A survey of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) distribution in Slovenia in 2007 and 2010 by Katja Kalan, Rok Kostanjšek, Enrih Merdić, Tomi Trilar

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Reconstructing a lightweight security protocol in the radio‐frequency identification systems by Alireza Abdellahi Khorasgani, Mahdi Sajadieh, Mohammad Rouhollah Yazdani

“…Due to the importance of privacy and security in IoT systems, Chuang and Tu have proposed a lightweight authentication protocol using XCor operation. …”
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Preduvjeti pastorala i kateheze s odraslima za zrelost kršćanskih zajednica by Nikola Vranješ

“…Mnogi aktualni pokazatelji upozoravaju na istinsku krizu ne samo procesa sazrijevanja u vjeri nego uopće započinjanja tog procesa, ali i stvarne odluke za rast u vjeri. …”
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Simulating Quantum Field Theories on Gate-Based Quantum Computers by Gayathree M. Vinod, Anil Shaji

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SENJ I SV. ANTUN OPAT NA SLIKAMA FRANKAPANSKOG OLTARA U OBERVELLACHU by Ivan Jurković

“…Temom ovog rada dva su detalja na slikama tog oltara koja povjesničari umjetnosti nisu pravilno prepoznali i protumačili – jedan izravno vezan uz likovni prikaz grada Senja.…”
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Aquatic insects (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Diptera: Tipuloidea) from the upper Neretva in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Wolfram Graf, Ernst Bauernfeind, Marija Ivković, Levente-Péter Kolcsár

“…In total, 59 Trichoptera species, ten Plecoptera species, 19 Ephemeroptera and 16 Diptera (Tipuloidea) species were collected, of which Baeoura sp. is new to science. 35 species are endemics of the Balkans, most species are rheobiontic and need high water current. …”
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Quantum Conformal Prediction for Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Quantum Machine Learning by Sangwoo Park, Osvaldo Simeone

“…The approach, which builds on probabilistic conformal prediction (CP), turns an arbitrary, possibly small, number of shots from a pretrained quantum model into a set prediction, e.g., an interval, that <italic>provably</italic> contains the true target with any desired coverage level. …”
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Cardioprotective Activity of N′′,N′′′-Bis[5-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-3H-indol-3-ylidene]carbonohydrazide Derivative against Doxorubicin Induced Cardiotoxicity in Rats by Salma Tabassum, Kiran Gangarapu, Gouthami Thumma, Sarangapani Manda, Rama Narsimha Reddy Anreddy

“…The results showed the significant (P<0.05) dose dependent decrease in elevated cardiotoxic biomarkers CK-MB, LDH, AST, and TG levels. The histopathological studies of heart tissues showed mild degeneration of muscle bundles and less interstitial edematous changes. …”
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Antihyperlipidemic Effects of Sesamum indicum L. in Rabbits Fed a High-Fat Diet by Sedigheh Asgary, Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei, Somayeh Najafi, Esfandiar Heidarian, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…Hypercholesterolemic feeding resulted in a significant elevation of TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C, SGOT and SGPT as compared to the normocholesterolemic diet group (P<0.05). …”
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Preliminary Assessment of the Chemical Stability of Dried Extracts from Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. (Sterculiaceae) by Gisely C. Lopes, Renata Longhini, Paulo Victor P. dos Santos, Adriano A. S. Araújo, Marcos Luciano Bruschi, João Carlos P. de Mello

“…However, considering the TG data and the high temperatures involved, the results suggest that CSD increases the stability of the dried extract of G. ulmifolia.…”
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Valsartan in Combination with Tripterygium Glycosides Protects against Chronic Nephritis via the Toll-Like Receptor 4 Pathway by Jiabao Dong, Duo Huang, Ling Jing, Mengmeng Wu

“…The study was designed to unravel the impacts of valsartan and tripterygium glycosides in chronic nephritis through the Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4) pathway. Methods. The renal function indicators such as serum creatinine (Scr), blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and β2 microglobulin (β2-MG), 24 h urine protein (Upro) levels, and blood lipid indicators such as total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C), triacylglycerol (TG) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL-C), inflammatory factors (e.g., IL-1β and IL-8), and the proportion of T lymphocyte subpopulations (CD4+ and CD8+) were detected in chronic nephritis patients before and after treatment with valsartan alone or valsartan combined with tripterygium glycosides. …”
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Changes in Metabolic Regulation and the Microbiota Composition after Supplementation with Different Fatty Acids in db/db Mice by Beatriz Elina Martínez-Carrillo, Talia Mondragón-Velásquez, Ninfa Ramírez-Durán, José Félix Aguirre-Garrido, Roxana Valdés-Ramos, Ana Laura Guadarrama-López, Arturo Castillo-Cardiel

