Coarse Particle Motion Characteristics in a Double-Stage Slurry Pump Considering Leakage Flow by Hao Jia, Yuqi Wang, Zuchao Zhu, Xianghui Su, Zhenji Tang

“…In the leak or nonleak case, the average kinetic energy of particles was more than twice through the first stage but only 1.1 times through the second stage. …”
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Evaluation of the C-reactive protein serum levels in periodontitis patients with or without atherosclerosis – A clinical study by Pooja Khatri, Kaustubh S Thakare, Minal Narendra Ganvir, Mitesh Khatri

“…Those with both conditions have almost twice the CRP levels compared to those without atherosclerosis. …”
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The Effectiveness of Myo-Inositol and D-Chiro Inositol Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes by Basilio Pintaudi, Giacoma Di Vieste, Matteo Bonomo

“…Patients (23.1% males, mean age of 60.8±11.7 years) took for three months a combination of myo-inositol (550 mg) and d-chiro-inositol (13.8 mg) orally twice a day as add-on supplement to their glucose-lowering drugs. …”
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Analysis of vehicle carbon emission characteristics on expressways in mountainous plateau areas based on the coupled simulation of CarSim/TruckSim and MOVES. by Jianping Gao, Xin Huang, Yunyong He, Enhuai He, Lu Sun, Changfeng Yang

“…Carbon emissions equivalent of the LDV and HDV starting twice on average in summer were approximately 1.09- and 1.04-times higher, respectively, than that when vehicles were started 0.5 times; whereas, in winter, they were 1.17- and 1.07-times higher, respectively.…”
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Behavior of Low Grade Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Made with Fresh and Recycled Brick Aggregates by Md. Shariful Islam, Mohammad Al Amin Siddique

“…On the other hand, strain of concrete at failure of steel fiber reinforced concrete has increased almost twice compared to the control case. A simple analytical model is also proposed to generate the ascending portions of the stress-strain curve of concrete. …”
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Assembly of oleosin during efficient extraction: Altering the sequence of defatting solvents by Yu Li, Yuqian Qiao, Yuxuan Zhu, Wangyang Shen, Weiping Jin, Dengfeng Peng, Qingrong Huang

“…High purity oleosin (86 %) was obtained by treatment first with a Floch solution and then with cold acetone and petroleum ether after twice washing OBs with urea. The 3D spatial structure of oleosin was predicted using AlphaFold 2, revealing that the secondary structure of oleosin was dominated by α-helices (>60 %). …”
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The Correlation between Hormonal Disturbance in PCOS Women and Serum Level of Kisspeptin by Razaw O. Ibrahim, Shirwan H. Omer, Chro N. Fattah

“…Five milliliter samples of blood from all the patients and control women were obtained twice during the menstrual cycle. All the study samples were classified depending on the age factor for several subgroups. …”
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Experimental Research of the Influence of Microfracture Morphology on Permeability of Shale Rock by Xiaohe Huang, Yunqian Long, Yuyi Wang, Ming Yue

“…Taking the primitive effective stress (10 MPa) as a critical point, the permeability of shale with large initial permeability decreased by 26.4%, which is about twice as much as that of shale rock with small initial permeability (14.9%) in the selected pressure loading stage, owing to the difference of fracture width inside the shale rock. …”
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Synbiotic microcapsule dietary supplementation for prevention against co-infection diseases in Pacific white shrimp: a limited field experiment by Munti Yuhana, Andreas Tambun, Widanarni Widanarni, Usamah Afiff

“…Treatments included the administration of MS at different frequencies i.e, daily (A), twice a week (B), once a week (C), and without MS supplementation (consisted of negative and positive controls) with a feeding rate of 6% of shrimp biomass (5 times a day). …”
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Calm-mind percentage measured by a wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) headband correlates with stress level in anesthesia residents: A prospective, observational study by Ida Bagus Krisna Jaya Sutawan, I Made Gede Widnyana, Nova Juwita, Steven Okta Chandra, Christopher Ryalino, Tjokorda Gde Agung Senapathi

“…This study procedure was repeated twice for each subject, one while performing anesthesia in ASA 1–2 patient and another in ASA 3–4 patients. …”
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Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting with Metastasis to the Pancreas by Firas Warda, Sam Ho, Enoch Kuo, Dinesh Rao, Marilu Jurado-Flores

