Mechanical Response of Industrial Concrete with SFRC and PFRC by José Ángel Ortíz-Lozano, Silvia Rodríguez-Narciso, Julián Carrillo, Juan Antonio Hernández-Andrade, Jesús Pacheco-Martínez, Martín Hernández-Marín, Albert de la Fuente-Antequera

“…Improvements were identified in several fiber-reinforced concrete samples in terms of compressive strength: 67% of the steel fiber samples and 100% of the polypropylene fiber samples had values above the average value of the simple concrete; in terms of the modulus of rupture, 83% of the steel fiber samples and 80% of the polypropylene fiber samples had values above the average value of the simple concrete. …”
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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-guided biliary drainage for distal malignant biliary obstruction due to pancreat... by Naminatsu Takahara, Yousuke Nakai, Kensaku Noguchi, Tatsunori Suzuki, Tatsuya Sato, Ryunosuke Hakuta, Kazunaga Ishigaki, Tomotaka Saito, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro

“…Both procedures demonstrated 100% technical and clinical success rates, with a similar incidence of adverse events (48% vs. 39%, p=0.59). …”
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Navigating the Collective: Nanoparticle-Assisted Identification of Leader Cancer Cells During Migration by Anastasia Alexandrova, Elizaveta Kontareva, Margarita Pustovalova, Sergey Leonov, Yulia Merkher

“…We conducted calibration experiments to identify the “optimal time” at which cells exhibit peak speed during wound closure. …”
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ALMA Observations of Solar Spicules in a Polar Coronal Hole by T. S. Bastian, C. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos, M. Shimojo, S. M. White

“…The observations were made on 2018 December 25 of the northern polar coronal hole. ALMA obtained time-resolved imaging observations at wavelengths of 3 mm (100 GHz; 2 s cadence) and 1.25 mm (239 GHz; ≈2 minutes cadence) with an angular resolution of 2 $\mathop{.}…”
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Assessing Lung and Skin Cancer Risks for Steel and Iron Manufacturing Industry Workers Exposed to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Ying-Fang Wang, Yu-Chieh Kuo, Ming-Yeng Lin, Perng-Jy Tsai

“…The mean inhalatory exposure concentrations of the melting and casting workers (2.84 × 104–3.32 × 104 ng m−3) were higher, but ladling workers (1.58 × 105 ng m−3) were lower, than the time-weighted average permissible exposure level (PEL-TWA) regulated in Taiwan (1.00 × 105 ng m−3). …”
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Effect of the Ultraviolet C Light-Emitting Diode Treatment on the Quality of Soil-Grown and Pot-Grown Red Raspberries by Nicole R. Giuggioli, Daniele M. Nucera, Serenella Piano, Selene Ollani

“…The UVC-LED treatment increased the total phenolic content (158 to 200 mg GAE/100 g) and ferric reducing antioxidant power (55.3 to 78.6 mmol Fe 2 +/kg) of the pot-grown raspberries when the UVC-LED treatment was followed by storage in a climate-controlled room (20°C). …”
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Effect of galectin-3 and brain natriuretic peptide levels on echocardiographic parameters of left heart chamber following coronary artery bypass grafting by Yulia A. Styazhkina, Irina F. Grishina, Nina B. Poletaeva, Tatyana F. Peretolchina, Olga V. Nikolaenko

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: In total, 100 men with CAD following CABG were enrolled. Group 1 included 58 patients who returned to work 4 months after the surgery. …”
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Metagenomics: a new frontier for routine pathology testing of gastrointestinal pathogens by Nicola Z. Angel, Mitchell J. Sullivan, Areej Alsheikh-Hussain, Liang Fang, Samantha MacDonald, Alena Pribyl, Blake Wills, Gene W. Tyson, Philip Hugenholtz, Donovan H. Parks, Paul Griffin, David L. A. Wood

“…However, thorough testing for a wider range of causal agents is time consuming and remains limited to a subset of pathogenic organisms. …”
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The transcriptional response to yellow and wilt disease, caused by race 6 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Ciceris in two contrasting chickpea cultivars by Aliakbar Faramarzpour, Sara Dezhsetan, Hamid Hassaneian Khoshro, Raheleh Mirdar Mansuri, Hamid Reza Pouralibaba, Zahra-Sadat Shobbar

“…The expression patterns of some differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were validated using quantitative real-time PCR. A total of 131 genes were exclusively upregulated under FW stress in the resistant cultivar, including several genes involved in sensing (e.g., CaNLR-RPM1, CaLYK5-RLK, CaPR5-RLK, CaLRR-RLK, and CaRLP-EIX2), signaling (e.g., CaPP7, CaEPS1, CaSTY13, and CaPR-1), transcription regulation (e.g., CaMYBs, CaGLK, CaERFs, CaZAT11-like, and CaNAC6) and cell wall integrity (e.g., CaPGI2-like, CaEXLs, CaCSLD and CaCYP73A100-like). …”
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Chemical Fingerprint Analysis for Discovering Markers and Identifying Saussurea involucrata by HPLC Coupled with OPLS-DA by Qingdong Ma, Xiaoxiang Chen, Ke Zhang, Dahong Yao, Lu Yang, Hangyu Wang, Santai Bulemasi, Jian Huang, Jinhui Wang

