Any Long-term Effect of the Beirut Port Explosion on the Airborne Particulate Matter? by Yi-Bo Zhao, Nathalie Hayeck, Najat A. Saliba, Claudia Schreiner, Markus Zennegg, Fuze Jiang, Renato Figi, Davide Bleiner, Jing Wang

“…The continuous demolition and reconstruction after the explosion are possibly the main long-term effect of the Beirut port explosion, causing an elevated concentration of PM2.5 at ground level 400% higher than the recommended concentrations (15 µg m−3 for 24-hour mean). Protective measures must be taken to reduce the exposure risks by controlling the PM release from demolition and construction, traffic, and diesel generators. …”
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Structural characteristics, sugar metabolizing enzyme activity and biological activity of Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides at different growth stages by Shengjian Ma, Yuliang Chen, Huaguo Huang, Xiaorui Pu, Huangbin Liang, Yu Kuang, Yijun Liu

“…Of the four growth stages, the spore stage had the highest GLPs content of 4.11%, the highest hexokinase (HK) and phosphoglucose isomerase (PGM) activities of 4051.4 and 322.1 nmol/(min/g), respectively, the highest total antioxidant activity (18.79 mmol/mL) and DPPH radical scavenging capacity (36.15%). …”
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Specialized Medical Weight Management Intervention for High-Risk Obesity by Gitanjali Srivastava, Chelsea Paris, Jessica Johnson, Emma Barnes, Brittany L. Cunningham, C. J. Stimson, Kevin D. Niswender, Sabrina J. Poon

“…Patients ranged in weight from 160-443 pounds, with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 42.7 kg/m2 (Class 3a severe obesity; BMI range 28.4-74.5). …”
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Desafíos hacia la eliminación de la malaria urbana/peri en Guapi (Colombia), 2016 by Olga Lucia Murillo, Julio Cesar Padilla, José Pablo Escobar, Carlos Andrés Morales

“…En años recientes con la reducción sostenida de la malaria, Colombia hacia el 2021 propone su eliminación en áreas urbanas por lo cual se requieren investigaciones para este desafío O: Establecer la situación epidemiológica de la transmisión de malaria urbana/peri en Guapi 2011-2015 y describir los desafíos en capacidad vectorial, receptividad, infectividad y vulnerabilidad. M: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, se obtuvieron datos epidemiológicos, entomológicos, parasitológicos, de servicios de salud y socio económicos mediante entrevistas y fuentes secundarias. …”
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Calibration of Low-cost Sensors for Measurement of Indoor Particulate Matter Concentrations via Laboratory/Field Evaluation by Doheon Kim, Dongmin Shin, Jungho Hwang

“…Laboratory evaluation was conducted with polystyrene latex (PSL) particles in a 1 m3 chamber at 20°C with a relative humidity of 20%. …”
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The Impact of Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists on Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Medication by Christian Frois, Thomas O’Connell, Jacqueline Pesa, John Fastenau

“…In our analyses, the average difference in antipsychotic costs per capita between PDL and non-PDL states was less than $0.6M or 1.5% (p=0.95). The average difference in antipsychotic utilization per capita was less than 2.8% (p=0.91) and in branded antipsychotic market share was 0.7% (p=0.59). …”
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Source Impact Analysis Using Char-EC/Soot-EC Ratios in the Central Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of India by Manisha Mishra, U.C. Kulshrestha

“…During the study period, the fPM mass concentrations exhibited very high variability, ranging from 22 to 367 (avg. ± SD: 149 ± 87) µg m−3, and approximately 40% of the annual average consisted of carbonaceous aerosols (organic carbon [OC], water-soluble OC [WSOC], and elemental carbon [EC]). …”
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TepiSense: A Social Computing-Based Real-Time Epidemic Surveillance System Using Artificial Intelligence by Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Amir Mehmood

“…To test the performance of our system, we build a dataset of Twitter Epidemic Surveillance Corpus (TESC) containing 23.9K English and 13K labelled Urdu tweets related to six diseases: COVID19, hepatitis, malaria, flu, dengue, and HIV/AIDS. Our results show that mBERT LLM achieves the highest F-measure values of 0.96 and 0.83 for topic and indication tweets classification, respectively. …”
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A Nonsynonymous Single-nucleotide Polymorphism in SLC24A5 Regulates Feather Pigment Deposition in Chinese Yellow Quail by Xiaohui Zhang, Fanghu Wu, Yanxia Qi, Yuanyuan Shang, Lingyun Fan, Yifei Wang

“…Mutant individuals had significantly lower total melanin content in the feathers and tyrosinase activity in dorsal skin, in spite of no significant difference in SLC24A5 mRNA expression in the same tissues. This study indicates that the g.8884145A/G mutation reduced tyrosinase activity by affecting the function of the SLC24A5 protein, which in turn decreased melanin content of down feathers in Chinese yellow quail.…”
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De alfa a omega: Estimación de la confiabilidad ordinal. Una guía práctica by Nicolás Vizioli, Alejandro Pagano

