Silver Diamine Fluoride Use in Children with Special Health-care Needs: Breaking the Barriers by Simran Uppal, Amina Sultan, Akanksha Juneja

“…It is a clear, colorless, odorless fluoride-containing solution, does not require an extensive armamentarium for its application, and can be used in any setting. …”
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The effectiveness of filters on catfish Clarias gariepinus fry performance in the aquaponic system by Yuli Andriani, Zahidah Hasan, Irfan Zidni, Isni Nurruhwati, Iskandar Iskandar, Rahmadi Kusumoputra

“…A completely randomized design with four treatments and three replications was applied, namely treatment A: Water circulation using bioball filter medium, B: Water circulation using water spinach filter medium, C: Water circulation using bioball and water spinach filter media, and D: Water circulation using sponge filter medium (control). The container used for the maintenance was a fiber tank at 70 cm × 70 cm × 70 cm size filled with 257 L water and a stocking density of 15 fish/fiber. …”
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Devonian corals of the Vosges Mountains, France by Julien Denayer

“…The Russ Conglomerate of the Bruche Unit is an olistostrome containing limestone olistoliths. Some of these limestones yielded a fossil coral fauna, though rather poorly preserved. …”
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Thermal simulation of hybrid nanomaterial-assisted freezing in porous media by Ali Al Khabyah

“…This work presents a simulation of the transient cold energy storage process in a porous container, accounting for both radiation and conduction mechanisms. …”
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Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) by Seth Bybee

“… The order Odonata contains the dragonflies and damselflies and is one of the most popular insect groups. …”
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Fracture Behavior of Engineered Cementitious Composites Concrete Under Center Point Bending Load by Al-Masraf Harith Mohammed, Al-Attar Tareq Salih, Freyyah Qais Jawad

“…Two engineering cementitious concrete mixtures containing 1.5% and 2% polyvinyl fiber for grades M25 and M65, respectively, obtained higher modulus of rupture. …”
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Genetic structure and evolutionary diversity of mating-type (MAT) loci in Hypsizygus marmoreus by Gang Wang, Yuanyuan Wang, Lianfu Chen, Hongbo Wang, Lin Guo, Xuan Zhou, Meijie Dou, Baiyu Wang, Jingxian Lin, Lei Liu, Zhengchao Wang, Youjin Deng, Jisen Zhang

“…Hypsizygus marmoreus is an edible mushroom in the order Agaricales with a tetrapolar system, which contains two unlinked MAT loci-homeodomain (HD) transcription factor genes and pheromone/pheromone receptor genes (P/R). …”
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Predicting Pulsars from Imbalanced Dataset with Hybrid Resampling Approach by Ernesto Lee, Furqan Rustam, Wajdi Aljedaani, Abid Ishaq, Vaibhav Rupapara, Imran Ashraf

“…Pulsar stars, usually neutron stars, are spherical and compact objects containing a large quantity of mass. Each pulsar star possesses a magnetic field and emits a slightly different pattern of electromagnetic radiation which is used to identify the potential candidates for a real pulsar star. …”
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Analysis of evaluating startups methods by a venture fund by E. S. Smolina, A. A. Polovinkina

“…The article contains research results of the economic indicators of evaluation for a project applying for venture financing. …”
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Couple-Group Consensus: A Class of Delayed Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems in Competitive Networks by Lianghao Ji, Yue Zhang, Yiliu Jiang

“…This paper discusses the couple-group consensus issues of a class of heterogeneous multiagent systems containing first-order and second-order dynamic agents under the influence of both input and communication delays. …”
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Study of the durability of self-compacting concrete made from recycled gravel by Rachid Rabehi, Rabehi Mohamed, Omrane Mohammed

“…According to the results, the best recycled concrete gravel contains 50%, and the addition of 0.5% fibers improves the properties of these SCCs. …”
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Genetic Variations of Gene Associated with Adverse Drug Reactions to Valproic Acid in Korean Epileptic Patients by Ji Hyun Yi, Yang-Je Cho, Won-Joo Kim, Min Goo Lee, Ji Hyun Lee

