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2,317,900 | Ovarian stimulation for fertility preservation or family building in a cohort of transgender men. | The purpose of this study was to compare ovarian stimulation and pregnancy outcomes between transgender men (1) with and without a history of testosterone use (HRT) and (2) to cisgender women.</AbstractText>Retrospective chart review between January 1st 2015 and March 1st, 2019 of transgender men and cisgender women se... |
2,317,901 | Removal of ametryn and organic matter from wastewater using sequential anaerobic-aerobic batch reactor: A performance evaluation study. | The present study was aimed to investigate biodegradation of 2-(ethylamino)-4-(isopropylamino)-6-(methylthio)-s-triazine (ametryn) in a laboratory-scale anaerobic sequential batch reactor (ASBR) and followed by aerobic post-treatment. Co-treatment of ametryn with starch is carried out at ambient environmental condition... |
2,317,902 | Effects of water recirculation rate on the microbial community and water quality in relation to the growth and survival of white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). | Microbial community and its management are crucial to the stabilization of culture environment for recirculating aquaculture system (RAS). Although several studies have been carried out for the microbial community of RAS, few studies were on the RAS for shrimp. Water recirculation ratio is an important factor for the m... |
2,317,903 | Enhancement of Volatile Fatty Acids Production from Food Waste by Mature Compost Addition. | Food waste (FW) collected from a university canteen was treated in acidogenic fermenters to produce volatile fatty acids (VFA) under biological pretreatment with mature compost. Batch assays working at pH 6 revealed an increment of 9.0%, 7.9%, and 4.1% (on COD basis) of VFA concentration when adding 2.5%, 3.5%, and 4.5... |
2,317,904 | Performance improvement and model of a bio-electrochemical system built-in up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket for treating β-lactams pharmaceutical wastewater under different hydraulic retention time. | This paper focused on the performance of an up-flow bio-electrochemical system (UBES) for treating the β-lactams pharmaceutical wastewater under different hydraulic retention time (HRT). UBES is added a bio-electrochemical system below the three-phase separator based on up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB). Co... |
2,317,905 | Role of sludge retention time in mitigation of nitrous oxide emission from a pilot-scale oxidation ditch. | Nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) emission from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has become a focus of attention due to its significant greenhouse effect. In this study, the role of sludge retention time (SRT) in mitigation of N<sub>2</sub>O emission from a pilot-scale oxidation ditch was systematically investigated. T... |
2,317,906 | The effect of hormone replacement therapy on cognitive function in postmenopausal women: An RCT. | During the reproductive age, the human brain becomes a target for gonadal steroid hormones. Estrogens influence neural function through effects on neurons and affects indirectly the oxidative stress, inflammation, the cerebral vascular and the immune system.</AbstractText>To evaluate the effect of the traditional hormo... |
2,317,907 | Predictors of therapeutic treatment outcome in adolescent chronic tic disorders. | Chronic tic disorders may have a major impact on a child's function. A significant effect has been shown for combined habit reversal training (HRT) and exposure response prevention (ERP) treatment delivered in an individual and group setting.</AbstractText>The present study examines predictors and moderators of treatme... |
2,317,908 | Mortality and Morbidity in a Population Exposed to Emission from a Municipal Waste Incinerator. A Retrospective Cohort Study. | In the present research, we evaluated the health effects of exposure to the municipal waste incinerator (MWI) in Pisa, Italy, through a population-based cohort design. The individual exposure pattern in the area was estimated through CALPUFF dispersion models of NO<sub>χ</sub> (developed by Atmospheric Studies Gr... |
2,317,909 | Treatment of landfill leachate with laboratory scale vertical flow constructed wetlands: plant growth modeling. | The main purpose of this study was to investigate the removal of ammonia, orthophosphate, and COD present in landfill leachate using vertical subsurface flow constructed wetland systems (VFCW). The effect of different types of plants (<i>Typha latifolia and Canna indica</i>) in the removal of pollutants was also invest... |
2,317,910 | Effects of hydraulic retention time on biohythane production via single-stage anaerobic fermentation in a two-compartment bioreactor. | Hythane has been well known as a mixture of hydrogen and methane gases but their production is mostly in a different way. The present study dealt with the potential biohythane production in a two-compartment (lower, hydrogenesis; upper, methanogenesis) reactor via a single-stage anaerobic fermentation at mesophilic tem... |
2,317,911 | Mechanism and performance of trace metal removal by continuous-flow constructed wetlands coupled with a micro-electric field. | Constructed wetlands coupled with a micro-electric field (CW-MEF) is a novel and efficient water treatment technology. The objective of this study was to investigate the mechanism and performance of trace metals (TMs) removal for CW-MEF systems during summer and winter. The mass distribution of TMs in plants and biofil... |
