Surgical Outcomes and Associated Morbidity of Active and Expectant Management of Second-Trimester Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) by Jessian L. Munoz, Rachel Counts, Amanda E. Lacue, Kayla E. Ireland, Patrick S. Ramsey, Kristyn Brandi

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Particle Filtration Efficiency, Breathability, and Reusability of Common Masks by Heikki Junninen, Nieves Maria Flores March, Marko Vana, Kalju Tamme, Helina Lipp, Sander Mirme, Siim Pikker, Tareq Hussein, Markku Kulmala

“…The best masks for FE were N95 respirators, but they had relatively low breathability. When also counting the breathability, the equally good performance was for commercial multiple-usable masks with filtering layer and disposable masks.…”
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The Presence of Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies and Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2: A Case-Control Study among S... by Mohammed Shams Aldeen, Musa Logman Masaad, Ayman Azhary, Abdulomez Suliman, Mohammed Ahmed Alziber, Motasim MohammedAhmed, Farag Alla Mohamed Aman, Salahaldeen Ismail, Nadir Abuzeid, Abdualmoniem O. Musa, Samuel Tekle Mengistu, Mohammed Elfatih Hamida

“…Other markers (CRP, APTT, PT, INR, ESR, and neutrophil and lymphocyte counts) were included in the study, along with demographic data. …”
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Scrutiny on the grammatical error of descriptive text written by the first semester public health students Universitas Faletehan by Kety Soraya

“…The errors were then classified into four types namely omission, addition, misformation, and misordering then they were counted and interpreted. Altogether they were 1401errors in student’s descriptive text. …”
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Studies on Microbial Quality, Protein Yield, and Antioxidant Properties of Some Frozen Edible Insects by Peter Kurdi, Patspon Chaowiwat, Jirathit Weston, Chanida Hansawasdi

“…Total mesophilic aerobic counts were about 8-8.4 log cfu/g, while lactic acid bacteria numbers were up to 5.2 log cfu/g samples. …”
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circHUWE1 Exerts an Oncogenic Role in Inducing DDP-Resistant NSCLC Progression Depending on the Regulation of miR-34a-5p/TNFAIP8 by Xueliang Yang, Quan Sun, Yongming Song, Wenli Li

“…IC50 of cisplatin (DDP) in A549/DDP and H1299/DDP cells and cell viability were analyzed by the Cell Counting Kit 8 (CCK-8) assay. Colony forming assay was performed to assess colony forming ability. …”
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Virological Breakthrough: A Risk Factor for Loss to Followup in a Large Community-Based Cohort on Antiretroviral Therapy by Catherine Orrell, Richard Kaplan, Robin Wood, Linda-Gail Bekker

“…Individuals with breakthrough were younger (), had lower CD4 counts (), and higher viral loads () than those who remained suppressed. …”
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Continuous Patient-Independent Estimation of Respiratory Rate and Blood Pressure Using Robust Spectro-Temporal Features Derived From Photoplethysmogram Only by Muhammad Ahmad Sultan, Wala Saadeh

“…Finally, RR and BP are estimated using breath counting and a neural network regression model, respectively. …”
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Effects of cereal rye residue biomass and preemergence herbicide on the emergence of troublesome southeastern weed species by Annu Kumari, Andrew J. Price, Steve Li, Audrey Gamble, Alana Jacobson

“…Cereal rye biomass and Palmer amaranth counts were strongly negatively correlated with a Pearson’s coefficient (r) of 0.83 while weakly negatively correlated for ivyleaf morningglory with 0.49. …”
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New methods of local medical treatment of purulent wounds by A. Yu. Grigoryan, A. I. Bezhin, T. A. Pankrusheva, L. V. Zhilyaeva

“…In an in vivo experiment the healing process was evaluated by Popov's planimetric method, the contamination of the wounds was studied by sowing the biopsy of wounds on nutrient media with subsequent counting of the grown up colonies. The data were processed statistically, the reliability of the differences was assessed by the Kruskal-Wallis test.Results. …”
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A vacuum lyophilization and bacterial tablet-based method for culture medium evaluation and potential use in probiotic products by Wen Cui, Liang Zhao, Yuwen Shi, Wei Feng, Xiao Chen, Hui Liu

