White matter hyperintensities, inflammation and cognitive impairments in drug-naïve first episode schizophrenia patients: a cross-sectional study by Yan Zhang, Xiuxia Yuan, Yu Zhang, Yishao Chen, Keju Su, Kangkang Xue, Suying Ding, Jingfeng Chen, Xiaoduo Fan, Xueqin Song

“…The present study was to examine the relationship between WMHs, immune function, and cognitive impairments in patients with schizophrenia (SCH) remains unknown. Methods A sample of 127 drug-naïve first episode SCH and 72 healthy controls (HCs) were included in this study. …”
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Assessment of Prevalence and Risk Factors for Intestinal Parasitosis, Malnutrition, and Anemia among School Children in Ghindae Area, Eritrea by Yafet Kesete, Huruy Tesfahiwet, Ghimja Fessehaye, Yohana Kidane, Yafet Tekle, Asmerom Yacob, Biemnet Seltene

“…Protozoan infections (38.2%) were more prevalent than soil-transmitted helminthic infections (10.4%). …”
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Adult education and training for the development of problem-solving skills by I. A. Korshunov, S. V. Lubnikov, N. N. Shirkova

“…Materials and methods. The study was based on theoretical methods of literature analysis, which made it possible to describe the categorical field and to systematize existing scientific approaches. …”
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Influence of anthropogenic waste of different genesis on properties of fine-grained concrete by A. V. Iavinskii

“…The calculation of specific consumption of cement per unit strength showed that the use of the proposed compositions is more cost-effective than the control ashless sample up to 30%. …”
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MECHANICS OF CONTACT INTERACTION BETWEEN PROPELLER SHAFT AND STERN BEARING UNDER THE TRANSVERSE VIBRATIONS by G. A. Kushner, V. A. Mamontov, A. A. Khalyavkin

“…The proposed method for determining the stiffness coefficient of the stern bearing, taking into account its dimensions, allows the system's stiffness characteristic to be determined more accurately, and can be used in the design calculations of the ship's shaft. …”
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THE RESULTS OF COMPUTER MORPHOMETRY USED IN ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA by Yu. Yu. Tabakman, I. B. Manukhin, A. G. Solopova, A. A. Kanibolotsky, A. Kh. Bishtavi, O. A. Gornykh, V. V. Samoylenko, V. N. Gulieva, Kh. T. Gogoladze, N. G. Chikovani

“…Material: 36 patients, including 12 patients with SEH, 11 patients with CEH, 7 patients with AEH and 5 patients with EC. Method of ImaScopeColor morphometric programme. Conclusion: morphometric changes that occur in case of endometrial hyperplasia expressed in quantitative terms are more varied than their schematic definition in modern classification which in its turn may be the cause of the discrepanies in diagnoses.…”
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Development of antigen-capture ELISA using monoclonal antibodies for the detection of brucellae in milk by sevil gürbilek, oktay keskin, osman tel

“…To study the validity of the developed Ag-cELISA, milk samples collected from Brucella-positive goats (n=120) and cattle (n= 64), as well as from unknown Brucella-status cattle (n=105) and sheep (n=65) herds were tested by Ag-cELISA, I-ELISA, and culture method. …”
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Enhancing surface finish and increasing fatigue resistance of Ti6Al4V produced through electron beam melting via chemical machining by Sagarkumar J. Aswar, Rahul R. Chakule, Devakant Baviskar, Nilesh H. Khandare, Yugesh A. Kharche, Deepak M. Deshmukh, Mangesh Y. Dakhole, Vishwanatha S, Adem Abdirkadir Aden

“…The rotating fatigue beam testing method was selected for this experimental campaign because of its inherent capability to stress sample surfaces more uniformly, emphasizing the effects of surface finishing.…”
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Quality of Life and Positive and Negative Affect in the Personality Disorder by Juan M. Ramos, Paula M. Marco, Aintzane Sánchez, Aurora Doll

“…This phenomenon can be understood from a bifactorial model of affect and challenges our therapeutic design to focus on recovery. Method: In a sample of severe PD, we evaluate emotional and clinical variables before (N = 414) and after (N = 247) a 6-month intervention program. …”
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Calibration Transfer of Soil Total Carbon and Total Nitrogen between Two Different Types of Soils Based on Visible-Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy by Xue-Ying Li, Yan Liu, Mei-Rong Lv, Yan Zou, Ping-Ping Fan

