Effect of Methomyl on Growth, Antioxidant System of GIFT (Oreochromis niloticus), and Residue in the Presence of Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk) by Xiaojun Jing, Yao Zheng, James P. Mulbah, Jiazhang Chen, Gangchun Xu

“…MET reduced the growth rate of GIFT, and water spinach reduced part of the water quality indexes in the MET (<200 μg/L) groups. Water spinach altered GIFT’s hepatic oxidation system to some extent and effectively absorbed MET in water and transferred it to itself, and the degradation time was lower than the dietary standard time which termed as 15–20 days. …”
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Recognition and optimization of landscape genes in traditional settlements: a case of Meishan area by Huasha Xia, Feihu Chen

“…By integrating the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation (FCE), the study develops a landscape gene sorting index system, systematically evaluating 16 sub-categories of landscape factors. …”
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Stabilization mechanism of white kidney bean based milk through novel perspectives of endogenous starch by Chunli Kong, Yixuan Zhang, Yimei Hu, Caiping Duan, Zheng Yan, Sumei Zhou

“…With enzymatic hydrolysis, starch of stable cultivars showed higher solubility index while less swelling power, and less short range order. …”
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Drought Occurrence in Central European Mountainous Region (Tatra National Park, Slovakia) within the Period 1961–2010 by Jaroslav Vido, Tsegaye Tadesse, Zbyšek Šustek, Radoslav Kandrík, Miriam Hanzelová, Jaroslav Škvarenina, Jana Škvareninová, Michael Hayes

“…The main goals of this research include identifying drought variability and its characteristics over the Tatra National Park in the West Carpathians (Slovakia), especially to characterizing drought variability and its spatial pattern across the Tatra National Park from 1961 to 2010 using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and standard Geographic Information System (GIS) methods. …”
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Medical Education Online: a case study of an open access journal in health professional education by D.J. Solomon

“…The case study discusses the process of establishing the journal, the development of the journal over time, its struggle coping with an increasing number of submissions, review procedures, journal management software, indexing and archiving issues, journal policies, and access statistics. …”
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Moisture Content Quantization of Masson Pine Seedling Leaf Based on Stacked Autoencoder with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Chao Ni, Yun Zhang, Dongyi Wang

“…Masson pine is widely planted in southern China, and moisture content of the pine seedling leaves is an important index for evaluating the vigor of seedlings. For precisely predicting leaf moisture content, near-infrared spectroscopy analysis is applied in the experiment, which is a cost-effective, high-speed, and noninvasive material content prediction tool. …”
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Impact of Baseline BMI upon the Success of Latina Participants Enrolled in a 6-Month Physical Activity Intervention by Sheri J. Hartman, Shira I. Dunsiger, Dori W. Pekmezi, Brooke Barbera, Charles J. Neighbors, Becky Marquez, Bess H. Marcus

“…High rates of obesity in Latinas highlight the need to determine if physical activity interventions are equally effective across the body mass index (BMI) range. Thus, this study assessed how BMI impacts success of Spanish-speaking Latinas in a culturally and linguistically adapted theory-based physical activity intervention (𝑁=45). …”
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Safety of Allogeneic Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Therapy in Patients with Severe Cerebral Palsy: A Retrospective Study by Mei Feng, Aili Lu, Hongxia Gao, Caiwen Qian, Jun Zhang, Tongxiang Lin, Yuanqi Zhao

“…There was no significant association with allogeneic UCBSCs treatments found in the data of the laboratory index . No casualties occurred. Some adverse events during treatments were found in 26 (55.3%) patients, including fever (42.6%) and vomiting (21.2%). …”
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Experimental Investigation on Deformation and Strength Behavior of Marble with the Complex Loading-Unloading Stress Path by Chen Chen, Lipeng Liu, Yu Cong

“…By introducing strain increment, the characteristic stress, and the dilatancy index, the rock’s dilatancy and brittleness under different unloading conditions are quantitatively analyzed. …”
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Study of interdisciplinarity in chemistry research based on the production of Puerto Rican scientists 1992-2001. Interdisciplinarity, Bibliometric indicators, Chemistry by Elias Sanz-Casado, Carmen Martin-Moreno, Carlos Garcia-Zorita, Maria Luisa Lascurain-Sanchez

