Squalene Extraction by Supercritical Fluids from Traditionally Puffed Amaranthus hypochondriacus Seeds by Teresa Rosales-García, Cristian Jiménez-Martínez, Anaberta Cardador-Martínez, Sandra Teresita Martín-del Campo, Luis A. Galicia-Luna, Dario Iker Téllez-Medina, Gloria Dávila-Ortiz

“…Extracts were obtained with a 500 mL capacity commercial supercritical extractor and performed between 10 and 30 MPa at 313, 323, and 333 K under constant CO2 flow of 0.18 kg CO2/h during 8 h. …”
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Sorption isotherms and kinetics of Crystal Violet dye uptake from aqueous solution by using polyaniline nanocomposite as adsorbent by Piyush Gupta, Amrita Kaushik, Garima Nagpal, Markus Diantoro, Firdaus Mohamad Hamzah, Faisal Islam Chowdhury, Pramod K. Singh

“…The adsorption efficiency demonstrated a pH-dependent behaviour, increasing from 42 % at pH 3.0 to 88 % at pH 9.0, while a decline was observed above pH 9, attributed to electrostatic repulsion effects. …”
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Increasing the Wear Resistance of Stamping Tools for Coordinate Punching of Sheet Steel Using CrAlSiN and DLC:Si Coatings by Sergey N. Grigoriev, Marina A. Volosova, Ilya A. Korotkov, Vladimir D. Gurin, Artem P. Mitrofanov, Sergey V. Fedorov, Anna A. Okunkova

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Improvement of Shelf Life and Sensory Quality of Pears Using a Specialized Edible Coating by Virgilio Cruz, Romeo Rojas, Saúl Saucedo-Pompa, Dolores G. Martínez, Antonio F. Aguilera-Carbó, Olga B. Alvarez, Raúl Rodríguez, Judith Ruiz, Cristóbal N. Aguilar

“…Coated pears with and without polyphenols and uncoated pears (control) were stored under the same conditions. Fruits were analyzed to evaluate changes in their physicochemical, microbiological, and sensorial properties during 30 days of storage at room temperature. …”
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Assessing the performance of machine learning and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) models for rainwater harvesting potential zone identification in hilly region, Bangladesh by Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Talha, Most. Mitu Akter, Md Tasim Ferdous, Pratik Mojumder, Sujit Kumar Roy, N.M. Refat Nasher

“…Inventory data from the study area, consisting of 135 suitable and 135 non-suitable points, were randomly split, with 70% used for training the models and the remaining 30% for validation using the area under the curve (AUC) values. …”
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Morphologically-analyzed and syntactically-annotated Quran datasetMendeley Data by Majdi Sawalha, Faisal Al-Shargi, Sane Yagi, Abdallah T. AlShdaifat, Bassam Hammo, Mariam Belajeed, Lubna R. Al-Ogaili

“…The dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which governs its use and distribution. …”
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Portable Gentle Jogger Improves Glycemic Indices in Type 2 Diabetic and Healthy Subjects Living at Home: A Pilot Study by Jose A. Adams, Veronica Banderas, Jose R. Lopez, Marvin A. Sackner

“…On day 4, subjects were provided with JD and instructed to use it a minimum of 3 times per day for 30 min for 7 days. CGM data was analyzed at baseline (BL) and during 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 days of JD (JD 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) and 1-2-day post JD (Post JD1 and 2) and the following 24 hr indices computed mean glucose (mGLu), SUM of all glucose values, % coefficient of variation (%CV), area under the 24-hour curve (AUC), time spent above range (TAR, glucose 180-250 mg/dl), and time in range (TIR). …”
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Performance of iopamidol degradation by MoS2@Fe3O4 Fenton-like system by LI Hao, SHI Nan, WU Daoji, FU Kaifang, LUO Congwei

“…The results showed that Fe3O4 was deposited on the surface of MoS2, and MoS2@Fe3O4 had a uniformly dispersed flower ball structure, which provided more catalytic active sites. Under the conditions of initial pH of 4, MoS2@Fe3O4 dosage of 0.15 g/L, H2O2 concentration of 0.5 mmol/L, and IPM concentration of 5 μmol/L, the degradation rate of IPM by MoS2@Fe3O4/H2O2 system reached 89.85% after 30 minutes of reaction. …”
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Discovery and Characterization of Two Selective Inhibitors for a Mu-Class Glutathione S-Transferase of 25 kDa from <i>Taenia solium</i> Using Computational and Bioinformatics Tools by César Sánchez-Juárez, Roberto Flores-López, Lluvia de Carolina Sánchez-Pérez, Ponciano García-Gutiérrez, Lucía Jiménez, Abraham Landa, Rafael A. Zubillaga

“…The two compounds were found to reduce the enzyme’s activity by 50–70% under assay conditions, while showing a reduction of only 30–35% for human mu-class GSTM1, demonstrating selectivity for Ts25GST. …”
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Evaluation of macula ganglion cell analysis and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in preperimetric glaucoma, early stage glaucoma and healthy individuals by Ozlem AKTAS  OZALTUN, Ozlem GURBUZ  KOZ, Ahmet Alper YARANGUMELI

