Associations of PM2.5 with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Shipyard Workers: A Cohort Study by Nguyen Thanh Tung, Ching-Huang Lai, Chih-Hong Pan, Wei-Liang Chen, Chung-Ching Wang, Che-Wei Liang, Chi-Yu Chien, Kai-Jen Chuang, Huynh Nguyen Xuan Thao, Hoang Ba Dung, Tran Phan Chung Thuy, Hsiao-Chi Chuang

“…In the overall cohort subjects, we observed that an increase in the interquartile range of PM2.5 was associated with a 1.618-ppb decrease in FeNO, a 0.115-L decrease in FVC, a 0.091-L decrease in FEV1, a 0.520% increase in the FEV1/FVC ratio, a 0.259-L s−1 decrease in PEF, a 0.096-L s−1 decrease in FEF25%–75%, a 0.215-L s−1 decrease in FEF25%, and a 0.114-L s−1 decrease in FEF50% (all p < 0.05). …”
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A new relaxation technique based on fractional representation to solve bilinear models: Application to the long horizon crude oil scheduling problem by Mohammad Nasir Yarahmadi, Seyyed Ali MirHassani, Farnaz Hooshmand

“…To evaluate the performance of the algorithm, it is compared to the recently addressed iterative MILP-NLP algorithm based on piecewise McCormick relaxation techniques over a variety of instances. …”
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Change of liver enzymes level during follow-up of patients exposed to vinylchloride by I. V. Kudayeva, L. A. Budarina, O. A. Dyakovich

“…To study activity of the liver enzymes in monitoring patients exposed to vinylchloride (VC) at their professional activity.Material and methods. …”
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Examining Muscle Activity Differences During Single and Dual Vector Elastic Resistance Exercises by Ryan WG Bench, Sydney E Thompson, Alan C Cudlip, Michael WR Holmes

“…The dual vector exercise in abduction significantly increased mean activation in lower trapezius by 25.6 ± 8.11 %MVC and peak activation in supraspinatus by 29.4 ± 5.94 %MVC (p<0.01). …”
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Association between exposure in the cement production industry and non-malignant respiratory effects: a systematic review by Anne Kristin Møller Fell, Karl Christian Nordby

“…ORs for symptoms ranged from 1.2 to 4.8, while FEV1/FVC was 1–6% lower in exposed than in controls. …”
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BIOMARCADORES ASEQUIBLES DE DEMENCIA FRONTOTEMPORAL: UN ESTUDIO DE CLASIFICACIÓN BASADO EN LA CONECTIVIDAD DE REDES CEREBRALES by Martín Dottori, Lucas Sedeño, Miguel Martorell Caro, Florencia Alifano, Eugenia Hesse, Ezequiel Mikulan, Adolfo M. García, Marcela Contreras-Torregrosa, Edinson Muñoz, Amparo Ruiz-Tagle, Patricia Lillo, Andrea Slachevsky, Cecilia Serrano, Daniel Fraiman, Agustín Ibáñez

