Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa by E Brits, S M le Grange

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Effect of different extenders and cryoprotectants on sperm viability of mud crab, Scylla tranquebarica for short term storage by Siti Nor Fatihah Zakaria, Nur Hazwani, Cheng-Ann Chen

“… The aim of the present study was to determine the extenders such as calcium-free saline, Ringer’s solution and phosphate buffer and to determine the effect of different concentrations of cryoprotectants with different duration of exposure for short term storage of mud crab, Scylla tranquebarica sperm cells. …”
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Stability of Encapsulated Lactobacillus reuteri during Harsh Conditions, Storage Period, and Simulated In Vitro Conditions by Abdolazim Soltani Lak, Mohammad Hossein Marhamatizadeh, Hossein Fattahi

“…At 60°C and 40°C, the cell count of free bacteria decreased to 5.81 and 8.04 log CFU/mL, respectively. …”
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Indirect Comparison Showed Survival Benefit from Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Completely Resected Gastric Cancer with D2 Lymphadenectomy by Qiong Yang, Ying Wei, Yan-Xian Chen, Si-Wei Zhou, Zhi-Min Jiang, De-Rong Xie

“…Using indirect comparison, the relative hazards of adjuvant chemoradiotherapy to observation were 0.43 (95% CI: 0.33–0.55) in disease-free survival and 0.52 (95% CI: 0.38–0.71) in overall survival for completely resected gastric cancer with D2 lymphadenectomy. …”
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Existence of a weak solution to a regularized moving boundary fluid-structure interaction problem with poroelastic media by Kuan, Jeffrey, Čanić, Sunčica, Muha, Boris

“…The existence result holds for both the elastic and viscoelastic Biot model. The free fluid flow and the poroelastic medium are coupled via the moving interface (the reticular plate) through the kinematic and dynamic coupling conditions. …”
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Routine Surveillance of Upper Urinary Tract Imaging for Diagnosing Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Cancer Recurrence in Patients with Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer by Nobutaka Nishimura, Makito Miyake, Tatsuki Miyamoto, Takuto Shimizu, Tomomi Fujii, Yosuke Morizawa, Shunta Hori, Daisuke Gotoh, Yasushi Nakai, Kazumasa Torimoto, Nobumichi Tanaka, Kiyohide Fujimoto

“…Moreover, oncological outcomes included upper urinary tract urothelial cancer recurrence-free survival and overall survival. Results. Of 864 patients, 19 (2.2%) experienced upper urinary tract urothelial cancer recurrence. …”
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In Vivo Healing Potential of Aegle marmelos in Excision, Incision, and Dead Space Wound Models by M. K. Gautam, V. Purohit, M. Agarwal, A. Singh, R. K. Goel

“…A. marmelos seems to promote wound healing by enhancing connective tissue formation and antioxidants status with decrease in free radicals and myeloperoxidase having tissue damaging effects.…”
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Effect of rutin on the structural and functional properties of ovalbumin by Qian Cui, Yanqiu Ma, Xue Mao, Guozhi Zhao, Siyi Huang, Xingyu Wen, Zimeng Zhu, Xin Gao

“…Fluorescence spectroscopy, surface hydrophobicity, free sulfhydryl content, and circular dichroism spectra revealed that higher rutin concentrations reduced fluorescence intensity and surface hydrophobicity while increasing the free sulfhydryl content of OVA. …”
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Advances in Transparency and Right to Access Information in The Czech Republic by Jana Janderová

“…However, the article argues that in order to take full advantage of the gains in the area of free access to information brought about by the carefully argued case law and subsequent improvements of the obliged entities approach, the resulting accountability still needs to be elaborated. …”
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Searching for the best post-land abandonment management to enhance long-term carbon storage in Mediterranean mountain areas by Melani Cortijos-López, Teodoro Lasanta, Erik Cammeraat, Estela Nadal-Romero

