Enhanced grey wolf optimization for maximum power point tracking in photovoltaic systems with hybrid battery-supercapacitor storage by Chirine Benzazah, Najoua Mrabet, Ahmed ElAkkary, Fathallah Rerhrhaye

“…The proposed method was compared with conventional and metaheuristic optimisation techniques, including Particle Swarm Optimization, Ant Colony Optimization, and the standard Grey Wolf Optimization algorithm. …”
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Colibactin-induced damage in bacteria is cell contact independent by Emily Lowry, Amir Mitchell

“…Experiments with distinctly separated producer and reporter colonies revealed that the intensity of DNA damage decays similarly with distance regardless of colony contact. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization Associated with Leukopenia and Neutropenia in Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Valganciclovir in the United States by Qinghua Li, Vladimir Turzhitsky, Pamela Moise, Harry Jin, Kaylen Brzozowski, Irina Kolobova

“…Hospitalizations, rehospitalizations, emergency room visits, outpatient appointments, packed red blood cell transfusions, and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor administration were more prevalent among KTRs with PTN/PTL (61.1% vs 49.5%, 24.5% vs 14.1%, 35.2% vs 28.9%, 30.4 vs 26.2 visits, 22.3% vs 17.6%, 23.4% vs 2.2%, respectively; P < .001). …”
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Survival of a Rifampicin-Resistant Pseudomonas fluorescens Strain in Nine Mollisols by Tami L. Stubbs, Ann C. Kennedy, Horace D. Skipper

“…D7rif was recovered at levels greater than log 5.5 colony forming units (CFU) g−1 soil from five of the nine test soils, a level adequate to suppress downy brome under field or range conditions.…”
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Downregulation of Ezrin Suppresses Migration Potential in Cervical Cancer Cells by Marta Hałas-Wiśniewska, Wioletta Arendt, Alina Grzanka, Magdalena Izdebska

“…Results: Reducing the EZR level resulted in a decrease in the invasive and migration potential of SiHa and HT-3 cells’ inhibition of colony formation, a decrease in adhesive properties, and a strong reorganization of F-actin with a dominance of cells with a mitotic catastrophe phenotype. …”
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Antibacterial action of penicillin against Mycobacterium avium complex by D. Deshpande, G. Magombedze, S. Srivastava, T. Gumbo

“…RESULTS: Benzylpenicillin killed >2.1 log 10 colony-forming unit (CFU)/mL below Day 0, better than azithromycin, ethambutol, and rifabutin. …”
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Insights into CSF-1/CSF-1R signaling: the role of macrophage in radiotherapy by Qingchao Shang, Qingchao Shang, Pei Zhang, Xiao Lei, Lehui Du, Baolin Qu

“…Macrophage plays an important role in homeostasis and immunity, and dysfunctional macrophage polarization is believed to be associated with the pathogenesis of tissue fibrosis and tumor progression. Colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1), a polypeptide chain cytokine, through its receptor (CSF-1R) regulates the differentiation of macrophages. …”
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Morphological Aspects of Antennal Sensilla of the Rhodnius brethesi Matta, 1919 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from the Negro River, Amazon Region of Brazil by Simone Patrícia Carneiro Freitas, Laura Cristina Santos, Amanda Coutinho de Souza, Angela Cristina Verissimo Junqueira

“…The specimens used come from the field and laboratory colony. No differences were observed between R. brethesi and other Triatominae studied. …”
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Effects of disposable pull-through brush types for reprocessing of flexible endoscopes in clinical environment by Remus O. Anders, Adriana M. Airo, Eve Capistran, Anita Chin, Garry Bassi, Tony Mazzulli

“…Colonoscopes and gastroscopes surveyed after rigorous cleaning steps resulted in a drop in colony counts between pre- and post-cleaning from 1.45E+8 (±5.21E+07) to 2.5 (±0.13) individual colonies suggesting that the overall cleaning process was effective regardless of the brush type used.…”
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Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Expansion in Contact with Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in a Hanging Drop Model Uncovers Disadvantages of 3D Culture by Olga Schmal, Jan Seifert, Tilman E. Schäffer, Christina B. Walter, Wilhelm K. Aicher, Gerd Klein

“…Furthermore, expansion of primitive hematopoietic progenitors was more favored in 2D than in 3D, as analyzed in colony-forming assays. Conclusively, our data demonstrate that MSCs, when arranged with a spread (monolayer) shape, exhibit better HSPC supportive qualities than spheroid-forming MSCs. …”
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Metaheuristics Approach for Hyperparameter Tuning of Convolutional Neural Network by Hindriyanto Purnomo, Tad Gonsalves, Evangs Mailoa, Fian Julio Santoso, Muhammad Rizky Pribadi

