Effect of different diets on the fatty acid composition of buffalo bulk milk by Sebastiana Failla, Giuliano Palocci, Michela Contò, Gianluca Renzi, Chiara Evangelista, Loredana Basiricò, Umberto Bernabucci

“…The basic diet of each group was supplemented with different components representing about 3% in dry matter of total ration. The basic diet (B) comprised maize silages, alfalfa hay, corn grain, and soybean as concentrates. …”
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Baryon Pasting the Uchuu Light-cone Simulation by Erwin T. Lau, Daisuke Nagai, Arya Farahi, Tomoaki Ishiyama, Hironao Miyatake, Ken Osato, Masato Shirasaki

“…These BP-Uchuu maps are constructed using more than 75 million dark matter halos with masses M _500 _c ≥ 10 ^13 M _⊙ within the redshift range 0 ≤ z ≤ 2. …”
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Causes of revision hip arthroplasty after hemiarthroplasty for femoral neck fracture by Alexander N. Tsed, Nikita E. Mushtin, Alexander K. Dulaev

“…Hemiarthroplasty as a surgical choice for elderly patients with femoral neck fractures is still a matter of scientific controversy. The aim of the study is to analyse unsatisfactory outcomes of hemiarthroplasty and compare them with the similar outcomes of total hip arthroplasty in elderly patients with femoral neck fractures. …”
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Unsteady ground: understanding the problem of BPPV in the world of sports by Wojciech Nowak, Mirosław Sawicki, Jagoda Mikołajczyk, Paulina Krzemińska, Maciej Gołębski, Zuzanna Kukla, Sebastian Musialik, Stella Mieruszyńska, Jakub Włosiański, Izabela Sadowska

“…In modern world, sport has become a part of everyday life, both in professional in amateur matter. Different sports, may lead to different types of injuries and related complications, one of them is dizzyness and vertigo. …”
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Pollution Characteristics and Source Analysis of Carbonaceous Components in PM2.5 in a Typical Industrial City by Liyan Ma, Dongmei Hu, Yulong Yan, Yueyuan Niu, Xiaolin Duan, Yafei Guo, Wanhua Li, Lin Peng

“…Abstract Carbonaceous components are important components of fine atmospheric particulate matter (PM2.5) and can affect the local environment, climate, and human health. …”
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Humic acid improves water retention, maize growth, water use efficiency and economic benefits in coastal saline-alkali soils by Ge Li, Yuyang Shan, Weibo Nie, Yan Sun, Lijun Su, Weiyi Mu, Zhi Qu, Ting Yang

“…The field experiment focused on the impacts of HA on soil water storage (SWS), desalination rate (RD), maize plant height (PH), leaf area index (LAI), aboveground dry matter (ADM), yield, WUE, and ∆NP. The results indicated that HA application increased cumulative infiltration by 0.83 %–9.92 %, extended the infiltration time required to reach the predetermined wetting front depth by 11.6 %–74.8 %, and reduced cumulative evaporation by 4.72 %–28.99 %. …”
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Integrating Hybrid Team-Based and Case-Based Learning in Dental Education Transformation by Sidra Abid, Humna Rafiq

“…The research findings indicate that a variety of strategies for TBL are beneficial not just in terms of enhancing students' perception of learning outcomes, but also shows improvement in competencies and efficacy in dental education.3 It is a matter of involving dynamic participation, collaboration, and the development of critical abilities. …”
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Characteristics and combustion kinetics of fuel pellets composed of waste of polyethylene terephthalate and biomass by K. Manatura, U. Samaksaman

“…Some technical challenges such as low moisture content and high volatile matter content were feedstock dependent. The major characteristics were a combination of those from both the constituent materials. …”
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Estimated Aerosol Health and Radiative Effects of the Residential Coal Ban in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region of China by Kelsey R. Bilsback, Jill Baumgartner, Michael Cheeseman, Bonne Ford, John K. Kodros, Xiaoying Li, Emily Ramnarine, Shu Tao, Yuanxun Zhang, Ellison Carter, Jeffrey R Pierce

“…We estimate that within China, the ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) reductions in the Beijing-off scenario could lead to 1,900 (95% CI: 1,200−2,700) premature deaths avoided annually, while the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-off scenario could lead to 13,700 (95% CI: 8,900−19,600) premature deaths avoided annually. …”
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Qualitative Parameters of the Colonic Flora in Patients with HNF1A-MODY Are Different from Those Observed in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Sandra Mrozinska, Piotr Radkowski, Tomasz Gosiewski, Magdalena Szopa, Malgorzata Bulanda, Agnieszka H. Ludwig-Galezowska, Iwona Morawska, Agnieszka Sroka-Oleksiak, Bartlomiej Matejko, Przemyslaw Kapusta, Dominika Salamon, Maciej T. Malecki, Pawel Wolkow, Tomasz Klupa

“…Further investigation on this matter should be conducted.…”
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Production of Biogas from Bio-Degradable Municipal Solid Waste – A Way of Resource Recovery. by Atatiru, Faiza

