Investigation of the Structural Characteristics of the Gas Diffusion Layer Using Micro-X-Ray Computed Tomography by Qitong Shi, Cong Feng, Bing Li, Pingwen Ming

“…The fiber length distribution in the unit followed a Gamma distribution, showing a random and uneven distribution in the XY plane. …”
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A Case of Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Monoclonal IgG Deposits That Showed Predominantly Membranous Features by Homare Shimohata, Kentaro Ohgi, Hiroshi Maruyama, Yasunori Miyamoto, Mamiko Takayashu, Kouichi Hirayama, Masaki Kobayashi

“…This disease is characterized by membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and staining for a single light-chain isotype and gamma heavy-chain subclass. A 76-year-old male who had monoclonal gammopathy was referred to our hospital because of proteinuria. …”
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Computed Tomography to Estimate the Representative Elementary Area for Soil Porosity Measurements by Jaqueline Aparecida Ribaski Borges, Luiz Fernando Pires, André Belmont Pereira

“…In the current work, data from gamma-ray CT were used to assess RES in measurements of soil porosity (ϕ). …”
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The formation pathway of flavor compounds in steamed Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) based on untargeted metabolomics by Tingting Yang, Yang Liu, Jing Bai, Yan Fan, Ye Chen, Ping Dong, Xia Yang, Hu Hou

“…Hierarchical clustering and volcano plot showed metabolic shifts between raw and steamed krill, with differential metabolites like hydroquinone and gamma-aminobutyric acid emerging as key contributors to flavor changes. …”
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The neural activity of auditory conscious perception by Kate L. Christison-Lagay, Aya Khalaf, Noah C. Freedman, Christopher Micek, Sharif I. Kronemer, Mariana M. Gusso, Lauren Kim, Sarit Forman, Julia Ding, Mark Aksen, Ahmad Abdel-Aty, Hunki Kwon, Noah Markowitz, Erin Yeagle, Elizabeth Espinal, Jose Herrero, Stephan Bickel, James Young, Ashesh Mehta, Kun Wu, Jason Gerrard, Eyiyemisi Damisah, Dennis Spencer, Hal Blumenfeld

“…Recordings from >2,800 grey matter electrodes were analyzed for broadband gamma power (a range which reflects local neural activity). …”
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Infectious Risk of the Hospital Environment in the Center of Morocco: A Case of Care Unit Surfaces by Samira Jaouhar, Abdelhakim El Ouali Lalami, Khadija Ouarrak, Jawad Bouzid, Mohammed Maoulouaa, Khadija Bekhti

“…The burn unit recorded a percentage of 70% contamination (p value <0.001), 13% for the sterilization service, and 7% for the operating room. 89% of the isolates were identified as Gram-positive bacteria against 11% for fungi (p value <0.001). …”
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Toward the Development of Large-Scale Word Embedding for Low-Resourced Language by Shahzad Nazir, Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz Ahmad Sahi, Shahbaz Ahmad, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Muhammad Haris Aziz

“…There exist some approaches for word embedding that consider co-occurrence and word frequency, such as Matrix Factorization, skip-gram, hierarchical-structure regularizer, and noise contrastive estimation. …”
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Synthesis of Some Polysubstituted Nicotinonitriles and Derived Pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines as In Vitro Cytotoxic and Antimicrobial Candidates by Hassan M. Faidallah, Sherif A. F. Rostom, Khalid A. Khan

“…Meanwhile, nineteen compounds were able to exhibit significant antibacterial activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, together with moderate antifungal activities. …”
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Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activity of New Amide Compounds Containing Azo Group Using Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) as Coupling Agent by Dania Mohammed Saleh, Bushra Kamel Al-Salami

“…The antibacterial activities for all new synthetic compounds was estimated accurately depending on selected bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus (Gram-positive) and Escherichia coli (Gram-negative) using different concentrations to calculate minimum inhibition concentration. …”
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Profil Bakteri Patogen dan Kepekaannya pada Pasien Ventilator Associated Pneumonia dengan Infeksi COVID- 19 di Rumah Sakit UKRIDA¬ by Jeremy Christopher, Ade Dharmawan, Donna Mesina Pasaribu, Nicolas Layanto

“…Results: Most of the study sample had characteristics of being male (71.9%), aged 25-64 years (78.1%), overweight (40.6%), and hypertension (40.6%) as the comorbid. Gram-negative bacteria is the pre-dominated bacteria in this study, with Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia being the most isolated bacteria. …”
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A preliminary investigation of the properties of plantain starch-chitosan composite films containing Panadol leaf extracts by Chad Lafeuillee, Rohanie Maharaj

“…Water solubility varied by component with no significant difference in water vapour transmission rates among the films. Both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria were inhibited by the leaf extracts. …”
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Load Balancing Selection Method and Simulation in Network Communication Based on AHP-DS Heterogeneous Network Selection Algorithm by Weiwei Xiao

