Osmanlı Devleti’nde Frengi İle Mücadeleye Adanmış Kısa Bir Ömür: Hüdavendigar Vilayeti Seyyar Frengi Tabibi Nuri Ömer Efendi by Mehmet GÜNEŞ

“…Syphilis which started to be seen as an epidemic especially in Kastamonu province and in Central Black Sea Region, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia and the Balkans beginning from the second half of the 19th century became an important problem for the Ottoman State from the end of the century and maintained its influence also in the 20th century despite the precautions taken. …”
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Effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on background noise levels in Italian strong motion network by Deniz Ertuncay, Deniz Ertuncay, Simone Francesco Fornasari , Giovanni Costa 

“…Italy has been majorly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The government declared a full lockdown and limited human and commercial activities to keep the pandemic under control. …”
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One-dimensional QCD at finite density and its ’t Hooft-Veneziano limit by O. Borisenko, V. Chelnokov, S. Voloshyn, P. Yefanov

“…In the case of N f degenerate flavors we also calculate 1) the large N limit, 2) the large N f limit and 3) the ’t Hooft-Veneziano limit of all models. The critical behavior of the models in these limits is studied and the phase structure is described in details. …”
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Systemic Poverty Modelling: Case of Central Asia by F. I. Arzhaev, V. Y. Andriukhin, D. V. Saprynskaya

“…The politization of the problem and the motivation of political actors to harness the issue of poverty result in significant restrictions for objective assessment of the situation. Central Asia has been facing the problem of poverty for a long time, but this issue remains unresolved. …”
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Stability Analysis of Impulsive Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Cellular Neural Network with Distributed Delay via Fixed Point Theory by Ruofeng Rao, Shouming Zhong

“…However, the difficulties have been overcome by constructing a new contraction mapping and an appropriate distance on a product space which is guaranteed to be a complete space. …”
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Studi Fenomenologi: Pengalaman Interaksi Sosial Lansia Dengan Sesama Lansia Dan Pengasuh Di Panti Sosial Tresna Werdha ‘Sabai Nan Aluih’ Sicincin Kabupaten Padang Pariaman Tahun 20... by Debby Sinthania, Emil Huriani, Gusti Sumarsih

“…The study found five themes: cooperation in maintaining the cleanliness of the guest house and helping a friend who is ill, elderly efforts to establish communication with peers, causes of conflict among the elderly, types of caregiver services rendered, and the attitude and behavior of caregivers in the interaction. It is suggested that caregivers provide more intensive and proactive social assistance, be more flexible, and actively participate in every nursing activity. …”
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« Pas de retour à nos maisons sans satisfaction de nos revendications ». Le Hirak du Rif en actes face au Makhzen by Ahmed Chapi

“…However, the protests continue in the following weeks, through night-time rallies in the neighborhoods, pot-banging and marches (some of which on the beaches), thanks to activists embedded in the movement's mobilization networks who have not (yet) been detained. …”
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Systemic Heparinisation in Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy by Charlotte Crotty, Yasmin Tabbakh, Sarah A. Hosgood, Michael L. Nicholson

“…A retrospective analysis was performed on 186 consecutive LDN patients between April 2008 and November 2012. Systemic heparin (2000–3000 IU) was administered intravenously to donors (hep n=109). …”
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Epidemiology and risk factors of diabetic retinopathy in upper Egypt: a 3-year prospective study by Hassan S. Yousef, Mohamed E. Ahmed, Esam A. G. Abu El Wafa, Mohamed A. K. Salih

“…All cases were subjected to full history taking, ophthalmological examination, and dilated fundus examination for evidence of DR, and besides, the associated systemic complications were assessed. …”
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A comparative study of machine learning algorithms for fall detection in technology-based healthcare system: Analyzing SVM, KNN, decision tree, random forest, LSTM, and CNN by Afuan Lasmedi, Isnanto R. Rizal