2,317,912 | Domestic wastewater treatment efficiency of the pilot-scale trickling biofilter system with variable flow rates and hydraulic retention times. | In this study, a pilot-scale trickling biofilter (TBF) using pebbles and gravels media was evaluated for the treatment of domestic wastewater. The TBF system was installed in an open environment at residential area of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and was operated at three different recirculation flow r... |
2,317,913 | Diagnostic accuracy of in-house real-time PCR assay for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | In recent years, studies on the diagnostic accuracy of in-house real-time PCR (hRT-PCR) assay for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) have been reported with unignorable discrepancies. To assess the overall accuracy of the hRT-PCR assay for Mtb diagnosis in different samples for individuals with active pu... |
2,317,914 | Enhanced estrogen removal in activated sludge processes through the optimization of the hydraulic flow pattern. | The removal of β-estradiol (E2) and α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) in biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) would need to be improved in order to comply with prospective Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) of 0.4 and 0.035 ng.L<sup>-1</sup> respectively. The effluent concentration of a micropollu... |
2,317,915 | Effectiveness of hormones in postmenopausal pelvic floor dysfunction-International Urogynecological Association research and development-committee opinion. | There is clear evidence of the presence of estradiol receptors (ERs) in the female lower urinary and genital tract. Furthermore, it is a fact that estrogen deficiency after menopause may cause atrophic changes of the urogenital tract as well as various urinary symptoms. Moreover, the effect of hormone replacement thera... |
2,317,916 | Effects of hormone replacement therapy on endometrial hormone concentrations and progesterone receptor expression in recurrent pregnancy loss: a self-controlled study. | To investigate the differential effects of endometrial preparation approaches, natural cycle (NC) and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), on the endometrial hormone conditions in patients with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL).</AbstractText>42 RPL patients were recruited, and a self-controlled trial was conducted to compa... |
2,317,917 | A high resolution LC-MS targeted method for the concomitant analysis of 11 contraceptive progestins and 4 steroids. | In the context of hormonal contraception and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), many women are exposed to exogenous hormones. Current use of hormonal contraception with combined ethinyl estradiol and different progestins bestows a breast cancer relative risk (RR) of 1.2- while combined HRT has a RR of 2. Although these... |
2,317,918 | Transdermal lipid vesicular delivery of iloperidone: Formulation, in vitro and in vivo evaluation. | The objective of present study was to develop and evaluate lipid vesicular transdermal system of iloperidone. Liposomes were prepared successfully using thin film hydration method. With aim of enhancing permeation, cholesterol from liposomes was replaced with transcutol to give PEVs. Liposomes and PEVs were evaluated f... |
2,317,919 | Development of a prognostic model for overall survival in multiple myeloma using the Connect<sup>®</sup> MM Patient Registry. | Median overall survival (OS) has improved for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM), but prognosis varies depending on baseline patient characteristics. Current models use data from selected clinical trial populations, which prevent application to patients in an unselected community setting that reflect... |
2,317,920 | Matters of the Heart: Cardiovascular Health in Women Throughout Their Lifetimes. | The authors' goal is to review the current recommendations for optimizing cardiovascular health beginning in adolescent years to adulthood, and to expand on the role that pregnancy complications may have as implications for future cardiovascular health. Attention to cardiac health begins in adolescence; however, most y... |
2,317,921 | Start-up of oxygen-limited autotrophic partial nitrification-anammox process for treatment of nitrite-free wastewater in a single-stage hybrid bioreactor. | This study presents effective ammonium removal from nitrite-free ammonium-rich synthetic wastewater through combined partial nitrification (PN) and anammox processes in a multi-zone hybrid airlift bioreactor (BioCAST). Removal efficiencies of ammonia-nitrogen and total nitrogen up to 85.6% and 81.2%, respectively, were... |
2,317,922 | Enhancing the co-digestion efficiency of sewage sludge and cheese whey using brewery spent grain as an additional substrate. | This study examined the influence of the application of brewery spent grain (BSG) on biogas production efficiency as well as its kinetics in the co-digestion of acid cheese whey (ACW) and sewage sludge (SS). The experiment was conducted in semi-flow anaerobic reactors under mesophilic conditions (35 °C) wit... |
2,317,923 | Impact of hydraulic retention time and organic matter concentration on side-stream aerobic granular membrane bioreactor. | This study investigated the effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration on membrane fouling in aerobic granular membrane bioreactor (AGMBR) in a systematic approach. Changes in HRT (7, 10, and 15 h) and COD (500, 1000 and 1500 mg/L) were applied in five operatio... |
2,317,924 | Experimental and modelling evaluations of sulfide formation in a mega-sized deep tunnel sewer system and implications for sewer management. | Mega-sized deep tunnel sewer systems are indispensable infrastructures to convey the sewage and/or stormwater to the centralized sewage treatment works in large cities with dense populations and limited land. The rapid urbanization in China and other countries is boosting the construction of the deep tunnel sewer syste... |
