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Open AccessSearch for long-lived heavy neutrinos in the decays of B mesons produced in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV
A search for long-lived heavy neutrinos (N) in the decays of B mesons produced in proton-proton collisions at ...
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Open AccessSearch for heavy neutral leptons in final states with electrons, muons, and hadronically decaying tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV
A search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) of Majorana or Dirac type using proton-proton collision data at ...
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Effect of Evaporative Cooling of Condenser on the Performance of Air Conditioner
The increase in electricity consumption by air conditioning equipment is a serious concern due to global environmental degradation resulting from greenhouse gas emissions. The present work aims to reduce power...
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Effect of varying ambient conditions on the performance of air conditioner using evaporative cooler
The increasing usage of refrigeration and air conditioning worldwide is a serious concern as regard the greenhouse gas emissions which degrade the environment. Improving the energy efficiency could reduce this...
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Proton beam radiotherapy for choroidal and ciliary body melanoma in the UK—national audit of referral patterns of 1084 cases
Proton beam therapy has been utilised for the treatment of uveal melanoma in the UK for over 30 years, undertaken under a single centre. In the UK, all ocular tumours are treated at one of four centres. We aim...
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Open Access“Watch Me Grow- Electronic (WMG-E)” surveillance approach to identify and address child development, parental mental health, and psychosocial needs: study protocol
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic recession has increased parental psychosocial stress and mental health challenges. This has adversely impacted child development and wellbeing, particularly fo...
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Renal Tumor Biopsy: Rationale to Avoid Surgery in Small Renal Masses
The use of renal tumor biopsy (RTB) for small renal masses (SRMs) in daily practice, although safe and accurate, is unusual. Considering the large number of benign tumors in patients with renal masses < 4 cm, ...
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A numerical investigation into gas production under worst case scenario of limited heat transfer
Depressurization technique is considered as one of the most promising techniques in dissociating gas hydrates. However, since dissociation of hydrates is an endothermic process. Dissociation alone through depr...
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Small Next-Generation Atmospheric Probe (SNAP) Concept to Enable Future Multi-Probe Missions: A Case Study for Uranus
We present the outcome of a mission concept study that designed a small atmospheric entry probe and examined the feasibility and benefit of a future multi-probe mission to Uranus. We call our design the Small ...
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Evaluating the Sensitivity of Biomass Feedstocks to Producer Gas Composition Using Stoichiometric Equilibrium Model
Biomass gasification is an attractive renewable energy technology for obtaining producer gas which has many potential applications as compared to the biomass feedstock itself. Although the literatures are avai...
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Effects of exogenously applied plant growth regulators on the physiology and anti-oxidant activity of wheat under water deficit condition
An experiment was conducted to know the effect of plant growth regulators, Thidiazuron; 0.01 µL L−1, Paclobutrazol; 30 µL L−1, Ascorbic acid; 100 µL L−1, on wheat genotypes under osmotic stress imposed with PEG 6...
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Antibacterial properties of human beta defensin-3 derivative: CHRG01
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a major health concern. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a class of peptides that are efficient in killing most microbes yet development of resistance to AMPs is rare. How...
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Induction of water deficit tolerance in wheat due to exogenous application of plant growth regulators: membrane stability, water relations and photosynthesis
Our experiment was carried out in order to explore effects of plant growth regulators (PGR; thidiazuron, paclobutrazol, and ascorbic acid) on physiological traits of wheat genotypes under water surplus and def...
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Open AccessEZ-AG: structure-free data aggregation in MANETs using push-assisted self-repelling random walks
This paper describes EZ-AG, a structure-free protocol for duplicate insensitive data aggregation in MANETs. The key idea in EZ-AG is to introduce a token that performs a self-repelling random walk in the netwo...
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Patients’ preferences and existential perspective: what to consider and how should patient’s expectations be guided?
With an ageing population, surgical procedures in older patients are becoming increasingly more common. This can pose clinical and ethical dilemmas, during which clinicians need to make complex decisions. In t...
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Essential role of METTL3-mediated m6A modification in glioma stem-like cells maintenance and radioresistance
Despite advances in biology and therapeutic modalities, existence of highly tumorigenic glioma stem-like cells (GSCs) makes glioblastomas (GBMs) invincible. N6-methyl adenosine (m6A), one of the abundant mRNA mod...
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Differential accumulation of β-carotene and tissue specific expression of phytoene synthase (MaPsy) gene in banana (Musa sp) cultivars
An experiment was conducted with twelve major Indian banana cultivars to investigate the molecular relationship between the differential accumulation of β-carotene in peel and pulp of the banana fruit and caro...
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Endogenous reduced ascorbate: an indicator of plant water deficit stress in wheat
Ascorbic acid plays an important role in scavenging the reactive oxygen species under abiotic stress. In this study, the association of endogenous reduced ascorbate with drought stress tolerance has been inves...
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Open AccessDeciphering Physiological Basis of Yield Gain in Indian Wheat Cultivars
Physiological breeding complementing the conventional approach is increasingly being explored in wheat in view of stagnating annual genetic yield gain. Designing improved plant types required knowledge about p...
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Preventive Audiology: Screening for Hearing Impairment in Children Having Recurrent URTI
A late detection of hearing impairment in children can affect speech and language development. Otitis media with effusion (OME) associated with risk factors like recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (U...
