THE USE OF STEVIA AND MONK FRUIT SWEETENERS FOR SUGAR REPLACEMENT IN GREEN TEA AGAR JELLIES by Adisak Akesowan, Anchan Choonhahirun

“…The more sugar replacement lowered the total soluble solids but increased the gel firmness (p&lt;0.05) and the lightness (<em>L*</em>). …”
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Mucocele of the appendix: A comprehensive case report and literature review by Bhaskar Jyoti Neog, Subodh Gupta, V. K. Rastogi, Paras Passi

“…We present the case of a 60-year-old female with recurrent right lower quadrant abdominal pain, nausea, and anorexia, suggestive of appendicular origin. …”
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DTI and MR Volumetry of Hippocampus-PC/PCC Circuit: In Search of Early Micro- and Macrostructural Signs of Alzheimers's Disease by F. Palesi, P. Vitali, P. Chiarati, G. Castellazzi, E. Caverzasi, A. Pichiecchio, E. Colli-Tibaldi, F. D'Amore, I. D'Errico, E. Sinforiani, S. Bastianello

“…The same results with lower significance (𝑃<.05) were found in MCI versus CTRL. …”
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Physical, Mechanical and Weathering Characteristics of Oriental beech Heat Treated with Waste Engine Oil by Caglar Altay, Davut Çiftçi, Hilmi Toker, Ergün Baysal

“…Our results showed that higher temperature and durations resulted in lower WA, and higher air-dry density and total color changes of WEOHT specimens.…”
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Performance analysis of 60 GHz pulse multiuser communication system based on cross-layer strategy by Xuehua LI, Chen SHEN, Yuanyuan YAO

“…Due to the advantages of license-free,strong directionality,high system capacity,and high transmission rate of Gbit/s,60 GHz band is listed as one of the candidate bands for new radios (new radio).In 5G ultra-dense networking scenario,the randomness of node switching caused by the decrease of the distance between network nodes may cause severe multiple access interference and resource mismatch problems.In this regard,based on the concept of cross-layer collaborative design,a resource scheduling strategy based on fairness was proposed.The multiple access performance of the strategy was simulated in a 60 GHz pulsed wireless communication system based on TH-PAM (time hopping pulse amplitude modulation).Simulation results show that compared with the system with pure physical layer optimization algorithm,the multiple access system which adopts this strategy shows stronger fairness and lower system error rate,but it needs increase the transmission power to meet the requirements of the coverage of the equivalent communication system.That is,there is a certain trade-off between the energy and fairness of the system,which can be used to guide the structure and deployment of the actual communication system.…”
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An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Pain: Three Lead Pellets within the Appendix Vermiformis by Orhan Veli Ozkan, Vecdi Muderris, Fatih Altintoprak, Orhan Yagmurkaya, Omer Yalkin, Fehmi Celebi

“…Plain abdominal films and a barium enema showed foreign bodies in the right lower abdominal quadrant. Since the lead pellets were thought to have migrated extraluminally, they were removed through laparotomy under fluoroscopic guidance. …”
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Impact of pomegranate extracts on longevity and wing fluctuating asymmetry in Drosophila melanogaster: a geometric morphometric analysis by Vijay Kumar Rajashekhar, Belgaum Sridhar Srinath, Shivanna Nanjaiah

“…Between the sexes, females had lower longevity and FA values compared to males. …”
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Effect of Hot Deformation Temperature on Texture Formation Regularity of CGO Silicon Steel under High Deformation Rate by Zhi-chao Li, Ning Dang, Zhen-li Mi

“…The higher deformation temperature is beneficial to obtain a more uniform recrystallization microstructure and lower pearlite content. Cubic texture {100}001 and rotated cubic texture {100}011 are dominant texture components in the tested steels, and {111}112 texture in γ fiber is also strong, the intensity of which is higher than that of {111}110 texture. …”
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Continuous Monitoring Analysis of Rice Quality in Southern China Based on Random Forest by Lin Lu, Bo Zeng, Shihua Yang, Mingxue Chen, Yonghong Yu

“…The results showed that amylose and chalkiness were the main contributory quality indexes of rice in South China, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In the past decade, the total high-quality rate of rice in the South has improved. …”
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A Subgroup of First-Degree Relatives of Crohn's Disease Patients Shows a Profile of Inflammatory Markers in the Blood Which is More Typical of Crohn's Disease Patients Than of Norm...

