Mobilization and deposition of plastic along an estuarine bank during tidal cycles by Rosa Sawan, Périne Doyen, Guillaume Veillet, Florence Viudes, Céline Mahfouz, Rachid Amara

“…Limited studies have evaluated how these complex systems contribute to plastic pollution dynamics at this interface. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Failure Modes of Thick-Walled Cylinder Granites with Different Apertures under Triaxial Compression by Wei Chen, Wen Wan, Shuailong Lian, Senlin Xie, Yu Zhou, Wenqing Peng, Wenlong Kuang, Xianqing Wang, Shasha Tong

“…Therefore, this paper focuses on the triaxial compression mechanical propertiesof thick-walled cylinder granites with an electrohydraulic, servo-controlled rock mechanics testing system (MTS-815). It studies how different pore sizes and confining pressures affect the triaxial compressive strength (TCS), deformation, and failure modes of granite samples. …”
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Nitrification and denitrification in pond by Yuni Puji Pujihastuti

“… More of waste than pond aquacultutre system produced, will increase sedimentation in the bottom.  …”
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Integrating Infant Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding Education Into an App in a Novel Approach to Reaching High-Risk Populations: Prospective Observational Study by Tamar Krishnamurti, Rachel Moon, Rudolph Richichi, Rachel Berger

“…Pregnant mothers who received prenatal care within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital system were randomized to receive either safe sleep or breastfeeding education beginning at the start of the third trimester of pregnancy and ending 6 weeks post partum. …”
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Cardiovascular Development and the Colonizing Cardiac Neural Crest Lineage by Paige Snider, Michael Olaopa, Anthony B. Firulli, Simon J. Conway

“…Studies in both mice and chick suggest they can also enter the heart from the venous inflow as well as the usual arterial outflow region, and may contribute to the adult semilunar and atrioventricular valves as well as part of the cardiac conduction system. Furthermore, although they are not usually thought to give rise to the cardiomyocyte lineage, neural crest cells in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) can contribute to the myocardium and may have different functions in a species-dependent context. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE REGION'S INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY INSTRUMENTS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS INVESTMENT POTENTIAL IN WARTIME by Ruslan Boiko, Roman Martsenyuk, Arsen Protsykevych

“…These include a relatively large domestic market and a high level of development in the real sector, including financial and credit, and investment infrastructure, transport, logistics, and trade systems, construction, education, scientific and ICT potential, and a large population. …”
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Ten proposed measures to improve vaccination: Health care providers’ perspectives on promoting the vaccination intake of children with special healthcare needs in China by Xiang Guo, Tianxing Feng, Meiyi Chen, Xuran Zhao, Xiangshi Wang, Yanling Ge, Zhonglin Wang, Zhuoying Huang, Mei Zeng

“…The interview guide explored attitudes towards and suggestions for establishing immunisation advisory clinics and referral networks, updating immunisation guidance documents and vaccine package inserts and strengthening the education of vaccination providers.Results 21 representative healthcare providers were interviewed. 10 measures were proposed to promote routine immunisation for children with special needs: (1) using immunisation advisory clinics to provide vaccination services for CSHCN; (2) establishing a referral network and specifying which cases necessitate referral to advisory clinics; (3) using an interconnected information system to identify, document and follow-up the CSHCN; (4) supporting high-quality clinical research to update immunisation protocols; (5) providing clear and definite immunisation recommendations to parents of eligible CSHCN; (6) seeking immunisation advice from specialised professionals to enhance primary care capability; (7) creating quality improvement programmes; (8) considering immunisation status a mandatory assessment during specialist visits; (9) supporting off-label use of vaccines legally and (10) encouraging pharmaceutical companies to update vaccine package inserts.Conclusion Vaccine uptake among CSHCN in China is suboptimal, highlighting the need for a referral network and a standard immunisation protocol. …”
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SAR-PATT: A Physical Adversarial Attack for SAR Image Automatic Target Recognition by Binyan Luo, Hang Cao, Jiahao Cui, Xun Lv, Jinqiang He, Haifeng Li, Chengli Peng

“…Deep neural network-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) systems are susceptible to attack by adversarial examples, which leads to misclassification by the SAR ATR system, resulting in theoretical model robustness problems and security problems in practice. …”
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Could Infectious Agents Play a Role in the Onset of Age-related Macular Degeneration? A Scoping Review by Petra P. Larsen, MD, PhD, Virginie Dinet, PhD, Cécile Delcourt, PhD, Catherine Helmer, MD, PhD, Morgane Linard, MD, PhD

“…Numerous potential pathophysiological mechanisms have been discussed, including (1) an indirect role of infectious agents (i.e. a role of infections located distant from the eye, mainly through their interactions with the immune system) and (2) a direct role of some infectious agents implying potential infection of various cells types within AMD-related tissues. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined with Local Vibration Therapy on Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy by LI Mingdi, LIANG Guanjun, ZHANG Dali, ZHANG Hewei, WANG Wei, GU Qin

