Deletion of ESX-3 and ESX-4 secretion systems in Mycobacterium abscessus results in highly impaired pathogenicity by Wassim Daher, Vincent Le Moigne, Yara Tasrini, Shweta Parmar, Danielle L. Sexton, John Jairo Aguilera-Correa, Valentin Berdal, Elitza I. Tocheva, Jean-Louis Herrmann, Laurent Kremer

“…Our results demonstrate that EsxG/H secretion depends entirely on ESX-3, whereas both ESX-3 and ESX-4 secrete EsxU/T. Furthermore, two newly identified PE/PPE substrates (MAB_0046/MAB_0047) require ESX-3 for secretion. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Emergency Medical Service Trauma Patient Transportation Patterns Before and After Level 1 Regional Trauma Center Establishment: A Retrospective Single-Cen... by Hyeong Seok Lee, Won Young Sung, Jang Young Lee, Won Suk Lee, Sang Won Seo

“…Analyses were performed to determine transportation pattern changes by comparing patients pre- and post-RTC establishment and by yearly comparisons over the 4-year study period using the Mann-Whitney U test and chi-square test. Results Overall, 3,587 patients were included. …”
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A novel approach to skin disease segmentation using a visual selective state spatial model with integrated spatial constraints by Yu Bai, Hai Zhou, Hongjie Zhu, Shimin Wen, Binbin Hu, Haotian Li, Huazhang Wang, Daji Ergu, Fangyao Liu

“…To address limitations in existing approaches, we introduce a novel U-shaped segmentation architecture based on our Residual Space State Block. …”
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Nuclear and Star Formation Activities in Nearby Galaxies: Roles of Gas Supply and Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback by Huynh Anh N. Le, Yongquan Xue

“…We analyze a sample of  ~113,000 galaxies ( z  < 0.3) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, divided into star-forming, composite, Seyfert, and LINER types, to explore the relationships between UV-to-optical colors ( u – r ), star formation rates (SFRs), specific SFRs (sSFRs), stellar velocity dispersions ( σ _* ), mass accretion rates onto the black hole ( ${L}_{[{\rm{O}}\,{\rm{III}}]}/{\sigma }_{\ast }^{4}$ ), and Eddington ratios. …”
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Enhancing antimicrobial resistance strategies: Leveraging artificial intelligence for improved outcomes by Aeshah M. Mohammed, Mohammed Mohammed, Jawad K. Oleiwi, Azlin F. Osman, Tijjani Adam, Bashir O. Betar, Subash C.B. Gopinath, Falah H. Ihmedee

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Integrating artificial Intelligence-Based metaheuristic optimization with Machine learning to enhance Nanomaterial-Containing latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Ali Basem, Hanaa Kadhim Abdulaali, As’ad Alizadeh, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Komal Parashar, Ali E. Anqi, Husam Rajab, Pancham Cajla, H. Maleki

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Sosyal Medya Platformlarında Dijital Detoks: Deneysel Bir Araştırma by Eda Sezerer Albayrak

“…Hayatımızın en güzel anlarının tadını çıkarmak yerine sürekli belgelemekle uğraştığımızı vurgulayan uzmanlar aslında bir gıda metaforu olan “detoks”u teknoloji bağımlılığından “arınma” olarak da ele almışlardır. …”
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Effective treatment of severe acute pancreatitis and COVID-19 pneumonia with tocilizumab by Piotr Zielecki, Magdalena Kaniewska, Mariusz Furmanek, Tomasz Bulski, Grażyna Rydzewska

“…One study showed that TCZ might reduce mortality in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia [14], but to date there have been no human studies evaluating tocilizumab in the treatment of acute pancreatitis. U.S. Food and Drug Association (FDA)-approved phase III randomised controlled trials on tocilizumab are ongoing [15]. …”
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Produção, Pré-Purificação e Encapsulamento de Enzima Proteolítica Secretada por Fungo Filamentoso by Jad Lorena Feitosa Simplicio, Bianca Muniz de Sousa, Humberto Oliveira da Silva Pereira, Yasmim Menezes do Nascimento, Adriana Crispim de Freitas

“…A protease obtida na formulação do meio otimizado, precipitada e liofilizada apresentou capacidade de coagulação do leite, atividade proteolítica de 261,5 U/g e através das análises térmicas foi verificado que o material possui estabilidade térmica em torno de 40 °C. …”
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A Second Candidate Magnetic Helium Core White Dwarf and 3 Other Variable White Dwarfs in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397 by Manuel Pichardo Marcano, Liliana E. Rivera Sandoval, Thomas J. Maccarone, Rene D. Rohrmann, Leandro G. Althaus, Craig O. Heinke, Diogo Belloni, Arash Bahramian

