Epidemiology of Plague: Problems with the Use of Mathematical Epidemiological Models in Plague Research and the Question of Transmission by Human Fleas and Lice by Ole J. Benedictow

“…The factual answers to these crucial questions can be ascertained and shown to invalidate the human ectoparasite hypothesis. The view of the standard works on plague has been corroborated, that bubonic plague, historical and modern, is/was a rat-and-rat-flea-borne disease caused by Yersinia pestis. …”
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Hustle Culture: Loopholes in Violations of Employment Law by Ellen Lutya Putri Nugrahani, Jody Imam Rafsanjani, Zaihan Harmaen Anggayudha, Hilmi Ardani Nasution

“…Hustle Culture promotes hard work and exceeding standard working hours as a pathway to career success. …”
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A High-Throughput Method as a Diagnostic Tool for HIV Detection in Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated by Different Reprogramming Methods by Daniela Hübscher, Sabine Rebs, Luis Haupt, Thomas Borchert, Celina Isabell Guessoum, Franziska Treu, Steffen Köhne, Andreas Maus, Mario Hambrecht, Samuel Sossalla, Ralf Dressel, Angela Uy, Mark Jakob, Gerd Hasenfuss, Katrin Streckfuss-Bömeke

“…We found the highest reprogramming efficiencies for MSC with 3.32±1.2 by using episomal plasmids. Since GMP standard working procedures and screening units need virus contamination-free cell lines, we studied HIV-1 contamination in the generated iPSCs. …”
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