Effect of Quarry Waste on Self-Compacting Concrete Containing Binary Cementitious Blends of Fly Ash and Cement by Baboo Rai, Sanjay Kumar, Kumar Satish

“…Based on the standard flowability test a visual stability index has been provided to all the trial mixes. Quarry waste replacement showed the desirable results that can suggest the usage in self-compacting concrete as well as in normally vibrated concrete.…”
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Longitudinal investigation of neurobiological changes across pregnancy by Yanbin Niu, Benjamin N. Conrad, M. Catalina Camacho, Sanjana Ravi, Hannah A. Piersiak, Lauren G. Bailes, Whitney Barnett, Mary Kate Manhard, David A. Cole, Ellen Wright Clayton, Sarah S. Osmundson, Seth A. Smith, Autumn Kujawa, Kathryn L. Humphreys

“…Here we observe a reduction in gray matter volume and an increase in neurite density index (NDI), a proxy of axon density, in white matter tracts across pregnancy. …”
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Vulval Elephantiasis: A Case Report by Harsh Mohan, Bhumika Bisht, Poonam Goel, Geeta Garg

“…Its diagnosis on histopathology is more often by exclusion. High index of suspicion on microscopic findings and corelation with relevant diagnostic tests are required to reach the correct diagnosis.…”
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Parenting Styles and the Development of Socio-Emotional Regulation Skills in Preschool Children by Rahmatallahi Taiye Ojibara

“…The findings revealed that that the dominant parenting Styles is authoritative parenting styles and the index of Socio-Emotional Regulation Skills are in the following order; friendship Skill, cooperation skill, responsibility skill, communication skill and the last is the empathy skill.…”
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The Involvement of Angiotensin Type 1 and Type 2 Receptors in Estrogen-Induced Cell Proliferation and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression in the Rat Anterior Pituitary by Hanna Lawnicka, Dorota Ptasinska-Wnuk, Slawomir Mucha, Jolanta Kunert-Radek, Marek Pawlikowski, Henryk Stepien

“…The study was performed on Fisher 344 rats underwent 8-day treatment with diethylstilboestrol (DES). The proliferation index (PCNA) and VEGF expression in pituitary sections were estimated using immunohistochemical methods. …”
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What is urea-triazone nitrogen? by Guodong Liu, Jeffrey Williamson

“…The traditional N sources have a greater salt index and leaf-burn potential than urea-triazone N. …”
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Levamisole-Induced immune phenomenon and its various clinical manifestations in children: Two case reports along with review of literature by Anu Punnen Kocheril, T Sathish Kumar, Dharshini Sathishkumar

“…Increased awareness of these rare but severe manifestations will remind clinicians to keep a high index of suspicion, its early recognizing, and withdrawal of offending drug before severe morbidity occurs in those children on levamisole.…”
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Blood and bile lipid composition and the risk of gallstones at diabetes mellitus of the 1st and 2nd type by V. V. Tsukanov, Yu. L. Tonkikh, A. V. Vasyutin

“…Patients with type II DM and cholelithiasis had total cholesterol level in blood serum 25% higher, triglyceride level - 80% higher and Thomas­Hofmann index in duodenal bile portion B 20% higher, than patients was gallstone disease and type I DM. …”
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Industry Efficiency and Total Factor Productivity Growth under Resources and Environmental Constraint in China by Feng Tao, Ling Li, X. H. Xia

“…This paper attempts to apply the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity index to measure the environmental efficiency, environmental total factor productivity, and its components at the level of subindustry in China over the period from 1999 to 2009 while considering energy consumption and emission of pollutants. …”
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Event-Trigger Reinforcement Learning-Based Coordinate Control of Modular Unmanned System via Nonzero-Sum Game by Yebao Liu, Tianjiao An, Jianguo Chen, Luyang Zhong, Yuhan Qian

“…The ET-critic neural network (NN) is used to approximate the performance index function, thus obtaining the ETRL coordinate control policy. …”
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Morphofunctional variations of the Echinometra lucunter (Echinoidea) on Bahia Coast, Brazil by Walter Ramos Pinto Cerqueira, Yara Aparecida Garcia Tavares, Natalie Petrovna Semanovschi, Daniele Nascimento de Jesus

“…Linear and volumetric measurements were performed on 117 specimens (test diameter > 40 mm) and the ratios between them were analyzed along with Aristotle’s lantern weight participation (AL index). The potential model was tested between AL wet weight and tooth height (log data), estimating the coefficients by linear regression. …”
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Determination of Structural and Optical Properties of Zn1-xCuxO Nanoparticles by Chemical Bath Deposition Waste Recovery Technique by Emin Yakar

“…The XRD evaluation showed that the well-crystalline hexagonal wurtzite ZnO indexed peaks. Average crystallite sizes were found to be around 35.6-42.9 nm range by using the Debye-Scherrer equation. …”
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THE NEXUS BETWEEN ARMED CONFLICT, SECURITY, PEACE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by SAMUEL BULUS WADZANI, OGUNDAIRO KAYODE EMMANUEL, AUGUSTINE ECHOBU OGWUCHE

“…Nigeria has a low rating in the Human Development Index and consequently has failed to develop because of incessant conflicts, which make peace elusive in the country. …”
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Plant Regeneration and Cellular Behaviour Studies in Celosia cristata Grown In Vivo and In Vitro by Rosna Mat Taha, Sharifah Nurashikin Wafa

“…It was observed that Mitotic Index (MI), mean chromosome numbers, and mean nuclear to cell area ratio of in vitro root meristem cells were slightly higher compared to in vivo values. …”
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Line Breaths in Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry by Anna Aublet

“…Ginsberg’s long verse thus comes to index a break in his modernist lineage. It operates a departure from his modernist masters, Williams, Pound and Eliot. …”
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On Mostar and Edge Mostar Indices of Graphs by Ali Ghalavand, Ali Reza Ashrafi, Mardjan Hakimi-Nezhaad

“…Finally, a recent conjecture of Liu, Song, Xiao, and Tang (2020) on bicyclic graphs with a given order, for which extremal values of the edge Mostar index are attained, will be proved. In addition, some new open questions are presented.…”
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Inequality in breast cancer: Global statistics from 2022 to 2050 by Ling Liao

“…It focuses on disparities across continents, age groups and Human Development Index (HDI) levels. In 2022, Africa shows the highest positive slope values of age-standardized rates (world) of mortality vs. incidence, both for those under 40 (0.346) and those 40 and older (0.335). …”
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Height Constitutes an Important Predictor of Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease by Tsuneo Takenaka, Takahiko Sato, Hitoshi Hoshi, Nobutaka Kato, Keita Sueyoshi, Masahiro Tsuda, Yusuke Watanabe, Hiroshi Takane, Yoichi Ohno, Hiromichi Suzuki

“…Height is an important determinant of augmentation index (AI) that anticipates cardiovascular prognosis. …”
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Evaluation of Susceptibility of Asphalt Binders to Rutting through MSCR Test by Rong Chang, Aimin Sha, Pinxue Zhao, Songchang Huang, Cong Qi

“…The results show that Jnr3.2 can accurately characterize the permanent deformation resistance of asphalt, while the stress sensitivity index Jnrdiff is not applicable to all types of modified asphalt. …”
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Predictions of bimanual self-touch determine the temporal tuning of somatosensory perception by Noa Cemeljic, Xavier Job, Konstantina Kilteni

“…Here, participants discriminated forces applied to their left index finger at different phases of the right hand’s reaching movement toward the left hand. …”
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