“…The filter membrane as a carrier ensures uniform cell dispersion, forming a singular colony that can facilitate counting. We examined the viability and storage durability of vacuum freeze-dried bacterial tablets using a filter membrane as a carrier and utilized the results to evaluate culture medium. …”
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Evaluation of spring bread wheat accessions from the VIR collection for resistance to loose smut by M. M. Kovaleva, E. V. Zuev, A. N. Brykova

“…Assessment of the infection lesions was carried out in the next year after inoculation by counting the diseased and healthy ears in each accession.Results and conclusion. …”
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Age effects on measurements of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation in laying hens by Meagan E. Abraham, Priscila Serpa, Gregory S. Fraley, Darrin M. Karcher

“…From these blood samples, white blood cell (WBC) differential counts, heterophil:lymphocyte (H:L) ratios (N = 10/treatment), and corticosterone and cortisol levels were measured using a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system coupled to a mass spectrometer (MS/MS) (N = 5/treatment). …”
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Immunolipid magnetic bead-based circulating tumor cell sorting: a novel approach for pathological staging of colorectal cancer by Qingyan Deng, Weidong Li, Yueming Huang, Haitao Wang, Xinhao Zhou, Zhifen Guan, Bohao Cheng, Yao Wang

“…The separation efficiency of the system was evaluated via in vitro experiments and by capturing and counting CTCs in blood samples from 23 CRC patients and 20 healthy controls. …”
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Elevated and Correlated Expressions of miR-24, miR-30d, miR-146a, and SFRP-4 in Human Abdominal Adipose Tissue Play a Role in Adiposity and Insulin Resistance by Yury O. Nunez Lopez, Gabriella Garufi, Magdalena Pasarica, Attila A. Seyhan

“…Osmium fixation and Coulter counting were used for adipocyte sizing. Data were analyzed using generalized linear models that adjusted for age, gender, and ethnicity. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Gypenosides on Antioxidant Stress Injury in Orbital Fibroblasts of Graves’ Orbitopathy by Chao Ma, Haoyu Li, Wei Liu, Shuwen Lu, Xian Li, Jinyuan Chen, Kaijun Li, Wenzhan Wang

“…The proliferation level of OFs was measured by Cell Counting Kit-8 method, and the appropriate intervention concentration of Gyps and H2O2 was obtained. …”
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Tissue-friendly dentin treatments as a potential element in revascularization protocol (ex-vivo study) by Hala Fayek Khalil, Nadia Ezz El Din Metwalli, Sara Magdy, Mohamed Shamel

“…Cell proliferation was evaluated via the Trypan blue exclusion test, with viable cells counted using a hemocytometer. Data were presented as mean and standard deviation (SD) values and statistical significance was set at p < 0.05 for all tests. …”
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Application of Fractal Analysis in Detecting Trabecular Bone Changes in Periapical Radiograph of Patients with Periodontitis by Parisa Soltani, Sajad Sami, Jaber Yaghini, Ehsan Golkar, Francesco Riccitiello, Gianrico Spagnuolo

“…Fractal dimension (FD) values were calculated using the fractal box counting approach. Statistical analysis was performed using the chi-square test, Mann–Whitney test, intraclass correlation coefficient, and ANOVA (α = 0.05). …”
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The Physicochemical and Rheological Properties of Green Banana Flour–Wheat Flour Bread Substitutions by Yasmeen M. Bashmil, Frank Bekes, Michael Ruderman, Hafiz A. R. Suleria, Rudi Appels, Frank R. Dunshea

“…A MATLAB analysis indicated substantial variations across samples regarding the small, medium, and total air space counts based on 10% banana flour as a standard level of addition. …”
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Analysis of Ocular Injury Characteristics in Survivors of the 8.12 Tianjin Port Explosion, China by Hao Jiang, Chao Xue, Yanlin Gao, Yan Wang

“…Initial visual acuity (VA) was 20/50 to 20/200, 20/200 to finger counting (FC), hand motion to light perception (HM-LP), and no light perception (NLP) in 2, 7, 7, and 4 eyes, respectively. …”
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