The motion law of oil droplets and bubbles in air flotation-cyclone by WANG Wei, BAI Xu, CHU Xiaodan, ZHAO Xiang, MA Xueliang, LIN Wei, GONG Cheng, YU Jiuyang

“…Under these conditions, the final oil concentration in wastewater was less than 10 mg/L, meeting the requirements of the Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB 8978-1996). In static water conditions, the average projected area of microbubble-floc aggregates was approximately six times that of microbubble-oil droplet aggregates, indicating that the addition of flocculants was conducive for improving oil-water separation. …”
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Preliminary risk assessment of PFOS in former production sites: A case study in Hubei, China by Yiming Jiang, Ning Fang, Qiang Chen, Tao Long, Roland Weber, Jun Huang

“…By employing current national standards in China (i.e. GB 36600-2018 and HJ 25.3–2019), PFOS screening and management levels were established for risk assessment purposes. …”
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The Resuscitation, Equilibrium and De-escalation (RED) strategy: a phased, personalized hemodynamic support in children with sepsis by Jaime Fernández-Sarmiento, Sushitra Ranjit, L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Roberto Jabornisky, Niranjan Kissoon

“…After the resuscitation phase, active fluid removal through diuresis or dialysis is increasingly being used in patients who receive fluid therapy, but it has not yet been standardized, and the safest and most effective strategies in children are still not known. …”
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The Estimates of Retinal Ganglion Cell Counts Performed Better than Isolated Structure and Functional Tests for Glaucoma Diagnosis by Bruno L. B. Esporcatte, Andrea C. Kara-José, Luiz Alberto S. Melo, Luciano M. Pinto, Ivan M. Tavares

“…To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) counts as estimated by combining data from standard automated perimetry (SAP) and spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). …”
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Breastfeeding and Neonatal Age Influence Neutrophil-Driven Ontogeny of Blood Cell Populations in the First Week of Human Life by Sebastiano Montante, Rym Ben-Othman, Nelly Amenyogbe, Asimenia Angelidou, Anita van den Biggelaar, Bing Cai, Yixuan Chen, Alansana Darboe, Joann Diray-Arce, Rebecca Ford, Olubukola Idoko, Amy Lee, Mandy Lo, Kerry McEnaney, Mehrnoush Malek, David Martino, Geraldine Masiria, Oludare A. Odumade, William Pomat, Casey Shannon, Kinga Smolen, The EPIC Consortium, Al Ozonoff, Peter Richmond, Scott Tebbutt, Ofer Levy, Beate Kampmann, Ryan Brinkman, Tobias Kollmann

“…To identify factors that may impact the trajectory of immune development, we conducted stringently standardized, high-throughput phenotyping of peripheral white blood cell (WBC) populations from 796 newborns across two distinct cohorts (The Gambia, West Africa; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia) in the framework of a Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC) study. …”
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A pilot mixed methods randomized control trial investigating the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally tailored intervention focused on beliefs, mistrust and race-congruent... by Meng-Jung Wen, Martha Maurer, Annika L. Pickard, Makenzie Hansen, Olayinka O. Shiyanbola

“…This 6-month pilot randomized feasibility trial compared a culturally tailored diabetes self-management program, incorporating beliefs about diabetes, mistrust, and race-congruent peer support to a standard diabetes program.MethodsAn embedded mixed methods design examined the feasibility of the pilot trial, including recruitment, retention, intervention adherence and participant acceptability. …”
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Cardiometabolic deaths in black and white men: Tracing the risks from early- to mid-adulthood by Rebecca Arden Harris, Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Judith A. Long

“…Methods: Using 2022 National Vital Statistics System data and standard period life table methods, we estimated the risk of CMD death in hypothetical cohorts of Black and White men from age 25 to 45 years. …”
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First‐in‐human orbital tumor surgery guided by near‐infrared II window fluorescence imaging: A feasibility study by Zeyu Zhang, Lishuang Guo, Lan Yao, Yueyue Li, Yan Hei, Qi Wang, Xiaoyi Wang, Rui Ma, Xinji Yang, Zhenhua Hu, Wei Wu

“…Twenty‐two patients diagnosed with orbital tumors and scheduled for standard‐of‐care surgery were enrolled in this study. …”
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Implementation of a Hepatitis B Screening Program in Patients Receiving Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy by Jennifer Leigh, Ranjeeta Mallick, Stephanie Brule, Lisa Rambout, Jennifer Newton, Dominick Bossé, Curtis Cooper, Joanna Gotfrit

“…The results of this pilot highlight the importance of building HBV screening into standardized treatment plans and engaging all team members to ensure high levels of screening. …”
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Long term effectiveness of intraoperative radiotherapy given as a boost in adjuvant treatment for oral cavity cancers by Grzegorz Woźniak, Tomasz Rutkowski, Wojciech Majewski, Aleksandra Napieralska, Jerzy Wydmański, Agnieszka Czarniecka, Cezary Szymczyk, Adam Bekman, Żaneta Kaniszewska Dorsz, Tomasz Latusek, Bogusław Maciejewski

“…The study included 23 patients: IORT dose of 5–7.5 Gy was delivered using 50 kV X-rays generated by INTRABEAM™, combined with EBRT of 50–60 Gy in 25–30 fractions depending on presence of extracapsular invasion and narrow or positive surgical margins. Standard statistical tests were used. Median follow up was 64 months (range 8–222 months). …”
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Crowdsourced Indicators of Flora and Fauna Species: Comparisons Between iNaturalist Records and Field Observations by Hyuksoo Kwon, Bumsuk Seo, Jungin Kim, Heera Lee

