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Evaluating the effects of metronidazole, metformin, and onion extract on GAPDH activity and nitric oxide production in Blastocystis sp. cultures: a biochemical and therapeutic approach 4:47

Evaluating the effects of metronidazole, metformin, and onion extract on GAPDH activity and nitric oxide production in Blastocystis sp. cultures: a biochemical and therapeutic approach

Gehad A. Basuony, Alshaimaa Hamed, Amal M. Mahfoz, Abdel Wahab M. Mahmoud, Hala Ramadan, Magda Said Ahmed Abdeltawab

A common gut parasite may be vulnerable not only to its usual medicine, but also to a diabetes drug and onion extract. The surprise is that killing it may involve changing its energy system and its chemical surroundings.

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Constraints and opportunities in cluster-based farming in Ethiopia 4:01

Constraints and opportunities in cluster-based farming in Ethiopia

Endris Mamo Mulate, Muluken Gezahegn Wordofa

What if neighboring farmers could gain more power simply by farming side by side? In Ethiopia, bringing small plots together promises better harvests and stronger markets, but cooperation itself may be the hardest crop to grow.

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Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there 5:15

Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there

G.J. Fooks, Killian Mullan, T. Mills, David Yates, Jennifer Willmott

During the pandemic, government support was meant to protect jobs and businesses. But companies receiving that support were also linked to a sharp rise in top executives’ pay soon afterward.

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Effect of injectable platelet rich fibrin augmented with vitamin c compared to injectable platelet rich fibrin alone on healing of necrotic mature single rooted teeth with chronic periapical periodontitis following regenerative endodontic therapy (a randomized controlled trial) 3:44

Effect of injectable platelet rich fibrin augmented with vitamin c compared to injectable platelet rich fibrin alone on healing of necrotic mature single rooted teeth with chronic periapical periodontitis following regenerative endodontic therapy (a randomized controlled trial)

Wesam Osama Hassan, Ahmed S. ElSheshtawy, Manal Mohamed Abdelbaki, Geraldine Ahmed

When a tooth is badly infected, the goal is not only to clean it, it is to help the damaged area heal. This study tested whether adding vitamin C would make that healing better, and the answer was unexpectedly even-handed.

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Understanding ongoing processes of terrestrial mud diapirism through absolute gravimetry and geodetic approaches in SW Taiwan: implications for geological hazards 4:32

Understanding ongoing processes of terrestrial mud diapirism through absolute gravimetry and geodetic approaches in SW Taiwan: implications for geological hazards

Kai‐Chien Cheng, Ling-Ho Chung, Kuo-En Ching, Ching-Chung Cheng, Wei-Chia Hung, Yuan-Hsi Lee, Yu-Ting Kuo, Song-Chuen Chen

The ground near a mud volcano is not merely shifting upward; it is apparently gaining mass from below. In southwestern Taiwan, that hidden change may increase hazards over time.

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A Novel Framework for Smart Service Failure and Recovery 3:17

A Novel Framework for Smart Service Failure and Recovery

Yuval Cohen, Shai Rozenes

Most services wait for you to complain before they try to help. This framework imagines something different: a service that notices trouble forming, works out why, and starts recovery sooner.

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Unveiling the Chasm in Japanese robot-assisted surgery diffusion: the interplay of surgical volume and intra-specialty spillover 4:18

Unveiling the Chasm in Japanese robot-assisted surgery diffusion: the interplay of surgical volume and intra-specialty spillover

Yusuke Natsume, Shingo Kano

Robotic surgery is spreading, but not like a wave reaching every hospital. Some operations catch on quickly, while others stall at a narrow gap, and the size of the surgical market helps explain why.

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Readers of the Living: Interpretive Mastery and Natural Thinking in Plutarch, Celsus, Origen, and Porphyry 2:56

Readers of the Living: Interpretive Mastery and Natural Thinking in Plutarch, Celsus, Origen, and Porphyry

Lea Niccolai

What if an animal’s cry was not just noise, but something to be read? This paper argues that ancient thinkers used animal behaviour to test whether the whole natural world could be interpreted like a text.

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The Curse of Black Sigatoka: A Backward Bifurcation Perspective 4:55

The Curse of Black Sigatoka: A Backward Bifurcation Perspective

Bernard Asamoah Afful, Luis F. Gordillo

A disease can keep spreading even after its estimated spread rate falls below one. That unsettling possibility may help explain why Black Sigatoka remains so difficult to eliminate from banana plantations.

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Evaluating the biorational profile of selected insecticides in Spodoptera littoralis: from nutritional disruption and genotoxicity to in silico risk analysis 5:03

Evaluating the biorational profile of selected insecticides in Spodoptera littoralis: from nutritional disruption and genotoxicity to in silico risk analysis

Heba M. Hamama, Yasmin Adel Fergani, Saba Irshad

A pesticide can stop a caterpillar from eating, yet the more important warning may appear inside its cells. This study compares both effects instead of treating pest control as a single yes-or-no question.

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Depression, anxiety, stress and coping strategies among undergraduates in a public and a private university in Osun State Nigeria using a comparative cross-sectional design 5:00

Depression, anxiety, stress and coping strategies among undergraduates in a public and a private university in Osun State Nigeria using a comparative cross-sectional design

Adeyinka Oluyide Ayodeji, Oluwaseyi Isaiah Olabisi, Lois Temitope Oguntunnbi, Ajibola Olayemi Omokanye

University can open doors to a future, but the pressure of getting there may weigh differently depending on where a student studies. In this study, depression stood out as the clearest difference between two universities.

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Expression patterns of CD24 and CD27 resolve the origins and gradual differentiation of CD11c+ atypical memory B-cells after malaria infection 3:53

Expression patterns of CD24 and CD27 resolve the origins and gradual differentiation of CD11c+ atypical memory B-cells after malaria infection

Alan‐Dine Courey‐Ghaouzi, Linn Kleberg, Zaynab Mousavian, Maximilian Julius Lautenbach, Marta Pirronello, Ganesh E. Phad, Mattias N.E. Forsell, Anna Färnert, Christopher Sundling

After malaria, some immune cells long treated as exhausted may actually be moving through a carefully ordered life cycle. The surprising part is that cells from different beginnings can end up in the same late state.

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