Ni12P5 and Ni12P5-rGO for multifunctional electrocatalyst and supercapacitor application by Anil M. Palve, Omkar V. Vani, Rishabh Srivastava, Wang Lin, Ram K. Gupta

“…Remarkably, these materials maintained their capacity over 5000 cycles, achieving a commendable 98 % coulombic efficiency. …”
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Effects of bronchoscopic alveolar lavage–assisted mechanical ventilation on postoperative pulmonary infection and inflammatory factors in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery by Hui Zhu, Haiyang Lu

“…Maximum minute ventilation, total lung capacity, forced expiratory volume in 1 second, and maximum mid-expiratory flow were substantially enhanced following each treatment. …”
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Research on Territorial Spatial Use Regulation, Land Element Allocation, and Regional Fiscal Transfer Payments: An Empirical Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt by Wanmin Zhao, Yijia Gao, Aihui Ma

“…Currently, the state should establish a comprehensive regional fiscal transfer compensation mechanism that takes into account the fiscal payment capacities of “windfall profit regions” and the incentive effects on “windfall loss regions” when determining fiscal transfer amounts. …”
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Overcoming barriers for investigating nickel-pincer nucleotide cofactor-related enzymes by Jorge L. Nevarez, Aiko Turmo, Santhosh Gatreddi, Swati Gupta, Jian Hu, Robert P. Hausinger

“…The two significant advancements described here, the heterologous production of active NPN-cofactor containing enzymes in Escherichia coli and the use of a circular dichroism-based assay to monitor enzyme activities, expand our capacity to analyze these enzymes. Such additional detailed characterization will deepen our understanding of the diverse chemistry catalyzed by the NPN cofactor and potentially uncover novel roles for this organometallic species in microbial metabolism.…”
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Effect of Repeated Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients Suffering from Intermittent Claudication by Mehmet Balin, Tarık Kıvrak

“…We considered to test the hypothesis that RIPC in PAD patients suffering from IC would increase muscle resistance to ischemia and thus improve walking-capacity. Materials/Methods. A total of 63 patients with proven-IC underwent two treadmill tests (graded treadmill protocol) with a 28-day interval in between. …”
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Effective community engagement in one health research in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review by Sidney Sangong, Farrukh Ishaque Saah, Luchuo Engelbert Bain

“…Two main best practices of CE in OH research were: 1) Awareness raising on OH research through social mobilization, rural outreach sensitization, and wide community assembly and 2) Building local capacity through community-based OH Training and Leadership workshops. …”
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Optimising transitions of care for acute kidney injury survivors: protocol for a mixed-methods study of nephrologist and primary care provider recommendations by Rozalina Grubina McCoy, Kianoush B Kashani, Joan M Griffin, Heather Personett May, Abby K Krauter, Dawn M Finnie, Erin F Barreto

“…Long-term complications can be partially attributed to gaps in kidney-focused care and education during transitions. Building capacity across the healthcare spectrum by engaging a broad network of multidisciplinary providers to facilitate optimal follow-up care represents an important mechanism to address this existing care gap. …”
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Farmers-Herders Conflict and Nigeria’s Quest for Food Security: The Imperative Need for Information Communications Technology by Olawale Olufemi Akinrinde, Abdullahi Abdullazeez Osuwa, Kayode Wakili Olawoyin

“…Nigeria has experienced severe farmers-herders conflict that has negatively influenced her agricultural production capacity, resulting in severe food insecurity. Tensions have grown over the past decades, with increasingly violent flare-ups between the farmers and the herdsmen spreading across the entire country. …”
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Quantitative risk assessment of rainstorm-induced flood disaster in Piedmont plain of Pakistan by Ming Chang, Kangchi Zhou, Xiangyang Dou, Fenghuan Su, Bo Yu

“…In this paper, in response to the inability to accurately predict the flood damage in the pre-hill plains region in previous studies, combined with the current Pakistan mega-flood disaster, will couple the impacts of various flood-inducing factors on flooding, construct a prediction model for the degree of inundation of the Pakistani pre-hill plains flood disaster, and combined with the distribution of regional bearers, analyze the risk-resistant capacity of different types of bearers, and draw a comprehensive risk map piece under the flooding disaster. …”
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Insulin Resistance Markers to Detect Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Male Hispanic Population by Maritza Pérez-Mayorga, Jose P. Lopez-Lopez, Maria A. Chacon-Manosalva, Maria G Castillo, Johanna Otero, Daniel Martinez-Bello, Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Daniel D. Cohen, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

