Antimicrobial Susceptibility of <i>Salmonella typhi</i> and <i>paratyphi</i> among Pediatric Population at Tertiary Care Center of North Delhi: A Retrospective Study by Shekhar Biswas, Sulagna Tripathy, Arvind Kumar, Sanjay Chattree

“…The median age of patients was 8 years with male and female patients constituting 61.4 and 38.5%, respectively. The disease was prevalent throughout the year with high prevalence between March and May. …”
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Tectonometamorphic evolution of a subduction plate interface at the base of the Mirdita Ophiolite (Bajram Curri, northeastern Albania) by Madeline Richter, Kilian Pollok, Kujtim Onuzi, Kamil Ustaszewski

“…The assembly of obducted mantle rocks and metamorphic sole constitutes a plate interface that formed during the intraoceanic subduction stage preceding obduction; we call this a fossil intraoceanic plate interface in this paper. …”
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Suicidality and Illness Course Worsening in a Male Patient with Bipolar Disorder during Tamoxifen Treatment for ER+/HER2+ Breast Cancer by Claudia Carmassi, Francesco Pardini, Valerio Dell’Oste, Annalisa Cordone, Virginia Pedrinelli, Marly Simoncini, Liliana Dell’Osso

“…Male patients with a mood disorder history constitute a high-risk group as to Tamoxifen psychiatric side effects. …”
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Payment Reforms for Prehospital Care Services in a Middle Income Country: Assessing Implementation and Patient Outcomes Using a Mixed-Methods Approach by Paibul Suriyawongpaisal, Samrit Srithamrongsawad, Pongsakorn Atiksawedparit, Khanisthar Phooseemungkun, Krongkan Bunchaiyai, Thanita Thongtan

“…Financing health systems constitutes a key element of well-functioning healthcare system. …”
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Empowerment resources, decision-making and gender attitudes: which matter most to livestock keepers in the mixed and livestock-based systems in Ethiopia? by Wole Kinati, Derek Baker, Elizabeth C. Temple, Dina Najjar, Annet Abenakyo Mulema

“…Abstract Background Women's empowerment constitutes an important aspect of the development agenda. …”
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Indirect contacts between Danish pig farms – what are the frequencies and risk-reducing measures, and how can they be used in simulation models? by Mette Fertner, Beate Conrady, Anne Sax Røgind, Elisabeth Okholm Nielsen, Anette Boklund

“…Abstract Background Information on indirect contacts (e.g. contact with visitors and non-porcine species on farms, shared staff and equipment, contact with trucks) is often poorly recorded even though it constitutes a risk in terms of disease transmission. …”
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Islam in Front of the Challenges of Modernity: World Politics, State System, Public Opinion by V. V. Orlov

“…The authors focus on fundamental issues of constitutional law, functioning of supreme state bodies, building of parties and political systems. …”
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Most diverse, most neglected: weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) are ubiquitous specialized brood-site pollinators of tropical flora by Haran, Julien, Kergoat, Gael J., de Medeiros, Bruno A. S.

“…As such, weevil pollinators constitute a relevant model to explore the emergence and evolution of specialized brood-site pollination systems in the tropics. …”
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Incidence of methicillin, inducible clindamycin, and vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates in Gombe, Northeastern Nigeria by Haruna Adamu, Celestina T. Otegwu, Fatima B. Abdullahi, Babajide A. Tytler, Busayo O. Olayinka

“…A total of 54.6 % of the isolates were constitutive clindamycin resistant whereas 6.1 % were inducible clindamycin resistant. …”
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Exclusive Breast-Feeding Practice and Associated Factors among HIV-Positive Mothers in Governmental Health Facilities, Southern Ethiopia by Lewam Mebratu, Selamawit Mengesha, Yadessa Tegene, Abraham Alano, Alemayehu Toma

“…The study subjects were drawn from 10 health institutions located at 6 towns in Southern Ethiopia which constituted six hospitals and four health centers. Quantitative data were collected using the pretested structured questionnaire. …”
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Demographic and Clinical Determinants of Tuberculosis and TB Recurrence: A Double-Edged Retrospective Study from Pakistan by Mariam Ahmed Mujtaba, Matthew Richardson, Hira Shahzad, Muhammad Ishaq Javed, Ghazala Kaukab Raja, Pakeeza Arzoo Shaiq, Pranabashis Haldar, Sadia Saeed

