Spirulina platensis effect on oxidative stress of rat’s offspring brain exposed to cigarette smoke during pregnancy and lactation by Kenny Cantika Abadi, Febriana Catur Iswanti, Sri Widia A Jusman, Fadilah Fadilah, Ani Retno Prijanti

“…The smoke contains many free radicals that could be eliminated by antioxidant. …”
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Levels of subject communication in fiction literature by A. S. Komarov

“…The article shows the free and personal nature of the intercourse. In the article, the author singles out and gives descriptions of stages/levels of involvement into belles-lettres personality intercourse. …”
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Numerical study on a supercritical vortex drop shaft with a spiral inlet by Gaetano Crispino, Filomena Maietta, Michele Iervolino, Corrado Gisonni

“…Vortex drop shafts are special structures through which a nearly horizontal free-surface flow is forced to rotate and turn into a swirling flow across the vertical shaft. …”
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Heat Stroke Warning System Prototype for Athletes: A Pilot Study by Kanchana Silawarawet, Phattarakorn Kaewchukul, Sairag Saadprai

“…The data is recorded, stored, displayed on a free-access website which graphs body temperature, ambient temperature, humidity, heart rate and heat stroke risk, and provides notifications for athletes engaged in outdoor activities. …”
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Thermal Analysis of a Casson Boundary Layer Flow over a Penetrable Stretching Porous Wedge by Dur-e-Shehwar Sagheer, Mohammad Alqudah, Nawal A. Alshehri, M. Sabeel Khan, M. Asif Memon, R. Shehzad, Amsalu Fenta

“…A significant finding is that by increasing the Casson liquid parameter, the velocity decreases as the wedge expands quicker than the free stream velocity at R=2. However, the velocity increases for the case when R=0.1. …”
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Evaluating the Effects of Ozone Nanobubble Treatments on Postharvest Quality of Fresh Peaches by Orestis Giannopoulos, Ramsey Corn, Dario Chavez, Francisco Loayza, Angelos Deltsidis

“…These treatments were compared with a standard NaOCl treatment (50 mg·L−1 of free chlorine). Our team evaluated the effects of HOW by assessing postharvest fruit quality changes and decay incidence over time. …”
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Penetrating Heart Injury due to Screwdriver Assault by P. A. Dieng, M. S. Diop, A. G. Ciss, P. S. Ba, S. Diatta, M. Gaye, M. L. Fall, A. Ndiaye, M. Ndiaye

“…Postoperative period was free of events. Screwdriver is uncommonly used as a weapon. …”
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Differences in risk factor profiles for peripheral artery disease compared to coronary, cerebral and carotid artery by Stefan Acosta, Yufeng Du, Yan Borné, Anders Gottsäter

“…The diagnosis of incident PAD, coronary artery disease (CoAD), atherothrombotic ischemic stroke (IS) free from atrial fibrillation or flutter, and carotid artery disease (CaAD) was validated. …”
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Investigation on small molecule-aptamer dissociation equilibria based on antisense displacement probe by Lei Wang, Lili Yao, Qihui Ma, Yu Mao, Hao Qu, Lei Zheng

“…Herein, we proposed a comprehensive method for assessing the dissociation equilibria of small molecule-aptamer, which is immobilized-free under ambient conditions. The design employs the Le Chatelier's principle and could be used to effectively measure small molecule-aptamer interactions. …”
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Fault-Tolerant One-Way Noiseless Amplification for Microwave Bosonic Quantum Information Processing by Hany Khalifa, Riku Jantti, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

“…Specifically, we demonstrate the device's ability to prepare loss-free resources offline, and its capacity to overcome the repeaterless bound of SKG. …”
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Research on Wetting-Drying Cycles’ Effect on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Expansive Soil Improved by OTAC-KCl by Bao-tian Wang, Can-hong Zhang, Xue-lian Qiu, En-yue Ji, Wen-hui Zhang

