Foliar image-based characterization of airborne particulate matter in an urban area and its implications for remediation by Ankesh Tiwari, Triratnesh Gajbhiye, Mohineeta Pandey, Kajal Agrawal, Shuvadarshini Naik, Shubhrasmita Meher, Dinesh Patel, Rashmi Dubey, Tanzil Gaffar Malik, Mohammed Zari, Ali Zari, Khalid M Alghamdi, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Sudhir Kumar Pandey

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Urinary Incontinence: Its Assessment and Relationship to Depression among Community-Dwelling Multiethnic Older Women by Luciana Laganà, David William Bloom, Andrew Ainsworth

“…In the present study, we determined the prevalence of UI among 140 community-dwelling, ethnically diverse older women (28.2%), discovered that our new UI screener is reliable, and did not find the UI-depression link to be significant. …”
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Generalized Scaling of Urban Heat Island Effect and Its Applications for Energy Consumption and Renewable Energy by T.-W. Lee, Heung S. Choi, Jinoh Lee

“…In addition, all urbanized surfaces are expected to exhibit this scaling, so that increase in the surface temperature in large energy-consumption or energy-producing facilities (e.g., solar electric or thermal power plants) can be estimated.…”
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A Y-chromosome portrait of the population of Jerba (Tunisia) to elucidate its complex demographic history by Franz Manni, Pascal Leonardi, Étienne Patin, Alain Berrebi, Houssein Khodjet el Khil, Karl Skorecki, Dror Rosengarten, Hassan Rouba, Evelyne Heyer, Marc Fellous

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A novel minimal exposure path problem in wireless sensor networks and its solution algorithm by Hao Feng, Lei Luo, Yong Wang, Miao Ye, Rongsheng Dong

“…The original minimal exposure path problem in wireless sensor networks did not consider path constraint conditions. To consider the actual demand, this article proposes a minimal exposure path problem that requires the passage of the path through the boundary of a certain region. …”
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The Efficacy of Jing Wan Hong Ointment for Nerve Injury Diabetic Foot Ulcer and Its Mechanisms by Shumei Jin, Mixia Zhang, Yan Gao, Xuebin Zhang, Guangzhi Cui, Yanjun Zhang

“…Moreover, the mechanisms of this effect seem to be dependent on increased expression of PDGF mRNA, but there was no influence on the expression of TGF-β, VEGF, and FLT-1 mRNA.…”
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Vulnerability of Parkinson’s Patients to COVID-19 and Its Consequences and Effects on Them: A Systematic Review by Sorayya Rezayi, Meysam Rahmani Katigari, Leila Shahmoradi, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi

“…The PD duration in patients ranged from 3.26 to 13.40 years (IQR1: 5.7 yrs., median: 3.688 yrs., and IQR3: 8.815 yrs.). …”
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A Volume Comparison Estimate with Radially Symmetric Ricci Curvature Lower Bound and Its Applications by Zisheng Hu, Yadong Jin, Senlin Xu

“…We extend the classical Bishop-Gromov volume comparison from constant Ricci curvature lower bound to radially symmetric Ricci curvature lower bound, and apply it to investigate the volume growth, total Betti number, and finite topological type of manifolds with nonasymptotically almost nonnegative Ricci curvature.…”
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Tissue Factor Expression in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Subjects and Its Regulation by Antidiabetic Agents by Jing Wang, Theodore P. Ciaraldi, Fahumiya Samad

“…We sought to compare TF expression in plasma and adipose tissues of obese subjects with and without T2D, its correlation with metabolic parameters, and regulation in response to antidiabetic drugs. …”
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Surface Level Ozone and its Adverse Effects on Crops and Forests: A Need for an Interdisciplinary Understanding by Sagar V. Krupa

