Venlafaxine-induced serotonin syndrome causing bilateral cerebral strokes: a case report by Nils Mein, Khadija Mammadli, Felix Luessi, Timo Uphaus, Timo Uphaus

“…Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed bilateral cortical restricted-diffusion patterns, indicating ischemic lesions. We report a case of venlafaxine-induced serotonin syndrome most likely cumulating in diffuse artery vasospasm due to an autonomic effect mediated by the serotonergic and adrenergic systems, causing myocardial and cerebral injuries. …”
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Antimicrobial Activities of Leaf Extracts of Guava (Psidium guajava L.) on Two Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria by Bipul Biswas, Kimberly Rogers, Fredrick McLaughlin, Dwayne Daniels, Anand Yadav

“…The efficacy of these extracts was tested against those bacteria through a well-diffusion method employing 50 μL leaf-extract solution per well. …”
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Antibacterial properties of substituted phenethylamine-based β-lactam derivatives in oral infections by Merve Yildirim, Elif Aksakal, Taha Yasin Bayram, Eda Irmak, Harun Gun, Bunyamin Ozgeris, Arzu Gormez

“…The antibacterial activities of the compounds were determined using agar well diffusion and microdilution assays. The study observed that β-lactam derivatives formed inhibitory zones against the growth of oral pathogens, while imine compounds did not form such zones. …”
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Automated CAD system for early detection and classification of pancreatic cancer using deep learning model. by Abubakar Nadeem, Rahan Ashraf, Toqeer Mahmood, Sajida Parveen

“…In the preprocessing stage, the input image resizes into 227 × 227 dimensions then converts the RGB image into a grayscale image, and enhances the image by removing noise without blurring edges by applying anisotropic diffusion filtering. In the segmentation stage, the preprocessed grayscale image a binary image is created based on a threshold, highlighting the edges by Sobel filtering, and watershed segmentation to segment the tumor region and we also implement the U-Net method for segmentation. …”
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Biosynthesis of Organic Nanocomposite Using Pistacia vera L. Hull: An Efficient Antimicrobial Agent by Omolbanin Bakhshi, Ghodsieh Bagherzade, Pouya Ghamari kargar

“…CuNP and CSS NC antimicrobial activity was examined by both well diffusion and determination MIC methods against four bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and two fungi Aspergillus Niger and Candida albicans. …”
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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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Isolation and Characterization of Multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from Kitchen Sponges: An Under-recognized Public Health Problem by Ikechukwu Benjamin Moses, Clinton Okwudili Mbam, Cynthia Ogochukwu Odi, Mustofa Helmi Effendi, Aswin Rafif Khairullah, Adiana Mutamsari Witaningrum, Boniface Oke, Moses Chukwuemeka Ezea, Saifur Rehman

“…The samples were analyzed with standard microbiological techniques and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was done by the disc diffusion method. Results: In total, 28 (56%) out of the 50 kitchen sponges were positive for Salmonella spp. (10), Klebsiella spp. (7), and Escherichia coli (11). …”
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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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Adsorption-Desorption Surface Bindings, Kinetics, and Mass Transfer Behavior of Thermally and Chemically Treated Great Millet Husk towards Cr(VI) Removal from Synthetic Wastewater by Anuj Kumar Prajapati, Pushkar Verma, Satyansh Singh, Monoj Kumar Mondal

“…Among the tested mass transfer models, liquid film diffusion model was followed during the adsorption process of both the adsorbents. …”
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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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Three‐Dimensional Reconstruction of Tongue of Ionization During the 11 October 2010 Geomagnetic Storm and Evolution Analysis With TIEGCM by L. L. Shan, Y. B. Yao, J. Kong, C. Z. Zhai, C. Zhou, X. X. Chen

“…We assume that the dominant TOI formation mechanism is electric field transport, which is offset by ambipolar diffusion and neutral wind transport. Furthermore, the uplift of electrons and the insignificant effect of other physical processes explained the insignificant TOI in lower ionosphere.…”
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Influence of Water on the Dynamic Adsorption of Chlorinated VOCs on Active Carbon: Relative Humidity of the Gas Phase versus Pre-Adsorbed Water by F. Cosnier, A. Celzard, G. Furdin, D. Bégin, J.F. Marêché

“…The adsorption capacities of the AC remain unchanged and only some minor changes in the shape of the breakthrough front, corresponding to hindered diffusion, may sometimes occur. In contrast, the simultaneous adsorption of steam and VOC leads to competition between water and the chlorinated compound, with direct consequences on the adsorption kinetics and capacities of the AC. …”
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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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