Ab initio and experimental study of sulphur/samarium codoped-TiO2 and its visible light photocatalytic activity towards the degradation of orange II dye by Moro Haruna, Charles Kwame Bandoh, Francis Opoku, Eric Selorm Agorku

“…Recent research efforts have been focused mostly on using semiconductor photocatalysts to degrade hazardous organic contaminants from wastewater. …”
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Efeito de épocas de semeadura e regimes hídricos em duas cultivares de arroz de sequeiro Effect of planting dates and water regimes on two upland rice cultivars by Rogério T. de Faria, Marcos V. Folegatti

“…Grain yield was high for sowing in October (5400 to 6000 kg ha-1) and lower for sowing in December (1600 to 4800 kg ha-1) due to the low temperature at seed filling stages, mostly for the late cultivar (IAPAR 64). No significant differences between irrigated treatments were observed, but water deficit caused a grain yield decrease of up to 50% and delayed flowering. …”
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Effects of a school-based physical activity intervention on children with intellectual disability: a cluster randomized trial by Michael Noetel, Taren Sanders, Danielle Tracey, David R. Lubans, Viviene A. Temple, Andrew Bennie, James Conigrave, Mark Babic, Bridget Booker, Rebecca Pagano, James Boyer, Chris Lonsdale

“…The school-based intervention was mostly online learning, followed by lesson observations and site visits from project staff. …”
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Hirschsprung disease at a tertiary hospital: Patient profile, management and outcomes by Elizabeth Brits, Layla Moosa, Muhammad Kola, Osman Cassim, Zafeerah Khan, Rummanah Cajee, Aslam Salie, Muhammed Peer, Mohammed S. Hoosen, Joseph B. Sempa

“…Results: A total of 65 patients, mostly male (83.1%), with a median age at diagnosis of 87 days, were analysed. …”
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The electromyographic single twitch stimulation for monitoring the effect of rocuronium on vocal cord opening – a randomised controlled trial by Jennifer Herzog-Niescery, Maximilian von der Gönna, Sarah Joline Werner, Thomas Peter Weber, Adrian Iustin Georgevici

“…Abstract Background The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care recommends the use of neuromuscular blocking drugs for tracheal intubation, but the monitoring is difficult, because the parameters are mostly relative values (e.g. Train-of-four ratio), which show no or only weak correlations to the vocal cord aperture. …”
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Controversies in contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS): pregnancy, paediatric, abdominal trauma, complex renal cysts, and endovascular aortic repair follow-up by Paul S. Sidhu, Dirk Andre Clevert, Annamaria Deganello, Maciej Piskunowicz, Vito Cantisani, Thomas Fischer, European Society of Radiology (ESR)

“…Furthermore, cost savings can be achieved using CEUS, mostly by alleviating downstream costs of CT and MR imaging. …”
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Geological characteristics and gas bearing control factors of shale gas in the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation of the Shaozhai syncline in northeastern Yunnan by Yu LI, Xiaohui XUE, Jinbiao ZHANG, Jinlong LI, Lin HU, Ling WANG, Zhijun CHEN

“…The results show that the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation in the Shaozhai Syncline is a shallow water shelf deep water shelf deposit, with a thickness of organic rich shale ranging from 35 to 105m; The organic rich shale in the upper section of the Wufeng Formation and the lower section of the Longmaxi Formation has a high TOC content, mostly above 2%, with good organic matter types and good hydrocarbon generation potential; High quality shale has a high content of brittle minerals and good fracturing performance. …”
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease developed after pancreatoduodenectomy for solid pseudopapillary neoplasm in a 10-year-old girl: a case report by Toshio Sawai, Shogo Zuo, Taichi Terai, Satoshi Nishiwada, Kenji Nakagawa, Minako Nagai, Takehiro Akahori, Hiromichi Kanehiro, Masayuki Sho

“…Although her postoperative course was mostly uneventful, she experienced few episodes of abdominal pain and diarrhea before hospital discharge. …”
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Deep neural networks excel in COVID-19 disease severity prediction—a meta-regression analysis by Márton Rakovics, Fanni Adél Meznerics, Péter Fehérvári, Tamás Kói, Dezső Csupor, András Bánvölgyi, Gabriella Anna Rapszky, Marie Anne Engh, Péter Hegyi, Andrea Harnos

“…The relevant confounders of performance are the geographic region of patients, the rate of severe cases, and the use of C-Reactive Protein as input data. 88% of studies have a high risk of bias, mostly because of deficiencies in the data analysis. …”
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CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL IN THE TREATMENT OF TAKAYASU ARTERITIS: THE FIRST EXPERIENCE AND PROSPECTS by P. I. Novikov, I. O. Smitienko, M. V. Sokolova, S. V. Moiseev

“…Certolizumab pegol (CZP) is the only pegylated biological agent (BA) that does not contain an Fc fragment, which minimizes its transplacental transfer. Takayasu arteritis mostly occurs in reproductive-aged women.Objective: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CZP used to treat standard immunosuppressive therapy-resistant Takayasu arteritis.Subjects and methods. …”
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Treatment of loiasis: a review of clinical management recommendations by Dorothea Ekoka Mbassi, Rike Dreeßen, Rella Zoleko Manego, Saskia Dede Davi, Tamara Nordmann, Johannes Mischlinger, Michael Ramharter

