The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …”
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Hormetic Concentrations of Hydrogen Peroxide but Not Ethanol Induce Cross-Adaptation to Different Stresses in Budding Yeast by Halyna M. Semchyshyn

“…Since both hydrogen peroxide and ethanol at low concentrations were found to stimulate yeast colony growth, we evaluated the role of one substance in cell cross-adaptation to the other substance as well as some weak organic acid preservatives. …”
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Castleman's Disease and Neutropenic Enterocolitis Presenting as Crohn’s Disease by Kelly W Burak, Ronald J Bridges, Walter B Blahey

“…Treatment was initiated with prednisone, 5-aminosalicylate and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for neutropenia. Symptoms recurred one year later, and repeat colonoscopy showed a focal cecal ulceration. …”
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[Erratum] Oxidative Stress Mediates the Association between Thyroid Dysfunction and Breast Cancer by Maira Mahmood, Mazhar Mushtaq, Aamenah Malik, Rukhshan Khurshid, Faiza Aamir, Arham Javed

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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …”
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Trigona corvina: An Ecological Study Based on Unusual Nest Structure and Pollen Analysis by David W. Roubik, J. Enrique Moreno Patiño

“…We found that the nest of Trigona corvina (Apidae; Meliponini) consists mainly of pollen exines from bee excrement, forming a scutellum shield encasing the colony. A 20-year-old nest (1980–2000) from a lowland Panama forested habitat was sawed in half longitudinally, and a 95 cm transect was systematically sampled each 5 cm. …”
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D-mannose alleviates chronic periodontitis in rats by regulating the functions of neutrophils by Xue Li, Xueting Chen, Qingyu Zhu, Pengye Zhang, Shunxue Nan, Lei Lv, Shengcai Qi

“…Then, immunofluorescence (IF), Western Blot, and RT-PCR were applied to assess the expression levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and IL-17), anti-inflammatory cytokine (IL-10), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), ten-eleven translocation 2 (TET2), and key glycolytic enzymes (HK1, HK2, PFKFB3), and to examine D-mannose’s impact on the recruitment and activation of neutrophils in the gingiva. …”
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High Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Cloacal Enterococci and <i>Escherichia coli</i> from Free-Living Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans with Detection of Cefotaximase CTX-M-15 Pro... by Teresa Cardona-Cabrera, Sandra Martínez-Álvarez, Carmen González-Azcona, Carlos Javier Gijón-García, Olga Alexandrou, Giorgos Catsadorakis, Panagiotis Azmanis, Carmen Torres, Ursula Höfle

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> In 2022, an outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) killed 60% of the largest breeding colony of Dalmatian pelicans (DPs) in the world at Mikri Prespa Lake (Greece), prompting a multidisciplinary study on HPAI and other pathogens. …”
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Carboxylesterase 4A Inhibits the Malignant Biological Behavior of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma via the PI3K/AKT Pathway by Qiaoli Chen MS, Quanxiang Hao MBBS, Yanping Yang MBBS, Limei Li PhD, Danping Li MS, Ran Zhao MS, Wanqi Wei MBBS, Lixian Deng MBBS, Jiaming Su MBBS, Ziyuan Liang MBBS, Shiyue Tang MS, Yaomin Lu MBBS, Yushan Liang PhD, Zhe Zhang PhD, Xiaoying Zhou PhD, Xue Xiao PhD, Ping Li PhD, Yi Huang PhD, Weilin Zhao PhD

“…Ectopic expression of CES4A restrains the proliferation, colony formation, migration and invasion of NPC. Additionally, KEGG analysis based on GEO data and high-throughput transcriptome sequencing of cell lines all strongly suggested that CES4A was involved in regulating phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (AKT) signaling pathway. …”
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Path Optimization of Mobile Sink Node in Wireless Sensor Network Water Monitoring System by Fan Chao, Zhiqin He, Aiping Pang, Hongbo Zhou, Junjie Ge

“…Then, according to the characteristics of sensor nodes with a certain range of wireless signal coverage, the angular bisection method is introduced on the basis of the traditional ant colony algorithm to plan the path of UAV, which further shortens the length of the mobile path. …”
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First report of Pseudomonas marginalis causing tuber soft rot of potato in Iran by Simin Ghasemi, Pejman Khodaygan, Srđan G Aćimović, Esmaeil Basavand

