Multidrug-resistant E. Coli in wastewater sources: a comparative study and identification of resistance hotspots by Reham R. Abdelgalel, Reham Ali Ibrahem, Doaa Safwat Mohamed, Abo Bakr F. Ahmed

“…The highest resistance of isolates was observed in ampicillin/sulbactam with a moderately high rate of 37%, while the lowest resistance was reported in gentamycin at a low rate of 3.3%. …”
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Learning place cells and remapping by decoding the cognitive map by Markus Borud Pettersen, Vemund Schøyen, Anders Malthe-Sørenssen, Mikkel E Lepperød

“…These cells exhibit marked tuning curves and rate changes when an animal’s environment is sufficiently manipulated, in a process known as remapping. …”
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Attention-Enhanced CNN-LSTM Model for Exercise Oxygen Consumption Prediction with Multi-Source Temporal Features by Zhen Wang, Yingzhe Song, Lei Pang, Shanjun Li, Gang Sun

“…We tackled two key obstacles—the limited fusion of heterogeneous sensor data and inadequate modeling of long-range temporal patterns—by integrating wearable accelerometer and heart-rate streams with a convolutional neural network–LSTM (CNN-LSTM) architecture and optional attention modules. …”
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Premium intraocular lens adoption: Insights from a national health insurance analysis by Chi-Ying Huang, Christy Pu, Chiun-Ho Hou

“…However, the adoption rate of premium IOLs increased more rapidly than that of non-premium IOLs. …”
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TaER Expression Is Associated with Transpiration Efficiency Traits and Yield in Bread Wheat. by Jiacheng Zheng, Zhiyuan Yang, Pippa J Madgwick, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Martin A J Parry, Yin-Gang Hu

“…Significant differences were also observed between the three groups varying for TaER expression for several transpiration efficiency (TE)- related traits, including stomatal density (SD), transpiration rate, photosynthetic rate (A), instant water use efficiency (WUEi) and carbon isotope discrimination (CID), and yield traits of biomass production plant-1 (BYPP) and grain yield plant-1 (GYPP). …”
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A Hardware Architecture of a Dynamic Ranking Packet Scheduler for Programmable Network Devices by Mostafa Elbediwy, Bill Pontikakis, Jean-Pierre David, Yvon Savaria

“…The introduction of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separated the control and data forwarding planes, but the data plane still requires a fully programmable packet scheduler that can adapt to different traffic patterns and offer high expressiveness at line rate. …”
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Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps by M. Gastaldello, E. Mattea, M. Hoelzle, H. Machguth

“…At the saddle point (SP), our results show surface melt increasing at a rate of 0.53 cm w.e. yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻²</span> – representing a doubling over the 21-year period. …”
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Modeling of spatial spread of COVID-19 pandemic waves in Russia using a kinetic-advection model by V. V. Aristov, A. V. Stroganov, A. D. Yastrebov

“…In addition to the high infection rate, the high spread rate is due to the increased mobility of contemporary populations. …”
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Response of Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) in Alpine Grasslands to Hydrothermal and Radiative Factors Across Elevation Gradients by Ye Tian, Wan Zhang, Xiao Xu, Bingrong Zhou, Xiaoyun Cao, Bin Qiao

“…Moreover, contribution rate analysis showed an elevation-dependent shift in WUE control: evapotranspiration (ET) exerted a dominant influence at low elevations (contribution rate: −82.50%), while net primary productivity (NPP) became the primary driver at high elevations (contribution rate: 54.71%). …”
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Assessing Slide Coverage by Cytoscreeners during the Primary Screening of Cervical Smears, Using the AxioHOMEⓇ Microscope System by Robert W. Baker, Gerard Brugal, Dulcie V. Coleman

“…We have used the HOME Microscope system to examine the screening patterns of cytotechnologists who undertake the primary screening of cervical smears, in order to measure accuracy of screening against screening time, slide coverage, and mean screening rate. …”
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HTLV-1 antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid in tropical spastic paraparesis in Brazil by A. Spina-França, J. A. Livramento, L. R. Machado, H. R. Gomes, L. S. Vianna, L. H. M. Castro, J. P. S. Nobrega, L. A. Baciheschi

