Defining the Pros and Cons of Open, Conventional Laparoscopy, and Robot-Assisted Pyeloplasty in a Developing Nation by Mrinal Pahwa, Archna R. Pahwa, Mohit Girotra, Rtika Ryfka Abrahm, Sachin Kathuria, Ajay Sharma

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Beekeepers' perceptions toward a new omics tool for monitoring bee health in Europe. by Elena Cini, Simon G Potts, Deepa Senapathi, Matthias Albrecht, Karim Arafah, Dalel Askri, Michel Bocquet, Philippe Bulet, Cecilia Costa, Pilar De la Rúa, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Anina Knauer, Marika Mänd, Risto Raimets, Oliver Schweiger, Jane C Stout, Tom D Breeze

“…Pressures on honey bee health have substantially increased both colony mortality and beekeepers' costs for hive management across Europe. …”
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Comparison of the Effects of Different Decontamination Methods on Staphylococcus Aureus Biofilm by Ece Açıkgöz Alparslan, Ufuk Bağcı, Ayşegül Kurt

“…Following decontamination procedures, colony-forming units and viable biomass were analyzed to identify the biofilm removal efficacy of the treatments and the viability of bacteria remaining on the surface. …”
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Efficacy of non -thermal pressure plasma versus other modalities for disinfection of primary root canals by Shaymaa A. El Shishiny, Yomna O. Morad, Rania I. Hindi, Amina M. El-Motasem, Asmaa A. El Sheshiny, Dalia M. Alramady, Amira M. Samy

“…Maximum reduction in colony-forming units was recorded in the NTPP group (98.79%), while the lowest reduction in colony-forming units was recorded in Propolis group (81.99%). …”
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A Mathematical Modeling and an Optimization Algorithm for Marine Ship Route Planning by Lili Huang

“…Based on the mathematical model, the ant colony algorithm is used to optimize the initial route of the ship. …”
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Multi-constraints QoS routing optimization based on improved immune clonal shuffled frog leaping algorithm by Yi LU, Mengying XU, Jie ZHOU

“…Aiming at the multi-constraint routing problem,a mathematical model was designed,and an improved immune clonal shuffled frog leaping algorithm (IICSFLA) was proposed,which combined immune operator with traditional SFLA.Under the constraints of bandwidth,delay,packet loss rate,delay jitter and energy cost,total energy cost from the source node to the terminal node was computed.The proposed algorithm was used to find an optimal route with minimum energy cost.In the simulation,the performance of IICSFLA with adaptive genetic algorithm and adaptive ant colony optimization algorithm was compared.Experimental results show that IICSFLA solves the problem of multi-constraints QoS unicast routing optimization.The proposed algorithm avoids local optimum and effectively reduces energy loss of data on the transmission path in comparison with adaptive genetic algorithm and adaptive ant colony optimization algorithm.…”
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Design of automatic routing algorithm based on overlapping hierarchical induction by Jianhong ZHENG, Heyun CHEN, Pengguang ZHOU, Hao XU

“…Aiming at the problem of impulse noise with large amplitude fluctuation and strong time-varying characteristics,which seriously affected the communication performance of power carrier network,the power line network topology and the classical routing algorithm of power line carrier communication were analyzed,and on this basis,an algorithm of overlapping hierarchical induction algorithm (OHIA) was proposed,which proved the feasibility of the algorithm and gave the inductive factor transfer algorithm,route addressing process and forecast based route maintenance strategy.Through the NS-3 simulation platform to establish the PLC model,respectively,ant colony algorithm and overlapping layer induced PLC automatic routing algorithm were simulated.The simulation results show that compared with the ant colony algorithm,the proposed algorithm improves the success rate of the first communication in the strong time-varying channel environment,and makes great progress in the large-scale networking of PLC.…”
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Promotive effect of cancer-testis antigen CT57 on proliferation, invasion, migration and epithelial-mesenchymal transition of liver cancer cells by LUO Lange, ZHENG Chao, LEI Ming

“…CCK-8 cell proliferation assay, soft agar colony formation assay and cell cycle experiment were used to detect the effect of CT57 on the proliferation and colony formation ability of liver cancer cells. …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Commonly Used Pesticides on Honeybees (Apis mellifera) in North Gonder of Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Zewdie Abay, Amssalu Bezabeh, Alemayehu Gela, Asaminew Tassew

“…Global honeybee losses and colony decline are becoming continuous threat to the apicultural industry, as well as, for food security and environmental stability. …”
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Research on the related between microstructures and impact toughness of Ti80 alloy by Bin Hu, Jinyang Ge, Junyang He, Bin Kong, Xiaoyong Zhang, Kechao Zhou

