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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Ponderações sobre o branqueamento em processos de restauração de papel: um panorama químico e teórico do procedimento by Luiza Batista Amaral, Camilla Henriques Maia de Camargos

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Short-term endoscopic alterations of early gastric cancer after successful eradication of Helicobacter pylori by Xiaohan Yan, Jingze Li, Zehua Zhang, Bensong Duan, Meidong Xu, Qinwei Xu

“…All the confidence level of DL (High confidence: 15.6% vs. 93.3%, p value = 0.000) and invasion depth (High confidence: 37.8% vs. 80.0%, p value = 0.000) and histopathological classification (High confidence: 31.1% vs. 91.1%, p value = 0.000) were significantly improved after eradication. …”
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The Role of Using Motorized Diamond Burr Polisher Instrument in Minimizing the Recurrent Rate of Pterygium Excision by Sakar Abdulkarim Nidhamalddin

“…A 90 patients with the mean age of group A (48.84±12.7) years and group B (49.67±12.3) years, complained of different grads of primary pterygium, group A had 31(68.9%) male and 14(31.1%) female, while group B had 22(48.9%) male and 23(51.1%) female. …”
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Three Years of High Time-resolution Air Pollution Monitoring in the Complex Multi-source Harbor of New York and New Jersey by Gayle Hagler, Dan Birkett, Ronald C. Henry, Richard E. Peltier

“…A high degree of temporal variability was observed for pollutants associated with direct emissions, with highest hourly average coefficient of variation observed for NO (2.65), SO2 (1.45) and BC (1.21). Nonparametric trajectory analysis (NTA) was utilized to separate the source areas influencing the monitoring data and observe how they changed over time, with over 1.6 million trajectories computed in total. …”
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Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths infection and associated risk factors among residents of Jigjiga town, Somali region, Eastern Ethiopia. by Abdlmenur Alewi Sedo, Ahmed Zeynudin, Tariku Belay, Mekdes Mekonen Belay, Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim, Mohamed Omar Osman, Ramadan Budul Yusuf, Abdifatah Abdulahi

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A community-based cross-sectional study was revealed from June 1 to July 21, 2023. …”
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Effects of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum HNU082 intervention on fungi and bacteriophages in different intestinal segments of mice by Xinlei Liu, Zhe Han, Wenyao Ma, Weipeng Cui, Dongyu Zhen, Shuaiming Jiang, Jiachao Zhang

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Delayed-release prednisone improves fatigue and health-related quality of life: findings from the CAPRA-2 double-blind randomised study in rheumatoid arthritis by Frank Buttgereit, Rieke Alten, Amy Grahn, Robert J Holt, Patricia Rice

“…Delayed-release (DR) prednisone is designed for evening administration (approximately 22:00) and releases 4 h later to coincide with the rise of nocturnal inflammatory cytokines associated with development of morning stiffness. …”
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Genomic analysis and replication kinetics of the closely related EHV-1 neuropathogenic 21P40 and abortigenic 97P70 strains by Eslam Mohamed, Ines Zarak, Nick Vereecke, Sebastiaan Theuns, Kathlyn Laval, Hans Nauwynck

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Dose-response relationship between lipids and all-cause mortality in the dialysis population: a meta-analysis by Ye Yao, Jing Xiong, Mi-Yuan Wang

“…In the 50–450 mg/dL range, all-cause mortality in the dialysis population was positively associated with triglycerides (TG), with a 2.5% increase in all-cause mortality per 50 mg/dL increase in TG (HR = 1.025, 95% CI = 1.003–1.048, P = 0.01). Conclusion TC is a target for monitoring the dialysis population, which has the lowest all-cause mortality in the range of 180–220 mg/dL. …”
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No Difference in Hip Muscle Volumes and Fatty Infiltration in Those With Hip-Related Pain Compared to Controls by Timothy H Retchford, Kylie J Tucker, Harvi F Hart, Adam I Semciw, Patrick Weinrauch, Alison Grimaldi, Sallie M Cowan, Kay M Crossley, Joanne L Kemp

“…Larger GMAX volume was associated with greater hip abduction and internal rotation strength, larger GMED volume was associated with greater hip extension strength, and larger QF volume was associated with greater hip abduction strength (rho=0.507-0.638). # Conclusion People with hip-related pain and no clinical signs of FAIS have hip muscle volumes that are not significantly different than those of matched pain-free controls or their less-symptomatic hip. …”
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Two chromatographic methods for analyzing paracetamol in spiked human plasma with its toxic metabolite, N-acetyl parabenzoquinone imine and its antidote, N-acetyl-l-cysteine by Omar M El-Abassy, Michael Gamal Fawzy, Ebraam B. Kamel

