Identification of Staphylococcus aureus Causing Contamination in Raw Beef and Meat-Processing Environments in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by Amgalanzaya Dorjgochoo, Anujin Batbayar, Altansukh Tsend-Ayush, Bayarlakh Byambadorj, Sarantuya Jav, Munkhdelger Yandag

“…The nucA gene specific to S. aureus was amplified by PCR, and antibiotic susceptibility was evaluated using the Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method. Resistance genes (mecA, mecC, vanA, and vanB) and virulence genes (sea, sed, tsst, eta, and etb) were detected via PCR. …”
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Kinetic aspects of malachite deposition on marble from copper lactate solutions by Gogol, Daniil B., Rozhkovoy, Ivan E., Sadyrbekov, Danyar T., Aldabergenova, Saule K., Makasheva, Astra M.

“…The reaction rate constant is $4.19 \times 10^{-6}~\text{s}^{-1}$ and the effective diffusion coefficient is $1.39 \times 10^{-12}~\text{m}^2/\text{s}$ at room temperature (25 °C). …”
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Physicochemical parameters, microbiological quality, and antibacterial activity of honey from the Bucovina region of Romania by Liliana Luca, Daniela Pauliuc, Florin Ursachi, Mircea Oroian

“…The antibacterial activity was examined against the growth of four pathogenic bacterial strains (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium ATCC 14028) by the diffusion test in the agar well and by determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). …”
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Superbugs-related prolonged admissions in three tertiary hospitals, Kano State, Nigeria by Alkali, Bashir, Garba, Iliyasu, Adamu, Almustapha Aliero, Abdurrazak, Kibiya, Muhammad, Hassan Abubakar, Ibrahim, Ntulume, Faruku, Sarkinfada, Ezera, Agwu

“…Antibiotic susceptibility testing was done using Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. Results: One hundred and thirty eight (138) isolates were recovered, from the studied participants. …”
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Antibacterial Properties of Phytochemicals Isolated from Leaves of Alstonia boonei and Aerial Parts of Ipomoea cairica. by Gumula, Ivan, Kyarimpa, Christine, Nanyonga, Sarah Kiwanuka, Kwesiga, George, Busulwa, George, Opio, Boniface, Heydenreich, Mathias, Omara, Timothy

“…The antibacterial activity of the extracts and pure compounds were assessed using the agar well diffusion method. Results: Chromatographic fractionation of the extracts yielded trans-fagaramide and a pentacyclic lupane-type triterpenoid, lupeol, from A. boonei, and friedelin from I. cairica. …”
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Development of Curcumin Encapsulated Liposomes in Chlorhexidine-Loaded Organogel Using Ternary Phase Systems for Treatment of Omphalitis in Infants by Ibilola Mary Cardoso-Daodu, Margaret Okonawan Ilomuanya

“…The in vitro release profile best fits the Higuchi mathematical model implying that curcumin release was by diffusion and dissolution mechanism. In vitro release was also higher at pH 5.5. …”
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GC-MS Analysis, Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Extracts of the Aerial Parts of <i>Conyza sumatrensis</i> by Olapeju O Aiyelaagbe, Stephen O Oguntoye, Abdulmumeen A Hamid, Adebola M Ogundare, David B Ojo, Ajibola Ajao, Nurudeen O Owolabi

“…These extracts of the plant were evaluated for antimicrobial and antioxidant activities using agar  diffusion and DPPH method respectively. The extracts were also analysed using Gas chromatography – Mass spectrometry, and the chromatogram coupled with mass spectra of the compounds were matched with a standard library. …”
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Antimicrobial susceptibility, biofilm formation, and virulence genes among atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli stool isolates in Tehran, Iran by Shahnaz Halimi, Akram Rezaei, Shirin Mohebi, Farhad Bonakdar Hashemi

“…The antimicrobial resistance was assessed by disk diffusion assay. Biofilm formation was assessed using a standard semi-quantitative microtiter plate assay. …”
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Black Carbon Concentration and Potential Source Regions: A Case Study of the Yellow River Basin in Shandong Province, China by Yuxia Wang, Yanni Rong, Kai Qu, Qing Zhao, Yingming Jiang, Xiaolei Bao, Yang Wang

“…High BC concentration in summer in Jinan is associated with poor diffusion conditions due to terrain and meteorology. …”
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A multimodal characterization of low-dimensional thalamocortical structural connectivity patterns by Alexandra John, Meike D. Hettwer, H. Lina Schaare, Amin Saberi, Şeyma Bayrak, Bin Wan, Jessica Royer, Boris C. Bernhardt, Sofie L. Valk

