Identification of β-globin gene mutations among transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia patients by Haidar Hussein Al-Fatlawi, Bassam Mahammad Hameed

“…Blood samples were aspirated from each patient just before blood transfusions for CBC, reticulocyte count, DNA extraction, PCR amplification, and identification of the mutations by reverse hybridization technique using the β-Globin strip assay method. …”
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Floristic Composition, Diversity, and Regeneration of Woody Plant Species of Dabal Forest in Southeastern Ethiopia: Implication for Conservation by Zinab Sherafu, Meseret C. Egigu, Sasikumar J. M.

“…Species diversity and evenness indices were 3.56 and 0.87, respectively. Stem count of all woody species was 3379 stems ha−1. Out of this, 44.6, 30.8, and 24.59% were seedlings (dbh <3.5 cm), saplings (dbh between 3.5 and 10 cm), and mature (dbh >10 cm) individuals, respectively. …”
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Monitoring and identification of spoilage-related microorganisms in braised chicken with modified atmosphere packaging during refrigerated storage by Yang Lei, Yali Zhang, Yiqun Cheng, Jichao Huang, Ming Huang

“…The growth rate of total viable count (TVC) in braised chicken was slower with an increase of CO2 content in MAP, which also occurred in the remaining bacterial species monitored (lactic acid bacteria, Pseudomonas spp., Brochothrix thermosphacta). …”
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Salmonella enteridis Septic Arthritis: A Report of Two Cases by Esat Uygur, Krishna Reddy, Feyza Ünlü Özkan, Salih Söylemez, Özlem Aydin, Serkan Şenol

“…Clinicians should be cautious that the white blood cell count in synovial fluid can be under 50.000/mm3 in immune compromised individuals with septic arthritis. …”
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Effects of Ultrasonic Treatment Combined with Microporous Modified Atmosphere Packaging on Cold Storage Quality of Fresh-cut Jackfruit by Aiping FAN, Qiuhong DENG, Liping ZENG, Guangming YANG, Yubing LI, Chunyan LIU

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of ultrasonic (US) treatment combined with microporous modified atmosphere packaging (MMAP) on the microbial count and refrigerated quality of fresh-cut jackfruit, and to determine the optimal means of preservation. …”
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Evaluation of the readability of informed consent forms commonly used in dermatology and cosmetology in Turkiye by Mine Mujde Kus

“…To ascertain the readability levels of the included texts, the mean number of words per sentence, the mean word count, the mean number of words with four syllables or more, and the mean number of syllables were calculated using the Bezirci-Yılmaz and Ateşman formulas. …”
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What Influences Low-cost Sensor Data Calibration? - A Systematic Assessment of Algorithms, Duration, and Predictor Selection by Lu Liang, Jacob Daniels

“…Although algorithms react differently to the number of predictors, their performance was typically boosted by adding more predictors, especially the particle count and humidity. Our study not only describes an approach of sophisticated data-driven calibration for practical applications, but also provides insights into the compounding impacts of parameters, samples, and predictors in algorithm performance.…”
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Determinant domain in prognosis evaluation of the septic patient in the intensive care unit. by Alexis Díaz Mesa, Rubén Bembibre Taboada, Alexis Suárez del Villar Labastida, Dagmaris Losa Pérez

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> The essential supremacies for the evolution and prognosis were identified including clinical, paraclinical aspects and some others which in a decrement order by correlations coefficient analyzed were the following: Hb &lt; 80 gr / L, glycemia &gt;12 mmol / L, time of bleeding &gt;4 seconds, SAT &lt; 80 mmHg, HR &gt;101 beats / min, creatinine &gt;200 mmol / L, platelet count &lt;100 000 / L, K+ &gt;6 mEq / L and the levels of PH &lt; 7.15, all of them at the 5th day of evolution, and the multiple organic dysfunction. …”
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TLR7 Polymorphism (rs179008 and rs179009) in HIV-Infected Individual Naïve to ART by HariOm Singh, Dharmesh Samani, Sumit Aggarwal

