Temporal Changes in Bacterial Profile of Burn Wound Infections in a Tertiary Care Hospital and Risk Factors for Invasion: A Prospective Cohort Study by Aarti A Gandhi, Priyanka S Prasad, Gita Nataraj, Vinita Puri

“…Bacterial isolates were identified and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns were determined. …”
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DNA PROTECTIVE ACTIVITY OF Artemisia spp HAIRY ROOT EXTRACTS by Duplij V., Afanasieva K., Chopei M., Matvieieva N. A.

“…At the same time, there were no significant differences in the degree of protection of plasmid DNA from damage (percentage of supercoiled DNA) when extracts from hairy root lines of A. vulgaris and A. tilesii were added to the reaction mixture. …”
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Investigation of the physicochemical factors affecting the in vitro digestion and glycemic indices of indigenous indica rice cultivars by Indira Govindaraju, Anusha R. Das, Ishita Chakraborty, Sib Sankar Mal, Bhaswati Sarmah, Vishwa Jyoti Baruah, Nirmal Mazumder

“…Cooking properties of rice cultivars were estimated. Further, biochemical investgations such as amylose content, resistant starch content were estimated using iodine-blue complex method and megazyme kit respectively. …”
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Intermittent auscultation fetal monitoring during labour: A systematic scoping review to identify methods, effects, and accuracy. by Ellen Blix, Robyn Maude, Elisabeth Hals, Sezer Kisa, Elisabeth Karlsen, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, Ank de Jonge, Helena Lindgren, Soo Downe, Liv Merete Reinar, Maralyn Foureur, Aase Serine Devold Pay, Anne Kaasen

“…There were no significant differences in any of the other maternal or neonatal outcomes. …”
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Geochemical signatures and nanomechanical properties of echinoid tests from nearshore habitats of Florida: environmental and physiological controls on echinoid biomineralization by Przemysław Gorzelak, Luis Torres Jr., Dorota Kołbuk, Tobias B. Grun, Michał Kowalewski

“…However, such patterns were highly variable across taxa and regions, indicating that both environmental and physiological factors influenced geochemical signatures to varying degrees, depending on the species and environmental setting. …”
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The effect of smoking on the immediate effectiveness of induction chemotherapy in the combined treatment of HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer by P. V. Golubev, L. V. Bolotina, A. R. Gevorkov, T. I. Deshkina

“…Hertsen Moscow Oncology Research Institute – Branch of the National Medical Research Radiological Centre, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation and the Municipal Clinical Oncological Hospital № 1 of the Department of Health of Moscow. The patients were divided into 2 equal groups, fully comparable in terms of the main characteristics (smoking history, stage, histological type, and degree of tumour differentiation). …”
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The Association of Pension Income with the Incidence of Type I Obesity among Retired Israelis by Yuval Arbel, Chaim Fialkoff, Amichai Kerner

“…For males older than 67, results show a rise in projected obesity with car ownership by 6.10% (p=0.0897) to 6.41% (p=0.0469) and a drop in projected obesity with academic degree status by 9.93% (p=0.0106) to 10.14% (p=0.0118) and immigration status from American-European countries by 7.67% (p=0.0821) to 8.99% (p=0.0398) and Asian-African countries by 11.63% (p=0.0245) to 11.99% (p=0.02). …”
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Effect of Muscle Energy Technique Combined with Conventional Rehabilitation Therapy on Elderly Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis by FAN Jingjing, HUANG Lihua, XU Yiming, LIU Kun, FANG Ping

“…During the course of treatment, two cases in the control group dropped due to the patient's voluntary request, a total of 82 cases were finally included, including 40 cases in the control group and 42 cases in the observation group. …”
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Exploring environmental risk in soils: Leveraging open data for non-sampling assessment? by Silvia Aparisi-Navarro, Maria Moncho-Santonja, Beatriz Defez, Carla Candeias, Fernando Rocha, Guillermo Peris-Fajarnés

“…Several contamination indices, Contamination Factor (Cf), Modified Contamination Degree (mCd), Geoaccumulation Index (Igeo), Nemerow Pollution Index (Pn), Potential Ecological Risk Index (PERI), and Pollution Load Index (PLI) were calculated for both datasets. …”
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Identification and Characterization of Genes Associated with Intestinal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Oxidative Stress: A Bioinformatics and Experimental Approach Integrating Hig... by Xie Y, Yang M, Huang J, Jiang Z

“…The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, as well as the support vector machine with random forest algorithm, were utilized for machine learning. Subsequently, the PPI network was established, and the Degree and MNC algorithms of the Cytohuba plugin were integrated with the genes obtained through the machine learning algorithms to identify hub IOSRGs (HIOSRGs). …”
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Effect of Tea Polyphenols, α-Lipoic Acid and Their Joint Use on the Antioxidant and Lipid Metabolism Performance of Hybrid Grouper (♀Epinephelus fuscoguttatus × ♂E. lanceolatu) Fed... by Xiangxiang Suo, Xiaobo Yan, Beiping Tan, Simiao Pan, Tao Li, Hao Liu, Weibin Huang, Shuang Zhang, Yuanzhi Yang, Xiaohui Dong