“…The triglycerides/glucose (TyG) index and triglycerides/HDL-c (TG/HDL) ratio are markers correlated with IR. We compared the capacity of these two indexes, alongside IR, to detect NAFLD. …”
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Application of a complex system for optical monitoring of technical condition of building structures with external composite reinforcement by M. Yu. Fedotov, A. A. Kalgin, E. E. Shmoilov, P. D. Kapyrin, O. A. Kornev

“…It is shown that the results of such control allow timely revealing the reduction of bearing capacity, occurrence of operational damages, planning repair measures that the application of fibre-optic methods and means of continuous diagnostics and composite systems of external reinforcement in a complex, allows to provide safety of operation of engineering constructions in real conditions.…”
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Role of cardiolipin in skeletal muscle function and its therapeutic implications by Youngbum Yoo, MyeongHoon Yeon, Mee-Sup Yoon, Young-Kyo Seo

“…In aged skeletal muscle, reduced CL levels are directly associated with impaired mitochondrial respiration capacity and structural degradation. Upregulating CL synthesis enhances mitochondrial function by stabilizing ETC proteins, increasing oxygen flux, and improving cristae architecture. …”
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Examining patient distress and unmet need for support across UK renal units with varying models of psychosocial care delivery: a cross-sectional survey study by Daiga Kamerāde, Maaike Seekles, Paula Ormandy

“…All adult patients, who could understand English, and with capacity (as determined by the nurse in charge), were eligible to participate in the study. …”
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Conductas sexuales en hombres que tienen sexo con hombres con exceso de peso by Carlos Alberto Catalán-Gómez, Raquel Alicia Benavides-Torres, Dora Julia Onofre Rodríguez, Velia Margarita Cárdenas Villareal

“…Aunque al menos la mitad tiene un plan para practicar sexo seguro, menos del 50% utiliza condón regularmente y muchos no son capaces de negociar su uso con sus parejas. Más de la mitad admite no portar condones, a pesar de la posibilidad de tener relaciones sexuales. …”
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Improvement of Post‐Thaw Quality and In Vivo Fertility of Simmental Bull Spermatozoa Using Ferulic Acid by Mobin Afsar, Ali Soleimanzadeh, Amir Khaki, Esmail Ayen

“…After the samples were frozen and thawed, the samples were tested for malondialdehyde (MDA), total antioxidant capacity (TAC), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), total motility, progressive motility, motility characteristics, and plasma membrane functionality. …”
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For Carlos Castillo-Chavez by Dean Evasius

“…In the years that followed I was able to see that Carlos channels his vitality into a remarkable capacity for work. The emails he sent to me over the years typically arrived at some odd hour of the night, perhaps suggesting a follow-up phone call for early the next morning. …”
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The Ankle-brachial Index as a Predictor of Multivess el Coronary Disease in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Peripheral Arterial Disease by Tessa Negrín Valdés, Ailed Elena Rodríguez Jiménez, Raikel Fardales Rodríguez, Luis Alberto Castellanos Gallo, José Carlos Meneses Jiménez, Magda Alina López Callejas

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> ankle-brachial index &lt;0.9 showed a predictive capacity for multivessel disease that increases if it is associated with diabetes mellitus and smoking.…”
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Introduction of Powder Fluxes in Rotary Degassing System Towards Intensifying Refining Process of Aluminium Alloys by M. Piękoś, Z. Smorawiński

“…The constructed unit was installed in the Experimental Foundry of the Faculty of Foundry Engineering at AGH in the Department of Moulding Processes, Mould Technology, and Non-Ferrous Metals Foundry; it is an integral part of a thyristor-based medium-frequency induction furnace with a melting capacity of up to 60 kg for aluminium alloys. The new experimental bench performs barbotage refining using a rotating head with the possibility of alternating the introduction of refiners/modifiers in powder form. …”
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Effects of Dietary Resveratrol, Bile Acids, Allicin, Betaine, and Inositol on Recovering the Lipid Metabolism Disorder in the Liver of Rare Minnow Gobiocypris rarus Caused by Bisph... by Yingying Zhang, Yinan Jiang, Ziying Wang, Jiayu Wang, Mingzhen Zhu, Hui Yang

“…The addition of these additives had a restorative effect on the antioxidant capacity of G. rarus livers, but bile acids and inositol were relatively the most effective. …”
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Costoclavicular block as a diaphragm-sparing nerve block for shoulder surgery: a randomized controlled trial by Youngin Lee, Seunguk Bang, Jihyun Chung, Min Suk Chae, Jungwon Shin

“…The decrease in forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in 1 s from baseline was significantly greater in the ISB. …”
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