Scale-Up Preparation and Characterization of Collagen/Sodium Alginate Blend Films by Zhe Wang, Shuaifeng Hu, Huaiyu Wang

“…SEM and AFM showed homogeneous matrix, with no signs of phase separation in the blends. Overall, films (CS2) produced using collagen (g) : sodium alginate (g) = 10 : 2 showed suitable rheological property (apparent viscosity was 4.87 m Pa s−1) and better TS (26.49 Mpa), E (64.98%), WVP (1.79 × 10−10 g·cm−1·s−1·Pa−1), and OP (3.77 × 10−5 cm3·m−2·d−1·Pa−1).…”
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Framework for a problem-solving educational program integrating medicine and design disciplines at a Japanese university by Kuriko Kudo, Naoshige Akita, Hiroyuki Matsuguma, Shunta Tomimatsu, Yasuyuki Hirai, Tomohiko Moriyama

“…Collaboration between design and medicine can be fostered in several ways; however, educational programs linking these two academic fields are limited, and their frameworks and effectiveness are unknown. …”
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干扰素治疗后病毒性肝炎病人#br# 干扰素中和抗体的检测及意义 by 徐启桓　彭文伟　陆玮伦

“…摘　要　使用4 种α-干扰素的98 例病毒性肝炎病人, 在治疗前、治疗期间及治疗后定期检测抗干扰素中和抗 体, 结果发现阳性率为34.7%, 该抗体的产生与病人的性别、年龄、治疗前ALT 水平、肝炎病毒感染类型、以及肝炎的 临床类型均无显著相关;低剂量干扰素较易产生中和抗体;使用不同干扰素制剂产生中和抗体存在差异, 其中以 rIFN-α2a 最高, IFN-αN1 最低;但中和抗体的出现对干扰素的抗病毒疗效影响不大, 由于病例数较少,干扰素治疗期间 出现的肝炎再活动现象与抗干扰素中和抗体产生的关系, 未能下结论。…”
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Research on Vibration and Noise Coupling Characteristics of Bogie Gearboxes for Metro Vehicles by Ni Jinshang

“…The results show that the time-varying meshing force of the helical gear pair of the subway car bogie gearbox and the dynamic load of the supporting bearing show a periodic fluctuation trend above and below a certain average value; the vibration of the gearbox body and the structural noise in the vicinity of the gearbox in the up and down, left and right direction are greater than those in the axial direction; the maximum relative errors between the simulated and experimental values of vibration and structural noise are respectively 14.61% and 3.77%, which can verify the rationality and correctness of the simulation analysis. …”
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CRE-YOLO: Efficient Jaboticaba Tree Detection on UAV Platforms by Junyu Huang, Renbo Luo, Yuna Tan, Zhuowen Wu

“…CRE-YOLO achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 97.1% at IoU 0.5 and 60.3% at IoU 0.95, with a processing speed of 387 frames per second. …”
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Gambaran Stres Pengasuhan Pada Orangtua Dengan Anak Usia Sekolah di Masa Pandemi Covid-19 by Muhamad Yunus, Sri Wahyuni, Oswati Hasanah

“…Parenting stress at a moderate level was experienced by 34 people (34.7%), and a high level of parenting stress was shared by one person (1.0%). …”
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Knowledge and Attitude of Iranian University Students toward Genital Warts by Zeinab Aryanian, Maedeh Mohammadi, Arefeh Babazadeh, Parvaneh Hatami, Zeinab Mohseni Afshar, Azadeh Goodarzi, Ifa Etesami, Mohammad Barary, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Parisa Sabbagh

“…The participants’ mean age was 23.70 ± 3.27 years, with a range of 20–50 years. Evaluation of these students’ level of general information about HPV showed that 7 (1.8%) students had inadequate general information, 34 (8.8%) had moderate knowledge, and 344 (89.4%) had good general knowledge in this regard. …”
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Analysis of the factors that influences pastoral resources dynamic in the Zou waterdhed at dome Outlet (Benin) by Adetona Luc, Agoinon Norbert, Hounton Charles, Orou Kpera Bio, Ouorou Barre Fousseni Imorou, Vodounou Jean Bosco Kpatindé, Gnele José Edgard

“…Moreover, areas without drought decreased from 8.63% in January 2016 to 7.78% in 2020. Demographic's growth in the basin, which increased from 576,727 inhabitants in 1992 to 1,367,389 in 2020 increased a pressure on pastoral carrying capacity and accelerating ecosystem degradation. …”
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Association between Androgenetic Alopecia and Psychosocial Disease Burden: A Cross-Sectional Survey among Polish Men by Roksana Adamowicz, Piotr Załęcki, Anna Dukiel, Danuta Nowicka

“…Each participant answered 23 dedicated questions about demographic data, history of the disease, and a psychosocial condition. Overall, 38.7% of patients did not notice any impact of AGA on their contact with other people or activity in their free time; 50.7% of patients observed little or no effect on their relationship with their partner; 60% of patients often or sometimes felt embarrassed by their baldness (mainly those aged 18–25 years; p=0.002); 66.7% of patients reported a rather large negative impact on their self-esteem; and 81.3% of patients sometimes experienced stress in everyday life. …”
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Child Survival Strategies: Assessment of Knowledge and Practice of Rural Women of Reproductive Age in Cross River State, Nigeria by Aniekan Jumbo Etokidem, Ofonime Johnson

