Enhancing microbial predator–prey detection with network and trait-based analyses by Cristina Martínez Rendón, Christina Braun, Maria Kappelsberger, Jens Boy, Angélica Casanova-Katny, Karin Glaser, Kenneth Dumack

“…We further confirmed these results with HMSC modeling, which resulted in similar numbers of 7.5% and 4.8% linking predators to suitable prey for full co-occurrence and abundance models, respectively. …”
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Establishment of a rapid method for the detection of Brucella canis based on recombinase-mediated thermostable nucleic acid amplification technology by Shao-Zheng Song, Zi-Yuan Li, Yuan-Yuan Liu, Ying-Chao Wu, Kang-Ying Yu, Zhengyi He

“…Sensitivity was analyzed using plasmid standards with varying copy numbers. Specificity was tested using genomes from Brucella canis, Brucella suis, Brucella melitensis, Brucella abortus, Staphylococcus aureus, pathogenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella enteritidis, Shigella spp., Proteus mirabilis, and Listeria monocytogenes. …”
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Health promoting palliative care interventions in African low-income countries: a scoping review by Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Diane Tapp, Samiratou Ouedraogo, Ariane Plaisance, Carol-Anne Hyland-Carignan, Idriss Ali Gali-Gali

“…The majority of studies were cross-sectional, had limited numbers of participants and were conducted in English-speaking countries. …”
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Cyclosporine A causes gingival overgrowth via reduced G1 cell cycle arrest in gingival fibroblasts. by Reiri Takeuchi, Takatoshi Nomura, Manabu Yaguchi, Noriko Kuwahara, Yuta Amino, Chieko Taguchi, Itaru Suzuki, Haruka Suzuki, Teruaki Nagashima, Kazumune Arikawa, Yuichiro Okada, Takato Nomoto, Koichi Hiratsuka

“…Cell proliferation was assessed by counting total cell numbers. The distribution of cell cycle phases was assessed using flow cytometric analysis. …”
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Designing Microfluidic Devices to Sort Haematopoietic Stem Cells Based on Their Mechanical Properties by Mingming Du, Dean Kavanagh, Zhibing Zhang, Neena Kalia

“…One promising approach to maintain circulating HSC numbers would be to separate subpopulations with smaller size and/or greater deformability from a heterogeneous population. …”
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Describing team development within a novel GP-led urgent care centre model: a qualitative study by Azeem Majeed, Geva Greenfield, Sarah Morton, Shamini Gnani, Agnieszka Igantowicz

“…Objective Urgent care centres (UCCs) co-located within an emergency department were developed to reduce the numbers of inappropriate emergency department admissions. …”
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Attitudes of Turkish academics towards the effects of digital journalism on shaping the political image by Omar Suleiman Saleh Malkawi

“…To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher relied on descriptive studies, and within its framework, he used the survey method, by applying the method of a public opinion poll with the sample, and distributed the electronic questionnaire to the study sample, which numbered (103) academic professors working in the universities according to the appropriate sample method. …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MOBILE APPLICATION ISMIND FOR FORMATIVE STUDENTS’ ASSESSMENT by Aslina Saad, Fatin Naiemah Khairulanuar, Bahbibi Rahmatullah

“…The mobile application provides a variety of question types, such as Drag And Drop, Multiple Choice, Numbering, True And False, Matching, and Puzzle. The evaluation of IsMind indicated its appropriateness as an interactive teaching and learning media for assessment. …”
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Depression in Patients Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Dinorah Janet Torres Lugo, Iván Castillo Ledo, Iriam Rojas Díaz, Antonio Masot Rangel, Silvia Janet Masot Torres, Pedro González López

“…The analysis and processing of the information was done using the statistical package SPSS version 15 for Windows, the results were expressed in numbers and percentages. <br /><strong>Results:</strong> predominance of the female sex in 58.3 %, the most represented age group is that of 48-57 (50 %). …”
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The Dynamic Damage Mechanisms and Failure Modes of Coal-Rock Masses under the Action of High Order P-Waves by Feng Li, Mingxin Bi, Jing Tian, Shuhao Fang

“…And we found that the vibration amplitudes and dimensionless radius (r/R) were in approximately the −0.5 power relationship, and the dimensionless wave numbers (kR), dimensionless frequency (wR), and the wave length of stress waves propagating in cylindrical coal-rock masses were mainly within 85, (0.1~1.8) × 105, and 0.24R~1.08R respectively.…”
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The utilization of the multimodal immunotherapy for the opsoclonus–myoclonus syndrome can reduce relapses and permanent neurological sequelae by Fang He, Miriam Kessi, Ciliu Zhang, Jing Peng, Fei Yin, Lifen Yang

