Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Expansion in Contact with Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in a Hanging Drop Model Uncovers Disadvantages of 3D Culture by Olga Schmal, Jan Seifert, Tilman E. Schäffer, Christina B. Walter, Wilhelm K. Aicher, Gerd Klein

“…Efficient ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells with a concomitant preservation of stemness and self-renewal potential is still an unresolved ambition. Increased numbers of methods approaching this issue using three-dimensional (3D) cultures were reported. …”
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PLACE ATTACHMENT AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR PARALYSIS: A STUDY OF HOUSEHOLD SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT by Hope Iyawe

“…The result suggests that factors like: (1) strong PA exhibited by residents serve only social and personal interests that can hardly translate to PEB (2) with the indigenes out-numbered by the ‘visitors’ coupled with the belief that the ‘visitors’ have a home elsewhere, cooperation and oneness among residents is not guaranteed; and, (3) given the wet season of seven months coupled with lack of drainage facilities and results in submergence this situation encourages non-challant behaviours towards waste management as the area is almost degraded, forsaken and abandoned. …”
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First record of stone moroko (Pseudorasbora parva), an invasive alien fish species, in water bodies of urban green areas in Poland by Wróblewski Paweł, Maciaszek Rafał, Kasprzak Robert

“…After recording substantial numbers of specimens in the fall, no fish were caught in pond 1 during either of the spring catches, while only a few moroko were caught in the stream in April (1212 ± 869 mg; 454–2901 mg) and none were caught in June. …”
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Extent and Resistance Patterns of ESKAPE Pathogens Isolated in Pus Swabs from Hospitalized Patients by Salim S. Masoud, Anna Kovacevich, Raidah Gangji, Helmut Nyawale, Mary Nyange, Albert Ntukula

“…Antimicrobial resistance has persisted as a global threat with increasing associated numbers of morbidity and mortality. ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp.) were termed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America as a group of bacteria with rapid antibiotic resistance development. …”
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Mpox (monkeypox): a comprehensive updated of current epidemic evidence by Amir Hossain, Md. Abdul Monem, Mamunur Rahman, Rashadur Raza

“…Gender disparities in transmission pathways were apparent, with males exhibiting higher case numbers, particularly via person-to-person contact. …”
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Effects of sound absorbing facades on the acoustical quality in different simulated inner courtyard situations by Eggenschwiler Kurt, Jansohn Tilljan, Blau Matthias, Schäffer Beat

“…Room acoustical simulations were carried out for eight generic and two real-world models with very large numbers of transmission paths. Facades (reflecting, fully absorbing, partially absorbing), balcony soffits (reflecting, absorbing) and courtyard floor (reflecting, absorbing) were varied. …”
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Modelling the Impact of Media-Induced Social Distancing on the Containment of COVID-19 in Beijing by Yinjiao Gong, Aili Wang, Jin Guo, Stacey R. Smith?

“…By fitting the targeted model to data on the two Beijing outbreaks, we estimated the reproduction numbers for the two outbreaks as R0=1.6818 and R0=1.3251, respectively. …”
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Clinical signs, molecular detection and phylogenetic analysis of sheep and goat pox viruses in sheep in Mosul city, Iraq by Mohammad A. Altaliby, Sadam D. Hasan, Thabit M. Omar, Qaes T. Alsarhan

“…Two sequences were recorded under the accession numbers (PP992317.1 and PP992318.1) in the GenBank. …”
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Interleukin-6 and interleukin-6 receptor secretion by chronic lymphatic leukaemia and normal B lymphocytes: effect of PMA and PWM by I. Drucker, A. Klajman, M. Revel, Y. Manor, S. Ben-Efraim, D. Novick

“…The results are consistent with the view that B-CLL cells produce spontaneously IL-6 which could act in an autocrine fashion to cause shedding of surface IL-6R and account for the correlation found between serum levels of sIL-6R and B-CLL lymphocyte numbers. The fall in levels of IL-6 in PMA stimulated CLL cultures might express masking or degradation of IL-6 after combination with the receptor.…”
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Impact of Climate Change and Air Pollution Forecasting Using Machine Learning Techniques in Bishkek by Erkin Isaev, Boobek Ajikeev, Urmatbek Shamyrkanov, Kenjebek-uulu Kalnur, Karimov Maisalbek, Roy C. Sidle

