Improving Distributed Decision Making in Inventory Management: A Combined ABC-AHP Approach Supported by Teamwork by Ileana Gloria Pérez Vergara, Julián Andrés Arias Sánchez, Rocío Poveda-Bautista, Jose-Antonio Diego-Mas

“…The need of organizations to ensure service levels that impact on customer satisfaction has required the design of collaborative processes among stakeholders involved in inventory decision making. …”
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Strengthening mycology research through coordinated access to microbial culture collection strains by D. Smith, A. Kermode, G. Cafà, A. G. Buddie, T. S. Caine, M. J. Ryan

“…The WDCM Analyzer of Bio-resource Citations reports that 79,224 strains from 131 collections from 50 countries have been cited in 145,133 papers published in 50,307 journals from January, 1953 until April, 2020. These organisms have a multitude of uses, for example as sources of antibiotics, therapeutic drugs and other active agents. …”
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Effect of fungal, oomycete and nematode interactions on apple root development in replant soil by Emma L. Tilston, Gregory Deakin, Julie Bennett, Thomas Passey, Nicola Harrison, Felicidad Fernández, Xiangming Xu

“…Abstract Background Apple replant disease (ARD) is a phenomenon associated with poor tree establishment at sites where the same, or a closely-related species, has grown for at least 1–2 years. No single organism has been identified as the universal causal agent, but there is increasing evidence that multiple soil-borne plant pathogenic fungi and oomycetes form an ARD disease complex. …”
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Fine mapping and expression characteristics analysis of male-sterile gene BrRNR1 in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis) by Meihui Xue, Jiahang Li, Ruiqi Liao, Junjie Xu, Mingwei Zhou, Runpeng Yao, Zhiyong Liu, Hui Feng, Shengnan Huang

“…Expression analysis indicated that the BrRNR1 gene was ubiquitously expressed in all organs and was significantly decreased in flower bud and anther of mutant msm7 compared with the wild-type ‘FT’. …”
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Many-year Dynamics and Current Trends of the Pavlovsk Reservoir Area Water Chemical Composition Changes by Airat R. Hafizov, Salavat А. Valitov, Liliya A. Kamaletdinova, Razilya А. Nizamova, Ilgiz Z. Gaisin

“…Concentrations of Sr, Mn, petroleum products are shown to decrease along the length of the reservoir in the water; Increasing - Zn, Hg, phenols of organic substances; evenly distributed – Fetotal, Ptotal, Cu. …”

Enhanced degradation performance of Ag-loaded BiOI composite photocatalysts for water pollutant removal by Chen Cong, Wang Shenghong, Wang Jiayuan, Sun Changfei, Li Denghui, Zhai Zhenjie

“…This significantly improves the treatment efficiency of organic pollutants.In addition, excessive Ag particle compounding will reduce the light absorption performance of the sample, thereby reducing the catalytic degradation characteristics of the material. …”
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Degradation of PCDD/Fs from incineration of waste at low temperatures for resource utilization of fly ash by Songxuan CHEN, Hao WANG, Dongwei ZHANG, Mengxiao LAN, Zhi SUN, Yuping GAO, Hongbin CAO

“…This includes polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), which are among the most toxic substances to humans and other living organisms. Low-temperature degradation technology has broad prospects in engineering applications due to the advantages of low technical difficulty and operating costs. …”
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Hybridization of Aminoadamantanes with Cinnamic Acid Analogues and Elucidation of Their Antioxidant Profile by Maya Chochkova, Almira Georgieva, Tsvetelina Ilieva, Madlena Andreeva, Georgi Pramatarov, Nejc Petek, Petranka Petrova, Martin Štícha, Yavor Mitrev, Jurij Svete

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Celiac Artery Compression After a Spine Fracture, and Pericardium Rupture After Blunt Trauma: A Case Report from a Single Injury by Joongsuck Kim, Hyun Min Cho, Sung Hwan Kim, Seong Hoon Jung, Jeong Eun Sohn, Kwangmin Lee

“…Suspecting empyema, thoracotomy was performed at 3 weeks after admission, revealing organized hematoma without pus formation, as well as rupture of the pericardium, which was immediately sutured, and decortication was carried out. …”
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Water management for rice production: a key component of food security in East Africa by Denis Bwire, Hirotaka Saito, Roy C. Sidle, Moses Mugisha

“…Therefore, commitments of government sectors, NGOs, farmer-based organizations, and private sectors with clear policies are needed to enhance technology transfer, action research, farmer training, and innovation development. …”
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Rapid adsorption of selenium removal using iron manganese-based micro adsorbent by Sundus Saeed Qureshi, Sheeraz Ahmed Memon, Rafi-ul-Zaman, Nanik Ram, Sumbul Saeed, Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak, Rama Rao Karri

