Suspected Mpox Symptoms and Testing in Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States: Cross-Sectional Study by Kaitlyn Atkins, Thomas Carpino, Amrita Rao, Travis Sanchez, O Winslow Edwards, Marissa Hannah, Patrick S Sullivan, Yasmin P Ogale, Winston E Abara, Kevin P Delaney, Stefan D Baral

“…Most GBMSM reporting mpox testing were non-Hispanic White men (7/9 vs 1 Black and 1 Hispanic or Latino man), and all 9 lived in urban areas. …”
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Beneficial effects of fermented jujube pulp in relieving loperamide hydrochloride-induced constipation in male ICR mice by Jing Li, Xinyue Yu, Xinxing Xu, Peipei Tang, Shuang Bi, Xiaopu Ren, Yong Shi, Jihong Wu, Fei Lao

“…Results showed that high-dose FJP could protect intestinal mucosa tissue, shorten the first black feces defecating time by 17 % and increase the number and wet weights of black feces by 72 % and 71 %, respectively, within 6 h. …”
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IoT-enabled stepped basin solar stills: Advanced optimization with PSO and ABC algorithms by McLuret, S. Joe Patrick Gnanaraj, Vanthana Jeyasingh

“…Experimental results showed that a combination of 5 mm water depth, black copper basin, salt hydrate PCM, and a 45° internal reflector angle achieved a distillate yield of 3200 ml/day with 78.05 % efficiency, nearing the theoretical maximum of 4100 ml/day. …”
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Orta Asya’da Enerji Politikaları ve Küresel Rekabet Bağlamında Türkiye’nin Rolü Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme by Bahar ÖZSOY, Esra Banu SİPAHİ, Yusuf SAYIN

“…Recently, the energy issue that has been risen to the top of Turkey’s agenda with Turkish natural gas and oil exploration endeavors on the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and with the war between Russia and Ukraine, stands out as the main factor to redefine regional and global relations. …”
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Complexities of fonts in disfluent experiments by John Adjah, Lucy Afeafa Ry-Kottoh, Agnes Decardi-Nelson, Samiratu Abdulai Mamah, Eric Sam

“…In this study, disfluency manipulations were limited to reducing font sizes and percentages of grey or black. The largest size used was 56pt (fluent) and 18pt (disfluent) while the smallest was 12pt (fluent) and 10pt (disfluent). …”
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Linear Bending Wave Propagation in Laminar and Turbulent Disks by Callum W. Fairbairn

“…This may have implications for the inclination damping rates induced by planet–disk interactions, the capture rate of black holes in active galactic nucleus disks or the warped shapes assumed by disks in misaligned systems.…”
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An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges by Eren Ağın, Duygun Göktürk

“…This study is based on three major texts: Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron’s “The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture”, Paul Willis’s “Learning to Labour: How Working-Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs”, and Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu’s “Black Students’ School Success: Coping with the Burden of Acting White.” …”
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RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY: THE PROSPECTS OF COLLABORATION by A. T. Mozloyev

“…The author claims that Russia and Turkey could together become one of the poles using their regional cooperation in the regions of the Black sea and the Middle-East. Nevertheless, extra idealization of the two countries' rapprochement, taking into account the events of the 24th November, 2015, has caused political disenchantment with the perspective of taking the bilateral relations to the real level of strategic partnership which would include not only economic but other factors as well. …”
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A Jump Diffusion Model with Fast Mean-Reverting Stochastic Volatility for Pricing Vulnerable Options by Joy K. Nthiwa, Ananda O. Kube, Cyprian O. Omari

“…The Black–Scholes–Merton option pricing model is a classical approach that assumes that the underlying asset prices follow a normal distribution with constant volatility. …”
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A new skink of the genus Scincella Mittleman, 1950 (Squamata, Scincidae) from Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam by Anh Van Pham, Thomas Ziegler, Cuong The Pham, Thao Ngoc Hoang, Hanh Thi Ngo, Minh Duc Le

