Occurrence of β-Lactamase-Producing Gram-Negative Bacterial Isolates in Water Sources in Cali City, Colombia by Monica Chavez Vivas, Luz Dary Caicedo, Jorge Enrique Castillo

“…Most of the isolates belonged to antibiotype 3 (with resistance to 6 antibiotics), 51.2% in the dry season and 48.9% in the wet season, and they were found especially in the artificial waters of “Intersector Canal (CVC) Sur”. …”
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Identification of Legionella by MALDI Biotyper through three preparation methods and an in-house library comparing phylogenetic and hierarchical cluster results by Luna Girolamini, Paolo Caiazza, Federica Marino, Maria Rosaria Pascale, Laura Caligaris, Simona Spiteri, Carlo Derelitto, Maria Luisa Simone, Antonella Grottola, Sandra Cristino

“…The dataset was composed of 104 isolates belonging to six Legionella species. The isolates were identified with a sensitivity of 97.11% for DS, 98.08% for EDS, and 95.19% for E. …”
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The (Un)canniness in Identities Among Biracial Taiwanese-Vietnamese Students by Chi Hong Nguyen

“…In-depth interviews were conducted with 18 Taiwanese-Vietnamese students studying at nine universities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, offspring of the major Vietnamese bride-sending location during the 2000s. …”
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A Comparison of Classification Algorithms for Predicting Dis-tinctive Characteristics in Fine Aroma Cocoa Flowers Using WE-KA Modeler by Daniel Tineo, Yuriko S. Murillo, Mercedes Marín, Darwin Gomez, Victor H. Taboada, Malluri Goñas, Lenin Quiñones Huatangari

“…A total of 1,140 flowers from 228 trees were utilized in this study, with 177 representing fine aroma cocoa trees and 51 trees belonging to other commercial cultivars. Three attribute evaluators (InfoGainAttributeEval, CorrelationAttributeEval and GainRatioAttributeEval), and six algorithms (Naive Bayes, Multinomial Logistic Regression, J48, Random Forest, LTM and Simple Logistic) were employed in this study. …”
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Investigating the amount of macro, meso, and microplastics in the surface soil around the landfill of Tabriz and the effect of the prevailing wind on their distribution by Mohamad Javad Asadi, Mehdi Ghayebzadeh, Seyedeh Maryam Seyed Mousavi, Hassan Taghipour, Hassan Aslani

“…The most abundant MPs in the soil of the studied area belonged to fragment and film-shaped particles, respectively, and the most abundant color was white. …”
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Chromosome-level genome assemblies of sunflower oilseed and confectionery cultivars by Liuxi Yi, Haizhu Bao, Yang Wu, Yingnan Mu, Chao Du, Jingwen Peng, Xuechun Yan, Yongsheng Chen, Haifeng Yu

“…Abstract The sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), belonging to the Asteraceae family, is the world’s fourth most important oil crop. …”
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Morphological Features and In Vitro Cytopathic Effect of Acanthamoeba griffini Trophozoites Isolated from a Clinical Case by Arturo González-Robles, Lizbeth Salazar-Villatoro, Maritza Omaña-Molina, Maria Reyes-Batlle, Carmen M. Martín-Navarro, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales

“…The phylogenetical analysis as well as the sequencing of the acquired amplified product for the DF3 region of the amoebae isolate confirmed that it belongs to genotype T3, which includes other pathogenic amoebae; besides the activity of two drugs currently used against Acanthamoeba was tested on A. griffini.…”
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Semantic Image Synthesis via Class-Adaptive Cross-Attention by Tomaso Fontanini, Claudio Ferrari, Giuseppe Lisanti, Massimo Bertozzi, Andrea Prati

“…By design, such layers learn pixel-wise modulation parameters to de-normalize the generator activations based on the semantic class each pixel belongs to. Thus, they tend to overlook global image statistics, ultimately leading to unconvincing local style editing and causing global inconsistencies such as color or illumination distribution shifts. …”
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Space Climate and Solar Energetic Particles by Ehsan Tavabi, Sima Zeighami, Yones Kharaghani

“…For this purpose, we use the source of data recorded from the momentary position of the Sun in reliable sites, as well as information recorded from the flow of cosmic particles on the surface of the Earth by the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) detector, which belongs to the NASA space agency. Solar activity affects the Earth's geomagnetic field and creates a geoelectric field on the Earth's surface. …”
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Alkaloids Profiling of Fumaria capreolata by Analytical Platforms Based on the Hyphenation of Gas Chromatography and Liquid Chromatography with Quadrupole-Time-of-Flight Mass Spect... by María del Mar Contreras, Noureddine Bribi, Ana María Gómez-Caravaca, Julio Gálvez, Antonio Segura-Carretero

