Analyzing arguments on tobacco tax increases. Focus on French parliamentary questions and responses, 2000–2020 by François Topart, Emmanuelle Béguinot, Karine Gallopel-Morvan

“…Results We found 3176 arguments on tobacco taxation: 77.2% were against tobacco tax increases and 22.7% were in favor of tax policies. …”
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Co-occurrence of behavioural risk factors for non-communicable diseases and mortality risk in Spain: a population-based cohort study by Iñaki Galán, Cristina Ortiz, Carmen Rodriguez-Blazquez, Teresa López-Cuadrado, Ana Ayuso-Álvarez

“…Those reporting five risk factors had SRRs of 6.35 (95% CI 2.91; 13.83) and 2.57 (95% CI 1.11; 5.98) for tumour-related and cardiovascular disease mortality, respectively.Conclusions The co-occurrence of unhealthy behaviours increases the risk of overall and cause-specific mortality. …”
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Evaluating SCUBE-1 as Predictive Biomarker for Hypertension-Mediated Organ Damage: A Comparative Study by Betül Ayça Yamak, Mustafa Candemir, Emrullah Kızıltunç, Hüseyin Baran Özdemir, Özlem Gülbahar, Asife Şahinarslan

“…Serum signal peptide, CUB (complement C1r/C1s, Uegf, and Bmp1) domain, and epidermal growth factor-like domain-containing protein 1 (SCUBE-1), a novel biomarker implicated in vascular pathology, shows promise for detecting HMOD. …”
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Fundamentals for forage crop breeding and seed production in Russia by V. M. Kosolapov, V. I. Cherniavskih, S. I. Kostenko

“…In addition, imported seeds brought to the Russian market are often disguised as lawn varieties to reduce the cost and simplify their entry to the market. In this way, 107 varieties of winter ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), 47 varieties of cane fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.), 21 varieties of creeping clover (Trifolium repens L.), etc. appeared in Russia. …”
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Cost-Effective Treatment of Hemihydrate Phosphogypsum and Phosphorous Slag as Cemented Paste Backfill Material for Underground Mine by Xilong Xue, Yuxian Ke, Qian Kang, Qinli Zhang, Chongchun Xiao, Fengjian He, Qing Yu

“…The results show that (1) the UCS of CPB increases with the increase of the HPG content and mass fraction, and the addition of 3% quicklime can eliminate CO2, H2S, and SO2 generated from the slurry of CPB-based HPG-PS; (2) the addition of 3% quicklime and 5% cement to the HPG-PS mixtures can offset the strength loss of CPB in the late curing stage; (3) the UCS of the recommended specimen reaches 1.15–3.32 MPa after curing from 7 to 28 days, with their slump values varying from 15 mm to 26 mm, and the bleeding rates between 0.87% and 1.15%, which can meet the technical requirements of mining methods; (4) the UCS of CPB is the result of the cohydration reaction of hemihydrate gypsum (HG) in HPG and active Al2O3 and SiO2 in PS; and (5) the leaching indexes meet Category IV of the Chinese Groundwater Quality Standard (DZ/T 0290-2015). …”
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Effects of Light Spectra on Nutritional Composition in Juvenile Sinonovacula constricta (Lamarck 1818) and Transcriptomic Analysis by Mengqi Zhang, Fei Kong, Deshui Chen, Xiaojun Yan, Zhaoshou Ran, Jilin Xu

“…Specifically, culturing S. constricta under the yellow light led to improved growth rate (1.09 ± 0.03%/day), higher levels of carbohydrate (26.27% ± 0.49%), crude lipid (11.99% ± 0.23%), energy contents (14,611.34 ± 1,067.01 kJ/kg), and essential amino acids (15.22 ± 0.01 g/kg), as well as increased proportions of polyunsaturated fatty acids (12.38 ± 0.31 µg/mg). …”
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Growth, Feed Utilization, Lipid Metabolism, and Metamorphosis of Bullfrog (Aquarana catesbeianus) Tadpoles Fed Diets With Different Lipid Levels by Juan Gao, Ling Wang, Jian Zhang, Kangle Lu, Kai Song, Xueshan Li, Chunxiao Zhang

