The Impact of PTPRK and ROS1 Polymorphisms on the Preeclampsia Risk in Han Chinese Women by Huihui Li, Xingyu Yan, Man Yang, Mei Liu, Shan Tian, Mengru Yu, Wei-Ping Li, Cong Zhang

“…These results suggest that PTPRK appears to be a previously unrecognized susceptibility gene for PE in Han Chinese women, and its expression is also associated with PE, while ROS1 rs9489124 has no apparent correlation with PE risk.…”
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Adsorption of Cu on Epichlorohydrin-Modified Magnetic FeO Microspheres Prepared by One-Step Solvothermal Synthesis by Shiwei Xiao, Rong Liu, Jiping Ma, Fengxi Chen

“…The addition of 2.5 wt% of NaCl significantly enhanced its Cu 2+ adsorption (from 17.5 to 28.5 mg/g). The apparent activation energy of the adsorption process was 14.7 kJ mol −1 . …”
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Melonic limits of the quartic Yukawa model and general features of melonic CFTs by Ludo Fraser-Taliente, John Wheater

“…We identify the flows between the melonic and prismatic fixed points in the bosonic and fermionic sectors, finding an apparent line of fixed points in both. We reproduce these fixed points non-perturbatively using the Schwinger-Dyson equations, and in addition identify the supersymmetric fixed points in general dimension. …”
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Natural resources heterogeneity and environmental sustainability in G20 nations: post-COP28 analysis by Abdulrahman Alomair, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim, Abdulaziz S. Al Naim

“…Additionally, two channels of causalities, including unidirectional and bidirectional nexuses, are apparent from the estimated model. The study highlights the importance of eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and making substantial investments in green policies as key recommendations for policy action.…”
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Short-Term Efficacy of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease: Practice in China by Youyou Luo, Jindan Yu, Hong Zhao, Jingan Lou, Feibo Chen, Kerong Peng, Jie Chen

“…Growth improvement, which was evaluated by changes in height for age z-score, was more apparent in EEN group than that in steroids group P<0.05. …”
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Asymmetries in global building envelope air infiltration and tightness data: Exploring knowledge gaps for accurate energy analyses by Rana Raafat, Sherif Goubran, Nahla N. Makhlouf, Mohsen Aboulnaga

“…It also provides a list of actionable recommendations for air infiltration testing and research to address the now-apparent gaps.…”
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Spermatozoal Fractalkine Signaling Pathway Is Upregulated in Subclinical Varicocele Patients with Normal Seminogram and Low-Level Leucospermia by Salwa M. Abo El-khair, Mohammad A. Gaballah, Mamdouh M. Abdel-Gawad, Sherif Refaat M. Ismail, Ayman Z. Elsamanoudy

“…To investigate the possible effect of low-level leucospermia on spermatozoa oxidative stress and sDNA fragmentation in patients with subclinical varicocele and apparently normal seminogram, and also to study the role of spermatozoal fractalkine and its receptor (CX3CR1) gene expression as a marker of spermatozoa inflammatory response. …”
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On Student Access and Equity in a Reforming University: by Kwesiga, Joy Constance

“…Private sponsorship greatly expanded the intake of fee-paying students, and the total number of students in higher education in Uganda has ex panded enormously. However, these apparent gains in terms of access to higher education have been offset by lack of necessary investment in facilities, with result ing problems of over-crowding, excessive teaching loads, large classes and falling standards. …”
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La nouvelle frontière des limites d’âge, ou les jeunesses selon les Meru (Kenya) by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…De nos jours, sous l’effet de la scolarisation généralisée, de nouvelles catégorisations de la jeunesse sont apparues, se surimposant ou se substituant à d’anciennes. …”
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Plato’s Republic to Rivers’Five Spot: Poets Among Painters by Eamonn Wall

“…Il sera principalement question ici des poètes de l’École de New York qui, apparue dans les années 1950, comprenait parmi ses membres des poètes tels que John Ashbery, Frank O’ Hara, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, et bien d’autres encore. …”
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Cercamentos sociais e Assepsia urbanística: by Adriano Chaves Valente

