Enhanced biocidal efficacy of alcohol based disinfectants with salt additives by Euna Oh, Hyerin Shin, Sumin Han, Soo Jee Do, Younseo Shin, Ji Hee Pi, Youngjin Kim, Dae-Hong Ko, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hyo-Jick Choi

“…Specifically, the disinfection capability of the isopropanol (IPA) and ethanol (EtOH) solutions containing NaCl salts was evaluated by measuring (1) antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), Gram-negative bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli), and an alcohol-tolerant strain of E. coli; (2) sporicidal activity against Clostridioides difficile; (3) the antiviral activity against enveloped A/PR8/34 H1N1 influenza virus and non-enveloped adenovirus VR-5; and (4) the antifungal efficacy against Aspergillus niger and Cryptococcus neoformans from the time-dependent viability assays. …”
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CCD Standard Curve Fitting for Microarray Detection Base on Multi-Layer Perceptron by Zhenhua Gan, Dongyu He, Peishu Wu, Baoping Xiong, Nianyin Zeng, Fumin Zou, Feng Guo, Qin Bao, Fengyan Zhao

“…The Least Squares Algorithm (LSA) still has a large relative error even in the case of high-order fitting, especially in the region of the fluorescence image with small gray level. However, the standard curve is critical to the highly accurate measuring of the instrument. …”
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Microbial Diversity and Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Bacteria Associated with Motorcycle Helmets by Sanjeep Sapkota, Sujan Khadka, Sanjib Adhikari, Ashish Parajuli, Hemraj Kandel, Ramesh Sharma Regmi

“…Tetracycline, gentamycin, and cotrimoxazole were the most effective antibiotics for Gram-positive isolates, whereas Gram-negative isolates were sensitive towards imipenem and ciprofloxacin. …”
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Late-onset first epileptic seizure and cerebral small vessel disease: role of juxtacortical white matter lesions by Adrian Nasca, Adrian Nasca, Leo Sokolovič, Leo Sokolovič, Oliver Koprda, Patrick Haage, Patrick Haage, Thorsten Schmidt, Juraj Kukolja, Juraj Kukolja

“…Compared to TIA group, LOFES patients gray matter volume was regionally decreased in the right pre- and postcentral gyrus.SignificanceBy using algorithm-based automated lesion segmentation software tools and VBM analysis we could highlight that a juxtacortical weighting of WML distribution and regionally decreased gray matter volume distinguished LOFES from TIA and PC groups in our sample.…”
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A Clinically-Reasoned Approach to Manual Therapy in Sports Physical Therapy by Steven Short, Matthew Tuttle, Dillon Youngman

“…This gray area includes both historic positive reported short-term outcomes and negative historical biomechanical underpinnings that have created unfounded dogma and inappropriate overutilization. …”
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Polymorphic loci of coat color in mini-pigs by S. V. Nikitin, K. S. Shatokhin, S. P. Knyazev, G. M. Goncharenko, V. I. Zaporozhets, V. I. Ermolayev

“…In addition, the ICG SB RAS mini-pigs have variants inherent only to heterozygous individuals and archaic gray color described only in primitive domestic pig. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Chestnut Quality Based on Principal Component and Cluster Analysis by Yanqi YU, Mingyuan YANG, Chunmao LÜ, Shaoci BAI, Qunfang ZHANG, Chenyang ZOU, Han JIANG

“…The weights of these key indicators were calculated based on the entropy weight method to construct the gray correlation evaluation model. Our findings revealed notable differences (P<0.05) in various quality indicators among the different chestnut varieties and observed significant correlations among several of these indicators. …”
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GC-MS Profiling and Therapeutic Potentials of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC: Cytotoxic and Antimicrobial Insights by Asaad Khalid, Eltuhami A. Abdalgadir, Iman K. Abdel Gadir, Ashraf N. Abdalla, Husham E. Homeida, Shahnaz Sultana, Zia ur Rehman, Rym Hassani, Ahmed Shaher Alqahtani, Hassan A. Alhazmi

“…The antibacterial effect of the plant extracts was evaluated against four standard Gram-positive and four standard Gram-negative. The antimicrobial potential was observed only against Staphylococcus aureus which recorded a 14.5 ± 0.05 mm inhibition zone. …”
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and short-term mortality in patients having anti-MDA5-positive dermatomyositis with interstitial lung disease: a retrospective study by Hongxia Xin, Ping He, Bin Xi, Zhaojun Wang, Han Wang, Faxuan Wang, Zhanbing Ma, Jing Xue, Yuanyuan Jia, Hourong Cai, Bi Chen, Juan Chen

“…Furthermore, a generalized additive mixed model (GAMM) was applied to compare the NLR variations over time between 30-day survival group and non-survival group. …”
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Isolation, Identification, and Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Bacteria from the Conjunctival Sacs of Dogs with Bacterial Conjunctivitis in Different Regions of Wuhan, China by Yuxin Li, Yinan Wang, Xin Gao, Lihong Luo, Bohan Zhang, Xiao Wang, Jing Li, Ruijia Wu, Lixin He, Wenxuan Li, Changwei Qiu

