Pronerve Growth Factor Induces Angiogenesis via Activation of TrkA: Possible Role in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy by Sally L. Elshaer, Mohammed A. Abdelsaid, Ahmad Al-Azayzih, Parag Kumar, Suraporn Matragoon, Julian J. Nussbaum, Azza B. El-Remessy

“…Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. We demonstrated that diabetes disturbs the homeostasis of nerve growth factor (NGF) resulting in accumulation of its precursor proNGF. …”
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Adjuvant Autologous Melanoma Vaccine for Macroscopic Stage III Disease: Survival, Biomarkers, and Improved Response to CTLA-4 Blockade by Michal Lotem, Sharon Merims, Stephen Frank, Tamar Hamburger, Aviram Nissan, Luna Kadouri, Jonathan Cohen, Ravid Straussman, Galit Eisenberg, Shoshana Frankenburg, Einat Carmon, Bilal Alaiyan, Shlomo Shneibaum, Zeynep Ozge Ayyildiz, Murat Isbilen, Kerem Mert Senses, Ilan Ron, Hanna Steinberg, Yoav Smith, Eitan Shiloni, Ali Osmay Gure, Tamar Peretz

“…There is not yet an agreed adjuvant treatment for melanoma patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer stages III B and C. …”
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Clinical Manifestations Associated with Overweight/Obesity in Puerto Ricans with Fibromyalgia Syndrome by Ruth M. Fred-Jiménez, Mariangelí Arroyo-Ávila, Ángel M. Mayor, Grissel Ríos, Luis M. Vilá

“…A cross-sectional study was performed in 144 patients with FMS (per American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria). …”
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Mathematical Modeling of Public Opinions: Parameter Estimation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Model Uncertainty Using an Agree-Disagree Opinion Model by Sara Bidah, Omar Zakary, Mostafa Rachik, Hanane Ferjouchia

“…These two weekly polls data track the percentage of Americans who approve and disapprove of the way the President manages his work. …”
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Dataset of speech produced with delayed auditory feedbackOpen Science FrameworkOpen Science Framework by Matthias Heyne, Monique C. Tardif, Alexander Ocampo, Ashley P. Petitjean, Emily J. Hacker, Caroline N. Fox, Megan A. Liu, Madeline Fontana, Vincent Pennetti, Jason W. Bohland

“…Here we describe a large dataset of speech produced with DAF using modern experimental methods with systematic controls and varied speaking materials, including phonotactically legal, nonword syllable sequences and American English sentences. Auditory feedback latencies were tightly controlled and included a zero / minimal delay (∼12 ms), 150 ms, 200 ms, and 250 ms. …”
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Race, Gender, and Power : Black Women, White Women, and Racial Segregation in the Southern United States (1920-1970) by Anne Stefani

“…The experience of southern women in the 20th century is distinct from that of American women in general, just as the history of the segregated South is from that of the rest of the nation. …”
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Sex and authorship in global cancer research by Deborah Mukherji, Ophira Ginsburg, Grant Lewison, Richard Sullivan, Verna Vanderpuye, Winnie K W So, Miriam Mutebi, Nazik Hammad, Julie Torode, Erica Liebermann

“…The top performing countries in terms female/male parity for first or last authorship were in Eastern and Southern Europe as well as Latin American countries.From 2009 to 2019, the highest proportion of females as first and last authors were from low-income and middle-income countries in Latin America and Eastern Europe.Females were more likely to publish in lower impact journals and were less likely to be cited compared to males.Conclusions Globally, progress in female’s authorship in oncology research has been uneven. …”
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Les interrogatives dites rhétoriques au prisme de la théorie d’Antoine Culioli by Bénédicte Guillaume

“…This study is based on a personal corpus of unsolicited attested examples of British or American English, taken from novels or from recent films and series.…”
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Response to Initial Therapy of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Predicts the Long-Term Outcome Better than Classical Risk Stratification Systems by Albert Cano-Palomares, Ignasi Castells, Ismael Capel, Maria Rosa Bella, Santi Barcons, Angel Serrano, Xavier Guirao, Mercedes Rigla

“…The objective of this study is to compare the predictive ability of classical risk stratification systems proposed by the European Thyroid Association (ETA) and American Thyroid Association (ATA) with the system proposed by Tuttle et al. in 2010, based on the response to initial therapy (RIT). …”
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Laboratory Comparison of Rapid Antigen Diagnostic Tests for Lymphatic Filariasis: STANDARD Q Filariasis Antigen Test (QFAT) Versus Bioline Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) by Patricia M. Graves, Jessica L. Scott, Alvaro Berg Soto, Antin Y. N. Widi, Maxine Whittaker, Colleen L. Lau, Kimberly Y. Won

