Pre-probiotic effects of different bacterial species in aquaculture: behavioral, hematological and oxidative stress responses by Alak Gonca, Kotan Recep, Uçar Arzu, Parlak Veysel, Atamanalp Muhammed

“…Physiological changes in blood tissue [hematological indices: erythrocyte count (RBC), leukocyte count (WBC), hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Hct), platelet count (PLT), mean cell hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), mean cell hemoglobin (MCH), and mean cell volume (MCV)], oxidative stress responses in liver and gill tissues [malondialdehyde (MDA) level, antioxidant enzyme activities: superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), glutathione reductase (GR), glutathione-S-transferase (GST), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)] and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity in brain tissue (as neurotoxic biomarker) were investigated. …”
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Impact of Postpartum Dexamethasone on Postpartum Disease Stabilization in Women with HELLP Syndrome by Ayla Sargın Oruç, Figen Türkçapar, Serdar Oğuz, Necati Hançerlioğulları, Ümit Bilge, Nuri Danışman

“…Mean arterial pressure, platelet count , aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels were determined every 6 hours. …”
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Analysis of the Quality Stability of Strawberry Juice Fermented with Water Kefir Grains during Refrigeration by Linlin YIN, Zhina CHEN, Ruixue SUN, Xianya LIU, Yuxin WANG

“…The viable lactic acid bacterial and yeast counts decreased by 12.8% and 14%, respectively, while the counts of viable acetic acid bacteria increased by 16%. …”
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Visceral Leishmaniasis and Herpes Zoster as a Component of Syndrome of Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in an HIV-Positive Patient by Ermira Muço, Arta Karruli, Neada Hoxha, Alma Hoxhaj, Majlinda Kokici

“…Immune reconstitution syndrome (IRIS) is a state of unusual hyperinflammatory response against latent infections which occurs after CD4 cell count improvement and as a consequence of immune response once highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV is introduced. …”
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Serum Leptin Is not a Diagnostic Marker for Familial Mediterranean Fever Attacks by Bülent Toy, Orhan Tarçın, Sait Bağcı, Yücel Üstündağ, Ali Inal, Arzu Tiftikçi

“…However, there were statistical differences in the serum levels of IL-6, ESR, CRP, fibrinogen, and leukocyte counts before and during the attack periods (P<.05). …”
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Performance of indirect adherence measures for daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among adolescent men who have sex with men and transgender women in Brazil. by Diana Zeballos, Laio Magno, Fabiane Soares, Jony Arrais Pinto Junior, Leila Amorim, Dirceu Greco, Alexandre Grangeiro, Inês Dourado, PrEP15-19 study group

“…The AUC was 0.59 for MPR, 0.69 for pill count, and 0.75 for self-report. When combining MPR and self-report, the AUC increased to 0.77. …”
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Predictive Role of IL-2R and IL-10 in the Anti-inflammatory Response and Antiplatelet Therapy of Kawasaki Disease: A Retrospective Study by Chun Zhang, Lun Chen, Sun Chen, Yan Bian, Jia Shen, Peng Zhang, JiaNi Song

“…The present retrospective study analyzed the dynamic alterations of inflammatory cytokines, platelet (PLT) count, and subgroups of lymphocytes, such as cluster of differentiation (CD) 8+ T cells and CD19+ B cells, under different conditions in 64 children with KD. …”
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Correlation between Imaging Morphological Findings and Laboratory Biomarkers in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema by Eleni Dimitriou, Theodoros N. Sergentanis, Vaia Lambadiari, George Theodossiadis, Panagiotis Theodossiadis, Irini Chatziralli

“…Presence of hyperreflective foci on SD-OCT was associated with significantly higher white blood cell count (p=0.028). Ellipsoid zone disruption was associated with significantly lower hematocrit (p=0.012), hemoglobin (p=0.009), and red blood cell count (p=0.026), as well as with higher lipoprotein (a) (p=0.015). …”
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Effect of Foliar Spraying with Boron and Ascorbic Acid on Growth and Yield Traits of Chili Pepper Grown in Plastic House by Adnan Ghazi Salman Al-nussirawi, Wasam Habeib Altamimi, Jamal Nathir Naji

“…The treatment spraying boron at a rate of 100 mg L-1 had significantly better results in terms of relative chlorophyll content in leaves, main stem diameter, plant height, branch count, leaf count, fruit count, fruit weight, and plant yield (48.23 Spad, 21.02 mm, 70.02 cm, 4.500 branches, 156.81 leaves, 74.88 fruits, 19.00 g, and 1492.5 g plant-1 respectively). …”
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Uniaxial Experimental Study of the Deformation Behavior and Energy Evolution of Conjugate Jointed Rock Based on AE and DIC Methods by Jiliang Pan, Xu Wu, Qifeng Guo, Xun Xi, Meifeng Cai

