Molecular detection of the hpmA and ureA genes in clinical Proteus mirabilis isolates by Rosa Kareem Shameel, Marwa Hameed M. Alkhafaji

“…      Proteus mirabilis is one of the most common Gram-negative bacteria that can cause UTIs. The purpose of this research was to identify virulence genes in P. mirabilis strains obtained from the urine of Iraqi patients diagnosed with urinary tract infections. …”
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Inhibitory Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammation by Yue Sun, Dejing Shang

“…On the one hand, AMPs can readily penetrate the cell wall barrier by neutralizing LPS to remove Gram-negative bacteria that can lead to infection. …”
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Improving wheat yield prediction through variable selection using Support Vector Regression, Random Forest, and Extreme Gradient Boosting by Juan Carlos Moreno Sánchez, Héctor Gabriel Acosta Mesa, Adrián Trueba Espinosa, Sergio Ruiz Castilla, Farid García Lamont

“…This combination, analyzed through the XGBoost model, resulted in an exceptional performance, with an RMSE of 28.5082 (grams/square meter) and an R² of 0.9156, showing the constructive collaboration between these indicators. …”
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Assessment of Hyaluronidase among Type Strains of a Select Group of Staphylococcal Species by Mark E. Hart, Morgan J. Hart, Anna J. Roop

“…Hyaluronidases degrade hyaluronic acid, a major polysaccharide of the extracellular matrix of tissues, and are considered important for virulence in a number of Gram-positive and -negative bacteria. The purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence of hyaluronidase among clinical strains of Staphylococcus aureus and among other Staphylococcus species. …”
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<i>Helicobacter pylori</i> HP0135 Is a Small Lipoprotein That Has a Role in Outer Membrane Stability by Doreen Nguyen, Rachel G. Ivester, Kyle Rosinke, Timothy R. Hoover

“…<i>Helicobacter pylori</i> is a Gram-negative bacterium and human pathogen that is linked to various gastric diseases, including peptic ulcer disease, chronic gastritis, and gastric cancer. …”
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MICROPLASTIC FIBER ACCUMULATION IN SOME WILD AND CULTURED SHRIMP SPECIES by Van Chi Vo, Thi Bich Hang Tran

“…White fibers were dominant (30.38%), followed by gray (11.87%), and green (10.60%).…”
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Safety of palliative cancer patients using morphine for pain control: scoping review by Janillê Luciana Araújo, Erica Brandão de Moraes, Barbara Pompeu Chistovam, Aline Lima Pestana Magalhães

“…The search was carried out in the Medline, LILACS, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane and CINAHL databases, as well as in the gray literature. The titles and abstracts were evaluated by two independent reviewers, and the selected papers were read in full. …”
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Molecular Prevalence and Identification of Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma platys from Dogs in Nay Pyi Taw Area, Myanmar by Myint Myint Hmoon, Lat Lat Htun, May June Thu, Hla Myet Chel, Yu Nandi Thaw, Shwe Yee Win, Nyein Chan Soe, Yadanar Khaing, Su Su Thein, Saw Bawm

“…Ticks are vectors of different types of viruses, protozoans, and other microorganisms, which include Gram-negative prokaryotes of the genera Rickettsiales, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and Borrelia. …”
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Edge Detection via Edge-Strength Estimation Using Fuzzy Reasoning and Optimal Threshold Selection Using Particle Swarm Optimization by Ajay Khunteta, D. Ghosh

“…Accordingly, several gradient-based edge detectors have been developed that are based on measuring local changes in gray value; a pixel is declared to be an edge pixel if the change is significant. …”
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Effects of Fast Simple Numerical Calculation Training on Neural Systems by Hikaru Takeuchi, Tomomi Nagase, Yasuyuki Taki, Yuko Sassa, Hiroshi Hashizume, Rui Nouchi, Ryuta Kawashima

“…We investigated the effects of 1-week intensive FSNC training on cognitive function, regional gray matter volume (rGMV), and regional cerebral blood flow at rest (resting rCBF) in healthy young adults. …”
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Community owned green gym of a village in Maharashtra, India: a case study of community empowerment by Devyani Wanjari, Radhika Sharma, Pravin Bhusari, Chanda Bhondwe, Abhishek V. Raut, Subodh S. Gupta, V.-CaN Collaboration Team

