Distribution of Pupil Size and Associated Factors: Results from the Population-Based Gutenberg Health Study by Marian Kiel, Stephanie D. Grabitz, Susanne Hopf, Thomas Koeck, Philipp S. Wild, Irene Schmidtmann, Karl J. Lackner, Thomas Münzel, Manfred E. Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Alexander K. Schuster

“…The Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) is a prospective cohort study established at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany. As part of the 5-year follow-up (2012–2017), 9,559 of 12,432 participants had a valid pupil size measurement. …”
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Advances in chromosomal microarray analysis: Transforming neurology and neurosurgery by Wireko Andrew Awuah, Muhammad Hamza Shah, Vivek Sanker, Krishitha Meenu Mannan, Sruthi Ranganathan, Princess Afia Nkrumah-Boateng, Mabel Frimpong, Kwadwo Darko, Joecelyn Kirani Tan, Toufik Abdul-Rahman, Oday Atallah

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Expression and Function of the Homeostatic Molecule Del-1 in Endothelial Cells and the Periodontal Tissue by Jieun Shin, Kavita B. Hosur, Kalyani Pyaram, Ravi Jotwani, Shuang Liang, Triantafyllos Chavakis, George Hajishengallis

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Effects of CO2, Er:YAG, and Nd:YAG laser treatments on shear bond strength of resin cement to zirconia by Rahab Ghoveizi, Amirhosain Jafarbeigi, Maziar Mir, Abolghasem Mohammadi, Sara Tavakolizadeh

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Living Lab Dementia: process evaluation of an academic-practice partnership in German long term care for people living with dementia - study protocol by Andrea Leinen, Felix Bühler, Sascha Köpke, Mareike Löbberding, Gabriele Meyer, Helga Schneider-Schelte, Stefan Wilm, Anja Bieber, Martin N. Dichter

“…Given the lack of systematic investigations of Living Labs in healthcare, we will establish a dementia-specific academic-practice partnership (Living Lab Dementia) in Germany and conduct a process evaluation. The aim of this study is to gain insights into the intervention itself (mechanisms of impact) and its implementation process (degree of implementation, barriers, and facilitators). …”
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Magnetic Anisotropy Dominates over Physical and Magnetic Structure in Performance of Magnetic Nanoflowers by Julie Borchers, Kathryn Krycka, Brianna Bosch‐Santos, Eduardo de Lima Correa, Anirudh Sharma, Hayden Carlton, Yanliu Dang, Michael Donahue, Cordula Grüttner, Robert Ivkov, Cindi L. Dennis

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Development of an ISOBUS-compliant communication node for multiple machine vision systems on wide boom sprayers for nozzle control in spot application schemes by Mozammel Bin Motalab, Ahmad Al-Mallahi, Alex Martynenko, Karama Al-Tamimi, Dimitrios S. Paraforos

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Comparative Assessment of Global Value Chains' Influence on National Economies by K. S. Goncharova, A. G. Shelomentsev, N. N. Masyuk

“…Thirdly, a selection of countries in Western Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region—such as Germany, Italy, France, Israel, the USA, China, Japan, the Russian Federation, India, and Korea—play a substantial role in the development of global value chains through the active expansion of their national TNCs. …”
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Evaluation of the Macular, Peripapillary Nerve Fiber Layer and Choroid Thickness Changes in Behçet’s Disease with Spectral-Domain OCT by Mustafa Ataş, İsa Yuvacı, Süleyman Demircan, Emel Güler, Orhan Altunel, Emine Pangal, Altan Göktaş, Serap Sütbeyaz, Gökmen Zararsız

“…All of the patients and controls underwent macular, choroid, and peripapillary nerve fiber layer thickness analysis with Spectralis domain OCT (Spectralis OCT Heidelberg Engineering, Dossenheim, Germany). Main Outcome Measures. The differences in macular, choroid, and peripapillary nerve fiber layer thicknesses between groups were analyzed statistically. …”
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Solar Tide‐like Signatures in the Ionospheric Total Electron Content During the 2018 Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event by Han Ma, Maosheng He, Libo Liu, Wenbo Li, Yuyan Yang, Ruilong Zhang, Yiding Chen, Huijun Le, Hui Zhang, Guozhu Li

