Acoustic and Psychological Effects of Omkar Chanting in Novice Indian Adults: A Quasi-experimental Study by Jayashree Pattanayak, Yamini Belur, Judu Ilavarasu

“…Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted online in India involving 100 healthy adults (aged 20-45 years) over 10 days in three batches, from November 2023 to December 2023. Participants attended daily 30-minute Omkar chanting sessions. …”
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Effects of high-temperature, short-time pasteurization on milk and whey during commercial whey protein concentrate production by Joanna Haas, Bum Jin Kim, Zeynep Atamer, Chao Wu, David C. Dallas

“…We analyzed 3 distinct batches of raw milk (RM) and the corresponding pasteurized milk (PM), resulting whey (RW), and pasteurized whey (PW) produced at commercial scale. …”
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Process Development for the Continuous Manufacturing of Carbamazepine-Nicotinamide Co-Crystals Utilizing Hot-Melt Extrusion Technology by Lianghao Huang, Wen Ni, Yaru Jia, Minqing Zhu, Tiantian Yang, Mingchao Yu, Jiaxiang Zhang

“…Risk assessment highlighted material attributes, process parameters, and equipment design as critical factors affecting CC formation. All experimental batches yielded ≥ 94% pure CCs with no residual starting materials, demonstrating process reproducibility and robustness. …”
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Specific reaction conditions for efficient automated 68Ga-radiolabeling of the FAP-2286 pseudopeptide on a GAIA® synthesizer by Maissa Ammour, Jade Torchio, Stéphane C. Renaud, Léa Rubira, Cyril Fersing, Cyril Fersing

“…In the automated synthesis, adjustments were made, including doubling the vector amount and extending heating to 9 min, resulting over three test-batches in a moderate RCY of 59.85 ± 3.73% and a RCP just over 94% up to 4 h after the end of synthesis. …”
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Substandard antibiotics and their clinical outcomes among hospitalized patients in southern Malawi: a pilot study by Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Adamson Sinjani Muula, Frider Chimimba, Happy Magwaza Nyirongo, Elizabeth Kampira, Felix Khuluza

“…We used these records for matching and sampling of the administered medicine batches to the patient files. In total, we reviewed 224 patient management files for eligible patients, aiming to assess the patient recovery and the occurrence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using a global trigger tool. …”
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Treatment of Alfalfa Seeds With Food-grade Organic Acid Mixtures Reduces Loads of Pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Typhimurium on Sprouts Without Reducing Germina... by David F. Bridges, Alexander R. Hendricks, Nicholas J. Colella, W. Scott Compel, Maeli Melotto

“…Fresh sprout weight measured after 5 days for 3 of the 4 tested OAMs (100 sprout batches; 2.31–2.62 g) was also significantly higher than fresh weights after NaClO treatment (∼2.0 g). …”
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Plasma Cardiac Troponin-I Concentration in Normal Horses and in Horses with Cardiac Abnormalities by Jonathan H. Foreman, Brett S. Tennent-Brown, Mark A. Oyama, D. David Sisson

“…Heparinized jugular venous blood samples were collected and centrifuged within 30 min, and the plasma was separated and frozen at −70 °C for subsequent batched cTnI analysis. The lower limit of detection was 0.01 ng/mL, and the upper limit was 100 ng/mL of plasma. …”
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Body of Wood by Pierre Michon, Erik Noonan

“…Flaubert pretended to have none of all that, that which he had, and for him this pretension became real; he patched together a mask which comprised his skin, and with which he wrote his books; skin and mask had been so well glued that when he wished to retire it, he found nothing more in his hand than an indissoluble mixture of flesh and cardboard under the thick clown moustache. …”
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Pharmaceutico Analytical and Clinical Evaluation of Modified Dosage Forms (Lepa guti) of Varun Twak Lepa and Krushnatiladi Lepa in Vyanga (Melasma): A Research Protocol for Randomi... by Pratiksha Mahure, Bharat Rathi

“…The parameters assessed will include Shyavata (discoloration), Parush Sparsha (dryness), Daha (burning sensation), Kandu (itching), Snigdhata (oiliness), size of patches, Von Luschan’s colour scale, and Melasma Severity Index (MSI) score. …”
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Real-Time ConvNext-Based U-Net with Feature Infusion for Egg Microcrack Detection by Chenbo Shi, Yuejia Li, Xin Jiang, Wenxin Sun, Changsheng Zhu, Yuanzheng Mo, Shaojia Yan, Chun Zhang

“…Experimental results on a dataset comprising over 3400 graded egg microcrack image patches demonstrate that CBU-FI Net achieves a reduction in parameters to one-third the amount in the original U-Net, with an inference speed of 21 ms per image (1 million pixels). …”
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Assessing the Effect of Water on Submerged and Floating Plastic Detection Using Remote Sensing and K-Means Clustering by Lenka Fronkova, Ralph P. Brayne, Joseph W. Ribeiro, Martin Cliffen, Francesco Beccari, James H. W. Arnott

