Occurrence of <i>Salmonella</i> and presumptive <i>Bacillus cereus</i> in sesame products from Swiss retail stores by Karen Barmettler, Sara Boss, Michael Biggel, Roger Stephan

“…The 11 isolates identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight were whole-genome sequenced with Illumina technology to confirm the identity of the pathogen, determine its toxin gene profile, and perform panC typing. …”
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Copy Number Variation of UGT 2B Genes in Indian Families Using Whole Genome Scans by Avinash M. Veerappa, Prakash Padakannaya, Nallur B. Ramachandra

“…Molecular network and pathway analysis found enrichment related to steroid metabolic process, carboxylesterase activity, and sequence specific DNA binding. Interpretation and Conclusion. …”
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Analysis of strength and thermal conductivity characteristics of layered beams consisting of solid wood and thermal insulation material by M. S. Panova, N. A. Tatus

“…Experimental studies of beams with different number and thickness of thermal insulation and power layers were carried out, the total thickness of both power and thermal insulation layers in each beam were the same, but the sequence of laying was changed.Results. The results of the experimental study of the bending strength of the thermal timber and the calculated study of its thermal insulation characteristics are shown. …”
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Determination of Heavy Metals in <i>Hoplobatrachus occipitalis</i> (Crowned Bullfrogs) and Water from Some Reservoirs in Kadawa Irrigation Project Kano, Nigeria by T.S. Kuiwa, C.E. Mbah, D.S. Abolude, N Lawal, MA Aminu

“…The mean concentration of heavy metals in water samples were 0.11 mg/L, 0.18 mg/L, 0.26 mg/L, and 3.65 mg/L for Cu, Mn, Pb and Zn respectively. The sequence of metal accumulation in all the organs was Zn > Pb > Mn > Cu. …”
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Human SLC26A1 Gene Variants: A Pilot Study by Paul A. Dawson, Pearl Sim, David W. Mudge, David Cowley

“…To investigate the possible involvement of SAT1 in human urolithiasis, we screened the SLC26A1 gene in a cohort of 13 individuals with recurrent calcium oxalate urolithiasis, which is the commonest type. DNA sequence analyses showed missense mutations in seven patients: one individual was heterozygous R372H; 4 individuals were heterozygous Q556R; one patient was homozygous Q556R; and one patient with severe nephrocalcinosis (requiring nephrectomy) was homozygous Q556R and heterozygous M132T. …”
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Pénétrer le monde des morts by Katerina Kerestetzi

“…Specifically, some of the sequences performed during the ritual enable an ontological conversion between the person and the spirit; they assimilate the initiate to the spirit by imbuing him or her with some of its properties. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Thermometry of Focused Ultrasound Using a Preclinical Focused Ultrasound Robotic System at 3T by Antria Filippou, Nikolas Evripidou, Andreas Georgiou, Leonidas Georgiou, Antreas Chrysanthou, Cleanthis Ioannides, Christakis Damianou

“…Results: Clearer thermal maps with a 2.5-fold higher temporal resolution were produced for sonications at 3T compared to 1.5T, despite employment of similar thermometry sequences. At 3T, temperature changes between 41°C and 50°C were recorded for the three phantoms produced with varied silica and evaporated milk, with the addition of 2% w/v silica resulting in a 20% increase in temperature change. …”
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The Potential Use of the CRISPR-Cas System for HIV-1 Gene Therapy by Gabriela De Nardi Sanches-da-Silva, Luiza Fonseca Sales Medeiros, Fabio Mitsuo Lima

“…The CRISPR- (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat-) Cas system is a genome-editing method which uses a guide RNA, a complementary sequence to the interested site, recruiting a nuclease that can break the viral or the host cell genetic material. …”
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Early Iron Age Pottery Technology of the Kazakh Uplands (Saryarqa) by Valeriy G. Loman

“…Furthermore, pottery shaping techniques of Central Kazakhstan were largely dominated by coiling, while in North Kazakhstan they would turn to pinching/patching, and the latter method happens to have been as widespread in ceramic samples from the Saka-era barrows. The wall-to-base sequence prevails in ceramics from both settlements and barrows. …”
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Improved Adsorption Capacity of Nannochloropsis sp. through Modification with Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide on the Removal of Methyl Orange in Solution by Buhani, Suharso, Nurul Miftahza, Desy Permatasari, Sumadi

“…AlgN-CTAB adsorbent has been tested for its adsorption ability against anionic dye of methyl orange (MO) in solution by way of a sequence of experiments by the batch method. The optimum conditions for MO removal from the solution occurred at an adsorbent quantity of 0.1 g, pH of 5, and an interaction time of 60 min. …”
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Pedagogical conditions for the organization of work with vocationally oriented text in the process of teaching a foreign language by Irina A. Pushkareva

“…The conditions determining the pedagogical potential of the text are discussed, within the framework of which the sequence of the students passing certain stages of work is shown, in order to create their own meaning and counter text. …”
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Comprehensive Assessment of Biomolecular Interactions of Morpholine-Based Mixed Ligand Cu(II) and Zn(II) Complexes of 2,2′-Bipyridine as Potential Anticancer and SARS-CoV-2 Agents:... by Karunganathan Sakthikumar, Rui Werner Maçedo Krause, Bienfait Kabuyaya Isamura

