Enzymatic Hydrolysis Systems Enhance the Efficiency and Biological Properties of Hydrolysates from Frozen Fish Processing Co-Products by Maria Sapatinha, Carolina Camacho, Antónia Juliana Pais-Costa, Ana Luísa Fernando, António Marques, Carla Pires

“…This study explores the production of fish protein hydrolysates (FPH) from three co-products: the heads and bones of black scabbardfish (<i>Aphanopus carbo</i>), the carcasses of gilthead seabream (<i>Sparus aurata</i>), and the trimmings of Nile perch (<i>Lates niloticus</i>). Four enzymatic hydrolysis systems were tested: an endopeptidase (Alcalase, A), an exopeptidase (Protana, P), two-stage hydrolysis with an endopeptidase followed by an exopeptidase (A + P), and a single stage with endo- and exopeptidase (AP). …”
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Study of Abiotic and Biotic Parameters Affecting the Abundance of Mosquito Larvae (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Region of Fez (Morocco) by Touria Filali Mouatassem, Abdelhakim El Ouali Lalami, Chafika Faraj, Noureddine Rais, Raja Guemmouh

“…Culex pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758), known as the major vector in the transmission of West Nile virus fever (WNV), was the most common species of all mosquito larvae collected. …”
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The Ionospheric Dynamics of the African Sector Responding to a Severe Geomagnetic Storm; the Storm of 3–5 November 2021 by Wellen Rukundo

“…The equatorial GNSS station of NKLG recorded initial positive storm effects around the time of SSC, of which these effects spread over the whole African region during the main phase with positive and negative storm effects during the main and recovery phases respectively. …”
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Igi Ńlá Wó: Ọlábìyí, Èèyàn Iyì Tí n Jẹ́ Yáì Sùn Kalẹ̀ Gbalaja! by Báyọ̀ Ọmọlọlá

“…Èkú nìkan ni gbogbo wa ń wò nílè ̣ !̣ Ẹyẹ sí, Ẹ yẹ lọ; Ìyé nìkan ló kù táaráyé ó máa wò l’é ̣ yìn ẹyẹ! ̣  …”
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Latin America’s Dengue Outbreak Poses a Global Health Threat by Michelle Teixeira de Almeida, Davi Gabriel Salustiano Merighi, Aline Biazola Visnardi, Cauê Augusto Boneto Gonçalves, Vitor Martins de Freitas Amorim, Anielle Salviano de Almeida Ferrari, Anacleto Silva de Souza, Cristiane Rodrigues Guzzo

“…The global expansion of dengue-endemic regions, including outbreaks in Europe, highlights the urgent need for enhanced surveillance, proactive interventions, and international collaboration to mitigate the growing threat of Dengue and other arboviruses like West Nile, Zika, Chikungunya, Oropouche, and Yellow Fever viruses.…”
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Other proprietary brand assets and competitive advantage in beer products in Kabale District, South Western Uganda by Moses, Agaba, Sunday, Arthur

“…Materials and Methods This is a descriptive questionnaires-based survey of 1,783 wholesalers, retailers, customers, brand and marketing managers of Nile Special Lager, Eagle Lager, Senator Extra Lager, Club and Bell beer products sold in Kabale District of Uganda. …”
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A rare haplotype of the GJD3 gene segregating in familial Meniere’s disease interferes with connexin assembly by Alba Escalera-Balsera, Paula Robles-Bolivar, Alberto M. Parra-Perez, Silvia Murillo-Cuesta, Han Chow Chua, Lourdes Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Julio Contreras, Ewa Domarecka, Juan Carlos Amor-Dorado, Andrés Soto-Varela, Isabel Varela-Nieto, Agnieszka J. Szczepek, Alvaro Gallego-Martinez, Jose A. Lopez-Escamez

“…This haplotype was found in five individuals with FMD, segregating in three unrelated families with a total of ten individuals; and in another eight MD individuals. …”
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MicroRNAs obtained from cervical swabs in predicting preterm birth by Rosalia Purbandari, Suheni Ninik Hariyati

“…Materials and Methods: Using the PubMed database, 14 articles were obtained using the keywords “microRNA” and “preterm”. Reviews and unrelated studies were then excluded from both pooled articles, resulting in 4 articles included in the final review. …”
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Low-Load Blood-flow Restriction Training for Medial Tibial Stress-Syndrome in Athletes: A Case Series by Anders F. Brekke, Johanne Bjørklund, Rosa C. Holse, Christian Larsen, Mikkel H. Hjortshoej

“…One athlete sustained an injury unrelated to the LL-BFR training, and therefore the running post-test could not be completed. …”
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Adaptive clinical trial of AZD7442 and SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in immunosuppressed patients highly vulnerable to infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus (RAPID-PROTECTION): protocol for a m... by Ernest Choy, Kerenza Hood, Emma Thomas-Jones, Eleanor Barnes, Keith Wilson, Christian H Ottensmeier, Debbie Harris, Adrian Hill, Mark Tuthill, Richard Adams, Catherine Porter, Katie Ewer, Sian Griffin, Rebecca Tangney, Joanne Euden, Shirley Pringle, Lawrence Raisanen, Ruby Ray, Lisette Sheena Nixon, Melanie Varley, Craig Bodman, Paola Cicconi, Vivien Dagley, Steven Knapper

