Screening and Characterization of Thermostable Amylase-Producing Bacteria Isolated from Soil Samples of Afdera, Afar Region, and Molecular Detection of Amylase-Coding Gene by Semira Nureddin Yassin, Tamene Milkessa Jiru, Meera Indracanti

“…Optimum amylase production time for these isolates was 48 hrs (M13 and M8) and 72 hrs (M2) corresponding to the amylase activity of 0.67 U/mL for M13, 0.74 U/mL for M8, and 0.73 U/mL for M2 with an optimum temperature of 55°C. …”
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Individual and joint effects of exposure to multiple organophosphate esters and the risk of depression in adults: Differences in sex, age, and physical activity by Qingmiao Wei, Jiyun Wei, Jun Liang

“…BKMR suggested that BDCPP and DPHP levels had a U-shaped relationship with the risk of depression. …”
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Optimization of Acid Protease Production by Aspergillus niger I1 on Shrimp Peptone Using Statistical Experimental Design by Rayda Siala, Fakher Frikha, Samiha Mhamdi, Moncef Nasri, Alya Sellami Kamoun

“…Under the proposed optimized conditions, the experimental protease production (183.13 U mL−1) closely matched the yield predicted by the statistical model (172.57 U mL−1) with R2=0.914. …”
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Association of hypertension and plant-based dietary patterns on cognitive impairment: a nationwide cohort study in China by Fang Liang, Jialin Fu, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Yechuang Wang, Kai Ding, Jing Zeng, Justin B Moore, Rui Li

“…Diet patterns were assessed using the overall plant-based diet index (PDI), healthful plant-based diet index (hPDI), and unhealthful plant-based diet index (uPDI) derived from a simplified food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). …”
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The DNMT1/miR-34a Axis Is Involved in the Stemness of Human Osteosarcoma Cells and Derived Stem-Like Cells by Xiao Liang, Chang Xu, Wanchun Wang, Xiang Li

“…Conversely, DNMT1 overexpression declined miR-34a levels, promoting the stemness of U2OS cells. Transfection with a miR-34a inhibitor enhanced the stemness of U2OS cells, without affecting the DNMT1 activity and expression. …”
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Microencapsulation, Chemical Characterization, and Antimicrobial Activity of Mexican (Lippia graveolens H.B.K.) and European (Origanum vulgare L.) Oregano Essential Oils by Elvia Hernández-Hernández, Carlos Regalado-González, Pedro Vázquez-Landaverde, Isabel Guerrero-Legarreta, Blanca E. García-Almendárez

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Effects of copper/graphene oxide core-shell nanoparticles on Rhipicephalus ticks and their detoxification enzymes by Haytham Senbill, Amr Gangan, Ahmed M. Saeed, Mohammed E. Gad, Jehan Zeb, Alaa Fahmy

“…The enzyme assays revealed that 180 W/45 min treatment significantly inhibited the activity of acetylcholinesterase (115 ± 0.81 and 123 ± 0.33 U/ mg protein/min) and superoxide dismutase (290 ± 0.18 and 310 ± 0.92 U/ mg protein/min) in Rh. rutilus and Rh. turanicus, respectively, as compared with the negative control. …”
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Chokeberry juice affects membrane lipid status and cellular antioxidant enzymes in healthy women with aerobic training activity by Nevena Vidović, Ana Pantović, Vuk Stevanović, Ivana Šarac, Kristina Robal, Stevan Stevanović, Maria Glibetic

“…We detected significantly higher activity of superoxide dismutase in the training (2224 (2170) U/gHb) compared with the chokeberry-training (1252 (734) U/gHb) and control group (1397 (475) U/gHb). …”
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Modelo de segmentación semántica de imágenes satelitales basado en redes neuronales convolucionales para la clasificación de cobertura de la tierra en páramos by Marcela Reyes, Iván Lizarazo

