Identification and expression analysis of the ZF-HD gene family in castor by XU Xingyuan, HUANG Fenglan, ZHANG Chunlan, ZHU Mengyang, CUI Zhiyu, LIU Peng

“…[Methods] Based on the whole genome data of castor, ZF-HD genes were identified, and bioinformatics and expression analysis under abiotic stress were carried out. [Results] A total of 13 ZF-HD genes were identified from castor, which were unevenly distributed on Chr1-Chr10. …”
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A new approach to synthesize nano-yttrium boride particle through metallothermic reduction process by Sadhasivam M., Berchmans L.J., Meenashisundaram G.K., Mehana Usmaniya U., Sankaranarayanan S.R., Kumaresh Babu S.P.

“…The reaction was carried out at 9500C under argon atmosphere followed by acid washing. …”
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Manufacture and characterization of lightweight sand-plastic composites made of plastic waste and sand: Effect of sand types by Salih Mekideche, Mansour Rokbi, Zine El Abidine Rahmouni, Resego Phiri, Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa, Suchart Siengchin

“…Many tests and analysis were carried out in this investigation. First of all, two initial used compounds (waste PP and various silica sand) were analyzed by using ATR-FTIR, XRF, and grain size distribution. …”
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Pregnancy after Cancer Treatment and Pregnancy Associated Cancer: A Single Center Experience with 96 Cases by Mert Turğal, Kemal Beksaç, Derman Başaran, Aslıhan Yazıcıoğlu, Özgür Özyüncü, Ömer Aran, M. Sinan Beksaç

“…RESULTS: The study group was consisting of 96 cases, 59 out of 96 were cancer survivors and 37 were pregnancy-associated cancer patients. …”
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DETERMINING GROSS TONNAGE OF PURSE SEINERS USING A PHYSICAL MODELING APPROACH IN TEGAL, CENTRAL JAVA by Suharyanto Suharyanto, Ratih Purnama Sari, R. Mohamad Adha Akbar, Yaser Krisnafi, Tonny Kusumo

“…The research was carried out at the dock and shipping companies, PT. Indonesian Fisheries, PT. …”
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Sequential Multimodal Underwater Single-Photon Lidar Adaptive Target Reconstruction Algorithm Based on Spatiotemporal Sequence Fusion by Tian Rong, Yuhang Wang, Qiguang Zhu, Chenxu Wang, Yanchao Zhang, Jianfeng Li, Zhiquan Zhou, Qinghua Luo

“…For the demand for long-range and high-resolution target reconstruction of slow-moving small underwater targets, research on single-photon lidar target reconstruction technology is being carried out. This paper reports the sequential multimodal underwater single-photon lidar adaptive target reconstruction algorithm based on spatiotemporal sequence fusion, which has strong information extraction and noise filtering ability and can reconstruct the target depth and reflective intensity information from complex echo photon time counts and spatial pixel relationships. …”
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Features of test of air-fuel system of gas turbine engine by V. N. Klimov, D. Ya. Dud’ev, V. Ya. Sigaylo, N. I. Klimov

“…The relevance of the article is due to the unexplored processes occurring in the supports of the rotors of a GTE, in witch the lubrication and cooling of the bearings is carried out by an air-fuel mixture. This makes it much more difficult to select the optimal parameters of the air-fuel mixture and the operating modes of the engine, ensuring the operability of its rotary bearings with the least loss of fuel and air pressure behind the compressor, which can lead to a significant deterioration of the main parameters of the GTE. …”
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Quantification and identification of microfibers released from textiles during simulated accelerated washing by João Pinto da Costa, Ana Costa, Andréa Marinho, Alcina Pimenta, Ana Paula Fonte, Ana L. Patrício Silva, António José Fernandes, Florinda M. Costa, Damià Barceló, Lúcia H.M.L.M. Santos, Armando Duarte, Teresa Rocha-Santos

“…Though there are numerous examples of scientific works delving into this subject, the present work constitutes an initial step towards the use of internationally recognized methodologies for the determination of microfibers during washing processes that, when in conjunction with other similarly carried out works, may contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms of release of these materials during everyday activities, such as washing and drying of clothes. …”
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Yaws in Africa: Past, Present and Future by Ezekiel K. Vicar, Shirley V. Simpson, Gloria I. Mensah, Kennedy K. Addo, Eric S. Donkor

“…<b>Results:</b> One hundred and eighty-eight peer-reviewed articles were identified by PubMed and Scopus, out of which thirty were eligible. The studies covered 11 African countries, with the reported prevalence ranging from 0.50% to 43.0%. …”
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Pulse Wave Velocity as Marker of Preclinical Arterial Disease: Reference Levels in a Uruguayan Population Considering Wave Detection Algorithms, Path Lengths, Aging, and Blood Pres... by Ignacio Farro, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Juan Torrado, Federico Farro, Lucía Florio, Alicia Olascoaga, Walter Alallón, Ricardo Lluberas, Ricardo L. Armentano

“…Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) has emerged as the gold standard for non-invasive evaluation of aortic stiffness; absence of standardized methodologies of study and lack of normal and reference values have limited a wider clinical implementation. This work was carried out in a Uruguayan (South American) population in order to characterize normal, reference, and threshold levels of PWV considering normal age-related changes in PWV and the prevailing blood pressure level during the study. …”
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Pregnant and Postpartum Women’s Experiences and Perspectives on the Acceptability and Feasibility of Copackaged Medicine for Antenatal Care and PMTCT in Lesotho by Michelle M. Gill, Heather J. Hoffman, Appolinaire Tiam, Florence M. Mohai, Majoalane Mokone, Anthony Isavwa, Sesomo Mohale, Matela Makhohlisa, Victor Ankrah, Chewe Luo, Laura Guay

