An Experimental and Methodological Approach of Plant Fibres in Dental Calculus: The Case Study of the Early Neolithic Site of Cova del Pasteral (Girona, Spain) by Herrero-Otal Maria, Canales Laura, Agustí Bibiana, Rosillo Rafel, Lloret Àngel Bosch, Barberà Anna, Palomo Antoni, Piqué Raquel, Terradas Xavier, Malgosa-Morera Assumpció

“…Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and hydrochloric acid agents at 0.2 and 0.5 M were applied for 5, 30, 90, and 170 h to six different modern plant fibres considering their use in archaeological craft activities and showed that none of the procedures affected their characteristics. After testing the same approach on medieval control dental calculus samples, a selected methodology (0.5 M EDTA) was applied to ancient dental calculus from the Neolithic site of Cova del Pasteral (La Cellera de Ter, NE Spain) as a case study to identify the plant fibres present in it.…”
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Biocompatibility and bioactive potential of new bioceramic sealers in rat bone tissue: histological analysis by Marcus Victor Vaz Soares Castro, Wanderson Carvalho de Almeida, Humbelina Alves da Silva, Bruna da Silva Firmino, Daniel Fernandes Falcão, Lucas Fernandes Falcão, Moara Santos Conceição Pinto, Antonione Santos Bezerra Pinto, Maria Ângela Arêa Leão Ferraz, Carlos Alberto Monteiro Falcão

“…Material and Methods: Fifteen rats underwent a surgical procedure to create a cavity in the tibial bone, where the sealer was inserted according to the group. …”
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Towards developing an operational Indian ocean dipole warning system for Southeast Asia by Shipra Jain, Thea Turkington, Wee Leng Tan, Chen Schwartz, Adam A. Scaife, Theodore G. Shepherd

“…Finally, we describe an objective standard operating procedure to assist climate forecasters in issuing timely alerts of IOD events.…”
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Inventory and quality control of biosample collection from pregnant women at different gestational ages to search for early biomarkers of pregnancy complications by A. R. Maltseva, R. A. Illarionov, E. S. Vashukova, O. V. Pachulia, T. B. Postnikova, M. E. Velizhanina, A. A. Rubel, Yu. A. Nasykhova, O. N. Bespalova, A. S. Glotov

“…The necessity of mandatory implementation of standard operating procedures when creating and maintaining a collection, on the one hand, and periodic inventory with biosample quality assessment, on the other, has been demonstrated.…”
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Pulsed laser-assisted direct fabrication of MoxW1-xS2 alloy-based flexible strain sensors with superior performance for high-temperature applications by Kexin Wang, Hanxin Wang, Xiaoshan Zhang, Yingzhe Li, Yilin Zhou, Manzhang Xu, Weiwei Li, Lu Zheng, Xuewen Wang, Wei Huang

“…A pulsed laser is introduced to directly synthesize MoxW1-xS2 patterns with controllable compositions and physical parameters, enabling the realization of flexible sensors without photolithography or transfer procedures. The resultant flexible sensors exhibit a high gauge factor of 97.4, a low strain detection of 4.9 με, and strong tolerance to a temperature of 500 °C. …”
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Two-Stage Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Subspace Specified Searching for Hyperspectral Endmember Extraction by Cong Lei, Rong Liu, Ye Tian

“…This advantage is largely attributed to the significant reduction of invalid solutions achieved through the simple application of a clustering procedure. Furthermore, a two-stage optimization approach is employed to meticulously uphold the convergence and diversity of the population, aiming to attain the optimal solution within the realm of high-dimensional optimization. …”
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Investigation of the technology of the cooperation between the air traffic control and the ornithological service by V. N. Nechaev, M. V. Kulakov, G. A. Gasparyan, Ya. V. Goncharenko, K. A. Batalov

“…As part of the analysis, the procedures of preventive measures for air traffic controllers (ATC) and OS specialists to avert bird strikes were considered. …”
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HYDrodynamics with JETs (HYDJET++): Latest Developments and Results by Garnik Ambaryan, Larissa Bravina, Alexey Chernyshov, Gyulnara Eyyubova, Vladimir Korotkikh, Igor Lokhtin, Sergei Petrushanko, Alexandr Snigirev, Evgeny Zabrodin

“…To solve this problem, it is necessary to take into account exact charge conservation in an event-by-event basis. The corresponding procedure was developed and implemented in the modified <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">hydjet++</span> model. …”
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The Missing Link: Integrating Interventional Pain Management in the Era of Multimodal Oncology by Alberto Corriero, Mariateresa Giglio, Rossana Soloperto, Angela Preziosa, Cristina Stefanelli, Mariapaola Castaldo, Federica Gloria, Antonella Paladini, Vittorio A. Guardamagna, Filomena Puntillo

“…Interventional pain management (IPM) uses specific invasive procedures, with different degree of invasiveness, such as nerve blocks, neurolysis, neuromodulation, and intrathecal drug delivery systems to provide effective pain relief with reduced adverse effects compared with opioids. …”
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Development and validation of a gut motility based model for predicting bowel preparation quality by Hongjiao Wu, Rui Wu, Yunyun Zhang, Xinyi Lu, Wei Zhao, Biyun Xu, Jun Liu, Nina Zhang