“…Here, we study how low-dimensional axes of thalamocortical structural connectivity relate to intrathalamic microstructural features, functional connectivity, and structural covariance. Using diffusion MRI, we compute a thalamocortical structural connectome and derive two main axes of thalamic organization. …”
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Antibiotic resistance among Aerobic Gram-Negative Bacilli isolated from patients with oral inflammatory dysbiotic conditions—a retrospective study by A. Basic, S. Blomqvist, G. Charalampakis, G. Dahlén

“…A total of 251 AGNB strains, occurring in moderate to heavy growth (&gt;100 CFU/ml sample), indicating a dysbiotic microbiota, were identified. The disc diffusion method was used for screening of the antibiotic susceptibility of the isolates. …”
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Incidence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli isolated from women with urinary tract infections in Jordan by Rania Al-Groom

“…ESBL production was measured using double disc diffusion. Furthermore, uniplex PCR was performed to identify two ESBL genes (blaCTX and blaTEM). …”
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Antibacterial Effect of Fixed and Volatile Oils against Gram-positive and Gram-negative Bacteria by Tara Faiq M. Salih, Sakar Ahmed Abdullah, Salar Ibrahim Ali, Daryan Kamal Khder

“…detected by using ?disk diffusion method. Furthermore, volatile oil of N. sativa ?…”
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Brain plasticity associated with prolonged shooting training: a multimodal neuroimaging investigation from a cross-sectional study by Keying Zhang, Tao Zhao, Yu Ding, Jia Cheng, Chunmei Cao

“…Male elite shooters also showed higher cortical thickness in the right inferior temporal lobe; lower fractional anisotropy (FA) values in the right superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF), right inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFF), and right anterior thalamic radiation (ATR); lower axial diffusivity (AD) value in forceps minor and left ATR; and lower structural connectivity between right putamen and right inferior parietal cortex (IPC), right IPC and right paracentral cortex, and right paracentral cortex and right superior parietal cortex (SPC).ConclusionElite male shooters exhibited optimized resting-state functional activity, functional connectivity, and morphological features compared to normal controls. …”
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE DESIGNERS: MIDJOURNEY TOOLS by Ivan M. Tsidylo, Chele Esteve Sendra

“…A review of 2022 releases for creating complex, abstract or photorealistic images Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. The analysis showed that Midjourney is most suitable for using artificial intelligence tools as a methodological innovation in training. …”
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Cooperative mechanisms of oxide ion conduction in tellurites with secondary bond interactions and Grotthuss-like processes by Zhenyu Zhu, Guanqun Cai, Yuxiang Feng, Juping Xu, Shengqi Chu, Pengfei An, Jianrong Zeng, Wen Yin, Yu Gu, Xiaojun Kuang, Junliang Sun

“…Here, enlightened by proton diffusion in hydrogen-bond networks, we report the coordination polyhedra cooperative mechanism with similar Grotthuss process of oxide ion migration in tellurites. …”
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Impact of molecular structure and plasticization of PVC membranes in the response of solid-state ion-selective electrodes by Coral Salvo-Comino, Luis E. Alonso-Pastor, Clara Pérez-González, Stefano Pettinelli, Karina C. Núñez Carrero, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Pérez, María Luz Rodríguez-Méndez

“…However, enhancing sensitivity, largely dependent on membrane diffusion, remains challenging. This study investigates the role of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) molecular weight and plasticizer type on optimizing potentiometric sensor performance for tartaric acid detection. …”
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Explanatory LSTM-AE-Based Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data in Marine Transportation by Zhan Wang, Mwamba Kasongo Dahouda, Hyoseong Hwang, Inwhee Joe

“…The LSTM-AE model shows superior performance compared to other data generation models such as GAN and diffusion models, which have accuracy issues and require high computational cost. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Antibacterial activity of Benzimidazole Derivatives and their Cu (ii),Ni (ii) and Co (ii) complexes by Haftom Welderufael, Dagne Addisu Kure, Endalkachew Asefa Moges, Lelisa File, Salah Hamza Sherif

“…In-vitro antibacterial activity of all the synthesized ligands and their metal complexes were evaluated by using disc diffusion method against K. pneumoniae, E. coli, and S. aureus bacterial species .The tested compounds and metal complexes exhibited from good to excellent activity (zone of inhibition (ZI) ranged 10 mm to 23 mm). …”
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Role of thermal and dynamical subdaily perturbations over the Tibetan Plateau in 30-day extended-range forecast of East Asian precipitation in early summer by Bian He, Xinyu He, Yimin Liu, Guoxiong Wu, Qing Bao, Wenting Hu, Chen Sheng, Shijian Feng

“…The results indicated that the subdaily thermal forcing of the TP was very important for improving the East Asian precipitation forecast accuracy, especially for predictions longer than 14 days in June 2022, when diffusion heating is very strong and can develop over the TP. …”
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