“…In our study cohort, factors significantly associated with TB were low BMI (OR: 0.961 (CI 0.954–0.968), p<0.001), female gender (OR: 2.065 (CI 1.922–2.219), p<0.001), being single/unmarried (OR: 1.214 (CI 1.109–1.328), p=0.003), middle-income status (OR: 1.935 (CI 1.616–2.323), p<0.001), smoking (OR: 1.567 (CI 1.435–1.710), p<0.001), and diabetes mellitus (OR: 1.142 (CI 1.017–1.278), p=0.023). TB recurrence constituted 11.2% of patients presenting to the hospital. …”
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Jackson–Vanik Amendment and Development of Soviet-American Relations in 1972-1975 by V. Yungblyud, D. Ilyin

“…The Amendment, adopted in December 1974, created serious obstacles for the development of trade and economic relations between the superpowers, and it had a number of negative political consequences also. The Amendment constituted the issue of human rights in the USSR as one of the important components of the U.S. foreign policy, created a negative background for the American-Soviet dialogue, which significantly complicated the outlined convergence of superpowers and contributed to the curtailment of detente.The political struggle around the Jackson-Vanik Amendment became the quintessence of detente. …”
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Research on the Simulation Model of Dynamic Shape for Forest Fire Burned Area Based on Grid Paths from Satellite Remote Sensing Images by Xintao Ling, Gui Zhang, Ying Zheng, Huashun Xiao, Yongke Yang, Fang Zhou, Xin Wu

“…The value of each target variable and that of its corresponding independent variable constituted a sample. Four machine learning models, such as Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDT), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), were trained using 80% effective samples from four forest fires, and 20% used to verify the above models. …”
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Our experience of buffalo improvement in India: last 50 years journey by T. K. Datta

“…India holds the world’s largest buffalo population, with 109.85 million headcounts, constituting 20.45% of the livestock population. India has a rich genetic diversity of buffaloes with 20 registered breeds, with Murrah as the most prominent breed (42% of the total buffalo population). …”
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Ten-year trends in clinical characteristics and outcome of children hospitalized with severe wasting or nutritional edema in Malawi (2011-2021): Declining admissions but worsened c... by Mphatso Nancy Chisala, Celine Bourdon, Emmanuel Chimwezi, Allison I Daniel, Chikondi Makwinja, Dominic Wang, Linnea Weise, Isabel Potani, Emmie Mbale, Robert J H Bandsma, Wieger P Voskuijl

“…<h4>Background</h4>Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) constitutes a substantial burden in African hospitals. …”
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Kurganless Cemetery of the Sarmatian Times on the Maloe Storozhevoe Hillfort in the Middle Don Basin by Yuriy D. Razuvaev, Aleksandr N. Merkulov, Sergey A. Nelyubov, Yuliya A. Neretina

“…The burials apparently belonged to the inhabitants of a hillfort Bol’shoe Storozhevoe located nearby, the layers of which also contain materials from the Sarmatian era. They constituted a small burial ground associated with the lifestyle transformation of one of the semi-nomadic societies in the region.…”
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Cytogenetic features of intergeneric amphydiploids and genome-substituted forms of wheat by E. D. Badaeva, R. O. Davoyan, N. A. Tereshchenko, E. V. Lyalina, S. A. S.A. Zoshchuk, N. P. Goncharov

“…The chromosome sets and genome constitutions of allopolyploids are usually verified in early hybrid generations, whereas the subsequent fate of these hybrids remains unknown in most cases. …”
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A Temporal and Dynamic Approach to Enjambments in French Versified Poetry from the 17th to the late 19th Century by Éliane Delente

“…the first, the second, or both? Does enjambment constitute a homogeneous category? Observations of these constructions were carried out on an exploratory corpus based on Boileau’s and Chénier’s works. …”
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Τhiazolidine-4-One Derivatives with Variable Modes of Inhibitory Action Against DPP4, a Drug Target with Multiple Activities and Established Role in Diabetes Mellitus Type II by Dionysia Amanatidou, Phaedra Eleftheriou, Anthi Petrou, Athina Geronikaki, Theodoros Lialiaris

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> DPP4 is an enzyme with multiple natural substrates and probable involvement in various mechanisms. It constitutes a drug target for the treatment of diabetes II, although, also related to other disorders. …”
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Construction of machine learning-based models for screening the high-risk patients with gastric precancerous lesions by Shuxian Yu, Haiyang Jiang, Jing Xia, Jie Gu, Mengting Chen, Yan Wang, Xiaohong Zhao, Zehua Liao, Puhua Zeng, Tian Xie, Xinbing Sui

“…According with the predictive results, the top 10 key risk factors were age, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) constitution type, tongue coating color, tongue color, irregular meals, pickled food, greasy fur, over-hot eating habit, anxiety and sleep onset latency. …”
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