Meteorological Characteristics during Periods of Greatly Reduced PM2.5 Concentrations in March 2020 in Seoul by Il-Soo Park, Moon-Soo Park, Sang-Heon Kim, Yu Woon Jang, Joonsuk Lee, Jeffrey S. Owen, Chang-Rae Cho, Joon-Bum Jee, Jung-Hoon Chae, Minsoo Kang

“…The synoptic meteorological conditions during March 2020 show a common characteristic of strong zonal flow and winds. …”
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Soaking Soybean Seeds with Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai Extract Increased the Yield and Nutritional Value of Soybean Sprouts by Jeong-Ho Kim, Yong-Han Yoon, Sanjeev Kumar Dhungana, Il-Doo Kim, Dong-Hyun Shin

“…The use of different plant-based extracts for the enhancement of yield and/or quality of soybean sprouts, one of the most inexpensive but nutritious food products, is common. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of A. distichum flower extract (ADE) on the yield and nutritional value of soybean sprouts. …”
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Clonally Related Plasmablastic Lymphoma Simultaneously Occurring with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma by Norisato Hashimoto, Tomoki Ueda, Shinichiro Hiraiwa, Takuma Tajiri, Naoya Nakamura, Kenji Yokoyama

“…The results of the DNA analysis indicated that both PBL and DLBCL emerged from common postgerminal B cells. This case may help to elucidate the pathogenesis of PBL.…”
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Diabetic Muscle Infarction of the Tibialis Anterior and Extensor Hallucis Longus Muscles Mimicking the Malignant Soft-Tissue Tumor by Yoshikuni Mimata, Kotaro Sato, Karen Tokunaga, Itsuko Tsukimura, Hiroshi Tada, Minoru Doita

“…One of the most common causes of skeletal muscle infarction is diabetic muscle infarction (DMI), a rare complication associated with poorly controlled diabetes. …”
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Molecular screening of rare cucurbit accessions for the presence of markers for genes and QTls controlling resistance to powdery mildew by E. N. Markova, F. A. Berensen, I. V. Gashkova, O. Yu. Antonova

“…Powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii (Castagne) Braun & Shishkoff ) is considered the most common disease of cucurbitaceous crops, especially in the northwestern and southern regions of Russia. …”
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Cooccurrence of Metastatic Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma and Salmonella Induced Neck Abscess in a Cervical Lymph Node by Jae-Myung Kim, Ju-Yeon Kim, Eun Jung Jung, Eun Jin Song, Dong Chul Kim, Chi-Young Jeong, Young-Tae Ju, Young-Joon Lee, Soon-Chan Hong, Sang-Kyung Choi, Woo-Song Ha

“…Cervical lymph node metastasis is common in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). …”
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Effects of Subchronic Exposure of Diclofenac on Growth, Histopathological Changes, and Oxidative Stress in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) by Eva Praskova, Lucie Plhalova, Lucie Chromcova, Stanislava Stepanova, Iveta Bedanova, Jana Blahova, Martin Hostovsky, Misa Skoric, Petr Maršálek, Eva Voslarova, Zdenka Svobodova

“…Fish at the age of 20 days were exposed to the diclofenac environmental concentration commonly detected in the Czech rivers (0.02 mg L−1) and the range of sublethal concentrations of diclofenac (5, 15, 30, and 60 mg L−1) for 28 days. …”
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Structural Health Monitoring of Precast Concrete Box Girders Using Selected Vibration-Based Damage Detection Methods by Zhengjie Zhou, Leon D. Wegner, Bruce F. Sparling

“…Precast, prestressed concrete box girders are commonly used as superstructure components for short and medium span bridges. …”
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Robust survival model for the prediction of Li-ion battery lifetime reliability and risk functions by Rasheed Ibraheem, Timothy I. Cannings, Torben Sell, Gonçalo dos Reis

“…Single-value prediction such as the End of Life and Remaining Useful Life is a common method of estimating the lifetime of Li-ion batteries. …”
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Charge heterogeneity of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies by different cIEF systems: views on the current situation by Alessandro Ascione, Marcello Belfiore, Jaana Vesterinen, Mihaela Buda, Wolf Holtkamp, Francesca Luciani

“…Capillary iso-electric focusing (cIEF), commonly used for the evaluation of such CQA, provides an analytical tool to investigate mAb purity and identity across the product lifecycle. …”
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Potential Therapeutic Drugs for Parkinson’s Disease Based on Data Mining and Bioinformatics Analysis by Chuan Xu, Jiajun Chen, Xia Xu, Yingyu Zhang, Jia Li

