What to do about African Honey Bees: A Consumer Guide by Michael K. O’Malley, James D. Ellis, Anita S. Neal

“… The general public can take several steps to avoid encountering honey bee swarms or colonies. The first and most important step is for citizens to educate themselves and their families about the African honey bee (AHB). …”
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Gemeentediakonaat as plaasvervanger vir staatsondersteunde sinodale barmhartigheidsdiens in die Ned. Geref. Kerk by André Oosthuizen, Piet Strauss

“…The vocation of the church to be and to become a colonial deaconal congregation and community is fundamentally a vocation towards self-denial and aking up the cross. …”
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Multicriteria Reconfiguration of Distribution Network with Distributed Generation by N. I. Voropai, B. Bat-Undraal

“…Efficient heuristic and multicriteria methods are used to solve the problem including advanced ant colony algorithm for minimum loss reconfiguration of distribution network, the sorting-out algorithm of cell formation for island performing in postemergency network, and the successive concessions method for multicriteria decision making. …”
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Small Hive Beetle, Aethina tumida Murray (Insecta: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) by James D. Ellis, Amanda Ellis

“…It describes this small beetle native to sub-Saharan Africa, which can cause considerable damage to colonies of European honey bees outside of its host range — distribution, description, life cycle, economic importance, and management. …”
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La fabrique du musée d’art marocain : L’œuvre de Prosper Ricard by Habiba Aoudia

“…The purpose of this article is thus to analyse the emergence of an original museum model inherited from the protection measures of native arts initiated in Algeria. aiming eventually to re-consider the concept of “colonial museum”.…”
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Towards struggle as lived experience: Contemplation on homiletic research for a (post-)pandemic world by W. Wessels

“…Finally, as an alternative future direction for homiletic research, the article proposes the post-colonial idea of a lived experience of struggle, along with the appreciation for critical engagement with the practice of preaching from the position of the homiletic academia. …”
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Indigénat et Nouvelle-Calédonie by Gwénael Murphy

“…This substantial and rigorous work, talking about a complex subject, is written by Isabelle Merle and Adrian Muckle, eminent specialists in the colonial history of Oceania. While in France opinion seems to prevail over reflection and critical thinking, the authors suggest a fine analysis of the indigénat. …”
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What to do about African Honey Bees: A Consumer Guide by Michael K. O’Malley, James D. Ellis, Anita S. Neal

“… The general public can take several steps to avoid encountering honey bee swarms or colonies. The first and most important step is for citizens to educate themselves and their families about the African honey bee (AHB). …”
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LA RUTA DEL CACIQUE LLAMPILANGUEN (1804): LA RECONSTRUCCIÓN GEOGRÁFICA DE UN CAMINO. HISTÓRICO by Walter Daniel Melo, Juan Francisco Jiménez, Sebastián Leandro Alioto

“…In this way, the diverse tools and applications in SIG have helped to recover the trace of old communication routes in regions which, being out of colonial control, were badly known by authorities of imperial bureaucracy, and were not kept in their cartography.…”
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Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist by Lere Adeyemi

“… In their introduction to a book entitled: Yorùbá creativity, fiction, language, life, and songs, Falola and Genova (2005) assert that creativity among the ̣ Yorùbá has a long history and the traditions of oral histories, storytelling, performances and dramas are parts of fundamental habit of their civilization. In the pre-colonial era, the authorship of the stories in the folktales and in some poetic genres could not be claimed by any particular artist/artiste, but due to the influence of colonial rule, western literary traditions, among others, storytellers can claim authorship of their works today. …”
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Antibacterial effectiveness of different final irrigation activation techniques. by Bizhyan Mahdi Mustafa, Bahar Jaafar Selivany, Abduloma Baraka Ali

“…The antimicrobial efficacy was tested by collecting transfer fluid saline from the canals and counting the colony forming units (CFUs) of viable E. faecalis on agar plates. …”
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RNA binding protein ILF3 increases CEP55 mRNA stability to enhance malignant potential of breast cancer cells and suppress ferroptosis by Sheng Chen, Yangyong Luo, Simin Ruan, Guosen Su, Guoxing Huang

