Riverine microplastic discharge along the southern Black Sea coast of Türkiye by Yahya Terzi, Rafet Çağrı Öztürk, Ahmet Raif Eryaşar, İlhan Yandi, Ahmet Şahin, Fatih Yılmaz, Kenan Gedik, Sedat Gündoğdu

“…This study evaluates the abundance and characteristics (polymer composition, shape, size, and color) of MPs discharged from 29 rivers flowing into the southern Black Sea. Using a plankton net with a 200 μ m mesh size, samples were collected from river mouths, revealing an average MP abundance of 9.63 ± 1.27 MP m ^−3 , ranging from 1.03 to 29.8 MP m ^−3 . …”
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Rhodamine B removal from aqueous solution by CT269DR resin: Static and dynamic study by Jinbei Yang, Shuyue Yu, Wentao Chen, Yibing Chen

“…The dynamic experiments show that the breakthrough point is advanced when the flow rate increases and the bed adsorption capacity increases with increasing temperature. …”
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Shear Stress Promotes Arterial Endothelium-Oriented Differentiation of Mouse-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Yan Huang, Xiaofang Chen, Jifei Che, Qi Zhan, Jing Ji, Yubo Fan

“…Further, shear stress caused cells to align parallel to the direction of the flow, induced cells forming functional tubes, and increased the secretion of nitric oxide. …”
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Comparative analysis of mesozooplankton size fraction structure in bivalve aquaculture embayments in Atlantic and Pacific Canadian coastal regions by Ruben D. Cordero, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Ramón Filgueira, Julie Arseneau, Jeffrey Barrell, Timothy J. Barrett, Christopher W. McKindsey, Daria Gallardi, Olivia Gibb, Terri Sutherland, Thomas Guyondet

“…Using high-resolution imaging (FlowCam®) to measure individual zooplankton, we assessed the effects of location, tide, sampling day, season, and aquaculture pressure on the size distribution variation among and within bays. …”
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The co-occurrence patterns and assembly mechanisms of microeukaryotic communities in geothermal ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by Bingjie Yan, Bingjie Yan, Xiaodong Li, Xiaodong Li, Nanqian Qiao, Nanqian Qiao, Zhen Da, Zhen Da, Jiajie Xu, Jiajie Xu, Chuanqi Jiang, Sang Ba, Sang Ba

“…Additionally, the stability of the geothermal community network was closely related to its response to external disturbances: sediment communities, being in relatively stable environments, demonstrated higher resistance to disturbances, whereas water communities, influenced by environmental changes such as water flow and precipitation, exhibited greater dynamic variability. …”
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Development of Deep Intelligence for Automatic River Detection (RivDet) by Sejeong Lee, Yejin Kong, Taesam Lee

“…Additionally, the RivDet artificial intelligence model for automatic river path configuration developed in the current study is expected to solve various problems, such as automatic flow rate estimation for river disaster prevention, setting early flood warnings, and calculating the range of flood inundation damage.…”
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Matrix Gla Protein and Nitric Oxide Synthase-3 Genetic Variants in Chronic Kidney Disease and Their Relation with Cardiovascular Risk by G. Priyadarshini, Sreejith Parameswaran, Jayaprakash Sahoo, Sandhiya Selvarajan, Ananthakrishnan Ramesh, Medha Rajappa

“…One hundred and eighty-five CKD patients and 185 controls were recruited in this research. Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) of brachial artery was measured ultrasonically. …”
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Structural Parameter Design of Magnetic Pulse Welding Coil for Dissimilar Metal Joints: Numerical Simulation, Parameter Optimization, and Experiments by Yangfan Qin, Changhui Ji, Hao Jiang, Yuefan Jiang, Junjia Cui, Guangyao Li

“…The optimized coil structure serves to refine the pulse current flowing path within the coil, effectively reducing the current loss within the coil. …”
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High-Performance Dielectric Modulated Epitaxial Tunnel Layer Tunnel FET for Label-Free Detection of Biomolecules by Kunal Aggarwal, Avinash Lahgere

“…Although the proposed biosensor shows almost the same selectivity, the proposed DM ETL-TFET biosensor does not need a complex fabrication process flow, hence, reducing the fabrication cost. Our findings that the proposed biosensor is a lucrative alternative to the FET-based biosensors.…”
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An analytical “quality by design” approach in RP-HPLC method development and validation for reliable and rapid estimation of irinotecan in an injectable formulation by Bhaskaran Navya Ajitkumar, Kumar Lalit, Reddy M Sreenivasa, Pai Girish K

“…Isocratic elution was opted while the flow rate was maintained at 0.75 mL min−1. The retention time of IRI was found to be 4.09 min. …”
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Phenotypic and Functional Changes in Peripheral Blood Natural Killer Cells in Crohn Disease Patients by Suzanne Samarani, Patrick Sagala, Prevost Jantchou, Guy Grimard, Christophe Faure, Colette Deslandres, Devendra K. Amre, Ali Ahmad

“…The study was conducted using freshly obtained peripheral blood samples from the study participants. Multiple color flow cytometry was used for these determinations. …”
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Russian Civilizational Identity as the Basis of Value Integrity and State Policy by Maria M. Mchedlova

