A time-harmonic/time-domain hybrid approach based on displacement-based formulations to compute the absorbing coefficient in alpha cabins by Laura Río-Martín, Andrés Prieto, Alfredo Bermúdez

“…Abstract In the automotive industry, the absorption coefficient of a porous material layer is usually measured in an alpha cabin, a reverberant chamber of reduced dimensions where the operational frequency range is limited and the absorbent sample size is typically small. Those characteristics are well adapted to the requirements of automotive acoustics but far from the standard reverberant chambers used in building acoustics which ensures the conditions to perform measurements under a diffusive field. …”
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Ionic thermoelectric performance of cement and its modificationsFairdata (etsin) by Mostafa Yossef, Jukka Kuva, Seyedabolfazl Mousavihashemi, Andrew Ward, Marcus Perry, Tanja Kallio, Jari Puttonen

“…The increase of porosity observed to decrease the thermoelectric power. Pure cement samples without any modifications produced significant values up to 28 mV/K for the Seebeck coefficient, which can be explained by the diffusion of water inside the CNT nanochannels and its flow in cement microcracks and capillaries. …”
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Antibody Kinetics of Immunological Memory in SARS-CoV-2-Vaccinated Healthcare Workers—The ORCHESTRA Project by Seyedalireza Seyedi, Sara Sottile, Mahsa Abedini, Paolo Boffetta, Francesco Saverio Violante, Vittorio Lodi, Giuseppe De Palma, Emma Sala, Marcella Mauro, Francesca Rui, Stefano Porru, Gianluca Spiteri, Luigi Vimercati, Luigi De Maria, Pere Toran-Monserrat, Concepción Violán, Eleonóra Fabiánová, Jana Oravec Bérešová, Violeta Calota, Andra Neamtu

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> This study examines the longitudinal dynamics of anti-nucleocapsid (anti-N) and anti-spike (anti-S) antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and mRNA vaccination based on 81,878 serum samples from 23,616 healthcare workers (HCWs) across five European countries. …”
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Investigation of contamination of aquatic animals supplied in Ahvaz to Vibrio species and evaluation of antibiotic resistance of isolates by Bahareh Sadat Abbasi, Ebrahim Rahimi

“…Specifically, 13 samples (32.5%) were from shrimp, 11 samples (27.5%) from mackerel, 10 samples (25%) from tiger tooth croaker, and 12 samples (30%) from <em>Pampus argenteus</em>. …”
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Anticorrosion and antimicrobial performance of extracted and fractionated phytochemicals of terminalia bentzoe leaves by N. A. El-Sawy, A. M. Fathi, S. K. Ali, D. A. Abdelrheem, M. M. Hegab, M. M. El-Deeb

“…On the other hand, exploring the antimicrobial activity of ME, QF and nBF samples against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Shigella boydii, Aspergillus niger and Candida albicans was made by using modified Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion technique. …”
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Physicochemical parameters, microbiological quality, and antibacterial activity of honey from the Bucovina region of Romania by Liliana Luca, Daniela Pauliuc, Florin Ursachi, Mircea Oroian

“…Another objective of the study was the evaluation of the microbiological quality and antibacterial activity of honey samples. The antibacterial activity was examined against the growth of four pathogenic bacterial strains (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium ATCC 14028) by the diffusion test in the agar well and by determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). …”
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Total Phenolics, Antioxidative and Antimicrobial Activities of Some Edible Ascomycota Collected from Niğde by Şükrü Canpolat, Ilgaz Akata, Yasemin İşlek, Elif Canpolat, Cemil İşlek

“…Pers. Samples were extracted by ethanol and methanol to determine antimicrobial activity using the disc diffusion method. …”
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Permeability and Induced Polarization of Mudstones by Klaudio Peshtani, Andreas Weller, Lee Slater

“…In this study, we report on electrical geophysical measurements for 23 mudstone samples using an experimental approach designed to reliably saturate these low permeability mudstones. …”
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Tetracycline-Resistant Genes in Escherichia coli from Clinical and Nonclinical Sources in Rivers State, Nigeria by Doubra Otis Perewari, Kome Otokunefor, Obakpororo Ejiro Agbagwa

