautam, Padam Simkhada, Sarah Hall

“…Their use was the most common among respondents with a primary level of education (91.4%, p=0.001); and 100% use (p=0.009) of respondents practising African traditional religion; farmers and those 70 years or above. …”
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Modeling solar power plant electricity supply chain toward renewable energy consumption by Mohammad Reza Eslami Rasekh, Farzad Mohammad Sharifi, Somaieh Alavi, Nassibeh Janatyan

“…The power capacity of five solar power plants is optimized 4.100,4.222,3.920,4.375and 3.991MW, respectively. …”
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Efficient degradation of neomycin by Bacillus velezensis and Cupriavidus basilensis isolated from mangrove soil and pharmaceutical wastewater by Qian Yang, Wenzhuan Huang, Xue Yan, Qiang Ding, Jiaxin Liu, Bo Cheng, Tao Duan

“…Two neomycin-degrading bacteria were isolated for the first time. Both species degraded neomycin as the sole carbon source or under co-metabolic conditions within 4 days. …”
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Targeting Cytokine Storm in COVID-19: A Role of Online Hemodiafiltration with Asymmetric Cellulose Triacetate in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients—A Report of 10 Cases by José C. De La Flor, Francisco Valga, Alexander Marschall, Tania Monzon, Cristina Albarracín, Elisa Ruiz, Miguel Rodeles

“…Median hospitalization time was 21 days. A total of 4 patients developed severe pneumonia (3 of them died) and 1 patient developed moderate pneumonia. …”
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Deformation of Threaded Metal – Composite Couplings Under the Action of Gas-Dynamic Loads by Kostiantyn V. Avramov, Maryna V. Chernobryvko, Volodymyr V. Kombarov, Sergiy I. Plankovskyy, Yevgen V. Tsegelnyk

“…At the same time, the magnitude of plastic coupling deformations with the inner metal shell is an order of magnitude higher than for couplings with the outer metal shell. …”

Neuroprotective Role of Transchalcone in Parkinson‘s Disease through AMP-activated Protein Kinase-mediated Signaling Pathway by Yao Cheng, Shaik Althaf Hussain, Turki Mayudh Alrubie, Xiaomin Zhang

“…PD was induced using intranigral 6-hydroxydopamine injection. Trans-chalcone (100 μg/kg) and compound-C (20 mg/kg) were intraperitoneally administered daily for 4 weeks in PD rats. …”
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Epidemiological trends of head and neck Cancer survivors in Alberta: towards improved understanding of the burden of disease by Jin Soo Song, Patrick Vallance, Vincent Biron, Caroline C. Jeffery

“…Within the cohort, the prevalence of late HNC survivors increased to 13.3 per 100,000 people in 2015. Conclusions There is a significant population of head and neck survivors who are younger, male, and more than 10 years post-treatment. …”
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Axial Length Shortening after Combined Repeated Low-Level Red-Light Therapy in Poor Responders of Orthokeratology in Myopic Children by Mengting Yu, Xianghua Tang, Jinyun Jiang, Fengqi Zhou, Lili Wang, Chuqi Xiang, Yin Hu, Xiao Yang

“…Study participants were 100 myopic children who completed two years of ortho-k treatment in a retrospective study. …”
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Lossless and reference-free compression of FASTQ/A files using GeneSqueeze by Foad Nazari, Sneh Patel, Melissa LaRocca, Alina Sansevich, Ryan Czarny, Giana Schena, Emma K. Murray

“…Due to GeneSqueeze’s current Python implementation, GeneSqueeze underperformed as compared to gzip and SPRING in the time domain. GeneSqueeze and gzip achieved 100% lossless compression across all elements of the FASTQ files (i.e. the read identifier, sequence, quality score and ‘ + ’ lines). …”
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Characterization of curcumin-loaded nano thermo-sensitive hydrogel by Ikhsanudin Azis, Saifullah S Teuku Nanda, Zai Khadijah, Ari S Bambang

“…For the test data, the sol-gel transition time F I was 114 ± 2.08 seconds; F II 112 ± 4.58 seconds; III 154 ± 5.51 seconds with p-value <0.05. …”
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Heat management solutions for the space camera: From design to orbital operations by Richa Hu, Min Zhang, Chunlong Liu, Qingwen Wu, Liang Guo

