Cosmology, the big bang and the BKL conjecture by Ringström, Hans

“…It continues with a review of future global non-linear stability results, stable big bang formation results, results concerning solutions to linear equations on cosmological backgrounds and numerical results. The article contains a substantial, but very incomplete, list of references to the literature.…”
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Novel Nanocomposite Optical Plastics: Dispersion of Titanium in Polyacrylates by Gunjan Suri, Mukti Tyagi, Geetha Seshadri, Gurcharan Lal Verma, Rakesh Kumar Khandal

“…Thermal stability and impact resistance of nano dispersed (4.3% by wt. of Ti) polyacrylates are found to be better than the neat polyacrylates. Moreover, TiO2-containing polyacrylate is of light weight. TEM, SEM, and IR analysis confirms the in-situ formation of nanoparticles of TiO2. …”
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Effects of autolytical fish protein hydrolysate on growth performance, survival rate, and hematological indices in farmed juvenile beluga, Huso huso by Ali Hosseinpour Zelaty

“…Results: The results indicated that the beluga fed the experimental diets containing FHP had higher survival rates than the control group. …”
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Genomic Alterations in Primary Gastric Adenocarcinomas Correlate with Clinicopathological Characteristics and Survival by Marjan M. Weiss, Ernst J. Kuipers, Cindy Postma, Antoine M. Snijders, Daniel Pinkel, Stefan G. M. Meuwissen, Donna Albertson, Gerrit A. Meijer

“…Methods: Array CGH was applied to a series of 35 gastric adenocarcinomas using a genome‐wide scanning array with 2275 BAC and P1 clones spotted in triplicate. Each clone contains at least one STS for linkage to the sequence of the human genome. …”
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RatDEGdb: a knowledge base of differentially expressed genes in the rat as a model object in biomedical research by I. V. Chadaeva, S. V. Filonov, K. A. Zolotareva, B. M. Khandaev, N. I. Ershov, N. L. Podkolodnyy, R. V. Kozhemyakina, D. A. Rasskazov, A. G. Bogomolov, E. Yu. Kondratyuk, N. V. Klimova, S. G. Shikhevich, M. A.  Ryazanova, L. A. Fedoseeva, О. Е. Redina, О. S. Kozhevnikova, N. A. Stefanova, N. G. Kolosova, A. L. Markel, M. P. Ponomarenko, Yu. D. Oshchepkov

“…In its current release, RatDEGdb contains 94,873 such annotations for 321 human genes in 836 diseases based on 959 original scientific papers found in the current PubMed. …”
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Efficacy of the Enteroadsorbent Silicol®gel in Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Subtypes IBS-D or Mixed: Observational Open-Label Study by Gordon Crawford, Rory Taylor, David Young, Chris G. Hatton

“…In this open-label, observational study, adults with IBS with predominant diarrhoea (IBS-D) or IBS with mixed bowel habits (IBS-M), according to Rome IV criteria, received 4 weeks of treatment with the enteroadsorbent Silicol®gel, a CE-certified, licenced, medical device containing colloidal silicic acid. Eligible participants were assessed at baseline (visit 1; in-clinic) and after 1 (visit 2; telephone), 2 (visit 3; telephone), and 4 (visit 4; in-clinic) weeks of treatment. …”
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Coalescence of multiple topological orders in quasi-one-dimensional bismuth halide chains by Jingyuan Zhong, Ming Yang, Wenxuan Zhao, Kaiyi Zhai, Xuan Zhen, Lifu Zhang, Dan Mu, Yundan Liu, Zhijian Shi, Ningyan Cheng, Wei Zhou, Jianfeng Wang, Weichang Hao, Zhenpeng Hu, Jincheng Zhuang, Jinhu Lü, Yi Du

“…Here we use scanning tunneling microscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations to investigate the doping-driven band structure evolution of a quasi-one-dimensional material system, bismuth halide, which contains rare multiple band inversions in two time-reversal-invariant momenta. …”
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Micro- and Nanoscale Pore Structure Characterization and Mineral Composition Analysis of Clayey-Silt Hydrate Reservoir in South China Sea by Cheng Lu, Yuxuan Xia, Xuwen Qin, Chao Ma, Hang Bian, Donghui Xing, Hongfeng Lu

“…The mineral composition of the reservoir is mainly quartz and contains a certain amount of clay minerals, mainly illite, while the mineral composition of reservoir rich in microbial fossils is mainly carbonate. …”
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Thiol-Functionalized Mesoporous Carbons as Adsorbents of Heavy-Metal Ions by Katarzyna Michalak-Zwierz, Karolina Gdula, Katarzyna Tyszczuk-Rotko, Witold Zawadzki, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Mariusz Barczak

“…Ordered mesoporous carbon has been obtained by hard templating using SBA-15 and subsequently, oxidized (by treatment with ammonium persulphate) and thiol-functionalized (by treatment with thiol-contained polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane). Pristine and thiol-functionalized carbons were characterized by nitrogen adsorption, X-ray diffractometry, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy and tested for their ability to adsorb bivalent heavy-metal ions (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn) from the aqueous solutions. …”
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Instantaneous Amplitude-Frequency Feature Extraction for Rotor Fault Based on BEMD and Hilbert Transform by Chuanjin Huang, Haijun Song, Wenping Lei, Zhanya Niu, Yajun Meng

