Polyol-based Synthesis of Praseodymium Oxide Nanoparticles by Caroline Quievryn, Samuel Bernard, Philippe Miele

“…A complete characterization of a specific sample by SEM, HRTEM, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) demonstrates that Pr6O11 nanoparticles form elementary blocks with a calculated size of 118 nm, containing slightly agglomerated nanocrystalline particles with a polycrystalline face-centred cubic phase and an individual size of around 10 nm. …”
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A «necklace» of large clusters of strategic raw materials over a stagnant oceanic slab in East Asia by Natalia Boriskina

“…Large ore clusters containing noble metals (Au, PGE), uranium, fluorite, and Cu-Mo-porphyry deposits are associated with late- and postmagmatic derivatives of the emerging magma chambers over the frontal and peripheral (paleotransform) boundaries of a stagnant Pacific slab. …”
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Global biogeography of N₂-fixing microbes: <i>nifH</i> amplicon database and analytics workflow by M. Morando, J. D. Magasin, S. Cheung, S. Cheung, M. M. Mills, J. P. Zehr, K. A. Turk-Kubo

“…This newly developed workflow was used to reprocess nearly all publicly available <i>nifH</i> amplicon HTS datasets from marine studies and to generate a comprehensive <i>nifH</i> ASV database containing 9383 ASVs aggregated from 21 studies that represent the diazotrophic populations in the global ocean. …”
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Periodic Wave Solutions and Their Limits for the Generalized KP-BBM Equation by Ming Song, Zhengrong Liu

“…A number of explicit periodic wave solutions are obtained. These solutions contain smooth periodic wave solutions and periodic blow-up solutions. …”
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The genetic architecture of resistance to flubendiamide insecticide in Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner). by Douglas Amado, Eva L Koch, Erick M G Cordeiro, Wellingson A Araújo, Antonio A F Garcia, David G Heckel, Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich, Henry L North, Alberto S Corrêa, Chris D Jiggins, Celso Omoto

“…Other loci identified by GWAS in field populations contained known insecticide detoxification genes from the ATP-binding cassette family, ABCA1, ABCA3, ABCF2 and MDR1. …”
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François Gros: from antibiotics to messenger RNA by Yaniv, Moshe

“…In this short text I will describe how the initial post-war studies of François guided him to discover the existence of short-lived RNA in bacteria, the messenger RNA containing the information for protein synthesis. I will also recount the influence he had on his students and their carrier in science.…”
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The β-Lactamase Gene Profile and a Plasmid-Carrying Multiple Heavy Metal Resistance Genes of Enterobacter cloacae by Chongyang Wu, Chaoqin Lin, Xinyi Zhu, Hongmao Liu, Wangxiao Zhou, Junwan Lu, Licheng Zhu, Qiyu Bao, Cong Cheng, Yunliang Hu

“…The extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) (blaSHV-12 and blaCTX-M-9a) and AmpC (blaMIR) were encoded on the chromosome, and the pY546 plasmid contained several clusters of genes conferring resistance to metals, such as copper (pco), arsenic (ars), tellurite (ter), and tetrathionate (ttr), and genes encoding many divalent cation transporter proteins. …”
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Effect of different stocking density on the growth performances of white leg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and milkfish (Chanos chanos) in polyculture system by Gamal M. Samadan, Muhammad Irfan, Faisal Pitra, Muhammad Nur Findra, Supyan Supyan, Aras Syazili, Rovina Andriani

“…Polyculture is a way of cultivating two or more types of organisms in the same container for the purpose of efficient use of land. …”
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Optimization of the Formulation of Rice Biscuits Supplemented with D. Edulis (L.) Powder Using Response Surface Methodology by Eliane Flore Eyenga, Hippolyte Tene Mouafo, Mercy Bih Loh Achu, Wilfred F. Mbacham, Sali Atanga Ndindeng

“…The optimized biscuit which scored the highest overall acceptability contained proteins (10.33 g/100 g DM), fat (27.66 g/100 g DM), crude fibers (2.5 g/100 g DM), ash (3.55 g/100 g DM), and carbohydrates (54.01 g/100 g DM). …”
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A cross-sectional pilot study to estimate the frequency of minor blood group alleles and phenotypes in RhD-negative North Indian blood donors by DNA microarray analysis by Gita Negi, Sheetal Malhotra, Bela Goyal, Praveen Kumar Singh, Anissa Atif Mirza

