Re‐evaluation of citric acid esters of mono‐ and diglycerides of fatty acids (E 472c) as a food additive in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age and follow‐up of its re‐evaluati... by EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF), Laurence Castle, Monica Andreassen, Gabriele Aquilina, Maria Lourdes Bastos, Polly Boon, Biagio Fallico, Reginald FitzGerald, Maria Jose Frutos Fernandez, Bettina Grasl‐Kraupp, Ursula Gundert‐Remy, Rainer Gürtler, Eric Houdeau, Marcin Kurek, Henriqueta Louro, Sabina Passamonti, Detlef Wölfle, Birgit Dusemund, Dominique Turck, Stefania Barmaz, Alexandra Tard, Ana Maria Rincon

“…As a follow‐up to this assessment, the FAF Panel was requested to assess the safety of citric acid esters of mono‐ and diglycerides of fatty acids (E 472c) for its use as food additive in food for infants below 16 weeks of age belonging to food categories (FCs) 13.1.1 (Infant formulae as defined by Directive 2006/141/EC) and 13.1.5.1 (Dietary foods for infants for special medical purposes and special formulae for infants). …”
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HUMAN CAPITAL AS THE SOURCE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH by Nhat Thien Tran

“…In the corrected version of the article, Thai Ha Huy [University of Évry (University of Paris-Saclay), Évry, France] has been removed from the author list as the authorship of the article belongs solely to Tran Nhat Thien [The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Dalat University, Lam Dong, Vietnam]. …”
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Semantic and Syntactic Dimensional Analysis of Rural Wooden Mosque Architecture in Borçka by Birgül Çakıroğlu, Reyhan Akat, Evren Osman Çakıroğlu, Taner Taşdemir

“…As a result, the concepts that emerged in the analyzed examples and the indicators of the sub-concepts belonging to these concepts were presented. It is suggested that the determined analysis model can contribute to design education in design departments and provide convenience to designers and researchers. …”
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Using a Consumer Wearable Activity Monitoring Device to Study Physical Activity and Sleep Among Adolescents in Project Viva: Cohort Study by Yutong Zhang, Nicole Bornkamp, Marie-France Hivert, Emily Oken, Peter James

“…Among the 677 participants, were non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, were Hispanic, non-Hispanic Asian, and belonged to other races. Participants demonstrated a high adherence to the research protocol, with the mean (SD) wear duration of 7.5 (1.1) days, and 90% of participants (612/677) had 5 or more days wearing the device for >600 minutes/day. …”
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Pseudocitrobacter cyperus, a novel bacterial species recovered from Cyperus alternifolius in Egypt by Samira M. Hamed, Mai A. Amer

“…Preliminary analysis tentatively identified Cyp38ST as belonging to the genus Pseudocitrobacter. Methods The preliminary identification of Cyp38ST was performed using the VITEK®2 identification system, MALDI-TOF-MS, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. …”
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Establishment of Tissue Culture System of Actinidia deliciosa Cultivar “Guichang” by Weimin Zhong, Junliang Zhou, Dongmei Tang, Yaxin Huang, Futao Liu, Min Zhang, Guoli Wang, Sufang Wu, Yue He, Jingwen Tang

“…In order to breed virus-free plantlets of the kiwifruit cultivar “Guichang,” which belongs to Actinidia deliciosa, in this study, stem segments with buds were used as explants, the establishment of a tissue culture rapid propagation system was carried out, and then the virus status of tissue culture plantlets was detected via the real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) method. …”
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An efficient binary spider wasp optimizer for multi-dimensional knapsack instances: experimental validation and analysis by Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Reda Mohamed, Karam M. Sallam, Ibrahim Alrashdi, Ibrahim A. Hameed

“…This motivates us to present BSWO discretized using nine well-known transfer functions belonging to three categories—X-shaped, S-shaped, and V-shaped families—for effectively and efficiently tackling this problem. …”
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Risk Factors and Consequent Diseases of Atherosclerosis in a Population Treated in a Medical Office by Luis Ángel Felicó Riverón, Georgia Díaz-Perera Fernández, Yomeidis Felicó Riverón

“…The study population consisted of the 349 families belonging to the office. Variables were analyzed: sociodemographic, individual measurements of the physical and anthropometric examination, lifestyles, risk factors and diseases resulting from atherosclerosis. …”
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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Breast Self-Examination Practice among Female Students in Sulaimani Polytechnic University by Sarko Masood Mohammed

“…The face to face interview questionnaire was filled by systematic random sampling to 216 female students from 4 different colleges belongs to SPU, after getting verbal consent to participate voluntary in the study. …”
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Greenbug resistance in barley landraces from Uzbekistan by E. E. Radchenko, K. D. Dyatlova, D. E. Akimova, I. A. Zveinek

