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A taxonomic study of twelve wild forage species of Fabaceae

. . Abusaief HMA, Boasoul SH. . Heliyon. 2021 Feb 24;7(2):e06077. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06077. 2021 Feb. Abstract Twelve species of wild leguminosae were studied to determine similarities in the coat details of the seeds using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The numerical cluster analysis method was used to examine the morphological characteristics (98 characteristics) and to …

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Modeling the potential distribution of the predator of honey bees, Palarus latifrons, in the Arabian deserts using Maxent and GIS

. . Al-Khalaf AA. . Saudi J Biol Sci. 2021 Oct;28(10):5667-5673. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.06.012. Epub 2021 Jun 10. Abstract OBJECTIVES: The species Palarus latifrons (bee pirates) has been recorded in Saudi Arabia as an invasive species. This pest can destroy honey bee colonies under certain conditions. The origin of this species in Africa and it has …

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Avena sativa (Oat), a potential neutraceutical and therapeutic agent: an overview

. . Singh R, De S, Belkheir A. . Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2013;53(2):126-44. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2010.526725. Abstract The aim of the present review article is to summarize the available information related to the availability, production, chemical composition, pharmacological activity, and traditional uses of Avena sativa to highlight its potential to contribute to human health. …

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MRSA in Africa: filling the global map of antimicrobial resistance

. . Falagas ME, Karageorgopoulos DE, Leptidis J, Korbila IP. . PLoS One. 2013 Jul 29;8(7):e68024. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068024. Print 2013. Abstract We sought to assess the prevalence of methicillin-resistance among Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Africa. We included articles published in 2005 or later reporting for the prevalence of MRSA among S. aureus clinical isolates. Thirty-two …

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The RAS subfamily Evolution – tracing evolution for its utmost exploitation

. . Saad II, Saha SB, Thomas G. . Bioinformation. 2014 May 20;10(5):293-8. doi: 10.6026/97320630010293. 2014. Abstract In the development of multicellularity, signaling proteins has played a very important role. Among them, RAS family is one of the most widely studied protein family. However, evolutionary analysis has been carried out mainly on super family level …

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A Secure and Robust Compressed Domain Video Steganography for Intra- and Inter-Frames Using Embedding-Based Byte Differencing (EBBD) Scheme

. . Idbeaa T, Abdul Samad S, Husain H. . PLoS One. 2016 Mar 10;11(3):e0150732. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150732. 2016. Abstract This paper presents a novel secure and robust steganographic technique in the compressed video domain namely embedding-based byte differencing (EBBD). Unlike most of the current video steganographic techniques which take into account only the intra frames …

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Duplex Healing of Selectively Thiolated Guanosine Mismatches through a Cd(2+) Chemical Stimulus

. . Lunn SML, Hribesh S, Whitfield CJ, Hall MJ, Houlton A, Bronowska AK, Tuite EM, Pike AR. . Chembiochem. 2018 Mar 25. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201800100. Online ahead of print. Abstract The on-column selective conversion of guanosine to thioguanosine (tG) yields modified oligomers that exhibit destabilisation over the fully complementary duplex. Restoration to a stabilised duplex …

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Validation of the efficacy of age assessment by the Brothwell tooth wear chart, using skulls of known age at death

. . Alayan I, Aldossary MS, Santini A. . J Forensic Dent Sci. 2018 Jan-Apr;10(1):18-21. doi: 10.4103/jfo.jfds_15_17. Abstract OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to validate the efficacy of age assessment by the Brothwell tooth wear chart, uniquely using skulls of recorded known age at death. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty Chinese skulls, of known age recorded …

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