Prevalence and Factors Associated with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among Presumptive MDR-TB Patients in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia by Kibriti Mehari, Tsehaye Asmelash, Haftamu Hailekiros, Tewolde Wubayehu, Hagos Godefay, Tadele Araya, Muthupandian Saravanan

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted in Tigray Regional State from 2015 to 2016. Two hundred sputum samples were collected, transported, processed using 2% N-acetyl-L-cysteine-sodium hydroxide, and cultured in LJ medium. …”
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Constituent Elements, pH and Electrical Conductivity Values of Feedstock, Ash and Slow Pyrolysis Derived Biochar of Date Palm Wastes by Ghanbar Ebrahimi, Alireza Shaker, Peyman Ahmadi, Mosayeb Dalvand, Masoud Shafie

“…Date palm wastes (rachis and dried stems) are feasible biomass to be treated and used for soil improvement and restoration purposes. …”
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Improving fermentation quality, aerobic stability, and microbial community stabilization of triticale by Amomum villosum essential oil by Maoya Li, Yao Lei, Yulian Chen, Qiming Cheng, Xiaoqing Zhang, Chao Chen, Ping Li, Jiachuhan Wang, Hui Li, Yuanyuan Zhao, Xiangjiang He, Zhijun Wang, Wei Yan

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Effect of sonochemical impact on the duration of fresh juices storage by V. A. Demchenko, J. F. Zikrullaev, I. V. Asfondyarova, V. V. Nazarova

“…In particular, it’s been recorded: the absence of sediment formation during storage of fresh orange juice samples treated with ultrasound; preservation of bright color inherent in this product; ultrasonic treatment has significantly reduced the development of the total bacterial contamination of the resulting product. …”
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Biodegradation of Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Bags by Fungi Isolated from Waste Disposal Soil by null Saira, null Abdullah, Lalina Maroof, Madiha Iqbal, Saira Farman, null Lubna, Shah Faisal

“…For this purpose, a 2 cm2 plastic piece was treated with fungal isolates for one month in a liquid culture system. …”
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The effect of mesenchymal stromal cells, their microvesicles and platelet-rich plasma on pathological changes in pancreatic tissue in acute necrotizing pancreatitis in rats by O. A. Kudelich, G. G. Kondratenko, T. A. Letkovskaya, O. A. Stepuro, M. P. Potapnev, A. M. Nerovnya

“…The experimental use of MSCs and MSC MVs to treat АNP at early stages of the disease provides more pronounced processes of repair and neoangiogenesis in pathologically altered pancreatic tissue.…”
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Evaluation of Cold Plasma on Physicochemical Properties of Rose Water by Zeinab Rahmani, Pasha Ahmadi, Reza Sharafati Chaleshtori

“…Rose water samples were plasma-treated at 12 and 15 kV for 4, 6 and 8 minutes. …”
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On the Optimization of T6 Heat Treatment Parameters of a Secondary Al-Si-Cu-Mg Foundry Aluminum Alloy: A Microstructural and Mechanical Characterization by Mattia Merlin, Lorenzo Antonioli, Federico Bin, Cindy Morales, Chiara Soffritti

“…Different combinations of solution times and temperatures lower than those typically adopted in industrial practice were evaluated, and their effects on tensile properties were investigated on samples machined from as-cast and T6-treated castings produced by pouring the alloy into a steel permanent mold. …”
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Influence of Electrohydrodynamics on Drying Characteristics, Physicochemical Properties, and Texture Characteristics of Potato by Liye Zhang, Changjiang Ding, Huina Xiong, Tian Tian, Lifeng Zhu, Yufan Dou

“…This study provides a theoretical basis and experimental foundation for the application of EHD drying technology in potato drying and deep processing.…”
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Investigating the ability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum on the reduction of aflatoxin B1, ochratoxin A, and zearalenone in dough and toast Bread by Alireza Haji Amiri, Leila Nateghi, Nazanin Zand

