Isotherms and Kinetic Studies of Copper Removal from Textile Wastewater and Aqueous Solution Using Powdered Banana Peel Waste as an Adsorbent in Batch Adsorption Systems by Momina Seleman, Takele Sime, Abate Ayele, Assefa Sergawie, Thabo Nkambule, Jemal Fito

“…Powdered banana peel waste adsorbent (PBPWA) contained moisture content, ash content, volatile matter, and bulk density of 3.8%, 3.5%, 37.5%, and 0.02 g/cm3, respectively. …”
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Effect of Cannabis Seeds on Some Biomedical Parameters in Male Rats by Karwan Anwar Hassan, Salah Omer Hamabor, Hunar Mustafa Wassman

“…Each 100 gm of the seeds used in the study contains 26, 37 and 20 gm of protein, fat and carbohydrate respectively. …”
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Ginkgo biloba L.: An Updated Review on the Pharmacological Activities, Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions by Zahra Moeinipour, Maryam Akaberi, Zahra Sobhani

“…Nevertheless, G. biloba contains various pharmacologically active components, such as terpene lactones and flavonoids that could cause drug interactions through multiple mechanisms, including the effect on cytochrome isozymes and p-glycoprotein (P-gp). …”
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Callus Formation in Fractured Femur of Rats Treated with Injection of Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Conditioned Medium by Marla Anggita, Widagdo Sri Nugroho, Yuda Heru Fibrianto, Setyo Budhi, Teguh Budipitojo

“…Mesenchymal stem cells-conditioned medium (MSC-CM) is the extraction from stem cell medium containing biological substances, including growth factors and cytokines. …”
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Technical considerations towards commercialization of porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome (PRRS) virus resistant pigs by A. Mark Cigan, Pieter W. Knap

“…This high genetic merit herd containing a PRRS disease resistance allele will provide important benefits to animal health and food chain value once approved for commercial sale and export.…”
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Reimbursement or compensation for damages caused by war: the civil law aspect by M. О. Parii

“…It is determined that the definition of “non-pecuniary damage” contains a reference to the fact that it is also disclosed as losses of a non-property nature. …”
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Antioxidant activity of Micractinium sp. (Chlorophyta) extracts against H2O2 induced oxidative stress in human breast adenocarcinoma cells by Onur Bulut, Işkın Engin Köse, Çağla Sönmez, Hüseyin Avni Öktem

“…Notably, the acetone extracts of Micractinium sp. grown mixotrophically contained a high amount of gallic acid (469.21 ± 159.74 µg g−1 DW), while 4-hydroxy benzoic acid (403.93 ± 20.98 µg g−1 DW) was the main phenolic compound in the methanolic extracts under heterotrophic cultivation. …”
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Biological Evaluation of Platinum(II) Sulfonamido Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, Cytotoxicity, and Biological Imaging by Charini Maladeniya, Taniya Darshani, Sameera R. Samarakoon, Frank R. Fronczek, W. M. C. Sameera, Inoka C. Perera, Theshini Perera

“…In this study, two novel platinum complexes, (C1 = [PtCl2(N(SO2quin)dpa)], C2 = [PtCl2(N(SO2azobenz)dpa)]) containing quinoline and azobenzene appended dipicolylamine sulfonamide ligands were synthesized in good yield. …”
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Maternal betel quid use during pregnancy and child growth: a cohort study from rural Bangladesh by Mohammad Redwanul Islam, Shaki Aktar, Jesmin Pervin, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Monjur Rahman, Anisur Rahman, Eva-Charlotte Ekström

“…Background Chewing betel quid (BQ) – a preparation commonly containing areca nut and slaked lime wrapped in betel leaf – is entrenched in South Asia. …”
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Oriented R-CNN With Disentangled Representations for Product Packaging Detection by Jiangyi Pan, Jianjun Yang, Yinhao Liu, Yijie Lv

“…To fill the shortage of wrapper datasets, we established a Carton Packing Tape (CPT) Dataset with a large scale of images only containing cartons. Specifically, we first collect a large number of images of packaged cartons from the real packaging production line and provide detection boxes for them by manual labeling. …”
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Evaluating the respective role of individual precipitates on the hydrogen trapping ability and locations of a co-precipitation enameled steel via in situ Scanning Kelvin Probe Forc... by Xuejian Fu, Chun Xu, Yu Li, Quanshe Sun, Yuwei Liu

