Comparison of Disk Diffusion and Etest Methods to Determine the Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus Circulating in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Fusidic Acid by Ali M. Somily, David R. Peaper, Elijah Paintsil, Thomas S. Murray

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between disk diffusion and Etest determined MIC susceptibility results in clinical isolates of S. aureus from a large academic hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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Effects of the Amount of Fly Ash Modified by Stearic Acid Compound on Mechanical Properties, Flame Retardant Ability, and Structure of the Composites by Tuan Anh Nguyen

“…Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and infrared spectroscopy were used to analyze the morphological structure of fly ash after being modified and chemically bonded with epoxy resin background.…”
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Ortaokullar İçin Eğitsel Oyun Uygulamaları: Kuramdan Uygulamaya, Doç. Dr. Emre Yıldız ve Prof. Dr. Ümit Şimşek (Editörler), Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2021, 336 sayfa.... by Mine Taşdemir Kuluç

“…Toplam 11 bölümden oluşan bu eser, beden eğitimi, fen bilimleri, dijital oyunlar, din dersi İngilizce, matematik gibi derslerde eğitsel oyunların uygulanabilirliğini derinlemesine ele almaktadır.İlk bölümde, eğitsel oyunların teorik temelleri detaylandırılmakta, oyunların sınıflandırılması ve eğitimde nasıl kullanılabileceği açıklanmaktadır. …”
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Extracorporeal Circulation Causes Release of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) by Per Jönsson, Marie-Louise Ståhl, Kjell Ohlsson

“…Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), a member of the expanding lipocalin family, has recently been described as an inflammatory protein. In this study, the release of NGAL into the circulation in 41 patients undergoing heart surgery with ECC was evaluated. …”
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Implications of the Intestinal Microbiota in Diagnosing the Progression of Diabetes and the Presence of Cardiovascular Complications by Alina Mihaela Leustean, Manuela Ciocoiu, Anca Sava, Claudia Florida Costea, Mariana Floria, Claudia Cristina Tarniceriu, Daniela Maria Tanase

“…The interest for TMAO in cardiometabolic research has recently emerged, given the preclinical evidence that reveals a link between TMAO, diabetes, and cardiovascular complications. …”
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Influences of multi-pass friction stir alloying on characterization of AZ91D alloy-based dual reinforcement bio-ceramic nano-composites by Surendra Kumar Patel, Guoxin Dai, Lu Liu, Zhen Sun, Lei Shi

“…Furthermore, the corrosion resistance at 7, 15 and 30 days of immersion of composite C was higher than that of composite A and composite B, because of the domino effects and better bio-mineralization with the addition of Y 2 O 3 and ZrO 2 particles. …”
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Exploring the significance of medical humanities in shaping internship performance: insights from curriculum categories by Chao Ting Chen, Anna Y.Q. Huang, Po-Hsun Hou, Ji-Yang Lin, His-Han Chen, Shiau-Shian Huang, Stephen J. H. Yang

“…In the subgroup analysis of MH curricula, Medical Sociology and Cultural Studies, as well as Communication Skills and Interpersonal Relationships, stood out with AUC values of 0.710 and 0.705, respectively, under logistic regression.Conclusion MH had the strongest predictive association with clinical competence during formative internship training, beyond basic medical sciences. Integrating humanities merits greater prioritization in medical curricula to nurture skilled, compassionate physicians. …”
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Competency-based Training in Health Sciences by Ramón Syr Salas Perea, María Luisa Quintana Galende, Grisell Pérez Hoz

“…This paper aims to present a reflection on the training of health professionals focusing on the competencies they need to perform successfully in their future workplaces, where they will be able to demonstrate in practice the integration between clinical care, teaching, and research. For this purpose, theoretical and empirical methods were used. …”
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Mixoid liposarcoma in abdominal wall. Case presentation by Cristina Ruesca Domínguez, Yovanny Ferrer Lozano, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Maria Elena Medina González

“…The case of a 22 year-old patient is presented, with antecedents of having been operated of subcutaneous lypoma in superior hemiabdomen, that goes to consultation worried by a considerable increase of volume, below the old scar. …”
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Integration of carbon dioxide sensor with GNSS receiver for dynamic air quality monitoring applications by Lin Yola, Garrin Alif Nanditho, Kaito Kobayashi, Dinesh Manandhar

“…The statistical regression analysis of CSV data (CO2 and vehicle speed) between the NIS and IS reported significant results, which means both are reliable. …”
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Vector Bond Graph Method of Kineto- static Analysis for 3SPS + 1PS Paralell Robot by Wang Zhongshuang, Tao Yangyang, Liu Shang, Chen Ji

