Socio-educational intervention program for the smoking prevention in dentistry students by Miguel Ángel Toledo Méndez, Midiala Veloz Fariñas, Tania Quesada Rabelo, Yanexis Valdés Gárciga, José Carlos Toledo Quirós

“…The proposed socio-educational intervention program contains the objectives to be achieved, the strategies to be put into practice, the resources to be used and the planned timing. …”
Get full text

Chemical test and cellular bioactivities and flavor enhancer properties of mung bean protein via glycation reaction by Srisukpachin Nuttakarn, Tabtimmai Lueacha, Sedtananun Saranya, Laohakunjit Natta, Sonklin Chanikan

“…Mung bean meal is by-product of the vermicelli industry and contains a high protein content of 70 %. Therefore, this research study and development of flavor-enhancers derived from the mung bean meal protein isolated (MPI) reacted with reducing sugars as glucose (Glu) for generating Maillard reaction products (MRPs) under thermal process. …”
Get full text

Variables influencing telemedicine utilization via telephone appointments among rural patients by Eliseo García, Benjamin C. Vincent, Shivani Thakur, Ashish Thakur, Fatima Zabiba, Sandhini Agarwal, Jasmin Dominguez Cervantes, Ahmed Zabiba

“…Methods A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire was completed by 153 patients at a rural clinic via a convenience sampling method. The survey contained 21 statements encompassing provider confidence, patient-physician rapport, and accessibility variables. …”
Get full text

Proliferation and TH1/TH2 Cytokine Production in Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells after Treatment with Cypermethrin and Mancozeb In Vitro by Rajesh Mandarapu, Rajanna Ajumeera, Vijayalakshmi Venkatesan, Balakrishna Murthy Prakhya

“…Cultures were then further incubated for 48 or 72 hr in fresh medium containing phytohemagglutinin (10 µg/mL) to assess, respectively, effects on cell proliferation (BrdU-ELISA method) and cytokine formation (flow cytometric bead immunoassays). …”
Get full text

Flotation Recovery Tests of Silver Minerals from a Cyanide Slag in Colombia by Shuibo CHEN, Qiankun WANG, Zhongmei SUN, Yuyun SU, Qihong XU

“…And the copper minerals are mainly chalcopyrite. ②The silver and copper were in a intimated correlation, which means that it can be used the copper flotation process to recover the associated silver minerals. ③ It is revealed that a flotation concentrate containing 2 150.79 g/t silver and 9.63% copper which corresponded to a recovery of 74.02% for silver and 58.74% for copper can be obtained by using the closed-circuit flotation process of one-stage roughing, two-stage cleaning and two-stage scavenging. ④ It is beneficial to use flotation process to recover silver and copper in leaching tailings of Colombia ores, which improves the total recovery of silver and the resource utilization efficiency.…”
Get full text

Absence of Rejection in a Facial Allograft Recipient with a Positive Flow Crossmatch 24 Months after Induction with Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin and Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody by Bruce E. Gelb, J. Rodrigo Diaz-Siso, Natalie M. Plana, Adam Jacoby, William J. Rifkin, Kimberly S. Khouri, Daniel J. Ceradini, Eduardo D. Rodriguez

“…To our knowledge, this is the first report of targeted B cell agents used for induction immunosuppression in skin-containing vascularized composite tissue allotransplantation. …”
Get full text

Identification of microorganisms at different times in a bioleaching process for the recovery of gold and silver from minerals in oxide form by Cuauhtémoc Contreras Mora, Juan Antonio Rojas Contreras, Mayra Cristina Rosales Villarreal, José Luis Urban Martínez, Efren Delgado, Hiram Medrano Roldan, Felipe Samuel Hernández Rodarte, Damián Reyes Jáquez

“…The mineral was crushed to a particle size of 0.125 inches or smaller, containing gold and silver concentrations of 0.609 g/ton and 138.89 g/ton, respectively. …”
Get full text

Dual Strategy Based Improved Swarm Intelligence and Stacked LSTM With Residual Connection for Land Use Land Cover Classification by Vinaykumar Vajjanakurike Nagaraju, Ananda Babu Jayachandra, Andrzej Stateczny, Swathi Holalu Yogesh, Raviprakash Madenur Lingaraju, Balaji Prabhu Baluvaneralu Veeranna

“…The dual strategy includes adaptive inertia weight and phasor operator strategy to select relevant features from the feature subset. The stacked LSTM contains multiple layers stacked on top of each other to capture high-level temporal data. …”
Get full text

Comparative Analysis of the Flavonoid Characteristics of Camellia oleifera Flowers in Different Plantations in Guizhou, China by Yurui Hao, Guandi He, Sanwei Yang, Zhannan Yang, Wenxuan Quan

“…There were significant differences in total flavonoid content among the different plantations (P < 0.05), with Tianzhu County having the highest total flavonoid content (average value of 13.60 mg/g) and Liping County having the lowest total flavonoid content (average value of 2.39 mg/g). …”
Get full text

Assessment of physical education teachers’ use of distance teaching behavior under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic by Hsiu-Chin Huang, Ya-Tzu Kung, Ruey-Rong Huang, Wui-Chiu Mui, Yu-Chien Su

“…Method The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model was employed to explore the use intention and use behavior of distance teaching. The model contains four independent variables: performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI), and facilitating conditions (FC), two dependent variables: behavioral intention (BI) and use behavior (UB) and three moderating variables: gender, age, and experience. …”
Get full text

