How Reducing Fossil-Based Plastic Use Can Help the Overall Sustainability of Oyster Farming: The Case of the Gulf of La Spezia by Daniela Summa, Elena Tamisari, Mattia Lanzoni, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Elena Tamburini

“…Oyster farming plays a crucial role in sustainable food production due to its high nutritional value and relatively low environmental impact. However, in a scenario of increasing production, it is necessary to consider the issue of plastic use as a limitation to be addressed. …”
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Study on friction and wear properties of nickel-based alloys under different working conditions by Ming Li, Yongjun Bai, Yi Ou, Xiaoyu Ren, Chaoqun Qian

“…The formation of a lubricating film contributes to the uniform distribution of the load, and a positive correlation is observed between the wear rate and the coefficient of friction. …”
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Certain Death: Mike Flanagan’s Gothic Antidote to Traumatic Memory and Other Enlightenment Hang-Overs in <i>Doctor Sleep</i> by Erik Bond

“…This article uses the English Gothic’s eighteenth-century dismantling of male lineage and Enlightenment certainty in Horace Walpole’s <i>The Castle Otranto</i> as a lens for understanding the twenty-first-century commercial popularity of director Mike Flanagan’s Gothic films, particularly <i>Doctor Sleep</i>. Building on Stephen King’s 2013 novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film <i>The Shining</i>, Flanagan’s <i>Doctor Sleep</i> establishes a new lineage of male writers who value how the Gothic traditions of irrational emotion and doubt can inspire new realms of knowledge to lessen psychological suffering caused by traumatic lineage. …”
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Tear matrix metalloproteinases-9 and ocular surface parameters in diabetics: a cross-sectional study in Shenyang, China by Ling Yang, Wei He, Jiayan Chen, Guanghao Qin, Emmanuel Eric Pazo, Zhengpeng Qu

“…The mean MMP-9 concentrations were higher in patients with DDE than DNDE (70.63±52.06 ng/mL vs 33.98±33.93 ng/mL; p&lt;0.001). The optimal cut-off value of MMP-9 to predict DED in diabetic patients was&gt;52.5 ng/mL, with 58.2% sensitivity and 78.2% specificity.Conclusions MMP-9 concentration was higher in patients with DDE than DNDE. …”
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Inline Mapping of Amorphous Silicon Layer Thickness of Heterojunction Precursors Using Multispectral Imaging by Saravana Kumar, Christian Diestel, Saed Al-Hajjawi, Jurriaan Schmitz, Marc Hemsendorf, Jonas Haunschild, Stefan J. Rupitsch, Stefan Rein

“…The a-Si thickness extracted from the reflection data at the five chosen LED wavelengths shows good quantitative agreement with reference values from spectrally-resolved differential reflectance data. …”
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Tear neuropeptides are associated with clinical symptoms and signs of dry eye patients by Yirou Zhang, Hong Zhang, Xingyu Zhu, Han Ye, Kan Yang, Xujiao Zhou, Jiaxu Hong

“…Dry eye disease (DED) diagnosis was based on the 2017 Report of the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society International Dry Eye Workshop (TFOS DEWS II). …”
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Room-temperature unconventional topological Hall effect in a van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GaTe2 by Hanin Algaidi, Chenhui Zhang, Chen Liu, Yinchang Ma, Dongxing Zheng, Peng Li, Xixiang Zhang

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Influence of Coating Application Methods on the Postharvest Quality of Cassava by Loreto Atieno, Willis Owino, Elijah M. Ateka, Jane Ambuko

“…Various modes of edible coating application vary in their coat dispersion and film formation, hence the need to determine the most effective mode of application for cassava. …”
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Biosynthesis and Characterization of Iron Nanoparticles for Effective Adsorption of Cr(VI) by Emel Simla Önal, Tolga Yatkın, Tural Aslanov, Memduha Ergüt, Ayla Özer

“…The thermodynamic studies suggested that Cr(VI) adsorption onto FeNPs was endothermic and nonspontaneous, and the positive ΔS value indicated increased disorder at the solid-solution interface during the adsorption.…”
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The Effect of Aggregate-Forming Minerals on Thermodynamic Parameters Using Surface Free Energy Concept and Its Relationship with the Moisture Susceptibility of Asphalt Mixtures by Gholam Hossein Hamedi, Mohammad Reza Esmaeeli, Vahid Najafi Moghaddam Gilani, Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian

“…Prior to the above tests, an X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) test was performed to identify aggregate-forming minerals in eight different types of aggregates with various minerals from eight mines, and also the apparent bitumen film thickness was measured. XRF test results showed that most parts of the aggregates in mines 1– 6 were composed of SiO2, which had strong acidic properties, according to the SFE results. …”
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Enhancing the photocatalytic performance and chemical durability of AZ31 magnesium alloy by incorporating two types of nanoparticles through plasma electrolytic oxidation by Mosab Kaseem, Abdullah H. Alluhayb, Talitha Tara Thanaa, Arash Fattah-alhosseini, Mohammad Alkaseem

