Contamination of the Surfaces of a Health Care Environment by Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Bacteria by Laila Chaoui, RajaaAit Mhand, Fouad Mellouki, Naima Rhallabi

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted from March 2017 to April 2018. Samples were collected by swabbing the hospital surfaces, and the isolated bacteria were checked for their susceptibility to antibiotics by the Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method following the standards of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). …”
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Concordance of diagnostic tests, ultrasound of urinary tract versus non-contrast CT in urolithiasis in a four-level center in Bogotá, Colombia by Hugo López, Juliana Arenas, María P. Torres, Alejandra Niño-Alarcón

“…The objective of this research is to make a study of diagnostic concordance between urinary tract ultrasound and non-contrast CT in a fourth-level center in Bogotá. Method: Retrospectively, a base is developed with a sample of all the patients who were taken to non-contrast CT and renal ultrasound at the same time for a clinical course suggestive of stone disease. …”
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GSF-YOLOv8: A Novel Approach for Fire Detection Using Gather-Distribute Mechanism and SimAM Attention by Caixiong Li, Dali Wu, Xing Zhang, Peng Wu

“…It also focuses on hard samples to reduce the impact of easily misclassified samples, thereby enhancing the model’s performance in complex fire detection. …”
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Raising to conformity without strictness: is it achievable? by Marta Alcaide, Oscar F. Garcia, Olga Gomez-Ortiz, Fernando Garcia

“…This study aims to analyze how two main parenting dimensions, warmth and strictness, are related to the psychosocial adjustment of children.MethodA sample of 1,224 Spanish adolescents and young adults was examined, divided into two groups: adolescents aged 12–18 years (51.14%) and young adults aged 19–35 years (48.86%). …”
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Living under threat: adolescents’ continuous traumatic stress reactions in relation to violence exposure by Inga Truskauskaite, Monika Kvedaraite, Aviva Goral, Ieva Daniunaite

“…CTS reactions have never been studied in relation to violence exposure in adolescent samples.Objective: We aimed to validate the Lithuanian version of the Continuous Traumatic Stress Response (CTSR) scale in the adolescent sample, to explore the adolescents’ CTS reactions using the person-oriented approach, and to study the relationship between different types of violence and CTS reactions.Method: In total, 321 adolescents (M(SD)age = 14.19 (1.26)) from Lithuania were included in the current study, of which 181 (56.4%) were female, 135 (42.1%) were male, and 54.5% (n = 175) were continuously exposed to violence over their lifetime. …”
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Prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pigs and workers at abattoirs in Trinidad and Tobago by Alva Stewart-Johnson, Francis Dziva, Woubit Abdela, Saed Rahaman, Abiodun Adesiyun

“…Resistance of the S. aureus and MRSA isolates to 16 antimicrobial agents was determined using the disc diffusion method. Results: Of the 929 pigs and 44 humans sampled, MRSA strains were isolated at a frequency of 0.9% (8/929) and 2.3% (1/44) respectively. …”
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Rab27a was identified as a prognostic biomaker by mRNA profiling, correlated with malignant progression and subtype preference in gliomas. by Hongjun Wang, Yan Zhao, Chuanbao Zhang, Mingyang Li, Chuanlu Jiang, Yongli Li

“…In this set, 220 gliomas, consisting of 97 WHO Grade II gliomas, 34 WHO Grade III gliomas, and 89 WHO Grade IV gliomas, were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. To validate the protein expression of Rab27a, we assayed another 162 glioma samples by immunohistochemistry. …”
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Development of value added cassava-based foods enriched with Irish potato peels and moringa leaves for sustainable food security and improved nutrition by Lilian Daniel Kaale, Maria Eduardo

“…The results showed that solar drying method preserved nutrients in the dried samples compared to their fresh state. …”
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Physical simulation test of multi-stage staged fracturing for shale horizontal wells by GUO Tiankui, SUN Yueming, LIU Xuewei, CHEN Ming, LIU Xiaoqiang

“…In order to clarify the influence of in-situ stress difference, displacement and fracturing series on the propagation of staged fractures in shale horizontal wells, we do the research based on a true triaxial hydraulic fracturing test system, using outcrop shale samples (300 mm × 300 mm × 300 mm) as the research object, combined with the new method of fracture-induced stress detection of staged fracturing and the three-dimensional morphological structure of specimens after hydraulic fracturing test. …”
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Open Datasets for Upper Limb Motion—A Systematic Review by Ranieri Santanche, Antonia Centrone, Lorenza Mattei, Francesca Di Puccio

