Microbiological Characteristics of Trachanas, a Traditional Fermented Dairy Product from Cyprus by Despina Bozoudi, Maria Agathokleous, Iacovos Anastasiou, Photis Papademas, Dimitris Tsaltas

“…For this reason, 12 samples of raw and fermented milk as well as natural starter culture were collected in order to count, isolate, and identify the main species present during Trachanas fermentation. …”
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Impact of silver ions and silver nanoparticles on the plant growth and soil microorganisms by D. Tomacheski, M. Pittol, D.N. Simões, V.F. Ribeiro, R.M.C. Santana

“…There is a growing consumer market for products that proclaim to decrease microorganism counts to prevent infections. Most of these products are loaded with silver in its ionic or nanoparticle form. …”
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MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT SATISFACTION INDEX VALUE TO IMPROVE EDUCATION QUALITY OF RADIOLOGY IMAGING TECHNOLOGY STUDY PROGRAM UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA by Rana Ayuning Tyas, Amilia Kartika Sari, Budi Priyo Witjaksono, Anggraini Dwi Sensusiati, Soegardo Indra Praptono

“…Collected data will be counted to establish satisfaction index per indicator and in total. …”
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Research on the Identification of Precursor Information of Limestone Rockburst under Triaxial Unloading Conditions by Wenjun Ding, Zonghong Zhou, Jian Liu, Tingkai Hou, Jiaxin Wang, Jin Li, Xin Zhang

“…Based on the energy evolution of limestone and acoustic emission evolution law, this paper takes the limestone unloading energy evolution law and acoustic emission cumulative ringing count, cumulative energy, RA value, acoustic emission information entropy, and acoustic emission damage as precursor discrimination indicators for the occurrence of rock explosion. …”
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A class of constrained optimal control problems arising in an immunotherapy cancer remission process by Yineng Ouyang, Zhaotao Liang, Zhihui Ma, Lei Wang, Zhaohua Gong, Jun Xie, Kuikui Gao

“…By considering both the single drug dose and the total drug input during the treatment period, we propose a new optimal control problem by maximizing the immune cell levels and minimizing the tumor cell count, as well as the negative effects of the total drug quantity over time. …”
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Severe immunodeficiency spectrum associated with NHEJ1 gene mutation: Cernunnos/XLF deficiency by Ana María Navarro, Gabriela Mantilla, Jorge Andrés Fernández, Mario Fernando Unigarro, Alfonso Suárez, María Claudia Ortega

“…The clinical features include growth retardation, microcephaly, triangle-shaped face, recurrent infections, fibroblast’s excessive sensitivity to gamma-ionizing radiation, and hypogammaglobulinemia; also, low counts of subpopulations of B and T lymphocytes, with normal values of natural-killer cells. …”
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Pancytopenia in a Patient with Rendu-Osler-Weber Syndrome and Uncommon Vascular Abnormalities by Nicolò Binello, Antonio Gasbarrini, Eleonora Gaetani

“…The patient underwent coil embolization of the splenic artery aneurysm, followed by rapid and sustained increase of white blood cell and platelet count. Splenic artery aneurysms are extremely uncommon in HHT as only anecdotal cases have been reported to date. …”
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Stride Length and Torso Biomechanics As They Relate To Medial Elbow Injuries In Adolescent Aged Baseball pitchers: A Clinical Commentary by Zachary Dietz, Dylan DeWeese, Neil Shaw, Cody Huth, Jacob Ball, Victoria Reeves, Ryan Monti, Ryan Bitzel

“…Anatomical changes, growth, early sport specialization, multiple team participation, mound distance, mound height, and high pitch counts place adolescent pitchers at an exceptionally higher risk for medial elbow injuries. …”
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Design of an Intelligent Energy Management Prototype for an Electric Lighting Network on a Raspberry Pi Board by Jouahri Mohammed Amine, Moukhtari Manal, Oulhaj Nabil, Khimouj Mounir, Tajer Abdelouahed, Boulghasoul Zakaria

“…Traffic density is assessed in real time by an image processing system using the YOLOv8 algorithm, which identifies and counts vehicles captured by the cameras. At the same time, the level of cloud cover is measured by an LDR photosensor connected to a Raspberry Pi, which analyzes the ambient light intensity. …”
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Torus knots and generalized Schröder paths by Marko Stošić, Piotr Sułkowski

“…We relate invariants of torus knots to the counts of a class of lattice paths, which we call generalized Schröder paths. …”
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Machiavellianism, Impulsivity, and Empathy: Understanding Aggressive Driving Behavior by Rendy Alfiannoor Achmad, Silvia Kristanti Tri Febriana, Laily Maulida, Igha Ananda Saidah Muharram, Lili Aprilianti

