Changes in urinary concentrations of contemporary and emerging chemicals in commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcom... by Megan E Romano, Jessie P Buckley, Xiuhong Li, Julie B Herbstman, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Sunmi Lee, Susan L Schantz, Leo Trasande, Margaret R Karagas, Frederica Perera, ECHO Cohort Consortium

“…We measured urinary concentrations of analytes across several chemical groups, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phthalates/alternative plasticizers, synthetic phenols (parabens, bisphenols, triclosan, benzophenones), organophosphate esters (OPEs), insecticides and fungicides. …”
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Analysis of a D-Shaped Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensor with Multiple Conducting Layers by Amanda F. Romeiro, Markos P. Cardoso, Caua C. Miranda, Anderson O. Silva, João C. W. A. Costa, M. Thereza R. Giraldi, Jose L. Santos, Jose M. Baptista, Ariel Guerreiro

“…Abstract In our study, we conducted a thorough analysis of the spectral characteristics of a D-shaped surface plasmon resonance (SPR) photonic crystal fiber (PCF) refractive index sensor, incorporating a full width at half maximum (FWHM) analysis. …”
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An Approach to the Geometric-Arithmetic Index for Graphs under Transformations’ Fact over Pendent Paths by Muhammad Asif, Hamad Almohamedh, Muhammad Hussain, Khalid M Alhamed, Abdulrazaq A. Almutairi, Sultan Almotairi

“…The presence of GAΓ makes the inequalities more general than all those which were previously defined for the GA index. Furthermore, we characterize extremal graphs which make the inequalities tight.…”
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Cell Labeling with 15-YNE Is Useful for Tracking Protein Palmitoylation and Metabolic Lipid Flux in the Same Sample by Nadine Merz, Karin Schilling, Dominique Thomas, Lisa Hahnefeld, Sabine Grösch

“…We observed a time- and concentration-dependent S-palmitoylation of calnexin and succinate dehydrogenase complex flavoprotein subunit A (SDHA) depending on the cell type. …”
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Epidemiology of Acute Pancreatitis in the North Adriatic Region of Croatia during the Last Ten Years by Davor Stimac, Ivana Mikolasevic, Irena Krznaric-Zrnic, Mladen Radic, Sandra Milic

“…Methods. We analyzed 922 patients with confirmed diagnosis of AP (history, clinical and laboratory findings, and imaging methods) admitted to our hospital during a ten-year period (2000–2009). …”
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Narcolepsy treatment: from exorcism and bloodletting to modern therapy with histamine receptor inverse agonists by E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė, R. Masaitienė

“… In this review article, we present the treatment of narcolepsy since ancient times when patients experiencing the phenomenon of incubus (today understood as sleep paralysis with hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations) were “cured” during the sessions of exorcism. …”
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Multiple Group Testing Procedures for Analysis of High-Dimensional Genomic Data by Hyoseok Ko, Kipoong Kim, Hokeun Sun

“…We found a big discrepancy of selected genes between multiple group testing procedures and group lasso.…”
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Decade-Long Changes in Disparity and Distribution of Transit Opportunity in Shenzhen China: A Transportation Equity Perspective by Qingfeng Zhou, Donghui Dai, Yaowu Wang, Jianshuang Fan

“…However, the scope and time frame of the assessment target are also critical. In this paper, we took China’s fastest urbanizing city, Shenzhen, as a case study to assess transport equity by comparing accessibility among groups. …”
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TNF-α Autocrine Feedback Loops in Human Monocytes: The Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Roles of the TNF-α Receptors Support the Concept of Selective TNFR1 Blockade In Vivo by Jennie M. Gane, Robert A. Stockley, Elizabeth Sapey

“…We hypothesised that TNF-α has pro- and anti-inflammatory effects on monocytes, occurring differentially via TNFR1 and TNFR2. …”
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Blockchain‐Enabled Car Sharing: Enhancing Reliability and Vehicle History Management by Chen Ben Tolila, Yarden Hovav, Kiril Danilchenko, Hadassa Daltrophe

