Pesticide Emergencies: Fires and Spills by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Pesticide fires or spills can result in water, soil, and air contamination; damage to plants; injury to livestock, wildlife, or pets; and can endanger the health of the applicator and other people. …”
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Equine Piroplasmosis: An Emerging Threat to Florida Horses by Sally DeNotta, Amanda House

“…Most cases occur in Florida and the Southern United States, and most transmission occurs through needle sharing and contaminated blood products. EP is considered a foreign animal disease in the U.S., and suspect or confirmed cases of EP require notification from state and federal animal health officials. …”
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Competition in mathematics as a form of educating gifted children: Kaunas case study by Vilija Dabrišienė, Bronė Narkevičienė

“…The individualization of giftted children in the se­condary school is incomplete, the diversity in the modes of teaching activities is scarce and used episodically, this work is not planned, and it is not organized systematically. …”
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Growth, Reduction, and Survival of Bacteria on Tomatoes by Angela M. Valadez, Keith R. Schneider, Michelle D. Danyluk

“…The authors evaluated bacterial studies on natural antimicrobials and detergents, as well as food processing, cross-contamination, and shelf-life studies. Written by Angela M. …”
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An entropic generalization of Caffarelli’s contraction theorem via covariance inequalities by Chewi, Sinho, Pooladian, Aram-Alexandre

“…The optimal transport map between the standard Gaussian measure and an $\alpha $-strongly log-concave probability measure is $\alpha ^{-1/2}$-Lipschitz, as first observed in a celebrated theorem of Caffarelli. …”
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Persistent Peril: Confronting Recurrent Chest Abscess from Nontuberculous Mycobacteria by P Prem Ananth, R Anand, S Raghul Raj, N Nagarajan, M Thoupikka

“…Near-drowning incidents can lead to the aspiration of contaminated water, allowing waterborne pathogens, including NTM to enter the body and establish chronic infections. …”
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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF AN IMPROVED MOTORIZED MAIZE SHELLER/THRESHING MACHINE by ADEWALE SEDARA, EMMANUEL ODEDIRAN, SETH MANUWA

“…Component parts such as: frame, hopper, transmission shaft, cylinder with spikes and blower, concave with sieve, power source, pulley and bearings was designed and fabricated. …”
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Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation by Cha Li, Hao Zhang, Feifan Lang, Yanghe Liu, Lin Xu, Xiao-Juan Xi, Yang Li, Jiandong Pang, Hong-Cai Zhou, Xian-He Bu

“…Herein, we design a redox-active Zr-MOF with coordination unsaturated pockets, termed NKM-908, based on a naphthalene diimide containing tetratopic carboxylate ligand. The fabricated NKM-908 thin film exhibits a reversible electrochromic behavior, showing a color change from basically colorless to light yellow and then to green. …”
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Risk factor analysis for stunting incidence using sparse categorical principal component logistic regression by Anna Islamiyati, Muhammad Nur, Abdul Salam, Wan Zuki Azman Wan Muhamad, Dwi Auliyah

“…Some important points proposed in this method are: • Stunting data consists of categorical variables containing multicollinearity. • The method applied is sparse logistic regression combined with categorical principal component analysis. • Analysis of risk factors for stunting in toddlers is based on the child's own condition, as well as parental factors, namely age, education, and intake of additional food and supplementary tablets during pregnancy.…”
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Thermodynamic and economic analysis, optimization of SOFC/GT/SCO2/ORC hybrid power systems for methanol reforming-powered ships with carbon capture by Shouguang Yao, Xuan Yan, Minjie Xia, Chuang Wang, Shaofan Wang

“…A hybrid power system containing carbon capture based on methanol external reforming of solid oxide fuel cell coupled with gas turbine is proposed, further to achieve efficient energy use and reduce carbon emissions, the power system combines a supercritical CO2 cycle with an organic Rankine cycle in order to optimize the utilization of waste heat, and chemical absorption method for carbon capture. …”
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Synergistic strategies for glioblastoma treatment: CRISPR-based multigene editing combined with immune checkpoint blockade by Xiaolin Liu, Xiao Liu, Xiaonan Luo, Maorong Zhu, Nannan Liu, Juan Li, Qi Zhang, Cheng Zou, Yuxin Wu, Zhengcong Cao, Shuangxin Ma, Weizhong Wang, Guangzhao Yang, Jintao Gu, Wei Liu, Meng Li, Anan Yin, Yalong He, Wei Lin

