Impedance and Interface Properties of Al/Methyl-Red/p-InP Solar Cell by Ömer Güllü

“…An Al/methyl-red/p-InP solar cell was fabricated via solution-processing method and was characterized by using current-voltage (I-V) and capacitance-voltage-frequency (C-V-f) measurements at room temperature. …”
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Delayed-release prednisone improves fatigue and health-related quality of life: findings from the CAPRA-2 double-blind randomised study in rheumatoid arthritis by Frank Buttgereit, Rieke Alten, Amy Grahn, Robert J Holt, Patricia Rice

“…Fatigue was assessed using validated instruments: the fatigue scale of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F) and the vitality domain of the Short Form-36 (SF-36). General quality of life was assessed using the general score and individual domains of Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and SF-36.Results The change from baseline to week 12 in FACIT-F score was statistically significantly different with DR prednisone/DMARD (3.8) versus placebo/DMARD (1.6; difference 2.2, p=0.0032). …”
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Synovial sarcoma. Evaluation of Prognosis with Emphasis on the Study of DNA Ploidy and Proliferation (PCNA and Ki-67) Markers by José M. Lopes, Einar Hannisdal, Bodil Bjerkehagen, Øyvind S. Bruland, Håvard E. Danielsen, Erik O. Pettersend, Manuel Sobrinho-Simões, Jahn M. Nesland

“…The prognostic value of gender, age, duration of symptoms, location, compartmentalization, size, adequacy of surgical margins, residual tumor, adjuvant therapy, histologic subtype, extent of necrosis, glandular differentiation, calcification, and extent of hemangiopericytic areas, mitotic rate, amount of mast cells, blood vessel invasion, histologic (UICC and NCI) grades, DNA ploidy, percentage of cells in S and S+G2 phases, PCNA and Ki-67 labeling indices (LI), and TNM (UICC) stage of the tumors, were evaluated by univariate and multivariate (Cox hazard model) analyses. Short duration of symptoms (<12 months), biphasic SS, scarcity of mast cells (<10/10 HPF), high mitotic rate (≥10/10 HPF), high histologic grade (grade 3), high PCNA-LI (≥20%), high Ki-67-LI (≥10%), DNA aneuploidy, and advanced TNM stage (stage III) were features associated with significantly shorter relapse-free and overall 5-year survival rates in the univariate analyses. …”
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Therapeutic Effects of the Combination of Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) and Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) on Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity by Eman Aly Khalifa, Ahmed Nabil Ahmed, Khalid Shaaban Hashem, Ahmad Gad Allah

“…CoQ10 and/or ALA were given as pretreatment for 9 days, followed by cisplatin injection in the 10th day of the study, followed by a short posttreatment course for 3 days. Renal functions, tissue antioxidant activity, and inflammatory markers (tumor necrosis factor, TNF) were estimated along with histopathological study. …”
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Plant genome modification: from induced mutagenesis to genome editing by A. B. Shcherban

“…The paper reviews the main stages of GE development in its application in plants. It provides short descriptions of different GE techniques, including those using protein editors such as zinc-finger and transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALEN), and the CRISPR/Cas9 technology. …”
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Simultaneous implementation for landfill leachate treatment and desulfurization and decarbonization of landfill gas purification by NIE Wenbo, CHEN Yi*

“…To investigate the efficiency and mechanism of treating landfill leachate by two-stage membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) in cooperation with desulfurization and decarbonization of landfill gas, we sequentially examined the removal efficiency of organic matter and nitrogen pollutants, as well as the conversion characteristics of H2S, CO2, and CH4 in landfill gas during the operation of pre-short-range nitrification MBfR and post - MBfR. After 280 days of operation, experimental results demonstrated that the reaction system successfully achieved high-efficiency desulfurization and decarburization for advanced treatment of leachate along with upgrading landfill gas. …”
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Seasonal Particle Size Distribution and its Influencing Factors in a Typical Polluted City in North China by Wenxin Wang, Xiaohua Wang, Xue Li, Chao Chen, Yu Wang, Zhiwen Xing, Kun Li, Min Wei, Xiao Sui, Houfeng Liu

“…In spring, particle matters were mainly transported from the northeast and southeast, and PM2.5 was more influenced by northeast short-range transport. Local particulate generation was mainly raised by mobile sources from vehicles and industries such as oil refineries, chemical plant and steel plants. …”
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Hong Kong Version of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HK-KOOS) for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis by Andy S. K. Cheng, Ka-chun Chan, Sum-yuet Chan, Miu-kwan Fan, Man-kwan Fung, Oi-yan Lee, Cindy T. T. Kwok, Jackson K. K. Wong

“…A floor effect was present in the sports and recreation subscale. Discussion and Conclusions. …”
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Identification of microsatellite loci according to BAC sequencing data and their physical mapping to the bread wheat 5B chromosome by M. A. Nesterov, D. A. Afonnikov, E. M. Sergeeva, L. A. Miroshnichenko, M. K. Bragina, A. O. Bragin, G. V. Vasiliev, E. A. Salina

