Method for Rapid Labeling of Waste Sludge from a Food Factory with 15N-Glycine and Evaluation of N Use Using Komatsuna (Brassica rapa Var. perviridis) by Mizuho Miura-Ido, Yuzuri Iwamoto, Hiroi Kouya, Yoshihiko Takahashi, Amjad Hassan, Norikuni Ohtake, Hidetaka Hori, Takuji Ohyama

“…Composting was restarted, and after about 7 days of reaction, 15N-labeled SF-PMM 7.03 atom% 15N was obtained. …”
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Innate Immune Responses Associated with Resistance against Haemonchus contortus in Morada Nova Sheep by João Henrique Barbosa Toscano, Cintia Hiromi Okino, Isabella Barbosa dos Santos, Luciana Aparecida Giraldelo, Marei Borsch von Haehling, Sérgio Novita Esteves, Ana Carolina de Souza Chagas

“…Briefly, 287 lambs were characterized through fecal egg counts (FEC) and packed cell volume (PCV) after two independent experimental parasitic challenges with 4,000 H. contortus L3. 20 extreme resistance phenotypes (10 most resistant and 10 most susceptible) were selected, subjected to a third artificial infection with 4,000 L3, and euthanized 7 days later. …”
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Crocin improves post-thaw quality, fertility-associated gene expression and fertilization potential of buffalo bull sperm by Amjad Riaz, Ghulam S. Khan, Muhammad Zahid Tahir, Muhammad Yasir Zahoor, Hifz-ul-Rahman Hifz-ul-Rahman

“…Buffaloes were inseminated 24 hours after the onset of natural estrus and transrectally palpated for pregnancy at least 60 days post-insemination. …”
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The role of Tourism clusters on regional competitiveness ( Case study: Religious tourism cluster of Qom) by Abolfazl Moarefi, Arash Sadri, Hadi Gholami Norabad, behzad saeidi

“…The data was studied by SPSS and Lisrel software packs after approval of validity and reliability of data. …”
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Analysis of the effect of initial hemostasis resuscitation with recombinant human coagulation factor VII a on the treatment of postoperative hemorrhage in cardiac surgery by Yan Yu, Maomao Liu, Xuran Lu, Li Yu, Nan Liu

“…Result In this study, patients in the initial hemostasis resuscitation group received a lower dose of recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) [29.41 (26.23, 34.63) µg/kg vs. 36.04 (28.57, 59.27) µg/kg, P = 0.002], had lower blood product requirements [41 (40.2%) vs. 31 (62%), P = 0.011], received fewer units of packed red blood cells within 24 h postoperatively [0 (0, 2) U vs. 2 (0, 6) U, P = 0.018], had a lower volume of plasma transfusion [0 (0, 0) ml vs. 0 (0, 400) ml, P = 0.021], exhibited a lower peak value of D-dimer after surgery [756 (415.5, 2140.5) ng/ml vs. 1742.5 (675.25, 3392) ng/ml, P = 0.003], experienced fewer postoperative neurological complications [4 (3.92%) vs. 12 (24%), P < 0.001], had a lower mortality rate [8 (7.84%) vs. 14 (28%), P = 0.001], and had a shorter duration of mechanical ventilation [17 (12, 60.13) hours vs. 39.5 (15.75, 115.13) hours, P = 0.022]. …”
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Sustainable alternative of palm wine analogue from different tiger nut milk-sugar syrup blends for local production by Adindu O. Onyeodili, Gabriel I. Okafor, Chigozie F. Okoyeuzu, Onyekachukwu Chukwuebuka Nduka, Queency N. Okechukwu, Mouandhe Imamou Hassani, Szymon Juchniewicz, Katarzyna Leicht, Charles Odilichukwu R. Okpala, Małgorzata Korzeniowska, Raquel P.F. Guiné

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Inflammatory markers predict efficacy of immunotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a preliminary exploratory study by Yingqing Zhang, Na Yan, Yan Feng, Yonglei Wu, Yuejiao Sun, Xixi Gao, Chao Gu, Xiaolong Ma, Feng Gao, Hui Zhang, Jiaqi Zhou

“…The levels of NLR, PLR, LMR, SII, CRP, RDW, PCV, and PCT after efficacy evaluation also cannot effectively distinguish primary drug resistance and effective treatment response populations. …”
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Calf immunization protocols with low-virulence isolates of Anaplasma marginale: Analysis of post-inoculation effects and protection against natural challenge by Filipe Lucas de Melo Mendonça, Matheus Figueiredo Coelho, Camila Valgas Bastos, Júlia Angélica Gonçalves da Silveira, Rafael Romero Nicolino, Jose Azael Zambrano Uribe, Múcio Flávio Barbosa Ribeiro, Bruna Torres Silvestre, Rodrigo Melo Meneses, Antônio Último de Carvalho, Tiago Facury Moreira, Elias Jorge Facury-Filho

“…Every two days, the animals were evaluated for rectal temperature, Packed Cell Volume (PCV), and blood smears. Blood samples were collected prior to inoculation, before the field challenge, and after the challenge period, nPCR and IFAT techniques were performed. …”
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Occurrence of Alternaria Toxins, Ochratoxin A and Aflatoxins B1 in Green Arabic Coffee (Coffea arabica) in Saudi Arabia: Risk Assessment on HepG-2 Cell Line and Male Albino Rats by Ahmed Hashim Almusallam, Ahmed Mahmoud Ismail

