Influence of diglyme and cumene additives upon emission and combustion behaviour of diverse biodiesel fuelled diesel engine by Swarup Kumar Nayak, Dinesh Babu Munuswamy, Ganesan Subbiah, Mallireddy Naresh, Yuvarajan Devarajan

“…Experiments were conducted on a single-cylinder, 4-stroke, water-cooled, direct injection diesel engine operating at a constant speed of 1500 rpm and injection timing of 21ºbTDC under varying load conditions (0–5.02 kW). …”
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Emotional regulation as a transdiagnostic category through clinical problems: a narrative study by Alvaro Paredes-Rivera, Geraldine F Coria-Palomino, Alexandra Y Marcos-Lescano, Sthefany Sedano-Alejandro

“…This way of responding is a personal learned product that depends on the contingencies and the rules that the verbal community of reference has organized throughout personal history; so, at times, it can be destructive insofar as its rigid and often avoidant application prevents a person from building a meaningful life. …”
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Associations between Age-Related Changes in the Core Vestibular Projection Pathway and Balance Ability: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study by Sang Seok Yeo, Jung Won Kwon, In Hee Cho

“…The six-minute walk test (6-MWT), the timed up and go test (TUG), and the Berg balance scale (BBS) were conducted. …”
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Factors affecting cadmium toxicity to rice germinated in soils collected from downstream areas of abandoned zinc mines by P. Chanpiwat, A. Numprasanthai

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cadmium contamination in rice grains with a maximum concentration 19 times the national food standard at sites downstream of zinc mines in Thailand has been reported since 2005. …”
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Utility of Consumer-Grade Wearable Devices for Inferring Physical and Mental Health Outcomes in Severe Mental Illness: Systematic Review by Lamiece Hassan, Alyssa Milton, Chelsea Sawyer, Alexander J Casson, John Torous, Alan Davies, Bernalyn Ruiz-Yu, Joseph Firth

“…There was some evidence that lower levels of activity, higher heart rates, and later and irregular sleep onset times were associated with psychiatric diagnoses or poorer symptoms. …”
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Cutaneous amyloidosis in the orbital region (case report) by A.N. Bochkareva, V.V. Egorov, O.V. Kolenko, G.P. Smolyakova, P.A. Banshchikov

“…Among the types of amyloidosis described so far, the ocular adnexal involvement is an extremely rare finding which has such manifestations as periorbital cutaneous purpura and ecchymoses — “racoon eyes.” Timely diagnosis, the selection of individualized treatment strategies and the administration of chemotherapy would ensure clinical and hematological remission of amyloidosis, halt the disease progression, and thus reduce the probability of adverse outcome. …”
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Quantifying the spatial impact of an invasive Acacia on ecosystem functioning using remote sensing by André Große-Stoltenberg, Christiane Werner, Christine Hellmann, Jens Oldeland, Jan Thiele

“…We envision that advancements in remote sensing of ecosystem structure and functioning in terms of increasing availability of high spectral, spatial and temporal data as well as enhanced methods for data analysis will facilitate tracing the context-dependent and function-specific spatial effects of invasive species especially at early stages of invasion to enable timely management.…”
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Bone formation and growth of climbing perch Anabas testudinieus larvae fed with Zn enriched Artemia nauplii by Ismarica Ismarica, Mia Setiawati, Dedi Jusadi, Muhammad Agus Suprayudi

“…Climbing perch larvae with an average initial length of 1.65 ± 0.15 mm were fed four times daily with the enriched nauplii. For the first 5 days, all larvae were fed with rotifer followed by feeding with enriched Artemia nauplii ad libitum. …”
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Co-Optimization of Power Delivery Network Design for 3-D Heterogeneous Integration of RRAM-Based Compute In-Memory Accelerators by Madison Manley, James Read, Ankit Kaul, Shimeng Yu, Muhannad Bakir

“…Our 3-D designs achieve 39% higher energy efficiency, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$8\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> higher operation density, and improved throughput through shorter vertical interconnects. …”
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Lipoprotein (a) levels in children with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia by Liliya F. Galimova, Dinara I. Sadykova, Evgeniia S. Slastnikova, Chulpan D. Khaliullina, Karina R. Salakhova

“…Children with FH and Lp(a) levels 30 mg/dL were found to be 3.5 times more likely (95% confidence interval: 1.14–10.33, p=0.0239) to have family members with the onset of acute coronary syndrome prior to 40 years of age. …”
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Factors Leading to Malnutrition in Children Under Five Years in Nyamwamba Division, Kasese Municipality, Kasese District. by Kabugho, Mary Consolata

“…Empowering women in terms of formal education as seen in the current study, education positively affects the correct timing of initiation of complementary feeds. 3. The study recommends exclusive breast feeding and proper supplementary feeding especially among children aged less than three years.…”
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An Assessment of Microfinance Institution Services and Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kabale Municipality. by Mugarura, Elijah

“…Financial literacy programs like savings literacy, debt literacy and investment literacy supported business owners to safely manage income, expenditure and savings, make clear financial decisions, timely pay back loans as well as investment diversification. all of which improved performance of SMEs. …”
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Resource Management and Health Service Delivery in Rukungiri Municipality: A Case Study of Rwamahwa Health Center IV. by Ndyamuhak,i Faith

