Donor Parameters and Platelet Yield during Plateletpheresis: A Cross-sectional Prospective Study by Ruchi Singh, Ganga S. Pilli, Ramadevi Vivek Wani

“…Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional prospective study included 160 single-donor platelet apheresis procedures done for 1 year. …”
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Epidural Catheter Placement in Morbidly Obese Parturients with the Use of an Epidural Depth Equation prior to Ultrasound Visualization by Sukhdip Singh, Keith M. Wirth, Amy L. Phelps, Manasi H. Badve, Tanmay H. Shah, Neera Sah, Manuel C. Vallejo

“…Background. Previously, Balki determined the Pearson correlation coefficient with the use of ultrasound (US) was 0.85 in morbidly obese parturients. …”
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THE STATE OF THE MICROCIRCULATORY BED IN DIABETIC FOOT SYNDROME WITH THE CARRIAGE OF VARIOUS VARIANTS OF THE T1565C POLYMORPHISM GENOTYPES OF THE ITGB3 GENE by Наталья Игоревна Троицкая, Константин Геннадьевич Шаповалов

“…Purpose of the work – to study the state of the microvasculature in patients with the development of diabetic foot syndrome with various variants of carriage of the T1565C polymorphism genotypes of the ITGB3 gene. Materials and methods. The study involved 198 patients with uncomplicated diabetes mellitus and 199 patients with diabetic foot syndrome, in whom the distribution of genotypes of the T1565C polymorphic marker of the ITGB3 gene was studied by polymerase chain reaction. …”
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Zinc and Anthropometry in Sickle Cell Disease: Comparison between Two Genotypes (SS and SC Hemoglobinopathies) by Anuoluwa Abisola Alaka, Olubunmi Olayemi Alaka, Ayobola Abolape Iyanda

“…Anthropometry (body weight, standing height, body mass index [BMI], head and mid-upper-arm circumferences [MUACs]) was determined using standard procedures. Data were analyzed with analysis of variance and Pearson correlation coefficient. …”
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Some results for the family of holomorphic functions associated with the Babalola operator and combination binomial series by Kholood M. Alsager, Sheza M. El-Deeb, Ala Amourah, Jongsuk Ro

“…Next, for the functions of these newly defined family we determine coefficient estimates, distortion bounds, radius problems, and the radius of starlikeness and close-to-convexity. …”
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Accuracy of small and medium field of view CBCT in differentiation between periapical cystic and solid lesions by Dania AlMadi, Malak Al-Hadlaq, Ohoud AlOtaibi, Asma'a Al-Ekrish

“…Materials and methods: Fifty-one patients with periapical lesions having retrievable small or medium FOV CBCT images and biopsy samples were included in the study. …”
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Clinical and molecular correlates of the ASPECTS in the acute phase of stroke by Aline Mansueto MOURÃO, Laélia Cristina Caseiro VICENTE, Mery Natali Silva ABREU, Romeu Vale SANT’ANNA, Fidel Castro Alves DE MEIRA, Rodrigo Menezes de Brito XAVIER, Marco Túlio de Azevedo TANURE, Erica Leandro Marciano VIEIRA, Leonardo Cruz DE SOUZA, Aline Silva de MIRANDA, Milene Alvarenga RACHID, Antônio Lucio TEIXEIRA

“…Objective: To investigate the association between peripheral biomarkers with the Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) in individuals after ischemic stroke. Methods: Patients over 18 years old with acute ischemic stroke were enrolled in this study. …”
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Association of end-tidal and venous carbon dioxide in intubated and ventilated children by Amir Hossein Jafari-Rouhi, Samad Shams Vahdati, Asghar Jafari-Rouhi, Amin Khameneh, Leila Vahedi, Reza Azadi, Naier Moharrami, Pooneh Navidi, Fatemeh Zeynalzadeh

“…Introduction: The end-tidal CO2 pressure (PetCO2) monitoring which is a non-invasive method than PvCO2 (venous pressure of carbon dioxide), could determinate a graph depicting the carbon dioxide concentration in blood. …”
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Relation between bank erosion and bed incision in the braided reach of the Lower Yellow River undergoing channel degradation by Junqiang Xia, Yifei Cheng, Meirong Zhou, Xin Yu, Xiangzhou Xu, Koen Blanckaert, Zhengbing Wang

“…Quite high accuracy was achieved in this analysis, with the coefficient of determination being equal to 0.96.…”
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Activity of solvent extracts of Prosopis spicigera, Zingiber officinale and Trachyspermum ammi against multidrug resistant bacterial and fungal strains by Rosina Khan, Mohammad Zakir, Sadul H Afaq, Abdul Latif, Asad U Khan

