Extracellular nucleic acids in monochloraminated drinking water distribution systems by Bairoliya, Sakcham

“…Location 2 from the first study was used for sampling of drinking water, from which 56 ± 5 ng of eDNA and 143 ± 5 ng of eRNA per litre of water sampled was successfully extracted. …”
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Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…Single-mode operation is achieved at 3.73 THz with a side-mode suppression ratio as high as ~30 dB. The device emits ~5 times the power of a ridge laser of similar dimensions, with little degradation in the maximum operation temperature. …”
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Effects of energy and protein supplementation on microbial-N synthesis and allantoin excretion in sheep fed guinea grass by Jetana, T, Abdullah, N, Halim, R.A, Jalaludin, S, Ho, Y.W

“…The results showed that rumen pHs were similar, ranging from pH 5.8 to 6.0, for all animals fed the different dietary supplements. …”
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Dna markers and mapping of quantitative trait loci for yield and bunch quality in Deli dura X Yangambi pisifera oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) population by Seng, Tzer Ying

“…The map of DA41 (ARK86D X ML161P) was 2398.8 cM long with 512 marker loci (368 SSRs, 135 AFLPs and 9 PCR-RFLPs), at an average 32 markers and a range of 15-59 markers per linkage group, and an average map density of 5cM. The linkage group length was 77.5 cM to 223 cM, with an average of 150 cM. …”
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Effects of probiotic supplementation on calcium absorption and bone health status in ovariectomized rats by Parvaneh, Kolsoom

“…The results of the research showed combination of mixed bacteria and Ca in G7 and L.helveticus in G5 as a single species have increased significantly BMD of the femur compared to Ovx-non treated group (0.96±0.02, and 0.90±0.05 vs 0.74±0.05 gr.cm-3 respectively). …”
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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology by Gould, E, Fraser, HS, Parker, TH, Nakagawa, S, Griffith, SC, Vesk, PA, Fidler, F, Hamilton, DG, Abbey-Lee, RN, Abbott, JK, Aguirre, LA, Alcaraz, C, Aloni, I, Altschul, D, Arekar, K, Atkins, JW, Atkinson, J, Baker, CM, Barrett, M, Bell, K, Bello, SK, Beltrán, I, Berauer, BJ, Bertram, MG, Wood, A

“…In other words, analyses with results that were far from the mean were no more or less likely to have dissimilar variable sets, use random effects in their models, or receive poor peer reviews than those analyses that found results that were close to the mean. …”

Understanding customer retrials in call centers: preferences for service quality and service speed by Hu, K, Allon, G, Bassamboo, A

“…<p><strong>Problem definition: </p></strong> Customers are likely to initiate retrial calls when their previous contact with a call center fails to deliver a satisfactory resolution. …”

Integrated transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of responses to clinical and novel bisphosphonates by Lu, J

“…Pre-clinical studies also indicate that the observed non-skeletal effects of bisphosphonates are likely due to mechanisms beyond inhibition of osteoclasts. …”

Internet tool to support self-assessment and self-swabbing of sore throat: development and feasibility study by Lown, M, Smith, KA, Muller, I, Woods, C, Maund, E, Rogers, K, Becque, T, Hayward, G, Moore, M, Little, P, Glogowska, M, Hay, A, Stuart, B, Mantzourani, E, Wilcox, CR, Thompson, N, Francis, NA

“…A web-based tool that helps people assess their sore throat, through the use of clinical prediction rules, taking throat swabs or saliva samples, and taking throat photographs, has the potential to improve self-management and help identify those who are the most and least likely to benefit from antibiotics. <br><strong> Objective:<br></strong> We aimed to develop a web-based tool to help patients and parents or carers self-assess sore throat symptoms and take throat photographs, swabs, and saliva samples for diagnostic testing. …”

Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…Children and young people in these latter groups are more likely to have elevated levels of mental health problems (Singham et al., 2017). …”

Circadian rhythm and misalignment in the pathogenesis of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD): an experimental medicine approach by Marjot, T

“…I show that 3-night shifts are associated with profound hepatic insulin resistance, a pathological hallmark of MASLD. This is likely to be related to a combination of circadian misalignment, sleep deprivation, and elevated light exposure during sleep. …”

