Development and Validation of an RP-HPLC Method for the Quantitative Analysis of Triclosan in Human Urine by Prince Karikari, James Oppong-Kyekyeku, Edmund Ekuadzi, Samuel Oppong Bekoe, Rita Opoku, Daniel Nimako Amprako, Emmanuel Addo-Yobo, Sandra Kwarteng Owusu, Bernard Arhin, Adegoke G. Falade, Ganiyu Arinola, Adeleye S. Bakarey, John I. Anetor, Kevin J. Mortimer

“…In this study, a highly sensitive, fast, and cost-effective isocratic reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method coupled with solid-phase extraction for analysis of triclosan in human urine samples was developed. …”
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Digital twin-based modeling of natural gas leakage and dispersion in urban utility tunnels [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Jiansong Wu, Jitao Cai, Ziqi Han, Yanzhu Hu, Ming Fu, Yuefei Li, Xin Wang, Xiaofu Zou

“…Based on this model, real-time integration of gas sensor data from utility tunnels is achieved through the DA algorithm. …”
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Changes of Air Pollutants in Urban Cities during the COVID-19 Lockdown-Sri Lanka by Buddhi Pushpawela, Sherly Shelton, Gayathri Liyanage, Sanduni Jayasekara, Dimuthu Rajapaksha, Akila Jayasundara, Lesty Das Jayasuriya

“…In both cities, the response of NO2 to the lockdown was the most sensitive. In contrast, daytime O3 concentration in Colombo (Kandy) has increased by 6.7% (27.2%), suggesting that the increase in O3 concentration was mainly due to a reduction in NOx emissions leading to lower O3 titration by NO. …”
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Temporal and Spatial eDNA Analysis of Fish Assemblages in Postindustrial, Urban Coastal Habitats by Alice Cunnington, Erika Neave, Peter Shum, Rupert Collins, Stefano Mariani

“…Overall, our findings emphasize the value of eDNA monitoring as a noninvasive, affordable, and sensitive approach for routine monitoring of temporal trends in fish assemblages, facilitating the stewardship of resilient urban coastal zones, and recognizing interventions that could increase biodiversity.…”
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A Microfluidic Biosensor for Quantitative Detection of <i>Salmonella</i> in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yutong Wu, Yang Liu, Jinchen Ma, Shanxi Zhu, Xiaojun Zhao, Huawei Mou, Xuanqi Ke, Zhisheng Wu, Yifei Wang, Sheng Lin, Wuzhen Qi

“…In our study, a novel optical biosensor was developed for the rapid and sensitive detection of <i>Salmonella</i> in traditional Chinese medicine on a microfluidic chip. …”
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Implementasi klasifikasi usia film televisi pada penguatan pendidikan karakter berbasis partisipasi masyarakat by Fetrimen Fetrimen, Rhini Fatmasari

“…Penelitian dilakukan selama enam bulan di Lembaga Sensor Film menggunakan metode kuantitatif deskriptif dengan pendekatan analisis data sekunder. …”
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Noninvasive Evaluation of Liver Function in Morbidly Obese Patients by Patrick H. Alizai, Isabella Lurje, Andreas Kroh, Sophia Schmitz, Tom Luedde, Julia Andruszkow, Ulf P. Neumann, Florian Ulmer

“…A significant correlation was observed between liver function capacity and NAS (r=−0.492; p<0.001). The sensitivity and specificity of the LiMAx® test to distinguish between definite NASH and not NASH were 85.2% and 82.9% (AUROC 0.859), respectively. …”
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Comparing personality traits of healthcare workers with and without long COVID: Cross‐sectional study by Keiko Sakai, Seiichiro Tarutani, Takehiko Okamura, Hiroshi Yoneda, Tatsuhito Kawasaki, Masatoshi Takeda

“…People with long COVID might be especially sensitive to and pessimistic about the symptoms that interfere with their daily lives, resulting in certain cognitive and behavioral patterns. …”
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The relationship between early-onset preeclampsia and the prognostic nutritional index and inflammatory markers by Alev Esercan, Cigdem Cindoglu

