Learning from “Knocks in Life”: Food Insecurity among Low-Income Lone Senior Women by Rebecca J. Green-LaPierre, Patricia L. Williams, N. Theresa Glanville, Deborah Norris, Heather C. Hunter, Cynthia G. Watt

“…Building on earlier quantitative work where we showed that lone senior households reliant on public pensions in Nova Scotia (NS), Canada lacked the necessary funds for a basic nutritious diet, here we present findings from a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with eight low-income lone senior women living in an urban area of NS. …”
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Potential Technosignature from Anomalously Low Deuterium/Hydrogen in Planetary Water Depleted by Nuclear Fusion Technology by David C. Catling, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Tyler D. Robinson

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Real-time trajectory imaging of alpha particles emitted from actinium-225 and its daughter radionuclides by Seiichi Yamamoto, Masao Yoshino, Kenji Shirasaki, Kohei Nakanishi, Kei Kamada, Akira Yoshikawa, Jun Kataoka

“…We successfully tracked particle trajectories with varying lengths and intensities for 4 different alpha particles emitted from Ac-225 and its daughter radionuclides with a spatial resolution of 1.0 μm. …”
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Two new species of Plagiostomum (Prolecithophora, Plagiostomidae) from China with its morphology, phylogeny, and reproductive strategy by Leyuan Feng, Shiyan Zhang, Ming Tao, Ting Sun, Antai Wang

“…Here, we describe two new species of Plagiostomum collected from the intertidal zone of the South China Sea, based on the integrative studies of morphology, phylogeny, reproduction, and juvenile development. …”
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DsTau: study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS by The DsTau collaboration, Shigeki Aoki, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Elena Firu, Dean Forshaw, Tsutomu Fukuda, Yuri Gornushkin, Ali Murat Guler, Maria Haiduc, Koichi Kodama, Masahiro Komatsu, Muhtesem Akif Korkmaz, Umut Kose, Madalina Miloi, Antonio Miucci, Motoaki Miyanishi, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nakano, Alina Neagu, Hiroki Rokujo, Osamu Sato, Elizaveta Sitnikova, Yosuke Suzuki, Tomoki Takao, Svetlana Vasina, Mykhailo Vladymyrov, Thomas Weston, Junya Yoshida, Masahiro Yoshimoto

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Molecular identification and antibiotic clearance of Mycoplasma arginini and Mycoplasma orale from cell cultures infected with Rickettsia or Ehrlichia species by Michelle E. J. Allerdice, Savannah L. Shooter, Maria F. B. M. Galletti, Joy A. Hecht, Sandor E. Karpathy, Christopher D. Paddock

“…Historically, mycoplasma-contaminated Rickettsia cultures were cleared of contaminants by inoculating laboratory mice and re-isolating mycoplasma-free Rickettsia from brain endothelial cells. However, this method requires the sacrifice of live animals and is not always effective. …”
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From the Other Shore: Exploring Home and Spatial Duality in Leïla Sebbar’s Le silence des rives (Silence on the Shores) by Nassima Amirouche

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First report of Haemaphysalis bispinosa, molecular-geographic relationships of Ixodes granulatus and a new Dermacentor species from Vietnam by Sándor Hornok, Jenő Kontschán, Gergő Keve, Nóra Takács, Dat Van Nguyen, Khanh Ngoc Phuong Ho, Tamás Görföl, Yuanzhi Wang, Róbert Farkas, Thanh Thi Ha Dao

“…However, I. granulatus, the Asian rodent tick, has a mixed geographical pattern of haplotypes, probably because it may associate with either synanthropic or wild-living rodents as primary hosts. This tick species is recorded here, for the first time to our knowledge, as parasitizing lorises in Vietnam and its region. …”
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Microbial community structure and functional traits involved in the adaptation of culturable bacteria within the gut of amphipods from the deepest ocean by Yukun Cui, Yu Xiao, Zhuo Wang, Paiyao Ji, Changhao Zhang, Yongqi Li, Jiasong Fang, Xi Yu

“…However, research on the gut microbiota of amphipods related to ecological functions and environmental adaptation is still limited. Here, we used 16S rRNA sequencing technology and a culture-dependent method to analyze the composition of the gut microbiota in Amphipoda living in the Mariana Trench. …”
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Application of Fuzzy Hierarchy Analysis method to identify factors on the professional development of newly graduated teachers from Farhangian University by Nader Habibzadeh, Ebrahim Salehiomran, Saeed Ghiyasinoshan

