Clinical characteristics and outcome of children with acute cryptorchid testicular torsion: A single-center, retrospective case series study by Zvizdic, Zlatan

“…Results We found eight patients with unilateral acute cryptorchid TT with a prevalence of 8.9% (8/90) among all TT cases. …”
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Shiitake Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom, Lentinus edodes (Agaricomycetes), Supplementation Alters Gut Microbiome and Corrects Dyslipidemia in Rats. by Anwar, Haseeb

“…Wistar rats were offered a chow maintenance diet (CMD; CON group) or the same CMD ration with cholesterol (1.5% w/w) and cholic acid (0.5% w/w) added to induce hypercholesterolemia (day 1 to day 24). …”
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Driver Drowsiness Detection Study using Heart Rate Variability analysis in Virtual Reality Environment by Chowdhury, Muhammad E.H.

“…The LF/HF ratio reflects the differences between awake and drowsy states while the ratio was decreasing gradually from the awake state to drowsy state [5-6].Method A portable wireless BioRadio (Fig.2 A) (Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies, Inc.) …”
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Evaluation of the inhibition performance of piperazine-based polyurea towards mild steel corrosion: The role of keto-enol tautomerization by Abdulazeez, Ismail

“…The presence of PUCorr at 100 ppm decreases the corrosion current density from 30.3 to 3.05 μA/cm2 in 0.5 M NaCl at room temperature, exhibiting a remarkable inhibition efficiency of 94.5%. …”
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Mechanical and physical behavior of newly developed functionally graded materials and composites of stainless steel 316L with calcium silicate and hydroxyapatite by Ataollahi Oshkour, Azim

“…Compressive mechanical properties of SS-316L/HA decreased sharply with increasing of HA content up to 20. wt% and gradually with CS content up to 50. wt% for SS-316L/CS composites. …”
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Novel thiazolones for the simultaneous modulation of PPARγ, COX-2 and 15-LOX to address metabolic disease-associated portal inflammation by Mai S., El-Shoukrofy

“…Compound 2a activated PPARγ with an EC50 value of 3.4 μM in a Gal4-hybrid reporter gene assay, indicating partial agonistic action. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning cyber-threat detection for intelligent transport systems with blockchain-based security by Moulahi, Tarek

“…Furthermore, we conducted an experimental study to measure the effectiveness of the proposed prototype. …”
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Improving mechanical, thermal and damping properties of niti (Nitinol) reinforced aluminum nanocomposites by Matli, Penchal R.

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Biodegradable thermoplastic polyurethane composites as potential plating systems in pediatric facial fractures by ALANI, AYA AHMED

“…Due to the rapid growth of facial bone in the pediatric age group, the use of metallic plates would require a second surgical intervention to remove it. The alternative is biodegradable plating systems which are safe but not without complications, including learning curve, decreased stability, cost, and infection. …”
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High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow i... by Samar, Shurbaji

“…These key performance indicators were slightly decreased when fingerstick whole-blood samples were used: sensitivity [85.7 %(63.7–97)], specificity [90.0 %,(81.5–96)], good agreement (Cohen's Kappa = 0.7) and very strong correlation (r = 0.9, p < 0.0001) with cobas® e 601. …”
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High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow i... by Samar, Shurbaji

“…These key performance indicators were slightly decreased when fingerstick whole-blood samples were used: sensitivity [85.7 %(63.7–97)], specificity [90.0 %,(81.5–96)], good agreement (Cohen's Kappa = 0.7) and very strong correlation (r = 0.9, p < 0.0001) with cobas® e 601. …”
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Hot and Hypoxic environments inhibit simulated soccer performance and exacerbate performance decrements when combined by Aldous, Jeffrey

“…Twelve male University soccer players completed three familiarization sessions and four randomized crossover experimental trials of the intermittent Soccer Performance Test (iSPT)in normoxic- temperate(CON:18◦C50%rH),HOT(30◦C;50%rH),HYP(1000m;18◦C50%rH),and HH(1000m;30◦C;50%rH).Physical performance and its performance decrements, bodytemperatures(rectal,skin,and estimated muscle temperature), heartrate(HR), arterial blood oxygen saturation(SaO2), perceived exertion, thermal sensation(TS), body mass changes, blood lactate, and plasma volume were all measured. …”
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Ni-P-TiO2 Composite coatings on copper produced by sol-enhanced electroplating by Wang, Yuxin

“…Ni-P-TiO2 composite coatings were prepared on copper substrate by TiO2 sol-enhanced electroplating. A systematic study of Ni-P-X coatings with different sol concentrations (TiO2 concentration X from 0 to 50 mL/L) has been conducted in order to understand the effect of TiO2 sol addition and the strengthening mechanism. …”
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Morphology and property changes in PLA/PHBV blends as function of blend composition by Kanda G.S.

“…wt.% PHBV. For samples between 50/50 and 10/90 PLA/PHBV the tensile strength and Young?…”
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CO2 methanation using sugarcane bagasse biochar/nickel sustainable catalysts by Gamal, Ahmed

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Ion beam modification of surface properties of polyethylene by Andrzej, Turos

“…In contrast, ion bombardment does not produce significant changes of tribological parameters in 50–50 blend and LDPE.…”
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Association of Macronutrients Intake with Body Composition and Sarcopenic Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Population-Based Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Exam... by Yang, Bing

“…Substituting carbohydrate (5 %E) with fat decreased muscle mass by 0.03 (95% CI 0.01 to 0.06) but increased fat mass by 0.03 (95% CI 0.01 to 0.06) and increased the prevalence of sarcopenic obesity by 254% (95% CI 15% to 487%). …”
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Centrifugal Compressor Spiral Dry Gas Seal Simulation Working at Reverse Rotation by Ibrahim, Shahin

“…The open force corresponding to reverse rotation increased with a value 1.5kN for both the 100 overlap and 50% forward overlap seal faces, but using seal face with 50% backward overlap failed to enhance the open force at reversal condition.…”
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Thermal and mechanical stability of microwave sintered cold compact bismuth telluride thermoelectric material by Farheen F., Jaldurgam

“…The hardness values decreased with an increase in the sintering temperature. …”
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RF-based drone detection and identification using deep learning approaches: An initiative towards a large open source drone database by Al-Sa'd, Mohammad F.

“…Averaged accuracy has decreased from 99.7% for the first DNN (2-classes), to 84.5% for the second DNN (4-classes), and lastly, to 46.8% for the third DNN (10-classes). …”
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