“…The IC50 for the tested mycotoxins registered for ALT-Ts, AFB1 and OTA as well as their combination were 115.95, 56.68, 59.86 and 31.05 µg/ml after 48 h of exposure. Secreting inflammatory markers (Interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and COX-2), and oxidative markers (total antioxidant capacity (TAC), glutathione (GSH) and nitrite (NO) were downregulated by all mycotoxins with the highest decrease induced by their mixture. …”
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Dense Nursery Stock Detecting and Counting Based on UAV Aerial Images and Improved LSC-CNN by PENG Xiaodan, CHEN Fengjun, ZHU Xueyan, CAI Jiawei, GU Mengmeng

“…To enhance the model's adaptability to tree data of different scales and variations in lighting, data augmentation methods such as adjusting the contrast and resizing the images were applied to the images in the training set. After enhancement, the training set consists of 3 192 images, and the testing set contains 456 images. …”
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Flavor Quality of Scomberomorus niphonius by Shanyu WANG, Chong JIAN, Yong XUE, Ling ZHAO, Huihui SUN, Rong CAO

“…The results of electronic nose analysis showed that the odor characteristics of fish meat after different sterilization conditions were significantly different. …”
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Stability of Aerobic Granular Sludge for the Treatment of Inorganic Wastewater in a Sequencing Batch Reactor by LI Zhenghao, LUO Yi, LIU Liliang, KANG Jianlin, LI Guangming, NIE Jiale, LONG Bei

“…Four sequencing batch reactors (SBR, R1, R2, R3 and R4) were started by seeding aerobic granular sludge (AGS), AGS/stereohollow packing media, AGS/polyurethane sponge packing media, and AGS/stereohollow packing media/polyurethane sponge packing media, respectively, so as to explore their nitrogen removal performances and granular stability in treating inorganic wastewater with high ammonia nitrogen (250~500 mg/L). …”
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EXPERIENCE OF APPLICATION OF A PORTABLE OPTICO – EMISSION SPECTROMETER FOR MONITORING OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF HOT-ROLLED PRODUCTS TO IMPLEMENT THE CUSTOMER’S REQUIREMENTS by E. A. Kazakova, T. S. Birisen

“…For ensuring implementation of this requirement, it is necessary to carry out monitoring of chemical composition of each bar just before shipment, after its packing and application of the required marking. …”
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Cross-contamination Risks in Dry Produce Packinghouses: Efficacy of Alcohol-based Sanitizers to Reduce Salmonella and Potential Surrogates on Relevant Surface Materials by Alexandra Nerney, Stuart Reitz, Jovana Kovacevic, Joy Waite-Cusic

“…Reductions were quantified after 30 s and after drying (15 min). High alcohol sanitizers (∼60%) achieved a 5-log reduction on HDPE after drying. …”
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Synthesis, crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of bis(acetylacetonato-κ2O,O′)(2-amino-1-methyl-1H-benzimidazole-κN3)copper(II) by Kyzlarkhan Siddikova, Daminbek Ziyatov, Akmaljon Tojiboev, Jamshid Ashurov, Zukhra Kadirova, Shahlo Daminova

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Unusual Cause of Knee Locking by Gazi Huri, Omer Sunkar Biçer

“…A 13-year-old semiprofessional soccer player applied to our clinic with a locked right knee in spite of the therapy applied (cold pack, NSAID, and immobilization) in another institution 20 days after the injury. …”
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Tetrahydrocannabinol vape-associated cannabis arteritis in a patient with minimal tobacco exposure by Morgan Colling, BS, Yousef Souri, MD, Thomas Reifsnyder, MD

“…Notably, his tobacco exposure was limited to a remote history of <1 pack-year. His claudication considerably improved after 4 weeks of cannabis cessation. …”
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Improvement Design of Pharmaceutical Cartoning Machine Cam Curve based on the B-Spline Motion Law by Wang Xinjian, Guo Lieen, Wang Guanming, Bao Shengwei, Zhang Xianxin

“…Through the experimental verification,after improving the motion law of cam,the noise is decreased obviously in the actual operation. …”
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Adherence to Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine Treatment among Patients with Uncomplicated Malaria in Northern Ghana by Abraham Rexford Oduro, Samuel Chatio, Paula Beeri, Thomas Anyorigiya, Rita Baiden, Philip Adongo, Patricia Akweongo

“…Patients confirmed with uncomplicated malaria were prescribed dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in blister packs to be taken daily for three days. Follow-up visits were made on days 3 and 28 after diagnosis to collect data on adherence, drug safety and therapeutic effectiveness. …”
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Effects of high-power pain threshold ultrasound technique in patients with knee osteoarthritis: A single-blind randomized controlled trial by Yomna F. Ahmed, Rania M. Tawfik, Ahmed M. Tawfick, Shimaa T. Abu El Kasem

“…They were randomized into two groups: Group A (experimental group, n=25), which received HPPTUS on the knee joint in addition to the traditional treatment (hot packs and isometric exercise for quadriceps), and Group B (control group, n=25), which received conventional ultrasound on knee joint in addition to the traditional treatment (hot packs and isometric exercise for quadriceps). …”
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