Optimal dietary vitamin E level facilitates ovarian development of female largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) broodstock by Qiuyu Gao, Qiao Feng, Dong Zhou, Zhili Ding, Changle Qi, Youqin Kong, Qiyou Xu

“…Five experimental diets were formulated, each containing varying concentrations of vitamin E: 78.25, 98.36, 209.31, 437.77, and 915.49 mg/kg of vitamin E. …”
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Fundus Images-Based Detection and Grading of Macular Edema Using Robust Macula Localization by Adeel M. Syed, M. Usman Akram, Tahir Akram, Muhammad Muzammal, Shehzad Khalid, Muazzam Ahmed Khan

“…The macula is an oval-shaped area near the center of the human retina, and at its center, there is a small pit known as the fovea. The fovea contains large concentrations of cone cells and is responsible for sharp, colored vision. …”
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A Novel Edge-Map Creation Approach for Highly Accurate Pupil Localization in Unconstrained Infrared Iris Images by Vineet Kumar, Abhijit Asati, Anu Gupta

“…In this paper, we propose a pupil localization method for locating the pupils in the non-close-up and frontal-view iris images that are captured under near-infrared (NIR) illuminations and contain the noise, such as specular and lighting reflection spots, eyeglasses, nonuniform illumination, low contrast, and occlusions by the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrow hair. …”
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Electric Power Losses Due to Transfer of Reactive Power in Electric Network and Ways of Their Limitation by E. G. Pоspelov, G. E. Pоspelov

“…Relationships have been obtained for determination of active power and energy losses due to transfer of reactive power in the lines of electric networks. The paper contains recommendations on decrease of these losses.…”
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A Novel Dynamic Splitting Method for Production Based on Material Balance Theory and Catastrophe Theory in Tight Gas Reservoirs by Shengye Hao, Xinyu Qiu, Pengcheng Liu, Xiaoxia Chen

“…The advantage of this method is that more accurate results in the production process are obtained by selecting eight factors, which contain 6 static factors and 2 dynamic factors, for research. …”
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In Vitro Cytotoxicity of Calcium Silicate-Based Endodontic Cement as Root-End Filling Materials by Selen Küçükkaya, Mehmet Ömer Görduysus, Naciye Dilara Zeybek, Sevda Fatma Müftüoğlu

“…MTA, calcium enriched mixture (CEM) cement, and Biodentine were prepared and added to culture insert plates which were immediately placed into 96-well plates containing cultured cells. After incubation periods of 24, 48, and 72 hours, cell viability was determined with WST-1 assay. …”
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Fuzzy Pruning Based LS-SVM Modeling Development for a Fermentation Process by Weili Xiong, Wei Zhang, Dengfeng Liu, Baoguo Xu

“…Due to the complexity and uncertainty of microbial fermentation processes, data coming from the plants often contain some outliers. However, these data may be treated as the normal support vectors, which always deteriorate the performance of soft sensor modeling. …”
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A comparison of the parasitoid wasp species richness of tropical forest sites in Peru and Uganda – subfamily Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) by Hopkins, Tapani, Tuomisto, Hanna, Gómez, Isrrael C., Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.

“…We found that more rhyssine species were caught in Peru than in Uganda, despite the Ugandan samples containing many more individuals both in absolute terms and per unit time. …”
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Bromeliads at a Glance by Sydney Park Brown

“…ENH-1071, a 2-page illustrated fact sheet by Sydney Park Brown, provides basic information on these fascinating easy-to-grow, low-maintenance epiphytic plants that can be enjoyed indoors, outdoors in containers, or in the southern Florida landscapes, including blooming and propagation and pests. …”
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Life cycle assessment and mechanical strength of cement composites with conventional, and recycled fine aggregate by Sk. Rakibul Islam, Sanjima Nabila Majumder, Rupak Mutsuddy

“…On the other hand, construction and demolition sites generate a significant amount of solid waste, which contains fine aggregate. This study aims to explore the applicability of recycled fine aggregate (RFA) in comparison to coarse sand and fine sand in cement composites, considering their compressive strength, financial aspect, and environmental sustainability by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). …”

Deep Learning Algorithms for Detection and Classification of Gastrointestinal Diseases by Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh, Ebrahim Mohammed Senan, Waselallah Alsaade, Theyazn H. H Aldhyani, Nizar Alsharif, Ahmed Abdullah Alqarni, M. Irfan Uddin, Mohammed Y. Alzahrani, Elham D. Alzain, Mukti E. Jadhav

