Becoming Charles Darwin: Travel Experiences, Personal Writings, and the Genesis of a Method by Shadia Uteem

“…Overall, the paper aims to illustrate how Darwin’s personal experiences, as documented in his writings and reminiscences, contain the essence of his personal and enigmatic approach, shedding light on how his adventurous routes influenced his methodological trajectory.…”
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Genotoxicity Assessment of Multispecies Probiotics Using Reverse Mutation, Mammalian Chromosomal Aberration, and Rodent Micronucleus Tests by Yi-Jen Chiu, Mun-Kit Nam, Yueh-Ting Tsai, Chun-Chi Huang, Cheng-Chih Tsai

“…Genotoxicity assessment is carried out on freeze dried powder of cultured probiotics containing Lactobacillus rhamnosus LCR177, Bifidobacterium adolescentis BA286, and Pediococcus acidilactici PA318. …”
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Design and Fabrication of the Large Thrust Force Piezoelectric Actuator by Shyang-Jye Chang, Jing Chen

“…From the experiment results, the piezoelectric actuator containing double pushers can provide a greater thrust force than that of traditional actuators containing a single pusher as the preload is greater. …”
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Novel Pt (II) Complexes With Anticancer Activity Against Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Cells by Erika Stefàno, Gianluca Rovito, Luca G. Cossa, Federica De Castro, Viviana Vergaro, Asjad Ali, Giulia My, Danilo Migoni, Antonella Muscella, Santo Marsigliante, Michele Benedetti, Francesco Paolo Fanizzi

“…Platinum-based drugs containing the bidentate ligand phenanthroline have been found to have strong antitumor activity due to their ability to cause DNA damage. …”
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Yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) by Catherine Zettel, Phillip Kaufman

“…EENY-434, an 8-page illustrated fact sheet by Catherine Zettel and Phillip Kaufman, is part of the Featured Creatures collection. It describes this container-inhabiting mosquito that is the primary vector of yellow fever — its synonymy, distribution, life cycle, medical importance, and management. …”
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Matfre Ermengaud, lecteur, maître et juge des troubadours by Valérie Fasseur

“…The treatment of the troubadour quotations contained in the Perilhos tractat, which forms the third branch of Matfre Ermengaud’s Breviari d’Amor, is a clever construction of authority, transferred from the former troubadours to the author of the Breviari. …”
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Combining In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Silico Approaches to Explore the Effect of <i>Ceratonia siliqua</i> and <i>Ocimum basilicum</i> Rich Phenolic Formula on Lipid Metabolism and Pl... by Mohammadine Moumou, Amani Tayebi, Abderrahmane Hadini, Omar M. Noman, Abdulsalam Alhalmi, Hamza Ahmoda, Souliman Amrani, Hicham Harnafi

“…In this work, we explored the effect of an herbal formula (CBF) containing immature <i>Ceratonia siliqua</i> pods and <i>Ocimum basilicum</i> extracts on lipid metabolism disorders and lipoprotein-rich plasma (LRP) oxidation in mice. …”
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Creation and interpretation of machine learning models for aqueous solubility prediction by Minyi Su, Enric Herrero

“…Methods: The models were trained, optimized, and tested in a dataset containing 12,983 compounds from two public datasets and further evaluated in two external test sets. …”
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Valorization of pinecone as a pyrolysis feedstock: identification of bio-oil and synthesis of activated biochar for Cr(VI) elimination from wastewater by Alfares, Amenah Adnan, Younis, Afyaa Muayed, Rasheed, Lana Abdalhameed, Fadhil, Abdelrahman Basil

“…The ABC exhibited an adsorptive elimination of 98.71% for 100 mL of solution containing 150 ppm of Cr(VI) from its aqueous phase using 0.20 g of ABC at 35 °C for 140 min and a pH = 2.0. …”
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Establishment of an Experimental Procedure for Preparing Trial Serum Samples for the Specific Serodiagnosis of Toxocara canis for External Quality Assessment Schemes by Quang Huy Vu, Diep Tuan Tran, Phu Manh Sieu Tran, Van Chuong Le, Thi Diem Phuc Huynh, Quang Sang Bui

