Sublethal Effects of Diesel on Total Protein Levels and Cholesterol in <i>Tympanotonus Fuscatus</i> by OS Edori, IB Nwoke, ES Edori

“…While cholesterol levels were significantly (P>0.05) lower or higher in value than that of the control. …”
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2014/15 Picking, Roadsiding, and Hauling Charges for Florida Citrus by Ariel Singerman

“… As Florida’s citrus industry confronts the impacts of Huanglongbing (HLB or citrus greening)–decreasing crop yields and production, lower quality fruit, and increasing cost of production–many growers are facing declining returns. …”
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FOUR CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING THE SOCIALLY MARGINAL IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY REFLECTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT by I.C. Berg

“… The social dynamics of the world of early Christianity is characterised by the limit of upward mobility and social disparity between classes in terms of access to both material resources such as lands and funds and nonmaterial resources such as honour and political power. This phenomenon was endemic throughout the imperial Roman world, which was the immediate sociopolitical context of early Christianity. …”
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2014/15 Picking, Roadsiding, and Hauling Charges for Florida Citrus by Ariel Singerman

“… As Florida’s citrus industry confronts the impacts of Huanglongbing (HLB or citrus greening)–decreasing crop yields and production, lower quality fruit, and increasing cost of production–many growers are facing declining returns. …”
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Roman victory propaganda – Revelation’s response: A historical and theological study by Łukasz Bergel

“…Thus, Revelation creates a powerful and vivid message to convince the reader that God is the supreme and only ruler of the world, and Christ triumphs over every power, even the invincible Roman Empire. …”
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Massive spectrum in F-theory and the distance conjecture by Keren Chen, Qinjian Lou, Yi-Nan Wang

“…In particular, in 8D F-theory setups when the 7-branes collide into a codimension-one (4, 6, 12) singularity, we found an infinite light tower of BPS string junctions, which should match the light KK tower in the dual heterotic description. …”
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Generalized H-fold sumset and Subsequence sum by Mohan, Pandey, Ram Krishna

“…In this paper, we find the optimal lower bound for the cardinality of $H^{(r)}A$, i.e., for $|H^{(r)}A|$ and the structure of the underlying sets $A$ and $H$ when $|H^{(r)}A|$ is equal to the optimal lower bound in the cases $A$ contains only positive integers and $A$ contains only nonnegative integers. …”
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Informality, innovation, and firm performance: evidence from World Bank Enterprise Survey in India, 2013–2014 by K. Chandra Shekar

“…These findings indicate that weak enforcement of registration laws and the advantages of delayed formalization—such as reduced compliance costs and lower regulatory risks—can incentivize informality. …”
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Is It Still Prohibited to Perform Spinal Anesthesia in Patients with Advanced Heart Disease? by Maryam Vosoughian, Shide Dabir, Faramarz Mosaffa

“…Intrathecal single injection of low doses of local anesthetic  in combination with low dose short acting opioids can be administered safely in lower abdominal and lower limb surgeries lasting 60 to 90 minutes . …”
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Unexpected acute appendicitis found at laparoscopic surgery for a right ovarian teratoma: A case report by Rie Okuya, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Nozomi Sakai, Eri Katayama, Kaori Kuroda, Kaori Koga

“…A 20-year-old nulligravid woman with a history of left ovarian teratoma resection and ulcerative colitis presented with left lower abdominal pain. Non-contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed no findings suggestive of exacerbation of ulcerative colitis, such as bowel wall thickening or worsening ascites, while a mass suspected to be an ovarian teratoma was identified. …”
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Pancreas Proapoptotic Proteases in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis by N. B. Gubegritz, E. A. Krylova, Yu. A. Gaidar

“…Pancreas biopsies were obtained during planned organ operations, as well as using a fine-needle biopsy under ultrasound control. …”
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Ecological security driving mechanisms and optimization of zoning in Chinese urban agglomerations: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration by Jinyuan Zhang, Xuning Qiao, Yongju Yang, Liang Liu, Yalong Li, Shengnan Zhao

“…Spatial disparities in ecological security were relatively small, and counties with lower ecological security levels tended to show greater clustering; (2) The explanatory power of the driving factors is ranked as follows: human factors > natural factors > landscape factors. …”
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Relationship between physical activity level, leisure sedentary time, and frailty among residents aged 30 – 79 years in Wuzhong district, Suzhou city: a baseline surveillance data... by Xikang FAN, Jiang HUA, Jian SU, Hao YU, Yan LU, Yujie HUA, Jianrong JIN, Pei PEI, Dianjianyi SUN, Canqing YU, Jun LYU, Jinyi ZHOU, Ran TAO

“…The risk of frailty was 0.50 times lower (OR = 0.50, 95%CI = 0.43 – 0.59), 0.35 times lower (OR = 0.35, 95%CI = 0.29 – 0.43), and 0.29 times lower (OR = 0.29, 95%CI = 0.23 – 0.36), respectively. …”
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Impact of healthy lifestyle on diabetes incidence among adults of different socioeconomic status in Guizhou province: a prospective cohort study by Yiying WANG, Min CHEN, Lieqiang ZHANG, Xin WANG, Wei ZHAN, Yunxi PAN, Xiaodeng ZHAO, Tao LIU

“…After adjustment for gender, age, ethnicity, marital status, place of residence, and family history of diabetes, among adults with an SES score of ≤ 8, those with 5 or more healthy lifestyle factors had a 60.4% (HR = 0.396, 95%CI: 0.198 – 0.788) lower risk of diabetes compared with those with 2 or fewer factors. …”
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Synergistic enhancement of hydrophobic dental adhesives: autonomous strengthening, polymerization kinetics, and hydrolytic resistance by Burak Korkmaz, Erhan Demirel, Qiang Ye, Qiang Ye, Anil Misra, Anil Misra, Candan Tamerler, Candan Tamerler, Candan Tamerler, Paulette Spencer, Paulette Spencer, Paulette Spencer

“…At this temperature and under wet conditions, the storage modulus of NC1 is statistically significantly lower (p &lt; 0.001) than NE1. The results indicated that in the wet environment, NE1 provided lower chain mobility, higher crosslink density, and more hydrogen bonds. …”
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Utilization of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy with a Former Triathlete After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case Report by Christopher Keating, Stephanie Muth, Cameron Hui, Lisa T Hoglund

“… # Discussion In this case, BFR appeared to be a safe and well-tolerated intervention. The results suggest potential benefits in terms of increased function, strength, power, and reduced pain in this specific person after TKA. …”
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