Assessment of bacteriological quality of drinking water from various sources in Amritsar district of northern India by Sita Malhotra, Shailpreet K Sidhu, Pushpa Devi

“…Water-related diseases caused by insufficient safe water supplies, coupled with poor sanitation and hygiene, cause 3.4 million deaths a year, mostly in children. Methodology: The present study was conducted on 1,317 drinking water samples from various water sources in Amritsar district in northern India. …”
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Atlas of the herpetofauna of Batna Province and the Belezma Biosphere Reserve, north-eastern Algeria by Idriss Bouam, Ahmed Abdennebi, Larbi Tahar Chaouch, Toufik Lemoufek, Elalmi Benmokhtar, Tahar Mebarki, Lazhar Moulahcene, Amar Kherchouche, Tarek Messaoudi

“…We believe this atlas addresses critical knowledge gaps and will contribute to more accurate biodiversity assessments while informing effective conservation planning in Algeria and the Mediterranean region. …”
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Soil quality indicator-based land productivity modelling for agricultural sustainability. by Ibraheem A H Yousif, Ali Abdel Hamid, Abdalsamad A Aldabaa, Sayed A Hassanein, Nazih Y Rebouh, Elsayed Said Mohamed, Mohamed S Shokr

“…The finding showed that more than 60% of the studied area was converted from poor and average class to good class after applying the proposed solutions of soil improvement. …”
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Improving Steam Turbine Plants Performance Through Advanced Testing and Simulation by Milan V. Petrovic, Srdjan Milic, Djordje Petkovic, Teodora Madzar, Nikola M. Markovic

“…The test revealed that it consumes more than 10% additional heat compared to its original design specifications. …”
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Fourth Swiss Annual Meeting on HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Antibody-Drug Conjugates in HER2-Positive Disease and Beyond by Marcus Vetter, Christian Kurzeder

“…Dr Michael Untch, Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch, Germany, presented a comprehensive overview of practice-changing data and future directions. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Multiband Metamaterial-Loaded Reconfigurable Antenna for Wireless Applications by Ritesh Kumar Saraswat, Mithilesh Kumar

“…This article presents a multiband antenna with the implementation of a metamaterial split-ring resonator (SRR), quasicomplementary split-ring resonator (CSRR), and slots to achieve octaband characteristics for wireless standards. …”
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Reproductive capital: theoretical foundations and empirical evidence from the workplace by Robin A. Hadley, Clare Mumford, Michael Carroll, Krystal Wilkinson

“…Some participants challenged the pronatalist policy status quo and sought change to make the workplace more inclusive. Participants' accounts highlighted numerous situations in which reproductive capital was present.DiscussionContextualizing theory through empirical data allows for a broader understanding of how socio-economic, socio-cultural, norms, and values influence individual and organizational behavior. …”
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Molecular Detection of Quinolone Resistance Mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates Recovered from Different Clinical Specimens in Babylon Province by Selman Mohammed Selman, Uday H. K. Al-Janabi, Faliha Habeeb Hussein, Hadi Fadhil Abed Almuhsin Alyasari

“…Results: Isolates were presented as the highest resistance to quinolones antibiotics: ciprofloxacin (80%), pefloxacin, nitrofurantoin (90%), and levofloxacin (40%). …”
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Are Histrionic Personality Traits Associated with Irritability during Conscious Sedation Endoscopy? by Sang Shin Lee, Hyung Hun Kim, Hyo Jung Park

“…Heavy alcohol use was more frequently observed in the irritable group (65.6% versus 28.1%; P = 0.003). …”
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Algoritm for diagnostics of appendicitis in childhood and SIRS by Y. Dimcheva, Kr. Kalinova, K. Georgiev

“…The inflammatory response to appendicitis is progressive, being more marked along the timeline from onset of symptoms to diagnosis. …”
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Proteomic insights into biology of bipolar disorder: implications for health complexity and mortality by Paola Rampelotto Ziani, Marco Antônio de Bastiani, Pietra Paiva Alves, Pedro Henrique da Rosa, Tainá Schons, Giovana Mezzomo, Ellen Scotton, Flávio Kapczinski, Adriane R. Rosa

“…Abstract Objective: The present study has the following objectives: 1) identify differentially expressed proteins and pathways in blood samples of bipolar disorder (BD) compared to healthy controls (HC) by employing high-throughput proteomics and bioinformatics; and 2) characterize disease-related molecular signatures through in-depth analysis of the differentially expressed proteins and pathways. …”
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Interactive Visualization for the GTFS and GTFS-RT Data of Budapest by Róbert Tóth, Márton Ispány, Marianna Zichar

“…We merged the static data with the vehicle positions to filter them, yielding a clean set of tracked trips. As a result, more than 90% of the daily planned trips could be reconstructed from the responses. …”
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Processing of communication calls in Guinea pig auditory cortex. by Jasmine M S Grimsley, Sharad J Shanbhag, Alan R Palmer, Mark N Wallace

“…AI responded well to all vocalizations and was much more responsive to vocalizations than the adjacent dorsocaudal core area. …”
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The Role of Community Health Workers in the Mongolian CBR Programme by Tumenbayar Batdulam, Elena Como

“…<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> This article aims to present the role of community health workers in the implementation of a comprehensive CBR Programme in rural Mongolia, and to explore the main challenges that arise in this specific geographical and socio-economic context.…”
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TREATMENT ESTIMATION OF DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY IN CHILDREN WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS BY ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS by V.N. Panfilova, T.E. Taranushenko, O.A. Terent’eva

“…Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors based therapy for 6 months proved to be efficient among children with microalbuminuria. A more intense effect has been obtained when the treatment course was for 1 year. …”
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Bacteriological profile of burn patients in a tertiary care center – Changing pattern by Sunil Sharma, Raman Tandon, Dharmala Nitesh Reddy, Nemi Chand

“…The thermal burn patients presenting within 24 h of all age groups admitted were included. …”
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Extreme climatic events affecting freshwater fish reproduction in the Neotropics by E. M. Brambilla, M. R. Suiberto, A. Bialetzki, F. Porto-Foresti, M. G. Nogueira

“…Samples were collected fortnightly between December and February of 2014-2015 (drought cycle) and 2015-2016 (wet cycle) at six sampling sites along the Sapucaí-Mirim River, southeastern Brazil. The wet cycle presented a higher density of eggs and larvae (around 10 times more) than the drought cycle (p<0.05), with a higher proportion of families with migratory species. …”
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Impact of industrial agglomeration on environmental efficiency of pig farming: an empirical analysis from China by Yaning Hu, Jiapeng Xu, Zhenyu Yan

“…In response to environmental pressures, China’s pig farming industry has become more concentrated in regions with comparative advantages, resulting in greater agglomeration and presenting new environmental challenges. …”
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Reconstructing mammalian sleep dynamics with data assimilation. by Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, Steven J Schiff, Bruce J Gluckman

“…We anticipate that this data assimilation framework will enable better understanding of the detailed interactions governing sleep and wake behavior and provide for better, more targeted, therapies.…”
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Somatic symptoms among young adults: an observational study examining the roles of trauma type and psychological distress by Lauren A. Perez, Yvette Z. Szabo

“…Exploratory analyses revealed unique associations by gender, with partial mediation of associations between IP and somatic symptoms by psychological distress observed more clearly in women. Conclusions The present study extends extant research demonstrating that greater exposure to interpersonal trauma exposure is significantly and strongly associated with increased somatic symptoms, psychological distress partially accounts for these associations. …”
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