Temporal and Spatial Seasonal Variations in Quality of Gravity Flow Water in Kyanamira Sub-County, Kabale District, Uganda by Hannington, Ngabirano, Denis, Byamugisha, Emmanuel, Ntambi

“…Salmonella and faecal coliforms colonies were present in scaring numbers in the wet season. …”
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The disinfectant effects of portable ultraviolet light devices and their application to dentures by Kae Harada, Reiya Horinouchi, Mamoru Murakami, Masakazu Isii, Yuji Kamashita, Naohiro Shimotahira, Fumio Suehiro, Yasuhiro Nishi, Hiroshi Murata, Masahiro Nishimura

“…All devices were assessed in agar plate assay, and Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus spread on agar plates and irradiated under two conditions: inoculated surface facing upward and downward. Colony counts were recorded. Devices A and D were tested on C. albicans-contaminated dentures immersed in C. albicans medium, with samples collected before and after irradiation on the mucosal surfaces of the dentures. …”
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Conjugated Linoleic Acid Treatment Attenuates Cancerous features in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by Zohre Miri-Lavasani, Shukoofeh Torabi, Roya Solhi, Bahareh Shokouhian, Parvaneh Afsharian, Zahra Heydari, Abbas Piryaei, Zahra Farzaneh, Nikoo Hossein-khannazer, Hamidreza Aboulkheyr Es, Ensieh Zahmatkesh, Andreas Nussler, Moustapha Hassan, Mustapha Najimi, Massoud Vosough

“…The expression levels of HNF4a and EMT related genes were evaluated and associated to hepatocytic functionalities, migration, and colony formation capacities, as well as to viability and proliferation rate of HCC cells. …”
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Could Externalized St. Jude Medical Riata® Lead Be a Culture Medium of a Polymicrobial Endocarditis? A Clinical Case by Zefferino Palamà, Roberta Trotta, Cosimo Mandurino, Mariangela Pinto, Giovanni Luzzi, Stefano Favale

“…The externalization of Riata lead may cause the malfunction but it could also promote bacterial colonies and vegetations. In conclusion, looking for early signs of infection is mandatory during Riata leads follow-up checks.…”
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Espaces, parcours cérémoniels et fabrication d’objets rituels dans la fête mexica d’etzalcualiztli by Elena Mazzetto

“…The colonial period historical descriptions of the eighteen celebrations of the Mexica solar year religious ceremonies offer a rich set of data on Mexica’s ritual life. …”
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Entre classement et patrimonialisation : Les usages du patrimoine judéo-tunisien by Afef Mbarek

“…Its construction as such began as early as the colonial period, when manifestations of its recognition and protection were first observed. …”
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Pest Ants by P.G. Koehler, R.M. Pereira, J.L. Castner

“…Each section highlights unique features, such as nesting preferences, colony structure, and foraging behaviors, aiming to educate readers on identifying and managing these common pests. …”
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Para un diálogo interepistémico y decolonial entre feministas occidentales y no occidentales by Tijana Limic

“…Argumenta que los feminismos occidentales han reproducido algunas de las características del patriarcado que la modernidad consolidó a escala mundial, como son su carácter colonial, clasista, racista y «epistemicida».…”
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Pukara de los wak’a. Cerros, muros concéntricos y divinidades tutelares en el altiplano centro-sur andino by Pablo Cruz, Richard Joffre

“…According to information provided by colonial documentary sources, a large number of ceremonial spaces linked to the ancient cults of the tutelary wak’a were identified in different regions of the central-southern Andean highlands (Bolivia). …”
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Courbet, Catlin, and the Exploitation of Native Americans by Jane M. Roos

“…The article speculates on the resonance between Courbet’s disenfranchised figures and colonial realities implied by Catlin’s display. It also connects reactions to Catlin’s museum with the burgeoning of modernism in mid-nineteenth-century France and with the transformation in Courbet’s painting during the years marked by The Painter’s Studio.…”
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Forms of Indigenous Labor on New Spain’s Northern Frontiers: The Cases of New Mexico and California (17th–18th Centuries) by David Rex Galindo

