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The Chemical Compositions of Industrial Wastes
As a result of global warming, the pursuance of low-carbon, sustainable building materials has been prioritized. The development of geopolymer/cement-less binders can be considered an innovative and green way forward to minimize carbon footprint and tackle industrial waste material utilization.
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  • 29 Nov 2022
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Crystal Structure of GeFe2O4
The brunogeierite GeFe2O4 is a rare mineral of germanium, with a normal spinel structure and amazing functional properties. Its spectroscopic, optical, magnetic and electronic properties are known. For many years it was left behind, but recently a renewed interest in this oxide has arisen, particularly for its application in the electrochemical field, as anode in Lithium Ion and Sodium Ion Batteries and as electrocatalyst for urea oxidation reaction.
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  • 22 Dec 2022
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Effect of Curcumin Consumption on Inflammation/Oxidative Stress
Advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages lead to exacerbated inflammation and oxidative stress. Patients with CKD in stage 5 need renal hemodialysis (HD) to remove toxins and waste products. However, this renal replacement therapy (RRT) is inefficient in controlling inflammation. Regular curcumin consumption has been shown to reduce inflammation and oxidative stress in subjects with chronic pathologies, suggesting that the daily intake of curcumin may alleviate these conditions in HD patients.
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  • 26 Jun 2023
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Approaches of Automated Heart Disease Prediction
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally. Detecting this kind of disease represents the principal concern of many scientists, and techniques belonging to various fields have been developed to attain accurate predictions. 
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  • 26 Oct 2023
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Applications of Pulsed Electric Field in Vegetables
Polyphenols are a wide array of bioactive compounds that naturally occur in food sources derived from plants. They are recognized for their potential as preventive agents against chronic illnesses, such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Pulsed electric field (PEF) is a processing method that implies a higher polyphenol extraction. The PEF treatment is a non-thermal technique employed for food preservation, which involves the application of short bursts of electrical power to inactivate microorganisms while minimizing any detrimental impact on the food’s quality. This implies that the PEF treatment aspires to enhance the accessibility of consumer-grade, polyphenol-abundant food products of superior quality.
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  • 08 Nov 2023
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American Education
The landscape of education in the United States is in a state of flux, marked by ongoing debates about how best to reform the system to meet the needs of a diverse and changing society.
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  • 31 Oct 2024
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Familial Male-limited Precocious Puberty
Familial male-limited precocious puberty is a condition that causes early sexual development in males; females are not affected.
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  • 20 Apr 2023
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Politics: A Work In Constructive Social Theory
Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory is a 1987 book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In the book, Unger sets out a theory of society as artifact, attempting to complete what he describes as an unfinished revolution, begun by classic social theories such as Marxism, against the naturalistic premise in the understanding of human life and society. Politics was published in three volumes: False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy, the longest volume, is an explanatory and programmatic argument of how society might be transformed to be more in keeping with the context-smashing potential of the human imagination; Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task, is a "critical introduction" that delves into issues of social science underpinning Unger's project; and Plasticity Into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success, is a collection of three historical essays illuminating the theoretical points Unger advanced in the first two volumes. In 1997, an abridged, one-volume edition of Politics was issued as Politics, The Central Texts, edited by Zhiyuan Cui.
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  • 18 Oct 2022
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Allegiance
An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign.
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  • 14 Nov 2022
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Robert Koch
Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch was a pioneering German physician and microbiologist whose groundbreaking work laid the foundations for modern bacteriology. He is most renowned for discovering the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, and for formulating the postulates that define pathogenic organisms in infectious diseases.
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  • 14 Jul 2025
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Landscape Elements in the Lhasa Residential Area
Landscape elements have a direct impact on the thermal environment and have become an important means to improve the quality of life of residents. However, the selection and configuration of landscape elements have different effects on human thermal comfort under different climatic conditions. Lhasa is located in the middle of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, with an altitude of 3650 meters. Due to the particularity of its geographical location, the climate conditions in Lhasa are significantly different from those in Beijing, Xi'an, Lanzhou and other cities in the same climate area. At the same time, the local residents are mainly Tibetans. Religious culture and climate conditions have led to significant differences in the living habits and the needs for thermal comfort of local residents compared with those of residents in other cities. Therefore, researcher focuses on special climatic conditions, taking the typical residential areas in Lhasa, Tibet as the research object, in order to better understand the impact of residential landscape elements on the outdoor thermal environment and thermal comfort in the plateau cold climate area.