“…Surface level ozone (O3) is clearly a global scale problem with regard to its adverse effects on crops, forests and native, terrestrial plant ecosystems. …”
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Mathematical modelling-based blockchain with attention deep learning model for cybersecurity in IoT-consumer electronics by Hayam Alamro, Mohammed Maray, Jawhara Aljabri, Saad Alahmari, Monir Abdullah, Jehad Saad Alqurni, Faiz Abdullah Alotaibi, Abdelmoneim Ali Mohamed

“…The performance validation of the MGOADL-CS method portrayed a superior accuracy value of 99.71 % over existing approaches.…”
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Water Absorption Behaviour and Its Effect on the Mechanical Properties of Flax Fibre Reinforced Bioepoxy Composites by E. Muñoz, J. A. García-Manrique

“…This paper focuses on eco-friendly and sustainable green composites manufacturing using resin transfer moulding (RTM) process. Flax fibre reinforced bioepoxy composites at different weight fractions (40 and 55 wt%) were prepared in order to study the effect of water absorption on their mechanical properties. …”
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GPTOR: Gridded GA and PSO-based task offloading and ordering in IoT-edge-cloud computing by Arezou Mahmoudi, Leili Farzinvash, Javid Taheri

“…The simulation results illustrate that our algorithm outperforms previous schemes by 41.07%, 26.25%, and 28.33% in terms of average delay, monetary cost, and energy consumption, respectively.…”
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A Globally Convergent Matrix-Free Method for Constrained Equations and Its Linear Convergence Rate by Min Sun, Jing Liu

“…Compared with the existing gradient methods for solving such problem, the new method possesses linear convergence rate under standard conditions, and a relax factor γ is attached in the update step to accelerate convergence. …”
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Potential Strategies Applied by <i>Metschnikowia bicuspidata</i> to Survive the Immunity of Its Crustacean Hosts by Ji Zhang, Bingyu Li, Bingnan Zuo, Xiaodong Li

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A Current Review of the Meniscus Imaging: Proposition of a Useful Tool for Its Radiologic Analysis by Nicolas Lefevre, Jean Francois Naouri, Serge Herman, Antoine Gerometta, Shahnaz Klouche, Yoann Bohu

“…Ultrasound is rarely used as a diagnostic tool for meniscal pathologies and its accuracy is operator-dependent. …”
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A SEIR Epidemic Model of Whooping Cough-Like Infections and Its Dynamically Consistent Approximation by M.M. Alqarni, Arooj Nasir, Maryam Ahmed Alyami, Ali Raza, Jan Awrejcewicz, Muhammad Rafiq, Nauman Ahmed, Tahira Sumbal Shaikh, Emad E. Mahmoud

“…Most of the Asian and African states are infected regions. Through the study, we investigated the whole population into the four classes susceptible (S), exposed (E), infected (I), and vaccinated or recovered (R). …”
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Synthesis of MgFe2O4 Nanoparticles and its Application for Photodegradation of Methylene Blue by Dede Sukandar, Adawiah Adawiah, Saeful Rohman, Shella Fitria, Nanda Saridewi, Salman Farishi, Nurhasni Nurhasni, Isalmi Aziz, Yulyani Nur Azizah

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Leptin Modifies the Rat Heart Performance Associated with Mitochondrial Dysfunction Independently of Its Prohypertrophic Effects by Edna Berzabá-Evoli, Cecilia Zazueta, Jarumi Hishel Cruz Hernández, Nancy Patricia Gómez-Crisóstomo, Isela Esther Juárez-Rojop, Erick Natividad De la Cruz-Hernández, Eduardo Martínez-Abundis

“…Methods. Rat hearts were perfused continuously with or without 3.1 nM leptin for 1, 2, 3, or 4 hours. …”
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SPECIES DIVERSITY OF THE VIR COLLECTION OF GRAIN LEGUME GENETIC RESOURCES AND ITS USE IN DOMESTIC BREEDING by M. A. Vishnyakova, T. G. Aleksandrova, T. V. Buravtseva, M. O. Burlyaeva, G. P. Egorova, E. V. Semenova, I. V. Seferova, G. N. Suvorova

“…Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции…”
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