The Hydration and Compressive Strength of Cement Mortar Prepared by Calcium Acetate Solution by Ke Cao, Liang Wang, Ying Xu, Wenfeng Shen, Hao Wang

“…Moreover, the mortar containing the 2% calcium acetate solution has a denser microstructure than the control group according to the MIP tests results, and mortars cured for 3 and 28 days have a respective compressive strength, 23.34 and 15.43%, higher than the control group. …”
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Enhanced antioxidant performance of phlorotannin compounds from brown seaweed Sargassum tenerrimum via nanoliposomal encapsulation by Esmat Mohammadi, Bahareh Shabanpour, Parastoo Pourashouri, Vahide Payamnoor, Salim Sharifian

“…Seaweeds contain natural antioxidants, known as phlorotannins; however, their direct use in food is limited. …”
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Dynamics and Insights into the Unique Ecological Guild of Fungi in Bacteria-Bioaugmented Anaerobic Digesters by Linda U. Obi, Ashira Roopnarain, Memory Tekere, Jun Zhou, Heng Li, Yuanpeng Wang, Yanlong Zhang, Rasheed A. Adeleke

“…Eight different anaerobic digesters that contained chopped water hyacinth and cow dung as feedstock at 2% total solids were respectively inoculated with eight different bacterial strains and digested anaerobically in controlled conditions. …”
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Dynamics of stochastic mutation to immunodominance by Yu Wu, Xiaopeng Zhao, Mingjun Zhang

“…Although a virus contains several epitopes that can be recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), the immune responses against different epitopes are not uniform. …”
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Genomics Analysis of Metabolic Pathways of Human Stem Cell-Derived Microglia-Like Cells and the Integrated Cortical Spheroids by Julie Bejoy, Xuegang Yuan, Liqing Song, Thien Hua, Richard Jeske, Sébastien Sart, Qing-Xiang Amy Sang, Yan Li

“…Cortical spheroids containing microglia-like cells displayed different metabolic programming, which may affect the associated phenotype. …”
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Protective Effects of Baicalein on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced AR42J PACs through Attenuation of Both Inflammation and Pyroptosis via Downregulation of miR-224-5p/PARP1 by Ming-Wei Liu, Chun-Hai Zhang, Shou-Hong Ma, De-Qiong Zhang, Li-Qiong Jiang, Yang Tan

“…The RNA and protein expression of miR-224-5p, poly ADP-ribose polymerase-1 (PARP1), nuclear transcription factor-κB65 (NF-κB65), phospho-kappa B alpha(p-IκB-α), interleukin(IL)-18R, NOD-like receptor thermal protein domain-associated protein 3 (NLRP3), gasdermin D (GSDMD), apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD (ASC), and caspase-1 was detected based on the WB and RT-PCR assays. …”
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The Predictive Value of the Pentraxin 3 Concentration in Cumulus Cell Culture Media for the Embryo Implantation by Tulay Irez, Yavuz Sahin, Eduard Malik, Onur Guralp

“…STUDY DESIGN: A total of 31 women with idiopathic infertility who underwent intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment were prospectively evaluated. Cell suspensions containing 5 million/mL cumulus cells were obtained post-hyase and incubated for 24 hours in a culture medium. …”
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Classification of polyphenol oxidases shows ancient gene duplication leading to two distinct enzyme types by Ida K.S. Meitil, Caio de O.G. Silva, Anders Gorm Pedersen, Jane W. Agger

“…We also find that most ascomycetes contain high numbers of the PPO type 1 that includes the o-methoxy phenolases, which may indicate a role in the lignin conversion strategy of these fungi.…”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Psychodynamic Short-Time Therapy Complemented with Bodywork. A Clinical Follow-Up Study of 109 Patients by Søren Ventegodt, Suzette Thegler, Tove Andreasen, Flemming Struve, Lars Enevoldsen, Laila Bassaine, Margrethe Torp, Joav Merrick

“…Every new patient was asked to answer a 10-question composite questionnaire containing QOL1, QOL5, and four questions on ability to function socially, ability to function sexually, ability to love, and ability to work, rated on a 5-point Likert scale, on initial contact and after 1–3 months, when the patient had received about five treatments, the patient was asked to complete the questionnaire again, and finally again after 1 year. …”
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UV-C Radiation as a Factor Reducing Microbiological Contamination of Fish Meal by Krzysztof Skowron, Justyna Bauza-Kaszewska, Zbigniew Dobrzański, Zbigniew Paluszak, Karolina Jadwiga Skowron