“…In this way, 8 and 26 isoquinoline alkaloids were characterized using GC-QTOF-MS and RP-UHPLC-DAD-QTOF-MS, respectively, and they belonged to the following subclasses: protoberberine, protopine, aporphine, benzophenanthridine, spirobenzylisoquinoline, morphinandienone, and benzylisoquinoline. …”
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Biological Characteristics and Whole Genome Analysis of vB_VpP_3, a Bacteriophage against Multi-drug Resistant Vibrio parahaemolyticus by LIU Qingqing, ZHANG Ming, YANG Wenjing, LIU Ke, LI Fan, LI Xuepeng, LI Jianrong, ZHANG Defu

“…The one-step growth curve showed that the latent period of the phage was 15 min, the average burst size was 110 PFU, and it was highly tolerant to the environment. Phage vB_VpP_3 belonged to the order Caudovirales of the family Podoviridae with a regular icosahedral head about 60 nm in diameter and a non-contractile tail about 20 nm in length. …”
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Relationships that promote and threaten family hope during pregnancy and care for high-risk newborns by Bruna Camargos de Lima Ramos, Renata de Oliveira Costa, Lucila Castanheira Nascimento, Patrícia Pinto Braga

“…Despite the uncertainties experienced by families, hope was strengthened in the relationship with oneself, with family members, professionals and with the transcendent, generating intimidation and a feeling of belonging. Knowing this context can help nurses promote family hope, through attentive and resolute listening, assertive guidance on gestational and neonatal risk, and support in neonatal care.…”
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The Oxytocin-Oxytocin Receptor System and Its Antagonists as Tocolytic Agents by Nikolaos Vrachnis, Fotodotis M. Malamas, Stavros Sifakis, Efthymios Deligeoroglou, Zoe Iliodromiti

“…It acts through its receptor, which belongs to the G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily, while Gq/phospholipase C (PLC)/inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (InsP3) is the main pathway via which it exerts its action in the myometrium. …”
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Experiences of participating in a group-based sensory modulation intervention for mental health service users by Klara Forsberg, Daniel Sutton, Sigrid Stjernswärd, Ulrika Bejerholm, Elisabeth Argentzell

“…The interview data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.Results Synthesis of the interviews resulted in one overarching theme of ‘Embodied awareness facilitates improved coping and sense of self’ organised into four themes: (1) ‘Developing embodied awareness and strategies’, (2) ‘Taking control of everyday life’, (3) ‘Creating a stronger sense of self’, and (4) ‘From alienation to belonging’.Conclusion and significance The informants experienced the intervention to provide new embodied coping strategies that had previously been neglected. …”
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Metagenomic investigation of viruses in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) by Hongwei Li, Yuan Chen, Zhongrong Xia, Daohua Zhuang, Feng Cong, Yue-Xiao Lian

“…Most viral contigs were DNA viruses that mainly belonged to Caudoviricetes, followed by Crassvirales. …”
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Porphyromonas gingivalis affects neutrophil pro-inflammatory activities by Agnieszka Zimny, Alicja Płonczyńska, Alicja Płonczyńska, Wiktor Jakubowski, Natalia Zubrzycka, Natalia Zubrzycka, Jan Potempa, Jan Potempa, Maja Sochalska

“…Flow cytometry revealed that wild-type Porphyromonas gingivalis had a marked effect on neutrophil viability regulated by anti-apoptotic proteins belonging to the Bcl-2 family; however, these effects were independent of gingipain expression or activity. …”
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Updates to the checklist of nocturnal Macroheterocera (Lepidoptera) of the Central High Atlas of Morocco: One new species added for Morocco by Nidal Fetnassi, Omar Er-rguibi, Abdessamad Aglagane, Mohamed Ghamizi, Erki Õunap

“…Identification of the collected specimens involved a comprehensive approach, including examination of external morphology, dissections of genitalia and DNA barcoding.In this study, we recorded a total of 123 species belonging to the families Noctuidae, Erebidae, Geometridae, Eutelidae and Drepanidae. …”
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A Classifier Based on K-Nearest Neighbors Using Weighted Summation of Reconstruction Errors by Rassoul Hajizadeh, Mohammad Ali Hosseinzadeh

“…Finally, the test data belongs to the category with the lowest overall error. …”
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Toxoplasma gondii in Slaughtered Sheep in High- and Low-Humidity Regions in the South of Iran: Molecular Prevalence and Genotype Identification by Seyedeh Zahra Khademi, Fatemeh Ghaffarifar, Abdolhossein Dalimi, Mohammad Saaid Dayer, Amir Abdoli

“…Genotyping revealed that all isolates belonged to the T. gondii type III genotype. Our study indicated that humidity is an important factor for the prevalence of T. gondii in sheep. …”
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NupR Is Involved in the Control of PlcR: A Pleiotropic Regulator of Extracellular Virulence Factors by Jiaxin Qin, Ziqi Wang, Cheng Qian, Guohui Ji, Yizhuo Zhang, Zhanglei Cao, Bing Yan, Jun Cai

“…NupR is a nucleoside permease regulator belonging to the GntR family, mainly regulating nucleoside transport in <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i>. …”
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