Background: Helicobacter pylori colonizes the human gastric mucosa through outer membrane proteins (OMPs), particularly the adhesins BabA and BabB, which recognize host blood group antigens and mediate bacterial attachment and persistent coloniz...
The advent of digital transformation has redefined the preservation of cultural heritage and historic sites through the integration of Digital Twin technology. Initially developed for industrial applications, Digital Twins are now increasingly employ...
Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic microorganism that successfully inhabits the human stomach, colonizing it by producing several virulence factors responsible for preventing host self-defense mechanisms. The adherence mechanism to gastric mucosal t...
The protein MucR from Brucella abortus has been described as a transcriptional regulator of many virulence genes. It is a member of the Ros/MucR family comprising proteins that control the expression of genes important for the successful interaction...
Given the medical and social significance of Helicobacter pylori infection, timely and reliable diagnosis of the disease is required. The traditional invasive and non-invasive conventional diagnostic techniques have several limitations. Recently, opp...
We explored the clinical-stage association of gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM) compared to cases of chronic non-atrophic gastritis (CNAG) and its relationship with virulence genotypes of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) clinical isolates from patien...
Nacer Khemir’s Bab’Aziz (2005) treats the dervish cloak (khirqa) as more than costume: a site where ascetic practice contests fashion’s novelty-driven logic. Focusing on the narrative shift from the Prince’s conspicuous consum...
The rabies virus is a major zoonosis that causes severe nervous disease in humans, leading to paralysis and death. The world’s second anti-rabies center was established in 1888 by Victor Babeș, in Bucharest, where an eponymous strain of ra...
Helicobacter pylori is a major human pathogen that causes a wide range of gastrointestinal pathology. Progression of H. pylori induced gastritis to more severe disease has been found to highly correlate with the array of virulence factors expressed b...
The syntheses of six thiol-exhibiting monosaccharides towards suicide inhibition of Helicobacter pylori are reported. Blood group Antigen Binding Adhesin (BabA), a bacterial membrane-bound lectin, binds to human ABO and Lewis b blood group structures...
This text attempts to analyze the competition for the leadership role in the young Bábí religious community after the execution of their leader, Báb (1819–1850). With the elimination of many leaders, a small group stood out...
As a complex nonlinear system, the first-order incremental relationship between the state variables of the beam and ball system (BABS) is asymmetric in the definition domain of the variables, and the characteristics of the system do not satisfy the s...
Fruit extracts from black currants (Ribes nigrum L.) are traditionally used for treatment of gastritis based on seed polysaccharides that inhibit the adhesion of Helicobacter pylori to stomach cells. For detailed investigations an arabinogalactan pro...
The Gulf of Aden (GA) is a strategically dynamic water basin linking the Red Sea basin with the Arabian Sea via the Bab el Mandeb Strait. In spite of its importance for oil transportation globally and regional hydrodynamics, tidal propagation remains...
Brucella abortus is an intracellular pathogen that must withstand oxidative stress and other hostile conditions encountered within host cells. Here, we investigated the contribution of BAB2_0534, a gene encoding a putative multicopper oxidase, to bac...
A high-resolution numerical model called Delft3D (5 km resolution) forced with realistic high-frequency atmospheric conditions was set up to describe the circulation pattern in the Red Sea basin. The validation of the model was performed considering...
Polysaccharide containing extracts from immature fruits of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) are known to exhibit antiadhesive effects against bacterial adhesion of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) to stomach tissue. The present study investigates struct...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a Gram-negative, spiral-shaped bacterium that colonizes the human stomach and is linked to various gastroduodenal diseases. The severity of different clinical outcomes may be determined by the combination of virulen...
Drug delivery into the brain is regulated by the blood–brain interfaces. The blood–brain barrier (BBB), the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB), and the blood–arachnoid barrier (BAB) regulate the exchange of substances b...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) possess an arsenal of virulence genes that makes them the main etiological factor in gastric diseases. In this study, 120 southern Moroccan patients who were dyspeptic were profiled to investigate the potential associa...
Oleoyl serine (OS), an endogenous fatty acyl amide (FAA) found in bone, has been shown to have an anti-osteoporotic effect. OS, being an amide, can be hydrolyzed in the body by amidases. Hindering its amide bond by introducing adjacent substituents h...
In vaccine clinical trials, both binding antibody (bAb) levels and neutralization antibody (nAb) titers have been shown to be correlates of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine efficacy. We report a strong correlation bAb and nAb responses against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicr...
Babaco is a fast-growing herbaceous shrub with great commercial potential because of the organoleptic properties of its fruit. Babaco mosaic virus (BabMV) is a potexvirus in the family Alphaflexiviridae affecting babaco in all the provinces that prod...
Scrutinizing the literature of a modern religious movement this article argues that postcolonial theory can effectively be brought to the analysis of religions and religious writing. The case study focuses on the way in which colonialism impacted the...
Gastric cancer constitutes one of the most prevalent malignancies in both sexes; it is currently the fourth major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The pathogenesis of gastric cancer is associated with the interaction between genetic and envi...