Effects and Impact of Selenium on Human Health, A Review by Song Bai, Miaohe Zhang, Shouying Tang, Miao Li, Rong Wu, Suran Wan, Lijun Chen, Xian Wei, Shuang Feng

“…Currently, over 30 types of selenoproteins have been identified, with more than 20 of them containing selenocysteine residues. Among these, glutathione peroxidases (GPXs), thioredoxin reductases (TrxRs), and iodothyronine deiodinases (DIOs) have been widely studied. …”
Get full text

Immunogenicity of RSV F DNA Vaccine in BALB/c Mice by Erdal Eroglu, Ankur Singh, Swapnil Bawage, Pooja M. Tiwari, Komal Vig, Shreekumar R. Pillai, Vida A. Dennis, Shree R. Singh

“…With a focus on Th1 immunity, we developed a DNA vaccine containing the native RSV fusion (RSV F) protein and studied its immune response in BALB/c mice. …”
Get full text

Dream Recall Frequencies and Dream Content in Wilson’s Disease with and without REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder: A Neurooneirologic Study by Gotthard G. Tribl, Mateus C. Trindade, Michael Schredl, Joana Pires, Iris Reinhard, Thais Bittencourt, Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho, Rosana Cardoso Alves, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Erich T. Fonoff, Edson Bor-Seng-Shu, Alexandre A. Machado, Manoel J. Teixeira, Egberto R. Barbosa

“…Compared to WD patients without RBD, patients with WD and RBD reported significantly higher nightmare frequencies and more dreams with violent or aggressive content retrospectively; their prospectively collected dream reports contained significantly more negative emotions and aggression. …”
Get full text

Characterization of olive mill wastewater in three climatic zones in the North of Jordan by Mamoun Gharaibeh, A. Albalasmeh Ammar, Hanady Abu Abbas

“…OMW in the sub-humid climate contained higher total phenols, COD, EC, Ca, and K than other climates. …”
Get full text

Dietary Fiber with Functional Properties Counteracts the Thwarting Effects of Copper Nanoparticles on the Microbial Enzymatic Activity and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production in the... by Jerzy Juśkiewicz, Bartosz Fotschki, Anna Stępniowska, Ewelina Cholewińska, Dorota Napiórkowska, Aleksandra Marzec, Łucja Brzuzan, Joanna Fotschki, Ewa Żary-Sikorska, Katarzyna Ognik

“…The addition of functional fiber to diets containing Cu-NP enhanced bacterial α-glucosidase, β-glucosidase, β-glucuronidase, α-arabinofuranosidase activity and SCFA production vs . diets with control cellulose. …”
Get full text

Kupffer Cells Promote the Differentiation of Adult Liver Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells into Lymphocytes via ICAM-1 and LFA-1 Interaction by Deping Meng, Yuhong Qin, Nan Lu, Keke Fang, Yuan Hu, Zhigang Tian, Cai Zhang

“…It has been reported that the adult liver contains hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), which are associated with long-term hematopoietic reconstitution activity. …”
Get full text

Isolation and Characterization of Paracoccus sp. GSM2 Capable of Degrading Textile Azo Dye Reactive Violet 5 by Mallikarjun C. Bheemaraddi, Santosh Patil, Channappa T. Shivannavar, Subhashchandra M. Gaddad

“…Overall results indicate the effectiveness of the strain GSM2 explored for the treatment of textile industry effluents containing various azo dyes. To our knowledge, this could be the first report on biodegradation of Reactive Violet 5 by Paracoccus sp. …”
Get full text

Reprogramming of Melanoma Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Hidehito Saito, Keisuke Okita, Noemi Fusaki, Michael S. Sabel, Alfred E. Chang, Fumito Ito

“…The ability to reprogram TILs containing patient-specific tumor-reactive repertoire might allow the generation of patient- and tumor-specific polyclonal T cells for cancer immunotherapy.…”
Get full text

MaizeCODE reveals bi-directionally expressed enhancers that harbor molecular signatures of maize domestication by Jonathan Cahn, Michael Regulski, Jason Lynn, Evan Ernst, Cristiane de Santis Alves, Srividya Ramakrishnan, Kapeel Chougule, Sharon Wei, Zhenyuan Lu, Xiaosa Xu, Umamaheswari Ramu, Jorg Drenkow, Melissa Kramer, Arun Seetharam, Matthew B. Hufford, W. Richard McCombie, Doreen Ware, David Jackson, Michael C. Schatz, Thomas R. Gingeras, Robert A. Martienssen

“…Furthermore, the morphological traits selected during domestication are recapitulated, both in gene expression and within regulatory regions containing enhancer RNAs, while highlighting the conflict between enhancer activity and silencing of the neighboring transposable elements.…”
Get full text

Numerical Simulations of Fracture Propagation in Jointed Shale Reservoirs under CO2 Fracturing by Qi Zhang, Dan Ma, Jiangfeng Liu, Jiehao Wang, Xibing Li, Zilong Zhou

“…Water-based hydraulic fracturing for the exploitation of shale gas reservoirs may be limited by two main factors: (1) water pollution and chemical pollution after the injection process and (2) permeability decrease due to clay mineral swelling upon contact with the injection water. Besides, shale rock nearly always contains fractures and fissures due to geological processes such as deposition and folding. …”
Get full text