Application possibility of ophthalmic heparin ointment as an artificial tear (preliminary report) by V.D. Yartsev

“…<br> <b>Conclusion</b>: conducted research showed that during the first week after prescription of heparin-containing ocular ointment PARIN-POS^® in patients with dry eye diseases a statistically significant growth of tear meniscus depth and height occurs. …”
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Comparative study of PCR test kits for ASFV DNA detection by M. S. Krasnikova, S. P. Yatsentyuk, M. B. Bryusova, A. D. Kozlova, М. А. Gergel

“…When the specificity was assessed, all the kits showed absence of non-specific reactions and acceptable sensitivity when testing various types of ASFV-containing material (blood, suspensions of pork spleen and pork casings used in sausage production). …”
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Gibberellin Treatment Toward Off-crop Season as a Practical Tool to Increase Yield in ‘Orri’ Mandarin by Dor Haim, Itzhak Kamara, Michael Morozov, Avi Sadka

“…In citrus, the bud meristem develops into a leafless inflorescence (generative), leafy inflorescence (mixed type, containing leaves and flowers in various ratios), or vegetative shoot, or remains dormant. …”
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‘Bulun in Winter Is So Sad’: A. Bogolepov about Everyday Life in Polar Yakutia, 1913–1916 by Lilia I. Vinokurova, Alexander A. Suleymanov, Svyatoslav I. Fedorov

“…The manuscript is an important source for the research of cryoanthropology, and also contains valuable information on Yakutia’s socioeconomic and cultural history throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. …”
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Evaluation of the impact of antibody fragments on aggregation of intact molecules via size exclusion chromatography coupled with native mass spectrometry by Jing Xu, John E. Coughlin, Malgorzata Szyjka, Serene Jabary, Sonal Saluja, Zoran Sosic, Yunqiu Chen, Chong-Feng Xu

“…The Fab/c fragments were generated using a limited IgdE digestion that specifically cleaves above the IgG1 mAb hinge region, followed by hydrophobic interaction chromatographic (HIC) enrichment. Two IgG1 mAbs containing different levels of Fab/c fragments were incubated under thermally accelerated conditions. …”
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Experience, access and utilisation of fertility care for infertile men within the biomedical sector in urban Bangladesh: protocol for a qualitative study by Papreen Nahar, Gitau Mburu, Sohana Shafique, Priya Satalkar-Götz, Foyjunnaher Sultana

“…A comprehensive participant information sheet containing the study aims, objectives and data collection procedures will be provided to eligible participants and informed consent obtained. …”
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Improving potassium use efficiency of sugarcane through the use of polyhalite by Wilfrand Ferney Bejarano Herrera, Bruna Arruda, Hudson Wallace Pereira de Carvalho, Paulo Sergio Pavinato

“…Results In general, shoot dry matter and nutrient uptake were higher with the highest K dosage applied and K sources containing Ca and S in the formulation PHY; ½KP; and KGK, for both growth cycles. …”
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Multi-stage structure-based virtual screening approach combining 3D pharmacophore, docking and molecular dynamic simulation towards the identification of potential selective PARP-1... by Mahmoud A. El Hassab, Wagdy M. Eldehna, Ghaneya S. Hassan, Sahar M. Abou-Seri

“…After that, a database of nearly 450,000 phthalimide-containing inhibitors was screened through the validated pharmacophore, and 165 compounds were retrieved. …”
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Endoplasmic reticulum protein TXNDC5 modulates thyroid eye disease TGF-β1-induced myofibroblast transdifferentiation by Albert Y Wu, Hsun-I Chiu, Shi-Bei Wu, Chieh-Chih Tsai

“…We would evaluate the role of thioredoxin domain containing 5 (TXNDC5), a fibroblast-enriched ER protein, in TGF-β1-induced myofibroblast transdifferentiation from TED orbital fibroblasts.Methods Orbital fibroblasts from patients with TED were treated with TGF-β1 to investigate ER stress-relative gene expression especially for TXNDC5. …”
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Community Perception on Trypanosomosis, Parasitological, and Entomological Studies in Two Selected Districts of South Omo Zone, Ethiopia by Solomon Mekuria, Tesfu K. Mekonnen, Nigatu Kebede

“…Proportional piling showed that cattle, goats, and sheep were proportionally dominant with a high median score of 32(14–40), 26(12–33), and 21(5–23), respectively; trypanosomosis ranked first with a proportional median score of 24(13–26) followed by contagious bovine/caprine pleuropneumonia with a proportional median score of 23(19–26) among others. …”
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Nuances of preoperative care before cataract extraction. What do we overlook when performing biometry, calculating IOL power, and examining the eye? by A.B. Movsisyan, A.E. Egorov

“…Personalization of theoretical formula s provides better accuracy of IOL power calculations to meet modern trends in intraocular correction. Supplements containing macular pigments prevent macular degeneration and protect the macular zone.…”
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Effect of Pollution Level on Size Distributions and Mixing State of Ambient Black Carbon Particles in an Urban Area during Wintertime by Kangning Li, XiaoFei Wang, Xiaohui Lu, Hong Chen, Xin Yang

“…Interestingly, the BC particles in the clean air masses contained V more frequently and generated intense mass spectrum signals for Ca+, suggesting that these particles probably arose from heavy machinery emissions near ports. …”
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Knowledge and motivations of researchers publishing in presumed predatory journals: a survey by David Moher, Agnes Grudniewicz, Kelly D Cobey, Manoj M Lalu, Danielle B Rice, Hana Raffoul

