Best practices for the experimental design of one health studies on companion animal and owner microbiomes – From data collection to analysis by Suzanne B. Clougher, Dagmara Niedziela, Piera Versura, Grace Mulcahy

“…These studies give a unique insight into bacterial flows between humans and animals, but come with their specific challenges.This review discusses the data and sample collection challenges, as well as laboratory, bioinformatic and data analysis challenges specific to One Health studies on companion animal and owner microbiomes. …”
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Investigation of the Air Pollution Event in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region in December 2016 Using WRF-Chem by Dongdong Wang, Baolin Jiang, Fangzhou Li, Wenshi Lin

“…The primary meteorological drivers of air pollution formation were stationary atmospheric flows in both vertical and horizontal directions. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Recycled Asphalt Mixtures Containing Construction and Demolition Waste Applicated as Pavement Base by Le Ding, Junhui Zhang, Bowen Feng, Cheng Li

“…According to the actual screening passing rate, the Bailey method was used to design and verify the grading of RAM, and then initial asphalt content was estimated. The stability, flow value, voidage, and bulk density were obtained by Marshall Test, and the optimal asphalt-aggregate ratios were determined under different RA contents and proportion of bricks to concrete. …”
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Vitamin D Ameliorates Impaired Wound Healing in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Mice by Suppressing Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress by Yi Feng Yuan, Sushant K. Das, Mao Quan Li

“…Cell viability was analyzed using the CCK-8 assay, and the apoptosis rate was measured using flow cytometry. Endogenous markers of ER stress were quantified using Western blot and a real-time polymerase chain reaction. …”
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The Life Course of 20th-Century Lyon Silk Workers. A Pilot Study by Elizabeth Wroten, Tamara Hareven

“…Finally, just as economics tended to ebb and flow for the silk industry, so did the labor conditions. …”
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Dry eye disease treatment improves subjective quality-of-life responses in patients with AMD, independent of disease stage. by Nehal Nailesh Mehta, Ines D Nagel, Akshay Agnihotri, Anna Heinke, Lingyun Cheng, Dirk-Uwe Bartsch, William R Freeman, Maria-Laura Gomez

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 203 eyes diagnosed with evaporative dry eye disease (DED) due to meibomian gland dysfunction were treated using the LipiFlow or MiBoFlo systems. From this cohort, 40 eyes with stable dry AMD (early, intermediate, or late stages) were included. …”
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Evaluation of Staining Reduction of Teeth Endodontically Treated with CTZ Paste through the Use of Polytetrafluoroethylene Isolation Tape by Lucas de Lima Oliveira Barbosa, Jaine Viviane Silva, Leopoldo Cosme-Silva, Daniela Maria Carvalho Pugliesi, Patrícia Batista Lopes do Nascimento, Dayse Andrade Romão, Priscylla Gonçalves Correia Leite de Marcelos, Daniel Pinto de Oliveira, Valdeci Elias dos Santos Junior

“…The teeth received CTZ filling and were divided according to whether or not PTFE was used, as well as by the length of the remaining root (1/3 or 2/3 of the root) and by the restorative material (Modified Resin Glass Ionomer Cement or Opus Bulk Resin Fill Flow). Coloration was assessed once a week for six weeks through follow-up photographs. …”
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The Essential Components of Metaverse-based Mixed Reality for Machinery Vocational Schools by Satrio Pradono Suryodiningrat, Harjanto Prabowo, Arief Ramadhan, Harry Budi Santoso

“…This study uses a methodology that is developed by the authors to accommodate the true or natural flow of this research. The results of this study are to provide the essential elements of mixed reality systems as the mixed reality systems are not part of any metaverse type. …”
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A Living River” of Çanakkale Sarıçay Region Examination in the Scope by Zekeriye Gök, Alper Sağlık, Merve Temiz Topsakal

“…Especially with the industrial revolution, a large population flow has occurred from rural areas to urban areas. …”
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A Case of Placental Mesenchymal Dysplasia by Shigeki Taga, Junko Haraga, Mari Sawada, Aya Nagai, Dan Yamamoto, Ryoji Hayase

