Evaluation of addition of chemical and organic fertilizers to irrigation in the production of Prosopis laevigata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) M.C. Johnst. by Víctor M. Martínez-Calderón, Fabián A. Rubalcava-Castillo, Jorge A. Torres-González, Manuel H. Sandoval-Ortega, Araceli G. Mendieta-Vázquez

“…At the end of the evaluation period, the height and diameter of the seedlings were recorded. The aboveground dry biomass to belowground dry biomass ratio (AGDW/BGDW), robustness index, and Dickson’s quality index were determined. …”
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Giant Protruding Nodular Fasciitis of the Anterior Chest Wall Clinically Mimicking a Soft Tissue Sarcoma by Hideyuki Kinoshita, Tsukasa Yonemoto, Hiroto Kamoda, Yoko Hagiwara, Toshinori Tsukanishi, Sumihisa Orita, Kazuhide Inage, Naoya Hirosawa, Seiji Ohtori, Takeshi Ishii

“…NF mostly occurs in adults aged 20-50 years and usually has a diameter<3‐4 cm. Giant NF with a diameter>4 cm is rare. …”
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Significance of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels in lung cancer by Sinem İnan, Semra Bilaçeroğlu, Burcu Uludağ Artun

“…In this study, we aimed to investigate the significance of the correlation of NT-proBNP levels in lung cancer with tumor stage, tumor diameter, histopathology, and specific sites of mediastinal metastasis: lymphadenopathy; pericardial, cardiac, major vessel, other mediastinal organ or lymphatic involvement/invasion. …”
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Biosafety and efficacy evaluation of a biodegradable Zn-Cu-Mn stent: A long-term study in porcine coronary artery by Yi Qian, Yan Chen, Jimiao Jiang, Jia Pei, Junfei Li, Jialin Niu, Jinzhou Zhu, Guangyin Yuan

“…The lumen diameter was already close to normal range at 12 months, indicating good bioefficacy of the stent. …”
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Is There a Mild Form of Pediatric Appendicitis? An Eight-Year Single-Center Retrospective Review by Eric Scheier, Khaled Khalilia, Pavel Peslin, Stav Amir, Luba Pasherstnik Bizer

“…White blood cell count (14.1 versus 10.2, <i>p</i> = 0.005) and appendiceal diameter (8.6 mm versus 7.6 mm, <i>p</i> = 0.078) were higher for children with conservative treatment. …”
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Effect of Aging on the Antifungal Activity and Surface Roughness of Soft Lining Material Incorporated with Chitosan Nano-Particles by Huda Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Shafi, Hawraa Khalid Aziz

“…The sample’s dimensions for candida viability count test were (10×10×2.3mm) length, width, and thickness, while a plastic disc with dimensions (6 diameter ×0.5mm thickness) for disc diffusion test. …”
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The Influence of Negative Pressure and of the Harvesting Site on the Characteristics of Human Adipose Tissue-Derived Stromal Cells from Lipoaspirates by Martina Travnickova, Julia Pajorova, Jana Zarubova, Nikola Krocilova, Martin Molitor, Lucie Bacakova

“…In subsequent passage, we studied the number, viability, diameter, doubling time, mitochondrial activity, and CD surface markers of isolated ADSCs. …”
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Study on the influence of working environment on the insulation of fuel cell by Ji Pu, Qianya Xie, Kang Li, Jun Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Chen Ge, Lichang Zhang

“…When the cooling water temperature or conductivity increased, the insulation of the stack tended to decrease, and the conductivity had a greater impact on the insulation of the stack. When the pipe diameter of the purge shell was designed to be approximately 20 % of the main pipe diameter, the relative humidity of fresh air entering the shell was lower than 60 % when the ambient relative humidity outside the shell was 95 %. …”
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How to Achieve Efficiency and Accuracy in Discrete Element Simulation of Asphalt Mixture: A DRF-Based Equivalent Model for Asphalt Sand Mortar by Yu Liu, Peifeng Su, Miaomiao Li, Hui Yao, Junfu Liu, Mei Xu, Xiaodong Zhou, Zhanping You

“…Through this study, it was observed that when the original glued ball diameters are ranging from 2.00 mm and 2.36 mm, the diameter reduction factor changes from 0.82 to 0.86 for AC mixtures and 0.80 to 0.84 for SMA mixtures. …”
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Can Thinning Foster Forest Genetic Adaptation to Drought? A Demo‐Genetic Modelling Approach With Disturbance Regimes by Victor Fririon, Hendrik Davi, Sylvie Oddou‐Muratorio, Gauthier Ligot, François Lefèvre

