Thyrotoxicosis Masquerading as Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome in An Adolescent by Mohamed Samir Eid, Magd Ahmed Kotb, Samia Salah, Salma Zoheir El Houchi

“…The vomiting was bilious and non-projectile following meals, 3-4 times per day. Upon presentation her weight was below the third percentile for age, with jaundice and hepatomegaly. …”
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Lifestyle Habits Among Sultan Qaboos University Students During COVID-19 “Stay-At-Home” Period by علي اليعربي

“…Approximately 70% of students exercised at home 3-4 times at light or moderate intensity per week with an increase of physical activity levels for most of them. …”
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Characterization of amorphous silicon nitride thin films deposited by low pressure chemical vapor deposition Using free radicals of trichlorosilane and ammonia gaseous system by A. Salmasi, E. Keshavarz Alamdari

“…The measured H2 contamination in a-SiNx thin films is 1.05 at%, which is 17 times lower than the corresponding contamination in the films produced by PECVD and 3.4 times lower than the contamination in the LPCVD thin films with SiH4 or DCS and NH3. …”
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Content of heavy metals and arsenic in soils near Sharra landfill (Tirana, Albania) by Chernykh Natalia, Baeva Yulia, Thoma Anamaria

“…Concentrations of V - in 1.2-1.3 times, Mo - more than in 2.2-4.4 times, Co - in 1.2-1.5 times and As - more than in 3.4 times were exceeded background concentration. It was also revealed 1.7 times higher than the established normative value for As in soils. …”
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Compact slow-light waveguide and modulator on thin-film lithium niobate platform by Chen Gengxin, Wang Haohua, Chen Bin, Ruan Ziliang, Guo Changjian, Chen Kaixuan, Liu Liu

“…The fabricated SL waveguides show a large optical passband width of ∼8 nm, an insertion loss of 2.9 dB, and a maximal optical group index of 7.50, corresponding to 3.4 times as large as that of regular TFLN rib waveguide. …”
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Influence of Mining Activities on Arsenic Concentration in Rice in Asia: A Review by Anh T. P. Hoang, Nouvarat Prinpreecha, Kyoung-Woong Kim

“…From this review, it may be concluded that mining activities, along with the associated residual waste, significantly contribute to arsenic contamination of this food crop as rice samples from these regions were highly contaminated, with the highest total arsenic concentrations recorded being 3–4 times higher than the maximum levels proposed by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. …”
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Investing in the Early Childhood Mental Health Workforce Development: Enhancing Professionals’ Competencies to Support Emotion and Behavior Regulation in Young Children by Shulamit N. Ritblatt, Audrey Hokoda, Charles Van Liew

“…This leads to an expulsion rate in early childhood (3–4 times higher than K-12 expulsion rate) and future mental health issues. …”
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The influence of citric acid on mobility of radium and metals accompanying uranium phytoextraction by J. Mihalík, P. Tlustoš, J. Száková

“…Mainly in willows, Ra was accumulated 3-4 times more than in the control group. Analyses of sunflower leaves showed an increasing tendency of Ra activity; however, not as significant as in the willow. …”
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Tune wastepaper to hydrophobic membranes through metal-ion-induced lignocellulose nanofibril crosslinking for oil-water separation by Xiang Wang, Meiling Chen, R.M. Oshani Nayanathara, Zhao Zhang, Xuefeng Zhang

“…The HM exhibited remarkable oil sorption capacity for various oils, up to 3.4 times its weight, and demonstrated good recyclability after undergoing 10 cycles of absorption-desorption-drying. …”
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Preparation of Boron Nitride and Silicone Rubber Composite Material for Application in Lithium Batteries by Yafang Zhang, Juhua Huang, Ming Cao, Guoping Du, Ziqiang Liu, Wang Li

“…When the proportion of h-BN is 30 wt%, the thermal conductivity of the h-BN/SR composite material is 0.58 W/m∙K, which is 3.4 times that of pure silicone rubber. At the same time, the compressive strength of h-BN/SR is 4.27 MPa, which is 6.7 times that of pure silicone rubber. …”
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Dietary L-Tryptophan consumption determines the number of colonic regulatory T cells and susceptibility to colitis via GPR15 by Nguyen T. Van, Karen Zhang, Rachel M. Wigmore, Anne I. Kennedy, Carolina R. DaSilva, Jialing Huang, Manju Ambelil, Jose H. Villagomez, Gerald J. O’Connor, Randy S. Longman, Miao Cao, Adam E. Snook, Michael Platten, Gerard Kasenty, Luis J. Sigal, George C. Prendergast, Sangwon V. Kim

