Adsorption of Acid Yellow 36 and direct blue 86 dyes to Delonix regia biochar-sulphur by Ahmed Eleryan, Uyiosa Osagie Aigbe, Kingsley Eghonghon Ukhurebor, Mohamed A. Hassaan, Safaa Ragab, Otolorin Adelaja Osibote, Ismail Hossain, Ahmed El Nemr

“…The Langmuir model (LGM) and pseudo-second-order-model (PSOM) best describe the biosorption of both dye molecules to the biosorbent owing to the equal and homogeneous spread of the dye molecules over the biosorbent porous surface and a chemisorption process which involved the valency force through the exchange of electrons between the dye molecules and the prepared biosorbent. …”
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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Warmed Versus Room Temperature Intravenous Fluids Administration to Prevent Intraoperative Heat Loss in Anaesthetised Calves Undergoing Umbilical... by Sitkican Okur, Latif Emrah Yanmaz, Mumin Gökhan Senocak, Ayse Golgeli, Ferda Turgut, Omer Tarik Orhun, Yakup Kocaman, Ugur Ersoz

“…Methods Thirty Simmental breed calves (aged 10–30 days) were randomly divided between two equal groups, wherein the infusion fluid (Ringer's lactate, 5 mL/kg/h) was administered either at room temperature (Group RoT) or warmed (Group WF). …”
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Impacts of grade control structures on riverbed degradation by Weiming Wu, Ruihua Nie, Kai Wei, Bruce W. Melville, Asaad Y. Shamseldin, Lu Wang

“…The experimental results indicate that: (1) in the initial stage of degradation, the water surface slope in the backwater reach is linearly and negatively correlated with the GCS-height Froude number, based on the average flow velocity upstream of the backwater reach due to GCS and the height of GCS; (2) the effective protection bed length upstream of GCS is approximately equal to the length of the reach where the flow velocity is less than the critical velocity for sediment motion in the backwater zone; (3) for sequential GCSs, the effective protection bed length will decrease if GCS is located in the backwater reach of the downstream GCS. …”
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Acupuncture Induces Reduction in Limbic-Cortical Feedback of a Neuralgia Rat Model: A Dynamic Causal Modeling Study by Zhen-Zhen Ma, Ye-Chen Lu, Jia-Jia Wu, Xiang-Xin Xing, Xu-Yun Hua, Jian-Guang Xu

“…An fMRI scan was performed in a total of 16 rats with brachial plexus pain, which was equally distributed into the model group and the electroacupuncture group. …”
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Rainfall Variability, Drought Characterization, and Efficacy of Rainfall Data Reconstruction: Case of Eastern Kenya by M. Oscar Kisaka, M. Mucheru-Muna, F. K. Ngetich, J. N. Mugwe, D. Mugendi, F. Mairura

“…Monthly rainfall variability was found to be equally high during April and November (CV = 0.48, 0.49, and 0.76) with high probabilities (0.67) of droughts exceeding 15 days in Machang’a and Kindaruma. …”
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Glutathione Peroxidase-1 Suppresses the Unfolded Protein Response upon Cigarette Smoke Exposure by Patrick Geraghty, Nathalie Baumlin, Matthias A. Salathe, Robert F. Foronjy, Jeanine M. D’Armiento

“…Loss of Gpx-1 expression enhanced cigarette smoke-induced ER stress and apoptosis. Equally, induction of ER stress with tunicamycin enhanced antioxidant expression in mouse precision-cut lung slices. …”
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Differences associated with different prior mental disorders among earthquake-exposed treatment-seeking individuals by Cate F. Woods, Virginia V. W. McIntosh, Christopher M. Frampton, Frances A. Carter, Helen C. Colhoun, Jennifer Jordan, Rebekah A. Smith, Caroline Bell

“…Although post-disaster screening efforts should include those with prior mental disorders, it should also be recognised that those with no prior disorders are also at risk of developing equally severe PTSD. …”
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Transfusion in trauma: empiric or guided therapy? by Liam Barrett, Nicola Curry

“…Greater mechanistic understanding of the underlying pathobiology of trauma-induced coagulopathy and the direct effects of common treatments on this process will be of equal importance to the development of new treatments. …”
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Effects of Rh-Negative Blood Group on Pure Tone Thresholds and Immittance Test Results by Kamalakannan Karupaiah, Sundaresan Ramachandran, Delna Saji, Jerlin Xavier, Ann Rose Chiyezhan, Nilesh Jeevandas Washnik, Prashanth Prabhu

“…This study was conducted with forty adult female participants with a pure tone threshold range of less than or equal to 15 dBHL and ages ranging from 18 to 25 years. …”
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High‐Resolution Downscaling of Disposable Income in Europe Using Open‐Source Data by Mehdi Mikou, Améline Vallet, Céline Guivarch, David Makowski

“…Our learning framework showed high accuracy levels, and performed better or equally than other existing approaches used in the literature for downscaling income. …”
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Can cattle blood be transformed into an organic source of nitrogen? by Md. Islam, S. M. Zaman, Md. Rasel, Jagadish Joardar

