Pigeon RIG-I Function in Innate Immunity against H9N2 IAV and IBDV by Wenping Xu, Qiang Shao, Yunlong Zang, Qiang Guo, Yongchao Zhang, Zandong Li

“…Like ducks, pigeons are also susceptible to infection but are ineffective propagators and disseminators of AIVs, i.e., “dead end” hosts for AIVs and even highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). …”
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DNA metabarcoding reveals a diverse, omnivorous diet of Arctic amphipods during the polar night, with jellyfish and fish as major prey by Annkathrin Dischereit, Annkathrin Dischereit, Jan Beermann, Benoit Lebreton, Owen S. Wangensteen, Stefan Neuhaus, Charlotte Havermans, Charlotte Havermans

“…Historically, jellyfish were considered a trophic dead-end, but an increasing number of studies using modern tools have highlighted their role as major prey items in marine food webs. …”
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Removal of Cu2+, Fe2+, Ni2+, Zn2+ and Cl− from Industrial wastewater using a Polyethersulfone/Carbon Nanotube/Polyvinyl alcohol composite membrane by Mlungisi Martin Ngoma, Machodi Mathaba, Kapil Moothi

“…Filtration experiments were conducted using a dead-end stirred cell. PES/7.5 wt% CNT/PVA showed the most improved results with a good trade-off balance between membrane flux and rejection, generating a flux of 7.94 L/m2h and rejection of 88.56% Cu2+, 96.15% Fe2+, 89.06% Ni2+, 100% Zn2+ and 99.93% Cl−. …”
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Curing kinetics study of thermosetting resin material with ultra-low dielectric loss for advanced electronic packaging by Zeming Fang, Xiaowei Wu, Xiaotao Zhu, Cheng Luo, Dan Li, Qianfa Liu, Ke Wang

“…Due to the high reaction temperature, the initiator concentration rapidly declines during curing, resulting in dead-end polymerization. Therefore, calculating the activation energy with conversion by the isoconversional method is not completely applicable. …”
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Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Echinococcus multilocularis from horses raised in Canada or Japan, using mitochondrial cytochrome b gene–targeted PCR by Tatsuro Hifumi, Tetsuya Tanaka, Ichinosuke Suzu, Miho Sato, Kohei Akioka, Chiaki Fujimata, Ryohei Shinkai, Tsutomu Maeda, Kodai Kusakisako, Hiromi Ikadai, Noriaki Miyoshi

“…Geographical haplotyping targeting the parasite's mitochondrial cytochrome b (cob) gene has been reported for isolates from definitive and intermediate hosts (wild canids and rodents); however, there are limited reports on strain typing for the dead-end host, the horse, which could act as a sentinel for E. multilocularis. …”
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PREVALENCE OF WEST NILE VIRUS ANTIBODIES IN INDOOR DOGS FROM AN URBAN AREA IN IAȘI, ROMANIA: INDICATORS OF VIRAL PRESENCE AND URBAN TRANSMISSION POTENTIAL by Luanda Elena OȘLOBANU, Luciana Alexandra CRIVEI, Ioana Alexandra RĂȚOI, Ioana Cristina CRIVEI, Gheorghe SAVUȚA

“…The enzootic transmission cycle of arboviruses involves primary wild animals; however, spillover transmission is reported frequently in domestic animals. Dogs are dead-end hosts in WNV transmission epidemiology. However, detecting WNV antibodies in the dog population can indicate the virus’s presence and spread in different areas. …”
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METHOD TO ORGANIZE LOGISTIC TRANSPORT INTERACTIONS FOR THE NEW ORDER PORTFOLIO OF DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL MANUFACTURE by Олег Євгенович Федорович, Юрій Леонідович Прончаков

“…The algorithm to simulate the flow of requests in neighboring nodes concerning the node of the considered heterogeneous transport network has been developed. The dead-end nodes and possible parallel paths of equal types of transportation combining neighboring nodes are considered. …”
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Effect of Silica Sodalite Functionalization and PVA Coating on Performance of Sodalite Infused PSF Membrane during Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage by Nobuhle C. Ntshangase, Olawumi O. Sadare, Michael O. Daramola

“…AMD-treatment performance of the fabricated membranes was evaluated in a dead-end filtration cell using a synthetic acid mine drainage (AMD) solution prepared by dissolving a known amount of MgCl₂, MnCl₂·4H₂O, Na₂SO₄, Al(NO₃)₃, Fe(NO₃)₃·9H₂O, and Ca₂OH₂ in deionized water. …”
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Hyperbranched polyethylenimine-modified polyethersulfone (HPEI/PES) and nAg@HPEI/PES membranes with enhanced ultrafiltration, antibacterial, and antifouling properties by Hussein K. Okoro, Lwazi Ndlwana, Monisola I. Ikhile, Tobias G. Barnard, J. Catherine Ngila

“…Optical contact angle (OCA) interrogated the extent of membrane/water interactions which indicated enhanced hydrophilicity due to the modification. Dead-end filtration using these membranes indicated enhanced pure water permeate fluxes and protein rejection (bovine serum albumin, BSA). …”
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The influence of electronic acupuncture at a specific frequency in facilitating the passage of NGF through the blood-brain barrier and its effect on learning and memory in MCAO/R r... by Yibin Zhao, Xuqing Mao, Hao Wang, Lin Gan, Shanshan Zhang, Peng Gong, Xianming Lin