Synthesis and characterization of calcium carbonate obtained from green mussel and crab shells as a biomaterials candidate by Ismail, Rifky, Cionita, Tezara, Wong, Ling Shing, Fitriyana, Deni Fajar, Siregar, Januar Parlaungan, Bayuseno, Athanasius Priharyoto, Nugraha, Fariz Wisda, Muhamadin, Rilo Chandra, Ramli, Junid, Nor Azam, Endot

“…Green mussel and crab shells were crushed to powder and were calcined at 900 °C for 5 h. Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC) was synthesized from calcined green mussel and crab shells using a solution of 2M HNO3, NH4OH, and CO2 gas. …”
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Chemical composition and repellent activity of methyl cinnamate-rich basil (ocimum basilicum) essential oil by Hamid Nour, Azhari, Idris, Abeer A., Ishag, Omer Adam, Nour, Abdurahman Hamid

“…The obtained results of chemical composition revealed that the amount of the oil contained forty-one chemical constituents (~97.1%); the major constituents were methyl cinnamate (25.3%), linalool (19.1%) and estragole (12.3%) as the major oxygenated monoterpenes. While α-bergamoten (5.3%), germacrene (4.6%), γ-cadinene (2.8%), and β-elemene (2.4%) were the main compounds in sesquiterpene hydrocarbons. …”
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Actionable Auditing: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products by Buolamwini, Joy, Raji, Inioluwa Deborah

“…Minimizing these disparities led to a 5.72% to 8.3% reduction in overall error on the Pi-lot Parliaments Benchmark (PPB) for target corporation APIs. …”
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A large-area lithium metal–carbon nanotube film for precise contact prelithiation in lithium-ion batteries by Wang, Chao, Yang, Fangzhou, Wan, Wang, Wang, Shihe, Zhang, Yongyi, Huang, Yunhui, Li, Ju

“…However, producing thin lithium foil below 5 μm is extremely challenging, making it difficult to achieve precise prelithiation with lithium metal. …”
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SoK: Understanding Design Choices and Pitfalls of Trusted Execution Environments by Li, Mengyuan, Yang, Yuheng, Chen, Guoxing, Yan, Mengjia, Zhang, Yinqian

“…Both commercial and academic TEEs have been proposed in the past few years, including Intel's SGX and TDX, AMD's SEV, ARM's CCA, IBM's PEF, and their academic counterparts built atop open-source RISC-V processors, such as Keystone, Sanctum, CURE, and Penglai. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…On the upper bound side, currently the fastest algorithm runs in 𝑂e(𝑛 + 𝑤 12/5 max ) time (Chen, Lian, Mao, and Zhang 2023), improving the earlier 𝑂(𝑛 + 𝑤 3 max)-time algorithm by Polak, Rohwedder, and Węgrzycki (2021). …”
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Modelling entrainment volume due to surface-parallel vortex interactions with an air–water interface by Hendrickson, Kelli, Yu, Xiangming, Yue, Dick K.P.

“…We also find that ∀𝑜 is linearly dependent on circulation Weber number 𝑊𝑒Γ for a range of vortex Bond number 5 ≲ 𝐵𝑜Γ ≲ 50, and parabolically dependent on circulation Reynolds 𝑅𝑒Γ for 𝑅𝑒Γ ≲ 2580. …”
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The Properties of Whiteness by Williams, Darien Alexander, Delgado, Laura Humm, Cameron, Nicholette, Steil, Justin

“…It builds on this analysis to connect the thread of racialized exclusion in the Supreme Court’s most recent takings decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (2021). Third, it draws from Black geographies to suggest takeaways for planners in supporting Black spaces that can simultaneously support Black efforts to name the collective political reality and highlight the contingency of racial constructs in ways that can eradicate the substantive conditions of Black subordination. …”
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting by Oppenheim, Julius Jacob

“…Chapter 4 further explores these insights, with a focus on the observation that ions contained within the framework pore can greatly increase the hydrophilicity of a framework. Within Chapter 5, the author investigates the relationship between pore hydrophilicity and kinetic hysteresis, finding that kinetic limitations arise in sufficiently hydrophilic frameworks. …”
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