Enhancing trace DNA profile recovery in forensic casework using the amplicon RX post-PCR clean-up kit by Naeema S. Aljanahi, Salem K. Alketbi, Maryam M. Almheiri, Suaad A. Alshehhi, Afra N. Sanqoor, Hussein J. Alghanim

“…Therefore, the Amplicon RX method should be widely adopted in forensic laboratories to enhance the analysis of extremely low-template and compromised samples. …”
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Joint exposure to multiple air pollutants and residual cardiovascular risk in hypertension by Yalan Li, Wei Hong, Jingjing Wu, Jie Wang, Shiqi Liu, Hong Yuan, Jingjing Cai, Rujia Miao, Jiangang Wang, Yao Lu

“…Apart from taking antihypertensive medication and adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors, hypertensive patients should lower air pollutant exposure to decrease residual cardiovascular risk.…”
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A Complementary Low Schottky Barrier Nonvolatile Bidirectional Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistor Based on Dual Metal Silicide S/D Contacts by Liu Xi, Ya Wang, Meile Wu, Lin Qi, Mengmeng Li, Shouqiang Zhang, Xiaoshi Jin

“…It is designed with Source floating gate (SFG) and drain floating gate (DFG) and adopts two kinds of metal silicide contacts to form complementary low Schottky barrier both between the S/D electrodes and the conduction band of silicon and between the S/D electrodes and the valence band of silicon at the same time. …”
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Rapid and Efficient Purification of Functional Collectin-12 and Its Opsonic Activity against Fungal Pathogens by Jie Zhang, Anna Li, Chang-qing Yang, Peter Garred, Ying Jie Ma

“…Purified recombinant CL-12 adopted an oligomeric structure with monomers, dimers, and trimers and retained its binding capacity towards the A. fumigatus strain that has been described before. …”
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Effect of empowerment-based interventions on self-efficacy and self-care capacity among patients with sickle cell disease: A randomized controlled trial by Zohour Ibrahim Rashwan, Hasan Abdali Khalil, Leena Mohamed Khonji, Gayathripriya Narayanan, Marwan Kamal Altheeb, Roseben Pradeep, Rajeswari Krishnasamy, Magda Mohamed Bayoumi

“…After the intervention, the score of SCSES in the intervention group was 37.0 (35.0, 39.8) higher than the control group 28.0 (25.2, 32.0) (U = − 6.121, P < 0.001); the score of ASA-R in the intervention group was 61.0 (58.3, 65.0) higher than the control group 49.0 (43.3, 53.0) (U = 0.653, P < 0.001). Conclusion: Adopting the empowerment-based intervention using the 5As model effectively improves self-efficacy and self-care capacity among patients with SCD.…”
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Spatiotemporal evolution and attribution analysis of ecological quality in the alpine meadow region of Shangri-La based on natural-social dimensions by Zihui Li, Kangwen Zhu, Ya Zhang, Yong Ba, Yanjun Zhang, Chengzhong He, Lin Song, Zheng Hou, Chunfeng Dong, Haoyu Wang, Yinhong Xiong

“…In this paper, Shangri-La was adopted as an example, the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of the ecological quality in Shangri-La were determined in both natural and social dimensions, and the contributions of various driving factors were analyzed. …”
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Diabetes Complications at Presentation and One Year by Glycated Haemoglobin at Diagnosis in a Multiethnic and Diverse Socioeconomic Population: Results from the South London Diabet... by Mohsin Azam, Lindsey Marwood, Khalida Ismail, Tyrrell Evans, Sobha Sivaprasad, Kirsty Winkley, Stephanie Anne Amiel

“…WHO’s recommendation of HbA1c≥48 mmol/mol (6.5%) as diagnostic for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) was adopted by three UK London boroughs in May 2012. The South London Diabetes (SOUL-D) study has recruited people with newly diagnosed T2DM since 2008. …”
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Practice, Knowledge, and Attitude of Health Care Providers regarding Cancer Pain Management: A National Survey by Jinmei Liu, Ming Zhang, Juan Luo, Jiyi Xie, Xu Chen, Hanxiang Wang, Shijun Li, Shengli Yang, Chunfen Peng, Liangle Yang, Bin Deng, Yu Zhang, Cong Wang, Jianli Hu, Chen Shi

“…An open online survey was adopted using social media software (WeChat) as the platform to conduct a nationwide survey of HCPs involved in CPM in public medical institutions at all levels in China from March to June 2019. …”
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User-Centric Radio Access Technology Selection: A Survey of Game Theory Models and Multi-Agent Learning Algorithms by Giuseppe Caso, Ozgu Alay, Guido Carlo Ferrante, Luca De Nardis, Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, Anna Brunstrom

“…In particular, the review addresses the most common GT and MAL models and algorithms, and scenario settings adopted in user-centric RAT selection in terms of utility function and network topology. …”
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Radiation dose and fraction in immunotherapy: one-size regimen does not fit all settings, so how does one choose? by Marka Crittenden, Sandra Demaria, C Norman Coleman, Jonathan Schoenfeld, Arta Monjazeb, Samir Khleif, Seema Gupta, Andrew Sikora, Zachary Morris, Chandan Guha, Stephen Shiao, Silvia Chiara Formenti, Bhadrasain Vikram, Mansoor M Ahmed