2,317,925 | Managing the risk of venous thromboembolism in transgender adults undergoing hormone therapy. | <b>Introduction:</b> Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a potential risk of estrogen therapy. However, data show an improvement in the quality of life for transgender people who use feminizing hormone therapy. With few transgender-specific data, guidance may be drawn from cisgender (nontransgender) data, with a focus on h... |
2,317,926 | Removal of the endocrine disruptors ethinyl estradiol, bisphenol A, and levonorgestrel by subsurface constructed wetlands. | The present work aimed to evaluate the removal efficiency of the endocrine disruptors ethinyl estradiol (EE2), the progestin levonorgestrel (LNG), and bisphenol A (BPA), considered to be contaminants of major concern, by using four laboratory scale constructed wetlands (CW) - three containing gravel as support media, o... |
2,317,927 | Risk-Reducing Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy for BRCA Mutation Carriers and Hormonal Replacement Therapy: If It Should Rain, Better a Drizzle than a Storm. | Women carrying a BRCA mutation have an increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. The most effective strategy to reduce this risk is the bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, with or without additional risk-reducing mastectomy. Risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (RRBSO) is recommended between age 35 ... |
2,317,928 | Second to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) in women with carpal tunnel syndrome. | Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a median nerve compressive neuropathy at the wrist, is the most common entrapment nerve disorder. Sex is an important risk factor of CTS as this condition is to five times more common in women than in men (sex-hormone dependent). There are no studies concerning 2D:4D (biomarker of prenatal... |
2,317,929 | Long-term consequences of androgen insensitivity syndrome. | Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is one of the most common sexual developmental disorders. According to the grade of the remaining androgen receptor (AR) function, AIS is classified as complete (CAIS), partial (PAIS) or mild (MAIS). In CAIS, the prevalence of germ cell tumours is increased compared with the genera... |
2,317,930 | Photobioreactors based on microalgae-bacteria and purple phototrophic bacteria consortia: A promising technology to reduce the load of veterinary drugs from piggery wastewater. | Traditional swine manure treatments are not fully effective in the removal of veterinary drugs. Moreover, they are costly and entail a significant carbon footprint in many cases. Innovative biological approaches based on phototrophic microorganisms have recently emerged as promising alternatives to overcome those limit... |
2,317,931 | Stick or leave - Pushing methanogens to biofilm formation for ex situ biomethanation. | Biomethanation exploits the ability of methanogenic archaea to convert CO<sub>2</sub> and renewable H<sub>2</sub> from electrolysis to biomethane. Biofilm reactors are promising for biomethanation scale-up due to high CH<sub>4</sub> productivity and low energy input for H<sub>2</sub> gas-liquid mass transfer. Effects o... |
2,317,932 | Safety of menopausal hormone therapy in breast cancer survivors older than fifty at diagnosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. | Due to the higher incidence of hormone responsive tumours in women >50, the safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in older breast cancer survivors may differ from younger age groups. The primary outcome in this review was the risk of tumour recurrence and secondary outcome the relationship with breast cancer-r... |
2,317,933 | Treatment of anaerobically digested effluent from kitchen waste using combined processes of anaerobic digestion-complete nitritation-ANAMMOX based on reflux dilution. | In this study, an anaerobically digested effluent from kitchen waste with high concentrations of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia nitrogen was treated using combined processes of anaerobic digestion (AD), complete nitritation (CN), and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX). The COD and nitrogen removal efficie... |
2,317,934 | Moderate versus extreme hypofractionated radiotherapy: a toxicity comparative analysis in low- and favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients. | External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) is an effective treatment option for low- and favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer (PCa) and it is usually delivered in conventional fractionation or with moderate hypofractionation (hRT), with comparable results. In the last years, a new treatment approach with stereotactic bod... |
2,317,935 | Endometrial Receptivity Analysis - a tool to increase an implantation rate in assisted reproduction. | A successful embryo implantation is crucial for a positive outcome of in vitro fertilization. But there is only a short period during which the endometrium is receptive for embryo, this so called implantation window can be detected by a molecular diagnostic method endometrial receptivity analysis (ERA).</AbstractText>T... |
2,317,936 | Anaerobic treatment of oil-contaminated wastewater with methane production using anaerobic moving bed biofilm reactors. | Oil-contaminated wastewaters are generally treated by a combination of physico-chemical and biological methods. Interest in the anaerobic treatment of oily wastewaters has increased since it complements aerobic treatment and produces energy in the form of methane. The objectives of this study were to characterise the a... |