“…The multiple linear regression results showed that impulsivity, Machiavellianism, and empathy significantly influenced the tendency toward aggressive driving behavior with F count of 12.454 and significance level of .000 < .05. …”
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Chronic Corynebacterium striatum Septic Arthritis in a Patient Referred for Total Knee Arthroplasty by Katharine Hollnagel, Jacob Willen, Michael Ellis, Yalda Soleimanifard, Robert Booth, Sumon Nandi

“…Joint aspiration white blood cell count was 30,548/mm3, but multiple cultures were positive for C. striatum. …”
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Difficulties of iron-deficiency anemia diagnostics by I. V. Mayev, D. T. Dicheva, D. N. Andreyev, Yu. S. Subbotina

“…Presented case emphasizes exclusive importance of control of total blood count in women in postmenopausal period and necessity in prophylactic medical examination of patients.…”
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Varied Age of First Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease: Case Presentations and Review by Alexis Claeys, Susanne Van Steijn, Lydia Van Kesteren, Elizabet Damen, Machiel Van Den Akker

“…Many factors are responsible for the age at which sickle cell disease is diagnosed: doctor’s delay (unfamiliarity with the disease), patient’s delay (education and financial position of the parents, cultural factors), high- versus low-resource country (availability of newborn screening), fetal hemoglobin, reticulocyte count, and genetic modulators, such as SCD genotype, alpha-thalassemia, fetal hemoglobin concentration, and G6PD deficiency. …”
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An Improved Unscented Kalman Filter Algorithm for Radar Azimuth Mutation by Dazhang You, Pan Liu, Wei Shang, Yepeng Zhang, Yawei Kang, Jun Xiong

“…Since the radar azimuth angle will restart to count after each revolution of the radar, and when the aircraft just passes the abrupt angle change, the radar observation measurement will have a sudden change, which has serious consequences and is solved by the proposed novel UKF based on SVD. …”
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Validation and Refinement of the Baveno VI Criteria for Ruling Out High-Risk Varices by Hong Zhou, Han Hu, Maoyong Tian, Jun Chu, Caiyun Tian, Yanqing Yang, Shide Lin

“…The Baveno VI criteria recommend the use of a simple algorithm based on a liver stiffness measurement<20 kPa through transient elastography and a platelet count>150×109/L for ruling out high-risk varices in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease. …”
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Effect of inoculating mixed starter cultures of Lactobacillus and Staphylococcus on bacterial communities and volatile flavor in fermented sausages by Yuxin Li, Zhixiang Cao, Zhihui Yu, Yingchun Zhu, Kaile Zhao

“…Culture-dependent (colony count) and culture-independent (high-throughput sequencing) methods were employed to evaluate bacterial communities. …”
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Adaptive temporal-difference learning via deep neural network function approximation: a non-asymptotic analysis by Guoyong Wang, Tiange Fu, Ruijuan Zheng, Xuhui Zhao, Junlong Zhu, Mingchuan Zhang

“…In particular, AdaBNTD is capable of converging to the global optimum of the mean square projection Bellman error (MSPBE) with a convergence rate of $${{\mathcal {O}}}(1/\sqrt{K})$$ O ( 1 / K ) , where K denotes the iteration count. Besides, the effectiveness AdaBNTD is also verified through several reinforcement learning benchmark domains.…”
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Analysis of stomatal characteristics of maize hybrids and their parental inbred lines during critical reproductive periods by Changyu Zhang, Changyu Zhang, Yu Jin, Yu Jin, Jinglu Wang, Jinglu Wang, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Yanxin Zhao, Xianju Lu, Xianju Lu, Wei Song, Xinyu Guo, Xinyu Guo

“…Specifically, at the monocot scale, stomatal density increased from 74.35 to 87.19 Counts/mm2 from lower to upper leaf layers. Concurrently, the stomatal shape shifted from sub-circular (stomatal roundness = 0.64) to narrow and elongated (stomatal roundness = 0.63). …”
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Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis and associated factors among adults living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, systematic review and meta-analysis by Amlaku Nigusie Yirsaw, Berihun Agegn Mengistie, Eyob Getachew, Gebrehiwot Berie Mekonnen, Adamu Ambachew Shibabaw, Alex Ayenew Chereka, Gemeda Wakgari Kitil, Wubet Tazeb Wondie, Gebeyehu Lakew

“…The prevalence was notably higher in individuals with lower CD4 counts, advanced HIV stages (III and IV), and in smokers. …”
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