“…In this work, SSR markers for individual regions in the short arm of bread wheat chromosome 5B (5BS) were designed based on sequencing data for BAC clones, and the regions of the corresponding chromosome were saturated with these markers. …”
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Design of Arduino Computer Numerical Control Machine. by Mujurizi Frank

“…CNC machines are able to produce accurate work of good quality, and in a short period of time, but these machines are quite expensive for small scale manufacturers, students and innovators. …”
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Archiving of Records in Kanungu Local Government Registry. by Atuhaire, Catherine

“…The objectives of the study were to find out the types of records maintained at Kanungu Local Government Registry, identify the records processes involved in archiving records, to investigate challenges faced by records officers in archiving records, and suggest measures to improve the archiving of records in Kanungu Local Government. …”
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Impact of Land Degradation on Irish Potato Production in Hamurwa Sub-County Rubanda District. by Ahimbisibwe, Columbus

“…This should be done along with good husbandry practices such as crop rotation, and rotational grazing to avoid exhausting a particular plot of land in a short period, which in most cases forces people to exhaust land, there is a need for policymaking concerning land use through a forestation thus discouraging or reducing deforestation and there should education of masses should be encouraged relating to the efficient use of land use practices on Irish potato production through sensitizing people on dangers of destroying agricultural and its related effects.…”
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Capital Structure, Investment Decision and Financial Performance of SMEs in Uganda A Case of Central Uganda by Turyahebwa, Abanis

“…From the results, we confirm that capital structure, investment decision, predict up to 66.2% of the change in financial performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Central Uganda The results show good model fits and fig.2 defines the model of capital structure and investment decisions on financial performance of SMEs in Uganda and is encompassed of 4 proportions of capital structure in terms of Equity, Long term Debt, Short term debt as well as investment decisions and their predictive power on financial performance of SMEs in Uganda. …”
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Attention-Based Multi-Learning Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition With Dilated Convolution by Samuel, Kakuba, Alwin, Poulose

“…Recurrent neural networks (RNN) like long short-term memory (LSTM), gated recurrent units (GRU) and their variants that operate sequentially are often used to learn time series sequences of the signal, analyze long-term dependencies and the contexts of the utterances in the speech signal. …”
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Triaxial compression characteristics and brittleness evaluation of calcareous sand cemented with EICP and coir fiber by Xueliang Jiang, Haodong Wang, Hui Yang, Ting Du, Pan Liu, Jiaxin Duan

“…The research results indicate: (1) The EICP technique exhibits a pronounced cementation effect on calcareous sand. With the number of grouting operations escalating from 1 to 9, or the confining pressure incrementing from 100 kPa to 300 kPa, the peak deviatoric stress of the cemented mass progressively improves. …”
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Exploring barriers to early breast examination and screening among Arab women in the MENA region: A KAP study by Ehsan Qtaishat, Reem Al-Ajlouni, Khawlah Ammar, Mohammed Liswi, Abdallah Al-Ani, Rasha Fakheraldeen, Shorouq Al-hasson

“…Conversely, while nearly half of the sample practices clinical breast examinations (CBE) or mammography (MM), less than 50 % were knowledgeable abouts their proper frequencies or suitable age. In terms of barriers, lack of current breast issues and lack of knowledge were the most commonly reported barriers to all three forms of early breast cancer detection methods. …”
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Assessment framework to predict sensitivity of marine calcifiers to ocean alkalinity enhancement – identification of biological thresholds and importance of precautionary principle... by N. Bednaršek, H. van de Mortel, G. Pelletier, G. Pelletier, M. García-Reyes, R. A. Feely, A. G. Dickson, A. G. Dickson

“…There are large uncertainties in both short- and long-term outcomes related to potential environmental impacts, which would ultimately have an influence on the social license and success of OAE as a climate strategy. …”
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The clinical value of computed tomography Hounsfield unit for diagnosing palpable inguinal lymph node metastasis in patients with penile cancer by Yu Li, Yu Chen, Gansheng Xie, Gang Li, Huming Yin

“…By using radiologic software PACS, the layer with a maximum cross-sectional area of target lymph node was selected, and the short axis was defined as diameter. We outlined the edge of target lymph nodes, and the software automatically calculated its area, maximum CT HU, and average CT HU. …”
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Machine Reading Comprehension for the Tamil Language With Translated SQuAD by Anton Vijeevaraj Ann Sinthusha, Eugene Y. A. Charles, Ruvan Weerasinghe

“…Additionally, it explores improving these models&#x2019; performance by fine-tuning them with English SQuAD, Tamil SQuAD, and a newly developed Tamil Short Story (TSS) dataset for MRC. Tamil&#x2019;s agglutinative nature, which expresses grammatical information through suffixation, results in a high degree of word inflexion. …”
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The line Rico is the earliest maturing accession in the VIR collection of spring bread wheat by B. V. Rigin, E. V. Zuev, A. S. Andreeva, Z. S. Pyzhenkova, I. I. Matvienko

“…The ultra-early line Rico (k-65588) – Triticum aestivum var. erythrospermum Koern. – stands out among the bread wheat accessions from the VIR collection for its important adaptive features.Materials and methods. …”
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