Effectiveness of Four-Decontamination Techniques on Bacterial Growth on CPR Manikins after Use in a CPR Course

“…Mouth decreased bacterial growth from initial swabbing (4.3±5.7), to post-24 (3.0±6.6), to post-disinfected (0.5±1.1). …”
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Screening and identification of 2,3-butanediol-producing strains by xylose fermentation and optimization of fermentation conditions by RAN Guangyao, LUO Xiuyuan, LIAO Haili, WANG Huanyuan, ZHAO Yimei, PANG Zongwen

“…The optimal fermentation conditions of strain SN5 were peptone addition 5 g/L, fermentation temperature 37 ℃, time 48 h, initial pH 6.0 and initial xylose contents 80 g/L. …”
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Enhanced aqueous phosphate removal using chitosan-modified zirconium-loaded cork biochar by Luiza Usevičiūtė, Artūras Kaklauskas, Vaidotas Danila, Tomas Januševičius

“…The CS–CBC–Zr beads removed PO4–P with an efficiency of 95% at an initial pollutant concentration of 50 mg/L and reached adsorption equilibrium within 120 min of contact time, outperforming some comparable adsorbents. …”
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The Impact of Naphthenic Acids on Dynamic Fluid–Fluid Interactions: Implication for Enhanced Oil Recovery by Bryan X. Medina-Rodriguez, Teresa M. Reilly, Teresa E. Lehmann, Vladimir Alvarado

“…Smart-water flooding (SWF) research often links recovery to the initial wettability condition, being higher for initially oil-wet rock. …”
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IMPACT OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA: REVEALING CLINICAL AND GENETIC ASPECTS by VC Pereira, AM Cavalcante, CBMM Neto, DRR Firmino, IO Córdoba, LA Coelho, LB Cerreti, SZ Jorge, VCC Oliveira, G Suhett

“…Risk stratification, including del(17p) and p53 mutation, guides initial therapies such as VRd or Dara-VRd, followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). …”
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Large-scale integration of meta-QTL and genome-wide association study identifies genomic regions and candidate genes for photosynthetic efficiency traits in bread wheat by Ming Chen, Tao Chen, Letong Yun, Zhuo Che, Jingfu Ma, Binxue Kong, Jiangying Long, Chunhua Cheng, Kaiqi Guo, Peipei Zhang, Lijian Guo, Delong Yang

“…Consequently, 718 initial QTLs were refined into 74 MQTLs, which were distributed on all wheat chromosomes except 1D, 3 A, 4B, and 5B. …”
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Disequilibrium linkage (gametic disequilibrium) of structural genes in the bovine population by V. S. Matyukov, V. G. Zainullin

“…It is suggested that for alleles of non-linked loci, longtime retention of gametic disequilibrium in population is most likely supported by selection…”
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La (auto) censura en el ámbito de la prensa regional (1963-1978): una propuesta para su estudio desde «los marcos sociales» de la memoria by Rubén Cabal Tejada

“…The purpose of this article is the historiographical analysis of a selection of testimonies referring to Asturian journalists who recall, within the framework of an oral history research, some of their experiences in relation to censorship and self-censorship processes (1963-1978). …”
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Migrating Staghorn Calculus Secondary to a Renocolic Fistula: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Panagiota Fallon, Abhisekh Chatterjee, Nikolaos Chatzikrachtis, Dimitrios Sapountzis, Ivo Donkov, Samuel Bishara, Konstantinos Charitopoulos, Panagiotis Nikolinakos

“…She responded well to conservative management initially, but then was found to have another complication associated with the staghorn. …”
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Assessment of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence Software in Identifying Common Periodontal and Restorative Dental Conditions (Marginal Bone Loss, Periapical Lesion... by Wael I. Ibraheem, Saurabh Jain, Mohammed Naji Ayoub, Mohammed Ahmed Namazi, Amjad Ismail Alfaqih, Aparna Aggarwal, Abdullah A. Meshni, Ammar Almarghlani, Abdulkareem Abdullah Alhumaidan

“…Two oral radiologists performed the initial diagnosis of the selected radiographs and independently labeled all the predefined parameters for the provided IOPARs under standardized conditions. …”
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„Looduse universaal-biblioteek“: raamatusarja juhtumiuuring / Universal Library by Loodus (1927–1931): a case study of the book series by Piret Pärgma

