Addressing COVID-19 Spread: Development of Reliable Testing System for Mask Reuse by Haoxian Lu, Dawen Yao, Joanne Yip, Chi-Wai Kan, Hai Guo

“…Moreover, various textile materials are tested to fabricate 3-layer face masks, and the PFE of these masks is tested by using the proposed testing system to find the most suitable materials and the likelihood of their reusability. …”
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Dynamic Behavior of Lighting GFRP Pole Under Impact Loading by Mahmoud T. Nawar, Ahmed Elbelbisi, Mostafa E. Kaka, Osama Elhosseiny, Ibrahim T. Arafa

“…Results revealed that geometric parameters—particularly wall thickness and base plate dimensions—had the most significant influence on energy absorption. …”
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Collaboration and Management of Heterogeneous Robotic Systems for Road Network Construction, Management, and Maintenance under the Vision of “BIM + GIS” Technology by Zhizhong Liu, Weishen Yan, Jianguo Kou, Zhida Li

“…Establishing an integrated indoor-outdoor street network data model with accurate information and complete attributes can provide strong technical support for indoor-outdoor navigation, emergency evacuation, and other application services. However, most of the current studies on internal and external road networks are independent of each other. …”
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Visceral Leishmaniasis in Southwestern Iran: A Retrospective Clinico-Hematological Analysis of 380 Consecutive Hospitalized Cases (1999-2014). by Bahador Sarkari, Tahereh Naraki, Mohammad Amin Ghatee, Samaneh Abdolahi Khabisi, Mohammad Hassan Davami

“…Fever (98.1%), abdominal protrusion (65.1%) and hepatosplenomegaly (63.7%) were the most common clinical presentations of the patients. …”
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Immediate Postoperative Management of Cardiac Surgery Patients by Konya Keeling-Johnson, David Baker, Todd Want, Divina M. Tuazon

“…It is of paramount importance that the cardiac intensivist has a comprehensive understanding of cardiopulmonary physiology and the sequelae of cardiopulmonary bypass. Most preventable deaths after cardiac surgery have been linked to postoperative problems in the intensive care unit (ICU).1,2 Failure to recognize and rescue a patient from potentially reversible complications is a cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality. …”
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Assessment of comorbidities, risk factors, and post tuberculosis lung disease in National Tuberculosis Guidelines: A scoping review. by Muhammed S Bah, Kyaw Ko Ko Htet, Gregory P Bisson, Celso Khosa, Refiloe Masekela, Jamilah Meghji, Kagiso Mochankana, Andrea Rachow, Neelima Navuluri

“…Recommendations for screening varied by comorbidity or risk factor with the four most recommended being HIV/AIDS (100%), pregnancy (73%) and liver disease (59%) and mental health (59%). …”
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Experimental investigation of process parameters for hydrogen-rich syngas production from rice husk gasification by Ajeet Kumar, Daya Shankar Pandey, Tarak Mondal

“…Rice husk, one of the most common and abundant lignocellulosic biomass in Asia, is used in the present work as potential feedstock for the thermochemical conversion through gasification process in a lab-scale fixed bed (downdraft) reactor. …”
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Problematic aspects of modern professional training of pharmacy masters by N. O. Tkachenko, B. Р. Hromovyk

“…It leads to high costs per student due to the large volumes of their contingents in most institutions, as well as the likelihood of a slight global shortage and a decrease in the level of qualification. …”
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Renal aging and its consequences: navigating the challenges of an aging population by Meiqi Zhang, Haifeng Ni, Yumeng Lin, Ke Wang, Tingke He, Lan Yuan, Zhongyu Han, Xiaohong Zuo, Xiaohong Zuo, Xiaohong Zuo

“…End-stage renal disease (ESRD) refers to the most advanced stage of CKD, in which the kidneys of patients show signs of premature aging compared with those of healthy people. …”
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Causal effect of lottery promotions on post-win payments: Evidence from a large field experiment by Kohsuke Kubota, Keiichi Ochiai, Takahiro Hoshino

“…Further analysis, which also examined whether the effects of winning vary depending on users’ frequency of use, reveals that these effects are most pronounced among light users across all outcomes. …”
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Temporal Synchrony in Bodily Interaction Enhances the Aha! Experience: Evidence for an Implicit Metacognitive Predictive Processing Mechanism by Jiajia Su, Haosheng Ye

