The sustainability of agricultural trade: The case of South Africa by Thomas van Huyssteen, Djiby Thiam, Sanderine Nonhebel

“…Further, imports generated 98% more CO₂ and 103% more PO4 emissions than exports. Finally, South Africa was shown to generate 64% more economic value from their agricultural exports than their imports cost. …”
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Monitoring the earth surface temperature and relationship land use with surface temperature using of OLI and TIRS Image by sayyad asghari, hadi emami

“…Then, to investigate the land use change, a map of user-landing changes map was extracted in an 18-year time period (2000-2017). Finally, in order to monitor the surface temperature, the surface temperature map of Ardebil was extracted.  …”
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Dual-positive gastric cancer: an extremely malignant subtype of gastric cancer with high serum alpha-fetoprotein and carcinoembryonic antigen concentrations by Weixun Xie, Chengyu Hu, Hongming Liu, Zelai Wu, Bixian Luo, Xiaoying Wu, Xiaoying Wu, Chuanlei Tuo, Ziyin Deng, Han Liang, Yong Liu, Weihua Gong, Weihua Gong

“…Tumor characteristics and overall health conditions were analyzed to identify factors contributing to CEA elevation. Finally, the treatment responses of this group to different treatment modalities were also reviewed.ResultsApproximately 45% of gastric cancer patients with elevated serum AFP also show increased CEA levels, classifying them as the dual-positive gastric cancer (DPGC) subgroup. …”
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An action research study on the needs and perspectives of medical students and junior residents on peer physical examination guidelines to respect medical students’ autonomy and pr... by Emily Suzuki, Nobutoshi Nawa, Eriko Okada, Yu Akaishi, Ayako Kashimada, Mitsuyuki Numasawa, Kumiko Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takada, Masanaga Yamawaki

“…We then conducted interviews of 16 participants and revised our guidelines accordingly. Finally, we asked 632 medical students and 191 junior residents to fill out the form for obtaining informed consent (Questionnaire Survey 2) in order to check the feasibility of our PPE guidelines. …”
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Un exiliado antifascista defendiéndose contra el desalojo de la historia: Seoane en los años cincuenta by Pablo García Martínez

“… El presente artículo tiene como protagonista al polifacético Luís Seoane López (1910-1979), quien llegaría, a finales de 1936, a la ciudad de su nacimiento, Buenos Aires, como exiliado republicano, a causa de su implicación con el nacionalismo gallego durante los años de la Segunda República española (1931-1936). …”
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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON DIAMOND WHEEL DRESSING BASED ON DYNAMIC MODEL by CHI YuLun, TAN ShaoDong, GU JiaJian

“…Then diamond roller dressing dynamics model is established and the model is divided into two parts of the grinding wheel and diamond wheel, and by changing the diamond roller shaft support materials to change the contact stiffness, damping, and stiffness and numerical simulation calculation, analysis of diamond roller shaft in the use of steel support material and casting the vibration of the support material circumstances difference; Finally, through experimental verification, it shows that the surface quality of the subsequent grinding workpiece is different in the case that the vibration of the diamond roller shaft is larger and smaller. …”
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Ex Vivo, In Vitro and In Vivo Bone Health Properties of Grana Padano Cheese by Cristina Martelli, Luisa Ottobrini, Anita Ferraretto, Paola Bendinelli, Stefano Cattaneo, Fabio Masotti, Milda Stuknytė, Margherita Dall’Asta, Angelo Del Sole, Ivano De Noni, Filippo Rossi

“…As a consequence, metabolized GP digest significantly increased the number of osteoblasts, whereas the metabolized water did not exert this effect. Finally, the mice were fed diets containing GP or CaCO₃ and pea isolate and the in vivo outcomes were assessed through fluorescent probe and computed tomography. …”
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An UPLC-MS/MS Method for Determination of Osimertinib in Rat Plasma: Application to Investigating the Effect of Ginsenoside Rg3 on the Pharmacokinetics of Osimertinib by Zhenzhen Ying, Jingyao Wei, Ruijuan Liu, Fang Zhao, Yifang Yu, Xin Tian

“…Osimertinib is a novel oral, potent, and irreversible epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) for treatment of advanced T790M mutation-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer, which is commonly combined with ginsenoside Rg3 in clinic to enhance the efficacy and minimize adverse reactions. …”
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Sustained response off treatment after fostamatinib in refractory immune thrombocytopenia: A series of four case reports by Waleed Ghanima, Francisco Javier Lucas Boronat, Valentina Carrai, Stefan Rackwitz

“…We present four cases describing treatment with the spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitor, fostamatinib, that showed sustained response off treatment (SROT).Case presentations: Case 1 was a 66-year-old male with chronic ITP. …”
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Air Pollutant Levels during the Large-scale Social Restriction Period and its Association with Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19 by Muhammad Rendana

“…Furthermore, we found a positive association between PM10 and the case fatality rate of COVID-19 in the study area (r = 0.514, p < 0.05). Finally, this study concluded that the implementation of LSSR could reduce air pollutants concentration in the study area while a higher PM10 exposure could increase the risk of death from COVID-19. …”
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Micro-computed tomographic analysis of the morphology of maxillary canines by Thomas Gerhard Wolf, Theodora Rempapi, Niccolò Giuseppe Armogida, Gianrico Spagnuolo, Andrea Lisa Waber

