Antibacterial Additive for Polystyrene Based on Silver Nanoparticles Supported on Titanium Dioxide by Miguel A. Waldo-Mendoza, Lucía Martínez-Jothar, Socorro Oros-Ruiz, E. G. Villabona-Leal, Luis Manuel Céspedes-Covarrubias, Zoe V. Quiñones-Jurado, Eduardo Ortega, Elías Pérez

“…Rectangular pieces of polystyrene (PS) containing 100, 300, 500, and 700 ppm (wt.%) of the additive were made using an extrusion-injection molding process, and they were evaluated for their antibacterial properties against Escherichia coli using the Pour Plate method. …”
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Understanding the Mechanism and Selectivities of the Reaction of Meta-Chloroperbenzoic Acid and Dibromocarbene with β-Himachalene: A DFT Study by Sana El Hamidi, Malika Khnifira, El Mokhtar Lemdek, Redouan Hammal, Noureddine Barka, M’hamed Sadiq, Ahmed Benharref, Ahmed Chekroun, Hssaine Zgou, Mohamed Abdennouri

“…The action of m-CPBA on β-himachalene was analyzed on the two double bonds of β-himachalene whose theoretical calculations show that the attack affects the most substituted double bond on α side containing hydrogen of ring junction. The obtained Pα product thereafter treated with dibromocarbene leads via an exothermic reaction to the six-membered ring double bond position of α-monoepoxide. …”
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Speciation, Fate and Transport, and Ecological Risks of Cu, Pb, and Zn in Tailings from Huogeqi Copper Mine, Inner Mongolia, China by Liwei Chen, Jun Wu, Jian Lu, Chulin Xia, Michael A. Urynowicz, Zaixing Huang, Li Gao, Mingying Ma

“…The speciation of Cu, Pb, and Zn contained in the tailings was also determined during the leachate study to further access the potential migration abilities of these metals. …”
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Binding and cleavage of pro-urokinase by a tegument extract of Fasciola hepatica newly excysted juveniles activate the host fibrinolytic system by Judit Serrat, María Torres-Valle, Carolina De Marco Verissimo, Mar Siles-Lucas, Javier González-Miguel

“…Additionally, our results revealed that the tegument of FhNEJ contains a protease that is capable of cleaving and activating pro-u-PA into its catalytically active form, which positively impacts the capacity of the parasites to generate plasmin from the host PLG. …”
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Newfangled Linearization Formula of Certain Nonsymmetric Jacobi Polynomials: Numerical Treatment of Nonlinear Fisher’s Equation by W. M. Abd-Elhameed, Afnan Ali, Y. H. Youssri

“…The derivation of this formula is based on employing a new moment formula of this class of polynomials and after that using suitable symbolic computation to reduce the resulting linearization coefficients into simplified forms that do not contain any hypergeometric functions or sums. The new formula is employed along with some other formulas and with the utilization of the spectral tau method to obtain numerical solutions to the nonlinear Fisher equation. …”
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Mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of the C14 Laves and µ-phase in the ternary Ta-Fe(-Al) system by C. Gasper, E.M. Soysal, N. Ulumuddin, T. Stollenwerk, T. Reclik, P.L. Sun, S. Korte-Kerzel

“…In this study, we systematically analyse the influence of composition and crystal structure on the mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms in the binary Ta-Fe system as well as in the ternary Ta-Fe-Al system, both containing a hexagonal C14 Laves and µ-phase. We use nanoindentation, slip trace analysis and transmission electron microscopy to study the influence of crystal structure, composition and crystal orientation. …”
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Regulatory impact assessment and “regulatory guillotine” as institutional forms of business community’s participation in the improvement of regulatory framework in Russia by A. A. Lialikov

“…The methodology of the study is based on the methods of comparative and structural-functional analysis of normative legal acts containing the procedures. The article provides a analysis of procedures, presents the legal basis and their functional roles in the system of state decision-making, identifies the objects of influence and stages of procedures, identifies access points and the degree of representation of the business community. …”
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Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells: Tissue Localization, Characterization, and Heterogeneity by Patrick C. Baer, Helmut Geiger

“…Nevertheless, recent studies suggest that ASCs are a heterogeneous mixture of cells containing subpopulations of stem and more committed progenitor cells. …”
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Profile of Serogroup Y Meningococcal Infections in Canada: Implications for Vaccine Selection by Nicole Le Saux, Julie A Bettinger, Susan Wootton, Scott A Halperin, Wendy Vaudry, David W Scheifele, Raymond Tsang