2,317,937 | Efficient methane production from petrochemical wastewater in a single membrane-less microbial electrolysis cell: the effect of the operational parameters in batch and continuous mode on bioenergy recovery. | The main objective of this study is to evaluate the treatment and simultaneous production of methane from low-strength petrochemical wastewater by single membrane-less microbial electrolysis cells. To achieve this objective, the influence of variables such as applied voltage, operation mode, and hydraulic retention tim... |
2,317,938 | Effect of hydraulic retention time on pollutants removal from real ship sewage treatment via a pilot-scale air-lift multilevel circulation membrane bioreactor. | Developing a real ship sewage treatment system that not only satisfies the requirement of small space onboard but also meets the latest emission standards of International Maritime Organization (IMO) is still a challenging task for ship industry. To overcome these problems, in this study, a novel pilot-scale air-lift m... |
2,317,939 | Treatment of Balili River in Benguet, Philippines with constructed wetland planted with dominant local macrophytes. | Phytoremediation using local macrophytes was explored in Balili River, Philippines. The macrophytes used were <i>Amaranthus spinosus</i>, <i>Eichhornia crassipes</i>, <i>Eleusine indica</i> and <i>Pennisetum purpureum</i> planted in pilot-scale constructed wetlands and subjected to varying hydraulic retention time (HRT... |
2,317,940 | Inhibition of anaerobic biological sulfate reduction process by copper precipitates. | The single-stage biological sulfate reduction process for treatment of heavy metal laden wastewater is a promising treatment method, but the formation of metal precipitates has been suggested to be inhibitory to the activity of sulfate reducers. The present study examined the impact of copper (Cu) precipitates on anaer... |
2,317,941 | Oestrogen dose tapering during luteal phase does not affect clinical outcomes after hormone replacement treatment-frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles: a retrospective analysis. | Does oestrogen dose tapering during the luteal phase affect the clinical outcome after hormone replacement treatment-frozen-thawed embryo transfer (HRT-FET) cycles?</AbstractText>Our results suggest that tapering oestrogen doses during the luteal phase results in similar clinical outcomes to those obtained with the tra... |
2,317,942 | The relationship between hormone replacement therapy and periodontal disease in postmenopausal women: a cross-sectional study the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007 to 2012. | The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and periodontal disease in postmenopausal women using data from the 4th and 5th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES).</AbstractText>The study included data from 5,482 postmenopausal women ... |
2,317,943 | Late life maintenance and enhancement of functional exercise capacity in low and high responding rats after low intensity treadmill training. | Intrinsic exercise capacity is predictive of both lifespan and healthspan but whether adaptive exercise capacity influences the benefits achieved from aerobic training implemented later in life is not known.</AbstractText>To determine if exercise late in life provides any functional improvements or underlying beneficia... |
2,317,944 | Reply to 'Hormone replacement therapy: informed consent without assessment?'. | In a previous article, I argued that assessment requirements for transgender hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are unethical and dehumanising. A recent response published by the <i>Journal of Medical Ethics</i> criticises this proposal. In this reply, I advance that their response misunderstood core parts of my argumen... |
2,317,945 | Cultivation of a versatile manganese-oxidizing aerobic granular sludge for removal of organic micropollutants from wastewater. | Organic micropollutants (OMPs) are frequently detected in water and wastewater, and have attracted wide attention due to potential adverse effects on ecosystems and human health. In this work, manganese-oxidizing aerobic granular sludge (Mn-AGS) was successfully cultivated and applied to remove OMPs from wastewater. Bi... |
2,317,946 | Mutual benefits of acetate and mixed tungsten and molybdenum for their efficient removal in 40 L microbial electrolysis cells. | Practical application of metallurgical microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) requires efficient removal of metals and organics in larger reactors. A 40 L cylindrical single-chamber MEC fed acetate was used to achieve high removals of W(VI) and Mo(VI). In the presence of both metals, there were nearly complete remo... |
2,317,947 | Evidence-based treatment of Tourette's disorder and chronic tic disorders. | <b>Introduction</b>: Chronic Tic Disorders and Tourette's Disorder (collectively referred to as TD) are characterized by sudden, rapid, and repetitive motor movements or vocalizations called tics. Children, adolescents, and adults with TD often experience co-occurring psychiatric symptoms and impairments in multiple do... |
2,317,948 | Prostate bed irradiation with alternative radio-oncological approaches (PAROS) - a prospective, multicenter and randomized phase III trial. | For patients with treatment-naïve carcinoma of the prostate, hypofractionated irradiation becomes more and more popular. Due to the low α/β value of prostate cancer, increased single dose leading to a shortened treatment period seems to be safe and feasible. However, reliable data is lacking for post-p... |
2,317,949 | Lateralization of horizontal semicircular canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HSC-BPPV) with the latency test: a pilot study. | <b>Background:</b> The treatments of horizontal semicircular canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HSC-BPPV) have low remission rates ranging between 60% and 90%, connected to the difficulty in correctly identifying the affected side of HSC-BPPV. <b>Objective:</b> To propose and compare the efficacy of the latenc... |