“…Bacteria, which appeared as white to creamy colonies, were isolated from diseased tissues and shown to be pathogenic on potato tubers after inoculation and re-isolation of the isolates. …”
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Les descriptions d’un banquet royal au Ndongo (Angola) en 1560 par le jésuite António Mendes : l’ambivalence des sources coloniales by Dora De Lima

“…Francisco de Gouveia was part of a Portoguese embassy composed of another Jesuit priest, two brothers and the future governor of the colony of Angola, Paulo Dias de Novais. The four missionaries accompanied the ambassador and left diverse evidence of this episode of relations with the Ngola. …”
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Dynamical Model Identification for a Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopter Using an Integrated Approach by Rui Ma, Li Ding, Kailei Liu, Hongtao Wu

“…With the flight experiment data collection and preprocessing, a hybrid identified algorithm combining the improved artificial bee colony algorithm and prediction error method is proposed to obtain the unknown dynamical parameters of the linear model. …”
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Safety of Pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) in Patients with Sickle Cell Trait/Anemia by Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, Mrinal M. Patnaik, Prema P. Peethambaram

“…Pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) is a recombinant filgrastim (human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)) attached to a polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecule and is given as part of chemotherapy regimens that are associated with significant myelosuppression and risk for febrile neutropenia. …”
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Banquets et rites collectifs au ve s. av. J.-C. au sein de l’habitat de la Monédière à Bessan (Hérault) : caractérisation et signification d’une fosse hors norme et des dépôts asso... by Alexandre Beylier, Éric Gailledrat, Anne-Marie Curé, Cécile Dubosse, Luke Howarth, Ariadna Nieto Espinet

“…It is tempting to consider these events in parallel with the profound changes affecting the region at that time, notably with the emergence of the nearby Greek colony of Agde.…”
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Pure White Cell Aplasia and Necrotizing Myositis by Peter Geon Kim, Joome Suh, Max W. Adelman, Kwadwo Oduro, Erik Williams, Andrew M. Brunner, David J. Kuter

“…With intravenous immunoglobulin and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor therapies, her symptoms and neutrophil counts improved and were sustained for months.…”
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A hybrid model for smart grid theft detection based on deep learning by Yinling LIAO, Jincan LI, Bing WANG, Jun ZHANG, Yaoyuan LIANG

“…A hybrid deep learning model was proposed to effectively detect electricity theft in smart grids.The hybrid model employed a deep learning convolutional neural network (AlexNet) to tackle the curse of dimensionality, significantly enhancing data processing accuracy and efficiency.It further improved classification accuracy by differentiating between normal and abnormal electricity usage using adaptive boosting (AdaBoost).To resolve the issue of class imbalance, undersampling techniques were utilized, ensuring balanced performance across various data classes.Additionally, the artificial bee colony algorithm was used to optimize hyperparameters for both AdaBoost and AlexNet, effectively boosting overall model performance.The effectiveness of this hybrid model was evaluated using real smart meter datasets from an electricity company.Compared to similar models, this hybrid model achieves accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC), and area under the curve-receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC) scores of 88%, 86%, 84%, 85%, 78%, and 91%, respectively.The proposed model not only increases the accuracy of electricity usage monitoring, but also offers a new perspective for intelligent analysis in power systems.…”
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Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis in Setting of Inhaled Toxin Exposure and Chronic Substance Abuse by Meirui Li, Salem Alowami, Miranda Schell, Clive Davis, Asghar Naqvi

“…We report a case of secondary PAP in a 47-year-old man, whose risk factors include occupational exposure to inhaled toxins, especially aluminum dust, the use of anabolic steroids, and alcohol abuse, which in mice leads to alveolar macrophage dysfunction through a zinc-dependent mechanism that inhibits granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor signalling. …”
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Study on Cold Chain Transportation Model of Fruit and Vegetable Fresh-Keeping in Low-Temperature Cold Storage Environment by Xiaolong Jiao, Wen Xu, Lintong Duan

“…Under six constraints, the improved ant colony algorithm is used to find the optimal fruit and vegetable fresh-keeping cold chain transportation route. …”
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The social media scale for depression in adolescence by Eve Twivy, Daniel Freeman, Ciorsdan Anderson, Bao Sheng Loe, Felicity Waite

“…Factor analyses were conducted to derive the Social Media Scale (SMS). Ant Colony Optimization was used to develop a short-form SMS containing the factors which uniquely predicted depression as determined by structural equation modelling. …”
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