The Prevalence Rate, Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance, and Frequency of Virulence Factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Isolated from Fish in Iran by Gholam Reza Shahrokhi, Ebrahim Rahimi, Amir Shakerian

“…Representative colonies were selected, and biochemical tests were conducted. An antibiotic resistance test was performed using the disk diffusion method. …”
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Nanotechnology Foresight: How Can We Explore Employment and Skills Implications? by Ian Miles

“… Policymakers responsible for improving the skill base needed for future economic development must assess the implications of radical technological change in the future.  The example selected here is in nanoscience and nanotechnology. …”
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High Flux and Antifouling Nanofiltration Membrane Modified by Ag@UiO-66-NH2 and Its Application for Biphenol A Removal by Qing-Chun Chen, Yu Bang, Lu Li, Hui-Yu Deng

“…Owing to the specific porous structure which could provide additional passage channel for some molecules, metal organic frameworks are attractive candidates for enhancing permeability and selectivity of membranes in pervaporation, reverse osmosis, and gas separation. …”
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Interactions of Therapeutic Antibodies With Presynaptically‐Released Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Diseases. A Spatial Monte‐Carlo Simulation Study by Jamie Goff, Maryam Khalifa, Shaina M. Short, Piet H. van derGraaf, Hugo Geerts

“…ABSTRACT The spatial progression hypothesis of misfolded tau and alpha‐synuclein proteins in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease proposes the release of proteins from a presynaptic membrane followed by diffusion over the synaptic cleft and uptake by the postsynaptic membrane in the afferent neuron. …”
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Numerous Multi-Wave Solutions of the Time-Fractional Boussinesq-like System via a Variant of the Extended Simple Equations Method (SEsM) by Elena V. Nikolova, Mila Chilikova-Lubomirova

“…The new analytical solutions obtained in this study can contribute to the prediction and control of more specific physical processes, including diffusion in porous media, nanofluid dynamics, ocean current modeling, multiphase fluid dynamics, as well as several geophysical phenomena.…”
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Occurrence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles of Salmonella species among Chickens of some Commercial Poultry Farms in Benue State, Nigeria by Martha Echioda- Ogbole, Enid Godwin

“…Thereafter, an in-vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing was conducted on Salmonella isolates using the disc diffusion method with six selected, commonly used antimicrobials ampicillin (10 µg), gentamycin (30 µg), tetracycline (30 µg), chloramphenicol (30 µg), norfloxacin (10 µg) and amoxicillin (10 µg). …”
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Antagonistic Potential of Soil Streptomyces Isolates from Southern Thailand to Inhibit Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens by Waenurama Chemoh, Wahida Bin-Ismail, Sawitree Dueramae

“…On the basis of morphological, cultural, and biochemical characteristics, all potent isolates exhibited typical features that fitted the genus Streptomyces. Two of the 7 selected ethyl acetate crude extracts had good antagonistic activity against S. aureus ATCC25923 and B. cereus MTCC430 when tested using the agar well diffusion assay. …”
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WDFS-DETR: A Transformer-based framework with multi-scale attention for small object detection in UAV Engineering Tasks by Jinjiang Liu, Yonghua Xie

“…Third, the Feature-Focused Diffusion Pyramid Network (FFDPN) enhances context modeling and robustness via hierarchical multi-scale feature alignment and fusion. …”
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HEMA-free versus HEMA-containing adhesive systems: a systematic review by Esraa Abdelkhalek, Hamdi H. Hamama, Salah H. Mahmoud

“…Although the addition of HEMA to dental adhesives improves dentin wettability and resin diffusion into demineralized collagen fibrils, HEMA’s high hydrophilicity can lead to hydrolytic degradation of the adhesive interface. …”
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Tuning properties through disorder: structural, optical, and mechanical insights into novel medium-entropy rare-earth hafnate pyrochlores by Gaius Cherian Mathew, Shijo Thomas

