Concurrent Extraction and Analysis of Atmospheric Particulate Matter-bound PBDEs, PAHs, Nitrated PAHs, and OPEs by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Bo-Wun Huang, Chien-Er Huang, Nicholas Kiprotich Cheruiyot, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…Atmospheric PM concentrations ranged from 39.1 to 68.9 µg m−3, with PM-bound OPEs having the highest concentrations (432–2815 pg m−3), followed by PAHs (503–1774 pg m−3), N-PAHs (39.1–277 pg m−3), and PBDEs (5.07–13.6 pg m−3). …”
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Dietary inclusion of African bush mango (Irvingia gabonensis) seed improves sexual performance in sexually inexperienced rats by Olasunkanmi Omojokun, Akindele Famurewa, Ganiyu Oboh, Jemima Enang, Stella Ijeh

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Cytokines in Liver Cirrhosis (Their Importance in Assessing Activity and Decompensation) by G. K. Mirodzhov, S. D. Pulatova

“…The study of the content of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the blood serum of patients with Class A liver cirrhosis showed, that levels of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-2, interleukin-6 were statistically higher compared to healthy individuals, while the concentration of anti-inflammatory interleukin-10 was lower (30.7 ± 4.7 pg/mL) in comparison with the control group. In patients with Class B liver cirrhosis, the level of TNF-α increased to 75.0 ± 4.5 pg/mL (p < 0.001), interleukin-2 — to 328.7 ± 23.9 pg/mL (p < 0.05), and interleukin-6 — to 95.4 ± 7.7 pg/mL (p < 0.001). …”
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High-sensitivity colorimetric sensor based on oxidase-like Mn3O4 nanozyme for Cys detection by Junting Liang, Dihan Duan, Lubing Sun, Jinming Li, Mengke Wang, Ziyi Chang, Rick F. Thorne, Chuanliang Chen, Demin Duan

“…Experimental results indicated a detection range for Cys between 0.5 and 45 μM, with a lower limit of detection (LOD) of 0.02636 μM. …”
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Field Tests of Indoor Air Cleaners for Removal of PM2.5 and PM10 in Elementary School Classrooms in Seoul, Korea by Bangwoo Han, Keejung Hong, Dongho Shin, Hak-Joon Kim, Yong-Jin Kim, Sang Bok Kim, Sangwoo Kim, Cheong-Ha Hwang, Kwang-Chul Noh

“…Average PM2.5 and PM10 levels were 7.3 ± 0.7 and 45.5 ± 4.1 µg m-3 in classrooms equipped with one air cleaner and 4.2 ± 0.6 and 24.6 ± 2.5 µg m-3 in classrooms with two air cleaners, whereas they were 22.1 ± 2.6 and 109.1 ± 9.6 µg m-3 in classrooms with no air cleaner and 36.9 ± 5.1 and 74.1 ± 10.6 µg m-3 outdoors, respectively. …”
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Estimating Complex Signals With a Fuzzy-Enhanced Kalman Filter: A Note on “the Output Regulation and the Kalman Filter as the Signal Generator” by Jesus Alberto Meda-Campana, Juan Carlos Garcia-Hernandez, Rodolfo Daniel Velazquez-Sanchez, Luis Alberto Paramo-Carranza, Tonatiuh Hernandez-Cortes, Ricardo Tapia-Herrera

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Temporal Change in Atmospheric Radiocesium during the First Seven Years after the Fukushima Dai-ich Nuclear Power Plant Accident by Tomohisa Abe, Kazuya Yoshimura, Yukihisa Sanada

“…The concentration ranged from 10−1 to 100 Bq m−3 during the first two years but from 10−5 to 10−1 Bq m−3 approximately seven years following the accident. …”
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Various scenarios of measurements using a smartphone with a LiDAR sensor in the context of integration with the TLS point cloud by Janicka Joanna, Błaszczak-Bąk Wioleta

“…In the analysed case, the RMSE registration error was the smallest and amounted to 0.012 m and 0.019 m, while the largest registration error was 0.060 m and 0.065 m, for object 1 and object 2, respectively. …”
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Application of spectrophotometry in novel simultaneous dissolution profiling of a single pill triple therapy of amlodipine, perindopril and indapamide; whiteness evaluation by Aya T. Soudi

“…The concentration ranges for PE and ID were 5.00–100.00 µg/mL and 1.00–20.00 µg/mL, respectively. Among these methods, the DW technique was the simplest, so it was chosen for dissolution monitoring of PE and ID. …”
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Peptidoglycan recognition protein PGRP-5 is involved in immune defence and neuro-behavioral disorders in zebrafish embryos. by Xi Li, Guanghua Xiong, Manni Luo, Siwan Mao, Ruiying Zhang, Ziwei Meng, Juan Li, Xinjun Liao

“…Thirdly, the mRNA levels of DrPGRP-5 were greatly elevated after 6 h of E. coli infection but reached its highest value at 24 h after M. luteus stimulation. …”
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Lightweight marine biodetection model based on improved YOLOv10 by Wei Pan, Jiabao Chen, Bangjun Lv, Likun Peng

“…Testing on URPC dataset shows that YOLOv10-AD achieves an mAP of 85.7%, with a parameter count of 2.45 M, 6.2 GFLOPs, a model size of 5.0 M, and a frame rate of 156 FPS. …”
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On the number of residues of certain second-order linear recurrences by Accossato, Federico, Sanna, Carlo

