Preparation and Efficacy of Microemulsion Carvacrol-Based Fruit and Vegetable Cleaner and Its Application on Cherry Tomatoes by Yanshuo Wang, Dianjun Sun, Yinghan Zhang, Yichong Zhou, Ruyi Jin, Xiaoli Peng, Jian Li

“…The cleaning effectively inhibited microbial colonies and the decay rate of cherry tomatoes during storage at 4 °C. …”
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Analysis and Implementation of Optimization Techniques for Facial Recognition by Justice Kwame Appati, Huzaifa Abu, Ebenezer Owusu, Kwaku Darkwah

“…For the purpose of performance comparison, the resultant features were also optimized with the genetic algorithm (GA) and the artificial bee colony (ABC). The optimized features were used for the recognition using Euclidean distance (EUD), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and the support vector machine (SVM) as classifiers. …”
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Symbolization and domesticity in the Andean home: A phenomenological approach to dwelling in Coporaque, Peru by Gonzalo Ríos-Vizcarra, Luis Enrique Calatayud-Rosado, Aleixandre Brian Duche-Pérez

“…To achieve this objective, we focused on the Peruvian Andes, specifically on Coporaque, an Indigenous village founded in the 16th century during colonial times. In this locality, qualitative research was carried out using the phenomenological approach, prioritizing the lived experience of the native inhabitants in their daily “life world” through in-depth interviews and direct observations. …”
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Insights into CSF-1/CSF-1R signaling: the role of macrophage in radiotherapy by Qingchao Shang, Qingchao Shang, Pei Zhang, Xiao Lei, Lehui Du, Baolin Qu

“…Macrophage plays an important role in homeostasis and immunity, and dysfunctional macrophage polarization is believed to be associated with the pathogenesis of tissue fibrosis and tumor progression. Colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1), a polypeptide chain cytokine, through its receptor (CSF-1R) regulates the differentiation of macrophages. …”
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Morphological Aspects of Antennal Sensilla of the Rhodnius brethesi Matta, 1919 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from the Negro River, Amazon Region of Brazil by Simone Patrícia Carneiro Freitas, Laura Cristina Santos, Amanda Coutinho de Souza, Angela Cristina Verissimo Junqueira

“…The specimens used come from the field and laboratory colony. No differences were observed between R. brethesi and other Triatominae studied. …”
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A new Lactobacillus gasseri strain HMV18 inhibits the growth of pathogenic bacteria by Xiang Gao, Zixuan Wang, Xiang Li, Xiaoling Zhang, Shengqiang Du, Miaomiao Jia, Dailun Hu, Xianxian Jia, Bin Cong, Yan Zhang, Chunling Ma, Song Zhou, Jun Zhang

“…The new isolate was identified as L. gasseri by the colony morphology, Gram staining, biochemical reactions and confirmed by the 16S rDNA sequencing. …”
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Islam i polityka w Maroku na początku XX wieku. Naṣīḥat ahl al-islām Muḥammada Ibn Ǧaʿfara al-Kattānīego (1857–1927) by Marek M. Dziekan

“…In it, the author points out the reasons for the weakness of Muslims that led to surrender hostile colonial forces. Characterising and analysing these reasons in depth, at the same time Al-Kattāni indicates ways to overcome them. …”
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Salivary Caries-Related Microorganisms and Demographics of a Group of Children by Alhan Ahmed Qasim, Muna Saleem Khalaf, Ghada Ibrahim Taha, Zainab Juma Jafar

“…After incubation, Streptococcus mutans counting of CFU (colony forming units) with morphology characterization and numbers of CFU per milliliter of saliva for lactobacilli. …”
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Rosavin exerts an antitumor role and inactivates the MAPK/ERK pathway in small-cell lung carcinoma in vitro by Liu Rui, Jiang Cuihong, Zhao Zhizheng, Lv Yutong, Wang Gaoxing

“…The viability and clone formation of SCLC cells were assessed using cell counting kit-8 and colony formation assays, respectively. Apoptosis and cell cycle were detected using flow cytometry and cell cycle analysis, respectively. …”
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Effects of Bacterial-Fungal Coinfection on Biochemical Parameters and Organ Structure in African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) by Alexander Atanasoff, Dimitrinka Zapryanova, Atanas Bozhkov, Çiğdem Ürkü

