Antibacterial potential of celery (Apium graveolens L.) extract gel against Staphylococcus aureus by Martinus Ezra Sunarno, Anita Lidesna Shinta Amat, Arley Sadra Telussa, Prisca Deviani Pakan

“…Formulations with various celery extract concentrations were tested alongside mupirocin ointment (positive control) and gel base (negative control) against Staphylococcus aureus using the well-diffusion method. The results were analyzed using the One-Way ANOVA statistical test. …”
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A Gas Seepage Modeling Study for Mitigating Gas Accumulation Risk in Upper Protective Coal Seam Mining Process by Cun Zhang, Lei Zhang, Mingxue Li, Chen Wang

“…These equations have been developed by using Fick’s second law of diffusion and Darcy’s flow law. The relationship between permeability and stress was described in an elastic-plastic state, and the mechanics of surrounding rock were investigated. …”
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Frequency of Detection of Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., and Campylobacter spp. in the Faeces of Wild Rats (Rattus spp.) in Trinidad and Tobago by Comfort Nkogwe, Juliah Raletobana, Alva Stewart-Johnson, Sharianne Suepaul, Abiodun Adesiyun

“…Characterization of E. coli was done on sorbitol MacConkey agar to determine non-sorbitol fermentation, blood agar to determine haemolytic and mucoid colonies and by using E. coli O157 antiserum to determine O157 strain. The disc diffusion method was used to determine resistance to nine antimicrobial agents. …”
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ARES: A Parallel Discrete Ordinates Transport Code for Radiation Shielding Applications and Reactor Physics Analysis by Yixue Chen, Bin Zhang, Liang Zhang, Junxiao Zheng, Ying Zheng, Cong Liu

“…Traditional source iteration and Krylov iterative method preconditioned with diffusion synthetic acceleration are applied to solve the linear system of equations. …”
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ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF NAMNAM FRUIT JUICE FROM SOUTH KALIMANTAN AGAINST STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND ESCHERICHIA COLI by Nurbidayah, Nafila, Nurul Amalia

“…Method: The method used in this study was agar diffusion using blank disks and the measurement of the inhibition of the test bacteria. …”
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Conductive Composite Biosensor System for Electrochemical Indinavir Drug Detection by Natasha Ross, Nicolette Hendricks-Leukes, Rachel Fanelwa Ajayi, Priscilla Baker, Emmanuel I. Iwuoha

“…The biosensor exhibited reversible electrochemistry, with formal potential determined as −624 ± 5 mV, from voltammetric analysis, with overall electron transfer being diffusion controlled. The biosensor showed typical electrocatalytic response to dioxygen (O2), exemplified by the distinct increase in the cathodic peak current (Ip,c). …”
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Microstructure evolution during solution annealing of an Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloy with La additions by Tilen Balaško, Aleš Nagode, Jiehua Li, Jožef Medved

“…Prolonged annealing promoted the diffusion of Mg and Zn from the eutectic phases, which led to their dissolution in the matrix. …”
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HEMA-free versus HEMA-containing adhesive systems: a systematic review by Esraa Abdelkhalek, Hamdi H. Hamama, Salah H. Mahmoud

“…Although the addition of HEMA to dental adhesives improves dentin wettability and resin diffusion into demineralized collagen fibrils, HEMA’s high hydrophilicity can lead to hydrolytic degradation of the adhesive interface. …”
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The molecular dynamics study of the thermal behavior of argon flow in a nanochannel with changes in nanochannel cross-section by Reza Karimi, Ali Marzban, Davood Toghraie

“…According to collision and diffusion mechanisms which distribute and exchange heat, there will be limited changes by altering the nanochannel section from square to rectangle. …”
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Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence Factors in Clinical Isolates of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia from Hospitalized Patients in Tehran, Iran by Mahrokh Bahrami, Narjess Bostanghadiri, Mehdi Goudarzi, Niloufar Khodaei, Ali Hashemi

“…This study conducted an analysis of antibiotic susceptibility by disc diffusion method and E-test assay, resistance and virulence gene frequencies were examined by PCR-sequencing, and multilocus sequencing typing (MLST) was performed for strain typing. …”
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Frequency of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria isolated from the Kınalıada Coastal Areas of the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye by Pelin Saliha Çiftçi Türetken, Gülşen Altuğ, Selma Dilara Karaman Baş

