Susceptibility Profiles of Mycobacterium ulcerans Isolates to Streptomycin and Rifampicin in Two Districts of the Eastern Region of Ghana by Enid Owusu, Mercy Jemima Newman, Nana Konama Kotey, Amos Akumwena, Elizabeth Bannerman

“…Assessing resistance profiles of pathogens constitutes an essential surveillance tool in the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases, including Buruli ulcer (BU) disease. …”
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Displacement-Based Back-Analysis of the Model Parameters of the Nuozhadu High Earth-Rockfill Dam by Yongkang Wu, Huina Yuan, Bingyin Zhang, Zongliang Zhang, Yuzhen Yu

“…The parameters of the constitutive model, the creep model, and the wetting model of materials of the Nuozhadu high earth-rockfill dam were back-analyzed together based on field monitoring displacement data by employing an intelligent back-analysis method. …”
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Investigation of Lade-Kim Plastic Potential Applicability under Various Stress Paths for Rockfill Materials by Liping Chen, Shihai Bian, Xiaokai Niu, Yongbo Zhao

“…These works are helpful to understand stress path dependence of dilatancy behavior for rockfill materials and is beneficial for the establishment of stress path constitutive model.…”
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Progenitor Cells for Arterial Repair: Incremental Advancements towards Therapeutic Reality by Trevor Simard, Richard G. Jung, Pouya Motazedian, Pietro Di Santo, F. Daniel Ramirez, Juan J. Russo, Alisha Labinaz, Altayyeb Yousef, Brijesh Anantharam, Ali Pourdjabbar, Benjamin Hibbert

“…Despite these encouraging results, however, advancing EPCs as a therapeutic modality has been hampered by a fundamental roadblock: what constitutes an EPC? We review current definitions and sources of EPCs as well as the proposed mechanisms of EPC-mediated vascular repair. …”
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A Rare Report of Infectious Emphysematous Aortitis Secondary to Clostridium septicum without Prior Vascular Intervention by Ciel Harris, Joseph Geffen, Keyrillos Rizg, Stuart Shah, Aaron Richardson, Cherisse Baldeo, Avinash Ramdass

“…A 75-year-old male presented with a 2-week history of progressive fatigue and chest pain that then developed into constitutional symptoms. Chest radiograph demonstrated an obvious widened mediastinum. …”
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Analysis of Flexural Bearing Capacity and Failure Mode of Precast LSFRC Pavement Slab by Zi-Jian Wang, Yi-Xuan Ban, Wen-Yu Luo, Han-Xiu Fan, Bin Zhang, Li-Ming Wu, Si-Chang Wang

“…To promote practical use of the top-and-bottom layered steel fiber reinforced concrete (LSFRC) plates, an appropriate constitutive model is selected using ABAQUS software to analyze the bearing capacity, failure pattern, and deformation of the LSFRC plates. …”
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Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation of Seismic Behavior for RC Columns Subjected to Freeze-Thaw Cycles by Qing Qin, Shansuo Zheng, Lei Li, Liguo Dong, Yixin Zhang, Sha Ding

“…On the basis of the existing constitutive relations for concrete, four RC columns subjected to different numbers of FTCs were simulated by OpenSees. …”
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Psoas abscess secondary to atypical appendicitis in pregnancy. A case report by Viviana de la Caridad Sáez Cantero, Mario Joel Arroyo Díaz, Leonel Hernández Torres, María Teresa Medel Agüero

“…Secondary psoas abscess may constitute the debut of atypical retrocecal appendicitis, and its diagnosis requires a high level of suspicion due to its non-specific symptoms.…”
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Genomic signatures of adaptation in native lizards exposed to human-introduced fire ants by Braulio A. Assis, Alexis P. Sullivan, Stephanie Marciniak, Christina M. Bergey, Vanessa Garcia, Zachary A. Szpiech, Tracy Langkilde, George H. Perry

“…While we cannot rule out other environmental differences between populations driving these patterns, these results do constitute plausible genetic adaptations in lizards invaded by fire ants.…”
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Karyotype Patterns of Hypsolebias antenori (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): An Endangered Killifish of the Semiarid Region of Brazil by Wallace Silva do Nascimento, Juliana Galvão Bezerra, Paulo Augusto Lima-Filho, Maria Emília Yamamoto, Sathyabama Chellappa, Wagner Franco Molina

