Peer-review Blinded Assay Test (P-BAT): a framework for trustless laboratory quality assurance for state-regulated cannabis markets by Stuart Procter, Grayson L. Baird, Jason Iannuccilli

“…Doing so would further incentivize laboratories to serve and be accountable to the end consumer instead of cultivators and distributors.…”
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Laboratory Model Tests on Consolidation Performance of Soil Column with Drained-Timber Rod by X. J. Chai, K. Deng, C. F. He, Y. F. Xiong

“…With the rise of many high-rise buildings, many types of modern mechanized-construction piles are widely developed and applied; for example, steel pile, precast concrete pile, sand pile, and gravel pile are widely used instead of timber piles. Yet, in some special conditions, timber piles have certain advantages due to their environment-friendly characteristics, which result in obvious economic benefits and suitability. …”
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Maximum Closeness Centrality k-Clubs: A Study of Dock-Less Bike Sharing by Ali Rahim Taleqani, Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Jill Hough

“…This change comes with an increase in the coordination cost, as bicycles are no longer checked in and out from bike-sharing stations that are fully equipped to handle the volume of requests; instead, bicycles can be checked in and out from virtually anywhere. …”
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Move contrast X-ray imaging reveals wall infiltration along maize leaf vessels before water refilling by Ke Li, Feixiang Wang, Yanling Xue, Shiquan Huang, Zhixuan Liu, Tiqiao Xiao

“…The pre-infiltration of water into the sieve pores of the side wall before water refilling was observed, which provided evidence of a deduction of two-step dynamic equilibrium during water refilling along cavitated vessels and water level rise in dynamic equilibrium instead of translating stably. Several quantitative analyses of the dynamic equilibrium were conducted owing to the high sensitivity of MCXI, making MCXI a promising tool to further investigate the micro-mechanism recovery of embolized vessels.…”
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Application of Aporrectodea caliginosa to Mitigate the Waste and the Effects of Vermicompost on the Exomorphological Features of Phaseolus vulgaris by Rouf Ahmad Mir, Sarita Shrivastava, Pragya Singh Pawaiya, Hemant Samadhiya

“…The present study aims to publicize soil healthiness and its plant growth supplying possessions further corroborating the use of organic amendments instead of fertilizers. Plastic replicates investigation is an exercise in eighteen replicates in which fifteen were soil amendment treatments: one triplicate-control, 0% vermicompost, 50%, 25%, 12.5%, 6.25%, and 3.125% vermicompost of soil. …”
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Bone Mineral Density in Children and Adolescents with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia by Paulo Alonso Garcia Alves Junior, Daniel Luis Gilban Schueftan, Laura Maria Carvalho de Mendonça, Maria Lucia Fleiuss Farias, Izabel Calland Ricarte Beserra

“…We conclude that there was a reduction in the bone mineral density Z-score in classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia paediatric patients when bone age was taken into account instead of chronological age.…”
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Understanding North Korea: Rimjin-gang Citizen Journalists Out to Cure the “Sick Man of Asia”? by Suzy Kim

“…I have opted to use the term "informant" instead, given serious misgivings about whether they can be called journalists. …”
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The Semantics of the Absurd: On German ‘Hermetic’ Poetry and Political Commitment after 1945 by Marko Pajević

“…Adorno called the ‘culture industry’ (1947), opposing conventional and habituated approaches to art in terms of its production and reception and advocating instead a stringent and critical concept of arresting aesthetic form that was to distinguish the work of art from products of that culture industry. …”
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Study on Fatigue Fracture Behavior of S32750 Duplex Stainless Steel at Different Solution Temperatures by Shun Bao, Han Feng, Zhigang Song, Jianguo He, Xiaohan Wu, Yang Gu

“…Following the 1180 °C solid solution treatment, no cloud-like dislocation patterns were observed in the ferrite; instead, they were replaced by a proliferation of thick, interwoven dislocation bundles. …”
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Investigation of failure mechanism in tensile loading of Cu-AISI4140 steel joints fabricated by spark plasma welding by Mehdi Naderi, Mohammad Reza Toroghinejad, Ahmad Kermanpur