“…Due to recurrent findings of residual thyroid tissue on whole-body scan imaging, the patient underwent radioactive iodine ablation therapy twice, with poor response to therapy, suggested by persistently elevated thyroglobulin levels. …”
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How Speech–Language Pathologists Adapt This Is Me Digital Transition Portfolios to Support Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Communication Challenges Acr... by Eve Müller, Jamie R. Kleiner, Danielle Evans, Ann Kern, Dawn Reikowsky, Katherine Smidl

“…While school and inpatient units demonstrated similar patterns of domain use, TiME created in an inpatient context contained more information about behavior plans/supports and were almost twice as long on average. They also included more information about safety and diagnoses/medical needs and less information about self-advocacy strategies than TiME created in school contexts, reflecting the very different settings within which they were created. …”
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Effect of Topically Administered Chitosan-N-acetylcysteine on Corneal Wound Healing in a Rabbit Model by Corinna Fischak, Robert Klaus, René M. Werkmeister, Christine Hohenadl, Martin Prinz, Leopold Schmetterer, Gerhard Garhöfer

“…Administration of C-NAC containing eye drops twice daily leads to a faster corneal wound healing in a rabbit model of corneal debridement as compared to placebo. …”
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Enpostil Lowers Elevated Serum Gastrin Concentrations in Patients with Pernicious Anemia by P Kirdeikis, M Mant, L Zuk, D Fisher, L Bynum, ABR Thomson

“…In random order patients received twice daily enprostil 350 μg bid, enprostil 700 μg bid and placebo for one week, with a one week washout between treatment phases. …”
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Establishment and Mechanism Study of a Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Mouse Model Using Lipopolysaccharide by Si-Ji Lv, Shu-Hui Hou, Lei Gan, Jing Sun

“…C57BL/6N female mice were intraperitoneally injected with low-dose LPS (0.5 mg/kg) once daily for 14 days, high-dose LPS (2.5 mg/kg) twice weekly for 2 weeks, or cyclophosphamide (CTX; 150 mg/kg) once weekly for 2 weeks. …”
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Comparative Study of Ectopic Lymphoid Aggregates in Sheep and Murine Models of Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis by Udari Eshani Perera, Louise Organ, Simon G. Royce, Chrishan S. Samuel, Habtamu B. Derseh, Sasika N. V. Dewage, Emmanuel Koumoundouros, Andrew Stent, Kenneth J. Snibson

“…Merino sheep (n = 8) were bronchoscopically administered with two bleomycin infusions, two weeks apart, into a caudal lung segment, with a saline (control) administered into a caudal segment in the opposite lung. Balb/c mice were twice intranasally instilled, one week apart, with either bleomycin (n = 7); or saline (control, n = 7). …”
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Beverage Intake and Its Effect on Body Weight Status among WIC Preschool-Age Children by Andrea Charvet, Fatma G. Huffman

“…Independent of body weight status, the preschool-age children were consuming on average over twice as much as the recommended intake of 100% fruit juice per day for that age group. …”
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Low-Frequency rTMS over Contralesional M1 Increases Ipsilesional Cortical Excitability and Motor Function with Decreased Interhemispheric Asymmetry in Subacute Stroke: A Randomized... by Ka Yan Luk, Hui Xi Ouyang, Marco Yiu Chung Pang

“…Following the 2-week intervention period, the task practice was continued twice weekly for another 10 weeks in both groups. …”
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Realized stable BP-N at ambient pressure by phosphorus doping by Guo Chen, Chengfeng Zhang, Yuanqin Zhu, Bingqing Cao, Jie Zhang, Xianlong Wang

“…For a configuration with 12.5% doping concentration, a gravimetric energy density of 8.07 kJ/g can be realized, which is nearly twice that of trinitrotoluene.…”
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Roquefort Cheese Proteins Inhibit Chlamydia pneumoniae Propagation and LPS-Induced Leukocyte Migration by Ivan M. Petyaev, Naylia A. Zigangirova, Natalie V. Kobets, Valery Tsibezov, Lydia N. Kapotina, Elena D. Fedina, Yuriy K. Bashmakov

“…Moreover, short term feeding of mice with Roquefort cheese (twice, 10 mg per mouse with an interval of 24 hours) led to the inhibition of the migration of peritoneal leukocytes caused by intraperitoneal injection of E. coli lipopolysaccharide. …”
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