“…Besides, the combination of the intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP, which was switched to intravenous dexamethasone later) plus rituximab was utilized for one (16.67%) case and the combination of the IVIG and IVMP for one (16.67%) patient. Total numbers of the therapies used comprised of dual therapy (33.33%), triple therapy (50.00%), and other multiple agents (16.67%). …”
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The Role of Invariant NKT in Autoimmune Liver Disease: Can Vitamin D Act as an Immunomodulator? by Daniel S. Smyk, Athanasios Mavropoulos, Giorgina Mieli-Vergani, Diego Vergani, Marco Lenzi, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos

“…Animal models of SLE have shown abnormalities in iNKT cells numbers and function, and an inverse correlation between the frequency of NKT cells and IgG levels has also been observed. …”
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Characterization and assessment of hydrogen leakage mechanisms in salt caverns by Mojtaba Ghaedi, Raoof Gholami

“…The formulations are based on a newly proposed unified gas flow model that is valid for the entire range of Knudsen numbers and accounts for gas slippage, bulk diffusion, and Knudsen diffusion. …”
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Investigation on the strength of expanded clay aggregate concrete specimens after thermal exposure by Danguolė Plungytė, Ričardas Plungė

“…Before performing the compressive strength test of expanded clay concrete samples, all sample cubes were numbered and divided into three groups after thermal exposure. …”

Structural bioinformatic study of six human olfactory receptors and their AlphaFold3 predicted water-soluble QTY variants and OR1A2 with an odorant octanoate and TAAR9 with spermid... by Finn Johnsson, Taner Karagöl, Alper Karagöl, Shuguang Zhang

“…The molecular mechanism of olfaction, namely, how we smell with limited olfactory receptors to recognize exceedingly diverse and large numbers of scents remains unknown despite the recent advances in chemistry, chemical, structural, and molecular biology. …”
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AMPK Activation in TET2 Downregulated Leukemia Cells Upon Glutamine Limitation by Ahsen Merve BAYRAK, Burcu YUCEL

“…GLUL mRNA expression was investigated using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and protein levels were evaluated using immunoblotting. Results: The numbers and viability of TET2-knockdown HL-60 cells were decreased in low glutamine-containing medium, but the viability of TET2-knockdown HL-60 cells was higher than that of control cells. …”
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Identification of duplicate accessions in the sweet maize collection by means of zein electrophoresis by V. V. Sidorova, Yu. A. Kerv, A. V. Konarev

“…For a series of accessions with the same varietal name, but different catalog numbers, the degree of their identity was determined from their biotype composition in order to exclude duplication. …”
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Phenotypic Definition of the Progenitor Cells with Erythroid Differentiation Potential Present in Human Adult Blood by Valentina Tirelli, Barbara Ghinassi, Anna Rita Migliaccio, Carolyn Whitsett, Francesca Masiello, Massimo Sanchez, Giovanni Migliaccio

“…In semisolid-media, cells generated BFU-E and CFU-GM (in a 1 : 1 ratio), cells mostly BFU-E (87%) and and CD34negCD36low cells were not tested due to low numbers. Under HEMA conditions, CD34posCD36neg, CD34posCD36pos, CD34negCD36low and CD34negCD36neg cells generated EBs with fold-increases of ≈9,000, 100, 60 and 1, respectively, and maturation times (day with >10% CD36highCD235ahigh cells) of 10–7 days. …”
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Evaluation of a pragmatic approach to predicting COVID-19-positive hospital bed occupancy by Azeem Majeed, Thomas Woodcock, Paul Aylin, Julian Redhead, Derryn Lovett, Jacques Naude

“…We used linear regression models to predict bed occupancy, using lagged, smoothed numbers of COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated individuals in the community as the predictor. …”
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Effect of Alternate Treatment with Intravitreal Corticosteroid and Anti-VEGF for Macular Edema Secondary to Retinal Vein Occlusion by Young Hwan Bae, Seong Mi Kim, Jin Young Kim, So Hyun Bae, Hakyoung Kim, Dae Joong Ma

“…In a propensity score-matched cohort to compensate for the differences in the injection numbers between the two groups, the alternate group achieved a better visual acuity gain than the anti-VEGF group at month 12 (0.39 logMAR vs. 0.17 logMAR, P=0.048). …”
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