“…Fish meals, added to feeds as a source of protein, may contain pathogenic bacteria. Therefore, effective methods for their sanitizing, such as UV-C radiation, are needed to minimize the epidemiological risk. …”
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Brown Basilisks in Florida by Kenneth T. Gioeli, Steve A. Johnson, Amanda Thompson

“… This publication presents information about the nonnative lizard Basiliscus vittatus (brown basilisk) in Florida. It contains information about brown basilisk identification, natural history, and distribution in Florida. …”
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Geology, Fluid Inclusion, and H–O–S–Pb Isotope Constraints on the Mineralization of the Xiejiagou Gold Deposit in the Jiaodong Peninsula by Peng Chai, Zeng-qian Hou, Hong-rui Zhang, Lei-lei Dong

“…The Xiejiagou deposit is a representative medium-sized gold deposit in Jiaodong the Peninsula, which contains gold reserves of 37.5 t. The orebodies are hosted in the Linglong biotite granite with a zircon LA-ICP-MS U–Pb age of 160.5±1.3 Ma (N=15, MSWD=1.2) and are characterized by disseminated- or stockwork-style ores. …”
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The impact of human resources policies and practices on organizational citizenship behaviors by Joel Adame Tinti, Luciano Venelli-Costa, Almir Martins Vieira, Alexandre Cappellozza

“…The theoretical basis contains Milkovich and Boudreau (1994), Dessler (2002), Demo et al. (2012), among others, to address PPHR and Handy (1978), Organ (1990) and Siqueira (2003) to OCB. …”
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Novel Application for Activated Carbon Pharmaceutical Formulation as an Efficient Adsorbent of Iron (III) from Contaminated Canned Food by Zahrah T. Althagafi, Hassan A. Arida, Reham F. Hassan

“…Black olive and green bean canned food samples containing relatively high iron levels of 698.0 and 1168 mg kg-1, respectively, have been selected for this study due to their levels which were above the maximum permitted levels 48 mg kg-1 according to the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). …”
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Image vaccine against steganography in encrypted domain by Xinran Li, Zichi Wang

“…With an encrypted image containing vaccine data, one can decrypt it to obtain the vaccinated image. …”
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Effectiveness of restructuring strategies: empirical evidence from Croatian firms by Nenad Filipović, Goran Horvat

“…Contribution of the paper is contained in empirically testing the impact of categorized restructuring strategies on the post pre-bankruptcy success of Croatian firms.…”
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Essence of a legal entity’s reorganization from the standpoint of recognizing hive-out as one of its types by V. H. Zhornokui

“…However, most definitions of the category of «reorganization» contain its understanding as a «civil institution», «special procedure», «special process», «special legal phenomenon», «lengthy process», etc., when some legal entities terminate their business and other organizations arise on their property basis. …”
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Developing Seasonal Ammonia Emission Estimates with an Inverse Modeling Technique by Alice B. Gilliland, Robin L. Dennis, Shawn J. Roselle, Thomas E. Pierce, Lucille E. Bender

“…Annually averaged NH3 emissions could significantly affect model-predicted concentrations and wet and dry deposition of nitrogen-containing compounds. We apply a Kalman filter inverse modeling technique to deduce monthly NH3 emissions for the eastern U.S. …”
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Affect Detection from Text-Based Virtual Improvisation and Emotional Gesture Recognition by Li Zhang, Bryan Yap

“…However, we noticed that many inputs with weak or no affect indicators also contain emotional implication but were regarded as neutral expressions by the previous interpretation. …”
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Emissions and Chemical Components of PM2.5 from Simulated Cooking Conditions Using Traditional Cookstoves and Fuels under a Dilution Tunnel System by Colleen Marciel F. Rosales, Jinsang Jung, Mylene G. Cayetano

“…Additionally, the elemental compositions of the PM2.5 from the CCP, KKP, and MCC mainly consisted of Pb (1.96 ± 1.04 to 76.02 ± 151.42 ng min−1), but those for the MFP and KKP primarily contained Cu (2.23 ± 1.18 ng min−1) and As (5.51 ± 1.08 ng min−1), respectively. …”
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