Evidence for ethnicity and location as regulators of the newborn blood metabolome: a monozygous twin study by Huimin Jiang, Ting-Li Han, Jing Yang, Yang Yang, Yang Yang, Yang Yang, Fengdi Wang, Yuelu Chen, Nana Huang, Toby Mansell, Jeffrey M. Craig, Jeffrey M. Craig, Katrina J. Scurrah, Boris Novakovic, Philip N. Baker, Hua Zhang, Hua Zhang, Yuan Wei, Lianlian Wang, Richard Saffery

“…The average of the birth weight difference between the larger and smaller co-twins for all twin pairs was determined and metabolomic profiles of amino acids, TCA cycle intermediates, fatty acids, organic acids, and their derivatives generated from cord blood plasma by gas chromatograph mass spectrometry. …”
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Relationships between plasma fatty acids in adults with mild, moderate, or severe COVID-19 and the development of post-acute sequelae by Sophia Stromberg, Bridget A. Baxter, Gregory Dooley, Stephanie M. LaVergne, Emily Gallichotte, Taru Dutt, Madison Tipton, Kailey Berry, Jared Haberman, Nicole Natter, Tracy L. Webb, Kim McFann, Marcela Henao-Tamayo, Greg Ebel, Sangeeta Rao, Julie Dunn, Elizabeth P. Ryan

“…Specifically, fatty acids are powerful inflammatory mediators and may have a significant role in COVID-19 disease modulation.ObjectiveThe major objective of this project was to pilot an investigation of plasma fatty acid (PFA) levels in adults with COVID-19 and to evaluate associations with disease severity and PASC.Methods and proceduresPlasma from adults with (N = 41) and without (N = 9) COVID-19 was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to assess differences between the concentrations of 18 PFA during acute infection (≤14 days post-PCR + diagnosis) in adults with varying disease severity. …”
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Airborne limb-imaging measurements of temperature, HNO₃, O₃, ClONO₂, H₂O and CFC-12 during the Arctic winter 2015/2016: characterization... by S. Johansson, W. Woiwode, M. Höpfner, F. Friedl-Vallon, A. Kleinert, E. Kretschmer, T. Latzko, J. Orphal, P. Preusse, J. Ungermann, M. L. Santee, T. Jurkat-Witschas, A. Marsing, C. Voigt, A. Giez, M. Krämer, C. Rolf, A. Zahn, A. Engel, B.-M. Sinnhuber, H. Oelhaf

“…Seventy-three percent of these differences are within twice the combined estimated errors of the cross-compared instruments. …”
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Evaluation of the Nutritional Composition and Quality of Muscles in Two Cuttlefish Species by Junqi JIA, Yue ZHANG, Yueqin LIAO, Huimin LIN

“…So far, many scholars have studied the nutritional composition of cuttlefish muscle, but few reports have been made on its quality differences. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the nutritional composition and quality differences of two cuttlefish muscles and evaluate their nutritional value. …”
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Size-resolved particle number emissions in Beijing determined from measured particle size distributions by J. Kontkanen, J. Kontkanen, C. Deng, Y. Fu, L. Dada, Y. Zhou, J. Cai, K. R. Daellenbach, S. Hakala, T. V. Kokkonen, T. V. Kokkonen, Z. Lin, Y. Liu, Y. Wang, C. Yan, C. Yan, T. Petäjä, J. Jiang, M. Kulmala, M. Kulmala, P. Paasonen, P. Paasonen

“…To evaluate the effects of different pollution sources on air quality, knowledge of size distributions of particle number emissions is needed. …”
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A future interstellar probe on the dynamic heliosphere and its interaction with the very local interstellar medium: In-situ particle and fields measurements and remotely sensed ENA... by K. Dialynas, V. J. Sterken, P. C. Brandt, L. Burlaga, D. B. Berdichevsky, D. B. Berdichevsky, R. B. Decker, S. Della Torre, R. DeMajistre, A. Galli, M. Gkioulidou, M. E. Hill, S. M. Krimigis, S. M. Krimigis, M. Kornbleuth, W. Kurth, B. Lavraud, R. McNutt, D. G. Mitchell, P. S. Mostafavi, R. Nikoukar, M. Opher, E. Provornikova, E. C. Roelof, P. G. Rancoita, J. D. Richardson, E. Roussos, J. M. Sokół, G. La Vacca, J. Westlake, T. Y. Chen