“…A four-element combination from La, Ce, Pr, Nd and Gd are selected as REs and Hf is taken as the TM. The five novel phase-pure pyrochlore oxides were synthesized using solution combustion method with urea as fuel. …”
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Chlorhexidine and benzalkonium chloride: promising adjuncts in combating multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in healthcare settings by Amal F. Makled, Azza Z. Labeeb, Heba M. Moaz, Asmaa S. Sleem

“…Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined using the disc diffusion method. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of chlorhexidine and benzalkonium chloride were measured via agar dilution. …”
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ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF MANGOSTEEN BARK FRACTION (GARCINIA MANGOSTANA L.) SALMONELLA TYPHI ATCC 13311 by Salmah Wilujeng Anggraini, Vevi Maritha, Susanti Erikania

“…Method:The maceration method was selected using methanol solvent and fractionation by ECC using ethyl acetate and n-hexane as solvents. …”
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Toward the Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Shift: What are EFL Teachers’ Understandings, Practices, and Needs? by Trinh Quoc Lap, Phan Ngoc Tuong Vy, Nguyen Thi My Hanh, Le Cong Tuan, Nguyen Thanh Hung

“…These findings, under the lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, serve as valuable references for other EFL teachers, curriculum developers and textbook publishers in supporting the implementation and diffusion of CLIL.…”
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Evaluation of Soil Streptomyces Isolates from North-Western Ethiopia as Potential Inhibitors against Spoilage and Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens by Abayeneh Girma, Aleka Aemiro

“…During the disc diffusion assay, the eight in vitro ethyl acetate extract antibacterial activities range from 7 to 24 mm. …”
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Antimicrobial test of five ethnomedicinal plants in an ancestral forest area by M.B. Bandibas, P. Roxas

“…., and Cinnamomum mercadoi S. Vidalwere selected for the anti-microbial test against cultured bacterial strains; the Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus using the disc diffusion method. …”
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Microbiological and Nutritional Analyses of Soybean Cake (Awara) and Camel Milk Cheese (Chukwui) Local Snacks, Vended in Kano Metropolis- Nigeria by Idris, A., Dabo, N.T. P.

“…Two hundred samples were subjected to microbiological evaluation using standard procedures. Selective media were used to isolate some specific pathogens, and antibiotic sensitivity profiles of the isolates were determined using the disc-diffusion method. …”
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Onion Essential Oil-in-Water Emulsion as a Food Flavoring Agent: Effect of Environmental Stress on Physical Properties and Antibacterial Activity by Elham Taghavi, Afifah Syazwani Abdul Salam, Navideh Anarjan, Elexson Nillian, Mohd Nizam Lani

“…The physical properties (average droplet size, color, turbidity, and stability measurement) and antibacterial activity (agar disk diffusion method) of emulsions were then determined. …”
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The use of chitosan in the preparation of bioadhesive buccal films: Film-forming ability and sustaining ibuprofen release by Fadia Mussa, Haytham Mousi, Mahmud Treki

“…The mechanism of drug release was found to follow Higuchi's diffusion model for some systems and the classical first-order kinetics for others.…”
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The role of spontaneous and evoked neuronal activity in protection from impending ischemic stroke during the hyperacute state by Hayden C. Malone, Mehwish S. Bhatti, Khoa H. Huynh, Ron D. Frostig

“…To test this hypothesis, we used functional imaging and postmortem histology and selectively blocked spontaneous or evoked neuronal activity within the ischemic territory by local administration of lidocaine. …”
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Acute health effects of ambient air pollution including ultrafine particles in a semi-experimental setting in young, healthy individuals by Elisabeth Folwarczny, Felix Forster, Rudolf A. Jörres, Stefan Rakete, Sheng Ye, Mark Wenig, Nadine Gawlitta, Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis, Richard Winterhalter, Alexander Müller, Dennis Nowak, Stefan Karrasch

“…Methods Four sites with high/low levels of ultrafine particles and/or fine particles were selected in the city of Munich, Germany: control area (woodland), urban environment, heavy traffic site, biomass combustion (beech wood). …”
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