Metagenomic Insights into Pigeon Gut Microbiota Characteristics and Antibiotic-Resistant Genes by Wei Dai, Haicong Zhu, Junhong Chen, Hui Chen, Dingzhen Dai, Jian Wu

“…Background: Antibiotics were extensively used in the pigeon breeding industry previously to promote growth and prevent disease, leading to the spread of antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs) in gut microbes, which has become a major public health concern. Methods: A metagenomic analysis was performed to investigate the gut microbial communities and ARGs in young and older pigeons in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. …”
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Travel route recommendation with a trajectory learning model by Xiangping Wu, Zheng Zhang, Wangjun Wan

“…Existing route recommendation methods commonly face two major problems: first, inadequate integration of multi-source data, which fails to fully consider the potential factors affecting route choice; and second, limited capability to capture road network characteristics, which restricts the effective application of node features and negatively impacts recommendation accuracy. …”
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Isolation and Characterization of Gram-Negative Bacterial Species from Pasteurized Dairy Products: Potential Risk to Consumer Health by Solomon H. Mariam

“…Gram-negative bacteria are among such major contaminants. Contamination persists because of faulty pasteurization or occurs during postpasteurization processing. …”
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Badges of (Dis-)Honour: Manifesting the ‘Conquest’ of Uluṟu via Wearable Material Culture by Dirk H. R. Spennemann, Sharnie Hurford

“…Promoted since the 1950s as an exotic tourist destination, one of the major activities has been the ‘conquest’ of Uluṟu by completing the steep climb to the top. …”
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Evaluation of rabies control measure effectiveness in the Russian Federation by S. V. Shcherbinin, T. V. Vadopalas, F. I. Korennoy, K. A. Blokhina, A. K. Karaulov

“…The paper presents the analysis of statistical data on rabies morbidity and mortality among humans and animals; the assessment of epidemic situation in the Russian Federation, including the target population vaccination coverage and effectiveness evaluation of measures, taken in Russia to prevent rabies spread. The major causes of human mortality are considered. The recommendations on decreasing the disease spread risks are given. …”
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De Novo Onset of Myasthenia Gravis after Kidney Transplantation by Aaron de Souza, Rajesh Raj

“…Delayed physical recovery after major surgery such as renal transplantation is often attributed to other causes such as deconditioning, and patients are often prescribed physiotherapy as a response. …”
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Chronic Restraint Stress Induces an Isoform-Specific Regulation on the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule in the Hippocampus by K. Touyarot, C. Sandi

“…Given that NCAM comprises several isoforms, we investigated here whether chronic stress might differentially affect the expression of the three major isoforms (NCAM-120, NCAM-140, NCAM-180) in the hippocampus. …”
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Bedside bilateral sequential intravitreal anti-VEGF injections for retinopathy of prematurity by Priya Bajgai, Susree Satavisa, Taraprasad Das, Subhadra Jalali, Balakrushna Samanataray, Sameera Nayak, Tapas Ranjan Padhi

“…The retinopathy was regressing/regressed in 92.4% of babies until the last follow-up. The major ocular complication was cataract in 2 eyes (0.5%). …”
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Evaluation of CD4+ T Lymphocyte Counts to Predict Survival of ICU Patients with Sepsis Using Sepsis-3 Criteria: A Prospective Cohort Study by Guoge Huang, Xusheng Li, Chunmei Zhang, Haizhong Li, Mengling Jian, Chunyang Huang, Yingqin Zhang, Luhua Xian, Hongke Zeng, Yuanyuan Xia, Wenqiang Jiang

“…Background. Sepsis remains a major health condition with a high mortality rate that may be related to immunosuppression. …”
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Evolution of US public diplomacy: Domestic political determinants, priorities and new challenges by P. А. Sharikov

“…The first section of the paper identifies the major domestic political factors that determined the development of the US foreign policy mechanism, as well as the key stages of its evolution. …”
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Agro-Morphological Characterization and Estimation of Genetic Parameters of Spring Maize Hybrids in the Inner Plains of Far-West Nepal by Prachi Bista, Sandesh Thapa, Sara Rawal, Deependra Dhakal, Darbin Joshi

“…Cluster analysis grouped 26 genotypes into 5 major clusters, and the intracluster distance ranged from 4034.3 to 34960.3. …”
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Prevalence and Pattern of Morbidity Triads among the Elderly Population: A Cross-sectional Study in Bankura District, West Bengal by Ujjwal Das, Nishamani Kar

“…Background and Aim: The multi-morbidity in the elderly is a major public health challenge in most of developing countries. …”
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Medical staff training system development in the Republic of Kazakhstan (1990s) by G.F. Galina

“…The obtained data demonstrate the major drawbacks of the staff policy in the field of medical education and healthcare organization as a result of the insufficient funding and the command-administrative Soviet system. …”
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A Quantitative Method for Detecting Ara h 2 by Generation and Utilization of Monoclonal Antibodies by Huifang Chen, Zehong Zou, Ailin Tao

“…Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is one of the most common food allergens that can induce fatal anaphylaxis, and Ara h 2 is one of the major allergen components involved in peanut allergy. …”
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Unified Failure Strength Criterion for Terrace Slope Reinforcement Materials by Xuan Fang, Jie Yang, Jia-Ming Na, Zhen-Yuan Gu

“…Cement content and confining pressure were selected as major factors to investigate their influence on the peak stress of terrace slope reinforcement materials based on experimental results and data from the literature. …”
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N-Heterocyclic Germylenes: Structural Characterisation of Some Heavy Analogues of the Ubiquitous N-Heterocyclic Carbenes by Christopher A. Dodds, Alan R. Kennedy, Mark D. Spicer

“…Compound 2 was compared to the analogous N-heterocyclic carbene species, 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene (IMes). The major geometrical difference observed, as expected, was the bond angle around the divalent group 14 atom. …”
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Sirolimus Enhances Cyclosporine A-Induced Cytotoxicity in Human Renal Glomerular Mesangial Cells by Séin O'Connell, Craig Slattery, Michael P. Ryan, Tara McMorrow

“…Nephrotoxicity is the major limiting factor in long term use of CsA. SRL causes less nephrotoxicity than CsA. …”
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Tourette syndrome. The importance of the prevailing attitude and the social problems of the sufferers: literature review by B. Puzonaitë, A. Vaitkus

“…Correct interpretation of the disease and early diagnosis can be the first major step to prevent the development of social problems. …”
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Risk Factors for Acute Unintentional Poisoning among Children Aged 1–5 Years in the Rural Community of Sri Lanka by M. B. Kavinda Chandimal Dayasiri, Shaluka F. Jayamanne, Chamilka Y. Jayasinghe

“…Acute poisoning in children is a major preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. …”
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MANUEL CASTELLS: THE IMPACT OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY ON THE NATURE OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS by L. A. Bobova

“…The author of the theory registers the major signals of the changing processes in the modern society, happening due to the expansion of networks in the age of technological innovations. …”
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