Assessment of the Current Practices of e-Waste Management in Alexandria, Egypt (Case Study: Waste from Personal Computers)

ewaste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world.Decision- and policy-makers in Egypt have not yet tackled the issue of e-waste management.Recently, this management has been recognized as a serious issue due to numerous environmental concerns such as a) e-waste quantity generated at an alarming rate, b) pollution of air and groundwat

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Attention-Guided Feature Extraction and Multiscale Feature Fusion 3D ResNet for Automated Pulmonary Nodule Detection

Automatic detection of pulmonary nodules is critical for the early diagnosis and prevention of lung cancer.Computed tomography (CT) is an effective and economical lung cancer detection method.In CT images, the size and shape of pulmonary nodules appear different, and some nodules appear similar to the surrounding tissues.Therefore, the automatic lo

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Genome-Wide Scan for Runs of Homozygosity Identifies Candidate Genes Related to Economically Important Traits in Chinese Merino

In this study, we estimated the number, length, and frequency of runs of homozygosity (ROH) in 635 Chinese Merino and identified genomic regions with high ROH frequency using the OvineSNP50 whole-genome genotyping array.A total of 6039 ROH exceeding 1 Mb were detected in REMARKABLE SILKNESS, LIGHTNESS AND SHINE 634 animals.The average number of ROH

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