“…Note that the interstitial β-phase in the αl colony in ECL offered new α/β interfaces and prevented dislocation mobility to a certain extent. …”
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Pyrogallol acts as a novel anticancer factor to enhance the sensitivity to cisplatin in ovarian cancer cells through inducing miR-15a upregulation by Azin Shirani, Razieh Mirabbasi, Leila Shabani, Somayeh Reiisi

“…The effects of the compounds in inhibiting colony formation and migration were measured by colony formation and scratch methods. …”
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Effectiveness of Four-Decontamination Techniques on Bacterial Growth on CPR Manikins after Use in a CPR Course

“…Colony growths too numerous to count defaulted to a minimum 300 threshold (standard laboratory protocol). …”
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Fuzzy Dynamic Parameter Adaptation in ACO and PSO for Designing Fuzzy Controllers: The Cases of Water Level and Temperature Control by Fevrier Valdez, Juan Carlos Vazquez, Fernando Gaxiola

“…A novel approach applied to Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization is presented. The main contribution of this work is the use of fuzzy systems to dynamically update the parameters for the ACO and PSO algorithms. …”
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The Implementation of TSP Algorithm in Optimization of the Movement Path of the Mobile Medical Laboratory During the Post-Earthquake Using GIS, ACO and ICA Algorithms (Case Study:... by Mohammad Hosein Saraei, Mohammad Reza Rezaei, mohsen adeli

“…The results of the implementation of the model have shown that the Ant Colony Optimization has performed the route optimization in two parameters of time and distance more effectively than the two dijkstra and Imperialist Competition Algorithm.…”
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Path planning algorithm for WCE with joint energy replenishment and data collection based on multi-objective optimization by Zhenchun WEI, Renhao SUN, Zengwei LYU, Jianghong HAN, Lei SHI, Junyi XU

“…Considering limited energy of the wireless charging equipment (WCE) in wireless rechargeable sensor network,an energy replenishment strategy and a data collection strategy are designed.On the basis of these,a path planning model for WCE with functions of joint energy replenishment and data collection based on multi-objective optimization is constructed with two optimization objectives,maximizing the total energy utility of WCE and minimizing the average delay of data transmission of all the sensor nodes in the network.To deal with it,a multi-objective ant colony optimization algorithm based on elitist strategy was proposed,where the state transition strategy and the pheromone updating strategy were improved.Then,the Pareto set was obtained in terms of this multi-objective optimization problem.The parameter setting of ant colony algorithm’s effects on the proposed algorithm were analyzed under 20 sensor nodes.50 groups of contrastive experiments show that the average number of energy utilization obtained by ES-MOAC algorithm is 4.53% higher than that of NSGA-II algorithm.The average number of average delay of all node data transmission obtained by ES-MOAC algorithm is 5.12% lower than that of NSGA-II algorithm.…”
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Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis by Sandeep M Patel, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Jordan P Reynolds, Michael J Krowka

“…Recent advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of PAP demonstrate that the idiopathic form is due to antigranulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor antibodies. Therapeutic targets that replace granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor or remove these antibodies are being actively developed. …”
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Autobiographies of Spanish Refugee Children at the Quaker Home in La Rouvière (France, 1940) : Humanitarian Communication and Children’s Writings by Célia Keren

“…This paper attempts to present and tackle some of those, through the study of fifteen biographical notebooks written around 1940-1941 by Spanish refugee children who lived at La Rouvière in France, in a colony created and run by the American Quakers Friends Service Committee (AFSC). …”
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Welcome to the Hive! Honey Bee 4-H Project Book by Megan Hammond, Amy T. Vu, Mary Bammer, Emily Helton, Karen Henry, Jessica Sullivan, James D. Ellis

“…This book consists of six sections that familiarize youth with the honey bee’s basic anatomy and life cycle, the three members of the honey bee colony, their roles and responsibilities, and colony communication. …”
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Alterations of Hematologic and Hematopoietic Parameters in Mice Exposed to Pulsed Electromagnetic Field by Kangchu Li, Zenghui Teng, Zhaohui Liu, Yuxing Zhang, Kaiping Long, Qimei Liao, Ansheng Ni, Guirong Ding, Shirong Ma

“…After PEMF exposure, blood samples and bone marrow cells of mice were collected for hematologic examinations, bone marrow nucleated cell counting, colony-forming units of granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) colony assay, and serum granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) assay. …”
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Un plomb inscrit de Saint-Couat-d’Aude (Aude) : des pérégrins sur le territoire de Narbonne by Julien Aliquot, Michel Feugère

“…Thus, they likely refer to indigenous incolae of peregrine status, i.e. free men originating from the Narbonne colony territory. These men were allowed to live alongside the coloni and their descendants, but who were not Roman citizens and who were consequently excluded from both the local plebs and the curia. …”
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