Prevalence and molecular characterization of Beta-lactamase resistance gene in multidrug resistance bacteria, Proteus spp. by Sabiha S. Salih, Shno J. Mohammed, Imad M Noori, Lana MA Mohammed, Taib A. Hama Soor

“…Molecular identification of Proteus bacteria was confirmed by PCR amplification of part of 16S rRNA using Proteus specific set of primers.  70 meat samples (cattle, sheep, chicken, turkey, goat, and fish) were collected in local meat shops in the center of Sulaimani city. 29 (41.4%) samples were positive to Proteus species and 22 (75.87%) isolates were P. mirabilis and seven (24.13%) were P. vulgaris based on conventional biochemical tests. …”
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Towards the standardization of Hydra vulgaris bioassay for toxicity assessments of liquid samples by G. Farley, P. Bouchard, C. Faille, S. Trottier, F. Gagné

“…The influence of water hardness, ammonia and dissolved oxygen for over 50 real-life environmental liquid mixtures (effluents and leachates) were examined and compared with rainbow trout and Daphnia magna acute lethality tests. A control chart for Zn was developed from over 40 trials yielding an 96 h LC50 of 0.7 mg/L (0.66–0.77 95 % confidence interval-CI) and EC50 of 0.19 mg/L (0.17–0.21 95 % CI). …”
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Influencia de la densidad de árboles de Leucaena en la producción lechera y nitrógeno ureico en vacas F1 Gyr x Holstein by R. M. Menjura, L. M. Peñuela, R. D. Castañeda

“…El estudio se realizó en La Hacienda el Chaco, Tolima (Colombia). Los tratamientos fueron: Ti: pastura de Cynodon nlemfluensis sin arboles; T2: C. nlemfluensis + 1264 árboles/ha de L. leucocephala; T3: C. nlemfluensis + 4255 árboles/ha de L. leucocephala y T4: C. nlemfluensis + 9899 árboles/ha de L. leucocephala. …”
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Congestive heart failure adherence redesign trial: a pilot study by Ashvarya Mangla, Rami Doukky, Lynda H Powell, Elizabeth Avery, DeJuran Richardson, James E Calvin

“…To assess the feasibility of conducting a larger trial testing the efficacy of this dual-level intervention, we conducted the Congestive Heart failure Adherence Redesign Trial Pilot (CHART-P), a proof-of-concept, quasi-experimental, feasibility pilot study.Setting A large tertiary care medical centre in Chicago.Participants Low-income patients (<US$30 000/year) hospitalised for exacerbation of systolic HF (ejection fraction ≤50%) and their physicians. …”
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Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of Cysticercus tenuicollis Isolated from Some Intermediate Host in Kurdistan-Iraq by Abdullah Ahmed Hama, Rostam Hama Zorab, Fatima Mohammed Ali, Awaz M. Salih, Amer Abdullah Hassan

“…Cysticercus tenuicollis (C. tenuicollis) is the larval stage infection of Taenia hydatigena, a common tapeworm of dogs and other Canidae, which has a wide range of intermediate hosts including sheep, goat, cattle, deer, camel, horse, human and other wild ruminants, the disease spreads through a contaminated water, soil and food with feces of infected dogs or other carnivores, T. hydatigena lives in the intestinal of the definitive host (carnivores) and excretes a huge number of eggs with feces daily. …”
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Evidence Graph Analysis of Postoperative Pain Sensitization Induced by Perioperative Sleep Deprivation by XUE Jianjun, WANG Caihong, GUO Lingling, LI Xiuxia, ZHANG Jie, XU Ziqing, HOU Huaijing, YANG Kehu

“…The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews, the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) and the AMSTAR-2 scale were used to evaluate the quality of the included studies, and the evidence was comprehensively analyzed and displayed by means of bubble chart, table and text.ResultsA total of 35 observational studies (31 cohort studies and 4 case-control studies), 15 randomized controlled trials and 4 systematic reviews/Meta-analyses were included. …”
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Women’s experiences of gender-based violence supports through an intersectional lens: a global scoping review by Amaya Perez-Brumer, Beverley M Essue, Cyndirela Chadambuka, Isabel Arruda-Caycho, Danielle Tocallino, Rebecca Balasa, Prossy Kiddu Namyalo, Carmina Ravanera, Sarah Kaplan

“…Objective To apply an intersectional lens to explore how the interconnected social identities of women across global settings impact access experiences for gender-based violence (GBV) supports.Design A scoping review.Data sources We systematically searched seven databases to identify studies published in English from the database inception to January 2023.Inclusion criteria We included peer-reviewed studies with a primary objective of examining the access experiences of populations who self-identify as women (aged 15 years or older) who have experienced GBV, have intersecting identities (ie, racialisation, poverty, etc) that can further contribute to marginalisation and utilised or sought support services.Methods Two reviewers independently completed title/abstract, full-text screening and data charting. Integrating intersectionality theory and the McIntyre access framework, we analysed support service access and utilisation across social identities, axes of marginalisation and geographic contexts.Results 210 papers (195 distinct studies) met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Evaluación de un modelo de producción de pasturas mediante pruebas empíricas by J.A. NASCA, G. BERONE, J.I. ARROQUY, C. FELDKAMP, D. COLOMBATTO

“…La evaluación empírica se realizó con datos de experimentos realizados en el Instituto de Investigación Animal del Chaco Semiárido (INTA), que incluyeron biomasa seca aérea acumulada durante la estación de crecimiento, y biomasa seca aérea producida entre dos pastoreos. …”
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mHealth App to Promote Healthy Lifestyles for Diverse Families Living in Rural Areas: Usability Study by Alejandra Perez Ramirez, Adrian Ortega, Natalie Stephenson, Angel Muñoz Osorio, Anne Kazak, Thao-Ly Phan