“…No segundo, re ito sobre como tal estratégia de se impedir reuniões e ocupações de espaços públicos por grupos denominados perigosos (ou indesejáveis) muitas vezes se ampara em um conceito de ordem posto em prática pelo Estado por meio de suas agências policiais. …”
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Improvement of cocoa-pod husk using sheep rumen liquor for tilapia diet by Dedi Jusadi, Julie Ekasari, Azis Kurniansyah

“…As conclusions sheep rumen liquor enzyme addition was effective to decrease crude fiber content of CPHM and improve the apparent digestibility coefficient of CPHM for tilapia diet.   …”
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Effects of amino acid value-added urea on rice growth and nitrogen utilization. by Lin Cheng, Zongya Wang, Shuangshuang Huang, Hongyan Wu, Ruichao Li

“…Further analysis showed that it improved both the apparent nitrogen utilization efficiency and fertilizer nitrogen utilization efficiency. …”
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Thermal and packaging materials for enhancing the longevity and aroma integrity of fragrant rice during storage by Rajesh Chakraborty, Tuhin Suvra Roy, Jun-Ichi Sakagami

“…The results revealed that the apparent amylose content, fat acidity and 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2-AP) content of aromatic rice grain was significantly impacted by storage temperature and/or packaging materials and/or variety. …”
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Effect of Fireworks, Chinese New Year and the COVID-19 Lockdown on Air Pollution and Public Attitudes by Peter Brimblecombe, Yonghang Lai

“…The holiday effect, a reduction in pollutant concentrations when normal work activities are curtailed, is only apparent for NO2 in the holiday week in Wuhan (2015−2020), but not Beijing. …”
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Predicting of Ki-67 Expression Level Using Diffusion-Weighted and Synthetic Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer by Liying Zhang, Jisen Hao, Jia Guo, Xin Zhao, Xing Yin

“…Precontrast and postcontrast relaxation times (T1, longitudinal; T2, transverse), proton density (PD) parameters, and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values were measured in breast lesions. …”
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Research on desiliconization of brown corundum fly dust and bauxite based on roasting-alkali leaching method. by Nian Liu, Chaoyi Chen, Junqi Li, Dong Liang

“…The desilication reaction follows a solid shrinkage core model, with a kinetic equation of 1-2/3α-(1-α)2/3 = 15.50exp[-29299/(RT)]·t, and an apparent activation energy of 29.30 kJ/mol. The synergistic mechanism involves fine particles of the BCFD adsorbing on the surface after mixing with the bauxite, increasing the mineral surface area and the activity of silicon, thereby accelerating the reaction rate.…”
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Physicochemical Differences in the Leaves of the Two <i>Agave salmiana</i> Subspecies Grown in Different Regions by Oscar Campos-Herrera, Leopoldo González-Cruz, Guillermo Antonio Silva-Martínez, Norma Leticia Flores-Martínez, Rosa Isela Ortíz-Basurto, Aurea Bernardino-Nicanor

“…Moreover, only some macronutrients were significantly different in both agaves, so the subspecies and the development zone apparently have no influence on their composition. No significant differences were found in the color of the leaves based on the growing region of the agaves. …”
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MRI as an assessment tool for prognostic risk stratification of endometrial carcinoma patients based on molecular classification by Tingting Cui, Ying Gao, Bei Gu, Jinsong Guo, Yunlong Yue

“…The tumour volume (TV) and uterine volume (UV) were estimated with the ellipsoid formula and used to calculate the tumour volume ratio (TVR). The mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the tumour was measured on a workstation. …”
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Temporal Variability of Equatorial Ionization Anomaly Crest Locations Extracted From Global Ionospheric Maps by Corina Dunn, Xing Meng, Olga P. Verkhoglyadova

“…For the diurnal and semi‐diurnal variations in universal time, both crests dip southward around 15UT and the northern crest additionally dips southward around 2.5UT. We consider apparent universal time dependence to be a proxy for the longitudinal distribution of the crest geomagnetic latitude, which exhibits the known wave‐number‐four longitudinal structure of EIA crests. …”
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