“…Three metaheuristic methods are used in this research: ant colony optimization (ACO), genetic algorithm (GA), and Harmony Search (HS). …”
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The antifungal peptide AnAFP from Aspergillus niger promotes nutrient mobilization through autophagic recycling during asexual development by Stephan Starke, Laura Velleman, Birgit Dobbert, Luis Seibert, Jordi Witte, Sascha Jung, Vera Meyer

“…We predict that AnAFP drives nutrient mobilization through selective cell lysis to ensure the survival of the whole colony during phases of starvation.…”
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Stemness-Attenuating miR-503-3p as a Paracrine Factor to Regulate Growth of Cancer Stem Cells by Minkoo Seo, Seung Min Kim, Eun Young Woo, Ki-Cheol Han, Eun Joo Park, Seongyeol Ko, Eun wook Choi, Mihue Jang

“…Herein, we found that miR-503-3p inhibited tumor growth via the regulation of CSC proliferation and self-renewal. miR-503-3p, isolated from human adipose stem cell- (ASC-) derived exosomes, suppressed initiation and progression of CSCs as determined by anchorage-dependent (colony formation) and anchorage-independent (tumorsphere formation) assays. …”
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Use of food additives in bakery products by Karim Sattarov, Abror Jankurazov, Javsurbek Khazratkulov

“…Microbiological analysis showed that the addition of preservatives significantly reduced the number of colony-forming units (CFU) of yeasts and moulds in bakery products. …”
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Candida albicans and Napkin Dermatitis: Relationship and Lesion Severity Correlation by Amani Hussein Karsani, Abdullateef A. Alzolibani, Yasser Farouq, Khalid Zedan, Mohammed Mohsen Alotaibi, Ghada Bin Saif, Ibrahim H. Babikir

“…Results: Diaper dermatitis shows significant outcome to washing diaper area (per day) (P=0.001), History of diarrhea last 7 Days (P˂0.001), skin lab results (+/-) for Candida albicans, (P˂0.001), skin colony count, (P˂0.001), However, there is no correlation to age (P=0.828), gender (P=0.368) and feeding style (P=0.401). …”
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Protective Effects of Chronic Intermittent Hypobaric Hypoxia Pretreatment against Aplastic Anemia through Improving the Adhesiveness and Stress of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Rats by Jing Yang, Li Zhang, Handong Wang, Zan Guo, Yixian Liu, Yi Zhang, Chuan Wang, Quanhai Li

“…The aim of the present study was to investigate the protective effect of CIHH against AA and underlying mechanisms. 5-Fluorouracil and busulfan treatment induced AA model in rats with reduction of hematological parameters and bone marrow tissue injury and decrease of the colony numbers of progenitor cells. CIHH pretreatment significantly reduced the incidence rate of AA and alleviated above symptoms in AA model. …”
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Interaction of AURKA with TRIM28 revives dormant LSCC cells via Akt signaling pathway to promote LSCC metastasis by Liyun Yang, Liang Geng, Xinxin Zhang, Jing Lu, Hao Zhang, Geping Wu, Shuixian Huang

“…Flow cytometry was used to examine cell numbers of G0/G1 phase. Plate colony formation, wound healing, migration, invasion and tail vein injection in nude mice assays were applied to examine the proliferation, movement, migration, invasion and metastasis of LSCC. …”
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SKF96365 Inhibits Tumor Proliferation by Inducing Apoptosis and Autophagy in Human Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Jiaxin Zhang, Huiqiong Han, Yihan Liu, Jiayao Xu, Daidi Zhang, Wenjia Wang, Yaping Gao, Zhengrui Li, Yanru Qin

“…Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) and colony formation were used to test the proliferation inhibition of SKF96365 on cell lines. …”
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Effect of a multispecies probiotic on reducing the incidence of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in children: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Hania Szajewska, Jan Łukasik

“…We aim to assess the effectiveness of a specific MP preparation (Winclove 612) in reducing the incidence of AAD in children.Methods and analysis A total of 350 children aged 6 months to 18 years, undergoing antibiotic treatment, will be randomly allocated to receive either a MP consisting of two strains of Bifidobacterium (B. bifidum W23 and B. lactis W51) and six strains of Lactobacillus (L. acidophilus W37, L. acidophilus W55, L. paracasei W20, L. plantarum W62, L. rhamnosus W71 and L. salivarius W24) at a total dose of 1010 colony-forming units daily, or a placebo, from the first day of antibiotic treatment until 7 days after antibiotic cessation, up to a maximum of 17 days. …”
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The Influence of Aging on the Regenerative Potential of Human Adipose Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Monika Marędziak, Krzysztof Marycz, Krzysztof A. Tomaszewski, Katarzyna Kornicka, Brandon Michael Henry

“…The hASCs were characterized according to the number of fibroblasts colony forming unit (CFU-F), proliferation rate, population doubling time (PDT), and quantified parameters of adipogenic, chondrogenic, and osteogenic differentiation. …”
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