African army ants at the forefront of virome surveillance in a remote tropical forest by Fritz, Matthieu, Reggiardo, Bérénice, Filloux, Denis, Claude, Lisa, Fernandez, Emmanuel, Mahé, Frédéric, Kraberger, Simona, Custer, Joy M., Becquart, Pierre, Mebaley, Telstar Ndong, Kombila, Linda Bohou, Lenguiya, Léadisaelle H., Boundenga, Larson, Mombo, Illich M., Maganga, Gael D., Niama, Fabien R., Koumba, Jean-Sylvain, Ogliastro, Mylène, Yvon, Michel, Martin, Darren P., Blanc, Stéphane, Varsani, Arvind, Leroy, Eric, Roumagnac, Philippe

“…Using 209 army ant samples collected from 29 colonies and the virion-associated nucleic acid-based metagenomics approach, we showed that a broad diversity of bacterial, plant, invertebrate and vertebrate viral sequences were accumulated by army ants: including sequences from 157 different viral genera in 56 viral families. …”
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Tegaserod maleate exerts anti-tumor effects on prostate cancer via repressing sonic hedgehog signaling pathway by Maoping Cai, Shengdong Ge, Yaying Hong, Yao Chen, Yang-Zi Ren, Dacai Zhong, Mingkun Chen, Yuan Liu, Zhe-Sheng Chen, Ninghan Feng, Zhanghui Chen, Shan-Chao Zhao

“…In the current study, we found that tegaserod maleate (TM), an FDA-approved agent, inhibited proliferation, colony formation, migration as well as invasion, caused the arrest of the cell cycle, and promoted apoptosis of PCa cells in vitro. …”
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Las máquinas deseantes de la cuentística regionalista centroamericana, 1930-1950 by Marta Sánchez-Salvà

“…Propongo leer las aflicciones que sufren sus protagonistas como una disidencia de carácter metafísico contra los efectos del complejo colonial-imperialista-capitalista en la sociedad centroamericana. …”
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A Hybrid Swarm Intelligence Algorithm for Intrusion Detection Using Significant Features by P. Amudha, S. Karthik, S. Sivakumari

“…To deal with this problem, in this paper a hybrid algorithm is proposed to integrate Modified Artificial Bee Colony (MABC) with Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization (EPSO) to predict the intrusion detection problem. …”
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N.R. Ayupova by N.R. Ayupova

“…The structures of fossil bacteria based on their size, shape, cell division, distribution in colonies and comparison with ferruginous sediments of modern hydrothermal systems and massive sulfide deposits worldwide indicate that they correspond to mineralized stalks of iron bacteria Leptothrix ochracea and Gallionella ferruginea, coccoidal forms and sulfur-oxidizing Thiobacillus Ferrooxidans and giant Beggiatoa-like organisms. …”
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Microbiological Characteristics of Trachanas, a Traditional Fermented Dairy Product from Cyprus by Despina Bozoudi, Maria Agathokleous, Iacovos Anastasiou, Photis Papademas, Dimitris Tsaltas

“…For this reason, 12 samples of raw and fermented milk as well as natural starter culture were collected in order to count, isolate, and identify the main species present during Trachanas fermentation. In total, 198 colonies were retrieved and 163 were identified by sequencing analysis at species level. …”
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Entre ganado y minas. La región de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos, siglos XVII y XVIII by Omar López Padilla

“…En un primer momento, clarifico las diferencias en torno a las dos expresiones territoriales de la advocación en la época colonial: la región y la zona de influencia devocional. …”
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JOHN RAWLS’ THEORY OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND CHIEFTAINCY TUSSLES IN TAKUM LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF TARABA STATE 1996-2023 by BAKO KEFAS, SAMUILA TIBWA ABWAGE, BONIFACE TIIVH STEPHEN

“…The study found that the genesis of the problem was colonial interference in the districts through the forceful amalgamation of 1914 of the Takum district and the Zumperi district and the subsequent disrobement of Yamusa Galumje and his replacement with Ukwe Ahmadu Kuffang. …”
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Wellsina Mite Hemicheyletia wellsina (De Leon) (Arachnida: Acari: Cheyletidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Marjorie A. Hoy

“…Because there was no published information on this species as a natural enemy of orchid pests, colonies were initiated here to study its biology, maintained on two-spotted spider mite prey. …”
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Feature Extraction Method for Weak Faults Based on Time-Delayed Feedback Mixed Potential Stochastic Resonance by Jiachen Tang, Boqiang Shi, Zhixing Li