“…Enriched diet with EPA/DHA reduced TNF-α, C-peptide, insulin resistance, resistin, and the plasma atherogenic index, but increased TC, LDL-c, VLDL-c, and TG without changes in HDL-c. …”
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Pass-Transistor-Enabled Split Input Voltage Level Shifter for Ultra-Low-Power Applications by Chakali Chandrasekhar, Mohammed Mahaboob Basha, Sari Mohan Das, Oruganti Hemakesavulu, Mohan Dholvan, Javed Syed

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Dyslipidemias in normotensive and hypertensive individuals by NM Igboh, D Onwubiko, LN Chigbu, CI Emuchey, NK Nnamah, CA Onyesom, EN Agomuo, CA Maduagwuna, KME Iheanacho

“…The normotensive studied had mean age of 50 + 11 years and blood pressure of 117 + 6 / 77+ 6 mmHg. The hypertensive had mean age of 55 + 10 years and blood pressure of 177+25 /103 + 10 mmHg.The study revealed that there was a highly significant effect of age on total cholesterol in hypertensive than normotensive individuals .The mean total cholesterol (T -chol) and triglyceride (TG) were (156+11, and 59 + 4) mg/dl respectively for the normotensives; and hypertensive the means were 166 + 13 for the T –chol and 66+ 7 mg/dl for triglyceride (P<0.05). …”
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Association between phase angle, body mass index and insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study by Yezi Hu, Hui Jin

“…In the unadjusted model, Model 1 (adjustment for age), Model 2 (adjust for age+duration), Model 3 (adjust for age+duration+sex+UA+TG+TC) and Model 4 (adjust for age+duration+sex+UA+TG+TC+HDL+HbA1c), the adjusted ORs for participants were 4.4 (95% CI [1.72–11.24]), 4.41 (95% CI [1.73–11.27]), 4.75 (95% CI [1.83–12.32]), 2.93 (95% CI [1.04–8.23]) and 3.1 (95% CI [1.09–8.86]) respectively, compared to LPHB group. …”
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Drought Analyses of the Horné Požitavie Region (Slovakia) in the Period 1966–2013 by Jaroslav Vido, Paulína Nalevanková, Ján Valach, Zbyšek Šustek, Tsegaye Tadesse

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Enhancing Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Polyurethane Rubber Reinforced with Polyethylene Glycol-g-Graphene Oxide by Li Wang, Wen Fu, Wenlong Peng, Haotuo Xiao, Shenglin Li, Jianning Huang, Cuiwen Liu

“…GO was grafted with PEG and added to PUR by mechanical blending. The polyethylene glycol-g-graphene oxide (MGO) was characterized by infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and thermogravimetric analysis. …”
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Detection of Erythropoietin in Exhaled Breath Condensate of Nonhypoxic Subjects Using a Multiplex Bead Array by Christian Schumann, Kathy Triantafilou, Stefan Krueger, Vinzenz Hombach, Martha Triantafilou, Gunther Becher, Philipp M. Lepper

“…Using a multiplex fluorescent bead immunoassay, we detected EPO in EBC, as well as tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in 13 out of 22 patients simultaneously (EPO 0.21 ± 0.03 in U/mL and TNF-α 34.6 ± 4.2 in pg/mL, mean ± SEM). …”
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Dyslipidemias in normotensive and hypertensive individuals by NM Igboh, D Onwubiko, LN Chigbu, CI Emuchey, NK Nnamah, CA Onyesom, EN Agomuo, CA Maduagwuna, KME Iheanacho

“…The normotensive studied had mean age of 50 + 11 years and blood pressure of 117 + 6 / 77+ 6 mmHg. The hypertensive had mean age of 55 + 10 years and blood pressure of 177+25 /103 + 10 mmHg.The study revealed that there was a highly significant effect of age on total cholesterol in hypertensive than normotensive individuals .The mean total cholesterol (T -chol) and triglyceride (TG) were (156+11, and 59 + 4) mg/dl respectively for the normotensives; and hypertensive the means were 166 + 13 for the T –chol and 66+ 7 mg/dl for triglyceride (P<0.05). …”
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Microstructural Investigations of Rapidly Solidified Al-Co-Y Alloys by B. Avar, M. Gogebakan, M. Tarakci, Y. Gencer, S. Kerli

“…From DSC results, only Al85Co7Y8 amorphous alloy exhibited a glass transition temperature (Tg) at 569 K, and its supercooled liquid region (ΔTx=Tx−Tg) was found to be 17 K. …”
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