Simultaneous Determination of Caffeine and Chlorogenic Acids in Green Coffee by UV/Vis Spectroscopy by G. Navarra, M. Moschetti, V. Guarrasi, M. R. Mangione, V. Militello, M. Leone

“…The bands used for the deconvolution were the absorption bands of both caffeine and chlorogenic acids standards. The molar extinction coefficients for caffeine and chlorogenic acid in ethanol solution at 70% were calculated by using the chemical standards; the estimated values were ε(272 nm)=12159±97 M−1 cm−1 for caffeine and ε(330 nm)=27025±190 M−1 cm−1 for chlorogenic acids molecules, respectively. …”
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VOF Calculations of Countercurrent Gas-Liquid Flow in a PWR Hot Leg by M. Murase, A. Tomiyama, I. Kinoshita, Y. Utanohara, Chihiro Yanagi, T. Takata, A. Yamaguchi

“…We improved the computational grid and schemes in the VOF (volume of fluid) method with the standard 𝑘−𝜀 turbulent model in our previous study to evaluate CCFL (countercurrent flow limitation) characteristics in a full-scale PWR hot leg (750 mm diameter), and the calculated CCFL characteristics agreed well with the UPTF data at 1.5 MPa. …”
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ISMAC: An Intelligent System for Customized Clinical Case Management and Analysis by Mingyu You, Chong Chen, Guo-Zheng Li, Shi-Xing Yan, Sheng Sun, Xue-Qiang Zeng, Qing-Ce Zhao, Liao-Yu Xu, Su-Ying Huang

“…Customized templates with standard and expert-standard symptoms, diseases, syndromes, and Chinese Medince Formula (CMF) are constructed in ISMAC, according to the clinical diagnosis and treatment characteristic of each TCM specialist. …”
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Sustainability reporting and transitory environmental sustainability risks in manufacturing by Daniel Schneider, Alexander Schüler, Markus Woerle, Dominik Schneider, Niklas Eisold, Gunther Reinhart

“…This study critically examines sustainability reporting within Germany’s mechanical and plant engineering sector, focusing on the alignment with European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the disclosure of essential environmental metrics. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Cr, As, Se, and Other Trace Metal Elements in Seawater by ICP-MS with Hybrid Simultaneous Preconcentration Combining Iron Hydroxide Coprecipitation an... by Akihide Itoh, Masato Ono, Kota Suzuki, Takumi Yasuda, Kazuhiko Nakano, Kimika Kaneshima, Kazuho Inaba

“…Nevertheless, the present method would have possibility to develop as the analytical method to determine comprehensively most metal elements in all standard and guideline values in quality standard in environmental water in Japan, that is, most toxic metal elements in environmental water.…”
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A Novel Compression Technique for Multi-Camera Nodes through Directional Correlation by Saima Shaheen, M. Younus Javed, Muid Mufti, Shehzad Khalid, Aasia Khanum, Shoab A. Khan, M. Usman Akram

“…In order to eliminate surplus data, standard video compression algorithms exploit spatial and temporal correlation present in video sequence. …”
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Carbon emission of urban vehicles based on carbon emission factor correlation analysis by Jingwen Wang, Hongna Dai, Haixia Feng, Meng Guo, Vladimir Zylianov, Zhongke Feng, Jipeng Cui

“…Cars can only meet the national standard limit when traveling at an average speed of 42.17 km/h. …”
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How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0 by M. Catherine Aime, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Konstanze Bensch, Lei Cai, Pedro W. Crous, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Paul M. Kirk, Robert Lücking, Tom W. May, Elaine Malosso, Scott A. Redhead, Amy Y. Rossman, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch

“…Additionally, we provide: (1) model papers for different fungal groups and circumstances; (2) a checklist to simplify meeting (i) the requirements of the ICNafp to ensure the effective, valid and legitimate publication of names of new taxa, and (ii) minimally accepted standards for description; and, (3) templates for preparing standardized species descriptions.…”
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A Comparison Study of Sampling and Analyzing Volatile Organic Compounds in Air in Kuwait by Using Tedlar Bags/Canisters and GC-MS with a Cryogenic Trap by Hongmao Tang, Khaliq R. Beg, Yousef Al-Otaiba

“…Because GC-MS with a cryogenic trap often generates replicated results with poor agreement, an internal standard added to gas standards and air samples by using a gas syringe was tested. …”
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Systematic content analysis of self-help smokeless tobacco cessation smartphone applications available in India by Nishant Nishant, Arpit Gupta, Richa Shrivastava, Arpita Rai, Diptajit Das, Ashima Goyal

“…Adherence of the app content to the standard tobacco cessation guidelines was also determined. …”
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Ethanol extract of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza mangrove leaves and propolis activity on macroscopic healing of cuts in vivo by Evi Kurniawaty, Shina Megaputri, Syazili Mustofa, Soraya Rahmanisa, Kholis Abdurachim Audah, Silvia Andriani

