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

“…Intra- and inter-run precision of fenofibric acid assay at four concentrations ranged from 0.5% to 4.3% with accuracy varied from 93.1 to 108.1% indicating good precision and accuracy. Analytical recoveries of fenofibric acid and internal standard in plasma were less than 90%. …”
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Absence of the Genetic Marker IS6110 from a Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolated in Ontario by Susan T Howard, Matthew T Oughton, Albert Haddad, Wendy M Johnson

“…Two other genetic markers associated with the M tuberculosis complex, IS1081 and the direct repeat element, were present. …”
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A Novel Analytical Method for Trace Ammonium in Freshwater and Seawater Using 4-Methoxyphthalaldehyde as Fluorescent Reagent by Ying Liang, Yingming Pan, Qing Guo, Hongzhi Hu, Chancui Wu, Qian Zhang

“…The matrix recovery of the proposed method was in the range of 93.6–108.1%. Compared with the OPA method, this method was much more sensitive and rapid without the interference of background peak and would be more suitable for developing a portable fluorescence detection system.…”
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Screening and marker trait association for salinity tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) by P. Hima Bindu1*, G. Shiva Prasad2, R.M. Sundaram3, K. Sumalini1 and C.H. Damodar Raju4

“…Nine of the 16 polymorphic markers RM3412, RM10843, RM562, RM10793, RM 10748, RM8094, RM10694, RM1287 and RM493 showed statistically significant marker-trait relationships, suggesting the presence of important putative genetic loci linked to chromosome 1 with ability to withstand salinity. …”
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Three Species of Pet Birds in Northwest China by Wei Cong, Qing-Feng Meng, Xiao-Feng Shan, Wu-Wen Sun, Si-Yuan Qin, Xiao-Xuan Zhang, Si-Yang Huang, Ai-Dong Qian

“…Of these, the seroprevalence was diverse in different species pet birds; the most frequent level was 10.83% (39/360) in Eurasian siskin, followed by 6.57% (19/289) in Oriental skylark, and 2.29% (1/36) in black-tailed grosbeak. …”
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Metasurface-Coated Liquid Microlens for Super Resolution Imaging by Tongkai Gu, Kang Wang, Anjiang Cai, Fan Wu, Yasheng Chang, Haiyan Zhao, Lanlan Wang

“…The results indicate that the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the field distribution produced by the uncoated microlens is 1.083 times that of the field distribution produced by the Au@TiO₂, Core-Shell nanospheres coated microlens. …”
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Total Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead Determination in Brazilian Rice Samples Using ICP-MS by Lidiane Raquel Verola Mataveli, Márcia Liane Buzzo, Luciana Juncioni de Arauz, Maria de Fátima Henriques Carvalho, Edna Emy Kumagai Arakaki, Richard Matsuzaki, Paulo Tiglea

“…Regarding the sample preparation, recoveries of spiked samples were within the acceptable range from 89.3 to 98.2% for muffle furnace, 94.2 to 103.3% for heating block, 81.0 to 115.0% for hot plate, and 92.8 to 108.2% for microwave. Validation parameters showed that the method fits for its purpose, being the total arsenic, cadmium, and lead within the Brazilian Legislation limits. …”
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I normanni nel territorio dell’Albania del Sud. Il caso di Gurëzeza by Suela Xhyheri, Skënder Muçaj, Skënder Bushi

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Pollution reduction and electricity production from dairy industry wastewater with microbial fuel cell by D. Sivakumar

“…The maximum chemical oxygen demand reduction, current, voltage, power, current density and power density in double chambered salt bridge microbial fuel cell from dairy industry wastewater was found to be 86.30 %, 16.10 mA, 886.34 mV, 14.27 mW, 1219.69 mA/m2 and 1081.06 mW/m2 respectively for the optimum value of 1M NaCl concentration, 10 % agar concentration and 0.10 m salt bridge length. …”
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Sex ratio at birth in Kogi state, North-Central Nigeria by Adekunle Bakare, Deborah Peter, Motunrayo Mojoyin Coker, Silas Fagbenro, Okunola A. Alabi

“…The annual SRB was 98.1:100, 104.6:100, 101.5:100, 108.3:100, 102.2:100, and 104.9:100 for the six hospitals, respectively. …”
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Evaluating Children with Otitis Media for Bacteremia or Urinary Tract Infection by Daniel Yawman, Patrick Mahar, Aaron Blumkin, Gregory Conners