“…Firstly, a reasonable combination of ameliorant 0.3% STAC and 3% KCl is chosen referring to the free swell test. Then, the best curing period, 14 days, is gotten from UCS tests. …”
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Physicochemical Properties and Surface Charge Characteristics of Arid Soils in Southeastern Iran by A. H. Moghimi, J. Hamdan, J. Shamshuddin, A. W. Samsuri, A. Abtahi

“…The point of zero charge (pH0) values are low (2.85–3.35) in all soils mostly affected by organic carbon (OC) and free iron oxide (Fed). pH0 has a significant negative correlation with pH under field conditions (r=−0.45∗, P<0.05). …”
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Western European Intellectual Practices of a New Type in Russian Everyday Life at Early 18th Century (case of Feofan Prokopovich) by I. Yu. Khruleva

“…The Religious Enlightenment was a pan-European phenomenon that embraced Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, and Orthodoxy, and grew out of the desire to create an intelligent religion free of superstition and serving society. The intellectual movement of the religious Enlightenment sought to reconcile the natural philosophy of the 17th-18th centuries with a religious worldview, while trying to overcome the extremes of religious fanaticism, on the one hand, and nihilism and godlessness, on the other. …”
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Assessing the Quality of services provision in the system of Bus Rapid Transit from the viewpoint of citizens Case study: Rasht city by Seyedreza Azadeh, fatemeh Alavi Zadeh Shalkouhi

“…In this regard, 400 questionnaires were distributed, and in which 389 complete and error-free questionnaires were collected. After collecting questionnaires, the data were entered into SPSS software and analyzed by using statistical tests (one sample t test, factor analysis, and Cramer's V test). …”
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Metaphor in Psychotherapy by Nergis Lapsekili, Zekeriya Yelbo&eth;a

“…Stories, because they deal indirectly with issues and have meanings that are in varying degrees veiled, tend to be less threatening and confronting than direct statements. Listeners are free to take stories at their face value, if their implicit meaning is unacceptable to them at the time. …”
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Proximate, Mineral Contents and Physicochemical Properties of <i>Chrysophyllum Albidum</i> (African Star Apple) Kernel Flour and Oil by S.S. Audu, C.I. Beetseh, D.U. Edward-Ekpu, A.A. Ewuga

“…The Physicochemical analysis showed the oil has an Acid Value of 33.12±0.25 mgKOH/g, a Saponification Value of 184.90±0.29 mgKOH/g, an Iodine Value of 60.05±0.02 mgKOH/g, a Free Fatty Acid Value of 16.05±0.14 mgKOH/g, Peroxide Value of 2.10±0.10 m Eq/kg, Moisture of 3.36±0.08 %, Unsaponifiable Matter of 5.26±0.05 g/kg and an Ester Value of 151.78±0.15 mgKOH/g. …”
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Association of Glycemic Indices (Hyperglycemia, Glucose Variability, and Hypoglycemia) with Oxidative Stress and Diabetic Complications by Eleftheria Papachristoforou, Vaia Lambadiari, Eirini Maratou, Konstantinos Makrilakis

“…It is postulated that hyperglycemia induces free radicals and impairs endogenous antioxidant defense systems through several different mechanisms. …”
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From small to tall: breed-varied household pet dogs can be trained to detect Parkinson’s Disease by Lisa Holt, Samuel V. Johnston

“…Study findings support the application of companion dogs, trained with force-free, reward-based methodologies, for the detection of PD-positive and PD-negative samples under controlled conditions.…”
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Adsorption Behaviors of Oxytetracycline onto Sediment in the Weihe River, Shaanxi, China by Dong-Hui Cheng, Sheng-Ke Yang, Yue Zhao, Jing Chen

“…Thermodynamics parameters such as Gibbs-free energy change (ΔG°), enthalpy change (ΔH°), and entropy change (ΔS°) were calculated. …”
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Corporate Governance and its Role in Performance Improvement and Reducing Fraud in Islamic Banking by Leila Zamanianfar, Mohammad Reza Mahdyar Ismaili

“…Surveys indicate that interest-free banking requires a regulatory structure and corporate governance, and the creation of a suitable and strong corporate governance mechanism will probably motivate banks to participate in economic activities and financing in a more appropriate way. …”
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