“…Introduction Despite repeated vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 virus, patients who are immunocompromised remain at very high risk of catching SARS-CoV-2 virus and becoming unwell. AZD7442 (Evusheld) is a long-acting monoclonal antibody treatment that has been shown in clinical trials to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection for up to a year after a single dose. …”
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Comparable outcomes after busulfan- or treosulfan-based conditioning for allo-HSCT in children with ALL: results of FORUM by Krzysztof Kalwak, Laura M. Moser, Ulrike Pötschger, Peter Bader, Katharina Kleinschmidt, Roland Meisel, Jean-Hugues Dalle, Akif Yesilipek, Adriana Balduzzi, Gergely Krivan, Evgenios Goussetis, Raquel Staciuk, Petr Sedlacek, Herbert Pichler, Peter Svec, Melissa Gabriel, Tayfun Güngör, Ernest Bilic, Jochen Buechner, Marleen Renard, Kim Vettenranta, Marianne Ifversen, Cristina Diaz-de-Heredia, Jerry Stein, Jacek Toporski, Marc Bierings, Christina Peters, Marc Ansari, Franco Locatelli

“…Abstract: The superiority of total body irradiation (TBI)–based vs chemotherapy conditioning for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has been established in the international, prospective phase-3 FORUM study, randomizing 417 patients aged 4-18 years in complete remission (CR), who received allo-HSCT from HLA-matched sibling or unrelated donors. Because of the unavailability of TBI in some regions and to accommodate individual contraindications, this study reports the prespecified comparison of outcomes of patients receiving busulfan (BU)– or treosulfan (TREO)–based regimens from 2013 to 2018. …”
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Nationwide carrier screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia: integrated approach of CYP21A2 pathogenic variant genotyping and comprehensive large gene deletion analysis by Yossawat Suwanlikit, Bhakbhoom Panthan, Pawares Chitayanan, Sommon Klumsathian, Angkana Charoenyingwattana, Wasun Chantratita, Objoon Trachoo

“…Methods: This study included 204 unrelated preconception individuals undergoing carrier screening. …”
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Changing patterns of general practice services during a period of public sector investment in Britain. by Motab Aljohani, Michael Donnelly, Ciaran O'Neill

“…GP consultations and outpatient use remained largely unrelated to socio-economic factors in each year. Survey participants who reported hearing or vision impairment conditions were consistently less likely to use GP or outpatient services in 2000 and 2004, in 2008.…”
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The association of sun-cured tobacco and cigarette use with global cognitive function, verbal fluency and memory in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A cross-sec... by Xiaomei Chen, Jie Li, Jia Liu, Xiao Liu, Menghui Deng, Xunhu Dong, Yanni Yang

“…We evaluated the global cognitive function using the Beijing version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, verbal fluency function using an animal fluency test, and memory function using ten unrelated words. Results The participants of both cigarette-smoking (AOR=11.18; 95% CI: 1.28– 97.5) and sun-cured tobacco (AOR=10.46; 95% CI: 1.14–96.4) groups were more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment compared to the non-smoking group. …”
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Factor VIII Intron 22 Inversion in Severe Hemophilia A Patients in Palestine by Caesar Mahmoud Abu Arra, Fekri Samarah, Nael Sudqi Abu Hasan

“…A cohort of 77 HA individuals including 5 carrier females from 52 unrelated families registered at governmental hemophilia centers in the West Bank area of Palestine was investigated. …”
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Rare variants in previously identified linkage regions associated with carotid plaque in Dominican Republic families. by Nicole D Dueker, Ashley Beecham, Liyong Wang, Chuanhui Dong, Ralph L Sacco, Susan H Blanton, Tatjana Rundek

“…Replication analyses were performed using a sample of 22 Dominican families and 556 unrelated Dominicans with Exome Array data. To identify additional non-synonymous RVs influencing plaque, we looked for co-segregation of RVs with plaque in each of the sequenced families. …”
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Genetic variation in patent foramen ovale: a case-control genome-wide association study by Bosi Dong, Yajiao Li, Fandi Ai, Jia Geng, Ting Tang, Wan Peng, Yusha Tang, Hui Wang, Zixuan Tian, Fengxiao Bu, Lei Chen

“…We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify common genetic variants associated with PFO.MethodsWe performed a whole genome sequencing in a discovery cohort of 3,227 unrelated Chinese participants screened for PFO via contrast transthoracic echocardiography (cTTE). …”
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Correlation of Serum Albumin Level to Lung Ultrasound Score and Its Role as Predictors of Outcome in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Patients: A Prospective Observational Study by Souvik Chaudhuri, Sagar S. Maddani, Shwethapriya Rao, Sirish Gauni, N. R. Arjun, Pratibha Todur, Nitin Gupta

“…Serum albumin level was unrelated to LUSS on admission in ARDS patients. Albumin level <3.25 g/dL increased the chances of a prolonged length of ICU stay (≥10 days) but was not associated with an increase in mortality. …”
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Antecedents to aggression and the use of coercive measures in inpatient mental health settings: a scoping review protocol by Johan Siqveland, Mette Senneseth, Njål Herman E Sterri, Øyvind Lockertsen, Tonje Lossius Husum, Veronica Lockertsen

“…Exclusions apply to studies focusing exclusively on behaviours unrelated to aggression or coercive measures, studies conducted in non-inpatient settings and those involving child, adolescent, geriatric or forensic populations.Methods The review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. …”
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The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…The Chinese household registration system (hukou) has played a pivotal role in the “regulation” of the formation of the working class under conditions of free and unfree markets, in ways that invite comparison with the Act of Settlement in England prior to the era of the Speenhamland system, which hindered the movement of rural labor.5 The hukou regime has imposed conditions of severe inequality on migrants and their families, initially in the years 1960 to the late 1970s when rural to urban migration and market activity were virtually foreclosed, but also in the subsequent era when the state encouraged migration and market activity, while maintaining differential access to education, health care, retirement pensions etc., distinguishing those “sojourning” in the cities from those with full urban citizen rights on the basis of hukou.6Less studied, but equally important, in our view, is the interrelationship between inequality, on the one hand, and savings and underconsumption, on the other. …”
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