Global comparison of the economic costs of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lan Gao, Susan Brumby, Crystal Man Ying Lee, George Mnatzaganian, Suzanne Robinson, Helen Brown, Rachel Huxley, Anna Peeters, Dan Xu, James Boyd, Sean Randall, Adrienne O’Neil, Sangita Shakya, Sarah Gauci, Anita Shrestha, James Lucas

“…Meta-regression and bias assessment were performed.Results Out of 20 100 records identified, 37 studies (including 2 564 189 individuals) from 22 countries were included in the qualitative synthesis and the quantitative meta-analysis. …”
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Strategies of physiological, morpho-anatomical and biochemical adaptation in seedlings of native species exposed to mining waste by Belén Heredia, Pablo Diaz Recio, Brian Jonathan Young, Pablo Pacheco, Franco Barcelo Zungre, Silvina Hruby, Maria Andreína Acevedo, María Inés Mercado, Gonzalo Roqueiro

“…The seed germination of L. cuneifolia, B. retama, and P. tetracantha was fully inhibited in 100 % contaminated soil. Toxicological endpoints as NOEC, LOEC and IC50 ranged from 10 % to 25 % of soil contaminated with mining waste. …”
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Effect of operational parameters on droplet deposition characteristics using an unmanned aerial vehicle for banana canopy by Jiaxiang Yu, Jiaxiang Yu, Xing Xu, Jieli Duan, Jieli Duan, Yinlong Jiang, Yinlong Jiang, Haotian Yuan, Haotian Yuan, Huazimo Liang, Shuaijie Jing, Shuaijie Jing, Zhou Yang, Zhou Yang, Zhou Yang

“…The flight height of 4 m and the droplet size of 100 μm could make the adaxial side of banana canopy leaves have higher droplet deposition density (63.77 droplets per square cm) and coverage (12.75%), and can make the droplets effectively deposit on the abaxial side of banana canopy leaves, with droplet deposition density of 17.46 droplets per square cm and coverage of 1.24%. …”
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Correlation between serum homocysteine level and clinicopathological factors of IgA nephropathy by Cai Xiao-fan, Huang Jie-bo, Xing Yue, Cai Xiu-feng, Li Xue-ling, Zhong Yi-fei

“…The patients were divided into the Hcy normal group and hyperhomocysteinemia （HHcy） group according to Hcy level at the time of renal biopsy. Clinical observation data and pathological injury indices were compared between groups. …”
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Application of a new type of mesh density basket in cleaning and disinfection of small dental equipment (新型密纹篮筐在牙科小器械清洗消毒中的应用) by DENG Yanli (邓艳莉), TU Chengyun (徒成云), LI Yanyan (李严严)

“…The occurrence of sharp instrument injuries has dropped form 26 times to 8 time with 1 year after use of new type of mesh density basket. …”
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Hysteretic Behavior of Eccentrically Loaded Reinforced Air-Entrained Concrete Columns under Combined Effects of Freeze-Thaw Cycles and Seawater Corrosion by Jieqiong Wu, Jian Zhang, Bo Diao, Shaohong Cheng, Yinghua Ye

“…Results show that, after 300 times of freeze-thaw cycles alternated with 100 times of seawater immersion, the hysteretic behavior of the eccentrically loaded columns manifested an apparent asymmetric pattern. …”
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Contemporary Results of the Reforming of Higher Education in China by S. S. Donetskaya, Tsyan’nan Tszi

“…Gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education had been increased in 9,5 times (from 1995 to 2016) and reached 42,7% in 2016. …”
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Prediction of Causative Genes in Inherited Retinal Disorders from Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Utilizing Deep Learning Techniques by Yu Fujinami-Yokokawa, Nikolas Pontikos, Lizhu Yang, Kazushige Tsunoda, Kazutoshi Yoshitake, Takeshi Iwata, Hiroaki Miyata, Kaoru Fujinami, on behalf of Japan Eye Genetics Consortium

“…This process was repeated four times with random assignment to training and test sets to control for selection bias. …”
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Supplementation of astaxanthin and vitamin E in feed on the development of gonads white shrimp broodstock Litopenaeus vannamei Boone 1931 by Fajar Maulana, Harton Arfah, Mita Istifarini, Mia Setiawati

“…Shrimp was fed 2% of body weight three times daily at 06.00 am, 13.00 pm, and 20.00 pm. …”
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The digestibility of biofloc meal from African catfish culture medium as a feed raw material for Pacific white shrimp by Julie Ekasari, Muhammad Agus Suprayudi, Putri Elas, Reza Karunia Senja