2,317,950 | An Advanced First Aid System Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and a Wireless Body Area Sensor Network for Elderly Persons in Outdoor Environments. | For elderly persons, a fall can cause serious injuries such as a hip fracture or head injury. Here, an advanced first aid system is proposed for monitoring elderly patients with heart conditions that puts them at risk of falling and for providing first aid supplies using an unmanned aerial vehicle. A hybridized fall de... |
2,317,951 | PLASMA COLLOID OSMOTIC PRESSURE IN CHRONICALLY DEBILITATED LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES (<i>CARETTA CARETTA</i>). | Colloid osmotic pressure (COP) is an important component of the forces that manage capillary filtration and is determined by circulating plasma proteins. Patients affected by conditions resulting in hypoproteinemia often suffer severe hemodynamic derangements, including decreased COP. Because chronically debilitated se... |
2,317,952 | Spatial Correlation and Breast Cancer Risk. | We present a novel method for evaluating local spatial correlation structure in two-dimensional (2D) mammograms and evaluate its capability for risk prediction as one possible application. Two matched case-control studies were analyzed. Study 1 included women (N = 588 pairs) with mammograms acquired with either Hologic... |
2,317,953 | Performance analysis and optimization of ammonium removal in a new biological folded non-aerated filter reactor. | A new type of biological folded non-aerated filter (BFNAF) was found to be superior and feasible for the treatment of NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>-N wastewater. It was constructed with the folded structure suitable for the nylon biomass carrier. The advantages of the BFNAF included low energy consumption, long reaction p... |
2,317,954 | An influent responsive control strategy with machine learning: Q-learning based optimization method for a biological phosphorus removal system. | Biological phosphorus removal (BPR) is an economical and sustainable processes for the removal of phosphorus (P) from wastewater, achieved by recirculating activated sludge through anaerobic and aerobic (An/Ae) processes. However, few studies have systematically analyzed the optimal hydraulic retention times (HRTs) in ... |
2,317,955 | Nitrogen removal from wastewater via simultaneous nitrification and denitrification using a biological folded non-aerated filter. | A conventional biological filter has been shown to be a viable method for removing nitrogenous compounds from wastewater, but it still has many disadvantages. In this study, a biological folded non-aerated filter (BFNAF) was designed, and its feasibility for nitrogen-loaded wastewater treatment has been confirmed. Effe... |
2,317,956 | Immunotherapy with hypofractionated radiotherapy in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: An analysis of the National Cancer Database. | Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is associated with an exceedingly poor prognosis. Recent advances in immunotherapy offer promise in enhancing overall survival (OS) in these patients. Preclinical evidence suggests that radiotherapy (RT), especially when offered in a high-dose per fraction hypofractionated ... |
2,317,957 | Effect of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Bone Mineral Density and Body Composition in Chinese Adolescent and Young Adult Turner Syndrome Patients. | A longitudinal observational study was performed comparing BMD and body composition in Turner syndrome girls before and after 1 year of HRT treatment. Whole body BMD, femur neck BMD, total hip BMD, and lean mass were significantly increased, but there was no difference in fat mass, and lumbar spine BMD. <b>Purpose:</b>... |
2,317,958 | The throwing shoulder in youth elite handball: soft-tissue adaptations but not humeral retrotorsion differ between the two sexes. | In youth handball players, knowledge about the development of soft-tissue adaptation and humeral retrotorsion is limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in adaptations in the glenohumeral rotational range of motion and humeral retrotorsion of the throwing arm between male and female youth elit... |
2,317,959 | A menopause survey of women with benign breast disease history in northwest China. | <b>Objectives</b>: The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of menopause syndrome (MPS) and the present treatment status for menopause symptoms in women with benign breast disease history, compared with those without breast problems, and to analyze the affecting factors of medical visits and hormone replacem... |
2,317,960 | Metagenomic analysis reveals that activated carbon aids anaerobic digestion of raw incineration leachate by promoting direct interspecies electron transfer. | The raw fresh leachate from municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plants contains high concentrations of volatile fatty acids (VFAs), ammonia and metals, all compounds that severely limit anaerobic digestion treatment efficiencies. These inhibitory compounds make reactor systems unstable, causing reactor start-up pe... |
2,317,961 | Human health risks assessment for airborne PM<sub>10</sub>-bound metals in Seoul, Korea. | Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, is the social, political, and economic center of the country. Significant levels of PM<sub>10</sub>-bound As metalloid and metals have been found in the city, which poses possible adverse health risks to the residents from inhalation exposure. Therefore, this study focuses on the... |
2,317,962 | Hormone replacement therapy: informed consent without assessment? | Florence Ashley has argued that requiring patients with gender dysphoria to undergo an assessment and referral from a mental health professional before undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is unethical and may represent an unconscious hostility towards transgender people. We respond, first, by showing that Ashl... |