“…Ivermectin and albendazole were mostly noted as alternatives based on microfilarial levels. …”
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Women wash practices and household diarrhea among rural indigenous Kumal community of Nepal: a cross-sectional study by Anusha Sharma, Sudip Khanal, Milan Thapa, Parash Sapkota, Anjali Bhatta, Manaslu Ojha, Rajan Bhusal

“…Methods A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2022 to February 2023 among women aged 18 years and older who are mostly involved in WASH-related practices in the Kumal community of Rupa Rural Municipality, Nepal. …”
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Long-term mean climate and seasonal variability drive spatial patterns of forage production fluctuation trends across California annual grasslands by Zheng Li, Leslie M Roche, Steven Ostoja, Yufang Jin

“…The RF model based solely on climate variables revealed that spatial patterns of trends in temporal fluctuations of forage production were mostly driven by long-term climatic means; specifically, drier areas with a long-term mean growing season (GS) precipitation below ∼500 mm, or warmer areas with long-term mean minimum temperatures above ∼6 °C, were more likely to exhibit significant increasing trends in forage production fluctuations. …”
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Correlação espacial do índice de vegetação (NDVI) de imagem Landsat/ETM+ com atributos do solo Spatial correlation of the vegetation index (NDVI) of a Landsat/ETM+ images with soil... by Fabricio V. Zanzarini, Teresa C. T. Pissarra, Flavia J. C. Brandão, Daniel D. B. Teixeira

“…<br>The precision agriculture technologies such as the spatial variability of soil attributes have been widely studied mostly with sugarcane. Among these technologies have been recently highlighted the use of the vegetation index derived from remote sensing products, such as powerful tools indicating the development of vegetation. …”
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Predictors for vertebral height deterioration in fractured vertebrae operated by percutaneous vertebroplasty by Benqiang Tang, Xueming Chen, Libin Cui, Yanhui Wang, Xin Yuan, Yadong Liu, Liang Liu

“…Abstract Background Vertebral height loss of fractured vertebrae treated by percutaneous vertebral augmentation (PVA) for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCFs) during follow-up had been reported. Mostly, vertebral height loss and its relevant terms (e.g., “recompression”, “recollapse” and “refracture”) were defined according to immediate postoperative vertebral height as the baseline in published studies. …”
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Modeling the Transport and Deposition of Suspended Solids Under Conditions of Low Water and Surge Phenomena in the Don River Estuary Area by Berdnikov Sergey, Sheverdyaev Igor, Kleshchenkov Alexey, Kulygin Valeriy, Likhtanskaya Nataliya

“…At the same time, at the stage of the water level decline, they are carried out of the channel segments beyond the sea edge of the delta, and mostly remain in the floodplain areas. For low-water conditions with the observed frequency of surge events and in the absence of floods, the Don estuary area retains on average 20% of suspended solids entering with the Don River runoff.…”
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Non-inferiority of sleep position therapy compared to positive airway pressure therapy with regard to daytime sleepiness in patients with mild to moderate position-dependent obstru... by Nina Timmesfeld, Anja Neumann, Frederik Valbert, Jürgen Wasem, Alexandra Spillner, Christoph Schöbel

“…At least one half of patients with mild to moderate OSA (apnoea-hypopnoea-index (AHI) 5-30/h) have positional OSA (POSA), where apnoea occurs mostly in supine sleep. These patients might benefit from sleep-position therapy (SPT) which should reduce sleeping time spent in a supine position. …”
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E-Health rehabilitation on clinical, quality of life, and functional capacity in cardiovascular disease: preliminary results by Cássia da Luz Goulart, Marcela Lopes Alves, Fernando D’Angelo Medeiros, Robson Fernando Borges, Maurício Milani, Luciana Bartolomei Orru D’Ávila, Claudia Cristina Conde Holanda Sobra, Ana Cleides, Graziella França B. Cipriano, Gerson Cipriano Junior

“…The nine initial patients enrolled in this preliminary study were predominantly male (57%), elderly, with CVD, 4 of whom were diagnosed as HF, mostly with I and II NYHA functional class, and arterial hypertension (100%). …”
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PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANIC MARKET IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL by Іnna Honcharuk, Roman Lohosha, Dina Tokarchuk

“…This makes it difficult to monitor this sector, which is mostly composed of farms and private households. Over time, the integration of such farms into the monitoring network will become necessary in the process of formalising the organic market, as the lack of certification limits prices and economic returns. …”
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The fate of recessive deleterious or overdominant mutations near mating-type loci under partial selfing by Tezenas, Emilie, Giraud, Tatiana, Véber, Amandine, Billiard, Sylvain

“…This may contribute to explain why evolutionary strata of recombination suppression near the mating-type locus are found mostly in automictic (pseudo-homothallic) fungi. We also showed that rare events of deleterious mutation maintenance during strikingly long evolutionary times could occur, suggesting that deleterious mutations can indeed accumulate near the mating-type locus over evolutionary time scales. …”
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