“…Annual fish which belong to the order Cyprinodontiformes constitute an excellent model for evolutionary studies. their short life cycle, distribution in ecologically dynamic environments, and low agility make them favorable for genetic analyses. …”
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Medical management of organic psychomotor agitation and neurorehabilitation after revascularized vertebrobasilar stroke by Antonia Ioana Vasile, Cristina Nica, Cristina Tiu

“…Brain imaging revealed constitutive lesions in the occipital lobe, parahippocampal, the lingual gyrus, in the paramedian pontine level, and a cerebellar lesion. …”
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ERK1/2 mitogen‐activated protein kinase dimerization is essential for the regulation of cell motility by Dalia de laFuente‐Vivas, Vincenzo Cappitelli, Rocío García‐Gómez, Sara Valero‐Díaz, Camilla Amato, Javier Rodriguéz, Santiago Duro‐Sánchez, Alexander vonKriegsheim, Michael Grusch, José Lozano, Joaquín Arribas, Berta Casar, Piero Crespo

“…We also show that a constitutively dimeric ERK mutant can drive cell motility per se, demonstrating that ERK dimerization is both necessary and sufficient for inducing cellular migration. …”
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Nutritional optimization of fecal microbiota transplantation in humans: a scoping review by Levi M Teigen, Austin Hoeg, Hijab Zehra, Priyali Shah, Remy Johnson, Kristen Hutchison, Megan Kocher, Annie W Lin, Abigail J Johnson, Byron P Vaughn

“…Diet constitutes a major source of nutrient flow to the gut microbes. …”
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Specific immunohistochemical expression of Mmp-26 in prostatic adenocarcinoma by ROMILDO LUCIANO DA SILVA, FRANCISCO LUÍS A. PAES, SANDRA MARIA S. DA SILVA, FABIANO SANTOS, EDUARDA S. DE SANTANA, JACINTO DA C. SILVA NETO

“…MMP-26 is expressed constitutively in the endometrium and some cancer cells of epithelial origin. …”
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Integrating Modern Technologies into Traditional Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tissue Engineering by Aris Sopilidis, Vasileios Stamatopoulos, Vasileios Giannatos, Georgios Taraviras, Andreas Panagopoulos, Stavros Taraviras

“…In this review, we discuss the aspects that constitute the creation of a successful tissue-engineered graft while also underlining the current drawbacks that arise for each issue. …”
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The Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis: Key Mechanisms Driving Glymphopathy and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease by Che Mohd Nasril Che Mohd Nassir, Muhammad Danial Che Ramli, Mazira Mohamad Ghazali, Usman Jaffer, Hafizah Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Zulfadli Mehat, Zaw Myo Hein

“…The human microbiota constitute a very complex ecosystem of microorganisms inhabiting both the inside and outside of our bodies, in which health maintenance and disease modification are the main regulatory features. …”
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Failure Law and Mechanism of the Rock-Loose Coal Composite Specimen under Combined Loading Rate by Genshui Wu, Weijian Yu, Ze Liu, Zhu Tang

“…Finally, the deformation mechanism and constitutive equation of the rock-loose coal composite system are discussed.…”
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Physiologists as medical scientists: An early warning from the German academic system by Katrin Streckfuss‐Bömeke, Nicolle Kränkel, Christoph Maack, Renate B. Schnabel, Laura C. Zelarayán, Norbert Frey, Peter Jezzard, Martina Krüger, Nico Lachmann, Susanne Lutz, Claudia Noack, Eric Schoger, Katrin Schröder, Laura C. Sommerfeld, Sabine Steffens, Holger Winkels, Christina Würtz, Tanja Zeller, Eva A. Rog‐Zielinska, Peter Kohl

“…Medical scientists constitute ~40% of staff at medical faculties and >90% at nonuniversity medical research institutions in Germany. …”
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Epidemiology of Hip Fractures in Two Regions of Ukraine by V. V. Povoroznyuk, N. V. Grygorieva, J. A. Kanis, E. V. McCloskey, H. Johansson, S. S. Strafun, M. O. Korzh, V. M. Vaida, F. V. Klymovytsky, V. S. Forosenko, R. O. Vlasenko

“…Overall, the incidence of hip fracture was comparable with data from neighboring countries, such as Poland and Romania. Hip fractures constitute a serious healthcare problem in Ukraine, and changes in healthcare are required to improve the management and long-term care of osteoporosis and its complications.…”
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A Unified Elastoplastic Model of Unsaturated Soils Considering Capillary Hysteresis by Tiantian Ma, Changfu Wei, Pan Chen, Huihui Tian, De'an Sun

“…Within this context, a constitutive model of unsaturated soils is developed by generalizing the modified Cam-Clay model. …”
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