Role of plasmids in antibiotic resistance in clinical infections and implications for epidemiological surveillance: a review by Ayodele Oluwaseun Ajayi, Olajide Joseph Akinjogunla, Adebowale Toba Odeyemi, Akinyomade Oladipo Owolabi

“…Recent technologies like replicon typing and whole genome sequencing (WGS) have become the gold standard for molecular epidemiology of plasmids for the detection and control of epidemics in clinical settings. …”
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Application of Deep Dictionary Learning and Predefined Filters for Classification of Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Images by Fariba Shaker, Zahra Baharlouei, Gerlind Plonka, Hossein Rabbani

“…The first method, Simplified Deep Dictionary Learning (S-DDL), is based on deep dictionary learning, where the loss function enforces a sparse feature representation of input image patches before classification. The second method uses the Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST), which employs predefined filters in network layers. …”
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Complex Ecosystems Lose Stability When Resource Consumption Is Out of Niche by Yizhou Liu, Jiliang Hu, Hyunseok Lee, Jeff Gore

“…., generalized Lotka-Volterra dynamics) can replicate these dynamic behaviors, understanding biological reasons behind the phenomena requires modeling mechanistic interactions. …”
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Estimation and Characterization of Dengue Serotypes in Patients Presenting with Dengue Fever at Makkah Hospitals by Sami Melebari, Abdul Hafiz, Hatim A. Natto, Mohamed Osman Elamin, Naif A. Jalal, Ashwaq Hakim, Safiah Rushan, Othman Fallatah, Kamal Alzabeedi, Feras Malibari, Hutaf Mashat, Aisha Alsaadi, Amani Alhakam, Anoud Hadidi, Ghazi Saad Alkhaldi, Ahmed Alkhyami, Ali Alqarni, Abdulaziz Alzahrani, Mohammed Alghamdi, Abdullah Siddiqi, Abdullah Alasmari, Rowaida Bakri, Saleh Alqahtani, Juman M. Al-Bajaly, Asim Khogeer

“…This cross-sectional study investigates the prevalence of the four dengue serotypes in patients who presented with dengue fever at Makkah hospitals between April 2023 and May 2024. Data were collected from the medical records of the Regional Laboratory in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. …”
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Critical analysis of methods for measuring and monitoring of the population life quality by A. A. Golovin

“…The advantages and disadvantages of natural, monetary, physical, power, temporal, dimensionless units of quality of life have been analysed. The main foreign and domestic approaches to such monitoring have been considered and the positions of the Russian Federation in foreign ratings of the quality of life have been indicated. …”
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Acute Neonatal Parotitis with Late-Onset Septic Shock due to Streptococcus agalactiae by M. Boulyana

“…The patient was treated successfully with 10 days of intravenous antibiotics and supportive measures. Despite being rare, streptococcal ANP should be considered in the etiological diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. …”
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Competitiveness of city geo-brand assessment: selecting the research methodology by I. Yu. Aleksandrova

“…The author’s interpretation of a city geo-brand concept has been offered, the features of a city geo-brand concept choice, algorithm of its assessment, and evaluation parameters diagnostics methods analyzed. …”
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Ultrastructural imaging biomarkers in diabetic macular edema: A major review by Sagnik Sen, Hagar Khalid, Prithviraj Udaya, Rajiv Raman, Ranjan Rajendram, Zein ElHousseini, Luke Nicholson, Naresh Babu Kannan, Kim Ramasamy, Thandavarayan Kumaragurupari

“…Over the years, several classification systems have been devised to describe the patterns of DME using optical coherence tomography (OCT). …”
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Position Vectors of the Natural Mate and Conjugate of a Space Curve by Azeb Alghanemi, Meraj Ali Khan

“…Also, using the position vector of the natural mate, the necessary and sufficient condition for a smooth given curve to be a Bertrand curve is introduced. Moreover, a new characterization of a general helix is introduced.…”
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A simulation study on the process design and optimization pressure swing separation of azeotropic mixture methanol and toluene. by Xinxin Liu, Ndungutse Jean Maurice, Mugabekazi Joie Claire, Bigirimana Gentil, Junning Li, Zengxiang Jiao, Abdulmoseen Segun Giwa

