Dual resistance to heavy metals and antibiotics of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from Carassius carassius (Linnaeus, 1758) in Lake Tonga, Algeria by Lamia BENHALIMA, Sandra AMRI, Mourad BENSOUILAH

“…A total of 59 strains of Aeromonas hydrophila were isolated from 168 Carassius carassius samples and 144 waters samples of Lake Tonga. All the strains were tested for resistance to 13 antibiotics and three types of heavy metals (Cobalt, copper and cadmium) using disk diffusion and two-fold agar dilution method, respectively.  …”
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Adoption of the Co-Occurrence Matrix and Artificial Neural Networks in Fingerprint Recognition by Maysoon Al-Nuaimi

“…The proposed algorithm applied on more than 30 fingerprint samples, the results was good. …”
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Drugs used in pediatric intravenous therapy: a study on potentialy interactive combination by Tathiana Silva de Souza Martins, Zenith Rosa Silvino, Luciana Rodrigues Silva, Fernanda Faria Reis, Daniel Gomes Sousa

“…The population was formed by 1,248 pediatric prescriptions and the sample of 205, having as inclusion criteria prescriptions with intravenous therapy of two or more drugs. …”
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THE EFFECT OF MAIZE GRAIN TYPE ON DIGESTIBILITY OF STARCH IN THE RUMEN OF SHEEP by Jože VERBIČ, Drago BABNIK, Vida ŽNIDARŠIČ-PONGRAC

“…Ruminal starch digestibility of dried maize grain and whole plant maize silage was determined by the in sacco method. It was found out that starch of dent type maize hybrid is more extensively digested in the rumen than starch of flint type hybrid. …”
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Estimating the effect of tissue- and blood-derived cell reference matrices on deconvolving bulk transcriptomic datasets by Siqi Sun, Shweta Yadav, Mulini Pingili, Dan Chang, Jing Wang

“…Cell deconvolution is a widely used method to characterize the composition of the mixed cell population in bulk transcriptomic datasets. …”
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Circadian Disruptions Alter Consumption Timing and Exacerbate Binge-Like Eating in Mice by Christopher J. Mancuso, Samantha P. Bedard, Lindsay Gillikin, P. Evelyna Kambanis, Emily Schmitt, Kyle P. De Young

“…Circadian disrupted mice consumed more during HED access than non-disrupted mice, indicating that circadian disruptions may exacerbate binge-like eating. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 on parents from Black ethnic backgrounds in the UK: what we have learned and why it still matters by Valentina Cardi, Valentina Meregalli, Chiara Tosi, Laura Sudulich, Juliana Onwumere

“…Parents sought support from formal support networks when health issues were perceived as more severe. Conclusions This study engaged a large sample of families from Black ethnic backgrounds, but recruitment may have been biased by sociodemographic characteristics. …”
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An inclusive solution based on grey water footprint for performance evaluation of industrial wastewater treatment systems by Keivan Arastou, Ali Dehnavi, Shervin Jamshidi

“…It means that MBR relatively emitted more GHGs for reducing less GWF. Heavy metal pollution reduction (HPI) was the fourth index quantified based on GWF. …”
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Endometriosis-associated Ovarian Cancer, from Risk Factors to Survival Rate: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Elham Askary, Saeed Alborzi, Kefayat Chamanara, Alimohammad Keshtvarz Hesam Abadi

“…While clear cell and endometrioid types were more common in EAOC than in the non-EAOC group, the low-grade serous type was the most prevalent malignancy.Patients with early-stage EAOC have a 1.7 times higher 5-year survival rate compared with non-EAOC groups. …”
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Socioeconomic determinants of chronic health diseases among older Indian adults: a nationally representative cross-sectional multilevel study by Lucky Singh, Prashant Kumar Singh, Ravi Mehrotra, Ritam Dubey, Shalini Singh

“…The survey asked information related to the diagnosed chronic illnesses such as cataract, tuberculosis, hypertension, heart disease and others. The sample size of this study comprised 39 493 individuals who belonged to the age group 50 years and above.Measures Self-reported diagnosed chronic illness.Method Considering the hierarchal structure of the data multilevel logistic regression analysis was applied to attain the study objective.Results Older adults aged 80 years and older were found with three times more chances (OR: 3.99, 95% CI 2.91 to 5.48) of suffering from a chronic ailment than 50–54 years old. …”
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ChIPbinner: an R package for analyzing broad histone marks binned in uniform windows from ChIP-Seq or CUT&RUN/TAG data by Reinnier Padilla, Eric Bareke, Bo Hu, Jacek Majewski

