Effect of Enhanced Antimicrobial Fish Gelatin and Lactic Acid Coating on the Shelf Life of Fresh and Previously Frozen Shrimp by Hunter Songy, Katheryn Parraga, Wenqing Xu, Evelyn Watts

“…Treated samples developed less oxidation than the control. Psychrophilic counts for samples L and LG remained below the 7 log CFU/g threshold throughout the study. …”
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Assessment of Microbiological Safety and Quality of Minced Meat and Meat Contact Surfaces in Selected Butcher Shops of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Kibrom Zerabruk, Negussie Retta, Diriba Muleta, Anteneh T. Tefera

“…The mean microbial counts of minced meat samples taken in the morning and afternoon showed statistically significant differences (p<0.05). …”
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Evaluation of efficacy of photodynamic disinfection against enterococcus faecalis and compare it with the effect of different endodontic irrigant activation techniques. by Amanda George Haskiyal, Dara Hamarashid Saeed

“…CFU of each sample was counted before and after irrigation regime, and they were compared to the control group. …”
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Automated Decision Technique for the Crowd Estimation Method Using Thermal Videos by Nermin K. Negied, Ayman El-Sayed, Asmaa S. Hassaan

“…Theessential characteristic of crowd counting techniques is that they do not require a previously stored and trained data; instead they use a live video stream as input. …”
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Advanced Text Summarization Model Incorporating NLP Techniques and Feature-Based Scoring by Estabraq Abdulreda Kadhim, Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, Hadi S. Aghdasi

“…For example, various textual features such as Named Entity Counts, Noun Counts, and Sentence Position contribute to the summarization quality appropriately. …”
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Determination of the Emission Inventory from Road Transport in the Tekkekoy (Samsun) District Center by Göksel Kaya

“…Within the scope of this study, the emission amounts arising from vehicles cruising on the main highway in the Tekkekoy district center in Turkey, where the General Directorate of Highways counted vehicles in 2017, were calculated. The emission amounts were calculated using the emission factor, the number of vehicles and the length of the highway. …”
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Effect of Antimicrobial Edible Coatings and Modified Atmosphere Packaging on the Microbiological Quality of Cold Stored Hake (Merluccius merluccius) Fillets by X. Carrión-Granda, I. Fernández-Pan, J. Rovira, J. I. Maté

“…When hake fillets with lower initial microbial counts were treated, a more intense antimicrobial effect was observed and a synergistic effect between WPI-EO coatings and MAP was detected. …”
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Influence of Surveillance Methods in the Detection of Sports Injuries and Illnesses by Sonoko Mashimo, Takaaki Hogan, Satoru Nishida, Yumi Watanabe, Yuya Matsuki, Hirokazu Suhara, Naruto Yoshida

“…In particular, the difference between both methods' counts was greater for overuse injuries than for traumatic injuries…”
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Spatial and temporal variations of faecal indicator bacteria in Lake Bunyonyi, South‑Western Uganda by Alex, Saturday, Thomas, J. Lyimo, John, Machiwa, Siajali, Pamba

“…coli and enterococci counts exceeding the UNBS, APHA, WHO and EU threshold values for drinking water. …”
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Physical Activity across Frailty Phenotypes in Females with Parkinson’s Disease by Kaitlyn P. Roland, Kayla M. D. Cornett, Olga Theou, Jennifer M. Jakobi, Gareth R. Jones

“…In non-PD, step counts, light physical activity time, sedentary time, and self-reported physical activity were related to frailty (R=0.91). …”
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Retrospective and Prospective Investigations about “Quatrefoil” Erythrocytes in Canine Blood Smears by Alessandra Gavazza, Marianna Ricci, Martina Brettoni, Biancaurora Gugliucci, Anna Pasquini, Daniela Rispoli, Nicola Bernabò, George Lubas

