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Soap versus sanitiser for preventing the transmission of acute respiratory infections in the community: a systematic review with meta-analysis and dose-response analysis.

Tammy Hoffmann, Mina Bakhit, Natalia Krzyzaniak, Chris Del Mar, Anna Mae Scott, Paul Glasziou · 2021

To compare the effectiveness of hand hygiene using alcohol-based hand sanitiser to soap and water for preventing the transmission of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) and to assess the relationship …

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A Novel Combined Conductance Sensor for Water Cut Measurement of Low-Velocity Oil-Water Flow in Horizontal and Slightly Inclined Pipes

Weihang Kong, He Li, Guanglong Xing, Lingfu Kong, Lei Li, Min Wang · 2019

This paper studied conductance-based method for water cut measurement to dynamically monitor the horizontal oil-producing wells. Existing conductance tools cannot obtain the response values correspond…

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Potentiometric response of a neutral-carrier-based membrane to aqueous mercury in Cl(-)-rich media.

 · 1970

The unique potentiometric response of mercury sensors was investigated in aqueous Cl(-)-rich media, which are often encountered in natural, especially biological samples. The conventional neutral-carr…

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Speckle reduction in ultrasound medical images using adaptive filter based on second order statistics.

 · 1970

This article discusses an adaptive filtering technique for reducing speckle using second order statistics of the speckle pattern in ultrasound medical images. Several region-based adaptive filter tech…

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Effects of hypovolemic hypotensive shock on somatosensory and motor evoked potentials.

 · 1970

The utility of evoked potentials in monitoring spinal cord and cerebral function in various neurosurgical and orthopedic operations has now been established. To study the effects of graded hypotension…

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Quantitative analysis of pulsatile flow contribution to ultrafiltration.

 · 1970

We evaluated the quantitative contribution of pulsatile flow to ultrafiltration (UF) in terms of fluid power, membrane stretch, and reduction of membrane layering. An in vitro comparison of the UF rat…

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Tritium in Japanese precipitation following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident.

 · 1970

Tritium concentrations in Japanese precipitation samples collected after the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP1) were measured. Values exceeding the pre-accident …

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Silicone-fat differentiation in the breast: exploiting the bright-fat phenomenon in fast spin-echo MR imaging.

 · 1970

Selective suppression of silicone or fat with chemical shift-selective (CHESS) pulses is difficult because of the small chemical shift difference between the primary lipid signal and the primary silic…

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Nanostructure of a poly(acrylic acid) brush and its transition in the amphiphilic diblock copolymer monolayer on the water surface.

 · 1970

The nanostructure and its transition of in a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) brush in the water surface monolayers of poly(hydrogenated isoprene)-b-poly(acrylic acid) with different block lengths and block r…

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Repeatability of Brain Volume Measurements Made with the Atlas-based Method from T1

 · 1970

PURPOSE: An understanding of the repeatability of measured results is important for both the atlas-based and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) methods of magnetic resonance (MR) brain volumetry. However, …

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Effect of Senokot on rat intestinal electrolyte transport. Evidence of Ca++ dependence.

 · 1970

The mechanism of action of Senokot, a widely used laxative, has not been established. Senokot was given orally to rats 8-14 h before intestinal water and electrolyte transport were studied. Senokot si…

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A New Approach for Deep Gray Matter Analysis Using Partial-Volume Estimation.

 · 1970

INTRODUCTION: The existence of partial volume effects in brain MR images makes it challenging to understand physio-pathological alterations underlying signal changes due to pathology across groups of …

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Novel, cyclic heat dissipation method for the correction of natural temperature gradients in sap flow measurements. Part 2. Laboratory validation.

 · 1970

Sap flow measurements conducted with thermal dissipation probes (TDPs) are vulnerable to natural temperature gradient (NTG) bias. Few studies, however, attempted to explain the dynamics underlying the…

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Determinants of drinking water quality in rural Nicaragua.

 · 1970

One hundred and fifty-three water samples from rural Nicaragua were examined for the presence of faecal coliforms during both wet and dry periods. A linear model was fitted by analysis of covariance w…

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Structure of water in the vicinity of amphoteric polymers as revealed by Raman spectroscopy.

 · 1970

The structure and hydrogen bonding of water in an aqueous solution of amphoteric copolymers (poly(MA-r-DMAPMA), 3x10(3)<M(w)<10(4)) composed of various ratios of methacrylic acid (MA) and N-[3-(dimeth…

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The modification of polyurethane foams using new boroorganic polyols (II) polyurethane foams from boron-modified hydroxypropyl urea derivatives.

 · 1970

The work focuses on research related to determination of application possibility of new, ecofriendly boroorganic polyols in rigid polyurethane foams production. Polyols were obtained from hydroxypropy…

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Autotrophy as a predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities.

 · 1970

The methane-rich, hydrothermally heated sediments of the Guaymas Basin are inhabited by thermophilic microorganisms, including anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (mainly ANME-1) and sulfate-reducing …

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Longitudinal analysis of regional grey matter loss in Huntington disease: effects of the length of the expanded CAG repeat.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: The mechanisms guiding the progression of neuronal damage in patients with Huntington disease (HD) are not completely understood. It is unclear whether the genotype--that is, the length of…

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Evaluation of Effective Microorganisms on home scale organic waste composting.

 · 1970

Home composting can be an effective way to reduce the volume of municipal solid waste. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of Effective Microorganism™ (EM) for the home scale co-composting…

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Improvement of Balance Stability in Older Individuals by On-Water Training.

 · 1970

In the present investigation we evaluated the effect of stand-up paddle practice on upright postural control in older individuals. Participants were assigned to a group practicing stand-up paddle on s…

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