“…Conclusion:  The outcome of the study suggests that blood meal can be used as an organic source of nitrogen and the application of blood meal has manifold benefits if applied at a judicious rate preferably less than or equal to 5 t/ha.…”
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Core-shell or Janus-like Fe0.5Ni0.5 nanostructures: A theoretical and experimental study by J. Rojas-Nunez, R.M. Freire, A.L. Elias, K. Fujisawa, L. Troncoso, J.C. Denardin, N. Plaza-Alcafuz, S.E. Baltazar

“…The simulations considered nanostructures with three different sizes (6231, 10,000, and 21,366 atoms), and the configurations were forced to have Fe/Ni ratios approximately equal to one. The theoretical results pointed out the formation of an FeNi3 crystalline phase. …”
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Metabolic consequences of erastin-induced ferroptosis in human ovarian cancer cells: an untargeted metabolomics study by Kaylie I. Kirkwood-Donelson, Alan K. Jarmusch, Carl D. Bortner, Bruce Alex Merrick, Birandra K. Sinha

“…Erastin (ER), a ferroptosis inducer, kills tumor cells by generating and accumulating reactive oxygen species (ROS) within the cell, resulting in an iron-dependent oxidative damage-mediated ferroptotic cell death.MethodsWe have utilized human ovarian cancer cell lines, OVCAR-8 and its adriamycin-selected, multi-drug resistance protein (MDR1)-expressing NCI/ADR-RES, both equally sensitive to ER, to identify metabolic biomarkers of ferroptosis.ResultsOur studies showed that ER treatment rapidly depleted cellular glutathione and cysteine and enhanced formation of ophthalamate (OPH) in both cells. …”
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Effects of induced electric field and high-pressure microjet sterilization on the physicochemical properties of milk by Huiyu Xiang, Weibing Tao, Yilong Li, Weiwei Mu, Yiting Cheng, Wei Shen, Chenhao Wang, Lijun Guan, Kunlun Wang, Xiaomeng Sun, Chun Li

“…Results demonstrated that low-temperature sterilization methods were equally effective as thermal sterilization methods. …”
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Recycling of biogas digestates in plant production: NPK fertilizer value and risk of leaching by Trine A. Sogn, Ivan Dragicevic, Roar Linjordet, Tore Krogstad, Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Susanne Eich-Greatorex

“…In the silt and loam, the ammonium N fraction in digestates had a fertilizer replacement value equal to that of mineral fertilizer N, whereas the replacement value was higher in the nutrient poor sandy soil. …”
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Associations Between Both Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Constructs and Emotional Load and Content of Adult Dreams by Saeid Komasi, Amin Nazari, Behrooz Faridmarandi, Mozhgan Saeidi, Mostafa Bahremand, Taherh Shadman, Atefeh Mirani, Parisa Nazarpour, Zhaleh Kiani, Ali Zakiei

“…Adaptive and maladaptive constructs of personality are almost equally related to both the negative and positive loads of dreams, while the negative load of dreams is more strongly predicted by the maladaptive spectrum factor ( R 2 : 13% vs. 7%, ∆ R 2 : 8% vs. 2%). …”
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Implementation of RedCap data systems in Kenyan psychiatric rehabilitation: a community case study by Neal Patel, Matthew Turissini, Florence Jaguga, Julius Barasa, Lily Okeyo, Mercy Kimaiyo, Gilliane Kosgei, Naomi Kipkorir, Edith Kamaru Kwobah

“…Data collection systems are vital in implementation of interventions within patient care as they allow us to better understand and improve the care given. This is equally true in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation, which has been steadily growing in the medical world for the past 20 years. …”
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Establishment of performance parameters for the Qubit™ 1X dsDNA HS Assay for use in forensic genetics casework by Adele Lauren Kaleigh Naidoo, Donna-Lee Pamela Martin, Laura Jane Heathfield

“…All parameters met the manufacturer’s criteria of acceptance except for the precision of measurements for samples with DNA concentrations greater than or equal to 0.5 ng/µl, which were expected to have less than 1 % CV. …”
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Sex-Based Constraints in Accessing Agricultural Resources in Ebonyi State, Nigeria by Chukwudi Loveday Njoku, Miracle Chinedu Mgbeokwere, Chibuzo Uzoma Izuogu, Michael Olatunji Olaolu, Gillian Chidozie Azuamairo, Sikiru Olesin-Ibrahim, Gabriel Daniel Agou

“…The study concluded that gender-based discrimination exists in resource access and recommended interventions by government, NGOs, and community leaders to address social norms, tenures, and barriers, promoting equal access and control over agricultural resources for both genders. …”
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Differences in the genomic profiles of cell‐free DNA between plasma, sputum, urine, and tumor tissue in advanced NSCLC by Zhen Wu, Zhen Yang, Chun Sun Li, Wei Zhao, Zhi Xin Liang, Yu Dai, Qiang Zhu, Kai Ling Miao, Dong Hua Cui, Liang An Chen

“…And the concordant rate of cfDNA in sputum in patients with smoking history was higher than that in patients without history of smoking (89% vs. 66%, P = 0.033) and equal to that in plasma cfDNA of the smoking patients (89% vs. 89%). …”
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