“…A PNI lower than 36, 30 could only predict early-onset preeclampsia with a low sensitivity of 31.1% and specificity of 45%; the area under the curve was 0,24 (95% confidence interval 0.18–0.31), p < 0,001.Conclusion Patients with PNI scores lower than 36,30 may have early-onset preeclampsia.…”
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Multi-authority attribute hidden for electronic medical record sharing scheme based on blockchain by Lin JIN, Youliang TIAN

“…Currently, there is no data exchanging and sharing between different hospitals, and it is easy to form data islands.At the same time, regional medical data contains a large amount of sensitive information of patients.The public acquisition, sharing and circulation of these data will lead to malicious tampering, theft, abuse and loss of ownership, thereby revealing patient privacy.In addition, the size of medical data is enormous and the data is unstructured, then it is more difficult to prevent and hold accountable some highly targeted malicious attacks, such as malicious attacks on medical data theft, tampering, and extortion.In view of the above problems, a blockchain-based on multi-authority attribute hidden electronic medical record sharing scheme was proposed to achieve fine-grained access to shared electronic medical records while ensuring patient privacy.The Multi-Authorization Attribute Encryption (MA-ABE) algorithm was introduced, which used multi-authority organizations to manage decentralized attributes.It also used hash functions to identify different users, in order to effectively resist collusion attacks between users with different authorizations.Besides, the linear secrets sharing scheme (LSSS) was used to realize partial hiding of attributes, and the attributes were divided into two parts:attribute name and attribute value.In addition, combined with the characteristics of blockchain openness, transparency and tamper-proof, the design of access policy can update the algorithm.Based on the access policy update algorithm, the policy block was added.The new access policy was uploaded to the blockchain to form a policy update traceability chain, which can realize distributed and reliable access control management under the condition of hidden policy.It can also support data privacy protection at the same time, and traceability of user behavior.The theoretical proof and experimental analysis have proved that this scheme protect attribute privacy effectively, while reduces computational overhead.…”
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Validation of the unique OUES scale (ΔV02, VE slope) in functional reserve assessment of cardiorespiratory system for Iranian children by Akbar Sazvar, Farzad Nazem

“…Application of this sensitive index to compare the performance of the cardiorespiratory system of healthy children with counterpart patients can be also significant in submaximal exercise rather than the exhaustive training protocols.…”
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Transcriptome Analysis of the Effect of Acute Ammonia Stress on <i>Pseudobagrus ussuriensis</i> Liver Tissue by Shun Shi, Xiaohui Sun, Chunnuan Zhang, Chenran Lv, Yajuan Liu, Juan Du, Qian Qi

“…<i>Pseudobagrus ussuriensis</i> is a scaleless fish with important economic value that is more sensitive to ammonia stress. In this study, <i>P. ussuriensis</i> was explored using different ammonia concentrations [control (0 mg/L), CL; low stress (10 mg/L), T1L; and high stress (50 mg/L), T2L] for 48 h. …”
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Understanding barriers to young people’s utilisation of sexual and reproductive health services in Asia-Pacific countries: a qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis by Daniel Mackay, Benjamin Gregory, Evi Germeni, Watcharakorn Riabroi

“…Based on these, we developed an overarching analytical theme, ‘trapped in a legacy of shame’, which highlights the role of shame as a key emotion associated with young people’s utilisation of SRH services.Conclusion Our findings point towards the necessity of integrating shame-sensitive approaches and a social norms perspective in interventions aiming to improve young people’s SRH outcomes in Asia-Pacific countries.PROSPERO registration number CRD42023389653.…”
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Association between the depressive symptom trajectories and all-cause mortality in Chinese middle-aged and elderly adults by Yayun Fan, Dingliu He, Lin Chen, Chunxia Ge