“…Al emplear una muestra de 266 adultos entre 18 y 63 años (M = 31.91, DE = 11.50), se administró la versión adaptada a argentina del Inventario de Ansiedad de Beck y el Cuestionario de Regulación Emocional. …”
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Encapsulation of betalains from beetroot stem by spray drying using Aloe vera gel as carrier by José Carlos Castillo-Altamirano, Miguel Ángel Sánchez Madrigal, Armando Quintero-Ramos, Martha Graciela Ruiz Gutiérrez

“…The obtained powders were evaluated for water activity (aw), moisture (M), pH, glass transition temperature (Tg), bulk density (BD), water solubility index (WSI), color parameters, betacyanin (BC) and betaxanthin (BX) contents, antioxidant activity (AA) and morphology. …”
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A rare case of Ewing's sarcoma in a 4-year-old child treated by tumor endoprosthetics using 3D printing by Vladimir Stavrev, Luben Stokov, Petko Ganev, Georgi Georgiev

“…The patellar ligament was reinserted to the tibial component, and myoplasty was additionally performed with the medial head of the m. gastrocnemius. Intraoperatively, we lengthened the lower limb by 1.5 cm to delay the upcoming staged lengthening. …”
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Does the seed fall far from the tree? Weak fine-scale genetic structure in a continuous Scots pine population by Niskanen, Alina K., Kujala, Sonja T., Kärkkäinen, Katri, Savolainen, Outi, Pyhäjärvi, Tanja

“…According to our results, Scots pine has a large neighborhood size (Nb = 1680–3210), but a relatively short gene dispersal distance (σg = 36.5–71.3 m). Knowledge of Scots pine fine-scale spatial genetic structure can be used to define suitable sampling distances for evolutionary studies and practical applications. …”
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The Impact of Visual Perturbation Neuromuscular Training on Landing Mechanics and Neural Activity: A Pilot Study by Timothy R Wohl, Cody R Criss, Adam L Haggerty, Justin L Rush, Janet E Simon, Dustin R Grooms

“…Methods: Eight right leg dominant healthy female athletes (20.4±1.1yrs; 1.6±0.1m; 64.4±7.0kg) participated in four VPNT sessions. …”
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Identification of deep intronic variants in junctional epidermolysis bullosa using genome sequencing and splicing assays by Fuying Chen, Ruoqu Wei, Yumeng Wang, Qiaoyu Cao, Jianbo Wang, Chenfei Wang, Dingjin Yao, Zhirong Yao, Cheng Ni, Ming Li

“…Our results emphasize the importance of selecting the right cell line for mRNA analysis.…”
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Evaluation of centering ability of XP endo shaper, Edge Evolve and Hyflex CM in simulated curved canals by Van B. Werdina, Ihsan N. Bahnam

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The Sarcoplasmic/Endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is present in pig sperm and modulates their physiology over liquid preservation by Ferran Garriga, Jesús Martínez-Hernández, Ainhoa Parra-Balaguer, Marc Llavanera, Marc Yeste

“…For this purpose, sperm were incubated with different concentrations of thapsigargin (Thg; 0, 5, 25, and 50 µM) and stored at 17 °C for ten days. The presence and localization of SERCA2 were evaluated using immunoblotting and immunofluorescence, respectively. …”
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Remoción de plomo en suelos contaminados con relaves mineros a través del vermicompostaje by A. Canales Gutiérrez, G. Belizario Quispe, H. Chui Betancur, B. Roque Huanca

“…Las muestras de relaves mineros fueron procedentes de la mina La Rinconada, Perú, a 5200 m de altitud. El relave minero fue mezclado con tierra agrícola, estiércol de ovino y aserrín de madera, en cantidades y proporciones variables, para tres tratamientos de tres réplicas cada uno. …”
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Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines by Changqing Lin, Jian Zhen Yu, Eddie Lee, Pak-Wai Chan, Jackie Wai-Yin Ng, Ying-Wa Chan, Tianshu Zhang, Yiang Chen, Hanzhe Chen, Zijing Zhang, Samuel Ho-Kwong Chui, Jimmy C. H. Fung, Wenqing Liu, Alexis K. H. Lau

“…Unusually high levels of sulfate (reaching 75% of fine particulate matter) and phosphorus (up to 93 ng/m³) in Hong Kong supported this finding. These analyses prompted the development of a real-time chemical-wind index to identify the occurrence of air pollution associated with volcanic emissions. …”
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Efecto de prácticas agroecológicas en la conservación del suelo de la Zona de Reserva Campesina de San Isidro, Pradera, Valle del Cauca* by Sandra Patricia Montenegro-Gómez, Libia Esperanza Nieto-Gómez, Reinaldo Giraldo-Díaz

“…Se realizó análisis de textura del suelo, análisis de atributos químicos (pH, M.O., FF K, Ca, Mg, Na, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn y B), cuantificación microbiana y de mesofauna, y se analizaron indicadores de manejo agroecológico en cada uno de los 15 agroecosistemas. …”
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