“…In contrast, the TL group had the highest fatty acid synthetase (FAS) activity (P<0.05). (5) The oil-red aspects of liver tissue displayed lipid particles in other groups were reduced to different degrees compared with FL group, and the OL group showed the best lipid-lowering effect. (6) Compared with the FL group, the relative expressions of FAS, acetyl-CoA carboxylase (acc), and apolipoprotein b-100 (apoB100) genes in the liver were decreased. …”
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Impact of dietary lysophospholipids supplementation on growth performance, meat quality, and lipid metabolism in finishing bulls fed diets varying in fatty acid saturation by Meimei Zhang, Haixin Bai, Ruixue Wang, Yufan Zhao, Wenzhu Yang, Jincheng Liu, Yonggen Zhang, Peixin Jiao

“…Thirty-two Angus bulls (initial body weight: 623 ± 22.6 kg; 21 ± 0.5 months of age) were used. The experiment was a completely randomized block design with a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments: 2 diets with FA of different degree of unsaturation [high saturated FA diet (HSFA) vs. high unsaturated FA diet (HUFA)] combined with (0.075%, dry matter basis) and without lysophospholipids supplementation. …”
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Preliminary study on domestication of coconut crab (Birgus latro) by . Sulistiono, S. Refiani, F.Y. Tantu, Muslihuddin .

“…While for clomang stage, crabs were reared in aquarium (80x40x40 cm3) with debris and small water batch.  …”
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Enhancing ethical self-efficacy among dementia caregiver staff: A mixed-methods feasibility study of the care programme by Sigurd Lauridsen, Sofie Smedegaard Skov, Lucca-Mathilde Thorup, Marie-Eva Berg, Anna Paldam Folker, Peter Simonsen, Frederik Schou-Juul

“…Using the framework of Bowen et al. and a mixed-methods research design, we conducted six face-to-face focus group interviews with nursing home staff, two telephone interviews with nursing home managers, and a survey among 90 participants. Data were collected in the spring and fall of 2022. Method: Quantitative data were analysed using STATA for descriptive statistics, while qualitative data were processed using a six-step template analysis framework. …”
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Bioinformatics analysis of ferroptosis-related hub genes and immunoinfiltration in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion following heart transplantation by Yuxi Zhang, Qiao Tang, Jiahui Cui, Yanan Li, Heng Xu, Zhen Qiu, Shaoqing Lei, Rui Xue, Qian Sun, Zhongyuan Xia

“…Three hub genes (SLC7A11, PSAT1, ASNS) were obtained by the degree algorithm of cytohubba plug-in. …”
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Characteristics of Land Use Change and Evaluation of Ecological Sensitivity in Chongqing by XIE Xianjian, GOU Qiantao, WU Han

“…Single-factor detection results indicate that the comprehensive index of average temperature, soil type, and land use degree were the main driving factors. The results of interactive exploration showed both linear and nonlinear enhancements, and the impact of the interaction between average temperature, annual rainfall, first industry added value, and per capita GDP on comprehensive ecological sensitivity showed a significant synergistic enhancement effect. …”
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Identification of Behavioral, Clinical, and Psychological Antecedents of Acute Stimulant Poisoning: Development and Implementation of a Mixed Methods Psychological Autopsy Study by Marley Antolin Muñiz, Vanessa M McMahan, Xochitl Luna Marti, Sarah Brennan, Sophia Tavasieff, Luke N Rodda, James Knoll, Phillip O Coffin

“…Informants were at least 18 years of age, communicated with the decedent within the year before death, and were aware that the decedent had been using substances during that year. …”
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Targets of influenza human T-cell response are mostly conserved in H5N1 by John Sidney, A-Reum Kim, Rory D. de Vries, Bjoern Peters, Philip S. Meade, Florian Krammer, Alba Grifoni, Alessandro Sette

“…ABSTRACT Frequent recent spillovers of subtype H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus into poultry and mammals, especially dairy cattle, including several human cases, increased concerns over a possible future pandemic. Here, we performed an analysis of epitope data curated in the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB). …”
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Preferences and access to community-based HIV testing sites among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Côte d’Ivoire by Christine Danel, Joseph Larmarange, Lazare Sika, Maxime Inghels, Arsène Kra Kouassi, Serge Niangoran, Anne Bekelynck, Séverine Carilon, Mariatou Koné, Annabel Degrées du Loû

“…Factors associated with MSM-CTBS access or knowledge and with HIV testing venue preferences were examined.Results Only half of the respondents (47%) reported knowing of an MSM-CBTS. …”
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Effect of comprehensive nursing interventions on relieving postoperative pain of breast cancer patients (乳腺肿瘤患者术后疼痛的护理干预研究) by LI Weijia (李唯佳), LI Yueru (李月茹), LI Ning (李宁), CAO Hongjing (曹红京)

“…Methods A total of 80 breast cancer patients were randomly divided into the study group and control group, with 40 cases in each group. …”
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