Stress-Strain Relationship of Ca(OH)2-Activated Hwangtoh Concrete by Keun-Hyeok Yang, Ju-Hyun Mun, Hey-Zoo Hwang

“…The volumetric ratio of the coarse aggregate (Vagg) and the water-to-binder (W/B) ratio were selected as the main test variables. …”
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Outcomes of Pain Management Training for the Fourth- and Fifth-Year Medical Students by Ayano Saeki, Yumiko Takao, Keiichiro Suzuki, Munetaka Hirose

“…Therefore, starting in 2019, Hyogo Medical University established a multidisciplinary educational system to better train medical students to provide pain care. The course, called clinical pain study, is offered to fourth- and fifth-year medical students. …”
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Fluorescence Properties of Novel Multiresonant Indolocarbazole Derivatives for Deep-Blue OLEDs from Multiscale Computer Modelling by Nikita O. Dubinets, Andrey Yu. Sosorev

“…Multiresonant fluorophores are a novel class of organic luminophores with a narrow emission spectrum. …”
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Technical note: Recommendations for diagnosing cloud feedbacks and rapid cloud adjustments using cloud radiative kernels by M. D. Zelinka, L.-W. Chao, T. A. Myers, T. A. Myers, Y. Qin, S. A. Klein

“…<p>The cloud radiative kernel method is a popular approach to quantify cloud feedbacks and rapid cloud adjustments to increased <span class="inline-formula">CO₂</span> concentrations and to partition contributions from changes in cloud amount, altitude, and optical depth. …”
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Clustering Pattern and Functional Effect of SNPs in Human miRNA Seed Regions by Sha He, Haiyan Ou, Cunyou Zhao, Jian Zhang

“…miRNAs are a class of noncoding RNAs important in posttranscriptional repressors and involved in the regulation of almost every biological process by base paring with target genes through sequence in their seed regions. …”
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Determination of Some Soil Characteristics of Roadside Landslides Region: A Case Study of Lapseki-Sevketiye (Canakkale) by Mehmet Parlak

“…They are often triggered by a combination of steep relief, rainfall and soil properties. The loss of upper fertile soil layer is among the most significant environmental problems induced by landslides. …”
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Assessment of Bacterial Community Structure, Associated Functional Role, and Water Health in Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants by Inderjeet Tyagi, Kaomud Tyagi, Faheem Ahamad, Rakesh Bhutiani, Vikas Kumar

“…They are made up of 42 phyla, 84 classes, 154 orders, 212 families, and 268 genera. …”
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First detection and phylogenetic analysis of Trypanosoma species in European wolves and bears: discovery of novel haplotypes by Blanka Orłowska, Magdalena Świsłocka-Cutter, Katarzyna Filip-Hutsch, Daniel Młocicki, Adam Olszewski, Marek Asman, Krzysztof Anusz, Joanna Werszko

“…The genus Trypanosoma (protozoan parasites) comprises numerous species adapted to all classes of vertebrates. This genus includes highly pathogenic species, such as T. brucei ssp., T. congolense or T. vivax. …”
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Potential of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Antagonist Compounds as Therapeutic Agents for a Wide Range of Cancer Types by Jack D. Burton, David M. Goldenberg, Rosalyn D. Blumenthal

“…Since PPARγ antagonists represent a new drug class that holds promise as a broadly applicable therapeutic approach for cancer treatment, it is the subject of this review.…”
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Quaternized Molecular Brush‐Grafted Injectable Microgel with Anti‐Inflammatory and Drainage Properties for Efficient Therapy of Anal Fistula by Runxian Wang, Pengwei Ma, Siqi He, Xiao Wang, Jinquan Zhang, Junwen Ye, Mingli Su, Xingxing Shi, Ruoxu Dou

“…Traditional treatments often fail to effectively eliminate inflammation and ensure adequate drainage, leading to prolonged healing time and a high recurrence rate. Herein, a new class of quaternized molecular brush‐grafted injectable microgel (denoted as GAA@CNT‐g‐PVBTMA) is developed through thermal polymerization and mechanical fragmentation to promote the healing process of anal fistula. …”
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Use of Telemedicine in Addiction Treatment: Current Practices and Organizational Implementation Characteristics by Todd Molfenter, Roger Brown, Andrew O’Neill, Ed Kopetsky, Alexander Toy

