Cutaneous Necrotizing Vasculitis and Leukopenia in a Cocaine User: Is Levamisole the Culprit? by Lara El Khoury, Nabil Zeineddine, Richard Felix, Mark Goldstein

“…The health burden of levamisole is serious since it is estimated that over 5 million Americans use cocaine and that 70% of the cocaine used in the USA contains levamisole. In this paper we report the case of a 23-year-old female cocaine user that presented with purpuric rash and skin necrosis, found to have positive c-ANCA and anti-proteinase 3 antibodies. …”
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Layered Rare-Earth Hydroxide Unilameller Nanosheets: Synthesis, Characterization, and Adsorption by Solomon Omwoma, Adongo Stephen Odongo, Zablon Otieno, Silas Lagat, Joseph Owuor Lalah

“…Unilameller nanosheets with a lateral dimension of one nanometer have been isolated from a colloidal solution of europium-containing layered rare-earth hydroxide (LRH) material by the flocculation method. …”
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Size Effects in Ruthenium-Based Thick-Film Resistors: Rutile vs. Pyrochlore-Based Resistors by M. Prudenziati, F. Sirotti, M. Sacchi, B. Morten, A. Tombesi, T. Akomolafe

“…Size effect can be suppressed with Pt/Au-based terminations provided that no Bi is contained and with Au-metallorganic-based contact provided that the peak firing temperature is not too high.…”
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Cloud Point Extraction of Toxic Reactive Black 5 Dye from Water Samples Using Triton X-100 as Nonionic Surfactant by Raziyeh Mousavi, Farzin Nekouei

“…A surfactant mediated cloud point extraction (CPE) procedure has been developed to remove color from wastewater containing reactive black 5, using triton x-100 (TX-100) as non-ionic surfactant. …”
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Sequences of acetyl CoA carboxylase promoter for tumour necrosis factor action by Keerang Park, Michael E. Pape, Ki-Han Kim

“…TNF treatment causes a decrease in the binding activity of nuclear protein(s) specific to the TNF responsive element. When the fragment containing the TNF responsive element was incorporated into the thymidine kinase promoter, the chimeric gene exhibited TNF induced inhibition of expression.…”
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Influence of Organic Esters on Portland Cement Hydration and Hardening by Duan-le Li, Da-peng Zheng, Dong-min Wang, Ji-hui Zhao, Cheng Du, Cai-fu Ren

“…In terms of molecular structure, for organic compounds containing only ester groups, the higher the number of ester groups, the greater the effect on the hydration of cement. …”
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SHRINKAGE AND CREEP CHARACTERISTICS OF PALM KERNEL SHELL CONCRETE by ADETUKASI ADESOLA OLAYINKA, IKPONMWOSA EFE EWAEN

“… This research work evaluates the shrinkage and creep characteristics of concrete containing Palm Kernel Shell (PKS) as partial replacement of natural coarse aggregate. …”
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Taxonomic study of Oxalis section Thamnoxys (Oxalidaceae) in Brazil by Maria Carolina de Abreu, Ykaro Richard Oliveira, Juliana Silva dos Santos, Reginaldo Carvalho, Marcos José da Silva, Margareth Ferreira de Sales

“…Abstract Oxalis comprises ca. 500 species and has a tropical and subtropical distribution. This genus contains four subgenera and Oxalis subg. Thamnoxys is the most diverse in Brazil. …”
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2D DOA Estimation with a Two-Parallel Array Consisting of Two Uniform Large-Spacing Linear Arrays by Sheng Liu, Jing Zhao, Yu Zhang

“…Firstly, two matrices containing elevation angle information are obtained by PM. …”
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Ten Years of Earth and Space Science: Introduction to the Special Collection by Graziella Caprarelli, David Baratoux, Subrahmanyam Bulusu, Cinzia Cervato, Paolo Diviacco, Alina Donea, Steven J. Fletcher, Helen M. Glaves, Cathleen E. Jones, Gaopeng Lu, Astrid Maute, Franklin P. Mills, Sara C. Pryor, Kristy Tiampo, Zunyi Xie

“…This special collection contains 16 papers published in ESS, selected by the Editorial Board to highlight the aims, scope and path of evolution and growth of the journal since it inaugural issue, in 2014.…”
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Photobehaviour of Z-1,2-di-(3′-methoxynaphth-2′-yl)ethene as model compound of biphotochromic supermolecules with Z-ethenic bridge by F. Ortica, D. Levi, P. Brun, R. Guglielmetti, G. Favaro, U. Mazzucato

