Physical characterization and optical spectroscopy of Er3/Yb3-doped multicomposition tellurite glass for broadband amplifiers by Omar Baki, Sharudin

“…The optical absorption edge analysis in most samples showed an appreciable formation of non-bridging oxygen with respect to the calculated optical energy gap trend. …”
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Optimization of glyoxalation for alkali lignin used as bulking agent in wood by Ang, Aik Fei

“…For glyoxalation of alkali lignin, FT-IR spectroscopy revealed that lower molecular weight of lignin polymers was formed due to the crosslinking of lignin molecules via methylene (CH2) bridges through the condensation reaction. RSM and CCD showed that the reactivity of GL reached highest when optimum amounts of glyoxal and NaOH, i.e., 0.222 and 0.353 mole, respectively, were used in the glyoxalation process. …”
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Elastic, optical and thermal properties of zinc-lead tellurite glass systems by Alazoumi, Salah Hassan Almokhtar

“…The FTIR spectra for the binary glass system showed a decrease in non-bridging oxygen (NBO) concentration with PbO introduction, which later then increased as more PbO was added to the system. …”
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EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD AFTER ORTHOTOPIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION IN RECIPIENTS OF 60 YEARS AND OLDER by V. N. Poptsov, E. A. Spirina, S. G. Ukhrenkov, S. Yu. Ustin, E. Z. Aliev, S. A. Masyutin, V. Yu. Voronkov, N. S. Chibisov, D. M. Bondarenko, N. Z. Mebonija, N. P. Mozheyko, A. O. Shevchenko

“…Increase in the number of older patients with terminal CHF results in increase in their proportion among potential recipients requiring mechanical circulatory support and/or heart transplantation (HT) [Abecassis M., Bridges N.D. et al., 2012].Aim. To analyze our own experience of HT in recipients of older 60 years.Materials and methods. …”
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Towards a scientific community consensus on designating Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems from imagery by Amy R. Baco, Rebecca Ross, Franziska Althaus, Diva Amon, Amelia E. H. Bridges, Saskia Brix, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Ana Colaco, Marina Carreiro-Silva, Malcolm R. Clark, Cherisse Du Preez, Mari-Lise Franken, Matthew Gianni, Genoveva Gonzalez-Mirelis, Thomas Hourigan, Kerry Howell, Lisa A. Levin, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Tina N. Molodtsova, Nicole Morgan, Telmo Morato, Beatriz E. Mejia-Mercado, David O’Sullivan, Tabitha Pearman, David Price, Katleen Robert, Laura Robson, Ashley A. Rowden, James Taylor, Michelle Taylor, Lissette Victorero, Les Watling, Alan Williams, Joana R. Xavier, Chris Yesson

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Studies on the local structure of the F ∕ OH site in topaz by magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance and Raman spectroscopy by A. Loges, G. Scholz, N. de Sousa Amadeu, J. Shao, D. Schultze, J. Fuller, B. Paulus, F. Emmerling, T. Braun, T. John

“…The Raman OH sub-band at 3644 cm<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> stems from OH groups neighboring other OH groups, whereas the sub-band at 3650 cm<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> stems from OH groups with fluoride neighbors, which are affected by H<span class="inline-formula">⋯</span>F bridging. The integrated intensities of these two sub-bands do not conform to the expected ratios based on probabilistic calculations from the total OH concentration. …”
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In-silico studies to recognize repurposing therapeutics toward arginase-I inhibitors as a potential onco-immunomodulators by Magdi E. A. Zaki, Sami A. Al-Hussain, Aamal A. Al-Mutairi, Abdul Samad, Arabinda Ghosh, Somdatta Chaudhari, Pravin N. Khatale, Prashant Ajmire, Rahul D. Jawarkar

“…Aspartic acid residue 232 exhibited 200% ionic contact. 500-ns simulations-maintained ions. Salt bridges for ZINC000252286875 aided docking. ZINC000252286875 created six ionic bonds with Lys68, Asp117, His126, Ala171, Lys224, and Asp232 residues. …”
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Trajectories of ethnic neighborhood change: Spatial patterns of increasing ethnic diversity by Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, David Manley

“…Theoretically, this paper bridges two important fields of literature on the drivers behind ethnic segregation: residential mobility and natural growth. …”
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دراسة اختبار السيستاتين C المصلي كواسم جديد أكثر حساسية ونوعية من الكرياتينين في تقييم التصفية الكلوية والفشل الكلوي المبكر- خبرة مشفى الأسد الجامعي باللاذقية... by بسام عابدين, حسين سعيد, كندة الخيّر

“…Cystatins are a superfamily of cysteine proteinase inhibitors widely distributed in tissues and body fluids.chemically and medically Cystatin is considered the most important Cystatin C, with molecular weight 13260 Da, is composed of 120 amino acids, lacks carbohydrate and has two disulfide bridges located near the carboxyl terminus. Serum Cystatin C (CYS C) has been proposed as a suitable marker for glomerular filtration rate (GFR). …”
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دراسة اختبار السيستاتين C المصلي كواسم جديد أكثر حساسية ونوعية من الكرياتينين في تقييم التصفية الكلوية والفشل الكلوي المبكر- خبرة مشفى الأسد الجامعي باللاذقية... by بسام عابدين, حسين سعيد, كندة الخيّر

“…Cystatins are a superfamily of cysteine proteinase inhibitors widely distributed in tissues and body fluids.chemically and medically Cystatin is considered the most important Cystatin C, with molecular weight 13260 Da, is composed of 120 amino acids, lacks carbohydrate and has two disulfide bridges located near the carboxyl terminus. Serum Cystatin C (CYS C) has been proposed as a suitable marker for glomerular filtration rate (GFR). …”
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Investigation of subsidence of Mahidasht plain of Kermanshah province using radar interferometry method by Mousa Abedini, Elhameh Ebady, Ehsan Ghale

