Meat consumption and racial/ethnic disparities in population-based study in the city Campinas, Brazil by Samara Agda dos Santos, Josiane Steluti, Natália Simonian Rodrigues Valente Ghedini, Semíramis Martins Álvares Domene

“…Linear regression models were run to assess the association between meat consumption and sociodemographic variables with a significance level of 5%. Lower total consumption of meat, red meat, beef and fish was found among individuals with self-declared black skin color compared to those with self-declared white skin color. …”
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Recycling of Waste Sludge: Preparation and Application of Sludge-Based Activated Carbon by Yongning Bian, Qian Yuan, Guocheng Zhu, Bozhi Ren, Andrew Hursthouse, Peng Zhang

“…It included the following topics present in this review: conventional and new methods for preparation of SBAC were clearly present; the effective methods for improving SBAC performance via physical and chemical modification were reviewed; and the correlation of their physic-chemical properties of SBAC with pollutants’ removal efficiencies as well as the removal mechanisms was revealed. …”
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Predictors of Crowd Effect in Football: Evidence From Five Major Football Leagues of Europe by Abdullah Yiğit Güngör, Tuncer Gövdeli

“…Hence, stadium occupancy rate would move together with other variables in the long term except total market value. …”
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An Overview of the Grapefruit Market in South Korea by Yan Heng, Hyeyoung Kim, Lisa A. House

“… According to the Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, worldwide consumption of fresh grapefruit in 2014/15 increased from 4.2 million to 5.2 million metric tons. China, which is the largest producer of grapefruit, was largely responsible for the increase. …”
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Improved Chiral Separation of (R,S)-Goitrin by SFC: An Application in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Lixing Nie, Zhong Dai, Shuangcheng Ma

“…Scale-up purification of (R)-goitrin and (S)-goitrin was performed on a preparative column with >90% total recovery. The absolute stereochemical assignment of the purified isomers was determined through optical rotation study. …”
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Robust Wiener filter‐based time gating method for detection of shallowly buried objects by Ali Gharamohammadi, Fereidoon Behnia, Arash Shokouhmand, George Shaker

“…The time gating method is then built on top of the information achieved for the window length selection from the primary detection. …”
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Enhancing Asphalt Mix Performance through the Incorporation of Crumb by Herish Jaf, Asmaa Abdulmajeed Mamhusseini

“…The study involved testing of hot mix asphalt samples through the Marshall method procedure. In total, 15 samples were meticulously prepared and tested to ascertain the Optimum Binder Content, which was determined to be 4.8%. …”
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NLRP3 Inflammasome Simultaneously Involved in Autophagy and Phagocytosis of THP-1 Cells to Clear Aged Erythrocytes by Qin Li, Fengyong Zhao, Jiamin Zhang, Ying Yang, Zhonghui Guo, Chen Wang, Qixiu Yang, Ying Sun, Ziyan Zhu

“…The analysis of erythrocyte clearance and autophagy of THP-1 cells with low NLRP3 expression showed that autophagy changes together when THP-1 engulfs aged RBCs. The occurrence of autophagy was dominated by microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain 3- (LC3-) associated phagocytosis accompanied by canonical autophagy. …”
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Apports des essais mécaniques : Évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques de dégradation des peintures. by Alain Roche

“…Using mechanical testing is essential when developing tools to assess the level of vulnerability and risks of mechanical degradation in paintings. …”
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Optimization Configuration Method of Energy Storage Considering Photovoltaic Power Consumption and Source-Load Uncertainty by Junjie Qiao, Xiaofang Meng, Weigang Zheng, Pengxue Huang, Tiefeng Xu, Yupeng Xu

“…The poor operation scenarios are identified by using the variation of the maximum total node voltage deviation. Finally, an energy storage optimization allocation is proposed. …”
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An optimal workflow scheduling in IoT-fog-cloud system for minimizing time and energy by Roqia Rateb, Ahmed Adnan Hadi, Venkata Mohit Tamanampudi, Laith Abualigah, Absalom E. Ezugwu, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, Fahad Alblehai, Heming Jia

