Salmonella spp. Inactivation During Hot Air Drying of Apples: Influence of Temperature, Bed Depth, and Air Velocity by Xiyang Liu, Elizabeth M. Grasso-Kelley, Alvin Lee, Lilybell Warda, Nathan M. Anderson

“…Increased air velocity shortened the constant-rate drying period, promoted a faster temperature increase in the apple cubes, and resulted in higher lethality within a shorter drying period. …”
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The Effects of a Small Dose of Tannin Supplementation on In Vitro Fermentation Characteristics of Different Forages by Sytske de Jong, Fabiellen C. Pereira, Alejandro R. Castillo, Wilbert F. Pellikaan, Pablo Gregorini

“…The addition of tannins reduced the fractional rate of gas production for alfalfa (<i>p</i> ≤ 0.04) but increased it for ryegrass and plantain. …”
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Effect of vitexin on Aspergillus fumigatus keratitis in mice and its mechanism by XU Haining, YI Wendan, JIA Yiyi, LI Cui, YIN Min, GU Lingwen, ZHAO Guiqiu

“…Methods The effect of vitexin on the survival rate of human corneal epithelial cells (HCECs) and RAW264.7 cells was evaluated using Cell Counting Kit-8. …”
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Prediction method of oil-water interface between injection and production wells in fault-controlled fractured-cavity reservoirs by WANG Yuanzheng, CAO Renyi, JIA Pin

“…Reasonable oil recovery and injection water rate can effectively maintain the formation pressure, balancing production efficiency and fracture stress sensitivity. …”
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Chemotherapy-related adverse drug reaction and associated factors among adult cancer patient attending Jimma medical center oncology unit, Southwest Ethiopia. by Mukerem Sultan Shrmeka, Mubarik Fetu Semman, Biruk Tafese Moges, Feki Nekir Dereja, Aster Wakjira Garedo

“…Adverse drug reactions increase morbidity, mortality, hospitalization rate and financial expenses. Therefore, this study intended to assess chemotherapy-related adverse drug reactions and associated factors among adult cancer patients.…”
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The effect of tactile versus auditory stimulation on reducing pain associated with invasive procedures among preterm neonates at NICUs by Entsar Shehata Mohammed, Seham Mohammed Elmwafie, Fatma Sayed Abdelaziz Mohamed, Safaa Salah Ismail

“…Results During the invasive procedure, preterm neonates in the tactile stimulation group showed the lowest mean scores across pain indicators, including facial expression (0.30 ± 0.466), breathing pattern (0.37 ± 0.490), arm movement (0.53 ± 0.507), leg movement (0.43 ± 0.504), state of arousal (0.70 ± 0.450), cry (0.63 ± 0.615), oxygen saturation (0.37 ± 0.490), and heart rate (0.60 ± 0.498). …”
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Efficiency of foliar application with organic fertilizer agrochelate on seed plots of summer sowing watermelon by O. V. Yakimova, V. E. Lazko, E. N. Blagorodova

“…Organic fertilizer AGROCHELATE was used to treat the leaf surface of plants with a consumption rate of 100 ml/ha. A single spraying was used during the flowering phase of the plants. …”
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Transcutaneous bilirubin nomogram for Taiwanese newborns – A single center study by Tung-Hua Chen, Yung-Chieh Lin, Yuh-Jyh Lin, Chyi-Her Lin

“…Mean TCB levels increased at a rate of 0.01–0.21 mg/dL/h initially, followed by a decrease after 96–108 h of age. …”
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Subnational malaria burden in Sindh, Pakistan: over a decade of evidence for tailored strategies by Nelofer Baig, Zakir Ali, Muhammad Ahmed, Wafa Zehra Jamal, Saqib Ur Rehman, Zafar Ahmed, Riaz Hussain Rahoojo, Javed Ali Jagirani, Bilal Ahmed Usmani, Zafar Fatmi

“…Marked heterogeneity observed in malaria burden across districts. Malaria positivity rate was 12.3%. Six districts (Khairpur, Sanghar, Naushero Feroze, Badin, Mirpurkhas, and Larkana) carried over 53% burden of malaria in Sindh. …”
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Prevalence and genotype distribution of human papillomavirus in individuals referred to a laboratory in Urmia, Iran by Saber Mojarrad, Mojtaba Najmafshar, Zahra Kargar Jahromi, Omid Salahi Ardekani, Hadi Raeisi Shahraki, Monireh Jalvand, Farzin Asghari Sana

“…Of these, 195 tested positive for HPV, resulting in an overall prevalence rate of 43.6%. Among the positive cases, 90 individuals (46.2%) were infected with a single HPV genotype, while 105 cases (53.8%) had multiple genotype infections. …”
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Tetrahymena ATG8 homologs, TtATG8A and TtATG8B, are responsible for mitochondrial degradation induced by starvation by Shinya Matsuda, Chieko Saito, Mami Nomura, Hitomi Kawahara, Noboru Mizushima, Kentaro Nakano

