A Novel Design of a Neural Network-Based Fractional PID Controller for Mobile Robots Using Hybridized Fruit Fly and Particle Swarm Optimization by Ghusn Abdul Redha Ibraheem, Ahmad Taher Azar, Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem, Amjad J. Humaidi

“…With suitable arrangements of the hidden layer neurons using nonlinear and linear activation functions in the hidden and output layers, respectively, and with appropriate connection weights between different hidden layer neurons, a new class of nonlinear neural fractional-order proportional integral derivative (NNFOPID) controller is proposed and designed. …”
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Factors Associated With Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms Among Bronchiectasis Patients: A Retrospective Study of Bronchiectasis Patients in Jordan by Al Oweidat K, Toubasi AA, Khraisat FA, Al-Sayegh TN, Al-Harasis LM, Albtoosh AS

“…Patients with MDROs experienced a significantly elevated mean number of hospitalizations, exacerbations, and antibiotic courses compared to their counterparts (P-value< 0.050). …”
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Study on the Influence of Regional Transportation on PM2.5 Based on the RAMS-CMAQ Model in Weihai, a Typical Coastal City of Northern China by Wentao Ning, Zhiwen Xing, Min Wei, Mingyan Li, Meigen Zhang, Houfeng Liu

“…Abstract Weihai, on the east coast of China, is the only city in Shandong Province that the air quality has reached the Chinese National Ambient Air Quality Class II Standard. …”
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Molecular identification and antibiotic clearance of Mycoplasma arginini and Mycoplasma orale from cell cultures infected with Rickettsia or Ehrlichia species by Michelle E. J. Allerdice, Savannah L. Shooter, Maria F. B. M. Galletti, Joy A. Hecht, Sandor E. Karpathy, Christopher D. Paddock

“…ABSTRACT Mycoplasma (Class: Mollicutes) contamination in cell cultures is a universal concern for research laboratories. …”
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Analysis of Volatile Components and Key Aroma Components in Dianhong Congou Black Tea Produced by Variable Temperature Fermentation by WANG Yanyan, LIU Zhiwei, YAN Huiting, LU Jianwei, HE Yamei, GAO Jun, BAI Bing, LU Liping

“…The GC-MS analysis identified a total of 747 volatile metabolites belonging to 16 chemical classes. The total amount of aroma volatiles was in the decreasing order of 35 ℃/3 h + 25 ℃/3 h (286.97 μg/g) > 35 ℃/5 h +25 ℃/1 h (261.14 μg/g) > 35 ℃/2 h + 25 ℃/4 h (253.62 μg/g) > 35 ℃/1 h + 25 ℃/5 h (238.79 μg/g) > 35 ℃/4 h + 25 ℃/2 h (214.44 μg/g). …”
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Effect of colchicine on physiological and biochemical properties of <i>Rhodococcus qingshengii</i> by Yu. A. Markova, L. A. Belovezhets, V. N. Nurminsky, I. S. Kapustina, N. V. Ozolina, V. V. Gurina, A. L. Rakevich, A. V. Sidorov

“…The genus Rhodococcus includes polymorphic non-spore-forming gram-positive bacteria belonging to the class Actinobacteria. Together with Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium, Rhodococcus belongs to the Mycolata group. …”
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Genomic Diversity and Potential Transmission and Persistence of Salmonella in the Cambodian Vegetable Supply Chain by Abimel Salazar, Navin Sreng, Chanthol Peng, Yehzi Fu, Erin M. Nawrocki, Taejung Chung, Jessie Vipham, Edward G. Dudley, Jasna Kovac

“…Lastly, among 78 analyzed isolates, 14 carried antimicrobial resistance genes and seven out of these 14 carried genes with predicted resistance to more than three classes of antibiotics. Overall, highly similar isolates of Salmonella were identified over time and at different supply chain stages, suggesting possible persistence and transmission of Salmonella within and between supply chain stages.…”
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Alpine vegetation community patterns in the Khumbu region, Nepalese Himalaya by Ruolin Leng, Stephan Harrison, Elizabeth A. Byers, Mahesh Magar, Harkrei Rai, Ram Raj Rijal, Karen Anderson

“…Satellite remote sensing provides one means of doing so, but the often patchy distribution of alpine vegetation creates challenges when using coarse-grained satellite data whose pixels are typically coarser than the grain of vegetation pattern. …”
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Cross-cultural Adaptation, Translation, and Validation of Gujarati Version of Neck Disability Index in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain by Shlesha Vaidya, Shreya Vaid

“…In phase I, translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the original English version of NDI was performed according to the published guidelines. …”
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Study on the multidrug resistance and transmission factors of Staphylococcus aureus at the ‘animal–environment–human’ interface in the broiler feeding cycle by Fangyuan Hu, Fangyuan Hu, Yaopeng Liu, Yaopeng Liu, Lin Wang, Juan Wang, Na Liu, Yan Li, Xiaoxiao Duan, Junwei Wang, Mingzhe Lu, Junhui Liu, Zhina Qu, Keguang Han

