Anthocyanin Retention of Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) Juice Subjected to Different Nanofiltration Conditions by Kong Ah-Hen, Marcia Costa, Susan Poo, Roberto Lemus-Mondaca

“…Total anthocyanin content increased to values between 237 and 287 mg L−1 from original concentration of 82 to 97 mg L−1 in feed solution. …”
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The Current Status of Atmospheric Micro/Nanoplastics Research: Characterization, Analytical Methods, Fate, and Human Health Risk by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Chien-Hsing Wu, Nicholas Kiprotich Cheruiyot, Justus Kavita Mutuku, Bo-Wun Huang, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…In response, criteria for defining plastic debris beyond size characterization have been proposed to include polymeric composition, solubility, physical state, shape, color, and origin. There are also emerging techniques, such as Py-GC/MS, which can measure smaller particles in the nanoscale range, and TGA-FTIR-GC/MS, which can accurately identify more polymers. …”
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Regeneration in the absence of canonical neoblasts in an early branching flatworm by Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Chew Chai, Andrei Rozanski, Gargi Purandare, Fruzsina Ficze, Athanasia Mizi, Bo Wang, Jochen C. Rink

“…Although the presence of neoblast-like cells and whole-body regeneration in other animals has led to the idea that these features may represent the ancestral metazoan state, the evolutionary origin of both remains unclear. Here we show that the catenulid Stenostomum brevipharyngium, a member of the earliest-branching flatworm lineage, lacks conventional neoblasts despite being capable of whole-body regeneration and asexual reproduction. …”
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Genetic Diversity and Population Differentiation of the Causal Agent of Citrus Black Spot in Brazil by Ester Wickert, Antonio de Goes, Andressa de Souza, Eliana Gertrudes de Macedo Lemos

“…The same haplotypes were sampled in different populations from the same and different orange varieties and from similar and different origins. If new and pathogenic fungi would become resistant to fungicides, the observed genetic structure could rapidly spread this new form from one population to others.…”
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Acromegaly: Role of Surgery in the Therapeutic Armamentarium by Gerardo Guinto, Miguel Abdo, Erick Zepeda, Norma Aréchiga, Moisés Mercado

“…Patients may also present arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, colonic polyps, cardiomegaly, neurological and endocrine changes secondary to the presence of a GH-secreting tumor in pituitary or extrapituitary origin, or eutopic hypothalamic GHRH hypersecretion and peripheral GHRH hypersecretion. …”
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A Survey on Event Tracking in Social Media Data Streams by Zixuan Han, Leilei Shi, Lu Liu, Liang Jiang, Jiawei Fang, Fanyuan Lin, Jinjuan Zhang, John Panneerselvam, Nick Antonopoulos

“…As such, it is imperative to conduct research on social events and patterns from the perspectives of conventional sociology to optimize services that originate from social networks. Event tracking in social networks finds various applications, such as network security and societal governance, which involves analyzing data generated by user groups on social networks in real time. …”
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Cost-reduction strategy to culture patient derived bladder tumor organoids by Mahsa Mollapour Sisakht, Fatemeh Gholizadeh, Shirin Hekmatirad, Tokameh Mahmoudi, Saeed Montazeri, Laleh Sharifi, Hamed Daemi, Shahla Romal, Mohammad Hosein Yazdi, Mohammad Ali Faramarzi, Ahmad Reza Shahverdi, Amir Ali Hamidieh

“…Nevertheless, the majority of patient-derived organoids (PDOs) are currently being cultured in the basement membrane matrices (BMMs), which are constrained by xenogeneic origin, batch-to-batch variability, cost, and complexity. …”
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Colonization of a Central Venous Catheter by the Hyaline Fungus Fusarium solani Species Complex: A Case Report and SEM Imaging by Alberto Colombo, Giuseppe Maccari, Terenzio Congiu, Petra Basso, Andreina Baj, Antonio Toniolo

“…The boy was readmitted to the Pediatric Ward for intermittent fever of unknown origin. Results of blood cultures drawn from peripheral venous sites or through the CVC were compared. …”
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Proton response and neutron spectrum unfolding by solution-grown trans-stilbene scintillator by Nguyen Duy Quang, H. J. Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Sinchul Kang, Phan Quoc Vuong, Phan Bao Quoc Hieu, Nguyen Kien Cuong, Y. S. Yoon, Uk-Won Nam

“…The unfolding was performed using the iterative Bayesian method without any constraints, smoothness, or assumption of prior knowledge of original spectra. For the first time, we achieved one of the best unfolding results for both Cf-252 and AmBe spectra. …”
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Destruction of Toluene by the Combination of High Frequency Discharge Electrodeless Lamp and Manganese Oxide-Impregnated Granular Activated Carbon Catalyst by Jianhui Xu, Chaolin Li, Qian Zhang, Di He, Peng Liu, Yong Ren