2,317,963 | Decolorization and phytotoxicity reduction in an innovative anaerobic/aerobic photobioreactor treating textile wastewater. | The potential of a novel anaerobic/aerobic algal-bacterial photobioreactor for the treatment of synthetic textile wastewater (STWW) was here assessed. Algal-bacterial symbiosis supported total organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous removal efficiencies of 78 ± 2%, 47 ± 2% and 26&... |
2,317,964 | Patient experiences with compounded medications. | There are few data directly from patients regarding their experiences with compounded prescriptions (CRx). The purpose of this study was to determine how patients initiated CRx use and how they perceived their CRx therapy.</AbstractText>A cross-sectional mailed national survey design was used. Participating pharmacies ... |
2,317,965 | The hydraulic retention time influences the abundance of Enterobacter, Clostridium and Lactobacillus during the hydrogen production from food waste. | The influence of hydraulic retention time (HRT) on the microbial communities was evaluated in an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (AnSBR) using organic waste from a restaurant as the substrate. The relationship among Lactobacillus, Clostridium and Bacillus as key micro-organisms on hydrogen production from organic so... |
2,317,966 | Hepatic steroid sulfatase critically determines estrogenic activities of conjugated equine estrogens in human cells <i>in vitro</i> and in mice. | Conjugated equine estrogens (CEEs), whose brand name is Premarin, are widely used as a hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) drug to manage postmenopausal symptoms in women. Extracted from pregnant mare urine, CEEs are composed of nearly a dozen estrogens existing in an inactive sulfated form. To determine whether the hepa... |
2,317,967 | [Applications of optical coherence tomography in glaucoma]. | The article reviews literature on optical coherence tomography (OCT) - one of the modern methods of early diagnostics of primary open-angle glaucoma, which has won great popularity among Russian and foreign ophthalmologists. In addition to a summary of the history of the emergence and development of this method, the ma... |
2,317,968 | Performance evaluation of A2O MBR system with graphene oxide (GO) blended polysulfone (PSf) composite membrane for treatment of high strength synthetic wastewater containing lead. | High strength synthetic wastewater containing 5 mg L<sup>-1</sup> of lead was studied for treatment using an A2O MBR system. The system showed 99% removal of ammonia and COD, a maximum removal of 52% of total phosphorus and an average minimum removal of 72% of total nitrogen. A maximum lead removal of 98%... |
2,317,969 | A comparison of uterine natural killer cell density in the peri-implantation period between natural cycles and hormone replacement therapy cycles. | A reference range for uterine natural killer (uNK) cell density in the peri-implantation period has recently been established in natural cycles. However, it is uncertain whether the results can be applied to hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) cycles, used increasingly in frozen-thaw embryo replacement cycles and which ... |
2,317,970 | Sulfate reducing bacteria-based wastewater treatment system integrated with sulfide fuel cell for simultaneous wastewater treatment and electricity generation. | This study aimed to design a sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB)-based wastewater treatment system (SWTS) integrated with a sulfide fuel cell (SFC) as an alternative to the energy-intensive aerobic wastewater treatment process. The result showed that the COD/sulfate ratio and hydraulic retention time (HRT) were two importa... |
2,317,971 | Assessment of nutrient removal and microbial population dynamics in a non-aerated vertical baffled flow constructed wetland for contaminated water treatment with composite biochar addition. | A novel composite biochar (NCB) was produced from the pyrolysis of co-fermentation products of sewage sludge, food wastes and rice straw, and exhibited higher nitrogen and phosphorus adsorption capacity due to the larger surface area (14.7 m<sup>2</sup> g<sup>-1</sup>) and higher Ca content (51753.7Ȃ... |
2,317,972 | Effects of 17β-HSD2 inhibition in bones on osteoporosis based on an animal rat model. | Hormone replacement therapy is a viable option to protect bone from postmenopausal osteoporosis. Systemically elevated estrogen levels, however, are disadvantageous because of the risk of harmful side effects in other organs. The rationale of the study presented here is to target a key enzyme in estradiol (E2) and test... |
2,317,973 | Microbial community shifts in the oxic-settling-anoxic process in response to changes to sludge interchange ratio. | This particular study set out to demonstrate alterations on the microbial community of the oxic-settling-anaerobic/anoxic (OSA) process treating real domestic wastewater by changing interchange ratios (IRs). The sludge yield of systems operated at different IRs (1/13, 1/17 and 1/20) to assess sludge reduction was used ... |
2,317,974 | Modelling micropollutant fate in sewer systems - A new systematic approach to support conceptual model construction based on in-sewer hydraulic retention time. | Conceptual sewer models are useful tools to assess the fate of micropollutants (MPs) in integrated wastewater systems. However, the definition of their model structure is highly subjective, and obtaining a realistic simulation of the in-sewer hydraulic retention time (HRT) is a major challenge without detailed hydrodyn... |