“…Plants with a damage rate of 1–4 points (up to 30% of the leaf surface being damaged) belonged to the resistant class; damage rate of 5–8 points indicated moderate resistance of plants, and that of 9–10 meant susceptibility. …”
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Isolation, characterization and therapeutic efficacy of lytic bacteriophage ZK22 against Salmonella Typhimurium in mice by Yihong Sun, Qing Qu, Yanhua Huang, Shuo Zhou, Hua Xiang, Wei Wang

“…Based on blastn similarity analysis, ZK22 belongs to the genus Skatevirus of the class Caudoviricetes, as a long-tailed Siphovirus. …”
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Prediction of Current and Future Distributions of Chalcophora detrita (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Under Climate Change Scenarios by Arif Duyar, Muhammed Arif Demir, Mahmut Kabalak

“…This study provides a theoretical reference framework for the conservation of habitats and the improvement of management plans for species belonging to the genus Chalcophora Dejean 1833 and the other saproxylic beetles.…”
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A Nodulation-Proficient Nonrhizobial Inhabitant of Pueraria phaseoloides by W. M. M. Wedage, A. H. M. N. R. Aberathne, I. N. Harischandra, D. Gunawardana

“…When a nifH fragment from the genome of this bacterium was amplified using a pair of nifH primers, it yielded an amplicon of 360 bp that, when sequenced, helped us identify the bacterium, as belonging to a species of Pseudacidovorax intermedius, at 99% sequence identity. …”
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Occurrence and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Listeria monocytogenes Isolated From Bovine’s Milk and Meat in Mekelle City, Ethiopia by Tesfay Hailu, Getachew Gugsa, Yisehak Tsegaye, Meselu Ahmed, Nesibu Awol

“…Serovars that were identified belonged to 1/2b and 4b. Large proportions of isolates were highly susceptible to ampicillin (88.46%) and vancomycin (84.62%). …”
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Patterns of Diversity of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Region by Sérgio P. Ávila, Jeroen Goud, António M. de Frias Martins

“…All species were classified according to their mode of larval development (planktotrophic and nonplanktotrophic), and bathymetrical zonation (shallow species—those living between the intertidal and 50 m depth, and deep species—those usually living below 50 m depth). 542 species of Rissoidae are presently reported to the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to 33 genera. The Mediterranean Sea is the most diverse site, followed by Canary Islands, Caribbean, Portugal, and Cape Verde. …”
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Contribution of OqxAB Efflux Pump in Selection of Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by Orsolya Szabo, Bela Kocsis, Nikolett Szabo, Katalin Kristof, Dora Szabo

“…MLST identified K. pneumoniae SE191 as ST274, while K. pneumoniae SE23 belonged to the novel ST2567. Ciprofloxacin concentration-dependent upregulation of oqxAB efflux pump in K. pneumoniae is clonally related and contributes to selection for higher level of fluoroquinolone resistance.…”
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Food Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability through the Scope of Food Security Level and Food Environment Perception in Mexico City’s Marginated Area by Vianey Camacho-Vallejo, Alfonso Totosaus

“…Results: Educational level (P<0.001), household income (P<0.001), and belonging to a social assistance program (P<0.001) have a significant effect on food security status. …”
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Modern issues of sugar beet (<i>Beta vulgaris</i> L.) hybrid breeding by S. D. Karakotov, I. V. Apasov, A. A. Nalbandyan, E. N. Vasilchenko, T. P. Fedulova

“…It has been found that DNA markers of the sugar beet mitochondrial genome belonging to the TR minisatellite family (TR1 and TR3) enable reliable enough identification of haploid microclonal plants as MSor O-type forms. …”
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Roman Law on legal personality: pro et contra by Yu. M. Zhornokui

“…It is emphasized that although the concept of “legal entity” was not defined by the Roman ancient lawyers, and its essence was not directly studied by them, the idea of expanding the circle of subjects of private law at the expense of special organizations, unions of citizens belongs to the Roman private law. It can be assumed that the very concept of “legal entity” at this stage of historical development was not formed from the point of view of substantive law, but was formed only as a social category, but not as a legal one.…”
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Characterization of Modifiable Risk Factors for Colorectal Cancer by Imandra María García Méndez, Alexander Benavides Couto, Yaima Arrechea Betancourt, Claudia Beatriz Surí García, Fernando de la Mora Martín

“…<br /> <strong>Methods:</strong> a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out with a universe of 318 patients that constitute the entire population over 50 years of the family No. 4 medical office belonging to the José Luis Chaviano Chávez Polyclinic in Cienfuegos. …”
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