“…Abstract Today, with the increasing use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the world, various workflows that need to be stored and processed on the computing platforms. …”
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Mitigation of environmental impacts in ornamental rock and limestone aggregate quarries in arid and semi-arid areas by M.A. Peñaranda Barba, V. Alarcón Martínez, I. Gómez Lucas, J. Navarro Pedreño

“…FINDINGS: According to the environmental impact assessment studies analysed, the importance of the most significant environmental impacts has been calculated, indicating whether the impacts are critical, severe, moderate or compatible, and based on it, preventive and corrective measures are proposed together in an impact mitigation management system based in flow charts that will serve to more easily apply and control these measures, in order to prevent them from causing significant or irreversible damage to the environment. …”
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Effects of Prognostic Nutrition Index, Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio, and C-reactive Protein/Albumin Ratio on Prognosis Undergoing Open Heart Surgery by Anil Kilinc, Nilay Tas, Melih Urkmez, Ebru Canakci, Ilker Coskun, Merve Elif Demirhan

“…Results: The study included a total of 437 cases. All patients had a mean PNI of 49.35±7.70. …”
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Određivanje srednje distance privlačenja primjenom GIS-a u nizijsko-brdskim uslovima by Vladimir Petković, Dane Marčeta, Slavko Španjić, Mihajlo Kosović

“…Uporedili smo stvarnu i geometrijsku srednju transportnu distancu privlačenja i dobili da faktor korekcije iznosi 1,57. Prema tome prosječni faktor korekcije za nizijsko-brdske terene iznosi 1,475. …”
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Role and mechanism of dexmedetomidine in regulating bone metabolism in tail-suspended osteoporotic rats by GUO Yunliang, WANG Can, ZHANG Xinyu

“… ‍Objective‍　‍To investigate the effect of dexmedetomidine (Dex) on bone loss in tail-suspended rats and primarily explore its regulatory mechanism on bone metabolism. Methods‍　‍A total of 30 male rats were randomly divided into a control group, a model group, and a Dex group, with 10 animals in each group. …”
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TĖVŲ, AUGINANČIŲ VAIKĄ SU AUTIZMO SPEKTRO SUTRIKIMAIS, PATIRIAMI SUNKUMAI by Lina Astrauskienė, Ilona Kupčikienė

“…Tyrime dalyvavę tėvai dėl visuomenės, socialinių paslaugų ir sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų specialistų tolerancijos stokos, artimųjų atstūmimo, patiria socialinę izoliaciją ir vienišumo jausmą. …”
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Ranging Method for Navigation Based on High-Speed Frequency-Hopping Signal by En Yuan, Wangdong Qi, Peng Liu, Li Wei, Longliang Chen

“…To overcome this challenge, we employed different dual-tone intervals in different hops of the frequency-hopping signal. …”
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PRÁCTICAS DE CUIDADO Y MODELOS EMERGENTES EN LAS RELACIONES DE GENERO. LA EXPERIENCIA DE ALGUNOS VARONES MEXICANOS by Juan Guillermo Figueroa Perea, Natalia Flores Garrido

“…El propósito de este artículo es reflexionar en torno a las prácticas de cuidado cuando éstas son realizadas por varones en el espacio familiar. …”
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A Neurophysiological Study of Musical Pitch Identification in Mandarin-Speaking Cochlear Implant Users by Jieqing Cai, Yimeng Liu, Minyun Yao, Muqing Xu, Hongzheng Zhang

“…The MMN experiment was conducted using a passive oddball paradigm, with musical tone C4 (262 Hz) presented as the standard and tones D4 (294 Hz), E4 (330 Hz), G#4 (415 Hz), and C5 (523 Hz) presented as deviants. …”
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Barınma Sorununda Yeni Bir Boyut: Enerji Yoksulluğu ve Öğrenci Hane Halkları by Manolya Aldıçoğlu, Esma Aksoy Khurami

“…Sonuçlar merkezi ısıtma sisteminden yararlananların ısınma harcamaları ile bireysel doğalgaz ısıtma sisteminden yararlananların altı aylık toplam üzerinden ortalama harcamaları arasında ciddi farklılıklar olmadığını ortaya koymuştur. …”
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