2,317,975 | Regenerating Hearts by Arresting Development With Hypothyroidism. | A recent report by Hirose et al highlights the divergence in cardiac regenerative potential across phylogeny and mouse ontogeny. They provide a correlation between metabolic rate and cardiomyocyte ploidy across species, linking whole-body metabolic control to endothermics and to thyroid function. Specifically, blockade... |
2,317,976 | Removal of metals from water using a novel high-rate algal pond and submerged macrophyte pond treatment reactor. | A combined high-rate algal pond and submerged macrophyte pond (APMP) reactor was introduced as a novel biotechnique for efficient heavy metals (HMs) removal from wastewater. The role of water temperature, light regime, and N:P mass ratio on algae growth and HMs removal as well as effects of macrophyte species and densi... |
2,317,977 | Optimization of urban waste fermentation for volatile fatty acids production. | The problem of waste disposal has recently focused on practices for waste recycling and bio-resources valorization. Organic waste produced in urban context together with biological sludge produced in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can be used as renewable feedstock for the production of building blocks of differen... |
2,317,978 | Effect of mixing duration on biogas production and methanogen distribution in an anaerobic digester. | Mixing has been shown to have effect on biogas production in anaerobic digestion systems. To further examine this impact, a study was designed to evaluate nearly continuous mixing (mixing for 15 min followed by no mixing for 15 min, CON), intermediate mixing (mixing for 15 min followed by no mixing... |
2,317,979 | Low temperature nutrient removal from municipal wastewater by purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB). | This study evaluated the performance of purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) at temperatures of 22 °C and 11 °C in a membrane photobioreactor. PPB performance and Monod parameters were evaluated at 11 °C and were compared to PPB performance at 22 °C. At 22 °C, t... |
2,317,980 | Response of the microbial community to the methanogenic performance of biologically hydrolyzed sewage sludge with variable hydraulic retention times. | Hyperthermophilic biological hydrolysis of sewage sludge was applied before long-term anaerobic digestion to investigate how shortening hydraulic retention times (HRT, 20-5d) affected methanogenic performances and microbial dynamics. Results indicated that although the three different HRTs provided a stable process wit... |
2,317,981 | Large-scale determination of micropollutant elimination from municipal wastewater by passive sampling gives new insights in governing parameters and degradation patterns. | A simple balancing method using passive samplers over a week's period has been developed and tested successfully to determine elimination rates of 22 common micropollutants of household and industrial sources in 18 full-scale wastewater treatment plants of different design and performance. Independent reactor tests to ... |
2,317,982 | Degradation of guar in an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor: Impacts of salinity on performance robustness, granulation and microbial community. | Guar is extensively used during shale gas exploitation and is a major component in the flowback water. The viscosity of guar has adverse effects for the treatment of flowback water. This study investigated the degradation of guar at different salinities with an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. The effec... |
2,317,983 | N° 311 - Prise en charge de la ménopause (Résumé/Déclarations Sommaires et Recommandations). | Offrir, aux fournisseurs de soins de santé, une mise à jour de la directive clinique quant à la prise en charge de la ménopause chez les femmes asymptomatiques en santé, ainsi que chez les femmes qui présentent des symptômes vasomoteurs ou urogénitaux; cette mise à jour se p... |
2,317,984 | Female reproductive factors and the likelihood of reaching the age of 90 years. The Netherlands Cohort Study. | The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the relationship between several reproductive factors in women and the likelihood of reaching the age of 90 years (achieving longevity).</AbstractText>For this study, data from the oldest birth cohort (1916-17) of the prospective Netherlands Cohort Study (NLCS) were use... |
2,317,985 | Effects of hydraulic retention time on the performance and microbial community of an anaerobic baffled reactor-bioelectricity Fenton coupling reactor for treatment of traditional Chinese medicine wastewater. | The aim of the present paper was to investigate the effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT) on the performance and microbial community dynamics of an anaerobic baffled reactor-bioelectricity Fenton (ABR-BEF) coupling reactor for treating traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) wastewater. The results show that the average... |
2,317,986 | Sulfur-siderite autotrophic denitrification system for simultaneous nitrate and phosphate removal: From feasibility to pilot experiments. | Siderite (FeCO<sub>3</sub>) is one kind of abundant and cheap carbonate minerals, but it has never been used as inorganic carbon sources and pH buffer in the sulfur autotrophic denitrification before. In this study, sulfur-siderite autotrophic denitrification (SSAD) system was formed. Batch, column and pilot experiment... |
2,317,987 | The share of electrochemical reduction, hydrogenotrophic and heterotrophic denitrification in nitrogen removal in rotating electrobiological contactor (REBC) treating wastewater from soilless cultivation systems. | There is a growing global environmental problem of agricultural wastewater from soilless plant cultivation systems. In most countries dominate open fertilization systems, in which excess of nutrient solution is discharged in an uncontrolled way into the ground inside greenhouses or adjacent areas. Wastewater from such ... |