“…Estas alteraciones en la conectividad funcional en la vcDFT se replicaron mediante EEG de baja densidad (20 electrodos). …”
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Commissioning of ThomX Compton source subsystems and demonstration of 10^{10} x-rays/s by Muath Alkadi, Manuel Alves, Manar Amer, Loic Amoudry, Didier Auguste, Jean-Luc Babigeon, Michel Baltazar, Alain Benoit, Alexandre Blin, Marco Bonanzingamarco, Jean Bonenfant, Julien Bonis, Jean-Pierre Brasile, Kevin Cassou, Jean-Noël Cayla, Thomas Chabaud, Iryna Chaikovska, Sophie Chance, Vincent Chaumat, Ronic Chiche, Patrick Cornebise, Olivier Dalifard, Nicolas Delerue, Remy Dorkel, Denis Douillet, Illya Drebot, Jean-Phillipe Dugal, Kevin Dupraz, Noureddine El Kamchi, Mohamed El Khaldi, Ezgi Ergenlik, Pierre Favier, Marco Fernandez, Alexis Gamelin, Jean-Francois Garaut, Luca Garolfi, Philippe Gauron, Frédéric Gauthier, Alexandre Gonnin, Denis Grasset, Eric Guerard, Hayg Guler, Jacques Haissinski, Emmanuel Herry, Gregory Iaquaniello, Marie Jacquet, Didier Jehanno, Eric Jules, Viacheslav Kubytskyi, François Labaye, Mickaël Lacroix, Marc Langlet, Titouan Lebarillec, Jean-François Ledu, Damien Le Guidec, Bruno Leluan, Pierre Lepercq, Frédéric Letellier-cohen, Rodolphe Marie, Jean-Claude Marrucho, Aurélien Martens, Christophe Mageur, Gabriel Mercadier, Bruno Mercier, Eric Mistretta, Hugues Monard, Alexandre Moutardier, Viktor Mytrochenko, Olivier Neveu, Daniele Nutarelli, Maher Omeich, Yann Peinaud, Antoine Pérus, Yannick Petrilli, Marc Pichet, Bernard Pieyre, Eric Plaige, Christophe Prévost, Thomas Roulet, Raphael Roux, Philippe Rudnicky, Viktor Soskov, Monique Taurigna-Quéré, Stéphane Trochet, Cynthia Vallerand, Alessandro Variola, Olivier Vitez, François Wicek, Guy Wormser, Sébastien Wurth, Fabian Zomer, Patrick Alexandre, Rachid Ben el Fekih, Philippe Berteaud, Sébastien Bobault, Yazid Bouanani, François Bouvet, Lodovico Cassinari, Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie, Renaud Cuoq, Helder Dias, Yannick Dietrich, Massamba Diop, Eric Dupuy, Moussa El Ajjouri, Christian Herbeaux, Nicolas Hubert, Marie Labat, Alain Lestrade, Antoine Letrésor, Robert Lopes, Alexandre Loulergue, Patrick Marchand, Fabrice Marteau, Didier Muller, Amor Nadji, Laurent Nadolski, Ryutaro Nagaoka, Dominique Pedeau, Sylvain Petit, Jean Pierre Pollina, Fernand Ribeiro, Manuel Ros, Julien Salvia, Mourad Sebdaoui, Rajesh Sreedharan, Jean Susini, José Veteran, Cyril Bruyere, Alain Cobessi, William Del Net, Jean-Louis Hazemann, Jean-Louis Hodeau, Philippe Jacquet, Philippe Jeantet, Grigor Kapoujyan, Jérôme Lacipière, Eric Lahéra, Gilles Perroux, Olivier Proux, Emmanuel Roy, Philippe Walter, Alberto Bravin, Hélène Elleaume, François Estève, Harold Bzyl, Christophe Chapelle, Jean-Michel Horodynski, Pierre Robert, Eric Cormier, Jérôme Degallaix, Christophe Michel, Laurent Pinard, Philippe Balcou, Jérôme Lhermite, Sébastien Montant, Marie-Christine Nadeau, Stéphane Petit, Nikolay Artemiev, Marica Biagini, Romain Czarny, Pascal Girault, Sophie Muller, Serge Sierra, Christophe Simon-Boisson, Said Bouaziz, Chamseddine Benabderrahmane, Géraldine Le Duc, Xing Liu

“…This first commissioning phase led to the production of 10^{10} x-rays/s with an on-axis energy of 45 keV. The main steps to be taken to reach the nominal flux are outlined at the end.…”
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Experimental and Computational Analysis of Surgical Mask Effectiveness Against COVID-19 in Indoor Environment by Chin Yan Suen, Helen Hoi Ling Kwok, Yuk Hang Tsui, Ka Hei Lui, Hong Hang Leung, Ka Wo Lam, Karen Pik Shuen Hung, Joseph Kai Cho Kwan, Kin Fai Ho

“…The simulation is consistent with the experimental results as the concentration of sodium chloride (NaCl) droplets is < 4% on average in the room. The ultraviolet-C (UVC) irradiation and dry heating samples are shown to retain the highest filtration efficiencies (> 97%) after 3 disinfection treatment cycles. …”
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Evaluation of volatile safety in children's play mats based on non-targeted screening and risk prioritization by Shuang Liang, Haoyang Shi, Yinhui Yang, Qing Zhang, Zhijuan Wang, Qing Lv

“…In this study, 34 play mats, comprising four materials (3 EPE, 15 XPE, 5 PVC, 11 EVA), were subjected to non-targeted screening based on headspace gas chromatography-Orbitrap high-resolution mass spectrometry (HS-GC-Orbitrap HRMS), which screened out 71 volatile substances. …”
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Effect of cubebin against streptozotocin-induced diabetic nephropathy rats via inhibition TNF-α/NF-κB/TGF-β: in vivo and in silico study by Rahamat Unissa Syed, Sivakumar S. Moni, Weiam Hussein, Taghreed Mohammad Saad Alhaidan, Sondos Mohammed Y. Abumilha, Lama Khalid Alnahdi, Ling Shing Wong, Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Vinoth Kumarasamy

“…Molecular docking [(PDB ID: TNF-α (7JRA), NF-κB (1SVC), TGF-β1 (3TZM)] and dynamic simulation (MDS) were also performed with the selected target. …”
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Exotic Citrus Diseases: Early Detection is the Solution to Protecting Florida Citrus by M. M. Dewdney, J. D. Burrow, O. Batuman, A. Levy, R. H. Brlansky

