Probable Relationship between COVID-19, Pollutants and Meteorology: A Case Study at Santiago, Chile by Giovanni A. Salini, Patricio R. Pacheco, Eduardo Mera, María C. Parodi

“…For all time-series, the Lempel-Ziv complexity turned out to be between 0 and 1 which is indicative of connectivity and chaos. …”
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War and negotiations. How Vietnam defeated the American Colossus by A. M. Vasiliev

“…To achieve this goal the war and negotiations dragged on for years, and on the eve of the signing of the agreements, the most fierce bombing of the DRV was carried out.Thanks to the powerful air defense created with the help of the USSR, the DRV won the “air Dien Bien Fu”.The United States was forced to sign a peace agreement, which provided for the complete cessation of all US military operations in Vietnam, the withdrawal of all American troops, but left the North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam together with the armed forces of the National Liberation Front along with the decaying and doomed to death Saigon regime. …”
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Extracting Skeleton of the Global Terrorism Network Based on m-Modified Topology Potential by Shuliang Wang, Kanokwan Malang, Hanning Yuan, Aniwat Phaphuangwittayakul, Yuanyuan Lv, Matthew David Lowdermilk, Jing Geng

“…To verify the efficiency of the proposed method, we carry out three classes of a network assessment framework: node-equivalence assessment, network-equivalence assessment, and spatial information assessment. …”
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CircRNA-Disease Associations Prediction Based on Metapath2vec++ and Matrix Factorization by Yuchen Zhang, Xiujuan Lei, Zengqiang Fang, Yi Pan

“…Finally, we use matrix factorization, take similarity as a constraint, and optimize it to obtain the final prediction results. Leave-one-out cross-validation, five-fold cross-validation, and f-measure are adopted to evaluate the performance of PCD_MVMF. …”
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The Safety and Efficacy of Chemical Pleurodesis Agents in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusion Admitted in Tertiary Care Hospital by Venkateshwaran Kathamuthu, Rajeshkumar Balakrishnan, Saravanavasan Rajendran, Prabhakaran Rathinam

“…Patients were clinically and radiologically assessed with computed tomography chest on discharge, 1 month, and at the 3rd month for response. Results: Out of 30 patients, 21 patients had complete response (70%). …”
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Assessment of greenness, blueness, and whiteness profiles of a validated HPLC-DAD method for quantitation of Donepezil HCl and Curcumin in their laboratory prepared co-formulated n... by Mennah M. Abd Elwahab, Samar Saad, Zeinab A. Sheribah, Nahed El-Enany

“…In the present study, a sensitive eco-friendly HPLC-DAD method was carried out and validated to allow concurrent determination of Donepezil HCl (DPZ) and Curcumin (CUR) in their pure form and laboratory made nano-liposome formulation. …”
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Association of PD-1 and PD-L1 Genetic Polymorphyisms with Type 1 Diabetes Susceptibility by Chenyue Qian, Heming Guo, Xiaohong Chen, Aiming Shi, Sicheng Li, Xin Wang, Jie Pan, Chen Fang

“…Genotyping of 8 selected SNPs of PD-1 and PD-L1 was carried out by the pyrosequencing PSQ 24 System using PyroMark Gold reagents (QIAGEN). …”
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Consolidating Back Office with a Shared-Services Center: by Mimoza Bogdanoska Jovanovska, Nataša Blazeska Tabakovska, Dragan Grueski

“… Purpose: The paper points out a novel approach to e-Government back-office reengineering based on creating a Shared-Services Center at the sectorial level. …”
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Prevalence of Certain Urogenital Bacterial Mollicutes in Patients Suffering from Infertility by Motasem Y. Al-Masri, Intesar Khaleel Ashour, Ashraf Swafta, Sami Al-Shunar

“…A total of 57 semen, 37 urine, and 16 vaginal swab specimens were collected. Out of the 110 examined specimens, 35 (31.8%) were PCR positive for at least one Mollicutes, which were 16 (14.6%) M. hominis, 11 (10%) U. urealyticum, and 8 (7.3%) M. genitalium. …”
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Anaemia and Iron Homeostasis in a Cohort of HIV-Infected Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study in Ghana by Christian Obirikorang, Razak Gyesi Issahaku, Derick Nii Mensah Osakunor, James Osei-Yeboah