“…Thus, users are provided with an unbiased method to explore genome-wide differences between two samples using scatterplots, principal component analysis (PCA), and correlation plots. …”
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Seroprevalence and Co-Circulation of Rift Valley Fever Virus and West Nile Fever Virus in Livestock Population of Afar Region, Northeast Ethiopia by Jemberu Alemu Megenas, Mengistu Legesse Dadi, Tesfu Kassa Mekonnen, James W. Larrick, Gezahegne Mamo Kassa

“…Camels were seven times (OR: 7.016, 95% CI = 2.639–18.653) more likely to be seropositive for the co-circulation than sheep (p≤0.001). …”
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Addressing the needs of infants with prenatal substance exposure: implementation of CAPTA and CARA legislation in an urban hospital setting by Anita Jose, Scott Wetzler, Julie R. Kaplan, Angel Mendoza, Jacqueline Martin, Wenzhu Mowrey

“…Mothers with active SUDs were more likely to experience the most severe mental health symptomatology. …”
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Impact of introducing a capacity-based mental health law in Norway: qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives by Jacob Jorem, Reidun Førde, Tonje Lossius Husum, Jørgen Dahlberg, Reidar Pedersen

“…Aims To explore the impact of introducing a capacity-based mental health law governing involuntary care and treatment. Method Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted in 2018 with 60 purposively sampled stakeholders, including patients, families, health professionals and lawyers. …”
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Polysomnographic Characteristics of Sleep in Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Chiara Baglioni, Christoph Nissen, Adrian Schweinoch, Dieter Riemann, Kai Spiegelhalder, Mathias Berger, Cornelius Weiller, Annette Sterr

“…Patients had lower sleep efficiency (mean 75% vs 84%), shorter total-sleep-time (309.4 vs 340.3 min) and more wake-after-sleep-onset (97.2 vs 53.8 min). Patients also spend more time in stage 1 (13% vs 10%) and less time in stage 2 sleep (36% vs 45%) and slow-wave-sleep (10% vs 12%). …”
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Evaluating the performance of Moroccan social incubators: an SFA analysis of youth platforms under the national initiative for human development by Younes El Maaqili, Mariam Tlemcani Mhandez, Abdessamad Ouchen

“…Research methodology – Based on a sample of 40 NIHD youth platforms, the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) method was applied to measure their technical efficiency (TE), and then the  determinants of the TE obtained were analysed by a regression using the Tobit model.  …”
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An improved GM(1,1) model based on weighted MSE and optimal weighted background value and its application by Won-Chol Yang, Song-Chol Ri, Kyong-Su Ri, Chol-Ryong Jo, Jin-Sim Kim

“…For the crude oil processing volume prediction example, the fitting MAPE, fitting WMRE and predicting MAPE of the proposed GM(1,1) (4.090405, 3.213106 and 3.775669) were lower than ones of the typical GM(1,1) (4.399448, 3.883765 and 5.040509). When the proposed method is properly combined with the other various techniques including metabolic mechanism, residual GM(1,1), original sequence pre-processing, background value reconstruction and initial condition optimization, its performance may be more and more improved.…”
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Susceptibility to hepatitis B infection, hepatitis B/HIV co-infections and hepatitis B immunity in HIV-positive patients starting HAART in Durban, South Africa by F. M. Chonco, S. Rangiah

“…The aim of this study was to demonstrate the extent of hepatitis B susceptibility, hepatitis B/HIV co-infections and hepatitis B immunity in general HIV-infected patients. Method: This was a retrospective review of 1 066 randomly sampled files of patients initiated on HAART between January 2012 and December 2014 at two Durban hospitals. …”
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In Vitro Maturation (IVM) of Human Oocytes: Promising Potential, Challenges and Chances for Improvement by Roza silvia

“…<p>Abstract<br />In Vitro Maturation (IVM) of human oocytes is an innovation in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). It is believed more patient-friendly than conventional In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) method. …”
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Residual Soil Improvement Using Microbially Induced Cementation of Ureolytic Bacteria by Murtala Umar, Khairul Anuar Kasim, Gambo Haruna Yunusa, Muttaqa Uba Zango

“…Consequently, the greater the amount of calcite precipitated, the more significant the strength improvement up to a treatment duration of 48 hours. …”
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