Feasibility of magnetic bead technology for concentration of mycobacteria in sputum prior to fluorescence microscopy by Manabe Yukari, Nyesiga Barnabas, Lukyamuzi George, Ademun Patrick J, Albert Heidi, Joloba Moses, Wilson Stuart, Perkins Mark D

“…The specificity of magnetic bead FM and concentrated FM was significantly lower than direct ZN (88.6%, 94.3% and 98.9% respectively) and direct FM (99.4%). …”
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Brazilian infectious diseases specialists: who and where are they? by Alex Jones Flores Cassenote, Mario César Scheffer, Aluísio Augusto Cotrim Segurado

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Norepinephrine-evoked pain in fibromyalgia. A randomized pilot study [ISRCTN70707830] by Casanova Jose-Miguel, Pineda Carlos, Barbosa Rosa-Elda, Vidal Marcela, Martinez-Lavin Manuel, Nava Arnulfo

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Norepinephrine-evoked pain was seen in 80 % of FM patients (95% confidence intervals 56.3 – 94.3%), in 30 % of rheumatoid arthritis patients and in 30 % of healthy controls (95% confidence intervals 11.9 – 54.3) (p < 0.05). …”
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Effect of Confining Conditions on the Hydraulic Conductivity Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Lime Blended Semiarid Soil by Abdullah Ali Shaker, Mosleh Ali Al-Shamrani, Arif Ali Baig Moghal, Kopparthi Venkata Vydehi

“…In this study, hydraulic conductivity tests have been conducted on expansive clay using two different types of fibers (fiber cast (FC) and fiber mesh (FM)) exhibiting different surface morphological properties. …”
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Online English writing teaching method that enhances teacher–student interaction by Jiang Yaqiu

“…The outcomes demonstrated that the suggested model’s mean diversity value at completion was 0.93, an increase of 0.14 and 0.23 over collaborative filtering algorithm and DeepFM (deep factor decompose modle), respectively, and that the proposed model’s final convergence value was 92.3%, an improvement of 2.3 and 4.1% over the latter two models. …”
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Comparison of nasal and face mask ventilation in anaesthetised obese adults: A randomised controlled study by Gyan Singh, Neeru Luthra, Richa Jain, Anju Grewal, Shubham Garg, Livleen Deep Mann

“…Methods: Ninety adult patients with BMI >25 kg/m2 were randomly assigned to receive either facemask (Group FM) or nasal-mask (Group NM) ventilation during induction of GA. …”
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