“…For every monic polynomial $f \in \mathbb{Z}[X]$ with $\deg (f) \ge 1$, let $\mathcal{L}(f)$ be the set of all linear recurrences with values in $\mathbb{Z}$ and characteristic polynomial $f$, and let \begin{equation*} \mathcal{R}(f) :=\big \lbrace \rho (x; m) : x \in \mathcal{L}(f), \, m \in \mathbb{Z}^+ \big \rbrace , \end{equation*} where $\rho (x; m)$ is the number of distinct residues of $x$ modulo $m$.Dubickas and Novikas proved that $\mathcal{R}(X^2 - X - 1) = \mathbb{Z}^+$. …”
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Composition Analysis of Airborne Microbiota in Outdoor and Indoor Based on Dust Separated by Micro-sized and Nano-sized by Jinho Yang, Ji-Hoon Seo, Young-Koo Jee, Yoon-Keun Kim, Jong-Ryeul Sohn

“…Thus, we analyzed the micro-sized microbes (m-MBs) and nano-sized microbial EVs (n-MEVs) of outdoor and indoor air through a field study in Seoul, Korea. …”
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Gemcitabine combined with baicalein exerts antiviral activity against PEDV by inhibiting the entry and replication phases by Yingge Zheng, Yanfei Zhang, Fangying Xiong, Dehua Luo, Yuxiang Wang, Yijia Zhang, Dengguo Wei

“…In this study, we found that the nucleoside analog gemcitabine decreased the titer of PEDV, with a median effective concentration (EC50) of 3.12 μM, thereby inhibiting viral replication. The natural product baicalein acts by targeting the early entry stage and directly inactivates the virus, with an EC50 of 5.02 μM. …”
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THE EFFECT OF BORROWER’S CAPACITY TO PAY ON LOAN REPAYMENT IN UGANDA DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC by moses Agaba

“…Results for the study objective revealed that SACCOS started giving less loans in comparison to what they applied for (M=4.05, SD=1.256) and closed very early during covid-19 pandemic (M=3.73, SD=1.378) all of which affected the borrowers capacity to repay loans, consequences that drive SACCO members into loan repayment failure (M=4.70, SD=.459) and loss of savings leading to absolute poverty(M=4.56, SD=.600) were the major factors that determined the borrower’s credit on loan repayment during covid-19 pandemic. …”
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DICTIONARY OF DAILY LIFE IN BIBLICAL AND POST-BIBLICAL ANTIQUITY, VOLUME I: A–DA by C Stenschke

“… Christoff Stenschke reviews a book from YAMAUCHI, E.M. & WILSON, M.R. (eds.). (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2014). …”
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MUC5B modulation of early oral biofilm glucose metabolism by Carolina Robertsson, Carolina Robertsson, Julia Davies, Gunnel Svensäter, Anders Bay Nord, Niclas Norrström, Claes Wickström

“…In early biofilms where they were each present, pyruvate, ethanol, and metabolite 134 were present in significantly higher abundance in the presence of 25% MUC5B with 20 mM glucose (MUC5B + G) compared with a physiologic buffer with 20 mM glucose (PBS + G), while metabolites 84, 97, and sarcosine were present at significantly lower abundance. …”
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Merck Open Global Health Library in vitro screening against Schistosoma mansoni identified two new substances with antischistosomal activities for further development by Monique Evelyn Ueberall, Martina Berchthold, Cécile Häberli, Sven Lindemann, Thomas Spangenberg, Jennifer Keiser, Christoph G. Grevelding

“…The EC50values of both compounds were determined, with values for compound OGHL00022 of 5.955 µM for pairing stability, 10.88 µM for attachment, and 18.77 µM for motility, while the values for compound OGHL00121 were 7.088 µM for pairing stability, 8.065 µM for attachment, and 6.297 µM for motility 24 h after treatment. …”
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Apportioning and Locating PM2.5 Sources Affecting Coastal Cities: Ulsan in South Korea and Dalian in China by Eunhwa Choi, Kwonho Jeon, Young Su Lee, Jongbae Heo, Ilhan Ryoo, Taeyeon Kim, Chuanlong Zhou, Philip K. Hopke, Seung-Muk Yi

“…Higher contributions of residential burning in Dalian (11.7 µg m–3) than biomass burning in Ulsan (0.22 µg m–3) were resolved during the heating period as was a higher proportion of SS contributions in Ulsan (6.28 µg m–3, 41.6%) than in Dalian (6.42 µg m–3, 21.2%) during non-heating period. …”
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Characterizing the deformation, failure, and water-conducting fractures evolution of shallow weakly cemented overburden under coal mining by Zhenhua Li, Yandong Zhang, Xuefeng Gao, Xuefeng Gao, Dan Ma, Dan Ma, Limin Fan, Guodong Li, Xiaolei Li, Min He, Zheng Cheng

“…The results indicate that the maximum vertical displacements at key locations such as the basic roof, the weakly cemented critical layer, and the surface were 8.9 m, 8.65 m, and 8.2 m, respectively. The collapse step distance of the basic roof was 22.4 m, and the maximum collapse height reached 48 m. …”
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