“…The child survival strategy known to most of the respondents was oral rehydration therapy as indicated by 98% followed by female education by 73.3% and immunization by 67.3%. Only 20% of the respondents had adequate knowledge of frequency of weighing a child while only 32.7% knew that breastfeeding should be continued even if the child had diarrhea. …”
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Glucocorticoid-Induced Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor-Related Protein: A Key Marker of Functional Regulatory T Cells by Simona Ronchetti, Erika Ricci, Maria Grazia Petrillo, Luigi Cari, Graziella Migliorati, Giuseppe Nocentini, Carlo Riccardi

“…Glucocorticoid-induced tumour necrosis factor receptor-related protein (GITR, TNFRSF18, and CD357) is expressed at high levels in activated T cells and regulatory T cells (Tregs). …”
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Prediction of Water Consumption in Hospitals Based on a Modified Grey GM (0, 1∣sin) Model of Oscillation Sequence: The Example of Wuhan City by Han Zhou, Jiejun Huang, Yanbin Yuan, Biao Tang

“…In terms of the model’s fitting performance, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the modified model was 3.77%, indicating a higher prediction accuracy than the traditional grey GM (0, 1∣sin) model of oscillation sequences. …”
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Prediction of mental strength from the satisfaction of basic needs in CABA and GBA esports players by Pablo Christian González Caino

“…Methods: For this, a sample of 426 participants (85% male) was constituted, with a mean age of 22 years (SD = 3.67), who answered the Basic Needs Satisfaction in Sport Scale (BNSSS) and the Mental Toughness Index (MTI) questionnaire, as well as a sociodemographic questionnaire. …”
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Comparison of the Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide Levels in Adolescents at Three Schools Located Three Different Distances from a Large Steel Mill by Murat Acat, Yusuf Aydemir, Onur Yazıcı, Mahmut Turğut, Mustafa Çörtük, Murat Çakar, Zehra Yaşar, Sami Deniz, Erdoğan Çetinkaya

“…FeNO levels were significantly higher in School I (n=142; 18.89±12.3 ppb) and School II (n=131; 17.68±7.7 ppb) than School III (n=114; 4.28±3.9 ppb). …”
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Acefylline Derivatives as a New Class of Anticancer Agents: Synthesis, Molecular Docking, and Anticancer, Hemolytic, and Thrombolytic Activities of Acefylline-Triazole Hybrids by Irum Shahzadi, Ameer Fawad Zahoor, Bushra Parveen, Azhar Rasul, Zohaib Raza, Sajjad Ahmad, Ali Irfan, Gamal A. El-Hiti

“…The synthesized acefyllines demonstrated moderate activity (cell viability = 22.55 ± 0.95% − 57.63 ± 3.65%) compared with the starting drug acefylline (cell viability = 80 ± 3.87%) against the human liver carcinoma (Hep G2 cell line). …”
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Serum Endothelin-1 and Transforming Growth Factor-β Levels in the Newborns With Respiratory Distress by Derya Benzer, A. Denizmen Aygun, Ahmet Godekmerdan, A. Nese (Citak) Kurt, Saadet Akarsu, Erdal Yilmaz

“…The highest values of ET-1 and TGF-β were obtained from newborns with diagnosis as meconium aspiration syndrome (5.70±5.87 pg/mL and 3.75±1.94 pg/mL, resp) in the sample obtained in the first six hours after birth, and these are statistically different from control group (P<.05). …”
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The Role of Gis in Monitoring the Impact of Climate Fluctuations on The Decline of Surface Water Stored in The Mohamed V Dam on the Moulouya River (Eastern Region) by Amghar Ahmed, Sbai Abdelkader, Mouadili Omar

“…The resulting water erosion, exacerbated by alternating periods of drought and continuous human pressure, has significantly reduced the storage capacity of the Mohamed V Dam from 730 million cubic meters at its inception to 327 million cubic meters. These observations, made using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), underscore the urgent need to address this issue.…”
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Guide to Fertilization for Pine Straw Production on Coastal Plain Sites by Anna Osiecka, Patrick J. Minogue, E. David Dickens

“…FOR327/FR395: Guide to Fertilization for Pine Straw Production on Coastal Plain Sites (ufl.edu)   …”
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The Effect of Different Irrigation Interval on Tuber Yield and Quality of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) by Salah Abdulla Salih, Farhan Ahmad Abdulrahman, Yonis Abdulla Mahmood

“…In this study there are  four irrigation intervals (3,5,7 and 9 days) used by furrow irrigation method which subjected in complete randomized design (CRD) with three replications. …”
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Thin-Layer Drying Model, Drying Rate, and Effective Water Diffusion Coefficient of Pelleted Feed by Wei Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Nan Jin, Hongying Wang, Liangju Wang, Junhua Wu

“…The effective water diffusion coefficient for pelleted feed of growing pig and calf ranges from 1.86 × 10−10 to 2.75 × 10−9 m2/s and 3.32 × 10−10 to 3.87 × 10−9 m2/s, respectively. The activation energy (Ea) for moisture diffusion in both types of feed is 26.42 kJ/mol and 25.86 kJ/mol, respectively. …”
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