“…Color doppler revealed little blood flow in the lesion. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed normal fetus and a large multicystic placenta. …”
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Study of Ventilation Strategies in a Passenger Aircraft Cabin Using Numerical Simulation by S. M. Abdul Khader, John Valerian Corda, Kevin Amith Mathias, Gowrava Shenoy, Kamarul Arifin bin Ahmad, Augustine V. Barboza, Sevagur Ganesh Kamath, Mohammad Zuber

“…These droplets had a mean diameter of 90 µm, an exhalation velocity of 11.5 m/s and a flow rate of 8.5 L/s. A high-quality polyhedral mesh of about 7.5 million elements was created, with a skewness of 0.65 and an orthogonality of 0.3. …”
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Circulating Th1, Th2, Th17, Treg, and PD-1 Levels in Patients with Brucellosis by Rongjiong Zheng, Songsong Xie, Qiong Zhang, Ling Cao, Shaniya Niyazi, Xiaobo Lu, Lihua Sun, Yan Zhou, Yuexin Zhang, Kai Wang

“…The frequencies of Th1, Th2, Th17, Treg, and PD-1 (programmed cell death protein 1) in peripheral blood were examined by flow cytometry, and the expressions of T lymphocyte cytokines in serum were detected by cytometric bead array. …”
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Hybrid Finite-Discrete Element Modelling of Excavation Damaged Zone Formation Process Induced by Blasts in a Deep Tunnel by Huaming An, Hongyuan Liu, Haoyu Han

“…Therefore, the hybrid finite-discrete element method takes into account the transition of the rock from continuum to discontinuum through fracture and fragmentation, the detonation-induced gas expansion and flow through the fractured rock, and the dependence of the rock fracture dynamic behaviour on the loading rates. …”
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Microscopic Traffic Simulation Calibration Level for Reliable Estimation of Vehicle Emissions by Jinsoo Kim, Jae Hun Kim, Gunwoo Lee, Hyun-ju Shin, Jahng Hyon Park

“…Most previous research with respect to traffic flow has primarily focused on adjusting the complex combinations of parameters evaluated in these models, but it is not guaranteed that the use of widely used calibration measures can lead more accurate emissions estimates. …”
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Antarctic ice-shelf meltwater outflows in satellite radar imagery: ground-truthing and basal channel observations by Jakob Stanley Hamann, Thomas Arney, James David Kirkham, Paul Wachter, Karsten Gohl

“…Ice shelves regulate the flow of the Antarctic ice sheet toward the ocean and its contribution to sea-level rise. …”
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Procurement at Local Government Level – Issues and Controversies by Marija Kaštelan Mrak, Nenad Vretenar, Jelena Jardas Antonić

“…Public procurement, due to the size of the involved financial flows, is government activity especially exposed to inefficiencies, corruption and dishonesty. …”
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Data Fusion Based Hybrid Approach for the Estimation of Urban Arterial Travel Time by S. P. Anusha, R. A. Anand, L. Vanajakshi

“…An attempt has been made in this direction to estimate total travel time in an urban road stretch using the location based flow data and sparse travel time data obtained using GPS equipped probe vehicles. …”
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Form Pressure in Composite Columns of 3DPC and SCC by Silfwerbrand Johan

“…This paper is focusing on the form pressure that has been an issue ever since SCC was developed in Japan in the early 1990s because of the flowing nature of this concrete type. Two tests series have been performed. …”
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Fine‐Scale Genetic Structure of Small Fish Populations in Islands: The Case of Brook Charr Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1814) in Saint‐Pierre and Miquelon (France) by Julie Viana, Guillaume Evanno, Céline Audet, Fabrice Teletchea

“…The presence of predominant interisland gene flow combined with complete genetic isolation from certain hydrosystems suggests that this contemporary genetic structure is the result of both natural demographic processes during the species postglacial colonization and recent restocking actions. …”
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Vesicles Generated during Storage of Red Blood Cells Enhance the Generation of Radical Oxygen Speciesin Activated Neutrophils by Herbert Jank, Ulrich Salzer

“…Fluorescentlylabeled Vsto and calcium-induced vesicles were preparedin order to study the uptake of labeled vesicular components by neutrophils as compared to the process of phagocytosis of zymosan using flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. The activating effect of Vsto vesicles on neutrophils was addressed by a luminometric assay for stimulated radical oxygen species (ROS) generation. …”
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