“…About 80%–90% of days with temperature inversions are associated with winter heating seasons and these numbers increased two-fold during the past 5 years. …”
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How exchange symmetry impacts performance of collective quantum heat engines by Julia Boeyens, Benjamin Yadin, Stefan Nimmrichter

“…Thus far, investigations of the performance of collective quantum machines have largely restricted the dynamics to particles with bosonic exchange symmetry, especially for large numbers of particles. However, collections of indistinguishable but not fundamentally identical particles may assume quantum states of more general exchange symmetry or combinations thereof, raising the question of whether collective advantages can be observed for dynamics that allow the full Hilbert space to be explored. …”
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Differential resistance to nematode infection is associated with the genotype- and age-dependent pace of intestinal T cell homing by Joshua Adjah, Bhavya Kapse, Hongwei Zhang, Susanne Hartmann, Sebastian Rausch

“…Resistant BALB/c mice rapidly recruited high numbers of Th2 cells to the gut within the 1-week time frame required for larval development in the intestinal submucosa. …”
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Homogeneity Test and Correction of Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data (1978–2015) in North China by Lingling Shen, Li Lu, Tianjie Hu, Runsheng Lin, Ji Wang, Chong Xu

“…The stations with a host of breakpoints are mainly located in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province, where meteorological stations are densely distributed. The numbers of breakpoints in the daily precipitation series in North China during 1978–2015 also culminated in 2000. …”
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Serum Cytokine Levels and Their Relation to Clinical Features in Patients with Autoimmune Liver Diseases by Dilyara Akberova, Andrei P. Kiassov, Diana Abdulganieva

“…In the language of absolute numbers, the increase of IL-8 serum level by 1 pg/mL had increased the chance for a patient to find himself in a group of AILD by 48.36 times. …”
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Evaluation of Routine Enteric Pathogens in Hospitalized Patients: A Canadian Perspective by Kevin Gough, Michelle Alfa, Godfrey Harding

“…The enteric pathogens detected in 1991 were C difficile toxin B(+), 77%; Campylobacter species, 10%; Salmonella species, 9%; E coli O:157 H:7, 3%; and Shigella species, 1%. For 1992, these numbers were 86%, 9%, 3%, 2% and 0%, respectively. …”
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Robustness of analysis of covariance (ancova) under the distributions assumptions and variance homogeneity by Can Ateş, Özlem Kaymaz, Mustafa Agah Tekindal, Beyza Doğanay Erdoğan

“…<p> <b>Materials and Methods:</b> For this purpose, a simulation studies under different scenarios was conducted. Random numbers were generated from Gamma, Beta and Normal distributions considering different groups and different sample sizes. …”
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Impact of the Choice of Land Surface Scheme on a Simulated Heatwave Event: The Case of Sichuan-Chongqing Area, China by Y. Ma, X.-M. Zeng, Y. Zhang, N. Wang, Y. Zheng, G. Wang, C. Chen

“…When the LSSs with increased numbers of soil layers are used, the simulated high temperatures are found more consistent with measurements. …”
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MEDICAL STUDENTS’ SUICIDES –A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by ANNIKA MARTIN, ERIKA JÄÄSKELÄINEN, JOUKO MIETTUNEN, SAARA KAAKINEN, TUULA HURTIG, ANU-HELMI HALT

“…Data on the characteristics of the research, and the numbers of suicides and associated factors were collected from the articles identified. …”
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Prevention and management of anaemia in pregnancy: Community perceptions and facility readiness in Ghana and Uganda. by Tara Tancred, Vincent Mubangizi, Emmanuel Nene Dei, Syliva Natukunda, Daniel Nana Yaw Abankwah, Phoebe Ellis, Imelda Bates, Bernard Natukunda, Lucy Asamoah Akuoko

“…In health facilities, there were gaps in the availability of haemoglobin testing-especially point-of-care testing-staffing numbers, availability of standard operating procedures/guidelines for anaemia in pregnancy, and poor staff attitudes during antenatal care. …”
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Impact of the Constructivist EDGA Model on Learning Some Basic Volleyball Skills for Middle School Female Students by Amena Kareem Hussein

“…The researcher then identified the research population as the fourth-grade middle school students at the March 11 Girls’ Middle School in the Kirkuk Education Directorate, who numbered (151) students. The researcher used the statistical package to reach scientific results on which she based her research conclusions.  …”
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