“…A comparative cross-sectional study on 319 participants was carried out at the Tamale Teaching Hospital from July 2013 to December 2013, 219 patients on HAART (designated On-HAART) and 100 HAART-naive patients. …”
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The effects of processing steps on avenanthramides, avenacosides and β-glucan content during the production of oat-based milk alternatives by Roisin McCarron, Lisa Methven, Sameer Khalil Ghawi, Stephanie Grahl, Ruan Elliott, Stella Lignou

“…Oats undergo multiple processing steps to ensure a sensory appealing and safe product, however, little research has been carried out on the specific effects on these compounds. …”
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Systematic Characterization of the Chemical Components of Canna edulis Ker-Gawl Based on UHPLC Q-Exactive Orbitrap MS Technology by Liqiao Lv, Chi Zhang, Jiahui Wu, Dachuan Zhang, Fangyuan Zhao, Lv Bu Aga, Nan Wang, Junling Li, Leimengyuan Tang, Baosheng Zhao, Chunguo Wang, Xueyong Wang

“…Moreover, three compounds were quantitatively analyzed and a methodological study of the three components was carried out. The established method provided satisfactory precision and accuracy, acceptable recovery, good linearity, and a reasonable detection limit. …”
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The effect of different surface characterization on bonding strength of maxillofacial silicone elastomer to two different framework materials. by Zhala Meran, Omar Kamaran Anwar

“…All the test groups were subjected to 1800 peel strength test on Hounsfeild universal testing machine (HT-400). The test was carried out according to the ASTM D-903 specifications. …”
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Assessment of economic risks in Ukrainian enterprises: Management aspect by Оksana Nuzhna, Natalia Tluchkevych, Tetyana Pisarenko

“…Thus, in fact, an assessment of the probability of losses at enterprises of various types of activity was carried out, which made it possible to compare the level of risk in various industries and spheres of activity and guide investors in making decisions about potentially attractive types of economic activity. …”
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Dissipative disorder analysis of Homann flow of Walters B fluid with the applications of solar thermal energy absorption aspects by Latif Ahmad, Assmaa Abd-Elmonem, Saleem Javed, Muhammad Yasir, Umair Khan, Yalcin Yilmaz, Aisha M. Alqahtani

“…The numerical analysis is carried out by applying one of the built-in commands while using MATLAB software. …”
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Price Linkage Rumors in the Stock Market and Investor Risk Contagion on Bilayer-Coupled Networks by Yue Dong, Jiepeng Wang, Tingqiang Chen

“…From the perspective of the stock price linkage, this article constructs an SCIR contagion model of investor risk on a single-layer network. It digs out the investor risk caused by rumors in the stock market under the stock price linkage and its contagion mechanism. …”
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Sexuality Assessment in Women Diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer by Patricio Jaramillo Guerrero, Edison Enrique Sotalin Nivela, Eduardo Leonel Alvarado Pico

“…<br /><strong>Method</strong>: a descriptive and correlational, longitudinal and retrospective study was carried out that covered the period from 2018 to 2021. The population under study were female patients from the gynecological outpatient clinics of a private hospital. …”
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Correlation between Reduced FEF25-75% and a Positive Methacholine Challenge Test in Adults with Nonobstructive Baseline Spirometry by Irfan Shafiq, Mateen Haider Uzbeck, Zaid Zoumot, Mohamed Abuzakouk, Niyas Parappurath, Ali Saeed Wahla

“…Logistic regression was utilized to estimate the log odds of a positive methacholine test as a function of FEF25-75% and also for age, gender, BMI, FEV1, and FEV1/FVC. Results. Out of 496 patients, 187 (38%) had a positive MCT. …”
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Mortality Burden of Cancer of the Lip, Oral Cavity and Pharynx by Lisbeth Fernández González, José Luis Peñalvo, Armando Humberto Seuc Jo, Delia María Gálvez Medina, Miguel Ángel Martínez Morales, Darilys Losada Gandarilla

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in which five-year data series were used. The universe was made up of all deaths from cancer of the lip, oral cavity and pharynx for the years studied. …”
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Salt stress and its eco-friendly management using biostimulants in grain legumes: a review by Narayan Singh, Vasudha Maurya, Kriti Gupta, Indu Sharma, Ashutosh Sharma, Rahul Kumar

“…To enhance agricultural productivity under salt stress conditions, several ecofriendly methods have been tried recently. Out of these, the use of biostimulants gained particular attention due to their ease of availability and high-stress ameliorative potential. …”
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