“…Scincella truongi sp. nov. is characterized by a combination of the following characters: size medium (SVL up to 59.4 mm); primary temporals 2; external ear opening without lobules; loreals two; supralabials seven or eight; infralabials six or seven; nuchals in three pairs; midbody scales in 28 rows; dorsal scales smooth, in six rows across the back; paravertebral scales 60–67, not widened; ventral scales in 60–70 rows; ten smooth lamellae beneath finger IV and 13–15 beneath toe IV; toes not reaching to fingers when limbs adpressed along body; dorsal surface of body and tail bronze brown with few black spots, a dark stripe running from nostril to eye and extending from posterior corner of eye along upper part of flank to the middle of the tail. …”
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Chemical Composition of Pistacia lentiscus Seeds’ Oil from Moroccan High Atlas Mountain by Brahim Ait Mohand, Abderraouf El Antari, Fatiha Benkhalti

“…Pistacia lentiscus is an aromatic member of the Anacardiaceae family, endemic to the Mediterranean regions, which produces red and black oleaginous seeds in maturity. Our study focuses on the characterization of Pistacia lentiscus seed oils from three localities of High Atlas Mountain in the Azilal region of Morocco. …”
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Seventies Rule for the Establishment of Non-Native Marine Species by Stan Coppis, Arjan Gittenberger

“…A rate of 100% was reported for the Black Sea, however. While percentages fluctuate across regions, they do not significantly seem to differ over time within regions. …”
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Successful Pregnancy Outcome after Open Strassman Metroplasty for Bicornuate Uterus by Edgar Gulavi, Steve Kyende Mutiso, Charles Mariara Muriuki, Abraham Mukaindo Mwaniki

“…We document a case of bicornuate uterus that was managed with Strassman metroplasty and a subsequent successful pregnancy outcome. Case. A Black African lady was seen with a history of six prior miscarriages. …”
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Microbial Tyrosinases: Promising Enzymes for Pharmaceutical, Food Bioprocessing, and Environmental Industry by Kamal Uddin Zaidi, Ayesha S. Ali, Sharique A. Ali, Ishrat Naaz

“…Tyrosinase is a natural enzyme and is often purified to only a low degree and it is involved in a variety of functions which mainly catalyse the o-hydroxylation of monophenols into their corresponding o-diphenols and the oxidation of o-diphenols to o-quinones using molecular oxygen, which then polymerizes to form brown or black pigments. The synthesis of o-diphenols is a potentially valuable catalytic ability and thus tyrosinase has attracted a lot of attention with respect to industrial applications. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Air Quality over China: Links with Meteorological Factors and Energy Consumption by Pradeep Khatri, Tadahiro Hayasaka

“…Consistent with energy production and energy consumption statistics in different sectors, NTL data suggest that high human mobility within the residential sector and reduced activity in other sectors during the implementation of control measures explain small but significant decreases in black carbon and sulfate aerosols, respectively, during this period. …”
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Genes and light: many years later by A. O. Ruvinsky

“…Georgian white mutation (W G) in silver-black foxes was used as a model for such investigations. …”
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LA CONCIENCIA NEGRA: LA BLANQUITUD MONUMENTAL DEBE CAER by Roberto Almanza Hernández

“…El asesinato de George Floyd y la plataforma del movimiento Black Lives Matter lograron llamar la atención del mundo sobre la brutalidad policial sobre las vidas negras que escasamente logran respirar en un mundo hostil, violento e injusto. …”
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A Myth of Kinship? Reinterpreting Lakota Conceptualization of Kin Relationships vis-à-vis 19th and 20th Century Historical Narratives by Kellie Hogue

“…Then, I present qualitative data about the symbolic language of feathers found in the writings of 19th and 20th century Lakota people like Luther Standing Bear, White Bull, and Black Elk. Next, I explain how these symbols serve as intermediaries between the material and non-material cognitive worlds of the Lakota and birds. …”
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Water and gender: a decolonial look at hydrosocial transformations in Vila Ideal by THAÍS ZIMOVSKI GARCIA DE OLIVEIRA, RAFAEL FREIRE, GABRIEL FARIAS ALVES CORREIA, ALEXANDRE DE PÁDUA CARRIERI

“…We explore the experiences of Black women who have lived in Vila Ideal since its inception, employing a historical perspective through qualitative research. …”
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