“…In addition, humans consume 3–4 times less L-Trp per kilogram of body weight and have fewer colonic GPR15+ Treg cells than mice. …”
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High-Quality Green-Emitting Nanodiamonds Fabricated by HPHT Sintering of Polycrystalline Shockwave Diamonds by Vladimir Yu. Osipov, Fedor M. Shakhov, Kirill V. Bogdanov, Kazuyuki Takai, Takuya Hayashi, François Treussart, Anna Baldycheva, Benjamin T. Hogan, Christian Jentgens

“…These nanoparticles are sintered in the presence of ethanol, at a pressure of 7 GPa and temperature of 1300 °C, to produce substantially larger (3–4 times) diamond crystallites. The recorded spectral properties demonstrate the improved crystalline quality. …”
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Human leukocyte antigen-dependent colonization of Lactobacillus in the early-life gut by Meghan A. Berryman, Eric W. Triplett, Johnny Ludvigsson

“…Individuals with HLA DR15-DQ6.2 were 3.4 times more likely to be colonized by Lactobacillus than those without the haplotype, and those with HLA DR5-DQ7 were more likely to have zero Lactobacillus despite actively breastfeeding. …”
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Splashing of high speed droplet train impinging on a hot surface by Qiu, Lu, Dubey, Swapnil, Choo, Fook Hoong, Duan, Fei

“…The time-independent spreading diameter decreases with an increase in the wall temperature until an ultimate diameter of the “steady-state” wetting area is observed at around 0.4 mm, 3.4 times the droplet diameter, when the surface temperature is higher than 190 °C. …”
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A DEEP SEARCH FOR MOLECULAR GAS IN TWO MASSIVE LYMAN BREAK GALAXIES AT z=3 AND 4: VANISHING CO-EMISSION DUE TO LOW METALLICITY? by Tan, Q, Daddi, E, Sargent, M, Magdis, G, Hodge, J, Bethermin, M, Bournaud, F, Carilli, C, Dannerbauer, H, Dickinson, M, Elbaz, D, Gao, Y, Morrison, G, Owen, F, Pannella, M, Riechers, D, Walter, F

“…With one low significance CO detection (3.5σ) and one sensitive upper limit, we find that the CO lines are ≳3-4 times weaker than expected based on the relation between IR and CO luminosities followed by similarly massive galaxies at z = 0-2.5. …”

Immunohistochemical profile of mononuclear infiltrate in the myocardium of transplanted heart. Computer morphometry data by A. A. Slavinsky, A. A. Verevkin, A. S. Sotnichenko, E. D. Kosmacheva, T. V. Stavenchuk

“…In comparison with 0R cases, this coefficient increased 2.1 times (p <0.05), 3.4 times (p <0.05), 5.5 times (p <0.05) and 4.8 times (p <0.05) in 1R, 2R, 3R and humoral rejection, respectively. …”
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Impact of Inflation, Markups and Wages on Changes in the Profitability of Enterprieses in Poland by Aneta Kosztowniak

“…The importance of markups in the degree of explanation of changes in profitability is about 3–4 times stronger than that of wages. An increase in markups is an effective tool for stabilizing corporate profitability under inflation already in the short term, and can also be a tool to support an increase in such profitability in the medium and long term, if market conditions, including consumer demand, allow for it. …”
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Enchainment of the Coefficient of Structural Quality of Elements in Compression and Bending by Combined Reinforcement of Concrete with Polymer Composite Bars and Dispersed Fiber by Sergey A. Stel’makh, Evgenii M. Shcherban’, Alexey Beskopylny, Levon R. Mailyan, Besarion Meskhi, Natal’ya Dotsenko

“…In quantitative terms, the achieved results demonstrated that the CSQ values of a beam reinforced with a PCR frame with the addition of glass fiber were 3.4 times higher compared to the CSQ of a beam reinforced with steel reinforcement frames. …”
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Fish consumption and cardiovascular response during mental stress by Yamakoshi Takehiro, Matsumura Kenta, Noguchi Hiroko, Rolfe Peter, Matsuoka Yutaka

“…</p> <p>Findings</p> <p>The participants were 12 fish eaters (eating baked fish more than 3–4 times/week) and 13 controls (eating fish less than 1–2 times/week). …”
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Increasing early crops of unprotected tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) with naphthoxyacetic acid applied on whole plants by Krystyna Górecka, Leszek S. Jankiewicz

“…NOA applied by each of these treatment increased the very early yield (first 4 pickings) by 4-11 times in cv. Venture and 3-4 times in cv. New Yorker in comparison with the untreated controls. …”
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