The Effectiveness of pen‒culture construction for cultivation of sea cucumber by Pitjont Tomatala, Petrus Paulus Letsoin, Evangelin Martha Yulia Kadmaer

“…This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of two types of pen‒culture system for sea cucumber rearing to the influence of ocean waves and currents. …”
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Clinically relevant orthotopic pancreatic cancer models for adoptive T cell transfer therapy by Gregory B. Lesinski, Chrystal M. Paulos, Maggie Phillips, Jacklyn Hammons, Isaac Karpovsky, Zaid Mahdi, Natalie K. Horvat, Megan M. Wyatt, Margaret A. Hall, Cameron J. Herting, Richard A. Moffitt

“…Interestingly, we found that chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells redirected to recognize mesothelin on these tumors that signal via CD3ζ and 41BB (Meso-41BBζ-CAR T cells) infiltrated the tumors of mice bearing stroma-devoid KPC-Luc orthotopic tumors, but not MT-5 tumors.Conclusions Our data establish for the first time a reproducible and realistic clinical system useful for modeling stroma-rich and stroma-devoid PDAC tumors. …”
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Genome drafting of nosocomial infection CRE Klebsiella pneumoniae confirming resistance to colistin and eravacycline, carrying blaNDM-1, mcr-1, and blaKPC-2, in neonatology from No... by Xinlong Zhou, Kailash Wagh, Guizhen Lv, Devender Sharma, Wei Lei

“…Identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing were initially conducted using the Vitek®2 system with an N-395 card and further confirmed by 16S rRNA sequencing. …”
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Growth-Promoting Effects of Grass Root-Derived Fungi <i>Cadophora fastigiata</i>, <i>Paraphoma fimeti</i> and <i>Plectosphaerella cucumerina</i> on Spring Barley (<i>Hordeum vulgar... by Izolda Pašakinskienė, Violeta Stakelienė, Saulė Matijošiūtė, Justas Martūnas, Marius Rimkevičius, Jurga Būdienė, Algis Aučina, Audrius Skridaila

“…Before harvesting, the inoculated plants were grown in a greenhouse, with the barley being in multi-cavity trays for 30 days and ryegrass being placed in an original cylindric element system for 63 days. All three newly tested fungi had a positive effect on the growth of the barley and ryegrass plants, with the most pronounced impact observed in their root size. …”
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Prevalence and Knowledge of Hepatitis B Virus Infection among Pregnant Women in the Ningo-Prampram District, Ghana by Precious Kwablah Kwadzokpui, Elliot Elikplim Akorsu, Albert Abaka-Yawson, Solomon Sosu Quarshie, Stephen Adomako Amankwah, Philip Apraku Tawiah

“…Knowledge of the participants on HBV infection was classified as either excellent, good, or poor based on their cumulative percentage scores from the questionnaire according to Al Rubaish system of classification. Results. Overall low-intermediate prevalence of HBV infection was 3.3%; however, PPC recorded the highest prevalence of 4.0% while DCH and ONHC recorded 2.82% and 2.50%, respectively. …”
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Understanding Health-Related Discussions on Reddit: Development of a Topic Assignment Method and Exploratory Analysis by Garrett J Chan, Mark Fung, Jill Warrington, Sarah A Nowak

“…Social media data can be leveraged to understand patient concerns and provide insight into why patients may turn to the internet instead of the health care system for health advice. ObjectiveThis study aimed to develop a method to investigate Reddit posts discussing health-related conditions. …”
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Evaluation of two-dimensional ultrasound fetal thymus size in correlation to infection parameters in pregnancies complicated with preterm premature rupture of membranes by Amal Kotb Abdallah, Mohamed Mohesen, Nagwan Kamal, Sahar Mahmoud Abd Elsalam, Sondos Salem, Ehab Salama, Mazen Abdel-Rasheed, Mohamed Eweis