“…To allow a better understanding of the ‘value added’ by a serogroup Y-containing vaccine, it is necessary to have a contemporary profile of Y disease in Canada. …”
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Electro–dynamic Forces in Conductor of Spiral Shape by V. V. Pavlovets, A. S. Gerasimovich

“…The paper contains vector-parametric equation of a spiral, expressions for calculation of the magnetic field induction established by an electrical conductor of a spiral shape, and also radial and tangential forces acting per unit of a conductor length. …”
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Decoding Food Labels: Handouts for People with Food Allergies by Amy Simonne, Elizabeth Gollub

“…Lists for each allergen label terms to avoid and types of foods that contain it. Updated with photo illustrations. …”
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Retinal Fundus Image Registration via Vascular Structure Graph Matching by Kexin Deng, Jie Tian, Jian Zheng, Xing Zhang, Xiaoqian Dai, Min Xu

“…Motivated by the observation that a retinal fundus image may contain some unique geometric structures within its vascular trees which can be utilized for feature matching, in this paper, we proposed a graph-based registration framework called GM-ICP to align pairwise retinal images. …”
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Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease using 5-Aminosalicylic Acid, 4-Aminosalicylic Acid and Olsalazine Retention Enemas: Review of Clinical Trials by M. Campieri, P. Gionchetti, A. Belluzzi, C. Brignola, P. Iannone, M. Miglioli, L. Barbara

“…The knowledge that 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) is the active compound of sulphasalazine and that it acts topically has stimulated the use of 5-ASA containing enemas and ocher similar compounds such as olsalazine and 4-aminosalicylic acid (4-ASA). 5-ASA enemas have been shown to be effective in controlling active disease in clinical trials and have also been shown to be of benefit in prevention of relapses. …”
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A novel cryopreservation solution for adipose tissue based on metformin by Yaping Deng, Xin Liu, Xichao Jian, Yan Zhang, Yinchi Hou, Suyun Hou, Fang Qi, Shune Xiao, Chengliang Deng

“…Conclusion The TGM cryopreservation solution, containing metformin, greatly preserves adipose tissue, reduces apoptosis, and improves tissue retention rates. …”
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State of the Art of the Ignalina RBMK-1500 Safety by E. Ušpuras

“…Also the phenomena related to the closure of the gap between fuel channel and graphite bricks, multiple fuel channel tube rupture, and containment issues as well as implication of the external events to the Ignalina NPP safety are discussed separately.…”
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Genome-Wide Analyses Reveal the Roles of CCT Genes as Regulators of Abiotic Stress Responses in <i>Citrullus lanatus</i> by Yajie Hong, Mengsha Li, Wona Ding, Jun Shi, Zishuo Zheng, Nailin Xing, Qiuping Li

“…Segmental duplication (gene amplification) significantly influenced the evolution of these genes, with most ClCCT genes containing light-, hormone-, and/or abiotic stimulus-responsive elements. …”
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Effects of screw configuration and interfacial properties on oil incorporation in high moisture extrusion by Shuzo Hashimoto, Naoya Ikenaga, Atze Jan van der Goot, Leonard M.C. Sagis

“…As a result, both the screw configuration and the interfacial properties of the plant protein emulsifier need to be considered when developing meat alternative products containing oil as a route to control the texture of these products.…”
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A high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of the mulberry looper, Phthonandria atrilineata by De-Long Guan, Ying-can Qin, Ya-Zhen Chen, Shi-Hao Zhang, Ji-ping Liu, Hui-Yu Yi, Xiao-Dong Li

“…Here, we report a chromosome-level reference genome of P. atrilineata, with a total size of 336.55 Mb, containing 15,026 protein-coding genes and 39.72% repeat sequences. …”
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Reading the Bibliographies of the Women’s Rest Tour Association: Cultural Travel in the Long Nineteenth Century by Julia Carlson

“…As an organization designed to support educated American women traveling on a budget, the WRTA provided members with a range of information to facilitate travel, including a handbook containing two lengthy bibliographies. These bibliographies expose a duality within the organization that balances a progressive feminism with a deep-seated cultural and social conservatism. …”
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SEM-2/SoxC regulates multiple aspects of C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm development. by Marissa Baccas, Vanathi Ganesan, Amy Leung, Lucas R Pineiro, Alexandra N McKillop, Jun Liu

“…One set of highly conserved transcription factors that plays diverse roles in development is the SoxC group. C. elegans contains a sole SoxC protein, SEM-2. SEM-2 is essential for embryonic development, and for specifying the sex myoblast (SM) fate in the postembryonic mesoderm, the M lineage. …”
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