“…Preliminary phytochemical analysis was also performed .Minimum inhibitory concentration was determined by a two-fold serial dilution method followed by determination of minimum bactericidal/fungicidal concentration. …”
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Purification of Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis MPT64 Immunoglobulin-Y from Egg-Yolk Supernatant Using Thiophilic Adsorption Chromatography by Sri Agung Fitri Kusuma, Muhammad Fadhlillah, Intan Timur Maisyarah, Shintani Ayunda Khairunnisa, Muhammad Yusuf, Yaya Rukayadi, Toto Subroto

“…The obtained IgY was characterized by SDS-PAGE and dot-blot then determined its content levels using the Lowry method. …”
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Non-Carbon-Supported, Pt-Based Catalysts with Applications in the Electrochemical Hydrogen Pump/Compressor (EHP/C) by Galin Rusev Borisov, Nevelin Rusev Borisov, Evelina Slavcheva

“…The electrochemical activity toward the hydrogen reduction reaction (HRR) was evaluated at room temperature and at elevated temperatures to determine the catalytic efficiency and stability. The optimal Pt loading was determined to be 30 wt.%, achieving a current density of approximately 0.12 A cm⁻² at 0.25 V, demonstrating a balance between catalyst efficiency and material utilization. …”
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Characteristics of UV-MicroO3 Reactor and Its Application to Microcystins Degradation during Surface Water Treatment by Guangcan Zhu, Xiwu Lu, Zhonglian Yang

“…Experimental results indicated that the optimum air flux in the reactor equipped with 37 mm diameter quartz tube was determined to be 18∼25 L/h for efficient O3 generation. …”
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Depletion reveals role of bicarbonate in the photosynthetic electron transport chain of Limnospira maxima by Leslie Castillo, Stavroula Nicolaou, Colin Gates, Colin Gates

“…The hypercarbonate-requiring filamentous cyanobacterium Limnospira maxima has had multiple bicarbonate functions on both acceptor and donor side of PSII determined by depletion. 77K spectrofluorometric investigation of phycobilin and chlorophyll excitation suggests the mild in vivo depletion method for bicarbonate results in loss of chlorophyll connectivity to the reaction center in PSII and dissociation of the phycobilisome due to proportional increase of fluorescence emission from allophycocyanin. …”
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Quantitative comparison of HTLV-1 and HIV-1 cell-to-cell infection with new replication dependent vectors. by Dmitriy Mazurov, Anna Ilinskaya, Gisela Heidecker, Patricia Lloyd, David Derse

“…We have developed an efficient method to quantify cell-to-cell infection with single-cycle, replication dependent reporter vectors. …”
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Evaluating the Acceptance and Success of Mobile Banking Systems Using a Combination of UTAUT2 and Delone & McLean Models by Novrinda Khairun Nisak, Ali Ibrahim, Ermatita

“…The research employed the SemPLS method, chosen due to its ability to handle complex models with multiple latent variables and assess intricate relationships between constructs. …”
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Multi-Objective Optimization of Natural Lighting Design in Reading Areas of Higher Education Libraries by Xiao Cui, Chi-Won Ahn

“…This study provides a systematic and reproducible method for optimizing natural lighting in educational spaces and offers practical guidance for energy-efficient and user-centered library design.…”
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Antioxidant Properties and Environmental Stability of Curcumin-Loaded Zein-Tea Saponin Nanoparticles by Bingxin XU, Chaoran LIU, Xinyi FENG, Shuangshuang WANG, Han WANG, Jianing NIU, Lei DAI

“…The curcumin-loaded zein-tea saponin (Zein-TS-Cur) nanoparticles were prepared using the antisolvent co-precipitation method, and the encapsulation efficiency, loading capacity, fluorescence intensity, particle size, PDI, Zeta-potential, antioxidant properties, and storage stability of the composite nanoparticles were determined to screened for the optimal preparation ratio,and to investigate their environmental stability. …”
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Novel Cell Preservation Technique to Extend Bovine In Vitro White Blood Cell Viability. by Emilie L Laurin, Shawn L B McKenna, Javier Sanchez, Horacio Bach, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Lecompte, Marcelo Chaffer, Greg P Keefe

“…This practical and simple method to extend in vitro white blood cell viability could benefit the efficient utilization of cell-based blood tests in ruminants.…”
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A novel solid phase synthesis of an estradiol derivative and preclinical evaluation for targeting estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer by Subhani M. Okarvi

“…This study introduces an innovative and effective method for synthesizing the DOTA-coupled estradiol derivative and evaluating its preclinical potential. 68Ga/177Lu-labeled estradiol derivative was evaluated in vitro for its stability in human plasma, and binding capacity was determined using the ER-positive MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. …”
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