The analysis of the influence of the turbulence model selection on the parameters of interaction of a supersonic jet with an obstacle by R. A. Peshkov, A. S. Shmetkova, O. V. Ispravnikova, Ju. L. Suskina

“…A numerical simulation of the flow of a supersonic jet of air from a Laval nozzle onto a flat aluminum barrier located perpendicular to the axis of the jet is carried out. The ANSYS Fluent software package is used to analyze the effect of choosing a turbulence model on the distribution of the Mach number and pressure on the barrier. …”
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<i>Bacillus cabrialesii</i> subsp. <i>cabrialesii</i> Strain TE5: A Promising Biological Control Bacterium Against the Causal Agent of Spot Blotch in Wheat by Ixchel Campos-Avelar, Michelle Fabiela García Jaime, Pamela Helué Morales Sandoval, Fannie Isela Parra-Cota, Sergio de los Santos Villalobos

“…Taxonomical affiliation was carried out by using overall genome relatedness indexes (OGRIs) and the construction of a phylogenomic tree based on the whole genome. …”
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Job burnout and resilience among palliative care professionals in china: a qualitative study by Fang Tan, Yan Wu, Na Li, Chuan Zhang, Shan Chen, Lan Huang, Yang Chen, Jianjun Jiang, Qian Deng

“…Face-to-face interviews were carried out from September 2023-April 2024 in the palliative care ward of one of the top three hospitals in a province of China. …”
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Pre-examination and triage management of dental clinic in the general hospital during the normalization prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic (新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情常态化防控期间综合医院口腔门诊预检分诊管理... by XIONG Yanjie (熊雁洁), LIU Fang (刘芳), HUANG Zhouyan (黄周燕), WANG Chao (王超)

“…No suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients were appeared, and no emergency management plan was carried out in the dental clinic. Conclusion The management plan of pre-examination and triage management in dental clinic, based on epidemiological investigation and risk classification of dental treatment, was conducive to screening high-risk patients, and improve efficiency. …”
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Strategies for Customer Relationship Management Focused on Loyalty by J. Vasco, C. Guerra, F. Favicela, X. Granizo

“…A survey of customers of the company was carried out to investigate what they perceived were important factors influencing their relationship with the organization and determining efficient communication. …”
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Comparative safety of the sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kris Aubrey-Bassler, John-Michael Gamble, Jennifer R Donnan, Catherine A Grandy, Eugene Chibrikov, Carlo A Marra, Karissa Johnston, Michelle Swab, Jenna Hache, Daniel Curnew, Hai Nguyen

“…However, wide CIs for many comparisons suggest limited precision, and therefore clinically important adverse events cannot be ruled out. Dapagliflozin, appears to independently increase the risk of UTI, although the mechanism for this intraclass variation in risk is unclear.PROSPERO registration number CRD42016038715.…”
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Dysfunctional β-cell autophagy induces β-cell stress and enhances islet immunogenicity by Matthew C. Austin, Charanya Muralidharan, Saptarshi Roy, Justin J. Crowder, Jon D. Piganelli, Amelia K. Linnemann, Amelia K. Linnemann

“…Previously, we discovered that β-cell autophagy is impaired prior to the onset of T1D, implicating this pathway in T1D pathogenesis.AimsTo assess the role of autophagy in β-cell health and survival, and whether defects in autophagy render islets more immunogenic.MethodsWe knocked out the critical autophagy enzyme, ATG7, in the β-cells of mice (ATG7Δβ-cell) then monitored blood glucose, performed glucose tolerance tests, and evaluated bulk islet mRNA and protein. …”
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Fermi Unassociated Sources in the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey by Morgan Himes, Preshanth Jagannathan, Dale A. Frail, Frank Schinzel, Neeraj Gupta, S. A. Balashev, F. Combes, P. P. Deka, H.-R. Klöckner, E. Momjian, J. D. Wagenveld

“…Over 2000 γ -ray sources identified by the Large Area Telescope on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are considered unassociated, meaning that they have no known counterparts in any other frequency regime. We have carried out an image-based search for steep spectrum radio sources, with in-band spectral index < −1.4, within the error regions of Fermi unassociated sources using 1–1.4 GHz radio data from the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) data release. …”
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Assessment of toxic response of Lactuca sativa to compost extracted from agri-food waste by Diego Andr´es Zapata-Gonz´alez, Juan Manuel Trujillo-Gonz´alez, Marco Aurelio Torres-Mora, Daniel Gonz´alez-Santamaria, Raimundo Jim´enez-Ballesta

“…Conclusion: The compost produced stands out for its quality and efficiency, due to its low phytotoxicity, specific mixture of the materials and the processing method. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Asymptomatic Patients with SARS-CoV-2 in Zhejiang: An Imperceptible Source of Infection by Wei Dai, Xinmiao Chen, Xiaoting Xu, Zhefeng Leng, Wenwen Yu, Hui Lin, Huiying Li, Jie Lin, Zhangwei Qiu, Yuanrong Dai

“…This retrospective study was carried out on 22 asymptomatic patients and 234 symptomatic patients with COVID-19 who were hospitalized in Zhejiang Duodi Hospital from January 21 to March 16, 2020. …”
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Association between clinical-biological characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae and 28-day mortality in patients with bloodstream infection by Xiaofeng Yu, Yi Zhao, Xiao Sun, Jiahui Luan, Haiyan Wang, Tianyu Sun, Tongtong Lin, Xia Zhou, Wei Yang, Ziguang Deng, Bo Liu, Hongyun Cao