“…Laboratory analyses were performed on aggregate stability and soil organic carbon fractionation with regard to three aggregate sizes (< 2 mm, 2–5 mm, > 5 mm) and three density fractions (free labile, occluded, and heavy fraction). The results showed that: 1) SOC content in aggregates < 2 mm (relative to total SOC) increases with shrub clearing and grazing strategy in acid environments; 2) aggregate stability benefits from the implementation of afforestation in acid environments and from all three study strategies in alkaline ones; 3) in acid environments, the percentage of labile fractions (free and occluded) in afforested sites is significantly higher compared with shrubland, while in alkaline environments, recalcitrant SOC is significantly higher in shrub clearing sites. …”
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Clinicopathological Role of Serum-Derived Hyaluronan-Associated Protein (SHAP)-Hyaluronan Complex in Endometrial Cancer by Hiromitsu Yabushita, Keita Iwasaki, Kouhei Kanyama, Yukihiko Obayashi, Lisheng Zhuo, Naoki Itano, Koji Kimata, Akihiko Wakatsuki

“…The patients with elevated SHAP-HA complex had the shorter disease-free survival. The multivariate analysis revealed that the SHAP-HA complex was the independent variable for disease-free survival of endometrial cancer patients. …”
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Adhesion of Nano-ZnO Modified Asphalt and Its Influence on Moisture-Sensitive Properties of Mixtures by Xiaoming Chen, Ping Wen, Qibin Ji, Shujiang Jiang, Zhimin Zhou, Aipeng Wang, Lingyun Li, Bowen Guan

“…Furthermore, the correlation between the surface-free energy theory and the pull-off test results is better than the boiling test ones. …”
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Marginal Discrepancy of Cast Copings to Abutments with Three Different Luting Agents by José Rosas, Frank Mayta-Tovalino, Maria Eugenia Guerrero, Pedro Luis Tinedo-López, Claudia Delgado, Vanessa Z. Ccahuana-Vasquez

“…The measurement was made from the distance between the free edge of the cast cylinder and the margin of preparation of the titanium abutment, with a level of statistical significance of p<0.05. …”
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Insula Volume and Salience Network Are Associated with Memory Decline in Parkinson Disease: Complementary Analyses of Voxel-Based Morphometry versus Volume of Interest by Yan-Ting Lu, Wen-Neng Chang, Chiung-Chih Chang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Nai-Ching Chen, Chi-Wei Huang, Wei-Che Lin, Ya-Ting Chang

“…In VOI analyses, our results suggested a positive correlation between the insula and composite free-recall verbal memory (ρ=0.617, P=0.003) and the delayed free-recall verbal memory subdomain (ρ=0.725, P<0.001). …”
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Birth of Catastrophe and Strange Attractors through Generalized Hopf Bifurcations in Covid-19 Transmission Mathematical Model by Yuvita Andriani Kusumadewi, Azimatus Nur Safitri, Aulia Nurmalitasari, Triyanto Triyanto, Laila Fitriana, Yudi Ari Adi, Ario Wiraya

“…Global stability of the disease-free equilibria and basic reproduction number are also investigated. …”
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C0-semigroups of linear operators on some ultrametric Banach spaces by Toka Diagana

“…This paper is concerned with a brief conceptualization of C0-semigroups on (ultrametric) free Banach spaces E. In contrast with the classical setting, the parameter of a given C0-semigroup belongs to a clopen ball Ωr of the ground field K. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Magneto-Fluid Supports by V. A. Chernobai, N. V. Zenko

“…The paper considers a vibro-protective magneto-fluid support that uses elastic properties of magnetic fluid with a free surface in magnetic field.The paper has experimentally revealed that the analyzed structure is characterized by better noise absorbing characteristics.The conducted experiments have made it possible to conclude that there is a possibility to use vibro-protective magneto-fluid supports within the frequency range from 0 to 300 Hz, amplitudes up to 2 mm and unit load up to 2,5 · 10 4 Н/м².…”
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Skrifbeskouing en oorredingsretoriek: perspektiewe op performatiewe prediking by Johan Cilliers

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Urban Forest Management: A Primer to Strategic Planning for Municipal Governments by Michael Andreu, Robert Northrop, Wayne Zipperer

“… This publication is an introduction to Urban Forest Management: A Primer to Strategic Planning for Municipal Governments, available in full for free here: https://ffgs.ifas.ufl.edu/urbanforestmanagementbook/. …”
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New high-speed steel for the cast metal-cutting tool by A. S. Chaus, М. Zhitnanski

“…The article describes the special features of the structure and properties of cast low-alloy tungsten-free high-speed steel 11M5F in comparison with the properties of steel R6M5. …”
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