Antimicrobial Susceptibility of <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolates Causing Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections: Comparison of Methods by Alexander Machado Cardoso, Vinicius Ribeiro Flores, Gabriel Gomes do Rosario, Juliana Barbosa Succar, Lidiane Coelho Berbert, Maria Clara de Freitas Oliveira, Anna Luiza Bauer Canellas, Marinella Silva Laport, Cláudia Rezende Vieira Mendonça Souza, Thiago Pavoni Gomes Chagas, Rubens Clayton da Silva Dias, Fabio da Silva de Azevedo Fortes, Flávia Lúcia Piffano Costa Pellegrino

“…Both automated methods showed discrepancies compared to the disk diffusion method under CLSI and BrCAST guidelines. …”
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DKI and 1H-MRS in angiogenesis evaluation of soft tissue sarcomas: a prospective clinical study based on MRI-pathology control method by Wubing Han, Cheng Xin, Zeguo Wang, Fei Wang, Yu Cheng, Xingrong Yang, Yangyun Zhou, Juntong Liu, Wanjiang Yu, Shaowu Wang

“…Methods 23 patients with soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) confirmed by pathology were selected, underwent DKI and 1H-MRS at 3.0T MRI. The DKI parameters mean diffusivity (MD), mean kurtosis (MK), kurtosis anisotropy (KA), and 1H-MRS parameters choline (Cho), lipid/lactate (LL) were measured by two radiologists. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Sensitivity of SAW Structure to the Effect of Toxic Gases by Tomasz HEJCZYK, Tadeusz PUSTELNY, Bartlomiej WSZOŁEK, Wieslaw JAKUBIK, Erwin MACIAK

“…The main aim of the investigation was to study thin film interaction with target gases in the SAW sensor configuration based on simple reaction-diffusion equation. The results of the numerical analysis allow to select the sensor design conditions, including the morphology of the sensor layer, its thickness, operating temperature, and layer type. …”
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Particular aspects of determining reliability indicators of thermoelectric generator modules using experimental data by Petrо Gorskyi

“…Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find or select from among the existing such a failure time distribution law, which would clearly take into account the scattering of the rates of relative degradation of the parameters of thermoelectric generator modules. …”
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Altered interhemispheric connectivity in Huntington’s Disease by Ali Demir, H. Diana Rosas

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INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS by L. P. Ananyeva

“…The review focuses on ILD, the most common injury of the respiratory tract in SS, which is detectable in 80% of patients, as evidenced by multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) of the chest. …”
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Potential compensatory mechanism for cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetes and prediabetes: altered structure-function coupling by Weiye Lu, Xuan Huang, Die Shen, Kun Wang, Jiahe Wang, Ziyu Diao, Shijun Qiu, Shijun Qiu

“…BackgroundStructure-function (SC-FC) coupling may be more sensitive to detecting changes in the brain than any single modality. …”
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Experimental study on supercritical CO2 huff-n-puff process for mid-deep heavy oil reservoirs by Silangluojia , ZHOU Xiang, SUN Xinge, ZHAO Yulong, ZHANG Liehui, WU Yang, PU Hongbin, JIANG Qi

“…To address the unclear mechanism of CO2 injection, unoptimized huff-n-puff development parameters, and lack of experimental research support in the study area, the mid-deep heavy oil reservoir in the Bei 10 well block of Xinjiang oilfield was selected as the research object. Experiments were conducted to investigate CO2 diffusion in crude oil, supercritical CO2 extraction of heavy oil, and the high-temperature and high-pressure long-core huff-n-puff tests, aiming to elucidate the mechanisms of CO2 injection in heavy oil reservoirs and the efficient CO2 huff-n-puff development mechanisms. …”
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Enhancing cerebral infarct classification by automatically extracting relevant fMRI features by Vitaly I. Dobromyslin, Wenjin Zhou, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

“…The best-performing combination of biomarkers and classifiers achieved a cross-validation ROC score of 0.791, closely matching the accuracy of diffusion-weighted imaging methods used in acute stroke detection. …”
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Gallibacterium anatis as an emerging pathogen in pet birds: biofilm formation contributes to treatment challenges and persistence by Katayoon Nofouzi, Setareh Shakeri, Shadi Nikkhah, Reza H. Hosseini, Monireh Khordadmehr, MohammadSadegh Madadi, Hossein Jabbari Khamnei, Naghmeh Moori Bakhtiari