“…Abstract The purpose of this research is to use the fuzzy hierarchy analysis method to identify the effective factors on the professional development of newly graduated teachers from Farhangian University. The research method is applicable in terms of purpose, and descriptive-survey based on the method of data collection. …”
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Unsupervised self-organising map classification of Raman spectra from prostate cell lines uncovers substratified prostate cancer disease states by Daniel West, Susan Stepney, Y. Hancock

“…However, conventional diagnostics remain challenged to risk-stratify such patients; hence, new methods of approach to biomolecularly sub-classify the disease are needed. Here we use an unsupervised self-organising map approach to analyse live-cell Raman spectroscopy data obtained from prostate cell-lines; our aim is to exemplify this method to sub-stratify, at the single-cell-level, the cancer disease state using high-dimensional datasets with minimal preprocessing. …”
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Environmental Hazard of Polypropylene from Disposable Face Masks Linked to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Possible Mitigation Techniques through a Green Approach by Selvakumar Vijayalakshmi, Preethi Gopalsamy, Karnan Muthusamy, Dinesh Kumar Sundarraj, Steffi Pulikondan francis, Thiyagarajan Ramesh, Deog-Hwan Oh, Duong Ly Thi Thuy, Tuyet Thi Anh Truong, Huu Tap Van, Shankar Karuppannan

“…The methods and strain presented here reveal the potential biodegrading agents of PP masks.…”
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Carcinogenesis and Chemotherapy Viewed from the Perspective of Stoichiometric Network Analysis (SNA): What Can the Biological System of the Elements Contribute to an Understanding... by Stefan Franzle, Bernd Markert

“…The SNA-based classifications of autocatalytic networks in cell biology are outlined here to identify new approaches to chemotherapy.…”
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Forest Carbon Storage in the Western United States: Distribution, Drivers, and Trends by Jazlynn Hall, Manette E. Sandor, Brian J. Harvey, Sean A. Parks, Anna T. Trugman, A. Park Williams, Winslow D. Hansen

“…Harvest and private ownership reduced carbon, particularly in the PNW. Since 2005, live carbon declined across much of the western US, likely from drought and fire. …”
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Faire et se faire : les ressorts d’une vie éthique enseignante cohérente by Alfred Romuald Gambou

“…Insofar as this teaching practice is based on three springs identified here, which in the face of the injunctions resulting from an instrumental rationality, make possible the emergence and the growth of a coherent teaching ethical life. …”
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Development of a human tyrosinase activity inhibition assay using human melanoma cell lysate by Gengxuan Shi, Yunjiang Feng, Kathryn F. Tonissen

“…However, these methods are either time consuming and expensive or are not human TYR (hsTYR) specific. Here, we describe a simple hsTYR assay using cell lysate prepared from pigmented human melanoma cell lines that takes less than 3 hours to complete after collecting cell pellets. …”
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Raising public awareness on anthropogenic underwater noise by means of playful activities and serious games by Paolo Diviacco, Massimiliano Iurcev

“…Although great progress has been made both from a normative and scientific point of view, public perception of this hazard is very limited. …”
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Ecological analysis of the fish trematode fauna of the Lower Kura by Y.V. Shakaraliyeva

“…This is due to the fact that not far from the point of collecting the material, Lake Sarysu is located, where a large number of fish-eating birds live. …”
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Diphallia with Associated Anomalies: A Case Report and Literature Review by Pande Made Wisnu Tirtayasa, Robertus Bebet Prasetyo, Arry Rodjani

“…It occurs once in every 5.5 million live births. The extent of penile duplication and the number of associated anomalies vary greatly, ranging from a double glans from a penis with no associated anomaly up to complete penile duplication associated with multiple anomalies. …”
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Scimitar syndrome: A case report by Xiang Zhao, Junyang Huang, Junke Yang, Bingkui Cen

“…Most children with childhood/adult forms are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and can live normally without medical intervention. Here we report a case of a 3 year, 8-month-old girl who was diagnosed with Scimitar syndrome in our hospital. …”
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