Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of the Leaf Exudate of Aloe megalacantha Baker by Demoze Asmerom, Tesfay Haile Kalay, Gebrehiwot Gebremedhin Tafere

“…In the folk medicine of Ethiopia, Aloe megalacantha is used for the treatment of wound, dandruff, malaria, diabetes, impotence, colon cleansing, amoeba, ascariasis, abdominal pain, urine retention, snake bite, and evil eye. Hence, the present study was aimed to evaluate the antibacterial and antifungal effects of the leaf exudate of Aloe megalacantha. …”
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Agriculture and Culture Based Agrotourism: for the Development of Sibetan Village, Bali by ni putu sukanteri, I Made Tamba, Ni Luh Putu Kirana Pratiwi

“…The novelty of the research is agrotourism opportunities based on local cultural traditions, Sibetan snake fruit agricultural commodities, full participation from the community, government and management, collaborating with international tourism institutions and celebrity  for promotion…”
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3D‐Assembled Bionic Tactile Sensing “Skin” for Soft Machines by Ruiping Zhang, Yihao Chen, Ziheng Wang, Ziwei Liang, Yinji Ma, Ying Chen, Xue Feng

“…It is mounted on a soft snake‐like cylinder and detects multi‐direction force mimicking tactile perception during soft robotics movement. …”
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Exploring Brain Size Asymmetry and Its Relationship with Predation Risk Among Chinese Anurans by Chuan Chen, Ying Jiang, Yiming Wu, Lingsen Cao, Wenbo Liao

“…To evaluate the differences between the sizes of the left and right sides of the whole brain and brain regions and the effect of predation risk (i.e., snake density) on brain size asymmetry among Chinese anurans, we compared the differences between the left and right hemisphere sizes of the whole brain and brain regions among anuran species and analyzed the correlations between the predation risk and size asymmetry index of the brain and brain regions. …”
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A formação inicial em pedagogia e as emoções sobre a matemática: Uma articulação de pesquisas nos campos da educação e da engenharia biomédica by Lucio Vasconcelos dos Santos, Aleksander Sade Paterno, Luciane Mulazani dos Santos

“…Os resultados das análises dos dados mostraram como as narrativas constituídas impactaram na revelação das emoções das licenciandas em Pedagogia (manifestadas em seus relatos e nos sinais detectados pelo dispositivo que utilizaram); como as memórias em relação à matemática podem produzir o mal-estar docente e como esse mal-estar pode ser registrado, para ser discutido, com apoio de recursos tecnológicos criados a partir da Engenharia Biomédica. …”
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Endoscopic Mucosal Resection of a Proximal Esophageal Pyogenic Granuloma by Elias Estifan, Varun Patel, Matthew Grossman

“…A mixture of saline and methylene blue was injected into the submucosal plane to raise the lesion with subsequent successful mucosal hot snare resection. The resection defect was then approximated and closed with a hemostatic clip to prevent bleeding. …”
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Reconociendo las Serpientes Venenosas de Florida by Steve A. Johnson, Martin B. Main, Alejandra Areingdale, Miguel Acevedo, Armando Ubeda

“…“Recognizing Florida’s Venomous Snakes: WEC 202/UW229, 9/2005”. EDIS 2006 (2). https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-uw229-2005. …”
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A ilha desaparecida Vulcanismo nas páginas dos jornais fluminenses by ANITA CORREIA LIMA DE ALMEIDA

“…Em junho, terremotos foram sentidos na região e, no começo de julho, pescadores observaram estranha mortandade de peixes no mar e outros sinais incomuns. Em algum momento adiante, a ilha vulcânica emergiu das águas. …”
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Effects of Seed Priming with Zinc Sulfate on Nutritional Enrichment and Biochemical Fingerprints of Momordica charantia by Shazia Anwer Bukhari, Nabila Farah, Saqib Mahmood, Javaria Altaf, Ghulam Mustafa

“…Antimicrobial activity of leaves (in terms of the minimum inhibitory concentration) against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was positively correlated with sinapic acid, vanillic acid, cinnamic acid, syringic acid, chlorogenic acid, benzoic acid, and ferulic acid. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Antioxidant Potency and Phenolic Compounds in Fruit Peel of Opuntia robusta, Opuntia dillenii, and Opuntia ficus-indica Using HPLC-DAD Profiling by Ahmed Marhri, Youssef Rbah, Aymane Allay, Mehdi Boumediene, Aziz Tikent, Abdessamad Benmoumen, Reda Melhaoui, Ahmed Elamrani, Malika Abid, Mohamed Addi

“…Ten phenolic compounds were identified, with isorhamnetin being the most abundant flavonoid measuring 7184.09 μg/g, while sinapic acid was identified as the major phenolic acid measuring 1806.36 μg/g. …”
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Problemas na mensuração da estrutura de capital: evidências empíricas no Brasil by Márcio André Veras Machado, Otávio Ribeiro de Medeiros, William Eid Júnior

