Investigations of solid waste biosorbents for eliminations of total hardness from water: An experimental study of conversion of waste into valuable products by Subhashish Dey, G.T.N. Veerendra, A.V. Phani Manoj, Seelam Srikanth, V.V Praveen Kumar

“…Biosorption, which occurs mostly in biomass, inertly adds and binds Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions to its biosorbents cellular structure. …”
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TECTONIC ZONING OF THE SEDIMENTARY COVER IN THE DERYUGIN BASIN OF THE SEA OF OKHOTSK BASED ON STRUCTURAL-MATERIAL (LITHOPHYSICAL) INDICATORS by V. P. Semakin, A. V. Kochergin

“…Other RSSCs (II, III, and IV) in this area represented mostly by sandy-silty-clayey terrigenous and silty-clayey-siliceous LCs, and only the extreme southwestern part along the eastern Sakhalin coast contains narrow bands of the coal-bearing silty-clayey-sandy LC. …”
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Consequences of parental preconceptional irradiation: Endocrine-metabolic pathology in offspring by S. F. Sosnina, P. O. Okatenko, M. E. Sokolnikov

“…Results: A significant predominance of thyroid diseases, particularly, iodine deficiencies, was detected at an earlier age among the offspring of Mayak Production Association workers compared to the control group; these cases were mostly related to low dose parental preconceptional exposure. …”
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Periodontitis and root resorption: Two case reports by Zisis Stefanos, Shinas Nikolaos, Zisis Vasileios, Kashtwari Deeba, Charisi Christina, Poulopoulos Konstantinos, Shosho Dhurata, Cordahi Joe, Poulopoulos Athanasios

“…The second case involved a 73-year-old patient who presented himself with mild generalized pain in the first quadrant, mostly while eating. Medical history revealed only the administration of furosemide as anti-hypertensive treatment, and the patient provided informed consent. …”
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Quality of counseling for self-administering injectable contraception: field evidence from mystery client interactions in Lagos, Nigeria by Sneha Challa, Calvin Chiu, Ayobambo Jegede, Ivan Idiodi, Mikail Aliyu, Chioma Okoli, Shakede Dimowo, Aminat Tijani, Awawu Grace Nmadu, Rodio Diallo, Jenny Liu, Elizabeth Omoluabi

“…Abstract Background Self-injection (SI) of subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) is a self-care intervention (drugs, diagnostics, or devices that can be provided mostly outside the health system) implemented across Nigeria. …”
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Rural-Urban differentials in the factors associated with modern contraceptive usage among married reproductive-aged women in Hubei province, China by Joseph Lasong, Min Li, Yula Salifu, Torjim Salifu, Huiping Zhang, Kai Zhao, Yun Zhao

“…Moreover, family planning (FP) is mostly regarded as women’s responsibility by some Chinese cultures and societies. …”
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Prevalence and Peculiarities of Clinical Course of Chronic Catarrhal Gingivitis in Girls with Menstrual Cycle Disturbances by Mashkarynets O.

“…Catarrhal gingivitis was diagnosed mostly among examined girls from both groups. The prevalence of catarrhal gingivitis in the group of girls with pathological course of MC is higher (79.40 ± 3.91 %) comparing to the same index of the girls from the control group (50.9 ± 3.37 %), (p ˂ 0.001). …”
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with antibody‐related autoimmune encephalitis presenting with disorders of consciousness: A prospective cohort study by Dawei Shan, Huimin Zhang, Lili Cui, Shuting Chai, Weibi Chen, Gang Liu, Fei Tian, Linlin Fan, Le Yang, Yan Zhang

“…Despite requiring longer hospitalization, DoC mostly improves with treatment of the primary disease and has a good long‐term prognosis after aggressive life support and combination immunotherapy.…”
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Adopting Positive Selection Technology and Improving Seed Quality in Smallholder Potato Farmers in South-Western Uganda. by Kajura, Tibanyendera Deo