“…The 42 representative strains carried mobile elements, mainly plasmid replicons (10 types), transposons (3 types), and 20 antibiotic resistance genes in 9 classes. A total of 10 ST398 strains exhibited the fosB gene for fosfomycin resistance, and 6 ST9 strains from stage 2 exhibited the mecA resistance gene. …”
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Epidemiology of Soft Tissue Sarcoma in Iran: Four‐Year National Cancer Registry Data Report (2014–2017) by Mohammad Sajed Dehghan Banadaki, Vahid Rahmanian, Saeed Hosseini, Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseini, Narjes Hazar

“…ABSTRACT Introduction An uncommon and diverse class of cancers originating from mesenchymal tissues is designated as soft tissue sarcoma (STS). …”
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Effectiveness and Safety of the Coadministration of Rifampin and Warfarin versus Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Cohort Study by Ju-Chieh Wung, Chia-Chen Hsu, Chi-En Wang, Yaa-Hui Dong, Chia-Chieh Lin, Szu-Yu Wang, Shih-Lin Chang, Yuh-Lih Chang

“…In addition, a higher HAS-BLED score was associated with a greater risk of bleeding events regardless of the class of OACs used. Finally, close monitoring of bleeding events should be considered.…”
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Method for Identifying Abnormal Hot Spots on the Surface of Composite Insulators by LIU Yao

“…Using the maximum inter class variance method to segment the thermal image of composite insulators, the average gray level of the thermal image of composite insulators is calculated, and the optimal threshold to partition the pixels in the thermal image of composite insulators is obtained. …”
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Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance in <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i> Isolates from Subclinical Mastitis in Danish Dairy Cows by Desiree Corvera Kløve, Mikael Lenz Strube, Peter M. H. Heegaard, Lærke Boye Astrup

“…However, in 11/60 genomes (18.3%), ARGs encoding resistance towards ≥3 antimicrobial classes (e.g., beta-lactams, phosphonic acid, tetracyclines, aminoglycosides, macrolides, lincosamides, and fusidane) were detected. …”
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Mathematical model for energy savings in blood donations at the Cienfuegos Blood Bank by David Lorenzo Calles, Manuel E. Cortés Cortés

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> Electrical consumption does not show statistically significant changes when the number of donations is greater than 1200 per month. However, the class composed of the number of donations: "less than 1200" shows a significantly lower monthly current consumption when the number of donations does not reach 1200. …”
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Molecular mechanisms of aflatoxin neurotoxicity and potential neuroprotective agents by Chongshan Dai, Erjie Tian, Hui Li, Subhajit Das Gupta, Zhihui Hao, Zhanhui Wang, Tony Velkov, Jianzhong Shen

“…Aflatoxins (AFTs) represent one of the most notorious classes of deadly mycotoxins produced by certain fungi that are found on agricultural crops. …”
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Characterising melanoma diagnostic pathways for patients in routine practice using administrative health data in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study by Frances C Wright, Timothy P Hanna, Patti A Groome, Nicole J Look Hong, Meaghan E Mavor, Yuka Asai, Hugh Langley

“…Objective To characterise diagnostic pathways for patients with melanoma in routine practice and compare patient, disease and diagnostic interval (DI) characteristics across pathways.Design Descriptive cross-sectional study using administrative health data.Setting Population-based study in Ontario, Canada.Participants Patients with melanoma diagnosed from 2007 to 2019.Main outcome measures We used latent class cluster analysis to create clusters of patients with similar diagnostic experiences to characterise diagnostic pathways in routine practice. …”
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Assessment of the impact of HIV infection on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis and pubertal development among adolescent girls at a tertiary centre in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study by Bothwell Takaingofa Guzha, Bismark Mateveke, Hamish Mubata, Tapiwa Chapupu, Vongai Dondo, Maxwell Chirehwa, Rendani Tshikosi, Tsungai Chipato, Zvavahera Mike Chirenje

“…There were no significant differences in the hormonal levels and pubertal development between the WHO CD4 classes. Conclusion HIV infection is associated with stunted growth and delayed sexual maturation with an intact HPO axis in the majority of adolescents. …”
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Adult-plant resistance and a suitable method of reaction determination to scald and net form net blotch in malt barley genotypes at a hot spot location in Ethiopia by Girma Ababa, Tigist Shiferaw, Wami Hailu, Wondimu Fekadu, Sentayehu Alamerew

“…Genotypes HB#P786 and HB#P875 scored the highest (4.7 t ha−1) and lowest (0.8 t ha−1) grain yield, respectively. Eyal classes and Eyal and Brown reaction types were selected from several methods of genotype reaction determination. …”
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Breast myopathy co-occurrence and its impact on carcass and meat quality attributes in broiler chickens by Míriam Muñoz-Lapeira, Maria Font-i-Furnols, Albert Brun, Anna Jofré, Marcos Botella, Cristina Zomeño

“…Most physicochemical parameters varied significantly across myopathy classes. Breasts presenting WB, alone or in combination, were the most altered, showing: heavier carcasses with higher breast yield and redder and yellower skin; breasts with higher L*, b* and Hue, higher moisture, fat and collagen and lower protein content, and with higher cooking loss and lower resistance to shear (P < 0.05). …”
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