“…The data used for this paper were taken from the Science Citation Index database, which lists the most significant contributions made by these scientists, along with the respective bibliographic references. …”
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Neuro-Fuzzy Model for the Prediction and Classification of the Fused Zone Levels of Imperfections in Ti6Al4V Alloy Butt Weld by Giuseppe Casalino, Sabina Luisa Campanelli, Fabrizio Memola Capece Minutolo

“…Finally, a single-value metric was proposed for the assessment of the overall bead geometry quality. It combined an index for each defect and functioned according to the criterion “the-smallest-the-best.”…”
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Right Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia: A Case Report and A review by Thaimi Conde Cueto, Ivette Cepero Pérez, Francisco Olascoaga Pérez, Martha Yudey Rodríguez Pino

“…Diaphragmatic hernia constitutes an infrequent form of diaphragmatic disease and a high index of sospecha for its diagnosis. The lesions of the left side seem to be the most frequent according to the review of the medical literature. …”
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Measuring Cardiovascular Disease Risk Perception: Translation and Validation of the Indonesian ABCD Risk Questionnaire by Septa Meriana Lumbantoruan, Deby Kristiani Uligraff, Eva Berthy Tallutondok

“…The process is then continued with a content validity index created by three experts. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) then determine the factors that support the translated questionnaire. …”
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Test on the Stabilization of Oil-Contaminated Wenzhou Clay by Cement by Chuang Yu, Raoping Liao, Chaopeng Zhu, Xiaoqing Cai, Jianjun Ma

“…With the application of cement, the liquid limit and plasticity index of contaminated soil samples decrease dramatically, and the strength of treated soils has been improved. …”
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Fluorescence Characteristics of Humic Acid in Chinese Black Soil under Long-Term Fertilization by Dan Wei, Yan Li, Shan-shan Cai, Liang Jin, Yu-mei Li, Wei Wang, Yang Bai, Yu Hu, Nicholas Clarke

“…By using the two principal component scores as a new index for clustering, it was concluded that long-term fertilization treatments in black soil in Harbin clustered into three groups of manure + NPK and organic manure treatments, NPK treatment, and soil without any fertilization. …”
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Data Cultures: a scoping literature review by Gillian Oliver, Jocelyn Cranefield, Spencer Lilley, Matthew Lewellen

“…A scoping literature review was conducted of English language peer reviewed publications indexed in SCOPUS as well as specialist information and computer science databases. …”
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Cognitive Pragmatic Rehabilitation Program in Schizophrenia: A Single Case fMRI Study by Ilaria Gabbatore, Francesca M. Bosco, Elisabetta Geda, Luigi Gastaldo, Sergio Duca, Tommaso Costa, Bruno G. Bara, Katiuscia Sacco

“…In order to assess brain changes, we calculated the Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuation (ALFF) index of the resting-state fMRI signal, which is interpreted as reflecting the intensity of the spontaneous regional activity of the brain. …”
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Long-Term Clinical Behavior of Jejunoileal Involvement in Crohn’s Disease by Hugh J Freeman

“…New treatments are required, possibly defined on the basis of their effectiveness in reducing the severity and extent of intestinal disease, rather than more conventional statistically driven reductions in disease activity indexes.…”
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EPS System of Tractor Automatic Driving: An Improved LMI with Mixed Sensitivity Control Method by Huanxiao Pang, Guangfei Xu, Zhicai Song, Dianbao Zhao, Wenjun Wang, Peisong Diao

“…This paper proposes to add the corresponding mixed sensitivity operator to the corresponding performance index in the controller. By adjusting the amplitude of the mixed sensitivity operator, the tracking performance and the speed of disturbance attenuation can be both adjusted for the tractor EPS system. …”
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THE EFFECT OF “SCHEMA DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE” ON STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT by Deni Widiarti, Bambang Suwarno, Dedi Sofyan

“…From 90 try out item questions, 42 of them were found to be valid and 48 were invalid. The reliabilty index was 0,898 (high). The findings of the research revealed that schema development technique was effective for improving students overall comprehension. …”
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