“…Various other factors like consistent community work by the social workers of the department for the health and wellbeing of the villagers, trust-based relationship with the medical institute, active participation of the Gram Panchayat of the village in central India and other village organizations like SHGs, sports club and enthusiasm of the villagers, etc. were the driving forces for the community participation. …”
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Voluminous Intrapericardial Lipoma Mimicking Pericardial Effusion by Fabíola Prado de Morais, Noah Romero Nakajima, Olívia Félix Marconi Andalécio, Pedro de Santana Prudente, Guilherme Emílio Ferreira, Andrea de Martino Luppi, Fernando Costa Mundim, Olga Maria Lima Aguiar, Juliana Salomão Daud Melo, Bruno de Carvalho Dornelas

“…The diagnosis of a 635 gram intrapericardial lipoma was confirmed by pathological examination. …”
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Three-dimensional reconstruction of the spinal cord of thoroughbred by Durmuş Bolat

“…Considering real measurements of the segments, borders of the gray and white matter and central canal were drawn by planimetric methods. …”
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Image Processing-Based Spall Object Detection Using Gabor Filter, Texture Analysis, and Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam) Optimized Logistic Regression Models by Nhat-Duc Hoang

“…The binary gradient contour, gray level co-occurrence matrix, and color channels’ statistical measurements are employed to compute the texture of the extracted region of interest. …”
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Spectrum-Effect Relationships of Flavonoids in Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. by Tingting Li, Shiyao Hua, Jiahua Ma, Lin Dong, Fang Xu, Xueyan Fu

“…., including the heat clearing, detoxifying effects, cough relief, and phlegm elimination effects, were assessed by gray relational analysis and partial least squares regression. …”
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La particella “ne”nella scrittura creativa in italiano LS. Indagine su un corpus di apprendenti greci by Katerina Florou, Ioanna Tyrou

“…For this purpose, four sub-corpora of SCRICREA, a learner corpus that collects productions from students of the creative writing course, were queried through an n-gram search. The preliminary results of this process allow for a series of observations on the extracted lexical bundles. …”
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Teaching Pronunciation through Community Outreach by Frédérique Grim

“…Some educators believe that if learners are comprehensible, grammatical accuracy should not be the primary goal in instruction in order to mirror the reality outside of the classroom. …”
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IMA genome-F18 by Cobus M. Visagie, Donato Magistà, Massimo Ferrara, Felipe Balocchi, Tuan A. Duong, Ales Eichmeier, David Gramaje, Janneke Aylward, Scott E. Baker, Irene Barnes, Sara Calhoun, Maria De Angelis, Jens C. Frisvad, Eliska Hakalova, Richard D. Hayes, Jos Houbraken, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kurt LaButti, Catarina Leal, Anna Lipzen, Vivian Ng, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Jakub Pecenka, Giancarlo Perrone, Anja Piso, Emily Savage, Milan Spetik, Michael J. Wingfield, Yu Zhang, Brenda D. Wingfield

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Assimilation efficiencies and elimination rates of silver, cadmium and zinc accumulated by trophic pathway in Gammarus fossarum by Gestin, Ophélia, Lopes, Christelle, Delorme, Nicolas, Garnero, Laura, Geffard, Olivier, Lacoue-Labarthe, Thomas

“…At different time points, the gammarids were placed alive on the gamma detector to individually quantify whole body concentrations of 110mAg, 109Cd or 65Zn. …”
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Double Compressions of Atmospheric Depth by Geopotential Tendency, Vorticity, and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Affected Abrupt High Particulate Matter Concentrations at a Coastal Cit... by Hyo Choi, Mi Sook Lee

“…Using GRIMM-aerosol sampler, NOAA-HYSPLIT model, and 3D-WRF-3.3 model, the transportation of dusts from Gobi Desert toward Gangneung city, Korea was investigated from 09:00 LST October 27 to 04:00 LST October 28, 2003. …”
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