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Synthesis, characterization, In silico, and In vitro studies of CuS–ZnO nanocomposite using mushroom extract by S. Anbazhagi, A. Murugesan, M. Paramanantham, K. Chinnaiah, Karthik Kannan, Nadezhda Palko, K. Gurushankar

“…The cytotoxicity analysis shows a CuS–ZnO Nanoparticles have more cytotoxic effect in U87 cell lines. Clavilactone D could be more effective against fungal infections. …”
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UAV rice panicle blast detection based on enhanced feature representation and optimized attention mechanism by Shaodan Lin, Deyao Huang, Libin Wu, Zuxin Cheng, Dapeng Ye, Haiyong Weng

“…Quantitative evaluation demonstrates that the model achieves an overall accuracy of 91.4%, a mean IoU of 79%, and an F1 score of 82% on the test set. …”
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Clinical characteristics and associated factors of pediatric acute necrotizing encephalopathy: a retrospective study by Huiling Zhang, Yilong Wang, Qianyun Ding, Xuekun Li, Sheng Ye

“…To identify the factors associated with mortality, clinical, laboratory and imaging data were analyzed with independent-sample t tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, Fisher exact probability tests and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses. …”
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The Relationship Between Preferred Learning Styles and Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Health Sciences Students Compared to Other Disciplines at a Middle Eastern University U... by Gangadharan S, Al Mezeini K, Gnanamuthu SS, Al Marshoudi KA

“…Auditory (A) was the most preferred unimodal style (Mean/SD - 3.72/2.181), while kinesthetic (Mean/SD - 0.54/.864) was the least preferred. Mann–Whitney U-test results indicated Health Sciences students scored higher in K (Z = − 4.558, p< 0.001) and total VARK scores (Z = − 3.633, p< 0.001). …”
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Using diagnostic data from veterinary diagnostic laboratories to unravel macroepidemiological aspects of porcine circoviruses 2 and 3 in the United States from 2002-2023. by Guilherme Cezar, Edison Magalhães, Kinath Rupasinghe, Srijita Chandra, Gustavo Silva, Marcelo Almeida, Bret Crim, Eric Burrough, Phillip Gauger, Christopher Siepker, Marta Mainenti, Michael Zeller, Eduardo Fano, Pablo Piñeyro, Rodger Main, Mary Thurn, Paulo Lages, Cesar Corzo, Albert Rovira, Hemant Naikare, Rob McGaughey, Franco Matias-Ferreyra, Jamie Retallick, Jordan Gebhardt, Jon Greseth, Darren Kersey, Travis Clement, Angela Pillatzki, Jane Christopher-Hennings, Melanie Prarat, Ashley Johnson, Dennis Summers, Craig Bowen, Joseph Boyle, Kenitra Hendrix, Andreia G Arruda, Daniel Linhares, Giovani Trevisan

“…After its first report in the U.S. in 2016, PCV3 detection had an upward trend in the percentage of positive cases, peaking in spring 2023. …”
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LA CONFEDERACIÓN ARGENTINA SEGÚN MALTE-BRUN (1845): UNA APROXIMACIÓN SISTÉMICA by Gloria Leticia Zamorano

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Enrichment Mechanism of the Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian Transitional Shale in the East Margin of the Ordos Basin, China: Evidence from Geochemical Proxies by Zhifu Wei, Yongli Wang, Gen Wang, Ting Zhang, Wei He, Xueyun Ma, Xiaoli Yu

“…In the Taiyuan Formation, TOC is positively related to the redox index (V, U, and V/Cr), indicating that the dysoxic bottom water environment is the key factor controlling organic matter accumulation. …”
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Microscopic Analysis of Temperature Effects on Surface Colonization and Biofilm Morphology of <i>Salmonella enterica</i> by Zachariah Vice, You Zhou, Sapna Chitlapilly Dass, Rong Wang

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Features of using CRM systen in marketing and logistics management of service establishments by Serhii Voitovych, Nadia Bukalo, Igor Zhukov

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Factores de riesgo para la neumonía asociada al ictus isquémico agudo by Alexis Suárez Quesada, Alexis Álvarez Aliaga, Andrés Quesada Vázquez

“…<strong><br />Conclusión</strong>: los factores de riesgo de neumonía asociada al ictus isquémico agudo, más influyentes en la serie estudiada, también lo han sido en estudios similares, realizados tanto dentro como fuera de Cuba, sobresaliendo más unos u otros en las diferentes investigaciones.</p>…”
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