Tuberculosis healthcare service disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, India and South Africa: A model-based analysis of country-level data. by Abigail K de Villiers, Muhammad Osman, Claudio J Struchiner, Anete Trajman, Dheeraj Tumu, Vaibhav V Shah, Guilherme L Werneck, Layana C Alves, Megha Choudhary, Sunita Verma, Sanjay K Mattoo, Sue-Ann Meehan, Urvashi B Singh, Anneke C Hesseling, Florian M Marx

“…In recent years, stringent measures to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 have led to considerable disruptions of healthcare services for TB in many countries. …”
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Climate change causes reductions in fish habitat suitability in Loktak Lake, India by Vicky Anand, Bakimchandra Oinam, Sebastian Schwindt, Stefan Haun, Silke Wieprecht

“…These future scenarios were used as input data for a model chain, containing a hydrological SWAT model, a hydrodynamic Delft3D model and the fuzzy-logic habitat model. …”
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Soil Erosion Process Under the Combined Action of Water and Gravity on Red Soil Slope by ZHANG Xiaohan, MA Lan, YU Chong, WU Zhiwei, WANG Jie

“…[Results] (1) Gravel-free soil did not produce runoff under two rainfalls. The gravel-containing soil did not produce runoff under the first rainfall, but started to produce runoff at 36 min under the second rainfall. …”
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Achievements and prospects of applying high-throughput sequencing techniques to potato genetics and breeding by I. V. Bykova, N. A. Shmakov, D. A. Afonnikov, A. V. Kochetov, E. K. Khlestkina

“…This review gives analysis of databases containing potato genome and transcriptome sequencing results, as well as accompanying resources. …”
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Litostratigrafia spodnotriasových súvrství Západných Karpát by Mário Olšavský

“…It consists of two parts. The first part contains historical contexts of lithostratigraphic divisions used from the beginning of research to the creation of regional geological maps. …”
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Decomposition and nutrient release pattern of wheat (Triticum aestivum) residues under different treatments in desert field conditions of Sudan by Fatoma A. M. Rezig, Elsadig A. Elhadi, Mubarak R. Abdalla

“…Decomposition and nutrient release pattern from wheat residue were investigated in a 12 week litter bag experiment under field condition. Litter bags contain 50 g wheat residue were buried in plots cultivated with guar and treated with following treatments: crop residue (CR), recommended fertilizer ? …”
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Valorization of pinecone as a pyrolysis feedstock: identification of bio-oil and synthesis of activated biochar for Cr(VI) elimination from wastewater by Alfares, Amenah Adnan, Younis, Afyaa Muayed, Rasheed, Lana Abdalhameed, Fadhil, Abdelrahman Basil

“…The ABC exhibited an adsorptive elimination of 98.71% for 100 mL of solution containing 150 ppm of Cr(VI) from its aqueous phase using 0.20 g of ABC at 35 °C for 140 min and a pH = 2.0. …”
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Human health risk from groundwater consumption: A case study in the Apaaso-Tafo Community in the Bono East Region of Ghana by Emmanuel Okyere, Ethel Bentil, Nana Adwoa Kusi-Addai, Lawson Mensah

“…Except for the pH, temperature, turbidity and total coliform bacteria, all parameters met the WHO standards. 40 % of the boreholes contained 50 to 500 cfu/100 mL of coliform bacteria and posed daily infection risks between 1 and 7.63 %. …”
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Effects of Different Carbohydrate Levels in Diets on Growth Performance and Muscle Nutritive Value of Ying Carp and Scattered-Scaled Mirror Carp (Cyprinus carpio) by Pengfei Xiao, Yunya Wu, Hang Sha, Xiangzhong Luo, Guiwei Zou, Hongwei Liang

“…Ying carp (4.5 ± 0.2 g) and scattered-scaled mirror carp (5.01 ± 0.2 g) were fed isonitrogenous diets containing 20%, 30%, and 40% carbohydrates for 8 weeks; the nitrogen content of the three feeds was (5.12% ± 0.03%). …”
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Immunogenicity of recombinant fragment of orthopoxvirus p35 protein in mice by Ya. A. Khlusevich, A. L. Matveev, E. P. Goncharova, I. K. Baykov, N. V. Tikunova

“…It was shown by ELISA and Western-blot analysis that immunized mice sera contained IgG antibodies specific to recombinant protein р35Δ12. …”
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Constraints of S–Pb–Sr Isotope Compositions and Rb–Sr Isotopic Age on the Origin of the Laoyingqing Noncarbonate-Hosted Pb–Zn Deposit in the Kunyang Group, SW China by Hongsheng Gong, Runsheng Han, Peng Wu, Gang Chen, Lingjie Li