“…However, all (N=4) of the Spanish-speaking participants identified challenges related to numeracy (eg, difficulty interpreting the growth chart) and literacy (eg, features not fully available in Spanish), which informed iterative refinements to make the dashboard clearer and more literacy-sensitive. …”
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End User Computing Satisfaction : Model Analisis Kepuasan Pengguna Aplikasi Menggunakan Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (Studi Kasus) by Aditia Angga Perdana, Meinarini Catur Utami, Qurrotul Aini

“…Namun dalam penerapannya masih banyak kekurangan maupun kelemahan yang dirasakan pengguna di antaranya masih ada bugs, tidak ada fitur real-time chat serta beberapa pengguna masih kesulitan menggunakan aplikasi tersebut. …”
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Prospective evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of FDG-PET/CT for the detection of sternal wound infection post-sternotomy by Angela Cai, Mehrshad Bakhshi, Yoan Lamarche, Francois Harel, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

“…Gold standard diagnosis was established by chart review of clinical follow-up, surgical findings, and cultures. …”
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Development of highly bioactive long-acting recombinant porcine FSH for batch production management of sows by Jiawei Zhang, Lei Shi, Xiaorong Zhong, Yunhe Bai, Jun Dou, Lu Zhang, Xiaochao Shi, Bingchun Wu, Zemin Tan, Lin Yan, Jinku Yu, Jingru Zhang, Guo Han, Jiansheng Xiong, Hua Zhang, Xingyuan Cao, Haoshu Luo

“…As eCG is a heterologous protein, the generation of antibodies has been found in the superovulation of cattle. Moreover, the extraction of eCG from pregnant mare serum raises concerns regarding animal welfare, as well as potential risks for disease transmission. …”
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Hospital Financial Burden of Surgical Procedures for Periprosthetic Total Hip Arthroplasty Infection by Jesus M. Villa, MD, Tejbir S. Pannu, MD, MS, Robert B. Eysler, BA, Vivek Singh, MD, MPH, Alison K. Klika, MS, Carlos A. Higuera, MD

“…Methods: Retrospective chart review of 596 unilateral THA reoperations (473 patients) performed at a single institution (January 2015 to November 2020). …”
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Analysis of emergency centre recidivism for interpersonal violence in a district-level hospital in Cape Town, South Africa by J J Horn, L Bush, D J van Hoving

“…An analysis of a prospectively collected observational database combined with a retrospective chart review was conducted of all trauma patients who presented to Khayelitsha Hospital from 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2022. …”
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Investigation of risk factors associated with Ancylostoma spp. infection and the benzimidazole F167Y resistance marker polymorphism in dogs from the United States by Pablo D. Jimenez Castro, Jennifer L. Willcox, Haresh Rochani, Holly L. Richmond, Heather E. Martinez, Cecilia E. Lozoya, Christian Savard, Christian M. Leutenegger

“…The top and bottom three with the highest and lowest RR for the F167Y SNP were the old English sheepdog, American foxhound, and toy poodle Toy, and shih tzu, Maltese, and Australian cattle dogs, respectively. This study highlights the value of an accessible diagnostic qPCR test with fast turnaround in unraveling the molecular epidemiology of hookworms and benzimidazole resistance, as well as explore potentially important risk factorsin dogs with routine veterinary care.…”
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Epidemiology of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Patients Attending at Hiwa Hospital in Sulaimani City, Iraq by Bushra Mohammed Ali, Hiwa Abas Ahmed

“…A case control approach was used, by retrospective chart review of all non-melanoma skin cancer cases presented between 1st of January 2015 till 31st of December 2016 at Sulaimani Hiwa hospital from which 70 cases conducted   and 70 controls from Baxshen hospital. …”
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Genetic parameters for milk production traits of Simmental cows with random regression test-day model by A. Otwinowska-Mindur, E. Ptak, W. Jagusiak, A. Zarnecki

“…Genetic parameters were estimated for a multitrait multilactation random regression test-day model for milk in Simmental cattle in Poland. Data came from the official Polish national recording system. …”
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Microblog discourse analysis for parenting style assessment by Zihan Wei, Lei Cao, Zhihong Qiao, Fang Luo, Xin Wang, Junrui Tian, Qi Li

“…Informed by these insights, we developed an effective parenting style assessment method, including a correlation injection module.ResultsExperimental results on the 575 students show that our method outperforms all the baseline NLP methods (including ChatGPT-4), achieving good assessment performance by reducing MSE by 14% to 0.12.DiscussionOur study provides a pioneering microblog-based parenting style assessment tool and constructs a dataset, merging insights from psychology and computational science. …”
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Ochrona życia człowieka w mieście. Refleksja nad wybranymi problemami encykliki papieża Franciszka Laudato si’ by Maciej Ostrowski

“…Na tym tle autor wymienia niektóre współczesne zagrażenia dla jakości życia, zwłaszcza w miastach: skażenie powietrza, chaos wizualny, brzydotę, nadmierne zagęszczenie i ciasnotę osiedli, brak dostępu do żywej przyrody, złe warunki utrudniające wychowanie młodego pokolenia, niewłaściwe międzyludzkie relacje przyczyniające się do zmęczenia społecznego. …”
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Social media usage and cyberbullying: the moderating role of tie strength by Jinru Ni, Hongyu Fu, Yajing Zhu, Zewen Li, Shuyi Wang, Haoran Su

“…The order of tie strength between users and the four platforms is as follows: WeChat > Bilibili > Weibo > Douyin. (2) Strong-tie social media platforms exhibited higher levels of users’social media engagement compared to those with weak ties. (3) Weak ties significantly moderated the relationship between social media usage and cyberbullying, whereas strong ties did not. …”
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