“…In sum, this study makes three key contributions: (1) it proposes a novel theoretical mechanism—implicit metacognitive predictive processing; (2) it establishes a quantifiable, three-stage paradigm for insight research; and (3) it outlines a dynamic neural pathway from bodily interaction to insight experience. Most importantly, the findings offer an integrative model that bridges embodied cognition, enactive cognition, and metacognitive predictive processing, providing a unified account of the Aha! …”
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Diagnostic performance and reliability of ACR Bone-RADS versus REST for reporting bone tumors on conventional radiographs by Zainab A. Ramadan, Fatmaelzahraa Abdelfattah Denewar, Saher Taman, Amel Helmy

“…There were almost perfect inter- and intra-rater agreements for most of the features as well as benign/malignant classification according to REST and Bone-RADS, agreements for periosteal reaction, extra-osseous soft tissue, scalloping, and categories of Bone-RADS were substantial (k: 0.79, 0.75, 0.64, 0.78), respectively, with higher rates for intra-rater one. …”
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Effect of seed coating with Compounds of micronutrient elements, growth stimulants and regulators on the emergence and early stages of Sugar Beet growth by salim farzaneh, shahram khodadadi, Saeed Khomari, morteza Barmaki

“…Among different treatments, seed coating treatments 1 [Zn+Mn+B (9, 16.5 and 8.5 g/ kg-1 seed Respectively)+ Gibberellic acid+ Ethylene+ Salicylic acid (1.2, 2 and 0.35 mL/ kg-1 seed, Respectively)] and 2 [Zn+Mn+B (9, 16.5 and 8.5 g/ kg-1 seed Respectively)+ Amino acid+ Humic acid + Seaweed extract (8, 12 and 12 g / kg-1 seed, Respectively)] had the most effect on accelerating emergence and improvement of seedling growth and maximum chlorophyll index and quantum yield of photosystem II were observed in these treatments.…”
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Rapid Incorporation of Metasediments Into Lower Crust of the Gangdese Magmatic Arc, Southern Tibet by Sheng‐Kai Qin, Ze‐Ming Zhang, Richard M. Palin, Xin Dong, Hui‐Xia Ding, Zuo‐Lin Tian

“…When combined with previous data collected from the region, we propose that tectonic burial within arc crust and slab subduction‐related mechanisms most likely operate together in magmatic arcs, promoting crustal recycling. …”
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Diffusion Coefficients and Activation Energies of Diffusion of Organic Molecules in Poly(lactic acid) Films by Johann Ewender, Rafael Auras, Uruchaya Sonchaeng, Frank Welle

“…Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is one of the most important bio-based and industrial compostable materials in food packaging. …”
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Early-onset gasrtric cancer (review) by D. M. Pugaev, L. N. Lyubchenko, A. B. Ryabov, A. D. Kaprin

“…This classification indicates that EOGC diagnosed at a locally advanced stage and primary dissemination is most often caused by GS (TCGA) and MSS/EMT(ACRG) subtypes and is characterized by mutations in CDH1, RhoA, CLDN18-ARHGAP genes. …”
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Analysis of Heat Transfer Performance in a Brayton Cycle Recuperator by Elvis Falcão de Araújo, Guilherme Borges Ribeiro, Lamartine Nogueira Frutuoso Guimarães

“…Thermodynamic cycles are currently the most wanted means of converting nuclear power into available work due to the higher conversion efficiencies provided. …”
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Determining Surgeon’s Accuracy in Predicting the Severity of Appendicitis in Children: A Comparison Between Clinical Diagnosis and Intraoperative Findings by Somya Bhatt, Rahul Saxena, Manish Pathak, Kirtikumar J. Rathod, Avinash Jadhav, Shubhalaxmi Nayak, Arvind Sinha

“…Background: Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies in children. Despite the availability of a plethora of advanced diagnostic imaging, diagnosis of acute appendicitis in young children remains a challenge. …”
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Long-term results of aesthetic and functional restoration of frontal teeth in young people with preserved systemic and dental health by O. S. Gileva, M. A. Sycheva, T. V. Libik, M. Yu. Kilina

“…In 12 months after the restoration treatment most composite restorations corresponded to high aesthetic and functional characteristics in terms of the quality of preservation of the restored anatomical shape (respectively 70.0–61.5%), texture and color of the surface (66.7–65.4%) and edge fit (66.7–65.4%). …”
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Molecular Detection of Vector-Borne Pathogens and Their Association with Feline Immunodeficiency Virus and Feline Leukemia Virus in Cats from Northeastern Thailand by Charinya So-In, Laksanachan Watayotha, Thikhamporn Sonsupee, Surasak Khankhum, Nuchsupha Sunthamala

“…Among the bacterial pathogens, <i>Bartonella henselae</i> was the most frequently detected (94.65%), followed by <i>Rickettsia felis</i> (34.22%). …”
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