“…Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in TLR7 (Gln11Leu) gene has been associated with a rapid decline of CD4T cell count. Hence, we assessed the TLR7 (rs179008, Gln11Leu (A/T) and rs179009, IVS2-151 (A/G)) polymorphism in 150 HIV-infected individuals naïve to ART and 158 healthy controls. …”
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EXPLORING AUTOMATED SUMMARIZATION: FROM EXTRACTION TO ABSTRACTION by Svetlana G. Sorokina

“…The compression rates are assessed using quantitative metrics such as page, word, and character counts, while language fluency is described in terms of ability to manipulate grammar and lexical patterns without compromising meaning and content. …”
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Measurements of Cosmic Rays by a Mini‐Neutron Monitor at Neumayer III From 2014 to 2017 by M. Walter, C. Gnebner, B. Heber, K. Herbst, H. Krüger, H. G. Krüger, P. Kühl, H. P. Prokoph, R. D. Strauss

“…After correcting the air pressure and normalization to the 27 days running mean averages of the SANAE and TERA Neutron Monitors (NMs), the daily running mean count rates are compared with the SANAE and TERA NMs also installed in Antarctica. …”
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Hematological manifestations of autoimmune gastritis by Ye. A. Losik, V. T. Ivashkin

“…In 25,4% of patients with APCA changes in common blood count were revealed, most often - of MCV and the CI. …”
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Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis by George Mwandia, Ryan Q. Simon, Hari Polenakovik, Katelyn J. Booher

“…The ascitic fluid analysis revealed a neutrophil count of 1,050/µL, and culture grew Neisseria gonorrhoeae. …”
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Fault-Tolerant One-Way Noiseless Amplification for Microwave Bosonic Quantum Information Processing by Hany Khalifa, Riku Jantti, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

“…We analyze the performance of our device practically by considering detection inefficiency and dark count probability. We further examine the potential usage of our device in low-power quantum sensing applications and remote secret key generation (SKG). …”
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Association of Leukocytosis with Amphetamine and Cocaine Use by John R. Richards, Valeria F. Farias, Chris S. Clingan

“…Amphetamines-positive patients had a supranormal WBC ratio significantly higher than controls (23.8% versus 14.8%, P=0.001), whereas only one cocaine-positive patient had a supranormal WBC count, with significantly lower ratio (1.4%, P=0.0003). …”
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BiAF: research on dynamic goat herd detection and tracking based on machine vision by Yun Hou, Mingjuan Han, Wei Fan, Xinyu Jia, Zhuo Gong, Ding Han

“…In this paper, we propose a machine vision-based grazing goat herd detection algorithm that enhances the streamlined ELAN module in YOLOv7-tiny, incorporates an optimized CBAM attention mechanism, refines the SPPCSPC module to reduce the parameter count, and improves the anchor boxes in YOLOv7-tiny to enhance target detection accuracy. …”
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Evaluation of Serum Bilirubin as a Predictive Marker for Simple and Complicated Appendicitis in Sulaimani Emergency Teaching Hospital by Seerwan Hama Shareef, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Goran Ameer Ahmed

“…Previous studies have demonstrated that hyperbilirubinemia is a more specific marker for appendicitis than white blood count (WBC) and C-reactive protein (CRP), but this investigation is still not commonly used in the diagnostic workup of appendicitis. …”
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Effect of background colors on oviposition site preference by Anopheles gambiae s.s.: an experimental proof by Norah Lowassari, Germana T. Baraka, Grace Jayombo, Castory Munishi, Eliningaya J. Kweka

“…Fresh habitat water was used on each experimental day. The egg count was done for two consecutive days. Results: The results of this study showed that the position of the oviposition substrate had no influence on gravid mosquito response. …”
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Evaluation of Association of Oral Bacterial Profile with HBV and HCV Infection and T Lymphocyte Level in HIV-Positive Patients by Fatemeh Lavaee, Farzan Modarresi, Samira Amookhteh, Mohammad Amin Amiri

“…Demographic data including sex, ethnicity, CD4+ T cell, and T lymphocyte counts were collected from their medical records. …”
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Influence of Natural Honey on Biochemical and Hematological Variables in AIDS: A case study by Noori S. Al-Waili, Thia N. Al-Waili, Ali N. Al-Waili, Khelod S. Saloom

“…Natural honey decreased prostaglandins levels, and elevated NO-end product, percentage of lymphocytes, platelet count, and serum protein, albumin and copper levels. …”
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