Performance of engineered cementitious composites containing high volume of ceramic powder and magnetized water by Khalid A. Eltawil, Mostafa M. Keshta, Mohamed M. Yousry Elshikh, Waleed E. El-Demerdash, Osama Youssf

“…It can withstand tensile strains of over 3–5% while containing a relatively low fiber fraction of less than 2 % by volume. Sustainability of ECC has become a pressing concern due to its high content of cement that releases huge amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in its production. …”
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Uniaxial Cyclic Tensile Stretching at 8% Strain Exclusively Promotes Tenogenic Differentiation of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells by Hui Yin Nam, Belinda Pingguan-Murphy, Azlina Amir Abbas, Azhar Mahmood Merican, Tunku Kamarul

“…Cells subjected to loading displayed cytoskeletal coarsening, longer actin stress fiber, and higher cell stiffness as early as 6 hours. …”
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Performance Evaluation of GFRP Rock Bolt Sensor for Rock Slope Monitoring by Double Shear Test by Jung-Doung Yu, Jong-Sub Lee, Bibek Tamang, Sungyong Park, Sukhyun Chang, Jungmyeon Kim, Yongseong Kim

“…This study aims to evaluate the sensing performance of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) rock bolt sensors instrumented with strain gauges for monitoring rockslides. …”
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A newly designed laser-based time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with a time-of-flight electron analyzer by Shengyue Lu, Yeqinbo Zhang, Jingze Li, Xueyan Ma, Yongkai Deng, Yunquan Liu

“…The light source is obtained through the generation of ninth harmonics of a 1030 nm Yb fiber-based amplified laser (290 fs, 100 μJ). The photon flux can reach 5 × 1012 photons/s at 333 kHz. …”
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Design and Development of a Wayside AI‐Assisted Vision System for Online Train Wheel Inspection by Muhammad Zakir Shaikh, Sanaullah Mehran, Enrique Nava Baro, Agata Manolova, Mohammad Aslam Uqaili, Tanweer Hussain, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

“…ABSTRACT Wayside inspection of rolling stock has been around for some time and wheel impact load and fiber‐grating sensors are actively explored for getting high‐fidelity data. …”
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Perioperative airway management techniques and complications in patients with temporomandibular joint ankylosis: Experience from a tertiary care teaching institute by Anjan Trikha, Ajoy Roychoudhury, Devalina Goswami, Souvik Maitra, Ongkila Bhutia, Dalim Kumar Baidya

“…All patients with OSA had retrognathia. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy (FOB) guided intubation was performed in 362 (97.3%) patients. …”
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Multi-dimensional oscillatory activity of mouse GnRH neurons in vivo by Su Young Han, Shel-Hwa Yeo, Jae-Chang Kim, Ziyue Zhou, Allan E Herbison

“…The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons represent the key output cells of the neural network controlling mammalian fertility. We used GCaMP fiber photometry to record the population activity of the GnRH neuron distal projections in the ventral arcuate nucleus where they merge before entering the median eminence to release GnRH into the portal vasculature. …”
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Photonics-based modular multistate digital coherent system by I. V. Unchenko, A. A. Emelyanov

“…Calculations of the introduced phase error of a quartz singlemode fiber and graphs of the dependence of the change in the signal phase on external influencing factors are given. …”
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Wireless microwave-to-optical conversion via programmable metasurface without DC supply by Xin Ge Zhang, Ya Lun Sun, Bingcheng Zhu, Han Wei Tian, Bo Yuan Wang, Zaichen Zhang, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Tie Jun Cui, Wei Xiang Jiang

“…Typically, state-of-the-art microwave-to-optical converters are realized by fiber and circuit approaches with multiple processing steps, and external powers are necessary, which leads to many limitations. …”
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Colon Cancer Genetic and Epigenetic Changes, Etiopathogenesis, Risk Factors, Treatment: Literature Review by Gabrielė Ūbaitė, Aurelija Remeikaitė, Justas Žilinskas

“…In addition, diets rich in fiber, antioxidants and healthy fats, as well as the use of probiotics and NSAIDs, are key to reducing cancer risk through their anti-inflammatory effects and promoting gut health. …”
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Comparative genomic analysis revealed that dietary habits affected the adaptation of Bifidobacterium bifidum to the intestinal tract in different geographic populations by Min Li, Jie Yu, Weicheng Li, Qiong Wu, Jiaqi Sun, Zhihong Sun

“…Furthermore, functional annotation analysis demonstrated that copy numbers of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZys) involved in the degradation of polysaccharide from plant and host sources in B. bifidum were high, and 18 CAZys showed significant differences across different geographical populations, indicating that B. bifidum had adapted to the human intestinal environment, especially in the groups with diets rich in fiber. Dietary habits were one of the main reasons for the differences of B. bifidum across different geographical populations. …”
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Nutritional value and prediction of digestible and metabolizable energy of full-fat deactivated soybeans for pigs by Teresinha Marisa Bertol, Jorge Vitor Ludke, Arlei Coldebella, Herbert Rech