“…During the design, the following results were arrived at considering an average of 5 persons per family each having a solid waste generation rate of 0.2kg/person/day in Uganda: flow rate of 0.003m3, reactor volume of 0.09m3, TS of 0.2kg of dry matter, VS of 1.78kgVs/m3 and OLR of 0.059 kg Vs./m3. …”
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Multi-environmental traits selection and farmer's participatory assessment of mean performance and stability of orange-fleshed sweet potato genotypes in Benin by Idrissou Ahoudou, Nicodeme V. Fassinou Hotegni, Dêêdi E.O. Sogbohossou, Tania L.I. Akponikpè, Charlotte O.A. Adjé, Françoise Assogba Komlan, Ismail Moumouni-Moussa, Enoch G. Achigan-Dako

“…The PVS revealed that farmers assigned high importance to yield performance for field evaluation and root dry matter content. In addition, they prioritized many different traits, such as the attractiveness of orange flesh colour and the lower fibrousness of boiled roots. …”
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The Impact of Mixed Application of Modified Straw Biochar and Organic Fertilizer on Soil Water Retention and Fertility Maintenance in the Loess Hilly Dry Area by ZHANG Peizhen, LUO Juan, YAO Zonglu, CHANG Fangling, HUO Lili, ZHAO Lixin

“…When the NH4Cl-modified biochar-to-fertilizer ratio was 2∶1, soil organic matter and total potassium contents reached the highest values, being 8.23 and 15.17 g/kg, respectively. …”
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Effect of different diets on the fatty acid compo- sition of buffalo bulk milk by Sebastiana Failla, Giuliano Palocci, Michela Contò, Gianluca Renzi, Chiara Evangelista, Loredana Basiricò, Umberto Bernabucci

“…They were provided as a total mixed ratio where different components (about 3% in dry matter of total ration) were added to the essential diet for each group: basic diet (B) was composed of maize silages, alfalfa hay, corn grain, and soybean as concentrates, the second diet contained linseed as an additional constituent to B (L), another brewer’s spent grain (T), additional alfalfa and mixed hay (H), additional corn grain (M), grass (G); other farms included in B diet both grass and cottonseed (CG), grass and linseed (GL) or grass and brewer’s spent grain (TG) and at last grass linseed and brewer’s spent grain (LTG). …”
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Real-world outdoor air exposure effects in a model of the human airway epithelium – A comparison of healthy and asthmatic individuals using a mobile laboratory setting by Pavel Rossner, Helena Libalova, Tereza Cervena, Michal Sima, Zuzana Simova, Kristyna Vrbova, Antonin Ambroz, Zuzana Novakova, Fatima Elzeinova, Anezka Vimrova, Lubos Dittrich, Michal Vojtisek, Martin Pechout, Michal Vojtisek-Lom

“…In the ambient air, we detected particulate matter (PM), and other relevant chemicals (benzene, benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), NOx). …”
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Gene content of seawater microbes is a strong predictor of water chemistry across the Great Barrier Reef by Marko Terzin, Steven J. Robbins, Sara C. Bell, Kim-Anh Lê Cao, Renee K. Gruber, Pedro R. Frade, Nicole S. Webster, Yun Kit Yeoh, David G. Bourne, Patrick W. Laffy

“…Distinct seasonal variations in surface water chemistry were observed, with nutrient concentrations up to threefold higher during austral summer, explained by enhanced production of particulate organic matter (POM) by photoautotrophic picocyanobacteria, primarily Synechococcus. …”
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How do leaf functional traits influence above-ground tree carbon in tropical hill forests of Bangladesh? by Ariful Khan, Md Rezaul Karim, Mohammed A.S. Arfin-Khan, Md. Shamim Reza Saimun, Fahmida Sultana, Sharif A. Mukul

“…., specific leaf area (SLA), leaf dry matter content (LDMC), leaf width, and leaf thickness—on above-ground tree carbon (AGTC) stocks in two forest protected areas (PA) in northeast Bangladesh: Khadimnagar National Park (KNP) and Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary (RKWS). …”
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Cluster-spin-glass behavior in new ternary RE2PtGe3 compounds (RE = Tb, Dy, Ho) by L S Litzbarski, M J Winiarski, I Oshchapovsky, P Skokowski, K Synoradzki, T Klimczuk, B Andrzejewski

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Health and economic cost estimates of short-term total and wildfire PM2.5 exposure on work loss: using the consecutive California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data 2015–2018 by Michael Jerrett, Yu Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Diane Garcia-Gonzales, Mohammad Z Al-Hamdan, Miriam E Marlier, Joseph L Wilkins, Ninez Ponce

“…Instruction To help determine the health protectiveness of government regulations and policies for air pollutant control for Americans, our study aimed to investigate the health and economic impacts of work loss due to sickness associated with daily all-source and wildfire-specific PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 μm) exposures in California.Methods We linked the 2015–2018 California Health Interview Survey respondents’ geocoded home addresses to daily PM2.5 estimated by satellites and atmospheric modelling simulations and wildfire-related PM2.5 from Community Multiscale Air Quality models. …”
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Pretransplant immunotherapy increases acute rejection yet improves survival outcome of HCC patients with MVI post-liver transplantation by Xinjun Lu, Qi Zhu, Junfeng Cai, Zuozhong Yang, Guangxiang Gu, Li Pang, Mingye Su, Fapeng Zhang, Haoming Lin, Wenrui Wu, Leibo Xu, Chao Liu

“…We found 37.1% (59/159) recipients were found to have microvascular invasion (MVI), no matter whether the HCC tumor is within Milan criteria or not. …”
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