“…Landslides are also one of the main geological hazards in the region, causing serious damage to buildings, roads, infrastructure and bridges. According to the US Geological Survey, subsidence involves the collapse or subsidence of the earth's surface, which can have a small displacement vector. …”
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Born in Bradford’s Better Start (BiBBS) interventional birth cohort study: Interim cohort profile [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Dan Mason, John Wright, Brian Kelly, Kathryn Willan, Jennie Lister, Rachael H. Moss, Amy L. Atkinson, Chandani Netkitsing, Josie Dickerson, Eleanora P. Uphoff, Philippa K. Bird, Rifat Razaq, Sally Bridges, Alex Newsham, Sarah L. Blower, Dagmar Waiblinger, Sara Ahern, Maria Bryant, Rosemary M. McEachan, Kate E. Pickett

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Test results with and without blueprinting: Psychometric analysis using the Rasch model by Hussein Abdellatif

“…Introduction: The test blueprint bridges the teaching, learning, and assessment processes. …”
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Country-wide data of ecosystem structure from the third Dutch airborne laser scanning survey by W. Daniel Kissling, Yifang Shi, Zsófia Koma, Christiaan Meijer, Ou Ku, Francesco Nattino, Arie C. Seijmonsbergen, Meiert W. Grootes

“…Moreover, the point cloud has been pre-processed by ‘Rijkswaterstraat’ (the executive agency of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management), comes with a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and a Digital Surface Model (DSM), and is delivered with a pre-classification of each point into one of six classes (0: Never Classified, 1: Unclassified, 2: Ground, 6: Building, 9: Water, 26: Reserved [bridges etc.]). However, no detailed information on vegetation structure is available from the AHN3 point cloud. …”
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صدام الثقافات: قراءة جديدة في رواية فورستر "الطريق إلى الهند" ورواية كونراد "قلب الظلام" by أحمد طه

“…The study comes to the conclusion that bridging the gap between the social and cultural structures of two different nations cannot be brought about by use of force, “intimidation”, “extermination”, or submission of the so-called less civilized nations. …”
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Discovery of functionally distinct anti-C7 monoclonal antibodies and stratification of anti-nicotinic AChR positive Myasthenia Gravis patients by Eleonora Lekova, Wioleta M. Zelek, David Gower, Claus Spitzfaden, Isabelle H. Osuch, Elen John-Morris, Lasse Stach, Darren Gormley, Andrew Sanderson, Angela Bridges, Elizabeth R. Wear, Sebastien Petit-Frere, Michael N. Burden, Richard Priest, Trevor Wattam, Semra J. Kitchen, Maria Feeney, Susannah Davis, B. Paul Morgan, Eva-Maria Nichols

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In This Issue: Short Supply Chains by Duncan Hilchey

“…Megerssa Tolessa Walo studies the local grain supply chain and the prospects for strengthening rural-urban economic linkages and finds that current attempts at diversification are not creating permanent solutions to poverty—and that more fundamental marketing infrastructure is required—in Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide for Local Economic Development in Nekemte and its Hinterlands, Oromia, Ethiopia. …”
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Change in the Electronic Structure of the Cobalt(II) Ion in a One-Dimensional Polymer with Flexible Linkers Induced by a Structural Phase Transition by Dmitriy S. Yambulatov, Julia K. Voronina, Alexander S. Goloveshkin, Roman D. Svetogorov, Sergey L. Veber, Nikolay N. Efimov, Anna K. Matyukhina, Stanislav A. Nikolaevskii, Igor L. Eremenko, Mikhail A. Kiskin

“…A new 1D-coordination polymer [Co(Piv)₂(NH₂(CH₂)₆NH₂)]_n (<b>1</b>, Piv is Me₃CCO₂⁻ anion) was obtained, the mononuclear fragments {Co(O₂CR)₂} within which are linked by μ-bridged molecules of hexamethylenediamine (NH₂(CH₂)₆NH₂). …”
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Synthesis and Structures of Lead(II) Complexes with Substituted Derivatives of the <i>Closo</i>-Decaborate Anion with a Pendant N₃ Group by Evgenii Yu. Matveev, Olga S. Dontsova, Varvara V. Avdeeva, Alexey S. Kubasov, Andrey P. Zhdanov, Svetlana E. Nikiforova, Lyudmila V. Goeva, Konstantin Yu. Zhizhin, Elena A. Malinina, Nikolay T. Kuznetsov

“…When the reaction was performed in a CH₃CN/water mixture, the binuclear lead(II) complex [(Pb(bipy)NO₃)(Pb(bipy)₂NO₃)(B₁₀H₉O(CH₂)₂O(CH₂)₂N₃)]·CH₃CN·H₂O was isolated, where the boron cluster acts as a bridging ligand between lead atoms coordinated by the boron cage via the O atoms of the substituent and/or the BH groups. …”
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China stroke surveillance report 2021 by Wen-Jun Tu, Long-De Wang, on behalf of the Special Writing Group of China Stroke Surveillance Report

“…From 2019 to 2020, the information about 188,648 patients with acute IS receiving intravenous thrombolytic therapy (IVT), 49,845 patients receiving mechanical thrombectomy (MT), and 14,087 patients receiving bridging (IVT + MT) were collected through BOSC. The incidence of intracranial hemorrhage during treatment was 3.2% (95% CI 3.2–3.3%), 7.7% (95% CI 7.5–8.0%), and 12.9% (95% CI 12.3–13.4%), respectively. …”
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