Wetlands as a Tool for Water Treatment by Jay Capasso, Lisa Krimsky, Jehangir Bhadha

“… Wetlands are often referred to as "nature's kidneys" because of their ability to remove pollutants from water via storage in the soil and vegetation, as well as through losses to the atmosphere. …”
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Clinical results of autologous fat transfer for basal thumb arthritis with a minimum of three years’ follow-up by Elisabeth M. Haas-Lützenberger, Iana Emelianova, Moritz C. Bader, Sinan Mert, Nicholas Moellhoff, Wolfram Demmer, Ursula Berger, Riccardo Giunta

“…Therefore, this minimally invasive approach can offer a valuable treatment alternative for basal thumb OA.…”
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Identification of Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii from Raman spectra by Artificial Intelligen... by Yu-Tzu Lin, Hsiu-Hsien Lin, Chih-Hao Chen, Kun-Hao Tseng, Pang-Chien Hsu, Ya-Lun Wu, Wei-Cheng Chang, Nai-Shun Liao, Yi-Fan Chou, Chun-Yi Hsu, Yu-Hui Liao, Mao-Wang Ho, Shih-Sheng Chang, Po-Ren Hsueh, Der-Yang Cho

“…The Raman spectroscopy, due to its relatively cost-effectiveness, offers a promising alternative for bacterial identification. …”
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German Policy Towards Muslim Communities by L. R. Sadykova

“…The majority of Muslims live their life and are still torn off from high life of the country. A possible threat of destruction of the German community appeared when the various ethnic groups appeared in the country.…”
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Intraoperative Hyperspectral Imaging Predicts Early Allograft Dysfunction and Overall Survival in Liver Transplantation by Andri Lederer, MD, Antonia Alina Geisler, MD, Robert Sucher, MD, Daniel Seehofer, MD, Hans-Michael Hau, MD, Uwe Scheuermann, PD, Sebastian Rademacher, MD

“…HSI is a promising, noninvasive tool, offering real-time, detailed graft perfusion assessment during LT. …”
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Patient–specific hemodynamic modeling to optimize LVAD speed and right heart health by Mustafa M. Ahmed, Holly Grant, Jasmine Martinez, Joshua Thomas, Mohammad Al-Ani, Alex Parker, Juan Vilaro, Juan Aranda, Venkat Keshav Chivukula

“…Right heart catheterization (RHC)–guided speed titration studies are often performed to optimize LVAD settings, which are unknown and must be optimized for each patient. …”
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Observation-based temperature and freshwater noise over the Atlantic Ocean by A. A. Boot, H. A. Dijkstra, H. A. Dijkstra

“…., noise, can influence long-term ocean variability and might even affect the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). Often this noise is assumed to be Gaussian, but detailed analyses of its statistics appear to be lacking. …”
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Preparation and characterization of new silica-based heterofunctional biocatalysts utilizing low-cost lipase Eversa® Transform 2.0 and evaluation of their catalytic performance in... by Wagner C. A. Carvalho, Rayane A. S. Freitas, Milson S. Barbosa, Ariela V. Paula, Ernandes B. Pereira, Adriano A. Mendes, Elton Franceschi, Cleide M. F. Soares

“…Moreover, it obtained a productivity around 4.45 times that of free ET2.0 lipase, maintaining its original activity until the fourth cycle. This work offers the opportunity to understand and synthesize new biocatalysts with a low-cost genetically modified lipase using a renewable raw material, opening new possibilities to fill gaps that still exist in the use of lipases for biolubricant production.…”
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Non-governmental higher educational establish-ments of Russia: modern state, tendencies and perspectives by Vladimir A. Zernov

“…The topical problems of non-governmental HEIs are analyzed, the main ways to solve them are offered, and the perspectives of their development are outlined.…”
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I (Don’t) See You: Absence, Omissions, and Spectrality in the Works of Ishtiyaq Shukri by Iqra Raza

