HOTSSea v1: a NEMO-based physical Hindcast of the Salish Sea (1980–2018) supporting ecosystem model development by G. Oldford, G. Oldford, T. Jarníková, V. Christensen, M. Dunphy

“…<p>Decadal-scale oceanographic, environmental, and ecological changes have been reported in the Salish Sea, an ecologically productive inland sea in the northeast Pacific that supports the economies and cultures of millions of people. However, there are substantial data gaps related to physical water properties that make it difficult to evaluate trends and the pathways of effects between physical ocean water properties and the productivity of marine ecosystems. …”
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Antimicrobial Therapy as a Risk Factor of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Infection in COVID-19 Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit by P. Mihalov, J. Hodosy, A. Koščálová, M. Čaprnda, M. Kachlíková, J. Jurenka, M. Bendžala, P. Sabaka

“…Multidrug-resistant bacteria were cultured in 43 patients (47.8%), and MDR-Ab was isolated in 37 patients. …”
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Microencapsulation of single-cell protein from various microalgae species by Purnama Sukardi, Tjahjo Winanto, , Hartoyo, Taufik Budhi Pramono, Eko Setyo Wibowo

“…Microencapsulated diet was produced by a modification method based on thermal cross-linking with stable temperature. Phytoplankton was cultured in sea water for which fertilized by a modification of Walne and Guillard fertilizer. …”
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THE EFFECT OF MOTIVATION ON THE MOTOR ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS UNDER DIFFERENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION APPROACHES by E. M. Revenko, V. A. Salnikov

“…A formative level of general intelligence is lower due to students’ potential success when performing a wide complex of activities required by the physical culture curriculum. However, allowing free choice in sport specialization significantly increases the motivation of young people who are physically weaker but who are more intellectually developed than their peers.Practical significance. …”
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Utility of Ascitic Fluid Adenosine Deaminase Levels in the Diagnosis of Tuberculous Peritonitis in General Medical Practice by Ayako Kumabe, Shuji Hatakeyama, Naoki Kanda, Yu Yamamoto, Masami Matsumura

“…Tuberculous peritonitis is difficult to diagnose due to its varying clinical features, in addition to the low yield on bacterial culture or polymerase chain reaction using ascitic fluid samples. …”
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The addition of calcium oxide with different doses in the recirculation system to improve the abalone Haliotis squamata seed production by Eddy Supriyono, Debora Victoria Liubana, Tatag Budiardi, Irzal Effendi

“… Information about abalone growth is necessary to overcome the abalone culture sustainability. Water quality parameters are aspects that need to be reviewed, one of which is the calcium level in the water. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Associated Factors towards Colostrum Feeding among Antenatal Care Attendant Mothers in Gununo Health Centre, Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia 2019: Cross-Sectional S... by Addisu Yeshambel Wassie, Natnael Atnafu Gebeyehu, Kelemu Abebe Gelaw

“…In Ethiopia, there are differences in cultures in the acceptability of colostrum and the prevalence of colostrum feeding. …”
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The BET inhibitor JQ1 targets fat metabolism and counteracts obesity by Claudia Fornelli, Alessia Sofia Cento, Lorenzo Nevi, Raffaella Mastrocola, Gustavo Ferreira Alves, Giuseppina Caretti, Massimo Collino, Fabio Penna

“…A direct JQ1 lipolytic effect was demonstrated on mature adipocyte cultures. JQ1-mediated loss of adipose tissue mass was not associated with systemic inflammation or with lipid accumulation in muscle and liver. …”
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The extremely halotolerant black yeast Hortaea werneckii - a model for intraspecific hybridization in clonal fungi by Polona Zalar, Jerneja Zupančič, Cene Gostinčar, Janja Zajc, G. Sybren de Hoog, Filomena De Leo, Armando Azua-Bustos, Nina Gunde-Cimerman

“…Here, we report that addition of NaCl to culture media expands the growth range of H. werneckii to 37 °C, which explains its colonisation of human skin, with its increased salinity. …”
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Effect of Parental Migration Background on Childhood Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Body Mass Index by Mohsen Besharat Pour, Anna Bergström, Matteo Bottai, Inger Kull, Magnus Wickman, Niclas Håkansson, Alicja Wolk, Tahereh Moradi

“…A low level of parental education was associated with increased risk of low physical activity regardless of immigration background. Conclusions. Culturally appropriate tools to capture the diverse range of ethnic foods and other lifestyle habits are needed. …”
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Electronegative LDL from Rabbits Fed with Atherogenic Diet Is Highly Proinflammatory by Po-Yuan Chang, Jou-Hsiang Pai, Yu-Sheng Lai, Shao-Chun Lu

