Characteristics of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in HIV-Infected People by Curtis L Cooper, Andrew D Badley, Jonathan B Angel

“…It is unclear whether long term, highly active antiretroviral therapy positively or negatively influences the natural history of HCV infection.…”
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Digital Competence among Teacher Training Master’s Degree Students: Differences by Gender, Age, and Field of Study by Estibaliz Cepa-Rodríguez, Vanesa Lancha-Villamayor

“…The results also revealed that DC decreases as age increases, and that students coming from Social Science degrees had the lowest CD indexes, whereas those from Technology and the Natural Science had the highest scores. There is a need for DC training plans that include personalised innovative educational strategies, or in other words, strategies specifically adapted to the characteristics of different university degrees.…”
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Diverse Roles of Inhibitor of Differentiation 2 in Adaptive Immunity by Lucille Rankin, Gabrielle T. Belz

“…In the innate immune system, Id2 is required for the development of mature natural killer (NK) cells, lymphoid tissue-inducer (LTi) cells, and the recently identified interleukin (IL)-22 secreting nonconventional innate lymphocytes found in the gut. …”
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Why Asplenic Patients Should Not Take Care of the Neighbour’s Dog? A Fatal Course of Capnocytophaga canimorsus Sepsis by Patrick Langguth, Lothar Leissner, Günther Zick, Arno Fischer, Christiane Stuhlmann-Laiesz, Mona Salehi Ravesh, Friederike Austein, Olav Jansen, Marcus Both

“…Capnocytophaga canimorsus (CC) belongs to the family Flavobacteriaceae which physiologically occurs in the natural flora of the oral mucosa of dogs and cats. …”
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Le paysage et l’artifice en géographie by Dylan Simon

“…The article examines the different uses of this founding geographer’s notion of the landscape: perceived first of all as the physiognomy of a relationship between (material) civilisation and a “natural” milieu, it is then defined by a more anthropological approach, which to a certain degree dissolves the specificity of the notion. …”
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Potential of Peptides as Inhibitors and Mimotopes: Selection of Carbohydrate-Mimetic Peptides from Phage Display Libraries by Teruhiko Matsubara

“…However, it is very difficult to prepare a diverse range of sugar derivatives by chemical synthesis or by the isolation of natural products. In addition, the pathogenic capsular polysaccharides of bacteria are carbohydrate antigens, for which a safe and efficacious method of vaccination is required. …”
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Strawberries: Main Pests and Beneficials in Florida by Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“…The ability to recognize these pests, their damage, and their natural enemies is important in determining the best control methods for each situation. …”
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Using Genome-Wide SNP Discovery and Genotyping to Reveal the Main Source of Population Differentiation in Nothofagus dombeyi (Mirb.) Oerst. in Chile by Rodrigo Hasbún, Jorge González, Carolina Iturra, Glenda Fuentes, Diego Alarcón, Eduardo Ruiz

“…In some species, a relationship between environmental characteristics and the distribution of genotypes can be detected, showing the importance of natural selection as the main source of differentiation. …”
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Longstanding Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis of More Than 20 Years by Hugh J Freeman

“…Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is an eosinophil-predominant inflammatory process that may be detected in endoscopic gastric or intestinal biopsies. The long-term natural history and effects of EGE treatment are not known. …”
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Effect of Prebiotics-Enhanced Probiotics on the Growth of Streptococcus mutans by Santichai Nunpan, Chatrudee Suwannachart, Kornchanok Wayakanon

“…These prebiotics have potential for a clinical application to activate the function of the naturally intraoral L. acidophilus to inhibit S. mutans.…”
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Apoptosis of colon cancer CT-26 cells induced polysaccharide from Cyclocarya paliurus and its phosphorylated derivative via intrinsic mitochondrial passway by Liuming Xie, Mingyue Shen, Rong Huang, Xuan Liu, Yue Yu, Hanyu Lu, Jianhua Xie

“…These results suggest CP is a potential natural therapeutic agent for colon cancer and phosphorylation represents an effective method of enhancing the antitumor activity of CP.…”
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Gamma-Ray Attenuation to Evaluate Soil Porosity: An Analysis of Methods by Luiz F. Pires, André B. Pereira

“…Representative determinations of ϕ are necessary due to the importance of this physical property in several fields of natural sciences. In the current work, two methods to evaluate ϕ were analyzed by means of gamma-ray attenuation technique. …”
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Comparison of Employment Impacts of Renewable and Fossil Energy Based Electricity Sectors: The Case of Turkey by Yahya Algül, Vedat Kaya

“…The estimation is done for both manufacturing/installation and operation/maintenance phases of solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, coal, petrol, and natural gas-based electricity sectors, including all of the direct, indirect, and induced effects. …”
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Dynamics Modeling and Response Analysis of Gear-screw Actuators of Tiltrotor Aircrafts by Wang Cheng, Li Zhengminqing, Sheng Wei, Pan Dongling

“…By solving the eigenvalue problem based on the system's dynamic equations, the natural frequencies and modes were determined. A comparison with the finite element modal analysis results confirmed the accuracy of the theoretical model. …”
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Material Flow Analysis of Fossil Fuels in China during 2000–2010 by Sheng Wang, Jing Dai, Meirong Su

“…This paper aims to analyze the input of fossil fuels in China during 2000–2010 via the material flow analysis (MFA) that takes hidden flows into account. With coal, oil, and natural gas quantified by MFA, three indexes, consumption and supply ratio (C/S ratio), resource consumption intensity (RCI), and fossil fuels productivity (FFP), are proposed to reflect the interactions between population, GDP, and fossil fuels. …”
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Synthesizing historical plant collections to identify priorities for future collection efforts and research applications by Elizabeth M. Lombardi, Harpo Faust, Hannah E. Marx

“…Using a biodiversity informatics approach applied toward a regional case study, we identify opportunities for efficiently improving natural history collection coverage and analyses of botanical diversity. …”
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Fluorescence-Based Rapid Detection of Microbiological Contaminants in Water Samples by Hervé Meder, Anne Baumstummler, Renaud Chollet, Sophie Barrier, Monika Kukuczka, Frédéric Olivieri, Esther Welterlin, Vincent Beguin, Sébastien Ribault

“…The Milliflex Quantum system was challenged to detect natural contaminants in different types of pharmaceutical purified process waters. …”
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Community Perceptions on Urban Forests Development in Riparian Areas of Cisadane River, South Tangerang City by Urfi Izzati, Hayati Sari Hasibuan

“…The development of riparian urban forests serves a dual purpose, namely preserving the natural riparian function for vegetation and increasing the green open space area size. …”
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TERF Intimate Publics by Jo Church

“…I argue that TERF intimate publics are constituted by feelings of loss and resentment which become alleviated through claiming legitimacy along a “natural” gendered and racialized hierarchy of human worth, through demanding a return of one’s “sex-based rights,” and through a commitment to victimhood. …”
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Computational study of conjugate heat transfer and entropy generation of hybrid nano-particles in an enclosure with solid block by Shahid Ullah, Ghulam Saddiq, Afraz Hussain Majeed, Hammad Alotaibi, Ahmed S. Hendy, Mohamed R. Ali

“…Furthermore, the results are swiftly contrasted with pure natural convection at a dimensionless thermal conductivity of one.…”
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