“…The bacteria isolated from the sea water were screened against: spectinomycin (SC300), nitrofurantoin (F50), Rifampicin (Rd2), tetracycline (TE30), ampicillin (AMP10), and oxytetracycline (OT30) using the disk diffusion technique. The frequencies of antibiotic-resistant faecal coliform, total coliform, intestinal enterococcus, and heterotrophic aerobic bacteria were evaluated according to the Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI). …”
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Electroacupuncture combined with cognitive rehabilitation outperforms cognitive rehabilitation alone in treating post-stroke cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled trial by Yisha Guo, Tingting Sun, Fengxi Qiu, Xueyi Li, Weiwei Cui, Zhenhua Liao, Jiajia Yao

“…Cognitive assessments and Diffusion Tensor Imaging tests were performed pre- and post-intervention. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Countermeasures of Urban Innovation Space Distribution: An Empirical Study Based on Data of Nanjing High-Tech Enterprises by Shuang Tang, Jingxiang Zhang, Fangqu Niu

“…The results showed the following: (1) the distribution of urban innovation space has significant spatial agglomeration characteristics, and the degree of agglomeration continued to rise; (2) regardless of the macro- or microperspective, the distribution of urban innovation space has shown the characteristic of diffusion at the initial, but the trend of polarization in recent years is significant; and (3) the distribution of urban innovation space exhibited diverse agglomeration modes and evolution trends in different regions, and it can be divided into three categories: grouped, banded, and scattered.…”
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Time Characteristics of the Influence Radius by Injecting N2 to Displace Coalbed Methane: A Case Study by Chen Li-wei, Yang Tian-hong, Yang Hong-min, Wang Li-guo

“…Based on gas seepage-diffusion theory, a model for injecting N2 to displace coalbed methane was established. …”
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Kombucha Beverage: Comparative Study Based on Bioactive Properties and Antimicrobial Potentials of Different Plant Infusion by Cemhan Doğan, Nurcan Doğan

“…Antimicrobial activity is applied to various foodborne pathogens such as Escherichia coli (E. coli), Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), and C. albicans with based disc diffusion method and spectrophotometric technique. …”
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A Triangular Personalized Recommendation Algorithm for Improving Diversity by Biao Cai, Xiaowang Yang, Yusheng Huang, Hongjun Li, Qiang Sang

“…To date, many personalized recommendation algorithms have aimed to improve recommendation accuracy from the perspective of vertex similarities, such as collaborative filtering and mass diffusion. However, diversity is also an important evaluation index in the recommendation algorithm. …”
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Geography of Sand and Gravel Mining in the Lower Mekong River by Jean-Paul Bravard, Marc Goichot, Stéphane Gaillot

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Emergency Planning Zones Estimation for Karachi-2 and Karachi-3 Nuclear Power Plants using Gaussian Puff Model by Sümer Şahin, Muhammad Ali

“…Emergency planning zones (PAZ and UPZ) around the Karachi-2 and Karachi-3 nuclear power plants (K-2/K-3 NPPs) have been realistically determined by employing Gaussian puff model and Gaussian plume model together for atmospheric transport, diffusion, and deposition of radioactive material using onsite and regional data related to meteorology, topography, and land-use along with latest IAEA Post-Fukushima Guidelines. …”
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Inonotus hispidus (Bull.) P. Karst. - bioecological characteristics, significance and possibility of use for medical purposes (medicinal properties) by Radulović Zlatan, Karadžić Dragan, Milenković Ivan

“…The colony of this fungus in media amended with gallic and tannic acid shows a positive oxidase reaction (the diffusion zone is dark brown, opaque, spread over a considerable distance from the colony’s periphery, with equal intensity on media with gallic and tannic acid). …”
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ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF MANGOSTEEN BARK FRACTION (GARCINIA MANGOSTANA L.) SALMONELLA TYPHI ATCC 13311 by Salmah Wilujeng Anggraini, Vevi Maritha, Susanti Erikania

“…This study used five treatments (fraction with a concentration of 20%, 40%, 80%, chloramphenicol 30µg as a positive control, and DMSO as a negative control) which tested their antibacterial activity against Salmonella typhi ATCC 13311 by disc diffusion. Result: The results showed that the ethyl acetate fraction of mangosteen stem skin had the greatest average inhibition zone, that is 13.86 ± 0.72 mm compared to the n-hexane fraction of mangosteen stem skin with an inhibition zone of 10.43 ± 0.73 mm. …”
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