“…The effects of the optimization sequence on the TAC were investigated. The best optimization sequences for graphing in Origin or Aspen Plus were found to be RR1, NR, NF1, NF2, NT1, and NT2. …”
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How and when supervisors’ information sharing reduces new employees’ errors by Tesfaye A. Bafa, Mingyu Zhang, Chong Chen

“…Firstly, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the importance of supervisors’ information-sharing effects on the behavioural outcomes of new employees during their socialisation stage. …”
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Bias Errors due to Leakage Effects When Estimating Frequency Response Functions by Andreas Josefsson, Kjell Ahlin, Göran Broman

“…The theoretical expressions are verified with numerical simulations and a very good agreement is found between the results from the proposed bias expressions and the empirical results.…”
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Purine but Not Pyrimidine De Novo Nucleotide Biosynthesis Inhibitors Strongly Enhance the Antiviral Effect of Corresponding Nucleobases Against Dengue Virus by Laurent F. Bonnac, Christine D. Dreis, Madhu Rai, Robert J. Geraghty

“…These results are significant because drug combinations may solve the limited efficacy observed for some antiviral nucleobase drugs such as Favipiravir.…”
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Mechanism analysis of the enhanced corrosion resistance of the Mg–2Y alloy after Mn addition by Jinhang Dong, Yuxiu Zhang, Jun Liang, Zonghui He, Xiangbin Li, Fei Long

“…In this work, the corrosion behaviors of Mg–2Y-xMn (x = 0, 0.5, 1 wt%) alloys in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution were investigated. …”
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Recurrent patellar dislocation: treatments and challenges by Fei Yang, Fei Yang, Changshun Chen, Changshun Chen, Rongjin Chen, Chenhui Yang, Hefang Xiao, Zhiwei Feng, Zhiwei Feng, Bin Geng, Yayi Xia

“…Although a variety of treatments have been reported, and many of them have shown good initial results, there is a lack of long-term follow-up results. …”
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Histomorphologic liver abnormalities in a group of alcoholic patients by Libán Álvarez Cáceres, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Merlyn Arce Núñez.

“…<strong>Background</strong>: the ingestion of alcohol has been directly involved in the development of liver diseases. …”
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Environmentally Friendly Antifouling Metabolites from Red Sea Organisms by Sultan Semran Al-Lihaibi, Ahmed Abdel-Lateff, Walied Mohamed Alarif, Hajer Saeed Alorfi, Yasuyuki Nogata, Tatsufumi Okino

“…Thirty-three extracts displayed antifouling effects: four samples were highly potent at 1 μg/mL with a percentage of settlement inhibition above 31%, twenty-two were potent at 10 μg/mL with a percentage of settlement inhibition between 16 and 30%, and seven were active at 10 μg/mL with a percentage of settlement inhibition between 0 and 15%. …”
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LATE-FLOWERING VARIETIES AND WILD SPECIES OF APPLE-TREE IN THE COLLECTION OF MAIKOP EXPERIMENT STATION OF VIR by O. N. Barsukova

“…The varieties and wild species of apple-tree with late flowering and resistance to late spring frosts have been identified within the collection of Maikop Experiment Station of VIR. …”
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Assessment of Healthcare Solid Waste Composition, Generation and its Management: the case of Two Hospitals of Shashemene Town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia by Gudeta Elie, Daniel Fitamo, Semere Gebreaegawi

“…Besides, significant differences were observed between the mean total HCW (χ2 = 9.016; P < 0.01), GW (χ2 = 9.8; P < 0.01), and the HW (χ2 =5.011, P < 0.05) of the hospitals. …”
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Proinflammatory Effects of C-Peptide in Different Tissues by Dusica Vasic, Daniel Walcher

“…Several last findings demonstrated deposition of C-peptide in the vessel wall in ApoE-deficient mice and induction of local inflammation. Besides that, C-peptide has proliferative effects on human mesangial cells. …”
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