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Forests and agricultural lands are the main resources on the earth’s surface and important indicators of regional ecological environments. In this paper, Landsat images from 1990 and 2017 were used to extract ...
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Changes in land cover and ecological stress in Borneo based on remote sensing and an ecological footprint method
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The effect of l-thyroxine substitution on oxidative stress in early-stage diabetic nephropathy patients with subclinical hypothyroidism: a randomized double-blind and placebo-controlled study
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The impact and management of microscopically positive margins in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) remain unclear. The aim of this study is to estimate the prognostic value of surgical margins for diseas...
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We consider the existence of at least one positive solution of the problem − ...
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Robust graph coloring based on the matrix semi-tensor product with application to examination timetabling
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Open AccessOscillation criteria for p-Laplacian delay dynamic equations with dam** on time scales
In this paper, we establish some new oscillation criteria for p-Laplacian delay dynamic equations with dam**
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Antimutagenic activity of selenium-enriched green tea toward the heterocyclic amine 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline
Both selenium and green tea have been reported to exhibit antigenotoxic and cancer chemopreventive properties. We compared the antimutagenic activities of regular green tea and selenium-enriched green tea obta...
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Inhibition of Colonic Aberrant Crypt Formation by the Dietary Flavonoids (+)-Catechin and Hesperidin
Dietary prevention is believed to be the most promising means by which incidence and recurrence of cancer can be reduced as evidenced by numerous epidemiologic studies (Hill, 1995). Flavonoids are known to inh...