“…The ciliate Tetrahymena exhibits active swimming behavior in water, preying on microorganisms and growing exponentially at a rate of 0.5–0.75 h⁻¹ under optimal conditions. In this organism, numerous mitochondria localize to the cell cortex along the ciliary rows, likely ensuring an efficient ATP supply necessary for vigorous cell movement. …”
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Clinical Efficacy and Safety of the Herbal Prescription, HH333, in Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Patients With Ischemic Stroke Induced by Small-Vessel Disease: Protocol for Multic... by Han-Gyul Lee, Seungwon Kwon, Woo-Sang Jung, Sang-Kwan Moon, Cheol-Hyun Kim, Dong-Jun Choi

“…Efficacy will be assessed using the recurrence rate of ischemic stroke, which will be assessed on days 30, 90, 180, 270, 360, 450, 540, 630, 720, and 750 after starting the medication. …”
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Biomarkers of inflammation in patients with myocardial infarction and heart failure with preserved and mid-range ejection fraction: 5-year prospective follow-up by N. A. Musikhina, T. I. Petelina, A. I. Kostousova, L. I. Gapon, E. A. Gorbatenko, I. S. Bessonov

“…Eighteen people died during the follow-up period. The survival rate of patients in the compared groups after 60 months did not differ (group 1 — 85,0%; group 2 — 89,1%, p=0,492). …”
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Effect of Tadalafil on cardiac function and left ventricular dimensions in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: safety and cardiac MRI substudy results from a randomized, placebo-controlle... by David Cox, Barry Byrne, David W. Hammers, John Landry, H. Lee Sweeney

“…Ejection fraction (EF), fractional shortening, and M-mode ventricular dimensions were measured on echocardiograms. 12-lead ECGs were centrally evaluated for heart rate and intervals, and qualitative diagnoses. Vital signs and unsolicited adverse events were collected throughout the study. …”
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An Epidemiological Review of the Impact of COVID-19 on Achilles Tendon Rupture Injuries, Experience from a Large London District General Hospital by Lena Al-Hilfi, Irrum Afzal, Sarkhell Radha, Mohamed Abdalla, Mohammed Al-Maiyah

“…As lockdown measures began to ease, hospitals experienced a high admission rate of patients presenting with Achilles Tendon Rupture [ATR]. …”
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Paradigm shift of respiratory viruses causing lower respiratory tract infection in children during COVID-19 pandemic in India by Mannat Kang, Subhabrata Sarkar, Suresh Kumar Angurana, Pankaj Singh, Meenakshi Rana, Ishani Bora, Rishi Chetanya, Bharatendu Singh, Jayashree Muralidharan, Radha Kanta Ratho

“…No significant difference in positivity rate of Inf A pdmH1N1, Inf A H3N2 and Inf B was seen. …”
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Criminal Law Challenged by Crossing into Virtual Reality by Mahdi Karimi

“…This information includes behavioral patterns, interests, preferences, biometric and physiological data such as heart rate, body energy consumption, etc., which are comprehensively collected to create a complete and accurate user profile, potentially resulting in severe violations of users' mental privacy. …”
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Low-frequency rTMS modulates small-world network properties in an AVH-related brain network in schizophrenia by Lin Zhang, Li Guo, Xiaohui Liu, Jing Han, Yuanqiang Zhu, Chaozong Ma, Ye Li, Weiliang Ye

“…Clinical symptom severity was assessed using the Auditory Hallucination Rating Scale (AHRS).ResultsAt baseline, schizophrenia patients exhibited disrupted small-world properties, with significantly lower σ, Cp, El, and Eg compared to healthy controls, reflecting impaired network organization, reduced local clustering, and inefficient global communication. …”
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Diagnosis of Power Transformer On-Load Tap Changer Mechanical Faults Based on SABO-Optimized TVFEMD and TCN-GRU Hybrid Network by Shan Wang, Zhihu Hong, Qingyun Min, Dexu Zou, Yanlin Zhao, Runze Qi, Tong Zhao

“…The decomposed components undergo dual-stage temporal processing: A Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) extracts multi-scale dependencies via dilated convolution architecture, followed by Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) layers capturing dynamic temporal patterns. …”
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Malware-SeqGuard: An Approach Utilizing LSTM and GRU for Effective Detection of Evolving Malware in Android Environments by Muhammad Usama Tanveer, Kashif Munir, Abdulatif Alabdulatif, Anas R. Najdawi, Rutvij H. Jhaveri

“…In this study, we introduce a state-of-the-art scheme for Android malware detection that combines the strengths of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) networks. These advanced deep learning architectures are particularly adept at capturing sequential dependencies within data making them well-suited for analyzing complex time-series information, such as user behaviour patterns system logs and network traffic. …”
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