“…The study findings on the relationship between financial resources management and health service delivery at Rwamahwa Health Center IV, Rukungiri Municipality were; the health centre has a budget in place which helps to procure the required products for effective service delivery, the budget is drawn based on stakeholders' priorities which helps all patients to have equal access to health services, the health center carries out monthly cash reconciliations to ensure timely service delivery, political leaders can easily access information from departments which helps to identify lope holes to service delivery and financial resources management helps to cater for infant which leads to their low rate of mortality. …”
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Effects of Agrochemicals on Soil Bio-Physico-Chemical Properties in Potato Production Systems in the Highlands of South Western Uganda. by Twebaze, Jeniffer

“…Soil macrofauna samples were collected three times per season, and the observed organisms were counted and recorded to determine their abundance, evenness, and richness. …”
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Quantitative Physiologic MRI Combined with Feature Engineering for Developing Machine Learning-Based Prediction Models to Distinguish Glioblastomas from Single Brain Metastases by Seyyed Ali Hosseini, Stijn Servaes, Brandon Hall, Sourav Bhaduri, Archith Rajan, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Steven Brem, Laurie A. Loevner, Suyash Mohan, Sanjeev Chawla

“…<b>Background</b>: The accurate and early distinction of glioblastomas (GBMs) from single brain metastases (BMs) provides a window of opportunity for reframing treatment strategies enabling optimal and timely therapeutic interventions. We sought to leverage physiologically sensitive parameters derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC)–perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) along with machine learning-based methods to distinguish GBMs from single BMs. …”
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Clinical features and prognostic predictors of C. Psittaci Pneumonia: a systematic review and individual patient meta-analysis by Qingqing Jia, Jibo Sun, Dongguang Wang, Jiao Xu, Xiu Li, Shijie Zhang, Lian Wang, Sitong Liu, Xiang Tong, Hong Fan

“…The presence of dyspnea, neuropsychiatric symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, and multilobar infiltrates upon admission merits clinicians’ attention, advocating for timely sample submission for metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) to ascertain the etiology.…”
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Recovery of Nd³⁺ and Dy³⁺ from E-Waste Using Adsorbents from Spent Tyre Rubbers: Batch and Column Dynamic Assays by Miguel Nogueira, Inês Matos, Maria Bernardo, Filomena Pinto, Isabel Fonseca, Nuno Lapa

“…Column studies revealed efficient adsorption of Nd³⁺ and Dy³⁺ from synthetic and real magnet leachates with a maximum uptake capacity of 1.36 mg·g⁻¹ for Nd³⁺ in real leachates and breakthrough times of 25 min. Bi-component assays showed no adverse effects when both ions were present, supporting their potential for simultaneous recovery. …”
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Feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial of preoperative and postoperative nutritional supplementation in major lung surgery by Amelia Swift, Sebastian T Lugg, Babu Naidu, Nikolaos Efstathiou, Amy Kerr, Hazem Fallouh, Maninder Kalkat, Richard Steyn, Salma Kadiri, Ehab Bishay, Krishna Kholia, Venessa Rogers

“…The intervention involved preoperative carbohydrate-loading drinks (4×200 mL evening before surgery and 2×200 mL the morning of surgery) and early postoperative nutritional protein supplement drinks two times per day for 14 days compared with the control group receiving an equivalent volume of water.Setting Single adult thoracic centre in the UK.Participants All adult patients admitted for major lung surgery. …”
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Uptake and hesitancy of the second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine among the general population in China after the surge period of the COVID-19 pandemic: a large-scale national st... by Xin Liu, You Xin, Ling Zhang, Yijin Wu, Shu Jing, Zhenwei Dai, Tianrui Ren, Xiaoyang Liu, Jiaqi Fu, Xu Chen, Weijun Xiao, Hao Wang, Yiman Huang, Wenjun Wang, Xiaofen Gu, Li Ma, Shaokai Zhang, Yanqin Yu, Li Li, Tianzuo Gao, Tianyou Zhao, Yimin Qu, Xinyan Liu, Xiaoyou Su, Youlin Qiao

“…Crucial steps, such as raising public awareness of the benefits and potential side effects of regular COVID-19 vaccination, ensuring timely monitoring and disclosure of pandemic information, and implementing targeted measures to improve social support and mental health, should be taken. …”
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Epidemiological Dynamics of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase- or AmpC β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Screened in Apparently Healthy Chickens in Uganda by Steven Kakooza, Damien Munyiirwa, Paul Ssajjakambwe, Edrine Kayaga, Dickson Stuart Tayebwa, Dickson Ndoboli, Loreen Basemera, Esther Nabatta, Maria Agnes Tumwebaze, John Baligwamunsi Kaneene

“…Birds aged 4 months and below were more susceptible to ESBL-/AmpC-EC carriage compared with those aged 1 month and below being 6.33 times (CI = 1.65–24.35) likely to be carriers. The occurrence of ESBL-/AmpC-EC in flocks suggests possible treatment failures while managing colibacillosis. …”
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