“…These findings directly contributed to Sustainable Development Goal 14.1 on mapping large marine plastic patches of 10 × 10 m and could be used to better define systems for monitoring submerged and floating plastic pollution.…”
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Combined negative pressure wound therapy with new wound dressings to repair a ruptured giant omphalocele in a neonate: a case report and literature review by Shulin Hou, Zeyao Shi, Xiaowen Li, Ru Yang, Yan Song, Zhaolan Zeng

“…We used VG and CMC-Ag patched on the defect hole. After creating a moist and fresh environment, NPWT was then applied mainly to extract excess fluid and promote granulation. …”
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Smoking Cessation Strategies for Different Types of Cigarette Users Using a Digital Peer–Supported App and Nicotine Aids: Prospective Study by Shota Yoshihara, Kayoko Takahashi, Chiaki Uemura, Shin Murakami, Daichi Harada, Ying Jiang, Hiroshi Yamato

“…Participants received free nicotine replacement therapy (either patches or gum) and access to a digital peer support app. …”
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Advanced image super-resolution using deep learning approaches by Mohamed Badiy, Fatima Amounas, Mourade Azrour, Mohammad Ali A. Hammoudeh

“…The CNN successfully learned to map low-resolution image patches to their high-resolution counterparts, and the GAN further refined the images, enhancing both precision and visual quality. …”
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Forecasting Urban Sprawl Dynamics in Islamabad: A Neural Network Approach by Saddam Sarwar, Hafiz Usman Ahmed Khan, Falin Wu, Sarah Hasan, Muhammad Zohaib, Mahzabin Abbasi, Tianyang Hu

“…If the existing patterns of change persist over the next ten years, a drop in the mean Euclidian Nearest Neighbor Distance (ENN) of vegetation patches is anticipated (from 104.57 m to 101.46 m over 2020–2035), indicating an accelerated transformation of the landscape. …”
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The Utility of Virtual Reality in Ophthalmology: A Review by Ahuja AS, Paredes III AA, Eisel ML, Ahuja SA, Wagner IV, Vasu P, Dorairaj S, Miller D, Abubaker Y

“…VR has also improved visual field defects in patients with glaucoma and treated amblyopia in children who did not improve with patching. Barriers to the widespread implementation of VR include high initial capital cost, limited sample sizes for research studies, and discrepancies between VR visual field and real-world clinical practice. …”
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Trade-Offs and Synergies Between Ecosystem Services and Their Ecological Security Patterns in the Guanzhong–Tianshui Economic Zone by Jing Zhou, Jianhua Xiao, Daiying Yin, Yu Ren

“…We selected service bundles with significant synergies among <i>NPP</i>, <i>SC</i>, and <i>HQ</i> as ecological sources, which were mainly in the Qinling and Weibei mountains, comprising 47 ecological patches. We identified 58 ecological corridors, 330.83 km² of pinch points, and 401.30 km² of barriers, which form a mesh structure covering the study area, proposing a development pattern of six zones and one belt. …”
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Enhancing basal cell carcinoma classification in preoperative biopsies via transfer learning with weakly supervised graph transformers by Johan Björkman, Sigrid Lagerroth, Jan Siarov, Filmon Yacob, Noora Neittaanmäki

“…WSIs were split into patches, and features were extracted using a pretrained simCLR model trained on 1,435 WSIs from BCC excisions. …”
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Distribuição e amostragem de Sitophilus zeamais (M.) em grãos de trigo armazenado em silo metálico Distribution and sampling of Sitophilus zeamais (M.) in wheat grains stored in a... by Anderson K. Santos, Lêda R. D’Antonino Faroni, Jamilton P. dos Santos, Raul N. C. Guedes, Adriano F. Rozado

“…In order to characterize the type of the distribution of the Sitophilus population, three techniques were used: Iwao’s patchness, Taylor’s power law and Morisita’s index. …”
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ELemental Abundances of Planets and Brown Dwarfs Imaged around Stars (ELPIS). II. The Jupiter-like Inhomogeneous Atmosphere of the First Directly Imaged Planetary-mass Companion 2M... by Zhoujian Zhang, Paul Mollière, Jonathan J. Fortney, Mark S. Marley

“…This model suggests ∼9% of 2MASS 1207 b’s atmosphere is covered by thin iron and silicate clouds, producing L-dwarf-like spectra, while the remaining 91% consists of thick iron and silicate clouds, emitting blackbody-like spectra. These thin-cloud patches and thick-cloud regions resemble Jupiter’s belts and zones, respectively, and this scenario is consistently supported by other retrieval runs incorporating inhomogeneous atmospheres. …”
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