“…The taxonomic information included in the iNaturalist data were investigated using a standard global biodiversity database. The results show citizen science data effectively quantify public preferences for scenic locations, offering a novel approach to mapping cultural ecosystem services when traditional data are unavailable. …”
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Radial Evolution of Interplanetary Shock Properties with Heliospheric Distance: Observations from Parker Solar Probe by Oksana Kruparova, Adam Szabo, Lan K. Jian, František Němec, Jana Šafránková, Zdeněk Němeček, Jacob Pasanen, Ayris Narock, Vratislav Krupar

“…The remaining 33 events could not be confirmed by the standard R-H approach—potentially including wave-like structures—yet were analyzed via averaging and mixed-data methods to obtain robust shock parameters. …”
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ZSM-Based E2E Security Slice Management for DDoS Attack Protection in MEC-Enabled V2X Environments by Rodrigo Asensio-Garriga, Pol Alemany, Alejandro M. Zarca, Roshan Sedar, Charalampos Kalalas, Jordi Ortiz, Ricard Vilalta, Raul Munoz, Antonio Skarmeta

“…Our approach employs the zero-touch network and service management (ZSM) standard, integrating autonomous security into end-to-end (E2E) slicing management. …”
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Timeline of cognitive impairments after radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: A review by K. Wickborn, C.W.J. van der Weijden, E.F.J. de Vries, T.W.H. Meijer, M.C.A. Kramer, J.M. Spikman, A.M. Buunk, A. van der Hoorn

“…Conclusion: Cognitive impairments are frequently observed at least six months after radiotherapy. Standardized cognitive assessments are imperative to evaluate impairments in individual patients. …”
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Hierarchical graph-based integration network for propaganda detection in textual news articles on social media by Pir Noman Ahmad, Jiequn Guo, Nagwa M. AboElenein, Qazi Mazhar ul Haq, Sadique Ahmad, Abeer D. Algarni, Abdelhamied A. Ateya

“…Second, by employing these guidelines, ADMF standardizes the Tri-Channels 3-S (sequence, semantic, and syntactic) layer, enabling effective propaganda detection through related and unrelated information propagation of news representations into a classifier from the existing ProText, Qprop, and PTC datasets, thereby ensuring its availability to the public. …”
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Research on optimisation of rural tourism development path in Henan province by Dou Yingying, Dzhylkychieva Zhyldyz, Liang Zongzheng, Zhang Shuolei, Liang Liuke

“…The purpose of the study is to develop recommendations for optimising and strengthening the promotion of rural tourism in Henan Province, which will contribute to the sustainable development of the region, the preservation of its cultural and natural legacy, and improving the living standards of the local population. The following methods were used: descriptive, deductive, generalisation and comparative analysis. …”
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Diagnosis and management of de novo non-specific spinal infections: European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Spine Section Delphi consensus recommendations by Andreas Kramer, Santhosh G. Thavarajasingam, Jonathan Neuhoff, Benjamin Davies, Giuseppe Barbagallo, Bertrand Debono, Bart Depreitere, Sven O. Eicker, Nikolay Gabrovsky, Marisa L. Gandia-Gonzalez, Marcel Ivanov, Radek Kaiser, Stanislav Kaprovoy, Nikolay Konovalov, Jesus Lafuente, Andrzej Maciejczak, Bernhard Meyer, Paulo Pereira, Yana Petrova, Wilco C. Peul, Carla Reizinho, Yu-Mi Ryang, Nico Sampron, Ralph Schär, Enrico Tessitore, Claudius Thomé, Jake Timothy, Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp, Andreas K. Demetriades, Ehab Shiban, Florian Ringel

“…MRI was confirmed as the gold standard for diagnosis. Regarding surgical indications, the panel agreed that any new neurological deficit, even subtle, warrants surgical consideration. …”
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Efficacy of transbronchial biopsy and frequency of pneumothorax in lung transplant recipients: single center experience by Ertan Sarıbaş, Ayse Nigar Halis, Sevinç Çıtak, Gonca Gecmen, Ahmet Murat Kazan, Musatafa Vayvada, Murat Ersin Cardak, Ahmet Erdal Taşçı

“…Despite advances in immunology and genetics, TBB remains the gold standard for detecting acute rejection (AR) following lung transplantation. …”
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Methods for assessing manifestations of respiratory failure in patients with laryngeal and tracheal compression syndrome caused by thyroid diseases and cicatricial tracheal stenosi... by V.V. Boyko, V.V. Kritsak, A.L. Sochnieva, V.V. Tkachenko

“…To assess the state of external respiratory function, standard research methods are used such as spirography, pneumotachometry, and body plethysmography. …”
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Degradation of black tea theaflavin through C-ring cleavage by gut microbiota by Shuwei Zhang, Christina Ohland, Christian Jobin, Shengmin Sang

“…In this study, following the administration of TF to mice, the C-ring cleavage metabolites, dihydro- and tetrahydro-theaflavin (DH-TF and TH-TF) were detected in mouse feces by LC-MS and validated by authentic standards from in situ chemical reaction. The observation of the C-ring cleavage metabolites in TF-treated conventionalized mice but not in germ-free (GF) mice confirmed the role of gut microbiota in cleaving the C-rings of TF. …”
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