Dyes Degradation with Fe-Doped Titanium Nanotube Photocatalysts Prepared from Spend Steel Slag by Chih Ming Ma, Yu Jung Lin, Ren Wei Shiue, Chang Tang Chang

“…Furthermore, five kinds of dye concentration, including 10, 20, 100, 200, and 400 ppm, and five kinds of Fe-doped content, including 0, 0.77, 1.13, 2.24, and 4.50%, were tested. …”
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Optimization of CO2 Concentration on Mortality of Various Stages of Callosobruchus maculatus and Development of Controlled Atmosphere Storage Structure for Black Gram Grains by V. Siva Shankar, G. Velmurugan, S. Kaliappan, S. Baskara Sethupathy, S. Sekar, Pravin P. Patil, G. Anitha, Geremew Geidare Kailo

“…Grain stored in the silo showing significant 100% mortality of egg was measured after 20-25 days of observation. …”
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High Tuberculosis density incidence rate in Matched Unrelated Allogeneic stem cell transplantation recipients in the state of São Paulo, Brazil by Marcelo Nóbrega Litvoc, silvia F costa, Fabio Eudes Leal, Diogo Boldim Ferreira, Max Igor Banks Ferreira Lopes, Ligia Capuani, Vanderson Geraldo Rocha

“…The average age was 25 years, and the estimated time between HSCT and Tuberculosis diagnosis was 376 days. …”
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Effect of Blanching Techniques and Treatments on Nutritional Quality of Dried Mango Slices During Storage by Gulzar Asad, Ahmed Mahmood, Qadir Muhammad Abdul, Shafiq Muhammad Imtiaz, Ali Sakhawat, Ahmad Ijaz, Mukhtar Muhammad Farooq

“…Vitamin C content in osmotically-dried mango slices was higher than that of IR and MW blanched dried mango slices but the content of vitamin C of both cultivars was lower than of the fresh mango samples (Chaunsa: 135 mg/100 g, Fajri: 94 mg/100 g). Significant loss was noticed in total carotenoids content of both the cultivars with passage of time because of their susceptibility to oxidative loss caused by dry heat. …”
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Powering Implanted Devices Wirelessly Using Spider-Web Coil by Amal Ibrahim Mahmood, Sadik Kamel Gharghan, Mohamed A.A. Eldosoky, Ahmed M. Soliman

“…Various transfer distances ranging from 10 to 100 mm were investigated to analyze the DC output current (Idc). …”
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Diagnostic Value of Mean Platelet Volume, Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, and Platelet to Lymphocyte Ratio for Late-Onset Neonatal Sepsis by Behzad Barekatain, Elahe Mardani, Alireza Sadeghnia, Zahra Heidari

“…Background: Neonatal sepsis (NS) is the most common cause of neonatal mortality, currently confirmed with blood culture as the diagnostic gold standard. However, being time-consuming, false-negative results, being affected by even a single dose of antibiotics, and expensiveness are negative aspects. …”
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Validation of an Individualized Measure of Quality of Life, Patient Generated Index, for Use with People with Parkinson’s Disease by Ayse Kuspinar, Kedar K. V. Mate, Anne-Louise Lafontaine, Nancy Mayo

“…Within one severity rating, agreement between the PGI and different standard outcome measures ranged from 85 to 100% for walking, 69 to 100% for fatigue, 38 to 75% for depression, and 20 to 80% for memory/concentration. …”
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Determination of Ketotifen Fumarate in Syrup Dosage Form by High Performance Liquid Chromatography by Mohammed Ali Salih, Dlivan Fattah Aziz, Salar Ibrahim Ali

“…l in 500 ml of methanol) at a flow rate of 1.5 mL/min (mobile phase A 40 %:mobile phase B 60%) at column temperature using 40 ° C, the retention time for ketotifen fumarate was 6.4±0.5 min. The concentration curves were linear in the range of 10.0 to 35.0 ?…”
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Does early heart rate detection and continuous monitoring have an impact on neonatal resuscitation in newborns with intact cord? – An observational study by Sushil Choudhary, Arun Singh, Anurag Pandey, Neeraj Gupta, Anil Kumar, Swasthi Kabisatpathy

“…Among newborns with a first HR of more than 100 bpm, 8 newborns (2.6%) required resuscitation. …”
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Preparation of Lignite Dust Suppressant by Compound Surfactants and Effect of Inorganic Salt on Dust Suppressant by Jian He, Hao Shu, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yang Jia, Lu Zhao, Xin Wen