“…A total of 63 datasets met the criteria for further analysis, and their quality was assessed based on subject types, data collection methods, and sample sizes. The majority of the datasets centered on activities of daily living, with 69.8% of the studies involving healthy subjects. …”
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An examination of psychological distress and moral injury in journalists exposed to online harassment by Anthony Feinstein, Hannah Storm, Jillian Mead, Andrea Sharkey

“…News organizations should do more to address the challenges posed by harassment and better support their journalists.…”
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Nanomechanical characterization of soft nanomaterial using atomic force microscopy by Chi-Dat Lam, Soyeun Park

“…Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a promising method for generating high-spatial-resolution images, providing insightful perspectives on the nanomechanical attributes of soft matter, including cells, bacteria, viruses, proteins, and nanoparticles. …”
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Effect of salivary urea, pH and ureolytic microflora on dental calculus formation and its correlation with periodontal status by Liberia L. D'souza, Sandeep A. Lawande, James Samuel, Maria Jose Wiseman Pinto

“…Clinical parameters such as plaque index, gingival index, pocket probing depth and clinical attachment level and salivary pH were recorded for each subject. Saliva samples were collected to evaluate the urea levels using autoanalyzer method. …”
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Hypermethylation at 45S rDNA promoter in cancers. by Trang Thi Quynh Tran, Trang Hien Do, Tung The Pham, Phương Thi Thu Luu, Oanh Minh Pham, Uyen Quynh Nguyen, Linh Dieu Vuong, Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Tuan Van Mai, Son Van Ho, Than Thi Nguyen, Lan Thi Thuong Vo

“…Using the bisulfite-based quantitative real-time methylation-specific PCR (qMSP) method after ensuring unbiased amplification and complete bisulfite conversion of the minuscule DNA amount of 1 ng, we established that the rDNA promoter was significantly hypermethylated in 107 breast, 65 lung, and 135 colon tumour tissue samples (46.81%, 51.02% and 96.60%, respectively) as compared with their corresponding adjacent normal samples (26.84%, 38.26% and 77.52%, respectively; p < 0.0001). …”
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Investigating the Influencing Factors on the Fashion Choices among the Girls Aged 15-20 in Shahrekord-Iran by Elaheh Gholipour, Roshanak Davari, Pinky Chadha

“…The purpose of this research is to determine the factors affecting fashion trends among girls. Methods: This applied research is descriptive-survey in terms of method. …”
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A comparison study of 589 and 650 nm on improving stored whole blood stability by irradiation with a low-power diode pumping solid-state laser by Safa Hassan Mohammed, Mustafa Salih Al Musawi, Bassam Talib Al-Gailani

“… Objective: To assess the effects of diode-pumped solid-state laser irradiation with 589nm and 650nm wavelengths on the stability of stored red blood cells in vitro. Method: This is an intervention study that was conducted from April to July 2021 at the Physiology and Medical Physics Laboratory, College of Medicine, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq, and comprised samples of healthy, adult human blood that were put in tubes with citrate-phosphate dextrose-adenine as an anticoagulant. …”
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FEATURES OF THE INFLUENCE OF LOW LEVELS OF ALCOHOL INTOXICATION ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN by Borys V. Mykhailychenko, Andrii M. Biliakov, Alina O. Pletenetska

“…This study is motivated by the need to improve existing standards, especially given the varying legal limits for intoxication around the world and the cognitive risks that occur even at low blood alcohol concentration levels. Materials and methods. A sample of 42 healthy volunteers (men and women aged 21–63 years) participated in the assessment of attention by the "arrangement of numbers" method. …”
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Enhancing Elementary Students' Numeracy Skills Through The Concrete Pictorial Abstract (CPA) Approach by Tri Suryaningsih, Khoerun Nisa, Rohmat Widiyanto, Asep Ediana Latip, Yubaedi Siron

“… This study investigates the impact of the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) method on fifth-grade students' SDN Cipayung 02 numeracy skills. …”
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Wind Turbine Fault Diagnosis with Imbalanced SCADA Data Using Generative Adversarial Networks by Hong Wang, Taikun Li, Mingyang Xie, Wenfang Tian, Wei Han

“…This makes the SCADA data distribution imbalanced, with significantly more normal data than abnormal data, resulting in a decrease in the performance of existing fault diagnosis techniques. …”
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Estimate the Age of Han Adult Based on the Pulp Chamber Volume and Pulp Dentinal Index of Right First Molars Using Oral and Maxillofacial CBCT by DING Yan-jie, ZHANG Xiao, SHI Wen-li, LI Zi-yi, WANG Wei, ZHANG Shi-lin, YANG Gen-jie, GUO A-ji, JIN Bo

“…The age estimation model based on the PDI is more convenient and accurate than that based on the PCV, providing a more effective method for age estimation in forensic practice.…”
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