“…Three common patterns consisting of 20, 14, and 7 common peaks were generated by frequency filters of median, upper quartile, and 100%, respectively. Based on two formerly screened patterns, S. involucrata can be effectively identified from its five easily confused snow lotus species, including the most closely related plant (S. orgaadayi) in the orthogonal partial least-squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) models. …”
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An Experimental Investigation on the Relationship between MS Frequency Response and Coal and Gas Outburst by Quanjie Zhu, Qingsong Li, Yu Feng, Xianwei Heng, Shaoquan Li, Tao Yang

“…The features of each stage, including the time-frequency domain, were extracted and quantitatively expressed. …”
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Ultra-fast biparametric MRI in prostate cancer assessment: Diagnostic performance and image quality compared to conventional multiparametric MRI by Antonia M. Pausch, Vivien Filleböck, Clara Elsner, Niels J. Rupp, Daniel Eberli, Andreas M. Hötker

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Extraction, Enrichment, and Quantification of Main Antioxidant Aglycones of Flavonoids and Tannins from Melastoma Dodecandrum Lour.: Guided by UPLC-ESI-MS/MS by Yingpeng Tong, Yu Jiang, Xubo Chen, Xiaonan Li, Ping Wang, Ye Jin, Kejun Cheng

“…Evaluating by DPPH radical scavenging assay, the antioxidant capacity of MD could reach 2742.27 ± 93.86 (μmol Trolox/g) under the optimized conditions including methanol concentration (61%, v/v), extraction time (45 min), liquid-solid ratio (0.46 ml/mg), and extraction temperature (25°C). …”
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<i>In silico</i> search for and analysis of R gene variation in primitive cultivated potato species by A. A. Gurina, M. S. Gancheva, N. V. Alpatieva, E. V. Rogozina

“…Homologs of all investigated protein-coding sequences were discovered in PCPS with a relatively high degree of similarity (85–100 %). Homologs of the Rpi-R3b, Rpi-amr3 and Rpi-ber1 genes have been identified in PCPS for the first time. …”
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Examining the Formalin Fixation Method for Maintaining High RNA Quality in Surgical Lung Specimens by Takashi Teishikata, Manabu Itoh, Yusuke Okamoto, Naofumi Miyahara, Chiho Nakashima, Koichiro Takahashi, Masafumi Hiratsuka, Keita Kai, Keiji Kamohara

“…At our institution, sheet‐like fixation is performed to reduce fixation time. This study aimed to compare the quality of RNA from resected lung cancer specimens following different fixation methods. …”
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Effect of Melatonin on Cognitive Function and Sleep in relation to Breast Cancer Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial by Melissa Voigt Hansen, Michael Tvilling Madsen, Lærke Toftegård Andersen, Ida Hageman, Lars Simon Rasmussen, Susanne Bokmand, Jacob Rosenberg, Ismail Gögenur

“…Melatonin increased sleep efficiency and total sleep time but did not affect cognitive function. The dropout rate was significantly lower in the melatonin group. …”
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Validation of Difficult Airway Physiological Score (DAPS) in Critically Ill Adults Undergoing Endotracheal Intubation in the Emergency Department by Shahan Waheed, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Ahmed Raheem, Asad Iqbal Mian

“…Hypotension was the primary outcome in the high-risk group 100 (51.5%) versus 32 (24.2%) in low-risk group (p<0.001). …”
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Morphological and molecular characterization of a Sarcocystis bovifelis-like sarcocyst in American beef by Aditya Gupta, Larissa S. de Araujo, Andrew Hemphill, Asis Khan, Benjamin M. Rosenthal, Jitender P. Dubey

“…Although S. hominis has been reported as prevalent in Europe, the occurrence of thick-walled species in the US remains poorly known. Here, for the first time to our knowldge, we characterize a thick-walled Sarcocystis species from a sample of beef from a local grocery store in Maryland. …”
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Post-Marketing Pharmacovigilance of Canakinumab from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) by Weidong Zhang, Yunzhou Chen, Zeyu Yao, Mengling Ouyang, Minghui Sun, Shupeng Zou

“…More attention should be paid to serious infections, particularly in males, individuals aged ≥60 years, or those weighing >100 kg, who demonstrated the highest risk of serious infections.…”
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Evaluation of highway debris flow hazard based on geomorphic evolution theory coupled with material response rate by Na He, Ruze Han, Guisheng Hu, Zhiquan Yang, Linjuan Xu, Filip Gurkalo

“…The results showed that the maximum impact ranges of a debris flow, occurring once in 100 years, for four gullies would be 9.08 m, 9.09 m, 10.86 m, and 10.08 m. …”
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