“…We focused on two variable traits: individual vigour, determining diameter growth potential without stress as the deviation from average stand growth, and individual sensitivity to drought stress as the slope of the relationship between diameter growth and drought stress level. …”
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Nociceptive and Neuronal Evaluation of the Sciatic Nerve of Wistar Rats Subjected to Compression Injury and Treated with Resistive Exercise by Juliana Sobral Antunes, Keli Lovison, Jhenifer Karvat, Ana Luiza Peretti, Lizyana Vieira, Guilherme Hideaki Higuchi, Rose Meire Costa Brancalhão, Lucinéia de Fátima Chasko Ribeiro, Gladson Ricardo Flor Bertolini

“…From the morphometric data there were significant differences, for nerve fiber diameter, comparing CG with LG and LEG and comparing axon diameter and the thickness of the myelin of the CG to others. …”
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Morphological and molecular analysis of rose cultivars from the Grandiflora and Kordesii garden groups by S. S. Yudanova, O. V. Dorogina, O. Yu. Vasilyeva

“…The exceptions were flower diameter when comparing with Dortmund and Letniye Zvyozdy and peduncle length when comparing with Gutsulochka. …”
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Factors determining primary or delayed surgery for unilateral, non-metastatic Wilms tumor: a multicentric Egyptian study by Ahmed Elgendy, Amr Abdelhamid AbouZeid, Mohamed El-Debeiky, Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad, Marwa Romeih, Ahmed Ebeed, Mohamed Abouheba, Mohammed Hamada Takrouney, Mahmoud Mostafa, Ahmed Khairi, Osama El-Naggar, Sameh Shehata

“…The median largest tumor diameter was 12 cm (range, 7–16 cm). Primary nephrectomy was performed in 62 patients (55.4%), while 50 (44.6%) underwent delayed resection after biopsy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy. …”
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Numerical investigation on thermal-fractional characteristics inside a heated tube enhanced with a novel grooved cone turbulator by Bing Mei, Azher M. Abed, Pinank Patel, Ankit Kedia, Hamdi Ayed, Abir Mouldi, Ibrahim Mahariq

“…This optimal TEF of 3.42 was attained with a GCT featuring a twist angle of 90°, a groove diameter of 10 mm, and a pitch length of 5 cm.…”
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Biochar and bentonite application improves aeolian sandy soil health and enhances soil carbon sequestration and emission reduction potential by Liang Weijing, Tang Jiaxi, Li Yu, Song Sizhu, Jiang Xiaoyu, Hao Liyu, Tao Shuyu, He Miaomiao

“…Compared with the same treatment in the first year, the content of water-stable aggregates with particle sizes greater than 0.25 mm, mean weight diameter and geometric mean diameter of the corn stalk biochar mixed with bentonite treatment significantly increased in the second year. …”
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Intracardiac Echocardiography as a Guide for Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus by Hironaga Yoshimoto, Maeda Yasuto, Tadashi Inoue, Yoshiyuki Kagiyama, Yozo Teramachi, Ryuta Takase, Yusuke Koteda, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Motofumi Iemura, Kenji Suda

“…In phase 1, we compared the measurements of PDA size: pulmonary artery side diameter (PA-D), length, and aortic side diameter (Ao-D) of PDA, as measured by ICE with those measured by aortography or cardiac computed tomography (AoG/CCT) in 23 patients who underwent TC-PDA. …”
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Changes in Corneal Volume at Different Areas and Its Correlation with Corneal Biomechanics after SMILE and FS-LASIK Surgery by Pinghui Wei, George PM Cheng, Jiamei Zhang, Alex LK Ng, Tommy CY Chan, Vishal Jhanji, Yan Wang

“…CV measured within 5 mm diameter was defined as central region volume (CV5) and between 5 mm and 10 mm diameter was defined as peripheral region volume (CV5-10). …”
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Primena daljinske detekcije u inventuri mešovitih šuma hrasta lužnjaka by Borota Dragan, Pantić Damjan, Ponjarac Radenko, Popović Aleksandar

“…In high, mixed, middle-aged and maturing Penduculate oak stands, the possibility of using aerial photogrammetry in the inventory was tested, both to obtain informa­tion related to site and stand information and to determine numerical elements (number of trees, basal area and volume per hectare) obtained on the basis of data read from the images (crown diameter, height and estimated breast height diameter of the tree based on the selected mathematical model). …”
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Clinical analysis of pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma coexisting with lung cancer by Heng Yang, Man-Hui Li, Qiu-Hong Li, Ke-Bin Cheng, Wei-Jun Cao

“…The lung cancer was with a median diameter of 10.7 [IQR:6,20] mm, with nodules as the predominant CT feature (n = 12). …”
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Study on Pore and Fissure Structure Characteristics of Deep Soft Coal Rock by Minbo Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Dangyu Zhang, Delong Zou, Jinlei Du, Zichao Wang, Chunxin Li

“…The average BJH pore diameter of coal samples ranges from 4.3935 to 20.1501 nm, with an average of 16.0313 nm. …”
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