“…The vibration signals propagating in different directions from rotating machines can contain a variety of characteristic information. A novel feature extraction method based on bivariate empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) for rotor is proposed to comprehensively extract the fault features. …”
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Influence of Drilling Along Pilot Holes on Drilling Performance and Effective Rock Strength by Abourawi Alwaar, Ibrahim Futhiez, Abdelsalam Abugharara, Yahui Zhang, Stephen Butt

“…Two sets of experiments were conducted in the Drilling Technology Laboratory at Memorial University of Newfoundland (DTL-MUN) using a fully instrumented Large-scale laboratory Drilling Simulator (LDS). The study contained two critical stages. Pre-coring operations using various diameter coring bits were completed to ensure thorough analysis. …”
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PseudoCell: Hard Negative Mining as Pseudo Labeling for Deep Learning-Based Centroblast Cell Detection by Narongrid Seesawad, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Thapanun Sudhawiyangkul, Phattarapong Sawangjai, Peti Thuwajit, Paisarn Boonsakan, Supasan Sripodok, Kanyakorn Veerakanjana, Komgrid Charngkaew, Ananya Pongpaibul, Napat Angkathunyakul, Narit Hnoohom, Sumeth Yuenyong, Chanitra Thuwajit, Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn

“…<italic>Results:</italic> Our framework significantly reduces the workload for pathologists by accurately identifying and narrowing down areas of interest containing centroblasts. Depending on the confidence threshold, <italic>PseudoCell</italic> can eliminate 58.18-99.35&#x0025; of irrelevant tissue areas on WSI, streamlining the diagnostic process. …”
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Antiviral compounds in marine algae, soft coral and sponge: a systematic review by Tri Wahyu Setyaningrum, Dining Aidil Candri, Mursal Ghazali, Eka Sunarwidhi Prasedya, Faturrahman Faturrahman, Rozikin Rozikin

“…This article presents an overview of various marine organisms that contain antiviral compounds, including microalgae, macroalgae, soft coral, and marine sponge. …”
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FAULT DIAGNOSIS BASED ON IMPROVED KFDA INDIVIDUAL FEATURE SELECTION by CHEN Rui

“…In order to diagnose fault effectively by using sensitive features contained in the feature set, KFDA was improved in this paper and a fault diagnosis method based on improved KFDA individual feature selection was proposed. …”
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Physicochemical and Catalytic Properties of Vanadia/Titania Catalysts. I. Structural Properties by Th. El-Nabarawy, A.M. Youssef, S.A. Sayed Ahmed

“…Vanadia/titania catalysts were obtained by impregnating T a and T b with an aqueous solution of NH 4 VO 4 of concentration sufficient to obtain samples containing 4.0, 6.0, 8.0 or 12.0 wt% V 2 O 5 . The calcination products at 400°C and 600°C were characterized by thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction, FT-IR spectroscopy, electronic spectral analysis and magnetic susceptibility measurements. …”
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Effect of breeding parents on the frequency distribution of cyanidin dominant progenies in purple-fleshed sweetpotato by Takeo Sakaigaichi, Rie Kurata, Yoshihiro Okada, Keisuke Suematsu, Akira Kobayashi, Yukari Kawata, Masaru Tanaka

“…Purple-fleshed sweetpotato (PFSP) clones containing anthocyanins can be classified into two types based on their aglycone composition: normal peonidin-dominant (Pn-type) and unusual cyanidin-dominant (Cy-type) types. …”
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Hair growth-promotion effects and antioxidant activity of the banana flower extract HappyAngel®: double-blind, placebo-controlled trial by Chia-Hua Liang, Yung-Hsiang Lin, Yung-Kai Lin, Chi-Fu Chiang

“…Banana flowers contain various bioactive components, including several antioxidants with anti-inflammatory effects. …”
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Bilayer electrified-membrane with pair-atom tin catalysts for near-complete conversion of low concentration nitrate to dinitrogen by Xuanhao Wu, Xiaoxiong Wang, Yunshuo Wu, Huimin Xu, Zhe Li, Rongrong Hong, Kali Rigby, Zhongbiao Wu, Jae-Hong Kim

“…Abstract Discharge of wastewater containing nitrate (NO3 −) disrupts aquatic ecosystems even at low concentrations. …”
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Microstructure evolution and performance effect of composite carbide (W,Ti)C enhanced Ni-based coatings fabricated by laser cladding by Yang Zhao, Wenqing Shi, Jiang Huang

“…Based on the results of electrochemical experiments, it can be seen that the corrosion resistance behaviour in sulfur-containing chloride environments gradually deteriorates as the mass fraction of W + TiC increases. …”
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Comparative Analysis of miRNA Expression Profiles of Yak Milk-Derived Exosomes at Different Altitudes by Wenwen Ren, Yongfu La, Xiaoming Ma, Xiaoyun Wu, Xian Guo, Min Chu, Ping Yan, Xianyong Lan, Chunnian Liang

“…Milk-derived exosomes, tiny vesicles containing various biological molecules, play crucial roles in numerous pathological and physiological processes, including cell growth, development, and immune regulation. …”
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