“…Results showed that stool samples had the highest occurrence of E. coli (39, 78%), and soil had the lowest (13, 26%). …”
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A study on non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli: their isolation and in vitro susceptibility in a tertiary care hospital in Central India by Preeti Sharma, Varsha Wanjare, Sunanda Shrikhande Zodpey

“…Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed with Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. Results: from a total of 15847 samples 935 (5.90%) NFGNB were isolated. …”
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Genotyping of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates in Sulaimani City using Pulsed -Field Gel Electrophoresis by Dunya Emad Naji, Sehand Kamaluldeen Arif

“…This finding shows 30% of the samples had indistinguishable fingerprints with no changes in banding profiles, while 40% of the samples had closely related patterns. …”
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Laboratory Identification of Metallo-beta-lactamase Producing Clinical Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: An Assessment of Different Phenotypic Methods by Aruna Siddabathuni

“…Material and Methods:Atotal of 358 P. aeruginosa strains obtained from different clinical samples were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing by Kirby-Bauer's Disc Diffusion method. …”
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LatentPINNs: Generative physics-informed neural networks via a latent representation learning by Mohammad H. Taufik, Tariq Alkhalifah

“…In the second stage, we train a physics-informed neural network over inputs given by randomly drawn samples from the coordinate space within the solution domain and samples from the learned latent representation of the PDE parameters. …”
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Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Campylobacter coli isolated from broilers and layers cloacal swabs in Mwanza and Arusha, Tanzania by Rosemary Nshama, Noel Gahamanyi, Isaac Kashoma, Abdul Katakweba, Erick Komba

“…Of the 402 samples, 31 (7.71%) were confirmed to be Campylobacter coli by PCR. …”
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Molecular characterisation of class I integrons in clinical multidrug-resistant Enterococcus spp. by Yasir Adil Jabbar Alabdali

“…A Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion test was used to determine the antibiotic susceptibility of isolates. …”
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Identification of bacterial pathogens isolated from smoked blue whiting fish (Micromesistius poutasou) from Odeomu market in Osun state Nigeria by Oluwatoyin Aladejana, Mary Zakka, Ayodele Ogunlade, Oluwakemi Thonda

“…Isolates were identified using conventional biochemical methods, and antibiotics susceptibility testing was carried out using the disc diffusion method. The total bacterial counts (TBC) results showed that the fish samples had high bacterial counts, ranging from 2.1×103 to 9.2×103 colony-forming units (CFU)/g. …”
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Oxidation of Zirconium after Argon Ion Irradiation by S.M. Duvanov, V.A. Baturin, A.Yu. Karpenko

“…An oxidation of the near surface layers of pure zirconium samples resulting from ion irradiation in residual gas atmosphere of vacuum chamber was observed in the work. …”
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Eco-friendly innovation: Development of a multifunctional polyaniline-cuttlebone nanocomposite as a synergistic shield against doxorubicin-induced toxicity and a powerful antimicro... by Esraa Salama, Fatma I. Abo El-Ela, Walid Hamdy Hassan, Ahmed A. Farghali, Abdullah A. Eweis, Sarah H.M. Hafez, Rehab Mahmoud

“…The antibacterial and antifungal activities of the polyaniline/cuttlebone (PANI/CB) composite were evaluated via methods such as the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC), and disk diffusion for bacterial samples, as well as the MIC, minimum fungicidal concentration (MFC), antifungal percentage, and disk diffusion for fungal samples. …”
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Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of E. coli Isolates from Cases of Pediatric Meningitis by Raghad Abd-Alsattar Moussa, Jawad Kadeem Al-Khafaji, Mudher Hassen Noor

“…Using Vitek 2 for a confirmed diagnosis, the disk diffusion method was employed to test the sensitivity of the isolates to antibiotics, and positive samples were tested for resistance genes using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). …”
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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

“…Fresh fish showed the highest prevalence of P. aeruginosa (5%). No positive samples contaminated with P. aeruginosa were isolated from frozen fish samples. …”
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