“…The greatest gaps between interest and use were for (1) texting appointment reminders (55.2% differential), (2) mobile apps for posttreatment recovery (46.6% differential), and (3) recovery support chats (46.6% differential). A Latent Class Analysis (LCA) of the organizations’ telemedicine use behavior identified three groupings: “Innovators” that were using a range of technologies (n=27, 7.4%); “Technology Traditionalists” that limited their use to telephone, video, and web portal technologies (n=101, 27.8%); and “Low Tech” that had low overall technology use (n=235, 64.7%). …”
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Epidemiological Study of Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Conjunctivitis in a Level III Neonatal Unit by Catarina Dias, Márcia Gonçalves, Anabela João

“…Susceptibility patterns revealed bacterial resistances to several antibiotic classes. Gentamicin remains the adequate choice for empirical treatment of HAC in our NICU. …”
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Deep Learning-Enabled Variational Optimization Method for Image Dehazing in Maritime Intelligent Transportation Systems by Xianjun Hu, Jing Wang, Chunlei Zhang, Yishuo Tong

“…It is well known that the accurate estimation of transmission map plays a vital role in image dehazing. In this work, the coarse transmission map is firstly estimated using a robust fusion-based strategy. …”
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Chemical Composition and Cytotoxic and Antioxidant Activities of Satureja montana L. Essential Oil and Its Antibacterial Potential against Salmonella Spp. Strains by Hanene Miladi, Rihab Ben Slama, Donia Mili, Sami Zouari, Amina Bakhrouf, Emna Ammar

“…Thirty-two compounds were identified accounting for 99.85% of the total oil, where oxygenated monoterpenes constituted the main chemical class (59.11%). The oil was dominated by carvacrol (53.35%), γ-terpinene (13.54%), and the monoterpenic hydrocarbons p-cymene (13.03%). …”
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Regular Consumption of a Flavanol-rich Chocolate can Improve Oxidant Stress in Young Soccer Players by Cesar G. Fraga, Lucas Actis-Goretta, Javier I. Ottaviani, Fernando Carrasquedo, Silvina B. Lotito, Sheryl Lazarus, Harold H. Schmitz, Carl L. Keen

“…The consumption of a diet rich in certain flavonoids, including the flavanol sub-class, has been associated with a reduced risk for vascular disease. …”
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A Novel Nitronyl Nitroxide with Salicylic Acid Framework Attenuates Pain Hypersensitivity and Ectopic Neuronal Discharges in Radicular Low Back Pain by Wen-Juan Han, Lei Chen, Hai-Bo Wang, Xiang-Zeng Liu, San-Jue Hu, Xiao-Li Sun, Ceng Luo

“…Stable nitronyl (NIT) nitroxide radicals have been extensively studied as a unique and interesting class of new antioxidants for protection against oxidative damage. …”
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MicroRNA and Putative Target Discoveries in Chrysanthemum Polyploidy Breeding by Fengjiao Zhang, Jingya Zhao, Sujuan Xu, Weimin Fang, Fadi Chen, Nianjun Teng

“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs), around 22 nucleotides (nt) in length, are a class of endogenous and noncoding RNA molecule that play an essential role in plant development, either by suppressing the transcription of target genes at a transcriptional level or inhibiting translation at a posttranscriptional level. …”
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THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF POLITICAL ELITE IN SMALL STATES by V. A. Smirnov

“…The conclusion is that small states are not a “small copy” of great powers, and their foreign policy actions are driven by a specific and unique logic. …”
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Assessment of habitat quality using macroinvertebrates and water quality parameters of a clay quarry wetland by Serpil Odabaşı

“…The results showed that the sampling sites were categorized into higher classes (I and II) in general according to water quality criteria of the surface waters of Turkey. …”
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Assessments of Wind-Energy Potential in Selected Sites from Three Geopolitical Zones in Nigeria: Implications for Renewable/Sustainable Rural Electrification by Joshua Olusegun Okeniyi, Olayinka Soledayo Ohunakin, Elizabeth Toyin Okeniyi

“…However, econometrics of electricity power simulation at different hub heights of low wind-speed turbine systems showed that the cost of electric-power generation in the three study sites was converging to affordable cost per kWh of electric energy from the wind resource at each site. …”
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