“…The dual incorporation resulted in a hybrid film exhibiting a corrosion current density value of 7.57 × 10−11 A/cm2 and a high outer layer resistance of 5.17 × 107 Ω.cm2. …”
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Potentiation of Doxorubicin Cytotoxicity Utilizing Clarithromycin Loaded-PEGylated Liposomes by Islam Alfreahat MS, Hamdi Nsairat PhD, Ibrahim Deeb Aldeeb PhD, Ali Al-Samydai PhD, Walhan Alshaer PhD

“…Methods PEGylated liposomes containing DOX and CAM were prepared using the thin film hydration method. The physicochemical properties of the liposomes, including average particle size, polydispersity index (PDI), and zeta potential, were characterized. …”
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Enhanced Optical and Thermal Stability of Blue Pyrrole Derivatives for Color Filter in Image Sensors by Sunwoo Park, Sangwook Park, Saeyoung Oh, Hyukmin Kwon, Hayoon Lee, Kiho Lee, Chun Yoon, Jongwook Park

“…The properties of these new compounds were evaluated, focusing on their optical and thermal characteristics in solution and color filter film forms. The molar extinction coefficient values of BAPCP and HAPCP in solution were 6.03 × 10⁴ and 6.91 × 10⁴ L/mol·cm. …”
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Liquid–Solid Triboelectric Nanogenerator‐Based DNA Barcode Detection Biosensor for Species Identification by Wenlong Ma, Jiawei Li, Xiaolin Qu, Shao‘e Sun, Yanan Zhou, Yitong Liu, Peng Wang, Zhongli Sha

“…Consequently, the peak value of output current spike signal for targeted DNA is smaller than that for other DNA, which is the working mechanism of the present TENG‐based biosensor. …”
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Comparative Study of Crucial Properties of Packaging Based on Polylactide and Selected Essential Oils by Ewa Olewnik-Kruszkowska, Astha Vishwakarma, Magdalena Wrona, Anis Bertella, Anna Rudawska, Magdalena Gierszewska, Beata Schmidt

“…The migration of the ingredients present in the films filled with clove oil, grapefruit oil, and tea tree oil into the acetic acid solution did not exceed 10 mg/kg, which is an acceptable value according to the European Union restrictions. …”
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Medical honey for canine nasal intertrigo: A randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled, adaptive clinical trial to support antimicrobial stewardship in veterinary dermatology. by Gabrielle Brosseau, Nadia Pagé, Caroline de Jaham, Jérôme R E Del Castillo

“…Taken together, these results question the value of Manuka honey at treating nasal intertrigo in dogs.…”
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Optical Observations of Sputtered Au-nanostructures and Characterizations by Sabah Jameel Mezher, Mohammed O. Dawood, Bahjat B. Kadhim

“…Nano-films have seen important changes in their surface shape and roughness. …”
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Factors accounting for limited sexual reproduction in a long-lived unisexual plant species by Irene Bisang, Flavien Collart, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten, Lars Hedenäs

“…In bryophytes, wherein fertilization involves a continuous film of water between male and female sexual organs, reproduction in unisexual species involves the sympatric distribution of male and female sex-expressing individuals. …”
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Characterization and in vitro anticancer study of PEGylated liposome dually loaded with ferulic acid and doxorubicin by Andang Miatmoko, Patricia Kinanti Christy, Alfionita Isnaini, Berlian Sarasitha Hariawan, Devy Maulidya Cahyani, Margaret Ahmad, Nuzul Wahyuning Diyah, Mohamad Faris Adrianto, Ravi Kiran Deevi, Iwan Sahrial Hamid, Juni Ekowati

“…An in vitro study of LLC and HeLa cells showed that the IC50 values of Lipo DOX-FA were 0.70 µg/mL and 1.56 µg/mL, while the CC50 value in normal HEK cells was 6.50 µg/mL. …”
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Combined Low-Level Light Therapy and Intense Pulsed Light Therapy for the Treatment of Dry Eye in Patients with Sjögren’s Syndrome by Matteo Di Marino, Paola Conigliaro, Francesco Aiello, Claudia Valeri, Clarissa Giannini, Raffaele Mancino, Stella Modica, Carlo Nucci, Roberto Perricone, Massimo Cesareo

“…This increase was even more statistically significant after 3 months of the IPL and LLLT treatment (T0 vs T3: p<0.0001). Schirmer test values increased too, but there was not statistically significance between values at T0 and T1 or T3. …”
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