“…Active oxygen and hydroxyl radicals generated from HFDEL/MnO2-impregnated GAC system played a key role in the decomposition of toluene process and the intermediates formed by photolysis are more prone to be mineralized by the subsequent MnO2-impregnated GAC catalyst compared to the original toluene, resulting in synergistic mineralization of toluene by HFDEL/MnO2-impregnated GAC system. …”
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THE EFFECT OF CRITICAL ELECTRIC FIELDS ON THE ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF BILAYER ARMCHAIR GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS by Lam Thuy Duong Nguyen, Thi Kim Quyen Nguyen, Nguyen Huu Hanh Pham, Dang Khoa Le, Van Chinh Ngo, Thi Kim Loan Phan, Anh Huy Huynh, Thanh Tra Vu

“…At the critical values of this electric field, distortions of energy dispersion in subbands and the formation of new electronic excitation channels occur strongly. These originate from low-lying energies near the Fermi level and move away from the zero-point with the increment of the electric field. …”
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The quest for environmental analytical microbiology: absolute quantitative microbiome using cellular internal standards by Chunxiao Wang, Yu Yang, Xiaoqing Xu, Dou Wang, Xianghui Shi, Lei Liu, Yu Deng, Liguan Li, Tong Zhang

“…By critically comparing the strengths and limitations of AQ methods, we advocate the use of cellular internal standard-based high-throughput sequencing as an appropriate AQ approach for studying environmental microbiome originated from samples of complex matrices and high heterogeneity. …”
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A Multilayer Model Predictive Control Methodology Applied to a Biomass Supply Chain Operational Level by Tatiana M. Pinho, João Paulo Coelho, Germano Veiga, A. Paulo Moreira, José Boaventura-Cunha

“…The methodology is composed of two interconnected levels that closely monitor the system state update, in the operational level, and delineate a new routing and scheduling plan in case of an expected deviation from the original one. By applying this approach to an experimental case study, the concept of the proposed methodology was proven. …”
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An Improved Extrapolation Scheme for Truncated CT Data Using 2D Fourier-Based Helgason-Ludwig Consistency Conditions by Yan Xia, Martin Berger, Sebastian Bauer, Shiyang Hu, Andre Aichert, Andreas Maier

“…First, we theoretically derive a 2D Fourier representation of the HL consistency conditions from their original formulation (projection moment theorem), for both parallel-beam and fan-beam imaging geometry. …”
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Vascular Transdifferentiation in the CNS: A Focus on Neural and Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cells by Sophie Guelfi, Hugues Duffau, Luc Bauchet, Bernard Rothhut, Jean-Philippe Hugnot

“…These results could lead to new directions for designing original therapeutic approaches against GBM neovascularization but this specific reprogramming requires further molecular investigations. …”
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Study of the Influence of Thermal Annealing of Ga-Doped ZnO Thin Films on NO₂ Sensing at ppb Level by Benjamin Paret, Richard Monflier, Philippe Menini, Thierry Camps, Yohann Thimont, Antoine Barnabé, Lionel Presmanes

“…It is proposed that the origin of the NO₂ maximum sensitivity for films annealed at 600 °C is the consequence of a specific annihilation of point defects resulting in an increase in the relative concentration of oxygen vacancies, which improves selectivity toward NO₂.…”
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p-Norm Broad Learning for Negative Emotion Classification in Social Networks by Guanghao Chen, Sancheng Peng, Rong Zeng, Zhongwang Hu, Lihong Cao, Yongmei Zhou, Zhouhao Ouyang, Xiangyu Nie

“…Then, we employ the fine-tuned RoBERTa to extract features of original texts and generate sentence vectors. Secondly, we adopt p-BL to construct a classifier and then predict negative emotions of texts using the classifier. …”
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Phenotypic and genotypic features of the full-term newborns with delayed conjugation jaundices in relation to gender of the child by O. K. Botvin'yev, A. I. Kolotilina, I. N. Razumovskaya, A. V. Yeremeyeva

“…Assessment of these diseases shows, that state of girls was more severe.Conclusions. The original study allows to conclude, that children with delayed conjugation jaundice in neonatal period belong to risk group for development of complications at action of harmful external factors over the liver.…”
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A Fault Diagnosis Method for Rolling Bearings Based on Feature Fusion of Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis and Alpha Stable Distribution by Qing Xiong, Weihua Zhang, Tianwei Lu, Guiming Mei, Shulin Liang

“…Secondly, Kernel Principle Component Analysis (KPCA) was used to achieve dimensionality reduction fusion of the combination of original features to gain the Kernel Principle Component Fusion Features (KPCFFs). …”
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High efficiency extractions of V, Cr, Ti, Fe and Mn from vanadium slag by microwave heating by Tan B., Wu S., Wang L.-J., Chou K.-C.

“…In the present work, chlorination method was adopted to keep the valence state of each element in original state. In order to speed up the diffusion of elements and reduce volatility of molten salt, microwave heating was examined in the current paper. …”
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