Stochastic dynamics of SIRS epidemic models withrandom perturbation by Qingshan Yang, Xuerong Mao

“…When the infective part isforced to expire, the susceptible part converges weakly to aninverse-gamma distribution with explicit shape and scale parameters.In case of persistence, by new stochastic Lyapunov functions, weshow the ergodic property and positive recurrence of the stochasticmodel. …”
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Testing Strategies for Detection of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Infection by Shixing Tang, Indira K. Hewlett

“…Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is a newly identified gamma retrovirus and may be associated with prostate cancer- (PC) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). …”
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On the Alpha Power Transformed Power Lindley Distribution by Amal S. Hassan, M. Elgarhy, Rokaya E. Mohamd, Sharifah Alrajhi

“…It includes the alpha power transformed Lindley, power Lindley, Lindley, and gamma as special submodels. Various properties of the APTPL distribution including moments, incomplete moments, quantiles, entropy, and stochastic ordering are obtained. …”
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Insight on the complete process of photoacoustic generation and propagation of cerebrovascular in brain via multi-physics coupling method by Shangkun Hou, Anzhi Lv, Jiabin Lin, Bokang You, Shuaixin Huang, Xianlin Song

“…The light energy absorbed by the gray matter and blood vessels was used as a heat source, and the biological heat transfer module of COMSOL Multiphysics was used to describe the instantaneous temperature rise of gray matter and blood vessels. …”
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Microbiological Safety of Kitchen Sponges Used in Food Establishments by Tesfaye Wolde, Ketema Bacha

“…The isolated genera were dominated by Pseudomonas (16.9%), Bacillus (11.1%), Micrococcus (10.6%), Streptococcus (7.8%), and Lactobacillus (6%) excluding the unidentified Gram positive rods (4.9%) and Gram negative rods (9.9%). …”
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Catalytic pyrolysis and non-catalytic pyrolysis of sugarcane bagasse: Product yield and bio-oil characterization by Jamilatun Siti, Nurmustaqimah

“…The pyrolysis process was conducted with different catalyst weights, namely 2.5 grams and 5 grams, as well as without any catalyst. …”
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Phylogenetic studies on the genus Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Basidiomycota) occurring in the bed of the Indus River, Punjab, Pakistan, reveal three new species by Qirui Li, Muhammad Haqnawaz, Abdul Rehman Niazi, Abdul Nasir Khalid

“…Candolleomyces undulatus has parabolic to campanulate, wavy margins, light purplish gray with a light brownish gray center of pileus, and an appendiculate, pendant annulus. …”
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Green Dyeing and Antibacterial Treatment of Hemp Fabrics Using Punica granatum Peel Extracts by Thitirat Inprasit, Jarinphorn Pukkao, Nattanee Lertlaksameephan, Araya Chuenchom, Kanjana Motina, Worapat Inprasit

“…The dyed fabrics were next finished with the antibacterial agent extracted from the peel and tested for activity against Staphylococcus aureus (Gram positive) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (Gram negative), using the AATCC-100 (percentage reduction) test. …”
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Vaginal Microbiota and the Use of Probiotics by Sarah Cribby, Michelle Taylor, Gregor Reid

“…The most common urogenital infection in premenopausal women is bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition characterized by a depletion of lactobacilli population and the presence of Gram-negative anaerobes, or in some cases Gram-positive cocci, and aerobic pathogens. …”
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Molecular properties of the RmlT wall teichoic acid rhamnosyltransferase that modulates virulence in Listeria monocytogenes by Ricardo Monteiro, Tatiana B. Cereija, Rita Pombinho, Thijs Voskuilen, Jeroen D. C. Codée, Sandra Sousa, João H. Morais-Cabral, Didier Cabanes

“…Abstract Wall teichoic acids (WTAs) from the major Gram-positive foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes are peptidoglycan-associated glycopolymers decorated by monosaccharides that, while not essential for bacterial growth, are required for bacterial virulence and resistance to antimicrobials. …”
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Cotrimoxazole-Resistant Escherichia coli Bacteremia in Neutropenic Patients at a Regional Oncology Hospital by Daniel B Gregson, Anne G Matlow, Andrew E Simor, Peter G Tuffnell, Donald E Low, Ronald Feld, James E Brunton

