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Open AccessModulatory Effect of Blood LDL Cholesterol on the Association between Cerebral Aβ and Tau Deposition in Older Adults
This study investigates the synergistic relationship between blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and cerebral beta-amyloid (Aβ) in relation to tau deposition, a key factor in the pathology of Alz...
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Ammonium removal and recovery using natural zeolites and air strip** technique for greywater treatment
This paper provides comprehensive investigation of natural zeolites for ammonium removal from greywater and its recovery by using air strip** technique. The combination of air strip** method during regener...
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Bone mineral density in osteoporotic patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis: effect of early versus late treatment for osteoporosis
Patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (PVO) are at greater risk of bone loss. However, treatment guidelines for bone loss have been lacking. Early bisphosphonate treatment within 6 weeks after PVO dia...
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Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling of a Multifunctional Rehabilitation Robot UHP
The design of a suitable controller that handles robot-human interaction is one of the critical tasks in rehabilitation robotics. For this purpose, an accurate model of the robot is required. The Universal Hap...
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Forebrain-specific ablation of phospholipase Cγ1 causes manic-like behavior
Manic episodes are one of the major diagnostic symptoms in a spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders that include schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder (BD). Despite a possible assoc...
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Environmental Impacts and Recovery After the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill in Korea
The Hebei Spirit oil spill (HSOS) on December 7, 2007 was the worst oil spill recorded in Korea, with the release of approximately 10,900 tons of crude oil and 375 km of coastline polluted along the west coast of...
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Adalimumab-induced pulmonary sarcoidosis not progressing upon treatment with etanercept
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors effectively treat sarcoidosis, but can, paradoxically, induce sarcoidosis. The TNF-α inhibitor etanercept is most commonly associated with paradoxical sarcoidosis...
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Development of an intragenic gene transfer and selection protocol for sugarcane resulting in resistance to acetolactate synthase-inhibiting herbicide
Sugarcane is a prime crop for commercial production of bioethanol and table sugar. Genetic engineering is complementing traditional breeding in sugarcane improvement. Costs and delays associated with regulator...
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Effect of brassinosteroids on ammonium uptake via regulation of ammonium transporter and N-metabolism genes in Arabidopsis
Several studies have been performed to elucidate the role of brassinosteroids (BRs) in plant growth and development. However, information on the role of BR signaling in nutrient uptake is limited. This study e...
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Second harmonic generation in a KNbO3 nanorod and its detection by using a near-field scanning optical microscope
We report on an observation of second harmonic generation in an individual KNbO3 nanorod by using a near-field scanning optical microscope. The second harmonic is successfully generated by irradiating with a femt...
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Effect of cerium do** on the structural, morphological, photoluminescent and thermoluminescent properties of sodium strontium pentaborate microstructures
We have reported a new blue-emitting cerium (Ce3+)-doped sodium strontium pentaborate (Na3SrB5O10) microstructures via a conventional high-temperature solid-state reaction route. X-ray diffraction analysis reveal...
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Effect of thermal boundary condition of an inner cube on three-dimensional natural convection in a cubical
We numerically investigated three-dimensional (3-D) natural convection in a vertical cubic enclosure with an inner cube for Rayleigh numbers (Ra) in the range of 103 ≤ Ra ≤ 106. For the inner cube at the center, ...
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Increased saturation field as the origin of the giant electrocaloric effect in Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 thin films
We investigated the electrocaloric (EC) effects in epitaxial Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 (BSTO) thin films grown on LaAlO3 and MgO substrates and in BSTO sol-gel thin films grown on Si substrates. We compared the EC effects i...
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Study of magnetic, dielectric and magnetodielectric properties of BaTiO3/Fe3O4 core/shell nanocomposite
Multiferroic systems fashioned by involvement of a ferroelectric phase and a ferromagnetic phase have received significant attention because of their wide possibilities for tailoring properties. However, many...
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Open AccessNeuritin can normalize neural deficits of Alzheimer’s disease
Reductions in hippocampal neurite complexity and synaptic plasticity are believed to contribute to the progressive impairment in episodic memory and the mild cognitive decline that occur particularly in the ea...
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Open AccessExternal validation of an online nomogram in patients undergoing radical nephroureterectomy for upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma
The objective was to validate an online nomogram developed based on the French collaborative national database on upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UUT-UC) using a different cohort.
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MVCT image quality and dose as change of jaw aperture size on a helical TomoTherapy
Recently, jaw size was changed from 4 mm aper- ture (J4) to 1 mm (J1) in TomoTherapy Hi-Art II® (TomoThe- rapy Inc., Madison, WI) to improve the longitudinal (IEC-Y) resolution of megavoltage computed tomograp...
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E3 ubiquitin ligase Hades negatively regulates the exonuclear function of p53
Following DNA damage, p53 translocates to the cytoplasm and mitochondria, where it triggers transcription-independent apoptosis by binding to Bcl-2 family proteins. However, little is known about how this exon...
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Investigation into the development of a bus electrical cooling fan system
Manufacturers of commercial vehicles are facing a substantial increase of heat release into their cooling systems. The main sources for this increase are more stringent emissions leading to new combustion tech...
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Effect of grain boundary on resistive magnetodielectric property of polycrystalline γ-Fe2O3
We have investigated the role of the grain boundary on the resistive magnetodielectric property of polycrystalline γ-Fe2O3 through impedance spectroscopy measurements. Depending on the sample preparation temperat...
