Change in Growth Differentiation Factor 15, but Not C-Reactive Protein, Independently Predicts Major Cardiac Events in Patients with Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome by Alberto Dominguez-Rodriguez, Pedro Abreu-Gonzalez, Idaira F. Hernandez-Baldomero, Pablo Avanzas, Francisco Bosa-Ojeda

“…The concentrations of inflammatory biomarkers, however, are influenced, among others, by physiological variations, which are the natural, within-individual variation occurring over time. …”
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Ecología interior: “emparamar” la alfabetización ecológica. Sobre Niñapájaroglaciar de Mariana Matija by Rike Bolte

“…Este artículo se enfoca en la ecología interior de Niñapájaroglaciar (2023) de la escritora y activista colombiana Mariana Matija, ensayo ecocrítico reciente, disiente de una ecología discriminadora de, por un lado, las interrelaciones de organismos en un entorno y equilibrio energético y material llamado natural, y, por otro, la coherencia interactiva de identidades, facultades y comportamientos individuales humanos. …”
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Unleashing the power of responsible knowledge management: A catalyst for sustainable business transformation by Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, Arminda Paço, Helena Alves, Cristina Dias-Cabral

“…Additionally, isolated actions such as evaluation of the company’s impact on society, sustainable product or service development, and actions to save energy or switch to sustainable energy sources have a greater impact on the development of sustainable businesses than actions for involving employees in the management and actions to reduce impact or consumption on natural resources. Conversely, reuse or recycling actions have no significant impact. …”
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Precision Augmentation of Medical Surge Capacity for Disaster Response by Weifeng Shen, Libing Jiang, Xiaojun He

“…In recent years, serious injuries associated with extreme climate, earthquakes, terrorism, and other natural and man-made disasters have occurred frequently throughout the world. …”
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Holocellulose from a Winemaking By-Product to Develop a Biopolymeric System for Bacterial Immobilization: Adsorption of Ochratoxin A in Wine Model Solutions (Box–Behnken Design) by Verónica Carrasco-Sánchez, V. Felipe Laurie, Marcelo Muñoz-Vera, Ricardo Ignacio Castro

“…Then Lactobacillus plantarum (LP) was immobilized in the interstitial spaces of holocellulose and then coated with natural polymers (chitosan, Ch; and alginate, Al) to create the Holo-LP/Ch/Al complex. …”
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Experimental Evaluation for the Microvibration Performance of a Segmented PC Method Based High Technology Industrial Facility Using 1/2 Scale Test Models by Sijun Kim, Se Woon Choi

“…Through impact testing, the natural frequencies of the two scale models are compared. …”
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Japanese Short Answer Grading for Japanese Language Learners Using the Contextual Representation of BERT by Dyah Lalita Luhurkinanti, Prima Dewi Purnamasari, Takashi Tsunakawa, Anak Agung Putri Ratna

“…Bidirectional encoder representations from transformer (BERT), which has shown potential for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, is implemented to grade answers without fine-tuning due to the small amount of data. …”
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Plotting of Ethylene Glycol Blood Concentrations Using Linear Regression before and during Hemodialysis in a Case of Intoxication and Pharmacokinetic Review by Youngho Kim

“…Discussion. Plotting of natural logarithm of EG concentrations over time showed that EG elimination follows first-order kinetics and predicts the change of its concentration well. …”
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Usos comunes de plantas comestibles en la región de Coquimbo, Chile by Eduardo Antonio Jaime Muñoz

“…Se elabora un listado de los puntos geográficos donde se encontraron plantas, diferenciando su hábitat natural, el origen de la especie y algunas aplicaciones en la comida tradicional campesina. …”
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The Genetic Structure of Wild Orobanche cumana Wallr. (Orobanchaceae) Populations in Eastern Bulgaria Reflects Introgressions from Weedy Populations by Rocío Pineda-Martos, Antonio J. Pujadas-Salvà, José M. Fernández-Martínez, Kiril Stoyanov, Leonardo Velasco, Begoña Pérez-Vich

