Protective Effect of Fenugreek Supplementation against Mercury Toxicity on Sperm Parameters, Serum Testosterone and Testicular Tissue in the Rat by Jalal A. Karim, Karim R. Hamad

“…Whereas sperm motility, and normal sperm were increased significantly, and serum MDA was decreased significantly from HgCl2 group. …”
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Improving Growth Performance, Biochemical Parameters and Reducing Mortality due to Ascites in Broilers by Propranolol Inclusion by Shahriar Saidian, Somaya Farahmand, Mokhtar Fathi, Salar Saifi

“…Additionally, ascites induction increased the number of white and red blood cells, hematocrit, hemoglobin, heterophile, and decreased lymphocytes (P<0.05). …”
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Catalytic Decomposition of CF4 by Mesoporous Aluminum Coupled with Non-Thermal Plasma by Fenghua SHEN, Yuqin LI, Wanning LIU, Kaisong XIANG, Hui LIU

“…These products deposit on the catalyst surface, leading to pore blockage and a subsequent decrease in CF4 decomposition efficiency after prolonged reaction. …”
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Information transparency as paradigm of the economic systems sustaina ble development by L. Orlova

“…As the instrument of management an information transparency index can be used when monitoring the current situation, forming strategy of development, control for key problems of the sustainable development strategy.…”
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A Rotated Object Detection Model With Feature Redundancy Optimization for Coronary Athero-Sclerotic Plaque Detection by Xue Hao, Haza Nuzly Abdull Hamed, Qichen Su, Xin Dai, Linqiang Deng

“…These redundant features interfere with plaque feature extraction, resulting in decreased performance and increased computational complexity. …”
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New application of smart packaging by using sumac extract for detecting lactic cheese aging by Shaghayegh Roozbahani, Mahnoosh Parsaeimehr, Ashkan Jebelli Javan, Mohammad Ali Hesarinejad

“…The use of smart packaging allows the consumer to know the storage conditions of the package in the past and the current quality of the food inside the package. Changes in food quality can be detected by detecting changes in their pH. …”
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HNF-1β alleviates podocyte injury in lupus nephritis by maintaining endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis by Jie Yu, Bing Guo, Fan Zhang, Miao Liu, Ying Xie, Hui-mei Zou, Yuan-yuan Ruan, Xiao-min An, Pei-lei Chen, Ying-qin Luo, Ming-jun Shi, Li-fen Xu

“…Objective The current study aims to elucidate the critical function of hepatocyte nuclear factor 1-beta (HNF1-β) in lupus nephritis (LN) by investigating its modulation of the Derlin-1/valosin-containing protein (VCP)/VCP-interacting membrane selenoprotein (VIMP) complex, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and podocyte apoptosis.Methods In vitro and in vivo models of LN were established using glomerular podocytes treated with LN serum and MRL/lpr mice, respectively. …”
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Humidity effect on epiphytic microflora development and seed germination of spring bread wheat by O. F. Khamova, P. V. Popolzukhin, O. S. Dmitrenko

“…There was found out that the seed germination on 88% depended on the moisture content during storage and a number of fungi on their surface. On increasing the initial moisture content of seeds to 17%, the number of microorganisms on them increased significantly, and germination decreased after three years of storage in plastic containers to 0–1.9% in 28 months (2.3 years). …”
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Identification of novel antiviral host factors by functional gene expression analysis using in vitro HBV infection assay systems. by Takuto Nosaka, Tatsushi Naito, Yu Akazawa, Kazuto Takahashi, Hidetaka Matsuda, Masahiro Ohtani, Tsutomu Nishizawa, Hiroaki Okamoto, Yasunari Nakamoto

“…Knockdown of STAT1 increased viral products in HBV-transfected HepG2 cells, but decreased in HBV-infected PXB cells. …”
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Reducing the dietary starch:protein ratios in low-protein diets enhanced the growth performance of goslings from 1 to 28 days of age by Xucheng Zheng, Qian Lu, Chunhui Huang, Usman Nazir, Zhi Yang, Haiming Yang, Zhiyue Wang

“…In reduced S: P ratio diets, serum Leucine (Leu) decreased and Threonine (Thr) concentration increased. …”
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Impact of adding wheat and poultry by-product meal to the diet on broiler carcass traits, production performance, and physical pellet quality by Omid Ahmadauli, Mohsen Daneshyar, Sina Payvastegan, Amir Attar, Gholamreza Najafi, Mohammad Reza Abdollahi