“…This article proposes an Analytic Hierarchy Process Dempster-Shafer (AHP-DS) and similarity-based network selection algorithm for the scenario of dynamic changes in user requirements and network environment; combines machine learning with network selection and proposes a decision tree-based network selection algorithm; combines multiattribute decision-making and genetic algorithm to propose a weighted Gray Relation Analysis (GRA) and genetic algorithm-based network access decision algorithm. …”
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Evaluation of the inhibitory effect of Gingerol on bacteria and fungi isolated from the vagina by Heba Hadid Rashed, Ibtihal Muiz Al-Hussaini, Ali H. Al-Marzoqi

“…Results: Gingerol showed a clear effect on bacteria and Candida isolation from the vagina, and the highest effect was at a concentration of 30 mg/mL. Gram-positive bacteria S. aureus is more sensitive to gingerol than the Gram-negative bacteria E. coli and Klebsiella. …”
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Green Synthesis of Antibacterial CuO Nanoparticles Based on the Synergy Between <i>Cornu aspersum</i> Snail Mucus and Ascorbic Acid by Maria Todorova, Angelina Kosateva, Ventsislava Petrova, Bogdan Ranguelov, Stela Atanasova-Vladimirova, Georgi Avdeev, Ivanka Stoycheva, Emiliya Pisareva, Anna Tomova, Lyudmila Velkova, Aleksandar Dolashki, Pavlina Dolashka

“…Another important advantage of CuONPs obtained by the new method with two reducing agents is the stronger inhibitory effect on the bacterial growth of some Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains, compared to CuONPs-Muc prepared with only one reducing agent, i.e., a fraction of mucus with an MW > 20 kDa.…”
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THE EFFECT OF ABDOMINAL MASSAGE AND KUNYIT ASAM HERBS TO REDUCE PRIMARY MENSTRUAL PAIN (DYSMENORRHEA) by Dwi Setiani Sumardiko, Alyaa’ Maulida Rizki Roswandi, Neny Purwitasari, Rini Hamsidi

“…Meanwhile, tamarind turmeric herbal therapy is given 2 times a day for 7 days before menstruation and the first 3 days during menstruation with a combination dose of 10 grams of turmeric rhizome and 5 grams of tamarind fruit. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of MgO–CuO–Fe2O3 Nanocomposite: A Study of Its Structural, Optical, and Antibacterial Properties by Adnan Alnehia, Annas Al-Sharabi, Hisham Alnahari, Muhammad Hadi

“…Importantly, antibacterial assays revealed that the NCs exhibited a zone of inhibition of 24 mm against Gram-positive S. aureus; however, no significant antibacterial effect was observed against Gram-negative bacteria. …”
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Silver nanoparticles on UiO-66 (Zr) metal-organic frameworks for water disinfection application by Hui Chen, Chen Qiu, Yiran Jiang, Xinyu Liao, Dan Wu, Mofei Shen, Tian Ding

“…Ag@UiO-66 exhibited strong antibacterial activity against both Gram-negative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus, with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of 64 and 128 μg/mL, respectively. …”
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Study on Microscopic Characteristics of Spatial Distribution of Fractures in Deteriorated Sandstone by Wenwu Zhong, Xin Zhang, Tao Li, Xin Yang, Wei Deng, Jianchao Shi

“…In this work, CT scanning experiments of intact sandstone specimens and fractured sandstone specimens were performed. The gray value distribution of intact sandstone specimens and fractured sandstone specimens was studied. …”
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Dual‐Enhanced SERS Satellite Immuno‐Nanocomplex for Multiple PSA‐Mediated PHI Assay Toward Clinical Prostate Cancer Screening by Dong Chen, Yilin Ma, Annan Yang, Liping Hu, Hanlin Zhou, Jun Xu, Shanze Chen, Dingmeng Nie, Weifeng Feng, Huaihong Cai, Yanguang Cong, Jiang Pi, Lang Rao, Xueqin Huang, Pinghua Sun, Haibo Zhou

“…Unlike the previous studies focus on the tPSA and fPSA/tPSA ratio (f/t PSA%), this work introduces a multiple PSA‐mediated Prostate Health Index (PHI) assay with significantly increased the predictive accuracy and specificity of PCa, especially the patients with a tPSA level in the “diagnostic gray zone”. Practical analysis of clinical samples demonstrated the SERS immunoassay is capable of identifying the PCa subjects from healthy candidates (N = 13), and monitoring PCa patients before and after surgery (N = 5), as well as screening suspicious ones who are in the “gray zone” (N = 10). …”
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Synthesis, characterization, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-cancer activity of new hybrid structures based on benzimidazole and thiadiazole by Hayrani Eren Bostancı, Ulviye Acar Çevik, Ayşen Işık, Zahra Maryam, Ufuk İnce, Yusuf Özkay, Zafer Asım Kaplancıklı

“…In vitro antimicrobial activities of the compounds were determined against Gram-positive (S. aureus ATCC 29213, E. faecalis ATCC 29212), Gram-negative (E. coli ATCC 25922, P. aeruginosa ATCC 27853) bacteria and fungi (C. albicans ATCC 10231) by using broth microdilution method. …”
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