“…Weight gain (WG), specific growth rate (SGR), crude protein content of the whole body, apparent digestibility of dry matter and gross energy, intestinal lipase (LPS) capacity, lipoprotein lipase (LPL), and carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I (CPT-I) and contents of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in the liver, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) content in the serum, and metamorphosis rate at stages 40 and 41 increased as the dietary lipid level increased from 4.46% to 12.34% and then decreased. …”
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Viability of black currant pollen before and after cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen, and its morphological features by O. A. Tikhonova, O. A. Gavrilova, E. A. Radchenko, V. G. Verzhuk, A. V. Pavlov

“…A low positive correlation was observed between the level of pollen viability and the diameters of the pore (r = 0.43) and pollen grain (r = 0.27). An insignificant negative correlation was apparent between the level of viability and the exine thickness (r = –0.33).…”
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Endopiriform neurons projecting to ventral CA1 are a critical node for recognition memory by Naoki Yamawaki, Hande Login, Solbjørg Østergaard Feld-Jakobsen, Bernadett Mercedesz Molnar, Mads Zippor Kirkegaard, Maria Moltesen, Aleksandra Okrasa, Jelena Radulovic, Asami Tanimura

“…We demonstrated that some of the key roles of the CLA complex can be attributed to the connectivity and function of a small group of neurons in its ventral subregion, the endopiriform (EN). …”
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Advances in Serological Diagnosis of Neurocysticercosis in Korea by Chun-Seob Ahn, Jeong-Geun Kim, Sun Huh, Insug Kang, Yoon Kong

“…The prevalence of taeniasis in Korea declined from 0.3%–12.7% during the 1970s to below 0.02% since the 2000s. …”
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Nursing management in the fecal microbiota transplantation for a child with autism (1例孤独症患儿行粪菌移植术的护理) by WANG Suling (王苏玲), ZHU Huiyun (朱慧云), LI Changyan (李畅妍), LUO Ying (罗颖)

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Identificación molecular de patrones genéticos en distintas muestras de arándano (vaccinium sp.) by M.C. Martínez, M.I. Plata Tamayo, H.E. Hopp

“…La calidad genotípica de las variedades comerciales de arándano (particularmente diferenciación y homogeneidad) fueron evaluadas mediante la técnica de marcadores moleculares RAPD (polimorfismo de ADN amplificado aleatoriamente) con el objeto de identificar la presencia de genotipos adventicios. …”
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Enhancement of Phosphorus Sorption onto Peanut shell by Means of Aluminum and Iron Oxide Coatings by Hazhar Jalal Ali, Muhammed Saeed Rasheed, Omran A Hawramy, Aya Muhammed Saeed

“…The maximum P adsorption of 28.9±0.07 and 50.6±0.49% was recorded for 24 h of incubation and at pH (4.6) with an Al-coated peanut shell respectively. …”
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Trend of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ethiopian Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2000-2018) by Getaneh Alemu, Feleke Mekonnen, Mezgebu Nega, Chalachew Muluneh

“…Among soil-transmitted helminths, Ascaris lumbricoides (11.2%; 95% CI: 8.4-14.8) was with the highest pooled prevalence followed by hookworms (10.4%; 95% CI: 7.9-13.7) and Trichuris trichiura (3.6%; 95% CI: 2.4-5.4). …”
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Multidrug Resistant Enteric Bacteria from Cancer Patients Admitted in Douala Laquintinie Hospital, Littoral Region of Cameroon by Michael F. Kengne, Ornella D. Tsobeng, Ballue S. T. Dadjo, Victor Kuete, Armelle T. Mbaveng

