Pozzolanic reaction, basic properties, carbon reduction and visualisation of kerbstone prepared from recycled concrete by Chao-qiang Wang, Yan Ying, Sheng-hui Gao, Jian-shan Huang, Meng-sheng Shao

“…The research results show that the physicochemical properties of RA meet the requirements of the Chinese standards ''Recycled coarse aggregates for concrete'' (GB/T25177–2010) and ''Recycled fine aggregate for concrete and mortar'' (GB/T25176–2010), while the pozzolanic activity of recycled micro-powder reaches 65.2 %, exhibiting significant secondary hydration reactivity. …”
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The Role of the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society in the Abolition of Oozhiyam (Bonded Labor Service) in Kerala by Ayyappan Balakrishnan

“…The main force behind this system was the coercive authority of the government and the privileged class. Nobody dared to evade the services demanded by the government. …”
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Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Learning Experience, Mental Health, Adaptability, and Resilience Among Health Informatics Master’s Students: Focus Group Study by Nadia Davoody, Natalia Stathakarou, Cara Swain, Stefano Bonacina

“…MethodsThrough 3 structured focus groups, this study explored health informatics master’s students’ experiences of shifting learning environments for classes that started in 2019, 2020, and 2021. All focus group sessions were recorded and transcribed verbatim. …”
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Emerging roles of mitochondrial sirtuin SIRT5 in succinylation modification and cancer development by Zhangmin Ke, Zhangmin Ke, Kaikai Shen, Li Wang, Hao Xu, Xia Pan, Zhenjue Qian, Yuting Wen, Tangfeng Lv, Xiuwei Zhang, Yong Song

“…Succinylation represents an emerging class of post-translational modifications (PTMs), characterized by the enzymatic or non-enzymatic transfer of a negatively charged four-carbon succinyl group to the ϵ-amino group of lysine residues, mediated by succinyl-coenzyme A. …”
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Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Reduces Metaboreflex Contribution to the Ventilatory Response in Heart Failure Population by Jérémie Jaussaud, Laurie Aimable, Pierre Bordachar, Pierre Dos Santos, Laurent Barandon, Philippe Ritter, Raymond Roudaut, Hervé Douard

“…Patients had enhanced VE/VCO2 slope (40±9) and an evident metaboreflex contribution to the high ventilatory response (ΔVE: 3±4 L/min; 𝑃=0.05, ΔRR: 4.5±4/min; 𝑃=0.003 and ΔVE/VCO2: 5.5±4; 𝑃=0.007). 6 months after CRT implantation, NYHA class, LVEF, peak VO2 and VE/VCO2 were significantly improved (1.4±0.5; 𝑃<0.001, 42±7%; 𝑃<0.001, 16.5±3 mL/kg/min; 𝑃=0.003; 33±10; 𝑃=0.01). …”
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Effect of Multiradiance Low-Level Laser Therapy and Topical Silver Sulfadiazine on Healing Characteristics of Dermal Wounds in Marine Toads (Rhinella marina) by Kate E. Archibald, Tara Harrison, Brigid Troan, Dustin Smith, Larry J. Minter

“…Silver sulfadiazine (SSD), a topical antimicrobial, is commonly utilized in amphibian medicine but little is known about its effects on wound healing in this class of animals. This pilot study evaluated the effects of repeated treatments of low-level laser therapy or topical SSD on second-intention healing characteristics of surgically induced full-thickness dermal wounds in 33 adult wild-caught marine toads. …”
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Comparison of Bacterial Community Structure and Diversity in Traditional Gold Mining Waste Disposal Site and Rice Field by Using a Metabarcoding Approach by Fatimawali, Billy Johnson Kepel, Maria Apriliani Gani, Trina Ekawati Tallei

“…Meanwhile, with the total reads of 33,080, the sample from rice field was dominated by Planctomycetes. The abundant classes of bacteria in the mining waste disposal site, from the highest were Bacilli, Gammaproteobacteria and Planctomycetia, while the sample from the rice field was dominated by the Planctomycetia and Acidobacteria subdivision 6. …”
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Scrutinizing the evidence of anthracene toxicity on adrenergic receptor beta-2 and its bioremediation by fungal manganese peroxidase via in silico approaches by Muhammad Naveed, Khadija Khatoon, Tariq Aziz, Rida Naveed, Muhammad Nouman Majeed, Maida Salah Ud Din, Tayyab Javed, Ayaz Ali Khan, Abdullah F. Alasmari

“…Toxicity prediction using Pro-Tox 3.0 identified anthracene as a compound of toxicity class 4 with a LD50 of 316 mg/kg. Sequence of manganese peroxidase from Lachnellula suecica and human adrenergic receptor beta 2 were retrieved from NCBI databases. …”
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Sentiment analysis of the Hamas-Israel war on YouTube comments using deep learning by Ashagrew Liyih, Shegaw Anagaw, Minichel Yibeyin, Yitayal Tehone

“…We have collected 24,360 comments from popular YouTube News Channels including BBC, WION, Aljazeera, and others about the Hamas-Israel War using YouTube API and Google spreadsheet and labeled them by linguistic experts into three classes: positive, negative, and neutral. Then, textual comments were preprocessed using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, and features were extracted using Word2vec, FastText, and GloVe. …”
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Landfill site selection in hilly terrains: An integrated RS-GIS approach with AHP and VIKOR by Shobhit Chaturvedi, Naimish Bhatt, Vatsal Shah, Keval H. Jodhani, Dhruvesh Patel, Sudhir Kumar Singh