“…Before and after treatment, the modified Ashworth scale (MAS) was used to evaluate the muscle tone; the balance subscale of Fugl-Meyer test (FM-B) was used to evaluate the balance function, and the Gait Watch three-dimensional gait analysis system was used to evaluate the three-dimensional gait parameters (stride speed, stride length, hip flexion, knee flexion and ankle flexion of the affected side).ResultsCompared with that before treatment, MAS scores of the rTMS group and the combined group after treatment decreased significantly, the FM-B scores and gait parameters (stride speed, stride length, hip flexion, knee flexion and ankle flexion of the affected side) increased significantly, and the differences were statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Risk factors of 180-day rebleeding after management of blunt splenic injury without surgery and embolization: a national database study by Chung-Yen Chen, Hung-Yu Lin, Pie-Wen Hsieh, Yi-Kai Huang, Po-Chin Yu, Jian-Han Chen

“…We generate Delayed Splenic Bleeding System (DSBS). Patients with > 2 points had significantly higher rebleeding rates (risk-identifying cohort: 2.2% vs. 0.6%, OR 3.790, p < 0.001; validation cohort: 2.6% vs. 0.8%, OR 3.129, p = 0.022). …”
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Mine Flooding History of a Regional Below-Drainage Coalfield Dominated by Barrier Leakage (1970–2014) by Joseph J. Donovan, Eric F. Perry

“…The principal mine operator in the basin then designed a pumping system to transfer water from the Fairmont Pool to their existing treatment facilities to the north, thus terminating the discharge. …”
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Curdione combined with borneol treats bacterial mixed HPV infection by regulating the crosstalk among immune cells by Jingwei Liu, Jingwei Liu, Tong Shu, Yiheng Mu, Wanlin Zheng, Xiaohuan Lu, Xiaohuan Lu, Hong Tao, Hong Tao

“…BackgroundHuman papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a worldwide reproductive system disease. Baofukang suppository, a traditional herbal preparation that includes curdione and borneol, has been reported to treat bacterial vaginosis (BV) and HPV infection in China. …”
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Damage evolution characteristics of coal body in borehole at deep roadway wall and strength weakening mechanism of surrounding rock in borehole by Ke DING, Hualei ZHANG, Lianguo WANG, Jiaxing GUO, Yaoyao MENG

“…Using the self-developed real-time CT scanning true triaxial loading test system, the force-strain law and internal crack propagation evolution characteristics of two different stress types models, i.e., deep coal body (three-way loading state) and shallow coal body (two-way loading state), under different borehole diameters were studied. …”
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Child Injury in Israel: Emergency Room Visits to a Children's Medical Center by Michal Hemmo-Lotem, Claudia Jinich-Aronowitz, Liri Endy-Findling, Michal Molcho, Michal Klein, Yehezkel Waisman, Yehuda L. Danon, Joav Merrick

“…The data collected very strongly raise the urgent need for establishing a national surveillance system, which would allow tracking injury-related data with respect to young people throughout the country.…”
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Evaluating the Safety and Usability of an Over-the-Counter Medical Device for Adults With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss: Formative and Summative Usability Testing by Megan Elizabeth Salwei, Shilo Anders, Carrie Reale, Jason M Slagle, Todd Ricketts, Matthew B Weinger

“…At the end of each session, participants completed a 10-question knowledge assessment and the System Usability Scale and then participated in debriefing interviews to gather qualitative feedback. …”
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Effect and Mechanism of Catalpol on Behavior in Rats with Post-stroke Depression by WANG Xiangyu, ZHOU Xia, LIU Ju, LIU Fuhong, ZHANG Jiale, SUN Liping, LI Wanbin

“…In the ELISA experiment, compared with the model group, 5-HT and BDNF in the catalpol intervention group were significantly increased on the 4th and 7th day after intervention, and the difference was significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05); there was no significant difference in NE content in the catalpol intervention group on the 4th and 7th day after intervention (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05); compared with the model group, the hippocampal 5-HT and BDNF in the catalpol intervention group increased significantly (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05); there was no significant difference in the content of NE in hippocampus between the catalpol intervention group and the model group (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05), indicating that catalpol could increase 5-HT and BDNF levels in rats with post-stroke depression, but did not significantly improve NE.ConclusionCatalpol can improve post-stroke depression, promote the recovery of neurological function, regulate the function of central serotonin system and promote the secretion of BDNF.…”
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Cloned airway basal progenitor cells to repair fibrotic lung through re-epithelialization by Yu Zhao, Yueqing Zhou, Weipan Zhang, Mingzhe Liu, Jun Duan, Xiaopeng Zhang, Qiwang Ma, Yujia Wang, Yuzhen Zhang, Zhongliang Guo, Ting Zhang, Wei Zuo

“…Aided with an automated culture system, we clone and characterize airway basal progenitor cells from 44 donors with various lung conditions. …”
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Nanopore-based random genomic sampling for intraoperative molecular diagnosis by Francesco E. Emiliani, Abdol Aziz Ould Ismail, Edward G. Hughes, Gregory J. Tsongalis, George J. Zanazzi, Chun-Chieh Lin

“…Abstract Background Central nervous system tumors are among the most lethal types of cancer. …”
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Structural-Electromagnetic-Thermal Coupling Technology for Active Phased Array Antenna by Pengying Xu, Yan Wang, Xiaoxian Xu, Longyang Wang, Zhihai Wang, Kunpeng Yu, Wenzhi Wu, Meng Wang, Guojun Leng, Dongming Ge, Xiaofei Ma, Congsi Wang

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