“…Orobanche cumana is a holoparasitic plant naturally distributed from central Asia to south-eastern Europe, where it parasitizes wild Asteraceae species. …”
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Large-scale laboratory investigation of pillar-support interaction by Akash Chaurasia, Gabriel Walton, Sankhaneel Sinha, Timothy J. Batchler, Kieran Moore, Nicholas Vlachopoulos, Bradley Forbes

“…Underground mine pillars provide natural stability to the mine area, allowing safe operations for workers and machinery. …”
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Probiotics and functional nutrition products by Yu. О. Shulpekova

“…Used strains can have direct effect on permeability of intestinal barrier and immunodefence components: increase of immunoglobulin A production, modify activity of phagocytes and natural killers, cytokine production and signaling endocellular molecules. …”
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Mosquito Larvicidal Constituents from the Ethanol Extract of Inula racemosa Hook. f. Roots against Aedes albopictus by Qing He, Xin Chao Liu, Rui Qi Sun, Zhi Wei Deng, Shu Shan Du, Zhi Long Liu

“…The results indicated that the ethanol extract of I. racemosa and the four isolated constituents have potential for use in the control of A. albopictus larvae and could be useful in the search of newer, safer, and more effective natural compounds as larvicides.…”
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A review of university chatbots for student support: FAQs and beyond by Kevin Peyton, Saritha Unnikrishnan, Brian Mulligan

“…It initially describes chatbot examples related to student administration activities and teaching and learning, before describing in detail the recent evolution of Natural Language Processing and the more immediate arrival of state-of-the-art generative techniques. …”
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Potential of germanium-based compounds in coronavirus infection by NAROKHA VIOLETTA, NIZHENKOVSKA IRYNA, KUZNETSOVA OLENA

“…Germanium-based compounds have shown the ability to influence the replication of various DNA/RNA viruses, stimulate the body’s natural resistance, prevent the development of metabolic intoxication of various origin, increase the efficacy of vaccines, and prevent the development of excessive accumulation of reactive oxygen species, which plays a decisive role in the development of inflammatory response caused by a viral infection. …”
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Effect of laccase from Trametes versicolor on the oxidative stability of edible vegetable oils by G.K. Guerberoff, C.C. Camusso

“…The increasing demand of natural food from consumers has limited the use of traditional methods to control the oxidation of lipids, such as synthetic antioxidants and hydrogenation. …”
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Prediction of Soil Water Characteristic Curve Based on Soil Water Evaporation by Gaoliang Tao, Da Lei, Lisheng Liu, Yi Li, Xueliang Zhu

“…Soil water characteristic curves (SWCC) and soil water evaporation curves both represent the laws of water content variation in the natural state. Aiming to investigate the relationship between them further, Hunan sand with six dry densities were used in this study, and a series of experimental studies were performed. …”
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Antimicrobial Effects of Egyptian Local Chicory, Cichorium endivia subsp. pumilum by Ahmed M. Amer

“…The discovery of novel and more efficient antimicrobial agents from natural sources like plants is one of the most important ways through which the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant pathogens can be overcome. …”
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Potential Influence of Climate Change on the Acid-Sensitivity of High-Elevation Lakes in the Georgia Basin, British Columbia by Donna Strang, Julian Aherne

“…Ultimately, the determining factor will be whether enhanced base cation weathering is sufficient to buffer changes in natural and anthropogenic acidity. Mountain and high-elevation regions are considered early warning systems to climate change; as such, future monitoring is imperative to assess the potential ramifications of climate change on the hydrochemistry and acid-sensitivity of these surface waters.…”
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Seismic performance of bridge pier integrated by multiple steel pipes with directly-connected piles using soil-water coupled three-dimensional elasto-plastic finite element analysi... by Muhammad Mahmood Ul Hassan, Koichi Isobe, Yasumasa Soga, Yasuo Sawamura, Hiroki Sugiyama, Masatsugu Shinohara

“…However, as the shaking table tests utilized only a 2-Hz sine wave as the input, the impact of the relationship between the structure’s natural frequency and the input frequency on the seismic performance, and the response of the structure to irregular ground motion, need further investigation. …”
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