Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…When they meet aboard seagoing vessels, these currents construct a highly diverse range of shared spaces.Exploring both the macro-structure and some of the micro-practices that constitute these spaces, I attempt to point up some of the contradictions – between humanitarian logic and activist demands, between efficiency and processes of dehumanization, between formal rationality and the unpredictability of events – that arise in the construction of a sense of belonging on board a large SAR ship.…”
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The Equator Project Research School and Mentoring Network: Evaluated Interventions to Improve Equity in Geoscience Research by Natasha Dowey, Anya Lawrence, Munira Raji, Christopher Jackson, Rebecca Williams, Ben Fernando, Sam Giles, Jenni Barclay, Louisa Brotherson, Ethny Childs, Jacqueline Houghton, Anjana Khatwa, Keely Mills, George Jameson, Francisca Rockey, Steven Rogers, Catherine Souch

“…Participants in both interventions provided very positive feedback; the majority of those involved felt a stronger sense of belonging and inclusion in GEES research and were more likely to consider a research career after taking part. …”
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Outbreak of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neurorehabilitation unit: Genomic epidemiology reveals complex transmission pattern in a tertiary care hospital by Maria Grazia Silvotti, Erika Scaltriti, Luca Bolzoni, Beatrice Zerbi, Gabriella Tocci, Andrea Zappavigna, Gianfranco Lamberti, Federico Donati, Franco Federici, Stefano Pongolini, Giuliana Lo Cascio

“…Results: Nineteen patients were colonized by KPC-Kp. Two isolates belonged to sporadic sequence types (STs; ST348 and ST219) whereas 9 of 19 and 8 of 19 isolates belonged to ST307 and ST716, respectively. …”
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Prevalence and outcomes associated with hypocalcaemia and hypercalcaemia among pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients with mineral and bone disorder by Mei Hui Amanda Yong, Jun Jie Benjamin Seng, Ying Lin Cheryl Tan, Jiunn Wong, Priscilla How

“…Introduction: Chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disease (CKD-MBD) is a complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD) involving derangements in serum calcium and phosphate. This study aims to evaluate hypo- and hypercalcaemia and their associated outcomes among pre-dialysis CKD patients. …”
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A case for two voices in Old Church Slavonic – reflexively marked OCS verbs by Anna Malicka-Kleparska

“…Consequently, the expressions headed by anticausatives, reflexives, subject experiencer verbs, statives, and reciprocals (as well as dative impersonal structures) encroach on the area of semantics belonging in Modern Slavic to be the realm expressed in terms of passive morpho-syntax. …”
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DIVERSITY OF ALGAE SPECIES IN XUANHUONG LAKE, DALAT by Nguyễn Thị Thùy Linh, Lê Hà Thu

“…The identified species were 75 species belonging to 13 orders, 8 classes, 5 phyla (Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta, Bacillatoriophyta, Euglenophyta, Pyrrhophyta). …”
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Anthropisation et maladies à tique : l’exemple de la borréliose de Lyme by Boulanger, Nathalie

“…In the northern hemisphere, Lyme borreliosis and its vector, the tick belonging to the Ixodes ricinus complex, are particularly studied. …”
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DYSOXYLUM MOLLISSIMUM (SPRENG.) BLUME EX G. DON (MELIACEAE), A NEW RECORD FOR THE FLORA OF VIETNAM by Van Dung Luong, Ngoc Trieu Le, Tan Dat Nguyen, Van Ket Nguyen, Thanh Truong Hoang

“…This indicates that the investigated taxon belongs to Dysoxylum mollissimum (Spreng.) Blume ex G. …”
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Megacystis-Microcolon-Intestinal Hypoperistalsis Syndrome (MMIHS): Series of 4 Cases Caused by Mutation of ACTG2 (Actin Gamma 2, Smooth Muscle) Gene by Katarzyna Ignasiak-Budzyńska, Mikołaj Danko, Janusz Książyk

“…MMIHS, also known as Berdon’s syndrome, is a rare disease that belongs to primary causes of CIPOS (chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction syndrome). …”
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New Class of Close-to-Convex Harmonic Functions Defined by a Fourth-Order Differential Inequality by Mohammad Faisal Khan, Khaled Matarneh, Shahid Khan, Saqib Hussain, Maslina Darus

