Participatory and Conventional Investigation of Tick Infestation in Camels and Cattle of Somali Pastoral Areas, Eastern Ethiopia by Mohamoud Mohamed Jama, Hassan Abdi Hussein, Shaban Mohamed Abdi, Teka Feyera

“…Consequently, participatory appraisal indicated that ticks were important and prevalent ectoparasites in the study area. Finally, strategic tick control appropriate for specific management and production environments should be implemented biannually in wet seasons.…”
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Photocatalytic upcycling of polylactic acid to alanine by sulfur vacancy-rich cadmium sulfide by Yue Wu, Phuc T. T. Nguyen, Sie Shing Wong, Minjun Feng, Peijie Han, Bingqing Yao, Qian He, Tze Chien Sum, Tianyong Zhang, Ning Yan

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Numerical Evaluation of the Opening Effects on the Reinforced Concrete Slab Structural Performance by Meysam Aminitabar, Omar Kanaani, Amir Reza Eskenati

“…Then, the behavior of bilaterally concrete slabs under different loads was investigated and used as a reference. Finally, the effect of openings under different loads on the strength of concrete slabs was studied. …”
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Biodiversity conservation and threat reduction in Kibale and Queen Elizabeth conservation areas, Uganda by Joseph Katswera, Norah M. Mutekanga, Charles K.Twesigye

“…The agency should also strengthen adaptive management, law enforcement, and collaboration with local communities and other stakeholders to reduce on the threats. Finally, further research should focus on ecosystem health, and also the impact of tourism infrastructural development on biodiversity conservation.   …”
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The Impact and Correlation of Anxiety and Depression on Pressure Pain Threshold of Acupoints in Patients with Chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease by Chenxi Liao, Yu Tan, Kai Wang, Xin Wen, Xiang Hu, Yefang Huang, Ying Li

“…The CPID patients were divided into anxiety-depression group (group A) or nonanxiety-depression group (group B), according to the SAS and SDS scores. Finally, there were 73 patients in group A and 74 patients in group B. …”
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Keratin/chitosan film promotes wound healing in rats with combined radiation-wound injury by Yu-mei Wang, Tong Xin, Hao Deng, Jie Chen, Shen-lin Tang, Li-sheng Liu, Xiao-liang Chen

“…A rat model of combined radiation-wound injury was employed to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of the KRT/CS film. Finally, the systemic biotoxicity of KRT/CS film was assessed through histological analysis. …”
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MicroRNA-155 Participates in the Expression of LSD1 and Proinflammatory Cytokines in Rheumatoid Synovial Cells by Ziliang Yu, Hao Liu, Jianbo Fan, Feihu Chen, Wei Liu

“…Moreover, RT-qPCR was used to explore the relative LSD1 miRNA expression in FLS when stimulated by miRNA-155 molecules, and Western blot and immunofluorescence assay were applied to probe into the expression level of LSD1. Finally, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was employed to analyze the secreting level of proinflammatory cytokines in FLS when stimulated by miRNA-155 molecules. …”
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Presenting a robust optimization model for the design of the green loop supply chain network in the power plant by taking into account the disruption in the supply chain by Javad Mohammadghasemi, Seyyed Esmaeil Najafi, Mohammad Fallah, Mohammad Reza Nabatchian

“…Additionally, the analysis of the results shows that with an increase in the network's uncertainty rate, the network's current net value and reliability decrease, and greenhouse gas emissions increase. Finally, the statistical test results also show that there was no significant difference between the averages of the number of practical solutions, the maximum spread, and the metric distance between the two algorithms, and only a significant difference exists between the solution times of the two algorithms. …”
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A Synchronized Hybrid Brain-Computer Interface System for Simultaneous Detection and Classification of Fusion EEG Signals by Dalin Yang, Trung-Hau Nguyen, Wan-Young Chung

“…Furthermore, a four-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) is used as a classifier to distinguish different mental tasks. Finally, the hybrid MI + SSVEP system with a simple structure achieves a high accuracy of 95.56%. …”
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Laboratory information systems for research management in biology by A. M. Mukhin, F. V. Kazantsev, S. A. Lashin

“…Before using any tools, it is important to understand the purpose of implementation, to define the set of tasks they should solve, and, based on this, to formulate requirements and finally to monitor the application of recommendations in the field. …”
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Development and Psychometric Assessment of the Parents\' Needs of Hospitalized Children Questionnaire by Nafiseh Zarei, Reza Negarandeh, Jamalodin Begjani, Elham Ghasemi, Mahboube Moradi