“…In the joint formed over a 60-min duration, rupture did not occur at the joint interface before reaching the maximum stress in the engineering stress-strain curve. Instead, with the development of micro-necking at numerous areas of the joint interface, ductile failure occurred after reaching the maximum stress.…”
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Neural progenitor cell-derived exosomes in ischemia/reperfusion injury in cardiomyoblasts by Oiva Arvola, Virpi Stigzelius, Minna Ampuja, Riikka Kivelä

“…However, whether unconditioned neuronal progenitor cell derived-exosomes can instead protect myocardium represents a profound research gap. …”
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Prognostic Value of Residual Disease after Interval Debulking Surgery for FIGO Stage IIIC and IV Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by Marianne J. Rutten, Gabe S. Sonke, Anneke M. Westermann, Willemien J. van Driel, Johannes W. Trum, Gemma G. Kenter, Marrije R. Buist

“…The specific prognostic value of residual tumour seems to depend on the clinical setting, as minimal instead of gross residual tumour is associated with improved survival after IDS, but not after PDS.…”
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MODELING OF THE ZONES OF INFLUENCE OF GAS WELLS AT A DEPLETED RESERVOIR by Ioan Alexandru Stoica, Lazăr Avram, Bogdan Simescu, Mihaela Helstern

“…The theoretical model applied to the particular deposit, which can be extended for future production provisions, by setting time intervals e.g. to a month/year instead of days and extending the grid over the entire surface of the field, not only for the central area, where the wells are grouped. …”
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Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection and an incidental aberrant right subclavian artery: A rare case report by Ashish Khadka, MD, Aakash Neupane, MBBS, Pramodman Singh Yadav, MBBS, Leeza Shah, MD, Abinash Dev, MBBS, Sabin Ghale, MBBS, MBBS, Amisha Karki, MBBS

“…Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is a rare congenital heart defect where some pulmonary veins drain into the right atrium instead of the left. We report a case of a 20-year-old female with worsening dyspnea and intermittent chest pain. …”
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Ways to increase efficiency of aggregates on gas pumping gas trunk pipelines by A. A. Dzino, A. N. Noskov, O. S. Malinina

“…For the more efficient use of waste heat in the forward cycle, instead of a blade turbine, the use of a screw expander with dry saturated steam at the inlet is proposed. …”
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High efficiency extractions of V, Cr, Ti, Fe and Mn from vanadium slag by microwave heating by Tan B., Wu S., Wang L.-J., Chou K.-C.

“…The volatilization ratio of AlCl3 in this microwave heating was 3.92% instead of 8.97% in conventional heating (1h). The mechanism of efficient chlorination can be summarized as the enhancement of ions diffusion process and enhanced chemical reaction due to local high temperature.…”
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Wellbore Fracture Mode and Fracture Pressure Drilled in Depleted Reservoir by Kai Zhao, Junliang Yuan, Ming Liu, Chuanliang Yan, Liangbin Dou, Gang Bi, Runsen Li, Wei Gao

“…For the vertical well, fracture pressure is no longer a single linear reduction with reservoir depletion; instead, a three-step and two-step reduction may appear, and for the directional well, the fracture pressure is not always decreased; the other patterns such as increase and first increase then decrease may also appear for the wells drilled in reverse and strike fault stress regimes.…”
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Assessing Basin’s Dynamic Hydrological Characteristics Using Statistical Analysis on Rainfall – River Discharge Observation Data by Steven Reinaldo Rusli, Theo Senjaya

“…Due to the stochastic nature of extreme events occurrence and available data length, we evaluate the dynamic basin’s runoff generation using quasi-synthetic rainfall instead of conventional design storm, to equalize the stimuli (rainfall) in evaluating the target system (basin’s hydrological characteristics). …”
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A framework for ranking potential cities for implementing emerging urban mobility technologies: A case study for eVTOL aircraft by Felix Spühler, Kristian Siebenrock, Ivan Terekhov, Dirk C. Mattfeld

“…Based on this, a comprehensive analyze can be conducted for the top-ranked cities instead of all potential cities. Thus, the framework can support in the decision-making process for implementing new mobility technologies, but also support city officials to assess the current state of their city.…”
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The impact of PD-L1 polymorphisms on the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors depends on the tumor proportion score: a retrospective study by Keiichiro Suminaga, Takashi Nomizo, Hironori Yoshida, Hiroaki Ozasa

“…We used rs2282055, which is in linkage disequilibrium with rs822336, instead of rs822336, because of its distribution in the Asian patient population. …”
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