“…This can be interpreted as a result of mixing with reduced S that was mainly derived from the thermochemically reduced S in the overlying strata and a small amount of reduced S produced by the pyrolysis of S-containing organic matter. We conclude that the Laoyingqing deposit and most of the Pb–Zn deposits in the SYGT are Mississippi Valley-type deposits, thereby providing new ideas for investigating the deep and peripheral areas of Pb–Zn deposits.…”
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A novel consensus bacterial 6-phytase variant added to phytate-rich diets totally replaced inorganic phosphate in broilers by Y. Dersjant-Li, A. Bello, E. Esteve-Garcia, C. Ramírez Creus, L. Marchal

“…Diets comprised: (1) a positive control (PC) based on maize, wheat and soybean meal, containing Pi from monocalcium phosphate and 2,000 XU/kg xylanase, and; (2) an inorganic phosphate-free (IPF) diet equivalent to PC but with reduced Ca (-2.0 g/kg) and supplemented with PhyG at 3,000, 2,000 and 1000 FTU/kg from d 0 to 11 (3.4 g/kg phytate-P (PP)), d 11 to 22 (3.3 g/kg PP) and d 22 to 42 (2.8 to 2.9 g/kg PP), respectively. …”
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The novel CD16A/anti-CD3 bifunctional protein, eCD16A/anti-CD3-BFP, redirects T cell cytotoxicity toward antibody-bound target cells by Chien-Ting Lin, Shang-Ju Wu, Cheng Hao Liao, Reyhung Roc Weng, Chun-Ming Lin

“…The adaptor protein contains the extracellular domain of the human CD16A high-affinity variant, which binds the Fc domain of IgG1 antibodies, and an anti-human CD3 single-chain variable fragment that redirects T cell cytotoxicity. …”
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AozC, a zn(II)2Cys6 transcription factor, negatively regulates salt tolerance in Aspergillus oryzae by controlling fatty acid biosynthesis by Wenbin Yu, Zeying Zhao, Yufei Zhang, Yayi Tu, Bin He

“…The Zn(II)2Cys6 family of transcription factors, known for their zinc binuclear cluster-containing proteins, are key regulators in fungi, modulating various cellular functions such as stress adaptation and metabolic pathways. …”
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A Robust VMD-Based Modified Multivariable Output Error Statespace Method for Detection of Low-Frequency Oscillations From Noisy Signals of WAMS by Dinesh Shetty, Nagesh Prabhu

“…The approach leverages the adaptability of VMD’s decomposition alongside the precise denoising capabilities of WT, resulting in high effectiveness for signals that contain noise. This paper introduces MMOESP, a modified Multivariable Output Error State Space method, for identifying low-frequency oscillations. …”
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Contexts as The Determining Roles of Javanese Phatic ‘Monggo’: Culture-Specific Pragmatics Perspective by Kunjana Rahardi

“…The research data are excerpts of utterances containing phatic ‘monggo’. The data sources are the excerpts of utterance between the speaker and hearer having Javanese cultural backgrounds. …”
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Comparative genomics of Botryosphaeria dothidea and B. kuwatsukai, causal agents of apple ring rot, reveals both species expansion of pathogenicity-related genes and variations in... by Bo Wang, Xiaofei Liang, Mark L. Gleason, Rong Zhang, Guangyu Sun

“…Botryosphaeria kuwatsukai contained significantly more transposable elements and higher value of repeat induced point (RIP) index than B. dothidea. …”
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Severe subcutaneous infection with Clostridium septicum in a herd of native Icelandic horses by Charlotta Oddsdóttir, Ólöf G. Sigurðardóttir, Vala Friðriksdóttir, Vilhjálmur Svansson, Birkir Þór Bragason, Sigríður Björnsdóttir

“…Whole genome sequencing suggested that the isolates from the diseased horses contained the same C. septicum strain, whereas the strain isolated from the water samples differed from the disease-causing isolates. …”
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Physician Characteristics Associated With Opioid Prescribing After Same-Day Breast Surgery in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Based Cohort Study by Shaila J. Merchant, MD, Jonas P. Shellenberger, MSc, Monakshi Sawhney, PhD, Julie La, MD, Susan B. Brogly, PhD

“…Results:. The final cohort contained 56,434 patients, 3469 unique prescribers, and 58,656 prescriptions. …”
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Negative Association of Gulf War Illness Symptomatology with Predicted Binding Affinity of Anthrax Vaccine Antigen to Human Leukocyte (HLA) Class II Molecules by Lisa M. James, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

“…We hypothesized that this is partly due to the combination of two factors, namely (a) the cytotoxicity of the antigen (anthrax Protective Antigen, PA) contained in the vaccine, and (b) the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) genotype of susceptible vaccinees, reducing their ability to make antibodies against the cytotoxic PA. …”
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