Life cycle assessment of laboratory-scale chitosan production: comparison of high-pressure processing-assisted and conventional methods by Bashir Bashiri, Ana Cristina De Aguiar Saldanha Pinheiro, Silvia Tappi, Pietro Rocculi, Aleksei Kaleda, Raivo Vilu

“…Uncertainty analysis indicates moderate uncertainty levels, affirming data reliability. …”
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Five-year Record of Black Carbon Concentrations in Urban Wanzhou, Sichuan Basin, China by Yimin Huang, Liuyi Zhang, Yang Qiu, Yang Chen, Guangming Shi, Tingzhen Li, Lei Zhang, Fumo Yang

“…The frequency distribution of the average daily concentrations during the years 2014–2017 skewed toward lower values (compared to the rest of the study period), with over 60% falling between 1 and 5 µg m−3. …”
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Physicochemical characterization and in vitro digestibility of resistant starch from corn starch sugar residue by Qianqian Dai, Xiaoke Li, Chuanbo He, Ying Liang, Hejian Xiong, Ying Ma, Shaowei Zhai

“…Compared with NS and HS, the short-range and long-range order of CSSR-RS were significantly higher, indicating excellent thermal stability. …”
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Evaluation of Active Intraoperative Nerve Monitoring in Severe Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty by Alireza Manafi Rasi, MD, Sina Afzal, Dr., MD, Mojtaba Baroutkoub, MD, Hasan Shakiba, MD, Pooya Kalani, MD, Mehdi Tavassoli, MD, Reza Zarei, MD

“…The rate of femoral osteotomy was significantly lower in the monitoring group (13.6%, 25/183) compared to the control group (27.5%, 43/156) (P < .005). …”
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Altered O-Glycans in stimulated whole saliva from patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome and non-pSS sicca by Sarah Kamounah, Kristina A. Thomsson, Christiane Elisabeth Sørensen, Eric Paul Bennett, Niclas G. Karlsson, Anne Marie Lynge Pedersen

“…Comparison of the compositions of O-glycans in SWS samples revealed higher relative levels of sialic acid (NeuAc) and lower levels of neutral amino-monosaccharides (HexNAc) in pSS and non-pSS sicca patients than in the healthy controls. …”
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Effect of probiotics on the growth, blood profile, and nutritional-metabolic profile of feedlot cattle by Flavia I. Mansilla, María C. Aristimuño Ficoseco, María H. Miranda, Marcela D’Urso Villar, Graciela M. Vignolo, María E. F. Nader-Macías

“…Blood and serum parameters were within referential ranges for the control and probiotics-supplemented groups; however, mean values of hematocrit were higher, while the serum glucose, lipid profile, and C-reactive protein values were lower in all the groups. …”
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Verbal fluency and semantic association deficits in children with in birth nonprogressive neuromuscular diseases by Maria Koriakina, Maria Koriakina, Olga E. Agranovich, Ioannis Ntoumanis, Maxim Ulanov, Isak B. Blank, Anna Shestakova, Evgeny Blagovechtchenski

“…Mainly, MD children produced fewer words during verbal fluency tasks and demonstrated reduced semantic associations. …”
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Methanotroph-methylotroph lipid adaptations to changing environmental conditions by Nora Richter, Laura Villanueva, Laura Villanueva, Ellen C. Hopmans, Nicole J. Bale, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Darci Rush

“…Microbial membrane lipids are commonly used as taxonomic markers of specific microbial groups; however, few studies have characterized the changes of membrane lipids under different environmental conditions. …”
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Global cervical cancer elimination: quantifying the status, progress, and gaps by Liangru Zhou, Yi Li, Hongyun Wang, Ruixi Qin, Zhen Han, Ruifeng Li

“…Focusing on vulnerable populations with lower incomes and regions with stunted economic growth may help alleviate inequity and accelerate CC elimination. …”
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Disrupting effects of neonicotinoids and their interaction with metals on thyroid hormone, an evidence of children in a rural area, South China by Ling-Chuan Guo, Pan Zhu, Chunyan Gui, Jing Deng, Yanhong Gao, Chaoyang Long, Han Zhang, Zhanlu Lv, Shengbing Yu

“…Neonicotinoids exposure was found to induce thyroid dysfunction. However, there lack of direct evidence between neonicotinoids exposure and thyroid hormone (TH) disruption in population study, especially in children, which limits the understanding on their health hazard. …”
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Economic and Clinical Impact of Stroke and Warfarin Use for Patients with Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation by Li Wang, Elyse Fritschel, Onur Baser

