Effect of Gelatin/Xanthan Gum Ratios on Jackfruit Leaf Extract Nanoemulsion Gel Stability and Properties by Haswani Maisarah Mustafa, Nor Amaiza Mohd. Amin, Rabitah Zakaria, Mohd. Shamsul Anuar, Azhari Samsu Baharuddin

“…The droplet size, PDI, and zeta potential values of the developed nanoemulsion and gelled nanoemulsion fell within the ranges of 131 to 223 nm, 0.23 to 0.33, and -27.3 to -47.3 mV, respectively. Notably, all formulations exhibited stability except for the lower amount of XAN ratio blends at 1.0% (MD) and 0.5% (ME). …”
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Different approaches to processing environmental DNA samples in turbid waters have distinct effects for fish, bacterial and archaea communities by Turba, Rachel, Thai, Glory H., Jacobs, David K.

“…Our results show that freezing water prior to filtration had different effects on community composition for each primer, especially for the 16S, when using a filter of larger pore size (3 μm). Nevertheless, pre-freezing water samples can still be a viable alternative for storage and processing of turbid water samples when focusing on fish communities (12S). …”
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Degradable hypercrosslinked porous polymer generated from aromatic polyketone by Handou Zheng, Guangshui Tu, Cheng Du, Heng Gao, Lixia Pei, Haiyang Gao

“…The hypercrosslinked structure of HCPK-X was fully characterized, and HCPK-OtBu had a mesopores structure (1.27–68.5 nm) and large surface area (S BET = 321 m2/g). HCPK-OtBu exhibits a good adsorption capability for aniline removal from aqueous solution, and its enhanced adsorption capability is ascribed to the interactions between aniline and the carbonyl and tert-butoxy groups. …”
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Moments of axial-vector GPD from lattice QCD: quark helicity, orbital angular momentum, and spin-orbit correlation by Shohini Bhattacharya, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Xiang Gao, Andreas Metz, Joshua Miller, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, Fernanda Steffens, Yong Zhao

“…The calculations are based on an N f = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass fermions ensemble with clover improvement, a lattice spacing of a = 0.093 fm, and a pion mass of m π = 260 MeV. We consider both the iso-vector and iso-scalar cases, utilizing next-to-leading-order perturbative matching while omitting the disconnected contributions and gluon mixing in the iso-scalar case. …”
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Mapping the “catscape” formed by a population of pet cats with outdoor access by Richard Bischof, Nina Rosita Hansen, Øyvind Skarsgard Nyheim, Astrid Kisen, Lillian Prestmoen, Torbjørn Haugaasen

“…However, cats spent on average 79% of their outdoor time within 50 m to their owner’s home, which suggests that the primary impact is local and most acute for wildlife in the vicinity to homes with cats. …”
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Intervención desde Trabajo Social a una familia con integrante con discapacidad perteneciente a las Fuerzas Militares de Colombia by Sandra Milena Arcos Zambrano, Ana María Cortes Quiñones, Luisa Dayana López Portilla

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Development of a high-order global dynamical core using the discontinuous Galerkin method for an atmospheric large-eddy simulation (LES) and proposal of test cases: SCALE-DG v0.8.0 by Y. Kawai, H. Tomita, H. Tomita

“…<p>Focusing on the future global atmospheric simulations with a grid spacing of O(10–100 m), we developed a global nonhydrostatic atmospheric dynamical core with high-order accuracy by applying a discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) for horizontal and vertical discretization. …”
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Copper strontium phosphate glasses with high antimicrobial efficacy by Roman Golovchak, Bohdan Mahlovanyi, Yaroslav Shpotyuk, Malgorzata Kus-Liskiewicz, Julia Kozianska, Renata Zadrag-Tecza, Grzegorz Zagula, Malgorzata Trzyna-Sowa, Andriy Kovalskiy, Agnieszka Gala-Bladzinska, Jozef Cebulski

“…The glass powders demonstrate strong antibacterial efficacy with a concentration of only a few mg/mL, sufficient to eradicate the entire bacterial colonies within 24 h. …”
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Quality Assessment of Soaps Produced from Palm Bunch Ash-Derived Alkali and Coconut Oil by HO Ogunsuyi, CA Akinnawo

“…The lathering ability was found to be 5.00ml for black soap and 15.00ml and 10.00mL for the other soaps. The improved soap produced with purified palm bunch ash-derived alkali was comparatively of a better quality than its conventional black soap counterpart considering some physico-chemical properties such as matter insoluble in water, matter insoluble in ethanol, unsaponified neutral fat and lathering characteristics of the soaps. …”
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Biodiversity characteristics of large forest plots in Qinghai area of Qilian Mountain National Park by WANG Dinghui, SUONAN Cairang, YU Hongyan, DU Yangong

