Halloysite nanotubes as delivery mechanism for feather protein-based multi-surfactant systems in crude oil dispersion application by Yaw Kwakye Adofo, Emmanuel Nyankson, Benjamin Agyei-Tuffour, Selassie Gbogbo, Christian Amoako, Joseph Arko Morgan, Gloria Pokuaa Manu, Grace Karikari Arkorful

“…Chicken feather protein (CFP), and lecithin (L), Tween 80 (T), and DOSS (D) surfactant systems were loaded onto halloysite nanotubes (HNTs), a natural clay aluminosilicate product to form particulate dispersants at different surfactant concentrations and characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis and scanning electron microscopy coupled with EDS. …”
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Feasibility assessment of a pharmaco-kinetic behavior based yield model of salivary cotinine among tobacco users by E.C. Hensel, R.J. Robinson

“…Methods: A secondary analysis was conducted using puff topography and salivary cotinine biomarker data from a prior two arm, two period cross-over study conducted in the natural environment over 17 days which enrolled 55 Juul electronic cigarette users. …”
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Lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination by Jiaying LIN, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, numerous “face-swapping” videos have emerged in social networks, one of the representatives is the lip forgery with speakers.While making life more entertaining for the public, it poses a significant crisis for personal privacy and property security in cyberspace.Currently, under non-destructive conditions, most of the lip forgery detection methods achieve good performance.However, the compression operations are widely used in practice especially in social media platforms, face recognition and other scenarios.While saving pixel and time redundancy, the compression operations affect the video quality and destroy the coherent integrity of pixel-to-pixel and frame-to-frame in the spatial domain, and then the degradation of its detection performance and even misjudgment of the real video will be caused.When the information in the spatial domain cannot provide sufficiently effective features, the information in the frequency domain naturally becomes a priority research object because it can resist compression interference.Aiming at this problem, the advantages of frequency information in image structure and gradient feedback were analyzed.Then the lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination was proposed, which effectively utilized the corresponding characteristics of information in spatial and frequency domains.For lip features in the spatial domain, an adaptive extraction network and a light-weight attention module were designed.For frequency features in the frequency domain, separate extraction and fusion modules for different components were designed.Subsequently, by conducting a weighted fusion of lip features in spatial domain and frequency features in frequency domain, more texture information was preserved.In addition, fine-grained constraints were designed during the training to separate the inter-class distance of real and fake lip features while closing the intra-class distance.Experimental results show that, benefiting from the frequency information, the proposed method can enhance the detection accuracy under compression situation with certain transferability.On the other hand, in the ablation study conducted on the core modules, the results verify the effectiveness of the frequency component for anti-compression and the constraint of the dual loss function in training.…”
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SUGT1 is a prognostic biomarker and is associated with immune infiltrates in ovarian cancer by Linyan Ge, Xiu Liu, Lingyan Zhang, Jiaren Zhang, Guanghui Song

“…Besides, ssGSEA demonstrated a positive correlation between SUGT1 expression and the abundance of T central memory cells, natural killer cells, and T gamma delta cells, although it showed a negative association with activated dendritic cells, cytotoxic cells, T cells, and T helper 1 cells. …”
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Physicochemical Profile of Canastra Cheese Inoculated with Starter Cultures of <i>Kluyveromyces lactis</i> and <i>Torulaspora delbrueckii</i> by Adriele do Amor Divino Silva, Dérica Gonçalves Tavares, Rafaela Pereira Andrade, Tamara Leite dos Santos, Whasley Ferreira Duarte

“…Canastra cheese was produced under three different conditions: (1) cheese with “Pingo” (natural starter), (2) cheese with “Pingo” + yeast mixed culture, and (3) cheese with only mixed yeast culture. …”
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Gene Mining and Genetic Effect Analysis Reveal Novel Loci, <i>TaZn-2DS</i> Associated with Zinc Content in Wheat Grain by Zhuangzhuang Hong, Zhankui Zeng, Jiaojiao Li, Xuefang Yan, Junqiao Song, Qunxiang Yan, Qiong Li, Yue Zhao, Chang Liu, Xueyan Jing, Chunping Wang

“…A high-throughput competitive allele specific PCR (KASP) marker was developed, which verified the wheat natural population (NA population). <i>QGZn.haust-AH-2D</i> was fine mapped into a narrow region named <i>TaZn-2DS</i> between <i>KAZn-2D-3</i> and <i>1111273</i> at a physical distance of 2.70 Mb, and the genetic effect of <i>TaZn-2DS</i> was 11.43%. …”
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Collection of microorganisms of ICG SB RAS as a genetic resource for biotechnology by A. V. Bryanskaya, Y. E. Uvarova, A. S. Rozanov, N. M. Slynko, V. N. Shlyakhtun, K. V. Starostin, E. A. Demidov, E. V. Lazareva, O. P. Taran, S. E. Peltek

“…Thirty strains of microorganisms of the collection were isolated by employees of the FRC ICG SB RAS from extreme natural ecosystems, the key molecular-genetic and phenotypic characteristics were described using modern methods of molecular biology and mass-spectrometry. …”
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Predicting of Temporal-Spatial Sand Dunes Transition Caused by Marine Storms (Case Study: The Coast of Makran, Iran) by Soleiman PirouzZadeh, Mahmood Khosravi, Samad Fotohi

