Establishment of a rapid and quantitative method for detecting the range of infection exposure in preclinical dental education by Ayaka Ueda, Yuki Shinoda-Ito, Kazu Takeuchi-Hatanaka, Takashi Ito, Shintaro Ono, Kimito Hirai, Kazuhiro Omori, Tadashi Yamamoto, Shogo Takashiba

“…Conclusions An education system for infection control constructed using artificial saliva containing Lactobacillus and a UV-sensitive fluorescent hand lotion quantified the infectious areas and degrees. …”
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Emergence of Self-Identity in Artificial Intelligence: A Mathematical Framework and Empirical Study with Generative Large Language Models by Minhyeok Lee

“…The model was trained on a synthetic dataset containing temporally structured memories, designed to capture the complexity of coherent self-identity formation. …”
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Immune responses of cattle vaccinated by various routes with Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) by Mitchell V. Palmer, Soyoun Hwang, Carly Kanipe, Ellie J. Putz, Luis Guilherme Virgilio Fernandes, Anna Didkowska, Paola M. Boggiatto

“…Group 1 received BCG injected SQ, Group 2 received liquid BCG delivered to the posterior oral cavity, Group 3 orally consumed lyophilized BCG contained within a gelatin capsule placed within a small amount of a commercial alfalfa product. …”
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The effect of dietary fish oil replacement by microalgae on the gilthead sea bream midgut bacterial microbiota by Katsoulis-Dimitriou, Stefanos, Nikouli, Eleni, Gkalogianni, Elli Zafeiria, Karapanagiotidis, Ioannis T., Kormas, Konstantinos A.

“…The control diet (FO) contained only fish oil as a source of lipids, EPA and DHA fatty acids, while three experimental diets were used where fish oil was replaced at 67% by one of the following microalgae biomass blends: Microchloropsis gaditana and  Isochrysis sp. …”
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Effect of Kind and Dosage of Enrichment Materials on the Nutritional Quality of Rotifers Especially n3-HUFA by Muhammad Agus Suprayudi

“…Rotifer enriched with EPA-TAG has a more complete of essential fatty acid profile compared to other enrichment materials due to their contained both of EPA and DHA. We conclude that rotifer enriched with EPA-TAG as enrichment material showed the best nutritional quality of rotifers from the stand point of essential fatty acid. …”
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THE SOLANUM TUBEROSUM KNOWLEDGE BASE: THE SECTION ON MOLECULAR-GENETIC REGULATION OF METABOLIC PATHWAYS by T. V. Ivanisenko, O. V. Saik, P. S. Demenkov, V. K. Khlestkin, E. K. Khlestkina, N A. Kolchanov, V. А. Ivanisenko

“…The ontology of the SOLANUM TUBEROSUM knowledge base contains dictionaries of molecular genetic objects (proteins, genes, metabolites, microRNAs, biomarkers); phenotypic characteristics of potato varieties; potato diseases and pests; biotic/abiotic environmental factors; potato agrobiotechnologies. …”
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Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents Analysis of North American ENDS by Smith Cameron, Jamison Brian, Jongsma Candice, Carter Karen, Wang Jiaming, Bates Austin, Ullah Sifat, Cook David, Gene Gillman I.

“…All tested ENDS aerosol contained quantifiable glycidol ranging from 0.003 to >1.00 µg/puff for ISO 20768 and 0.005 to 1.10 µg/puff for intense puffing regimes. …”
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Exploration of urease-aided calcium carbonate mineralization by enzyme analyses of Neobacillus mesonae strain NS-6 by Zhiwei Ma, Mengyao Chen, Juncheng Lu, Shichuang Liu, Yanling Ma

“…ABSTRACT Urease containing nickel cofactor is crucial for urea-hydrolytic induced calcium carbonate (CaCO3) precipitation (UICP). …”
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Genomic Alterations in Primary Gastric Adenocarcinomas Correlate with Clinicopathological Characteristics and Survival by Marjan M. Weiss, Ernst J. Kuipers, Cindy Postma, Antoine M. Snijders, Daniel Pinkel, Stefan G. M. Meuwissen, Donna Albertson, Gerrit A. Meijer

“…Methods: Array CGH was applied to a series of 35 gastric adenocarcinomas using a genome‐wide scanning array with 2275 BAC and P1 clones spotted in triplicate. Each clone contains at least one STS for linkage to the sequence of the human genome. …”
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Feasibility and therapeutic efficacy of a two-week low-level laser acupuncture therapy for shoulder and neck pain in office workers: Protocol for a pilot, single-blind, double-arme... by Carol Chunfeng Wang, Lisa Whitehead, Travis Cruickshank, Johnny Lo, Jianhong Cecilia Xia, Jun Wen