“…Priced at 25 cents per single issue, an annual subscription cost 12 kroons. The initial print run was over 4000 copies, diminishing to 1850 in the final year. …”
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Body habitus vs. hepatic steatosis: Understanding the drivers of non-diagnostic shear wave elastography by Sai Dhanush Reddy Jeggari, Lauren A. Ling, Kathleen R. Pope, Anthony E. Samir, Theodore T. Pierce

“…This informs patient selection for SWE exams and guides future research to mitigate these technical shortcomings. …”
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First dose ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccinations and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: A pooled self-controlled case series study of 11.6 million individuals in England, Scotl... by Steven Kerr, Mark Joy, Fatemeh Torabi, Stuart Bedston, Ashley Akbari, Utkarsh Agrawal, Jillian Beggs, Declan Bradley, Antony Chuter, Annemarie B Docherty, David Ford, Richard Hobbs, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Emily Lowthian, Simon de Lusignan, Ronan Lyons, James Marple, Colin McCowan, Dylan McGagh, Jim McMenamin, Emily Moore, Josephine-L K Murray, Rhiannon K Owen, Jiafeng Pan, Lewis Ritchie, Syed Ahmar Shah, Ting Shi, Sarah Stock, Ruby S M Tsang, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Mark Woolhouse, Colin R Simpson, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh

“…The observation period consisted of an initial 90-day reference period, followed by a 2-week prerisk period directly prior to vaccination, and a 4-week risk period following vaccination. …”
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DEFINING A VALID CONSUMER TASTING METHODOLOGY FOR VODKA MARKET RESEARCH: ECONOMIC IMPACT AND ASSORTMENT OPTIMIZATION by Olena O. Melikh, Iryna Kalmykova

“…This research aims to propose a valid methodology for conducting consumer vodka tastings with rationally selected parameters, within the framework of marketing research focused on consumers’ purchase intentions. …”
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Non-specific effects of different sham acupuncture methods and their impact on true acupuncture effectiveness in migraine: a protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysi... by Fan Jiang, Haifeng Zhang, Lun Li, Qinhong Zhang, Meng Lin, Yongjian Liu, Yong Fu, Jiahui Yang, Qilin Liu, Meiyi Zhu, Xiumei Yan

“…Two independent reviewers will perform study selection, data extraction using a standardised prepiloted form and risk of bias assessment. …”
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Derivação ventriculoatrial no tratamento da hidrocefalia em crianças Ventriculoatrial shunts in the treatment of hydrocephalus in children by Gilberto Machado de Almeida

“…However, the occurrence of several complications lowered the initial enthusiasm of some neurosurgeons regarding this particular technique. …”
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The Study of Relative Clauses in Azeri Turkish and Persian: A Typological Approach by Anita Bazian, Arsalan Golfam, Hayat Ameri

“…However, Persian is a head-initial language, while Turkish is head-final. Persian relative clauses are postnominal and finite, whereas Turkish relative clauses are prenominal and non-finite.     …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA ON THE CHOICE OF MILITARY ALTERNATIVES FOR UKRAINE’S DEFENСE CAPABILITY by Vasyl Porokhnya, Olha Mashchenko, Andrey Semenov

“…These losses were initially attributed to the rise of patriotism among the Ukrainian population, but this was subsequently addressed by the actions of destructive forces that the authorities initially failed to address. …”
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Non-Destructive Early Detection of Drosophila Suzukii Infestation in Sweet Cherries (c.v. <i>Sweet Heart</i>) Based on Innovative Management of Spectrophotometric Multilinear Corre... by Giuseppe Altieri, Mahdi Rashvand Avaei, Attilio Matera, Francesco Genovese, Vincenzo Verrastro, Naouel Admane, Orkhan Mammadov, Sabina Laveglia, Giovanni Carlo Di Renzo

“…The external cross-validation set was initially set to 20% of the overall available samples and subsequently increased to 50% in the final selected optimal model. …”
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ITD-YOLO: An Improved YOLO Model for Impurities in Premium Green Tea Detection by Zezhong Ding, Yanfang Li, Bin Hu, Zhiwei Chen, Houzhen Jia, Yali Shi, Xingmin Zhang, Xuesong Zhu, Wenjie Feng, Chunwang Dong

“…This dataset was employed to evaluate various YOLOv8 models, ultimately leading to the selection of YOLOv8n as the base model. Initially, four loss functions were compared in the experiment, and Focaler_mpdiou was chosen as the final loss function. …”
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