“…The overall DNA-binding constants observed from UV-vis, fluorometric, hydrodynamic, and electrochemical titrations were in the following sequence: (1a) > (2a) > (HL), which suggests that the complexes might intercalate DNA, a possibility that is further supported by the biothermodynamic characteristics. …”
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Assessing the Possibility of Prosecuting the Uyghur's Genocide before the International Criminal Court by Housein Aghaei Janat Makan, Noormohammad Nowruzi

“…Recent report of Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy about the Uyghur genocide allege signifies important of the issue and has attracted attention of the media and global society.This article attempts to investigate the issue through scrutinize the questions bellow: has the Actus Reus of the crime of genocide in events sequence concerned with Uyghurs proven? Does it verifyrequisite jurisdictional threshold for initiate investigations by the Prosecutor of ICC? …”
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Selective cultivation of bacterial strains with lipolytic and hydrocarbon-oxidizing activity from bottom sediments of the Ob River, Western Siberia by A. I. Gerasimchuk, D. A. Ivasenko, A. A. Kasymova, Yu. A. Frank

“…The phylogenetic position of the obtained bacterial isolates was determined based on the analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences. The strains isolated on selective media belonged to representatives of the genera Pseudomonas and Aeromonas (Gammaproteobacteria), and the genus Microvirgula (Betaproteobacteria). …”
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Purification and expression of a novel bacteriocin, JUQZ-1, against Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae (PSA), secreted by Brevibacillus laterosporus Wq-1, isolated from the rhizos... by Yang Shuai, Yi Langbo, Yang Yi, Chen Danni, Peng Qingzhong

“…Based on the morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence, the isolated strain was identified as Brevibacillus laterosporus Wq-1. …”
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Development of reed-based cellulose aerogel: a sustainable solution for crude oil spill clean-up by Huong Le Thi Thanh, An Tran Nguyen Minh, Hoang Tran Huu

“…After a two-stage HP bleaching sequence, the highest cellulose content achieved was 27.2%, with 80% ISO brightness and 1% ash content under mild Kraft pulping conditions of 30% sulfidity, 20% active alkali (AA), sustained cooking at 165°C for 3 h, and a liquor-to-reed ratio of 8 : 1. …”
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The Trends of Staphylococcus aureus Antibiotics Resistance in Iraq: A Narrative Review by Nawfal R. Hussein, Masood Ahmed Hameed, Qusay Nawaf Resho

“…High resistance rates were observed in Iraq, with BlaZ gene sequences showing 100% similarity to those in other countries, suggesting a common origin or spread of genetic variants. …”
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Planning and analysis methods of revenues and expenses by individual activities of railway transport companies by T. M. Rogulenko, A. A. Bondarenko

“…Recommendations on the sequence of calculating the variable cost of rail transport and financial results, the composition of key indicators for planning, reporting and monitoring of the structural units of railway transport enterprises have been given. …”
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A proximal policy optimization based deep reinforcement learning framework for tracking control of a flexible robotic manipulator by Joshi Kumar V, Vinodh Kumar Elumalai

“…Identifying the optimal hyper-parameters of DRL using the grid search method, we exploit the capability of CNN in actor-critic architecture to extract the spatial dependencies in the state sequences of the dynamical system and boost the DRL performance. …”
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New hash function based on C-MD structure and chaotic neural network by Liquan CHEN, Yuhang ZHU, Yu WANG, Zhongyuan QIN, Yang MA

“…In recent years, widely used hash algorithms such as MD5 and SHA-1 have been found to have varying degrees of security risks.The iterative structure of the SHA-2 algorithm is similar to that of SHA-1, making it vulnerable to attacks as well.Meanwhile, SHA-3 has a complex internal structure and low implementation efficiency.To address these issues, a keyed hash function was designed and implemented based on chaotic neural network and C-MD structure.The approach involved improving the Merkle-Damgard structure by proposing the chaotic neural network Merkle-Damgard (C-MD) structure.This structure can be used to design a hash function that can withstand attacks such as the middle attack, multiple collision attack, and second pre-image attack for long information.Besides, the chaotic neural network was used as the compression function to increase the complexity of the hash function and improve its collision resistance, while also enabling it to output multiple lengths.Moreover, a plaintext preprocessor was designed, which used the coupled image lattice to generate chaos sequence related to the length of the plaintext to fill the plaintext, thus enhancing the ability of the hash function to resist length expansion attacks.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed hash function performs faster than SHA-2, SHA-3 and the same type of chaotic hash function proposed by Teh et al.It can resist second pre-image attack, multi-collision attack and differential attack, while also exhibiting better collision resistance and mapping uniformity.In addition, the proposed Hash function can output Hash values of different lengths, making it suitable for use in digital signature, key generation, Hash-based message authentication code, deterministic random bit generator, and other application fields.…”
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