“…The HPTLC method, which used silica gel 60 F254 as a stationary phase and a developing liquid made up of methanol, ethyl acetate, and glacial acetic acid (8:2:0.2, v/v/v) and a UV detection at 254 nm. The HPLC method was developed using a mobile phase consisting of water, methanol, and formic acid in a proportion of (70:30:0.15, v/v/v). …”
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Modified Mosquito Programs’ Surveillance Needs and An Image-Based Identification Tool to Address Them by Jewell Brey, Bala Murali Manoghar Sai Sudhakar, Kiley Gersch, Tristan Ford, Margaret Glancey, Jennifer West, Sanket Padmanabhan, Angela F. Harris, Autumn Goodwin

“…The identification algorithm, tested internally across 16 species, achieved 98.4 ± 0.6% % macro F1-score on a dataset of known species, unknown species used in training, and species reserved for testing (species, specimens respectively: 12, 1302; 12, 603; 7, 222). …”
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Optimizing Photovoltaic Array Performance Under Partial Shading Using a Golden Ratio-Based Configuration: A Comparative Analysis of 16 Configurational Variants by Sakthivel Ganesan, Prince Winston David, Hariharasudhan Thangaraj, Devakirubakaran Samithas, Praveen Kumar Balachandran, Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri

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Experimental study of mortar incorporating nano-magnetite on engineering performance and radiation shielding by Kunchariyakun Kittipong, Sinyoung Suthatip, MacKenzie Kenneth J. D., Pungkun Vithit, Raknarong Pakkamai, Teh Musofpar, Jekabaso Afham, Sittichan Narumol

“…A 5 wt% addition of nano-Fe3O4 provided the best physical (1,847 ± 19.1 kg m−3), compressive strength (216.79 ± 6.19 ksc at 28 days), and radiation shielding properties, increasing the photon linear attenuation coefficient to 0.155 cm−1 from 0.144 cm−1 in the material without nano-Fe3O4. …”
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Effects of Verbal and Tactile Cues on Gluteal Force Production and Broad Jump Distance by BJ Lehecka, Terra Daniels, Bryson Koester, Wyatt Kropp, Matthew Reeves, Ryan Waterson

“…Broad jump distance following the verbal cues significantly increased (p = 0.000) 3.99% (7.71 cm) compared to the control condition and significantly increased (p = 0.000) by 2.95% (5.71 cm) following the tactile cues. …”
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Cultivos de cobertura en sistemas ganaderos: producción de biomasa y efectos sobre el suelo by Mauricio Gastón Uhaldegaray, Romina Fernández, Nanci Kloster, Alberto Raúl Quiroga

“…Los CC de Ce+N y VCe se destacaron por alcanzar la mayor producción de biomasa acumulada durante 7 años, siendo 41.034 y 39.361 kg materia seca (MS) ha-1, respectivamente. …”
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Producción de plantines de petunia (Petunia híbrida) en sistema flotante by L.A. BARBARO, G. DELUCCHI, M.A. KARLANIAN

“…Se realizaron dos ensayos, en uno se comparó el sistema flotante frente al convencional con tres dosis de fertilizante (19-19-19): 71,5; 31,5; 59,4 mg L-1 de N-P-K, 143; 62,9; 118,7 mg L-1 de N-P-K y 286; 125,8; 237,4 mg L-1 de N-P-K, y en otro se compararon diferentes tipos y volúmenes de bandejas de siembra: 228 celdas de 10 cm3, 216 celdas de 15 cm3, 288 celdas de 10 cm3 y 288 celdas de 17cm3. …”
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Estimating the Health-Related Quality of Life Benefit of Prophylactic Treatment for COVID-19 in Immunocompromised People: A Multimethod Valuation Study by Katy Gallop, Rebekah Hall, Michael Watt, Daniel Squirrell, Neil Branscombe, Sofie Arnetop, Andrew Lloyd

“…Vignettes were valued by a general population sample (N = 100) using a visual analog scale (VAS), time trade-off (TTO), and EQ-5D-5L. A sample of individuals with IC conditions (n = 48) valued their current HRQoL and a post-PrEP vignette using VAS and EQ-5D-5L. …”
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Lightning-induced vulnerability assessment in Bangladesh using machine learning and GIS-based approach by Tanmoy Mazumder, Md. Mustafa Saroar

“…Correlation analysis indicates that lightning fatalities are influenced by multiple factors, with high correlations to cropland area (0.69), agricultural population (0.61), and lightning flashes (0.45). The Random Forest model has appeared to be the best model to predict [with high accuracy] the influence of lightning vulnerability factors. …”
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