Enhanced boron removal by electricity generation in a microbial fuel cell by Ping, Qingyun

“…In the post-treatment mode, the MFC removed 80–90% of boron and decreased the boron concentration from 20 to 2 mg L− 1 or from 5 to 1 mg L− 1, which meets the irrigation water requirement. …”
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Combined methylation- and SNP-analysis on a CpG island microarray by Axel Schumacher (13710)

“…Scale: log (Cy5/Cy3); an increased log-value on the -axis is indicated by red versus a decreased log-value represented by green. …”

Gene-targeting the <i>Ptp4a3</i> locus. by Mark W. Zimmerman (395901)

“…This mutation resulted in the disruption of a HindIII sequence that increases the size of the DNA fragment produced by restriction digest from 5.6 to 10.2 kb. …”

Data Sheet 1_Monitoring career impact and satisfaction in a graduate program in dentistry.docx by Isadora dos Santos Rotta (21195653)

“…</p>Methods<p>The employed instrument comprised a total of 43 questions presenting a mix of both close and open-ended questions coupled with 5-point Likert scales. …”

Occurrence and predictors of gingivitis and supragingival calculus in a population of Brazilian adults by Alex Nogueira Haas (6744836)

“…<div><p>Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of gingivitis and calculus and their predictors in a population of adults in Brazil. A representative sample of 758 adults from 35 to 59 years of age from Porto Alegre city was examined. …”

FIGURE 3 from Dodecafluoropentane Emulsion as a Radiosensitizer in Glioblastoma Multiforme by Jason D. Lickliter (16676097)

“…<p>TOLD MRI of patient receiving 0.17 mL/kg DDFPe pretreatment (<b>A</b>) and posttreatment (<b>B</b>) shows reversal of tumor hypoxia. …”

Ozone saturation in a column containing peanut kernels and the effect on quality by Matheus de Almeida Roberto (10424278)

“…The peanuts were ozonized at concentrations of 1.59 and 2.78 mg L–1, a temperature of 25 °C and a gas flow rate of 5.0 L min–1. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Post-COVID-19 condition: systemic inflammation and low functional exercise capacity.pdf by Gabriela Salim de Castro (12022307)

Bursting units had the most strongly adapting responses to sustained stimuli at best frequency and were sensitive to the rate of sound onset. by Xiao-Ping Liu (2940885)

“…<p>(A) Smoothed PSTHs in response to 12.5, 50, and 400 ms stimuli at best frequency, bandwidth, and sound level. …”

A period of hypoxia reduces spontaneous electrical activity in hippocampal cultures. by Daniela Gavello (314289)

“…For 18 DIV neurons, firing frequency decreased from to 1.7±0.3 Hz to 0.5±0.2 Hz (p<0.01) after hypoxia. …”

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tobacco use: A population-based study by Alomari, Mahmoud A.

“…Results The prevalence of smoking was 33.3%, 46.1%, and 21.1% for cigarettes (Cg), waterpipe (Wp), and E-cigarettes (ECg), respectively. Among the smokers, 38.5-45.8% reported a "no-change,"while 32.1-41.7% reported a "decrease"in SH during confinement. …”
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A comparison of the mean relative hippocampal theta activity between tasks. by Yuya Sakimoto (440016)

“…A group (negative patterning task and simple discrimination task groups) × stage (early, middle, and late) ANOVA for hippocampal theta activity during a 250-ms epoch in the non-RFTs showed a significant interaction (<i>F</i>_(2,20) = 5.18, <i>p</i> < 0.05). …”

Tomato yield as a function of water depths and irrigation suspension periods by Cícero J. da Silva (4828002)

“…Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the yield of tomatoes for industrial processing, ‘BRS Sena’ hybrid, subjected to water depths and irrigation suspension periods before harvest, irrigated by subsurface drip irrigation, in Goiás, Brazil (17º 49’ 19.5” S and 49º 12’ 11.3” W), in 2015 and 2016. The experiments were conducted under a randomized complete block design, with four replications, in split plots. …”

A Lightweight Distributed Framework for Computational Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing by Muhammad Shiraz (616262)

“…Analysis shows that by employing the proposed framework for computational offloading, the size of data transmission is reduced by 91%, energy consumption cost is minimized by 81% and turnaround time of the application is decreased by 83.5% as compared to the existing offloading frameworks. …”

Optical concentration of gold nanoparticles as a new concept of analytical sensitivity by Samira Vaziri Heshi (9741359)

“…<p>Concentration procedures have always been implemented when trace analysis of compounds in real matrices is contemplated. A variety of concentration strategies have been reported aiming at decreasing the limits of detection (LODs). …”

The Influence of Obturators on the Respiration of Patients with Maxillary Defects: A Clinical Study by Xian Dong (744977)

“…The results were statistically analyzed with a paired t-test. The nasal cavities (0–7 cm to the anterior nostril) of the patients with obturators had a significantly smaller volume ([-8.92, -0.60], <i>P</i> = 0.027), smaller effective nasal cross-sectional area MCA2 ([-3.80, -1,81], <i>P</i><0.0001), increased airflow in the nasal cavity ([17.76, 147.39], <i>P</i> = 0.015), reduced nasal airway resistance ([-0.11, -0.02], <i>P</i> = 0.009), and reduced RV/TLC ([-5.32, -1.30], <i>P</i> = 0.004) compared with the patients without obturators. …”

Responses of cells sensitive to the melanopsin-step over a range of irradiances. by Katherine E. Davis (534184)

“…<p>A: PSTHs for firing rate across melanopsin-isolating steps (71% contrast) over a range of backgrounds (across both increasing and decreasing arms of the ramp; n = 24 responsive cells mean±SEM). …”

Covalent Immobilization of Caged Liquid Crystal Microdroplets on Surfaces by Xuanrong Guo (1465693)

“…Microscale droplets of thermotropic liquid crystals (LCs) suspended in aqueous media (e.g., LC-in-water emulsions) respond sensitively to the presence of contaminating amphiphiles and, thus, provide promising platforms for the development of new classes of droplet-based environmental sensors. …”

Loss of PRC2 activity leads to changes in DNA methylation. a, by James A. Hagarman (104059)

“…CpG and bivalent data used in (h) and (i) from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0053880#pone.0053880-Mikkelsen1" target="_blank">[5] </a><b>j,</b> Boxplot of expression level change for genes enriched or depleted for DNAme in <i>Eed^−/−</i> cells as well as for each of the two clusters described in (e).…”

Identification of LZAP as a New Candidate Tumor Suppressor in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Jing-jing Zhao (200557)

“…<div><h3>Background</h3><p>LZAP was isolated as a binding protein of the Cdk5 activator p35. LZAP has been highly conserved during evolution and has been shown to function as a tumor suppressor in various cancers. …”