Effect of Continuous Feeding of Ayu-Narezushi on Lipid Metabolism in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome by Takeshi Nishida, Koichi Tsuneyama, Yasuhiko Tago, Koji Nomura, Makoto Fujimoto, Takahiko Nakajima, Akira Noguchi, Takashi Minamisaka, Hideki Hatta, Johji Imura

“…Ayu-narezushi, a traditional Japanese fermented food, comprises abundant levels of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and free amino acids. …”
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El Zika, un Virus Transmitido por Mosquitos by Jorge R. Rey, L. Phil Lounibos, Barry W. Alto, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Cynthia C. Lord, Chelsea T. Smartt, C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly

“…Take precautions to avoid mosquito bites. Written by J. R. Rey, L. P. …”
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NECESSITY OF PROHIBITION OF THE PAID OBJECT IDENTIFIER OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE FOR ACCESS TO PROCUREMENT ON ELECTRONIC TRADING PLATFORMS by T. Lysenko

“…The actuality of the problem of using an electronic signature (next ES) containing an object identifier (next OID) on the possibility of its application on a specific electronic trading platform (next ETP) is considered and described in detail. …”
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Design and Construction of a Ripple Tank. by Twakire, Ignatius

“…Many schools face the problem of inadequate teaching aids. Also, some teachers talk about teaching aids without attempting to construct one, and others lack the necessary skills to use the available teaching aids. …”
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Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Children with Celiac Disease by Anna Rybak, Aldona Wierzbicka, Piotr Socha, Anna Stolarczyk, Bożena Cukrowska, Łukasz Obrycki, Zbigniew Wawer, Roman Janas, Beata Oralewska, Anna Szaflarska-Popławska, Barbara Iwańczak, Elżbieta Cyrta-Jarocka, Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk, Wojciech Cichy, Grażyna Czaja-Bulsa, Jerzy Socha

“…We showed decreased level (<5 ng/mL) of folic acid among 46% of children treated for >5 years. …”
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Macro–Microscopic Mechanical Study of Clay–Structure Interface Shear Behavior Using Direct Shear Testing and DEM Simulation by Tingting Sun, Jingnan Yang, Kuang Shi, Shufeng Lin, Jixing Yang

“…Subsequently, a discrete element method (DEM) numerical analysis was employed to study the contact network, soil fabric evolution, shear zone, coordination number, and void ratio variations in the interface shear. …”
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Prediction of Later-Age Concrete Compressive Strength Using Feedforward Neural Network by Thuy-Anh Nguyen, Hai-Bang Ly, Hai-Van Thi Mai, Van Quan Tran

“…Accurate prediction of the concrete compressive strength is an important task that helps to avoid costly and time-consuming experiments. Notably, the determination of the later-age concrete compressive strength is more difficult due to the time required to perform experiments. …”
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Characterization of Functionalized Polyurethane Foam for Lead Ion Removal from Water by Subhashini Gunashekar, Nidal Abu-Zahra

“…Polyurethane foams functionalized with sulfonic acid groups are used in this study to exchange lead (Pb2+) ions from aqueous solutions. …”
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Lipase-Catalyzed Synthesis of Cetyl Palmitate in the Presence of n-Hexane and Ethyl Ether by Gustavo Gealh, Maynara L. A. Santos, Marcos L. Corazza, Adrián Bonilla-Petriciolet, Fernando A. P. Voll

“…Cetyl palmitate was produced by the esterification of palmitic acid with cetyl alcohol using n-hexane and ethyl ether as solvents and a commercial lipase as a catalyst. …”
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Adult Intestinal Malrotation Treated with Laparoscopic Ladd Procedure by Noritoshi Mizuta, Takuya Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki Fukuda

“…The postoperative courses of the other two patients were good. No recurrence of symptoms was observed in any of the cases. …”
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Allelopathic and auto-toxic effects of aqueous extracts of Codonopsis pilosula root secretions. by Daiyu Qiu, Xue Wang, Fengbin Xu, Qian Li, Fengying Ren, Kan Jiang

“…The most pronounced auto-toxic comprehensive effect was observed with extracts at a concentration of 50 mL during the reproductive phase, diminishing SOD and POD activities, and MDA levels in C. pilosula seedlings by 72.3%, 71.7%, and 83.3% respectively, compared to the control (P<0.05). …”
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A secure message-passing framework for inter-vehicular communication using blockchain by Muhammd Awais Hassan, Ume Habiba, Usman Ghani, Muhmmad Shoaib

“…Due to exponential growth in the daily usage of vehicles, the traffic congestion and roadside accidents are increasing day by day. The communication among vehicles is critical to avoid the emergencies and to address the issue of congestion of vehicles. …”
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ANTi-JAM solutions for smart roads: Ant-inspired traffic flow rules under CAVs environment by Marco Guerrieri, Nicola Pugno

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Analysis of Gamasyab River Flood by Multi-Regression Method by Nabe Khazaei, Mahmood Alaee Taleghani, Habib Jafari

“…Estimating flood hit areas with limited or no statistical significant issues in the design of water structures and water resources management is a very important topic especially in arid and semi-arid areas. The aim of this study is to estimate the maximum river flood forecasting Gamasiab occurrence based on the environmental factors influencing the occurrence of floods. …”
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Two Strategies to Improve the Differential Evolution Algorithm for Optimizing Design of Truss Structures by Ching-Yun Kao, Shih-Lin Hung, Budy Setiawan

“…This work presents an enhanced DE (EDE) for truss design that utilizes two new strategies, namely, integrated mutation and adaptive mutation factor strategies, to obtain a good balance between the exploration and exploitation of DE. …”
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Determination of Chlorinity of Water without the Use of Chromate Indicator by Tae-Kee Hong, Myung-Hoon Kim, Myung-Zoon Czae

“…A new method for determining chlorinity of water was developed in order to improve the old method by alleviating the environmental problems associated with the toxic chromate. …”
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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Tooth Erosion by Sarbin Ranjitkar, John A. Kaidonis, Roger J. Smales

“…Though increasing evidence of associations between GERD and tooth erosion has been shown in both animal and human studies, relatively few clinical studies have been carried out under controlled trial conditions. …”
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Hydrological Information related Existed Dam Sites Assessment using ArcGIS in Zawita District by Zahraa Mahmood Klari, Dadvan Hakeem Abdulrahman

“…In other hand, the mismanagement of water resources and unplanned urbanization denoted as the most obstacles for developing the arid and semi-arid regions. For this, it is important to know the appropriate places to construct such important projects and to evaluate those places if those places are actually suitable for constructing dams or not. …”
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The development and characterization of a novel coagulant for dust suppression in open-cast coal mines by Gang Zhou, Tao Fan, Mao Xu, Han Qiu, Jiayuan Wang, Lei Qiu

“…Specifically, pretreated sodium lignin sulfonate and acrylic acid were first cross-linked, then the graft copolymerization of the intermediate product (the cross-linking product) and acrylamide was conducted and finally the resulting gelatinous substances were crushed. …”
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RNA Viruses: ROS-Mediated Cell Death by Mohammad Latif Reshi, Yi-Che Su, Jiann-Ruey Hong

“…The main thrust of this review is to investigate the role of ROS in ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus pathogenesis. Much evidences has accumulated over the past decade, suggesting that patients infected with RNA viruses are under chronic oxidative stress. …”
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