Bi-polymeric structured system (xanthan gum-carboxymethyl cellulose) for developing instant powder with the ability to suspend flixweed seeds in beverages: Effect of pH and sweeten... by Sara Naji-Tabasi, Bahareh Emadzadeh, Seyedeh Fatemeh Mousavi, Saeedeh Shahbazizadeh, Zahra Damavandi

“…The highest percentage of stable suspended seeds and the lowest fractal dimension change during storage time confirmed the samples containing 0.17 % CMC-0.03 % XG had the highest stability. …”
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3D-Printed Tablets of Nifurtimox: In Vitro and In Vivo Anti-<i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> Studies by Giselle R. Bedogni, Ana Luiza Lima, Idejan P. Gross, Tatiana Prata Menezes, Andre Talvani, Marcilio Cunha-Filho, Claudio J. Salomon

“…The printability of the obtained filaments was tested, and the polyvinyl alcohol filament was further used for printing tablets containing 120 and 60 mg of nifurtimox. <b>Results</b>: Three-dimensional tablets showed a remarkable improvement in the drug dissolution rate compared to commercial tablets and a dissolution efficiency 2.8 times higher. …”
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Impact of essential oil and probiotics supplementation on growth performance, serum biomarkers, antioxidants status, bioenergetics and histomorphometry of intestine of Nile tilapia... by Walaa S. Raslan, Ahmed Shehab, Aya F. Matter, Hadeer A. Youssuf, Omar Ahmed Farid, Ahmed Sabek, Yasmeen Magdy, Amgad Kadah

“…A total of 360 O. niloticus fingerlings were randomly assigned to four groups (3 replicates/ group; each replicate contains 30 fish) based on the different dietary treatments. …”
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Achieving precipitation strengthening and retained austenite thinning via strain induced precipitation to improve fatigue wear resistance of bainitic steel by Sida Chen, Zulai Li, Quan Shan

“…A Solid Solution-Forging-Austempering (SFA) process was presented aimed at breaking the trade-off between fatigue performance and hardness of Ti-containing wear-resistant bainitic steel, and the impressive strength-ductility balance of 26.16GPa% was achieved. …”
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Growth response, economic indices, blood profile, and organ weight of pigs fed rejected cashew kernel meal from weaner to growing phase by Ojediran Taiwo K., Aniyikaye Sarah A., Akinola Rukayat O., Emiola Isiak A.

“…They were randomly allotted to four groups designated as diet 1, 2, 3, and 4 containing 0%, 5%, 10% and 15% rejected cashew kernel meal respectively in a completely randomized design for eighty-four days. …”
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Candida albicans Fungaemia following Traumatic Urethral Catheterisation in a Paraplegic Patient with Diabetes Mellitus and Candiduria Treated by Caspofungin by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul Soni, Peter Hughes, Gordon Ramage, Leighann Sherry, Gurpreet Singh, Paul Mansour

“…Computed tomography of abdomen revealed inflamed uroepithelium of right renal pelvis and ureter, 4 mm lower ureteric calculus with gas in right ureter proximally, and vesical calculus containing gas in its matrix. Urine and blood culture yielded Candida albicans. …”
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Genetic Comparison of Stemness of Human Umbilical Cord and Dental Pulp by Chung-Min Kang, Hyunok Kim, Je Seon Song, Byung-Jai Choi, Seong-Oh Kim, Han-Sung Jung, Seok-Jun Moon, Hyung-Jun Choi

“…This study focuses on gene expression patterns and functions in human umbilical cord (UC) and dental pulp (DP) containing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). DP tissues were collected from 25 permanent premolars. …”
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Biallelic SLC13A1 loss-of-function variants result in impaired sulfate transport and skeletal phenotypes, including short stature, scoliosis, and skeletal dysplasia by Christina G. Tise, Katie Ashton, Lachlan de Hayr, Kun-Di Lee, Omkar L. Patkar, Emma Krzesinski, Jennifer A. Bassetti, Erin M. Carter, Cathleen Raggio, Andreas Zankl, Anas M. Khanshour, Kristhen N. Atala, Jonathan J. Rios, Carol A. Wise, Ying Zhu, Futao Zhang, Tony Roscioli, Michael Buckley, Robert J. Harvey, Paul A. Dawson

“…Purpose: Sulfate is vital for many physiological processes, including the structural and functional maintenance of macromolecules and formation of sulfur-containing compounds essential for cartilage and bone development. …”
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Establishment of a Novel Model for Anticancer Drug Resistance in Three-Dimensional Primary Culture of Tumor Microenvironment by Tatsuya Usui, Masashi Sakurai, Shuhei Enjoji, Hideyoshi Kawasaki, Koji Umata, Takashi Ohama, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Ryotaro Yabe, Shunya Tsuji, Hideyuki Yamawaki, Shoichi Hazama, Hiroko Takenouchi, Masao Nakajima, Ryouichi Tsunedomi, Nobuaki Suzuki, Hiroaki Nagano, Koichi Sato