“…Moreover, the risk of all-cause mortality had an increasing trend among the different trajectory groups. In the sensitivity analysis, the association was robust in most of the subgroups. …”
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Autofluorescence Imaging in the Long-Term Follow-Up of Scleral Buckling Surgery for Retinal Detachment by Panagiotis Salvanos, Helgi D. Björnsson, Valeria Vitelli, Ragnheiður Bragadόttir, Morten C. Moe, Tor P. Utheim

“…Peripheral retinal folds were hyperfluorescent and the drainage site was hypofluorescent. AF was highly sensitive in detecting even small amounts of hyperfluorescent persistent subretinal fluid (SRF) that showed a slow resolution during follow-up. …”
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Inconspicuous taxa in citizen science-based botanical research: actual contribution, limitations, and new opportunities for non-vascular cryptogams by Carlos Cerrejón, Carlos Cerrejón, Marion Noualhaguet, Nicole J. Fenton, Marc-Frédéric Indorf, Mariano J. Feldman, Mariano J. Feldman

“…We hope our work motivates mycologists, phycologists, bryologists, and lichenologists to further embrace CS, and increase public awareness on these highly sensitive and ecologically important taxa.…”
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Dynamic Stress of Subgrade Bed Layers Subjected to Train Vehicles with Large Axle Loads by Fang Xu, Qi Yang, Wenjie Liu, Wuming Leng, Rusong Nie, Huihao Mei

“…The results showed the following: (1) the transverse distribution of the dynamic stress transformed from a bimodal pattern to a unimodal pattern with increasing depth; (2) the pass of adjacent bogies of adjacent carriages can be simplified once loaded on the subgrade since the dynamic stresses are maintained around the peak value during the pass of the adjacent bogies; (3) the dynamic stress at the bottom of the subgrade bed surface layer was more sensitive to the train axle load compared with that at the subgrade surface because the dynamic stresses induced by the two rails were gradually overlaid with increasing depth; (4) the maximum dynamic stress at the subgrade bed bottom was reduced by approximately 70% compared with that at the subgrade surface; (5) the vertical track irregularities intensified the vertical excitation between the train vehicle wheels and rails, and the maximum dynamic stress at the subgrade surface under the action of the irregular heavy-haul track spectrum increased by 23% compared with the smooth rail condition; and (6) the possible maximum dynamic stress (σdm) at the subgrade surface under the action of irregular track spectra can be predicted using the triple standard deviation principle of a normally distributed random variable, i.e., σdm = μ + 3σ (where μ and σ are the expectation and standard deviation of σdm, respectively).…”
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Gasoline Direct Injection Engine Emissions of OC and EC: Laboratory Comparisons with Port Fuel Injection Engine by Jie Zhang, John Liggio, Tak W. Chan, Lin Huang, Jeffrey R. Brook

“…Carbonaceous particles emitted from the vehicles were collected on quartz filters and analyzed using three different thermal optical protocols to assess the sensitivity of organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) emission estimates to the methods, showing OC obtained by the IMPROVE and EC by the NIOSH protocol was the lowest. …”
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Renouveler les connaissances sur les risques liés aux sports de montagne : l’exemple d’un laboratoire collaboratif d’accidentologie by Maud Vanpoulle, Bastien Soulé, Eric Boutroy, Brice Lefèvre

“…Quantifying and explaining the causes of accidents are key to improving knowledge about this sensitive issue. To this end, since 2015, the Laboratory of Vulnerabilities and Innovation in Sport (L-ViS) has been participating in collaborative action research in France involving parties from several spheres: the Petzl Foundation (Petzl is a French climbing and caving equipment company), the online community Camptocamp (aimed at those who practice mountain sports), stakeholders from the public sector (mountain rescue services and the National Observatory of Mountain Safety, SNOSM) and the non-profit sector (sports federations), and professionals (guide organizations). …”
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1-Bit/2-Level Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on Comparator and FPGA for Aperture Synthesis Passive Millimeter-Wave Imager by Xiangzhou Guo, Ghulam Mehdi, Muhammad Asif, Anyong Hu, Jungang Miao

“…Interferometric aperture synthesis is a proven technique in radio astronomy and earth remote sensing, which also shows great potentials in security screening. …”
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