“…We investigate some useful results such as close-to-convexity, coefficient bounds, growth estimates, sufficient coefficient condition, and convolution for the functions belonging to this new class of harmonic functions. …”
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Complication of Salmonella Bacteremia in a Case of Treated Fungal Endophthalmitis by J. Malathi, M. Sowmiya, Vikas Khetan, K. Lily Therese, H. N. Madhavan

“…However, Salmonella typhi was isolated from both specimens, which was confirmed by Polymerase chain reaction targeting the 16SrRNA gene, sequencing, and random amplification of polymorphic DNA showed that they belonged to the same clone. The presence of Salmonella bacteremia in a treated unilateral fungal endophthalmitis, among young adult patients is rare and systemic symptoms should be investigated.…”
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Procoagulant constituents from Cordyceps militaris by Juanjuan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Zhenhua Yin, Changqin Li, Wenyi Kang

“…Cordyceps militaris, belongs to Clavicipitaceae family, was investigated for its chemical compounds, and six compounds were isolated and purified by silica gel column chromatography, Sephadex LH-20 and recrystallization, and their structures were elucidated by spectral techniques and physicochemical properties as ergosterol (1), adenosine (2), cordycepin (3), ergosterol peroxide (4), tetracosanoic acid 2,3-dihydroxypropylester (5), mannitol (6). …”
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Analysis of Pollen Collected by Andrena flavipes Panzer (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in Sweet Cherry Orchards, Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey by Yasemin Güler, Kadriye Sorkun

“…As a result of the diagnosis studies, it was determined that A. flavipes species collected the pollens of 13 families and that the dominant pollen group belonged to the Brassicaceae. It was ascertained that A. flavipes collected sweet cherry pollen and that the sweet cherry flowers do not represent a primary pollen source, however.…”
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The genus Thaxterogaster (Cortinariaceae): phylogeny and species diversity in Western China by Zi-Rui Wang, Song-Yan Zhou, Fei-Fei Liu, Zhu L. Yang

“…Based on morphological evidence and phylogenetic inference of a five-locus dataset, one hundred twelve species belonging to seven subgenera and 23 sections of Thaxterogaster were analysed. …”
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Four new araneogenous species and a new genus in Hypocreales (Clavicipitaceae, Cordycipitaceae) from the karst region of China by Wan-Hao Chen, Dan Li, Hui-Lin Shu, Jian-Dong Liang, Jie-Hong Zhao, Wei-Yi Tian, Yan-Feng Han

“…Four fungal species belonging to Chlorocillium (Clavicipitaceae) and Gamszarella (Cordycipitaceae) were isolated from dead spiders. …”
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A porosity result in convex minimization by P. G. Howlett, A. J. Zaslavski

“…We study the minimization problem f(x)→min, x∈C, where f belongs to a complete metric space ℳ of convex functions and the set C is a countable intersection of a decreasing sequence of closed convex sets Ci in a reflexive Banach space. …”
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Draft genome sequences of five Calonectria species from Eucalyptus plantations in China, Celoporthe dispersa, Sporothrix phasma and Alectoria sarmentosa by Feifei Liu, Shuaifei Chen, Maria A. Ferreira, Runlei Chang, Mohammad Sayari, Aquillah M. Kanzi, Brenda D. Wingfield, Michael J. Wingfield, David Pizarro, Ana Crespo, Pradeep K. Divakar, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, Tuan A. Duong

“…Alectoria sarmentosa is fruticose lichen belongs to the alectorioid clade of the family Parmeliaceae. …”
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Dataset on hydraulic burst pressure test of Type IV composite pressure vesselzenodo by Caroline Lüders, Sven Ropte, Daniel Schmidt, Martin Liebisch

“…The present dataset belongs to a hydraulic burst pressure test of one Type IV vessel designed to burst at 200 bar. …”
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AzioInositols in the Treatment of Insulin-Mediated Diseases by Giovanna Muscogiuri, Stefano Palomba, Antonio Simone Laganà, Francesco Orio

“…Further, insulin resistance-related diseases were associated to derangements in inositol metabolism. Thus, the aim of this review is to provide current evidence on the potential benefits of inositol isomers (MYO-INS and DCI) in the treatment of disease associated to insulin resistance such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), gestational diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. …”
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Krasnoshchyoks’ brothers: experience of historical and biographic research by A. B. Gularyan

“…The collected actual material allowed the author to show changes in the development and feature of personal manifestations at the people belonging to one family, but to different cohorts of the birth: one of brothers became social democrat, the second — the anarchist. …”
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