“…Furthermore, the EVs contained Cas9 protein and sgRNA for precise and minimally invasive gene therapy, which addressing the key barriers associated with in vivo CRISPR‒Cas9 gene editing treatment. …”
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Seurat function argument values in scRNA-seq data analysis: potential pitfalls and refinements for biological interpretation by Mikhail Arbatsky, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Veronika Sysoeva, Ekaterina Semina, Ekaterina Semina, Valeri Saveliev, Kseniya Rubina

“…The essential aspect of dimensionality reduction is to identify the stable patterns which are deliberately removed upon mathematical data processing as being redundant, albeit containing important minor details for biological interpretation. …”
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Design and Preparing a Topical Semi-solid Formulation of a Combination of Plantago ovata seeds and Rosehip oil to Provide an Analgesic and Anti-inflammatory Medicine by Amirhossein Zamani, Aida Alipour, Mohammad M. Zarshenas, Hajar Ashrafi

“…After microscopic characterization and determining the identification number of the plant and FTIR test, Plantago ovata Forsk seed extract was prepared with different acidic and aqueous types, and the mucilage was prepared after evaluating several cream formulations, finally, the proportion of 70% oil and 30% stearic acid contained 65% extract. It was chosen as the appropriate formulation, which was more suitable for appearance characteristics (uniform texture and proper spreading without feeling rough on the skin). …”
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Aquathermolysis of heavy oil catalyzed by transition metal salts and clay by Du, Yingna, Zhang, Liyuan, Jing, Rui, Li, Yongfei, Yang, Bo, Chen, Gang

“…Therefore it is reasonable to believe that the minerals in reservoirs may act as a catalyst support with the metal-containing catalyst added from outside during the thermal recovery of heavy oil. …”
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Magnetic polydimethylsiloxane microspheres as hydrophobic collectors for oil removal by J G Cabal-Velarde, A Lobo Guerrero, E Araujo, E Romero-Tela, J L Sánchez-Llamazares, A Encinas

“…The ferrofluid-PDMS mixture was emulsified in warm water containing a surfactant, stabilizing the microparticles during polymerization. …”
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Quality of tifton and alfalfa hays and equine body biometrics by K. Oliveira, D. Tsuzukibashi, D. F. Fachiolli, M. J. Watanabe, J. H. S. Vera, J. S. Barros, C. Costa

“…It was possible to conclude that the alfalfa hay provided a reduction in the horse’s body weight and thoracic perimeter, what can be explained by the greater verified digestibility, as well as the lesser fecal water retention with the diets containing only the legume. …”
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RAREFAN: A webservice to identify REPINs and RAYTs in bacterial genomes by Fortmann-Grote, Carsten, Irmer, Julia von, Bertels, Frederic

“…We demonstrate RAREFAN’s capabilities by analyzing a set of 49 Stenotrophomonas maltophilia genomes, containing nine different REPIN-RAYT systems. We guide the reader through the process of identifying and analyzing REPIN-RAYT systems across S. maltophilia, highlighting erroneous associations between REPIN and RAYTs, and providing solutions on how to find correct associations. …”
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Improved growth performance, food efficiency, and lysine availability in growing rats fed with lysine-biofortified rice by Qing-Qing Yang, Pui Kit Suen, Chang-Quan Zhang, Wan Sheung Mak, Ming-Hong Gu, Qiao-Quan Liu, Samuel Sai-Ming Sun

“…By using a combined enhancement of lysine synthesis and suppression of its catabolism, we had produced two transgenic rice lines HFL1 and HFL2 (High Free Lysine) containing high concentration of free lysine. In this study, a 70-day rat feeding study was conducted to assess the nutritional value of two transgenic lines as compared with either their wild type (WT) or the WT rice supplemented with different concentrations of L-lysine. …”
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El aporte económico de las Pymes en Colombia y su actualización tecnológica a partir del software libre basado en el concepto de ERP by Rafael Galvis Hurtado

“…A través del proyecto "Utilización de sistemas de información" en la práctica contable, nace este artículo que presenta la estrecha relación de las pymes colombianas con la aplicación del software tipo Aplicaciones de Planeación de Recursos Empresariales, como una opción de actualización del software empresarial para alcanzar un nivel similar al de las grandes empresas mundiales en cuanto a planeación, dirección y control de la empresa respecto a sus recursos y además para permitir cumplir los estándares de la contabilidad nacional.…”
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The advantages of rare disease biobanking: A localised source of genetic knowledge to benefit the South African rare disease community and related stakeholders worldwide by M Dercksen, E H Conradie, C J Hendriksz, H Malherbe, B C Vorster

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