“…Sands of marine origin are available on the beach and away from the sea of dunes in addition of marine origin, Predictive models for planning sustainable use of land use and land cover in a country like Iran that land use is changing rapidly, there is an urgent need; To detect and predict changes in land cover changes overview to better manage natural resources and protect marginal lands beaches and is very effective long-term policy measures. …”
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PECULIARITIES OF THE LATENT PERIOD OF PRUNUS MONGOLICA MAXIM. AND P. PEDUNCULATA (PALL.) MAXIM. by K. G. Tkachenko

“…The fruits of the two wild almond species P. mongolica and P. pedunculata harvested in their natural habitats  (70 km to the north-east from the city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia  Province, China) were full-fledged and plump. …”
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Innovación y competitividad del sistema lechero en Valles Centrales de Querétaro. Hacia un modelo de gobernanza territorial by Javier Delgadillo Macías, Elizabeth Montaño Becerril

“…Como resultado se encontró que la principal consecuencia de las interacciones locales en torno a la lechería en Querétaro responde a las estrategias del nivel global más que a una visión de desarrollo regional, no obstante poseer este territorio vocación cultural, natural y manifestarse como un medio innovador. La limitación principal se debió a la insuficiente información sobre la organización interna de las grandes empresas del conglomerado estudiado. …”
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Pengaruh Kombinasi Metformin dan Ekstrak Kunyit terhadap Kadar High Density Lipoprotein, Interleukin-6 dan Tumor Necrosis Factor-a by Fathia Kesuma Dinanti, Sri Priyantini Mulyani, Chodidjah - -

“…Turmeric is one of the natural ingredients with antioxidant, anti-cholesterol, and anti-inflammatory properties through its active substance, curcumin. …”
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Surface Treatment of Rammed Earth Heritage Sites Using MICP Technology: An Investigation of Rainwater Erosion Resistance via Indoor Experiments and In Situ Testing by Liang Liu, Yun Zhang, Wanting Chen, Haiying Cao, Lianjun Guo, Lingling Zheng, Tianli Li, Rong Shu, Dongdong Li

“…Rammed earth, a commonly used building material in ancient times, differs from natural sedimentary layers in that it is more compact. …”
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Error-related potentials during multitasking involving sensorimotor control: an ERP and offline decoding study for brain-computer interface by Masaki Yasuhara, Isao Nambu

“…Leveraging ErrPs to improve the accuracy of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), utilizing the brain's natural error-detection processes to enhance system performance, has been proposed. …”
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Impacts of tropical climate on outdoor treatment of anaerobically digested sanitary wastewater using native microalgae by Gabriela Santos Cardozo, Graziele Ruas, Fabiana Alves Fiore, Gustavo Henrique Ribeiro Silva

“…The cultivation took place in an outdoor area with constant aeration and under natural climatic conditions during two seasons: summer and winter. …”
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Effect of Cocoa (<i>Theobroma cacao</i>) Plantation Types on the Distribution of Anuran Communities in Ore, Ondo State, Nigeria by AB Onadeko

“…Farmers are encouraged to engage in intercropping (polyculture) especially with food and economic crops in a biodiversity friendly manner which could have similar characteristics of a natural ecosystem, thereby enhancing the  biological diversity of agro-ecosystems. © JASEM Keywords: Anuran, cocoa, pesticides, intercropped, biological diversity and agro-ecosystems …”
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Phytochemistry and pharmacological advances of Ascophyllum nodosum in the management of human diseases: A comprehensive review by Brijesh Singh Chauhan, Yash Pal Singh

“…Background: Ascophyllum nodosum, a brown alga, is a potential natural remedy with a diverse application for disease prevention and therapeutic support. …”
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Study of economically valuable traits and technological properties in maize from the Zea mays L. collection of VIR by M. R. Gonikova, V. I. Khoreva, V. G. Goldshtein, L. P. Nosovskaya, L. V. Adikaeva, E. B. Khatefov

“…A search for economically valuable sources of maize starch, useful byproducts of its processing, and natural modification of starch for deep processing is vital.Materials and methods. …”
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Optimization of the extraction methods and evaluation of the hypoglycemic effect of Adhatoda Zeylanica extracts on artificially induced diabetic mice by Md Fahim Ahmed, Khalid Hasan Raby, Nishat Tasnim, Md Tariful Islam, Mahbub Chowdhury, Zarin Tasnim Juthi, Md Ashik Mia, Lubna Jahan, A.K.M. Zakir Hossain, Shoeb Ahmed

“…In contrast, plant-derived natural antidiabetic bioactive compounds typically exhibit lower toxicity and fewer side effects and have been reported to aid effectively in diabetes management. …”
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Anti-phenolic glycolipid antibodies in Mycobacterium bovis infected cattle by Zijie Zhou, Anouk van Hooij, J. Hessel M. van Dijk, Nina Musch, Louise Pierneef, Hamza Khalid, Kees Franken, Thomas Holder, Neil Watt, Anita L. Michel, Jeroen D.C. Codée, Martin Vordermeier, Paul L.A.M. Corstjens, Elisabeth M.D.L. van der Heijden, Jayne C. Hope, Annemieke Geluk

“…In this study, we therefore investigated whether antibodies against M. bovis PGL similarly represent a useful biomarker for M. bovis infection in cattle.Comparing sera from naturally M. bovis-infected and the single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin test (SICCT)-negative cattle, we assessed the potential of M. bovis PGL antibodies to identify this mycobacterial infection. …”
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Isolation of cellulolytic bacteria, including actinomycetes, from coffee exocarps in coffee-producing areas in Vietnam by Han B. Bui

“…Therefore, using microorganisms to manufacture natural compost from coffee exocarps is considered a useful and environmentally sound alternative. …”
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