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Family, friends, and financial know-how: influences on students' intentions to pursue entrepreneurship, with the moderating role of self-efficacy by Rhian Indradewa, Rizki Muharom Setiawan

“…Furthermore, self-efficacy moderates the relationship between economic literacy and entrepreneurial intentions, enhancing the impact of economic literacy on entrepreneurial intentions when self-efficacy is high. …”
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The Protocol for the Multi-Ethnic, multi-centre raNdomised controlled trial of a low-energy Diet for improving functional status in heart failure with Preserved ejection fraction (... by Noelle Robertson, Melanie J Davies, Thomas Yates, Gerry P McCann, Gaurav Singh Gulsin, Emer M Brady, Joanne V Wormleighton, Eylem Levelt, Oliver Rider, Jiliu Pan, Christopher Miller, Iain Squire, Mehak Asad, Fardad Soltani, Michelle Hadjiconstantinou, Rachel L Brown, Joanna M Bilak

“…Low-energy meal-replacement plans (MRPs) have shown significant weight loss and potential cardiac remodelling benefits. This pragmatic randomised trial aims to evaluate the efficacy of MRP-directed weight loss on exercise intolerance, symptoms, quality of life and cardiovascular remodelling in a multiethnic cohort with obesity and HFpEF.Methods and analysis Prospective multicentre, open-label, blinded endpoint randomised controlled trial comparing low-energy MRP with guideline-driven care plus health coaching. …”
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Effect of sodium alginate-based hydrogel loaded with lutein on gut microbiota and inflammatory response in DSS-induced colitis mice by Pengxiang Xu, Shuwei Luo, Jiangfeng Song, Zhuqing Dai, Dajing Li, Cai’e Wu

“…In order to effectively deliver lutein to the inflamed colon and better exert its pharmacological activity, this paper constructed a sodium alginate hydrogel-based delivery system loaded with lutein nanoparticles, evaluated the regulation on the expression and secretion of related inflammatory factors in mice with colitis, and its impact on intestinal microbial environment. …”
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Effect of Swimming Free 50 Meters for Males on Calcium Levels and Some Enzymes of Thyroid and Parathyroid Gland by Shatha Hazim Gorgees

“…Measurements were taken for participants before and after swimming. Fasting blood samples were collected before and after swimming to measure serum calcium levels as well as the activities of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), 5'-nucleotidase, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and parathormone (PTH) by standard enzymatic methods. …”
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System analysis as a tool for implementing low–waste and waste–free production at oil and gas industry enterprises by A. V. Kulbyakina, A. I. Savelyeva, N. A. Ozerov, P. A. Batrakov

“…The most energy–intensive production facilities of an oil refining enterprise have been determined, their exergy balances, have been calculated. …”
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Modern Challenges for Oil and Gas Education by V. G. Martynov, V. N. Koshelev, A. V. Dushin

“…The article concludes that the challenges of the pandemic to higher education made it possible to find algorithms for interaction between students and teachers in the online environment, showed the need to improve the methodological qualifications of teachers, motivational and psychological support for participants in the educational process, accelerate the development of digital resources.…”
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A Probabilistic Protocol for Multihop Routing in VANETs by Junichiro Fukuyama

“…As a result, heuristic methods such as GPSR have been mainly used for routing packets over multihop communications. …”
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Analytical Approximate Solutions of Caputo Fractional KdV-Burgers Equations Using Laplace Residual Power Series Technique by Aliaa Burqan, Mona Khandaqji, Zeyad Al-Zhour, Ahmad El-Ajou, Tasneem Alrahamneh

“…The KdV-Burgers equation is one of the most important partial differential equations, established by Korteweg and de Vries to describe the behavior of nonlinear waves and many physical phenomena. …”
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Simvastatin Posttreatment Controls Inflammation and Improves Bacterial Clearance in Experimental Sepsis by Flora Magno de Jesus Oliveira, Cassiano Felippe Gonçalves-de-Albuquerque, Isabel Matos Medeiros de Moraes, Patrícia Alves Reis, Vinicius Novaes Rocha, Patrícia Torres Bozza, Adriana Ribeiro Silva, Hugo Caire de Castro Faria Neto

“…Sepsis is characterized by a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by an unbalanced host response to microbe infection that can lead to death. Besides being currently the leading cause of death in intensive care units worldwide, sepsis can also induce long-term consequences among survivors, such as cognitive impairment. …”
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