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OS-PCMM: Automatic Registration Algorithm for Optical and SAR Image Based on Phase Congruency and Multimoment Feature by Yuan Liang, Tao Su, Ruiqiu Wang, Jiangtao Liu

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Primary hepatic gastrinoma being diagnosed preoperatively: a case report and literature review by Shunya Hanzawa, Hiroshi Sadamori, Masaaki Kagoura, Kazuteru Monden, Masayoshi Hioki, Tsuyoshi Hyodo, Kunihiro Omonishi, Norihisa Takakura

“…Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) only detected a hepatic tumor. No tumors in the gastrinoma triangle were detected by endoscopic ultrasonography. …”
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The Effect of SLM Spreader Structures on the Powder Spreading Dynamics Mechanism of Diamond Tools by HUANG Guoqin, ZHANG Jiangtao, ZHU Xiaowei, XU Yangli, SUN Long, DU Yulong, ZHANG Yunhe

“…ObjectiveSelective laser melting (SLM)technology provides a new approach for the integratedmanufacture of metal-matrix diamond tools with structural and functional integration, which has drawn alot of interest from the academic and technicalcommunities. …”
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Detection of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases, Metallo-β-Lactamases, Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles, and Biofilm-Forming Capacity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Recovered From... by Francesca Paola Nocera, Adriana Chiaromonte, Rossana Schena, Francesca Pizzano, Sinem Arslan, Chiara Pedicini, Luisa De Martino

“…Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was carried out against eleven clinically relevant antimicrobials using the Kirby Bauer disk diffusion method on Mueller Hinton agar plates. The PCR assay was performed to detect ESBL blaCTX−M, blaTEM, blaSHV, blaPER, and MBL blaIMP, blaOXA−48, blaVIM, blaNDM, blaGES genes. …”
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Detection of Aerobic Vaginitis and Antibiogram of its Implicating Bacteria among Women with Suspected Cases of Vaginitis in Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, Ahmadu Bello Universi... by Bashir Abdullahi, Maryam Aderonke Bello

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Microstructural and microvascular features of white matter hyperintensities and their association with small vessel disease markers by Lily L. Wang, Brady J. Williamson, Bin Zhang, Aakanksha Sriwastawa, Yasmin N. Aziz, Eleni Antzoulatos, Cody B. Stephens, Achala Vagal, Pooja Khatri, Mark W. DiFrancesco

“…IVIM revealed WMH to have significantly greater blood volume fraction and lower pseudodiffusion and bulk diffusion than normal-appearing white matter (NAWM). …”
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Can the single-breath alveolar volume be adjusted to estimate true total lung capacity? by Simon Kristoffer Høgh Rasmusen, Jann Mortensen

“…Background Total lung capacity (TLC) measured with single-breath gas diffusion (TLCsb) is systematically lower than TLC measured with whole-body plethysmography (TLCwbp) especially in patients with obstructive defects. …”
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Activation energy and exothermic catalytic-chemical reaction for fluctuating heat and mass performance using Maxwell nanofluid, entropy optimization and solar radiation by Zia Ullah, Mohammed Alkinidri

“…This analysis signifies the Maxwell nanofluid aspects for remarkable improvement of heat flux and oscillatory motion of thermophoretic diffusion along solar thermal collector plate using exothermically chemical attraction and energy/heat activation effects. …”
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White matter and cortical gray matter microstructural alterations in migraine: a NODDI and DTI analysis by Zhilei Li, Yanliang Mei, Lei Wang, Tianhua Fan, Cheng Peng, Kaibo Zhang, Shouyi Wu, Tong Chen, Zhenchang Zhang, Binbin Sui, Yonggang Wang, Xueying Yu

“…An increase in radial diffusivity (RD) was found in the CM group compared to the EM group. …”
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Location method of airborne plant disease source based on a non-local-interpolation algorithm by Jing Zhang, Linglan Zhu, Yifang Wang, Si Chen, Yafei Wang, Shifa Li, Lu Xiao, Ning Yang

“…The early stage pathogens of plant diseases have the characteristic of low concentration and difficult detection, which exacerbates the difficulty of tracing the disease, leading to rapid spread and difficulty in effective control. …”
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