Nibouche, Samuel Costet, Laurent Medina, Raul F Holt, Jocelyn R Sadeyen, Joëlle Zoogones, Anne-Sophie Brown, Paul Blackman, Roger L
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Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner, 1897) and Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904) are major worldwide crop pests causing direct feeding damage on sorghum and transmitting viruses to sugarcane. It is common in the scientific literature to consider these two species as synonyms, referred to as the 'sugarcane aphid', although no formal study has validated t...
Penot, Pauline Chateauneuf, Julie Auperin, Isabelle Cordel, Hugues Letembet, Valerie-Anne Bottero, Julie Cailhol, Johann
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The burden of the first year of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was greater for vulnerable populations, such as immigrants, people living in disadvantaged urban areas, and people with chronic illnesses whose usual follow-up may have been disrupted. Immigrants receiving care for HIV in Seine-Saint-Denis' hospitals have a combination...
Arnaout, Youssef Picard-Meyer, Evelyne Robardet, Emmanuelle Cappelle, Julien Cliquet, Florence Touzalin, Frédéric Jimenez, Giacomo Djelouadji, Zouheira
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With over 1,400 species worldwide, bats represent the second largest order of mammals after rodents, and are known to host major zoonotic pathogens. Here, we estimate the presence of pathogens in autochthonous bat populations. First, we set out to check our samples for PCR amplification efficiency by assessing the occurrence of inhibited PCR reacti...
Kolovi, Sofia Fois, Giovanna-Rosa Lanouar, Sarra Chardon, Patrick Miallier, Didier Baker, Lory-Anne Bailly, Céline Beauger, Aude Biron, David G David, Karine
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Mineral springs in Massif Central, France can be characterized by higher levels of natural radioactivity in comparison to the background. The biota in these waters is constantly under radiation exposure mainly from the α-emitters of the natural decay chains, with 226Ra in sediments ranging from 21 Bq/g to 43 Bq/g and 222Rn activity concentrations i...
Collado, Aurélie Rinaldi, Kévin Hermand, Eric Hue, Olivier
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The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of mixed cooling techniques (combination of internal and external strategies, with and without menthol) during warm-up for a time trial in tropical climate. Seven heat-acclimatized trained male road cyclists participated in three experimental sessions consisting of 20-min cycling perfor...
Mosquera, Juan D Valle, Carlos A Nieto-Claudin, Ainoa Fessl, Birgit Lewbart, Gregory A Deresienski, Diane Bouazzi, Leïla Zapata, Sonia Villena, Isabelle Poulle, Marie-Lazarine
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Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular parasite of particular concern in the conservation of wildlife due to its ability to infect all homeotherms and potentially cause acute fatal disease in naive species. In the Galapagos (Ecuador), an archipelago composed of more than a hundred islets and islands, the presence of T. gondii can be attribut...
Salih, Sinan Q Alsewari, AbdulRahman A Wahab, H A Mohammed, Mustafa K A Rashid, Tarik A Das, Debashish Basurra, Shadi S
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The retrieval of important information from a dataset requires applying a special data mining technique known as data clustering (DC). DC classifies similar objects into a groups of similar characteristics. Clustering involves grouping the data around k-cluster centres that typically are selected randomly. Recently, the issues behind DC have called...
Lerch, Mathias
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The study of regional trends in the rural-urban fertility gradient helps us to understand the pace of completion of the fertility transition and the geography of urban growth in the global South. We question whether the hypothesized inverted U-shaped evolution in rural excess fertility is confirmed in four developing regions, and investigate the un...
Apako, Teddy Wani, Solomon Oguttu, Faith Nambozo, Brendah Nahurira, Doreck Nantale, Ritah Kamwesigye, Assen Wandabwa, Julius Obbo, Stephen Mugabe, Kenneth
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The decision to delivery interval is a key indicator of the quality of obstetric care. This study assessed the decision to delivery interval for emergency cesarean sections and factors associated with delay. We conducted a cross-sectional study between October 2022 and December 2022 in the labor ward at Mbale regional referral hospital. Our primary...
Lanier, Vincent J White, Amanda M Faumont, Serge Lockery, Shawn R
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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a model organism widely used in basic, translational, and industrial research. C. elegans development is characterized by five morphologically distinct stages, including four larval stages and the adult stage. Stages differ in a variety of aspects including size, gene expression, physiology, and behavior. Enri...