“…The article analyzes the effects of the delay term, feedback term, and system parameter on the effect of SR and uses the ant colony algorithm (ACA) to optimize the above parameters. …”
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Kiskisitotaso, Don’t Forget Yourself: Indigenous Resurgence in David A. Robertson’s Barren Grounds by Anah-Jayne Samuelson

“…This representation encourages young readers to reconsider entrenched settler-colonial structures that, potentially, advance the projects of reconciliation and decolonization in Canada. …”
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Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa by J. J. Kritzinger

“…Although its focus is on the years of Protestant missionary endeavours since the beginning of the 19th century up to about 1960, the subject of the book is inbedded in the whole colonial history since 1652 when the question of the relations between the races became an issue. …”
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Museus e políticas de ativismo: Pode o museu comportar dispositivos para uma cultura participativa? by Francisco Sá Barreto dos Santos, Tatiana Coelho da Paz Bezerra

“…No centro de questões sobre políticas de patrimonialização e estratégias para gestão de ativismos culturais, este trabalho está construído como uma crítica a uma cultura da musealização, tomando como referência três eixos para discussão: a) o debate a partir da ambiguidade da noção de cultura como recurso; b) a relação entre essa crítica possível e a reflexão pós-colonial sobre as noções de Sociologia das Ausências e das Emergências; e c) por fim, um estudo de indicativos possíveis para a emergência do diagrama museus, ativismo e cultura participativa enquanto problema urgente à reflexão nos campos de investigação em Museologia, políticas de cultura, memória social e estudos de cidade.…”
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Stemness-Attenuating miR-503-3p as a Paracrine Factor to Regulate Growth of Cancer Stem Cells by Minkoo Seo, Seung Min Kim, Eun Young Woo, Ki-Cheol Han, Eun Joo Park, Seongyeol Ko, Eun wook Choi, Mihue Jang

“…Herein, we found that miR-503-3p inhibited tumor growth via the regulation of CSC proliferation and self-renewal. miR-503-3p, isolated from human adipose stem cell- (ASC-) derived exosomes, suppressed initiation and progression of CSCs as determined by anchorage-dependent (colony formation) and anchorage-independent (tumorsphere formation) assays. …”
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Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana... by Claire Laguian

“…The historical novel Epistolario de un nativo (2019) by Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana is one of the examples of what a contemporary rewriting of the spectral colonial past can mean with its historical work, its counter-discourse in front of the official story of the Spanish State, its mythification and its contradictions, without forgetting its fictional stratagems and its positioning from a present that draws inspiration from the political struggles of the minorities.…”
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Resistere al lavoro o alla propria esclusione? Un’analisi dei rapporti tra devianza, mascolinità e accesso alla formazione professionale nella Grande-Terre orientale (Kanaky-Nuova... by Martino Miceli

“…This article intends to re-articulate the link between resistance and reproduction proposed by Paul Willis in 1977 to reflect on the relationships between crime, masculinity, ethnicity, education, and labour in the (post)colonial spaces, today at the centre of the supply of raw materials for the global energy transition.…”
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Religious Symbolism and Political Resistance: Navalny’s Martyr Narrative in the Russian Opposition by Nadezhda Beliakova, Zhanna Timofeeva

“…The death of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny in a far-northern colony after three years of imprisonment was declared a martyrdom by the Russian opposition, reflecting the sentiments of a part of Russian society. …”
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End-to-end data collection strategy using mobile sink in wireless sensor networks by Xiaofeng Wu, Zhuangqi Chen, Yi Zhong, Hui Zhu, Pingjian Zhang

“…This article proposed an ant colony optimization based end-to-end data collection strategy to perform the collection point selection and the touring path planning simultaneously. …”
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Effects of intravaginal curcumin gels combined with electroporation on vulvovaginal candidiasis by Yizhi Zhang, Xiao Chen, Jing Dai, Chenyun Wang, Shan Ma, Lina Du

“…In vitro antifungal experiments showed that the number of fungal colonies in curcumin ISG combined with electroporation was lower than that in pure curcumin ISG. …”
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DECOLONIZING ISLAMIC STUDIES: A VIEW FROM THE SALAFIS SCHOOL OF THOUGHT by EMORDI PROMISE JUDE, OGHENERO KANO BENSON, CHUKWUKADIBIA CHIMAUZOM EZE, CYNTHIA UKA IYADE, AYINOR AZUBUIKE

“… This essay argues for a critical re-evaluation of Islamic studies, challenging the Eurocentric and Arab-centric biases that have historically shaped the field. We propose a de-colonial approach that dismantles assumptions of Arab supremacy and promotes a more inclusive understanding of Islam. …”
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