Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Outpatient Antibiotic Use for Clostridioides difficile-Indicated Agents in British Columbia, from 2000 to 2018 by Ariana Saatchi, Sungeun Kim, Fawziah Marra

“…Historically, metronidazole was the first-line treatment, but guidelines now indicate oral vancomycin and fidaxomicin as primary antibiotics for initial episodes. A provincial stewardship program has operated in British Columbia (BC), since 2005. …”
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Estimation of the Wenchuan Earthquake Rupture Sequence Utilizing Teleseismic Records and Coseismic Displacements by Deyu Yin, Qifang Liu, Jingke Wu

“…But, few studies about inversion of source rupture process have focused on this issue. We establish a multiple-segment, variable-slip, finite-fault model to reproduce the rupture process and distinguish rupture sequence. …”
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Effect of High-Pressure Processing on Color, Texture and Volatile Profile During Sardine Refrigeration by Lama Ismaiel, Ancuta Nartea, Benedetta Fanesi, Paolo Lucci, Deborah Pacetti, Henry Jaeger, Felix Schottroff

“…HPP-treated samples maintained lower a* values compared to the control ones by the end of the experiment. …”
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Adapted Guidelines for Malaria Case Management in Sudan by Samah Elhassan, Sahar Khalid Mohamed, Khlood Fathi Hassan Alnaeem, Ahmed Abdulgadir Noureddin, Samah Kamaleldeen Bakrri Abass, Fadwa Mohamed Saad, Technical Advisory Committee

“… Background: Malaria is a major public health hazard in Sudan. The latest update to the malaria diagnosis and treatment protocol in Sudan was in 2017, after which multiple developments in the global guidelines for malaria case management have taken place. …”
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The Expansion of CD25highIL-10highFoxP3high B Regulatory Cells Is in Association with SLE Disease Activity by Zahava Vadasz, Regina Peri, Nasren Eiza, Gleb Slobodin, Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Elias Toubi

“…B regulatory cells (Bregs) belong to a subgroup of activated B cells tasked with maintaining self-tolerance and preventing autoimmunity. …”
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Numerical Simulation on Mesoscale Mechanism of Seepage in Coal Fractures by Fluid-Sloid Coupling Method by Kai Si, Ruidong Peng, Leilei Zhao, Yan Zhao, Yaheng Zhu, Zhendong Cui, Jianyong Zhang

“…The proposed mesoscale FEM model is a cube with micron fractures along three orthogonal directions. …”
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MODERN STATE LANGUAGE POLICY by Olga B. Akimova, Tatyana S. Tabachenko

“…At the same time, the Russian Government has approved a number of relevant documents, established the Council on the Russian language under the Government of the Russian Federation, as well as established the Council on the Russian language under the President of the Russian Federation. …”
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Temporal Trends in X-Ray Exposure during Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Cedric Davidsen, Kirsten Bolstad, Ellisif Nygaard, Kjell Vikenes, Svein Rotevatn, Vegard Tuseth

“…Although staff only receive a small fraction of patient dose through scatter radiation, there are concerns about the potential health effects of repeated exposure. …”
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Analysis of fermentation characteristics in fermented grains across seven rounds of sauce-flavored Baijiu: Microbial communities structure, physicochemical parameters, volatile and... by Xiaomin Liu, Yingchun Mu, Xiangxiang Lv, Nuo Chen, Lei Chen, Tangzheng Wen, Wei Su

“…This study provided insights into the fermentation characteristics of SFB from a multi-dimensional perspective.…”
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Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals cellular reprogramming and changes of immune cell subsets following tetramethylpyrazine treatment in LPS-induced acute lung injury by Mingyan Wu, Shanmei Wang, Xiaolan Chen, Li Shen, Jurong Ding, Hongbin Jiang

“…Background Acute lung injury (ALI) is a disordered pulmonary disease characterized by acute respiratory insufficiency with tachypnea, cyanosis refractory to oxygen and diffuse alveolar infiltrates. …”
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Assessment of Stakeholder Involvement and Borehole Water Projects Delivery in Kogi West Senatorial District, Nigeria by Adeyemi Adepoju, Tokunboh Obademi