“…The camera mounted at the end of the space robot arm provides real-time visual monitoring and positioning functions during space missions. …”
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Changes and Diurnal Variation of Visual Quality after Orthokeratology in Myopic Children by Hao-Chen Guo, Wan-Qing Jin, An-Peng Pan, Qin-Mei Wang, Jia Qu, A-Yong Yu

“…Their spherical equivalent ranged from −1.25 to −4.25 diopters (D) and astigmatism was less than 1.00 D. Parameters including corneal curvature, ocular objective scatter index (OSI), the modulation transfer function (MTF), root mean square of ocular and corneal wavefront aberrations, and contrast sensitivity function (CSF) were measured before and at two time points during the same day after 1 month of orthokeratology. …”
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Synthesis of novel magnesium ferrite Schiff base chitosan nanocomposite for efficient removal of pb(II) ions from aqueous media by Nada S. Al-Kadhi, Ehab A. Abdelrahman, Fowzia S. Alamro, Reem K. Shah, Fawaz A. Saad, Khalil ur Rehman

“…The optimal conditions for maximum Pb(II) ions removal were determined to be a pH of 5.5, a contact time of 100 min, and a temperature of 328 K. Furthermore, the nanocomposite demonstrated excellent recyclability, retaining over 94.8% of its initial removal efficiency after five consecutive adsorption-desorption cycles. …”
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Investigation of Crinum solapurense leaves extract for antidiabetic activity and histopathological evaluation in an in-vivo experimental model by Sunayana Mali, Gaurav Jain, Jyotiram Sawale, Audumbar Mali

“…The C. solapurense leaf extracts significantly reduced blood glucose levels (BGL) in dexamethasone-induced male albino Wistar rats. At the same time, the best results were obtained at higher doses of C. solapurense leaf extracts (400 mg/kg body weight). …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of injury in 7–22-year-old badminton players by age and sex by Xiao Zhou, Kazuhiro Imai, Xiao-Xuan Liu, Zhuo Chen, Eiji Watanabe, Hongtao Zeng

“…An injury was defined as somatic complaint with time loss and/or medical care. Badminton-related injuries were normalized to rate per 1000 training-hours calculated by Poisson distribution in the collected data according to age and gender. …”
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Effect of Walking Speeds on Complexity of Plantar Pressure Patterns by Ben-Yi Liau, Fu-Lien Wu, Yameng Li, Chi-Wen Lung, Ayman A. Mohamed, Yih-Kuen Jan

“…Complexity index (CI), a summation of MSE2D from all time scales, was used to quantify the changes of complexity of plantar pressure images. …”
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Non-invasive blood glucose monitoring using PPG signals with various deep learning models and implementation using TinyML by Mahdi Zeynali, Khalil Alipour, Bahram Tarvirdizadeh, Mohammad Ghamari

“…The selected model, after being optimized and deployed on an embedded device, achieved immediate blood glucose estimation with a processing time of just 6.4 seconds, demonstrating the method’s practical applicability. …”
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Antibody in Lymphocyte Supernatant (ALS) responses after oral vaccination with live Shigella sonnei vaccine candidates WRSs2 and WRSs3 and correlation with serum antibodies, ASCs,... by Malabi M Venkatesan, Cassandra Ballou, Shoshana Barnoy, Monica McNeal, Jill El-Khorazaty, Robert Frenck, Shahida Baqar

“…The ALS responses were vaccine-specific since no responses were detected among placebo recipients at any time. A strong correlation and agreement between responders/non-responders were noted between ALS and other mucosal (ASC and fecal IgA) and systemic (serum antibody) immune responses. …”
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Epidemiology and spatiotemporal analysis of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis in Zhejiang province, China (2004–2023) by Wanwan Sun, Yijuan Chen, Shuwen Qin, Ziping Miao

“…Demographic features, yearly county incidence, global spatial autocorrelation, local spatial autocorrelation analyses, and temporal and space–time cluster analysis were performed to identify and visualize the spatiotemporal patterns of AHC cases in Zhejiang province. …”
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