“…Background/aim The thymus is essential for developing the fetal immune system and may show involution upon exposure to acute stress. …”
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Native Italian poultry products: the factors influencing consumer perceptions by Eleonora Erika Cappone, Valeria Zambotto, Jatziri Mota-Gutierrez, Dominga Soglia, Giulia Maria Daniele, Marta Cianciabella, Andrea Pieroni, Renata Soukand, Mauro Penasa, Arianna Buccioni, Margherita Marzoni, Nicolaia Iaffaldano, Cesare Castellini, Silvia Cerolini, Claudio Forte, Achille Schiavone

“…Age, willingness to pay, the perceived productivity of native breeds, and chicken meat and egg preferences in terms of the rearing system were the main predicting factors influencing the importance consumers placed on the geographical proximity and the perceived quality traits of poultry products from native breeds. …”
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Dosimetry of automatic non-coplanar volumetric-modulated arc therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Kaiqiang Chen, Jihong Chen, Yanming Cheng, Danni Hong, Cairong Hu, Penggang Bai, Jinyong Lin, Yang Yang, Xiuchun Zhang

“…Treatment plans were redesigned using HA technology on the Eclipse planning system. Dosimetric parameters and verification passing rates were collected to assess the dosimetric quality of target coverage and organ-at-risk (OAR) sparing in both sets of plans. …”
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On-chip integrated plasmon-induced high-performance self-powered Pt/GaN ultraviolet photodetector by Tong Xu, Shulin Sha, Kai Tang, Xuefeng Fan, Jinguo Liu, Caixia Kan, Gangyi Zhu, Feifei Qin, Daning Shi, Mingming Jiang

“…These findings provide references for on-chip detectors to improve the overall system performance and promote the realization of more complex applications.…”
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Elucidating the degradation mechanism of beef myofibrillar proteins under hydroxyl radical oxidation through the lens of cysteine oxidation modifications by Jiale Li, Jun Liu, Hui Yue, Yuanyuan Ma, He Li, Yuanliang Hu, Xiang Yu, Weiwei Dong, Yanli Feng

“…The study aimed to assess the oxidative modification behavior of bovine myofibrillar proteins (MPs) cysteines (Cys) by hydroxyl radical (·OH) through the construction of an in vitr Fenton reaction system. The ·OH generated by the Fenton reaction induced large-scale oxidative modification of Cys, and redox proteomics identified a total of 1192 differential oxidation sites (Dos), 59 Dos were located in the MPs structure. …”
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Animal Brucellosis in Egypt: Review on Evolution, Epidemiological Situation, Prevalent <i>Brucella</i> Strains, Genetic Diversity, and Assessment of Implemented National Control Me... by Ahmed M. S. Menshawy, Acacia Ferreira Vicente, Yamen M. Hegazy, Vitomir Djokic, Mahmoud E. R. Hamdy, Luca Freddi, Essam M. Elbauomy, Ashraf E. Sayour, Claire Ponsart, Nour H. Abdel-Hamid

“…Young animals’ voluntary vaccination, lack of a nationwide animal identification system, and uncontrolled animal movement stand beyond the ineffectively applied control strategy and may be subdued by applying mass vaccination to decrease disease prevalence dramatically and target imported camels, domestic pigs, and dogs (housed and stray) in the national control surveillance. …”
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Understanding “Alert Fatigue” in Primary Care: Qualitative Systematic Review of General Practitioners Attitudes and Experiences of Clinical Alerts, Prompts, and Reminders by Illin Gani, Ian Litchfield, David Shukla, Gayathri Delanerolle, Neil Cockburn, Anna Pathmanathan

“…Finally, in the context of the Wider system and their Embedding Over Time, suggestions included sharing best practices for CR use and involving GPs in their design. …”
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Modeling phase equilibria for a water-CO2-hydrocarbon mixture using CPA equation of state in CO2 injection EOR-storage processes: a Colombian case study by Juan David Aristizábal Marulanda, Cristiam David Cundar Paredes, Christian David Guerrero Benavides, Andres Aguirre, Juan Andres Pasos, Ivan Dario Moncayo Riascos, Marco Ruiz, Pedro Nel Benjumea Hernández, William Mauricio Agudelo, Raúl Osorio Gallego