“…Both organoids were successfully generated and showed cystic structures containing an epithelial layer and surrounding mesenchymal stromal cells. …”
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Effect of Organic Material Type and Proportion on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Vegetation-Concrete by Daxiang Liu, Baohua Zhang, Yueshu Yang, Wennian Xu, Yu Ding, Zhenyao Xia

“…The experimental results show that the porosity of samples containing corn distillers’ grain is clearly higher than those of the other samples types, while situation of the mechanical properties is the opposite. …”
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Unraveling the degradation mechanism of multiple pyrethroid insecticides by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its environmental bioremediation potential by Hui Liu, Wen-Juan Chen, Zeling Xu, Shao-Fang Chen, Haoran Song, Yaohua Huang, Kalpana Bhatt, Sandhya Mishra, Mohamed A. Ghorab, Lian-Hui Zhang, Shaohua Chen

“…A new esterase gene (estA) containing conserved motif (GDSL) and catalytic triad (Ser38, Asp310 and His313) was cloned from strain PAO1. …”
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Differences in pyrolysis behavior and volatiles of tar-rich coal with various origins by Qingmin Shi, Xinyue Zhao, Shuangming Wang, Hongchao Zhao, Ruijun Ji, Chunhao Li, Bingyang Kou, Jun Zhao

“…The reason for S-1 had more bonds with lower energies, accounting for 76 % of the total fragmented bonds, which was 10 % higher than others. Moreover, S-1 contained more highly reactive molecular structures and exhibited higher thermal decomposition. …”
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Evaluation of the Costs and Outcomes of COVID-19 Therapeutic Protocols in Critically Ill Patients in Alzahra Hospital, Isfahan, Iran by Majid Davari, Sarah Mousavi, Mohammad Reza Maracy, Elahe Khorasani, Masih Zamani, Mohammadreza Amirsadri

“…Results: We identified 21 therapeutic protocols based on prescribed medications, with six protocols being the most commonly used. The protocol containing dexamethasone + methylprednisolone showed the highest survival probability (0.79) with a median length of hospital stay of 17 days. …”
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Role of Sling Tuina Exercise Technique in Improving Paraspinal Muscle Asymmetry in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis by LIU Min, MA Zhaoshui, XU Qiangqiang, LI Li

“…Routine rehabilitation training was performed in the control group with reference to the German Schroth scoliosis three-dimensional corrective therapy, including manipulation to relax the concave side of the paraspinal muscles, "hip bridge", and "small swallow fly" and other strength exercises. …”
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Design System of the High Order Elliptic Gear Pair Pitch Curve based on the SolidWorks by Yan Zhaochao, Guan Dianzhu, Chen Yang, Wei Daishan

“…Taking Solid Works as a development platform,the high order elliptic gears pitch curve design system is developed in the VB 6. 0 environment,the system includes a parameter calculation module,the pitch curve concavity and convexity check calibration module and pressure angle,root cutting,curve plotting module and so on. …”
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Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) by Brena Paula Magno Fernandez

“… O “público” e o “privado” têm sido vistos tanto na História quanto na Filosofia como categorias de relacionamento centrais no pensamento ocidental moderno. Muito frequentemente são apresentados como termos antitéticos, hierárquicos e mutuamente excludentes. …”
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Análise de erros na resolução de problemas com equações algébricas do 1º grau: um estudo com alunos do 8º ano do Ensino Fundamental by Yasmini Lais Spindler Sperafico, Beatriz Vargas Dorneles, Clarissa Seligman Golbert

“…Os resultados apontam muitos erros de ordem procedural, mas com origem em conhecimentos concei- tuais mal formados. …”
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Statistical analysis of the k/n(G) system with dependent competing failure components influenced by Gumbel-Hougarrd Copula and progressively hybrid censored data by Yanjie Shi, Zaizai Yan, Xiuyun Peng

“…Also, under the non-informative prior conditions, the conditional posterior density of the shape parameters of the marginal Weibull distribution is proved to be log-concave. The Monte Carlo simulation results showed that the proposed Bayes method is better than the traditional IFM method. …”
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Influence of Tooth Profile Parameter of Double-circle-arc Flexspline on Conjugate Characteristic of Harmonic Gear Drive by Anfu Yuan, Shengfeng Qiu, Xukai Shi

“…The results show that the convex tooth profile radius，concave tooth profile radius and radial deformation amount of FSP have significant influence on the shape of conjugate tooth profile. …”
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AS MÃOS QUE EMBALAM O BERÇO: um estudo sobre redes informais de apoio à maternidade by Sílvia Portugal

“…Este artigo apresenta as hipóteses centrais e alguns resultados. de uma pesquisa, em fase de conclusão, que parte do conceito de sociedade- providência para discutir o pape) da dadiv~ e das retaçbes unerpessoais úe solidariedade na provisão das necessidades sociais dos indivíduos c das suas famílias, Utilizando contribuições da "teoria das redes" para um domínio específico - as necessidades das famílias em lermos de cuidados às crianças -, procura-se conhecer os <110reS envolvidos e o tipo de assistência que prestam. …”
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