“…The results show that CNN and LSTM deliver the best performance with accuracies of 94% and 92%, while Random Forest offers a good balance between accuracy and processing time. …”
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Guidelines for Identification and Management of Plant Disease Problems: Part III. Managing Plant Diseases by Aaron Palmateer, Ken Pernezny, Monica Elliott, Nikol Havranek

“…PP248/MG441- PP251/MG444, a 4-part series by Aaron Palmateer, Ken Pernezny, Monica Elliott, and Nikol Havranek, are new additions to the Master Gardener Handbook. They provide beginning Master Gardener volunteers with methods for taking a systematic approach to diagnosis of plant disease problems. …”
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Gender-Related Effects of Sex Steroids on Histamine Release and FcεRI Expression in Rat Peritoneal Mast Cells by Samira Muñoz-Cruz, Yolanda Mendoza-Rodríguez, Karen E. Nava-Castro, Lilián Yepez-Mulia, Jorge Morales-Montor

“…Sex steroids, mainly estradiol and progesterone, have been demonstrated to elicit MCs activation. Most published studies have been conducted on MCs lines or freshly isolated peritoneal and bone marrow-derived MC without addressing gender impact on MC response. …”
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Suppressed Programmed Death 1 Expression on CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells in Psoriatic Patients by Joanna Bartosińska, Ewelina Zakrzewska, Dorota Raczkiewicz, Joanna Purkot, Anna Michalak-Stoma, Małgorzata Kowal, Dorota Krasowska, Grażyna Chodorowska, Krzysztof Giannopoulos

“…No significant correlations were found between the absolute numbers and percentages of CD4+PD-1+ or CD8+PD-1+ T cells and clinical characteristics of psoriasis. …”
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Photoirradiation Caused Controllable Wettability Switching of Sputtered Highly Aligned c-Axis-Oriented Zinc Oxide Columnar Films by P. W. Chi, C. W. Su, B. H. Jhuo, D. H. Wei

“…According to water contact angle (CA) measurement, ZnO columnar films exhibit hydrophobic behavior. After exposing to photoirradiation under ultraviolet (UV) environment, all the ZnO samples showed remarkable transition from hydrophobic to superhydrophilic surfaces and could return to their original hydrophobicity after being placed in the dark. …”
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Scenario-Based Risk Assessment for Düzce Province by Zeynep Mıhçı, Hüseyin Bayraktar

“…These areas are briefly defined and some benefits from their restructuring as viewed within this framework are presented. …”
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Effectiveness of Nigerian Bamboo Activated with Different Activating Agents on the Adsorption of BTX by FT Ademiluyi, O Braide

“…The activated carbon from bamboo with the best concentration was also found to adsorb BTX favourably and better than a commercial activated carbon with same particle size. …”
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Yellow Nail Syndrome with Bilateral Pleural Plaques and Diffuse Pleural Thickening: A Mimic of Asbestos Related Disease by Adam Dallmann, Richard L. Attanoos

“…Electron microscopic mineral fibre analysis detected no asbestos fibres. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only case of yellow nail syndrome in which these benign pleural changes are reported ex asbestos. …”
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Dose-Dependent Differential Effect of Neurotrophic Factors on In Vitro and In Vivo Regeneration of Motor and Sensory Neurons by Daniel Santos, Francisco Gonzalez-Perez, Xavier Navarro, Jaume del Valle

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Treatment of hospital wastewater by anodic oxidation using a new approach made by combining rotation with pulsed electric current on Cu-SnO2–Sb2O5 rotating cylinder anode by Falah H. Abd, Ali H. Abbar

“…The results showed that using higher rotation speed combined with pulsed current gave better properties of Cu-SnO2–Sb2O5 anode in terms of higher oxidation activity and longer service life time. …”
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Ephedra extract-mediated gold nanoparticles on Kaolin: A natural approach for reduction and stabilization, with evaluation of antioxidant and anti-ovarian cancer activities by Hui Yang, Cui Wang, Qingjiang Wang, Feng Han

“…A straightforward, efficient, and environmentally friendly method has been developed to synthesize gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) supported on kaolin with no harmful additives, ephedra flower extract acts as a biogenic stabilizing and reducing agent. …”
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