“…After baking, neither AFB1 nor OTA were detected in any of the toast bread samples, with a 100% reduction observed in all treatments. …”
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Inhibition of DPP4 activity in humans establishes its in vivo role in CXCL10 post‐translational modification: prospective placebo‐controlled clinical studies by Jérémie Decalf, Kristin V Tarbell, Armanda Casrouge, Jeffrey D Price, Grace Linder, Estelle Mottez, Philippe Sultanik, Vincent Mallet, Stanislas Pol, Darragh Duffy, Matthew L Albert

“…Participants were treated daily with 100 mg sitagliptin, a clinically approved DPP4 inhibitor. …”
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Multi-Analytical Approach for the Acid-Base, Thermal and Surface Properties Assessment of Waste Biomasses by Salvatore Giovanni Michele Raccuia, Emanuele Zanda, Clemente Bretti, Mauro Formica, Eleonora Macedi, Andrea Melchior, Marilena Tolazzi, Martina Sanadar, Davide Lascari, Giovanna De Luca, Anna Irto, Concetta De Stefano, Paola Cardiano, Gabriele Lando

“…A multi-analytical approach was used to comprehensively characterize the acid-base, thermal, and surface properties of agri-food processing wastes (i.e., original and pre-treated bergamot, grape and olive pomaces). …”
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Effects of 1-MCP on the genes related to wax anabolism in pear peel based on transcriptomics by YU Wanting, ZHANG Xinnan, SUN Xiaonan, WANG Wenhui, JIA Xiaohui

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Ocular and Plasma Pharmacokinetics of Sitagliptin Eye Drops: Preclinical Data by Cristina Hernández, Hugo Ramos, Anne Létondor, Rafael Simó

“…Blood, iris/ciliary body, retina/choroid, aqueous humor, and vitreous humor samples were collected at specific intervals post-administration (10 and 30 min and 1, 3, 6, 15, and 24 h), processed, and analyzed using an LC-MS/MS method. …”
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Spectroscopic approaches for structural analysis of extracted chitosan generated from chitin deacetylated for escalated periods by S. N. Ghanem, M. I. Marzouk, M. E. Tawfik, S. B. Eskander

“…The FTIR spectra showed a notable similarity between all extracted chitosan processed with increasing deacetylation time and the commercial one. …”
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DNA sequence classification for diabetes mellitus using NuSVC and XGBoost: A comparative. by Said A Salloum, Khaled Mohammad Alomari, Ayham Salloum

“…The dataset, obtained from reputable sources like NCBI, was preprocessed using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, where DNA sequences were treated as textual data and transformed into numerical features using TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency). …”
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Estimate the Concentrations of Some Heavy Metals in Industrial Wastewater in Al-Dora Oil Refinery by Hawraa G. Auied, Saadiyah A. Dhahir, Maitham A. Sultan

“… Industrial wastewater is discharged in large quantities into water bodies, and different treatment processes are employed to reduce pollutant levels. …”
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Pulmonary Morphological Changes in the Simulation and Treatment of Lower Limb Ischemic and Perfusion Lesions by V. I. Sergiyenko, E. A. Petrosyan, V. I. Onopriyev, Kh. I.-Kh. M. Laipanov

“…Objective: to investigate pulmonary morphological changes in animals with limb ischemic and reperfusion lesions, which were treated with hemocarboperfusion on sodium hypochlorite-modified sorbents.Materials and methods. …”
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Foodborne disease outbreak among soldiers in Niš garrison associated with the consumption of coleslaw by Čekanac Radovan, Čobeljić Miloje, Opačić Dolores

“…All the affected soldiers were hospitalized, treated with symptomatic therapy, and discharged fully recovered. …”
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mzGroupAnalyzer--predicting pathways and novel chemical structures from untargeted high-throughput metabolomics data. by Hannes Doerfler, Xiaoliang Sun, Lei Wang, Doris Engelmeier, David Lyon, Wolfram Weckwerth

“…The detected m/z features can be mapped on a van Krevelen diagram according to their H/C and O/C ratios for pattern recognition and to visualize oxidative processes and biochemical transformations. This method was applied to Arabidopsis thaliana treated simultaneously with cold and high light. …”
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