“…Samples from the lesions were cultured on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA), and the fungus was identified as Rhizopus sp. based on colony morphology and microscopy. Bacteriological samples from the kidney, spleen, liver, and blood were cultured on Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA) and Brain Heart Infusion Agar (BHIA), revealing the presence of Yersinia ruckeri, Aeromonas hydrophila, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa based on their physiological, morphological, and biochemical traits. …”
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Search Rate and Functional Response of a Eusocial Insect (Oecophylla longinoda) in a Tanzanian Mango Orchard by Thora Samsø Fast, Jørgen Aagaard Axelsen, Gina Kier Lynegaard, Maulid Mwatawala, Joachim Offenberg

“…The results presented here are probably the first attempt to identify the functional response type of a colony of living predatory eusocial insects.…”
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Q-learning Based Meta-Heuristics for Scheduling Bi-Objective Surgery Problems with Setup Time by Ruixue Zhang, Hui Yu, Adam Slowik, Kaizhou Gao

“…Among all the compared algorithms, the improved artificial bee colony (ABC) with Q-learning based local search has the best competitiveness.…”
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D-mannose alleviates chronic periodontitis in rats by regulating the functions of neutrophils by Xue Li, Xueting Chen, Qingyu Zhu, Pengye Zhang, Shunxue Nan, Lei Lv, Shengcai Qi

“…Then, immunofluorescence (IF), Western Blot, and RT-PCR were applied to assess the expression levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and IL-17), anti-inflammatory cytokine (IL-10), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), ten-eleven translocation 2 (TET2), and key glycolytic enzymes (HK1, HK2, PFKFB3), and to examine D-mannose’s impact on the recruitment and activation of neutrophils in the gingiva. …”
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TRADITIONAL METHODS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN OZALLA SOCIETY, OWAN-WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE BEFORE 1900 by SUNDAY IMANAH OMOAFENA, FIDELIS ACHOBA

“…Thus, this paper seeks to examine the traditional pattern of conflict resolution in Ozalla community to achieve an enduring peaceful society from pre-colonial to the present. In order to achieve this great task this paper adopted the use of primary and secondary sources of information to bridge the gaps in historiography of Ozalla people. …”
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Aportes de las epistemologías decoloniales a una etnografía de políticas socioculturales en mujeres jóvenes by Marcela A. País Andrade

“…La cual debe (re)construir en sus conceptos claves las imposiciones, negociaciones, resistencias y luchas de cómo se fue (re)produciendo un poder colonial en contextos y grupos sociales específicos.…”
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Kino wielojęzyczne jako pole komunikacji międzykulturowej by Teresa Rutkowska

“…Chris Wahl postrzega kino wielojęzyczne (polyglot cinema) jako szczególny gatunek filmowy wraz z takimi podgatunkami jak: episode film, globalisation film, immigrant film, colonial film i existential film. Przypisuje temu gatunkowi szczególne znaczenie, ponieważ odnosi się on do dosłownego i metaforycznego znaczenia granic w obecnym świecie i komunikacji międzyludzkiej. …”
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Decolonizing Literary Studies: Unveiling Postcolonial Narratives in Post-Yugoslav Academic Curricula* by Sara Vukotić, Darko Ilin

“…Drawing on the anticolonial heritage of socialist Yugoslavia and its involvement in the Non-Aligned Movement, the paper navigates the complexities of (post)colonial dynamics in the Balkans. This paper investigates the presence, or absence, of postcolonial theory in literature curricula within humanities faculties in the former Yugoslav countries’ capital cities. …”
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De la negación a la diversificación: los intra y extramuros de los estudios afrochilenos by Montserrat Arre Marfull, Paulina Barrenechea Vergara

“…Se plantea que, si bien las investigaciones historiográficas, antropológicas y musicológicas durante el siglo XX visualizaron a las poblaciones de origen africano como un elemento presente en la historia formativa de Chile y su cultura, especialmente en lo referido al período colonial, no ha sido hasta el siglo XXI que dichos estudios se han sistematizado y expandido. …”
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I santi degli altri. Devozione, mutamento e rituali tra i singalesi cattolici a Messina by Giovanni Cordova

“…For this reason, processes of construction of sainthood at the core of these ritual systems, very useful to reflect upon the vernacularization of religious discourses along the post-colonial trajectories of western “multicultural” Church, will be analyzed looking at the interactions connecting them to ecclesial powers, the daily experience of the sacred, and religious actors’ existential and biographical paths. …”
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La Casa Grande Guaraní by Joaquín Trillo

“…Teniendo una influencia relevante en la arquitectura colonial rioplatense, posteriormente adoptarían un destino marginal en los imaginarios de una modernidad global. …”
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