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Association of fluoride exposure with disease burden and neurodevelopment outcomes in children in South Korea
Community water fluoridation is an effective public health strategy for preventing dental caries, yet. Concerns exist about potential health problems. This study explores associations between tap water fluorid...
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Evaluation of algal species distributions and prediction of cyanophyte cell counts using statistical techniques
Safe drinking water sources are crucial for human health. Consequently, water quality management, including continuous monitoring of water quality and algae at sources, is critical to ensure the availability o...
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Open AccessSequence aware recommenders for fashion E-commerce
In recent years, fashion e-commerce has become more and more popular. Since there are so many fashion products provided by e-commerce retailers, it is necessary to provide recommendation services to users to m...
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Open AccessImproved gliotransmission by increasing intracellular Ca2+ via TRPV1 on multi-walled carbon nanotube platforms
Astrocyte is a key regulator of neuronal activity and excitatory/inhibitory balance via gliotransmission. Recently, gliotransmission has been identified as a novel target for neurological diseases. However, us...
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Open AccessEffect of parental supervision of infants at age 4 to 6 months on injuries at age 4 to 12 months
This study analyzed the effect of parental supervision of infants at age 4 to 6 months on injuries at age 4 to 12 months. Among all Korean children born during 2008–2009, 464,326 (50.6%) infant had parents who...
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Open AccessFabrication of Comb-type self-oscillating gels by atom transfer radical polymerization for controlling autonomous swelling/deswelling behavior
In this study, we show the controlled self-oscillation behavior (i.e., the normalized amplitude, swelling rate, and deswelling rate) of self-oscillating gels by introducing grafted chains. The grafted chain wa...
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Cooperative communication system for high performance using ambient signals
This paper proposes the Internet connectivity of RF-powered devices in the backscatter system. The RF-powered devices do not use a battery and charge energy by harvesting from ambient RF signals of TV, a cellu...
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Open AccessFull-surface emission of graphene-based vertical-type organic light-emitting transistors with high on/off contrast ratios and enhanced efficiencies
Surface-emitting organic light-emitting transistors (OLETs) could well be a core element in the next generation of active-matrix (AM) displays. We report some of the key characteristics of graphene-based verti...
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Inter-Relay Interference Cancellation Using MIMO Detection
Recent mobile applications have required high data rate. In metropolitan areas where data traffic is higher than other areas, heterogeneous networks (HetNet) are used to meet the traffic demand (Hoadley and Ma...
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Restaurant franchising and top management team
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate how top manager attributes account for the implementation of risk-averse strategy by applying a conceptual framework based on upper echelons theory. We sele...
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Clinical Characteristics and Prognostic Factors in Hemophiliacs with Intracranial Hemorrhage: A Single-Center, Retrospective Experience
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is the most serious bleeding event that occurs in patients with hemophilia; its estimated mortality rate is approximately 20 %, accounting for the largest number of deaths from bl...
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Open AccessDiversity-oriented synthetic strategy for develo** a chemical modulator of protein–protein interaction
Diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) can provide a collection of diverse and complex drug-like small molecules, which is critical in the development of new chemical probes for biological research of undruggable ...
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Stable isotope on the evaluation of water quality in the presence of WWTPs in rivers
We investigated the distribution of nitrogen compounds in Han River as well as two tributaries of Tancheon and Jungrangcheon. Particularly, we observed the significant releases of NH4 +-N ...
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Acute Biocompatibility of X-ray Visible Bioabsorbable Bone Plate Coated with β-Tricalcium Phosphate and Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)
To allow X-ray visibility, we coated a bioabsorbable bone plate in clinical use (PLT-1031, Inion, Finland) with a layer made of a composite of beta-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (...
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Open AccessBedding types affect pubertal progression in rat
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Sulforaphane Inhibits IL-1β-Induced Proliferation of Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts and the Production of MMPs, COX-2, and PGE2
This study was performed to define the effects of sulforaphane on interleukin-1β (IL-1β)-induced proliferation of rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASFs), the expression of matrix metalloproteinases ...
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Open AccessEthyl acetate fraction from Angelica sinensis inhibits IL-1β-induced rheumatoid synovial fibroblast proliferation and COX-2, PGE2, and MMPs production
The root of Angelica sinensis (AS), also known as “Dang-gui,” was a popular herbal medicine widely used in the treatment of gynecological diseases in China, Korea, and Japan for a long time. This study aimed to d...
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Kaempferol Inhibits IL-1β-Stimulated, RANKL-mediated Osteoclastogenesis via Downregulation of MAPKs, c-Fos, and NFATc1
Kaempferol is one of the most common flavonoid that is present in a variety of vegetables and fruits and has effects on bone metabolism. The present study was performed to define the effects of kaempferol on i...
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Tracing lead pollution sources in abandoned mine areas using stable Pb isotope ratios
This study focused on Pb isotope ratios of sediments in areas around an abandoned mine to determine if the ratios can be used as a source tracer. For pretreatment, sediment samples were dissolved with mixed ac...
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Comparison of compositional characteristics of amino acids between livestock wastewater and carcass leachate
This study was purposed to examine the use of amino acids as an indicator to determine whether groundwater around carcass burial sites is polluted by livestock wastewater (LW) or carcass leachate (CL). The ana...