“…Despite the importance of the crop there has been considerable reduction in yield to the current yield of 4.2 tons ha-1 by smallholder farmers which is far short of its potential on-station yields of over 25 t ha-1, mostly due to inadequate supplies of high quality seed that compels farmers to continuously use their own recycled seed with latent infections by bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum), viruses and other tuber-borne pathogens. …”
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Genetic alterations affect immune contexture of non-small cell lung cancer: Ukrainian study by Denys Kozakov, Denys Kozakov, Nazarii Kobyliak, Nazarii Kobyliak, Sofiia Livshun, Oleksii Seleznov, Oleksii Seleznov, Olena Koshyk, Olena Koshyk, Alina Matvieieva, Yaroslav Shparyk, Oleksii Kolesnik, Oleksii Kolesnik, Yuliia Moskalenko, Oleksandr Vynnychenko, Roman Moskalenko, Serhii Kropyvko, Anna Khmel, Bogdana Shkarupii, Bogdana Shkarupii, Oksana Sulaieva, Oksana Sulaieva, Oksana Sulaieva

“…In contrast, over half of EGFR mutant LUAD cases possessed immune desert TME type, while ALK-rearranged and KRAS mutant NSCLC showed mostly immune excluded TME.ConclusionThe high rate of PD-L1 expression in NSCLC driven by EGFR and ALK alterations was accompanied by a prevalence of low immunogenicity with a shift toward ID TME in EGFR mutant tumors and IE TME in ALK-rearranged and KRAS mutant NSCLC. …”
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Health information management of older, multimorbid patients in German primary care: feasibility and first results of the outcome measures of a cluster-randomised controlled pilot... by Astrid-Alexandra Klein, Maria Hanf, Truc Sophia Dinh, Franziska Brosse, Jenny Petermann, Steve Piller, Sylvia Schulz-Rothe, Lena Schäfer, Karola Mergenthal, Hanna M. Seidling, Sophia Klasing, Nina Timmesfeld, Bahareh Yousefi, Marjan van den Akker, Karen Voigt

“…As a vulnerable group with complex care needs, older patients, mostly multimorbid, are especially affected by the consequences. …”
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Prospective Study on Kidney Dysfunction Markers and Risk for Mortality among South Asians by Ram Jagannathan, Shuchi Anand, Dimple Kondal, Jialin Han, Maria Montez-Rath, Mohammed K. Ali, Shivani A. Patel, Kavita Singh, Roopa Shivashankar, RM Anjana, Ruby Gupta, Sailesh Mohan, Glenn M. Chertow, Viswanathan Mohan, Nikhil Tandon, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran

“…Introduction: Associations between markers of impaired kidney function and adverse outcomes among South Asians is understudied and could differ from existing data derived mostly from North American or European cohorts. Methods: We conducted a prospective analysis of 9797 participants from the ongoing cardiometabolic risk reduction study in South Asia, India. …”
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Interictal suppression in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: A simultaneous PET/fMRI study by Jie Hu, Liwei Sun, Kun Guo, Bixiao Cui, Chenyang Yao, Jingjuan Wang, Hui Ouyang, Xu Zhang, Chunlin Li, Jie Lu

“…At the whole-brain level, there was significant increase of inward MCM connectivity to the SOZs, which mostly came from mesial-temporo-limbic, anterior and posterior midline regions of the default mode network (DMN) and subcortical nuclei. …”
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Egg desensitization is achieved effectively and safely through a low maintenance dose protocol by Diana Toscano-Rivero, MD, Nofar Kimchi, MD, Wei Zhao, BSc, Jana Abi-Rafeh, BSc, Danbing Ke, PhD, Duncan Lejtenyi, MSc, Liane Beaudette, RN, Christine McCusker, MD, Bruce D. Mazer, MD, Moshe Ben-Shoshan, MD