“… This essay discusses various forms of Hispanic-Indigenous labor relations on New Spain’s northern frontiers, with a focus on 17th-century New Mexico and late colonial California. The article reconstructs how local practices of exploitation and abuse took various forms and eventually acquired normative values. …”
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Four Unrecorded Species of Endophytic Diaporthe (Sordariomycetes) in Korea by Jae-Eui Cha, Ju-Kyeong Eo, Ahn-Heum Eom

“…Detailed descriptions of colony morphology and conidial characteristics are provided for each species. …”
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First Report of Aprostocetus asthenogmus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in South America and Parasitizing Eggs of Triatominae Vectors of Chagas Disease by Claudiney Biral dos Santos, Marcelo Teixeira Tavares, Gustavo Rocha Leite, Adelson Luiz Ferreira, Leonardo de Souza Rocha, Aloísio Falqueto

“…A. asthenogmus were captured near unparasitized triatomine colonies in the municipality of Vitória, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, and placed into pots with recently laid triatomine eggs. …”
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À l’envers du Grand Blanc, le sens inuit du paysage by Fabienne Joliet

“…The perspective of Inuit from the Nunavik region was ignored by Westerners because these people were for a long time held apart from the colonial assimilation process. Theirs is an original Inuit point of view concerning territories which are not considered virgin and are not always white with snow.…”
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«È per aiutare i giovani»? Note sulla produzione della copra sull’isola di Ouvéa (Kanaky-Nuova Caledonia) by Greta Maria Capece

“…Kanaky-New Caledonia is one of the Pacific post-colonial contexts experiencing the highest levels of internal inequalities, especially among young Kanaks, natives of the country, in relation to non-Kanaks, of both European and Pacific-Asian origin. …”
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Indigenous communities of colombian amazon trapeze: social imaginaries and tourism by Marta Lucía Vélez Rivas

“…The historical relationship of mestizo society towards indigenous communities, is expressed in power relations constructed since the colonial past, which is materialized today in exclusion, social inequality, exoticization and ignorance of the other. …”
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A general lemma for fixed-point theorems involving more than two maps in D-metric spaces with applications by B. C. Dhage, Smrati Arya, Jeong Sheok Ume

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Turning the Tables in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pick Up by Hélène Godderis-Toudic

“…Cependant elle apporte des réponses nouvelles par l’intermédiaire de la protagoniste chez qui l’héritage colonial et la culture autochtone se fondent en une synthèse harmonieuse, illustrant là le passage d’une "déconstruction" à une reconstruction d’identité…”
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Pathogenic potential of ornithogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> strains detected in the Earth's polar regions by Batyrbek I. Aslanov, Daniil V. Azarov, Maria A. Makarova, Elizaveta G. Marysheva, Lyudmila A. Kraeva, Aleksey S. Mokhov, Ekaterina A. Lebedeva, Nikita E. Goncharov, Natalya V. Lebedeva, Dmitry A. Starikov, Victoria V. Kolodzhieva, Dmitry E. Polev, Artemy E. Goncharov

“…Pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are an important object of surveillance within the One Health concept in the wild, agriculture and human society. Migratory bird colonies and high latitude avian colonies may be points of active intraspecies and interspecies contact between different animal species, accompanied by the spread of pathogens. …”
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The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune by Pierre-Louis Patoine

“…This article explores how Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune offers occasions for the development of an ecological, Gaian sensitivity, pushing the human sensorium towards the planetary (in relation to, and contradistinction to, the global, colonial, and imperial imaginaries) by using tools typical of fantasy and science fiction, such as world-building, immersion, sensationalism, terrain navigation, non-modern epistemologies, oneiric possession, geological actants, dragon-like giant sandworms, and human-eating birds. …”
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