Alterations in purine and pyrimidine metabolism associated with latent tuberculosis infection: insights from gut microbiome and metabolomics analyses by Boyi Yang, Xiaojing Guo, Chongyu Shi, Gang Liu, Xiaoling Qin, Shiyi Chen, Li Gan, Dongxu Liang, Kai Shao, Ruolan Xu, Jieqing Zhong, Yujie Mo, Hai Li, Dan Luo

“…Metabolomic profiling similarly revealed that purine and pyrimidine metabolite levels were decreased in LTBI and ATB samples relative to those from HCs. Further correlation analyses revealed that the levels of purine and pyrimidine metabolites were negatively correlated with those of gut microbial genera represented by Ruminococcus_gnavus_group (R. gnavus), and the levels of R. gnavus were also positively correlated with adenosine nucleotide degradation II, which is a purine degradation pathway. …”
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Heterogeneous small-scale forest ownership: complexity of management and conflicts of interest by Peter Kumer, Irma Potočnik Slavič

“…Remote owners are disassociated with their forest and carry almost no forestry activities.…”
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Determinants of Parental Attitudes towards Children’s Vaccination in Lithuania: An Online Survey by Kamilė Čeponytė, Eglė Narkevičiūtė, Aušra Beržanskytė, Sigita Burokienė

“…The questionnaire was distributed to the general population in Lithuania via social media and a snowball sampling. Only parents who have at least one child under 18 years old were involved in the study. …”
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Co-designing and testing the learn together guidance to support patient and family involvement in patient safety investigations: a mixed-methods study by Jane O’Hara, Lauren Ramsey, Siobhan McHugh, Joseph Langley, Justin Waring, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Gemma Louch, Jenni Murray, Carl Macrae, John Baker, Rebecca Lawton, Daisy Halligan, Olivia Rogerson, Penny Phillips, Debra Hazeldine, Sarah Seddon, Joanne Hughes, Rebecca Partridge, Katherine Ludwin, Laura Sheard

“…Limitations Undertaking research during the pandemic may have impacted sample representativeness in stage 2A. Ethnically minoritised and lower socioeconomic groups were under-represented across the programme. …”
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The <i>exoS</i>, <i>exoT</i>, <i>exoU</i> and <i>exoY</i> Virulotypes of the Type 3 Secretion System in Multidrug Resistant <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> as a Death Risk Factor in... by Carolina G. Nolasco-Romero, Francisco-Javier Prado-Galbarro, Rodolfo Norberto Jimenez-Juarez, Uriel Gomez-Ramirez, Juan Carlos Cancino-Díaz, Beatriz López-Marceliano, Magali Reyes Apodaca, Mónica Anahí Aguayo-Romero, Gerardo E. Rodea, Lilia Pichardo-Villalon, Israel Parra-Ortega, Fortino Solórzano Santos, Mónica Moreno-Galván, Norma Velázquez-Guadarrama

“…V2 and V1 were the virulotypes most related to pandrug resistance (PDR), whereas the V1 relative risk of death was determined to be almost four-fold greater than that of V3, followed by V2 and OV. …”
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Hotspot areas of tetanus-unprotected births and its associated factors in Ethiopia: Spatial analysis of EDHS data by Anteneh Mengist Dessie, Melkamu Aderajew Zemene, Asaye Alamneh Gebeyehu, Natnael Atnafu Gebeyehu, Getachew Asmare Adella, Gizachew Ambaw Kassie, Misganaw Asmamaw Mengstie, Mohammed Abdu Seid, Endeshaw Chekol Abebe, Molalegn Mesele Gesese, Yenealem Solomon Kebede, Natnael Moges, Berihun Bantie, Sefineh Fenta Feleke, Tadesse Asmamaw Dejenie, Ermias Sisay Chanie, Wubet Alebachew Bayih, Natnael Amare Tesfa, Eden Workneh Aychew, Begizew Yimenu Mekuriaw, Denekew Tenaw Anley

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The impact of diarrhoea in infants on the quality of life of low-income households by Montagu Murray, Marije Versteeg, Jannie Hugo

“…One major cause of infantile diarrhoea is the rotavirus, an airborne virus to which almost all children in both the developing and developed world will be exposed to at least once. …”
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Colonization and Spore Richness of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Araucaria Nursery Seedlings in Curitiba, Brazil by Carlos Vilcatoma-Medina, Glaciela Kaschuk, Flávio Zanette