“…Drug susceptibility testing for aminoglycoside antibiotics was performed on the most commonly isolated gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. The expression of two aminoglycoside modifying enzyme genes, <i>aacA-aphD</i> and <i>aac (6′)-Ib</i>, and three 16S rRNA methyltransferase genes, <i>rmtB</i>, <i>rmtE</i> and <i>npmA</i>, were analyzed by PCR. …”
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Multi-omics analyses identify gut microbiota-fecal metabolites-brain-cognition pathways in the Alzheimer’s disease continuum by Han Zhao, Xia Zhou, Yu Song, Wenming Zhao, Zhongwu Sun, Jiajia Zhu, Yongqiang Yu

“…We also observed progressive gray matter atrophy in broadly distributed gray matter regions and gradual micro-structural integrity damage in widespread white matter tracts along the AD continuum. …”
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Structural, Optical, Antibacterial, and Anticancer Properties of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Prepared by Green Synthesis Using Morinda citrifolia Leaves Extract by Abozer Y. Elderdery, Badr Alzahrani, Abdulrahim A. Alabdulsalam, Siddiqa M. A. Hamza, Ahmed M. E. Elkhalifa, Abdulaziz H. Alhamidi, Fehaid Alanazi, A. Mohamedain, Suresh Kumar Subbiah, Pooi Ling Mok

“…Our CeO2 NPs expressed strong antibacterial effects against Gram-positive S. aureus and S. pneumonia in addition to Gram-negative E. coli and K. pneumonia when compared with amoxicillin. …”
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Studying the Effect of Bacillus Subtilis Suspension on Plant Height, Weight and Number of Potato Tubers by Anwar Mohammed Khalil, Abd Almonem Ahmed, Marwan Abdo Hasan

“…In contrast, the average weight of the tubers was 1618.4 grams compared to its counterpart sprayed with water only, which amounted to 897.6 grams, and thus we obtained a percentage increase of 80.30%. …”
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Surgical site infections prevalence among caesarean section patients by Tasneem Alkout, Abdulhamid M. Alkout, Esraa Rasheed, Osama Etekbali, Fathi Abousnina, Alhadi Araibi

“…The remaining 2.83% were bacterial isolates, with 70.1% being gram-positive bacteria significantly higher than the 29.9% attributed to gram-negative bacteria (P = 0.01). …”
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Speckled-egg staining appearance of cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient by Matthew Alexander Stack, John-Paul Lavik, Jack G. Schneider, Brynne E. Cross

“…Our case was unique given that it occurred in a patient who appeared to be immunocompetent and the Gram stain showed a speckled-egg staining pattern that alone was not distinctive for cryptococcal yeasts. …”
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The scoping, design, and plasma physics optimization of the Eos neutron source stellarator by C.P.S. Swanson, D.A. Gates, S.T.A. Kumar, M.F. Martin, T.G. Kruger, D.W. Dudt, P.J. Bonofiglo, the Thea Energy team

“…With the addition of a tritium breeding blanket, such a facility could produce 0.2 grams d ^−1 or 70 grams yr ^−1 of tritium.…”
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Herbaspirillum Infection in Humans: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Rashmi Dhital, Anish Paudel, Nidrit Bohra, Ann K. Shin

“…Herbaspirillum seropedicae are Gram-negative oxidase-positive nonfermenting rods of Betaproteobacteria class, commonly found in rhizosphere. …”
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ALLERGIC RHINITICAL THERAPY WITH ACUPUNCTURE, LEGUNDI AND TEMULAWAK HERBS by Maya Septriana, Novita Purnamasari, Herra Studiawan

“…Herbal therapy  given for 14 times, taken every 2 days interval, 3 times a day with a dose of 5.2 grams of legundi and 4.2 grams of ginger. This therapy  overcome the symptoms of sneezing and rhinorrhea in allergic rhinitis. …”
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EFISIENSI PUPUK POSFAT AKIBAT KOMBINASI INOKULASI MIKORIZA ARBUSKULA (FMA)-SP-36TERHADAP ARSITEKSTUR AKAR KELAPA SAWIT (Elaeis quineensis Jacq) DI MAIN NURSERY by SRI UTAMI LESTARI, MURYANTO MURYANTO, ENNY MUTRYARNY

“…Hasil terbaik pemberian kombinasi FMA dan Pupuk SP-36 terdadap ada taraf perlakuan M4 dengan dosis FMA 15 gram/polybag dan dosis 2,25 gram/polybag. Kombinasi antara inokulasi FMA dan Pupuk SP-36 mempengaruhi arsitektur akar bibit kelapa sawi di main nursery, Kombinasi antara inokulasi FMA dan Pupuk SP-36 mempengaruhi serapan P tanaman kelapa sawit di main nursery …”
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Epidemiology of ophthalmia neonatorum: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Randy Asiamah, Gideon Owusu, Pious Tawiah Amoako, Richmond Amponsah, Emmanuel Adator, Samuel Kyei

“…The global incidence and prevalence of ON are 2.04% [(95% CI 0.70–5.79%), I 2 = 99.4%] and 7.79% [(95% CI 2.93–19.10%), I 2 = 99.1%], respectively. Staphylococcus spp. (gram-positive) and Serratia marcescens (gram-negative) were the most frequently isolated bacteria associated with the incidence of ON. …”
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