“…All images are enhanced, and the noise is removed before they are inputted into the deep learning networks. The Kvasir dataset contains 5,000 images divided equally into five types of lower gastrointestinal diseases (dyed-lifted polyps, normal cecum, normal pylorus, polyps, and ulcerative colitis). …”
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A CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE FOR THE VIETNAMESE WORD CATEGORIZATION by Nguyễn Minh Hiệp, Nguyễn Thị Minh Huyền, Ngô Thế Quyền, Trần Thị Phương Linh

“…We use a large corpus containing sentences automatically extracted from the online Nhan Dan newspaper.…”
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Appearance of green tea compounds in plasma following acute green tea consumption is modulated by the gut microbiome in mice by John D. Sterrett, Kevin D. Quinn, Katrina A. Doenges, Nichole M. Nusbacher, Cassandra L. Levens, Mike L. Armstrong, Richard M. Reisdorph, Harry Smith, Laura M. Saba, Kristine A. Kuhn, Catherine A. Lozupone, Nichole A. Reisdorph

“…Overall, we describe a novel workflow for discovering relationships between individual food compounds and the composition of the gut microbiome.IMPORTANCEFoods contain thousands of unique and biologically important compounds beyond the macro- and micro-nutrients listed on nutrition facts labels. …”
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In Vitro Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory, and In Vivo Anticolitis Effects of Combretin A and Combretin B on Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Ulcerative Colitis in Mice by Mbiantcha Marius, Dawe Amadou, Atsamo Albert Donatien, Ateufack Gilbert, Yousseu Nana William, Khalid Rauf, Mehreen Arif, Fanta Yadang Sabine Adeline, Njoku Isaac Saint, Hamza Dar, Naeem Ur Rehman, Izhar Ahmad

“…Combretum fragrans (Combretaceae) is a Cameroonian medicinal plant containing various secondary metabolites and traditionally used for the treatment of several pathologies. …”
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Cell Area-Based Method for Analyzing the Coverage Capacity of Satellite Constellations by Zhiming Song, Haidong Liu, Guangming Dai, Maocai Wang, Xiaoyu Chen

“…By calculating the accuracy area of a cell that is partly contained by the ground region or partly covered by the constellation, the accurate coverage area can be obtained accordingly. …”
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Fear of Pain as a Predictor for Postoperative Pain Intensity among the Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Surgery by Yang Luo, Jingting He, Lihong Bao, Heng Meng, Cuihuan Hu, Quan Chen

“…The 95% bias-corrected bootstrap confidence interval of estimate of indirect effect between FOP-9 and least pain/average pain through PCS was −0.036∼0.024 and −0.003∼0.069 (all contain zero), which indicated that PCS is not a mediator between FOP-9 and least pain/average pain. …”
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Theoretical issues of information sources for the formation of separate methods of investigating criminal offenses by A. Ye. Holubov

“…The main thesis of the scientific work is the assumption that the studied sources are objects, phenomena, processes that contain certain data, information, factual materials for the formation of certain forensic methods of investigating criminal offenses. …”
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Circulating miRNAs as Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis in Subjects with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia by Wei Jin, Xiang Fei, Xia Wang, Fangjie Chen, Yan Song

“…Body fluids often contain freely circulating nucleic acids, many of which can be exploited as noninvasive tools for the diagnosis of cancer as well as for clinical prognostication. …”
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Whipple’s Disease: Our Own Experience and Review of the Literature by Jan Bureš, Marcela Kopáčová, Tomáš Douda, Jolana Bártová, Jan Tomš, Stanislav Rejchrt, Ilja Tachecí

“…Diagnosis is based on the clinical picture and small intestinal histology revealing foamy macrophages containing periodic-acid-Schiff- (PAS-) positive material. …”
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SYNTHESIS OF OPTIMAL DIGITAL CONTROLLER FOR THE FIFTH ORDER CONTROLLED OBJECT by A. G. Stryzhniou, H. V. Lednik, A. N. Rusakovich

“…Synthesis of optimal digital controller for an electro-hydraulic system with the fifth order nonstatic controlled object containing oscillatory elements has been carried out. …”
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