“…We evaluated the performance of the new STANDARD Q Filariasis Antigen Test (QFAT) against the Bioline Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) for detecting <i>W. bancrofti</i> antigen (Ag) in laboratory conditions, using serum (n = 195) and plasma (n = 189) from LF-endemic areas (Samoa, American Samoa and Myanmar) and Australian negative controls (n = 46). …”
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Risk factors of postoperative complications of gastrointestinal tumor in elderly patients by Huiqiu Liang, Yan Luo

“…[Results] A total of 71 (29.34%) patients developed postoperative complications during hospitalization.Univariate analysis showed that there were significant differences in American Society of Anesthesiologists classification, New York Heart Association classification, Barthel index, minimally invasive surgery, preoperative chronic renal insufficiency, preoperative abnormal lung imaging, preoperative urea nitrogen level, preoperative activated partial thromboplastin time and operation time between patients with complications and those without complications (P<0.05).Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that Barthel index ≤60, operation time and abnormal preoperative lung imaging were independent risk factors for postoperative complications of gastrointestinal tumors in elderly patients (P<0.05), and minimally invasive surgery was a protective factor (P<0.05). …”
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Current status and development trends in CKD with frailty research from 2000 to 2021: a bibliometric analysis by Guowei Yuan, Yaqin Yang, Yujie Lin, Jiarong Lin, Yuchi Wu

“…The Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology was the most productive research journal. …”
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Neurocognitive Impairment and HIV Treatment Engagement in Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV Who Report Chronic Pain and Substance Use by Matthew C. Sullivan, Megan R. Wirtz, Samantha M. McKetchnie, Lauren R. Gulbicki, S. Wade Taylor, Jonathan D. Jampel, Nikhil Banerjee, Conall O’Cleirigh

“…Mean participant age was 57.2 years; most identified as White (55%), followed by Black/African American (42%). On average, participants reported moderate pain; 66.7% met DSM-5 criteria for a substance use disorder. …”
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Diversity and Multigene Phylogeny of the Genus <i>Floccularia</i> (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) by Zai-Wei Ge, Hua Qu, Malka Saba, Tian Gao, Martin Ryberg

“…Our study reconstructed the phylogeny of <i>Floccularia</i> for the first time and clarified the species diversity of <i>Floccularia</i> in Asia and suggests the need for detailed study of American specimens in order to accurately assess the diversity of <i>Floccularia</i> in America.…”
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Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Bamboo Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Containing a Blend of Waste Marble Powder and Waste Glass Powder by Dejene Mengesha Gelanew, Belachew Asteray Demiss

“…The design mix was done as per the American Concrete Institute (ACI) mixing procedure by using 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% blended WMP and WGP as a replacement for cement and 0.75% bamboo fiber as an addition. …”
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T. VEBLENO PARODOMOJO VARTOJIMO TEORIJA IR ŠIUOLAIKINĖS KULTŪROS BEI VARTOJIMO TYRIMŲ PROBLEMOS by Jūratė Černevičiūtė

“…VEBLEN'S THEORY OF CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION AND PROBLEMS OF MODERN CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS Jūratė Černevičiūtė Summary The article analyses the classical theory of conspicuous consumption developed by American economist Thorstein Veblen. For better understanding of this theory, the social reality of the Gilded Age in U. …”
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Globalisation as a factor of marketing concepts’ evolution by I. V. Alyoshina

“…Marketing concepts’ evolution of American companies, traditional leaders of world markets, is viewed in the process of unfolding of four-stage evolution of globalization during the last century, determined by a series of industrial revolutions. …”
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Multiband Planar Inverted-F Antenna with Independent Operating Bands Control for Mobile Handset Applications by Mustapha El Halaoui, Abdelmoumen Kaabal, Hassan Asselman, Saida Ahyoud, Adel Asselman

“…The distribution of specific absorption rate for both European and American standards for each operating band and at various distances between the antenna and the human head is also studied.…”
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Features of the biomorphological and geographic structure of segetal floras in a number of regions in Russia by O. G. Baranova, A. S. Tretyakova, N. N. Luneva, A. A. Zverev, P. V. Kondratkov, T. A. Terekhina, G. R. Khasanova, S. M. Yamalov, M. V. Lebedeva, N. A. Bagrikova

“…The groups of Eurasian and American species were the most numerous.Conclusion. …”
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Ghanaian Clay as a Catalyst for Transesterificating Shea Butter Oil as Alternative Feedstock for Green Energy Production by Mohammed Takase

“…The biodiesel produced was comparable to American and European Union standards.…”
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