Uso do retalho miogorduroso segmentar do músculo latíssimo do dorso em decúbito único para reconstrução da mama pós-quadrantectomia externa Use of latissimus dorsi muscle segment w... by João Batista Fortaleza de Araújo, Luiz Gonzaga Porto Pinheiro, Sérgio Saboya Pinheiro de Sousa, João Ivo Xavier Rocha, Patrícia Lopes Gaspar, Leila Yasmim Maria Cidrão Fortaleza

“…The average grade was 7.048, equivalent to B concept. …”
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PBMC transcriptome changes in beef steers with negative or positive residual feed intake following in vitro LPS stimulation by Yarahy Leal, Samanthia Johnson, Modoluwamu Idowu, Godstime Taiwo, Taylor Sidney, Emily Treon, Deborah Ologunagba, Luke M. Gratz, Olanrewaju B. Morenikeji, Ibukun M. Ogunade

“…Negative-RFI beef steers (n =8, RFI= -2.00) and positive-RFI beef steers (n = 8, RFI = +1.59) were identified from a group of 40 crossbred beef steers (average BW = 360 ± 7.3 kg) after a 56-d RFI testing period. …”
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Deciphering seasonal carbon and nitrogen release dynamics in biogeomorphic successions of the arid Lake Ebinur, Northwest China by Shujing Yin, Yanhong Li, Yu Zhu, Guanghua Miao, Jiang Ai

“…The MW acted as the strongest emission source, with annual average emissions of CO2, CH4, and N2O of 1463.895 × 109 mg·m−2·h−1, 460.935 × 106 mg·m−2·h−1, and 722.355 × 106 mg·m−2·h−1, respectively, mainly driven by the synergistic changes in soil temperature (ST) and soil water content (SWC). …”
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Seroprevalence of transfusion-transmitted infections among blood donors in Makkah, Saudi Arabia by Faisal Minshawi, Asim A Abdulshakoor, Emran M Alwakil, Ghaiyda T Basfar, Saeed Kabrah, Akhmed Aslam, Hibah Almasmoum, Abdulrahman Mujalli, Rabab H Moaminah, Ghadeer A Almoalad, Mohammed A Alwadani, Mohammad G Alzahrani, Kholoud A Alsehemi, Bassem Refaat

“…Results: There were 40,287 donors with an average age of 44.33 ± 18.12 years, and 62.3% (n = 25103) were Saudis. …”
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Assembly mechanisms, not species pool, shape β-diversity of soil methanotrophic communities in steppes of China by Yongping Kou, Zhe Feng, Huan Li, Yanjiao Liu, Yanjiao Liu, Lin Xu, Lin Xu, Xiangzhen Li

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Pengenalan Barang Pada Kereta Belanja Menggunakan Metode Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) by Ronny Makhfuddin Akbar, Nani Sunarmi

“…This system can recognize items in the shopping cart image with an average of accuracy rate at 48.89% based on the number of items and the distance of image capture. …”
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Effect of intracellular and extracellular vesicles derived from periodontal ligament stem cells on the osteogenic differentiation ability of periodontal ligament stem cells under a... by LIU Haotian, YAN Fuhua, WU Yu, TONG Xin, ZHANG Qian

“…NanoFCM analysis revealed that the average diameters of the IVs and EVs were 79.6 nm and 82.1 nm, respectively. …”
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Utilizing ultrasound for the extraction of polysaccharides from the tuber of Typhonium giganteum Engl.: Extraction conditions, structural characterization and bioactivities by Xi Peng, Jing-Ya Wang, Kui-Xu Gao, Zhi-Kun Wang, Qiao-Ling Deng, Yao Wang, Mei-Bian Hu, Yu-Jie Liu

“…The determination of optimal process parameters for the UAE of TGEPs (TGEP-U) was accomplished through the application of response surface methodology (RSM). The structural characteristics, antioxidant and hypoglycemic effects of TGEP-U and TGEPs obtained by hot water extraction (TGEP-H) were then compared. …”
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Glycerol-made ultrasmall platinum nanoparticles dispersed on eggshell-derived hydroxyapatite as a stable and superior reduction catalyst by Quoc-Huy Tran, Hong-Phuong Phan, Hoa-Hung Lam, Phuc-Thanh-Duy Nguyen, Thi-An-Sa Do, Thi-Kieu-Anh Tran, Trung Dang-Bao

“…PtNPs were ultrasmall with an average diameter of 2.5 nm and spherical in shape, well-dispersed on the HAP surface with 1 wt % Pt content. …”
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Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from plant Astragalus fasciculifolius Bioss and evaluating cytotoxic effects on MCF7 human breast cancer cells by Fatemeh Nosrati, Baratali Fakheri, Habib Ghaznavi, Nafiseh Mahdinezhad, Roghayeh Sheervalilou, Bahman Fazeli-Nasab