“…The objective of this experiment was to evaluate AMF colonization and spore AMF richness in araucaria seedlings produced in nursery at the metropolitan region of Curitiba, Brazil, with the interest of identifying a taxonomical AMF group. For that, soil and fine roots of 6-month-, 1-year-, 2-year-, 3-year-, and 5-year-old araucaria seedlings were sampled and evaluated. …”
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Differential Display Probes for cDNA Arrays by Thomas Trenkle, John Welsh, Michael McClelland

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Tetracyclines in Food and Feedingstuffs: From Regulation to Analytical Methods, Bacterial Resistance, and Environmental and Health Implications by Fabio Granados-Chinchilla, César Rodríguez

“…Antibiotics are widely used as growth promoters in animal husbandry; among them, the tetracyclines are a chemical group of relevance, due to their wide use in agriculture, surpassing in quantities applied almost every other antibiotic family. …”
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Defossilization of Fossilized Pragmatic Routines: Corpus-Driven Input-Based and Output-Based Instruction by Zia Tajeddin, Ensieh Khodarahmi

“…The results of paired-samples and Independent Samples t-tests showed that input-enhancement and output-based instructions were effective in defossilization pragmatic routines which had a strong fossilization tendency among learners. …”
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ANTERIOR INCISURAL SPACE (AIS): ITS TOPOGRAPHY AND SIZE IN THE CRANIAL CAVITY. POSITION OF THE BASILAR ARTERY APEX IN AIS by R. N. Lyunkova, P. A. Lopanchuk, A. V. Gushchin, E. A. Mishurinskaya, V. A. Bendosenko, V. V. Krylov

“…The proportions of short AIS, long AIS, and medium AIS were 25%, 33%, and 42%, respectively. In group A, long-size AIS were found in 53.68% of samples; in garup B, long-size AIS were found in 3.7% of samples, in group C, there were only large AIS–33.3%; in group D, the maximum size of 24 mm was more frequent – 18.2 %, but the total number of samples with large AIS  was two times lower–27.3% than in group A. …”
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Fecal Metabolome and Bacterial Composition in Severe Obesity: Impact of Diet and Bariatric Surgery by Nuria Salazar, Manuel Ponce-Alonso, María Garriga, Sergio Sanchez-Carrillo, Ana María Hernández-Barranco, Begoña Redruello, María Fernández, José Ignacio Botella-Carretero, Belén Vega-Piñero, Javier Galeano, Javier Zamora, Manuel Ferrer, Clara G de Los Reyes-Gavilán, Rosa Del Campo

“…Each participant contributed 4 fecal samples (baseline, post-diet, 1 month after surgery and 3 months after surgery). …”
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Resilience in the informal economy amidst the COVID-19 crisis: the experience of street vendors in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Oliver Tirtho Sarkar, Md Abid Hasan, Shantanu Kumar Saha

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Becoming smart “digital natives”: cultivating Chinese English majors’ new media literacy via Journalism English Reading and Listening by Zhang Danyang, Wu Yang

“…This mixed methods study explores a group of Chinese English majors’ current NML level. …”
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Effect of heat treatment on the high temperature ductility of 00Cr24Ni13 austenitic stainless steel casting billets by SHU Wei, LI Jun, LIAN Xiao-jie, WANG Xue-min

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Three new species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha) from the Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico by A. Anguas-Escalante, S. C. Landers, M. V. Sørensen

“…In the present contribution three new species of Echinoderes from these samples are described. Echinoderes dejesusi sp. nov. has a similar pattern of spines/tubes to species of the Echinoderes dujardinii group, but it is easy to distinguish by its long middorsal spines and lack of type 2 glandular cell outlets. …”
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Chemical characterization of urban park soils of the metropolitan region of São Paulo by Ana Maria Graciano Figueiredo

“…There has been little research on metal levels in São Paulo urban soils and almost nothing related to the city’s parks. The present study presents the concentration of major and trace elements in soil samples of nine parks of the metropolitan region of São Paulo. …”
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Financial security of tutors in Ghanaian colleges of education; a pre-retirement and post-retirement analysis by Bernice Oteng, Ronald Osei Mensah, Agyemang Frimpong

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Evaluation of the presence of emerging contaminants in a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Durango, Mexico by Alexis Rubén Bracamontes-Ruelas, Diana Ibarra-Rodríguez, Jacobo Rodríguez-Campos, Jesús Bernardino Velázquez-Fernández, Yolanda Reyes-Vidal, Liliana Reynoso-Cuevas

“…Nine out of thirteen emerging contaminants and some wastewater quality parameters were almost completely (100 %) removed in the secondary process. …”
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