“…</emph> All hematological parameters were significantly different in CD patients compared to controls, with significantly higher levels of CRP, WBC, PMN, MONO, and PLT and lower Hb and lymphocyte count. The hematological profile of FDRs showed values between the controls and CD patients with ten FDRs that their parameters matched those of CD patients and significantly different from other FDRs. …”
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Influence of steady and turbulent wind on motions, mooring tension, and fatigue performance of a steel OO-Star floating offshore wind turbine by Jiaqing Shu, Xiaoqing Gu

“…The blade root and tower top loads are lower under steady winds with irregular waves, indicating that steady wind analysis may yield unfavorable outcomes for FOWTs. …”
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Turning the spotlight: Hostile behavior in creative higher education and links to mental health in marginalized groups. by Marina Fischer, Susanne Veit, Pichit Buspavanich, Gertraud Stadler

“…Individuals from marginalized groups reported more hostile behaviors, which partially explained their worse mental health and lower professional thriving. These findings indicate a clear need for the creative sector to implement strategies to create safer environments, particularly for early career artists from specific socio-demographic backgrounds. …”
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Low error floor LT coding algorithm by using fixed-length node classification window by Xin SONG, Naiping CHENG, Shuyan NI, Yurong LIAO, Tuofeng LEI

“…To solve the problem of high error floor for LT codes in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, an improved coding scheme was designed.A fixed-length classification window was used to sort out the information nodes with relatively small degrees.Then these nodes would be forced to participate in the coding process frequently, so that they could obtain sufficiently high reliability.To design the optimal parameters, firstly, the bit error rate (BER) performance of LT codes and the cause of the error floor were analyzed, and the theoretical BER lower bound was introduced as the first constraint.Secondly, the extrinsic information gain loss ratio (GLR) was designed to measure the convergence behavior of the improved LT code, and maximizing the GLR was denoted as the second constraint.Finally, the influence of different parameters on algorithm efficiency and coding complexity were analyzed, and the principle of priority selection of parameters was pointed out as the third constraint.The simulation results show that compared with the conventional LT code, the proposed algorithm can reduce the error floor by nearly three orders of magnitude.Besides, the designed LT code outperforms the existing LT codes in literature in terms of bit error rate (BER) performance.…”
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RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF BONE RESORPTION RATES OF DENTAL IMPLANTS IN RELATION TO THE TIME OF INSERTION: IMMEDIATE VERSUS DELAYED by Cosmin Ionuț Lixandru

“…Our research reveals significantly lower bone resorption for implants inserted immediately after tooth extraction in all planes studied. …”
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Phosphorus and Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease by Emilio González-Parra, Carolina Gracia-Iguacel, Jesús Egido, Alberto Ortiz

“…The diet in patients with advanced-stage CKD has been controversial, because a diet with too low protein content can favor malnutrition and increase morbidity and mortality. Phosphorus binders lower serum phosphorus and also FGF23 levels, without decreasing diet protein content. …”
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Comparison between digital and conventional occlusal indicators. by Wan M. Dizayee, Fahd S. Ikram

“…Methods: An upper metal cast with a lower resin cast was made and mounted to an apparatus that moves like the mandibular movement during mastication. …”
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On the Propagation of Vertical Acoustic Waves in the Solar Chromosphere by Mohammad Golmohammadian, Zanyar Ebrahimi

“…Sound waves have the potential to transfer the energy needed to heat the sun's atmosphere from the lower layers to higher areas. The source of these waves can be the surface oscillations of the sun, the most famous of which are the 5-minute oscillations. …”
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Graded Carrier Concentration Absorber Profile for High Efficiency CIGS Solar Cells by Antonino Parisi, Riccardo Pernice, Vincenzo Rocca, Luciano Curcio, Salvatore Stivala, Alfonso C. Cino, Giovanni Cipriani, Vincenzo Di Dio, Giuseppe Ricco Galluzzo, Rosario Miceli, Alessandro C. Busacca

“…For the above-mentioned reasons, we have demonstrated that the efficiency obtained by conventional CIGS cells is lower if compared to the values reached by our proposed graded carrier concentration profile structures (up to 21%).…”
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An Efficient Algorithm to Find Broadcast Schedule in Ad Hoc TDMA Networks by Imtiaz Ahmad, Buthaina Al-Kazemi, A. Shoba Das

“…In this paper, we developed a new heuristic approach which employs a tight lower bound derived from the maximal incompatibles and generates a search space from the set of maximal compatibles. …”
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Local Drug Delivery Systems for Vital Pulp Therapy: A New Hope by Ardavan Parhizkar, Saeed Asgary

“…However, to succeed in VPT, specific biomaterials are used to cover and/or dress the exposed pulp, lower the inflammation, heal the dental pulp, provoke the remaining odontoblastic cells, and induce the formation of a hard tissue, i.e., the dentinal bridge. …”
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