“…CO2 injections between 10 and 80 mol% were carried out, and through the CPA equation of state, the swelling conditions of the crude oil, the solubility of CO2 in the formation water and the pressurization of the system were evaluated. The associative parameters of the equation were taken from literature and estimated through molecular dynamics simulations of water-CO2-Hydrocarbon interactions. …”
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THE STRUCTURE OF HAPPINESS REPRESENTATION FOR RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES by S. Yu. Zhdanova, A. V. Pecherkina, A. A. Strokanov

“…The experience of using the method of analyzing the sign units can be the basis for developing an automated system for analyzing the emotional state of an individual based on video fragments.…”
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Impact of religious fasting on ocular dryness: objective and subjective assessment by Amal F. Alomari, Sara Issa, Asma Musleh, Mohammad Abusamak, Mohammad Abusamak, Omar Bdair, Omar Bdair, Saif Aldeen AlRyalat, Saif Aldeen AlRyalat, Alanoud Al-Wakfi, Mohammed Jaber, Ahmad Alloubani, Haitham Sahawneh, Haitham Sahawneh, Muhannd El-Faouri, Ayman Abdul Aziz, Muawyah Al Bdour

“…Lack of fluid intake may alter multiple physiological parameters, which can influence the ocular system. In this prospective study, we evaluated the effect of prolonged fasting on dry eye disease using both objective and subjective measures.MethodsWe included patients who fasted for at least 12 h a day for at least 2 weeks, including the testing day, and retested them at least 1 week after the fasting period had ended with no fasting on the testing day. …”
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A two-stage model of the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy synthetic evaluation technique to prioritize sustainable sanitation services under uncertainty by Shaher Zyoud, Siwar M. Omair, Susan A. Jarrad

“…Poor planning, funding obstacles, stakeholder priorities, climatic changes, growing populations, system constraints, and user engagement all complicate the entire process. …”
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OMIC Technologies and Vaccine Development: From the Identification of Vulnerable Individuals to the Formulation of Invulnerable Vaccines by Nicola Cotugno, Alessandra Ruggiero, Veronica Santilli, Emma Concetta Manno, Salvatore Rocca, Sonia Zicari, Donato Amodio, Manuela Colucci, Paolo Rossi, Ofer Levy, Federico Martinon-Torres, Andrew J. Pollard, Paolo Palma

“…Finally, we will discuss how system biology “OMICs” data can be used to design bioinformatic tools to predict the vaccination outcome providing genetic and molecular “signatures” of protective immune response. …”
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HDL Particle Size and Functionality Comparison between Patients with and without Confirmed Acute Myocardial Infarction by Raissa de Miranda Teixeira, Nicole Cruz de Sá, Ana Paula Caires dos Santos, Vanessa Rocha Anjos e Silva, Elaine Christine de Magalhães Cabral Albuquerque, Luiz Claudio Lemos Correia, Ricardo David Couto

“…The other laboratory marker information, secondary data, was obtained in the laboratory system. Results. The HDL particle size, free cholesterol, and hs-CRP analysis showed significant differences when compared between REAMI and CP groups (p<0.0001, p=0.007, and p<0.0001; two-tailed unpaired t-test, respectively). …”
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Methodological advances in seismic noise imaging of the Alpine area by Paul, Anne, Pedersen, Helle A., Bodin, Thomas, Kästle, Emanuel, Soergel, Dorian, Alder, Chloé, Lu, Yang, Nouibat, Ahmed

“…These methodological improvements have taken the full benefit of the quality of available seismic data to significantly improve knowledge of the seismic structure of the crust and shallow mantle beneath the Alps-Apennines system. Our findings include detailed mapping of strong and abrupt Moho depth changes under the Western Alps, contrasting orientations of fast velocity directions between the upper and lower Alpine crust, and the absence of significant radial anisotropy everywhere in the European crust and shallow upper mantle, except in the Apenninic lower crust. …”
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