“…Abstract Inadequate bowel preparation negatively impacts the quality of colonoscopy, potentially resulting in missed lesions and the need for repeat procedures. Although gut motility plays a key role in bowel cleansing, it is often neglected in risk prediction. …”
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Mechanical behaviour of wood T-joints. Experimental and numerical investigation by C.L. dos Santos, J.J.L. Morais, A.M.P. de Jesus

“…A plasticity model, based on Hill’s criterion, was used to simulate the joint ductility and cohesive damage modelling was applied to simulate the brittle failure modes (splitting) observed in the side members of the joint. The simulation procedure allowed a satisfactory description of the non-linear behaviour of the T-joint including the collapse prediction.…”
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Monitoring the Morphology of M87* in 2009–2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope by Maciek Wielgus, Kazunori Akiyama, Lindy Blackburn, Chi-kwan Chan, Jason Dexter, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Vincent L. Fish, Sara Issaoun, Michael D. Johnson, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Ru-Sen Lu, Dominic W. Pesce, George N. Wong, Geoffrey C. Bower, Avery E. Broderick, Andrew Chael, Koushik Chatterjee, Charles F. Gammie, Boris Georgiev, Kazuhiro Hada, Laurent Loinard, Sera Markoff, Daniel P. Marrone, Richard Plambeck, Jonathan Weintroub, Matthew Dexter, David H. E. MacMahon, Melvyn Wright, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Anne-Kathrin Baczko, David Ball, Mislav Baloković, Enrico Barausse, John Barrett, Dan Bintley, Wilfred Boland, Katherine L. Bouman, Michael Bremer, Christiaan D. Brinkerink, Roger Brissenden, Silke Britzen, Dominique Broguiere, Thomas Bronzwaer, Do-Young Byun, John E. Carlstrom, Shami Chatterjee, Ming-Tang Chen, Yongjun Chen, Ilje Cho, Pierre Christian, John E. Conway, James M. Cordes, Geoffrey B. Crew, Yuzhu Cui, Jordy Davelaar, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Roger Deane, Jessica Dempsey, Gregory Desvignes, Sergio A. Dzib, Ralph P. Eatough, Heino Falcke, Ed Fomalont, Raquel Fraga-Encinas, Per Friberg, Christian M. Fromm, Peter Galison, Roberto García, Olivier Gentaz, Ciriaco Goddi, Roman Gold, José L. Gómez, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, Minfeng Gu, Mark Gurwell, Michael H. Hecht, Ronald Hesper, Luis C. Ho, Paul Ho, Mareki Honma, Chih-Wei L. Huang, Lei Huang, David H. Hughes, Makoto Inoue, David J. James, Buell T. Jannuzi, Michael Janssen, Britton Jeter, Wu Jiang, Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales, Svetlana Jorstad, Taehyun Jung, Mansour Karami, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Tomohisa Kawashima, Garrett K. Keating, Mark Kettenis, Jae-Young Kim, Junhan Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Motoki Kino, Jun Yi Koay, Patrick M. Koch, Shoko Koyama, Michael Kramer, Carsten Kramer, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Tod R. Lauer, Sang-Sung Lee, Yan-Rong Li, Zhiyuan Li, Michael Lindqvist, Rocco Lico, Kuo Liu, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Wen-Ping Lo, Andrei P. Lobanov, Colin Lonsdale, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Jirong Mao, Nicola Marchili, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Martí-Vidal, Satoki Matsushita, Lynn D. Matthews, Lia Medeiros, Karl M. Menten, Yosuke Mizuno, Izumi Mizuno, James M. Moran, Kotaro Moriyama, Monika Moscibrodzka, Cornelia Müller, Gibwa Musoke, Hiroshi Nagai, Neil M. Nagar, Masanori Nakamura, Ramesh Narayan, Gopal Narayanan, Iniyan Natarajan, Antonios Nathanail, Roberto Neri, Chunchong Ni, Aristeidis Noutsos, Hiroki Okino, Héctor Olivares, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, Tomoaki Oyama, Feryal Özel, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Jongho Park, Nimesh Patel, Ue-Li Pen, Vincent Piétu, Aleksandar PopStefanija, Oliver Porth, Ben Prather, Jorge A. Preciado-López, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hung-Yi Pu, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Alexander W. Raymond, Luciano Rezzolla, Bart Ripperda, Freek Roelofs, Alan Rogers, Eduardo Ros, Mel Rose, Arash Roshanineshat, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Chet Ruszczyk, Benjamin R. Ryan, Kazi L. J. Rygl, Salvador Sánchez, David Sánchez-Arguelles, Mahito Sasada, Tuomas Savolainen, F. Peter Schloerb, Karl-Friedrich Schuster, Lijing Shao, Zhiqiang Shen, Des Small, Bong Won Sohn, Jason SooHoo, Fumie Tazaki, Paul Tiede, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Tyler Trent, Efthalia Traianou, Sascha Trippe, Shuichiro Tsuda, Ilse van Bemmel, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Daniel R. van Rossum, Jan Wagner, John Wardle, Derek Ward-Thompson, Norbert Wex, Robert Wharton, Qingwen Wu, Doosoo Yoon, André Young, Ken Young, Ziri Younsi, Feng Yuan, Ye-Fei Yuan, J. Anton Zensus, Guangyao Zhao, Shan-Shan Zhao, Ziyan Zhu

