Prevalence of paediatric diarrhoea in Arba minch government health institutions, Southern Ethiopia and associated factors by Matusal Mengistu, Melat Woldemariam, Aseer Manilal, Addis Aklilu, Tsegaye Yohannes, Akbar Idhayadhulla, Hissah Abdulrahman Alodaini

“…The antibiotic susceptibilities of enterobacteria were determined via the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. The wet mount and formol-ether concentration techniques were also used to identify enteroparasites. …”
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Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae harboring extended spectrum β-lactamase encoding genes isolated from human septicemias. by Isabel Carvalho, Nadia Safia Chenouf, José António Carvalho, Ana Paula Castro, Vanessa Silva, Rosa Capita, Carlos Alonso-Calleja, Maria de Lurdes Nunes Enes Dapkevicius, Gilberto Igrejas, Carmen Torres, Patrícia Poeta

“…Identification was performed by MALDI-TOF MS and the antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disk-diffusion. The screening test for ESBL-production was performed and ESBL-producer isolates were further characterized. …”
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Antibacterial Potential of Endemic Medicinal Plants of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, against Urinary Tract Infection Pathogens by Eka Astuty, Vinsa Delia Luhulima, Stefanus Cahyo Ariwicaksono

“…The antibacterial activity was determined through the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion test. The results indicated that five selected isolates (i.e., 0A1, 0A2, 0A3, 0A4, and 0A5) had a round shape with flat edges. …”
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Molecular Detection of Colistin-Resistant <i>E. coli</i> in Village Chickens from Kelantan, Malaysia by Habiba Lawal, Shamsaldeen Ibrahim Saeed, Nor Fadhilah Kamaruzzaman, Zarizal Suhaili, Gaddafi Mohammed Sani, Mulu Lemlem, Qiya Yang, Erkihun Aklilu

“…Sequence types (STs) of selected <i>E. coli</i> isolates were further analyzed using multi-locus sequence typing, and 10 different STs were identified. …”
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Intestinal carriage of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase producing E. coli in women with urinary tract infections, Cameroon by Ingrid Cécile Djuikoue, Paul-Louis Woerther, Michel Toukam, Charles Burdet, Etienne Ruppé, Kamga Hortense Gonsu, Charles Fokunang, Assiya El Mniai, Kamgue Larissa, Anatole Constant Pieme, Mallila Georgia Mboupaing, Caroline Mietchop Kakam, Hervé Kengne Fogang, Antoine Andremont, Jeanne Ngogang

“…After filling a questionnaire, they provided a stool sample that was plated on selective media for ESBL producing bacteria. The identification of strains was obtained with mass spectrometry and the antibiotic susceptibility by disk diffusion in agar media. …”
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A review on the catalytic pyrolysis of lipids to produce alternative aromatic hydrocarbons: Synthesis of hierarchically porous zeolites and aromatization mechanism by Pengye Song, Shaojie Guo, Menghao Zuo, Xin Wang, Huiyu Qiu, Boxiong Shen

“…Hierarchically porous zeolite catalysts, which retain the excellent catalytic activity and selectivity of microporous zeolites, can essentially and substantially improve mass transfer and diffusion efficiency in zeolites to avoid fast deactivation of catalysts due to coking. …”
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Occurrence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pets and their owners in rural and urban communities in Trinidad by Naomi Scott, Christopher Seeraj, Brandon Satram, Natalie Michelle Sandy, Keenan Seuradge, Brittany Seerattan, Ishta Seeram, Alva Stewart-Johnson, Abiodun Adesiyun

“…For the isolation of MRSA, nasal swabs obtained were enriched and then plated on selective media. Staphylococcus aureus was identified using standard biochemical procedures. …”
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Colonization with antibiotic resistant bacteria in communities and hospitals across six countries, including Bangladesh, Botswana, Chile, Guatemala, India, and Kenya by Gemma Parra, Ebbing Lautenbach, Mosepele Mosepele, Naledi Mannathoko, Robert Gross, Douglas R. Call, Brooke M. Ramay, Sylvia Omulo, C. P. Girish Kumar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Fahmida Chowdhury, Syeda Mah-E-Muneer, Rafael Araos, Jose M. Munita, Johanna Acevedo, Garrett Mahon, Rachel M. Smith, Ashley Styczynski

“…Isolates recovered from selective agars underwent confirmatory identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) using Vitek® 2, MALDI-TOF, and/or disc diffusion testing. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of the economic effects of using artificial intelligence and ChatGPT tools in higher education institutions by Anna Vorontsova, Svitlana Tarasenko, Wojciech Duranowski, Arkadiusz Durasiewicz, John Soss, Artem Bilovol

“…A total of 234 articles were selected, all demonstrating positive growth both in scholarly output and citation count. …”
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Particle control via cryopumping and its impact on the edge plasma profiles of Alcator C-Mod by M.A. Miller, J.W. Hughes, S. Mordijck, M. Wigram, J. Dunsmore, R. Reksoatmodjo, R.S. Wilcox

