Abnormal Respiratory Symptoms of Workers and Sampling of Organic Vapors Using Solid-phase Microextraction Devices in a Golf Ball Manufacturing Factory by Wen-Hsi Cheng, Nai-Yu Chen

“…In this investigation, workers’ exposures to VOCs were evaluated using a needle trap sampler (NTS), which is a micro sampling device, and the results of an analysis using a gas chromatography mass spectrometer were compared to the samples that were collected in charcoal adsorption tubes with respect to VOC content. Ethyl acetate and n-butyl acetate are main compounds that are emitted in the painting and printing of golf ball. …”
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Evaluation of the antidiarrheal activity of the 80% hydromethanolic crude extract and solvent fractions of Terminalia brownii Fresen (Combretaceae) leaves in Swiss Albino mice by Khalid Ibrahim Kassaw, Dawit Zewdu Wondafrash, Jibril Seid Yesuf, Mestayet Geta Mengistie

“…Castor oil-induced intestinal motility was significantly reduced (p < 0.001) by the crude extract and ethyl acetate fractions at all tested doses.ConclusionThe result from this study suggests significant antidiarrheal activity of Terminalia brownii leaves, which validates its traditional use. …”
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The effect of caregiver opinion leaders to increase demand for evidence-based practices for youth anxiety: A cluster randomized controlled trial by Margaret E. Crane, Marc S. Atkins, Sara J. Becker, Jonathan Purtle, Gillian C. Dysart, Sydney Keller, Olivia Brauer, Sirina E. Tiwari, Thomas M. Olino, Lara Baez, John Lestino, Philip C. Kendall

“…., cognitive behavioral therapy [CBT]). Opinion leaders (OLs) have been used in public health campaigns, but have not been examined for the dissemination of mental health treatments. …”
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Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis by E Brits, E Gerber, I Iroka, L Mgidlana, J Willoughby, S Dhlamini, P Nxumalo, S Sefadi, A Mthembu, J B Sempa

“…This retrospective cross-sectional study included 207 paediatric oncology patients treated for nephroblastoma at the Paediatric Haematology and Oncology Unit at UAHC, Bloemfontein, SA, from January 2000 to December 2020. …”
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Fabrication of self-standing hyperbranched poly(ethyleneimine) film with shape-memory and copper adsorption behavior via simple polymer reaction with tetraazacalix[2]arene[2]triazi... by Tomohiro Suzuki, Ryota Shibata, Tadashi Tsukamoto, Yuji Shibasaki

“…In a dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), the glass transition temperature of the modified polymer was observed from −13.6°C to 35.1 °C, and this value increased with the amount of ACAT modifier. A small relaxation was observed in DMA at temperatures above 70°C, which was due to the partial cleavage of the hydrogen bonds between ACAT and PEI segments. …”
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Studies on the Dual Cytotoxicity and Antioxidant Properties of Berberis vulgaris Extracts and Its Main Constituent Berberine by Lamyae El khalki, Mounir Tilaoui, Abdeslam Jaafari, Hassan Ait Mouse, Abdelmajid Zyad

“…The present study attempts to investigate the cytotoxic activity of ethanol and ethyl acetate extracts of the Moroccan Berberis vulgaris and its major component berberine, together with exploring their antioxidant properties. …”
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Study of Molecular Interactions in Binary Liquid Mixtures by Acoustical Method at 303K by P. Paul Divakar, B. V. Rao, K. Samatha

“…Ultrasonic velocity and density measurements were made in two binary liquid mixtures Isopropyl acetate (IPA) and Isobutyl acetate (IBA) with cyclohexanone (CY) as a common component at 303K, at fixed frequency of 2MHz using single crystal variable path interferometer and specific gravity bottle respectively. …”
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Synthesis of Some 2-Thioxo-imidazolidin-4-one Derivatives and its Antimicrobial Activity by A. Jamal Abdul Nasser, A. Idhayadhulla, R. Surendra Kumar, J. Selvin

“…Series of newly prepared 3-{[2,6-bis(4-substituted phenyl)-1- methylpiperidin-4- ylidene] amino}- 2-thioxo-imidazolidin-4-one derivatives (3a-3f) have been synthesized by the cyclization of compound (2a-2f), ethyl chloro acetate and fused sodium acetate. …”
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Critical Gates Identification for Fault-Tolerant Design in Math Circuits by Tian Ban, Gutemberg G. S. Junior

