The biodegradation of low-density polyethylene by Bacillus species by Felicia E. Uwakwe, Tobias I.N. Ezejiofor, Ernest A.A. Anyalogbu, Toochukwu E. Ogbulie

“…The ability of the microbial isolates to degrade polyethylene (table water sachets) was determined using microbial growth measurement in liquid medium (Optical Density (OD600)), disappearance and introduction of functional groups (Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and weight loss analysis measured after sixty (60) days of incubation in mineral salt vitamin media. …”
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<i>Macrostomum lignano</i> as a model to study the genetics and genomics of parasitic flatworms by K. V. Ustyantsev, V. Yu. Vavilova, A. G. Blinov, E. V. Berezikov

“…M. lignano has a number of convenient biological and experimental properties, such as fast reproduction, easy and non-expensive laboratory culturing, optical body transparency, obligatory sexual reproduction, annotated genome and transcriptome assemblies, and the availability of modern molecular methods, including transgenesis, gene knockdown by RNA interference, and in situ hybridization. …”
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Coats’ disease in adulthood with preserved vision after intravitreal aflibercept injection combined with laser photocoagulation : a case report by Safaa Abatli, Sameeha Ziad Shweiki

“…Inferotemporal telangiectasia, sausage-like blood vessels with perivascular sheathing in the peripheral fundus, extensive exudate involving the macula, severe macular edema, and localized inferotemporal exudative retinal detachment were observed upon examination of the posterior segment of her left eye. Following this, optical coherence tomography (OCT) identified subretinal exudate, intraretinal and subretinal fluid. …”
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In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization of a Dual-Function Green Fluorescent Protein–HSV1-Thymidine Kinase Reporter Gene Driven by the Human Elongation Factor 1α Promoter by Gary D. Luker, Kathryn E. Luker, Vijay Sharma, Christina M. Pica, Julie L. Dahlheimer, Joe A. Ocheskey, Timothy J. Fahrner, Jeffrey Milbrandt, David Piwnica-Worms

“…These data extend previous reports by showing that a human promoter can be detected in vitro and in vivo with a dual-function reporter exploiting optical and radiotracer techniques.…”
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Sulfone-modified chitosan as selective adsorbent for the extraction of toxic Hg(II) metal ions by Youssef O Al-Ghamdi, Khalid A Alamry, Mahmoud A Hussein, Hadi M Marwani, Abdullah M Asiri

“…More particularly, the efficiency of sulfone-modified chitosan/5–20 derivatives for Hg(II), Pb(II), Ni(II), Al(III), Sr(II), Cr(III), Fe(III), Zn(II), and Mn(II) detection and adsorption was also investigated using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry. The sulfone-modified chitosan/5 derivative exhibited the highest adsorption efficiency. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Retinal Microvascular Perfusion and Novel Biomarkers of the Treatment Response in Diabetic Macular Edema by Young Gun Park, Young-Hoon Park

“…We aimed to assess the changes of retinal microvascular parameters using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) between diabetes macular edema (DME) and controls. …”
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Microperimetric Assessment after Epiretinal Membrane Surgery: 4-Year Follow-Up by Marco Dal Vecchio, Carlo Lavia, Marco Nassisi, Federico M. Grignolo, Antonio M. Fea

“…Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central retinal thickness (CRT) using a spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) were also performed. …”
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Novel surgical technique for macular holes with basal diameter >1000 μ by Debdulal Chakraborty, Soumen Mondal, Sabyasachi Sengupta, Subhendu Boral, Arnab Das

“…Visual acuity (VA) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT) assessments were performed at baseline, week 1 after surgery and at postoperative months 1, 3, 6, and 12. …”
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Diffuse Reflectance Spectrophotometers Based on C12880MA and C11708MA Mini-Spectrometers Hamamatsu by V. A. Firago, N. V. Levkovich, K. I. Shuliko

“…They arise due to focusing by the concave diffraction grating of a part of the radiation scattered by it into zero order.Approbation of developed portable spectrophotometers based on Hamamatsu mini-spectrometers indicates the possibility of their use in portable spectrophotometric equipment and devices for spectral control of optical properties of scattering materials. The described calibration technique allows you to determine the range of the spectrum, in which the distortions of the recorded spectra are minimal. …”
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Goniopolarimetric Properties of Typical Satellite Material Surfaces: Intercomparison with Semi-Empirical pBRDF Modeled Results by Min Yang, Hongxia Mao, Jun Wu, Chong Zheng, Li Wang

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Temporal and spatial pattern of DNA damage in neurons following spinal cord Injury in mice by Elle EM Scheijen, Naomi Veeningen, Sam Duwé, Anna Ivanova, Jana Van Broeckhoven, Sven Hendrix, David M Wilson