“…The frequency of the haplotype containing g.-1774Gdel was significantly lower in the patients with CNS ADRs than without CNS ADRs (15.8% vs. 32.3%, p = 0.0039). …”
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Effects of Dietary Protein-to-Energy Ratios on Growth, Immune Response, Antioxidative Capacity, Liver and Intestinal Histology, and Growth-Related Gene Expression in Hybrid Yellow... by Sehrish Taj, Quan Han, Xiaoyi Wu, Haoran Yin, Lixia Tian, Huijun Yang, Yongjian Liu, Junwa Huang

“…Eight diets were formulated to form different protein/energy ratios of 84, 88, 90, 93, 95, 96, 99, and 103 mg/kcal (P/E84, P/E88, P/E90, P/E93, P/E95, P/E96, P/E99, and P/E103), respectively. These diets contain different levels of gross energy (GE), ranging from 4.13 to 4.76 kcal g-1. …”
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A Nodulation-Proficient Nonrhizobial Inhabitant of Pueraria phaseoloides by W. M. M. Wedage, A. H. M. N. R. Aberathne, I. N. Harischandra, D. Gunawardana

“…When we constructed a phylogenetic tree with neighboring sequences, we encountered nifH sequences of Pseudacidovorax, forming a monophyletic cluster, which too contained a single Azospirillum species. The genus Pseudacidovorax is a bacterium that, so far, has not been associated with legume nodules. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Activated Carbons from Parthenium biomass by Physical and Chemical Activation Techniques by Rajeshwari Sivaraj, Venckatesh Rajendran, G. Sangeetha Gunalan

“…Parthenium hysterphorous (Linn), a perennial weed of no known beneficial use was introduced as a containment of food grains imported from US with P1480 scheme. …”
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Enhancing the Oxidative Stability of Beeswax–Canola Oleogels: Effects of Ascorbic Acid and Alpha-Tocopherol on Their Physical and Chemical Properties by Sonia Millao, Marcela Quilaqueo, Ingrid Contardo, Mónica Rubilar

“…Rheological analyses showed that the oleogels containing AA exhibited higher elasticity and resistance to deformation. …”
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Repairing Errors of Inconsistent Data Based on WFT-Nets by Xiaoyan Tao, Yang Li, Xianwen Fang

“…Because workflow systems contain not only the process data, but also the persistent data. …”
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Chitosan-Based Semen Extenders: An Approach to Antibiotic-Free Artificial Insemination in Rabbit by Francisco Marco-Jiménez, Celia Ferriz-Nuñez, Maria Pilar Viudes-de-Castro, José Salvador Vicente, Laura Lorenzo-Rebenaque

“…<b>Methods</b>: EDTA (20 mM) and Chitosan (0.05%) were tested both individually and in combination, by adding them to the semen extender, and their effects were compared with extenders containing antibiotics or none. The extenders were evaluated for microbial resistance and their ability to maintain sperm quality in vitro during refrigeration at 16 ± 1 °C for 72 h. …”
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Evaluation of Cottonseed Meal as an Alternative to Fish Meal in Diet for Juvenile Asian Red-Tailed Catfish Hemibagrus wyckioides by Biwei Li, Linhai Su, Yan Sun, Han Huang, Junming Deng, Zhiyong Cao

“…Five isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets (C0, C8.5, C17.2, C25.7, and C34.4) were prepared to contain 0%, 8.5%, 17.2%, 25.7%, and 34.4% CSM replacing fishmeal, respectively. …”
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In Vitro Comparison of the Internal Ribosomal Entry Site Activity from Rodent Hepacivirus and Pegivirus and Construction of Pseudoparticles by Stuart Sims, Kevin Michaelsen, Sara Burkhard, Cornel Fraefel

“…The 5′ untranslated region (5′ UTR) of rodent hepacivirus (RHV) and pegivirus (RPgV) contains sequence homology to the HCV type III internal ribosome entry sites (IRES). …”
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