“…To improve PMTCT and antenatal care-related service delivery, a pack with centrally prepackaged medicine was rolled out to all pregnant women in Lesotho in 2011. This study assessed acceptability and feasibility of this copackaging mechanism for drug delivery among pregnant and postpartum women. …”
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Epidemiology of pediatric dengue virus infection, Scenario from a tertiary level hospital in Bangladesh by Kinkar Ghosh, Selim Reza Tony, Khaleda Islam, Reaz Mobarak, Md. Jahangir Alam, Md. Kamruzzaman, Sumaira Alam, Muhammad Talha, Abdullah Al Faisal, Nahidul Islam, Md Mobarok Hossain, Mst. Noorjahan Begum, Mustafizur Rahman

“…Materials and methods: This study was carried out at the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital &amp; Institute from July to October 2023. …”
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Dual-Polarimetric SAR Measurements to Observe Liquefaction Surface Manifestations by Ferdinando Nunziata, Anna Verlanti, Nicola Angelo Famiglietti, Maurizio Migliaccio, Annamaria Vicari

“…The methodology consists of two steps: first the spatial distributions of soil liquefaction is estimated using a constant false alarm rate method applied to the SPAN metric, namely the total power associated with the measured polarimetric channels, which is ingested into a bitemporal approach to sort out dark areas not genuine. Second, the obtained masks are read in terms of the physical scattering mechanisms using a child parameter stemming from the eigendecomposition of the covariance matrix&#x2014;namely the degree of polarization. …”
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Clinical Outcome After Surgical Treatment of Traumatic Peroneal Nerve Injury: An Analysis of Risk Factors After Different Surgical Approaches by Daniel N. Werkmann, Ute M. Bäzner, Martin Petkov, Lena Minzenmay, Gregor Durner, Gregor Antoniadis, Christian R. Wirtz, Maria T. Pedro, Andreas Knoll, Andrej Pala

“…Motor function and potential risk factors were evaluated. Results: Out of 93 patients, 42 (45%) underwent decompression, 15 (16%) received split repair, and 36 (39%) required autologous nerve grafting. …”
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Evaluation of Teleoperation Concepts to Solve Automated Vehicle Disengagements by David Brecht, Nils Gehrke, Tobias Kerbl, Niklas Krauss, Domagoj Majstorovic, Florian Pfab, Maria-Magdalena Wolf, Frank Diermeyer

“…An evaluation of the teleoperation concepts is carried out in an expert workshop, comparing different teleoperation concepts using a selection of automated vehicle disengagement scenarios and metrics. …”
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Analysis of Extrahepatic Multiple Primary Malignancies in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma according to Viral Infection Status by Keita Kai, Atsushi Miyoshi, Kenji Kitahara, Masanori Masuda, Yukari Takase, Kohji Miyazaki, Hirokazu Noshiro, Osamu Tokunaga

“…Infection of Helicobacter pylori was investigated by immunohistochemistry in gastric EHPM and resulted that 20 out of 21 analyzed cases were negative for Helicobacter pylori. …”
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Outcomes after reversed corneal graft rejection: a report from the European VISICORT project by W John Armitage, Uwe Pleyer, Conor C Murphy, Derek Tole, Matthew D Griffin, Jesper Hjortdal, Katja C Iselin, Bertrand Vabres

“…Stratified by the preoperatively determined risk status for immunological rejection, the outcome parameters analysed included visual acuity, intraocular pressure, endothelial cell density and central corneal thickness before and after reversed rejection episodes.Results Fourty-seven (52%) out of a total of 91 identified rejection episodes were successfully reversed and were available for analysis (23 penetrating and 24 endothelial keratoplasties). …”
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Epidemiology of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in a Teaching Hospital in Oman: A One-Year Hospital-Based Study by Abdullah Balkhair, Yahya M. Al-Farsi, Zakariya Al-Muharrmi, Raiya Al-Rashdi, Mansoor Al-Jabri, Fatma Neilson, Sara S. Al-Adawi, Marah El-Beeli, Samir Al-Adawi

“…Organisms were identified and tested by an automated identification and susceptibility system, and the antibiotic susceptibility testing was confirmed by the disk diffusion method. Results. Out of the total of 29,245 admissions, there have been 315 patients registered as MDRO patients giving an overall prevalence rate of 10.8 (95% CI 9.3, 12.4) MDRO cases per 1000 admissions. …”
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Tuberculosis vaccines and therapeutic drug: challenges and future directions by Yajing An, Ruizi Ni, Li Zhuang, Ling Yang, Zhaoyang Ye, Linsheng Li, Seppo Parkkila, Ashok Aspatwar, Wenping Gong

“…This review meticulously maps out the contemporary landscape of TB vaccine development, with a focus on antigen identification, clinical trial progress, and the obstacles and future trajectories in vaccine research. …”
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Micromechanics of Cracked Laminates under Uniaxial Load: A Comparison between Approaches by J. A. Rivera-Santana, A. Guevara-Morales, U. Figueroa-López

“…Hashin’s variational method predicts correctly the boundary conditions at crack surfaces and gives out the complete stress field. McCartney’s approach shows further improvement over the previous two models, taking into account thermal strains and stresses. …”
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