“…Nine units of glass tanks (90 cm ×40 cm× 35 cm) filled with 100 L seawater were used as the experimental culture units. …”
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APPLICATION OF MULTILAYER FILM CONFIGURATION TO PROTECT PHOTOMULTIPLIER AGAINST EXTERNAL STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS by A. G. Batische, K. F. Vlasik, S. S. Grabchikov, V. M. Grachev, V. V. Dmitrenko, N. P. Kalashnikov, S. S. Muravyev-Smirnov, P. V. Nyunt, S. E. Ulin, Z. M. Uteshev, A. V. Cheledyuk

“…It is shown that the most effective is the screen on the basis of the multilayered film screens, which provide shielding effectiveness value 8–10 in magnetic fields with induction of 0,1–1 mT, and 80–100 – in magnetic fields with induction of 2–4 mT , which is 4–5 times higher than for the screen of the material 80NHS.…”
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Single Infrared Super-Resolution via a Shifted Full-Scale Non-Local Network by Honghong Lu, Zhenhua Li

“…Qualitative and quantitative evaluation results show that our method has better performance on benchmark datasets of Set5, Set14, BSD100, and the self-built infrared dataset under the up-sample factor of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 3$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 4$ </tex-math></inline-formula>.…”
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Moxidectin Efficacy in a Goat Herd with Chronic and Generalized Sarcoptic Mange by Nektarios D. Giadinis, Rania Farmaki, Nikolaos Papaioannou, Elias Papadopoulos, Harilaos Karatzias, Alexander F. Koutinas

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Investigating the influence of monosodium L-glutamate on brain responses via scalp-electroencephalogram (scalp-EEG) by Ben Wu, Xirui Zhou, Imre Blank, Yuan Liu

“…Three concentrations of MSG (0.05, 0.12, 0.26 g/100 mL) were provided to participants for tasting while recoding their responsive reaction times and brain activities. …”
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Optimizing cluster head selection in wireless sensor networks using firefly and genetics algorithm by Navid Moshtaghi Yazdani, Mohammad Hasan Olyaei Torqabeh

“…The results of comparing LEACH and EAMMH protocols and the proposed method in terms of the number of dead nodes compared to the number of execution times based on 50, 100, and 200 nodes indicates that the number of dead nodes for the simulation of LEACH protocol is almost equal to the number of dead nodes for the EAMMH protocol, but the proposed algorithm has approximately 10 percent less dead nodes, but by an increase in the number of nodes (200 nodes) the number of dead nodes have decreased 35 percent and 22 percent compared to LEACH and EAMMH algorithms respectively.…”
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Screening of <i>Polyalthia longifolia</i> and <i>Aloe vera</i> for their phytoextractability of heavy metals in tropical soil of the Niger Delta by FBG Tanee, N Amadi

“… The work focuses on the screening of Polyalthia longifolia and Aloe vera for their phytoextractability of  heavy metal in soil of the Niger Delta. 5kg of soil was polluted with 100 mg of Zn, Fe and Pb each  replicated 9 times. …”
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Therapeutic Benefit of Dillenia indica in Diabetes and Its Associated Complications by Parul Kamboj, Narayan C. Talukdar, Sanjay K. Banerjee

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A Deep Neural Network to Identify Vacuum Degrees in Vacuum Interrupter Based on Partial Discharge Diagnosis by Hong Nhung-Nguyen, Young-Woo Youn, Yong-Hwa Kim

“…Experimental results show that the proposed deep neural network monitors the internal pressure range, from <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.0 \times 10^{-2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> torr to 10 torr in VI. …”
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Asymmetric Response to Global Warming by Anatoliy Zhukov, Walery Zukow

“…It is established that the content of water vapor in the atmosphere exceeds the content of CO₂ by 100 times. An asymmetric method of combating global warming through mirrors is proposed, demonstrating high potential efficiency. …”
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A CRISPR-Cas12a-based universal rapid scrub typhus diagnostic method targeting 16S rRNA of Orientia tsutsugamushi. by Bum Ju Park, Sang Taek Heo, Misun Kim, Jeong Rae Yoo, Eun Jin Bae, Su Yeon Kang, Sunghoon Park, Kyeo Re Han, Keun Hwa Lee, Jae Myun Lee, Hyeyoung Lee, Yoon-Jae Song

“…Using this method, we successfully detected up to 100 copies of in vitro transcribed O. tsutsugamushi 16S rRNA within 1 hour under isothermal conditions. …”
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