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Detection of Phage’s Lytic Activity Against Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Using a High-Throughput Microbroth Growth Inhibition Assay by Paschalis Paranos, Spyros Pournaras, Joseph Meletiadis

“…Methods The host range of 11 K. pneumoniae-specific phages against 8 non-repetitive well-characterized CRKP isolates was assessed with the agar overlay method and a microbroth assay by monitoring optical density (OD) at 630 nm for 24 h at different phage concentrations (5 × 109–5 × 103 PFU/ml) and two bacterial inocula (5 × 106 and 5 × 108 CFU/ml). …”
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Effects of Homogeneous Doping on Electron–Phonon Coupling in SrTiO₃ by Minwoo Park, Suk Bum Chung

“…However, recent experimental reports have set the pairing gap to the critical temperature (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>T</mi><mi>c</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>) ratio at the BCS value for superconductivity in Nb-doped STO, even though the adiabaticity condition the BCS pairing requires is satisfied over the entire superconducting dome only by the lowest branch of optical phonons. In spite of the strong implications these reports have on specifying the pairing glue, they have not proved sufficient in explaining the magnitude of the optimal doping. …”
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Micro to Nanolevel Stabilization of Expansive Clay Using Agro-Wastes by Mehmood Munawar, Ammad H. Khan, Zia U. Rehman, Abdur Rahim, Mubashir Aziz, Sultan Almuaythir, Bothaina S. I. A. El Kheir, Farhan Haider

“…The chemical characterization of C and its blends were conducted through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and optical microscopic tests. The outcome of this study depicted that the cost ratio for the optimized composite, i.e., (1.2% NS-9% RHA)/(9% RHA) is 1.22 whereas stiffness ratio MR (NS-RHA)/MR(RHA) and Es (NS-RHA)/Es(RHA) and strength ratio UCT(NS-RHA)/UCT(RHA) and CBR(NS-RHA)/CBR(RHA) were found to be 2.0, 1.64, 2.17, and 2.82, respectively. …”
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Advances in the Research on Brown Carbon Aerosols: Its Concentrations, Radiative Forcing, and Effects on Climate by Shuai Li, Hua Zhang, Zhili Wang, Yonghang Chen

“…BrC heating decreases precipitation on a global scale, particularly in tropical regions with high convective and precipitation intensity, but different in some regions. (3) Uncertain optical properties of BrC, mixing ratio of radiation-absorbing aerosols in snow, snow grain size and snow coverage lead to higher uncertainties and lower confidence in the simulated distribution and radiative forcing of BrC in snow than BC. …”
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The Limited Impact of Running Performance on Football Success in the Turkish Super League by Spyridon Plakias, Sotiris Tasoulis, Angelos E. Kyranoudis, Christos Kokkotis, Serafeim Moustakidis

“…Utilizing a dataset from the 2021–2022 season provided by InStat Fitness, an optical tracking technology platform certified by FIFA, the analysis included 185 matches after adjusting for matches with red card incidents. …”
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Galaxy evolution in the post-merger regime. III -- The triggering of active galactic nuclei peaks immediately after coalescence by Sara Ellison, Leonardo Ferreira, Robert Bickley, Tess Grindlay, Samir Salim, Shoshannah Byrne-Mamahit, Shobita Satyapal, David R. Patton, Jillian M. Scudder

“…The Multi-Model Merger Identifier (MUMMI) machine vision pipeline has been demonstrated to provide reliable predictions of time post-merger (T_PM) for galaxies selected from the Ultraviolet Near Infrared and Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) up to T_PM=1.76 Gyr after coalescence. …”
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An Energy Modulation Interrogation Technique for Monitoring the Adhesive Joint Integrity Using the Full Spectral Response of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors by Chow-Shing Shin, Tzu-Chieh Lin, Shun-Hsuan Huang

“…An energy modulation interrogation technique is proposed using a pair of tunable optical filters. Changes in the full FBG spectral responses are modulated by the filters and converted into a conveniently measurable voltage output by photodiodes. …”
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In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Findings in Corneal Stromal Dystrophies by Süleyman Okudan, Emine Tınkır Kayıtmazbatır, Ayşe Bozkurt Oflaz, Banu Bozkurt

“…IVCM was performed using the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph 3, Rostock Cornea Module (Heidelberg Engineering, Germany) and anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) imaging was performed using the Spectralis OCT (Heidelberg Engineering, Germany). …”
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Oxygen-modulated photoresponse in nickel oxide thin films for wide band gap photodetector application by Swati Suman, Anupama Behra, Parasuraman Swaminathan

“…Different ratios of oxygen to argon (10/45, 15/45, and 20/45) during sputtering are investigated, and the effect of oxygen concentration on the optical properties of the NiO film is studied, which helps in modulating the photoresponse of the developed detector. …”
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