“…SEM ruled out the possibility of an optical illusion or an accidental overlap. qRBCs are associated with ageing of dogs, total leukocyte and neutrophil counts, and RBC anisocytosis, polychromasia, and Howell-Jolly bodies. …”
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Sequential Multimodal Underwater Single-Photon Lidar Adaptive Target Reconstruction Algorithm Based on Spatiotemporal Sequence Fusion by Tian Rong, Yuhang Wang, Qiguang Zhu, Chenxu Wang, Yanchao Zhang, Jianfeng Li, Zhiquan Zhou, Qinghua Luo

“…This indicates that the method has a great advantage in sparse photon counting imaging and possesses the capability of underwater target imaging under the background of strong light noise. …”
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CD4+CD25highCD127low Regulatory T Cells in Peripheral Blood Are Not an Independent Factor for Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation by Jolanta B. Perz, Selma Gürel, Stefan O. Schonland, Ute Hegenbart, Anthony D. Ho, Peter Dreger

“…Although similar mean lymphocyte counts were found in patients and controls, CD3+CD4+ T-cell counts were significantly lower in patients. …”
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Erdős–Rényi Poissonized by Curien, Nicolas

“…Using a vanilla Poisson counting process, this enables us to give very short proofs of classical results such as the phase transition for the giant component or the connectedness for the standard Erdős–Rényi model.…”
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Systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis of age-dependent human T-lymphocyte homeostasis by Victoria Kulesh, Victoria Kulesh, Kirill Peskov, Kirill Peskov, Kirill Peskov, Gabriel Helmlinger, Gennady Bocharov, Gennady Bocharov, Gennady Bocharov

“…ObjectiveTo evaluate and quantitatively describe age-dependent homeostasis for a broad range of total T-cells and specific T-lymphocyte subpopulations in healthy human subjects.MethodsA systematic literature review was performed to identify and collect relevant quantitative information on T-lymphocyte counts in human blood and various organs. Both individual subject and grouped (aggregated) data on T-lymphocyte observations in absolute and relative values were digitized and curated; cell phenotypes, gating strategies for flow cytometry analyses, organs from which observations were obtained, subjects’ number and age were also systematically inventoried. …”
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3D Winding Number: Theory and Application to Medical Imaging by Alessandro Becciu, Andrea Fuster, Mark Pottek, Bart van den Heuvel, Bart ter Haar Romeny, Hans van Assen

“…We illustrate our method by considering three different biomedical applications, namely, detection and counting of ovarian follicles and neuronal cells and estimation of cardiac motion from tagged MR images. …”
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Some Identities Involving Derangement Polynomials and Numbers and Moments of Gamma Random Variables by Lee-Chae Jang, Dae San Kim, Taekyun Kim, Hyunseok Lee

“…The problem of counting derangements was initiated by Pierre Rémond de Montmort in 1708. …”
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A Multidimensional Approach to the Management of Severe Asthma: Inflammometry, Molecular Microbiology and Bronchial Thermoplasty by Conor Cox, Melanie Kjarsgaard, Michael G Surette, P Gerard Cox, Parameswaran Nair

“…The authors illustrate the merits of identifying the components of diseases (eg, bronchitis and airway hyper-responsiveness) that contribute to exacerbations in the management of a patient with severe asthma. Quantitative cell counts in sputum identified a neutrophilic – as opposed to eosinophilic – bronchitis that enabled a stepwise weaning of prednisone. …”
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Identification and Validation of Nebulized Aerosol Devices for Sputum Induction by Warren J Davidson, John Dennis, Stephanie The, Belinda Litoski, Cora Pieron, Richard Leigh

“…BACKGROUND: Induced sputum cell counts are a noninvasive and reliable method for evaluating the presence, type and degree of airway inflammation in patients with asthma. …”
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Comparison of in vivo and in vitro preimplantation embryo development in OXYS and WAG rats by V. V. Kozhevnikova, T. N. Igonina, E. Yu.  Brusentsev, V. I. Mokrousova, E. A.  Kizilova, I. N. Rozhkova, V. A. Naprimerov, S. Ya. Amstislavsky

“…Thereafter the percentage of embryos at blastocyst stage and the cell numbers in these blastocysts were counted in the same manner as for the in vivo experiment. …”
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