“…CSF patterns considered (cytology, protein content and gamma-globulins rate) were different between TSP group with HTLV-l antibodies in CSF and SP group with no HTLV-l antibodies detection either in serum or in CSF. …”
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New perspectives for the Annelida collection (National Museum/UFRJ) database: using data visualization to analyze and manage biological collections by Camila Simões Martins de Aguiar Messias, Carlos Cesar de Oliveira Fonseca, Monique Cristina dos Santos, Asla M. Sá, Joana Zanol

“…Data analyses using these graphs made it possible to identify anomalous patterns in the data and fill in missing records. They also provided an understanding of the spatial and bathymetric distribution of the specimens deposited over time, and the growth rate of the collection in each family, thus projecting future growth and solutions for the physical organization of vials. …”
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Genome-Wide identification and salt stress-responsive expression dynamics of the HMGR gene family in Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa. by Xiaohan Tang, Xiaojun Ma, Jun Cao, Xinhong Wang, Xuexiang Li, Xiaozhou Yang, Jing Shu

“…They also exhibit significant therapeutic potential in herbal medicine. 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGR), a pivotal rate-limiting enzyme governing the initial stage of the mevalonate (MVA) pathway in triterpene saponin biosynthesis, remains uncharacterized in Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa. …”
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Identification of pollination compatibility and exploration of distance of pollinizer trees for rough skin strains of Majiayou by XU Chenyu, HE Yi, ZHANG Li, CHENG Hanyuan, ZHU Wanwan, ZHAO Zhenmei, WU Hao, WU Juxun, YI Hualin

“…Before cross-pollination, pollen viability and in vitro germination rate of both rough-skinned and smooth-skinned Majiayou were determined to ensure pollen fertility. …”
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Preoperative informed consent for mandibular third molar surgeries: A survey analysis in a subset of dentists and oral surgeons in Saudi Arabia by Mohammed Alkindi

“…Descriptive analysis of the obtained data and statistical comparisons using cross tabulation and Pearson Chi-Square test with a 95% significance level (P < 0.05) were done between the independents demographic variables and dependent variables pertaining to patterns of preoperative consenting. Results: The survey response rate was 81.3% (n = 83), with 59.04% general dentists and 40.96% oral surgeons. …”
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Repeated evolution on oceanic islands: comparative genomics reveals species-specific processes in birds by María Recuerda, Julio César Hernández Montoya, Guillermo Blanco, Borja Milá

“…We estimated the relative (F st ) and absolute (d xy ) differentiation, nucleotide diversity (π), Tajima’s D, gene density and recombination rate. We also searched for selective sweeps and chromosomal inversions along the genome. …”
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Improving phenological event identification in trees using manually measured dendrometer data: conventional approaches vs. the novel two-stage threshold approach by Przemysław A. Jankowski, Przemysław A. Jankowski, Rafael Calama, Jorge Aldea, Matías García, Guillermo Madrigal, Marta Pardos

“…The method’s reliance on direct growth rate transitions, rather than smoothed curves or arbitrary percentiles, reduced errors associated with hydration-related stem fluctuations. …”
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Circadian blood pressure profile in patients with arterial hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by T. E. Steshina, A. I. Chesnikova, V. P. Terentyev

“…In patients with AH and COPD, CBPP was characterized by "non-dipper" and "night-peaker" patterns associated with high heart rate, that was probably explained by COPD negative impact on AH clinical course. …”
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A failure by any other name: The phenomenon of underpreparedness by Jill Bradbury, Ronald Miller

“…In order to further understand the reasons for the disproportionately high failure rate among students from disadvantaged schools, the responses of DS failing students are compared to those of their peers from advantaged schools (AS) who also failed the course. …”
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Social Work in Republic of Buryatia by Tatyana Bazarova

“…The introduction of market economy principles, the process of privatisation, and the last economic crises in the Federation of Russia have brought many social phenomena - among them increasing poverty, homelessness and still high rate of unemployment are the worst one. It makes the changes in the state social welfare programmes and functioning patterns be implemented. …”
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