“…Macrophages were treated with nLDL, LDL(-), and extensively oxidized LDL (ox-LDL), then the levels of interleukin- (IL-) 1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) α in a culture medium were determined by ELISA, and the levels of total and phosphorylated IκB, p65, p38, JNK, and ERK in cell lysates were determined by Western blotting. …”
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The MicroRNA-106a/20b Strongly Enhances the Antitumour Immune Responses of Dendritic Cells Pulsed with Glioma Stem Cells by Targeting STAT3 by Hui Zhou, Chengmei Sun, Cong Li, Shiting Hua, Feng Li, Ruichun Li, Dongpeng Cai, Yuxi Zou, Yingqian Cai, Xiaodan Jiang

“…Evaluate the effect of the miRNA-106a/20b on the efficacy of DCs pulsed with GSCs in activating GSC-specific T cell responses. Methods. We cultured GSCs and prepared GSC antigen lysates by apoptosis. …”
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Evaluation the Efficacy of ELISA IgG, IgM and IgA Tests for Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori by Hogir Mohammed Shukri Saadi, Ali Yahya Saeed

“…The efficacy of three different ELISA tests (IgG, IgM, IgA) was assessed taking culture as a gold standard method. pylori was found in 70.93%, 30.23% and 5.81% by ELISA IgG, IgA and IgM tests respectively. …”
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Vitamin C Content in Daphnia sp. Enriched with L-ascorbic Acid Ethyl Cellulose at Different Enrichment Period by D. Jusadi, I. Meylani, N.B.P. Utomo

“…/l medium were enriched with either 0.1, 0.5 or 1 g l-ascorbic acid ethyl cellulose (VC) per l culture medium. In this triplicate experiment, Daphnia were enriched with VC in a 12 litre aquaria for 0, 3, 6 or 9 h. …”
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Re-imagining education in Haiti through a lens of de-coloniality by Rudolph Damas

“…Findings – This study demonstrates that primary school students, teachers and their communities in Haiti respond better to education development projects that place mother-tongue learning, grassroots community participation and culturally relevant pedagogy at the forefront of daily operational planning. …”
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility of <i>Salmonella typhi</i> and <i>paratyphi</i> among Pediatric Population at Tertiary Care Center of North Delhi: A Retrospective Study by Shekhar Biswas, Sulagna Tripathy, Arvind Kumar, Sanjay Chattree

“…Materials and methods: We undertook a retrospective, cross-sectional multicentric study by reviewing hospital-based laboratory records of pediatric patients (up to age 18 years) whose blood culture samples were submitted from the outpatient and inpatient departments to the laboratories of Jaipur Golden Hospital in Rohini and Fortis Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, Delhi, India from September 2022 to September 2023. …”
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Effect of partial oocyte maturation before ovum pick up on developmental competence of buffalo oocytes by Amjad Riaz, Muhammad K. Ashraf, Talha Ashraf, Ali Husnain, Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad H. Mushtaq, Burhan E. Azam

“…Similarly, oocytes treated with hCG had greater (p = 0.04) development from cultured oocytes to Day 7 embryo (52.5 vs. 18.1 ± 10.3%). …”
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Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans by Brikha H. S. Nasoraia

“…Indeed, much of the Mandaeans’ thought and practice, especially their rituals of water ablution, have deep origins going back to Sumer, Akkad and Babylonia, reflecting regionally wide influences from right across the Fertile Crescent. Mandaean culture and the Mandaic Aramaic language was of high report in the so-called Patristic period covered by this Special Issue, even in the Arabian Peninsula up until the rise of Islam (634 CE onward), and Mandaeans were honored as a third “People of the Book”—the Sabians (<i>Ṣābeʾun; or ṣobba</i> in modern Iraqi Arabic)—in the Qur’an (2:62; 5:69; 22:17); in the Muslim world, many Mandaic speakers switched language to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and (Arabicized) Persian. …”
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Reverse mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 spike BA.2.86 identifies epitopes contributing to immune escape from polyclonal sera by Najat Bdeir, Tatjana Lüddecke, Henrike Maaß, Stefan Schmelz, Ulfert Rand, Henning Jacobsen, Kristin Metzdorf, Upasana Kulkarni, Anne Cossmann, Metodi V. Stankov, Markus Hoffmann, Stefan Pöhlmann, Wulf Blankenfeldt, Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka, Georg M. N. Behrens, Luka Čičin-Šain

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HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS IN THE EXISTING PRACTICES OF LATE MODERNISM VIOLENCE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS by O. V. Marchenko, L. V. Martseniuk

“…Accordingly, anthropological crisis remains behind the scenes, as evidenced by the devaluation of the humanistic potential of modern culture. That is why one should turn the focus from the obvious, objectively conditioned incarnations of violence in the XXI century (armed conflicts, local wars, terrorist acts) to the internal factors that are in the realm of existential. …”
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