Optimization of s-Polarization Sensitivity in Apertureless Near-Field Optical Microscopy by Yuika Saito, Yoshiro Ohashi, Prabhat Verma

“…We found that the s-polarization enhancement sensitivity strongly depends on the sharpness of the apex of near-field probes. …”
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La composition corporelle des adolescentes. La mode et quelques répercussions cliniques by Consuelo Prado, Anders Holt Nielsen, Raquel Martínez, Margarita Carmenate, Cesare Donoso

“…The influence of advertising and social pressure is particularly strong in the case of girls, and a new prototype of body proportion has emerged in which extreme thinness is no longer the exception as it has been in previous periods. …”
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Guidance Cue Netrin-1 and the Regulation of Inflammation in Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease by Punithavathi Ranganathan, Riyaz Mohamed, Calpurnia Jayakumar, Ganesan Ramesh

“…A large body of evidence strongly suggests that ischemia reperfusion injury is an inflammatory disease mediated by both adaptive and innate immune systems. …”
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Banks' Use of Derivative Products and Sectoral and Macroeconomic Factors: An Application on the Turkish Banking Sector by Ali Hepşen, Yusuf Pala

“…Size, capital, credit risk pressure, inflation, and foreign ownership strongly influence banks' use of derivatives. According to the study's findings, banks primarily use derivatives for hedging in over-the-counter market transactions and for speculation in organized market transactions. …”
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Preclinical Polymodal Hallucinations for 13 Years before Dementia with Lewy Bodies by Carlo Abbate, Pietro Davide Trimarchi, Silvia Inglese, Niccolò Viti, Alessandra Cantatore, Lisa De Agostini, Federico Pirri, Lorenza Marino, Renzo Bagarolo, Daniela Mari

“…Finally, it confirms an association between hallucinations and visuoperceptual impairments at an intermediate stage of the disease course and strongly supports the hypothesis that hallucinations in the earliest stages of DLB may reflect a narcolepsy-like REM-sleep disorder.…”
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Topological Characterization of Human and Mouse m5C Epitranscriptome Revealed by Bisulfite Sequencing by Zhen Wei, Subbarayalu Panneerdoss, Santosh Timilsina, Jingting Zhu, Tabrez A. Mohammad, Zhi-Liang Lu, João Pedro de Magalhães, Yidong Chen, Rong Rong, Yufei Huang, Manjeet K. Rao, Jia Meng

“…With a comparative analysis of the mRNA and DNA methylome, we demonstrate that, like DNA methylation, transcriptome m5C methylation exhibits a strong clustering effect. Surprisingly, an inverse correlation between mRNA and DNA m5C methylation is observed at CpG sites. …”
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Porphyria Cutanea Tarda in a Patient with End-Stage Renal Disease: A Case of Successful Treatment with Deferoxamine and Ferric Carboxymaltose by Natacha Rodrigues, Fernando Caeiro, Alice Santana, Teresa Mendes, Leonor Lopes

“…Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) is a rare disease, with a strong association with hepatitis C virus. PCT is particularly problematic in end-stage renal disease patients as they have no renal excretion of porphyrins and these are poorly dialyzed. …”
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Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science by Donald T. Hawkins

“…Only 26 articles have authors from more than one country, showing that electronic technology has not yet strongly influenced international collaboration. About 2/3 of the articles originate in academic institutions. …”
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Polyphenol content and antioxidant activity of phytoestrogen containing food and dietary supplements: DPPH free radical scavenging activity by HPLC by Klarić Daniela Amidžić, Mornar Ana, Kovačić Jelena, Jeličić Mario-Livio, Brusač Edvin, Brletić Iva, Klarić Ilija

“…Furthermore, the correlation between polyphenol content and anti-oxidant activity was strongly statistically significant, so it might be concluded that antioxidant activity is proportional to the content of these secondary metabolites. …”
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The status of mycology in Africa: A document to promote awareness by M. Gryzenhout, J.M. Jefwa, N.S. Yorou

“…The AMA has about 200 members, mostly from African states but also with strong representation from Europe and USA, amongst others. …”
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On the Efficient Broadcasting of Heterogeneous Services over Band-Limited Channels: Unequal Power Allocation for Wavelet Packet Division Multiplexing by Maurizio Murroni

