The Influence of Interfering Substances on the Antimicrobial Activity of Selected Quaternary Ammonium Compounds by Paula A. Araújo, Madalena Lemos, Filipe Mergulhão, Luís Melo, Manuel Simões

“…Contaminants have a high impact in disinfection as their presence may reduce the activity of disinfectants. The influence of alginic acid, bovine serum albumin, yeast extract, and humic acids was assessed on the antimicrobial activities of benzalkonium chloride and cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide against Bacillus cereus vegetative cells and Pseudomonas fluorescens. …”
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Predicting CTCF cell type active binding sites in human genome by Lu Chai, Jie Gao, Zihan Li, Hao Sun, Junjie Liu, Yong Wang, Lirong Zhang

“…Here, we collected ChIP-seq data from 67 cell lines in ENCODE, constructed a unique dataset of cell type-active CTCF binding sites (CBS), and trained convolutional neural networks (CNN) to dissect the patterns of CTCF binding activity. …”
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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND BREAST CANCER PREVENTION: RELEVANT FOR NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES? by I-Min Lee

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Evaluation of Phenolic Compounds and Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Some Common Herbs by Muhammad Abdul Qadir, Syeda Kiran Shahzadi, Asad Bashir, Adil Munir, Shabnam Shahzad

“…The extracts show better antimicrobial activity against bacterial strains as compared to fungal strains. …”
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Cognitive Strategies and Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Discriminant Analysis by Nathalie André, Claude Ferrand, Cédric Albinet, Michel Audiffren

“…Although a number of studies have examined sociodemographic, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of the level of physical activity (PA) for older people, little attention has been paid to the predictive power of cognitive strategies for independently living older adults. …”
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Activity measurement of solid Cu-In alloys by EMF method with solid electrolyte by Katayama I., Miyakusu K., Iida T.

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Association of environmental, demographic and clinical parameters with physical activity in children with asthma by Jane Berrill, Peter James, Antonis Michanikou, Emmanouil Galanakis, Eleni Michaelidou, Paraskevi Kinni, Nikos Kalivitis, Giorgos Kouvarakis, Emily Vasiliadou, Chrysanthos Savvides, Filippos Tymvios, Petros Koutrakis, Panayiotis K. Yiallouros, Panayiotis Kouis

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A Bayesian active learning platform for scalable combination drug screens by Christopher Tosh, Mauricio Tec, Jessica B. White, Jeffrey F. Quinn, Glorymar Ibanez Sanchez, Paul Calder, Andrew L. Kung, Filemon S. Dela Cruz, Wesley Tansey

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PMA Induces Vaccine Adjuvant Activity by the Modulation of TLR Signaling Pathway by Dool-Ri Oh, Hu Won Kang, Jong-Ro Kim, Sunoh Kim, In-Kyu Park, Joon Haeng Rhee, Won Keun Oh, Young Ran Kim

“…Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) was isolated as an active component of Croton tiglium by activity-guided fractionation, column chromatography, HPLC, NMR, and MS. …”
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Preventive activity of police bodies: realities and challenges in the conditions of martial law by A. O. Ivanov

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Quality, chemical composition, and antioxidative activity of cananga (Cananga odorata) oil by Rini Pujiarti, Titis Budi Widowati, Kasmudjo Kasmudjo, Sigit Sunarta

“…The DPPH scavenging assay showed that cananga oil possess mild antioxidant activity (IC50: 2.29 mg/ml) if compared with positive control of BHA (IC50: 0.03 mg/ml). …”
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Analysis of Influences of Human Activities on Disastrous Floods of the West River at Wuzhou by 黄夏坤

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CO Adsorption Properties of Activated Carbon Fibres under Ambient Conditions by Yoshitaka Nakahigashi, Hirofumi Kanoh, Tomonori Ohba, Masumi Baba, Yoshiyuki Hattori, Naoya Inoue, Masafumi Morimoto

“…In this study, we investigated the possibilities of using activated carbon fibre (ACF) as a carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. …”
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Phytochemical Analysis and Antimalarial Activity Aqueous Extract of Lecaniodiscus cupanioides Root by Mikhail Olugbemiro Nafiu, Taoheed Adedeji Abdulsalam, Musbau Adewumi Akanji

“…Root aqueous extract of Lecaniodiscus cupanioides was evaluated for antimalarial activity and analyzed for its phytochemical constituents. …”
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CONSENSUAL REGULATORY MECHANISM FOR ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTORS IN AFRICA by D. Fogel

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Impact of Notch3 Activation on Aortic Aneurysm Development in Marfan Syndrome by Kathryn Jespersen, Chenxin Li, Rishi Batra, Christopher A. Stephenson, Paul Harding, Kylie Sestak, Ryan T. Foley, Harrison Greene, Trevor Meisinger, Jason R. Cook, B. Timothy Baxter, Wanfen Xiong

“…Our data demonstrated that matrix abnormalities in the aorta of MFS are associated with increased Notch3 activation. Enhanced Notch3 activation in MFS contributed to aortic aneurysm formation in MFS. …”
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RETRACTED: Method for calculating the pyrolysis zone in the production unit activated carbon by Safin Rushan, Sotnikov Viktor

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What place for pastoral activities in the economic transformation of Vicdessos (Ariège Pyrenees)? by Pierre Dérioz, Maud Loireau, Philippe Bachimon, Églantine Cancel, David Clément

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Synthesis and Anticancer Activity of Some New Derivatives of Coumarin and Quinolinyl Mercaptotriazoles by Mona A. Hosny, Hyam A. Radwan, Emtithal A. El-Sawi

“…The latter compounds were evaluated for their antimicrobial and anticancer activities. The newly synthesized compounds were characterized by IR, 1HNMR and mass spectra.…”
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Efficient Parallel Implementation of Active Appearance Model Fitting Algorithm on GPU by Jinwei Wang, Xirong Ma, Yuanping Zhu, Jizhou Sun

“…The active appearance model (AAM) is one of the most powerful model-based object detecting and tracking methods which has been widely used in various situations. …”
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