“…Adverse reactions occurred in 15.6% of 5971 doses, mostly mild. Skin prick test wheal diameters decreased significantly (P < .001); s-IgE levels declined whereas s-IgG4 levels increased (P < .001), and sIgG4/sIgE ratios improved. …”
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Structural Brain Morphometry in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbid Mild Cognitive Impairments by George A. Karkashadze, Alexey I. Firumyants, Nikita S. Shilko, Nataliya S. Sergienko, Yulia V. Nesterova, Leonid M. Yatsyk, Elena N. Rudenko, Mikhail I. Polle, Tatiana A. Salimgareeva, Tinatin Yu. Gogberashvili, Nataliya E. Sergeeva, Tatiana A. Konstantinidi, Safarbegim Kh. Sadilloeva, Marina A. Kurakina, Viktor V. Dyachenko, Inessa A. Povalyaeva, Evgeniy V. Bogdanov, Anastasia I. Rykunova, Elena A. Vishneva, Elena V. Kaytukova, Kamilla E. Efendieva, Leyla S. Namazova-Baranova

“…MCI without ADHD group has shown bilateral enlargement of lateral ventricles, decrease in the volume of right pallidum and seven gyri cortex, mostly on the right side, as well as decrease in the volume of four cerebellar lobules. …”
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Rapamycin treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: a pilot phase 1 clinical trial by Mitzi M. Gonzales, Valentina R. Garbarino, Tiffany F. Kautz, Xuemei Song, Marisa Lopez-Cruzan, Leslie Linehan, Candice E. Van Skike, Gabriel A. De Erausquin, Veronica Galvan, Miranda E. Orr, Nicolas Musi, Yingxin He, Randall J. Bateman, Chen-Pin Wang, Sudha Seshadri, Ellen Kraig, Dean Kellogg

“…After treatment, we find that twenty, mostly mild adverse events occur, systolic blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c increase, multiple erythrocyte parameters decrease, and there are no significant cognitive changes. …”
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Clinical characteristics and risk factors for recurrence of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in children: a case-control study by Bing Liu, Yi Sun, Wen-yuan Shi, Bing Hu, Ling-yun Guo, Tian-ming Chen, Xiao-ming Ge, Yun-yan Wu, Gang Liu

“…Conclusions KFD in children is more common in males and mostly occurs at school age. KFD in children is characterized by tenderness in the lymph node and leukopenia with less multiple lymph node involvement. …”
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Longer-term virologic outcomes on tenofovir-lamivudine-dolutegravir in second-line ART by Jennifer K. van Heerden, Ying Zhao, Claire M. Keene, Rulan Griesel, Zaayid Omar, René Goliath, Kayla Delaney, Gert van Zyl, Gary Maartens, Graeme Meintjes

“…Eligible participants had two consecutive HIV-1 RNA ≥ 1000 copies/mL on first-line ART, mostly tenofovir-emtricitabine-efavirenz. Participants were switched to tenofovir-lamivudine-dolutegravir (TLD) with lead-in 50 mg dolutegravir twice daily in stage one (n = 62), and randomised to TLD with additional lead-in 50 mg dolutegravir or placebo for the first 14 days in stage two (n = 130). …”
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ImageNomer: Description of a functional connectivity and omics analysis tool and case study identifying a race confound by Anton Orlichenko, Grant Daly, Ziyu Zhou, Anqi Liu, Hui Shen, Hong-Wen Deng, Yu-Ping Wang

“…Most packages for the analysis of fMRI-based functional connectivity (FC) and genomic data are used with a programming language interface, lacking an easy-to-navigate GUI frontend. …”
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Open-Label Phase 1/2 Study of Daratumumab-Based Desensitization Before Kidney Transplantation by Caroline Pilon, Nizar Joher, Cédric Usureau, Emmanuelle Boutin, Anna Boueilh, Jean-Luc Taupin, Allan Thiolat, José L. Cohen, Vissal David Kheav, Florence Canoui-Poitrine, Maryvonnick Carmagnat, Philippe Grimbert, Marie Matignon

“…Safety analysis showed 4 serious non-treatment-emergent adverse events (non-TEAEs), 36 mild TEAEs, mostly infusion-related reactions, grade 1 and 2 (causing 2 temporary drug discontinuations), but no serious TEAEs. …”
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