“…In a regional oncology hospital using cotrimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole) prophylaxis during chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, a single strain of Escherichia coli (indole negative) caused 15 of 27 episodes of Gram-negative rod bacteremia in 1987, and four of 32 such episodes in 1988. …”
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Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer by Preben Bendtsen, Diana Stark Ekman, AnneLie Johansson, Siw Carlfjord, Agneta Andersson, Matti Leijon, Kjell Johansson, Per Nilsen

“…Staff-referred responders reported reduced weekly alcohol consumption with an average decrease of 8.4 grams. In contrast, self-referred responders reported an average increase in weekly alcohol consumption of 2.4 grams. …”
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16S rRNA gene sequencing of non-lactic acid bacteria cultures from lait caillé in Burkina Faso by Geoffroy Romaric Bayili, Clarisse S. Compaoré, Bréhima Diawara, Lene Jespersen, Hagretou Sawadogo-Lingani

“…Man Rogosa Sharp (MRS) and M17 agar plates previously inoculated with traditional lait caillé were used to screen for gram-negative (catalase-positive or -negative) and gram-positive catalase-positive bacteria. …”
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Passive Protection of Diabetic Rats with Antisera Specific for the Polysaccharide Portion of the Lipopolysaccharide Isolated from Pseudomonas pseudomallei by Larry E Bryan, Sallene Wong, Don E Woods, David AB Dance, W Chaowagul

“…The sera were specific for P pseudomallei in that none of 37 strains of other bacteria, including 20 Gram-negative and three Gram-positive species, were recognized, although cross-reaction occurred using the anticonjugate serum with some strains of Pseudomonas cepacia serotype A, a closely related bacterium. …”
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Segmentation of the Fabric Pattern Based on Improved Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm by Gang Ding, Xiaoyuan Pei, Yang Yang, Boxiang Huang

“…The triple is composed of the gray value of the pixel, the average gray values of the diagonal, and the nondiagonal pixels in the neighbourhood. …”
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Perfusion Imaging in Autoimmune Encephalitis by Deepak Vallabhaneni, Muhammad Atif Naveed, Rajiv Mangla, Awss Zidan, Rashi I. Mehta

“…CT perfusion of the brain demonstrated increased cerebral blood volume and cerebral blood flow in the left parietooccipital gray matter, with corresponding normal mean transit time. …”
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Functional Ginger Extracts from Supercritical Fluid Carbon Dioxide Extraction via In Vitro and In Vivo Assays: Antioxidation, Antimicroorganism, and Mice Xenografts Models by Chih-Chen Lee, Li-Yu Chiou, Jheng-Yang Wang, Sin-You Chou, John Chi-Wei Lan, Tsi-Shu Huang, Kuo-Chuan Huang, Hui-Min Wang

“…The ginger extracts had operative antimicroorganism potentials against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. We further discovered the strong inhibitions of ginger extracts on lethal carcinogenic melanoma through in vivo xenograft model. …”
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Chitosan and Its Nanoparticles: A Multifaceted Approach to Antibacterial Applications by Emir Akdaşçi, Hatice Duman, Furkan Eker, Mikhael Bechelany, Sercan Karav

“…Chitosan, a multifaceted amino polysaccharide biopolymer derived from chitin, has extensive antibacterial efficacy against diverse pathogenic microorganisms, including both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, in addition to fungi. …”
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Monitoring for respiratory viruses among wild canids, Texas by Lyudmyla V. Marushchak, Laura A. Pulscher, Judith U. Oguzie, Diego B. Silva, Kenneth A. Waldrup, Douglas M. Watts, Gregory C. Gray

“…The gray fox CCoV sequence clustered with other CCoVs reported in other canids from other regions of the world. …”
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Tight bounds for antidistinguishability and circulant sets of pure quantum states by Nathaniel Johnston, Vincent Russo, Jamie Sikora

“…We show that antidistinguishability of a set of $n$ pure states is equivalent to a property of its Gram matrix called $(n-1)$-incoherence, thus establishing a connection with quantum resource theories that lets us apply a wide variety of new tools to antidistinguishability. …”
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