“…Pumped discharges thus require a larger particle diffusion coefficient than that inferred purely from 1D experimental profiles at the outer midplane.…”
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Biocontrol Potential of <i>Bacillus</i> Strains from Grapevine Rhizosphere Against <i>Allorhizobium vitis</i>, Causal Agent of Crown Gall Disease in Moroccan Vineyards by Hiba Yahyaoui, Nadia El Allaoui, Amine Batbat, Aziz Aziz, Faical Aoujil, Majida Hafidi, Khaoula Habbadi

“…<i>Bacillus</i> species stand out for their stability, versatility, and selectivity as biocontrol agents. This study aimed to identify potential antagonists within the rhizosphere microorganisms by isolating bacterial strains from grapevine roots and rhizosphere soil in Moroccan vineyards. …”
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A federated learning-based privacy-preserving image processing framework for brain tumor detection from CT scans by Abdullah Al-Saleh, Ghanshyam G. Tejani, Shailendra Mishra, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad

“…To get the best results, the hybrid Gorilla Badger optimization algorithm (HGBOA) is applied for selecting the key features. Preprocessing techniques include anisotropic diffusion filtering, morphological operations, and mutual information-based image registration. …”
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The Tectonic Control on Shale Oil Migration and Accumulation of the Lower Jurassic Daanzhai Member of the Ziliujing Formation, Sichuan Basin, China by Zhuopei Li, Haihua Zhu, Minglei Wang, Benjian Zhang, Yadong Zhou, Haitao Hong, Yucong Li, Xingzhi Wang

“…In order to understand the tectonic control on shale oil migration and accumulation, samples of the Daanzhai Member of the Lower Jurassic Ziliujing Formation from the well core in a tectonically stable area and upright anticline outcrop were selected for total organic carbon (TOC) content analysis, rock pyrolysis, fluorescence scanning, and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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Local structural–functional coupling with counterfactual explanations for epilepsy prediction by Jiashuang Huang, Shaolong Wei, Zhen Gao, Shu Jiang, Mingliang Wang, Liang Sun, Weiping Ding, Daoqiang Zhang

“…Then, we extract subgraphs from these multimodal brain networks and select them based on their frequencies to generate local SC–FC coupling patterns. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY AND POSITRON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY WITH 18F-FDG IN IDENTIFICATION OF SPINAL AND PELVIC BONE METAST... by A. V. Laryukov, R. Sh. Hasanov, Z. A. Afanasyeva, E. K. Laryukova

“…The imaging techniques play a significant role in the diagnosis, staging and choice of appropriate treatment for NSCLC.Purpose of the study: сomparison of the diagnostic capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging (MR) and positron emission computed tomography to select the optimal approaches to early detection of spinal and pelvic bone metastases.Material and Methods. …”
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Carbon-resistant bifunctional catalyst composed of LaFeO3 enhanced Ni-CaO for integrated CO2 capture and conversion by Hengyu Wei, Min Lin, Juping Zhang, Di Gao, Yuhao Chen, Liang Zhang, Xing Zhu

“…In addition, LaFeO3 promotes the outward diffusion of lattice oxygen, thereby facilitating CO2 capture and CH4 conversion to syngas. …”
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Examination of some technological properties of lactic acid bacteria of the genera Lactiplantibacillus and Levilactobacillus isolated from spontaneously fermented sourdough. Part 2... by Prasev Ivan, Denkova-Kostova Rositsa, Koleva Anna, Denkova Zapryana, Goranov Bogdan, Kostov Georgi

“…It is important to develop new symbiotic sourdough starters that include selected lactic acid bacteria strains with symbiotic relationships and proven antimicrobial activity against saprophytic microorganisms. …”
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The Architectural Language of Biophilic Design After Architects Use Text-to-Image AI by Chaniporn Thampanichwat, Tarid Wongvorachan, Limpasilp Sirisakdi, Panyaphat Somngam, Taksaporn Petlai, Sathirat Singkham, Bhumin Bhutdhakomut, Narongrit Jinjantarawong

“…The initial step involves generating images of biophilic architecture by using three popular text-to-image AI tools: DALL-E 3, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion. The 30 selected images were used to help architects develop the architectural language to describe the characteristics of biophilic design across 10 categories: Form, Space, Movement, Light, Color, Material, Object, View, Sound, and Weather. …”
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Experimental Study on Single-Particle Combustion Characteristics of Large-Sized Wheat Straw in a Drop Tube Furnace by Haoteng Zhang, Lihui Yu, Cuina Qin, Shuo Jiang, Chunjiang Yu

“…However, experimental data on large-sized straw combustion under pulverized coal boiler combustion conditions are critically lacking. This study selected typical large-sized wheat straw particles. …”
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An improved immunoassay detects Aβ oligomers in human biofluids: their CSF levels rise with tau and phosphotau levels by Ting Yang, Yi Ran Xu, Shanxue Jin, Nagendran Ramalingam, Jean-Pierre Bellier, Alexandra M. Lish, Beth L. Ostaszewski, Tracy Young-Pearse, Lei Liu, Hyun-Sik Yang, Jasmeer P. Chhatwal, Trebor L. Lawton, Dennis J. Selkoe

“…Abstract Background Diffusible Aβ oligomers (oAβ) confer cytotoxicity in Alzheimer’s disease. …”
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