Therapeutic Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on a Rat Model of Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion by Pan Long, Weiming Yan, Jianwen Liu, Manhong Li, Tao Chen, Zuoming Zhang, Jing An

“…The retinal layers were measured by optical coherence tomography (OCT). Full-field electroretinography (ffERG) was applied to evaluate the retinal function. …”
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Hemodialysis-Associated Problems to Solve: Current and Future by Fumihiko Hinoshita, Ryoichi Ando, Rumi Sakai, Satoru Kuriyama

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Approaching the general quantification of functional information by Robert Kudelić

“…The developed approach represents a method for general quantification of functional information, including the total functional information of a system and the semantics revealed by functionality. …”
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Application of Autofluorescence Endoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening: Rationale and an Update by Hiroyuki Aihara, Hisao Tajiri, Takeshi Suzuki

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Associations of meteorological factors and ambient air pollutants with mumps incidence in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: boosted regression tree model analysis by Xianglong LIU, Linlin CHEN, Jiayu YU, Rui GONG, Yaogeng CHEN, Yu ZHAO

“…A boosted regression tree (BRT) model was used to determine the optimal lag of meteorological factors and air pollutants that best explained mumps cases and to evaluate the associations of meteorological factors and air pollutants with the daily number of mumps cases in the region. ResultsA total of 6 660 new cases of mumps were reported in the region during the period, including 3 936 males (59.1%) and 2 724 females (40.9%); 2 230 (33.5%) were aged less than 4 years, 3 537 (53.1%) were aged 4 – 15 years and 893 (13.4%) were aged > 15 years. …”
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Association between urinary cobalt exposure and kidney stones in U.S. adult population: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by Jun Lu, Dongmei Hong, Qian Wu, Yinghui Xia, Guozhong Chen, Tie Zhou, Cheng Li

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Historic Sites during the World War II in South Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi as a Source of Historiography by Syahrun Syahrun, Rahmat Sewa Suraya, Sandy Suseno

“…The massive military activities that took place in Indonesian territory during the World War II definitely left a lot of and varied material evidences. …”
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Saliva and Blood Asprosin Hormone Concentration Associated with Obesity by Kader Ugur, Suleyman Aydin

“…The aim was to investigate the amounts of saliva and serum asprosin in order to determine whether it is related to obesity and whether salivary glands synthesize asprosin or not. Methods. A total of 116 underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese (class I, class II, and class III) volunteers participated in the study. …”
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The Role of Physical Activity in Pregnancy: Impact on Preeclampsia, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, and Labor Outcomes by Paulina Woźniak, Ewa Wietrzykowska, Wiktoria Gajek-Flanczewska, Sebastian Flanczewski, Małgorzata Wirkijowska, Jakub Wirkijowski, Katarzyna Wójtowicz, Agata Walczak, Dominika Sobolewska, Katarzyna Michalczyk-Fraszka, Martyna Śliwińska, Anna Podraza

“…The research gathered points towards the preventive nature of PA against GDM and preeclampsia, proving that regular exercise, especially of moderate and moderate-to-vigorous intensity, significantly reduces the risk of the development of both of these. …”
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Assessment of the size and shape of berries using the ImageJ program on the example of honeysuckle by D. Yu. Nokhrin, L. V. Ufimtseva, N. V. Glaz

“…The berries were laid out on a white sheet of paper with a ruler on top of the glass and photographed with additional lighting from below. …”
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Genetic Polymorphisms in RNF138, ABCA1 and ESRRG-GPATCH2 Genes and their Role in Insulin Resistance Risk among Normal BMI Individuals in Indian Population: A Case-control Study by Sabitha Thummala, Sarah Fathima, Nithya Kruthi, Junaid Ahmed Khan Ghori, Katherine Saikia, Vivek Belde, Balamurali Andiyakkal Rajendran, Rahul Ranganathan

“…Materials and Methods: This study was a case-control study conducted in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India on a total of 191 participants (90 men and 101 women). …”
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Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Tropical Freshwater and Marine Microalgae by Thanh-Luu Pham

“…The results suggested that AgNPs presented different toxicity mechanisms for microalgae and showed to be more toxic in freshwater than in marine environment. …”
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The Effect of Online Education on Children’s Socialization Processes During the Pandemic Period: A Communication- Based Research on First Grade Primary School Students by Ebru Özgen, Ayşe Müge Yazgan

“…This research aims to gather information about the social changes and social anxiety of the students during social isolation by analyzing the responses to scale questions used as a data collection tool, under the observation of parents and classroom teachers. …”
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Non-Thermal Plasma-Activated Water Enhances Nursery Production of Vegetables: A Species-Specific Study by Silvia Locatelli, Stefano Triolone, Marina De Bonis, Giampaolo Zanin, Carlo Nicoletto

“…The plant height significantly increased in tomato (+11.9%) and cabbage (+5%) under PAW-HI treatment. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Hard Rocks at High Temperature: Applications in Civil Engineering by Mambou Ngueyep Luc Leroy, Foguieng Wembe Marius, Ngapgue François

“…Sandstone, granite, and argillite present the model whose behaviors with thermal load are too much explored accordingly with experiments compared with other rocks. …”
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The End of the World of Values: The Abandonment of the Axiological System in Recent Secondary World Fantasy for Young Readers. Part 1 — The Classical Model by Grzegorz Trębicki

“…It will be first analyzed how this model functions in the classical works by J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin, and then shown how it is transformed in more recent texts. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…It was the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 which showed William Wells Brown (and Frederick Douglass) that fiction might serve the abolitionist cause as much as a true narrative faithfully attested.In 1853, with the publication of his novel Clotel, William Wells Brown took African American narrative in a direction that was new and dangerous. …”
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Transcendence: what on earth are we talking about? by Daniël P. Veldsman

“…Songs are more than longitudinal sound vibrations, sunsets more than transverse electromagnetic oscillations, inspirations more than the discharge of neurons, all touched with a mystery that deepens the more we contemplate and seek to understand (Harrison 1985: 273). …”
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Ecological Study of the Vegetation in the Loka Abaya National Park, Ethiopia by Assegid Assefa, Tamrat Bekele, Sebsebe Demissew, Tesfaye Abebe

“…For each of the community groups, the mean and standard errors were calculated from the environmental parameters to characterize the community types and quantitative relationships between environmental variables were analyzed by calculating Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient using the SAS computer software programme. A total of 198 plant species representing 79 families and 139 genera were collected and documented. …”
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Using virtual reality mediation in a workplace setting for employees with disabilities: A pilot study by Hung Jen Kuo, Nigel Newbutt, Sarah George, Michael Laird

“…More recently, the use of VR to aid employment for individuals with disabilities has become a topic of interest. One such innovation use case is the integration of VR meditation practices. …”
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