‘An unbidden guest at your table’: Purity, danger and the house-fly in the middle-class home, c. 1870-1910 by Neil Davie

“…It will be argued that the growing hygienist focus on flies as airborne carriers of disease co-existed, particularly in the earlier part of the period, with older more benign, attitudes to the house-fly, linked to the theories of natural theology.…”
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Unveiling the role of lncRNA ERDR1 in immune cell regulation by Aihua Shu, Xu Tian, Jie Yue, Yuxia Jiang, Yifei Liu

“…Emerging research highlights that lncRNA Erdr1 exerts significant effects on the functionality of immune cells, particularly T lymphocytes (T cells), natural killer (NK) cells, and macrophages. Furthermore, Erdr1 has been implicated in the mitigation of several diseases, including acne, wound healing, osteoarthritis, melanoma, gastric cancer, obesity, and autism. …”
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A Review of Removal of Pollutants from Water/Wastewater Using Different Types of Nanomaterials by M. T. Amin, A. A. Alazba, U. Manzoor

“…The paper will briefly overview the availability and practice of different nanomaterials (particles or fibers) for removal of viruses, inorganic solutes, heavy metals, metal ions, complex organic compounds, natural organic matter, nitrate, and other pollutants present in surface water, ground water, and/or industrial water. …”
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A novel decomposer-exploiter interaction framework of plant residue microbial decomposition by Youzhi Miao, Wei Wang, Huanhuan Xu, Yanwei Xia, Qingxin Gong, Zhihui Xu, Nan Zhang, Weibing Xun, Qirong Shen, Ruifu Zhang

“…However, the fundamental understanding of the functional dynamics and interactions between the principal participants, fungi and bacteria, in natural habitats remains limited. Results In this study, the evolution of fungal and bacterial communities and their functional interactions were elucidated during the degradation of complexity-gradient plant residues. …”
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Bees in the City by Małgorzata Falencka-Jabłonska

“…The need to systematically increase the doses of both artificial fertilizers and chemical plant protection products increases the threat to the components of the natural environment. This condition is hazardous and has far-reaching consequences for pollinating insects, especially bees. …”
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Sargachromenol from Sargassum micracanthum Inhibits the Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Production of Inflammatory Mediators in RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Eun-Jin Yang, Young Min Ham, Kyong-Wol Yang, Nam Ho Lee, Chang-Gu Hyun

“…During our ongoing screening program designed to determine the anti-inflammatory potential of natural compounds, we isolated sargachromenol from Sargassum micracanthum. …”
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Advancing Computational Humor: LLaMa-3 Based Generation with DistilBert Evaluation Framework by He Jinliang, Mei Aohan

“…Humor generation presents significant challenges in the field of natural language processing, primarily due to its reliance on cultural backgrounds and subjective interpretations. …”
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Managing Landscape Irrigation to Avoid Soil and Nutrient Losses by George Hochmuth, Laurie Trenholm, Don Rainey, Esen Momol, Claire Lewis, Brian Niemann

“…How lawns and landscapes are irrigated directly impacts the natural environment, so landscape maintenance professionals and homeowners must adopt environmentally-friendly approaches to irrigation management. …”
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Nonlinear Resonance Interaction between Conjugate Circumferential Flexural Modes in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Matteo Strozzi, Francesco Pellicano

“…The model is validated in linear field (natural frequencies) by means of comparisons with literature. …”
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Study on Microstructure Effect of Carbon Black Particles in Filled Rubber Composites by Li Hong Huang, Xiaoxiang Yang, Jianhong Gao

“…The cross sections of blended natural/styrene-butadiene (NSBR) composites filled with different volume fractions of carbon particles were observed using a Quanta 250 scanning electron microscope. …”
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Autoimmunity and Extrahepatic Manifestations in Treatment-Naïve Children with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Giuseppe Indolfi, Elisa Bartolini, Biagio Olivito, Chiara Azzari, Massimo Resti

“…Nonorgan specific auto-antibodies development is part of the natural course of chronic hepatitis C in children. …”
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Quercetin as a radiosensitizer for enhanced efficacy of radiotherapy in MCF-7 breast cancer cells by Mohammad Banparvar, Hamid Saeidi Saedi, Mona Haddad Zahmatkesh

“…Introduction: Radiation therapy is a primary approach for treating cancer. Utilizing natural radiosensitizer compounds is crucial to enhance radiosensitivity in tumor tissue while minimizing damage to normal tissue. …”
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An assessment of the effects of manual energy and material haulage on the initial embodied environmental impact of residential buildings by Emmanuel Udomiaye, Ukpong Edidiong, Ikpa Ochea

“…These stages range from the mining of natural materials to manufacturing, transportation, and construction. . …”
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Methods of Control of the Leishmania infantum Dog Reservoir: State of the Art by Michele Podaliri Vulpiani, Luigi Iannetti, Daniela Paganico, Filomena Iannino, Nicola Ferri

“…The latter are the most important natural reservoir and therefore should be the main target of control measures. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Response of Submerged Floating Tunnel under Regular Wave Conditions by Wenlong Luo, Bo Huang, Yao Tang, Hao Ding, Ke Li, Liang Cheng, Qingyang Ren

“…The resonance of the tunnel will be triggered when the wave period is close to its natural vibration period, and the estimation formula of wave period corresponding to tunnel resonance is proposed in this paper.…”
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The Taxation of Agriculture in the European Union Countries by Kinga Gruziel, Małgorzata Raczkowska

“…Taxation of income derived from agricultural business activity is a natural direction of changes in tax systems. The tax policy implemented in the European Union countries in relation to agriculture make use of the principle of tax justice to the highest possible extent. …”
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Insights into the Allosteric Regulation of Human Hsp90 Revealed by NMR Spectroscopy by Tjaša Goričan, Simona Golič Grdadolnik

“…One of the possibilities is allosteric regulation by its natural allosteric modulators—nucleotides, co-chaperones and client proteins—and synthetic small-molecule allosteric modulators, such as those targeting the middle domain or the C-terminal domain (CTD) of Hsp90. …”
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The Duty of Adverse Drug Reaction Alerting from the Perspective of Laws, Current Practices, and Guidelines Related to a Comparative Rights Approach by milad mashayekh, vali eslami

“…If the procedure is carried out properly, it still brings unwanted side effects, which of course, the extent of these side effects also has severity and weakness, and naturally its destructive effects are also different. …”
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Automatic detection of expressed emotion from Five-Minute Speech Samples: Challenges and opportunities. by Bahman Mirheidari, André Bittar, Nicholas Cummins, Johnny Downs, Helen L Fisher, Heidi Christensen

“…Herein we describe an automated machine learning approach for determining the degree of warmth, a key component of EE, from acoustic and text natural language features. Our dataset of 52 recorded interviews is taken from recordings, collected over 20 years ago, from a nationally representative birth cohort of British twin children, and was manually coded for EE by two researchers (inter-rater reliability 0.84-0.90). …”
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Morpho-phylogenetic analyses of two novel edible mushrooms from China and a mini review of Lyophyllum (Agaricales, Lyophyllaceae) cultivation and bioactivities by Song-Ming Tang, Feng-Ming Yu, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Zong-Long Luo, Kai-Yang Niu, Rui-Yu Li, Lin Li, Xi-Jun Su, Shu-Hong Li

“…Lyophyllum plays an important role in the natural ecosystem and has significant economic value. …”
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