“…Compared with adding new samples, the WMPDS-S/B algorithm obtained more accurate results. …”
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Assessment of winter garlic collection according to productivity and biochemical composition in the conditions of the Kirov region by O. A. Cheglakova, A. V. Denisova, V. M. Motov

“…Overwintering of all samples was 100 %. Varietal samples No. 154, 96, 116, 136, 155 and the standard variety Lyubov are suitable for mechanized sowing (clove weight is 5 g or more). …”
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The Physicomechanical Deterioration Characteristics and Mesoscopic Damage Analysis of Sandstone under Acidic Environment by Runke Huo, Tian Qiu, Yanling Liang, Shuguang Li, Meiting Qian

“…With the increase of the soaking time and the acidity, the compaction stage of rock samples becomes longer, the elastic stage becomes shorter, the deterioration degree of mechanical parameters becomes more extensive, and the destruction of sandstone samples shows ductility characteristics increasingly. …”
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Phytochemical and morphometric authentication of medicinal plants marketed as Ostokhudus in Iran by Atefeh Babaei, Shahrokh Kazempour-Osaloo, Majid Ghorbani Nohooji, Ali Sonboli

“…Moreover, the high percentages of linalool and linalyl acetate as the major chemical components of HS1, HS2, HS3, and HP1–HP7 samples were more consistent with those of Lavandula species. …”
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Electrolytic Plasma Nitriding of Medium-Carbon Steel 45 for Performance Enhancement by Zarina Satbayeva, Almasbek Maulit, Nurlybek Ispulov, Daryn Baizhan, Bauyrzhan Rakhadilov, Rinat Kusainov

“…The study results show that the sample without ammonium nitrate demonstrated better mechanical and corrosion properties due to a more homogeneous and denser nitride layer, approximately 10 µm thick, containing phases FeN and Fe₄N. …”
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Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus Detection in Shrimp Farming Pond Sediments by Ruoxuan LÜ, Xiuhua WANG, Meifeng WANG, Xinyu LIAN, Chen LI, Hua XU, Weili YIN, Peng JIA, Bing YANG

“…Monitoring pathogens in the water environment is a more direct and effective method compared with testing cultivated shrimp for biosecurity investigations and risk assessments. …”
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Developing a Model for Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Change the Organization’s Public Relations Unit’s Processes, With an Emphasis on Organizational Knowledge Managem... by Seyed Vahab Omat Mohammadi, Ladan Hajianvari, Kimiya Mohaqeq

“…A purposive snowball sampling method was employed to select the research sample, continuing until theoretical data saturation was achieved. …”
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High cycle fatigue limit prediction of machining foreign object damaged TC17 titanium specimen based on the theory of critical distances by Kainan Lu, Yibo Shang, Chen Wang, Bin Li, Xiaosheng Zhang, Lingfeng Wang, Zhenhua Zhao, Liucheng Zhou, Wei Chen

“…The accuracy of fatigue limit prediction on notched samples using theory of critical distance model is much higher than that of Peterson model, and the theory of critical distances method model is more efficient to evaluate the fatigue strength of notched blade.…”
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Molecular and phenotypic characterization of Escherichia coli from calves in an important meat-producing region in Brazil by Juliane F Tutija, Carlos AN Ramos, Ricardo AA Lemos, Amanda AL Santos, Guilherme H Reckziegel, Mariana G Freitas, Cassia RB Leal

“…The polymerase chain reaction method was used to detect virulence genes. Results: A hundred seventy-six samples were biochemically identified as E. coli and antibiograms were determined. …”
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Identification of fish species using the next generation sequencing (NGS) technology by T. A. Fomina, M. G. Kuleshova, M. Yu. Minaev, E. A. Konorov

“…NGS was carried out on the platform Ion Torrent Ion GeneStudio S5 System. Twenty samples were analyzed: 17 commercial samples and three prepared experimental samples consisted of the mixture of two and more species. …”
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Determination of the Standardized Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility of U.S. Tannin-Free Sorghum in Broilers by Santiago Sasia, William Bridges, Mireille Arguelles-Ramos

“…An incomplete block design was implemented using the direct method to assess the SIAD of eight sorghum samples and one corn sample as the standard. …”
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