“…To investigate the respective roles of the individual precipitates on the hydrogen trapping ability and locations in enameled steels containing a co-precipitate, in situ Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), correlated with Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microcopy (SKPFM), was employed in this work. …”
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Analysis of the transcriptional activity of model piggyBac transgenes stably integrated into different loci of the genome of CHO cells in the absence of selection pressure by L. A. Yarinich, A. A. Ogienko, A. V. Pindyurin, E. S. Omelina

“…Each individual transgene contained a unique tag, a DNA barcode, and the resulting polyclonal cell population was cultured for almost a month without any selection. …”
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Prediction of some peroxidase functions in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> L. by bioinformatic search by A. S. Tugbaeva, A. A. Ermoshin, I. S. Kiseleva

“…They formed six clusters on the phylogenetic tree, three of which contained only A. thaliana peroxidases. Peroxidases within each cluster had similar molecular weights and isoelectric points, common localization of expression, and similar functions. …”
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Effect of Dexmedetomidine Added to Lidocaine Cartridge on the Level of Patient Sedation, Cooperation, and Patient and Surgeon Satisfaction during Mandibular Third-Molar Extraction... by Milad Etemadi Sh, Nasser Kaviani, Kimia Salimian, Golnaz Tajmiri

“…A single experienced surgeon performed two surgical extraction procedures within at least four-week time intervals using anesthetic cartridges containing “DEX + LIDO” or “LIDO alone” used randomly on each side for each patient. …”
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Exploring the Molecular Composition of Dissolved Organic Matter and Its Connection to Microbial Communities in Industrial-Scale Anaerobic Digestion of Chicken Manure by Juan Hu, Yurui Zeng, Aibin Hu, Xiaofeng Wang

“…The results revealed that the DOM contained abundant free amino acids and protein-like compounds but fewer humic-like substances, identified as lignin/carboxylate-rich alicyclic molecules, lipids, and proteins/aliphatic compounds featuring enriched S_5–6O₁ and N_1–5O_X fragments. …”
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Limitations of temporal (forehead) temperature readings as a screening method for covid-19 by Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas

“…Multiple public-health strategies have been attempted in different regions of the world as authorities try to control spread of the disease, while the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the pandemic proves to be extremely contagious. As many countries attempt the return to business as usual, in what has been called “a new normality”, a key element in the prevention of contagion is reasonable screening for infected people.A common, generalized screening method involves measuring body temperature to detect fever. …”
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Convenient estimation of oxytetracycline and polymyxin B by a novel high-performance liquid chromatography method: development and validation by Tanu Chaudhary, Balak Das Kurmi, Dilpreet Singh

“….), 5 μm], mobile phase consisting of aotearoa co-incidence network (ACN):water containing 0.5% (v/v) orthophosphoric acid (pH 3.5) in the ratio of 80:20 respectively. …”
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The Homopolyatomic Sulfur Cation [S₂₀]²⁺ by Janis Derendorf, Lara Heiderich, Carsten Jenne, Marc C. Nierstenhöfer

“…In this report, the generation and crystal structure determination of the salt Na₂[S₂₀]₂[B₁₂Cl₁₂]₃, containing the new homopolyatomic sulfur cation [S₂₀]²⁺, is reported. …”
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miR-3960 from Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Inactivates SDC1/Wnt/β-Catenin Axis to Relieve Chondrocyte Injury in Osteoarthritis by Targeting PHLDA2 by Peng Ye, Zhanhu Mi, Daihao Wei, Pengcheng Gao, Mei Ma, Haibo Yang

“…Finally, the effects of miR-3960 contained in MSC-derived EVs in OA mouse models were also explored. …”
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Intraspecific classification of durum wheat: new botanical varieties and forms by O. A. Lyapunova

“…The Wheat Genetic Resources Department of VIR treats Triticum durum Desf. as a separate species. It contains 2 subspecies: subsp. durum and subsp. horanicum. …”
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