“…Species richness and plant height were 3 species and 10.7 m, respectively. Shannon- Wiener and Simpson index of spruce forest were 0.74 and 0.43, respectively, Shannon-Wiener index was relatively low. …”
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Numerical optimization by the PFEMCT-SIF method of the crack propagation of a linear elastic material by Mohammed Bentahar, Noureddine Mahmoudi, Youcef Moulai Arbi

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Efficacy of green tea mouth wash as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal treatment in patients with chronic periodontitis by Sarwar Qasim Mustafa, Dilyar Ahmed Baban

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Antibiotic resistance gene occurrence in poultry farms in northeast Brazil by Henrique Francisco de Almeida, Paulo Ricardo Conceição Marques Trindade, César Roberto Viana Teixeira, Claudson Oliveira Brito, Silvio Santana Dolabella, Sona Jain, Maíra Pompeu Martins, Ana Andréa Barbosa

“…ARGs were confirmed in all samples, and the highest resistance positivity was obtained for tetracyclines (tetA, tetM, and tetG), quinolones (gyrA and qnrS), beta-lactams (blaTEM), macrolides (ermB) and sulfonamides (sul-1). …”
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Actitudes hacia comportamientos protectores y de riesgo en conductores costarricenses by Marjorie Moreno-Salas, David Monge-López

“…En el presente estudio se exploraron las actitudes y los comportamientos protectores y de riesgo al conducir vehículos particulares en una muestra de 590 conductores de entre  20 y 60 años (M = 38,57, DE =11,69) residentes del área metropolitana costarricense.  …”
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Indoor Air Pollution of Outdoor Origin: Mitigation Using Portable Air Cleaners in Singapore Office Building by Zuraimi Sultan, Jiayu Li, Jovan Pantelic, Stefano Schiavon

“…Modelled and in-situ measured PAC effectiveness using up to twelve units was evaluated in three office sizes (30, 80 and 1490 m3). Measured effectiveness using indoor concentrations and indoor/outdoor ratios was obtained in a randomised intervention experimental design involving 3 weeks per location. …”
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Grip Strength Measurement in Baseball Pitchers: A Clinical Examination to Indicate Stride Length Inefficiency by Ryan Crotin, Dan Ramsey

“… # Study Design Crossover Study Design # Methods A total of 19 uninjured pitchers (15 collegiate and 4 high school) (age 18.63 ± 1.67 years, height 1.84 ± 0.054 m, mass 82.14 ± 0.054 kg) threw two simulated 80-pitch games at ±25% of their desired stride length recorded by motion capture with two force plates and a radar gun to track each throw. …”
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Evaluating bacterial resistance to antimicrobials in isolated bacteria from food contact surfaces by Paola Andrea Caro-Hernández, Juan Camilo Orozco-Mera, Olga Lucia Castaño-Henao, Mauricio Alberto Quimbaya-Gómez

“…El análisis de PCR encontró que el gen tet M fue el más frecuente. Además, se evidenció que, si bien el NaOCl es efectivo como desinfectante de superficies, Aerococcus urinae y Kocuria kristinae pudieron resistir hasta 10 minutos de exposición. …”
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Propiedades psicométricas de la aversion to risk taking scale en una muestra de motociclistas colombianos by Mauricio Herrera-Lopez, Ginna Marcela Estrada Vallejo, Zuly Corina Passos Rivera

“…Participaron 436 motociclistas del Departamento de Nariño (Colombia), con edades entre 18 y 71 años (M= 28.27; DT= 8.68). Se actualizó la escala con dos nuevos ítems (consumo de sustancias psicoactivas y uso del casco); se realizó un ajuste lingüístico, se valoró la consistencia interna, las evidencias de validez de contenido, validez de constructo (análisis factorial exploratorio y confirmatorio) y validez comparada con la Escala de autoeficacia para la conducción. …”
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¿Cómo perciben los adolescentes de la ciudad de Buenos Aires su futuro? Una mirada desde sus actores by María Fernanda Molina, Mariel Giménez, María Julia Raimundi, Nora Leibovich de Figuero, Vanina Schmidt

“…Se trabajó con una muestra intencional de 24 adolescentes (M = 16.10; DE = 1.10) de ambos sexos (mujeres = 54,20 %). …”
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Impact of high-speed shear homogenization pretreatment on structure, functional characteristics, and interfacial properties: A case of Rice Glutelin by Zhuangpeng Wang, Zhangtao Chen, Lufan Tan, Jin Tu, Yong Sun, Yuanping Ye, Senwang Zhang, Leiyan Wu

“…After HSSH treatment at 12,000 rpm for 2 min, RG exhibited optimal improvements in solubility (5.56 %), WHC (6.00 g/g) and OHC (2.20 g/g), EAI (10.19 m2/g) and ESI (341.98 min), as well as FC (16.20 %) and FS (64.21 %). …”
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