Origin of Boron and Brine Evolution in Saline Springs in the Nangqen Basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau by Ji-long Han, Feng-qing Han, Syed-Asim Hussain, Wen-yu Liu, Xiu-qing Nian, Qing-fei Mao

“…The Nangqen Basin is a typical shearing-extensional basin situated in the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau. It contains abundant saline spring resources and abnormal trace element enrichments. …”
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Verification of the Functional Antioxidant Activity and Antimelanogenic Properties of Extracts of Poria cocos Mycelium Fermented with Freeze-Dried Plum Powder by Kyung-Yun Kang, Yun-Ho Hwang, Sung-Ju Lee, Ho-Yeol Jang, Seong-Gyeol Hong, Seul-Ki Mun, Su-Jin Kim, Jong-Jin Kim, Kuyng-Wuk Park, Kyoung-Sun Seo, Seung-Eon Ban, Seong-Woo Jin, Hyuck-Joo Kim, Sung-Tae Yee

“…Furthermore, we confirmed that medium containing 3% Prunus was the optimal culture substrate for fermentation with Poria cocos. …”
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Some results on the span of families of Banach valued independent, random variables by Rohan Hemasinha

“…Let E be a Banach space, and let (Ω,ℱ,P) be a probability space. If L1(Ω) contains an isomorphic copy of L1[0,1] then in LEP(Ω)(1≤P<∞), the closed linear span of every sequence of independent, E valued mean zero random variables has infinite codimension. …”
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Magnitude of Anemia and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care in Public Hospitals of Ilu Abba Bora Zone, South West Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Adamu Kenea, Efrem Negash, Lemi Bacha, Negash Wakgari

“…The study participants were selected by proportional allocation based on the number of pregnant women that the respective health facilities contain. Semistructured questionnaire was used for data collection. …”
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Cannabidiol Vaping–Associated Multifocal NSCLC in a 24-Year-Old Female: A Case Report by Mansi Barthwal, MD, Nataliya Moldovan, MD, Shantanu Banerji, MD, Julian O. Kim, MD

“…Vaping use among Canadian youth is rising but the long-term sequelae of cannabidiol (CBD) vaping are not yet elucidated. Vaping aerosols contain carcinogens; however, owing to the latency period between carcinogen exposure and clinical presentation of malignancies, at present, there is a paucity of reported CBD vaping–associated lung cancers. …”
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Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Animal Longevity: Insights from Comparative Studies by Reinald Pamplona

“…Mitochondria are a main source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and chemical sidereactions in healthy aerobic tissues and are the only known extranuclear cellular organelles in animal cells that contain their own DNA (mtDNA). ROS can modify mtDNA directly at the sugar-phosphate backbone or at the bases, producing many different oxidatively modified purines and pyrimidines, as well as single and double strand breaks and DNA mutations. …”
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Adopting circular economy in construction: a review by Preethi Amrut Rao, Md Motiar Rahman, Saiful Baharin Duraman

“…Only a small part of such construction and demolition waste is recovered and recycled, and the rest goes to landfills and dumpsites, containing a high volume of recoverable and reusable materials and components, causing environmental hazards and depleting natural resources. …”
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Gender and Handedness Prediction from Offline Handwriting Using Convolutional Neural Networks by Ángel Morera, Ángel Sánchez, José Francisco Vélez, Ana Belén Moreno

“…Our research was carried out on two public handwriting databases: the IAM dataset containing English texts and the KHATT one with Arabic texts. …”
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Development of The Paternalist Leadership Behavior Scale of School Principals: Validity and Reliability Study by İnayet Aydın, Ahmet Saylık

“…Although the concept of studies aimed at determining the dimensions of paternalist leadership has generally limited to benevolent, morality and authoritarianism, it is stated that paternal approaches are essentially exploitative, have some limitations on autonomy, contain some kind of interventionism, find the beneficiary insufficient, and mask the authoritarianism with the compassion and love of the father. …”
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A Two-Stage Method for Screening Pulse RFI in SAR Raw Data Alternating the Use of Time and Frequency Domains by Tingting Wei, Xingwang Hu, Zhengwei Guo, Gaofeng Shu, Yabo Huang, Ning Li

“…To effectively suppress the PRFI, the serial number of the pulses in SAR raw data containing PRFI need to be screened out with high precision. …”
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Determination of Urinary Creatinine in Washington State Residents via Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Caroline E. West, Blaine N. Rhodes

