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Effects of telmisartan and perindopril combination on hypertension and cardiovascular damage
Combined therapy is considered when monotherapy fails to control blood pressure (BP). This study evaluated the effects of combined treatment with telmisartan (an angiotensin receptor blocker, ARB) and perindop...
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Open AccessThe anti-obesity effect of mulberry leaf (Mori Folium) extracts was increased by bioconversion with Pectinex
Mulberry leaf (Mori Folium) extract (MLE) is known to have anti-obesity effects. In this study, the enhanced effects of MLE after bioconversion treatment using Pectinex (BMLE) on obesity were explored, and the un...
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Finding the best interacting dark energy model with observed data
Dark energy and dark matter problem is one of the most important issues in modern cosmology. There are many candidate models explaining the current observed dark matter and dark energy density parameters. One ...
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The combined effects of telmisartan and ramipril on hypertension and cardiovascular injury
More than half of hypertensive patients receive combination therapy with two or more drugs. For combination therapy with antihypertensive drugs, it is recommended to use complementary drugs with different mech...
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A brief history of the Italian–Korean symposium on relativistic astrophysics
The series of Italian–Korean Symposia on Relativistic Astrophysics began in 1987, well before the Astrophysics Division of the Korean Physical Society was established in 1995. The symposiums brought together y...
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Upgrading of bio-oil by ex-situ catalytic pyrolysis and in-line esterification in fluidized bed reactor
Ex-situ catalytic pyrolysis of Quercus mongolica over HZSM-5 and in-line esterification of pyrolysis/catalytic pyrolysis vapors with liquid phase n-butyl alcohol were carried out in a fluidized bed reactor. The e...
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Production of biofuels from pine needle via catalytic fast pyrolysis over HBeta
The thermal and catalytic pyrolysis of pine needles over HBeta catalysts with different SiO2/Al2O3 ratios (25 and 300) were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and pyrolyzer-gas chromatography/mass s...
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In-Situ Catalytic Pyrolysis of Xylan and Dealkaline Lignin over SAPO-11
Silicoaluminophosphate molecular sieve, SAPO-11, was applied for the first time to the catalytic pyrolysis of xylan and dealkaline lignin. The isothermal fast catalytic pyrolysis of xylan and dealkaline lignin...
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Pyrolysis kinetics and product properties of softwoods, hardwoods, and the nut shell of softwood
The pyrolysis of softwoods (Pinus (P.) densiflora, P. koraiensis), hardwoods (Quercus acutissima and Liriodendron tulipifera) and nut shell of P. koraiensis was investigated using a thermogravimetric analyzer and...
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Removal of Cu2+ by biochars derived from green macroalgae
The by-product char of the fast pyrolysis of a green macroalga Enteromorpha compressa was used to remove copper from an aqueous solution. The surface area and the amount of cation exchange capacity (CEC) were inc...
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Identification of active transcriptional regulatory elements from GRO-seq data
Using data from global run-on and sequencing (GRO-seq) or related methods, the dREG software identifies a new class of transcriptional regulatory elements with strong evidence for directing active transcription.
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Non-Isothermal Pyrolysis of Citrus Unshiu Peel
In this study, the non-isothermal pyrolysis of citrus unshui (C. unshiu) peel was studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and evolved gas analysis/pyrolyzer-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (EGA/Py-GC/MS)...
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Explaining dark energy with degenerate neutrino
Nowadays, most scientists believe that the universe is accelerating based on precise observational data[Astrophys. J. 607, 665 (2004); Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 670 (1999)]. However, its explanation based on physical ...
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Open AccessPyrolysis and co-pyrolysis of Laminaria japonica and polypropylene over mesoporous Al-SBA-15 catalyst
The catalytic co-pyrolysis of a seaweed biomass, Laminaria japonica, and a typical polymer material, polypropylene, was studied for the first time. A mesoporous material Al-SBA-15 was used as a catalyst. Pyrolysi...
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The absence of the Kerr black hole in the Hořava–Lifshitz gravity
We show that the Kerr metric does not exist as a fully rotating black hole solution to modified Hořava–Lifshitz (HL) gravity with Λ W =0 and λ=1. We do t...
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The application of Py-GC/MS for the catalytic upgrading of oil separated from summer food waste leachate
The catalytic cracking of oil fractions separated from summer food waste leachate was investigated over BEA zeolite and Al-SBA-15 catalysts. In this study, a mixture of food waste oil fractions and catalyst wa...
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Pyrolysis properties and kinetics of mandarin peel
The thermal property of the pyrolysis reaction of mandarin peel was studied using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Thermogravimetric analyses with temperature increases of 10, 20 and 40 °C/min showed large we...
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Future cosmological evolution in f(R) gravity using two equations of state parameters
We investigate the issues of future oscillations around the phantom divide (FOPD) for f(R) gravity. For this purpose, we introduce two types of energy density and pressure arisen from the f(R)-higher order curvat...
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Open AccessCatalytic pyrolysis of Laminaria japonica over nanoporous catalysts using Py-GC/MS
The catalytic pyrolysis of Laminaria japonica was carried out over a hierarchical meso-MFI zeolite (Meso-MFI) and nanoporous Al-MCM-48 using pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). The effect o...
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On the Ricci dark energy model
We study the Ricci dark energy model (RDE) which was introduced as an alternative to the holographic dark energy model. We point out that an accelerating phase of the RDE is that of a constant dark energy mode...