“…Each of the two study groups will contain 35 participants: the intervention group will receive LLLA from a licensed acupuncturist at the researchers' university clinic (10-20 min/session, 3 sessions/week) for two weeks; the control group will receive usual care without painkillers. …”
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Translation, adaptation, and validation of the Care Coordination Instrument for cancer patients by Anne Werner, Anke Steckelberg, Alexandra Strobel, Andreas Wienke, Heike Schmidt, Dirk Vordermark, Patrick Michl, C. Benedikt Westphalen, Julia Lühnen

“…Methods The original English version contains 29 items in three domains, measured on a 4-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree). …”
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The dynamin-related protein PfDyn2 is essential for both apicoplast and mitochondrial fission in Plasmodium falciparum by Alexander A. Morano, Wei Xu, Francesca M. Navarro, Neeta Shadija, Jeffrey D. Dvorin, Hangjun Ke

“…Along with the mitochondrion, Plasmodium contains a second organelle descended from an endosymbiotic event, the apicoplast. …”
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L’échelon manquant ? Les archives municipales en Algérie : histoire de fonds et possibilités historiographiques by Thierry Guillopé

“…Following in the footsteps of others, this article focuses on the history of municipal repositories in Algeria, presenting the archives they contain and the avenues of research they open up. …”
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Construction and performance of oxidized coal powders based hydrovoltaic devices by Jianhang ZHAO, Zhichao ZUO, Wenwen YU, Yanan YE, Fengbo ZHU, Qiang ZHENG

“…By regulating the oxygen-containing groups on the surface of the coal powder through oxidation modification, the interactions between coal powder and water molecules can be effectively improved. …”
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The Application of Biologically Active Components Derived from Mineral, Synthetic, Phyto- and Organic Sources for Developing Local Hemostatic Agents: Historical Traditions and Cont... by S. Abramov, S. Sokolovskyi, A. Gozhenko, I. Sobko, G. Titov, V. Gladyshev, M. Khmil, Ugis Kletnieks

“…Notably, PLANTOR does not contain procoagulant minerals or nanoparticles that could remain in the human body, and therefore does not belong to means with a chemical or biochemical mechanism of action. …”
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Outcome of Pleural Empyema Treated With Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery in Patients With Severe Co-Morbidities: An Observational Study by Vu HA, Nguyen NV, Le TD, Nguyen ST, Viet Le A, The Vu A, Van Nguyen B, Van Nguyen B, Thanh Quan N, An NV, Duc Nghiem T

“…The mean Karnofsky score was 50.0 ± 6.1. Some comorbidities contained chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (25.0%), spontaneous esophageal perforation (16.7%), liver cancer, cirrhosis, esophageal cancer, end-stage renal failure – chronic dialysis (8.7%). …”
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Associations among circulating sphingolipids, β-cell function, and risk of developing type 2 diabetes: A population-based cohort study in China. by Huan Yun, Liang Sun, Qingqing Wu, Geng Zong, Qibin Qi, Huaixing Li, He Zheng, Rong Zeng, Liming Liang, Xu Lin

“…Network analysis further identified 5 modules, and 2 modules containing saturated sphingomyelins showed the strongest associations with increased T2D risk (RRQ4 versus Q1 = 1.59 and 1.43; both Ptrend < 0.001). …”
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Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Provided Through a Web Application for Subthreshold Depression, Subthreshold Insomnia, and Subthreshold Panic: Open-Labeled 6-Arm Rand... by Kayoko Taguchi, Mirai Miyoshi, Yoichi Seki, Shiori Baba, Eiji Shimizu

“…ResultsThe SD, SP, and SI groups contained 846, 597, and 1106 participants, respectively. …”
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Apoptosis induction and tumor growth suppression by hydroxyapatite nanoparticles–cisplatin combined treatment in Ehrlich solid carcinoma-bearing mice by Shaymaa M. Eissa, Asmaa M. Mahfouz, Saad M. El-Gendy, Al-shimaa Zakaria, Heba Effat, Hanan R. H. Mohamed

“…Methods Forty female mice were inoculated with 200 µl of diluted ascites fluid containing approximately two million viable cancer cells in the mice's left thigh, after 14 days of inoculation, the mice were distributed into four groups: 10 mice in each. …”
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Designing a Stock Recommender System Using the Collaborative Filtering Algorithm for the Tehran Stock Exchange by Marziyeh Nourahmadi, Ali Rahimi, Hojjatollah Sadeqi

“…This method is founded on two key assumptions: first, market inefficiency, meaning the stock market does not completely and accurately reflect all available information; and second, the presence of hidden information in stock movements, indicating that these movements contain valuable insights that can influence the prices of other stocks in the market. …”
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