“… This illustrated trifold brochure  provides key information about Pseudocercospora fruit and leaf spot, sweet orange scab, citrus leprosis virus, citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC), and citrus tristeza virus (CTV) stem pitting. …”
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Exotic Diseases of Citrus Identification Sheet by Megan M. Dewdney, Jamie D. Yates, Michael E. Rogers, Timothy M. Spann

“…PP264, a 2-page ID sheet by M.M. Dewdney, J.D. Yates, M.E. Rogers, and T.M. Spann, provides images for identification and a comparison chart for Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC), Leprosis, Citrus Black Spot, Sweet Orange Scab (SOS), and Citrus Tristeza Stem-Pitting (CTV-SP). …”
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BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITE BASED ON POLYVINYL CHLORIDE AND WOOD WASTE. DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION by VLAD BARBULESCU, LAURENTIA ALEXANDRESCU, MIHAELA NITUICA, MIHAI GEORGESCU, MARIA SONMEZ, DANIELA-MARIA STELESCU, DANA GURAU

“… This work deals with the development and characterization of biodegradable polymer composites based on of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and wood waste (WW) post-consumer waste. Wood waste resulting from wood processing into finished products is cryogenically ground to min. 500 nm, mechanically functionalized at temperature with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) (7%) and compounded in varying proportions (10%, 20%, 50%). …”
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Exotic Citrus Diseases: Early Detection is the Solution to Protecting Florida Citrus by M. M. Dewdney, J. D. Burrow, O. Batuman, A. Levy, R. H. Brlansky

“… This illustrated trifold brochure  provides key information about Pseudocercospora fruit and leaf spot, sweet orange scab, citrus leprosis virus, citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC), and citrus tristeza virus (CTV) stem pitting. …”
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Performance and carcass characteristics of cattle with different castration practices by M. M. Anjos, V. S. Miler, B. N. Barboza, E. O. Queiroz, B. R. C. N. Pazdiora, G. A. Viana, R. D. Pazdiora

“… The aim of this research was to evaluate the performance and carcass characteristics of immunocastrated cattle, in comparison to castrated and non-castrated cattle supplemented on pasture. 36 bovines were used, distributed in a completely randomized design, in 3 treatments: non-castrated animals (ANC), animals castrated late by the surgical method (ACC) and immunocastrated animals (AIC), with 12 replicates each. …”
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Exotic Citrus Diseases: Early Detection is the Solution to Protecting Florida Citrus by Ron H. Brlansky, Megan M. Dewdney, Jamie D. Yates

“…*J. D. Yates' name has changed to J. D. Burrow CH202/CH202: Exotic Citrus Diseases: Early Detection is the Solution to Protecting Florida Citrus (ufl.edu) …”
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Exotic Citrus Diseases: Early Detection is the Solution to Protecting Florida Citrus by Ron H. Brlansky, Megan M. Dewdney, Jamie D. Yates

“…*J. D. Yates' name has changed to J. D. Burrow CH202/CH202: Exotic Citrus Diseases: Early Detection is the Solution to Protecting Florida Citrus (ufl.edu) …”
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Exotic Diseases of Citrus Identification Sheet by Megan M. Dewdney, Jamie D. Yates, Michael E. Rogers, Timothy M. Spann

“…PP264, a 2-page ID sheet by M.M. Dewdney, J.D. Yates, M.E. Rogers, and T.M. Spann, provides images for identification and a comparison chart for Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC), Leprosis, Citrus Black Spot, Sweet Orange Scab (SOS), and Citrus Tristeza Stem-Pitting (CTV-SP). …”
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Mechanical forces pattern endocardial Notch activation via mTORC2-PKC pathway by Yunfei Mu, Shijia Hu, Xiangyang Liu, Xin Tang, Jiayi Lin, Hongjun Shi

“…Notch signaling has been identified as a key regulatory pathway in patterning the endocardium through activation of endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the atrioventricular canal (AVC) and proximal outflow tract (OFT) region. However, the precise mechanism underlying Notch activation remains elusive. …”
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Empowering recovery: a remote spirometry system and mobile app for monitoring and promoting pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with rib fracture by Ling-wei Kuo, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chien-An Liao, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Tung Cheng, Tai-Horng Young, Shih-Ching Kang, Szu-An Chen, Yu-San Tee

“…However, we observed that patients under 65 years demonstrated more remarkable improvement in pulmonary function than their older counterparts, with significant differences in FVC (110% vs 10%, p=0.032) and PEF (64.2% vs 11.9%, p=0.003).Conclusion The adoption of the remote spirometry device is similar between older and younger patients with rib fractures. …”
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