Do Routine Preoperative and Intraoperative Urine Cultures Benefit Pediatric Vesicoureteral Reflux Surgery? by Daniel R. Hettel, Bradley C. Gill, Audrey C. Rhee

“…A positive culture was defined as >50,000 colony forming units of a single organism. Results. …”
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PROCESSOS E TRANSFORMAÇÕES NO CAMPO RELIGIOSO NO BRASIL E NA ARGENTINA: leituras pós-coloniais. by Amurabi Pereia de Oliveira, Matilde Eugenia Viglianchino

“…Visamos neste trabalho discutir as transformações ocorridas no campo religioso brasileiro e argentino a partir de uma leitura pós-colonial, buscando compreender como outras ecologias de saberes (Santos, 2007) são articuladas neste novo momento, constituindo uma nova realidade simbólica em termos religiosos, seja a partir de uma releitura de religiosidades inseridas no processo colonialou a partir de um novo arranjo de elementos até então não presentes. …”
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Adhesion-independent synergy of monocytes and endothelial cells in cytokine production: regulation of IL-6 and GM–CSF production by PAF by C. Lacasse, S. Turcotte, D. Gingras, M. Rola-Pleszczynski

“…Co-Cultures of monocytes (MO) and endothelial cells (EC) were studied for their capacity to synergize in the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM–CSF), two cytokines potentially important in vascular physiopathology. …”
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Sequential Load Transport in Grass-Cutting Ants (Atta vollenweideri): Maximization of Plant Delivery Rate or Improved Information Transfer? by Jacqueline Röschard, Flavio Roces

“…To distinguish between these two competing hypotheses, standardized paper fragments that differed either in size or in quality were presented to workers of a field colony, and sequential transport was quantified. Neither an increase in fragment mass nor in fragment length influenced the occurrence of transport chains. …”
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Un cierre de fronteras… taxonómico. Tepehuanes y tarahumaras después de la Guerra de los Tepehuanes, 1616-1631 by Christophe Giudicelli

“…Se crearon así dos entidades discretas definidas por su posición en la economía de vigilancia colonial. Una lógica de clasificación política reforzada a partir del descubrimiento de las minas de Parral, y erróneamente reinterpretada en términos naturalistas a partir del advenimiento de la etnografía decimonónica. …”
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Notes on medical publications in Villa Clara by Jesús Ramón Sánchez Pérez, José Ramón Ruiz Hernández

“…The existence of these figures during the colonial period laid the foundations for scientific development in the territory, despite the disinterest of the Spanish metropolis in promoting it; and this motivated them to begin to look for ways to express these scientific concerns through the publication or presentation of the work they carried out. …”
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Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Are More Immunosuppressive In Vitro If They Are Derived from Endometriotic Lesions than from Eutopic Endometrium by Fawaz Abomaray, Sebastian Gidlöf, Cecilia Götherström

“…ESCcyst and ESCendo expressed MSC markers, formed colonies, and differentiated into osteoblasts and adipocytes. …”
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Identifikasi Bakteri Escherichia coli dalam Air Minum Galon pada Kantin yang ada di Universitas Andalas Padang by Muhammad Rayhan Braja Gitawama, Netti Suharti, Nora Harminarti

“…Samples were taken directly using a sterile bottle, while data analysis using Most Probable Number  (MPN)  tables 5-1-1 and the presence of E. coli bacteria colonies from drinking water samples. Results: 9 of 15 water samples were contaminated by coliform bacteria with the highest MPN index of 240/100 ml that was found in 2 samples. …”
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Genomic exploration of the journey of Plasmodium vivax in Latin America. by Margaux J M Lefebvre, Fanny Degrugillier, Céline Arnathau, Gustavo A Fontecha, Oscar Noya, Sandrine Houzé, Carlo Severini, Bruno Pradines, Antoine Berry, Jean-François Trape, Fabian E Sáenz, Franck Prugnolle, Michael C Fontaine, Virginie Rougeron

“…We also found evidence that P. vivax arrived in Latin America in multiple waves, initially during early European contact and later through post-colonial human migration waves in the late 19th-century. …”
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Hyperexcitability in Spinal WDR Neurons following Experimental Disc Herniation Is Associated with Upregulation of Fractalkine and Its Receptor in Nucleus Pulposus and the Dorsal Ro... by Daniel Pitz Jacobsen, Aurora Moen, Fred Haugen, Johannes Gjerstad