“…We focus on three fundamental open science questions that reveal the dynamical nature of the heliosphere A) Where are the heliosphere boundaries and how thick is the heliosheath B) Is there a “missing” pressure component towards exploring the dynamics of the global heliosheath and its interaction with the very local interstellar medium C) Why does the shape and size of the global heliosphere appear different in different Energetic Neutral Atom energies? …”
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Disinfection of rice using ozone treatment by Abdul Karim Shah, Nor Nadiah

“…The main objectives of this study are 1) to determine the effect of different ozone concentrations and exposure times for Sitophilus oryzae in milled rice in terms of mortality and survivality rates, 2) to investigate the effect of different ozone concentrations and exposure times for reducing pathogenic Bacillus cereus in rice and 3) to evaluate the changes in physicochemical characteristics of rice exposed to different ozone treatments (pH, color, moisture content, cooking quality, total solids, hardness of uncooked and cooked rice, adhesiveness of cooked rice and sensory evaluation). …”
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Extraction of essential oils from Zingiberaceace famili using microwave techniques by Abd Aziz, Nor Azila

“…This analysis was using gas chromatography –mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and found that at every experimental order, it reveals the same compound but different abundance. …”
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Daily operation of Bukit Merah reservoir with stochastic dynamic programming under climate change impact by Fadhil, Rasha Mohammadsime

“…Many studies have been conducted on the future change in the hydrological cycle at the global and continental levels over the coming decades using General Circulation Models (GCMs) under different greenhouse gas emission scenarios of Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). …”
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Dynamic regulation of the irrigation–nitrogen–biochar nexus for the synergy of yield, quality, carbon emission and resource use efficiency in tomato by Ping'an Zhang, Mo Li, Qiang Fu, Vijay P. Singh, Changzheng Du, Dong Liu, Tianxiao Li, Aizheng Yang

“…Then, tomato yield and fruit quality parameters were determined experimentally to establish the response relationships between irrigation–nitrogen–biochar dosage and yield, comprehensive quality of tomatoes (TCQ), irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE), partial factor productivity of nitrogen (PFPN), and net greenhouse gas emissions (NGE). Finally, a multi-objective dynamic optimization regulation model of irrigation–nitrogen–biochar resource allocation at different growth stages of tomato was constructed which was solved by the fuzzy programming method. …”
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Metabolic analysis of the regulatory mechanism of sugars on secondary flowering in Magnolia by Lingjuan Xuan, Qianqian Wang, Zhigao Liu, Bin Xu, Shaoyu Cheng, Yingjia Zhang, Danying Lu, Bin Dong, Dongmei Zhang, Lang Zhang, Jingjing Ma, Yamei Shen

“…For the sucrose foliar spray, only the 60 mM concentration accelerated flowering compared with CK. It suggested that different concentration of trehalose and sucrose might have different effects. …”
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The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey: Empirical Characterization of Turbulence in the Cool Circumgalactic Medium by Hsiao-Wen Chen, Zhijie Qu, Michael Rauch, Mandy C. Chen, Fakhri S. Zahedy, Sean D. Johnson, Joop Schaye, Gwen C. Rudie, Erin Boettcher, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Jenny E. Greene, Sebastian Lopez, Robert A. Simcoe

“…In addition, comparing the line widths between different elements for kinematically matched components provides robust empirical constraints on the thermal temperature T and the nonthermal motions b _NT , independent of the ionization models. …”
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NORMAN guidance on suspect and non-target screening in environmental monitoring by Juliane Hollender, Emma L. Schymanski, Lutz Ahrens, Nikiforos Alygizakis, Frederic Béen, Lubertus Bijlsma, Andrea M. Brunner, Alberto Celma, Aurelie Fildier, Qiuguo Fu, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, Ruben Gil-Solsona, Peter Haglund, Martin Hansen, Sarit Kaserzon, Anneli Kruve, Marja Lamoree, Christelle Margoum, Jeroen Meijer, Sylvain Merel, Cassandra Rauert, Pawel Rostkowski, Saer Samanipour, Bastian Schulze, Tobias Schulze, Randolph R. Singh, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Teresa Steininger-Mairinger, Nikolaos S. Thomaidis, Anne Togola, Katrin Vorkamp, Emmanuelle Vulliet, Linyan Zhu, Martin Krauss