“…The obtained Anz@AgNPs exhibited Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) centered at 443 nm, with an average particle size calculated to be about 16 nm. …”
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Wound healing activity of ointment containing essential oils of yarrow floodplain herb by S. D. Trzhetsinsky, V. I. Mozul, G. A. Gernova, N. S. Fursa

“…The study has found significant differences in the percentage of wound surface area reduction between the control animals and rats treated by 10% ointment of yarrow floodplain essentia. …”
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Biophysical warming patterns of an open-top chamber and its short-term influence on a Phragmites wetland ecosystem in China by Xue-yang Yu, Si-yuan Ye, Li-xin Pei, Liu-juan Xie, Ken W. Krauss, Samantha K. Chapman, Hans Brix

“…OTCs produced an elevated average air temperature of 0.8°C (relative to controls) during the growing season (June to October) of 2018, and soil temperatures actually decreased by 0.54°C at a depth of 5 cm and 0.46°C at a depth of 30 cm in the OTCs. …”
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Engineering practice of advance gas control for crushed soft coal seams through directional fracturing using a long borehole in the coal seam roof by Bingyi JIA, Shugang LI, Dongdong CHEN, Qun ZHANG

“…The casing cementing was achieved using a 110-m-long surface casing (diameter: 219 mm), a 520-m-long intermediate casing (diameter: 114.3 mm), and cement slurry injection under pressure. …”
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Efficacy of chitosan loaded zinc oxide nanoparticles in alleviating the drastic effects of drought from corn crop by Aina Inam, Sumera Javad, Iqra Naseer, Pravej Alam, Zainab M. Almutairi, Mohammad Faizan, Shafia Zauq, Anis Ali Shah

“…The field of nanotechnology has surfaced as a promising avenue for mitigating the negative consequences of water stress on crucial crops. …”
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Studies of structural, optical, magnetic and dielectric properties of Sr0.7Bi0.2(Ti1-xZrx)O3 0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.6 ceramics for wireless application by Inamullah, Asad Ali, Kashif Safeen, Salhah Hamed Alrefaee, Aiyeshah Alhodaib, Akif Safeen, Shaxnoza Saydaxmetova, Salah Knani, Ali Algahtani, Vineet Tirth, Abid Zaman

“…Using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), the samples' surface appearance and average grain size (0.493–0.381 μm) were examined. …”
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Construction and Experimental Validation of Embedded Potential Functions for Ta-Re Alloys by Haohao Miao, Xuehuan Xia, Yonghao Fu, Jing Yan, Lu Li, Hongzhong Cai, Xiao Wang, Chengling Wu, Zhaolin Zhan, Xian Wang, Zhentao Yuan

“…It is noteworthy that the errors in the average binding energies of Ta-rich (Ta_39Re20, where the number of Ta atoms is 39 and Re atoms is 20) and Re-rich (Ta₂₀Re₃₉, where the number of Ta atoms is 20 and Re atoms is 39) cluster atoms, calculated by the potential function and first-principles methods, are only 1.64% to 1.98%. …”
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Role of the Fe₃O₄ mass ratio in Fe₃O₄-Fe nanoparticles with the core-shell structure on their anticancer activity <i>in vitro</i> by O. V. Bakina, A. S. Lozhkomoev, S. O. Kazantsev, A. V. Avgustinovich, S. G. Afanasyev, l. V. Spirina

“…The change in the specific surface area and the average particle size passes through a maximum at the content of Fe3O4 W=20 %, which can be explained by the mechanism of oxide phase formation during an electric explosion. …”
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Dimensionality reduction for groundwater forecasting under drought and intensive irrigation with neural networks by Tarik Bouramtane, Ismail Mohsine, Nourelhouda Karmouda, Marc Leblanc, Yannick Estève, Ilias Kacimi, Mohamed Hilali, Salima Mdhaffar, Sarah Tweed, Mounia Tahiri, Nadia Kassou, Ali El Bilali, Omar Chafki

“…A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model predicted groundwater levels in six monitoring bores using four hydro-climatic variables, precipitation, land surface temperature (LST), actual evapotranspiration (AET), and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). …”
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Immune composition of the mononuclear cell fraction of human umbilical cord blood by Karen Kikuta, Esmond Lee, Esmond Lee, Esmond Lee, Talia Menezes, Hannah Fung, Alvaro Amorin, Aditi Agrawal, Theodore L. Roth, Matthew Porteus, Matthew Porteus, Matthew Porteus

“…Using flow cytometry and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq), we analyzed UCB and adult PB MNC samples to characterize the cell surface protein and transcriptomic profiles of different immune subsets. …”
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Global assessment of spatiotemporal changes of frequency of terrestrial wind speed by Yanan Zhao, Shijing Liang, Yi Liu, Tim R McVicar, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Lihong Zhou, Robert J H Dunn, Sonia Jerez, Yingzuo Qin, Xinrong Yang, Jiayu Xu, Zhenzhong Zeng

“…Following a continuous reduction (‘stilling’) of global annual mean surface wind speed (SWS) since the 1960s, recently, researchers have reported a ‘reversal’ since 2011. …”
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