“…We develop a modeling approach based on the framework utilized for the 2017 EHT data analysis and validate our procedures using synthetic data. Applying the same approach to the observational data sets, we find the M87* morphology in 2009–2017 to be consistent with a persistent asymmetric ring of ∼40 μ as diameter. …”
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CDKD-w+: A Keyframe Recognition Method for Coronary Digital Subtraction Angiography Video Sequence Based on w+ Space Encoding by Yong Zhu, Haoyu Li, Shuai Xiao, Wei Yu, Hongyu Shang, Lin Wang, Yang Liu, Yin Wang, Jiachen Yang

“…Coronary Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) is a medical imaging technology used in cardiac interventional procedures. By employing X-ray sensors to visualize the coronary arteries, it generates two-dimensional images from any angle. …”
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Deep learning for video-based assessment of endotracheal intubation skills by Jean-Paul Ainam, Erim Yanik, Rahul Rahul, Taylor Kunkes, Lora Cavuoto, Brian Clemency, Kaori Tanaka, Matthew Hackett, Jack Norfleet, Suvranu De

“…Abstract Background Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is an emergency procedure performed in civilians and combat casualty care settings to establish an airway. …”
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Influence of simulated pulpal pressure on the variation of intrapulpal temperature during adhesive system light-curing by Tânia Mara da Silva, Lucelia Lemes Gonçalves, Erika Priscila Siqueira, Tatiana Cursino Pereira, Solimar de Oliveira Pontes, Amanda Reis Grecca, Stephanie Ribeiro Lopes, Sergio Eduardo de Paiva Gonçalves

“…Conclusions: Simulated pulpal pressure significantly reduced the temperature rise in the pulp chamber during light-curing of the adhesive system, showing the importance of inserting this protocol of simulated pulpal pressure in the laboratory procedures.  Keywords: Dentin; Light-curing; Pulpal pressure; Temperature. …”
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Culture-Based Standard Methods for the Isolation of Campylobacter spp. in Food and Water by Neyaz Leena A., Arafa Sara H., Alsulami Fatimah S., Ashi Hayat, Elbanna Khaled, Abulreesh Hussein H.

“…Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the International Standard Organization (ISO) have standardized Campylobacter spp. isolation and enumeration procedures for food and water samples, which involve the usage of selective agar media and enrichment broth. …”
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Numerical and experimental investigation of the water flow through PWR spacer grids by Higor Fabiano Pereira de Castro, Guilherme Augusto Moura Vidal, Tiago Augusto Santiago Vieira, Vitor Vasconcelos Araújo Silva, Daniel de Almeida Magalhães Campolina, Graiciany de Paula Barros, Rebeca Cabral Gonçalves, Andre Augusto Campagnole dos Santos, Maria Auxiliadora Fortini Veloso

“…The numerical and experimental procedures have been developed for a 5x5 rod bundle with spacer grids at the Nuclear Technology Development Center (CDTN) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. …”
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LONG-TERM ADMINISTRATION OF TAMSULOSIN INCREASE APOPTOSIS ON PROSTATE CELL OF BPH PATIENT: STUDY ON TGF-ß1, SMAD-4, AND NF- KB by Faathir Baihaqi Ghifary, Besut Daryanto, Karyono Mintaroem

“…Subjects were 20 male who underwent the TUR-P procedure, were divided into two groups equally, a group who got long-term administration of tamsulosin 0.4 mg, and one without tamsulosin. …”
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Real-Time Monitoring and Step-by-Step Guidance for Transapical Mitral Valve Edge-to-Edge Repair Using Transesophageal Echocardiography by Zhenyi Ge, Cuizhen Pan, Wei Li, Daxin Zhou, Wenzhi Pan, Lai Wei, Haiyan Chen, Xianhong Shu, Junbo Ge

“…Thus, the focus of this review is on elaborating how two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) TEE are used in clinical practice to guide ValveClamp implantation and it may facilitate the understanding of simplicity and safety of this novel procedure. We also describe the implementation of several novel advancements in 3D TEE imaging, which improve the confidence of image interpretation for intraoperative guidance and expedite implantation times.…”
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Molecular detection of Hemotropic mycoplasma in stray dogs in Mosul city, Iraq by Eva A. Ajaj, Maab I. Al-Farwachi, Basima A. Albadrani

“…In conclusion, the molecular study focused in Mosul city, Iraq, reveals a substantial prevalence of hemotropic mycoplasma in stray dogs, highlighting the need for effective control procedures to decrease the spread of hazards to people and other mammalians.…”
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