“…The results show that the AE counts can be used to characterize the damage and failure of the specimen during uniaxial compression. …”
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Correlation of Aspergillus fumigatus Sensitization with Mucus Plugging in COPD by Luo Y, Ren J, Liang L, Qu J, Chang C, Sun Y

“…Patients with AH had lower FEV1%pred (P=0.008) and FEV1/FVC (%) (P=0.023), and were more likely to have a blood eosinophil count exceeding 300/μL and higher white blood cell and neutrophil counts. …”
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Effectiveness of Four-Decontamination Techniques on Bacterial Growth on CPR Manikins after Use in a CPR Course

“…Colony growths too numerous to count defaulted to a minimum 300 threshold (standard laboratory protocol). …”
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Stability of Encapsulated Lactobacillus reuteri during Harsh Conditions, Storage Period, and Simulated In Vitro Conditions by Abdolazim Soltani Lak, Mohammad Hossein Marhamatizadeh, Hossein Fattahi

“…Viability of probiotics in the foods and human bodies is important, because a certain minimum count of bacteria is necessary to impose health promoting effects. …”
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Improved completion rates and characterization of drug reactions with an intensive Chagas disease treatment program in rural Bolivia. by Jeffrey A Tornheim, Daniel F Lozano Beltran, Robert H Gilman, Mario Castellon, Marco A Solano Mercado, Walter Sullca, Faustino Torrico, Caryn Bern

“…Adherence was measured by self-report, pill counts with intentional over-distribution, and Medication Event Monitoring Systems (MEMS). …”
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Effect of hot smoking on the quality of vimba (vimba vimba tenella) by Abdullah Diler, Behire Işıl Işıklı, Ahmet Güner, Yusuf Doğruer

“…After salting process, it was determined that Micrococcus - Staphylococcus were increased (p<0.001) although total mesophilic aerobic and coliform bacteria count were decreased (pcO.OOl, p<0.05). Related to smoking process, total mesophilic aerobic count increased (p<0.001) eventhough Micrococcus- Staphylococcus and yeast-mould counts decreased (pcO.OOl). …”
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Evaluation of antibacterial efficacy of propolis as an intercanal medicament against Enterococcus faecalis (a randomized controlled in vitro study) by Alaa Almahameed, Joul Kassis, Magd Aboud, Kinda Layous

“…Results: The mean value of the E. faecalis count at the time T2 was 0.030 for group 2, which is less and better than in group 1 (0.363). …”
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Anti-Malarial Effects of Five Traditional Nigerian Medicinal Plant Extracts on Plasmodium Berghei-Infected Rats by Ugochukwu Vincent, Igbokwe, Ejike, Daniel Eze, Moses Dele, Adams, Karimah Mohammed, Rabiu, Iliya, Ezekiel, Prisca Ojochogu, Ajeka, Peace Ogechukwu, Okpara

“…Before treatment, parasitemia count of animals in groups B-E was substantially (p<0.05) higher when juxtaposed with group A. …”
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Electronic Recordkeeping and School Management Processes: A Case of Selected Secondary Schools in Luwero District. by Mugisha, David

“…(P < 0.000, φ=1.473). The count showed that 98% expected counted was less than 5%. …”
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Data cache optimization model based on cyclic genetic ant colony algorithm in edge computing environment by Danyue Wang, Xingshuo An, Xianwei Zhou, Xing Lü

“…We propose a multi-objective optimization data caching model in the edge computing environment using data access counts, data access frequency, and data size as optimization goals. …”
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An energy balance AODV protocol with multicast route discovery for wireless body area networks by Jin TAN, Yujuan ZHANG

“…In AODV protocol with the dynamic topology networks，the source node S requests a route to an arbitrary destination node D with flooding broadcast the RREQ message，but there is only one destination node sink in a WBAN，other nodes involved in receiving and forwarding RREQ have wasted energy except the nodes on minimum hop count routing.An energy balance AODV protocol with multicast route discovery for wireless body area networks was proposed，it increased the minimum hop count to sink hops，the next hop node to sink next and the node itself has the forwarding capability isforward three parameters in a hello message，and selects neighbors which could reach the sink only to participate in forwarding the RREQ message.This protocol effectively reduces the energy cost of the routing discovery through changing the broadcast to multicast，and prolongs the service life of WBAN with energy balance.The performance analysis and simulation experiment indicate that the proposed protocol is more advantaged than similar EAAODV in the number of RREQ，packet delivery ratio and energy consumption.…”
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