Survival and Acidification Potential of Lactobacillus Plantarum MNC 21 Stored in Air-Dried Sorghum Flours by Yusuf Byenkya Byaruhanga, Stellah Byakika, Ivan Muzira Mukisa

“…Acidification potential was determined at 5 days intervals by measuring microbial counts, pH and titratable acidity. Microbial concentrations dropped from 8-9 log cfu/g on day 0 to 1 log cfu/g on day 30. …”
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The Feasibility of Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy in Immunosuppressed ICU Patients with or without Thrombocytopenia by Marianne Angelberger, Michaela Barnikel, Alessia Fraccaroli, Johanna Tischer, Sofía Antón, Alexandra Pawlikowski, Mark op den Winkel, Hans Joachim Stemmler, Stephanie-Susanne Stecher

“…There were no significant differences in leucocyte or platelet count on the tracheostomy day. Patients with coagulation disorders and patients under immunosuppression were distributed equally among both groups. …”
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Prediction of pulmonary embolism by an explainable machine learning approach in the real world by Qiao Zhou, Ruichen Huang, Xingyu Xiong, Zongan Liang, Wei Zhang

“…The SHAP summary plot delineated the positive and negative effects of features attributed to the RF prediction model, including D-dimer, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products (FFDP), platelet count, albumin, cholesterol, and sodium. Furthermore, the SHAP dependence plot illustrated the impact of individual features on the RF prediction model. …”
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Advancements for the Future: A National Survey of Fastpitch Softball Coaches’ Perspectives on Injury Prevention Programming by Jaime Nurrenbern, Courtney Klueppel, Jeff Tilly, Kyle Matsel

“…Although over 50% of coaches recognized arm fatigue/overuse (27.9%, n=48/172) and decreased core strength (22.7%, n=39/172) were important risk factors, 36% (n=94/172) "disagree" that softball pitchers should adhere to pitch counts and 90% (n=83/92) believe that preventative programming for pitchers and position players should be similar…”
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Mitigating Mercury Chloride-Induced Spleen Toxicity in Wistar Rats: The Efficacy of Newbouldia laevis Ethanol Extract by Calmday-Ombo D, Innih SO

“…Results: The results indicated a significant decrease in white blood cell count in the group treated with 500mg/kg of the extract alone, while other hematological parameters remained unchanged. …”
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Preparation of a Low-Calorie, Gluten-Free All-in-One Cake Mix, Containing Bacillus Coagulans Using Quinoa and Inulin Functionality by Khatereh Amini, Anousheh Sharifan, Babak Ghiassi Tarzi, Reza Azizinezhad

“…The moisture, water activity, and bacteria count changes were followed during four days of cakes preservation in refrigerator. …”
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Functional Kimchi Beverage Enhanced with γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) Through Serial Co-Fermentation Using <i>Leuconostoc citreum</i> S5 and <i>Lactiplantibacillus plantarum</i> KS20... by Min-Jeong Kwon, Ji-Eun Kim, Sam-Pin Lee

“…The first lactic acid fermentation was performed by <i>Leu. citreum</i> S5 with a vegetable mixture consisting of sliced radish, ginger, garlic, red pepper, bell pepper, and sucrose. The viable cell count of <i>Leu. citreum</i> S5 increased to 9.11–9.42 log CFU/mL with higher sucrose contents, indicating the highest value of 9.42 log CFU/mL at 5% sucrose on day 1. …”
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Tree Diversity and Damage by Cypress Aphid, Cinara cupressi, on Juniperus procera in Gulele Botanical Garden and Entoto by Sitotaw Kebede, Tewodros Mulugeta

“…The results showed significant differences in aphid densities between the sites. The highest aphid count was observed at Entoto Mountain. Besides, the solely planted J. procera trees had higher cypress aphid numbers than the mixed plantation. …”
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Positive real-time PCR in pneumococcal meningitis 12 hours after initiation of antibiotic therapy – case report by Cem Thunstedt, Carla Palleis, Johannes Wischmann, Suzette Heck, Konstantinos Dimitriadis, Matthias Klein

“…Lumbar puncture revealed cloudy cerebrospinal fluid with elevated cell count, protein, and low glucose. While blood and CSF cultures remained negative, multiplex PCR for Streptococcus pneumoniae was positive even 10 h after beginning of effective antibiotic therapy. …”
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Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Cannabigerol In Vitro and In Vivo Are Mediated Through the JAK/STAT/NFκB Signaling Pathway by Ga Hee Jeong, Ki Chan Kim, Ji Hyun Lee

“…The results showed that CBG improved dermatitis severity score, epidermal thickness, and mast cell count and reduced inflammatory cytokines (<i>Tslp</i>, <i>Il1b</i>, <i>Il4</i>, <i>Il6</i>, <i>Il13</i>, <i>Il17</i>, <i>Il18</i>, <i>Il22</i>, and <i>Il33</i>) by qRT-PCR (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Long-term Air Pollution Exposure Impact on COVID-19 Morbidity in China by Yihan Wu, Qingming Zhan, Qunshan Zhao

