Status of Charcoal Canker on Oak Trees at a Site of Community Importance: Case Study of the Relict Castelfidardo Forest (SIC Area IT520008, Castelfidardo, AN, Italy) by Sergio Murolo, Jonathan Concas, Alessandro Salerno, Fedele Maiorano, Lorenzo Cingolani, Francesca Carloni, Salvatore Moricca, Gianfranco Romanazzi

“…Of 471 oaks inspected, 7.0% showed brownish exudates on the stems, 46.9% showed epicormic shoots along the main trunk, and 24.4% showed black carbonaceous stromata on diseased branches and trunks. …”
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Effect of acupressure on pain intensity and physiological indices in patients undergoing extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: a randomized double-blind sham-controlled clinical t... by Ali Safdari, Salman Khazaei, Mahdi Biglarkhani, Seyed Habibollah Mousavibahar, Seyed Reza Borzou

“…Results The analysis of 70 patients showed no significant differences in the demographic and clinical information of the patients across the two groups before the study (P > 0.05). …”
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Antibacterial mechanism of areca nut essential oils against Streptococcus mutans by targeting the biofilm and the cell membrane by Shuwei Liu, Shuwei Liu, Tiantian Zhang, Tiantian Zhang, Zhijin Li, Zhijin Li, Yan Wang, Lei Liu, Lei Liu, Zhenbo Song, Zhenbo Song

“…The cytotoxicity of ANEOs was determine by MTT assay.ResultsThe ANEOs separated at different temperatures exhibited different levels of antibacterial activity against S. mutans, and the ANEO separated at 70°C showed the most prominent bacteriostatic activity. …”
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Sleep quality and anxiety among Egyptian population during covid-19 pandemic by Samar Abd ElHafeez, Miguel Meira e Cruz, Salma Gouda, Marwa Nofal, Abdalrahman Fayed, Ramy Mohamed Ghazy, Jaidaa Mekky

“…Results: Among the study participants (33.8% males, 46.2% healthcare workers, 25% had chronic diseases, 30.1% were physically active during lockdown, and 70.3% reported work termination due to COVID-19 infection, 68.4% complained of bad sleep and 70.3% showed clinically significant levels of anxiety). …”
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Effects of Placenta Location in Pregnancy Outcomes of Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS): A Retrospective Cohort Study by Shokoh Abotorabi, Solmaz Chamanara, Sonia Oveisi, Maryam Rafiei, Leila Amini

“…Results: A review of 70 cases showed the distribution of placenta location as follows: 57% anterior, 27% posterior, and 16% lateral. …”
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Distribution and antimicrobial resistance analysis of gram-negative bacilli isolated from a tertiary hospital in Central China: a 10-year retrospective study from 2012 to 2021 by Ting Shi, Liangyi Xie

“…Acinetobacter baumannii showed high resistance to fluoroquinolones, β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations class, ceftazidime, cefepime, imipenem, and meropenem, the resistance rates reached more than 70%. Ceftazidime showed a lower resistance rate to E. coli than ceftriaxone. …”
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Effect of extrapleural silicone filling on lung function in patients with bilateral destructive tuberculosis by Daria V. Donchenko, Mikhail I. Chushkin, Elena V. Krasnikova, Mammad A. Bagirov

“…In the main group 10 (70%) patients showed diverse changes of the ventilatory function. …”
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Evolución del glaucoma primario de ángulo estrecho postiridotomía periférica con Nd: YAG láser Evolution of primary narrow-angle glaucoma after peripheral Nd YAG: laser iridotomy... by Francisco García González, Ibis Sedeño Cruz, Ester Novoa Sánchez, Dayamí Pérez Gómez

“…The anterior chamber angle was narrow or very narrow in 92,6% of eyes but after iridotomy 70,4% showed open angle. Primary glaucoma was under control only with iridotomy in 44 eyes (46,8%), 19 eyes (20,2%) required additional medical treatment and 31(33%)underwent surgical and medico-surgical treatment for glaucoma control. …”
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Developmental disparities in sedentary time by period of the day among US youth: a cross-sectional study by María Enid Santiago-Rodríguez, Jinsong Chen, Karin A. Pfeiffer, David X. Marquez, Angela Odoms-Young, Eduardo Esteban Bustamante

“…However, during school (36.3 ± 7.3 vs. 28.2 ± 7.2 min/hour; b = -7.4 [-8.1, -6.6]) and afterschool periods (31.1 ± 7.7 vs. 22.7 ± 7.0 min/hour; b = -7.8 [-8.6, -7.0]) showed the largest weekly ST disparities by developmental stage. …”
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Estimation of Daily Reference Evapotranspiration from NASA POWER Reanalysis Products in a Hot Summer Mediterranean Climate by Gonçalo C. Rodrigues, Ricardo P. Braga

“…Results show that, when using raw NASA POWER datasets, a good accuracy between the observed ETo and reanalysis ETo was observed in most locations (R² > 0.70). PM shows a tendency to over-estimating ETo with an RMSE as high as 1.41 mm d⁻¹, while using a temperature-based ET estimation method, an RMSE lower than 0.92 mm d⁻¹ is obtained. …”
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The role of age in ocular toxoplasmosis: clinical signs of immunosenescence and inflammaging by Armin Taghavi Eraghi, Justus G. Garweg, Justus G. Garweg, Justus G. Garweg, Uwe Pleyer, Uwe Pleyer