“…The mean square error (MSE) between the original and the decoded message, 𝜓which has a strong correlation with subjective perception, is used as an optimization criterion.…”
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Evaluating the Reliability and Consistency of Treadmill Gait Analysis Using an RGB-D Camera: Effects of Assistance and No Assistance by Yuichiro Hosoi, Takahiko Sato, Akinori Nagano

“…The results demonstrated that the RGB-D camera provided high intraday reliability and showed strong consistency with 3DMA measurements regardless of the presence of an assistant. …”
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Effect of In Situ Thermal Annealing on Structural, Optical, and Electrical Properties of CdS/CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells Fabricated by Pulsed Laser Deposition by Alaa Ayad Al-mebir, Paul Harrison, Ali Kadhim, Guanggen Zeng, Judy Wu

“…An in situ thermal annealing process (iTAP) has been introduced before the common ex situ cadmium chloride (CdCl2) annealing to improve crystal quality and morphology of the CdTe thin films after pulsed laser deposition of CdS/CdTe heterostructures. A strong correlation between the two annealing processes was observed, leading to a profound effect on the performance of CdS/CdTe thin film solar cells. …”
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The relationship between spiritual well-being and fear of cancer progression in Iranian cancer patients by Amir Hossein Goudarzian, Amir Hossein Goudarzian, Seyed Amirhossein Mazhari, Pooria Sobhanian, Bahar Farhadi, Soheyla Kalantari, Mozhgan Taebi

“…All constructs demonstrated strong factorial validity and reliability. Simple linear regression analysis revealed that spiritual well-being significantly predicted fear of cancer progression (R2 = 0.064, F = 27, p < 0.001).DiscussionThe findings indicated a significant relationship between spiritual well-being and fear of cancer progression. …”
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Investigating Optical Properties of One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Containing Semiconductor Quantum Wells by Mahshid Mokhtarnejad, Morteza Asgari, Arash Sabatyan

“…We also demonstrated that the reflectivity of MQWs under normal incident was at maximum, while both using a strong pump and changing incident angle reduced it. …”
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Adsorption of Arsenate from Aqueous Solution onto Modified Vietnamese Bentonite by Nguyen Le My Linh, Duc Hoang Van, Tran Duong, Mai Xuan Tinh, Dinh Quang Khieu

“…The adsorption of As(V) was strongly dependent on solution pH, and the maximum adsorption of modified bentonites was obtained in the pH 3.0 for Fe-bentonite and the pH 4.0 for Al-bentonite. …”
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Coherent spin mixing at charge transfer states for spin polaron pair dissociation and energy loss in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells by Lixuan Kan, Fenggui Zhao, Jiashuo Zhang, Jiaji Hu, Yongchao Xie, Jing Li, Xixiang Zhu, Xiaoling Ma, Haomiao Yu, Jinpeng Li, Fujun Zhang, Kai Wang

“…Within the same systems, strong internal fields that include the hyperfine (HF) fields, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and Δg value may promote the intersystem crossing (ISC) and the polaron back transfer (PBT), leading to the energy loss. …”
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Nutrient transport from the Ganga–Brahmaputra–Meghna River system to the Bay of Bengal: past and future trends by Hamdy Elsayed, Arthur Beusen, Alexander Felix Bouwman

“…Implementing nutrient reduction strategies in a sustainable scenario will reduce TN and TP loads and concentrations, but nutrient imbalances remain strong with continued risk of harmful algal blooms. …”
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Feminist stylistic analysis and LGBTQA+ representation in Lady Gaga’s born this way by Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, Siti Hafifah

“…By then, this song has completely succeeded to not only raising up feminist voice, but also, most likely, if there was no song with all the impact and events, understanding about gender and equality would not develop as it is today. The song strongly emphasizes the equality notion by accepting who we are as we are all born this way. …”
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Walking the line of the double bind: A cross-country comparison on women and men politicians’ self-presentations on social media by Magin Melanie, Haßler Jörg, Larsson Anders Olof, Skogerbø Eli

“…In contrast to earlier research on gendered presentations of politicians in the news, we did not find strong evidence of gendered self-presentations in either country, neither in terms of personalisation nor in terms of gender issue ownership. …”
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