Genetic analysis reveals the genetic diversity and zoonotic potential of Streptococcus dysgalactiae isolates from sheep by Ilona Stefańska, Ewelina Kwiecień, Anna Didkowska, Magdalena Kizerwetter-Świda, Dorota Chrobak-Chmiel, Agnieszka Sałamaszyńska-Guz, Piotr Żmuda, Krzysztof Anusz, Magdalena Rzewuska

“…Phylogenetic analysis showed that studied ovine isolates grouped together with human S. dysgalactiae isolates from the cases of zoonotic infections. …”
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Sickle Cell Disease Activates Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells to Induce Cathepsins K and V Activity in Endothelial Cells by Philip M. Keegan, Sindhuja Surapaneni, Manu O. Platt

“…Inhibition of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) significantly reduced cathepsins K and V activation by 60% and 51%, respectively. Together, the inflammation and activated circulating mononuclear cells upregulate cathepsin activity through JNK signaling, identifying new pharmaceutical targets to block the accelerated pathology observed in arteries of children with sickle cell disease.…”
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Design of an Error-Based Adaptive Controller for a Flexible Robot Arm Using Dynamic Pole Motion Approach by Ki-Young Song, Madan M. Gupta, Noriyasu Homma

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Awareness and Utilization of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-NHPM) among Beneficiaries of Gautam Buddha Nagar District: A Comparative Study by Raghav Dixit, Ambren Chauhan, Khushboo Juneja

“…Creating good awareness campaigns, special drives, and working toward quality assurance in both the public and private sectors will help beneficiaries get the best out of this dynamic healthcare scheme.…”
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Mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal RNA analysis place Alveonasus lahorensis within the Argasinae and suggest that the genus Alveonasus is paraphyletic by Ben J. Mans, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Ronel Pienaar, Minique de Castro, Mehran Khan, Mashal M. Almutairi, Abdulaziz Alouffi, Abid Ali, Ala Tabor

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Comparison of efficacy and safety of thrombus prevention strategies after abdominal and pelvic cancer surgery: Bayesian network based meta-analysis by Shiran Qin, Shiran Qin, Sitong Guo, Yucheng Yao, Yucheng Yao, Ying He, Dandan Xu, Dandan Xu, Henghai Su, Xiaoyu Chen, Haoru Meng

“…Network meta-analysis(NMA) and direct meta-analysis (DMA) methods were employed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of various prophylactic strategies.ResultsTwenty clinical trials involving a total of 4923 patients were included. The DMA results showed that low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) was more effective in preventing VTE compared to no treatment (OR = 1.96; 95% CI: 1.21 to 3.19), and LMWH plus physiotherapy was more effective than LMWH (OR = 10.95; 95% CI: 1.33 to 90.40). …”
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The focus of public discourse on child abuse in kindergartens: analysis of articles on child abuse in newspapers of China from 2010 to 2017 by Baoan Feng, Xingping Zhou

“…The results of the research are as follows: (1) The change of public opinion on child abuse conforms to the law of public opinion development in the latent period, outbreak period, spread period, repetition period, remission period and long tail period of the dissemination of hot topics of public opinion; (2) The range of social groups concerned about child abuse has been expanding year by year, until 2017, a total of 22 categories of social groups have paid attention to child abuse; (3) The focus of public attention on the child abuse incidents includes 23 aspects, such as the supervision responsibility, harm, punishment, system, prevent, treatment and morality. …”
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«No-reflow» phenomenon and risk factors associated with its development after primary percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction by V.І. Tseluyko, M.M. Doloh, O.A. Leonenko

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Interval-valued spherical fuzzy extension of SWARA for prioritizing strategies to unlock Africa's potential in the carbon credit market by Tafuteni Chusi, Su Qian, Seyyed Edalatpanah, Yanjun Qiu, Mouhamed Bayane Bouraima, Akpa Ajayi

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Differentiating Malignant from Tubercular Pleural Effusion by Cancer Ratio Plus (Cancer Ratio: Pleural Lymphocyte Count) by Akash Verma, Rucha S. Dagaonkar, Dominic Marshall, John Abisheganaden, R. W. Light

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Multidrug Resistant Enteric Bacterial Pathogens in a Psychiatric Hospital in Ghana: Implications for Control of Nosocomial Infections by Kwabena O. Duedu, George Offei, Francis S. Codjoe, Eric S. Donkor