“…Methods: This retrospective study included a total of 103 eyes: 38 from EG patients, 30 from PPG patients, and 35 from healthy individuals at Ankara Bilkent City Hospital Glaucoma Unit between January 2018 and September 2021. …”
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Surface Treatment of Rammed Earth Heritage Sites Using MICP Technology: An Investigation of Rainwater Erosion Resistance via Indoor Experiments and In Situ Testing by Liang Liu, Yun Zhang, Wanting Chen, Haiying Cao, Lianjun Guo, Lingling Zheng, Tianli Li, Rong Shu, Dongdong Li

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Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Fracture Extension in Conglomerate Fracturing Considering Pore-Fracture Seepage and Study of Influencing Factors by Zehao Xu, Haiyang Zhao, Xiangjun Liu, Lixi Liang, Pandeng Luo

“…By introducing multiple parameters to quantify the correlation between fracture geometry, fracture complexity, and damage mode, the evolution mechanism of fracture morphology under the influence of multiple factors is systematically investigated. …”
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Tillage and residue management modulate the links between soil physical signatures and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biomarkers by Stamatios Thomopoulos, Lars Juhl Munkholm, Lars Elsgaard, Sabine Ravnskov

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Insulin Facilitates the Recovery of Myocardial Contractility and Conduction during Cardiac Compression in Rabbits with Bupivacaine-Induced Cardiovascular Collapse by Solmon Yang, Tserendorj Uugangerel, In-ki Jang, Hyung-chul Lee, Jong Min Kim, Byeong-Cheol Kang, Chong Soo Kim, Kook-Hyun Lee

“…Arterial blood pressure, and electrocardiography were continuously monitored for 30 min and plasma bupivacaine concentrations at every 5 min. …”
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Cohort profile: Swedish families of the 1990s (SWIFT90) by Josephine Jackisch, Viviane S. Straatmann, Tanishta Rajesh, Ylva B. Almquist

“…SWIFT90 compiles administrative data spanning from 1960 to 2022, which reflects the most recent data available at the time of the data request.Findings to date SWIFT90 provides information on 61 982 parents (fathers=31 028; mothers=30 954) with children placed in OHC and their respective children (38,084). …”
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Combination of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) Level and Asthma Control Test (ACT) in Detecting GINA-Defined Asthma Control in Treated Asthmatic Patients in Vietnam by Vinh Nguyen Nhu, Pham Le An, Niels H. Chavannes

“…The area under the ROC curve (AUC) for FeNO detecting uncontrolled asthma was 0.730 with an optimal cut-off point of FeNO > 50 ppb, and this AUC increased to 0.89 when combining FeNO and ACT. …”
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Exploring Health-Seeking Behaviors Among Healthcare Workers and the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Quantitative Study by Gabriela Castañeda-Millán, Alexia M. Haritos, Edris Formuli, Maryna Mazur, Kishana Balakrishnar, Bao-Zhu Stephanie Long, Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia

“…Background/objectives: Mental health issues are prevalent among healthcare workers, but help-seeking behavior in this groups remains under-researched. The purpose of this study was to explore predictors of and barriers to mental health help-seeking among healthcare workers in Canada, compared to workers from other sectors. …”
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Fabrication of metal organic framework/Polyoxometalate-TiO2 based DSCCs with enhanced electron lifetime and reduced recombination of charge carriers sensitized with cabbage/spinach... by William Moloto, Pontsho Mbule, Edward Nxumalo, Bulelwa Ntsendwana

“…As a result, this electrode was used to fabricate a novel natural dye (chlorophyll, anthocyanin and cocktail mixture)-based DSSCs.The cocktail based mixture showed higher power conversion efficiency of 1.92 % compared to spinach based DSSCs (0.98 %) and purple cabbage (0.89 %) under 100 ​mW/cm2 light illumination with 30 ​ms of electron lifetime, which is three times and four times more than spinach and cabbage based DSSCs respectively. …”
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The MTNR1B Rs724030 variant is associated with islet function and women waist-to-hip ratio in healthy subjects by Sijie Zhang, Wenxuan Bian, Yan Wang, Min Shen, Yu Qian, Hao Dai, Shuai Zheng, Qi Fu, Kuanfeng Xu, Tao Yang, Hemin Jiang

“…Binary logistic regression was performed to evaluate the relationships between rs724030 in MTNR1B and prediabetes under the additive model. Additionally, multiple linear regression was utilized to investigate the associations between this variant and glycemic-related quantitative traits and lipid levels.ResultsWhile no association was observed between the rs724030 variant in MTNR1B and prediabetes risk in the overall cohort (P &gt; 0.05), we found the G allele of this variant was associated with higher fasting and 30-minute plasma glucose levels, decreased Insulinogenic Index (IGI), and oral disposition index (DIo) (P = 0.009, 0.001, 0.001, and 0.007, respectively) in the normal glucose tolerance (NGT) individuals with normal BMI levels. …”
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TAD-SIE: sample size estimation for clinical randomized controlled trials using a Trend-Adaptive Design with a Synthetic-Intervention-Based Estimator by Sayeri Lala, Niraj K. Jha

“…Abstract Background Phase-3 clinical trials provide the highest level of evidence on drug safety and effectiveness needed for market approval by implementing large randomized controlled trials (RCTs). However, 30–40% of these trials fail mainly because such studies have inadequate sample sizes, stemming from the inability to obtain accurate initial estimates of average treatment effect parameters. …”
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