“…The results show that (1) the surfactant compounding system can effectively improve the wetting property and the sedimentation time of coal dust. The fast penetration T (0.06%), SDBS (0.15%), and APG (0.20%) are the preferred main ingredients. (2) Adding inorganic salts on the basis of compounding, according to the effect of inorganic salts on the effect of dust suppressant, it is concluded that NaCl (1.00%) is the best synergist. (3) In order to save costs, reduce the amount of surfactant. …”
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The Diagnostic Value of Bedside Echocardiography and Lower Extremity Blood Vessels in Acute Pulmonary Embolism by Xinxin Xu, Jing Yuan, Xiaojie Pan, Guibin Du, Jiahui Zhang

“…TTE examination showed that RVD as a predictor of pulmonary embolism-related death had a sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 58%, a positive predictive value of 20%, and a negative predictive value of 100%. …”
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Deployment of Municipal Solid Wastes as a Substitute Growing Medium Component in Marigold and Basil Seedlings Production by Nikos Tzortzakis, Sofia Gouma, Costas Paterakis, Thrassyvoulos Manios

“…Six medium prepared from commercial peat (CP) and MSWC (0, 15, 30, 45, 60, and 100% v/v). There was not any plant growth when MSWC used alone (100%). …”
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Screening for Gastric and Small Intestinal Mucosal Injury with Magnetically Controlled Capsule Endoscopy in Asymptomatic Patients Taking Enteric-Coated Aspirin by Xue Chen, Feng Gao, Jie Zhang

“…Twenty-six subjects were recruited to the aspirin group and twenty-six to the control group; the median Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale scores were 3.50 and 3.00 (P=0.200), the median gastric Lanza scores were 2.50 and 1.00 (P<0.001), the small intestinal Lanza scores were 1.00 and 0.00 (P<0.001), the gastric controlled examination times were 50.0 and 51.0 min (P=0.171), the small intestinal transit times were 240.0 and 238.0 min (P=0.654), and the capsule excretion times were 24.0 and 24.0 hours (P=0.956), respectively. …”
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Evaluating a Sustainable Intelligent Logistic System (ILS) Utilizing O-S Data and Holistic Managerial Models by Hong Liu, Kamarajugadda Tulasi Vigneswara Rao, Kottala Sri Yogi, Neelkanth Dhone

“…ILS assures clean, on-time manufacturing. Due to its unique architectures, qualities, and sensory aspects, the robot logistic system (RLS) is sought after as an ILS in Industry 4.0. …”
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A cost‐effective video system for a rapid appraisal of deep‐sea benthic habitats: The Azor drift‐cam by Carlos Dominguez‐Carrió, Jorge Fontes, Telmo Morato

“…Its performance was assessed during the MapGES_2019 cruise, where 135 successful dives between 100 and 800 m depth were carried out in 22 working days, providing over 100 hr of images for almost 80 km of seabed, mostly in areas that had never been explored before. …”
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Two-dimensional flood model for risk exposure analysis of land use/land cover in a watershed by G. Puno, R. Puno, I. Maghuyop

“…The flood risk exposure analysis revealed that coconut is the most affected, with 31.3% and 37.1% being at risk across the 2-year and 100-year return period scenarios, respectively. …”
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Development and Evaluation of an iiPCR Assay for Salmonella and Shigella Detection on a Field-Deployable PCR System by Tian Du, Ji-hong Lin, Jun-hua Zhao, Hai-bo Wang, Qiu-hua Mo

“…The limit of detection was 103 CFU/mL and 101 CFU/mL for Salmonella and Shigella, respectively, which was comparable to multiplex real-time PCR. Mock on-site clinical evaluation results showed that the analytical sensitivity and specificity of the insulated isothermal PCR assay were 100% and 96.6%, while the positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 94.1% and 100%, respectively. …”
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A Method to Determination of Lead Ions in Aqueous Samples: Ultrasound-Assisted Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction Method Based on Solidification of Floating Organic Drop and... by Çiğdem Arpa, Itır Aridaşir

“…Performed experiments showed that optimum pH was 10.0, 1-dodecanol extraction solvent volume was 75 μL, back-extraction solvent was 500 μL, 1.0 mol·L−1 HNO3, extraction time was 4 min, and extraction temperature was 40°C. …”
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The Effect of Hospital Boarding on Emergency Medicine Residency Productivity by Peter Moffett, Al Best, Nathan Lewis, Stephen Miller, Grace Hickam, Hannah Kissel-Smith, Laura Barrera, Scott Huang, Joel Moll

“…Boarding was defined as the time between an admission order and the patient leaving the ED. …”
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In-Process Quality Inspection of Rolling Element Bearings Based on the Measurement of Microelastic Deformation of Outer Ring by Kuosheng Jiang, Lianghe Li, Liubang Han, Shuai Gou

“…The proposed method can be used with a rotating speed of 100 rev/min and test load of 100 N, which is remarkably lower than the traditional quality inspection machineries with a rotating speed of around 1000 rev/min and the test load of 400 N. …”
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