“…During the finisher phase, including of 4 % PBM led to an increase (P ˂ 0.01) in PDI in wheat-free diets. Conversely, in diets containing 10 % and 20 % wheat, PDI decreased by adding 4 % PBM. …”
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Changes in air pollutant emissions in China during two clean-air action periods derived from the newly developed Inversed Emission Inventory for Chinese Air Quality (CAQIEI) by L. Kong, L. Kong, X. Tang, X. Tang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, J. Zhu, J. Zhu, J. Li, H. Wu, H. Wu, Q. Wu, H. Chen, H. Chen, L. Zhu, W. Wang, B. Liu, Q. Wang, D. Chen, Y. Pan, Y. Pan, J. Li, J. Li, L. Wu, L. Wu, G. R. Carmichael

“…From 2015 to 2020, the total emissions decreased by 54.1 % for SO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>, 44.4 % for PM<span class="inline-formula">_2.5</span>, 33.6 % for PM<span class="inline-formula">₁₀</span>, 35.7 % for CO, and 15.1 % for NO<span class="inline-formula">_<i>x</i></span> but increased by 21.0 % for NMVOCs. …”
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A high-duty-cycle transmitter unit for steady-state surface NMR instruments by N. B. Gaikwad, L. Liu, M. P. Griffiths, D. Grombacher, J. J. Larsen

“…Here we demonstrate a novel steady-state surface NMR transmitter with a maximum 93 A peak current. The stability of the transmitter is evaluated on 10 min pulse trains with a duty cycle of 10 %, containing pulses of either 5, 10, 20, or 40 ms duration and low or high current. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccines in the Pediatric Population: A Focus on Cardiac Patients by Ghena Lababidi, Hossam Lababidi, Fadi Bitar, Mariam Arabi

“…This review also contains current and future perspectives, as well as a section on the cardiovascular implications and related dynamics of pediatric COVID-19 vaccination.…”
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The Link between Ankylosing Spondylitis, Crohn’s Disease, Klebsiella, and Starch Consumption by Taha Rashid, Clyde Wilson, Alan Ebringer

“…Hence, a decrease of starch-containing products in the daily dietary intake could have a beneficial therapeutic effect on the disease especially when used in conjunction with the currently available medical therapies in the treatment of patients with AS and CD.…”
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Effects of coix seed polyphenol extract on rumen fermentation, milk production, fatty acid profile, antioxidant activity, and polyphenol content in dairy goats by X.Z. Tian, Y.Q. Xu, J.X. Qin, X. Wang, S.L. Xie, R. Chen, Q. Lu, X. Chen

“…The results indicated that the ruminal fluid total VFA level increased linearly and quadratically, the acetic acid concentration and acetate:propionate ratio decreased quadratically, and the propionic acid level increased quadratically with increasing CSE concentration. …”
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ANALYSIS OF MODELS OF EARLY DEBT REPAYMENT IN THE Generalized CREDIT TRANSACTIONS by Y. E. Kasimov, A. N. Kolesnikov

“…So in the uniform schemes of repayment of consumer credit each payment contains the same part of principal amounts and the total interest. …”
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ACCELERATED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF PHANTOM «ROZI» BY OS-SART METHOD USING ORDERED SUBSET PROJECTIONS by S. A. Zolotarev, M. M. Mieteeg, A. N. Al-Nadfa

“…One of the popular approaches used to increase the rate of convergence of these algorithms is to perform a correction of the current approximation of the reconstructed object on subsets of the projection data. …”
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The criminal legal aid in China by L. Changhai, V. Sonin

“…Legal assistance in criminal cases is an integral part of the institute of legal aid in China and plays an invalu-able role in ensuring due process, maintaining the balance between prosecution and de-fense, as well as in guaranteeing human rights. This study contains a general description of the current state of criminal legal aid in China, highlights inherent problems of this institu-tion and describes prospects of its development. …”
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IRON CHELATION THERAPY IN THALASSEMIA SYNDROMES by Paolo Cianciulli

“…As there are no physiological mechanisms to excrete the iron contained in transfused red cells (1 unit of blood contains approximately 200 mg of iron) the excess of iron is stored in various organs. …”
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