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Modified CD15/CD16-CLL1 inhibitory CAR-T cells for mitigating granulocytopenia toxicities in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia by Rui Zhang, Yifan Zhao, Xiao Chai, Yingshuai Wang, Mohan Zhao, Shujing Guo, Yu Zhang, Mingfeng Zhao

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Effect of Ileal Transposition (IT) on Angiopoietin-Like Protein-8 (ANGPTL8) and Pentraxin (PTX3) Plasma Level in Sprague-Dawley Rats Fed High-Fat Diet (HFD) by Tomasz Sawczyn, Dominika Stygar, Katarzyna Nabrdalik, Michał Kukla, Oliwia Masri, Łukasz Magrowski, Wojciech Karcz, Jerzy Jochem

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Additive Effects of Exercise and Vitamin D Supplementation (with and without Calcium) on Bone Mineral Density in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Cecilie Fischer, Franz Jakob, Matthias Kohl, Stephanie Kast, Simon Von Stengel, Katharina Kerschan-Schindl, Uwe Lange, Friederike Thomasius, Stefan Peters, Michael Uder, Wolfgang Kemmler

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Harnessing the energy transition from total dependence on fossil to renewable energy in the Arabian Gulf region, considering population, climate change impacts, ecological and carb... by Hilmi S. Salem, Musa Yahaya Pudza, Yohannes Yihdego

“…These figures indicate that the GCC’s countries combined and per capita, although not industrialized and small in population, consume large quantities of oil, compared to other countries of the world that are industrialized and/or densely populated, such as the USA, India, Japan, Russia, and Germany. The high rates of oil consumption in the GCC countries, associated with the highest per capita ecological and carbon footprints worldwide, have led to negative impacts on the environment, climate, and public health. …”
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Operational Pitch Actuation Dynamics for Offshore Wind Turbines Ranging from 5 to 50 MW by Michael Jeong, Eric Loth, Chris Qin, Mandar Phadnis, Manuel Pusch, Lucy Pao

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Rapid assessment of the main economic value indicators in lupine flour samples using infrared spectroscopy by V. S. Popov, A. V. Salikova, I. N. Perchuk, N. G. Konkova, G. P. Egorova, M. A. Vishnyakova, T. V. Shelenga

“…Calibration models for measuring protein, oil and alkaloids in lupine seeds (62 accessions) were developed using a MATRIX-I IR analyzer (Bruker Optics, Germany). To construct calibration models, we used the values obtained by chemical analysis methods accepted at VIR. …”
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Response of Pedunculate Oak (<i>Quercus robur</i> L.) to Adverse Environmental Conditions in Genetic and Dendrochronological Studies by Konstantin V. Krutovsky, Anna A. Popova, Igor A. Yakovlev, Yulai A. Yanbaev, Sergey M. Matveev

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Ionospheric Storm Scale Index Based on High Time Resolution UPC‐IonSAT Global Ionospheric Maps (IsUG) by Qi Liu, Manuel Hernández‐Pajares, Haixia Lyu, Michi Nishioka, Heng Yang, Enric Monte‐Moreno, Tamara Gulyaeva, Yannick Béniguel, Volker Wilken, Germán Olivares‐Pulido, Raül Orús‐Pérez

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Strategic selection of polliniser trees can improve fruit quality of lychee, a crop that exhibits mixed-mating by Stephen J. Trueman, Joel Nichols, Christopher J. Burwell, Wiebke Kämper

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Soviet Russia/the USSR and transformation of the international relations system in the first half of the 1920s by E. V. Romanova

“…While the largest European states, Great Britain and Germany in particular, were interested in involving the Soviet state in the system of trade and economic relations (to get access to its resources in order to restore their own economies, and to open up the prospect of transforming the Soviet system towards capitalism), the Soviet leaders considered access to the European market as a necessary condition for the industrialization which was seen as the key to survival of the first socialist state in a hostile capitalist environment. …”
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