Biodegradation Study of Used Engine Oil by Free and Immobilized Cells of the Pseudomonas oleovorans Strain NMA and Their Growth Kinetics by Nimra Nisar, Anum Fareed, Syed Tatheer Alam Naqvi, Bibi Saima Zeb, Bilal Ahmad Zafar Amin, Ghazal Khurshid, Habiba Zaffar

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A Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Two Novel Desensitising Dentifrices by Ashley P. Barlow, Jane He, Cindy Tian, Peter Jeffery, Stephen C. Mason, Bao-Jun Tai, Han Jiang, Gareth D. Rees, Min Quan Du

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Carbon finance for forest resilience in California by Micah Elias, Ethan Yackulic, Katharyn Duffy, Katharyn Duffy, Phil Saksa, Daniel L. Sanchez, Nicholas Pevzner, Spencer Plumb, Jillian Dyszynski, Carina Bracer

“…Restoring a resilient forest structure in California’s American River watershed in the Sierra Nevada mountains can generate up to $6,100 per acre in carbon revenue from increased forest carbon and market-ready biomass utilization pathways, potentially fully funding forest management. …”
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The Toxoplasma rhoptry protein ROP55 is a major virulence factor that prevents lytic host cell death by Margarida T. Grilo Ruivo, Ji-hun Shin, Todd Lenz, Stephanie Y. Matsuno, Katherine Olivia Yanes, Arnault Graindorge, Maguy Hamie, Laurence Berry-Sterkers, Mathieu Gissot, Hiba El Hajj, Karine G. Le Roch, Melissa B. Lodoen, Maryse Lebrun, Diana Marcela Penarete-Vargas

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Gender differences in the price elasticity of demand for waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine: a volumetric choice experiment by Ramzi G Salloum, Mohammed Jawad, Aya Mostafa, Yousef Khader, Rima Nakkash, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Ali Chalak, Ruba Abla, Sameera Awawda

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Dialogues with Audiovisual Archives by Giulia Taurino

“…Through interviews with archival professionals from key institutions, including the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, National Library of Sweden, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, GBH, and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, this partial ethnography of audiovisual archives provides insights into the histories, management structures, and mission statements that shape these heritage institutions. …”
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Intravenous sedation for adults with profound acquired brain injury undergoing dental treatment - a seven-year service evaluation by Mili Doshi, Ahmed Kahatab, Louise Gallagher, Ria Prasad, Richard Fitzgerald

“…Ninety-two percent were graded with an American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) grade 3, and one-third had a history of stroke. 91% had treatment completed successfully. …”
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The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language by Yan Gu, Ed Donnellan, Beata Grzyb, Gwen Brekelmans, Margherita Murgiano, Ricarda Brieke, Pamela Perniss, Gabriella Vigliocco

“…The ECOLANG corpus provides audiovisual recordings and ELAN annotations of multimodal behaviours (speech transcription, gesture, object manipulation, and eye gaze) by British and American English-speaking adults engaged in semi-naturalistic conversation with their child (N = 38, children 3-4 years old, face-blurred) or a familiar adult (N = 31). …”
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Caught in a “mousetrap”: An analysis of the relationship of the local population with the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in film and television productions (1990–2021) by Claudia Fiorito

“…This is also a central theme in Svetlana Alexievich’s renowned 1997 work Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the future, whose stories inspired some episodes of the Anglo-American series. This article analyzes the representation of the relationship between the inhabitants of the Chornobyl/Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and their homeland in film and television productions dedicated to the nuclear disaster, beginning with Eastern European films made in the early 1990s, moving on to the representation in the Western series, and culminating with an analysis of Kozlovskij’s Chernobyl: Abyss. …”
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Leishmaniose tegumentar americana e suas relações sócio ambientais no município de Ubatuba-SP by Ana Elisa Pereira Silva, Helen da Costa Gurgel

“…The American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) is a vetorial disease that can be acquired when anyone is bitten by an infected mosquito. …”
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Treatment of Digital Ischemia with Liposomal Bupivacaine by José Raul Soberón, Scott F. Duncan, W. Charles Sternbergh

“…A 45-year-old African American female was admitted to the hospital with severe digital ischemic pain. …”
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Severe Isospora (Cystoisospora) belli Diarrhea Preceding the Diagnosis of Human T-Cell-Leukemia-Virus-1-Associated T-Cell Lymphoma by N. Ud Din, P. Torka, R. E. Hutchison, S. W. Riddell, J. Wright, A. Gajra

“…We describe isosporiasis in an HIV-negative Sudanese-American female who presented with a debilitating diarrheal illness and profound weight loss. …”
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The Great Impostor: Transaminitis Masking the Coinfection of Syphilis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Sunit Tolia, Hassan Kassem, Ana Capatina-Rata

“…We present a case of a 32-year-old African American male who presented with cutaneous manifestations of secondary syphilis and transaminitis. …”
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Effects on the sex hormone profile in obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery by Ana I. López, Ana Ma. Ortiz-Zableh, Andrés F. Quiñones-Roa, Natalia Patiño-Covelli, Paula Silva, Paul A. Camacho, Bernardo Santamaria-Fuerte

“…More prospective and randomized studies are required, hopefully of the Latin American population, which can help confirm this association. …”
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Alleviating the Physician Shortage by Increasing Medical Student and Resident Physician Capacity in the North Midwest (Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin) by Nicholas Leifeld, George Ongoro, Patrick Bright, Peter Nalin

“…We analyzed the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) 2024 projections, which have forewarned of a significant shortage by 2036. …”
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Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Asthma in Off-Reserve Aboriginal Children and Adults in Canada by Hsiu-Ju Chang, Jeremy Beach, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan

“…Children and adults with Inuit ancestry had a significantly lower prevalence of asthma than those with North American Indian and Métis ancestries. Factors significantly associated with ever asthma in children included male sex, allergy, low birth weight, obesity, poor dwelling conditions and urban residence. …”
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Psychosocial Underpinnings of Pain and Sleep Disturbance in Safety-Net Primary Care Patients by Sarah Griffin, Joseph Tan, Paul B. Perrin, Allison B. Williams, Erin R. Smith, Bruce Rybarczyk

“…These findings illustrate the interplay of psychosocial factors with chronic pain and sleep disturbance in a sample of low-income, predominantly African-American patients seeking care at a safety-net primary care clinic. …”
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Framing the Land: Canadian Landscapes Revisited in Jin-me Yoon and Lorraine Gilbert’s Photography by Gwendolyne Cressman

“…The representation of landscapes through survey photography in the mid to late 1800s largely contributed to document Canadian and American expansionist endeavors, to ascertain the documentary and scientific role that photography would play in that expansion and to foster a sense of national belonging and of Anglo-Saxon supremacy which would also find its expression in landscape painting. …”
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Genetic Variants in SNCA and the Risk of Sporadic Parkinson’s Disease and Clinical Outcomes: A Review by Clarissa Loureiro das Chagas Campêlo, Regina Helena Silva

“…Of notice, no studies in South American or African populations were found. There is little information about the effects of these variants on particular clinical aspects of PD, such as motor and nonmotor symptoms. …”
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Critical Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Annie M. Wu, Connie M. Wu, Benjamin K. Young, Dominic J. Wu, Curtis E. Margo, Paul B. Greenberg

“…AMD CPGs published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCO) were appraised by independent reviewers using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument, which comprises six domains (Scope and Purpose, Stakeholder Involvement, Rigor of Development, Clarity of Presentation, Applicability, and Editorial Independence), and an Overall Assessment score summarizing methodological quality across all domains. …”
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