Evaluating the Impact of Commonly Used Pesticides on Honeybees (Apis mellifera) in North Gonder of Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Zewdie Abay, Amssalu Bezabeh, Alemayehu Gela, Asaminew Tassew

“…Global honeybee losses and colony decline are becoming continuous threat to the apicultural industry, as well as, for food security and environmental stability. …”
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Pyrogallol acts as a novel anticancer factor to enhance the sensitivity to cisplatin in ovarian cancer cells through inducing miR-15a upregulation by Azin Shirani, Razieh Mirabbasi, Leila Shabani, Somayeh Reiisi

“…The effects of the compounds in inhibiting colony formation and migration were measured by colony formation and scratch methods. …”
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Effectiveness of Four-Decontamination Techniques on Bacterial Growth on CPR Manikins after Use in a CPR Course

“…Colony growths too numerous to count defaulted to a minimum 300 threshold (standard laboratory protocol). …”
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Fuzzy Dynamic Parameter Adaptation in ACO and PSO for Designing Fuzzy Controllers: The Cases of Water Level and Temperature Control by Fevrier Valdez, Juan Carlos Vazquez, Fernando Gaxiola

“…A novel approach applied to Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization is presented. The main contribution of this work is the use of fuzzy systems to dynamically update the parameters for the ACO and PSO algorithms. …”
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The Implementation of TSP Algorithm in Optimization of the Movement Path of the Mobile Medical Laboratory During the Post-Earthquake Using GIS, ACO and ICA Algorithms (Case Study:... by Mohammad Hosein Saraei, Mohammad Reza Rezaei, mohsen adeli

“…The results of the implementation of the model have shown that the Ant Colony Optimization has performed the route optimization in two parameters of time and distance more effectively than the two dijkstra and Imperialist Competition Algorithm.…”
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Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis by Sandeep M Patel, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Jordan P Reynolds, Michael J Krowka

“…Recent advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of PAP demonstrate that the idiopathic form is due to antigranulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor antibodies. Therapeutic targets that replace granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor or remove these antibodies are being actively developed. …”
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Welcome to the Hive! Honey Bee 4-H Project Book by Megan Hammond, Amy T. Vu, Mary Bammer, Emily Helton, Karen Henry, Jessica Sullivan, James D. Ellis

“…This book consists of six sections that familiarize youth with the honey bee’s basic anatomy and life cycle, the three members of the honey bee colony, their roles and responsibilities, and colony communication. …”
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Alterations of Hematologic and Hematopoietic Parameters in Mice Exposed to Pulsed Electromagnetic Field by Kangchu Li, Zenghui Teng, Zhaohui Liu, Yuxing Zhang, Kaiping Long, Qimei Liao, Ansheng Ni, Guirong Ding, Shirong Ma

“…After PEMF exposure, blood samples and bone marrow cells of mice were collected for hematologic examinations, bone marrow nucleated cell counting, colony-forming units of granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) colony assay, and serum granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) assay. …”
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Un plomb inscrit de Saint-Couat-d’Aude (Aude) : des pérégrins sur le territoire de Narbonne by Julien Aliquot, Michel Feugère

“…Thus, they likely refer to indigenous incolae of peregrine status, i.e. free men originating from the Narbonne colony territory. These men were allowed to live alongside the coloni and their descendants, but who were not Roman citizens and who were consequently excluded from both the local plebs and the curia. …”
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Assessment of Insecticide Compatibility with Beauveria bassiana for Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) Management in Maize by G. Sugeetha, M. V. Adwaitha, K. S. Nikhil Reddy, P. Mahadevu, J. Mahadevu

“…The compatibility between Beauveria bassiana and various insecticides was evaluated at 7, 14, and 21 days after inoculation to assess fungal growth inhibition and colony diameter for the management of maize fall armyworm (FAW). …”
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Modeling Multilevel Supplier Selection Problem Based on Weighted-Directed Network and Its Solution by Chia-Te Wei, Hong Zuo, Chang-Bing Jiang, Shu-fang Li

“…The results show that the ant colony algorithm is superior to the tabu search one as a whole, but the latter is slightly better than the former when network scale is small.…”
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Potency of Indigenous Epiphytic Yeast to Control Colletotrichum capsici, the Cause of Anthracnose Disease in Red Chili by Darnetty Darnetty, Utari Hermaleni, Yunisman Yunisman

“…Parameters observed were macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of yeasts, C. capsici colony area, disease incubation period, and anthracnose symptoms. …”
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Multiple-seller and multiple-buyer spectrum sharing model in cognitive radio-based wireless sensor network by Yuxing Mao, Tao Cheng, Huiyuan Zhao, Na Shen

“…Then, the base station allocates the spectrum band to the cluster heads using the ant colony optimization–based multiple knapsack problem. …”
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Obstacle Avoidance for Ship Navigation Safety Combining Heuristic Search Algorithm and Improved ACO Algorithm by Dan Wang, Yan Jing

“…The study proposes a novel obstacle avoidance path planning method by effectively integrating the improved ant colony algorithm with the A* algorithm, which significantly improves the efficiency and accuracy of vessel navigation safety. …”
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Pinocembrin flavanone inhibits cell viability in PC-3 human prostate cancer by inducing cellular apoptosis, ROS production and cell cycle arrest by Shao Linhai, Shao Yajun, Yuan Yu

“…Results indicated that pinocembrin promoted inhibition cell proliferation along with reducing cancer colony formation of PC-3 cells in a dose-dependent manner. …”
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Spatial stochastic models of cancer: Fitness, migration, invasion by Natalia L. Komarova

“…We show that migration has a directpositive impact on the ability of a single mutant cell to invade apre-existing colony. Thus, a decrease in the reproductive potentialcan be compensated by an increase in cell migration. …”
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Risk Prediction Algorithm of Social Security Fund Operation Based on RBF Neural Network by Linxuan Yang

“…This paper uses an improved ant colony algorithm to optimize the parameters of the RBF neural network, which overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional RBF neural network such as slow convergence, ease of falling into local extremes, and low accuracy, and improves the generalization ability of the RBF neural network. …”
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Isolation of Cellulose-Degrading Bacteria and Determination of Their Cellulolytic Potential by Pratima Gupta, Kalpana Samant, Avinash Sahu

“…To indicate the cellulase activity of the organisms, diameter of clear zone around the colony and hydrolytic value on cellulose Congo Red agar media were measured. …”
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An Integrated Metaheuristic Routing Method for Multiple-Block Warehouses with Ultranarrow Aisles and Access Restriction by Fangyu Chen, Gangyan Xu, Yongchang Wei

“…A problem-specific routing algorithm integrating ant colony optimization (ACO) and integer-coded genetic algorithm (GA) is developed to address the newly observed limitations imposed by ultranarrow aisles and access restriction, which exist in the largest e-commerce enterprise with self-run logistics in China. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Laminar Natural Convection in Inclined Square Enclosure with the Influence of Discrete Heat Source by Chithra Devaraj, Eswaramurthi Muthuswamy, Sundararaj Kandasamy

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