“…Among all participants in this study, 62.13% were female and 37.87% were male. The average age of the participants was 46.38 ± 15.81 years, with a minimum age of 10 years and a maximum age of 84 years. …”
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Object-Level Contrastive-Learning-Based Multi-Branch Network for Building Change Detection from Bi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images by Shiming Li, Fengtao Yan, Cheng Liao, Qingfeng Hu, Kaifeng Ma, Wei Wang, Hui Zhang

“…We validate the effectiveness of the proposed method through comparative experiments on the publicly available WHU-CD and S2Looking datasets. Our approach achieves IoU values of 88.54% and 51.94%, respectively, surpassing state-of-the-art methods for building change detection.…”
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Synthesis and Conformational Analysis of Sterically Congested (4R)-(−)-1-(2,4,6-Trimethylbenzenesulfonyl)-3-n-butyryl-4-tert-butyl-2-imidazolidinone: X-Ray Crystallography and Semi... by Ibrahim A. Al-Swaidan, Adel S. El-Azab, Amer M. Alanazi, Alaa A.-M. Abdel-Aziz

“…The crystal data are a=10.62165 Å, b=16.5321 Å, c=8.95729 Å, ∝=91.1936∘, β=93.8496∘, γ=88.0974∘, V=1568.22 Å3, Z=3, Dcalc=1.253 g/cm3, μCuKα=15.98 cm−1, F000=636.00, T=20.0°C, and R=0.037. …”
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Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane and Benzene Hexachloride Metabolite Residues in Blood of Khat (Catha edulis) Chewers and Agricultural Workers in Wondogenet district, Sidama Natio... by S. R. Sisay, S. S. Solomon, T. Y. Girma, S. B. Yohannes, A. G. Asamire, T. B. Liya, E. Amanuel

“…Data obtained show that in chewers blood samples the concentration was ranked as follows: p,p’-DDE (14.26µgL-1) >p,p’-DDT(5.88µgL-1) > Gamma BHC (3.378µgL-1)  >Beta BHC (2.336µgL-1)>Delta BHC (0.506 µgL-1).Whereas ,in sprayer workers the concentration was ranked as follow:p,p’-DDE (13.245µgL-1) >p,p’-DDT(5.468 µgL-1) > Gamma BHC (3.13µgL-1)  >Beta BHC (2.169 µgL-1) >Delta BHC (0.469 µgL-1) and in farmers blood sample the concentration of pesticides was as follow;p,p’-DDE (0.193µgL-1) >p,p’-DDT(0.192µgL-1) > Gamma BHC (0.11µgL-1)  >Beta BHC (0.07µgL-1) >Delta BHC (0.02µgL-1).There is significant difference in mean concentration of delta BHC,gammaBHC,betaBHC,,ppDDE and ppDDT in blood serum among spray workers and farmers as well as khat chewers and farmers.Furthermore, onepesticides:ppDDE had residues above ADI in blood serum of khat chewers and spray workers.Therefore, vigilant monitoring pesticide levels in khat is imperative for addressing environmental and public health concerns. …”
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Relationship between prognostic nutritional index and asthma: a cross-sectional analysis by Zhimeng Jiang, Zhimeng Jiang, Xingyu Zhu, Xingyu Zhu, Huixin Jiang, Donglin Zhao, Donglin Zhao, Jianwei Tian

“…In the complete adjusted model, each additional unit of PNI was associated with a 3% reduction in the prevalence of asthma [0.97 (0.95, 0.99)]. Trend analysis indicated a significant negative correlation between PNI and asthma (p for trend = 0.0041). …”
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بررسی تنوع ژنتیکی برخی توده‌های گردوی بومی استان گلستان با استفاده از نشانگر مولکولی ریزماهواره

“…میانگین تعداد آلل‌ها برای 11 مکان ژنی، 7 آلل، و تعداد آلل­های مؤثر در مکان­های ژنی از 57/1 تا 32/5 متفاوت بود و میانگین تعداد آلل­های مؤثر به ازای هر مکان ژنی 77/3 آلل گردید. …”
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