“…This paper reports the results obtained on the model molecule and two biphotochromic systems containing benzochromene and spirooxazine units.…”
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Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for a SARS model with time-varying inputs and outputs by Robert G. McLeod, John F. Brewster, Abba B. Gumel, Dean A. Slonowsky

“…Consequently, the model contains continuous time-varying inputs andoutputs. …”
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Kinetic and isothermal study of dye absorption using pre-treated natural fabrics using polyamine compounds by Eman M. Reda, Hanan A. Othman, Heba Ghazal, Ahmed G. Hassabo

“…The study contributed to reducing chemicals used in traditional dyeing processes by a significant percentage, as the dyeing bath contained only the treated sample and dye solution. …”
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Application of European approaches to the determination of technological indicators of the best available techniques in the field of wastewater treatment by Oleg V. Grevtsov, Maksim E. Astrakhanov, Andrey N. Epov

“…The year 2014 was a turning point in the transition of the main sectors of the Russian economy to a new track of environmental regulation and the introduction of obligations for first category’ s objects of negative environmental impact to receive a unified complex document containing mandatory requirements in the field of environmental protection. …”

Immobilization of Laccase in Alginate-Gelatin Mixed Gel and Decolorization of Synthetic Dyes by Mehdi Mogharabi, Nasser Nassiri-Koopaei, Maryam Bozorgi-Koushalshahi, Nastaran Nafissi-Varcheh, Ghodsieh Bagherzadeh, Mohammad Ali Faramarzi

“…The immobilization procedure was accomplished by adding alginate to a gelatin solution containing the enzyme and the subsequent dropwise addition of the mixture into a stirred CaCl2 solution. …”
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Experimental Study on Calcium Hydroxide-Assisted Delignification of Hydrothermally Treated Sweet Sorghum Bagasse by Jiby Kudakasseril Kurian, Yvan Gariepy, Mark Lefsrud, Valerie Orsat, Philippe Seguin, Varoujan Yaylayan, G. S. Vijaya Raghavan

“…The optimum conditions of 10% (g/g substrate) Ca(OH)2 and 106.3 min of isothermal treatment residence time at 394 K resulted in 69.67 ± 1.26% of the lignin extracted from the hydrothermally treated SSB powder, producing a solid residue containing 68.29 ± 0.31% residual cellulose and 13.26 ± 0.32% residual lignin in it. …”
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Study of Traditional Uses, Extraction Procedures, Phytochemical Constituents, and Pharmacological Properties of Tiliacora triandra by Gitishree Das, Sushanto Gouda, Rout George Kerry, Hernán Cortes, María L. Del Prado-Audelo, Gerardo Leyva-Gómez, Patrick Valere Tsouh Fokou, Erick P. Gutiérrez-Grijalva, J. Basilio Heredia, Han-Seung Shin, Jayanta Kumar Patra

“…Bioactive compounds contained in T. triandra include phenolic compounds, alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, fatty acids, essential amino acids, peptides, carbohydrates, vitamins, and nucleic acid precursors. …”
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THE ROLE OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS by A. O. Rudnev, M. N. Maxim, V. B. Vizhgorodsky, A. V. Kiryushin, S. Yu. Kotans

“…These diagnostic procedures made it possible to identify Ormond’s disease and prescribe the necessary treatment. The article contains the protocols of CT studies, the conclusions of ultrasound and MRI examinations, the data of laboratory analyzes, the description of surgical interventions…”
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A Generalized Demodulation and Hilbert Transform Based Signal Decomposition Method by Zhi-Xiang Hu, Wei-Xin Ren, Zuo-Cai Wang, Yue-Ling Jing, Xia Yang

“…The main procedure is to extract the components with frequencies higher than a given bisecting frequency by three steps: (1) the generalized demodulation is used to project the components with lower frequencies onto negative frequency domain, (2) the Hilbert transform is performed to eliminate the negative frequency components, and (3) the inverse generalized demodulation is used to obtain the signal which contains components with higher frequencies only. By running the procedure recursively, all monocomponent signals can be extracted efficiently. …”
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Incorporating Contagion in Portfolio Credit Risk Models Using Network Theory by Ioannis Anagnostou, Sumit Sourabh, Drona Kandhai

“…In this paper, we propose a different remedy—augmenting systematic risk factors with a contagious default mechanism which affects the entire universe of credits. …”
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