“…Genotyping for the most relevant red blood cell antigens (Rh, Kell, Duffy, Kidd, MNS, Lutheran, and Dombrock) was done using Bioarray Precise TypeHM Human Erythrocyte Antigen BeadChip kit containing probes directed to polymorphic sites. RESULTS: In the Rh system, the most common alleles were RHCE*e/RHCE*e (98%) and RHCE*c/RHCE*c (80%). …”
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The Effect of Upcycled Brewers’ Spent Grain on Consumer Acceptance and Predictors of Overall Liking in Muffins by Shannon Combest, Cynthia Warren

“…Consumer testing was conducted to evaluate muffins containing varying levels of BSG (0, 20, 30% wt:wt flour) to determine the highest acceptable concentration on overall likeability, appearance, texture, moistness, sponginess, and taste attributes. …”
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Dependence of Water Vapour Adsorption on the Polarity of the Graphene Surfaces of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Robert H. Bradley, Aurik Andreu, Kelby Cassity, Susan Osbeck, Rodney Andrews, Mark Meier, Colin Johnston

“…Water adsorption on these hydrophilic graphene surfaces was shown to occur by specific hydrogen bonding and was therefore strongly dependent on the numbers of oxygen-containing polar surface sites. This behaviour is well known for other types of porous and non-porous carbon materials and is also predicted for carbon nanotubes by molecular simulation studies. …”
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Semi-field studies on biochemical markers of honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) after exposure to pesticides and their mixtures. by Agnieszka Murawska, Ewelina Berbeć, Krzysztof Latarowski, Adam Roman, Paweł Migdał

“…Colonies were exposed daily to 0.5L for 7 days by feeding a sugar syrup containing a formulation of acetamiprid (250 ppb) (insecticide), glyphosate (7200 ppb) (herbicide), and tebuconazole (147 ppb) (fungicide) administered alone, in a binary or ternary mixture. …”
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Cognitive analysis of conceptual metaphor and its types in discourse of Shahrnūsh Pārsipur’s The Dog and the Long Winter based on the theory of Fauconnier and Turner by Parvin Gholamhosseini, Parastoo Karimi, Hamidreza Ghanooni, Jahangir Safari

“…Every social context contains a dominant ideology and several subordinate ideologies. …”
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The Impact of Digitalization on Public Administration, Economic Development, and Well-Being in the EU Countries by Armenia Androniceanu, Irina Georgescu, Oana Matilda Sabie

“…All four clusters are well determined, with cluster 1 including the three Nordic countries ranking first, followed by cluster 3 of well-developed countries and cluster 4 containing mainly emerging economies.   …”
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Influence of different type of impermeable phase on the permeability of PLA films: Nanofillers versus crystalline phase by Aurore Jullin, Guillaume Sudre, Nicolas Hascoët, Francisco Chinesta, Eliane Espuche

“…The polymer chains mobility and the impermeable domains (either filler domains or crystalline phase) contained in each membrane have been characterized in detail. …”
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Long-Term Oxygen Therapy in COPD: Factors Affecting and Ways of Improving Patient Compliance by Stamatis Katsenos, Stavros H. Constantopoulos

“…The lack of sufficient data regarding COPD patients following oxygen prescription is an enormous void that must be duly confronted to augment clinical effectiveness and cost containment for the long term use. The present review article highlights factors influencing the compliance of patients using LTOT and emphasizes novel strategies and interventions that may prove to be of significant benefit given the remarkably little current research appraising this issue. …”
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Application and Evaluation of [Tc]-Labeled Peptide Nucleic Acid Targeting in Breast Cancer Imaging by Yaqun Jiang MD, Yongkang Gai PhD, Yu Long MD, Qingyao Liu PhD, Chunbao Liu MD, PhD, Yongxue Zhang MD, Xiaoli Lan MD, PhD

“…Both antisense PNA (anti-PNA, fully complementary bound to human mature miR-155 , referred to as “anti-PNA-155”) and mismatched PNA (referred to as “mis-PNA”) single strands containing 23-mer were synthesized. The relative expression of miR-155 in MCF-7 cells and tumors was higher than that in MDA-MB-231 cells and tumors. …”
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Vaginal Microbiota Diversity of Patients with Embryonic Miscarriage by Using 16S rDNA High-Throughput Sequencing by Linfen Xu, Lingna Huang, Chengying Lian, Huili Xue, Yanfang Lu, Xiujuan Chen, Yong Xia

“…Crude examination of the vagina isolates showed that compared with the control group, 80% of the embryonic miscarriage group contained a significantly lower number of Lactobacillus, the major healthy microbe in the vagina. …”
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Temperature and Pressure Dependence of the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Geomaterials: Numerical Investigation by the Immersed Interface Method by Duc Phi Do, Dashnor Hoxha

“…This method is particularly efficient at solving the diffusion problem in domains containing inner boundaries in the form of perfect or imperfect interfaces between constituents. …”
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