“…Additionally, relevant bioinformatics analyses, such as phylogenetic analysis and assessment of resistance and virulence genes, were carried out. Logistic regression modeling was employed to evaluate the risk factors associated with 28-day mortality in patients with KP BSI, considering both host characteristics and the characteristics of the causative Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) isolates. …”
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Achieving equiaxed and lamellar TiAl alloys via cold-cathode electron beam additive manufacturing with dual-wire synergistic control by Yilei Shi, Shuili Gong, Haiying Xu, Wei Chen, Zhuang Wang, Guang Yang, Xin Liu, Bojin Qi

“…Furthermore, a detailed comparison between Ti48Al alloy and Ti48Al1Mo0.45Zr0.3Si alloy was carried out, focusing on aspects such as grain morphology, chemical composition homogeneity, phase constitution, and mechanical properties. …”
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Otodectes cynotis (Acari: Psoroptidae) infestations in Southern pudus (Pudu puda): In situ and ex situ data of an unexpected host-parasite record by Caroline Wilhelm, Edwin Kniha, Pamela Muñoz, Ángelo Espinoza, Laura Platner, Saskia Dreyer, Lisa Grund, Zoë Tess Lara Lindhorst, Ulrich Gärtner, Julia Walochnik, Anja Taubert, Dominik Fischer, Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck, Carlos Hermosilla, David Ebmer

“…At the Zoo Wuppertal, ear mites were detected in 15 pudus between 2015 and 2024, however, a definite species identification (O. cynotis) was carried out in 4 animals within the current study between 2023 and 2024. …”
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Microinvasive interventions in the management of proximal caries lesions in primary and permanent teeth- systematic review and meta-analysis by Robina Tasleem, Saleh Ali Alqahtani, Naif Abogazalah, Hussain Almubarak, Ammara Riaz, Sarosh Sher Ali, Zeeshan Allana

“…The quality of evidence assessed by GRADEpro came out to be moderate. Conclusion This review concludes that microinvasive techniques are superior to noninvasive interventions for the treatment of non-cavitated proximal lesions in both primary and permanent dentition. …”
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Genomic strategies to facilitate breeding for increased β-Glucan content in oat (Avena sativa L.) by Sumandeep Kaur Bazzer, Guilherme Oliveira, Jason D. Fiedler, Raja Sekhar Nandety, Jean-Luc Jannink, Melanie Caffe

“…Comparison based on physical position showed that 12 out of 22 loci coincided with previously identified β-glucan QTLs, and three loci are in the vicinity of cellulose synthesis genes, Cellulose synthase-like (Csl). …”
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Hypofractionated partial breast irradiation after breast-conserving surgery for patients with early stage breast cancer in China Mainland: a single-arm prospective trial by Xiaomeng Zhang, Xiaofang Wang, Zhuohua Xu, Yajuan Chu, Xingxing Chen, Li Zhang, Jin Meng, Wei Shi, Zhaozhi Yang, Xin Mei, Xiaoli Yu, Zhen Zhang, Xiaomao Guo, Miao Mo, Guangyu Liu, Jiong Wu, Zhimin Shao, Jinli Ma

“…From Jan of 2015 to July of 2018, 208 out of 222 patients recruited were evaluable and included in final analysis. …”
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A novel minimally invasive neurosurgical cranial fixation device for improved accuracy of intraventricular catheter placement: an experimental animal study by Atai Daniel, Matan Coronel, Segev Peer, Ben Grinshpan, Soner Duru, Jose L. Peiro, James L. Leach, Elena Abellán, Carolyn M. Doerning, David Zarrouk, Francesco T. Mangano

“…The cranial fixation device base demonstrated significant strength in withstanding an average pull-out force of 4.18kgf (STD $$\:\pm\:$$ 0.72, N = 5) without detachment from the subject’s skull for all 5 devices included in this test. …”
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Improving the diagnostic accuracy of referrals for papilloedema (DIPP) study: protocol for a mixed-methods study by Luke Bennetto, Beth Stuart, Jonathan Benger, Matthew J Ridd, Helen Bolton, William Hollingworth, Michael Bowen, Amar Shah, Samuel William David Merriel, Alyson Huntley, Victoria Wilson, Maria Theresa Redaniel, Paul Roy, Denize Atan, Frank Moore, Olivia Skrobot, Mary-Ann Sherratt, Marcia Lucraft, Christina Stokes

“…We will create a range of educational materials and a website designed for health professionals and patients to support the national roll-out and implementation of DIPP study guidelines.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval was granted by the University of Bristol Faculty of Health Sciences Ethics committee (FREC reference: 12457) and Health Research Authority (IRAS no.: 320395). …”
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Modulation strategy and effect of metal-support interaction over catalysts for carbon dioxide methanation by Shuaishuai Lyu, Dejian Zhao, Hao Zhang, Hongwei Li, Fuli Wen, Qiuming Zhou, Rongjun Zhang, Yu Wu, Chaopeng Hou, Guofu Xia, Run Xu, Xingang Li

“…Through quantitative analysis, we will point out changing chemical composition of catalyst support is the most efficient method to enhance the catalytic performance, and the primary goal of catalyst design is the modulation of electron transfer between metal particles and the support. …”
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Segmentation of Dynamic Total-Body [18F]-FDG PET Images Using Unsupervised Clustering by Maria K. Jaakkola, Maria Rantala, Anna Jalo, Teemu Saari, Jaakko Hentilä, Jatta S. Helin, Tuuli A. Nissinen, Olli Eskola, Johan Rajander, Kirsi A. Virtanen, Jarna C. Hannukainen, Francisco López-Picón, Riku Klén

“…These criteria filtered out most of the commonly used approaches, leaving only two clustering methods, k-means and Gaussian mixture model (GMM), for further analyses. …”
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