“…The commitment of most of the population to preserving their traditional value concepts, their concept of being and worldview, which has been formed over the centuries, supports the stability of civilizational identity. Flowing into the political and instrumental field, this provision becomes the basis of the state policy for the preservation and strengthening of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values Under the pressure of the linear modernization dichotomy traditional/ modern, there is unconditional support for the chosen state strategy for the preservation and promotion of traditional spiritual and moral values, which indicates the unifying and deep nature of the traditional reservoir of values as a semantic core the Russian civilization. …”
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Analysis of Sodium Chloride Intake and Treg/Th17 Lymphocytes in Healthy Individuals and Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Marlen Vitales-Noyola, Esther Layseca-Espinosa, Lourdes Baranda, Carlos Abud-Mendoza, Perla Niño-Moreno, Adriana Monsiváis-Urenda, Yvonne Rosenstein, Roberto González-Amaro

“…Levels and suppressive function of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ and CD4+CD69+Foxp3− Treg cells were determined by flow cytometry in blood samples. Levels and in vitro differentiation of Th17 cells were also assessed. …”
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Rheumatoid arthritis associated cytokines and therapeutics modulate immune checkpoint receptor expression on T cells by Dana Emerson, Eve Merriman, Pia P. Yachi

“…IntroductionWe investigated the impact of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associated cytokines and standard of care (SOC) RA therapeutics on immune checkpoint receptor (IR) expression on T cells to gain insights to disease pathology and therapeutic avenues.MethodsWe assessed IR expression by flow cytometry on T cell receptor activated T cells cultured in the presence of exogenously added single cytokines or RA patient synovial fluid. …”
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Genomic evidence of improved fertility and adaptation in Iranian domestic sheep attributed to introgression from Asiatic Mouflon and urial by Reza Khalkhali-Evrigh, Nemat Hedayat, Reza Seyedsharifi, Mirdarioush Shakouri, Eric N. Ponnampalam

“…The results of Treemix unveiled the introgression from the common ancestor of Iranian domestic sheep to Asiatic mouflons, which sheds light on the dynamics of gene flow between domestic and wild sheep in Iran. There were 36 genomic regions (containing 26 protein coding genes) introgressed from both Asiatic mouflon and urial into the genome of their domestic relatives. …”
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Simultaneous, Dual Continuous Venovenous Haemodiafiltration as Salvage Therapy for Severe Sodium Valproate Intoxication by Aminah Hussan, Ifrah Hasan, Reem El-Hayani, Moustafa Shebl Zahra

“…This case report recognises dual CVVHDF as a viable salvage therapy for severe sodium valproate overdose by facilitating the achievement of a higher effluent flow rate compared to what can be accomplished with single-filter CVVHDF.…”
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Breastfeeding and Neonatal Age Influence Neutrophil-Driven Ontogeny of Blood Cell Populations in the First Week of Human Life by Sebastiano Montante, Rym Ben-Othman, Nelly Amenyogbe, Asimenia Angelidou, Anita van den Biggelaar, Bing Cai, Yixuan Chen, Alansana Darboe, Joann Diray-Arce, Rebecca Ford, Olubukola Idoko, Amy Lee, Mandy Lo, Kerry McEnaney, Mehrnoush Malek, David Martino, Geraldine Masiria, Oludare A. Odumade, William Pomat, Casey Shannon, Kinga Smolen, The EPIC Consortium, Al Ozonoff, Peter Richmond, Scott Tebbutt, Ofer Levy, Beate Kampmann, Ryan Brinkman, Tobias Kollmann

“…The subsequent analysis was conducted at an unprecedented level of detail using flow cytometry and an unbiased automated gating algorithm. …”
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Loneliness, lack of support, and educational challenges: teachers’ experiences working with refugee children by Simona Lunina, Vaida Jurgilė

“…For the first time, Lithuania has faced such a flow of refugee families with children, and it is natural that until now there is not enough experience and research in the education of refugee children in Lithuania. …”
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THE LAKES OF THE ROMANIAN BLACK SEA COAST. MAN-INDUCED CHANGES, WATER REGIME, PRESENT STATE by PETRE GÂŞTESCU, PETRE BREŢCAN, DACIAN CONSTANTIN TEODORESCU

“…Regarding limans, we would mention the largest one – Babadag, grafted into the valley of the two Northern Dobrogea rivers, Taiţa and Teliţa, situated on the western side of the Razim-Sinoie lagoon (the largest lacustrine complex in Romania); Taşaul, initially located at the mouth of the Casimcea River, flows into the Black Sea; Techirghiol, after the conflence of the two tributaries, Urlichioi (Derea) and Biruinţa; Tatlageac, at the end of the Dulceşti (Tatlageac) Valley, and Mangalia, in the Albeşti Valley. …”
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Optimization of Reservoir Water Quality Parameters Retrieval and Treatment Using Remote Sensing and Artificial Neural Networks by Alice Nureen Adhiambo Omondi, Yashon Ouma, Simon Njoroge Mburu, Cleophas Mecha Achisa

“… Inland water bodies are critical ecosystems that serve several functions including the provision of freshwater, regulation of climate and hydrological flows, and pollution control. Therefore, effective monitoring and management of these water resources is critical for sustainable water supply systems. …”
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