“…Results: The most frequently observed RCCs of the MxC of the Swiss-German population were 1-1-1/1 (77.3%), followed by 1-1-1/2 (14.4%), 1-1-2/2 (4.1%), and finally 1-1-1/3 and 1-2-1/1 with 2.1% each. One physiological foramen was observed in 79.4% of the samples, two in 18.6%, and only 2.1% had three foramina. …”
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Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis of Hybrid Renewable Energy System By Using Particle Optimization Technique for the Rural Border Areas in Iraq : Case Study by Husam Salim, Jabbar Rashed

“…In addition, the results show that the algorithm efficiently and effectively found ideal solutions to lower total costs. Finally, it was determined that HES was a suitable way to fulfill the electrical demands of rural, outlying areas in Iraq and other developing countries with comparable temperatures.…”
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Anti-IL-22 Antibody Attenuates Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease via Increasing Foxp3+ T Cell through Modulation of CD11b+ Cell Function by Jianbo Wu, Jian Gu, Shun Zhou, Hao Lu, Yunjie Lu, Ling Lu, Xuehao Wang

“…In vitro Treg induction was more efficient when CD4+CD25− T cells differentiated in the presence of CD11b+ cells obtained from IL-22Ab-treated GVHD mice, compared with cocultured untreated control cells. Finally, IL-22Ab modulated the expression of cytokines and costimulatory molecules in CD11b+ cells in aGVHD mice. …”
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Prediction model, risk factor score and ventilator-associated pneumonia: A two-stage case-control study by Hua Meng, Yuxin Shi, Kaming Xue, Di Liu, Xiongjing Cao, Yanyan Wu, Yunzhou Fan, Fang Gao, Ming Zhu, Lijuan Xiong

“…We constructed a prediction model by least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), random forest (RF), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) models in 363 patients and 363 controls, and weighted RFS was calculated based on significant predictors. Finally, the diagnostic performance of the RFS was testified and further validated in another 177 pairs of VAP case-control study. …”
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STUDY ON INTERFERENCE INSTALLATION OF HYDRAULIC KEYLESS SLEEVE COUPLING FOR A SHIP’S TAIL SHAFT by ZHANG QingJu, WANG DeLun, ZHANG YuNing, WANG LiHua

“…Then,considered the interference loss caused by surface roughness,selected the design values of interference and axial displacement within the allowable range of the code. Finally,studied the technical of the interference fit of the coupling. …”
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Rapid Determination of 26 Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Milk Power and Liquid Milk by Solid Phase Extraction Combined with Ultra-high Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spe... by CHEN Yankai

“…The samples were extracted with 5% trichloroacetic acid solution, cleaned up on a polymer cation exchange-solid phase extraction (PCX-SPE) column, separated on an ACQUITY HSS T3 column with gradient elution using a mobile phase consisting of methanol and 0.1% formic acid in water, detected using an electrospray ionization (ESI) in the positive ion mode with multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), and finally quantified by the external standard method. …”
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Use of Graph Database for the Integration of Heterogeneous Biological Data by Byoung-Ha Yoon, Seon-Kyu Kim, Seon-Young Kim

“…We collected various biological data (protein-protein interaction, drug-target, gene-disease, etc.) from several existing sources, removed duplicate and redundant data, and finally constructed a graph database containing 114,550 nodes and 82,674,321 relationships. …”
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Application of various methods in design for control of bed erosion and river modification aiding numerical simulation by Aref Kohzadi, Kamran Mohammadi, Afshin Eghbalzadeh

“…Then, the areas of the river bed that are subject to erosion were investigated using methods of critical shear stress, RBS index and critical unit discharge. Finally, stabilization structures for erosion control of the river bed were designed to modify the areas exposed to erosion. …”
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Regulation of ofloxacin resistance in Escherichia coli strains causing calf diarrhea by quorum-sensing acyl-homoserine lactone signaling molecules by Zi Wang, Zi Wang, Zi Wang, Miao Sun, Yongqiang Wang, Yongqiang Wang, Jinchuan Shi, Wei Gao, Dongxu Han, Fanjun Zeng, Sanren, Liyin Du, Liyin Du, Hongxia Ma, Kai Liu, Kai Liu, Kai Liu

“…There were 125 differentially expressed genes between bacteria treated with a sub-inhibitory concentration of OFX and those treated with C8, of which 102 were up-regulated and 23 were down. Finally, It found that to adding the C8 significantly increased the resistance of tested bacteria to OFX. …”
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Damage constitutive model and mechanical properties of a concrete limestone composite after acid corrosion by Jie Wang, Bin Du, Mingxuan Shen, Yukun Li, Shisong Yuan

“…Furthermore, with increasing confining pressure, the peak and residual strengths of the composite significantly improved; the residual strength increased from 8.2 MPa to 86.93 MPa as the confining pressure increased from 0 to 10 MPa. Finally, by introducing a damage constitutive model corrected for postpeak residual strength, the stress‒strain full-process curves of CLCs under different degrees of acidic corrosion were more accurately simulated. …”
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