Establishing Analytical Performance Criteria for the Global Reconnaissance of Antibiotics and Other Pharmaceutical Residues in the Aquatic Environment Using Liquid Chromatography-T... by Luisa F. Angeles, Diana S. Aga

“…Then, for many of the target analytes included in this study, the tolerance range was set at 40% for WWTP influent samples and 30% for WWTP effluent, upstream, and downstream samples. …”
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and a possible variant in shelter cats. by Ogi Okwumabua, Nancy Bradley-Siemens, Catherine Cruz, Lauren Chittick, Melissa Thompson

“…The virus has been detected in various animals including cats and dogs making it a major public health concern and a One Health issue. In this study, conjunctival and pharyngeal swabs (n = 350) and serum samples (n = 350) were collected between July and December 2020 from cats that were housed in an animal shelter and tested for the infection of SARS-CoV-2 using real time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) that targeted the N1 and N2 genes, and a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization Test (sVNT), respectively. 203 (58%) swab samples were negative (N1 and N2 not detected), 2 (0.6%) were positive (N1 and N2 detected) and 145 (41%) were inconclusive (only N1 detected). …”
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Epidemiological Investigation of Animal Brucellosis in Domestic Ruminants in Greece from 2015 to 2022 and Genetic Characterization of Prevalent Strains by Mary Emmanouil, Dimitrios Vourvidis, Anna Kyrma, Sofia Makka, Elina Horefti, Emmanouil Angelakis

“…From these, 212 sera samples were randomly selected for molecular and genetic analysis. …”
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Clinical Study Support by Long-Term Stability Studies of Alpha₁-Proteinase Inhibitor and Urea in Relevant Biological Matrices by Andrea Engelmaier, Martin Zimmermann, Harald A. Butterweck, Alfred Weber

“…Plasma samples showed smaller drops in concentration over storage time than BAL-mimicking samples. …”
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Curcuminoid Contents in Rhizomes of Some Zingiberaceous Plants Sold via Online Platforms: Influence of Species and Cultivation Location by Chaowalit Monton, Orawan Theanphong, Pathamaporn Pathompak, Jirapornchai Suksaeree, Natawat Chankana

“…Furthermore, ten samples had total curcuminoid contents higher than 10%, with three samples exceeding 15%. …”
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Low parasite load estimated by qPCR in a cohort of children living in urban area endemic for visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil. by Letícia Helena dos Santos Marques, Luciana Inácia Gomes, Iara Caixeta Marques da Rocha, Thaís Almeida Marques da Silva, Edward Oliveira, Maria Helena Franco Morais, Ana Rabello, Mariângela Carneiro

“…Seropositives samples (n = 317) and a number of seronegatives samples (n = 242) were subjected to qPCR. …”
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The Physicochemical and Structural Characteristics of Cultivated Sahlep by Abdullah Kurt, Talip Kahyaoglu

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Detection and analysis of organic contaminants in potable water based on three-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy by CHEN Fang, ZHANG Xiaoyan, HUANG Pingjie, HOU Dibo, ZHANG Guangxin, ZHAO Jiajia, HE Jiping

“…The issue of potable water security is directly related to people’s health and social stability. …”
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Focal CTC Loss for Chinese Optical Character Recognition on Unbalanced Datasets by Xinjie Feng, Hongxun Yao, Shengping Zhang

“…To solve this issue, we modify the traditional CTC by fusing focal loss with it and thus make the model attend to the low-frequent samples at training stage. …”
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Cytomegalovirus infection in patients attending a tertiary care hospital – single center experience by Bashir Ahmad Fomda, Munaza Aman, Sanam Wani, Irfan ul Haq, Uksim Qadri, Insha Altaf, Sheikh Imtiyaz, Naseer A Bhat

“… Background and Objectives: Human cytomegalovirus infection poses an important public health issue. This issue in India has not received enough attention. …”
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Podological Analysis in Children with Neuromotor Disabilities by Roberto Tedeschi

“…This underscores the importance of regular, individualized podiatric care to manage and mitigate these issues effectively. However, further research with larger sample sizes and long-term follow-up is necessary to fully understand the impact of these interventions and develop optimized care strategies. …”
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Psychosocial Perspectives on Child Mental Health in Custody Disputes: A Qualitative Study from India by Priyanka P. Nambiar, Kavita V. Jangam, Shekhar P. Seshadri

“…They were selected using a purposive sampling method over a period of 6 months. Results: Seven themes identified using thematic analysis were: (a) parent–child relationship and interaction; (b) parenting dynamics; (c) parental mental health issues; (d) malicious acts by parents; (e) child’s adjustment to changes in life; (f) issues in the school context; and (g) child mental health issues. …”
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PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS IN RELATION WITH CARDIOVASCULAR RISK (ESSE-RF IN KEMEROVSKAYA REGION) by D. P. Tsygankova, E. B. Shapovalova, S. A. Maksimov, G. V. Artamonova

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DETERMINATION OF CHEWING EFFICIENCY IN PATIENTS WITH RESTORED TOOTH CROWN PART by V.V. Nikolov, D M. Korol, D.D. Kindiy, M.D. Korol

“…It was received with the help of computer analysis of digital samples in software “Adobe Photoshop Extended”. …”
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Adulteration and quality assessment of tomato paste: a study of the Lebanese market by Fatima Habib, Salma Khazaal, Elie Bou Yazbeck, Elie Bou Yazbeck, Espérance Debs, Suhair Sunoqrot, Nicolas Louka, Nada El Darra

“…Food adulteration has emerged as a significant global issue, impacting consumer health and fair-trade practices. …”
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Role of Functional Imaging Techniques to Assess Motor and Language Cortical Plasticity in Glioma Patients: A Systematic Review by S. Cirillo, M. Caulo, V. Pieri, A. Falini, A. Castellano

“…A number of relevant methodological issues possibly affecting the finding generalization emerged, such as the complexity of plasticity outcome measures and the lack of large longitudinal studies. …”
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Wheat disease recognition method based on the SC-ConvNeXt network model by Tianliang Dong, Xiao Ma, Bin Huang, Wenyu Zhong, Qingan Han, Qinghai Wu, You Tang

“…Additionally, the model’s recognition performance is often disrupted by complex factors in natural environments. To address these issues, this paper proposes a wheat disease identification model, SC-ConvNeXt, which integrates the SimCLR pre-training framework and an improved CBAM attention mechanism. …”
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A Two-Stage Deep Learning Method for Marine Oil Spill Localization and Segmentation From Synthetic Aperture Radar Images by Xudong Huang, Biao Zhang, William Perrie

“…We have created a comprehensive dataset consisting of 3166 well-annotated oil spill samples derived from 1000 Sentinel-1 VV-polarized SAR images. …”
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Effect of Dead-Cell <i>Limosilactobacillus ingluviei</i> on Hematological Parameters and Jejunal Transcriptome Profile in Calves During the Weaning Period by Chao Ban, Supreena Srisaikham, Xingzhou Tian, Pipat Lounglawan

“…Weaning is challenging for dairy calves, frequently resulting in digestive issues. This highlights the importance of implementing appropriate nutritional strategies to enhance gut health and support optimal growth. …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Segmentation of Cells and Analysis (DL-SCAN) by Alok Bhattarai, Jan Meyer, Laura Petersilie, Syed I. Shah, Louis A. Neu, Christine R. Rose, Ghanim Ullah

“…To overcome these issues, we developed a tool called DL-SCAN that automatically segments and analyzes fluorophore-stained regions of interest such as cell bodies in fluorescence microscopy images using deep learning. …”
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