Medicinal plants with antimicrobial, larvicidal, and repellent properties: An ethnopharmacological survey from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Introduction Infectious diseases (IDs) constitute a real public health problem in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Purpose This survey aimed to gather more information about the plants used in the DRC for anti-infective, larvicidal, or repellent treatments.Methods The study spanned 4 months (from April 1 to July 31, 2022) within 11 provin

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A Device-Independent Efficient Actigraphy Signal-Encoding System for Applications in Monitoring Daily Human Activities and Health

Actigraphs for personalized Food Service health and fitness monitoring is a trending niche market and fit aptly in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) paradigm.Conventionally, actigraphy is acquired and digitized using standard low pass filtering and quantization techniques.High sampling frequencies and quantization resolution of various actigrap

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The genome sequence of the oak pinhole borer, Platypus cylindrus Fabricius, 1792 [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

We present a genome assembly from an Eyebrow Stencils individual male Platypus cylindrus (the oak pinhole borer; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Curculionidae).The genome sequence is 147.5 megabases in span.Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 8 chromosomal pseudomolecules, Galaxy S20 including the X and Y sex chromosomes.The mitochondrial geno

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