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  • 17 Jun 2022
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Use of Propolis in Sustainable Agriculture
Propolis, also known as “bee glue”, is a resinous substance collected by honeybees from various plant sources. For centuries, propolis has been valued for its medicinal properties, primarily in human health applications.  The effectiveness of propolis in controlling common pests and diseases that affect crops, suppressing postharvest illnesses of fruits and vegetables, stimulating plant defenses and increasing stress resistance, is reviewed herein.
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  • 08 Dec 2023
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Clinical Data on Canabinoids
Translational research made with Cannabis sativa L. and its biocompounds provides data for some targeted diseases, as also symptoms associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). The main compounds ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), are capable of modulating the endocannabinoid system since its dysregulation interferes with the pathophysiology of ASDs there are clinical evidence for its potential use in the treatment of the disease. Conventional therapy still has limitations, as it does not always treat the central symptoms, and there are many patients who do not respond to treatment, which demands more research on new therapies. Through the analysis of published literature on this topic, it is verified that cannabinoids, in particular CBD, improves symptoms associated with common comorbidities in ASDs. Some studies also demonstrate the therapeutic potential of these compounds in the treatment of central symptoms of autism. In addition, cannabinoid therapy to ASDs is associated with low adverse effects and a reduction in concomitant medication. 
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  • 13 Apr 2022
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Correlation between the Intestinal Microbiota and Food Allergy
Food allergy is a repeatable atopic disorder resulting from exposure to specific food allergens that can lead to life-threatening allergic reactions. Food allergens are digested and absorbed in the gut, mainly in the small intestine, which contains symbiotic microbiota. With the co-evolution of humans and microbiota, symbiotic microbes inevitably have a considerable impact on human health. The human intestinal microbiota, especially the ileum and colon, plays an important role in the intestinal mucosal immunity, by promoting local homeostatic interactions and regulating the immune response to food allergens in the peripheral mucosa 
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  • 20 Oct 2022
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Microscopy Methods for Biofilm Imaging
Several imaging methodologies have been used in biofilm studies, contributing to deepening the knowledge on their structure.
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  • 02 Feb 2021
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Physical Exercise Restrains Cancer Progression through Muscle-Derived Factors
A growing body of in vitro and in vivo studies suggests that physical activity offers important benefits against cancer, in terms of both prevention and treatment. However, the exact mechanisms implicated in the anticancer effects of exercise remain to be further elucidated. Muscle-secreted factors in response to contraction have been proposed to mediate the physical exercise-induced beneficial effects and be responsible for the inter-tissue communications. Specifically, myokines and microRNAs (miRNAs) constitute the most studied components of the skeletal muscle secretome that appear to affect the malignancy, either directly by possessing antioncogenic properties, or indirectly by mobilizing the antitumor immune responses. Moreover, some of these factors are capable of mitigating serious, disease-associated adverse effects that deteriorate patients’ quality of life and prognosis.
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  • 08 Jun 2022
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Authority-Based Conversation Tracking in Twitter
Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most widely used data sources to analyze human communication. The literature is full of examples where Twitter is accessed, and data are downloaded as the previous step to a more in-depth analysis in a wide variety of knowledge areas. Unfortunately, the extraction of relevant information from the opinions that users freely express in Twitter is complicated, both because of the volume generated—more than 6000 tweets per second—and the difficulties related to filtering out only what is pertinent to our research. Inspired by the fact that a large part of users use Twitter to communicate or receive political information, we created a method that allows for the monitoring of a set of users (which we will call authorities) and the tracking of the information published by them about an event. Our approach consists of dynamically and automatically monitoring the hottest topics among all the conversations where the authorities are involved, and retrieving the tweets in connection with those topics, filtering other conversations out. Although our case study involves the method being applied to the political discussions held during the Spanish general, local, and European elections of April/May 2019, the method is equally applicable to many other contexts, such as sporting events, marketing campaigns, or health crises.
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  • 28 Oct 2020
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Geoheritage and Climbing
Geological and geomorphological heritage (geoheritage) is often found in mountain domains that also provide resources for climbing, mountaineering, bouldering, and canyoning. The relevant research is linked to geoconservation, geoeducation, the tourism industry, and tourism opportunities. Several methodologies for assessment of geoheritage and climbing sites are proposed. The world's highest peaks are essential for the relationship between geoheritage and climbing activities.
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  • 15 Jul 2020
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Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome is an inherited condition that affects many parts of the body, particularly the bone marrow, pancreas, and bones.
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  • 25 Dec 2020
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3MC Syndrome
3MC syndrome is a disorder characterized by unusual facial features and problems affecting other tissues and organs.
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  • 31 Dec 2020
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