Time to invest in cholera by Rebecca C. Stout, Nicholas Feasey, Marion Péchayre, Nicholas Thomson, Benson Z. Chilima

“…We discuss contributing factors to the outbreak including a lack of investment in water, sanitation and hygiene (both historically and currently), human resource constraints, and the market structures which make accessing oral cholera vaccine challenging both in the midst of an ongoing outbreak and as a preventative approach. …”
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Photodynamic Therapy with the Silicon Phthalocyanine Pc 4 Induces Apoptosis in Mycosis Fungoides and Sezary Syndrome by Minh Lam, YooJin Lee, Min Deng, Andrew H. Hsia, Kelly A. Morrissey, Chunlin Yan, Kashif Azzizudin, Nancy L. Oleinick, Thomas S. McCormick, Kevin D. Cooper, Elma D. Baron

“…Our current focus on the effects of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) using silicon phthalocyanine Pc 4 photosensitizer on malignant T lymphocytes arose due to preclinical observations that Jurkat cells, common surrogate for human T cell lymphoma, were more sensitive to Pc 4-PDT-induced killing than epidermoid carcinoma A431 cells. …”
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Research on Influencing Factor Selection of Pilot’s Intention by Haibo Wang, Ting Pan, Haiqing Si, Yao Li, Naiqi Jiang

“…Also, it is an important concept often involved in the study of human factors in flight, especially the microbehavior of pilots. …”
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Learning Sciences Perspective on Engineering of Distance Learning. Part 2 by M. A. Tchoshanov

“…The Learning Sciences’ major objective is to understand and design effective learning environments, including distance learning, based on the latest findings about the processes involved in human learning.…”
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A Sweet Potion to Put Embryonic Stem Cells to Sleep by Kaushik D. Deb

“…Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are rapidly revolutionizing the areas of drug screening and therapy. …”
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« Et que fais-tu de cinq cents millions d’étoiles ? » by Samuel Challéat, Thomas Poméon

“…Being in tension with other human needs and activities, access to darkness and therefore to the starry sky is more and more unequally distributed in space. …”
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Emerging Technologies to Control Oocyte Apoptosis Are Finally Treading on Fertile Ground by Jonathan L. Tilly

“…Considering recent estimates that 1 in 52 human females between birth and age 39 (i.e., the pre-reproductive and reproductive years) will be diagnosed with, and presumably treated for, cancer [2], new strategies to minimize or prevent gonadal damage during such treatments would have a profound positive impact on millions of lives.…”
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Applying multispecies justice in nature-based solutions and urban sustainability planning: Tensions and prospects by Christopher M. Raymond, Pauliina Rautio, Nora Fagerholm, Valtteri A. Aaltonen, Erik Andersson, Danielle Celermajer, Mike Christie, Maria Hällfors, Maria Helena Saari, Himansu Sekhar Mishra, Alex M. Lechner, Melissa Pineda-Pinto, David Schlosberg

“…Abstract While substantial efforts have been made to identify and address issues of environmental justice in urban areas, the question of how to consider and plan for the concerns of humans and other species remains a major challenge. …”
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Memory-Based Multiagent Coevolution Modeling for Robust Moving Object Tracking by Yanjiang Wang, Yujuan Qi, Yongping Li

“…The three-stage human brain memory model is incorporated into a multiagent coevolutionary process for finding the best match of the appearance of an object, and a memory-based multiagent coevolution algorithm for robust tracking the moving objects is presented in this paper. …”
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Southern House Spider, Kukulcania (= Filistata) hibernalis Hentz (Arachnida: Arneae: Filistatidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, K. McCanless

“…It is common throughout Florida and much of the southern United States in human populated areas. Males of this species are often mistaken for the notorious brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik, because of their color and general shape. …”
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The Laws of Natural Deduction in Inference by DNA Computer by Łukasz Rogowski, Petr Sosík

“…The whole protocol is fully autonomous; that is, after introducing the initial set of molecules, no human assistance is needed. Only one restriction enzyme is used throughout the inference process. …”
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Labor Issues that the H2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Policy Attempts to Resolve in Florida by Jonathan C. Stephens, John Lai, Bachir Kassas

“…Controversies abound over issues like human rights and migrant vs. domestic labor. Today the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers Program is providing some compromise and progress within the agricultural labor crisis. …”
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New Results in Vague Incidence Graphs with Application by Yongsheng Rao, Saeed Kosari, Mehdi Gheisari

“…Universities are one of the most important centers for human education and play an important role in the development of the country. …”
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Heart of the Country by Len Kamerling

“…How can we create a world that will offer our children wisdom, humanity, responsibility and hope? Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural village school in Hokkaido, Japan, passionately believes he knows the way - by giving children a moral compass to guide their lives, by educating their hearts as wells as their minds.  …”
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A universal method for the purification of C2H2 zinc finger arrays. by Jingchang Liang, Maia Azubel, Guanqiao Wang, Yan Nie, Roger D Kornberg, Andrew J Beel, Pierre-Jean Mattei

“…By incorporating a surface-exposed terminal cysteine residue that enables site-specific conjugation with maleimide-activated fluorophores, we confirm the suitability of these probes for in situ labeling of specific DNA sequences in human cells.…”
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Learning Sciences Perspective on Engineering of Distance Learning. Part 1 by M. A. Tchoshanov

“…The Learning Sciences’ major objective is to understand and design effective learning environments, including distance learning, based on the latest findings about the processes involved in human learning.…”
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al-Taswîq Muta'addid al-Mustawayât al-Mustawayât fî Daw al-Maqâsîd al-Shar'iyyah al-Khâssah bi al-Mâl by Rais Abdullah, Rabiatul Adawiyah, Abdul Gafur

“…The significance of this study is because it bases its discussion on maqāṣid syari’a, which is a discipline that reveals the wisdom, and the ultimate goal of a rule set by God for humans. The results of the study confirm that multilevel marketing in practice violates the principles of maqāṣid syari’a relating to property; therefore, this study strengthens the opinion that prohibits the practice of multilevel marketing in economic Activities…”
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mSphere of Influence: How the single cell contributes to the collective by Gina R. Lewin

“…ABSTRACT Gina Lewin works in the field of microbial ecology, with a focus on the human microbiota. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how two papers describing bacterial single-cell RNA-seq—“Prokaryotic single-cell RNA sequencing by in situ combinatorial indexing” by S. …”
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Modes and mechanisms for the inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in pathogenic protists. by Sophie L Collier, Sarah N Farrell, Christopher D Goodman, Geoffrey I McFadden

“…Pathogenic protists are responsible for many diseases that significantly impact human and animal health across the globe. Almost all protists possess mitochondria or mitochondrion-related organelles, and many contain plastids. …”
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Effect of Molten Corium Behavior Uncertainty on the Severe Accident Progress by Wonjun Choi, Taeseok Kim, Joongoo Jeon, Nam Kyung Kim, Sung Joong Kim

“…In particular, severe accident codes are utilized for probabilistic safety assessment (PSA), where the uncertainty of severe accident progress should be considered carefully due to its influence on human reliability analysis. Therefore, in this study, the uncertainty analysis of severe accident progress was performed using MELCOR code, and a total of 200 data sets of in-vessel uncertainty parameters were generated by Latin hypercube sampling method. …”
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