“…Finally, the learning and memory ability of rats are assessed and the DeadEndTM Fluorometric TUNEL System is applied to assess apoptosis in the hippocampus. …”
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Experimental Infections of the Reservoir Species <named-content content-type="genus-species">Peromyscus leucopus</named-content> with Diverse Strains of <named-content content-type... by Elisabeth Baum, Fong Hue, Alan G. Barbour

“…IMPORTANCE Humans are dead-end hosts for Borrelia agents of Lyme disease (LD), and, thus, irrelevant for the pathogens’ maintenance. …”
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Biocatalytic Reduction of Formaldehyde to Methanol: Effect of pH on Enzyme Immobilization and Reactive Membrane Performance by Norhayati Abdul Rahman, Fauziah Marpani, Nur Hidayati Othman, Nur Hashimah Alias, Junaidah Jai, Nik Raikhan Nik Him

“…The experiment was conducted in a pressure driven, dead-end stirred filtration cell. Reaction conversion and biocatalytic productivity will be also evaluated. …”
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Molecular diagnosis of alveolar echinococcosis in patients based on frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples by Knapp Jenny, Lallemand Séverine, Monnien Franck, Felix Sophie, Valmary-Degano Séverine, Courquet Sandra, Demonmerot Florent, Heyd Bruno, Turco Celia, Doussot Alexandre, Bourgeois Lucie, Bresson-Hadni Solange, Richou Carine, Millon Laurence

“…This parasite-borne disease, caused by the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis, sparingly involves humans as a dead-end host. In humans, the parasite mainly colonizes the liver but can colonize any organ and cause atypical forms, often difficult to characterize clinically. …”
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The Urgency and Importance of an Active Information Seeking Task Influence the Interruption of Information Encountering Episodes by Barbara M. Wildemuth

“…The factors that influenced interruptions of IE episodes included the searcher’s reluctance to invest the time and effort needed to engage with the encountered information, due to the importance or urgency of the active information-seeking task; the searcher’s reluctance to leave the active information-seeking task, seeing IE as a distraction from that task; the searcher’s reluctance to multitask, i.e., to keep track of both the IE episode and the active information-seeking task; the searcher’s reluctance to risk a dead end; the searcher’s reluctance to be seduced by the “shiny thing” of encountered information (p. 136) and to drift too far away from the active information-seeking task; and the searcher’s reluctance to get “caught up” emotionally in the IE episode (p. 138), a “temptation that is satisfying only in the short-term” (p. 138). …”
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Microfiltration of concentrated albumin solutions and the role of processing conditions on membrane fouling by Andrea Iginio Cirillo, Giovanna Tomaiuolo, Stefano Guido

“…Here, we focus on microfiltration of aqueous bovine serum albumin (BSA) solutions by using a novel miniaturized modular unit allowing to study both dead-end (DE) and crossflow (CF) filtration. Pure water flux measurements and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations were firstly performed to characterize the flow field inside the module. …”
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NEUROMARKETING IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PHILOSOPHY by Olena Martyniuk, Tetiana Poplavska

“…Overconsumption (or irrational consumption) that dominates in the world and is imposed by the entire marketing system is the phenomenon of receiving goods and services more than need – to a greater extent than a person needs. This is a dead end, because of which the entire system is going through a deep crisis. …”
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Characterization of complex organelles and the dissection of a pyrenoidal red-type rubisco activation system of diatoms by Schober, Alexander Fabian

“…The CO2-fixing enzyme rubisco is highly susceptible to dead-end inhibition by its own substrate RuBP and a variety of photosynthetic misfiring products. …”
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Ce/TiOₓ-functionalized catalytic ceramic membrane for hybrid catalytic ozonation-membrane filtration process: fabrication, characterization and performance evaluation by Lee, Wen Jie, Bao, Yueping, Guan, Chaoting, Hu, Xiao, Lim, Teik-Thye

“…The as-fabricated CCMs were employed for N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) degradation in the hybrid catalytic ozonation-membrane filtration process operating under continuous dead-end filtration mode. CeTi-CeCCM recorded a high DEET degradation and mineralization with efficient O3(aq) utilization of 1.4 g O3(aq) g−1 TOC removal. …”
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A recyclable Co-Fe bimetallic immobilized cellulose hydrogel bead (CoFeO@CHB) to boost singlet oxygen evolution for tetracycline degradation by Chen, Xinying, Zhang, He, Xu, Shizhe, Du, Xiaoge, Zhang, Kaida, Hu, Chun Po, Zhan, Sihui, Mi, Xueyue, Oh, Wen Da, Hu, Xiao, Pan, Ziyong, Bao, Yueping

“…Furthermore, a long-term continuous home-made dead-end filtration device was constructed to evaluate the stability and application potential of the CoFeO@CHB/PMS system, in which a >70% removal was maintained in a continuous 800 min filtration. …”
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Cytotoxicity of methanol and aqueous Lignosus rhinoceros (Tiger Milk mushroom) extracts on HCT 116 human colorectal cancer cells and its mode of action / Suziana Zaila Hj Che Fauzi by Hj Che Fauzi, Suziana Zaila

“…The types of cell death were explored by flow cytometry using the Annexin V/FITC and propidium iodide and the dead end fluorometric TUNEL System. The mode of cell death induced by Lignosus rhinocerus PLEs was primarily apoptosis by extemalization of phosphatidylserine and DNA damage detected by 3'-OH DNA ends labelling. …”
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