“…Method differential gene candidates were obtained based on data mining of genes of PD brain tissue, original gene data analysis, differential gene crossover, pathway enrichment analysis, and protein interaction, and potential therapeutic drugs for Parkinson’s disease were obtained through drug-gene relationship. Result. 250 common differential genes were obtained from 3 research studies, and 31 differential gene candidates were obtained through gene enrichment analysis and protein interaction. 10 drugs such as metformin hydrochloride were directly or indirectly correlated to differential gene candidates. …”
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Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pneumocystis Pneumonia of an Infant with AIDS by Grégoire Cane, Arnaud De Boislambert, Charlotte Sgro, Pierre Lavedan, Hélène Foulgoc, Nadir Tafer, Alexandre Ouattara

“…Pneumocystis pneumonia is a common complication of cellular immunosuppression and may trigger severe pulmonary complications. …”
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Orbital Metastasis of Breast Cancer Mimicking Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis by Mayara Tabai, Igor Moreira Hazboun, Emerson Taro Inoue Sakuma, Marcelo Hamilton Sampaio, Eulalia Sakano

“…The intracranial extension and ocular involvement are usually the most common signs of IFR (first hypothesis). Among metastases at the orbit and the eye, breast and lung carcinomas are the most frequent. …”
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Method development and application for the analysis of chiral organic marker species in ice cores by J. Schäfer, A. Beschnitt, F. Burgay, F. Burgay, T. Singer, T. Singer, T. Singer, M. Schwikowski, M. Schwikowski, M. Schwikowski, T. Hoffmann

“…Most environmental studies do not distinguish between the enantiomers of chiral compounds, although these compounds, mostly from biogenic sources, are very common in the atmosphere. We have developed a two-dimensional (2D) liquid chromatography (mLC–LC) method that allows the simultaneous determination of the chiral ratios of the monoterpene oxidation products <i>cis</i>-pinic acid and <i>cis</i>-pinonic acid in ice-core samples. …”
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Copper strontium phosphate glasses with high antimicrobial efficacy by Roman Golovchak, Bohdan Mahlovanyi, Yaroslav Shpotyuk, Malgorzata Kus-Liskiewicz, Julia Kozianska, Renata Zadrag-Tecza, Grzegorz Zagula, Malgorzata Trzyna-Sowa, Andriy Kovalskiy, Agnieszka Gala-Bladzinska, Jozef Cebulski

“…The basic physical properties of the material are studied, and its antimicrobial effect is evaluated on Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, known to be the most common problem in hospital environments because of healthcare-associated infections. …”
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Investigations into Recycling Zinc from Used Metal Oxide Varistors via pH Selective Leaching: Characterization, Leaching, and Residue Analysis by Toni Gutknecht, Anna Gustafsson, Christer Forsgren, Christian Ekberg, Britt-Marie Steenari

“…Metal oxide varistors (MOVs) are a type of resistor with significantly nonlinear current-voltage characteristics commonly used in power lines to protect against overvoltages. …”
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Knowledge and Attitude of Iranian University Students toward Genital Warts by Zeinab Aryanian, Maedeh Mohammadi, Arefeh Babazadeh, Parvaneh Hatami, Zeinab Mohseni Afshar, Azadeh Goodarzi, Ifa Etesami, Mohammad Barary, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Parisa Sabbagh

“…Since cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in women, this study was performed to investigate Iranian medical students’ knowledge and attitudes towards genital warts. …”
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Genetic Diversity Analysis of Sugarcane Parents in Chinese Breeding Programmes Using gSSR Markers by Qian You, Liping Xu, Yifeng Zheng, Youxiong Que

“…Using principle component analysis (PCA), the first and second principal components accounted for a cumulative 76% of the total variances, in which 43% were for common parents and 33% were for new parents, respectively. …”
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Application of the Bayesian Model Averaging in Analyzing Freeway Traffic Incident Clearance Time for Emergency Management by Yajie Zou, Bo Lin, Xiaoxue Yang, Lingtao Wu, Malik Muneeb Abid, Jinjun Tang

“…Previous studies have proposed a variety of approaches to determine the significant factors for traffic incident clearance time. These methods commonly select a single “true” model among a majority of alternative models based on some model selection criteria. …”
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Role of Platelet Indices as a Potential Marker for Malaria Severity by Biruk Bayleyegn, Fikir Asrie, Aregawi Yalew, Berhanu Woldu

“…Platelet parameter alteration such as platelet count and platelet indices are more common than in other blood cell lines due to diverse causative pathophysiological mechanisms in severe malaria infection. …”
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