“…Conceptualising spectrality as the dominant mode of writing for post-9/11 novels, the paper engages with Derrida’s work on deferred mourning in relation to spectres, offering a new paradigm for an understanding of the post-9/11 Muslim experience. …”
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Exploring expressed concerns and uncanny feeling in patients with shortness of breath calling out-of-hours primary care by Michelle Spek, Dorien L. Zwart, Esther de Groot, Michelle R. Timmerman, Maarten van Smeden, Daphne C. A. Erkelens, Anna S. M. Dobbe, Mathé Delissen, Frans H. Rutten, Roderick P. Venekamp

“…Abstract Background Patients contacting out-of-hours primary care (OHS-PC) with shortness of breath (SOB) are often concerned. Sometimes, they also have an uncanny feeling; existential anxiety that something is wrong in their body. …”
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De quelles indignations parle-t-on ? by Leïla Tazir

“…I led the survey about the 15 M' historical roots, mainly in Cordoba, where its metamorphosis are plural and overlaps trajectories, memories, and spaces outside and inside the institutions.' Often related to the « civilizational crisis, » the 15-M revealed a big issue: the democratic deficit that some collectives try to fill in.…”
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L’empire des institutions(et leurs crises) by Frédéric Lordon

“…A spinozist view in social sciences is especially well geared to answer that kind of question insofar as it offers concepts to think efficacy – understood as the production of effects. …”
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Age-Dependent Constraints of Sex Allocation in a Parasitoid Wasp by Takatoshi Ueno

“…The offspring sex ratios of parasitoid wasps often depend on the age of ovipositing females. …”
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Música, tecnología y hegemonía: César Bolaños y las transgresiones de la música popular by Luis Alberto Alvarado Manrique

“… El siguiente texto aborda algunas ideas del compositor César Bolaños, vertidas en una entrevista y un artículo de mediados de los 70 y principios de los 80, respectivamente, que ofrecen algunas claves para entender la oposición de Bolaños a un modelo hegemónico del uso de la tecnología en la creación musical. …”
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ANALYSIS OF SHRINKAGE PERFORMANCE OF U-SHAPED RUBBER OUTER WINDSHIELD OF HIGH-SPEED TRAIN AT LOW TEMPERATURE by GU Cheng, XU Lei, YU Chengtao, WANG Jiazheng

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Design and Test of a Cone Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Driving Hopping Robot by Yunguang Luan, Huaming Wang, Ling Zhou, Haichao Song

“…Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are increasingly recognized for their potential in robotic applications due to their ability to undergo significant deformation when subjected to an electric field. However, they are often limited by their low output power, which can make their integration into dynamic systems like hopping robots particularly challenging. …”
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Urban Island Modeling for Semi-Arid Cities: The Case of the City of Oujda by Djebbour Mounir, Sbai Abdelkader

“…There is often a difference between the surface temperature and the various types of land use within cities, where it rises in built-up areas and barren lands and decreases in areas with vegetation cover and dense afforestation. …”
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A Vibration Signal-Based Active Noise Control Method for Liquid-Filled Pipelines by Yunhao Wang, Qichao Liu, Wenjing Yu, Guo Cheng

“…In this paper, we propose an active noise control method utilizing signals acquired by accelerometers, which adopts offline modeling of the secondary path and the notch narrowband FxLMS algorithm for controlling the secondary source actuation. …”
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Palatal assibilation before [w]? The case of Armenian, Saka, and Luwian by Hans Henrich Hock

“…I show that the developments in Saka and Armenican can be accounted for in terms of a crosslinguistic tendency for the high-vocalic labiovelar glide w, whether full segment w or nonsegmental offglide w, to assimilate to a following y or front vowel by becoming labiopalatal segmental ɥ or offglide ɥ, which following a common trend is unrounded to y or y and then palatalizes and assibilates the preceding stop. …”
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