“…The aim of the study was to determine the extent and pattern of antibiotic resistance of enteric bacteria isolated from patients and environmental sources at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. A total of 265 samples were collected from the study site including 142 stool and 82 urine samples from patients, 7 swab samples of door handle, and 3 samples of drinking water. …”
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Offshore wind energy: assessing trace element inputs and the risks for co-location of aquaculture by G. J. Watson, G. Banfield, S. C. L. Watson, N. J. Beaumont, A. Hodkin

“…However, a paucity of industry data makes it impossible to compare water and sediment TE concentrations at operational OWFs against toxicity thresholds, therefore, ecotoxicological risks are under assessed. …”
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المترجمات فى مصر فى الفترة من 2006 - 2014 دراسة ببلیوجرافیة ببلیومتریة by د. نهى بشیر

“…This study proposed the topic of translated books in Egypt from 2006 to2014. …”
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Novel Chemokine-Based Immunotoxins for Potent and Selective Targeting of Cytomegalovirus Infected Cells by Katja Spiess, Mads G. Jeppesen, Mikkel Malmgaard-Clausen, Karen Krzywkowski, Thomas N. Kledal, Mette M. Rosenkilde

“…A longer linker and different toxin variants decreased US28 affinity and selective killing. …”
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Understanding the Immune System and Biospecimen-Based Response in Glioblastoma: A Practical Guide to Utilizing Signal Redundancy for Biomarker and Immune Signature Discovery by Luke R. Jackson, Anna Erickson, Kevin Camphausen, Andra V. Krauze

“…Cytokines are the effector molecules of the immune system. Together, CD markers and cytokines can serve as useful biomarkers to reflect immune status in patients with GBM. …”
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Genetic association study of TERT gene variants with chronic kidney disease susceptibility in the Chinese population by Yan Su, Yuan Feng, Xinran Lin, Chunyang Ma, Jiali Wei

“…This study aimed to investigate the correlation between TERT gene variants and susceptibility to CKD in the Chinese population. A total of 507 patients with CKD and 510 healthy controls were recruited for this case-control study. …”
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Catastrophic lava flow levee failure: precursors, processes, and implications by Elisabeth Gallant, Hannah R. Dietterich, Matthew R. Patrick, David Hyman, Brett B. Carr, John Lyons, Elinor S. Meredith

“…Our analyses show that surges in effusion rate, rheologic transitions between pāhoehoe and ‘a‘ā flow regimes, slope-breaks, pre-existing topographic highs, and the structure of perched levee walls all played a role in the failure of the levee and subsequent re-routing of the lava flow. …”
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Biocontrol Potential of Rhizospheric Bacillus Strains Against <i>Sclerotinia minor</i> Jagger Causing Lettuce Drop by Lihui Xu, Qinghua Shang, Mogens Nicolaisen, Rong Zeng, Shigang Gao, Ping Gao, Zhiwei Song, Fuming Dai, Jingze Zhang

“…Lipopeptide compounds produced by each strain were identified using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI–TOF MS) analysis. Both strains produced three types of lipopeptides, namely surfactins, iturins, and fengycins, whereas Bac20 showed the strongest intensity in its production of iturins, more than that of Bac45. …”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of Some New Isoquine Analogues for Antimalarial Activity by Chandra Nath Saha, Sanjib Bhattacharya, Dipak Chetia

“…Amodiaquine is a 4-aminoquinoline antimalarial that can cause adverse side effects including hepatic and haematological toxicity. The drug toxicity involves the formation of an electrophilic metabolite, amodiaquine quinoneimine (AQQI), which binds to cellular macromolecules leading to hepatotoxicity and agranulocytosis. …”
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Digital Footprint: Assessing Student Satisfaction with Education Quality by M. M. Krishtal, A. V. Bogdanova, M. G. Myagkov, Yu. K. Alexandrova

“…The paper shows that based on the analysis of students’ messages in the social network, it is possible to observe and analyze the overall dynamics and trends in student community satisfaction with the quality of the learning / the efficiency of universities and conduct a comparative analysis of the identified characteristic data groups with their totality. It is shown that the data on the reaction of students of a particular university may have significant deviations from the totality of data, which reflects the characteristics of the reaction of students of a particular university to events occurring at the same time. …”
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