“…No que diz respeito à sensibilidade às medidas utilizadas para mensurar a alavancagem, conclui-se que a variável lucratividade foi a única que se mostrou razoavelmente consistente, em termos de magnitude, sinal e significância, com as diferentes medidas de alavancagem utilizadas.…”
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Metodologia de Identificação de Falhas de Circuito Aberto para o Conversor CHB by Henrique F. de Souza, Felipe J. Zimann, Alessandro L. Batschauer

“…A técnica de identificação de falhas proposta neste artigo utiliza os sinais que são usualmente medidos para o controle deste conversor, tornando-o um método de fácil adaptação, podendo ser considerando de baixo custo de implementação. …”
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Effects of Enteromorpha prolifera polysaccharide on intestinal health of spotted sea bass Lateolabrax maculatus by Zhongying Long, Longhui Liu, Huihui Qin, Sishun Zhou, Lumin Kong, Jianrong Ma, Hao Lin, Zhangfan Huang, Yi Lin, Zhongbao Li

“…Enteromorpha prolifera polysaccharide (EPP) is a kind of seaweed polysaccharide with outstanding biological activity. …”
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Risk Factors of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Adults with Fever of Unknown Origin: A Retrospective Study by Tian F, Xie N, Sun W, Zhang W, Zhang W, Chen J, Ruan Q, Song J

“…Fangbing Tian,1 Nana Xie,1 Wenjin Sun,2 Wencong Zhang,1 Wenyuan Zhang,1 Jia Chen,1 Qiurong Ruan,3,* Jianxin Song1,* 1Department of Infectious Diseases, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Infectious Diseases, Ezhou Central Hospital, Ezhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Institute of Pathology, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Jianxin Song, Department of Infectious Diseases, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, Email songsingsjx@sina.com Qiurong Ruan, Institute of Pathology, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, Email ruanqiurong@sina.comPurpose: Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a critical syndrome with a high mortality rate. …”
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The Impact of Changes in Corneal Back Surface Astigmatism on the Residual Astigmatic Refractive Error following Routine Uncomplicated Phacoemulsification by Larysa Tutchenko, Sudi Patel, Oleksiy Voytsekhivskyy, Mykhailo Skovron, Olha Horak

“…Key findings for ΔBSA values over the central 3 mm zone were between (A) the sine of the axis of ΔRA (y) and sine of the axis of ΔBSA (x) for the data obtained by autorefractometry (between 1 and 2 months, y = 0.749 − 0.303x, r = 0.299, n = 52, p=0.031) and subjective refraction (between 2 and 3 months, y = 0.6614 − 0.4755x, r = 0.474, n = 19, p=0.040) and (B) ΔRA (y) and ΔBSA (x) powers between 2 and 3 months postoperatively for the data obtained by autorefractometry (ΔRA = 0.118 ΔBSA + 0.681 r = 0.467, n = 24, p=0.021) and subjective refraction (ΔRA = 0.072 ΔBSA + 0.545 r = 0.510, n = 19, p=0.026). …”
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Flexibilidad universitaria y modelos de evaluación de la calidad: El caso de la Universidad de Costa Rica by Priscilla Hurtado-Hernández, Eugenia Gallardo-Allen

“…También, se examina la conceptualización de flexibilidad por parte de la agencia acreditadora SINAES, así como las políticas transnacionales, nacionales e institucionales relacionadas. …”
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Load Characteristics and Modeling Methods for the Flow Regulator of a Solid Ducted Rocket by An Wang, Qinghua Zeng

“…Furthermore, considering the identification of the model parameters and the inapplicability of the conventional Stribeck identification method to the flow regulator, a new Stribeck model parameter identification method was proposed. A sine wave was used as the signal source, and specially designed devices were used to accomplish the switch of the working condition. …”
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Los detenidos de Guantánamo by Francisco Falcón Gómez Sánchez

“…Las detenciones empezaron en el año 2001 y aún ahora continúan sine die para aquellos a quienes el estado norteamericano considera combatientes ilegales. …”
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Assembly Quality Inspection of Combine Harvester Based on Whale Algorithm Optimization LSSVM by Sixia Zhao, Yizhen Ma, Mengnan Liu, Xiaoliang Chen, Liyou Xu

“…Aiming at the characteristics of whale optimization algorithm’s weak search ability and easy maturity, this paper introduces the cosine control factor and the sine time-varying adaptive weight to improve it and uses the benchmark function to verify the general adaptability of the algorithm. …”
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Free Vibration of Rectangular Plates with Porosity Distributions under Complex Boundary Constraints by Yuan Du, Siyu Wang, Liping Sun, Yanhe Shan

“…Regardless of boundary conditions, displacement admissible functions are represented by combination of standard cosine Fourier series and auxiliary sine series. The kinetic energy and potential energy of plates are also expressed on the basis of first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) and displacement admissible functions. …”
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