“…Two lots of trial standard sera containing specific anti-Toxocara canis antibodies were successfully produced. …”
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INNOVATIVE PRODUCT STARTUP BUSINESS MODEL by B. Tokarev

“…The author’s model of innovative products startup containing a feedback loop is oered.…”
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Effect of bending load on electrical conductivity of carbon/epoxy composites filled with nanoparticles using design of experiment and artificial neural networks by Ali Sadollah, Seyed Morteza Razavi, Abobakr Khalil Al-Shamiri

“…Our experimental findings indicate that the decrease in electrical conductivity due to bending is minimal in carbon/epoxy samples containing CNTs and most significant in samples containing CB. …”
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COMPLEX FOR MONITORING OF SEWAGE OPTICAL DENSITY CHANGES by V. A. Alekseev, V. P. Usoltcev, S. I. Yuran, D. N. Shulmin

“…Article contains theoretical and practical technical sentences on creation of an optoelectronic complex of monitoring of emergency discharge of pollution in sewage of the enterprises.The relevance of the task of monitoring of sewage on existence of emergency clots in sewage for saving water sources is shown. …”
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Luttes pour l’environnement et droit à la ville dans la capitale du Minas Gerais (Brésil) by Pauline Bosredon, Frédéric Dumont, Valentina Bonafine , Alexandre Magno Alves Diniz

“…At the same time, in the south of the city, mining activity developed in Serra do Curral, which contains one of the largest iron mining operations in Minas Gerais. …”
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The determination of digestibility of ammonia treated wheat straw and its effect on growth performance of beef cattle by Behiç Coşkun, Suphi Deniz, Ali Ayar, Ramazan Kadak, Fazıl Deligözoğlu

“…<p> About five tones wheat straw stack treated with 40 g aqueous ammonia contains 25 % NH3 per kg straw for 30 days after covering the stack with plastic sheet.…”
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Vaccination with an Attenuated Ferritin Mutant Protects Mice against Virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Selvakumar Subbian, Ruchi Pandey, Patricia Soteropoulos, G. Marcela Rodriguez

“…However, significant distinctions in the disease pathology and host genome-wide lung transcriptome suggest improved containment of Mtb infection in animals vaccinated with the bfrB mutant, compared to BCG. …”
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Swot analysis of simulation methods and visualisation of airflow in subsonic wind tunnels by Eliza-Ioana Apostol, Aurel Mihail Țîțu

“…This paper contains concrete aspects aimed at strengthening research and innovation through specific activities in the field of aerospace research. …”
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A National Synthetic Populations Dataset for the United States by James Rineer, Nicholas Kruskamp, Caroline Kery, Kasey Jones, Rainer Hilscher, Georgiy Bobashev

“…We use Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) to create our synthetic population and use the resulting joint counts to sample representative households and people directly from microdata. Our dataset contains records for 120,754,708 households and 303,128,287 individuals across the United States. …”
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Cartographie des pornographies critiques by Myriam Le Blanc Élie, Julie Lavigne, Sabrina Maiorano

“…Whether they are feminist, by and for women, by and for lesbians, queer, educational, alternative or indie, all of those pornographic productions contain a critical discourse on mainstream pornography. …”
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Sources of right to freedom of peaceful assembly by М. А. Sambor

“…The Constitution of Ukraine belongs to this type of sources of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly (as its special norms intended to regulate public relations in the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Ukrainian society, as well as general rules that ensure the ordering of relations and the formation of legal space for the implementation of the said rights), the Civil Code of Ukraine, the Code of Administrative Judiciary of Ukraine, as well as other procedural normative legal acts, which, although they do not contain any special rules, are directed to regulate relations precisely with the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, but in their general form provide the opportunity to regulate a number of aspects of the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. …”
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