“…This study assessed the effects of stakeholders’ involvement in KWSD, Nigeria, with a view to improving the delivery of borehole water projects in the study area. …”
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Sequestration of Hazardous Dyes from Aqueous Solution Using Raw and Modified Agricultural Waste by Mobolaji M. Jegede, Olatunde S. Durowoju, Joshua N. Edokpayi

“…This research, therefore, establishes LC peel as a potential eco-friendly, readily available, and effective sorbent for sequestration of hazardous dyes from wastewater.…”
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Long-term monitoring of plant diversity data in the “Montagna di Torricchio” Strict Nature Reserve, Italyb2share - EUDAT by Marco Cervellini, Leonardo Salvatori, Stefano Chelli, Federico Maria Tardella, Alessandro Chiarucci, James L. Tsakalos, Giandiego Campetella, Maura Francioni, Luciano Ludovico Maria De Benedictis, Roberto Canullo

“…Long-term monitoring is pivotal for the collection of data capable of unravelling spatio-temporal changes in plant diversity. Here we present a dataset including plant presence and abundance data collected using a probabilistic sampling design in the “Montagna di Torricchio” Strict Nature Reserve, central Apennines, Italy. …”
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Hybrid multi‐level hardware Trojan detection platform for gate‐level netlists based on XGBoost by Ying Zhang, Sen Li, Xin Chen, Jiaqi Yao, Zhiming Mao, Jizhong Yang, Yifeng Hua

“…Abstract Coping with the problem of malicious third‐party vendors implanting Hardware Trojan (HT) in the circuit design stage, this paper proposes a hybrid‐mode gate‐level hardware Trojan detection platform based on the XGBoost algorithm. …”
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Assessing Groundwater Connection/Disconnection to Waterholes Along the Balonne River and in the Barwon–Darling River System in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, for Waterh... by Harald Hofmann, Jonathan Marshall

“…This study assesses groundwater connectivity to waterholes in a part of the Murray-Darling Basin, one of the largest watersheds in the world, using environmental tracers radon and stable isotopes. …”
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Divergence of alpine plant populations of three Gentianaceae species in the Qinling sky Island by Peng-Cheng Fu, Bing-Jie Mo, He-Xin Wan, Shu-Wen Yang, Rui Xing, Shan-Shan Sun

“…Results Genetic clustering analysis according to around 33,317 to 185,133 SNPs showed that the Qinling population was a separate lineage within each species. A high level of genetic differentiation was observed among the Qinling populations and the other populations of each species. …”
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XVI. Yüzyıl Rus Edebiyatında “Fatih Sultan Mehmet Menkıbesi by Gamze Öksüz

“…XVI. yüzyılın tanınmış yazarlarından biri olan İvan Peresvetov, Rusya’nın sosyo-politik düşünce sistemine yön veren “Sultan Mehmet Menkıbesi”nde (Сказание о Магмет-салтане) Rus devlet yönetim sistemini eleştirmiş ve bu menkıbe aracılığıyla küçük yaşta tahta oturan Çar IV. İvan’a (Korkunç İvan) Rusya’nın ihtiyacı olan sosyal reformları gerçekleştirmesi konusunda yön vermiştir. …”
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Consolidating Medical Education in Sudan During War by Mohamed H. Taha, Nazik E. Husain, Wail Nuri Osman Mukhtar, Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla

“…This short communication explores practical solutions for ensuring the continuity of medical education during the conflict in the Sudanese context. Methods: A comprehensive literature review covered relevant articles published from 1915 to 2023. …”
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The imbalance of circulating PD-L1-expressing non-classical/ classical monocytes is involved in immunocompromised host related pulmonary opportunistic infection by Danhong Zhou, Yujia Jin, Yifan Jin, Yu Shen, Qiuxia Qu, Cheng Chen

“…The application of biological therapy and glucocorticoids in Auto-immune diseases (AID) patients will cause immunocompromised host (ICH) prone to infection. And monocytes play a key role in both innate and adaptive immune responses. …”
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Brown and red shades in the riverbed of the Nera River (Serbia) – update on the distribution and ecology of the association Hildenbrandio rivularis–Heribaudielletum fluviatilis Fri... by Trbojević Ivana, Milovanović Vanja, Sekulić Jasmina Šinžar, Sekulić Nenad, Krizmanić Jelena, Simić Gordana Subakov

“…We discuss potential indicator values of macroalgae associations, rather than of a single species.…”
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