“…Abstract Selenium in wastewater is of particular concern due to its increasing concentration, high mobility in water, and toxicity to organisms; therefore, this study was carried out to determine the removal efficiency of selenium using iron and manganese-based bimetallic micro-composite adsorbents. …”
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Green and High Throughput Assay Using 96-Microwell Base to Determine Metformin Hydrochloride in the Tablet Dosage Form by Mohammed Alqarni, Atheer Alshehri, Bayan Almalki, Refah Althumali, Maram Alghamdi, Rawan Alqahtani, Safia G. Alotibi, Ali Alqarni, Adel H. Awad, Ibrahim A. Naguib

“…The use of the 96-microwell-plate method is superior to the existing method in terms of simplicity of the procedure, the low economic cost, and its consumption of low amounts of reagents and organic ethanol solvent, making it an environmentally friendly method. …”
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Woody species diversity, structure and community distribution along environmental gradients of Seqela Dry Afromontane forest in Northwestern Ethiopia. by Liyew Birhanu, Getaneh Moges, Nigussie Amsalu, Heiko Balzter

“…The CCA results showed that the variation of species distribution and plant community formation were significantly (P < 0.05) related to altitude, organic matter, aspect, slope and soil available phosphorus. …”
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Lipotoxicity and metabolic disorders at obesity by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya

“…It is possible to explain lipotoxicity phenomenon as follows: in conditions of insulin resistance glucose stops to be an energy source and is substituted by lipolysis, therefore a plenty of free fatty acids is formed, having potential of toxicity and realizing metabolic disorders in target organs: the liver, the pancreas, muscles. New data on pathogenesis of metabolic disorders at obesity assume changes in comprehension of therapeutic actions. …”
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Relationship between platelet distribution width and non-dipping pattern in children with essential hypertension by Ling Sun, Bo Wang, Daoping Yang, Wanping Zhou, Yunjia Tang, Xuan Li, Haitao Lv, Miao Hou

“…Abstract Background Hypertension has shown a trend of prevalence at younger ages, and the non-dipping pattern is associated with target organ damage in hypertension. However, few studies have yet investigated the clinical characteristics and risk factors of non-dipper status in essential hypertension children. …”
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Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis with Leptospirosis: A Rare but Devastating Complication by B. M. Munasinghe, A. G. Arambepola, N. Pathirage, U. P. M. Fernando, N. Subramaniam, S. Nimalan, T. Gajanthan

“…He died on day 15 despite escalating organ support. Conclusion. Leptospirosis is a common zoonotic disease in the tropics with significant morbidity and mortality. …”
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Anatomy, ploidy level, and essential oil composition of <i>Hyssopus officinalis</i> ʻNikitskiy Beliyʼ <i>in vitro</i> and <i>ex situ</i> by I. V. Bulavin, N. N. Ivanova, N. N. Miroshnichenko, N. M. Saplev, S. A. Feskov

“…The existing data on the structure of organs in vitro, genetic stability, and essential oil composition are limited for Hyssopus officinalis L., so this study was aimead at investigating these aspects under a short period of in vitro culturing.Materials and methods. …”
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Differential bone and vessel type formation at superior and dura periosteum during cranial bone defect repair by Yuankun Zhai, Zhuang Zhou, Xiaojie Xing, Mark Nuzzle, Xinping Zhang

“…Consistently, analyses of microvasculature show higher vessel density and better organized arterial-venous vessel network associated with a 10-fold more osteoblast clusters at dura periosteum as compared to superior periosteum. …”
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Cytokines and Metabolic Patterns in Pediatric Patients with Critical Illness by George Briassoulis, Shekhar Venkataraman, Ann Thompson

“…The aim of this prospective study was to determine whether the metabolic response to stress is related to the inflammatory interleukin-6 (IL-6), 10 (IL-10), and other stress mediators' responses and to assess their relationships with different feeding patterns, nutritional markers, the severity of illness as assessed by the Multiple Organ System Failure (MOSF), the Pediatric Risk of Mortality Score (PRISM), systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and mortality in critically ill children. …”
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Ultrasonographic detection of fetal sexing in nanny goat by Eman H. Lazim, Barra D. Al-Watar

“…The B mode of real-time scanner with 3.5-5 MHz transabdominal transducer was used to identify the fetal external genital organs and to evaluate the relative placement of genital tubercle (G.T.) within three different periods were the first period at 45-55 days of pregnancy, the second period at 55-56 days of pregnancy, and the third period at 65-75 days of pregnancy. …”
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