“…**Background:** Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common clinical problem and potent risk factor for stroke. However, real-world effectiveness and outcomes for AF patients are not well described. …”
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A Study on the Line of Sight to Galaxies Detected at Gamma-Ray Energies by Amy Furniss, Josepf N. Amador, Olivier Hervet, Ollie Jackson, David A. Williams

“…It might relate to propagation effects from lower magnetic or radiative background fields within voids or to an environment more favorable for gamma-ray production for AGN near voids.…”
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Tracking Star-forming Cores as Mass Reservoirs in Clustered and Isolated Regions Using Numerical Passive Tracer Particles by Shingo Nozaki, Hajime Fukushima, Kazuki Tokuda, Masahiro N. Machida

“…Regardless of turbulence strength, convex hull cores with lower filling factors tend to contain more protostars and have larger masses and sizes, indicating that cores in clustered regions are more massive and larger than those in isolated regions. …”
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Utilization, Demand, And Willingness to Pay for Telehealth Services: A Study of Patients in Selected Vietnamese Provinces by Hung Ta, Hoan Van Vu, Thu Xuan Mai, Hieu Thi Minh Nguyen, Toan Thanh Thi Do, Hoat Ngoc Luu

“…Results: The study revealed that 58.7% of participants had utilized telehealth services. For lower-cost services (100,000 VND to 500,000 VND), low-income households were 2.7 times more likely to pay (OR: 2.7, 95% CI: 1.41-5.00, p<0.01); familiarity with telehealth services increased the likelihood of spending by 1.6 times (OR: 1.6, 95% CI: 1.10-2.54, p<0.05); and those with less convenient access to healthcare were 1.79 times more likely to pay (OR: 1.79, 95% CI: 1.00-3.13, p<0.05). …”
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A network medicine approach to investigating ME/CFS pathogenesis in severely ill patients: a pilot study by Li-Yuan Hung, Chan-Shuo Wu, Chia-Jung Chang, Peng Li, Kimberly Hicks, Joshua J. Dibble, Braxton Morrison, Chimere L. Smith, Ronald W. Davis, Wenzhong Xiao

“…This pilot study harnessed the power of network medicine to unravel the complex pathogenesis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). …”
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Assessment of historical and future changes in temperature indices for winegrape suitability in Hungarian wine regions (1971–2100) by László Lakatos, Richárd Nagy

“…In the most optimistic scenario, the average temperature during the growing season may decrease by 0.8°C over the next seven decades. However, in the most pessimistic model, the change expected by the end of the century exceeds a 4.0°C increase. …”
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Pulsed alternating wavelength system lighting does not negatively impact production or welfare but reduces dopamine activity and may improve bone growth in grow-out Pekin ducks by S. Tonissen, B.J. Emmert, J.M. Schober, E.M. Oluwagbenga, D.M. Karcher, G.S. Fraley

“…Ducks housed under PAWS were hypothesized to have lower brain serotonin turnover and equal bone quality compared to those housed under control lights (fluorescent with digital ballasts, 4500K, ∼40 lux). …”
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Enhancing epigenetic aging clocks in cetaceans: accurate age estimations in small endangered delphinids, killer whales, pilot whales, belugas, humpbacks, and bowhead whales by Joseph A. Zoller, Ake T. Lu, Amin Haghani, Steve Horvath, Todd Robeck

“…By pooling methylation data from various studies, we increased our sample size, significantly enhancing the statistical power for building accurate clocks. These new epigenetic age estimators for cetaceans provide more accurate tools for aiding in conservation efforts of endangered cetaceans.…”
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Improving photovoltaic water pumping system performance with ANN-based direct torque control using real-time simulation by Ikram Saady, Btissam Majout, Ismail El Kafazi, Mohammed Karim, Badre Bossoufi, Najib El Ouanjli, Said Mahfoud, Ahmed Althobaiti, Thamer A. H. Alghamdi, Mohammed Alenezi

“…These two controllers play an essential role in the system, which increases efficiency and performance. …”
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Burden assessment of podoconiosis in Wayu Tuka woreda, east Wollega zone, western Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study by Kebede Deribe, Gail Davey, Kenate Bekele, Tsige Amberbir, Geleta Tadele, Abdi Samuel

“…Objective Podoconiosis is a neglected tropical disease characterised by a slowly progressive swelling of the foot and lower leg. It is prevalent among subsistence barefoot farmers who live and work in highland areas of the tropics. …”
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