“…Los resultados mostraron que U-Net++ alcanzó un kappa de 0,60, mientras que DeepLabV3+ obtuvo un kappa de 0,59. …”
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Comparative Cytotoxic Activity of Wild Harvested Stems and In Vitro-Raised Protocorms of Dendrobium chryseum Rolfe in Human Cervical Carcinoma and Glioblastoma Cell Lines by Bijaya Pant, Pusp Raj Joshi, Sabitri Maharjan, Laxmi Sen Thakuri, Shreeti Pradhan, Sujit Shah, Sven H. Wagner, Basant Pant

“…Similarly, activities against U251 cell lines exhibited also significant inhibition (28.76% (612.54 μg/mL) for DCW and 17.15% (1059.92 μg/mL) for DCT). …”
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PZS‐Net: Incorporating of Frame Sequence and Multi‐Scale Priors for Prostate Zonal Segmentation in Transrectal Ultrasound by Jianguo Ju, Qian Zhang, Pengfei Xu, Tiange Liu, Cheng Li, Ziyu Guan

“…To overcome the limitation, a novel Prostate Zonal Segmentation Network (PZS‐Net), based on U‐Net, which learns critical cross‐frame information and multi‐scale features from sequential frames, is proposed. …”
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Deep learning models reveal the link between dynamic brain connectivity patterns and states of consciousness by Chloé Gomez, Lynn Uhrig, Vincent Frouin, Edouard Duchesnay, Béchir Jarraya, Antoine Grigis

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Mortality in the families of children during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study of children in the United States by Kao-Ping Chua, Rena M. Conti, Nora V. Becker

“…Abstract Background Modeling studies suggest that hundreds of thousands of U.S. children have lost caregivers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. …”
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Disorder of intracellular cobalamin metabolism: Importance of rapid diagnostic illustrated by a case report of early-onset methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria, cobalamin C ty... by Etienne Mondesert, Bastien Baud, Agathe Roubertie, Jean-François Benoist, Pierre-Edouard Grillet, Jean-Paul Cristol, Marie Céline Francois-Heude, Manuel Schiff, Stéphanie Badiou

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Multiproxy synthesis at the Arlington Archosaur Site: New insights into Cretaceous paralic paleoenvironments and regional stratigraphy, Woodbine Group, Texas, USA by Christopher R. Noto, Peter P. Flaig, Maria Antonietta Lorente

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Potentials of Presepsin as a Novel Sepsis Biomarker in Critically Ill Adults: Correlation Analysis with the Current Diagnostic Markers by Mai S. Sater, Nourah Almansour, Zainab Hasan Abdulla Malalla, Salim Fredericks, Muhalab E. Ali, Hayder A. Giha

“…Concentrations of five plasma markers (IL-6, IL-8, TREM1, uPAR, and presepsin) were compared with 13 well-established measures of SSI in critically ill patients. …”
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Awareness and knowledge of halitosis among students at two different dental universities in Turkey: a cross-sectional survey by Emine Nur Kahraman, Şehrazat Erensoy, Ahu Dikilitaş, Ayşe Gülşahı, Esra Özge Aydın, Funda Seher Özalp Ateş

“…There was no significant difference in the number of correct answers between fourth- and fifth-year students (U = 7714.00, p = 0.886). There was a significant difference in the number of correct answers between the universities (U = 5817.50, p = 0.001). …”
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Factors influencing emotional driving: examining the impact of arousal on the interplay between age, personality, and driving behaviors by Zhegong Shangguan, Xiao Han, Younesse El Mrhasli, Nengchao Lyu, Adriana Tapus

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Colorectal Carcinoma with Extremely Low CA19-9 by Yutaka J. Kawamura, Aika Tokumitsu, Junichi Sasaki, Shingo Tsujinaka, Takafumi Maeda, Ken Mizogami, Fumio Konishi

“…Patients with CA19-9 level of less than 2 U/mL at the time of diagnosis were defined as Extremely Low CA19-9 (ELCA). …”
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Stable Isotope-Resolved Metabolomic Differences between Hormone-Responsive and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cell Lines by Jason H. Winnike, Delisha A. Stewart, Wimal W. Pathmasiri, Susan L. McRitchie, Susan J. Sumner

“…Cells were cultured in media containing either [U-13C]-glucose or [U-13C]-glutamine for 48 hours. …”
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