Forest management practices and droughts affect the assemblages of carabid species, and these are the most important factors in terms of influencing short- and long-term population changes. During 2017 and 2018, the occurrences and seasonal dynamics...
The quantitative level of steroid hormones (SHs) in some body fluids have been accepted for clinical diagnosis, whereas their distribution in aqueous humor (AH) is unknown yet. Herein, a profiling study was conducted with a total of 171 AH and 107 pl...
Recent identification of four additional polyaminopathies, including Bachmann–Bupp syndrome, have benefited from previous research on Snyder–Robinson syndrome in order to advance from research to treatment more quickly. As a result of the...
This article provides a full English translation of the Du’ā’ al-saḥar or Dawn Supplication for the Islamic month of Ramaḍān. Attributed to certain Imams whom Twelver Shī`ī Muslims regard as the successors...
The appearance of post-Islamic religions, the Bābī and Bahā’ī Faiths, is a theoretical impossibility from an orthodox Muslim perspective, since the Qur’ān designates the Prophet Muḥammad as the “Seal o...
Atmospheric drought is an extremely important issue on a global, regional and local scale, especially in the context of climate change. The aim of the study was to assess the spatiotemporal variation of atmospheric (meteorological) drought in agricul...
Background/Objectives: Poor insight is a clinically relevant feature of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), yet its broader clinical correlates remain incompletely understood. We aimed to characterize the clinical correlates of insight in adul...
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are critically important for protein structure and function, with glycosylation being one of the most common forms of PTM. The gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori has a general glycosylation system, which perf...
Denture base materials need appropriate mechanical and tribological characteristics to endure different stresses inside the mouth. This study investigates the properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) reinforced with different low loading fracti...
The two erythropoietin (EPO) receptor forms mediate different cellular responses to erythropoietin. While hematopoiesis is mediated via the homodimeric EPO receptor (EPOR), tissue protection is conferred via a heteromer composed of EPOR and CD131. In...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the beneficial effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC) on growth, intestinal morphometric characteristics, blood indices, redox balance, expression of immune-related genes, and their involvement in disease...
This study offers a detailed assessment of the polyphenolic composition and antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and cardioprotective properties of lyophilized extracts derived from the aerial parts of Agastache mexicana and Agastache scrophulariifolia. T...
Toward the innovative design of tunable structures for energy generation, this paper presents an extended Floating Frame of Reference (FFR) formulation capable of modeling slope discontinuities in flexible multibody systems—overcoming a key lim...
Argininosuccinate synthetase 1 (ASS1) expression and arginine availability are key metabolic determinants that influence tumor fitness and regulate immune interactions within the tumor microenvironment (TME). Using an orthotopic triple-negative breas...
Smart feedlots are increasingly adopting Precision Livestock Farming technologies to enable continuous, individual-animal monitoring and more proactive management in intensive beef production systems. This narrative review synthesises evidence from a...
Despite advancements in clinical diagnostics, traditional biomarker detection methods (e.g., ELISA) remain limited due to their invasive nature, slow results, and inadequate use for continuous monitoring in low-resource settings. With the rise in chr...
Robust control systems are a necessity for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems due to the challenges they face during operation. Many AUV control-design methods have been developed for different actuator configurations, with robustness agains...
Palmitic acid (PA) is the most abundant saturated fatty acid in human milk, where it is heavily concentrated in the sn-2-position (termed beta palmitate, BPA) and as such is conserved in all women, regardless of their diet or ethnicity, indicating it...
This paper investigates the energy management system (EMS) of a conventional autonomous vehicle, with a view to enhance its powertrain efficiency. The designed EMS includes two neuro-fuzzy (NF) systems to produce the optimal torque of the engine. Thi...
In many multi-object tracking applications, the sensor(s) may have controllable states. Examples include movable sensors in multi-target tracking applications in defence, and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) as sensors in multi-object systems used in civ...
There is a large body of literature on solving the SLAM problem for various autonomous vehicle applications. A substantial part of the solutions is formulated based on using statistical (mainly Bayesian) filters such as Kalman filter and its extended...
One of the core challenges in visual multi-target tracking is occlusion. This is especially important in applications such as video surveillance and sports analytics. While offline batch processing algorithms can utilise future measurements to handle...
Recent studies have demonstrated that erythropoietin (EPO) treatment in mice results in trabecular bone loss. Here, we investigated the dose-response relationship between EPO, hemoglobin (Hgb) and bone loss and examined the reversibility of EPO-induc...
Vibration-based energy harvesters brought the idea of self-powered sensors to reality in the past few years. Many strategies to improve the performance of linear vibration energy harvesters that collect energy over a limited bandwidth have been propo...
This paper presents a novel Track-Before-Detect (TBD) Labeled Multi-Bernoulli (LMB) filter tailored for industrial mobile platform safety applications. At the core of the developed solution is two techniques for fusion of color and edge information i...
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