“…The variables that best explained the variations (p<0.05) in DE were ureatic activity (UA) and crude fiber. The variables that showed the greatest association (p<0.05) with ME and MEn were UA, protein solubility, and processing pressure. …”
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INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES ON POTATO GERMPLASM COLLECTIONS by D. A. Afonnikov, I. V. Totsky, Z. Stasevski

“…Nowadays potato is considered a source of vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and other nutrients. Potato cultivars are characterized by low genetic diversity, which reduces their potential to produce varieties with improved properties. …”
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A DIC Based Technique to Measure the Contraction of a Skeletal Muscle Engineered Tissue by Emanuele Rizzuto, Silvia Carosio, Martina Faraldi, Simona Pisu, Antonio Musarò, Zaccaria Del Prete

“…Engineered tissue internal organization represents a key aspect to increase biofunctionality before transplant and, as regarding skeletal muscles, the potential of generating contractile forces is dependent on the internal fiber organization and is reflected by some macroscopic parameters, such as the spontaneous contraction. …”
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Carbon Nanomaterials in the Treatment of Infectious Bone Defects and Wound Scars after Wushu Fractures by Shenghui Wei, Lei Zou, Xu Hu, Qiuming Li

“…Studies have shown that when the drug loading of doxycycline increases from 10% to 15%, this is related to the change in properties of the polylactic acid fiber membrane from hydrophobic to hydrophilic caused by the increase in doxycycline drug loading.…”
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Mesothelial cell responses to acute appendicitis or small bowel obstruction reactive ascites: Insights into immunoregulation of abdominal adhesion. by Melissa A Hausburg, Kaysie L Banton, Christopher D Cassidy, Robert M Madayag, Carlos H Palacio, Jason S Williams, Raphael Bar-Or, Rebecca J Ryznar, David Bar-Or

“…Select rA caused MCs to form clusters of fibroblastic cells, extracellular matrix fibers (FIB), and secretion of GCX. PAS and naïve patient rA fluids were clustered into "fiber-GCX" (FIB-GCX) groups: highFIB-highGCX, highFIB-lowGCX, noFIB-highGCX, noFIB-lowGCX, and noFIB-noGCX. …”
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Hematoporphyrin derivative-photodynamic therapy (HpD-PDT) for extensive vulvar and vaginal Bowen's disease: A case report by Xiaoqing Xiang, Yanliang Li, Can Shi, Runqun Liu, Guozhang Ma, Yunyun Cao, Lianheng Xia, Jie Gao

“…Hematoporphyrin derivative-photodynamic therapy (HpD-PDT) was administered, with an optical fiber used for targeted treatment of the vaginal lesions. …”
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Filtration Performance of Layering Masks and Face Coverings and the Reusability of Cotton Masks after Repeated Washing and Drying by Sumit Sankhyan, Karen N. Heinselman, Peter N. Ciesielski, Teresa Barnes, Michael E. Himmel, Hannah Teed, Sameer Patel, Marina E. Vance

“…Scanning electron microscopy revealed that washing and drying led to the gradual deconstruction of cotton fibers at the scale of several micrometers to hundreds of nanometers in the form of delamination of the fiber wall and fibrillation of the nanofiber constituents. …”
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Response Surface Methodology and Textural Profile Analysis for Optimization of Fruit Peel-Based Extruded Snack (Elbow Macaroni) by Pragya Mishra, Ena Gupta, Karishma Gupta

“…The optimized critical, independent parameters (A = 30.66 g, B = 26.67 g, and C = 12.66 g) were observed for nutritional parameter as energy = 318.3 kcal, protein = 9.6 g/100 g, fiber= 2.7 mg/100 g, and calcium = 26.4 mg/100 g and textural profile (25.1 g force, 0.8 (dimensionless), 22.64 N, 0.91 mm, 20.66 N/mm for hardness/firmness, cohesiveness, gumminess springiness, chewiness, respectively). …”
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Structural and vascular assessment of the optic nerve head and macula in chronic Chagas disease by Cristiana L. M. Agra, Camila V. Ventura, Letícia D. da Fonte, Marcela R. V. Oliveira, Marília Leal, Maria Elisa L. S. M. Assunção, Maria da Glória A. M. Cavalcanti, Silvia M. M. Alves, Ana Karine Soares, Liana O. Ventura, Tiago S. Prata

“…The main outcome measures were the glaucoma discriminant factor, average peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, macular ganglion cell complex thickness, peripapillary vascular density (VD), foveal and parafoveal thickness, foveal avascular zone area, and total foveal and parafoveal VD from the superficial and deep capillary plexus that were compared between the two groups. …”
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