Toward sustainable bioproducts from lignocellulosic biomass: Influence of chemical pretreatments on liquefied walnut shells by Jovičić Nives, Krička Tajana, Antonović Alan, Matin Božidar, Pezo Lato, Brandić Ivan, Matin Ana

“…Compared to the untreated sample, alkali pretreatment produces the highest OH number (1288.03 KOH/g), surpassing mean values after acid and alcohol pretreatment. …”
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Integrating electrocardiogram and fundus images for early detection of cardiovascular diseases by K. A. Muthukumar, Dhruva Nandi, Priya Ranjan, Krithika Ramachandran, Shiny PJ, Anirban Ghosh, Ashwini M, Aiswaryah Radhakrishnan, V. E. Dhandapani, Rajiv Janardhanan

“…In our research, we present an avant-garde methodology that synergistically integrates ECG readings and retinal fundus images to facilitate the early disease tagging as well as triaging of the CVDs in the order of disease priority. …”
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The Effects of Yoga on Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Mengke Ban, Xuejing Yue, Pengyu Dou, Ping Zhang

“…Results. Ten studies including 359 participants were included in this meta-analysis. …”
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Research on Correlations of lncRNA ST7-AS1 with Progression and Therapeutic Targets of Esophageal Cancer by Xiao Lin, Sijia Sun, JiWen Zhang, Yan Cai, Quan Cheng

“…Materials and Methods: The presence of ST7-AS1 in 125 esophageal cancer tissues was identified through RT-qPCR assays. The application of Kaplan-Meier to evaluate survival rates in patients with esophageal cancer. …”
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Factors That Could Impact on Liver Fibrosis Staging by Transient Elastography by Hugo Perazzo, Valdilea G. Veloso, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Chris Hyde, Rodolfo Castro

“…However, several points should be considered when interpreting TE results. This review aims to discuss the critical points that might influence liver stiffness and TE results. …”
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Damage control resuscitation: how it’s done and where we can improve. A view of the Brazilian reality according to trauma professionals by MARCELO AUGUSTO FONTENELLE RIBEIRO JUNIOR, LETICIA STEFANI PACHECO, JUAN CARLOS DUCHESNE, JOSE GUSTAVO PARREIRA, SHAHIN MOHSENI

“…The use of tranexamic acid was high (96.7%), but TEG/ROTEM was used by only 5%. For hemorrhage control, tourniquets and resuscitative thoracotomy were commonly available, but REBOA was rarely accessible (0.8%). …”
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Controllable intein splicing and N-terminal cleavage at mesophilic temperatures by Taylor A. McNeal, Joel Weinberger, Geraldy L. S. Liman, Tia M. Ariagno, David W. Wood, Thomas J. Santangelo, Christopher W. Lennon

“…Typically, extended incubation at high temperature (greater than 50°C) or with an external nucleophile (e.g., dithiothreitol) is required to drive NTC, conditions that compromise the folding of many target proteins. …”
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Using Kalman Filters to Reduce Noise from RFID Location System by Pedro Henriques Abreu, José Xavier, Daniel Castro Silva, Luís Paulo Reis, Marcelo Petry

“…To achieve this goal, a set of experiments was devised and executed using a miniature train moving at constant velocity in a scenario with two distinct shapes—linear and oval. Also, this train was equipped with a varying number of active tags. …”
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MONITORING OF THE NOISE LEVEL GENERATED WHEN THE MILLING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE PREFABRICATES AT MACOFIL S.A. TÂRGU JIU by Emil Catalin SCHIOPU, Madalina DRACEA

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SAMPLING OF MATERIAL FROM AN OBJECT OF PROCESSING ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY REDUCED TO ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING by Alin NIOAŢĂ, Florin CIOFU

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Correlation between Adsorption and Porosity Properties of Alumina Samples as Obtained from Classical Adsorption and Thermal Analysis Methods by M. Płanda, P. Staszczuk, J. Pękalska

“…The thermodesorption of benzene and water from alumina samples saturated in vacuum desiccators was studied under quasi-equilibrium conditions. The Q-TG and Q-DTG curves obtained showed multi-step weight losses associated with the evaporation of liquid from pores and physisorbed liquid films from active centres of different energy. …”
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Deformation of the Cooling Vessel's Shell by Katarina Pisačić, Mario Pintarić

