Mucormycosis Associated with Global Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic: A Study of Fungal Profile from a Tertiary Health-care Center by Snigdha Purohit, Kavita Mourya, Nazneen Pathan, Sunita Agarwal, Vithika Vyas, Aruna Vyas

“…Samples were first examined microscopically using potassium hydroxide (KOH) wet mounts followed by culture on sabouraud dextrose agar and the gross appearance of the growth was observed. …”
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Self-training and self-education in the professional formation of a Ukrainian citizen by Олександр Притула

“…Every person from childhood should not only form a certain basic philosophical culture, which will help him to achieve better self-esteem, but also strive to constantly find a community of those interested in philosophy. …”
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Supplementation with serine-enriched non-essential amino acids from minimum essential medium promotes blastocyst development of in vitro-fertilized bovine embryos by Nobuhiko ITAMI, Yuji HIRAO

“…Therefore, it is necessary to construct a culture system for high efficiency production of embryos meeting these four criteria. …”
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Conditioned Medium from Human Amnion-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Regulates Activation of Primary Hepatic Stellate Cells by Qingjie Fu, Shunsuke Ohnishi, Naoya Sakamoto

“…In this study, we investigated the effects, and underlying mechanisms, of a conditioned medium obtained from hAMSC cultures (hAMSC-CM) on a primary culture of rat hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). …”
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Patch-Based Oil Painting Forgery Detection Based on Brushstroke Analysis Using Generative Adversarial Networks and Depth Visualization by Elhamsadat Azimi, Amirsaman Ashtari, Jaehong Ahn

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Nitrate Reductase Inhibition Induces Lipid Enhancement of Dunaliella Tertiolecta for Biodiesel Production by Redouane Benhima, Hicham El Arroussi, Issam M. Kadmiri, Najib El Mernissi, Imane Wahby, Iman Bennis, AbdelAziz Smouni, Najib Bendaou

“…One-stage and two-stage culture strategies were compared. One-stage culture raised total lipids from 18% (control) to 39% (w: w); however, two-stage culture raised lipids to 50% in which neutral lipids were enhanced 2.14 times. …”
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A Rare Case of Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Child with a Congenital Heart Disease by Bhim Gopal Dhoubhadel, Ujjwal Laghu, Raju Poudel, Konosuke Morimoto, Koya Ariyoshi

“…Gram staining, India ink preparation, and culture of CSF were negative. Cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) test was not available. …”
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Effect of Codon Optimisation on the Production of Recombinant Fish Growth Hormone in Pichia pastoris by Hussin A. Rothan, Teh Ser Huy, Zulqarnain Mohamed

“…This study was established to test the hypothesis of whether the codon optimization of fish growth hormone gene (FGH) based on P. pastoris preferred codon will improve the quantity of secreted rFGH in culture supernatant that can directly be used as fish feed supplements. …”
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Gingival fibroblast suppress the osteogenesis process mediated by bone substitute materials via WNT/β-catenin signaling pathway in vitro and in vivo by Guanqi Liu, Jiahui Lin, Xiaoyan Chen, Runheng Liu

“…This study aimed to investigate the impact of gingival fibroblasts on the osteogenic differentiation of MSCs in the presence of BSMs and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms, focusing on the WNT/β-catenin signaling pathway.MethodsGingival fibroblasts and BSMs co-culture conditioned medium was used to culture MMSCs, and the expression and activity of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), as well as osteogenic and fibrogenic gene and protein expression, were evaluated. …”
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Biomineralization Performance of Bacillus sphaericus under the Action of Bacillus mucilaginosus by Yingying Hu, Weitao Liu, Wenjing Wang, Xinlei Jia, Lanjuan Xu, Qing Cao, Jianjun Shen, Xiangming Hu

“…Bacillus mucilaginosus was introduced into the culture solution of Bacillus sphaericus in the most suitable culture environment, and the changes of mineralization rate and mineralization yield of Bacillus sphaericus were observed and analyzed. …”
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Corpus-Based Reflective Practice for Professional Development: A Collaborative Micro Auto-Ethnography by Olcay Sert, Elisabeth Wulff Sahlén, Thorsten Schröter

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A Postcolonial Conversational Approach to Preaching in Multicultural Contexts by Scott Donahue-Martens

“…Preachers cannot assume the mere presence of different cultures or diversity means a congregational context is multicultural. …”
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Bacteriological Profile and Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns in Lower Respiratory Tract Infection at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital by Jitendra Singh, Arpita Shah, Hemali Parmar, Bithika Duttaroy

“…Klebsiella spp. was the most common isolates being 39.5% (338 isolates) followed by E. coli 23.97% (205 isolates), Pseudomonas spp. 16.9% (145 isolates), Acinetobacter spp. 14.61% (125 isolates), S. aureus 3.04% (26 isolates) and Enterococcus spp. 1.87% (16 isolates). Conclusion: Culture and susceptibility test is vital for proper diagnosis and management of patients with LRTIs. 39.78% culture positivity was observed in all the samples received with predominance of Gram-negative isolates.…”
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Publishing Trends of Informal Lithuanian Youth Publications –Fanzines – at the End of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė

“…Paper fanzines started to be created at the end of the 20th century and became popular in the 1990s, spreading Western culture ideas and changing the political, and socio-cultural environment in Lithuania along with technological copying and reproduction possibilities. …”
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Discourses of Contrast and Deficiency: a Lexicogrammatical Analysis of first Nations Representation in Samuel Hearne’s Journey (1795) by Christoph Schubert

“…Cet article explore la représentation linguistique des indigènes canadiens, en particulier la culture des Chipewyans dans A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean de Samuel Hearne. …”
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Organizational Silence: Dimensions, Determinants, and Impact on Management - an Analytical Study by Mohamed Lamine Slimane Tichtich, Khaiat Amira

“…The study examines how various human elements, such as age, gender, and educational qualifications, as well as organizational aspects, such as culture, knowledge management, and internal entrepreneurial settings, affect the occurrence of silence within businesses. …”
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The Gǝʿǝz Manuscripts Collection from the Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham, Tǝgray, Ethiopia) by Hagos Abrha Abay

“…It is known that Gärʿalta is endowed with reflections of Aksumite culture, and the monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon also seems to have had its own share in its continuation. …”
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Psychomotor Abilities, Body Composition and Training Experience of Elite and Sub-Elite Handball Players by Maciej Śliż, Cintia França, Francisco Martins, Patryk Marszałek, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia, Krzysztof Przednowek

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Improving neonatal outcome by studying the incidence of maternal group B streptococcus colonization among pregnant women: A prospective observational study by Priyank Rajan, Mukesh Sanklecha, Saloni Gandhi, Kaushal Soni, Mayur Wanjari, Gaurav Mittal

“…High vaginal and rectal swabs were collected and immediately transported to the microbiology lab and were sent for culture and sensitivity testing using the standard culture methods. …”
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Speech etiquette situation of apology in classes of Russian as a foreign language (on the example of Asya Petrova's story «Sorry, Fool») by Zhanna K. Gaponova, Anastasiya A. Serogodskaya

“…The research resulted in the testing of the presented work in practical classes with foreign students on topics related to speech etiquette and human speech culture. The authors note that the affective reading on the example of Asya Petrovas story Sorry, Fool proved to be effective in practice, contributed to the creation of a situation of success in the organization of international communication and allowed to implement the participants intentional promotion of the principles and values of their culture in the class.…”
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