“…In the NP tissue, the expression of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), colony stimulating factor 1 (Csf1), fractalkine (CX3CL1), and the fractalkine receptor CX3CR1 was increased. …”
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Test for Bacterial Content in Soy Sauce and Tomato Sauce at Masomba Market, Palu City by Hasrina

“…Based on the results of research conducted on ten samples of soy sauce and tomato sauce sold at the Masomba market in Palu which was carried out at the Environmental Health Laboratory of Poltekkes, the Ministry of Health, Palu, it was found that one positive sample contained Eschercia coli and Staphlococcus bacteria, namely the soy sauce sample E with MPN number 43, and Staphlococcus. aureus with 12 colonies. This study suggests that soy sauce producers should increase the selection of good raw materials and improve the sanitation of soy sauce making. …”
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A Two-Stage Chance Constrained Approach with Application to Stochastic Intermodal Service Network Design Problems by Yi Zhao, Qingwan Xue, Zhichao Cao, Xi Zhang

“…A hybrid heuristic algorithm, incorporating sample average approximation and ant colony optimisation, is employed to solve this model. …”
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Sujeto de la nación y otrerización by Eduardo Restrepo

“…Este artículo parte de explorar distintos abordajes de la diferencia, para argumentar que diferencia no se puede confundir con otrerización ya que, tanto en el plano teórico como el político, se puede evidenciar cómo esta última responde a una tecnología colonial donde la estereotipificación tiene un papel central. …”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“… As the Soviet historical archives became accessible to Western scholars beginning in the 1980s, renewed scrutiny was placed on the imperial-colonial policies of the Russian Empire toward its borderlands. …”
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Los establecimientos científicos de la ciudad de México vistos por viajeros, 1821-1855 by Rodrigo Antonio Vega y Ortega Baez

“…El desarrollo de la ciencia mexicana en esta época se llevó a cabo en varios establecimientos de la capital del país, como el Colegio de Minería y el Jardín Botánico, fundados en el periodo colonial y reconocidos como importantes centros científicos al final del siglo XVIII; y el Conservatorio de Plantas Exóticas de Chapultepec de origen decimonónico. …”
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Cinco nomes, um traçado urbano e dois centros históricos by Flora Oliveira de Souza Cardoso, Francisco Xico Costa

“…A incompletude de planos e projetos gerou um centro que expressa suas diversas feições, seja a colonial de origem, a do ideário imperial e a de centro “modernizado”. …”
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Consolidación y declive de una generación política en el siglo XIX: a propósito de la trayectoria de Marco Antonio Estrada Plata by Lina Constanza Díaz Boada

“…Durante losintentos por eliminar todo vestigio colonial de la estructura estatal, dicha generaciónpolítica emprendió la puesta en marcha de dos proyectos estrechamente relacionados:por un lado, la adopción del sistema federal impulsado tanto por Liberales como porConservadores; por el otro, la puesta el marcha del pensamiento liberal que sirvió desustento ideológico en la búsqueda del progreso material.…”
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Profile of Candida bloodstream infections among blood culture-positive patients at a tertiary care hospital by S. Shreya, K. Sandhya Bhat

“…Candida isolates were identified by their colony morphology, germ tube test, growth character on CHROMagar Candida, and carbohydrate fermentation tests. …”
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Toward Enhancing the Energy Efficiency and Minimizing the SLA Violations in Cloud Data Centers by E. I. Elsedimy, Fahad Algarni

“…VMPMOPSO was compared with a simple single-objective algorithm, called First-Fit-Decreasing (FFD), and two multiobjective ant colony and genetic algorithms. Two simulation experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed VMPMOPSO. …”
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The Aphid Fauna (Hemiptera:Aphidoidea) and Host Plants of The Büyükada Island (İstanbul, Turkey) by Hayal Akyıldırım Beğen, Gazi Görür

“…Apterae and alatae individuals of aphid samples were collected as much as possible from aphid colonies on culti-vated and ornamental plants. 43 aphid taxa including two new records Turkey aphid fauna (1 family, 6 subfami-lya, 6 tribus ve 23 genus) were determined on 46 different plant species at the end of the study. …”
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