“…A viable, quick, and reliable method for determining urinary creatinine by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) was developed and used to evaluate spot urine samples collected for the Washington Environmental Biomonitoring Survey (WEBS): part of the Washington State Department of Health, Public Health Laboratories (PHL). 50 µL of urine was mixed with a 1 : 1 acetonitrile/water solution containing deuterated creatinine as the internal standard and then analyzed by LC/MS/MS. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Mutual Funds Using the Value-Based DEA Method by Khadijeh Ghaziyani, Seyede Fatemeh Bagheri, Babak Ejlali

“…It has been used to collect research data by referring to the information contained in historical financial statements. Also, this research is descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection and inference. …”
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Hypersthetic reactions and actual self-perception students at the stage of self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic by M. M. Basimov, N. A. Tsvetkova

“…The article contains the results of a survey of Moscow students of both sexes during the quarantine period associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Reduction of Phosphorus Pollution from Broilers Waste through Supplementation of Wheat Based Broilers Feed with Phytase by Ahmed Abdel-Megeed, Arifa Tahir

“…The feed intake of the birds fed the diets containing microbial phytase 600 U/kg was the highest. …”
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Aspects of Screening and Confinement in a Topologically Massive U1W×U(1)Y Chern-Simons-Higgs Theory by Patricio Gaete, José A. Helayël-Neto

“…In the first case, where we integrate the massive excitation and consider an effective model for the massless field, we show that the interaction energy contains a linear term leading to the confinement of static charge probes along with a screening contribution. …”
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A true malignant mixed tumour of the parotid gland by Ayesha McLennan-Dalal, Efstathia Kyrodimou, Sarah L. Saunders, Syed Ali Khurram, Andrew S. McLennan

“…Salivary gland carcinosarcomas contain both malignant epithelial and mesenchymal elements making them a true malignant mixed tumour. …”
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Growth and Productivity of Chironomus sp. in Enriched Substrat by Chicken Manure 1,0-2,5 g/l by D. Shafruddin, B.R. Parlinggoman, K. Sumantadinata

“… Chironomus sp. larvae or called as bloom worm contains high nutrient and caroten that are important to support fish and shellfish culture, especially ornamental fishes.  …”
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Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: A 7-Year Retrospective Review by Moonyza Akmal Ahmad Kamil, Azura Mohd Affandi

“…Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by inflamed nodules, abscesses, sinus tracts, and scarring, which can occur in any skin containing folliculopilosebaceous units. We aim to identify the demographic and clinical characteristics and treatment modalities in patients with HS. …”
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Environmental-oriented development of enterprises of agricultural industry and advanced training of personnel in agricultural environmental management by Yu. D. Vishnyakov, S. P. Kiseleva, L. V. Makolova, V. V. Pham, T. T. Vu Huong

“…The structure of the proposed educational program “Agroecological Management” contains disciplines (modules) of a theoretical and applied nature, that are relevant for the study by specialists of the agro-industrial complex in accordance with the need to solve modern environmental problems.…”
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Phase II randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to assess the efficacy and safety of MLC1501 in patients with stroke: the MLC1501 study Assessing Efficacy in post-STrOk... by Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Deidre Anne De Silva, Christopher P L H Chen, Cyrus G Escabillas, John Harold Hiyadan, Johnny K Lokin, Romulo U Esagunde, Joel M Advincula, Christian Oliver C Co, Maria Epifania V Collantes, Annabelle Y Lao, Yeow-Hoay Koh, Carol Huilian Tham

“…Background MLC1501, consisting of four herbs, that is, Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Polygalae, has the same pharmacological properties as its precursors MLC601 and MLC901 which contain extracts of nine herbs and showed neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory and neurorestorative properties in non-clinical models, as well as clinical benefits in improving functional and neurological recovery after brain injuries.Aims To determine the efficacy of MLC1501 on motor recovery as measured by Fugl-Meyer motor Assessment (FMA) total score at 24 weeks in patients with ischaemic stroke (IS).Design A total of 300 patients aged &gt;18 years, diagnosed with IS in the prior 2–10 days, with National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) total score of 8–18 and a combined score of ≥3 on NIHSS motor items 5A, 5B, 6A and/or 6B, will be randomised in a 1:1:1 ratio to receive oral placebo, MLC1501 low dose or MLC1501 high dose for 6 months. …”
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