“…Objectives To develop effective interventions to prevent publishing in presumed predatory journals (ie, journals that display deceptive characteristics, markers or data that cannot be verified), it is helpful to understand the motivations and experiences of those who have published in these journals.Design An online survey delivered to two sets of corresponding authors containing demographic information, and questions about researchers' perceptions of publishing in the presumed predatory journal, type of article processing fees paid and the quality of peer review received. …”
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Tampered text detection via RGB and frequency relationship modeling by Yuxin WANG, Boqiang ZHANG, Hongtao XIE, Yongdong ZHANG

“…In recent years, the widespread dissemination of tampered text images on the Internet constitutes an important threat to the security of text images.However, the corresponding tampered text detection (TTD) methods have not been sufficiently explored.The TTD task aims to locate all text regions in an image while judging whether the text regions have been tampered with according to the authenticity of the texture.Thus, different from the general text detection task, TTD task further needs to perceive the fine-grained information for real-world and tampered text classification.TTD task has two main challenges.One the one hand, due to the high similarity in texture between real-world texts and tampered texts, TTD methods that only learn from RGB domain features have limited capability to distinguish these two-category texts well.On the other hand, as the different detecting difficulty exists in real-world texts and tampered texts, the network cannot well balance the learning process of the two-category texts, resulting in the imbalance detection performance between real-world and tampered texts.Compared with RGB domain features, the discontinuity of text texture in frequency domain can help the network to identify the authenticity of text instances.Accordingly, a new TTD method based on RGB and frequency information relationship modeling was proposed.The features in the RGB and frequency domains were extracted by independent feature extractors respectively.Thus, the identification ability of tampered texture can be enhanced by introducing frequency information during the texture perception.Then, a global RGB-frequency relationship module (GRM) was introduced to model the texture authenticity relationship between different text instances.GRM referred to the RGB-frequency features of other text instances in the same image to assist in judging the authenticity of the current text instance, which solved the problem of imbalanced detection performance.Furthermore, a new TTD dataset (Tampered-SROIE) was proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed method, which contains 986 images (626 training images and 360 test images).By evaluating on the Tampered-SROIE, the proposed method obtains 95.97% and 96.80% in F-measure for real-world and tampered texts respectively and reduces the imbalanced detection accuracy by 1.13%.The proposed method will give new insights to the TTD community from the perspective of network structure and detection strategy.Tampered-SROIE also provides an evaluation benchmark for future TTD methods.…”
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Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Hypoallergenic Milk Formulas for the Management of Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy in the United Kingdom by Rui Martins, Mark P. Connolly, Eleanor Minshall

“…Amino acid-based formula (AAF), extensively hydrolysed casein formula containing Lactobacillus rhamnosus Gorbach Goldin (EHCF+LGG), extensively hydrolysed whey formula (EHWF), and soy formula (SF) were compared using the National Health Service (NHS) perspective, 3-year time horizon and 3.5% discount rate for cost and health consequences. …”
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Effects of sturgeon oil and reheating methods on the qualities of sturgeon surimi gels by Yuanxiu Liu, Xiaomo Guo, Tong Shi, Zhiyu Xiong, Li Yuan, Ruichang Gao

“…In order to investigate the effects of sturgeon oil and reheating methods on the qualities of sturgeon surimi gels, the prepared sturgeon surimi gels containing sturgeon oil (with the direct addition named SO and with the Pickering emulsion named PPE) were reheated by boiling, steaming, microwave, and frying, respectively. …”
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On Chinese Translations of Colloquial Russian Pragmatic Approximator Markers: Analyzing Speech Patterns from Literary Fiction by Xiang Yanan, Natalia V. Bogdanova-Beglarian

“…The study seeks to analyze the identified methods of translating pragmatic approximator markers contained in Russian literary texts — into Chinese. …”
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Insight into the avidity–affinity relationship of the bivalent, pH-dependent interaction between IgG and FcRn by Johannes Reusch, Jan Terje Andersen, Ulrich Rant, Tilman Schlothauer

“…Furthermore, IgG1-YTE displayed a pH switch for the avidity enhancement factor at pH 6.2, reflecting strong receptor binding to both sides of the YTE-containing Fc, while avidity was abolished at pH 7.4. …”
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Comparison of citrate dialysate in pre- and post-dilution online hemodiafiltration: effect on clot formation and adequacy of dialysis in hemodialysis patients by Pasu Nakornchai, Arisara Jitraree, Monpinya Charttong Homjan, Thanachit Laykhram, Thananda Trakarnvanich

“…Therefore, we aimed to investigate the efficacy of citrate anticoagulation for oL-HDF and the metabolic changes and quality of life of patients on hemodialysis treated using both modesMethod Eight dialysis patients were treated with CD containing 0.8 mmol of citric acid for 4 weeks in each phase. …”
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Evaluation of quality policies and strategies in health systems: a scoping review by Zenewton André da Silva Gama, Márcia Cunha da Silva Pellense, Pedro Jesús Saturno Hernández, Anna Cláudia Sales Gomes Caldas

“…An instrument used in Afghanistan, Armenia, Guatemala and Mexico proved to be potentially useful for dissemination in other countries. Among the elements recommended by the WHO for the implementation of strategic policies for quality, the most present were governance and organisational structure.Conclusions Although the evidence provides an indication of how countries have implemented their quality policies and strategies, we identified the need for tools to assess their impact on health systems.…”
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