“…Cell invasion and migration were evaluated by transwell assay. Cell apoptosis and colony formation were tested by flow cytometry and colony formation assays, respectively. …”
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Parasites of the genus Nosema, Crithidia and Lotmaria in the honeybee and bumblebee populations: a case study in India by V. Y. Vavilova, I. Konopatskaia, S. L. Luzyanin, M. Woyciechowski, A. G. Blinov

“…A variety of pathogens and parasites, including  bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, mites and insects play signi ficant role in honeybee and bumblebee colonies loss. Pa rasites of the genus Nosema (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) and the genera Crithidia and Lotmaria (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) have a significant negative impact on honeybee and bumblebee colonies. …”
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Screening of a Soil Tyrosianse Producing Bacterial Strain HM24 and Comparison of its Tyrosinase Activity in Different Mediums Containing Natural Sources of L-tyrosine by Seyed Muhammad Hamid Malekpour, Moj Khaleghi, Alireza Akhtarpour

“…The best tyrosinase-producing strain was selected based on dark-colored colony formation. Also, enzyme activity was evaluated in the four mediums with different L-tyrosine sources (Tyrosine, Glucose-Yeast-Peptone (GYP), Soybean, and Peanut). …”
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Intelligent clustering using moth flame optimizer for vehicular ad hoc networks by Atif Ishtiaq, Sheeraz Ahmed, Muhammad Fahad Khan, Farhan Aadil, Muazzam Maqsood, Salabat Khan

“…Intelligent clustering using moth flame optimization is then proved by relative study with two variants of particle swarm optimization: multiple-objective particle swarm optimization and comprehensive learning particle swarm optimization and a variant of ant colony optimization: ant colony optimization–based clustering algorithm for vehicular ad hoc network. …”
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Anticancer effects of 7,8-dihydromethysticin in human leukemia cells are mediated via cell-cycle dysregulation, inhibition of cell migration and invasion and targeting JAK/STAT pat... by Xiao Yi, Deng Taoran, Jiang Lijun, Wang Di

“…Cell proliferation was assessed through 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and effects on colony formation were examined via clonogenic assay. …”
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Colonialidad, colonialismo y estudios coloniales: un enfoque comparativo de inflexión subalternista by Gustavo Verdesio

“…La teoría poscolonial y la opción de colonial están, desde hace ya unos años, encontrando cada día más adeptos en América Latina. …”
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The Long Noncoding RNA LOXL1-AS1 Promotes the Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Jiang Liu, Chengtong Zhai, Degan Liu, Jianhua Liu

“…In addition, in the Hep-G2 cell line, LOXL1-AS1 downregulation significantly inhibited cell proliferation in the light of the MTT and colony formation assays in vitro, which was consistent with animal experiment in vivo. …”
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Synergistic potential of α-Phellandrene combined with conventional antifungal agents and its mechanism against antibiotic resistant Candida albicans by Riya Bhattacharya, Prashant Sharma, Debajyoti Bose, Manish Singh

“…Further, the synergistic potential was evaluated by employing a time kill assay and a checkerboard technique, respectively, which revealed after 16 h, the colony count of C. albicans cells ATCC90028 (2.56 ± 0.33) and MTCC277 (2.53 ± 0.33) dropped by a log10 when treated with a combination of α-Phellandrene and Fluconazole and α-Phellandrene and amphotericin B exhibited synergy against both C. albicans strains ATCC90028 and MTCC277 (2.42 ± 0.28 and 2.00 ± 0.21) log10 reduction in colony count, respectively, Additionally, 16–624-fold increase in the antifungal efficacy of clinical medicines, with total cell death occurring after 16 h. α-Phellandrene and antifungal drugs were tested in combination with the osmoprotectant test, ergosterol test and FESEM observations to determine their modes of action. …”
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Combination therapy of low-dose radiotherapy and immunotherapy in advanced metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a case report and literature review by Chun-Qiao Chen, Hui Huang, Min Pan, Zhe Jia, Jing Zhang, Qiu-Qiu Chen

“…The patient was also administered with human granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor and aspirin to enhance the immune function. …”
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