“…To address these issues, we propose a decentralized crowd car sharing and renting platform called CROWDCARLINK, leveraging blockchain technology's power. …”
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Vestibular stimulation and space-time interaction affect the perception of time during whole-body rotations. by Deborah Cecilia Navarro Morales, Alexis Laplanche, Olga Kuldavletova, Bithja Cantave, Adéla Kola, Thomas Fréret, Gaëlle Quarck, Gilles Clément, Pierre Denise

“…Unlike emotions, the intensity of vestibular stimulation can be easily and precisely modified, making it possible to study the quantitative relationship between stimulation and its effect on time perception. We hypothesized that the contraction of subjective time would increase with the vestibular stimulation magnitude. …”
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Statistical Risk Characteristics and Risk Scoring of Hospital-Acquired Malnutrition for Pediatric Patients by Khreshna Syuhada, Dessie Wanda, Risti Nur’aini, Chairun Ardiantari, Ayu Susilo

“…We excluded the data if the patient had tumors or organomegaly, fluid retention, and dehydration. …”
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Repositioning of the Severe Prolapsed Silicone Tubes after Bicanalicular Nasal Intubation: A Novel Technique by Jinjing He, Jingwen Gong, Qingqing Zheng, Jin Jiang

“…Results. Using this technique, we successfully repositioned severe prolapsed silicone tubes without any complication in 6 cases. …”
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Fermatean Cubic Fuzzy Aggregation Operators and Their Application in Multiattribute Decision-Making Problems by Muhammad Riaz, Aurang Zeb, Fawad Ali, Muhammad Naeem, Sama Arjika

“…We also have defined the score and deviation degrees of F-CFNs. …”
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Condensate droplet roaming on nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces by Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Kartik Regulagadda, Matteo Donati, Abinash Tripathy, Gopal Chandra Pal, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Athanasios Milionis, Dimos Poulikakos

“…We quantify and show that it is the inherent asymmetries in droplet adhesion during condensation, arising from the stochastic nature of nucleation within the nanostructures, that generates the tangential momentum driving the roaming motion. …”
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Star Formation Law at Sub-kpc Scale in the Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A as Seen by ALMA by Jazeel H. Azeez, Zamri Z. Abidin, C.-Y. Hwang, Zainol A. Ibrahim

“…A significant correlation exists between surface densities of molecular gas and SFR with very long depletion time (68 Gy). In addition we examined the spatially resolved relationship between velocity dispersion and star formation rate surface density for the outer disk of this galaxy and we found that the average velocity dispersion is equal to 11.78 km/s. …”
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A scoping review protocol on brain PaCO2 levels at altitude. by Hanna Tang, Laurel Charlesworth, Manoj Lalu, Brian Dewar, Risa Shorr, Dariush Dowlatshahi

“…In this scoping review, we aim to map the available literature that addressed whether PaCO2 changes with altitude. …”
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Response of Bird Community to Kamojang Geothermal Power Plant, Bandung, West Java by Diyah Kartikasari, Satyawan Pudyatmoko, Novianto Bambang Wawandono, Pri Utami

“…We found 124 birds species belongs to 35 families with 16 endemic species in Java Island. …”
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Exploring the evolution of structure growth in the universe with field-fluid interactions through dynamical stability analysis by Anirban Chatterjee, Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Debasish Majumdar

“…Abstract We investigate an interacting quintessence dark energy – dark matter scenario and its impact on structure formation by analyzing the evolution of scalar perturbations. …”
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On the Differential Diagnosis of Anxious from Nonanxious Major Depression by means of the Hamilton Scales by George Konstantakopoulos, Vasilios G. Masdrakis, Manolis Markianos, Panagiotis Oulis

“…Moreover, we tested the validity of ASF criterion against HAM-A, gold standard of anxiety severity assessment. …”
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