“…Due to the ongoing developments, the different questions addressed with NTS and manifold techniques in use, NORMAN members feel that no standard operation process can be provided at this stage. …”
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An ALMA Molecular Inventory of Warm Herbig Ae Disks. I. Molecular Rings, Asymmetries, and Complexity in the HD 100546 Disk by Alice S. Booth, Margot Leemker, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Lucy Evans, John D. Ilee, Mihkel Kama, Luke Keyte, Charles J. Law, Nienke van der Marel, Hideko Nomura, Shota Notsu, Karin Öberg, Milou Temmink, Catherine Walsh

“…In these data, we detect 19 different molecules including NO, SO _2 , and CH _3 OCHO (methyl formate). …”
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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of GA20ox and GA3ox genes during pod development in peanut by Jie Sun, Xiaoqian Zhang, Chun Fu, Naveed Ahmad, Chuanzhi Zhao, Lei Hou, Muhammad Naeem, Jiaowen Pan, Xingjun Wang, Shuzhen Zhao

“…Background Gibberellins (GAs) play important roles in regulating peanut growth and development. …”
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Individualized positive end-expiratory pressure reduces driving pressure in obese patients during laparoscopic surgery under pneumoperitoneum: a randomized clinical trial by Tiago Batista Xavier, Tiago Batista Xavier, Leonardo Vicente Coelho, Daniel Antonio Lopes Ferreira, José Manuel Cota y Raposeiras, Marcelo Sampaio Duran, Leticia Almeida Silva, Gabriel Casulari da Motta-Ribeiro, Luciana Moisés Camilo, Alysson Roncally Silva Carvalho, Alysson Roncally Silva Carvalho, Pedro Leme Silva

“…At the end of surgery, MPA and MPB were correlated in both the CTRL (rho = 0.71, p = 0.019) and PEEPIND (rho = 0.84, p = 0.020) groups but showed different bias (CTRL, −1.9 J/min; PEEPIND, +10.0 J/min). …”
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Measurements of the ionization efficiency of protons in methane by L. Balogh, C. Beaufort, A. Brossard, J.-F. Caron, M. Chapellier, J.-M. Coquillat, E. C. Corcoran, S. Crawford, A. Dastgheibi-Fard, Y. Deng, K. Dering, D. Durnford, C. Garrah, G. Gerbier, I. Giomataris, G. Giroux, P. Gorel, M. Gros, P. Gros, O. Guillaudin, E. W. Hoppe, I. Katsioulas, F. Kelly, P. Knights, S. Langrock, P. Lautridou, I. Manthos, R. D. Martin, J. Matthews, J.-P. Mols, J.-F. Muraz, T. Neep, K. Nikolopoulos, P. O’Brien, M.-C. Piro, D. Santos, G. Savvidis, I. Savvidis, F. A. Vazquez de Sola Fernandez, M. Vidal, R. Ward, M. Zampaolo, NEWS-G Collaboration

“…In agreement with some previous works in other gas mixtures, we measured less ionization energy than predicted from SRIM simulations, the difference reaching $$33\%$$ 33 % at $$2~\textrm{keV}$$ 2 keV .…”
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Epoxy-based coating for fire protection of steel structures by Siow, Jonathan Jun Yang

“…Since little information existed in the literature on effective strategies that would be useful to mitigate it during furnace testing, an initial study on different epoxy-based coating model systems possessing different flame-retardant strategies (aluminium hydroxide (ATH), ammonium polyphosphate (APP), 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene oxide (DOPO), and tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBA)), were evaluated. …”
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Application of Theoretical Combustion Analysis in Determining the Optimum Fibre/Shell Ratio for Oil Mill Boiler by Mohamed, Harimi

“…In this study, five different compositions of fibre and shell were obtained from five different palm oil mills in Malaysia, and have been tested with other data obtained from Malaysian Palm Oil Board [MPOB] database. …”
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Enhancement of key chemical constituents in Aquilaria malaccensis lamarck (karas) through in vitro polyploidization by A. Rahman, Siti Suhaila

“…Therefore, the objectives of this study were to develop in vitro polyploidization protocol in A. malaccensis; to determine the morphological characteristics difference between the polyploids to its diploid counterparts and; to evaluate and compare the chemical constituents in the different ploidy levels of A. …”
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