“…AOM was diagnosed in 17% of the 10,847 recorded visits of 2–36 month olds. Of these visits, laboratory testing included: CBC: 7%, Blood culture: 4%, urinalysis or urine culture: 5%, and any of these tests: 9%. …”
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FREQUENCY OF CHRONIC COMPLICATION IN TYPE 2 DIABETES AT ATERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN THE PROVINCE OF PUNJAB by Muhammad Azfar Tanveer, Sammiullah Douna, Aymon Shafi, Shahnawaz Hasan Gardezi, Farooq Mohyud Din Chaudhary, Ghulam Mohyud Din Chaudhry

“…The average age of the participants was 47.72±10.82 years. A positive family history of diabetes was detected in 46.3% of the subjects. …”
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Epidemiology of Human Respiratory Viruses in Children with Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Jinan, China by Yanqin Lu, Shifu Wang, Lehai Zhang, Chao Xu, Cuirong Bian, Zhaoxia Wang, Yanhui Ma, Ke Wang, Lixia Ma, Chen Meng, Caiyun Ni, Jiabei Tong, Gongchao Li, Jinxiang Han

“…IFV was the most common virus in URTIs, with a detection rate of 19.40%, followed by PIV (10.83%), RV (10.58%), and EV (6.30%). For LRTIs, PIV and RV were both detected in 27% of samples, followed by RSV (9.91%), HBoV (8.36%), IFV (5.57%), and hMPV (5.57%). …”
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An Outcome Overview of Housing Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Mataram City Post Lombok Earthquake Disaster by Ni Nyoman Kencanawati, Buan Anshari, Eko Pradjoko, Rini Srikus Saptaningtyas, Teti Handayani

“…However, the number of medium and minor damaged houses increased to 30.75% and 10.83%, respectively, to 3631 and 9159 houses. Through the implementation of the housing reconstruction and rehabilitation in Mataram City, it can be concluded that either the funding or the process was under the central government's guidance. …”
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High-resolution tumor marker detection based on microwave photonics demodulated dual wavelength fiber laser sensor by Jie Hu, Weihao Lin, Liyang Shao, Chenlong Xue, Fang Zhao, Dongrui Xiao, Yang Ran, Yue Meng, Panpan He, Zhiguang Yu, Jinna Chen, Perry Ping Shum

“…Experimental results demonstrate that this system's refractive index (RI) sensitivity reaches 1083 nm/RIU by wavelength analysis and –1902 GHz/RIU by frequency analysis, with ideal detection resolutions of 1.85×10–5 RIU and 5.26×10–8 RIU, respectively. …”
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Reported Diabetes Mellitus Prevalence Rates in the Colombia Healthcare System from 2009 to 2012: Analysis by Regions Using Data of the Official Information Sources by Noël C. Barengo, Diana Carolina Tamayo

“…Whereas the reported DM prevalence rates of SISPRO revealed an increase from 964/100.000 inhabitants (2009) to 1398/100.000 inhabitants in 2012 (mean annual increase 141/100.000; p value: 0.001), the respective rates in the CAC register were 1082/100.000 (2009) and 1593/100.000 in 2012 (mean annual increase 165/100.000; p value: 0.026). …”
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Chronic Functional Constipation and Encopresis in Children in Relationship with the Psychosocial Environment by Claudia Olaru, Smaranda Diaconescu, Laura Trandafir, Nicoleta Gimiga, Radian A. Olaru, Gabriela Stefanescu, Gabriela Ciubotariu, Marin Burlea, Magdalena Iorga

“…The study group consisted of 57 children diagnosed with encopresis (43 boys (75.44%) and 14 girls (24.56%)), M=10.82 years. It was determined that most of the children came from urban families with a poor socioeducational status. …”
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Factors Affecting Ultrasonographic Fetal Weight Estimation Accuracy in Low Birth Weight Newborns by Nevin Tuten, Onur Guralp, Koray Gok, Abdullah Tuten, Altay Gezer

“…Study Design: A total of 1082 women were evaluated in this retrospective cohort study. …”
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Investigation of Anaplasma marginale Seroprevalence in a Traditionally Managed Large California Beef Herd by Thomas R. Tucker, Sharif S. Aly, John Maas, Josh S. Davy, Janet E. Foley

“…Incidence density rate of Anaplasma marginale infection was 8.17 (95% confidence interval: 6.04, 10.81) cases per 1000 cow-days during the study period. …”
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