“…The mean age of the participants was 37.7 ± 17.1 years, 53.8% of them were female individuals, and 195 patients (70.9%) showed recurrent disease. Older age was associated with lower baseline visual acuity (p = 0.043), poor visual outcome (p = 0.019), increased inflammatory activity (p < 0.005), and larger retinal lesions (p < 0.005). …”
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Synthesis, characterization, and thermal and surface properties of co- and terpolymers based on fluorinated α-methylstyrenes and styrene by Walkowiak-Kulikowska, J, Szwajca, A, Gouverneur, V, Ameduri, B

“…From the extended Kelen–Tüdős (EK–T) linear method, the kinetics of the copolymerizations led to the determination of the reactivity ratios, ri, of both comonomers for each copolymerization system (rFMST = 0.08 ± 0.02 and rST = 0.72 ± 0.04, rTFMST = 0.00 and rST = 0.64 ± 0.01 at 70 °C), showing that F-ST monomers were less reactive than ST and retarded the rate of polymerization, and thus reduced the molecular weights. …”

Characterization and performance of rice husk as additive in green ceramic water filter fabricated by slip-casting by Alias, Siti Salwa, Harun, Zawati, Abu Mansor, Salina

“…Findings The green CWF of kaolin:RH with a weight ratio of 70:30 showed the best properties and satisfactory performance with a porous cross-section microstructure, highest porous area (4.58 µm2), good structure, lowest shrinkage (8.00%), highest porosity (45.10%), lowest density (1.79 g cm−3), highest water absorption (55.50%) and hardness (241.40 Hv). …”
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Changed Rumen Fermentation, Blood Parameters, and Microbial Population in Fattening Steers Receiving a High Concentrate Diet with <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em> Improve Growth P... by Kampanat Phesatcha, Burarat Phesatcha, Krittika Chunwijitra, Metha Wanapat, Anusorn Cherdthong

“…Basal diets were fed as a total mixed ration (roughage to concentrate ratio of 30:70). Results showed that supplementation with DY improved dry matter (DM) intake and digestibility of organic matter (OM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and acid detergent fiber (ADF) (<i>p</i> < 0.05), but DM and crude protein (CP) were similar among treatments (<i>p</i> > 0.05). …”
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Id3 and Bcl6 Promote the Development of Long-Term Immune Memory Induced by Tuberculosis Subunit Vaccine by Jiangyuan Han, Yanlin Ma, Lan Ma, Daquan Tan, Hongxia Niu, Chunxiang Bai, Youjun Mi, Tao Xie, Wei Lv, Juan Wang, Bingdong Zhu

“…The adjuvant effects of transcriptional factors, together with TB fusion protein MH/LT70 vaccination, showed that both Bcl6 and Id3 increased the production of antigen-specific antibodies and long-lived memory T cells, characterized by high proliferative potential of antigen-specific CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cells, and IFN-γ secretion in CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cells, respectively, after re-exposure to the same antigen. …”
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Dynamics of antimicrobial resistance and virulence of staphylococcal species isolated from foods traded in the Cape Coast metropolitan and Elmina municipality of Ghana by Daniel Sakyi Agyirifo, Theophilus Abonyi Mensah, Andrews Senyenam Yao Senya, Alphonse Hounkpe, Cindy Deladem Dornyoh, Emmanuel Plas Otwe

“…The food samples (70.76 %) showed a high prevalence of staphylococci and differed among the food categories. …”
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Multi-Label Classification in Patient-Doctor Dialogues With the RoBERTa-WWM-ext + CNN (Robustly Optimized Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers Pretraining Approa... by Yuanyuan Sun, Dongping Gao, Xifeng Shen, Meiting Li, Jiale Nan, Weining Zhang

“…Our composite abutting joint model (RoBERTa-WWM-ext + CNN) had a macro-F1 value of 70.55936311, showing that our model outperformed the other models in the task. …”
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Allogeneic Umbilical Cord-Blood-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Hyaluronate Composite Combined with High Tibial Osteotomy for Medial Knee Osteoarthritis with Full-Thickness Cart... by Yong-Beom Park, Han-Jun Lee, Hyun-Cheul Nam, Jung-Gwan Park

“…One case (10%) showed grade I, seven (70%) cases showed grade II, and two (20%) cases showed grade III according to ICRS cartilage repair assessment system, which meant that 80% showed an overall repair assessment of “normal” or “nearly normal”. …”
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Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatic Analysis of Pasteurella multocida Serotype B:2 Strain PMTB by Wan Mohamad Nazarie, Wan Fahmi

“…Gene comparison between PMTB and Pm70 to construct PMTB sequences as a database blast against Pm70 sequences showed there are 223 unique genes found in PMTB but absence in Pm70. …”
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Prognostic factors in the primary care of patients with Merkel cell carcinoma: A monocentric cohort study of 108 patients from a tertiary referral centre by Jan‐Malte Placke, Maximilian Zahn, Hannah Zillikens, Frederik Krefting, Georg C. Lodde, Lisa Zimmer, Elisabeth Livingstone, Eva Hadaschik, Antje Sucker, Alexander Roesch, Alpaslan Tasdogan, Nalini K. Srinivas, Dirk Schadendorf, Jürgen C. Becker, Selma Ugurel

“…The median age of the patients was 69.9 years (range 39–88), with patients aged <70 years showing a trend towards a longer RFS (p = 0.192). …”
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