“…Methods: Twenty-four Sprague Dawley rats were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups (n=6): aqua dest, standard wound medicine, ethanol extract of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza mangrove leaves, and propolis extract. …”
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Multi-objective assessment of hydrological model performances using Nash–Sutcliffe and Kling–Gupta efficiencies on a worldwide large sample of watersheds by Mathevet, Thibault, Le Moine, Nicolas, Andréassian, Vazken, Gupta, Hoshin, Oudin, Ludovic

“…The assessment tool clearly highlights well-documented problems related to the use of the NSE for the calibration of rainfall-runoff models, which arise due to interactions between the ratio of simulated to observed standard deviations and the correlation coefficient. …”
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Characterization of Glasses in One Type of Alumina Rich Fly Ash by Chemical Digestion Methods: Implications for Alumina Extraction by Lijun Zhao, Hanshuang Xiao, Baodong Wang, Qi Sun

“…The chemical compositions have been measured by XRF for ARFA from the digestion processes. The K2O standard, XRD, and FTIR spectroscopies were successfully used to define the digestions processes, and size analysis and SEM-EDX provided rich information on particle transformations. …”
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De Garengeot’s Hernia: Two Case Reports with Correct Preoperative Identification of the Vermiform Appendix in the Hernia by Zhaosheng Jin, Muhammad Rafiz Imtiaz, Henry Nnajiuba, Suzette Samlalsingh, Akinyede Ojo

“…Routine diagnostic imaging modalities such as ultrasonography and standard CT have previously shown little success in identifying de Garengeot’s hernia preoperatively. …”
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Rapid, Sensitive and Validated Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometric Method for the Determination of Fenofibric Acid and its Application to Human Pharmacokinet... by Sunil K. Dubey, Manoj S. Tomar, Anil Kumar Patni, Arshad Khuroo, Simrit Reyar, Tausif Monif

“…Analytical recoveries of fenofibric acid and internal standard in plasma were less than 90%. This method was successfully applied for evaluation of pharmacokinetics of fenofibric acid after a single oral dose of 145 mg fenofibrate to 10 Indian healthy volunteers…”
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An ontology-based rare disease common data model harmonising international registries, FHIR, and Phenopackets by Adam S. L. Graefe, Miriam R. Hübner, Filip Rehburg, Steffen Sander, Sophie A. I. Klopfenstein, Samer Alkarkoukly, Ana Grönke, Annic Weyersberg, Daniel Danis, Jana Zschüntzsch, Elisabeth F. Nyoungui, Susanna Wiegand, Peter Kühnen, Peter N. Robinson, Oya Beyan, Sylvia Thun

“…An ontology-based approach was selected to find a common denominator between the semantic and syntactic data standards. Our RD-CDM version 2.0.0 comprises 78 data elements, extending the ERDRI-CDS by 62 elements with previous versions implemented in four German university hospitals capturing real world data for development and evaluation. …”
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Design of Counter Beam Tunnel Lights for CIE 88 : 2004 Regulation in Threshold Zone by Ming-Jui Chen, Hien-Thanh Le, Lanh-Thanh Le, Wei-Hsiung Tseng, Wei-Yang Lee, Si-Yuan Chen, Sheng-Yen Chen, Hsing-Yuan Liao, Yung-Cheng Li, Hsiao-Yi Lee

“…The proposed new counter beam light (CBL) acts as a qualified counter beam light to help tunnel road lighting meet the CIE 88 : 2004 regulation standard in the threshold zone in both simulation and in practice. …”
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Transcriptome size matters for single-cell RNA-seq normalization and bulk deconvolution by Songjian Lu, Jiyuan Yang, Lei Yan, Jingjing Liu, Judy Jiaru Wang, Rhea Jain, Jiyang Yu

“…ReDeconv alters the practice and provides a new standard for scRNA-seq analyses and bulk deconvolution. …”
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Therapeutic Targeting of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors in Gastric Cancer by Mikito Inokuchi, Yoshitaka Fujimori, Sho Otsuki, Yuya Sato, Masatoshi Nakagawa, Kazuyuki Kojima

“…Chemotherapy has become the global standard treatment for patients with metastatic or unresectable gastric cancer (GC), although outcomes remain unfavorable. …”
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A Genetic Algorithm with Location Intelligence Method for Energy Optimization in 5G Wireless Networks by Ruchi Sachan, Tae Jong Choi, Chang Wook Ahn

“…A comparison is also carried out to evaluate the performance of the conventional approach of DE and standard RGA with our modified RGA approach. The experimental results showed that our modified RGA can find the optimal configuration of 5G/LTE network planning problems, which is better performed than DE and standard RGA.…”
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