“…To fill this gap, this study investigates the influences of particulate matters (PM2.5 and PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) on COVID-19 incidence rate based on the prefecture-level morbidity count and air quality data in China. Annual means for ambient PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO and O3 concentrations in each prefecture are used to estimate the population’s exposure. …”
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Dengue severity by serotype and immune status in 19 years of pediatric clinical studies in Nicaragua. by Federico Narvaez, Carlos Montenegro, Jose G Juarez, José Victor Zambrana, Karla Gonzalez, Elsa Videa, Sonia Arguello, Fanny Barrios, Sergio Ojeda, Miguel Plazaola, Nery Sanchez, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Guillermina Kuan, Gabriela Paz Bailey, Eva Harris, Angel Balmaseda

“…DENV2 was associated with increased odds of pleural effusion and low platelet count, while DENV3 was associated with both hypotensive and compensated shock.…”
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Association of oxidative balance score with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in overweight and obese by Shuxin Ying, Hongyan Ding, Yanjin Chen, Su Zheng

“…Mediation analysis indicates that white blood cell count (WBC) and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) serve as significant mediators in the association between OBS and mortality risk.ConclusionElevated levels of OBS were strongly linked to reduced potential for both cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among individuals who are overweight or obese.…”
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Source Apportionment of Urban Ammonia and its Contribution to Secondary Particle Formation in a Mid-size European City by Laura Ehrnsperger, Otto Klemm

“…Modeled emissions of NH3 as estimated by the Handbook for Emission Factors in combination with traffic counts were in the same magnitude for NH3. The size-resolved chemical composition of inorganic ions in PM10 was dominated by NH4 + (8.66 µg m−3), followed by NO3 − (3.89 µg m−3), SO4 2− (1.58 µg m−3) and Cl− (1.33 µg m−3). …”
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The gift of health promotion in a celebration: A descriptive observational study of community baby showers on YouTube by Aysha Jawed, Colin Gardiner

“…It follows that the goal of this study sought to fill this gap by examining the existing state of coverage for community baby showers on social media utilizing view count as an engagement metric. Methods: In this cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study, we conducted a content analysis of the top 100 most widely viewed videos populated on YouTube at one conceptual point in time that covered community baby showers. to determine the most prevalent sources, formats, and content represented across this sample of videos. …”
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Using Adipose Measures from Health Care Provider-Based Imaging Data for Discovery by Elliot D. K. Cha, Yogasudha Veturi, Chirag Agarwal, Aalpen Patel, Mohammad R. Arbabshirani, Sarah A. Pendergrass

“…VAT levels were strongly associated with type 2 diabetes-related diagnoses (p = 1.5 × 10−58), obstructive sleep apnea (p = 7.7 × 10−37), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels (p = 1.42 × 10−36), triglyceride levels (p = 1.44 × 10−43), and white blood cell (WBC) counts (p = 7.37 × 10−9). Sex-stratified tests revealed stronger associations among women, indicating the increased influence of VAT on obesity-related disease outcomes particularly among women. …”
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Clinical Diagnostic Value of Quantitative Hepatitis B Virus Core Antibody Test in Chronic Viral Hepatitis B by Xi Su, Huangping Chen, Zifei Zhu, Wanying Xie, Jianqiao Peng, Xinping Ma, Wenwen Jin, Wei Shi, Zhonghua Deng, Cunyan Li

“…The quantitative detection of HBcAb, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), HBV DNA, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and platelet count (PLT) were determined in the serum of 73 cases of low-replicative phase (LR), 46 cases of immune-tolerant phase (IT), 44 cases of immune clearance phase (IC), and 57 cases of HBeAg-negative hepatitis (ENH). …”
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Analysis and detection of temperature inductions of land cover changes in Lorestan province using MODIS sensor products by hamed heidari, darush yarahmadi, hamid mirhashemi

“…The results of cross-matrix analysis showed that in hot and cold seasons, forest cover (IGBP code 5) with a temperature of 48 ° C and urban and residential land cover (IGBP code 13) with a temperature of 16 ° C as the hottest land use, respectively. They count. In addition, it was observed that the thermal inductions of land cover in the warm season are minimized and there is no significant difference between the temperature structure of land cover classes; But in the cold season, the thermal impulses of land cover are more pronounced. …”
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YOLO-TC: An Optimized Detection Model for Monitoring Safety-Critical Small Objects in Tower Crane Operations by Dong Ding, Zhengrong Deng, Rui Yang

“…Built upon the robust YOLOv7 architecture, our model integrates a novel channel–spatial attention mechanism, ECA-CBAM, into the backbone network, enhancing feature extraction without an increase in parameter count. Additionally, we propose the HA-PANet architecture to achieve progressive feature fusion, addressing scale disparities and prioritizing small object detection while reducing noise from unrelated objects. …”
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Long-Term GAD-alum Treatment Effect on Different T-Cell Subpopulations in Healthy Children Positive for Multiple Beta Cell Autoantibodies by Falastin Salami, Lampros Spiliopoulos, Marlena Maziarz, Markus Lundgren, Charlotte Brundin, Rasmus Bennet, Magnus Hillman, Carina Törn, Helena Elding Larsson

“…The children were randomized to two doses of subcutaneously administered GAD-alum treatment or placebo, 30 days apart. Complete blood count (CBC) and immunophenotyping of T-cell subpopulations by flow cytometry were performed regularly during the 24 months of follow-up posttreatment. …”
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