2,317,988 | Effect of hydraulic retention time on micropollutant biodegradation in activated sludge system augmented with acclimatized sludge treating low-micropollutants wastewater. | This research investigates the effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) on micropollutant biodegradation of two-stage activated sludge (AS) system augmented with acclimatized sludge treating low-micropollutants wastewater. The experimental wastewater was a mixture of landfill leachate and agriculture wastewater, and HR... |
2,317,989 | Simultaneous oxidation of ammonium and tetracycline in a membrane aerated biofilm reactor. | The membrane aerated biofilms reactor (MABR) is an emerging technology in wastewater treatment with particular advantages including high rate nitrification, and very high oxygen transfer efficiencies. In this study a synthetic feed water incorporating tetracycline (TC) was investigated in a MABR. Simultaneous removal o... |
2,317,990 | Non-hormonal strategies for managing menopausal symptoms in cancer survivors: an update. | Vasomotor symptoms, particularly hot flushes (HFs), are the most frequently reported symptom by menopausal women. In particular, for young women diagnosed with breast cancer, who experience premature ovarian failure due to cancer treatments, severe HFs are an unsolved problem that strongly impacts on quality of life. T... |
2,317,991 | Enhancing hyper-thermophilic hydrolysis pre-treatment of chicken manure for biogas production by in-situ gas phase ammonia stripping. | Hydrolysis is normally the rate limiting step for anaerobic digestion (AD). In this study, hyper-thermophilic (70 °C) pre-treatment of chicken manure under HRTs of 10, 5, 3, 2 and 1 d(s) was investigated to enhance the hydrolysis efficiency for biogas production. In-situ phase gas stripping was integ... |
2,317,992 | Liver Biochemical Abnormalities in Adolescent Patients with Turner Syndrome. | Elevated liver function tests (LFTs) are common in adult Turner syndrome (TS) patients. Data regarding children and adolescents are lacking. To investigate the prevalence of abnormal LFTs in children and adolescents with TS during several years of observation; to evaluate the potential impact of increased body mass ind... |
2,317,993 | Biohydrogen production from glucose using submerged dynamic filtration module: Metabolic product distribution and flux-based analysis. | A lab scale bioreactor with the submerged polyester mesh of pore size 100 μm, was used for biohydrogen production under mesophilic condition (35 °C). The reactor was continuously fed with glucose (15 g/L) for 90 days with a hydraulic retention time (HRT), ranging from 12 to 1.5&#x... |
2,317,994 | Volatile fatty acid production from mesophilic acidogenic fermentation of organic fraction of municipal solid waste and food waste under acidic and alkaline pH. | This study is focused on the effects of pH on the production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and their distribution through the acidogenic fermentation of source-sorted organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) from a mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) plant, and food waste (FW) from a university canteen. In ... |
2,317,995 | Gaining deeper insights into the bioflocculation process occurring in a high loaded membrane bioreactor used for the treatment of synthetic greywater. | In the present study, a high loaded membrane bioreactor (HL-MBR) operated at a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 1.5 h, and three different sludge retention times (SRTs) in the range of 0.5-2 days, was used for the treatment of synthetic greywater. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency of the syste... |
2,317,996 | Continuous ozonation of urban wastewater: Removal of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli and antibiotic resistance genes and phytotoxicity. | This work evaluated the removal of a mixture of eight antibiotics (i.e. ampicillin (AMP), azithromycin (AZM), erythromycin (ERY), clarithromycin (CLA), ofloxacin (OFL), sulfamethoxazole (SMX), trimethoprim (TMP) and tetracycline (TC)) from urban wastewater, by ozonation operated in continuous mode at different hydrauli... |
2,317,997 | Strategies of anaerobic sludge granulation in an EGSB reactor. | Anaerobic sludge granulation was evaluated in an expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor based on the increases in the specific organic loading rate (SOLR). The effect of precursor substances (calcium chloride, sodium chloride, and tannin) on the development of granular sludge was also investigated in batch reactor... |
2,317,998 | Habit Reversal Therapy in Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders: A Systematic Review of the Evidence and CONSORT Evaluation of Randomized Controlled Trials. | <b>Background:</b> Habit Reversal Therapy (HRT) has long been used in the treatment of Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders. It has more recently been used to treat Trichotillomania and skin picking behaviors, both considered as Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders (OCRD). <b>Objectives:</b> This literature review sou... |
2,317,999 | [Start-up Performance and Sludge Characteristics of Single-stage Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal System with Granular Sludge at Low Ammonia Nitrogen Concentration at Room Temperature]. | The start-up and stable operation of single-stage autotrophic nitrogen removal process under low ammonia nitrogen substrate at room temperature appears as the premise and basis for the application in municipal wastewater treatment. In this study, the PN/A (partial nitritation and ANAMMOX) granular sludge for long-term ... |
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