“…One factor that only included two items was removed, and finally, the extracted factors included "communication-based on respect," "comfort, "trust," "acquiring information," and "needs of family members" (all with four items). …”
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Study on Cooling Effect and Pavement Performance of Thermal-Resistant Asphalt Mixture by Jiarong Wang, Zhengqi Zhang, Datong Guo, Cheng Xu, Ke Zhang

“…Secondly, the illumination test system was designed to study the visual cooling effect of different TRAM by imitating the natural environment. Finally, the effect of different thermal-resistant materials on asphalt pavement performance was evaluated. …”
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A fulminant case of JC virus encephalopathy supporting a novel syndrome associated with JC virus infection of cortical neurons by Matteo Ciocca, Marta Pirovano, Monica Lodi, Antonino Romeo, Vincenza Fetoni

“…A second MRI imaging showed a more prominent non-enhancing grey and white matter involvement, compatible with PML. Finally, CSF- PCR for JCV was performed and resulted positive. …”
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Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Exert In Vitro Immunomodulatory and Beta Cell Protective Functions in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Mice Model by Hossein Rahavi, Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi, Masoud Soleimani, Jamal Mohammadi, Nader Tajik

“…Decreased production of proinflammatory cytokines, such as IFN-γ, IL-2, and IL-17, and increased secretion of regulatory cytokines such as TGF-β, IL-4, IL-10, and IL-13 by stimulated splenocytes were also shown in response to islet lysate or PHA stimulants (P<0.05). Finally, we demonstrated that AT-MSCs could effectively sustain viability as well as insulin secretion potential of pancreatic islets in the presence of reactive splenocytes (P<0.05). …”
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Numerical Simulation of CAARC Standard High-Rise Building Model Based on MRT-LBM Large Eddy Simulation by Rui Zhao, Zehua Feng, Danhui Dan, Yuhang Wu, Xianduo Li

“…Three LBM large eddy simulation models, MRT-LBM-WALE, MRT-LBM-DSM, and MRT-LBM-SM, which can simulate the flow around a bluff body with high Rayleigh number, are constructed by using the subgrid eddy viscosity to modify the kinematic viscosity of LBM. Finally, the three turbulence models are used to simulate and analyze the three-dimensional steady wind flow field of a single high-rise building of the standard CAARC high-rise building model in the atmospheric boundary layer, and the numerical results are analyzed and compared with the wind tunnel test results. …”
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Asymptomatic Plasmodium Parasites among Adults in Eastern Uganda: A Case of Donor Blood Screening at Mbale Regional Blood Bank by Simon Peter Inyimai, Mosses Ocan, Benjamin Wabwire, Peter Olupot-Olupot

“…The results by each microscopist’s examination were tallied separately, and finally, the two tallies were compared. The third independent microscopist (MC3) was blinded to the results from MC1 and MC2, but whose role was to perform quality control on the slides randomly sampled and read 38 (10%) of all the slides and was available to examine any slides with inconsistent findings by MC1 or MC2. …”
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A COMPETÊNCIA ARTÍSTICA DE PROFESSORES DE ARTES VISUAIS: ESTUDO DE CASO EM PONTA GROSSA (PARANÁ) by CAMILA BOURGUIGNON DE LIMA, ADRIANE KNOBLAUCH

“…Pretende-se refletir, sobretudo, como a apropriação artística dos professores configura a docência em arte no ensino fundamental anos finais. À maneira de Bourdieu, parte-se do pressuposto que a competência artística de professores resulta da combinação entre trajetória social, formação acadêmica e socialização profissional. …”
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A Traffic Management System by Identifying Pollution Hotspots Among Sensitive Points in a Smart City by Pratik Dutta, Soumyadeep Sur, Sankhayan Choudhury, Sunirmal Khatua

“…., the alarming points where the pollution measure is supposed to be higher than the pre-defined threshold. Finally, the rerouting is executed on the affected road segments to maintain the desired level of pollution measured at the hot spots. …”
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Energy Dissipation and Damage Evolution Characteristics of Shale under Triaxial Cyclic Loading and Unloading by Ziyun Li, Song Xie, Qianghui Song, Peiyong Wang, Dongyan Liu, Baoyun Zhao, Wei Huang

“…Meanwhile, the plastic strain of rock under cyclic loading increases rapidly first, then develops steadily, and finally increases sharply with the increase in axial strain. …”
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Papaverine Enhances the Oncolytic Effects of Newcastle Disease Virus on Breast Cancer In Vitro and In Vivo by Sura Akram, Ahmed Majeed Al-Shammari, Hayder B. Sahib, Majid Sakhi Jabir

“…Evaluation of the antitumor activity included growth inhibition measurement; the immunohistochemistry assay measured caspase protein expression. Finally, a semiquantitative microarray assay was used to screen changes in apoptotic proteins. …”
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