Evaluating the Correlation between High Titers of Tissue-Transglutaminase Antibody with the Grade of Severity of Villous Atrophy in Syrian Patients with Celiac Disease by A. Alhabbal, I. Abou Khamis

“…The mean age of the patients was (18.55 ± 12.92). Anemia was the most frequent non-gastrointestinal finding as it was found among 35% of the participant, but no remarkable association was found between Marsh grading and hemoglobin levels (r = 0.36, p > 0.05). …”
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Protocol for a systematic review of economic evaluations considering costs and health outcomes of weather and climate-related extreme events in humans by Collins Iwuji, Saeideh Babashahi, Kingsley Orievulu, Ekeminiabasi Eyita-Okon, Dominic Kniveton

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The Unique Helium Nova V445 Puppis Ejected ≫0.001 M⊙ in the Year 2000 and Will Not Become a Type Ia Supernova by Bradley E. Schaefer

“…The orbital period immediately before the 2000 eruption was ${P}_{{\rm{pre}}}$ = 1.871843 ± 0.000014 days, with a steady period change of (−0.17 ± 0.06) × 10 ^−8 from 1896 to 1995. The period immediately after the nova eruption was P _post = 1.873593 ± 0.000034 days, with a $\dot{P}$ of (−4.7 ± 0.5) × 10 ^−8 . …”
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Quality Assessment of Soaps Produced from Palm Bunch Ash-Derived Alkali and Coconut Oil by HO Ogunsuyi, CA Akinnawo

“…The free caustic alkali content of the black soap produced through the conventional method was found to be 0.09%, while 0.26% and 0.98% were recorded respectively for the improved and synthetic-alkali soaps. …”
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Wood-based Columns Reinforced with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer: A Systematic Literature Review by Pedro Ignácio Lima Gadêlha Jardim, Herisson Ferreira dos Santos, Lucas Willian Aguiar Mattias, Victor Almeida De Araujo, Júlio Cesar Molina, André Luis Christoforo

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Analysis of differential metabolites in Liuyang douchi at different fermentation stages based on untargeted metabolomics approach by Liwen Jiang, Yi Chen, Tiantian Zhao, Pao Li, Luyan Liao, Yang Liu

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Biodiversity characteristics of large forest plots in Qinghai area of Qilian Mountain National Park by WANG Dinghui, SUONAN Cairang, YU Hongyan, DU Yangong

“…The coefficients of determination for the training and testing sets of the machine learning model were 0.95 and 0.93, respectively, with root mean square errors of only 0.06 and 0.08. This indicated that the model had a high explanatory power and prediction accuracy for the Shannon-Wiener data. …”
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RESIDENTS’ COMPLIANCE WITH BUILDING SETBACKS IN IBADAN NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE, NIGERIA by ADEJUMO, S. A., FATIMAH O. BADIRU

“…Findings revealed that majority of residents who complied with setbacks standard were males (55.6%), Yoruba (84.9%) and graduates (62.5%). The sum of 30.3% and 34.9%, respectively, complied to the rear and front view setbacks of their buildings.  …”
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The effects of adding a six-month Pilates exercise program to three months of traditional community-based pulmonary rehabilitation in individuals with COPD: A prospective cohort st... by Marisela Barbosa, Cristina A. de Melo, Rui Torres

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OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE PRACTICES: EVIDENCE FROM LISTED NIGERIAN INDUSTRIAL GOODS FIRMS by Olayinka Olaitan ABIDOYE, Blessing Onyi AKINDE, Eucharia Ogechukwu OKAFOR, Ayodele Adebowale ADISA

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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN SOUTHWEST, NIGERIA by Bolaji Comfort ADENIYI, Gbenga Sunday FAYIGBE

“…The reliability of the instrument was estimated at 0.80 using Chronbach’s Alpha reliability method. …”
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Estimating the Pile Settlement Using a Machine Learning Technique Optimized by Henry's Gas Solubility Optimization and Particle Swarm Optimization by Saravana Kumar, Savarimuthu Robinson

“…While the RMSE of SVR-PSO appeared more than two-fold of SVR-HGSO, 0.46 and 0.29 mm, respectively. Also, test phase results showed the better performance of SVR-HGSO with an MAE index of 0.278, which is 57.10% lower than the other one. …”
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Un análisis geográfico para prevenir el conflicto: Moldavia, foco de tensión geopolítica by Miguel Borja Bernabé-Crespo

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Complement protein and Immunoglobulins Serum levels in Normal Pregnant and Spontaneous Aborted Women by Hiwa Abdulrahman Ahmad, Mehri Mirhaj Muhammd salih, Kamal Ahmed Khidir

“…Study groups were classified into normal pregnant women (20), spontaneous abortion (30) and non-pregnant women (16) as a control group, attending to Shahid Dr. …”
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Evaluation of the Results of Patients Who Were Treated with Laparoscopic Simple Tunnel Hysterosacropexy Method to Prevent Uterine Prolapse: A New Approach by Erdal Seker, Evindar Elci

“…The mean operative time was 146 minutes; there were no intraoperative visceral or vascular injuries. …”
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS, INVESTMENT POLICY AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF PENSION FUND ADMINISTRATORS IN NIGERIA by Adeoye Amuda Afolabi, Mubaraq Sanni, Muritala Olatunji Oladele, Yusuf Alabi Olumoh, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman

“…The results revealed that corporate governance mechanisms (β = 0.187, t = 1.046, p = 0.154) and investment policy (β=0.367; t=2.598; and p=0.240) exhibit negligible impacts on the financial sustainability of pension fund managers in Nigeria at 5% level of significance. …”
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Sexual violence victimisation and response among university students in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol by Sylvia Kaaya, Rehema Chande Mallya, Marie Lindkvist, Ester Steven Mzilangwe, Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi

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Field-scale screening of pumpkin cultivars for cost-effectiveness of “repairing while producing” in cadmium-arsenic co-contaminated agricultural land by Xingxiu Huang, Qingzhou Yu, Mengya Zhou, Chongjian Ma, Huashou Li

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VOC Emissions from a Rendering Plant and Evaluation for Removal of Pentanal by Oxidization Using Hydrogen Peroxide by Wen-Hsi Cheng, Chun-Hung Lin, Chung-Shin Yuan, Ken-Lin Chang

“…When the pentanal exhaustion concentration from the rendering process was around 36.23 ppm in the flue with the flow rates from 100 to 250 Nm3 min−1, the reaction rate constant of pentanal for the first-order reaction by aqueous hydrogen peroxide of 1,000 mg L−1 was obtained as 0.536 1 s−1, and then the pentanal reduced to 0.68 to 2 ppm. …”
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Investigation of the liquid-vapor equilibrium in the mixture of carbon dioxide and normal alkanes in binary systems using the Peng-Robinson equation of state modified with mixing r... by Ahad Khaghani, Mojtaba Saei Moghaddam, Mohammad Fani Kheshti

“…For binary mixtures of CO2 and hydrocarbons lighter than C10, the Wong-Sandler mixing rule, binary interaction coefficient, and Jaubert et al. fitting model improve the VLE predictions in the vapor phase by 82.45 %, 85.40 %, and 78.33 %, respectively. In the liquid phase, these methods improve the predictions by 81.95 %, 81.62 %, and 73.02 %, respectively. …”
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