“…The Land Suitability Index (LSI), derived using AHP, categorized the 124 sq. km study area into five suitability classes, with key factors influencing rankings: Landslide Proximity (weight: 0.162), Ground Slope (0.138), Land Use and Cover (0.122), Ground Elevation (0.114), and Road Proximity (0.095). …”
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Use of acetylsalicylic acid and agronomic performance of potatoes in Lima region by Sergio Contreras-Liza, Luis Vargas-Luna

“…The average temperatures were between 15 and 21º C, the air relative humidity was between 61 and 73% and the soil was loam textural class, free of salts. Results No statistical differences were found for the number and weight of tubers and biomass due to the effect of the application of the treatments. …”
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Seasonal investigation of ultrafine-particle organic composition in an eastern Amazonian rainforest by A. E. Thomas, H. S. Glicker, A. B. Guenther, R. Seco, O. Vega Bustillos, J. Tota, R. A. F. Souza, J. N. Smith

“…<p>Reports on the composition of ultrafine particles (<span class="inline-formula">&lt;100</span> nm in diameter) in the Amazon are scarce, due in part to the fact that new-particle formation has rarely been observed near ground level. …”
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Chronic NaAsO2 exposure promotes migration and invasion of prostate cancer cells by Akt/GSK-3β/β-catenin/TCF4 axis-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition by Zhi-Hui Zhang, Hai-Xin Yan, Ming-Dong Liu, Feng-Wen Niu, Kai Yao, Shi-Yao Feng, Xi Li, Yuan-Hua Chen, Dong-Dong Xie

“…Inorganic arsenic is a Class I human Carcinogen. However, the role of chronic inorganic arsenic exposure on prostate cancer metastasis still unclear. …”
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Interactions of the anti-FcRn monoclonal antibody, rozanolixizumab, with Fcγ receptors and functional impact on immune cells in vitro by Omar S. Qureshi, Emma J. Sutton, Rosemary F. Bithell, Shauna M. West, Rona M. Cutler, Gillian McCluskey, Graham Craggs, Asher Maroof, Nicholas M. Barnes, David P. Humphreys, Stephen Rapecki, Bryan J. Smith, Anthony Shock

“…Rozanolixizumab is a humanized anti-neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) monoclonal antibody (mAb) of the immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) sub-class, currently in clinical development for the treatment of IgG autoantibody-driven diseases. …”
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Prognostic Value of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Diabetic Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Ailed Elena Rodríguez Jiménez

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: low glomerular filtration rate was associated with a <em>left</em><em> </em><em>ventricular</em><em> </em><em>ejection</em><em> </em><em>fraction</em> &lt;45% at discharge (p = 0.0060) and cardiac complications including arrhythmias, <em>atrioventricular</em><em> </em><em>conduction</em><em> </em><em>disturbances</em>, reinfarction, postinfarction angina and Killip class ≥ III (p = 0.0000). It was also associated with increased mortality and lower <em>reperfusion</em><em> </em><em>rates</em>.…”
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TRAJETÓRIAS E EXPERIÊNCIAS ESCOLARES DE ESTUDANTES COTISTAS NEGROS/AS DA UNILAB: IDENTIDADES, CURRÍCULO E PRÁTICAS PEDAGÓGICAS by Francisco Érick de Oliveira

“… Os objetos de estudo deste trabalho estão situados entre um debate mais amplo e sempre urgente, com ênfase no contexto brasileiro, entre classe, raça e/ou etnia. A problematização construída é um recorte de questões da minha pesquisa de mestrado que se debruçou sobre o sucesso escolar de seis estudantes negros/as, cotistas, das camadas populares e de cursos de graduação da UNILAB, no Ceará, através de uma metodologia disposicionalista. …”
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Taking Time: A Mixed Methods Study of Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Participation in Activities in Relation to Their Wellbeing by Lia Prado, Rebecca Hadley, Dawn Rose

“…Although many studies have shown that psychosocial interventions, such as dance classes, can improve quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD): few have addressed the role of, and potential benefits to, the caregivers in such activities. …”
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Intra‐aortic balloon pump: is the technique really outdated? by Mariama Akodad, Clément Delmas, Laurent Bonello, Claire Duflos, François Roubille

“…Abstract Aims Intra‐aortic balloon pump (IABP) utilization was expected to be quickly abandoned following the IABP‐shock trial and its class III, level B recommendation in the 2016 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines. …”
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Efficient Multi-Task Training with Adaptive Feature Alignment for Universal Image Segmentation by Yipeng Qu, Joohee Kim

“…To efficiently align the two modalities without introducing extra complexity, we reconsider the differences between a text token and an image token and replace image features with class-specific means in our proposed AFA. We evaluate our model performance on the ADE20K and Cityscapes datasets. …”
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Problems of developing a strategic planning methodology for regional socio-economic systems by A. G. Ataeva

“…This happens both through their participation in determining strategic priorities and selecting specific strategic projects at the goal setting stage, and through the use of special model tools, which are characterized by the presence of built-in interaction loops for different classes of economic situations and allowing them to adapt their resource strategies while agreeing on common goals of functioning. …”
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