“…Hardware redundancy at different levels of design is a common fault mitigation technique, which is well known for its efficiency to the detriment of area overhead. …”
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Firm Growth Function and Extended-Gibrat’s Property by Atushi Ishikawa, Shouji Fujimoto, Takayuki Mizuno, Tsutomu Watanabe

“…By employing around one million bits of exhaustive sales data of Japanese firms in the ORBIS database, we confirmed our analytic results.…”
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XOR-FREE Implementation of Convolutional Encoder for Reconfigurable Hardware by Gaurav Purohit, Kota Solomon Raju, Vinod Kumar Chaubey

“…The hardware (HW) implementation of new architecture uses Lookup Table (LUT) for storing the parity bits. The design implements architectural reconfigurability by modifying the generator polynomial of the same constraint length and code rate to reduce the design complexity. …”
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Comparative analysis of integer factorization algorithms by G. Kimsanova, R. Ismailova, R. Sultanov

“…Our results showed that for numbers up to 296 bits the Pollard rho algorithm is the fastest one, while Fermat algorithm is fast when distances between factors are small. …”
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Kernel technologies and applications of AVS2 video coding standard by Siwei MA, Falei LUO, Tiejun HUANG

“…A brief introduction was given to the development history of AVS video coding standards.Then an overview of the key technologies adopted in AVS2 video coding standard (GB/T 33475.2-2016) was provided,including flexible prediction partition,multiple hypothesis prediction,optimized two-level transform,adaptive loop filter and background picture model based prediction coding for scene video.Compared to the AVS1,AVS2 can achieve more than 50% bits saving.And compared to HEVC/H.265,AVS2 can achieve significant coding efficiency improvement for scene video coding.Moreover,the applications of AVS standard in digital TV broadcasting was introduced briefly.…”
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MORINGA OLEIFERA. APLICACIÓN EN LA ELABORACIÓN DE UN PROTECTOR SOLAR by Beatriz Zumalacárregui de Cárdenas, Cándida Magali Ferrer Serrano

“…Objetivo: Determinar el efecto fotoprotector solar in vitro de la combinación del extracto hidroalcohólico de hojas y del aceite vegetal de semillas de Moringa oleífera ecotipo Plain. …”
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Synthesis and Pharmacological Evaluation of 2-(4-Halosubstituted phenyl)-4,5-diphenyl-1H-imidazoles by G. Nagalakshmi

“…In the present study, 2-(4-halosubstituted phenyl)-4,5-diphenyl-1Himidazoles have been synthesized by refluxing benzil and ammonium acetate with different 4-halosubstituted aromatic aldehydes in glacial acetic acid. …”
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Stabilization of Carboxylate Surface Species on Pd(111) by Florencia Calaza, Wilfred T. Tysoe, Darío J. Stacchiola

“…The stabilization of formate and acetate surface species on Pd(111) has been studied by temperature-programmed desorption and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS). …”
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Generation of address sequences with specified switching activity and address repeatability by V. N. Yarmolik, N. A. Shevchenko, V. А. Levantsevich, D. V. Demenkovets

“…On the basis of proposed restrictions, the notion of an integer decomposition diagram similar to the Young diagram is introduced, and the operation of its modification is defined.Conclusion. The proposed mathematical model expands the possibilities of generating test address sequences with the required values of switching activity of both test sets and their individual bits. …”
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MECHANICAL STATE ANALYSIS USING QUANTUM THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGICAL FILTER by SHI Ying

“…Aiming at the erosion operator for the mathematical morphological filter（ MMF）,the quantum-inspired weighting structuring element（ QWSE） is proposed based on the quantum theory to extract fault information of mechanical vibration signal.Firstly,after analyzing the system with multiple quantum bits,a method which is employed to map the quantum space to the real number space is presented and the calculation formula of the QWSE is obtained. …”
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McEliece public key cryptosystem attack algorithm based on enumeration error vector by Jing-mei LIU, Yan-li WANG, Bin LIANG, Lin-sen ZHAO

“…The effect on probability of correct decryption by the numbers of error flipping bits and algorithm iteration was focused on. And the security of (1 024,524,101) Goppa-based M public key cryptosystem was analyzed. …”
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Enhanced overloaded code division multiple access for network on chip by Behnam Vakili, Morteza Gholipour

“…Abstract The Code‐division multiple access (CDMA) method is commonly used as the network infrastructure in multi‐core chips. One of its advantages is the simultaneous connection of all network components. …”
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