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Effects of <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i> Supplementation on Growth Performance, Hepatic Lipid Metabolism, and mRNA Expression of Lipid Metabolism Genes and Intestinal Flora in Geese by Siyu Sun, Yujie Zhao, Zhen Pang, Baoxia Wan, Jiaqi Wang, Zhenyu Wu, Qiuju Wang

“…<i>E. faecalis</i> significantly increased the half-eviscerated weight of geese and improved ileal intestinal morphology (<i>p</i> < 0.05). Serum triglyceride (TG) levels were significantly reduced on day 5, while serum total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels were significantly decreased on day 25 (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Evaluation of the intracellular lipid-lowering effect of polyphenols extract from highland barley in HepG2 cells by Yijun Yao, Zhifang Li, Bowen Qin, Xingrong Ju, Lifeng Wang

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Unveiling cellular changes in leukaemia cell lines after cannabidiol treatment through lipidomics by David Chamoso-Sanchez, Martina Panini, Clarissa Caroli, Matilde Marani, Lorenzo Corsi, Francisco J Rupérez, Antonia Garcia, Federica Pellati

“…Most of the differences correspond to phospholipids, including cardiolipins (CL), phosphatidylcholines (PC) and phosphosphingolipids (SM), and also triacylglycerols (TG), being many TG species increased after CBD treatment in the acute and chronic models, whereas phospholipids were found to be decreased. …”
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Visceral Adiposity Index in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Case-Control Study by Elías Cardoso-Peña, Alexandra E. Soto Pina, Ángel Gómez Villanueva, Gerardo Emilio López Chavez, Pablo Ramírez Martínez, Humberto Ramírez Montoya, María Guadalupe Berumen Lechuga, Alejandra Donají Benitez Arciniega, María de Lourdes Alarcón Fortepiani, Roxana Valdés Ramos, José de Jesús Garduño García

“…Body composition was assessed using electrical bioimpedance while VAI by means of waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), triacylglycerols (TG), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). …”
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Novel Mechanisms Modulating Palmitate-Induced Inflammatory Factors in Hypertrophied 3T3-L1 Adipocytes by AMPK by Naru Morita, Toshio Hosaka, Atsuko Kitahara, Toshitaka Murashima, Hirohisa Onuma, Yoshikazu Sumitani, Kazuto Takahashi, Toshiaki Tanaka, Takuma Kondo, Hitoshi Ishida

“…Palmitate-preloaded cells exhibited significant increase in MCP-1 release and triglyceride (TG) deposition. Increased MCP-1 release and TG deposition were significantly decreased by an AMPK activator. …”
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Thyroid Hormone Changes in the Northern Area of Tianjin during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Dong Weiwei, Wu Bei, Wang Hong, Wu Cailan, Shao Hailin, Xu Donghong, Wang Xiaolai, Hao Zhaohu, Li Shijun, Tan Jian, Jia Qiang

“…Subjects were included if they had FT3, FT4, and TSH concentrations and thyroid TPOAb or TgAb information available. …”
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Management of thyroid tumors diagnosed cytologically as follicular neoplasms in a high-volume center: utility of a scoring system using serum thyroglobulin level, tumor size, ultra... by Yasuhiro Ito, Makoto Kawakami, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, Masashi Yamamoto, Minoru Kihara, Naoyoshi Onoda, Akihiro Miya, Akira Miyauchi, Takashi Akamizu

“…Tumors of young patients (&lt;55 years), male patients, and patients with serum thyroglobulin (Tg) ≥500 ng/mL, ultrasound diagnoses as FN or malignancy, large tumors (&gt;4 cm), non-oxyphilic cytology, and cytological findings favoring malignancy and multiplicity underwent IS more frequently. …”
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Modeling compositional heterogeneity resolves deep phylogeny of flowering plants by Yongli Wang, Yan-Da Li, Shuo Wang, Erik Tihelka, Michael S. Engel, Chenyang Cai

“…According to our Bayesian cross-validation and model test in a maximum likelihood framework, site-heterogeneous models (e.g., CAT-GTR + G4, LG + C20 + F + G) outperform site-homogeneous or partition models often used in previous studies. …”
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