“…This article describes a conceptual framework for testing different radiation therapy regimens as separate models of how radiation itself functions as an immunomodulatory ‘drug’ to provide alternatives to the widely adopted ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy of frequently used 8 Gy×3 regimens immunomodulation.…”
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On-Demand Gait-Synchronous Electrical Cueing in Parkinson&#x0027;s Disease Using Machine Learning and Edge Computing: A Pilot Study by Ardit Dvorani, Constantin Wiesener, Christina Salchow-Hommen, Magdalena Jochner, Lotta Spieker, Matej Skrobot, Hanno Voigt, Andrea Kuhn, Nikolaus Wenger, Thomas Schauer

“…The proposed solution can be easily adopted to other sensor and cueing modalities.…”
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Changing the trajectories of mental health difficulties in Norfolk and Suffolk: a research-priority-setting project with patients, the public, clinicians, policymakers and other st... by Caitlin Notley, Jayati Das-Munshi, Craig Morgan, Kristy Sanderson, Sherifat Oduola, Zarnie Khadjesari, Helen Parretti, Niall Broomfield, Amy Zile, Sol Morrissey, Joni Holmes

“…Underpinned by Delphi methodology, it will adopt the James Lind Alliance approach to identify priorities for mental health research for the populations of Norfolk and Suffolk. …”
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Application of Plan-DO-Check-Action cycle in materials management of outpatient clinics during the COVID-19 outbreak (PDCA循环在新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情防控期间门诊疫情防控物资管理中的应用)... by WANG Ting (王婷), PENG Aiqin (彭爱琴), LIU Nan (刘楠), LI Jia (李佳), GAO Lini (高黎妮)

“…Methods The PDCA cycle method was adopted in materials management of outpatient clinics during the COVID-19 outbreak, a management procedure consisting of planning, implementation, checking, effectiveness measurement and continuous improvement was carried out to improve the efficiency of materials usage. …”
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11 Key Strategies in Using AI Chat GPT to Develop HOTS-Based Entrepreneurship Questionnaires by Almaida Vebibina, Rusijono Rusijono, Andi Mariono, Ahsan Muafa, Dydik Kurniawan, Ragil Sugeng Dewantoro, Dian Noer Asyari, Sussi Widiastuti, Jarot Suseno

“…An assessment instrument was used to evaluate the quality of questions generated through 23 items adopted from previous studies. To test the difference in performance, the Mann-Whitney Test was analysed with a p value < 0.05. …”
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ConvXGB: A novel deep learning model to predict recurrence risk of early-stage cervical cancer following surgery using multiparametric MRI images by Ji Wu, Jian Li, Bo Huang, Sunbin Dong, Luyang Wu, Xiping Shen, Zhigang Zheng

“…Grad-CAM analysis was adopted to help clinicians better understand the predictive results. …”
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Premorbid predictors of death at initial presentation of coronary heart disease in the Women's Health Initiative study by Ming-Li Chen, Jin Li, Kruthika R. Iyer, Catherine Tcheandjieu, Shirin Jimenez, Elias Levy Itshak Salfati, Liana C. Del Gobbo, Marcia L Stefanick, Manisha Desai, Xiaonan Xue, Themistocles L Assimes

“…Our findings may reduce case-fatality risk of CHD by motivating individuals at risk to adopt and/or adhere to established primary prevention strategies.…”
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Experimental Study on Impermeability Law of Aquiclude Reconstructed by Mudstone of External Dump in Arid Zone by Li Ma, Chendong Liu, Yinli Bi, Suping Peng, Kaisheng Jiang, Hui Zhang, Qiang Luo, Fei Xue, Tianxin Xu, Tianxiang Li, Jing Wu, Jiahao Tian, Dongxu Zhang

“…The finite element transient analysis theory and numerical simulation method were adopted to verify the results of physical experiments. …”
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On the Ideology of the Renovationist Church Groups in the first half of the 1920s: the First All-Russian Congress of the “Union of Church Revival” in 1924 and its main Decisions... by Kulpinov Sergey, Deacon

“…The greatest attention is paid to the adopted resolutions on the attitude towards other church groups, on liturgical reforms and on the political position of the “Union of Church Revival”. …”
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Effects of hypoxia on the heart of the juvenile four-finger threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) based on physiological indicators and transcriptome analysis by Yi Lu, Eric Amenyogbe, Ye- Yang, Zhong-liang Wang, Zhong-liang Wang, Zhong-liang Wang, Jing-hui Jin, Rui-tao Xie, Eric Kwabena Droepenu, Jian-sheng Huang, Jian-sheng Huang, Jian-sheng Huang

“…These findings collectively offer practical applications for enhancing aquaculture management, such as monitoring biochemical markers, adopting hypoxia-tolerant breeding, and adjusting environmental conditions to mitigate stress, ensuring better productivity and sustainability. …”
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Research on Traffic Accident Severity Level Prediction Model Based on Improved Machine Learning by Jiming Tang, Yao Huang, Dingli Liu, Liuyuan Xiong, Rongwei Bu

“…The unbalanced distribution of “Severity” was improved through under-sampling and over-sampling techniques. Firstly, we adopted a multi-stage fusion strategy. A multi-layer perceptron (MLP) was used for the preliminary prediction, and then its result was combined with the original features to form a new feature. …”
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